The God who speaks is a 90 minute documentary that hits the doubt head on
>> Tim Wildmon: As we watch world events unfold and.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Fulfill Scripture, it's hard to believe anyone could doubt God and his word are real. And yet there are so many who either question or completely refuse to believe it. The God who speaks is a 90 minute documentary that hits the doubt head on with evidence that proves God is real and his Word is the ultimate authority. Watch it anytime and invite others to watch with you.
Tim Wildman hosts Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network
Just visit stream.afa.net that's stream.aca.net welcome to today's issues, offering a Christian response to.
>> Tim Wildmon: The issues of the day. Here's your host, Tim Wildmon.
>> Chris Woodward: M. President of the American Family Association.
>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, good morning, everybody, and welcome to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Thanks for listening to afr. I'm Tim Wildmon, and in studio with me today is Ed Vitagliano. Good morning, Brother Ed.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Good morning, Tim.
>> Tim Wildmon: And Chris Woodward.
>> Chris Woodward: Good morning.
>> Tim Wildmon: You're a brother too, Chris.
>> Chris Woodward: Yes, thank you very.
>> Tim Wildmon: Brother in Christ. So the Bible says.
>> Ed Vitagliano: That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, so, thanks for listening, everybody. We got so much to talk about. Brother Fred Jackson is what he's. He's out today, right?
>> Chris Woodward: He had to pinch, hit for Jenna today.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's, right.
>> Chris Woodward: Her show. So I am Fred today.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right? Pinch or pinch. Which, is it?
>> Ed Vitagliano: Pinch it.
>> Chris Woodward: Pinch it. Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, I've just heard people describe it.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Pinch. Yeah, Alice.
>> Tim Wildmon: And my wife says paint.
>> Chris Woodward: So sometimes asking a Southerner, which is it?
>> Tim Wildmon: I know, I know that's not a good idea. Right? I tell her I'm not. But I'm not correcting her. You know, you can. It's like irregardless, people, bigger fish to fry. I'm getting into it.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Not a hill to die on. And I will side.
American Family Radio has a guest we want to talk to right now
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, again, thanks for listening to American Family Radio. Today's issue is the name of this program. all right, we got so much to talk about, but we have a guest we wanted to get right to because he said if we don't talk to him now, he won't be available. So that's just the way it goes. We got to get to Rob west right now. Rob is host of Faith and Finance, heard weekdays at, 9:00am just preceding this program on the American Family Radio Network. Rob, good morning to you.
>> Frank Gaffney: Good morning, gentlemen. I'm pinch hitting for myself.
>> Tim Wildmon: Ah. Ready to go pitch any for yourself? Rob, we wanted to have you. How long do you have? 5 minutes, 10 minutes? How long?
>> Frank Gaffney: Got all the time you need, Tim.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. All right.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Shouldn't have said that.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, you say when I was lining up to putt. We got all the time you need, Tim. Just take your time there. Not that you're going to make it, but, anyway, that's what they were thinking.
Rob Caruso: Two very different crimes use the same document
All right, so we got, again, we got a lot of current event topics to talk about we're going to get to in a few minutes. But I, I've been, I've been seeing something in the news that's kind of, that's a scam that is getting a lot of attention and it's kind of scary to hear about. And when I mentioned it to Ed, he said, well, I ruined my day. Yeah, I know. How do you prevent something like that from happening? Can you, can you explain this scam? Because I wanted people to be aware of it. Can you explain this scam out there that's happening across the country, Rob?
>> Frank Gaffney: Yeah, I'd be happy to. And it comes described as deed, transfer or a home title theft. And bottom line is it's extremely rare. basically identity theft based deed fraud does happen, but it's usually a paperwork mess, not a financial catastrophe fee. most homeowners can protect themselves by signing up for their county's free deed alerts. We'll talk about that in a second. And by never signing away their title without trusted advice. So essentially two very different crimes use the same document. It's the quit claim deed. You may have heard of that term. It's what allows you to sign over your home. Only one can cost you your home. And it's important to understand the difference between the two. So the first one is what's called deed forgery, identity theft. So this version is more of a paperwork crime and is often featured in these alarmist ads you're talking about where it's described as, quote, home title theft. So a criminal forges a quit claim deed or pretends to be the homeowner to file it with the county recorder and then takes out a loan and tries to sell the property. Well, here's what matters. The real owner still legally owns the home. A forged deed doesn't hold up in court. The thief might get the loan proceeds, but the lenders or title insurers take the financial hit, not the homeowners. The result is a bunch of stress and paperwork, but not the loss of your house. You can sign up for property alert programs in most counties and more are adding this all the time where they'll for free notify you if someone files a document in your name. The other one is a Quit claim con. And this is basically a persuasion scam. It's the more dangerous of the two, but it's far less common. And even the first one is I would consider rare. In this version, the scammer talks you in as a homeowner to willingly sign a legitimate quitclaim deed and essentially kind of gets you to transfer ownership to them. And you don't realize it's happening in the first place. So, bottom line, there is never sign a deed or a power of attorney or transfer document without legal advice.
Rob west says alarmist ads can target older people with forged documents
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, well, then, evidently, Tim Ferrell, for the alarmist ads that you mentioned earlier, because, man, they've made it seem like this. Reason I invited you on to talk about this, because this ad made it seem like this is a real problem.
