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>> Tim Wildmon: Welcome to today's Issues, offering a Christian response to the.
>> Jeff Chamblee: Issues of the day. Here's your host, Tim Wildmon, president of.
>> Tim Wildmon: The American Family Association. Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Today's issue is the name of this program here on afr. Tim with, Fred, good morning. Fred Jackson, good Monday morning and Chris Woodward good morning. And we thank you for listening to AFR everybody. Have a good weekend.
>> Fred Jackson: Had a good weekend. Had family in town visiting and had a wonderful time. Wonderful time.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, Chris.
>> Chris Woodward: I did. It was a little, a little nasty there Saturday afternoon, for parts of our TV viewing area. But I, praise God, didn't have, any, you know, damage to report or whatnot. It was just really nasty for a good hour and a half.
>> Fred Jackson: Trees down, branches down, that sort of thing. We were at a local restaurant when, when the storm and it only took about 15 minutes for this front to get through. But Hurricane NATO, it was wild. And we had a baseball tournament in town this weekend and they had just come into the restaurant to eat and all the menus, the lit menu across the top went down. Yeah, they couldn't order any food.
>> Tim Wildmon: Wow.
>> Fred Jackson: They lost power.
>> Chris Woodward: Couple of campers overturned at a dealership not far from here.
>> Fred Jackson: It was brief, but it was intense.
>> Tim Wildmon: Intense. All right, well, hope, everybody had a, nice weekend. My.
>> Fred Jackson: You were baseballing?
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, my 11 year old grandson. Somebody, needs to tell me how many grandsons I have. I'm not sure exactly, but the 11 year old one.
>> Fred Jackson: Okay.
>> Tim Wildmon: Anyway, I'm just kidding, but we are getting on up there. But yeah, they won the state. They won their state championship in baseball.
>> Fred Jackson: That's pretty cool.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, the Knights.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: So, yeah, we were very excited about that. Watch them play.
>> Fred Jackson: And you said there what, 16 teams startable.
>> Tim Wildmon: 19 team.
>> Fred Jackson: 19.
>> Tim Wildmon: 19 teams in their, classification.
>> Tim Wildmon: And they once they were 6 and 0 in the state tournament, so they won it all.
>> Fred Jackson: That's a lot of baseball.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Yeah, well you can tell. Look at my, look at my arms. Yeah, yeah, a lot of baseball, but it's, it's fun. Youth baseball use sports is fun if it's.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, you know, kept that way.
>> Tim Wildmon: Kept that way. Yes, that's right. All right, Chris. they aren't having a lot of fun in Los Angeles, are they?
National Guard troops in Los Angeles to help with anti-ICE riots
>> Chris Woodward: Speaking of intense moments, national, Guard crew, National Guard troops continue efforts to help bring in an end to the anti ICE riots in LA that have seen the blocking of a major freeway and setting self driving cars on fire as law enforcement use tear gas, rubber bullets and flashbangs to control the crowd. Trump, President, Trump over the weekend said that he was going to be sending in National Guard and law enforcement, because of the shenanigans people were doing to law enforcement officers. Trump said, look, if you do so much as spit on law enforcement, we're going to send people in here. Don't take my word for it. Clip 3 they spit, we hit.
>> Tim Wildmon: And I told them, nobody's going to.
>> Chris Woodward: Spit on our police officers.
>> Fred Jackson: Nobody's going to spit on our military.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, we're going to have troops everywhere. We're not going to let this happen to our country. We're not going to let our country.
>> Fred Jackson: Be torn apart like it was under.
>> Chris Woodward: Biden and his autopilot.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, it was, it was bad. you probably, a lot of our listeners probably have seen some of the images coming out of Los Angeles. This started out as a protest, against ICE immigration officials. They've been doing various things across the country to arrest, detain people who are in the country illegally and they were running an operation in Los Angeles. ICE was, it started out I believe on Friday and you had these protesters show up. Now the police chief out there in Los Angeles, Jim, McDonnell, I believe his name is McDonnell, he he said he recognized some of these protesters from other protests. In other words, there was some of the protest rent a crowd that was involved with this. But things got very violent, very quickly and police came under attack out there. they, they fired back, not bullets, but some rubber bullets, et cetera, et cetera. But here's what has developed and Chris, probably have more on this, is that Governor Newsom is upset with President Trump for bringing in the National Guard and the mainstream media is now starting to spin this, that the National Guard is the problem, that Trump should not have sent in the National Guard. They're saying it intensified things. In fact, Newsom is going to court today, to try to get the National Guard out of there and accuse Trump of doing something illegally.
>> Chris Woodward: We do have some audio from Governor Gavin Newsom. Now this was yesterday or late Saturday saying he was going to be filing a law against the Trump administration over this, information Fred just mentioned.
