Tim and Ed talk with Chris on top news headlines of the day including a discussion on monkeys missing in Mississippi.
Tim Wildman: The World Series is filled with dramatic moments
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>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, good morning, everybody, and welcome to Today's Issues. That's the name of this program right here on the American Family Radio Network. Today's Wednesday, October 29, 2025. In case you were wondering what day it was, I'm Tim Wildmon with Ed Battagliano. Good morning, brother Ed.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Good morning, Tim.
>> Tim Wildmon: And brother Fred Jackson.
>> Fred Jackson: How you doing?
>> Tim Wildmon: News director, American Family Radio.
>> Fred Jackson: Go Blue Jays, go.
>> Tim Wildmon: But hey, that's right. The, I watched it last night, the World Series, game four tied up two.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Two.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. So, two games to two. as a, an observer without a team involved, I hope that the World series goes to seven.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, it's been a fill with dramatic moments.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Seven games I wanted to go. Seven games I wanted to go to the ninth inning at least with two.
>> Ed Vitagliano: On, two out, three went to 18 innings.
>> Tim Wildmon: I know all sports have their, you know, they're high drama moments, so to speak, but baseball is just hard to beat because I'm talking about when you get to the end of the season, World series, they played 162 games. They've gone through the playoffs. Here they are, they may never be here they're again in their lives. They may never. Those players. Who knows? If you can go once to the World Series in your professional career, you, you know, that's kind of what you.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Oh, yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Long for. But when it gets down to, to, to, to. Okay, the batter is waiting, the fans are waiting and the pitchers waiting and there's that drama because there's, you know, seconds at least between pitches and yeah, just like what's going to happen right here that's going to change the dynamics of the whole World Series.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And it's so much dependent upon. I know it's a team sport, but those moments you're talking about. Yep, it's mono. Mono. I mean, it's the picture of the hitter.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: There's strategy and ah, tactics. There's. How is the batter done earlier in the game. Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: And tell me again how, how fast this pitch is coming in.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes. Where it's gonna, where it's gonna, where it's gonna land.
>> Tim Wildmon: It's good. And so you have you don't even have a second to make up your mind on whether you're gonna swing the bat or not. That's how skilled these athletes are. Of course, that's why they get paid the big bucks.
American Family Radio 89.3 is now on the air in Des Moines
Alright, so the World Series game five tonight in Los Angeles. Tim, Wildmon here with Ed and and Fred wanted to mention before we get into the news of the day that we are now on the air with our radio station, our new radio station, Des Moines. As far as I know there's only one Des Moines.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: It's kind of like Elvis or Cher or Bono. There's only one. Right. You know what I'm saying?
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yep.
>> Tim Wildmon: So Des Moines, I don't have to tell you, it's Iowa. Des Moines, Iowa. We're on the air. So if you have friends or family, the, who care what you have to say. The frequency is 89.3. So if you're in Des Moines or the about it's about a 25 mile radius. I guess we're covering maybe 30, maybe more. Who knows. but we are now on the air in Des Moines at 89.3. KJMC is the name of the is the call that is there. But the main thing is where it is on the dial 89.3.
>> Ed Vitagliano: So we, we really do rely on our listeners to be our best advertisement. So if you've got friends or family in that area.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Just let them know that on the air it's. We're on the air.
>> Tim Wildmon: American Family Radio 89.3. All right, again you're listening to today's issues. By the way, I'm going to be in Oxford, Mississippi at on the campus of Ole Miss, late this afternoon with 10,000 people or more.
>> Ed Vitagliano: You've switched to Ole Miss now as a fan. No. Then, then what's this all about?
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, no, not exactly Ed. as a Mississippi State graduate, I can't do that.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: but I'm going to Ole Miss because they're hosting the Turning Point USA event with Vice President JD Vance and Charlie Kirk's widow Erica, she's going to be there too, speaking. And I'm so excited about being a Part of that. The Ole Miss campus, from where I am, is about an hour. So it's, you know, not. Not a big deal as far as the drive goes. I would drive a lot longer than that. See.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: And hear those two. but it's going to be. It's. I think it's the first event where Erica has spoken, you know, since. Well, she was at the White House. well, so saw that. To receive the.
>> Ed Vitagliano: It was at the memorial service. Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: the memorial service was in Phoenix.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Okay.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. Remember, I'm talking about President Trump gave Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: And she was there to. What do you call it when somebody passes and they get a. Posthumous. That. That word. gave that to him. Do you remember what you didn't watch, that we watched two weeks ago. Yeah. At the White House. So, anyway, she will be there. I think the main point of this event and others that Turning Point USA has continued to do is to carry on the legacy of Charlie Kirk, of trying to reach young people, students, with the truth about the gospel of Christ and also about what's happening in our country and how you can make.