>> Ed Vitagliano: and then I fell for Tim's alarmist warning and I said, yeah, we need to have Rob west on to talk about this. Listen, I went online and started trying to figure out ways to protect myself now. So, Rob, now let me ask you this. This second one you talked about with the kind of quick claim, the signing over, does this, especially target older people who might be confused, Maybe they're going to get a roof put on, and the person says, well, sure, we'll do it. You won't have to worry about it. Just, you know, sign your, you know, just promise, use your house as collateral, and what you're really, really doing is signing it over. Does this hit certain age groups or what?
>> Frank Gaffney: Yeah, exactly. Right. you know, that's where it would happen, typically with older folks where they don't understand what they're signing. There could be any number of tactics that get them to do that. But it's basically using that quitclaim deed, to get you to sign over with a forged signature. It involves, you know, fake paperwork, and, you know, eventually they're using that to legally, because you're signatures on it, transfer that property over. And so the bottom line is, yeah, you never sign a deed or a power of attorney, be skeptical of anyone offering quick cash or instant equity or foreclosure relief. That's often, you know, how they're doing these. And then, you know, just show. First of all, if somebody contacts you around that hang up or don't respond. But if you're really in a hardship, you know, just get legal counsel before you sign anything.
Rob west says people need to be aware of scams targeting elderly parents
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, One other question I have. I've been contacted by this Nigerian prince, Rob, and.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And I told you it sounds like a great deal, Tim.
>> Tim Wildmon: I'm thinking about it. no, Listen, you know what you mentioned about people who now, what, what I'm going to say people, who are vulnerable are, what am I trying to. Who are naive. People who are naive and think the best of people all the time. And we're all supposed to, we're all.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Raised, you know, I don't anymore.
>> Tim Wildmon: I know of anybody that's a good. But I mean, but, but I mean, my mother in law, God rest her soul, she passed away a few months ago. But my wife would often, tell her, you know, why did you answer that phone call? Why, why are you talking to these people? You don't even know who they are.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: And because my mother in law was, you know, a nice lady.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Remember Ms. Brun?
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, very, very nice lady. But she would, Now she didn't ever fall for a, you know, complete thing that, that hurt her financially. But she did sign up for a couple of things that I got in the mail going, what is this? Why did you, why are you, supporting this? Anyway, what I'm saying is that what you said, Rob you, you need to especially people need to be aware of this for their elderly parents, so that they can, you know, keep them from doing something that they didn't mean to do, but they did nonetheless. Go ahead.
>> Frank Gaffney: Well, that's exactly right. You know, the number one scam in this demographic would be a government imposter. You know, or they're, they're claiming to be from Social Security, from Medicare, irs. Okay, they, they say you owe money, there's a problem with your account, and they demand immediate payment. so you just, they're never going to contact you by phone. It's always going to be through the mail. So you just need to automatically assume that's not legitimate. you know, another would be tech support. You get a pop up on your computer, it's infected, they ask for a remote access or a payment. And then there's the grandparent or family emergency scam, there's the romance scams. I mean, you know, these things all kind of at the end of the day have the, the same underlying ideas. You got to act fast and you got to give personal information. So I think, you know, first of all, stop in your tracks. Verify, don't trust, never pay anything with a gift card or a wire. Anytime somebody says, you got to do this quickly or legal action is coming, just assume it's fraudulent. And you know, don't ever click on a link in an email or give information.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I got to Say, my experience with the irs. Now, I do want to be fair. I've never really had a problem with the irs. When I have been able to reach them by phone, they've been very helpful. And so I do want to say that up front, but I will also say that trying to get a hold of the IRS on purpose by phone is hard enough. I don't think the irs, nobody at the Internal Revenue Service wastes time calling individuals on the phone. I'm not even sure their phones work half the time at irs. So do not, think they're actually calling you on the phone.
>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, Rob, thanks so much, my friend. Appreciate it very much. That's helpful information. Okay, thank you.
>> Frank Gaffney: Thanks, gentlemen.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, bye. Bye. That's Rob west, from, Faith.
>> Ed Vitagliano: That makes me feel better.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, me too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I still got to pay this toll.
>> Chris Woodward: It kills me that people, that live in places with no toll roads like, oh, my, you know, like, they fall for that.
>> Ed Vitagliano: That's not the way it works, though. I was telling Tim. Now we're talking, folks, if you're wondering, and I'm guessing some of our listeners have had a text message.
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah. Oh, yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: From a state, that is telling you that you, you visited.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And you use the toll and you haven't paid on the tolls because I, my wife and I went to visit my sister in Dallas several years ago and there are several. There is a toll road or two that we had to use to get to her house. Okay. And so months later, after we paid the. You pay the toll by mail, when you get a bill. Then they. I got a text message and it was from the Texas state or bureau.
>> Tim Wildmon: Of Motor or whatever.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, Bureau. And it said you, you didn't pay this. And they want you to click a link and then they're going to get information. And so they apparently knew that we had been to Texas.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. That's kind of scary.
>> Ed Vitagliano: It was weird.
>> Tim Wildmon: It kind of scary.
The way to avoid scams is not do stupid stuff
All right, well, anyway, scams, spams and scams out there everywhere. I had these folks calling me for like a month, almost every day telling me I was pre approved for a loan.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: And that I never applied for. And all they needed was a couple more minutes of information and I would have. Yes. And I would have loan. Which if I'd have given about ever call them back and given them a couple bits of information.
>> Ed Vitagliano: They would have had your loan.
>> Tim Wildmon: They would have had my. Yes. So anyway, the way to avoid scams is not do stupid stuff And Rob could have said that. Right?
