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Today's Issues offers a Christian response to the issues of the day
>> Tim Wildmon: Welcome to today's Issues, offering a Christian response to the issues of the day. Here's your host, Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Today's Issues, the name of this program. Wednesday, May 14, 2025, is the date. And joining me in studio is Wesley Wildmon. Good morning, Wesley.
>> Wesley Wildmon: And good morning. Glad to be back. It's been a couple days.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. How long has it been since you were on?
>> Wesley Wildmon: I missed a week all last week, and then I missed yesterday.
>> Tim Wildmon: do you have an excuse from the doctor?
>> Wesley Wildmon: No, I don't have an excuse from the doctor.
>> Tim Wildmon: You weren't hunting?
>> Wesley Wildmon: No, no hunting. There's. That season's come and gone, and. Don't remind me about it, okay?
>> Tim Wildmon: Why, is that not a good one?
>> Wesley Wildmon: No, I just. It's. There is no hunting season right now.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, you miss it?
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah. Be like. It'd be like if you're a college football fan. And football.
>> Tim Wildmon: College football for seven months. Okay.
>> Wesley Wildmon: I got seven months.
>> Tim Wildmon: Chris Woodward. Good morning, Chris.
>> Christopher Woodward: Good morning.
>> Tim Wildmon: And Ray Pritchard. Good morning, Brother Ray.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, good morning, Tim. How are you doing today?
>> Tim Wildmon: Everything's good. It's, going to be 85 degrees here in Tupelo Ms. Today. What about KCK?
>> Tim Wildmon: Let me tell you, this is amazing. It's actually going to be warmer. This is very unusual. Hotter here than in Tupelo. That almost never happens. We're going to hit 90 degrees. 90 and sunny weather.
The southeastern part of the United States receives more rain than any other region
So yesterday you guys were saying a lot of rain has. Is that gone?
>> Tim Wildmon: It's gone.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Tim Wildmon: It's like it never happened. No, you know, it. Mississippi. Well, and the southeastern part of the United States in general, receives more rain than any other region of the country. I don't know if that's Gulf moisture or what, but we get about 58 to 60 inches of rain annually in the state. And that would be true of Alabama, Louisiana, you know. So, so it rains in the springtime. It rains a lot. It rains a lot here. But, hey, it Greens, everything up. Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's good. That's right. Get it. Gets the golf courses ready.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Play 18 holes.
>> Tim Wildmon: But it seemed like in August we get zero. I mean, it's like.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: You know, just. It's so humid.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Well, you know you grew up in Alabama, right?
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yeah. August is a good time to be in the mountain, go to the lake.
>> Tim Wildmon: That is true. That's a true thing. you know, we've, we, Allison, my wife and I, we've talked about going to Canada maybe in, in. In August.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah. Yeah.
>> Christopher Woodward: Have you ever been?
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, Canada. yes, I have been to, Montreal.
>> Christopher Woodward: Okay. I highly recommend the Canadian side of Niagara Falls if you go, if you're in that part.
>> Tim Wildmon: I have been. Yeah.
>> Christopher Woodward: Take your time to see the Canadian side. It's more picturesque than what you see in America.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, well, with those, with families that have kids in schools, there's. You're stuck if you're in the south.
>> Tim Wildmon: Because school starts m. Oh, you mean in August?
>> Wesley Wildmon: In August. School starts in August. So there is no traveling now. You got Labor Day. You can make a trip. But.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, I remember when I was a kid and. Same as Ray, probably. You know what I'm about to say, Ray, the school started after Labor Day, right?
>> Tim Wildmon: That's right. As God intended. After.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Wait a minute, I didn't know this.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, yeah, that's true.
>> Wesley Wildmon: After Labor Day. That was like the March.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, like the Tuesday after Labor Day when school started.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, right. So you could still get out and have your vacation the middle of August, but.
>> Wesley Wildmon: And now they're talking about school year round.
>> Tim Wildmon: I know that's abominable.
>> Christopher Woodward: I'm gonna go homeschool if they do that. And we're gonna start on the Tuesday after Labor Day.
>> Wesley Wildmon: And I've heard a few people, make a, make a reasonable case once you hear them out on how they intend on doing it by, by spreading. By making holidays longer. But the problem is, is that the advertisement of year round school, you have to advertise it differently.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Because that is a no show. Even though I don't go to school anymore, I'm going to speak on behalf of the kids that can't speak for themselves.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, no, no. All year round school, when I.
>> Christopher Woodward: Was a kid I was like, can we, like, I would, I would have been more content with, staying until 4 if we could start at 9.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Christopher Woodward: And no one ever listened to me. Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Can't do that because the parents Got to be at work, so.
Explorers have been looking for Noah's Ark in Turkey
All right, a lot to talk about today happening in the world, by the way. Next, hour, we're going to talk about, the, Noah's Ark, potentially discovered in Turkey. You heard me right. we're going to talk about that, right. You only give us a 60 second preview of maybe what our conversation.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, we've been looking, they've been looking. Explorers have been looking for Noah's Ark and we've come tantalizingly close. But, Tim, there's a strange rock formation over there that just might be the actual literal landing place of Noah and the ark. And, we don't know, we're not going to say for sure, but they found something over there, Tim, and they've done some testing. So stick around. Folks. This is a great, exciting story.