>> Ed Vitagliano: A difference, because all of these were already set up. In fact, Charlie Kirk was assassinated at the first one.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Of his tour.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right. He would have otherwise been at Ole Miss today or one of his campus stops.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. So, anyway, looking forward to. And I'll be here tomorrow to report on it. We've also got a couple of our reporters going over.
>> Fred Jackson: Chris Woodward, for our, radio news team is going to be there, and Billy davis for our afn.net so full coverage, I think.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I think Matthew White with the Stand magazine also.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Be going with your guys. Yeah, think so. Okay.
Should Vice President Vance and Marco Rubio be the ticket in 2028
>> Tim Wildmon: I read a rumor. You know, we're big on rumors. Oh, man, that's what. Christianity, you know, that's part of the central.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Is it rumors?
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. What it says in the Bible.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Wars and rumors.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Well, say that.
>> Tim Wildmon: So I'm caveat. And it's really not a rumor. It was a reported story that Vice, President Vance, who people assume to be the candidate, for the GOP for president in three years, that he is best friend. His best friend in the administration is none other than Marco Rubio.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: The Secretary of State, who the rumor was, you know, a few weeks ago, that these two were rivals to win the nomination. As for the gop, I know we're a long way from that. I mean, people.
>> Ed Vitagliano: You mean in 2028.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, 2028. When President Trump Steps down. Yeah, I don't think he's going to, but, but anyway, assuming he steps down and, and says I'm not running again, which the Constitution says something about that, I think. But, it would be, it would be VP Vance and, he clearly.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Be the front runner.
>> Tim Wildmon: He clearly be the front runner. So I think it'd be a dynamic and very, formidable duo. Should Vice President Vance and Marco Rubio be the ticket.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I like Marco Rubio. I've always liked Marco Rubio. I've mentioned on air before, there were some things that he stood for with regarding immigration. a couple of things I didn't care for. But he's very solid on the Constitution. Christian man, very articulate, good debater. sticks to his guns. I like both of those guys.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, me too.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And I and Marco Rubio would probably help with the, maybe with Hispanic votes. I think you're right. I think they would be a formidable duo.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Who would be the Democrats right now, Fred? Who would they pick? Is Kamala gonna come roaring back? She's gonna come, but, she gonna work. Sounded her way back in, Fred. To leadership there in the Democrat Party.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: Newsom. Kamala Harris. Oh, I got somebody else stable right now. Doesn't look really good for the Democrats.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, what about Zoron?
>> Tim Wildmon: Here he goes. I, I, if we're going to talk.
>> Ed Vitagliano: About, we are going to talk about it. If he wins, the mayoral race for New York City. I don't know that he could run for president in 2028, but certainly.
>> Tim Wildmon: Is he old enough?
>> Fred Jackson: He's 33 right now.
>> Tim Wildmon: Then. He's not old enough now.
>> Ed Vitagliano: But he would in 2028. Right. he'd be 35 and we'd be.
>> Tim Wildmon: M. We're getting out ahead of ourselves.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Way ahead of it.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And as you said, it is out in the future. 2028. We're assuming JD Vance is the front runner if nothing happens between now and then.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's how things work normally. Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah. We're going to talk about, Mr. Mamdani in just a second, but we wanted to update, folks on Hurricane Melissa.
Hurricane Melissa hit Jamaica 24 hours ago as a Category five storm
Hurricane, Melissa is now a Category two, but that's after, doing extensive damage to Jamaica. Remember it hit Jamaica 24 hours ago. We talked about this has a category five. And if you've seen some of the images coming out of Jamaica this morning, there is just devastation. That's all you can talk about. You know, it is horrible. It has now gone through overnight through Cuba. We're now Seeing images from, Cuba, and now it's moving on to the Bahamas as a Category two. And people may think, oh, it's not a Category five anymore. Category two can do a lot of damage as well. I'm amazed. Coming out of Jamaica, a. Ah, fairly low death count, single digits as of this moment.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.
>> Fred Jackson: I am sure. Searches are underway for people who have not been accounted for. the officials in Jamaica this morning are saying they're hoping that the main Runway, either in Montego Bay or Kingston will be open by tomorrow. And that is really important because relief efforts can. Then they can land their airplanes like Samaritan's purse. And some of these others will be able to land their airplanes to begin helping people, but stay in prayer. after the Bahamas, they say, Melissa is going on to Bermuda. so Melissa's not through yet, let's put it that way.