>> John Riley: Clip 4 Donald Trump has created the conditions you see on your TV tonight. He's exacerbated the conditions. He's you know, lit the proverbial match. He's putting fuel on this fire, ever since he announced he was taking over the National Guard in a legal act, an immoral act, an unconstitutional act. And we're going to test that theory with a lawsuit tomorrow.
>> Fred Jackson: I've got to say some of the reporting on this, I guess this is not going to shock you guys, but some of the mainstream reporting initially on this was mostly peaceful protests.
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: Okay. It kind of reminds me of the anti police protests in Minneapolis. Remember it was, I think it was cnn burning building behind the reporter. Mostly peaceful protests.
>> Fred Jackson: and as you just heard there, Newsom is saying this is Donald Trump's fault. Wouldn't have been a bad protest. Which is just nonsense.
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah.
Tim Ferriss: President Trump has called out the National Guard in California
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, so this started Saturday.
>> Chris Woodward: I think it was late Friday night.
>> Tim Wildmon: Late Friday night. So just so people understand what's going on here, ice, the immigration, cust. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
>> Fred Jackson: Correct.
>> Tim Wildmon: Is that what. Okay, that's what I stands for. so they were doing, are doing raids across the country.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: And are going to houses, are going to wherever they need to go to make arrest through.
>> Fred Jackson: Correct.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. So they're making these arrests, and now in of people here and who are in the country illegally.
>> Tim Wildmon: And only they know why. Exactly. The ice. But it has been related to gang activity or members of drug cartels or trafficking. Trafficking or just bad criminals.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: In addition to being here illegally. So, but there's been. The reaction is against ICE doing this because they, the left in this country views them as thugs, I guess you could say. Right M. And they're thugs to the left, because they are sent by Trump, President Trump. So they're his thugs.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: And they're trying to arrest people and deport them. And these protesters don't want ICE in their community. Now they don't represent the whole community, but they do represent a significant, looks like to me, portion of them. They're, they're. These folks are blocking a major highway in Los Angeles right now. I'm watching this on TV and it looks to me like maybe three or four hundred people there I don't know. but that's all it takes to get out in the middle of a highway and block a highway. So that's creating. This is going to be. I don't know how this is going to be resolved, but what President Trump has done, he called out the National Guard. M. But he. Despite what Governor Newsom said right there, President United States does have the authority to call out the National Guard in various states, right?
>> Fred Jackson: Yes, absolutely. And Jonathan Turley, who is, a legal expert you see on Fox a lot, says exactly that. Tim, cut number five.
>> Speaker F: Certainly there have been plenty of these cases where they have forum shopped, found very favorable judges. But in the end, the President has the authority to call out, the National Guard, and it will happen. In fact, what Newsom is doing is going to escalate it further. You know, the president is operating under Title 10, which allows him to call out the National Guard to enforce federal law. That's what they did during the desegregation period when local authorities, refused to comply with federal law. Does that sound familiar?
>> Fred Jackson: That's right.
>> Speaker F: And the administration is saying we're going to do the same thing. It can escalate with a thing called the Insurrection act, where, the President can actually use National Guard, where there's an insurrection. I don't think we are really looking.
>> Tim Wildmon: M. Yeah. So, it's a very tense situation there.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: In Los Angeles. I mean, this could escalate. We'll see what happens today. But it's a very volatile situation in Los Angeles. Over there, they're calling them LA Riots.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes. We're now seeing a pattern in Democrat politically controlled areas. Remember last week, the mayor of Boston saying, shame, shame on these immigration officials for wearing masks. Now, they're wearing masks for a reason.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Fred Jackson: Because they don't want the bad guys to identify these people, dox them, find out where their families live.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Fred Jackson: They're doing that to protect themselves.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Fred Jackson: But not only him, Hakeem, Jeffries, who is the minority leader in the House.
>> Chris Woodward: Yes. The interesting thing about the shame, on you for wearing masks is that both Massachusetts and New York have been home to anti Semitic, protest on place places like college campuses. Rioters wore masks to protect their identities, and these Democrats didn't say diddly squat about that.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Why are they way. Why are some of these demonstrations demonstrators waving Mexican flags?
>> Fred Jackson: Well, because, a lot of the people in the country illegally are Mexicans.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, but I don't understand waving the Mexican flag when you're In America, protesting.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah. But I think it's a different mentality that these pro illegal immigration centers, remember California, it's a sanctuary state. They don't have a problem with bringing in illegal immigrants and giving them jobs and paying for their health care, paying for their education. But what's really interesting, Newsom in the last month or so is saying, you know, we're running out of money for Medicaid for. Right. they're doing all of these sorts of things. So California has been this hotspot where these illegal immigrants, the government, the state government has opened its arms, spending millions of dollars to support these illegals. And now that ICE wants to come in and bring some order to all of this, now they're protesting against, there's.
>> Tim Wildmon: A part of me that just says, leave California alone.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Because, let them deal with all these people here illegally.
>> Chris Woodward: Well, the problem with that is you have people in the rest of the country, taxpayers, that are going to have to foot the bill for, you know, repairing all the buildings and whatnot. Destroyed. I mean, nobody in Connecticut should be.
