Radio Show Hour 1 – 01/13/2025

[00:00:12] Broadcasting live from atop the Rocky Mountains, the crossroads of the West, you are listening to the Liberty Roundtable Radio Talk Show. All right. Happy to have you along, my fellow Americans. Sam Bushman live on your radio. Hard-hitting news that ever refused to use, no doubt, starts now. This, my fellow Americans, is the broadcast for January the 13th in the year of our Lord, 2025.

[00:00:40] This is Hour 1 of 2 and the goal always to protect life, liberty, and property, to promote God, family, and country in the traditions of our founders using the supreme law that I am the Constitution of the United States of America. We reject revolution, the lessons of Jesus' revolution, and then we're in because we follow the Prince of Peace and the checks and balances brilliantly put in place by the Founding Fathers, one of the peaceful solutions we have at our fingertips. Man, so much going on, so little time to discuss. One week until the inauguration of Donald Trump.

[00:01:09] It happens a week from today on Monday, the 20th. Be ready for that. I'm asking Richard Mack, Sheriff Mack, asking for a humble inauguration. All this pump and, or pump, I should say, and, you know, a couple of hundred million dollars, nothing else for this big old. It's too dangerous. It's too risky. Have a humble inauguration. Just swearing into the White House. Save all that money. Have everybody put it on TV so everybody can watch it but not be present there.

[00:01:38] Don't take a chance of some kind of disruption. It's just not worth it. That's my opinion to which I'm entitled. I'm not going to the inauguration. And I'm encouraging others not to go. And we're encouraging the Trump administration to think about it. Think about national security first. Make sure nothing goes sideways, goes wrong, disrupts, and just start there. That's my humble opinion.

[00:02:02] Dr. Scott Bradley is with me, well-known author of the DVD and lecture series to preserve the nation. He's also the one that does the weekly webinars, Q&As on the Constitution and more. You can sign up and get your invite to that. All you've got to do is go to freedomsrisingsun.com. Dr. Bradley, welcome, sir. Oh, thank you very much, Sam. I hope everyone's having a wonderful beginning to their week.

[00:02:26] And I just, it seems like an early, you know, maybe statement early in the week, but, I mean, early in the year. But, man, time is flying on this year already. I just, I don't know. It's difficult to think. Well, you're right. I mean, think about the election in November. And then we're like, oh, yeah, it'll be quite a while, 70-plus days until Trump takes office. Boom. Now it's a week. Well, that can't happen soon enough.

[00:02:56] I mean, you know, you say, oh, I can't wait for Trump's inauguration. Oh, the thing that kills me is these lame duck sessions where Congress, first of all, up until the first week in January, gets all whacked out and does weird things. And then the current president stays on until the 20th of January doing all sorts of everything from, you know, pardonsies doing and sending money overseas. And holy hannah.

[00:03:25] And executive orders that supposedly lock us into things that you can't get out of lies and all this kind of stuff. I mean, it's dangerous. You're right. I think Trump needs to get in office sooner than later for sure. But a lot of these people are basically doing things and bailing. So Jack Smith literally, you know, tried to put a black mark on Donald. Now Donald's a felon or whatever in these different things. And special counsel Jack Smith now has resigned. And you kind of wonder about all these people. They say, well, that was his intention from the beginning. And but these people resign.

[00:03:54] And then what happens is instead of them being investigated like they they should, we just simply drop it and go, OK, we'll be that's behind us now. But I think Jack Smith needs to be investigated for all the shenanigans he pulled in all the games he played. I mean, some say that he wasn't even really authorized literally to be there in the first place. I mean, prosecution, accountability, transparency, clarity on this stuff matters, doctor. But we seem to just sweep it under the rug and be like, oh, well, Jack's gone now. Thank heavens. But look, this guy needs to be prosecuted.

[00:04:25] Well, like I say so often is the Republicans seem to be unwilling or incompetent or unable, whatever. I don't know what it is to govern. And this is just one symptom of that thing. I mean, you say, oh, well, they resigned. They're out of the picture. There's no no no harm, no foul kind of thing. And then you look at what happens when when Matt Gates resigned from the house.

[00:04:50] And, OK, he's he's out of our, you know, sights here and that. But but there was a bloodlust that had to have that information exposed in the in the, you know, community, too. So there are those that do these things to say, OK, fine. Let's just see where we go with this resignation that just happened. I think the resignations are a natural ebb and flow as administrations change.

[00:05:19] I mean, you have your staff and some are I mean, some are going to be fired if they don't resign and others are going to resign, move on to something else and take advantage of, you know, their limelight for another proposed position. But but the fact of the matter is, I it doesn't matter if they're in the office or not. Let's well, I agree with that. So here's the question. Was it legal to appoint Jack Smith in the first place? Merrick Garland appointed him, but many are saying that it was illegal, that it wasn't even proper, that it was done.