>> Ed Vitagliano: Let me give you folks, let me just give you this piece of advice, right? The way to not get scammed is to never answer phone calls.
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Never, answer emails. And stay in your house. Do not leave.
>> Tim Wildmon: And do not be nice to people you don't know.
>> Chris Woodward: Just live off the grid.
A Mississippi mama shot and killed one of three escaped research monkeys
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, you're listening to today's issues on the American Family Radio Network. What's your first story, Chris?
>> Chris Woodward: A, Mississippi mama made the mainstream media over the weekend because she shot one of those escaped research monkeys. And the mama said she did so to protect her kids.
>> Tim Wildmon: Mama pajama roll.
>> Chris Woodward: Not aware of, the long national nightmare we've been living in here in, Mississippi. Last week, a, truck carrying research, monkeys, overturned in Jasper County, Mississippi, which is an area southwest of Meridian, southeast of Jackson, along, I20 and I59.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Now, let me just stop you there for a second, just so our listeners understand these research monkeys. Are these monkeys that do research or are they researched on their monkeys?
>> Chris Woodward: Monkeys that are being researched on. for example, there were widespread reports in the hours immediately following the accident in which the monkeys escaped, that the monkeys may be carrying all kinds of diseases, including Covid. And, as a result, many people have been on edge in the Jasper, Mississippi area.
>> Tim Wildmon: I've been on edge, yes. I don't even live. I'm a couple hundred miles away. Yes, well, monkeys can move.
>> Ed Vitagliano: They'll hotwire a car and be up here, this part of the state, before you know it.
>> Chris Woodward: That's why you don't experiment on the monkeys.
>> Ed Vitagliano: But anyway, these research monkeys can drive a stick shift. I've seen it.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, so I don't know how many of the research monkeys were there. Many of them didn't leave, Right? The vast majority of them.
>> Chris Woodward: Some died, some were shot. Scene. and a woman in Mississippi shot and killed one of the three rhesus monkeys that escaped after the truck carrying.
>> Tim Wildmon: What's a rhesus monkey? I know what a rhesus piece is.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Peanut butter in the middle and chocolate.
>> Chris Woodward: R H E S U S Rhesus. Okay, m. I'm sorry. But anyway, the mama. The mama here went full mama bear and saw one of these monkeys, on her property.
>> Tim Wildmon: Got it.
>> Chris Woodward: And she shot it, defending her, family.
>> Tim Wildmon: just fit in right into the stereotype for the. For our state.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Worst possible state, right?
>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, if you're a researcher, the Mississippi mama unloads on the research.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Escape a crash and. Yeah, ask your buddy where are we?
>> Tim Wildmon: And he says we're Ms. Tony, your son said this morning that the taxidermist will, be glad to do that monkey and not ask any questions.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I know that monkey wound up at the local taxidermist. And they're going to mount that head right next to the deer.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right? So anyway, we need to move on.
A story about monkeys at Tulane University making headlines has serious components
But this story is funny, and yet it has its serious components.
>> Chris Woodward: I mean, it made News week. I've seen similar stories on other mates.
>> Tim Wildmon: So are all the monkeys, counted for dead or alive to bar from Bon Jovi?
>> Chris Woodward: I've seen, I've seen articles that still claim a couple of them are loose still.
>> Tim Wildmon: Would that mean they could procreate?
>> Chris Woodward: One of the three?
>> Tim Wildmon: Could they? Could they procreate and then depend. Ten years from now, we're dealing with an anaconda situation. Like a python. Like the Everglades, some Mississippi just run amok.
>> Chris Woodward: We're all living in a monkeys everywhere. And Brent's got his trail camera on.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's not happening.
>> Ed Vitagliano: That's what happened with the ball python.
>> Chris Woodward: And then we have, like a, Planet of the Apes situation where Elvis's statue replaced with a monkey.
>> Ed Vitagliano: We should never be getting started on this.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, we better move on.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I will say this one. I think this on a serious note. They did say they, there was some officials who were responsible for transporting these research monkeys to Tulane. I think it was Tulane University. They were saying, no, they're, they're. These monkeys are not disease ridden or whatever. However, and, and I've just gotten to the place where I go, Uh-huh. I want to see proof. Government person telling me, every time I saw pictures of the officials trying to look at the scene, they were all masked up and covered from head to toe.
>> Chris Woodward: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Has back or whatever they call was.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Was close to being in a hazmat thing. And I thought, aha. They're telling everyone there's nothing wrong with these monkeys, but they're showing up.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right, Right.
>> Chris Woodward: You were not the only one that feels that way. Because one of the television stations I used to work for, I won't say they're call letters, but I saw a social media post from the station saying, you know, university says these were not disease ridden monkeys. And some. The first person that commented at the bottom of the post said, they always say this.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes, I'm sorry, I just, I just go. I'm, not sure I believe you.
>> Tim Wildmon: You're listening to today's issues.
Tomorrow is election day in various Parts of the country
Next story.
>> Chris Woodward: Chris, tomorrow is election day. In various Parts of the country.
>> Tim Wildmon: Is it?
>> Chris Woodward: Yes. Big races that we're continuing to watch involve New York City, where communist, or socialist, depending on the person that's talking. Zo run. Mamdani is.
>> Tim Wildmon: What's his name?
>> Chris Woodward: Zo. Ron Mamdani.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Chris Woodward: He's running for mayor there against, Andrew Cuomo and Republican, Curtis Silwa.
>> Tim Wildmon: Good choices there.