>> Tim Wildmon: No, but I'm talking about. Anyway, again, I'm just thinking out loud here, but I'm just like going, hey, if, California wants to let everybody in the world come live in their streets, go for it. You know what I'm saying?
>> Fred Jackson: Oh, I know, I know.
The National Guard is deployed in Los Angeles to help with sanctuary city controversy
>> Tim Wildmon: Why risk our ICE agents, lives or National Guard to take care of a problem that Californians don't care about? but, but you are talking about federal law. This is federal law. And also if some would say, well, if you allow cartel activity to take place in Los Angeles, that affects the rest of the country, that. I'm just saying. I can see the argument there. But, you know, one time I said, well, listen, if they want to let people in illegally in these sanctuary cities, sanctuary states, let them, let them have at it.
>> Fred Jackson: Yep.
>> Tim Wildmon: But I understand the reasons why you can't take.
>> Fred Jackson: If you could build a wall around the sanctuary, keep them there.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right. But, you know what is interesting to me, a couple weeks ago, I don't know if you guys saw this statistic, and I don't have it right here in front of me, but that President Donald Trump was polling better now with Hispanics than he had been, I don't know, six months, a year ago.
>> Tim Wildmon: And I think what's happened. So you wonder, you know, the narrative that the political left in this country wants you to believe is that because President Trump is cracking down on illegal immigration and the vast majority of illegal immigrants Are, Hispanic. Therefore he is a, he hates, Hispanic people. Yeah. That's the narrative.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: That they want to project. But as it turns out, at least for now, the Hispanic community in America is not buying it. at least not like the left wants them to. You know what I'm saying?
>> Fred Jackson: Listen, we have millions and millions and millions of hard working Hispanic people in this country who have entered the country legally, who for years family businesses have built up, they, they hire people, they produce products for this country, which is, which is absolutely fantastic. And these people are as upset as everybody else with these folks who have broken the law to enter this country and now are taking advantage of the opportunities that this country affords immigrants. But they're in the country illegally. And so these Hispanics, they like most other Americans, are saying this is not fair. It's not fair.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right. And it's unsafe, quite frankly, to just let people pour into your country. You wouldn't let people into your house that you didn't know who they were.
>> Fred Jackson: That's right.
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: And then, and then they break down the front door and you're supposed to say, okay, I'll come on in and we're not going to, we're not going to do anything about it, you know.
>> Fred Jackson: And they, they break into your house and they demand you feed them.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: Take care of them.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Fred Jackson: And by the way, if you try to remove me, I'm going to go to court.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right, right, right. All right. So anyway, it's a very tense, volatile situation today in Los Angeles and we'll see what, what develops here. Hopefully it'll, disperse with the, use of the National Guard there. I'm seeing the National Guardsmen and they, they have weapons in their hands.
>> Chris Woodward: Oh, yeah. I mean they were shooting like rubber bullets at people and people were posting on social media over the weekend. You know, I was shot by the government and they were showing these big whelps they had on their arms and legs.
Is there a tactical force within the National Guard that is prepared for something
>> Tim Wildmon: Let me ask a question about the National Guard that I know 90% of our listeners are going to know the answer to and I'm going to seem like a dummy, which will be, wouldn't be the first time, but I'm going to ask it anyway. Maybe you guys know the answer to this. Is there a tactical force within the National Guard that is prepared for something like this, or is it just general National Guardsmen, you know, who have regular jobs, who get a phone call, hey, you got to go to Los Angeles and they live in Northern California or what? I Don't know what the case may. that's probably not true. Probably got enough guardsmen in Southern California, I'm sure, to handle something like this. And like there's but maybe a few hundred, I don't know how many years out there. But in terms of the training, yes.
>> Fred Jackson: They practice crowd control.
>> Tim Wildmon: All of them.
>> Fred Jackson: mostly I can from my experience in Canadian military. Yeah, One of the things we did in officer candidate school is crowd control.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Fred Jackson: so it's, it's something to be.
>> Tim Wildmon: Ready for that all military people go through.
>> Fred Jackson: They rehearse this.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Fred Jackson: And they know what to do. So they're not going in there like the first time. What do I do? they, they know crowd control, how to discipline themselves. They are there usually just to push back against the bad guys. But if the bad guys respond in the wrong way, they have the right.
>> Tim Wildmon: To push back and be a visible show of, of law enforcement.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: To intimidate the situation, to keep the peace. Keep the peace. The law and order.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: You're listening to today's issues on American Family Radio. Next story.
>> Chris Woodward: Well, I want to, bring people's attention to something that happened on Friday afternoon and then got covered up by.
>> Tim Wildmon: All the, by the way, nobody's been died in this situation yet.
>> Chris Woodward: Not that I am aware of yet.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Chris Woodward: But certainly we will update that. we'll be on that, on afm.