[00:05:49] So this is what I'm talking about. See, we need to go after these people. Right. Well, there's overreach. I mean, there's at least symptoms of overreach. And to say without a thorough, you know, for me to sit in my armchair and decide, well, this happened to that happened. Well, without a thorough exposure of the facts of the matter, let's just get to the facts. So here's the deal. We're not saying that it was illegal. What we're saying is that we've got to know the parameters, the circumstances.

[00:06:16] Merrick Garland did it. Now the guy basically went in there, you know, gave really Donald Trump a punch in the face. You're a felon now with no consequences of any kind. But then, hey, can Jack Smith just resign, waltz away with no accountability either? What about Merrick Garland appointing him in the first place? Was it legal? Was it constitutional? I don't know all the answers to that. But what I know is this. It seems very strange that this can happen. And I'm calling for investigations, doctor.

[00:06:43] I agree with due process. And I'm not saying that we shouldn't give him due process or that we should short circuit the system and go vigilante or crazy or anything. But I'm saying we can't let these people just do this and then walk away with impunity without really digging in to know what really went on. Absolutely. This this it has the taste of overreach, of intervention, more than that, flat out and tangential mocking and abuse of the system.

[00:07:10] It's it seems so. But like I say, let's let's dig into this thing. Let's find it out. And let's basically say, OK, wrong was done here. It ain't going to happen again. And that is the problem that we just kind of seem to let slide by without any further. Not me. That's why I'm bringing it up, man. I don't know anybody bringing this up with me. But I'm saying, hey, we need to double down on this thing and find out. Look, Merrick Garland, did you have authority to do this in the first place?

[00:07:38] And if he didn't have authority, how did the Republicans and how did everybody just allow this guy to continue to harass Donald and do this and that and that and the other? Look, I don't know that Donald was convicted of enough jurors to be guilty of any count. Therefore, not guilty is the reality based on the rule of law, based on American systems. You can't say I'm going to throw 25 charges against Dr. Bradley and I've got 12 jurors that agree with. Well, they each have two charges they have a problem with. So we're going to stack up the two charges times whatever.

[00:08:08] And we're going to be no, no, no. It's got to be the same charges or you're not guilty of each charge. Doctor, we can't play those games. But that's what was done. Right. Well, it surely appears that that was the case. And and it was a little, I think, preemptive, I think, to try and get this conviction of the felon to hang on him when he was sentenced on Friday.

[00:08:29] And when Trump got those the sentencing, you know, without going through the entire review of this, there was there were enough questions that had to be answered. And it was preemptive. I just think it was flat out, flat out preemptive. Well, and that's my point is when it's preemptive, when you go about these things without the proper charges in the proper way, when many people are starting to say that it's illegal, that it was done in the first place. When Merrick Garland appoints him and then he resigns so that Trump can't touch it. I don't know.

[00:08:58] I just find the whole thing strange. This idea that Trump can't or that the system can't touch him now because he's resigned as bogus, too. And that's the problem that I have with the whole thing. All right. Now, there's a big old battle in the MAGA team. I'm not MAGA necessarily. Make America great again. I do believe in the concept. But I believe you can only do it by turning to God Almighty, not to the Donald. But that's just my humble opinion to which I'm entitled.

[00:09:21] Nevertheless, Steve Bannon goes nuclear on true, quote, evil and racist. Elon Musk pledges to take this guy down. Michael Luciano is the one that wrote this piece. It's a big article. It's all over the place. There's a big battle between Elon and Steve. Steve's really attacking Elon. Elon's not saying much right this minute. But Steve's saying, hey, he's a racist. He's from South Africa. He's a bad guy.

[00:09:51] He's evil. He's got big business in communist China. He's been praising the Chinese. He's a show for the communists. This guy's a bad guy. We've got to stop him. We've got to take him down. And Steve says by inauguration day, he will have taken Elon Musk down. I think Steve's dreaming, first of all. But secondly, I don't know about this internal battle. Neither of them seem like great constitutional moral people to me. That's just my opinion. What do you say, doctor? A big old fracture in MAGA.

[00:10:19] You know, where's the beef? Show me the... I mean, I want to see what they've got. I mean, I just... These are very, very broad. Well, it's pretty easy to prove that Elon Musk does have ties to all kinds of governments and subsidies and everything else, right? So that's not hard to see. Well, let's take a look at it. Let's, you know, make a decision. The fact that he's from South Africa doesn't absolutely paint him with that tar brush that he's an absolute racist. I mean, come on.

[00:10:49] There's just too many broad brush things. We just have loose lips that sink ships. We're talking too fast. Let's slow down. Hang tight.