>> Chris Woodward: It looks like Mamdani's probably gonna win that one. New Jersey is an interesting one because there's a couple of, people running for governor. The Republican, may actually win this one.
>> Tim Wildmon: In a blue state.
>> Chris Woodward: In a blue state, due in part, I think, to what's going on there, in New York City. The other big one that we're watching is the Virginia gubernatorial race. That's between former Representative Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat, and Republican Lieutenant Governor Winsome Sears, who's running for governor there. It looks like Spanberger may actually win this one because Northern Virginia is very liberal and pretty much when you run for a statewide office, if you can win Fairfax and other.
>> Tim Wildmon: But Sears won statewide four years ago.
>> Chris Woodward: She did.
>> Tim Wildmon: And the, Lieutenant Governor's race, so, you know, could be interesting. And also you watching that ag, race there.
>> Chris Woodward: Yes. Between Jason Mears, the Republican who's currently Lieutenant governor, and the Democrat who said years ago in a text message he wanted to shoot somebody.
>> Tim Wildmon: Wait a minute. Did I get it wrong, then? is Winsome Sears not the Lieutenant Governor?
>> Chris Woodward: Yes, she's running for governor because Virginia has a rule that basically you serve one term as governor and then you step away to let somebody else have a go at it. That's why.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Although you can run and then run again.
>> Chris Woodward: Glenn Youngkin could come. Come back in four years if he wanted to.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Okay.
>> Tim Wildmon: But Winsome Sears is currently the Lieutenant governor. You said someone else was.
>> Chris Woodward: Oh, yeah. I thought you mentioned the attorney General race.
>> Tim Wildmon: I did.
>> Chris Woodward: In Virginia. That's between Jason Meoris and the, Democrat that. Yeah. was saying things in text messages.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Was his name J.
>> Chris Woodward: J. Jones or Jay Johnson, the.
>> Tim Wildmon: One who, had the text revealed that he was, talking about killing Hope, that some people died, Republicans died or something like.
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah, the,
>> Ed Vitagliano: And the kids, too.
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah. The House speaker at the time in Virginia and the State assembly or the House of Delegates.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, J. People in Virginia know what we're talking about. Big news there.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And Spanberger, actually, who's running for governor, she. She took a little bit of a hit, although she might still win because she would not criticize the Lieutenant governor running for the Democrat candidate for lieutenant governor would not criticize him for those comments.
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah. When asked whether or not she would take back her endorsement of the Democrat running for attorney general, she would say things like, I want people to make their own decisions.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Chris Woodward: which is a non answer answer.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, you got to be able to condemn what he did outright.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: without.
>> Chris Woodward: You know, I think she would have come out polling better out of that debate had she just been up front and said, you know what. What he said was wrong.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. And he didn't say it. He texted. And it was revealed by somebody who was recipient of the text. I got. And it was a. But it was awful.
>> Ed Vitagliano: It was terrible.
>> Tim Wildmon: It was a text that he had sent, what, a couple of years ago or something like that, this gentleman running for, attorney, general of the state of, Virginia.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And he defended it. He defended it.
>> Tim Wildmon: He did.
>> Ed Vitagliano: He. He. Well, he explained it. Let me put it this way. He explained it by saying, we all sometimes text things.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: But we wish we didn't.
>> Tim Wildmon: But. Yeah, but the text was about shootings, killing people.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Who are Republican.
Everyone doesn't do that. If a Republican had said. Had done this and made that claim, like, everybody does this
>> Ed Vitagliano: Everyone doesn't do that.
>> Tim Wildmon: No, they don't. And that's. Yeah.
>> Chris Woodward: If a Republican had said. Had done this and made that claim, like, everybody does this.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, gosh.
>> Chris Woodward: I mean, Anderson Cooper would be on cnn unshaven, for the fourth day in a row.
Zoran Mandami is a name made for a superhero, right
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, you're listening to today's issues. Mandami. Zoran.
>> Chris Woodward: Zoran.
>> Tim Wildmon: Zo.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Run.
>> Tim Wildmon: I do. It sounds like, as I say, if that isn't a name made for a superhero, I don't know.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Zoran Mandami to the rescue.
>> Ed Vitagliano: But I think we should start saying it's a name for a super villain.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right? Yeah. Well, like Jim Dandy was. You know, he was.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Jim.
>> Tim Wildmon: Danny to the rescue. Zoran Mandami to the destruction of New York City.
Nearly a million New Yorkers ready to flee New York City if Mamdani elected
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, so, there is a report out in the New York Post today that a poll was conducted of New Yorkers and 800. let's see. There's close court. I'll just read you the headline from the New York Post.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I got it.
>> Tim Wildmon: You got it. Go ahead.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Nearly a million that you're talking about. Nearly a million New Yorkers ready to flee New York City if Mamdani. Yes, we said Zoran Mamdani becomes mayor, possibly igniting the largest exodus in history. That's according to a poll, that, Yeah, this is 765,000 out of the 8.4 million residents who call New York City home. This was a survey conducted by JL Partners.
>> Chris Woodward: Yes, I saw a story. I've seen a couple of stories in the last, two to three weeks about how New Jersey may have a housing crisis, if people flee New York City to move to New Jersey because he's elected.
>> Tim Wildmon: Anyway. Now, whether people would do that or not, I guess it would depend on how bad it gets in New York City, because it's. It's easy to say, I'm out of here. Well, okay, well, then put your house on the market, move your kids to a different school. I mean, there's a lot going. People, People are speaking emotionally, I think. but still, if only half those people left, right, the housing market would collapse, seems to me. By the way, do you want to see how far left this guy is? Zoran Mandami. Barack Obama refuses to endorse him.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I thought he campaigned for him. Did he not?
