>> Fred Jackson: Today's Issues continues on afr and indeed. Welcome back to this Thursday edition of, Today's Issues. Ed, Tim. And our way. And, so it's left to us, Fred and Alex and Ray. And joining us now is Steve Paisley. Giordal.
>> Steve Jordahl: Good morning, everybody.
>> Fred Jackson: Good to have you with us now, Steve. Good to be here, Paisley. Somebody was saying this morning when people come in to tour the building, they want to visit with Steve Paisley. Jordo.
>> Steve Jordahl: I hear that that happens.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes, today would be a good day, folks, because Steve is wearing a shirt that looks like a box of crayons exploded. That's the only way I can put it.
>> Steve Jordahl: That's probably a good way to do it. Hey, how come I don't get a little TV screen to see everybody?
>> Fred Jackson: sorry. Oh, sorry.
>> Steve Jordahl: okay.
>> Fred Jackson: you could probably.
>> Steve Jordahl: Okay.
>> Fred Jackson: Change chairs is. If that's just Brett, you want me.
>> Steve Jordahl: To change chairs or bring the thing over?
>> Fred Jackson: No.
>> Steve Jordahl: Okay.
>> Fred Jackson: Don't worry about it.
>> Steve Jordahl: All right. yes, I. I have, ah, I have a new paisley shirt on the. I think that's a good way to describe. Is that Paisley There is paisley in it? Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: It's, you know, maybe paisley on steroids.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, I'm not sure who designed that, but, I think. I think they were on drugs.
>> Tim Wildmon: This looks like something out of the 60s, right?
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah. Yep.
>> Tim Wildmon: Psychedel.
>> Alex McFarland: An album cover from 1967.
>> Fred Jackson: That's right.
>> Steve Jordahl: Hey, I don't often get to be on the radio with my friend Alex, so, let me just. I gotta do this. Alex, trivia question.
>> Alex McFarland: Okay.
>> Steve Jordahl: What band was Ringo Starr with before he joined the Beatles?
>> Alex McFarland: Of course, that was Rory Storm and the Hurricane.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yes, it was. Wow. There you go.
>> Fred Jackson: Wow. Good thing. That's a. That's a great trivia question.
>> Steve Jordahl: It is.
>> Alex McFarland: Good question.
>> Fred Jackson: You'd have to have Alex here for that.
>> Alex McFarland: Steve and I, we often talk about pop, pop culture trivia sometimes.
Some New Jersey Democrats want to bring in draconian restrictions on homeschooling
>> Fred Jackson: Okay. All right. Hey, listen, folks, just before we went to, the news break, I was, mentioning that in New Jersey, we were talking about education, school choice, all of that sort of thing. Homeschooling, certainly one of those school choices. But in New Jersey, some Democrats there want to bring in some, what I would call draconian restrictions on homeschools. They want homeschool families to send a letter to the government, explaining what they are up to. To. And they want a curriculum that corresponds to the state curriculum. Like, they want homeschoolers to teach their kids about climate change. They want homeschoolers, to be exposed to diversity, equity and inclusion doctrines, all of those kinds of things. On Fox this morning, there were some New Jersey moms who are homeschoolers, and they talked about this cut number.
>> Speaker E: 14, when our state failed to provide an education that best fit my children's needs. So along with those three, there are so many others that opted out when the governor said, no, virtual learning is bad. Well, those three kids actually did fantastic, and they still do. I do see a big problem with the state stepping in. Homeschool students continue to outperform public school students. So I don't see a point in the state stepping in if on standardized testing sats your acts. Homeschool students are continuing to outperform public school students. There's obviously nothing wrong with what they're being taught, and you can see that through their standardized testing. So I don't see a need for the state to be stepping in.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, you know, I guess, Alex, I guess the state of New Jersey Democrats there see homeschooling has a threat to the woke agenda, obviously.