>> Tim Wildmon: But, well, Jamaica has 3 million people and, they have. They're saying 77% of the island is without electricity right now. Yes, of course, it's a warm tropical climate, so, you know, like electricity matters more for, I guess, you know, refrigeration. Yes, those kinds of things. Not necessarily, you know, your house. but. And, you know, the traffic lights and, and just electricity infrastructure. Yeah, right.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I, I would. One of the things you mentioned, Fred, you know, in terms of category two or. Or three hurricanes, you know, people say, oh, like you said, it's not a Category 5. But you've got to remember a lot of these island nations are relatively flat.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Some of them have some mountains because.
>> Tim Wildmon: You know, Jamaica is mountainous.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah. But. But it's not usually, the mountains aren't usually high enough to, you know, to drain a storm, to break it up like, like it can sometimes if it, if it hits,
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, I see what your point. Yeah. Ah, yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: In other words, these hurricanes still sometimes just roll right over these, these island nations. So 77% without power. assuming that they had power before. Jamaica is pretty poor nation, but still going to be a lot of devastation and they'll need a lot of help.
>> Tim Wildmon: Rebuilding and tourism is a big part of their economy.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: So the, the Montego Bay area took a direct hit pretty much. can you. Pretty much. Direct. I'm not sure my words there, but, it was. That's what I saw reported. Kingston, which is the biggest city, didn't take a direct hit. Now, they still got, you know, a lot of damage because the winds. Yeah, but you're talking about a direct hit from the eye wall of this hurricane would have been 160, 170, 180 mile an hour winds.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: so that would destroy crops how? Anything in path, Anything in its path?
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, I've seen video of roofs coming off buildings.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. All right, you're listening to today's issues on the American Family Radio Network. But that's really been the only major hurricane has since season. And hurricane season is, about over because it usually lasts from August to November. And so it's about over, so.
Ed Gore: Bill Gates has changed his stance on climate change
By the way, Bill Gates, we mentioned this yesterday. You weren't on the program yesterday.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Bill Gates, who I know you're a.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Fan of, I don't even like his computers.
>> Tim Wildmon: He said yesterday or the day before that, he had given a lot of money and a lot of attention and his, and words of his, toward fighting global warming, climate change over the decades. And he's dialed that back now.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, yeah, big change from, 2020. This is what Bill Gates was saying about climate change and its dangers to the globe back in 2020. Cut number 13.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, certainly climate change will make,
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Entire ecosystems die off.
>> Ed Vitagliano: it'll make parts of the world, you know, impossible to live in.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, that's what he was saying, 12 years ago.
>> Fred Jackson: 20, 20.
>> Ed Vitagliano: 20.
>> Tim Wildmon: 20, 20, 20, 20, 25 years ago.
>> Fred Jackson: Okay, now he's, he's really dialed it back.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: Talking about, you know, global devastation. Nah, not so.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah. And, people, quote, will be able to live and thrive in most places on Earth for the foreseeable future. Okay, well, welcome. Welcome to the sane side of the street.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Fred Jackson: What happened? That's, that's my question. What, what's going on in his brain?
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, that's a good question. A, pop science is what I would call it. listen, I'm getting, I'm getting in deep here, and I don't even know what I'm talking about. For the most part, I would just say this. It became trendy among elites.
>> Fred Jackson: Oh, yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: To buy into the whole global warming, climate change. And so they were all flying around the world on their private jets having, conventions where they patted each other on the back saying, hey, we're all trying to save the planet here, aren't we? From, from global warming and from climate change. And so I don't think, I don't, I don't think, I don't know how much these people actually believe their own words as much as they were trying to fit in with their peer group. That's what I think happened here. And he's only acknowledging what, like you saying, Ed, the same side of the road there may be climate change.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: And guess what? There's probably been climate change since the dawn of creation. and there's nothing you can do about it by not driving your SUV using gasoline.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, that's, he says this, I'm looking at a New York Post, op ed on his change of heart, talking about Bill Gates. He says now, quote, the faster people become prosperous and healthy, the, the more lives we can save. End quote. So he's, he, it sounds like he is starting to delve into the reality here that what you want to do is get some of the poorer countries developed so that people can stay healthier, eat better, get more better education and all those kinds of things. And that's really how you're going to save lives.
>> Tim Wildmon: But let's just note here before we move on, these people like Bill Gates, they can't get away with predicting gloom and doom five, six years ago. And some of them have been going on with this for 20, 25 years. End of world as we know it. The oceans are going to rise, all this stuff. We're going to have super hurricanes that are going to be slamming our, you know, slamming our planet, which that hasn't happened.
>> Ed Vitagliano: No more ice in the North Pole.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right. All these things, you know, are going to happen. No, you, they said those things and now they're now a person like him. I'm glad he is acknowledging reality, but, he's not. He's not going to be. His credibility's damaged.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And the science, and the credibility of science in general.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I mean, let me just put it this way. And I know, I know we're kind of rehashing here, but I wasn't on the show yesterday, so I never got a chance. You need to hash to, you.