>> Tim Wildmon: Democrat nominee and proud socialist Zoran Mamdani tried to downplay former President Barack Obama's refusal to offer up an endorsement over the weekend. With just one day left in the most watched races in the country. Yeah, Bondami said, I, appreciated the call with President Obama and his support for the movement that we have created. Appreciated his word and appreciate his times. But he didn't endorse him, according to this. He'll be back momentarily. Stay with us.
Preborn Network helps women choose life through a free ultrasound
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>> Tim Wildmon: This is today's issues.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Email your comments to commentsfr. Past broadcasts of today's Issues are available for listening and viewing in the [email protected] now back to more of today's issues.
Welcome back to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network
>> Tim Wildmon: Welcome back to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Today's Issues is the name of this show and we're here every Monday through Thursday. On Fridays, we have Trivia Friday. So join us for that. do we have a guest? Yes or no? No, no guest coming, up this half hour. Let me mention. Yeah, hold on a second. Popcorn.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Popcorn.
>> Tim Wildmon: I can't, I can't resist that popcorn out there. that is not a sin. because it's definitely a temptation I give into.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I, I. Every once in a while we'll have to walk down to go to American Family News. Walk past. Just you get down here. This part of the building? Yeah, it's on the ground floor. And you smell that popcorn and it just wants to reel you in. It's like walking into a movie theater.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And you smell it. Except our popcorn is. Smells even better.
>> Tim Wildmon: It's fresher and better. Or more awesome.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Or as you said, more awesome way.
Terry Wildman: We've got some great tours coming up in 2026
>> Tim Wildmon: real quickly, let me mention, in the year 2026, if the world doesn't end, if the Lord let me. Yes, the Lord. Terry's and the world doesn't end. Let me caveat. The caveat that, we got a, a few tours that we're going to do, which are going to be wonderful and, we're excited about them. Let me mention, first of all, Walker and Wesley Wildmon, my sons, are going to lead a group to Greece in March on the Footsteps of tour, Footsteps of Paul tour. and then we, we, my wife and I, Allison and, and Alex McFarland, we're going to lead a group to the Holy Land in March as well. So we got those two tour tours coming up.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Now. Can I just ask a question?
>> Tim Wildmon: You can ask away.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Somebody could do these back to back.
>> Tim Wildmon: They could. That's right, they can. And some are, yeah, some people are doing them back to back. Schedule these tours back to back, that is Israel and Greece, so that you can do both if you want to. what that means is you go with us to Israel, Allison and me, and then you take a, plane trip from Tel Aviv to Greece, which is about an hour and a half or two hours, I think maybe three. And then, then you join, the Footsteps of Paul Tor.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right. Missionary journey.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, both of them are in March. And so, those tours and then we've Got coming, up in, 2026, we've got, tours to Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown and Yorktown. That's in June and September. And those are, those are back to back with our nation's capital trip, Washington D.C. and Mount Vernon. So, that's a week. If you want to go with us for a week, we'll take care of you for a week. Saturday to Saturday, Saturday to Sunday actually, we'll take care of you and you'll see all those things I just mentioned. Williamsburg, Jamestown, Yorktown, Washington D.C. and Mount Vernon. so that's June and September. And then we got a September trip to, to go to see, all the history of Boston.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I'm gonna see if I can work my schedule out to go on.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, Boston, the Boston area. So much history there. So that trip is scheduled for September as well. So for the itinerary, the cost, everything you want to know about any of that I just mentioned any of those tours, just go to this website. W I L D M O n G R l u p wildmangroup.com Everything is there. W I O D M O N G R o u p wildmangroup.com and so join us in 2026 for one of our tours that I just mentioned.
The Trump administration designated Nigeria as a country of particular concern over Christian persecution
You're listening to today's issues on afr. What's your next story, Chris?
>> Chris Woodward: Well, in recent days, the Trump administration designated Nigeria, ah, a quote, country of particular concern due to a rise in Christian persecution. This has been a big story, understandably so, because our brothers and sisters in Christ in Nigeria are suffering because of their faith. I've got several bits of audio here that we can play, beginning with this one from President Trump, who was asked over the weekend whether or not U.S. troops might deploy to Nigeria because of the Christian persecution over there. Clip nine could be, I mean, a.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Lot of things, I envisage a lot of things. They're killing record numbers of Christians in Nigeria and they have other countries. Very bad also, you know that, that part of the world, very bad. They're killing the Christians that. Killing them in very large numbers. Not going to allow that to happen.
>> Tim Wildmon: As President Trump, you can tell he's aboard Air, Force One. Correct. And he'll come out, he'll come out from his, the place reserved for him on Air Force One and he'll just do a, ah, Q and a M with reporters. I mean, whatever you may think about President Trump, you got to give the guy total credit for being accessible to the, to, to the media, even liberal media, to ask questions. Unlike Biden, the former president, who was. They locked him up, steps out of.
>> Chris Woodward: Bed and they call a little.
>> Tim Wildmon: They kept him away from any questions from the media. And we all know why now. But President Trump, he takes all commerce on. He did a 60 Minutes interview that aired, on Sunday too. So. But what he's doing there, the subject he's talking about, he was asked about the Nigerian Christians, which this is, this story has been overshadowed by other international stories. But, there's a, A class A big population, I mean, hundreds of thousands of Christians who live in the country of Nigeria, in Africa, and they are being besieged by Islamic terrorists, right there from, from the north of the country. Have I got that accurate?