>> Alex McFarland: Well, I mean, forcing homeschoolers to teach the very type of content that parents conscientiously wanted to get away from. They're trying to make, homeschooling basically the same as government schooling. And by the way, let me just say we've, for years we've used the term public schools. I use this term now, government schools because it's really the programming of a narrative rather than the pursuit of truth and true education.
>> Steve Jordahl: All right, Steve, the bill would also just to, finish this up. The bill would also require the parents maintain a portfolio of the students work, including writing samples, worksheets, which they have to submit to be evaluated by the state.
>> Fred Jackson: Wow. Basically, they want to gut homeschooling.
>> Steve Jordahl: Absolutely.
>> Fred Jackson: Let's face it, that's what they want to do. Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, this is going to cause a revolution in New Jersey. And you know what? I know of families who have moved out of states like Illinois, where this is a big issue and it's going to happen in New Jersey. They're going to go to red parts of the country where they can educate their students in, a Christian worldview according to the dictates of the conscience, without a whole lot of government oversight. I think this is going to blow up in a bad way for the state of New Jersey. Really bad idea.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
Ray Moran: The Trump administration appears to be targeting officials who investigated Trump
>> Steve Jordahl: All right. hey, have you guys, ah, been talking at all about the charges that have been leveled against James Comey and John Brennan?
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Steve Jordahl: Okay. I want to talk about the media Coverage of that because it is, it is something to behold. you know how we keep talking about the. When the, Democrats do, something, wrong and the Republicans notice it. It's not what they did, but it's the Republicans pounce on such and such. This is the headline of the New York Times in the first paragraph of the New York Times story reporting the new charges against, Comer and Brennan administration takes steps to target two officials who investigated Trump. The Trump administration appears to be targeting officials who saw the invest. Oversaw the investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign's connections to Russia. Not alleged connections, not debunked connections. No, but the connections.
>> Fred Jackson: Connections. Yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: So, And it makes me ashamed to be a reporter.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, well, they use words like target, and a target is like you're putting somebody in the crosshairs. You know, you're the bad guy.
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, they're not targeting it. It's like they're trying to single them out because they're taking revenge. In fact, that was, They say that it's a significant indication that President Trump's appointees intend to follow through on his campaign to exact retribution against his perceived enemies. These are people who broke the law. The CIA is finding out that these two men led the charge to discredit and to, deplatform the President. The sitting President of the United States.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, they led the Russia hoax.
>> Steve Jordahl: They led the Russia hoax.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: And, the immoral. And now we're going to find out, because of this investigation, Ray, whether it was illegal.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, good. It's about time. Look, if, if, if Kamala Harris had somehow won the election, this investigation never happens. Elections have consequences. And, and let's have the investigation and let chips fall where they may.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah. And it's interesting to see how the New York Times is going to decide to report on that too. All along I'll be watching. You guys could be tuning in. everybody can tune in to AFN Net and as the information comes in, we'll have information up there about the, the bias that is huge.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Steve Jordahl: With our media.
Zoran Mamdani holds 10 point lead over Andrew Cuomo in York City poll
All right, we have a new poll out for the mayor's, race in York City, and Zoran Mamdani holds a 10 point lead over Andrew Cuomo, Republican, Silwa. Curtis Silwa is in third. and Eric Adams brings up the field at 11% in fourth. So if the election were held today, it looks like Mamdami, the, the communist would, have his, have his, have the Seat of the mayor.
>> Fred Jackson: Well, you know what, Alex, if that's what the people want in New York, then go ahead. And I, guess we could all tell them when that happens. We told you so.
>> Alex McFarland: Yeah. Yeah. Wow. how far we've fallen since, the days of, I know people talk so fondly about Rudolph Giuliani, who I had the privilege of meeting several times, in the immediate aftermath of 911 and then, at Values Voter Summit and at the RNC convention last year. But, even Ed Koch, you know who. It's just unthinkable that one of our great cities, one of our most populous cities, and by the way, the state of New York, one of the world's preeminent economies, that they would, even that a man so antithetical to everything about America would be this close to winning, the candidacy for the mayoral race there, we got to pray. And let's hope the citizens of New York wake up.