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[00:13:17] We ought to dig in. We ought to have accountability. We ought to have due process. But, man, we ought to absolutely prosecute to the fullest extent of the law. They punched Donald in the nose. And, you know, I don't think Donald's a great moral guy. You know, I think he's got plenty of problems with fidelity and everything else. Nevertheless, the question becomes, you know, hey, did we follow the appropriate process in America for guilt? I don't think so. That's the problem that I have with this whole thing.

[00:13:42] Steve Bannon goes nuclear on, quote, truly evil and racist Elon Musk. I don't know about that. I don't like a lot of Elon Musk's actions. I mean, everything he's done getting rich has been partnering with government. I don't really like all that. But I will say the guy's pretty smart. The guy's done a lot of good. The guy helped Donald Trump get elected. I'm not sure that, you know, I'm never going to put Steve Bannon's character up against Elon Musk's character. You know, I don't know that either of them are going to pass a whole lot of muster there.

[00:14:12] Any final comment on that, Dr. Bradley? I just don't know about this internal fight. I don't know that it does good at this point either. Well, I don't either. And I believe that, well, let's just take Merrick Garland, for example. I mean, wasn't he up to be a Supreme Court justice? Didn't Obama attempt to do that? Thank the heavens we dodged that bullet. Oh, my heavens. You look what that four years with that guy has done. Can you imagine a lifetime of damage that could be done with such a loose cannon? Holy Hannah. Yeah.

[00:14:42] I just, it's just like you say, we dodged a bullet on that one. But this whole thing, we need to examine, I mentioned the word overreach. See, what appears as likely and could be proven out by the evidence, I don't know. Let's look at it like you say.

[00:15:01] Well, was there a federal overreach into an issue that should have been handled, if it was to be handled at all, by another state agency or a local jurisdiction? See, the feds take over everything. Well, and then it falls apart, though, when the jury doesn't agree on the charges. If I vote that, hey, there's 24 charges, and I say two of them I think he's guilty of. Unless everybody agrees with those two guilty ones, those don't pass muster, though, doctor.

[00:15:27] We can't just randomly throw enough charges up and say, well, everybody picked one guilty. Principles-wise, it did fall apart. But in actual effect, they got their felony charge to stick. And that's where I say the criminal activity occurred, and that's why we've got to dig in and prosecute. One last point on this before we move on, because we've got a lot to cover. I just want to say this, though.

[00:15:51] To me, whether it's Steve Bannon, whether it's Elon Musk, whether it's Garland, whether it's Jack Smith, look, step back and don't back or reject people. Stand on principle. And when you do that, you're on the right side every time. So you know what? Is Elon Musk a bad guy promoting the communist agenda in America? If so, we've got to reject that. What about Steve Bannon? What about the things that he's doing? Is that good for America?

[00:16:21] What about Elon Musk? What about, you know, all these people? And so we really need to kind of look at that and base our views on principle. And what you're going to find is most of us are a mixed bag. Most of us do a lot of good. But you know what? We're not perfect. Some of us have evil or good intentions. I don't know that we can be the judge of someone's heart necessarily. But what we can do is stand back and say, hey, I either support this effort or that effort.

[00:16:50] So when Donald Trump, for example, wants to, you know, do this, if I think it's a good idea based on the rule of law, the Constitution, scriptures, God's law, all the above criteria that I view, not necessarily in the order that I laid out, but just in general, God, family and country. If it's good, then I embrace it. If it's not good, then I just say, you know what, Donald, you're out in the weeds on this one. Let me give you a quick example to make the point. I've always said that the Republicans and Democrats love government. They do. They even pretend they're dismantling government and they promote government.

[00:17:19] So everybody's mad at National Public Radio, NPR. And they say it's government funded. We've got to pull the government funding. Carrie Lake, media czar is pushing for that. And I agree. However, listen carefully to this. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are starting a, quote, Department of Government Efficiency podcast. And they say this. They think it's awesome.

[00:17:43] They say, what better way to help hold the government accountable than to bring the public along to see all the wasteful spending, unnecessary regulations and fraud that goes on? Now, I agree with the idea when you say, hey, we've got to keep an eye on the fraud going on and all the points they're making. But let me tell you where I disagree. So you're going to create a government agency that's not really a government agency because you don't have authority to create a government agency as the president.

[00:18:12] But you create one outside of the authority. But yet you say you can do it. Fine. You can create a think tank. You can create a group that doesn't have authority or power to make decisions. They make recommendations. And you can do that. But then when they start their own podcast now, the question becomes, who's paying for that? And then you've got to ask the question, at some point, will that just become the Republicans' version of NPR? Okay. The Democrats fund it directly.

[00:18:42] The Republicans have doge and they fund it kind of side fund it, whatever. So, you know, a little bit socialism, a little bit fascism or whatever you want to call it, a little bit twist. But really the same is true. Why would you create a podcast if you're Favec and Elan in the first place? There are hundreds of good constitutional moral media people out there that will be glad to tell your story. Why don't you just create an email list?