Tim Harris: Democrats largely silent on Friday about new immigration charges
but something else that happened, late Friday and got covered up by the situation in Los Angeles, unfortunately. Friday afternoon, Attorney General Pam Bondi breaks in as a press conference, with reporters in Washington D.C. and she announces new charges for Kilmar Abrego, Garcia. He is the so called Maryland man that was deported to El Salvador months ago. And Democrats are saying his due process rights are being violated even though he's an illegal immigrant and has been living here illegally without our permission. Anyway, Attorney, General Pam Bondi announces new charges for him, for transporting illegal immigrants across the country. And she said he was a high up in this, scheme. I've got some audio here from the attorney general. Clip 10.
>> Speaker F: The grand jury found that over the past nine years, Abrego Garcia has played a significant role in an alien smuggling ring. They found this was his full time job, not a contractor. He was a smuggler of humans and children and women. Abrego Garcia is a danger to our community.
>> Chris Woodward: Now, perhaps they were busy, Tim, but Democrats were largely silent on Friday afternoon, Saturday and Sunday when it comes to these new charges against the man they Were kind of trying to hold up his.
>> Tim Wildmon: Maybe he'll want to stay in El Salvador.
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: kidding. But. So they're bringing him back and then he's going to face federal charges.
>> Chris Woodward: Yes. And they will then probably either hold him or send him back to El Salvador.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: This is an interesting case. You have these Democrats going down to El Salvador and the, you know, the news media from America right behind these Democrats and Democrats describing this guy is just a. He's. He's a husband, he's a dad, he's a nice guy, and he has not been afforded the legal process that he should have received all of this sort of thing. Now he's coming back. Now there's going to be a trial, and now that's going to come out. Just as Pam Bondi was just saying there, this guy has been involved, in fact, leading illegal operations to traffic men, women and children in this country. What are the Democrats going to say to that? All of a sudden? The image of Mr. Garcia is going to change publicly very quickly.
>> Tim Wildmon: You know, all these problems, were caused by Joe Biden.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: namely him. When, he said. When he did away with all President Trump's policies, that he had in place prior to Biden taking over in the White House. Biden then just vindictively or stupidly just said, okay, get rid of everything Trump did to prohibit people from coming here illegally. In other words, just. Let's just throw the doors open, let everybody come so that I can spite MAGA and Donald Trump without any thought. Much to the consequences. I don't think they would have cared much anyway. The consequences of letting Some say 15 million people come here m. And just go all over the country and we don't know who they are. We don't know. We don't know. We don't know. They're just. And now many of them, evidently, you know, we're finding out our bad guys.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes. Bad guys. But, Tim, you have pointed out numerous times in the past this was no accident, that this was an operation by the Democratic Party.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes.
>> Fred Jackson: To get.
>> Tim Wildmon: And they would do it again if they could.
>> Fred Jackson: More people in here. So they'll eventually vote Democrat.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Yeah. That's the goal.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: You say, well, why would you let the floodgates open on your own country? talk about the Democrats. Don't they care about our national security either? No. Well, they might say they do, but they care more about letting people hear illegally hoping that they can make them become citizens. Then they will be obligated to Vote Democrat. And that will be the death and end of the Republican Party as we know it. That would be. That's the political objective to Biden and the Democrats, doing away basically with our border, during their four years in their administration. But the backlash was, this was an issue that hurt, the Democrats, namely Kamala Harris, when she was going up against Donald Trump because, he won that debate. And Americans said, yeah, we got to stop this, this is nuts. So we need to vote in the guy who says, we need to stop this. This is nuts. And that would have been Donald Trump. So to the extent, that Trump is doing what he said he would do in terms of cracking down on illegal immigration, this is one of the main issues that the American people, at least the majority of the American people did vote for.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: So, all right, well, hopefully the things will subside there in, Southern California. There won't be any deaths. And there's. What are they, what are they doing with these cars?
>> Fred Jackson: They're just, these are, driverless cars.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Fred Jackson: That you've seen. And the bad guys have been ordering these cars to come to specific locations. And then the bad guys set them on fire. Very, very dangerous to be disruptive, just to be. Because these, these cars are driven by lithium batteries. And when lithium batteries, which is why airlines get you to remove batteries, lithium batteries get on fire. They release toxic, toxic chemicals.
>> Tim Wildmon: So they're driverless cars. Yeah, that, like an Uber or a taxicab. And they, the bad guys call them to the place and then they set them on fire?
>> Fred Jackson: That is correct.
>> Tim Wildmon: Wow. We'll be back momentarily. Stay with us.
Over 60% of abortions happen through the abortion pill
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Today's Issues features John Riley on American Family Radio Network
Welcome back everybody to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Thanks for listening to afr. Tim, Fred, Chris. And now, John Wriley joins us. Good morning, John.
>> John Riley: Good morning.
>> Tim Wildmon: So, I wanted to ask you, you have a son that play, a grandson that plays baseball?