>> Tim Wildmon: Don'T even need to rehash to pop Gates.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Okay, but if we had listened to him.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right, Right.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And we'd listen to Al Gore and ah, all these other nut cases and rather than say, hey, let's, let's, let's have a conversation here before we decide to shut down our economy.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Ed Vitagliano: If we had listened to these people, we'd be in a world of hurt. I'm talking about this country.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's right.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And I'm glad we didn't.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's right. All right. You're listening to today's issues on, afr. Go ahead, Fred.
Two Fairfax County high schools have Muslim student groups caught making racist videos
>> Fred Jackson: Next story, Fairfax County, Virginia. Back in the news. We focus a lot on Fairfax County.
>> Ed Vitagliano: What a great place to live, I got to tell.
>> Fred Jackson: Wow. And particularly their school system.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: All right. We've talked about Fairfax County. They don't have problem with boys and girls bathrooms, boys playing on girls, girls teams, all the sort of thing. But. But they're in the news this morning for something different. Two of the high schools in Fairfax county have Muslim student groups, and they're in the news this morning because the Muslim student groups have been caught creating videos, they say, as a recruitment tool to get people to join their student group. But the videos depict people being encouraged to avoid the student groups. But if they say, no, we don't want to, then, a student is shown being abducted and thrown in trunks.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Of cars, their heads thrown, you know, covered.
>> Fred Jackson: Cover it up. Now, does that sound a little bit about what happened in Gaza and Israel back a few years ago? Sure, it does. So these modelist student groups are being called out on this this morning. By the way, Bethany Mandel was, on Fox yesterday, conservative writer, and she talks about this as just another chapter in anti Semitism being tolerated on. On these campuses. Cut number 12.
>> Speaker E: I applaud Fairfax for. For making that step. But I think that this indicates that there's something deeply, deeply amiss, in America in the young people and also in the schools, that there is a rot of anti Semitism that is being allowed to fester. And I. You know, some of these. Some of these Muslim students, perhaps they didn't know the line, because in classrooms around the country, there has never been a line depicted of what you can say and what is beyond the pale, because they're not being taught about the Holocaust. They're not being taught about the horrors of October 7th. Teachers unions. I mean, a teachers union in Chicago, I just read, they donated $10,000 to a pro Houthi organization. All of this, all of these issues are endemic in teachers unions, in teachers ranks, and among students. And, you know, I'm glad that Fairfax drew a line, but it took to get to this point.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, Fairfax county, the school condemned this. Now, there was some talk about disciplining these kids, but that has not been confirmed yet. But I will tell you, who has responded is CARE Council on American Islamic Relations. They say these students should be punished, should not be punished. they were just having fun.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, listen, if they had done these kinds of videos with other targeted groups.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I don't want to get into any ugliness here. What those kids did was wrong. I don't know about expelling the kids unless they are unrepentant, but they certainly should be suspended. Let me just say this. I do remember what it was like to be in high school. I did stupid stuff. You think things are funny. You're with your, your buddies and. Okay, but the the, the lady.
>> Fred Jackson: We just heard, Bethany Mandel.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Bethany Mandel, she's right. There has not been enough teaching, or instruction on a even handed view of what has happened to Jews. And it's in part because, our public school systems in a lot of places, especially blue cities and blue states have been taken over by cultural Marxists and they refuse to discuss the Israel Palestinian or the Israeli Arab or the Israeli Muslim situation in the Middle east, even in an evenhanded way, let alone, you know, being pro Israel. And that's why these young people, these young people would not have done videos in blackface.
>> Fred Jackson: That's right.
>> Ed Vitagliano: That's what I'm talking about. Why? Because they've been told, they've been taught, they've been instructed that is insulting black students and you'll get in trouble for doing it. So why would they not do it in blackface? But they think it's okay to have fake videos of kidnapping students at. After what we saw on October 7th?
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, we're going to take a timeout right here. We will be back momentarily with more of today's issues on the American Family Radio Network.
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American Family Radio welcomes back Abraham Hamilton with today's Issues
>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, welcome back, everybody, to the radio program. Today's Issues on American Family Radio. We are live every day here from, 10:05 to 11:30 Central Time on American Family Radio. We thank you for listening again. We just turned the new radio station on in des moines, 89.3. So you have friends or family who listen who live in the Des Moines area. We go out about 25, 30 miles with this signal almost to Ames, and Indianola and Winterset. Those are some of the fringe areas of our new radio station there. Those who live in Iowa, you know what I'm talking about.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And by that we just mean fringe as far as being outside the listening area. We are not making a comment on their mental state.