>> Fred Jackson: I was listening to a story on Fox this morning and someone said you can hear noise behind the Mamdani speeches. And the noise is those people loading up their U Haul trailers.
>> Steve Jordahl: Certainly true. Indeed. Yeah, I don't think I'd want to be. My son lives in New York City. I'm going to be. It's going to be interesting to talk to him as, as this unfolds.
Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett accused Trump supporters of plotting assassination
>> Fred Jackson: All right, what else you got?
>> Steve Jordahl: All right, there is a, ah, I have a, an unofficial, competition going on to see what is the stupidest thing that Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett can say. And it is a high bar, let me tell you. There are a lot of things she said, but I think what she has said on a recent podcast takes the ca. They were talking about all the violence that's going on in this country and listen to what she had to say. Cut 16.
>> Speaker F: The violence doesn't come from Democrats, just to be clear. I mean, obviously anyone can be a criminal, but, it is maga. It's specifically MAGA faction. Like, I don't think traditional Republicans are getting engaged in all of this. But like, even when we look at. And they don't talk about the assassination attempts, anymore that took place with Donald Trump. But these, these were Trump supporters, right? as well as this most recent situation. They tried to flip it and say, oh, the leftists are. I'm like, this doesn't even make sense. Right. But it's only like MAGA that does this.
>> Steve Jordahl: Just maga. Hey, how many peace, loving Democrats have you beaten up Lately, there, Alex, that would be zero.
>> Alex McFarland: Well, you know, this is, really transference. It's a classic. It's out of the Saul Alinsky playbook. Rules for radicals. To accuse your opponent of that which you are actually doing. I mean, the lawlessness, destabilization, and even the threats and violence against conservative constitutionalists. It's the cause of the rhetoric coming out of the left, not the right.
>> Steve Jordahl: You know, she says, that it was Ray, it was Trump supporters who decided to try to shoot Trump.
>> Tim Wildmon: That doesn't even make sense. No, I mean, how do you. In what universe are you going to say that the fellow crawled up there and took the shot, was a Trump supporter? Makes no sense. What's. Well, okay, this goes to the point that our president was making, that I commented on earlier. There's something wrong with the Democrats. There's something wrong with their heads that they. That one of their elected representatives could say, yeah, this is Almaga. They're the ones who doing this. This kind of stuff. It's crazy talk, you know.
>> Steve Jordahl: Hey, go ahead.
>> Alex McFarland: Well, when James Carville was on the Bill Maher, program some months ago, and James Carville said, and I quote, christians are a bigger threat to America than Al Qaeda. James Carville, that's not even rational.
>> Fred Jackson: And he's a moderate.
>> Alex McFarland: Supposedly, in some world, perhaps, but the real one, I don't know. But, you know, we just have to keep speaking truth, being, role models and, influencing others and praying. But, we kind of are the.
>> Steve Jordahl: Biggest threat to their agenda, or.
>> Alex McFarland: Well, I suppose that's true.
>> Tim Wildmon: I hope that's true.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah. Hey, he talked. Jasmine Crockett talked about the assassins, the assassins against President Trump. And, I don't know. You guys have heard that they have laid off several Secret Service agents now that, were involved in. Well, they did not do their jobs in Butler, Pennsylvania. And, so there's questions out there. we have some sound from Helen Comperator, who's the widow of Corey Comperator. Corey was the man, who was sitting behind President Trump. And one of the bullets intended for Donald Trump killed him. And, a couple others were gravely wounded there. President, Trump, as we know, just barely, missed dying himself. But this is, Helen Comparator saying she wants answers. Cut 15.
>> Speaker E: I want to know what they were thinking that day. Where were they? Why didn't they come pick up the radios? Why weren't they paying attention? Why did they think that that roof didn't need covered. I can see it. Our blood is all over their hands.
>> Fred Jackson: I'm angry.
>> Speaker E: I lost the love of my life. My kids lost their father.