[00:19:09] Why don't you just reject entirely the press corps, shut them down entirely, or mock them either way. But why don't you have your real press corps be we the people, we the new media taking center stage. And why don't you issue a press release every morning via this email list that I'm talking about, which has the bullet points to the highlights of what you've accomplished at Doge. And why don't you let us take care of business? And the reason you do that is because if Doge really ends in a year like they're claiming, then the podcast is over. And you've built nothing.

[00:19:39] You haven't built anything in terms of an apparatus for truth telling. If you rely on external media like I'm talking about, you might get a little bit of criticism from guys like me when it's warranted. But what you're going to get is you're going to get support and you're going to build an apparatus of newsmakers, of storytellers, of truth tellers, of accountability efforts via the media. That's what the media was intended for in the first place is to create accountability and transparency and clarity on things. Okay.

[00:20:07] And if you do what I'm saying, that if Doge ends in a year, you can have somebody else take over that list now. And feed information to where the press corps doesn't become a we're going to sit in there, listen to somebody spew lies. And then once they stop talking, everybody goes, I need to I need to work. And everybody just argues for a position to ask a question or say something. No, it would just be a press release that would come out. Everybody can critique it, review it.

[00:20:37] And then you would back that up by saying, hey, there's all these people in government that you can interview regarding this story. And then we can basically ask any questions we want. It can be transparent. It can be accountable. If I agree, I can agree. If I don't agree, I can ask hard questions. I don't think that Doge creating their own podcast is a good idea at all. In fact, I think it circumvents everything we're trying to do. Because now you're going to have them be the media along with the quote, what do you call this thing?

[00:21:09] Department of Government efficiency. It's not a department of government, first of all. So even the inference isn't correct. But even if it is, you're going to have government be the media to tell the story too. Well, you just told me that government partnering with the media was bad, bad, bad, evil, evil, evil. Now you're going to literally have it be the same thing. Just a different kind of twist to it. But very strange, doctor, but shows their true colors. What do you say? Well, I think you make a lot of amazing points that probably need a whole bunch more discussion.

[00:21:39] But let me just take it from a couple of perspectives. One is we have a media and the freedom of speech and press and everything else like that. The intention always was that they're kind of able to say and do and expose and everything. And the president has a podium that he can speak from regularly.

[00:22:02] I don't think presidents do a very good job in recent history of being able to bring to light issues that need to be understood by the American public. If they had me be their spokesman, they sure would. I'd tear it up, buddy. I'm sure you would. But here's the deal. Let me just give you a little example. You talk about if they're going to air their laundry, if you will, every day or every week. I don't know how often they're going to do their podcast. But there's a lot of things that are kind of in developmental stages.

[00:22:32] There's information and understanding that basically becomes foundational after it's had enough time to be digested. And the American founding fathers... And if it doesn't, it's piecemeal nuanced in a very deceptive way if you're not careful. Well, here's the problem. Just what the American founding fathers found in the summer of 1787 when they were in their Constitution convention,

[00:22:58] they didn't have a momentary every evening or every week or whatever, a summarizing press release that says, Here's what we talked about. This idiot believed that and that idiot believed this and blah, blah, blah. They left the final product to being able to be understood before there was... You know, because they gave room for everybody to kind of say, Wait, wait, I never thought about that before. I understand this better now.

[00:23:25] No, I'm changing my position about a unicameral or a bicameral Congress, let's just say. And as things came to an understanding, without polarizing everybody to begin with, and if all you're having is a big blather session regularly with a couple guys that are raising a stir on the things, I think it's going to be more destructive than helpful. By the way, I need to...

[00:23:51] Doge is not supposed to end until July 4th, 2026. So it's supposed to be... Yeah, so year, year and a half or whatever. The 250th anniversary of the declaration is what they're shooting for. My whole point, though, is that once Doge ends, that means the communication ends? See, we've got to think past that. We've got to somehow deal with the press corps. You're going to have the clown press corps having their agenda, Doge having their agenda, and the people in the middle aren't going to have, you know, the ability to truth tell.

[00:24:20] Everybody's going to be saying the other guys are guilty of fake news. You've got to work it differently, people. I'm telling you, I'm warning you right now. Quick pause, back in seconds. Dr. Scott Bradley, freedomsrisingsun.com on your radio.

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[00:30:15] The one that's about to think. This is the liberty roundtable radio talk show. Back with you live, ladies and gentlemen, January 13th, 2025, live action a week before Donald Trump's inaugurated. But I'm mentioning that Doge wants to do their own podcast, and I say it's a disgrace. It's just going to be like an NPR Republican style. You don't want that, folks, because you want the media to be engaged in meaningful ways.