>> John Riley: I do, yes. He plays travel ball. That is Cooper, Troxler.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Yeah. So John, John knows the,
>> Fred Jackson: Hm.
>> Tim Wildmon: He knows the circuit.
>> John Riley: That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: they have. I was, I mentioned early in the program, not that I was bragging that 11 year old grandson's team won the state championship in their classification for youth baseball in Mississippi. And, and they're, they're the, they're the uh,316 baseball.
>> Fred Jackson: That is, that is so cool. And uniforms on the back of the.
>> Tim Wildmon: Uniform, back of the uniforms. It has for God, so love the world.
>> Fred Jackson: There you go.
>> Tim Wildmon: I had John 3:16.
>> Fred Jackson: So great testimony.
>> Tim Wildmon: all right, so we, you know, helps us beat the Pagans. A lot of pagan teams out there and we just, we show up with 316 baseball and they just, they just leave. God gives us favor.
>> John Riley: That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: I can say I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. Folks. Don't email me about theology because my theology is I don't think God cares who wins a baseball game.
>> Chris Woodward: And then you have Wake Forest Demon deacons, whatever that means. Yeah, yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: I always say I don't think God cares who wins a ball game. He only he, but he does care about the people on the field and in the stands. Amen. Amen.
>> Fred Jackson: Amen.
FBI warned Israel Summit organizers about possible threats, John Ramsey says
>> Tim Wildmon: All right. You're listening to, today's issues. Well, on a serious, very serious note, we're here to talk to John about something that happened. Why don't you tell us about it, John?
>> John Riley: I was supposed to be in the Dallas Fort Worth, Texas, today, all the way through Wednesday for the Israel Summit, which is actually organized by the Israel guys. It's the media arm of HA Yuvel and this organization, they're based in Israel and what they do is they Simply bring in people to Israel to, you know, pick the vineyards and plant trees and to, you know, help Christians connect with the Jewish people. And they're right. Located in the, heart of Samaria, which is a very important part of Israel. And so I was supposed to be at the summit where it was a gathering of people from Israel and from the United States that would come and just share their love for Israel. there was going to be, survivors of the October 7th massacre that were there as well. And then, you had former Ambassador Matt, David Friedman that was going to be there. You also had, former Congresswoman Michele Bachmann. So the bottom line is, last week they began to get threats, high level threats from the FBI, local law enforcements of direct threats from, anti Israel.
>> Tim Wildmon: You mean the FBI warning? Yeah, about threats.
>> John Riley: Right. The FBI was warning them of these threats that, could happen if they helped.
>> Tim Wildmon: They were warning the organizers of the event.
>> John Riley: They were organized. That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: It's kind of scary. What did the organizers do?
>> John Riley: Well, first they actually had one venue, and that's. And all the threats started coming in from these anti Israel extremist jihadists here in our country. And so because of that, they said, hey, you need to, you know, move the venue or end the venue. And they said, no, we're going to go ahead and move the venue. So they moved the venue outside of the Dallas, Fort Worth area, about 20 miles actually out of Fort Worth. And then it happened again. Those same, anti Israel extremists found out where they're going to be. And once again, all of the pressure came, you know, from them of, threats, direct threats from, you know, that the FBI was conveying to them and local law enforcement. And they said, we got to pull out. And so it's not happening.
>> Fred Jackson: You know, if people were not aware of the level of anti Semitism in this country, they better be now, because you look at the university campuses, within hours after the October 7, 2023 massacre in Israel, we had pro Hamas demonstrators on university campuses. Just in the last two weeks, you had that young Israeli couple assassinated outside a museum in Washington, D.C. and then you had the incident in Boulder, Colorado last week where there was a peaceful demonstration drawing attention to the people, still being held by Hamas terrorists. And they were attacked by a guy, a pro Islamic terrorist guy who was in this country illegally from Egypt and setting people on fire. Just innocent people who were there with a, peaceful demonstration. And now, John, you have this conference that you were going to attend the FBI warning people that if you go ahead with this, people could be hurt and perhaps killed.
>> Tim Wildmon: And this was just a conference, like you said. This was really not political.
>> John Riley: No, everybody, of course, these are people who just love the land of Israel. Some of them Jewish, people. There's. They're peace loving people.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right? Yeah. There wasn't anything really controversial about.
>> John Riley: Absolutely not.
>> Tim Wildmon: But the FBI warned. Hey, there's. We've been a, we've had a threat against the conference we wanted, but the FBI. But it was the conference organizers who decided to cancel it.
>> John Riley: That's right. That is correct.
>> Tim Wildmon: What was the name of the conference?
>> John Riley: the Israel Summit.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right. Is it annual?
>> John Riley: It is. Actually. This was the second one that they had scheduled last year. They had some of the same things happening, with some threats, but, Dave Ramsey stepped in and gave them a venue because the first venue they had canceled. And then Dave Ramsey stepped in and, you know, had the security for them. Everything. Yeah, that actually happened.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
Are you planning to go back to Israel anytime soon or. Uh, that's a good question
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, well, so are you planning to go back to Israel anytime soon or.