>> Tim Wildmon: that's a good point.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: These are not us making a determination on our mental state will come later. But, no, so there you go. We'll be on. We're on the Air 89.3 in Des Moines. Tim, Ed and Fred here. We thank you for listening. We're joined now by our colleague, and friend, Abraham Hamilton the third. He is a host of the Hamilton Corner Herd each afternoon from 5 to 6 o' clock Central Time right here on AFR. Ah. how you doing, brother Abe?
>> Abraham Hamilton III: I'm doing well. Good morning.
>> Tim Wildmon: Good morning. Thanks for, you at the house today. You're.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: you're broadcasting remotely.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Yeah, at the moment. Yes, I am.
>> Ed Vitagliano: You've been on the air a lot. I heard you on Jenna Ellis this morning.
>> Tim Wildmon: Weren't you?
>> Abraham Hamilton III: I was. Yeah, that's right.
>> Ed Vitagliano: You've been doing a lot of radio today.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Yes.
Zoran Mamdani could be the next mayor of New York City
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, so, a topic for Abe is what? Fred?
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, we want a couple of issues, but, one in particular, we want to talk about New York City.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: New York City.
>> Tim Wildmon: New York City.
>> Fred Jackson: Hey, listen, Abe, I want to play you a clip of Zoran Mamdani, who could be the next mayor of New York City. he is a Muslim, and in 2023, he had this to say about the New York Police Department. But linking them to the Israeli Defense Force cut number eight.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: For anyone to care about these issues.
>> Ed Vitagliano: We have to make them hyperloma.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: We have to make clear that when.
>> Tim Wildmon: The boot of the NYPD is on.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Your neck, it's been laced by the idf.
>> Fred Jackson: when the boot, of the New York Police Department is on your neck, the laces have been done by the Israeli Defense Department.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. All right, let's give some context to this a little bit if we can. I know. That's why Abe's on here, but I'll give context before he gives context. We're talking here about the, leading, for those who don't know, haven't followed this, the. The fella who's probably going to be the next mayor m. Of New York City if the polls are right. That's the voice you just heard. And he is, 33 years old. He is city, council. No, he's a state, legislator.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: He's a state legislator.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. Yeah, state legislative legislator. But anyway, so you might say, what do I care about who New York City's mayor is? I don't live there and I'm not going there. Well, I understand that sentiment, but it does matter because it is reflective of where the Democrat Party is because they are a major. Obviously, we know the countries have the 50 50, so the Democrat Party, has a lot of influence on our country. and so we need to pay attention and know what they are advocating for and what they're saying and the dangers of some of the things they're advocating and saying. So anyway, I just wanted to let people know who might say, what do I. Who do I. Why do I care who New York City, you know, elects as their mayor? So with that as the backdrop, Go ahead. What we just heard him say. Why. Why would a man link nypd, by the way, he. He accused the NYPD there of putting their boots on people's necks.
>> Fred Jackson: Brutality.
>> Tim Wildmon: Is that common? I mean, is that. I don't know. and then them being related to. Linked to the, the idf, which is the Israeli Defense Forces. What's. What's the connection he's trying to make there?
>> Abraham Hamilton III: yeah, well. Well, Tim, to the point you were making to provide context, Hakeem Jeffries, the leaders of the leader of the Democrat and the House of Representatives, has endorsed Zoran Mamdani. The Democrat Party establishment has endorsed Zoran Mamdani. So it would not be a hyperbolic statement to. To say that Mamdani's position and policies have been embraced whole hog by the entirety of the Democrat Party establishment. That that is not an extreme state. That is what has transpired. Yeah. So it should be, noted by the rest of the American, but all of America's people, because this is one of the two major parties in American politics currently.
>> Tim Wildmon: How can you get away in New York City with running for mayor and be so openly anti Jew? I mean, the only place in America, the only place in the world that has more Jews than New York is Israel.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: All Right.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: no, that's a factual statement.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. So I don't. I don't understand how this guy's getting away with this without more outcry and resistance from the Jewish community in New York City.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Yeah. And he refused to condemn hamas from following October 7th. He's on record as. As being a supporter of the phrase globalize the intifada. And yet he's the leading mayoral candidate in New York City.
>> Tim Wildmon: Unbelievable.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: That is the type of cognitive dissonance that's present there is almost similar to, you know, gays, for Palestine.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, Abe, here's another part of Gays for Hamas.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry.
>> Ed Vitagliano: No, here's another part of this cognitive dissonance. Technically speaking, how can you be a Muslim and a communist? I mean, communists are atheists, right? Muslims are. If they're actual Muslims, they are religious people and must consider communists theocracy.
>> Tim Wildmon: Not a dictator, not a atheistic, dictatorship. Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: How does that work?