>> Tim Wildmon: So we're going to post that story, on our website. It's a link to the Daily Mail story about this, discovery, the latest on that discovery in the country of Turkey. All right, Chris, what's the first story you have there in your stack?
Ray: President Trump says Iran must stop sponsoring terror and halt nuclear weapons
>> Christopher Woodward: Well, the President of the United States remains in the Middle east for a, it's day two of his four day trip to the Middle east where he is, meeting with various, nations to discuss economic deals. I've got several sound bites from President Trump here. you know, he's let me. I lost my place. He says he's making good on his promises to not just enhance economic partnerships in the region, but also to embrace the possibilities of new ones and including with Tehran. Clip 1.
>> Donald Trump: I want to make a deal with Iran. I want to do something if it's possible. But for that to happen, it must stop sponsoring terror, halt its bloody proxy wars, and permanently and verifiably cease its pursuit of nuclear weapons. They cannot have a nuclear weapon.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes, well, any thoughts on what he just said, Wesley?
>> Wesley Wildmon: No, other than a maga, so I agree.
>> Tim Wildmon: What about what he said there, Ray?
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, look, good luck. Good, luck getting the Iranians to actually agree to that and then to allow verifiable examination. Remember that was part of the problem when we went through all this with Saddam hussein in Iraq 20 plus years ago. Sure, there's no weapons over here, but we're not going to let you come in and, and inspect. So I think it's a noble, it's a worthy goal. I wish the President all the best. But I think the Iranians want nuclear weapons. It's going to be hard to get them to Agree and to allow us to do the inspections, to prove that they don't have nuclear weapons.
>> Christopher Woodward: Trump also noted that the US has an unwavering commitment to seeing a lasting end of hostilities in Gaza.
>> Donald Trump: Clip 3 In Gaza, my administration shares the hope of so many in this region for future of safety and dignity of the Palestinian people. But that cannot happen as long as Gaza's leaders take delight in raping, torturing and murdering innocent people. Can't have it. Ultimately, all hostages of all nationalities must be released as a stepping stone to peace.
>> Christopher Woodward: Now, this, I think, is one of the reasons why you can't just go with the headline of a news story because you see a, headline saying Trump is committed to, you know, an ending of hostilities in Gaza. You, you would take, he's, you would think he's taking the Biden approach, like, Israel's got to stop it. But clearly he is sympathetic and aware of the plight that Israel is in, having people wanting to annihilate them right down the road.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, yeah. that's. Was the. What we just heard from President Trump, a part of the earlier.
>> Christopher Woodward: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Sound bite. So he had a. Basically had a press statement or.
>> Christopher Woodward: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Is he taking Q and A?
>> Christopher Woodward: He's. I don't know that he did in this particular instance. He's going to be speaking again later today, so we could get some questions and answers, at that point.
I think reaching out to Iran is an interesting idea
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, the Middle east, has always been, and perhaps always will be, to simplify a mess.
>> Tim Wildmon: A quagmire.
>> Tim Wildmon: Quagmire. it's just, you know, it's a jigsaw puzzle that's hard to put it all together now. So President Trump is doing the best that he can in his administration and bringing some peace and order to that region of the world in as much as he can do that. I think reaching out to Iran is an interesting idea. He basically saying, if you want to join the rest of the world, then you need to do these things. You need to give up your nuclear weapon quest. you need to quit, funding, terrorist organizations like Hamas and the Houthis and the, Hezbollah, and such. But I don't know, as long as the mullahs, which are the Muslim clerics of Iran, control the country. And they do ever since Ayatollah, Khomeini back in the 79 or whatever was. They had the Islamic revolution, these people are driven by ideology. They're not driven necessarily by practicality or money or the desire to have peace. Now, money I don't know. They still. They have a country of ever. How many, millions of people living around.
>> Wesley Wildmon: So there may be a certain number that.
>> Tim Wildmon: That they won't. They won't. You know, you. You don't want millions of people out in the streets. That could lead to a different kind of revolution.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Right?
>> Tim Wildmon: And if they don't have jobs and income, then. Then, you know what I'm saying? And these sanctions they have against Iran are serious. So, President Trump's doing everything that he possibly can to, and I think that's my view of, bringing peace and order to the Middle east and trying to bring Iran to heel, so to speak. And we'll see, you know, what it accomplishes. But many presidents have gone before him trying to, trying to deal with Iran.
President Trump met with the new Syrian president, Ahmad Elsari
>> Christopher Woodward: speaking of presidents, Trump also met with the new Syrian president, whose name is Ahmad Elsari Alshara, however you.
>> Tim Wildmon: Might say his name. What, Chris Ahmad Alshara.
>> Christopher Woodward: and he, here's President Trump making this statement about US Syria relations. Clip 2.
>> Donald Trump: Are currently exploring normalizing relations with Syria's new government, as you know, beginning with my meeting with President Ahmed Al, Shara. also ordering the cessation of sanctions against Syria to give them a fresh start. It gives them a chance for greatness. The sanctions were really crippling, very powerful.
>> Christopher Woodward: Here's what I think. If, if this was Joe Biden or Kamala Harris making this statement, people today would be, you know, nominating them for, like, a Nobel Prize for peace. Donald Trump is trying to bring stability to the region by doing deals that are going to help their country as well as ours, and people on the left could not care less.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, well, they, They're. They have tds.