>> John Riley: I am. actually, that's a good question. Because June 22nd we're going to actually bring, some of the AFR. AFA, staff members there as part of the, Israeli government's bringing us in. And so we'll be sending back some reports coming up, after June 22nd.
>> Fred Jackson: That's cool.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: Yep.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: Chris Woodward going.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, Chris.
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah. First time. First time, in God's country.
>> John Riley: That's right. I'm excited to, to be there in the land with you.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, that's literal, Chris.
>> Chris Woodward: It is, yes. I mean it. Yeah. The Lord. The Lord knows what's up.
>> Tim Wildmon: A lot of people say this is God's country, depending on where they live.
>> Chris Woodward: Oh, no, no, no, I'm not.
>> Tim Wildmon: I know, I know. I'm kidding that. I'm saying that, this really is God's country.
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah. It's funny because here in Mississippi we have a lot of places now we pronounce it Bethel. Okay. but, there's, you know, there's Bethel Baptist churches, there's Bethel Roads, there's all kinds of Bethel's.
>> Tim Wildmon: We.
>> Chris Woodward: I actually have the opportunity to see the actual Bethel, and some other things. So, looking forward to it.
>> John Riley: Yeah, absolutely. Looking forward. You know, this whole thing with the canceling of this is just really troubling. You have to wonder, you know, is it, is it safe to, in America to publicly stand with Israel? It's just a question. I mean, we stand with Israel and the Jewish people. But you have to ask that, that question.
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah, that's actually in a sound bite here from one of the people that John has been in talks with about the Israel Guys event being canceled.
An event in Dallas planned to support Israel was canceled because of security threats
here now is a sound bite from a guy named Luke Hilton of the Israel Guys talking to CBN about how unsafe it is these days in America of all places.
>> Speaker H: Clip 15 what it feels like is that Jews and Christians can no longer gather publicly in support of Israel and America. Crazy as that sounds, that's exactly what it feels like right now. You know, it's hard to believe that we're at this point our security director who was working with us for the event. his father fought in World War II, you know, and he said, honestly, it feels like Germany in 1939. We try to have a simple pro Israel event. We're talking about a peaceful gathering, 600 people in Dallas, Texas of all places. And the goal is simply to educate people to stand publicly, peacefully in support of Israel. Just the fact that we cannot have an event like that in America today, Texas of all places, like where? And honestly, this is a question I'm asking myself. What does that mean for the state of America today?
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, okay, so I don't know. I don't think my reaction would be. I share his, the gentleman, you know.
>> John Riley: That fella, I do know him personally. He's a great guy with, how you feel. And Israel guys.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, I, share his concern there. But I would say under, under normal conditions, this is not a controversial, subject or event. Right. You've had them over the years. Right. So, but I would say right now it is, it's kind of, it's heightened. The, emotional reaction of people who want to do harm to Israel and to Jews is heightened because of the war in Gaza, what's going on in Gaza right now. So all the news stories that you see that say, well, the Israeli army killed 20 more, Palestinians today, three children and five women, then that, that, raises the emotional charge of, people who maybe are a little unstable in the head anyway, you know what I'm saying? Like the fellow out in Boulder, Colorado. So, I hope and pray that this will subside, and I think it will with time. But still right now, if you're, an event organizer like this and you get a call from the FBI, you know, that's a tough place to be in because you're, you're saying that I'm going to go forward with this event to defy those who would try to stop us. But at the same time you have to say, well, if the FBI is warning me, I don't want to have a terrorist, attack on my event. And then, and then, maybe responsible for the deaths of some people or whatever because I didn't heed the warning of the FBI.
>> Fred Jackson: And the threats are real. Just going back to what happened to that young couple in Washington D.C. in the last couple of weeks. They were assassinated. Yeah, they were assassinated. what happened? Boulder, Colorado. This guy that's been arrested in Boulder, Colorado has confessed to what he did. He had Molotov cocktails, more than a dozen in his car. He lit some of them to light people on fire. So, you know, it's. Is there any wonder why this group canceled the event? Because the threats are real.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: Coming out of the event in Boulder, Colorado, I heard one of the demonstrators that was there that was not injured, he said, we, the Jews are being hunted in America right now. Now that is a very scary thought. That takes you back to World War II. We are being hunted because we are Jews.
>> Fred Jackson: Not because we are bad people. We are living in Jews.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, they would say, those who would attack them would say, yeah, they are bad people because they are Jews. And Jews control Israel and Israel is killing the Palestinian, children. I am just telling you what they would say.
>> Fred Jackson: By the way, you mentioned the figures that the mainstream media use, for the number of Palestinians being killed in Gaza. Do you know what the source of those figures is?
>> Tim Wildmon: Hamas.