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Yeah, I think it doesn't work, first of all. But what you're finding is that this entire cabal of kind of leftward thinking people, they're willing to align themselves for the purpose of political advancement. Like, for example, the mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, who just recently, publicly the city council meeting, told a Christian resident and citizen of Dearborn that he's not welcome in town when. Well, he's a Democrat. He aligns with the Democrat Party, but he is a mayor. And I did a show not too long ago where you don't have formal Sharia law, but you have a practical kind of functional Sharia to where Christians who have tried to evangelize in Dearborn have faced stoning in 21st century America.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, well, we're talking about, Zoran Mandami. Next Tuesday we'll find out whether he's elected the next mayor of New York City and what that means nationally for the, for the Democrat Party. Go ahead, Fred.
Zoran Mamdani is running for New York City mayor
>> Fred Jackson: Well, I just wanted to mention. Ah, Abe, I'm not sure if you read this from the New York Post, their story this morning. Perhaps, Zoran Mamdani has been influenced by his daddy. His daddy is a professor at Columbia University.
>> Tim Wildmon: Who's your daddy?
>> Fred Jackson: Who's your daddy?
>> Tim Wildmon: I'm sorry, I had to say that. Yes, it just came out. Go ahead.
>> Fred Jackson: His name is, Mahmoud.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Fred Jackson: All right.
>> Fred Jackson: Professor at Columbia University, which, by the way, within 48 hours after the massacre of Jewish people in Israel, Columbia University was the first to have anti Israel protests within 48 hours after that massacre Now, Zoran Mamdani, according to this New York Post piece, is among the founders of a group called Gaza Tribunal, a group that one critic likened to a cesspool of London based Hamas terrorists. And this group is calling for Israeli perpetrator, I'm quoting here, Israeli perpetrators and Western enablers to face consequences over their actions in the Gaza Strip. Do you think there's some influence from his daddy?
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Yes, I do. I absolutely do. And the thing that's most galling to me is, you know there, there are demonically inspired people. They are weirdos. They are people who are psychotic. But why would voters who would not be those things vote for this type of person as a candidate for office? I mean you literally have. He's not only a Muslim, he's a self described Marxist. He described himself that way. And in the Hub for things like Wall, Street, the economic capital of the world, in a lot of ways there is a real possibility, if not likelihood, that its mayor will be an outright Muslim Marxist.
>> Tim Wildmon: One other thing on this, his ideas that he's put out there talking about Zoran Mandami, that has attracted a lot of voters. Evidently. We'll find out next Tuesday again whether he's going to win. He's challenged by that staunch conservative Andrew Cuomo, who's giving, mister, Mr. Covid integrity there. so he's advocating for things that, that make people, that make socialists start crying, enjoy. And that is free everything. Free everything. And tax the devil out of the rich people.
>> Ed Vitagliano: That's, that's the rich.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's what works. That's what they think works. So he's got free. He's advocating for free food, right? Free grocery stores.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, state owned grocery stores. City run, city run, state run grocery stores which will, they'll be subsidized obviously by tax dollars competing with privately owned grocery stores and probably driving them out of business as any.
>> Tim Wildmon: Also, does any also want, the government to control the pricing of housing?
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Yes. Rent control.
>> Fred Jackson: Rent controls.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Absolutely.
>> Fred Jackson: Free bus fare.
>> Tim Wildmon: You can drive around, which that's going to work.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Which is, means they're going to be taken over by homeless people.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right. Vagrants or.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And they'll just sleep on the, on the subway.
>> Tim Wildmon: It's going to become very dangerous to. Yeah, subway and the busing.
>> Ed Vitagliano: well, let me, let me.
>> Fred Jackson: Universal childcare too.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And let me toss this in too, in terms of maybe answering your question, Tim, about why in the world would people be voting for someone, at least according to polls, the Percentage of foreign born individuals in New York City is 40%.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Ed Vitagliano: So I'm wondering if that is playing into his popularity.
>> Tim Wildmon: Could be.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Because, you know, native born Americans in New York City, while probably still to the left, sure might not want to vote for a socialist, but with with Cuomo and the Republican nominee, Curtis Sliwa maybe splitting some of the vote too, I'm wondering if that plays into, you know, not everybody who lives in New York City, therefore is going to be, familiar with the principles that made this country great, which are not socialist.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. So. So, do you think he's gonna win?
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Unfortunately, yeah, unfortunately, I do think he's gonna win. I don't want him to win. I pray that miraculous intervention prohibits him from winning. but the, the signs and the momentum and the voting records of New Yorkers, indicate, you know, they've had de Blasio before him. You know, they've had, you know, these, you know, other, other, other folks, and they seem to be supportive of this, this Mamdani ism. You know, he was literally on the Fox News Channel about a week or so ago, once the, the peace deal was brokered and Hamas was literally bringing out Gazans and murdering them in broad daylight, in public, in front of everybody. And, and he was asked, will you call Hamas, call on Hamas to put their arms down. He, he refused to do so. He refused to do so. While previously he'd been on record calling for gun control in America. He would want to cause Americans to be prohibited from our second amendment rights. But he refuses to tell Hamas to stop murdering Gazans. Arabs. Well, in the Middle East, Abe.
