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Now here's the man who's been recognized as radio's best, the recipient of
not one, but two prestigious Marconi Awards for his broadcast excellence, the one
and only Bill cunning Head. All right, Billy Cunningham, the Great America.
Welcome to this glorious Sunday night. And I'll tell you what. In
about four nights from now, we're gonna know whether or not Joe Biden can
stand up for about ninety minutes. I think there's one potty break, but
I'm not sure. And there's no nose, no teleprompters, and two minutes
and one minute responses, microphones are off. And I thought back in history,
I like to think I'm a bit of a history buff, and that
is I can't ever recall a debate more important than this one. Because the
Democrats want Joe Biden to do very poorly so they can get rid of him.
I've said many times in many places and many guys, is that Joe
Biden will not be the nominee of the Democrat Party come November the fifth,
he's going they're gonna throw him overboard, and the Democrats want him to fail,
which is why his handlers doctor I'm sorry, Doctor Joe Biden and others
and said Susan Rice that let's get an early debate because if he's as bad
as we think he is, as bad as he is in private, we
want him to step aside sometime in July to give us a month or so
to pump up Michelle Obama, Gavin Newsom, Governor Whitmer, not Kamala Harris
because she's worse than Joe Biden. And so this is all a ploy.
And I hope that Donald doesn't play into their hands, and that Donald needs
to perform like he did in the second debate with Joe Biden in twenty twenty,
not the first debate, because I think for those of us voting for
Donald Trump, I can't think of something he might do that would change my
opinion. But nonetheless, I know the occasional voter that five to seven percent
that determined the outcome. We're going to tune in to watch this debate.
It's going to outdraw the Super Bowl. I thought nineteen twelve you may recall
nineteen twelve there was three persons running for the presidency. The incumbent was from
Cincinnati, William Howard Taft, He was the president and tr. Teddy Roosevelt
kept his promise not to run for reelection in nineteen oh eight, so he
waited four years toward the world and came back. And then the Democrat put
up the racist from Princeton, New Jersey, a typical Democrat, a racist,
that being Woodrow Wilson. So for that election, you had the incumbent
President Taft, you had the previous president, Tr. Teddy Roosevelt, and
they didn't know it at the time, but the next president Woodrow Wilson.
But there were no great debates, and unlike this time in nineteen twelve,
Wilson was elected because the Republicans split the Republican vote and Woodrow Wilson won.
He could run eight years. I can't think of another occasion when we have
two persons running and no matter what happens, each of them can only serve
four years. Because Biden he's not gonna make four years, but allegedly constitutionally
he can serve that next four years, and the Donald cannot run again.
Because the constitutional amendment says he can't do that only serve eight years, so
he'll be out. So this time, no matter who we elect in the
next four years, there'll be a new cycle. It's not going to be
Schumer, not going to be Pelosi. All eighty year olds is going to
be a new crop. And I hope it's people like Marco Rubio and Jade
Vance and Glenn Younkin. Those are my three that I want to see forward.
I think Governor Bergham it does a hell of a job in North Dakota,
but nonetheless he's not age appropriate to continue in the next eight years.
If this is done correctly, the Trumpster can go eight can go four years,
and then his VP can go eight years, and after twelve years of
a constitutional republic, we might be able to have a functional country again.
But without that we got no shot. I've kind of lost all ability to
have hope for this country. If Donald Trump loses and Joe Biden is reelected
and then he steps down in the first six months because he's losing his mind
as we speak, incrementally every few days, so that means Kamala Harris will
be the president, and that'll get us, God knows down the road so
many years, I don't know if it's thirty million, fifty million, eighty
million, one hundred million, will all be in the country. And frankly,
my dear, she won't give a damn. And at this point point
we're done because we can have Right now, there's fifty two million persons living
in America who weren't born here, and more than half of those need to
get the hell out. Even hispanding support expelling from this country illegals immediately,
if not sooner. It going to be one hell of a fight to get
that done, but it must be done. And a side note, I
watched Cheryl Atkinson this morning on the CW and Cheryl Atkinson left CBS News because
she couldn't tell the truth at CBS News. And she did a segment on
the medical system in this country, and she didn't make the direct point.