>> Christopher Woodward: That's very true.
>> Tim Wildmon: go ahead, Ray.
Ray: Doing something in Gaza is the most difficult because Hamas still in control
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, so we're talking about three different regions here. We're talking about. Trump is amazing. somebody said to me last night, he's not like anybody else in every possible way. He's not like anybody else. He goes to the Middle east and he's working to make a deal with Iran and to do something in Gaza and to do something in Syria all at the same time. of those three, right now, I think doing something in Gaza is the most difficult because Hamas is still. They've been bloodied and beaten, but they're still in control there. That's the hardest one. I think. I think where he can make the most progress may be in Syria, which we have in other programs over the years. We've called It a kind of snake pit, to, what to do in Syria. I think it's a pretty good move. Lift the sanctions. You got the new leadership over there. Let's see what happens. Iran, I would put number two in the possibility. And guys, everybody, we're going to have to be patient. That's a long term, project. But God bless, God bless the president. He's not, he's trying to make a deal on every possible side at the same.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Not to mention the country he's in there, Saudi Arabia.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Dealing with them as well. So is this, is this a four day trip, you say?
>> Christopher Woodward: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Go ahead, Wesley.
>> Wesley Wildmon: I was going to ask, drilling down on Gaza.
>> Tim Wildmon: I like the drilling down part since we're talking about Saudi Arabia.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, you like that? It was unintended pun, right? There you go. And that was a pun, by the way.
>> Tim Wildmon: Ed's not here to tell you it wasn't.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: For me, it wasn't.
>> Wesley Wildmon: at what point is it. Because we're coming up on. It's been two coming up on three years on the, on the Gaza attack.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Okay, so at what point is it year five, six, seven, eight or a decade? Do you just go in? Because the reason is it mine is. Correct me if I'm wrong, but is it not because of the hostages that is now delayed, the complete takeover? Right. Is that.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, yeah, they. Israel has been continuing on now, as I understand it, you know, with their control trying, trying to do everything they can to. And they, they basically have operating control of Gaza. Okay. And, and that they can, bomb whatever they want to. They can go into anywhere they want to with their, military press.
>> Wesley Wildmon: What keeps them from finishing the job and just completely, eliminated?
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, you got to kill a bunch of people.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Okay. Other than military people. That's what I'm talking about.
>> Tim Wildmon: You can't distinguish the two. hard. It's very difficult to do. That's part of the problem, isn't it, Ray? well, remember the civilians are mixed in with the terrorists.
>> Tim Wildmon: Before 2005, Israel had direct control of Gaza and they voluntarily gave it up. But because it's not tenable for, for Gaza, I don't think is ever going to become a part of the nation of Israel. I think, I think what they want, Wesley, is what they've got right now, operational control. I think the problem is not on the military side, it's on the civilian or political side that the next step is to get an, Arab government in there. That is not Hamas related.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Okay.
>> Tim Wildmon: How do you do that?
>> Tim Wildmon: Right. That's what they're trying to figure out.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Okay.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right now. And it's very, very difficult, very, very complex. And you've got to kind of, I think you've got to find a way to break the control of Hamas over the people of Gaza. And it's very difficult to do because the the, the, the, the Hamas runs Gaza, kind of like the mafia runs the neighborhood. Okay. And so if you, if your family bucks them, then your family gets knocked off one by one by one and it teaches everybody else in the neighborhood you better.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's not metaphorically that really.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's where the mafia really operated back in the day in a lot of American big cities, namely Chicago, New York for example. So. But it's very intimidating. and nobody else is going to say anything critical of the mob because they don't want their family visited. So it's the same type thing in Gaza with Hamas. So it makes it very difficult to break their stronghold and their control. And they raised their children over there, sadly to hate the Jews from the time they're one year old.
>> Wesley Wildmon: You know, videos of that in their education.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. So it's a, but anyway, so you have to deal with it Hamas with force. And that's what Israel is doing. And when they do that, sadly sometimes innocent women and children die, are injured as. Because Israel has to fight an urban war basically, because the Hamas hides behind mosque and hospitals and they blend in with the population and the general population makes it very difficult for the, they don't have, they're not like an army to come out with their uniforms on.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: And say, here we are, we're ready to fight you.
President Donald Trump is in the Middle East for another two days
And they don't do that. They do guerrilla warfare, they do terrorist activities, like they did on October the seventh. Was that 2023. So you're listening to today's issues on American Family Radio. President Donald Trump is in the Middle east for another two days. Where does he go next? Does he, does he leave Saudi Arabia today?
>> Christopher Woodward: he's. Well, this four day trek includes stops in the uae. I think he's even going to have some talks with the people in Cotter, the folks that want to donate him a big plane.
>> Tim Wildmon: Cotter or Cotter.
>> Tim Wildmon: Ray Cutter. That's what you hear it said a couple different ways.
>> Tim Wildmon: Grant Red in here.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: If Fred calls it Cotter, I call it Cutter. Yeah, go ahead, go ahead.
>> Christopher Woodward: Some People say, you know, Qatar and like, it's Carter.
>> Wesley Wildmon: You hear guitar, guitar, guitar, guitar.
>> Christopher Woodward: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: so, so anyway, those are all Arab nations, uae, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, where he. So he's basically dealing with who wants to. Who's the. What's the country wanting to give him? That big, four, four hundred million.