[00:30:44] Whether it's Donald Trump's administration, whether it's the short-term Doge is supposed to be in operation, the question becomes will Doge really shut down July 4th, 2026, like they claim, or will it be like every other government agency, whereas, my golly, we've got to keep it going. And pretty soon, Doge is this permanent, quote, external part of government. Kind of like the Federal Reserve. It's not really government, but we're going to claim that it is. And at some point, Doge is out of the reach of whoever, and they have their own media apparatus tied into Doge.

[00:31:14] And, I mean, it's just disaster. Let me give you an example. I mentioned that we need a list, an email list, of new media taking center stage people that could become the new press corps. We don't need a press corps. We don't need to meet in a room and have all these clowns who don't care about America, you know, the mainstream press, just badger the president. What we need is, hey, official data from government that we then can analyze and look at and review in meaningful ways. And then we need to have long-form interviews, not just a question,

[00:31:41] but long-form interviews where it's a back-and-forth discussion with some of these government leaders to create accountability, to ask the hard questions, et cetera. They should not mind scrutiny if they're on the up and up, if you will. Well, the Heritage Foundation, like or dislike them, they're conservative. They don't do as good of a job as I would like, but they do better than most. They're on Capitol Hill, and they issue a report. So I got a weekend report from them. The Heritage Action Team is what it says. And here's what they give you.

[00:32:10] It's pretty interesting, in my opinion, Dr. Bradley. Listen to some of this. They say the first full week of the 119th Congress is over, and soon President Trump will be inaugurated. We need to focus on the most important issue, which is to get Donald Trump's appointees or his cabinet to be confirmed ASAP. Where's the cabinet now, they say? So they put a petition in support of rapidly confirming the president's cabinet. Now, I understand the need to get past that.

[00:32:39] I also don't believe that expediency is a reason to skip the normal vetting that takes place, okay? I mean, I don't trust Trump enough to want to just skip that vetting. And you know what? So they say, sign the petition here. I won't sign it, doctor. I just won't, okay? They say each White House and cabinet position requires confirmation by the Senate. But after the nomination, it gets sent to the committee that has jurisdiction over that.

[00:33:09] And then if it goes and passes the committee, then they say after meetings are conducted, public hearings are held by the Senate committees. Finally, if a nominee is referred to the committee, then it'll be placed on the executive calendar and be proceeded to vote on by the whole Senate. To help you keep track of the process, we've created a blog to detail this. You can get all the information you need here real time. And anyway, so they go on about that.

[00:33:39] I don't think that we need to just absolutely give Trump carte blanche, whoever you pick, we're going to not vet, we're just going to... There's an advice and consent for a reason, doctor. Well, you outlined a process that's, you know, basically we hear about that in the second article of the Constitution. There are a lot of priority one items that need to be reviewed and brought to closure very quickly.

[00:34:08] I mean, certainly the president is naming his team, if you will. Well, but there's a lot I... I mean, absolutely. I would have liked to have asked some questions in his first administration, certainly, where he appointed more globalists and insiders than even Obama did. Well, he's doing the same now, though. Half the people he's got are people from the previous administration. They're rich people. They're people from the media. They're people from government. They're... I mean, I don't...

[00:34:36] I mean, I see a few people that I can applaud, but for the most part, it's business as usual. And what they're saying is fast-track business as usual. Don't you dare hold this up because, man, we got an agenda. And I'm just going, that isn't the way it works, people. No, the government stuff is supposed to be inefficient, actually. I mean, that sounds like a really crummy thing to say. But quite frankly, almost every time they do a fast-track of anything, I mean, you know, it's kind of like an FDR. It violates fundamental principles. It betrays the people.

[00:35:05] We find out we've been schnookered every time. We really do. And there needs to be a deep breath and a coolier jets kind of attitude taking things. There used to be, decades ago, I recall a lot of bipartisan kinds of things that happened. You'd get somebody put in, and there was a lot of support from both sides of the aisle. But now it's just absolutely polarized by this Republican versus Democrat thing.

[00:35:33] And honestly, most of them are generally, you know, kind of Tweedledee and Tweedledum kind of things. And if you go back and you look at Tragedy and Hope by Carol Quigley, you'll see that the intention of the elitists was to take and make the Republicans and the Democrats so similar that there was no change of policy direction or anything in the government as they changed positions.

[00:35:58] They're similar on one hand in terms of policy, but so different on the other hand to create a continual, perpetual blame game divide. Right? Well, they've been pretty successful, I'd say. You know? Boy, howdy. So we just need to kind of step back and quit thinking left and right. Let's start thinking right and wrong. I mean, it stops right. Amen to that. So anyway, I have a problem with the way they're trying to fast track all this, and I don't support that. But this is what I mean.