>> Chris Woodward: Yes. Yeah. Nigeria has a population of 236 million.
>> Tim Wildmon: People and the butchery is just awful. what butchery isn't right? I mean, it just, what I'm saying is awful in terms of the numbers. And we're trying to get the voice of the martyrs on. We're going to have the gentleman on, Todd Nettles and Todd, we'll have him on maybe tomorrow to talk about the situation there in Nigeria. I know a lot of people listening to us know people in Africa and Central Africa and maybe Nigeria and other missionaries all around Africa that many of us support. So, of course Africa is a big continent, but Nigeria is one of the largest countries. Right, right. In Africa. What do you know about this, Ed?
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, and the way, by the way, we're going to play a clip from Bill Maher, who's a liberal, a classical liberal. in fact, why don't we go ahead and play this because, and I forget who he had on. Seems like it was Nancy Mace.
>> Chris Woodward: It is Nancy Mace.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes, the congresswoman. And, and he, he, I, I will give credit to Bill Maher because he, he does see things from a liberal, classical liberal perspective. But he noted the lack of coverage of this. This is probably three weeks ago, maybe a month. But I appreciated what he had to say. Let's go ahead and play that clip and then we'll come back.
>> Tim Wildmon: If you don't know what's going on in Nigeria, you are in a bubble. and again, I'm not a Christian.
>> Frank Gaffney: But they are systematically killing the Christians in Nigeria.
>> Tim Wildmon: They've killed over 100,000 since 2009.
>> Frank Gaffney: They burned 18,000 churches. This is so much more.
>> Tim Wildmon: These are their Islamists, Boko Haram.
>> Frank Gaffney: This is so much more of a genocide attempt than what is going on.
>> Tim Wildmon: In Gaza, they are literally attempting to wipe out the Christian population of an entire country. Where are the kids protesting this? Thank you. Thank you.
>> Frank Gaffney: No one will talk about it, so thank you.
>> Tim Wildmon: Absolutely.
>> Frank Gaffney: It's Africa.
>> Chris Woodward: That's why no one's talking about it.
>> Tim Wildmon: And they should be.
>> Chris Woodward: You can't read about it in mainstream media.
>> Tim Wildmon: It's sad.
>> Ed Vitagliano: So thank you for bringing that.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, because the Jews aren't involved. That's why it's the Christians and the Muslims. Who cares?
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, he was being sarcastic there. Bill Maher is the voice you heard. He would say it's not the Jews. In other words, everyone wants to protest and complain and file. You know, this resolution in the UN and this and that resolution, when it's Israel fighting. When they were fighting the war in Gaza, everybody cared. But it's Muslims killing Christians. Who cares, is what he was saying. He's being sarcastic.
>> Tim Wildmon: I didn't realize this, But Nigeria has 230 million people. It is the most populous country in.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Africa, so I didn't know it was the most populous.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. So let me just say this. When we get this, when we get tied on from the voice of. The voice of the martyrs, he can fill in, the details of what I'm about to say.
A lot of native Europeans are worried about this mass immigration
But what you got going on here, you got Muslims trying to impose Sharia law and trying to wipe out the Christians because they're not Muslims.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Am m I right?
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes. And. And killing them in horrifying fashion. I was looking at a story from npr. this is from July, but they were talking about yet another village wiped out 160 people. People killed with rifles, machetes. And some of them, they burned them alive in their homes. They wouldn't let them out, threatening them with being shot. And then they were burned alive in their homes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Where was that? Boko Haram.
>> Chris Woodward: that's in Africa.
>> Tim Wildmon: Haram.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: You remember them reading about them.
>> Chris Woodward: They were basically isis, before ISIS became a household name.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. It's not to say, as we always say, that all Muslims obviously are not bloodthirsty savages. I mean, they're. The vast, vast majority of Muslims are like everybody else. They just want to live in peace and, and have, you know, a good life. But there is an ideology within Islam that. That, says we've got to conquer.
>> Ed Vitagliano: The world by, kill the infidel.
>> Tim Wildmon: Kill the infidel. And if only 5 to 10% of Muslims subscribe to that, which probably about right, then you get. That's what you get with isis. That's what you get with, Saddam. Excuse me, with the, what was the guy who masterminded nine, 11, Osama bin Laden. Osama bin Laden. That's what you get with Osama bin Laden. That's what you get with isis. That's what you get with Al Qaeda. That's what you get with Hamas. That's what you, Hamas is, is political and religious, but that's what you get with the Muslim Brotherhood. these groups, their ideology, they're splinter groups, they have different names, but their ideology is for Islam to conquer the world by force. And that's why people worried about what's happened. A lot of native Europeans are worried about this mass immigration. millions and millions of people have come into, Europe, especially Western Europe.
>> Ed Vitagliano: From the Muslim world over the last.