She made it indirectly that the medical system we have is not configured to serve
nearly four hundred million people. We don't have enough hospitals, God knows,
not enough e ours, don't have enough primary care physicians, don't have enough
specialist and she made the point there was two women an older woman and a
younger woman i'd say in the sixties and thirties who needed diabetes carry some other
help. They couldn't get to a doctor. There is no help. I
fortunately live in Southwest Ohio at this point, we're not overwhelmed. At this
point, we're still functional. But I can't imagine the medical system. Maybe
you could share it with me in Las Vegas, or in California, or
in New Mexico or Arizona, Chicago, Washington, d C. New York
City. I can't conceive what it's like to try to get medical care in
any of those areas because the system is overwhelmed. Doctors come out after about
eight to twelve years. Most of them have two to four hundred thousand dollars
in student loans and none of them can hang out a shingle. And actually,
you start practicing medicine dead work that way. You got to form a
group and you work your tail off to pay off your student loans that you
incurred. And they don't want to take people that are shall we say engine
and capable of paying. We're going to go to an MDVIP situation. If
we're out there already. The only way you can see a doctor is if
you have an annual premium, you pay and then you have your medical costs
picked up. Because we're done. Southwest Ohio, we're done, California,
we're done. Try to go to an er in San Diego or Los Angeles
or San Francisco, or Sacramento or Portland. Try to go to an er
in Chicago or Washington, DC. Watch what happens. She brought up the
point that we're in trouble, and guess what We're going to be in more
trouble. The only thumb in the dyke that's leaking will be Donald Trump.
And the only issue to me in this election is going to be the southern
border, because, as you know Republicans and Democrats. The other big issue
is the national debt, which is currently now thirty five trillion, on its
way to fifty five trillion. Over the next ten years. We have to
borrow an additional four hundred billion above the budget fiscal year end September the thirtieth.
We're going to become a banana republic. And both parties do exactly the
same level of spending. The one good idea Donald Trump has, which is
wonderful, is to open up a war and all the royalties go to one
thing, reducing the national debt and quit spending money we've got the quit spending
money we don't have, and canceling student loan debt, and spending two to
three hundred billion dollars every year on illegals in the country, housing, clothing,
and feeding, et cetera. And that's a minimal number. We can't
afford it. And if we elect Joe Biden again he continues these policies on
the southern border, which of course he will, he has no clue what
he's doing, then we're going to have an additional twenty million come in for
the next four years, then another twenty million. Suddenly we have four hundred
million Americans. The school dysfunctional, ers hospital dysfunctional, the medical system is
broken, housing complete in the crapper, our system is not. If we're
going to bring in an additional fifty million people, we need more housing,
more apartments, more schools, more colleges, more elementary schools. We need
more hospitals and more teaching, medical schools and all the rest. Nobody was
prepared to have what happened under Joe Biden, and middle class Americans are taking
in the shorts. So Cheryl Atkinson did a great job with the CW this
morning pointing out how just one aspect of the illegal migration into this country is
lack of medical care that many Americans can't get to see a doctor. They're
overwhelmed. Nobody prepared for this influx, this illegal influx, which is happening
a lot the last four years. But Trump stopped it for a period of
time. But before that Obama was known as the deporter in chief, and
now it is accelerating. What's happening now is nothing to what the country's going
to look like in five or ten more years, the country you and I
are going to turn over to our kids and grandchildren. It is utterly ridiculous.
So get ready for that. That's the issue. Who's better on the
border. Is it Trump or is it Biden. That's the only issue.
Vote nothing else. Secondly, I want to get into this issue in Louisiana.
I have great guests coming up. We're going to talk about them later
on. We've got Jeff Krueer is going to be here in the Great lead
Venter of News Nation of Programming by Sean Compton. But on its face,
Louisiana and New York Times hated this, said they're going to post in every
elementary school classroom a copy of the Ten Commandments, And of course the New
York Times called it a Christian nationalist movement. That's a bunch of bes and
don't want to violate one of one of the tenets, the Ten Commandments.
That is, BS have to dump me, dump me, dump me,
dump me. But thank you what it is. I saw the movie Moses.