[00:36:27] These Heritage Foundation people, agree with them or not, they're at least putting together a summary of what's going on that I can analyze, that I can have my own opinion about. That's what needs to kind of happen. Now, then they go on to the first week of Congress, Dr. Bradley. And here's what they say happened in the first week of Congress. Remember, you and I were discussing this several days ago where it's like, I don't even know where I can get the details, really. Right? They say the first bills introduced into Congress signal where their priorities lay.

[00:36:56] Thanks to the ongoing effort of grassroots, the new government has shown a desire to legislate on the things that matter based on, quote, conservative values, they claim. Protecting women and girls is the first one. This can be seen with the protection of the Women and Girls Act or in Sports Act.

[00:37:19] Anyway, they say this is a serious attention bill where they brought attention to men pretending they're women and competing in sports. Conservatives have been vocal over the last two Congresses to the point where it can no longer be ignored. They wasted no time to introduce this bill. Now, they say this bill is expected to get a vote in the House next week. Well, that means they haven't really even done anything. They've talked about the bill. They put up the bill. They haven't even voted on the bill after a whole week. Okay?

[00:37:49] So here's my problem. Is this even a bill for the federal government, doctor? No. No. So why are we doing it? Well, that's the problem. Because it's politically manipulated in the media that it's such a hot topic. Now, do I think that men belong in women's sports? No, I don't. But I don't think it's a general government federal issue in the first place. Where's the constitutional authority to legislate on whether men go into women's sports or not? You know, it's like I say, if you go back...

[00:38:18] Maybe abolishing education, isn't that where 90% of the problem is? Well, the education system is not even allowed to be in the general government, the federal government. I know. So so can we just get rid of that? And then half this sports discussion goes away because now it's a private sector discussion, whether the NBA is going to allow it or whether this or that's going to allow it or whatever. But all the government education, all the government schools, there won't be any discussion of that because there won't be any education department. Okay? But they're ignoring that. They're busy spending time on this bill. And even if they pass this bill, states will justify.

[00:38:48] I just don't see any value. I mean, I see value in the point, like from a moral point of view. Male are not female. And female are not male. They never will be. That's what God has articulated. And that's what science documents. I get it. But I don't think it's a general government. So that's their first thing. The next one is crimes and illegal immigration. I think this one actually has some teeth. We have also begun to see Congress deal with these crimes committed by illegal immigrants,

[00:39:16] particularly with and what they call this Lake and Riley Act. I don't know enough about it, but they say it's a bill that would require immigration and customs enforcement to issue detainers and take custody of people in the country illegally who are charged with theft-related crimes. Okay, I mean, that's fine. But again, I don't think that's the core to the illegal immigration discussion.

[00:39:45] I mean, right now that's already the law, isn't it, doctor? We've just got conflicting laws where states don't obey the general government on this issue. Is another law going to help? Well, the law already says they can't be here. They broke the law. I mean, is theft of entrance into the country a bigger deal than stealing in a shoplifting case? I mean, come on.

[00:40:09] People need to understand that the jurisdictional processes would indicate that the general government has this. And now that they're trying to hone it and these attorneys are trying to make it a certain way and hold their mouth just a certain way, it's just making, oh, well, I didn't commit a theft. I didn't commit a violent crime. It must be okay for me to be here then. And that's kind of the mentality we're building with this. They're here illegally. It's a disgrace that it's not okay that they're here at all.

[00:40:39] Anyway, then they go on. Go ahead and skip the break. Then they go on and they say the states are open for business. Okay. Congress, so that's all they had to say about Congress. In my opinion, nothing done because they say, well, they passed this House Lincoln-Riley bill, but now they're waiting on the Senate for it. So, again, not a whole lot got accomplished, in my opinion, for five days plus work, right? They say Congress is not the only legislature that has returned.

[00:41:08] Many states have as well. We'll be watching a broad range of issues unfold across the country, including but not limited to election integrity, education freedom, blocking CCP influence, unleashing energy. State legislatures operate much faster than Congress. Opening up critical issue discussions. The possibilities are endless.

[00:41:37] We can't wait to see all that will be accomplished as we work together. And then they go on. Anyway, that's it. But I bring that up because I'm just going, all they accomplished is one bill that they're talking about, but they haven't even voted on. One bill they voted on, which is very limited and has the chance to backfire, because if you're not careful, you're right. Hey, I have a community of criminal activities. It's fine for me to be here discussion. They're already setting the stage for that against Donald Trump and Tom Holman. And Donald Trump hasn't even taken office yet.