>> Christopher Woodward: Dollar airplane, the one that people mispronounce, possibly cutter.
>> Tim Wildmon: What's the lady. Anything, any news on that?
>> Christopher Woodward: well, he is still, saying it's completely fine and there's nothing wrong with this deal. But even people like Rand Paul.
>> Tim Wildmon: Not a deal, though.
>> Christopher Woodward: I don't know about that.
>> Tim Wildmon: You mean a deal in the general sense. This country is wanting to give him a gift, but I don't think he can take it as president. I think he's going to have to either give it.
>> Tim Wildmon: They're not giving it to him personally, right?
>> Christopher Woodward: No, it's not like, it's not like.
>> Tim Wildmon: Trump is going to. Mr. Trump is going to fly the plane home himself.
>> Christopher Woodward: He himself said it would be a gift to the Defense Department.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Christopher Woodward: Which he does oversee.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, I don't see anything wrong with that. Now he can't accept a gift like that on a personal level because it would. I think there, there are laws forbidding that, for government officials, congressmen, senators, so forth. Because you don't want to be perceived as taking a gift in return for a favor that you otherwise wouldn't get from the President.
President Trump announced that Qatar will buy 160 Boeing jets
>> Wesley Wildmon: On the question that you asked, is there any updates? about a half hour ago, it's. The headline reads, Trump announces a 200 billion dollar Boeing deal with Guitar. And he signed that agreement this day or today, Wednesday, to purchase 160 jets from a US manufacturer.
>> Tim Wildmon: Good night. 160 jets, like commercial or did they.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Say it reads, I understand it to be commercial.
>> Tim Wildmon: that's a lot of jets. That's like a whole fleet. But there are one of the airlines over there that opera. There's the United Arab Emirates. They have their own emeritus. You see them, right?
>> Tim Wildmon: Emirati.
>> Tim Wildmon: Emirati, right.
>> Tim Wildmon: And there's a Qatar Airways.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, there is. Is there a Saudi Airways?
>> Tim Wildmon: I don't know what.
>> Christopher Woodward: There's an Air Arabia.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, that might be. So there's a lot of, countries with airline fleets over there. So what? President Trump has said that Qatar, is going to buy planes from an American company, namely Boeing here.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Right, right. $200 billion worth. 160 jets, yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's good news for Boeing and for the American economy. Go ahead, Chris.
Twitter explodes with conspiracy theories about why President Trump isn't drinking coffee
>> Christopher Woodward: Well, this trip has, sparked some wild conspiracy as it. Yes, it has. So yesterday or during this trip, there was a photo opportunity to where the, President was handed a cup of coffee along with other members of his cabinet that made this trip. And Trump not being a coffee drinker, he likes Diet Coke. Trump just sits there awkwardly, not really knowing what to do. And so that launched a whole bunch of conspiracy theories on X, formerly known as Twitter, on why he isn't drinking the coffee. one person said that they believe Trump didn't swallow the drink over assassination fears could be possible poison. This person says Secret Service tells him not to consume anything given to him without being tested first. And, and then a whole bunch of people just started winging in after that. Trust the Saudis.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Was Vance there with. When advance. That was with him or was that.
>> Christopher Woodward: I see, Rubio, Ruby.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Okay. Rubio is the one. The guy to his left. I didn't get a good look at him.
>> Tim Wildmon: Rubio, just to set the scene here you have the President, United States, with the Saudi leader.
>> Christopher Woodward: Yes.
>> Wesley Wildmon: And, which we're not going to try to pronounce his name again. We've already tried.
>> Tim Wildmon: He's, what do they call him? Crown Prince.
>> Christopher Woodward: Oh, that's a, Mohammed Ben Salman Al Saudi.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, that's the man right there.
>> Christopher Woodward: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: So he's, just calling the Crown Prince.
>> Christopher Woodward: I call him Ben.
>> Tim Wildmon: so he, he's, ah, they're having this ceremonial tea slash, coffee, I guess, where they bring it out and, and all of them, are supposed to partake of it. And President Trump doesn't.
>> Christopher Woodward: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, he holds it. He holds it.
>> Wesley Wildmon: He doesn't shoo him away.
>> Tim Wildmon: I don't.
>> Wesley Wildmon: He receives. He receives it. He just doesn't.
>> Tim Wildmon: But I don't blame him if the Secret Services don' you know, and maybe somebody from the Secret Service had already tested it. I don't know.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Well, Marco Rubio drank his. So, yeah, he drank and he asked. It looked like he asked for more. So apparently that one.
>> Christopher Woodward: That's because Ruby is like nine jobs.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, but if Trump doesn't drink coffee anyway. He wouldn't. He wouldn't drink it. So. Okay, he's a Diet Coke guy.
>> Christopher Woodward: He is a Diet Coke guy. Now. He, he does love.
>> Tim Wildmon: He and Ed would get along great.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, well, it was the question then why didn't he. Let's say he's not a coffee drinker.
>> Tim Wildmon: Fine.
>> Tim Wildmon: So wouldn't he have at least lifted it up to his mouth to take a step?
>> Christopher Woodward: I Do not.
>> Tim Wildmon: I'm just asking.