The Jews had the Ten Commandments, and it was picked up by Christians
and others and more than Jewish. You know, we are a Judeo Christian
country. Can I say that Judeo Christian country? We are because the founding
father said we are. That's what it is. It puts forth moral principles
and the basis of criminal law and common behavior. So whether you're a Jew,
a Sikh, a muzz agnostic and atheist, a Baptist, Christian Catholic,
I'm a practicing Roman Catholic, former ultra boy of rote Frates, and
I'm with you on that. I went to Mass this morning. I seldom
miss church. I go to confession for reasons unclear to me. The reconciliation
is something I don't have much to say. I tell my wife, I
said, dear, I don't do anything wrong. She said, go anyway
and get the grace. I go, and I say a few bad words,
I think bad thoughts, but I quit doing wrongful things, which is
a good thing. But I got the list of the ten commandments, and
they're the basis of human law and human behavior and restraints on bad behavior.
The first one is you show have no other gods before me except the one
God. There are many religions that are a polyetheist have many, many different
gods and so, but I think most religions believe in one God, the
Father a Mahdi, maker of heaven and earth. Most believe that. Secondly,
have no idols before me, and that generally means that you won't have
any golden That kind of stuff degrades man. God's jealousy against false gods is
infinite love. And the next one is don't take the name of the Lord
thy God in vain. In other words, don't curse, don't say bad
words, don't go after women, don't go after gay people, don't go
after Jews. In other words, don't take the name of the Lord,
thy God in vain and watch what you say in your life. Is that
a pretty good rule? It's not bad. Be kind to others. Basically,
be kind to others and treat them the way you would want to be
treated. Pretty good. Number four is keep the Sabbath day holy. Okay,
a lot of people, about one third of Americans go to church in
some form or another. And number five is honor your father and your mother.
In other words, respect your elders and listen to your mom and dad.
I had a particularly bad father that I've reconciled with and heaven above and
with my mother, who is a living saint. But the idea of not
honoring and respecting and obeying when you're a kid and listen to the council of
the elders of the ages, that's pretty basic stuff. Number six is you
shall not murder. That's pretty basic element of criminal law. All these are
moral principles and the basis of one criminal law. Don't kill other people.
Don't do that, and that means don't assault other people, don't rape,
don't pillage, don't commit burglary, no b and ease, no arson,
don't run on to a green. Number eighteen at the PGA event this afternoon
with Scottie Scheffler when they had to make a putt and make a fool of
yourself because you're a climate activist. You're not a climate activist, you're a
clown. Number seven is don't commit adultry. Be loyal to the people around
you, speak well of them. Don't have sex with a whole bunch of
guys or a whole bunch of women. And don't commit adultery. Don't commit
sin, don't watch porn, don't do the five knuckle shuffle. In other
words, don't commit adultery, be loyal to those around Does that make sense?
Number eight is don't steal. Pretty simple, don't take someone his property.
It simply says that, don't be dishonest. You shall not steal.
Don't take things that aren't yours, including pillaging in Louis Vaton stores or mass
looting of department stores all over California. Don't do that. Number nine is
don't bear false witness against your neighbor. In other words, don't don't lie
and don't cheat, and don't be a clown when it comes to your behavior.
And the last one is don't cover your neighbor's wife or his property,
and it goes on. I mean the actual one, pretty inclusive stuff here.
I mean it's all kinds of things you shouldn't covet, including his property,
his wife, his farm, animals, et cetera. In other words,
take care of your own, be self supporting. When you're on government
assistance and you're not entitled to it, or you want to game the system,
that means you're stealing, and that means you're coveting your neighbor's property his
money because you're taking it. Aren't These kind of like moral principles underguird every
religion, every societ, criminal law. So why get all fired up about
this? And I'm sure some federal judge Summer is going to strike down Louisiana.
Now, you can't do that. But to tell kids when you have
a captive audience, these are kind of the principles to live by. Don't
be a clown, make sure that you honor your father and your mother,
Treat your brothers and sisters the right way, don't mess around on your husband
or your wife, don't kill other people, don't commit arson, don't rob,
don't steal, and don't covet your neighbor's wife or his things, and
don't bear false witness. That just kind of rules to lift society by.
But when you attach something like religion to it, then the left go they
go completely ban as they go nuts and eventually hopefully we'll face our maker.
I'd rather live my life as if there is a god to find out there
isn't, then live my life as if there isn't a god to find out
there is. This Roman Catholic lives my life as if there's a god.