>> Fred Jackson: That's. That's tough to listen to, guys. It really is. And I don't know, we're not at the point where we can say, a deliberate negligence, but the fact that some of these guys didn't even have their walkie talkies on so they could communicate about this guy crawling on a roof. There was so much that went wrong, Ray. And again, we can't say it was deliberate. But the question, I think that needs to be answered. How could that level of incompetence occurred when you have a candidate for the President of the United States at an event? And we know the details now, this guy, the shooter, was able to get up on this roof and in clear sight was able to take that shot. Well, it just begs all these questions, Fred.
>> Tim Wildmon: You've got the issue of the local police. You spotted the guy up there, and one of them radioed in. There's a guy up there, and he's got a gun. And evidently, that message somehow never got to the, to the Secret, Service. How is that possible? How is it possible that for an event like that, they didn't have that roof covered? The guy got up there, the local police saw it, and Secret Service knew nothing about it. It's just, again, we don't want to. We don't need to posit a conspiracy, but it is a tremendous failure. Tremendous dereliction of duty.
>> Fred Jackson: Absolutely.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
Federal judge in New Hampshire blocks President Trump's birthright citizenship ban
Hey, there's some breaking news that just came down. You know, they had, The Supreme Court recently ruled it was the birthright citizenship case. And the ruling there was that judges, local federal judges at a district level cannot pose a nationwide injunction on anything. Well, another one has, and it happens to be in the birthright citizenship ban. So. A federal judge in New Hampshire has blocked President Trump's executive order banning birthright citizenship and granting a nationwide class certification status to all infants. Impacted on the order on Thursday. So U.S. District Judge Joseph LaPlante said, no can do. You can't do that, Mr. President. So, the Trump administration will appeal. I don't even know if it's required to abide by it, given the, I suppose it will, but given the recent Supreme Court ruling.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, well, it's just another example of these activist judges that are, that, you know, Biden had the opportunity, and, despite what the Supreme Court ruling was, they continue to do so I am optimistic it's going to be overturned. There's no question about it.
Eric Wells: Biden's doctor pleads fifth over questions about president's health
Hey, you guys hear about, Biden's doctor, was brought into a hearing, a closed door hearing yesterday. Obviously, Republicans want to find out, you know, the reports were from, you know, doctor, Kevan o' Connor and others that, you know, the president's fine. When he was in office. The president's fine, he's competent. we heard from, you know, the White House people that, oh, he's never been sharper, all of these kinds of things. So here, here's a little bit from Dr. Kevan O' Connor yesterday, because when he was questioned about all of this under oath by the Republicans, guess what he did? Pled the fifth cut, number 10. Were you ever told to lie about the president's health? I must respectfully decline to answer based upon physician patient privilege and in reliance on my right under the fifth amendment of the Constitution.
>> Steve Jordahl: Did you ever believe the president was.
>> Fred Jackson: Unfit to execute his duties as president? I must respectfully decline to answer based on, the physician patient privilege and in reliance on my right under the fifth amendment of the Constitution. Well, here's the question, Alex, that I have. If you were telling the truth that the president was mentally fine, why would you have to plead the fifth to a very direct question about his mental health? Why would you have to plead the fifth? You could just say no. That was my assessment. I believe that no problem. But instead, he pleads the fifth.
>> Alex McFarland: Well, you know, the, the, pleading the fifth, quote, unquote, is something one may do to attempt to avoid incriminating themselves. But I think by pleading the Fifth, he does incriminate himself. You know, as a medical professional, I mean, it's a yes or no question. Were you ever urged to lie about the president's fitness to hold office or be reelected and to refuse to answer that question? in other words, yeah, you did. and as. As a doctor, a medical professional, I mean, yes, he has a responsibility to his patient, then President Joe Biden, but he has a responsibility to the American people. You know, you've got to understand, folks, the Democrats were trying to, because of their lust for power and their ideology, their anti American, anti constitutionalist bent towards globalism and wokeness, they were trying to forcibly retain an unfit candidate. And then, let's just talk about. Remember, the guardians of democracy did a very undemocratic thing without winning a primary. Kamala Harris was forcibly made the candidate. Now, thank God almighty, she lost. But this is, this is treason. And this is basically, you know, an attempted coup of the vox populi in a democratic republic.