>> Tim Wildmon: 10 to 20 years. Just mass immigration. And the people of Western Europe, many of them have been weak on this issue and just let everybody in. And now they're suffering the consequences of it big time. And Europe will fall in the next 50 years. by that I mean you, will not. Europe as we know it will not exist. You will have Muslims starting to rise up to 20, 30, 40, who knows? 50% of the populations of these countries. That's what's going to happen. France, is already 10% Muslim. France is, they're having a big problem in great, in the UK with, and Scandinavian countries with crime caused by these people who come in, to their countries illegally, from North Africa, from, the Middle East. now again, it's a mix of good and bad. You got a lot of people who just wanted to immigrate from these countries because they want a better life. It's kind of like people flood over our border from Central American countries, right? Because they, they want a chance at a better life. They don't like the poverty, that they live in. Same thing with a lot of these immigrants from North Africa and from, the Middle East. They just want to come to Europe because they see what's a chance at a, you know, a better life for my family and me.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right? So, but, but to your point, even if you're, even if it's only 10% of Muslim immigrants, I'm looking at the, Pew Research center says in the six year period between 2010 and 2016, 3.7 million Muslims migrated to Europe. Okay? Now Europe is about 300 million people. So you go, that's not really that much. But if you only take 10% of a group that large and say that's the number of radicals you have. Okay, then 10% of 3.7 million. What is that? Is that 370,000? I'm not. I'm. I'm probably. There's math people out there screaming. but you're talking about a lot of people. Yeah, you know, you're talking about a lot of people who can do harm. And when you talk, when you're talking about people walking around a big city like London with a knife.
>> Tim Wildmon: Did you see what happened there?
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah. Now we don't. I don't know.
>> Tim Wildmon: We haven't talked about that story yet.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, I don't know the details about the. The one who was arrested or who and who perpetrated this crime, but just walk around with a knife stabbing people?
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Okay.
>> Tim Wildmon: My first thought was this Islamic terrorist attack. That's what I thought.
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah. Well, you know, he may have been mentally unstable.
>> Ed Vitagliano: We can cover. We can cover this story here and get to the facts of it.
Georgia Maloney says mass immigration in Europe is creating real problems
But my point is how many of those you think it takes to turn London into a war zone? You don't have to have 3.7 million.
>> Tim Wildmon: The Irish are Irish. The native Irishman are really, upset and on edge because their government's been allowing this mass immigration into their country, and it's. It's creating real problems.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Rapes have gone skyrocketed in these countries. I saw over the weekend a woman arrested by the police for simply saying, we don't. This is a Christian country. We don't want Muslims here telling us to become Muslim. And they showed videos. She was arrested where?
>> Tim Wildmon: In Britain.
>> Ed Vitagliano: It was in the UK Yeah. And so what I'm saying is it doesn't take that many radicals when you're talking 3.7 million. I see another article here says over 10 million Muslim immigrants in Europe. I don't know what the time period is. It doesn't take a lot of, radicals to turn Europe into a war zone.
>> Tim Wildmon: And if you combine, you want a recipe for a disaster. You combined, letting these secular, progressives in Europe, Yes. Be, elected to leadership. And then they, And then you. You put. So that they're bleeding hearts. They're, that everybody in. Take care of everybody. Everybody's good. Everybody has good intentions. And here you are. if you have that kind of approach, then you're. They're going to kill you. I say they're going to kill you. I mean, eventually they're going to kill the country, take over the country. These Islamic terrorists that are going to Flood. That are going to flood in because. And the criminal activity is going to get out of hand. Going to get crazy because, these political leftists, they do not deal in reality on this. They, they don't. If we say Islamic, radicalism, they say that doesn't exist.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's what they'll tell you. That doesn't.
>> Ed Vitagliano: That's Islamophobia.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's Islamophobia. That's what they'll tell you. That they live in that denial world.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Which often, which has sometimes turned into a reaction from the right like the election of the prime, minister or in Italy. Yes.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Her name is that Merloni, but she's.
>> Tim Wildmon: For shutting down immigration altogether, I believe.
>> Chris Woodward: Georgia Maloney.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. But she's right wing and there's been some. The guy in the Netherlands, was a right wing response to this. What was his name? He got a lot of international attention for being.
>> Chris Woodward: I will not pronounce his name.
>> Tim Wildmon: For warning against open immigration.
>> Ed Vitagliano: It's weird that the left, the political left, in bending over backwards to allow Muslim immigration into Europe says, listen, we're just trying to be nice and we're trying to be you know, welcoming. Welcoming. They're actually going to undermine their own political position and cause the right, the, the rise of the right wing in response to the problems they're having from a lot of these immigrants.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes. It's in the Netherlands.
>> Chris Woodward: The guy that was just recently elected.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes. Well, he's being challenged. I don't know how recently he was, but this guy got a lot of attention for warning against letting the Muslims flood into Europe. He got criticized for being Islamophobic.
>> Chris Woodward: I don't think it's the the prime minister elect because he is a, liberal, actually. well, 38 year old Rob Jetton secured a historic win in the election to beat Gert Wilders.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's far right.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Chris Woodward: Rob Jetton is a liberal who's a,
>> Ed Vitagliano: So Gert Builders has been warning for.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Decade.
>> Tim Wildmon: Wasn't he elected in, in the Netherlands?
>> Ed Vitagliano: I think he was. Okay. I, I'm not as up on European politics as I should be. I think. Wasn't he in like the parliament or something? I think he was in the parliament.
>> Tim Wildmon: I thought he was elected president.
>> Chris Woodward: No, because there's a, People magazine story. Netherlands elects its youngest first openly gay prime minister. and it's not Gertville.
>> Tim Wildmon: It's not him. No. all right, you're listening to today's issues on American Family Radio, next story.
Chris Anderson: Train attack in Cambridgeshire initially believed to be terrorist attack
>> Chris Woodward: Chris, do you want to mention the train situation?
>> Tim Wildmon: yes.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Uh-huh. Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. Those who don't know.
>> Frank Gaffney: Yes.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Horrifying.