>> Ed Vitagliano: So why, you know, we've been talking about, you mentioned the establishment in the Democratic Party because over the weekend, or maybe it was late last week, Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez on the stump with Mamdani. On the stage with them, Kathi Hochul, the governor.
Is the Democratic Party embracing socialism as its platform? Yes, Ed
All right, why, I mean, is the.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Democratic Party the congressional leader?
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Is the Democratic Party embracing socialism as its platform?
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Yes, Ed. Yes, they are. They have been functionally embracing it.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Now they're formally embracing it because the socialists in the Democrat Party are the ones who have the momentum. They're the ones who are driving the policy development and the policy debate within the Democrat Party. They are formally endorsing and embracing socialism. Formally.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Now, as far as far left as Chuck Schumer has been for the Democratic Party, I, I, if somebody, if he got, if somebody primaried him from the left, I think Schumer would Lose. You know, some people are talking about AOC maybe challenging him for his Senate seat. I think he would lose. I think that's how far the Democratic Party has shifted to the left. And, and it's foot soldiers. The young people in their party, are not going to tolerate. I mean, listen, we talked about why Kamala Harris did not pick Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania, as a running mate. That it was because he was Jewish and, and they were afraid they would lose support in the general election from their base. That's frightening if you're a Democrat. a traditional liberal.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: All right.
>> Tim Wildmon: You're listening to today's Issues. All right, Abe, what's coming up this afternoon on the Hamilton Corner?
Ed: Democrats are using a rejection of Obamacare as basis for shutdown
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Well, to the point that Ed just made, some people have surmised that a part of the reason why this government shut down. It is. Where it is, is because Chuck Schumer is afraid of being challenged in the primary from the left by aoc, if not somebody else. And with a moment of clarity, it seems all of a sudden people like Kaitlan Collins at CNN and Cassie Hunt at CNN are beginning to challenge the Democrat rhetoric concerning the shutdown. So we're going to talk about the shutdown. We're approaching the second longest shutdown in American history. The longest was 35 days, from, the end of 2018 to January 2019. We're, approaching that with this government shutdown. So having some media, clarity and communicating the fact that the Democrats are now using a rejection of Obamacare as passed by Democrats is the basis for their argument for maintaining the government shut down currently. Because the only thing would happen is that Obamacare would go back to what was passed by the Democrats when, when the Affordable Care Net act was initially passed.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, thank you, Abe. Have a good day, my friend. Talk to you later.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Thank you.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, bye. Bye.
Big cities almost all go blue and become Democrat only elected officials
That's Abraham Hamilton, the third. Not the second. That was his daddy. the third. They're, joining us from a remote location. Tim, Ed and Fred, you're listening to the radio program Today's Issues on American Family Radio. Any. Any idea why I don't get down, Start going down this rabbit trail. Maybe we won't come back, which would be rare. What's your number one thought on why these big cities, and by big, I mean cities maybe over, say, 2 million people, almost all go blue and become Democrat only elected officials. Any, any, any particular reason for that? Because that's, I, I would. I.
>> Ed Vitagliano: This is my opinion. I'm not sure this is accurate. I think it's possible is during Jim Crow in the American south when blacks were, were subject to systemic racism, there was a, a large movement of black people out of the south into big cities up north where they could live in peace, get good paying jobs. A lot of them worked, you know, throughout what we now call the Rust Belt and manufacturing. They could have a good, a good life. and, and those cities were largely run by Democrats because of union power and so they just became lifelong Democrats and they have some of the black voter, I'm talking about the black voter and then other probably minorities. When you, when you come to this country from a foreign land you gravitate towards big cities so you, you can find jobs, but also you can find your community, your people who speak your language. Reason I know this is because my mom who was born in Greece when her family moved to this country they moved to the Boston area, to Lowell, Massachusetts where there was a large Greek speaking population. So you're going to get a lot of foreign born people moving to big cities, a lot of minorities who are moving here to try to build a good life and then you just fall into the political alignment that exists. And I think that a lot of these big cities have remained blue because the people who have a history there stick with, with the party that was on their side when their dad, their granddad were voting.
>> Tim Wildmon: Kind of gets into one of those. Because it's always been this way. I think so because I'm thinking about Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Detroit, Chicago for example. Those cities come to mind. There are others that are, it's like the bigger the city goes, the bluer it becomes. And I'm just wondering why is that dynamic true when you leave those big cities? Atlanta is becoming like that Atlanta proper, not greater Atlanta but you got, I'm going like when you leave those big cities, then you get out to. It's, it's to more small town rural areas. Then they're, they're all, it's red. We've all seen the maps.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right?