>> Christopher Woodward: I. I don't think all we have is this, where he's awkwardly holding the cup and saucer in his hand as he said, I saw that.
>> Wesley Wildmon: I saw the video. He just sat there. He. Yeah, it didn't do anything disrespectful. He just didn't participate in.
>> Tim Wildmon: He didn't do anything.
>> Tim Wildmon: He just held the coffee cup. Ah, that was a pretty pitiful looking coffee cup.
>> Tim Wildmon: Really, really strong.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Really strong.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. You would expect a, coffee cup by the crown prince of.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Oh, yeah. Be made out of gold or something. Yeah, yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Something more opulent than a Dixie Cup.
>> Tim Wildmon: Not a Dixie cup.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right, the Dixie cup. What's smaller than a Dixie cup? It was a little shot glass.
>> Christopher Woodward: Does look like.
>> Tim Wildmon: Not that I know what that is, but we've heard. Yeah, we've heard. So a friend of mine said, saw.
>> Christopher Woodward: a picture on the Internet.
>> Tim Wildmon: We'll be back momentarily with more of today's issues on the American Family Radio Network.
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American Family Radio Network to release AFA at home episode 7 tomorrow
>> Christopher Woodward: Now back to more of, today's issues.
>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, welcome back, everybody, to today's issues on the American Family Radio Network. Tim, Wesley, Chris, and Ray. did you have something you wanted to announce, Wesley, or tell us about?
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yes, I do. Tomorrow we will be releasing AFA at home episode 7. So over the last couple of years we've released these 45 to an hour short conversations about particular topics over the years. And we've had six episodes we've already released. You can find [email protected] the seventh episode comes out tomorrow. It's released at 6pm Central Time. And the topic is the future of education in America. And we have a lot of very special guests that are on, including Abe Hamilton iii, Toby Paxton who's on the spot, who's on the school board research. For I Voter Guide we had Julian, picker Pickering, Dr. Jameson Taylor and Ryan Walters who. Ron Walters, been in the news recently as Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Education, Public Instruction. And so they sit down and they discuss the future of public education as it relates to our foundings, where we are now and what we can advocate for in the future. And so we release that tomorrow. And you can release that tomorrow at 6pm Central Time on Thursday, May 15th. And you can find that at stream.afa.net.
>> Tim Wildmon: Stream.Afa.Net that we have. We have a lot of resources there, don't we?
>> Wesley Wildmon: A lot of resources. A lot of free resources. There's some that require you to be a monthly subscriber or a monthly supporter or donor of the work that we do here at AFA and AFR. But the M. But over 60, 70% of it's free. You'll be able to watch this for free tomorrow for, for a certain period of time and then after a couple of weeks we'll put it behind the paywall.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, so again that's, that's a video. we're calling it AFA at Home because it's We do take a particular topic and we explore it from a constitutional and a Christian perspective. And it's, and it's very comprehensive and it's The discussion does include five or six people there.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right. And as we call it Home because we, we host it on our. At our Own home headquarters here at afa and it's a roundtable discussion. Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: And this topic is the future of Education in America, which is very timely right now. So I like what they're doing in Oklahoma by the way, very much so. He's going to be on
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, Ryan Walters will be on as well. He's, he's part of the, like the.
>> Tim Wildmon: Superintendent of Education for the state. That's right. That isn't the Proper title, but that's in essence what he is. so, so where do you. Again, where do you go to what this is streamed.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right, Street. We're going to release it tomorrow semi as code, semi live. Because we have recorded it, but we're going to release it and people will get to watch it live for the first time tomorrow at 6:00pm Central Time.
>> Tim Wildmon: Recorded live before an audience. A living audience.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right. Recorded live stream.aca.net oh, he's like that recorded line.
>> Tim Wildmon: Recorded record for a live audience. So what are the kind of audiences there, right? Recorded before a bunch of dead people. Right here. We got it. Sorry, that, that was inappropriate. I shouldn't have said that.
Abraham Hamilton iii hosts the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio
all right, so, we are now going to talk to one of the folks who are on this, panel, Abraham Hamilton iii, who's general counsel for AFA here and host of the Hamilton Corner, heard each afternoon on American Family Radio. ABE show airs from 5 to 6 o' clock Central time. The Abe, the Hamilton Corner, easily confused with you know, All Things Considered on npr, is Abe is. He just has that monotone personality, that he operates under. Abe, good morning to you.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Good morning.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, you know, I just lied right there. Here's how Abe.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's him.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, here's how Abe starts out. Hey, Abraham Hamilton iii. Off we go. And Abe gets wound up, gets wound up on some topics. And and there you go. That's the Hamilton Corner.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yes, but, and it's his corner.
>> Tim Wildmon: It's his corner. So he can do it.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: He can do what he wants to. Good morning to you, brother.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Good morning.
How many in America's future do you homeschool
>> Tim Wildmon: hey, but by the way, what, what what was your role in this, video that Wesley's talking about?
>> Abraham Hamilton III: I contributed to the conversation. As you know and many others know that I'm a homeschool dad. So I offered a perspective from, from a homeschool family, concerning their homeschooling fits in panoply of education for America's future.
>> Tim Wildmon: How many in America's future, how many children do you homeschool?
>> Abraham Hamilton III: We have six children that we are actively educating at home right now.
>> Tim Wildmon: Grades. What to. What if you had to grade?