>> Fred Jackson: The Hamas controlled health group.
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah, it's called Gaza Health Ministry and Associated Press stories. But the terrorists control the Health Ministry.
>> Tim Wildmon: By the way, Israel, is saying that they did kill, one of the top Hamas leaders.
>> John Riley: Yes, right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Do we have this story?
>> Chris Woodward: Yes, I'm pulling it up right now.
>> Tim Wildmon: Because it took place, took place in the last two or three days, right?
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> John Riley: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: And if you have the story, let me know when you have it. Now.
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah. Hamas chief, the Shadow was killed. An airstrike on Gaza hospital. IDF confirms as it releases footage of secret tunnels. It's a Daily Mail story to which I will post on our Facebook page.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, so you know, here again you have a, Hamas leader operating terrorist activities against Israel from an underground tunnel system, bunker system that is under a hospital, according to the Israeli. Yes, right, Israeli, government. Is that.
>> John Riley: I think that's accurate.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Yeah, so, but, but this would be another top Hamas leader that Israel has, as you mentioned, hunted down, have found out where he was and killed him. Because as long as there is a war going on between Hamas and Israel, Israel's trying to take out the leadership as much as they can of Hamas. True.
>> Fred Jackson: Another interesting development on the Gaza war. Last week it was reported, and the term that was used by Netanyahu's office is Palestinian clans. That was the term that he used. But what it is is groups of Palestinians that are now joining up with Israel.
>> Fred Jackson: They've had enough of Hamas leadership. We got to remember this, not all Palestinians in Gaza support Hamas. they are there under unfortunate circumstances. But there are now these groups, as I say, Netanyahu call them clans, who are helping Israel.
>> John Riley: And reports are that Israel actually provided some weapons to them, or at least some rifles. So that's some of the reports that are coming out on that.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, John, well, thanks for stepping in, being with us.
Riley: Be suspicious of mainstream media on how it reports on Israel
>> John Riley: Just as I leave here, I want to encourage everybody who is listening here today to stand up and speak out. You know, when you hear Jew hatred going on around you, you hear people saying, oh, those, those, extremist Israeli, Jewish people there in the land of Israel, in Judea and Samaria, please speak out against that. Stand up, be strong and stand for Israel. I just want to encourage everybody to do that.
>> Fred Jackson: Can I add to that? Be very suspicious of the mainstream media on how it reports on what Israel is doing or not doing.
>> John Riley: That's right.
>> Fred Jackson: The mainstream media, for the most part, is all in with the Palestinian side of this.
>> John Riley: M. Yes.
>> Fred Jackson: All right. and sadly, even the Associated Press using Hamas controlled figures.
>> John Riley: And a great place to get your news and information is American family news. By the way, they have a new, brand new Israel Middle east category, so you can go there. You guys do an awesome job. So afn.net, you need to check that out.
>> Fred Jackson: We support Israel unapologetically.
>> John Riley: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right. Thank you, John. John, Wriley, you all right? You're listening to Today's Issues.
There's been a Twitter feud between Simone Biles and Riley Gaines
Next story. Chris?
>> Chris Woodward: Well, that was a, bitter X feud. I wanted to say Twitter feud, because that's what it used to be called. Now it's called X. and there's been a back and forth between, athletes turned activists, Simone Biles, famous gymnast, and Wriley Gaines, famous swimmer from the University of Kentucky, that had to compete against, men, including Will, Leah Thomas. Will wants to go by Leah, but, we still call him Will because that's how he was born and that's what his mama called him. so Simone Biles, over the weekend, for some bizarre reason, just started to Tweet or post some nasty things, to Wriley Gaines, saying that, you know, she needs to be more inclusive. It's disgusting how you're acting. And Wriley Gaines has just been, using her platform to criticize states like Minnesota, which over the weekend allowed a girl softball team with a male to compete against female teams. That team with a male ended up winning it all. Rally Gaines was on television saying, this is terrible. We need to stop this. It's not just in Minnesota, it's nationwide in various states. Simone Biles gets on X and says nasty things about, Wriley Gaines, including, why don't you go pick on someone your own size, A man. Which was just kind of weird. I mean, Rally Gaines is 5 9, which is I guess above average height for a female in the U.S. but it's not like she's 8ft tall, or you know, ripped, like she's the guy from Reacher or something. I mean it's, it's, it's bizarre. And a lot of people have been weighing in on this. I saw a news segment this morning on Fox where Michelle Tafoya, who used to work for NBC, said she's taking sides with Wriley Gans here.
>> Fred Jackson: I just don't understand, the position being taken, the pro trans position by certainly the media, by certain politicians, et cetera, et cetera, that you know, it just, we've talked about this before, what it's doing to girls sports when these males, these biological males are allowed to play against other girls. It's certainly not a political winner for the Democratic Party, but it is so intellectually and biologically untrue. A boy cannot say I'm a girl just by saying I'm a girl. I mean, it's totally outside the bounds of scientific reality.