>> Tim Wildmon: Right. You go to for example you go to Missouri. You look at the map, it's, it's a, it's a red state. Missouri is. But St. Louis and Kansas City are going to be blue right when the voting comes up. And you know, why does somebody living in St. Louis different than somebody living in maybe another say Columbia, Springfield for example.
>> Fred Jackson: Why?
>> Tim Wildmon: Why?
>> Fred Jackson: Anyway, I, dad, with what Ed was saying, I believe also and I know I often go back to this, it's also the way the last two generations coming up have been educated that the Republican Party capitalism is evil. Right. And so you have politicians who come along and say we're going to go after those rich guys who are making your life miserable and we're going to even everything out.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well that's really. That does appeal to you if you feel like you're, you know, not, you know, go after the rich people. Well, let's, without defining what rich is exactly.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And let's face it, you know, since the 70s and the then the 80s, manufacturing jobs have by and large disappeared from big cities. And so finding good paying jobs has been next to impossible in a lot of cities. I know this is a broad generalization. So you're going to have more poverty in those big cities and therefore you're going to become more reliant on government subsidies to be able to take care of your family. And the Democratic Party promises those subsidies and they say, and the media says along with them, the Republicans want to take those subsidies away. And so you're going to be locked into the Democratic Party.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Forever.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right. Another big factor here. We don't have time to go into it very, very much. I told you it'd be a rabbit trail and it's a long one.
>> Ed Vitagliano: But this is, this is a good portion though. Yeah, I like it.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. The other, the other factor here is that I think is very important in, in deciding why are the big cities in America all blue? Almost, almost all blue. I don't. Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, are they. I'd have to look at that. But purple. yeah, purple. So the are the other of the unions. The unions are still that while they're not. Don't have the power of their heyday, you know, which would have been probably before 19, before 2000, maybe before 1990. the unions that they became less powerful. But still in these big cities the unions are very powerful and they're, they're, they're their bosses so to speak, are almost are in cahoots with the Democrat Party. And so they're the, they're the, they, the union leaders. they tell their members and their members and the family members of their members.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: What's in the best financial interest of you? I'm looking out for you and there's no, you don't get, there's no Republicans mixed in with the unions. You know what I'm saying?
>> Ed Vitagliano: That's a, that's an excellent point. Because in big cities the city becomes a huge Employer.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Whether it's.
>> Tim Wildmon: And their tentacles reach out.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah. And those are going to be union jobs.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And so, again, to your point, not only the unions, still, because these unions watch each other's back. Teamsters union watches back of the. Educating the teachers, unions. And the influence does flow to family members who might not be in the union.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Are you going to vote for someone who's going to break up our union and take away my right job? So I remember, in my dad's side of the family, there were a lot of blue voters in the Boston area because they were, you know, one was in the fire department, and.
Fred: Unions are powerful in big cities across the country
And so those conversations got a little hairy. You don't support the union. I'm feeding my family because of that. That. I think that's probably a good explanation as well.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes, I think it's. That's a big deal, especially in. In the North. But, but still, the unions are very powerful in big cities across, the country. You're listening to today's issues. We got about a minute or two left. you got the monkey story, Fred?
>> Fred Jackson: Oh, yes. Well, we've got.
>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, where the monkeys.
>> Fred Jackson: We got a monkey on the loose. Yeah, we do here in Mississippi, in Southern Mississippi. Right, very briefly, because we were jammed up for time here. Truckload of monkeys on its way to a university in Louisiana. Tulane, I think, had an accident yesterday.
>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, hold on, Fred. We can't. We can't rush this story.
>> Fred Jackson: Okay?
>> Tim Wildmon: We're gonna. Hold on, people. If you want to know about the monkeys in Mississippi, okay, That's what we're going to title this next. A segment.
>> Ed Vitagliano: You're going to have to come back after the break.
>> Tim Wildmon: It's. Mmm. it's monkeys missing in Mississippi. And Fred's got that story for us.
>> Ed Vitagliano: We've already covered Mommy after.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right, Mommy's been covered, so that M's been covered.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And Melissa, Melissa, Melissa, There you go.
>> Tim Wildmon: You've been. That's good.
>> Ed Vitagliano: A. Yeah, we're paying attention.
>> Tim Wildmon: Melissa and Mandami, we've already covered. But monkeys missing in Mississippi and Muslims. That's right. That's enough. We get.
>> Fred Jackson: We get it.
>> Tim Wildmon: You're good at this, and we understand. All right. and we shall return for you listeners in Minnesota, Missouri and Montana and Maryland. The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American Family association or American Family Radio.