>> Abraham Hamilton III: my oldest, my oldest just aced his algebra findings at final exam just yesterday actually. he's in a hybrid kind of a 9th, 10th grade and all the way down to kindergarten with my three year old.
>> Wesley Wildmon: you do we talk. We joked about this earlier about some of the schools, considering going to year round school. We had some fun with that. Y' all do year round school since you are homeschooled or do you actually.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Yeah, we now, we, we've actually always done year round. We do a lighter load in the months, but we do continue with, instruction in the summer months.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Just don't tell your kids what you're doing. Right. The year round. I'm joking because that we. The, the joke was earlier is that if you, if, if you promote it as year round school. Nobody don't call it that.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Yeah, no, we don't call it.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right. Because everybody, everybody needs a break. Right?
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Yeah. Our children say that this is our break. We're just doing, two or three subjects.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right. That's it. I like it.
Homeschooling has exploded in the last 20 years, Abe says
>> Tim Wildmon: Let me ask you, this, homeschooling, has just exploded the last 20 years, hasn't it, Abe?
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Yeah, yes, it has. It has.
>> Tim Wildmon: Do you know the numbers or anything? Or do you.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Well, in some states there are no reporting requirements. And so that's some of the things that the regressives hate, that they don't know exactly how many people are doing it. but you have seen the numbers swell quite exponentially. And really one of the driving things was during the COVID lockdown time period, when a lot of the people who were enrolled in public schools were finally getting to see what their children were being taught. And they were like, wait a minute, I didn't want my children to learn this. And so, being at home gave them that many people their first taste of instructing their own children. And some of them, some of them said, man, we really, really like this. And so had chosen to continue that on, even out beyond the, COVID lockdown period.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, Amo had you on.
President Trump promised during his campaign to deport illegal immigrants
The topic I really want to discuss with you today is, President Trump has been blocked at some of his efforts to, reverse Joe Biden's. millions of people came here into our country illegally. We didn't know who they were. We did know a lot of them were gang members and cartels began to have, you know, operations here in the United States. I mean, we all know the numbers. Like 10 to 15 million people who came here during Joe Biden's four years. it was just basically he put a y' all come sign out from around the world and boy, did they ever. Why he did that. We all have speculations why he'd reversed everything President Trump had put in place his first four years. But, now President Trump as he promised during his campaign, is trying to deport, especially the criminals, the, And some of these judges, federal judges, I guess, mostly, I don't know how many of them have been trying to. Some of them, the liberal judges, two of them trying to. Maybe three, trying to block the president from deportation, from deporting these folks. Where does that stand today? Because there was a ruling yesterday.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Yeah, so you're right. A couple federal district court judges have.
>> Tim Wildmon: I guess they're still federal judges.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: I mean, it's a. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they're federal judges. And. And they've. They have made rulings to that. That thwart the Trump administration's agenda with deportation. But you had a ruling yesterday from the United States District Court, for the. Let me get the right district for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Judge Stephanie Haynes, that ruled in the opposite direction. And specifically what, Judge Haynes ruled is that, President Trump can utilize the Alien Enemies act to deport illegal aliens. And specifically in reference to, Trend members who have. What Trend.
>> Tim Wildmon: What is that? For people who don't know, they've heard that.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Yeah. So Trend Aragua is a gang that originates from Venezuela that the United States government has also deemed as a foreign terrorist organization. And these are the people. Many people saw the reports of the Denver and the Colorado apartment complexes that were taken over by armed illegal immigrants. Well, those were members of the Trende Aragua gang. and so first, that organization had been identified as a foreign terrorist organization. Secondarily, the Trump administration connected the dots, showing that the Venezuelan government actually had played an active role in sending Trinderagua members to the United States of America for the express purposes of wreaking havoc. And so President Trump employed the Alien Enemies act, which I think it's important for listeners to know is not the exclusive mechanism for deporting illegal aliens. It is one of several tools that are available to do so. but Judge Haynes ruled yesterday that the Trump administration can use the Alien Enemies act to deport foreign terrorist organization members, specifically Trende Aragua members from our country.
>> Tim Wildmon: let me ask you this. And then. Right. May have a question, but, you know, sometimes when. When Democrats, liberals, progressives, label labels that, are interchangeable there in a lot of respects, but they do things that make me scratch my head, and I say, whose side are you on? M. Okay. and oftentimes they do this, and you hear you have violent criminals who are being, deported. Okay. And. And you wonder. And then the Democrats scream bloody murder and say, no this shouldn't happen without due process. these. And you just wonder.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Or they let them out the back door.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, yeah. Are these, like, these two judges that we've talked about here who want to fight against ICE and let the criminals, step out the back door of a courtroom?
>> Abraham Hamilton III: yeah, not figuratively. Literally.
>> Tim Wildmon: Literally.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: That's not. That's not a. That's not a metaphor, an allegorical expression. That literally happened.
>> Tim Wildmon: And so you. That happened in Wisconsin. In fact, that judge has been charged now by a grand jury, and it's a big deal in the state of Wisconsin. A state judge that.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That I just want to.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, I know. you mean the grand jury for the great. So. So for those who didn't hear, this state judge had a criminal in her courtroom, and he was a foreigner. I mean, he was an illegal alien in the courtroom.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Previously deported, by the way.