[00:42:06] And Tom Holman hasn't even been, quote, what? Consent by the Senate or approved by the Senate yet? Whatever. Okay. Confirmed. So in my opinion, it's a clown show. I mean, it's just disaster on this thing. Anyway, I don't really know how to respond to all this, but the boarders are Tom Holman is still speaking out, and he's proposing a hotline for reporting criminal migrants,

[00:42:35] vows to shut down the Darien Gap, et cetera. What do you say to that, Dr. Bradley? Well, people don't even know what a Darien Gap is. Is that some kind of sexual? I mean, what the heck? I mean, no, it's down in Central America. That's right. It is a place where those coming from the deep south, if you will, way down in Latin America, come through. Right now it's a fairly high risk. Yeah, it's like a 70-mile-wide strip in Panama

[00:43:04] that's used to traffic drugs and sex and people, right? Well, the thing is that that has been – I mean, I've been down in that country and looked over a lot of the – I mean, you're saying, holy cow, they're trying to make a superhighway through, and that's maybe a bit of an overstatement. I don't think so. But the fact of the matter is that they are trying to facilitate an easier flow for the immigrant caravans, and it's like, you know what? We just don't let them in our border.

[00:43:33] It's hard for us to go down and wage war in Central America over something that's – I mean, we put our noses everywhere but where they should be. Our border has absolutely got to be the no – you know, there's no nonsense, no cross, don't cross this line kind of thing, and that's it. I mean, we go down and we look at interdiction of all sorts of things. I mean, you look in Colombia, the cocaine issues and everything.

[00:44:00] We spend bazillions of dollars down there, put American troops in down there, and the interdiction really has to be at our border. And we're spending money everywhere, all over the world, to no avail. I mean, the war on drugs, no matter how far and wide we've cast that, has been an absolute failure. Stop it at the border, and that's it. Well, and the reason why is because we have complete authority within our own jurisdiction. We do. And therefore, we won't be challenged at every turn for every reason.

[00:44:30] We won't be spread thin. I mean, how long, for example, is the supply chain to get the Dardarian gap in the first place. So resources are difficult to get there. People are difficult to get there. Contrary laws and confusions of nations. And we don't need to be there, Tom. I don't mean to be rude, but I'm just telling you right now, you're better off focusing on the United States. But see, Congress is too busy going, well, if you committed a bad crime or a sex crime, we're going to make it harder for you.

[00:44:57] We're going to actually hold you for your crime rather than release you. No, no, no. It's the states that are already against the general government that are creating this crisis internally, right? We don't need another law from Congress. All the states and governors that are sanctuary thugs in the first place are just going to ignore it. So we've got to think differently about this. It's on the local level. It's at the state level. It's at the county level that we need to coordinate and take action. The general government certainly has an involvement here, but I think Congress is wasting their time

[00:45:26] focusing on all the wrong issues, in my humble opinion. All right, next story, Mel Gibson in the news, big time, suggests L.A. fires might have been planned. He said that in a new Fox interview, by the way. And I find that very interesting because, as you know, we reported on this last week, and we said that Los Angeles officials knew they were unprepared to defend their city from the wildfires.

[00:45:57] And I guess the fire chief, Kristen Coley, warned mayor Karen Bass last month that the 17-plus million that she cut from the budget made them vulnerable on all kinds of fronts. Then they sent an evacuation alert to everybody in the county. Then we watched people throwing gasoline on the fires via video.

[00:46:24] And now it gets worse because not only is Mel Gibson saying this, that's mainstream stuff, Fox News and Mel Gibson, right? But listen to this. Outrage is now boiling over. After revelations that the, and I don't know how to say this, Santa Ynez Reservoir, that's a critical water source in Pacific Palisades.

[00:46:49] I guess it was empty and offline when the devastating wildfires ripped through the area. Jim Hoft over at gatewaypundit.com put this one together. And it basically focused on this idea that they've had this reservoir offline for a year. Well, everything you look at relates to either a setup and or government involvement in this happening as if it was pre-planned, doctor.

[00:47:15] The more we look into this, the more we go, fire hydrants ran dry. The mayor was out of town. The reservoir was offline. I mean, they were warned by the fire chief months before this. We go on and on and on and on. Now, this needs to be hardcore investigated because I submit to you that this was not an accidental fire. Who was involved where? I don't know at this point. But it was not accidental. I'm pretty confident when I see all that information adding up within a week or two of it happening

[00:47:43] and the fires are still out of control with no end in sight. It's certainly been a perfect storm that was brought about by the highest, at the very least, the highest level of incompetence. But, you know, there's other nefarious things. I mean, we have information coming in about why. However will they ever be able to reestablish what is being lost in this thing? I mean, it looks like Dresden after the fire bombings.

[00:48:11] It looks like Tokyo after the fire bombings, both of those in World War II. And they really are that devastated. I would say that I spoke to someone the other day that this didn't happen in the L.A. area, but she had just finished, just finished a six-year rebuild on one home that burned down because of all the issues.

[00:48:32] You know, you get all of the everything from licensing and permits and everything like that to availability of material. I mean, maybe they're thinking about making, you know, 15-minute cities over this whole thing. Maybe they're thinking of seizing it for some other government process. And then there's people that are talking about these energy weapon potential usages. I mean, you think, wow, everybody's all whacked out. But some of the stuff is so absolutely bizarre.