>> Tim Wildmon: I was kind of surprised by this. I didn't know what Simone Biles, all of her political views were, she's, you know, considered the greatest of all times by many in terms of her gym gymnastic credentials. I mean, she's multiple gold medals over multiple Olympics. So that's unquestioned. However, for her to go on her social media platform and start supporting boys playing girls sports is as, as Wriley Gaines. And criticizing Wriley Gaines, who's the one who's the face of opposition to boys playing girls sports was weird because if, if Wriley, if ah, Simone Biles had to compete against males, she wouldn't win.
>> Fred Jackson: That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: There's a reason we have a separation in all athletics between males and females in Competition because males competing against females is unfair and everybody knows it.
>> Chris Woodward: Well, it's also illegal. I mean, it violates a woman's, Title 9 rights to have to compete against a male. That's something they've said since day one.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, well, they're doing it though.
>> Chris Woodward: Oh, yeah, they're, they're thumbing their nose at the law.
>> Tim Wildmon: Here's the kind of the bizarro thing that, people on the left who's like Simone Biles, I guess, she, she says that Wriley Gaines is bullying trans people. Yeah, because she's just saying no, boys, should not be allowed biological boys. There are no other kind, by the way. But I'm saying that for the sake of our discussion here, biological males should not compete against biological females in athletics. That's all. Wriley Gaines is saying how unfair that is. The people like Simone Biles, I would guess would say this. no, the person you're talking about is in fact a girl. Why? And you might say, well, no, the chromosomes don't say that and the genitalia don't say that and the muscular development doesn't say that. And the lung capacity doesn't say that. So what are you basing that on, Simone? That this guy can call himself a girl and we're supposed to go with it? I'm guessing they would say, and I've heard some of them say this, they are, they identify as a female. So they're basically what you're saying is their feelings, we should subscribed gender based on somebody's feelings. Am I right? So that's as I call that, bizarro to a average person or somebody who, who thinks you go, no, that doesn't, that doesn't add up. That doesn't, that's not, that's just because somebody says there's something I can say I'm, as people, say, I can say I'm a seven foot Chinese, person. But that doesn't make me one. No, but what these people on the left would say would be if they were going to be consistent, they would have to say, yes, if Tim says he's a seven foot Chinese person, you need to go with that. Yeah. Because that's what he's identifying as. You see what I'm saying?
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah. Where once you start down this road, and we have started down this road, right. In this country, particularly in blue states, what's next? I'd like to fly a 747. I identify as the 747 pilot ups. Let me fly your 747. Everybody would say you're not right. You know, we're not going to do that. That's foolish, right? Well, this is foolish. Yeah, this is absolutely foolish.
>> Tim Wildmon: And I would say, you know, if these people, want to call themselves, if you have men who want to call themselves women or put on some makeup and address and like, like, Bruce Jenner did and call himself Caitlin, you know, that's one thing. You know, they're adults.
>> Fred Jackson: They.
>> Tim Wildmon: I don't agree with it and I think it's sad, tragic, but, but that's their choice.
Riley Gaines: Simone Biles used her platform on controversial issue
But when you have athletics, that is one of the basic, premises of what athletics is built on, is fairness in competition. Then you can't be for some males competing against females. You just can't in terms of fair. In fact, that's why, Wriley Gaines is talking back here on Twitter to Simone Biles, because Simone Biles arguments are just strictly emotional.
>> Tim Wildmon: There's nothing scientific or logical about what she's saying, but I was surprised that she used her platform. So, what is that platform? what am I trying to say? X. Yeah, but platform. I'm using a, pun.
>> Fred Jackson: Hm.
>> Chris Woodward: You see what I did there used her platform too.
>> Tim Wildmon: I said pun unintended with her platform.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: For a gymnast. Right, gotcha. See what I said there?
>> Chris Woodward: I give you a 10.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, thank you. Thank you. Anyway, I'm surprised that she chose this issue to make herself look foolish over.
>> Chris Woodward: I mean, she just kind of came out of nowhere. It was no one over the weekend thought, where is Simone bio for this issue? And then she just goes after Rally Gaines.
>> Tim Wildmon: It's also like Wriley Gaines said, there was another, sports star in the world of soccer. Help me out with her name. that's retired now. but she was a very famous soccer player. Rapinoe.
>> Chris Woodward: Oh, yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Chris Woodward: Megan.
>> Tim Wildmon: Megan Rapinoe, who is a very famous women's soccer player. Well, when she got ready to retire, that's when she came out in favor of men playing girls soccer. And, and as Wriley Gaines said, she. So she came out in favor of males m. Playing female soccer after she's retiring.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: You know, so she changed her view, and then pulled the ladder up.
>> Fred Jackson: That was convenient.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, yeah, yeah. okay, we'll be back momentarily with more of today's issues on the American Family Radio Network. Stay with us.
>> John Riley: M. The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American Family association or American Family Radio.