>> Christopher Woodward: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: And then previously deported, he's back in the U.S. he's back in court for something he did. And the judge, this lady, judge finds out that ICE is waiting for him in the foyer, basically, of the courthouse, and she gets mad and says, basically, how can I help him escape ice? And she helps him slip out the back door to run away. Now, they caught him, but this. But that's when. That's the kind of thing I'm talking about. And I just go, whose side are they on? Are you on? Any thoughts on why this is?
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Well, I think they're. I think the conduct communicates whose side they're on. And we're talking specifically in this instance about Milwaukee, County Judge Hannah Dugan. That's her name. who did this. In this instance, it's clear she was on the side of the previously deported illegal alien who was in her court because of an assault on another person in the United States of America. Criminal assault. But she was more committed to helping him escape ISIS detention than she was concerned with protecting American citizens.
>> Tim Wildmon: Why? I know I'm asking a rhetorical question here, but why. Why would. What is.
Jim: A lot of people like her want foreigners to overrun our country
What is the thinking on the left that supports something like that?
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Yeah, I mean, you're asking me to do something, do the impossible. You want me to feed 5,000 while we're at it? Jim.
>> Tim Wildmon: I know, right?
>> Abraham Hamilton III: But I mean, honestly, I don't know. But what's the specific motivation for her? But a lot of people like her have expressed their desire to really see foreigners overrun our country. unfortunately, we've seen that we see some in the government apparatus who want to see them, overrun our country. So that California, what they've experienced with massive illegal immigration, will be exported to the rest of the country.
>> Tim Wildmon: Go ahead, Wesley.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Well, I was gonna. Just to add to the, the how do you get here conversation. It's one thing I disagree with allowing anybody to break the law. I mean, however you get, you do have some people that are just overly. They have a misunderstanding of compassion and love and all that. And so then they're like, hey, let them come, blah, blah. Okay, that's one.
>> Tim Wildmon: Some Christians are in.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Some Christians are under the camp. Okay. But here's the. What I, this is where I, I just don't understand. This is why I'm glad she's being charged criminally is because there, this guy has a rap sheet. Just to give you one of many of his crimes, he was, arrested for punching a person 30 times in the face.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Yeah.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Okay. That's just one of many things. So you read that as a judge, this is not the one, this is not the 10% of the examples of the family that came over that was trying to stay poverty.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right, right.
>> Wesley Wildmon: This is a guy who has beaten.
>> Tim Wildmon: Someone and been deported already.
>> Wesley Wildmon: So that's where I don't have any sympathy or I don't have any, patience or try or, understanding for, For a judge that has this type of worldview.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Wesley Wildmon: So.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right. Anything to add about this?
Chris: I want to ask a question about this Alien Enemies act
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, Abe, I want to ask a question about this law, this Alien Enemies act. And it's always said this way of 1798. Okay, wow.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Drafted in 1787. So, I mean, what's the relevance of the date of that, the law? But anyway, go ahead.
>> Tim Wildmon: I'm sorry, but that is really my question. I mean, that's a law that goes almost back to the founding of our nation. What's the background of the, what was going on in 1798 that, that made them pass this Alien Enemies act? And what's the controversy involved in applying that act to what Mr. M. Trump is doing deporting these, criminal aliens?
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Well, I'll start with the last question first. The controversy, like we've been talking, there's a, an energetic contingent in our country that is willing to, I'll say, endure illegal entrance into our nation of various migrants, but they don't want to see them deported when, when the bottom line is for a misplaced compassion, you know, a displaced, empathy that they really feel duty bound to be the haven for the world. There's some people that have, that, have that posture. So the controversies that, well, we don't want you to deport people. Now, going back, I mean, to the founding era, we have several things that were happening. I mean, following the Revolutionary War, you know, many people will study history, that the tensions with Great Britain and things didn't immediately end at that point. You know, you had the war of 1812 that followed thereafter. So you had, you know, efforts to really have people who appear to be friendly to America that were actually hostiles that were, that were trying to come to the United States to subvert her from the inside. You recall, even when, you know, when, the presidential residence was burned from the inside, that was an act that took place by a foreign power working with domestic agents who were functioning within an espionage context. And so, Congress recognized that and passed this statute to provide an expedited mechanism to have these types of people, once identified, removed from our country.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, you're listening to today's issues. What's coming up on the Hamilton Corner this afternoon?
>> Abraham Hamilton III: You know, one of the things that I'm planning to talk about, which is not the biggest thing, but it just shows the true colors once again that you have, for example, the Democrat Party, that seems to be very undemocratic. You might remember, that once, Joe Biden announced he was stepping out of the race, they didn't have any primaries. Anything you said.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right, right.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Kamala Harris is the nominee with no know anything. You know where a, similar thing has happened. You remember David Hogg, the guy who was going on his anti gun tirade? Well, the DNC elected him to be vice chair of their party. And then after he was elected, duly elected, the Democrat Party says, nah, you know what, we don't think you should have that position. It just removed him. Just unilaterally remove them, overturn the votes of their party members. And it just once again shows that are they truly a democratic body? Do they really care about the will of the people? And it's another exercise of an undemocratic display by the proverbial Democrat party.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, well, have a good afternoon, and we will talk to you soon.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Abe, I will do my best with my NPR.