>> Chris Woodward: So, I want to take a moment just to, direct everybody to our Today's Issues Facebook page, where I have posted this Daily Mail article. And the reason I posted the Daily Mail article is because they have images from surveillance video of what the news outlet itself calls a Nightmare on Platform 2. Terrifying new video shows trained knifemen following screaming passengers as they run for their lives in Cambridgeshire attack that hurt 11 people. Some of those people are still in the hospital. In this article, it talks about how this was initially believed to be a terrorist attack. However, authorities did say on Sunday it's no longer believed to be a terrorist attack.
>> Tim Wildmon: Nonetheless, the guy was mentally, ill.
>> Chris Woodward: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: He was known. Correct. It wasn't a, Muslim. A radical Muslim attack. Yeah, it was. It was a. Guy was crazy.
>> Chris Woodward: Yes. But given that it's, the UK and situation you just discussed, that generally is what you lead to you.
>> Tim Wildmon: That was. That was, terrifying to watch because that guy had more than a knife that was like, ah, it looked like.
>> Ed Vitagliano: A butcher's knife or something.
>> Tim Wildmon: Halfway between a knife and a machete. Yeah, it was awful.
>> Chris Woodward: And it's well documented in terms of the image.
>> Tim Wildmon: M. Now, you can't, Gun, You can't have a gun in Great Britain. Right.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I believe you can have. I think you can have shot some shotguns. It's. But it's very. Honey, that's even. That's very strict. Strictly.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, but you can't carry like you can in the US you can't carry. Somebody couldn't take this guy out.
>> Ed Vitagliano: No.
>> Tim Wildmon: They had to just sit there and try to run the best they can. But they. They. They're defenseless.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Unless you pick up a pipe or something. But to your point, you. You can't. It's not like here. You know what's going to pull that in Alabama or Texas?
>> Tim Wildmon: They'll be shot dead.
>> Ed Vitagliano: They'll be shot dead. You start.
>> Tim Wildmon: You start butchering people on a bus or a. Or, ah, you know, train. And like you said in. In the. In most of the US you're going to be shot dead. You're not going to be able to get away with it. Which,
>> Ed Vitagliano: You know, by the way, just your earlier question, Gert Wilders, he, has been a member of the Dutch House of Representatives since 1998, but he is the leader of the Party for Freedom, which is a concern a conservatives. They are often described as far right.
>> Tim Wildmon: But that's just, he's been, he's been warning against this unlimited mass immigration into.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Europe from, probably since 2006. He has led this, says the far. It's defined him as a far right party for freedom since founding it in 2006.
>> Tim Wildmon: Some Liberals would say we don't care whether our country's flooded by illegal immigrants. That we don't believe in borders anyway. Right, that's, that's, that's,
>> Ed Vitagliano: And they'll say we welcome them here.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's it. That's.
>> Chris Woodward: They welcome them here, but not to their secluded neighborhoods.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right, right.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, you know what's. Okay, I'm, I should have stayed on the subject of the monkeys because I was a lot happier talking about the escape monkeys in Mississippi.
>> Chris Woodward: As was I.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Okay. But these people think they're going to be ultimately going to be safe in their, gated communities. That's not how this works.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Once you lose your country, you lose the protection of your gated community too. But like you said, Tim, these liberals do not live in the real world. And they don't ever want to say the hard things about reality either because they don't believe it or they don't want to be called Islamophobic.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
People on the left refuse to say white supremacists are a threat
You remember after 9, 11, and everybody knew that these, attackers, were, Al Qaeda, they were Islamic terrorists.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: And yet the people on the left and a lot of people in the mainstream media, they didn't even want to say that. Remember, Obama wouldn't even say it.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: It's like, why won't you, even if it was a white supremacist attack, would you say, well, we, these were just people.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: We don't know what drove their ideology. Oh, they would be screaming from the roof.
>> Ed Vitagliano: It's what the Biden administration did. White supremacy, the greatest threat in Christian America to the, to our democracy.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. That's what Biden said. He said white, supremacists are the, they're the number one threat to the country. And then he said, I'm not saying that's just because y' all are black. Remember that.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right, right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Speaking to a black audience going, you know, the white supremacist boogeyman out there, he's going to get you, remember? And I was just thinking to myself, I don't know what's, what's causing the delay among the white supremacist, but they are not, they're not coming forth with their attacks.
>> Ed Vitagliano: They're not on the ball or they're not.
>> Tim Wildmon: They're not doing very. They're not holding up to Biden's prediction that they're the number one threat to the world.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Folks, that was tongue in cheek. Obviously. I would. I would criticize white supremacy, just like Islam. Amen. Islamic radicals.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: But we're taught. We're making fun of the Biden administration's.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, I'm just saying, people on the left, if it's a white supremacist threat, they're not going to say, we're not going to talk about white people in general. Right, but you say it's a Islamic terrorism threat. They say, oh, no, you can't say Islamist. You're generalizing.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah. And you're. And you're criticizing all Muslims.
>> Tim Wildmon: But they don't say white supremacists. They don't say, you're criticizing all white people.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right. Can't do that because they were actually criticizing.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right, right, right.
All right, we'll be back in a couple of minutes with more of today's issue
All right, we'll be back in a couple of minutes with more of today's issue.
>> Ed Vitagliano: We're gonna talk about monkeys. monkeys.
>> Tim Wildmon: Rotten dogs, are we, Rocky? Monkeys. Anyway, we'll talk about Davy Jones more when we get back on this short, time out. The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American Family association or American Family Radio.