[00:49:02] And then you've got the lawlessness down there. I mean, I'm getting feedback, boots-on-the-ground kind of information that's there in the presence of this that basically are telling me it sounds like one of these Mad Max movies that Mel Gibson, you mentioned Mel Gibson, you know, the things at the end of the world where everything is just bandits everywhere

[00:49:26] and destruction and lawlessness and everything, the looting, the people taking advantage of any way they possibly can be lawless down there. And it's just rampant. I mean, these homeless and gangs and everything else like that that right now are just running amok down there in that area. And everything. It is kind of like a Mad Max movie down there right now. So it's like a Mad Max movie.

[00:49:56] And the sad part is instead of sitting on the sidelines and watching it and making sure that we make, you know, that we're safe and whatever, we're almost just aching to get somehow involved in the center of it and be probably the biggest spender of the group. I mean, it's insanity when we don't have any money. But that's what they're doing. Now, Trump says we need Greenland very badly. We've talked about this several times, but it's interesting.

[00:50:19] Trump told reporters he explained that the island's strategic location makes it essential for countering Russia and Chinese activity in the Arctic. Now, I don't necessarily disagree with that, but now the debate is, hey, they did a poll. And, you know, 37 percent don't want to become part of the United States. 50-something plus or 60-something plus do. I find that interesting. But I also find that interesting.

[00:50:48] Now, the debate is how much should we pay for Greenland? And the Greenland folks are saying it's not for sale. Well, I should say Denmark saying it's not for sale. The Greenland folks are saying we want independence from both of you clowns. Because the debate's interesting. But what do you think we'll end up paying for Greenland? They say we paid too much for Alaska. They say we paid too much for the Virgin Islands and all this kind of stuff. You know, where do you think this goes? Do you think it's real, number one? And number two, what do you think the cost will be? We don't have money, doctor. Well, we don't have money.

[00:51:16] But I do think that if it does happen, it'll be done through an economic arrangement and not particularly an outright purchase. But here's something that I just want to throw out there, let people think about it, cogitate, digest. You know, it wasn't that long ago that the North American Union or the Security and Prosperity Union was a big thing. Listen, the globalists are pushing for regional arrangements under the United Nations.

[00:51:45] And that is, I mean, you look at Article 5. And Donald and Musk are all too happy to carry the ball. Article 52 of the United Nations Charter is specific about regional arrangements. And charter, I mean, you look at what NAFTA, and Trump said it was the worst agreement ever. He replaced it with the USMCA, which is NAFTA on steroids. Okay. So conservatives, quote unquote, and I hate that term, they were all against the Security and Prosperity Partnership.

[00:52:14] They're all against the North American Union. No, no, no, that's globalist. Well, they're holding their mouth a little bit different now. Yeah, now they're ready for Canada, Greenland, everywhere else. Hey, same scenario. We're going to add. Boom. We're going to make another regional arrangement under the United Nations. But we're going to do it under an imperialistic approach. And everybody's cheering it now. Not everybody, obviously. Not me. But there are many that are cheering it because now it's a conservative concept.

[00:52:44] Now, so it's globalism under the nationalism banner, Doctor. It is, and it's very dangerous. And I think that Trump needs to realize Article 2 of the Constitution is his job description. He needs to focus. And if he does his job constitutionally, as all the original presidents of the United States were so hep on doing, he can maybe become a successful president.

[00:53:09] But if he takes this imperialistic, okay, so, oh, we're going to stop Putin's advance into the West by taking over Greenland. Huh? I mean, wait a minute. We're all through the daring gap there, buddy. We're taking Putin tactics to put these things out there. It's absolutely astonishing to me that people can't see the parallelisms between the things we say we're fighting and the things we're actually doing.

[00:53:35] And because it's a Trump savior mentality and he can do no wrong and all this kind of stuff, suddenly there's a great many people in this country that think it's a fantastic idea. We don't have the money. Make America great, doctor. America first, baby. But see, it's globalism under a nationalism banner is what I'm saying. The contract with America is the United States Constitution. It's not some Newt Gingrich fabrication.

[00:54:04] So we've got to start thinking what the limits and bounds are and not how far we can stretch this rubber band before it snaps back and hits us. Amen to that, ladies and gentlemen. Sam Bushman on your radio. Hard-hitting talk at your fingertips. Hour one on the can. Hour two coming up. Check out Dr. Bradley's incredible work. freedomsrisingsun.com. Join his weekly webinars and more. I am Sam Bushman. Libertyroundtable.com. Check out my award-winning videos. Lovingliberty.net, our nationally syndicated network.

[00:54:33] Hour one on the can. Two coming up. God save the republic. God save the republic. God save the republic.