>> Tim Wildmon: All Things Considered with Abraham Hamilton iii, who is dis.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Patience and greetings one and all right, thank you.
>> Tim Wildmon: Thank you.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: All right, thank you.
>> Tim Wildmon: if you want, a passionate take on the news of the day from a biblical worldview, tune in to Abraham Hamilton III every afternoon at 5 o' clock for the Hamilton Corner. you're listening to today's issues. We got about six or seven minutes. What do you got there, Chris?
Lila Rose says Planned Parenthood is handing out cross sex hormones to minors
>> Christopher Woodward: Well, I want to direct everybody's attention after the show to afn.net, because on afn.net, we have a story of a new undercover investigation of plan to set this up. Let me say this. Lila Rose of Live Action, coordinated an undercover investigation of Planned Parenthood, which does abortions, of course, but they also are involved in things like cross sex hormones for, minors. and Lila pretended to be a minor. And she called various Planned Parenthoods around the country to confirm that Planned Parenthood is very easily handing out cross sex hormones to minors. Like candy clip 8.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Hi, my name's Sophia. I'm just trying to schedule some, gender affirming care. I really just want to be able to get some testosterone to start my journey.
>> Tim Wildmon: So we just have to start by booking your initial appointment so you can come in to see one of our providers. Are you over 18?
>> Wesley Wildmon: No, I'm 16.
>> Tim Wildmon: You're good to be seen here then? 16 and older.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, good.
>> Wesley Wildmon: You're okay to do it for minors?
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes. You can legally get, get hormones under 18.
>> Wesley Wildmon: How old are you? 16. I know my mom has to come in with me. And does she have to be in there the whole time? Like, how does that work? Cuz I don't know if I'm comfortable with that.
>> Tim Wildmon: At some point at the appointment, maybe she doesn't have to be in the examining room with you. You said I could do it virtually. Yeah, you could do it virtually. Now she's, she's pretending to be a minor, seeking harm. what is she seeking?
>> Christopher Woodward: Cross sex hormones.
>> Tim Wildmon: What does that do?
>> Christopher Woodward: It's, that's what, people are saying helps somebody so called transition to the opposite sex.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. Like it suppresses testosterone for a male or boost estrogen for a male if I don't know how. Correct. That's what you're talking about.
>> Christopher Woodward: She's saying that she is, she's telling these Planned Parenthood workers that she is a girl who wants to become a boy.
>> Tim Wildmon: And they're saying that basically there's those examples she gave right there. They're saying, doesn't matter that you're no minor.
>> Christopher Woodward: M. Well, even do it virtually, your parent doesn't have to be in the room the entire time. All these crazy things.
>> Wesley Wildmon: She, she used the age 16, right. Go back and do 14.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Does that. What is she trying to prove?
>> Christopher Woodward: Well, she's trying to prove that this is the reason why, we need to, in their mind, in their words, defund Planned Parenthood because not only are they killing hundreds of thousands of babies on an annual basis, they're also basically helping mutilate children, change their bodies, alter their bodies.
>> Tim Wildmon: Ah, Planned Parenthood. Yeah, they, are the leading provider of abortions in America.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Course, they help people plan for parenthood, too.
>> Tim Wildmon: They're in the abortion business. And, now they. They. Ray, they. They'll claim, you know, they do some good, they do some services like, you know, I don't know, breast cancer prevention or whatever they can say.
>> Tim Wildmon: But that's not where they make their money.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: You know, they make their money killing the unborn and assisting in the mutilation of, these. Especially these teenage girls especially. They make their money that way. They're completely. They're a dark and evil and demonic organization. And would the God. let me say this different way. Would that. The. That would. That the Republican senators would. Would, Well, I don't want to say what just popped in my mind, so won't say it that way. Would that the Republican senators got the courage to do what they. What on the campaign trail say they're going to do, which is to defund this monstrously evil organization.
>> Christopher Woodward: Now, in our coverage of [email protected] we also interview Dr. Michael New. He's with the Charlotte Lozier Institute. And, he went over Planned Parenthood's latest annual report and found that while they are doing more abortions, all the other health services that they claim to be helping people with those things are down. For example, cancer screenings fell by over 8%, primary care visits fell by over 13%, and UTI treatments fell by over 45%. So what does that mean? Planned Parenthood is killing more babies and doing fewer healthcare services at taxpayer expense, which is why New and Lila Rose and AFA Action and a whole bunch of groups say we need to defund Planned Parenthood.
>> Wesley Wildmon: The source you just quoted from is from American family news. That's AFN. Uh.net so is that going to be on the front page?
>> Christopher Woodward: It is on the front page right now, and I posted it on our Facebook page. That is a story that you will not hear today on npr.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, we've been advocating for years and years the defunding of Planned Parenthood, by the federal government. Federal government gives Planned Parenthood millions of dollars in the name of family planning and treating diseases, disease prevention, things like that. What Planned Parenthood will say is that we don't use federal tax dollars to do abortions, but it's kind of like.
>> Wesley Wildmon: they just use it to facilitate it.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. They try to separate the bank account and say that we don't use it for abortions, when in fact, it's just one big. One big operation. They still. It helps them keep the light on so they can do.
>> Christopher Woodward: The abortion money is fungible.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. So, yeah, I agree with Ray Ray for the end of funding for Planned Parenthood.
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