>> Fred Jackson: Right.
>> Steve Jordahl: Not the first one we've seen.
>> Tim Wildmon: No, and I don't think it'll be the last one either. And on that point, Alex, there's not been enough, there's not been an, at least to my mind written about what really happened on that weekend. I guess what it was it in July when we go into the weekend and it's Joe Biden and we come out and it's Kamala Harris and nobody is still not clear to me what really happened, who pushed the buttons, who put the pressure on and why did the president, President Biden give into this? it's not just undemocratic, it's extremely.
>> Fred Jackson: Anti democratic way to answer your question. Who pressed the button? I would like to nominate for that action one Barack Obama.
>> Alex McFarland: Yeah, well here's the thing. And listen, I was at the RNC in Milwaukee last summer. It's funny, on the Thursday, whatever that was, this was, I think Thursday, July 19th, I think it was, Trump was shot on, shot at on Saturday, July 13th.
>> Fred Jackson: Right.
>> Alex McFarland: I had the privilege of praying. I was alone, bumped into Eric Trump. Eric Trump said to me, he said, jesus saved my dad. He said, my family knows it. My dad. Donald Trump knew it anyway. But On Thursday the 19th, Joe Biden said, I will not leave this race. By Sunday he was stepping out. but I had it from a number of Washington insiders. The Biden presidency was de facto Obama's third term.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah. Hey, ah, Fred. Are you a list maker?
>> Fred Jackson: A list maker? Make lists at times?
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, there's a guy, this is a, ah, young artist named Jesse Wells. I cannot recommend his music, I don't know it very well, but he has a song about making lists. Let's just cut 17.
>> Speaker G: You got your bucket list, your grocery list, your list of things to do. You got a list of all your wishes. That's a wish list, dude. You got your Amazon Santa Claus and too fair too. But I know a list that don't exist and buddy, so do you. It's the Epstein list. It's a mystery list with a twist. It's a myth of a list that we all dismiss. Be an optimist, not a pessimist. If you wish to persist, it's probably best to forget that list. Now what were we talking about?
>> Steve Jordahl: I don't remember the Epstein list. The list doesn't exist.
>> Fred Jackson: That's pretty good. That's pretty good. I don't think it'll make number one on the charts in, in across the country, Alex. But, kudos for truth, perhaps.
>> Alex McFarland: Yeah, that, that's good satire. That's a good song. Good lyrics.
Alex: There's confusion of whether there was a list on Epstein desk
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah. so Dan Bongino and Cash Patel, were tasked with. And they, they all promised that they would get to the bottom of the Epstein thing. And we've confusion of whether there was a list on, on the desk of the. The attorney, general or not. Pam Bondi, what do you think? Do you think there was a list or not, guys?
>> Tim Wildmon: Somewhere. So, yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: You're saying yes, Alex.
>> Alex McFarland: only the Lord knows.
>> Steve Jordahl: He does indeed.
>> Fred Jackson: We may never find out. Hey, listen, thanks for all you guys. Thanks, Ray. Appreciate it. Alex, Appreciate you always as much. You and Bert on this afternoon.
>> Alex McFarland: We're in Numbers, Chapter 15 today on Exploring the Word. 3pm Central. Please tune in.
>> Fred Jackson: All right. And read up. Steve, thank you so much. Our thanks to Brent, our thanks to Gary Bauer and, all of those who have helped out today and during this week. I do believe Trivia Friday is back with Tim and Ed. And JJ's not back from vacation yet. It'll be Bert.
>> Steve Jordahl: It's going to be Burt.
>> Fred Jackson: Yep. All right. Should be great. All right, folks, have a great rest of the day. Go out there and be, a blessing to someone else. We'll see you soon.