It makes me feel good. When I get communing a little bit of wine,
I feel great. I have good feelings. I don't leave a Catholic
mass wanting to kill somebody or want a riot. Has happened in some Islamic
countries. The most dangerous place to be on after Friday prayers is outside one
of the uh mosques because everybody gets all fired up. I want to do
nasty things to people, such as I saw this story a Muslim mob towards
a tourist alive in Pakistan, a woman. I make it to that.
On the other side, let's continue, But can you smell when I'm cooking?
Live your life as if there's a god that you're going to be judged
because I believe you will be well. Let's continue. The line becomes available
eight six six six four seven seven three three seven more. A ration from
the Great American and the guest lineup coming next at your home of Great Americans,
that is Bill Cunningham with you every Sunday night headline. Last night in
Oakland County, which is in the Detroit area, Sheriff's deputy shot to death
in an ambush while tracking has stolen SUV. Say his name, He's in
the arms of God above. Deputy Bradley Reckling, R. E. C
K L I N G, father of three. His wife is pregnant with
number four. I'm looking at a picture of him with his family. So
disgusting. Oakland County Sheriff's Office lost one of our heroes Saturday night after an
auto theft investigation. Deputy Brad w Reckling was ambushed and killed during an auto
theft investigation. According to the Sheriff of Oakland County, is a great guy
and he relates that they received word that somehow this stolen vehicle was in a
position where Officer Wreckling responded and according to police reports, three suspects have been
taken int accustom and connection to his murder. Sheriff of Bouchard, who's a
legend when it comes to law enforcement in Michigan. Sheriff of Bouchard said the
focus is now getting justice for the Wreckling family and supporting the family through the
tragedy. It's unspeakable what's happening in law enforcement in this country. Thousands are
injured, hundreds are murdered every year, and even Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer posted
her condolences saying I'm deeply saddened by the tragic loss of Oakland County Sheriff's Deputy
Bradley Reckling. My heartest with his family, his wife. They have three
kids under the age of five and one in the oven, and needless to
say, Oakland County, Michigan law enforcement is devastated. He was a nine
year veteran. His kids are age five, four and one one more on
the way. He was a friend of us all, so may he rest
in peace. Let's talk some more about defunding the police. Okay, see
how far that goes, and God bless the soul of Deprety w Reckling.
Let's continue. Your calls are next eight sixty six, six, four,
seven, seven, three three seven, Rest in peace, Bill cunning Him,
the Great American live with you every Sunday night. We have thousands.
I'm already got to get to them. God tell you what's coming up.
I hate to say this, but not all religions are equal. And I'm
not saying this is a is a Roman Catholic. I'm saying that, in
reality, radical Islam is the mother load of bad ideas. I'm not referring
to the I don't know ten twelve million Muslims in America. It is rare.
In fact, may I use the term that I have many Muslims that
are friends, that they believe in radical Islam, the kind you have in
Iran, the hamas hesbla. Fortunately, in America, whether it's Dearborn County
or Cincinnati, or Los Angeles or New York City, there are millions and
millions and millions of Muslims living inside the United States of America that think of
this country the way you and I think about it, That are married,
that care deeply for their wife, for their husband, for their kids,
that go to school, that start businesses, live their lives the American dream.
It is quite rare, in fact, inside of America for a Muslim
to commit any crime. Extremely rare for a Jew inside of America to commit
any crime. It's quite rare in America for a practicing Roman ca Athlic to
commit any crime. It's quite rare for any practicing Sikh to commit any crime.
It's quite rare for any practicing Christian, a Baptist, of Pentecostal,
whatever it might be, to commit any crime doesn't happen. It's odd to
me, A wise man said to me, it's really strange that liberals go
after religion so much when they don't believe in God. Anyway, let us
live our lives. The religious community, which is about I think half of
the American people, adults roughly do good things for good people. It's okay.
And that includes the Muslims inside the United States of America. And it's
rare to have a crime committed by a practicing Muslim inside of America. Radical
Islam is something completely different. That's Hensbelah, it's a moss, it's spok
of Haram, it's Isis. It's the government in Tehran Taliban. Throw them
in there, that, thank God, is not a part of Islam.
Adopted by American Muslims. Right, can you imagine if we had the problems
of Amasa and Hesbla and the Taliban and Isis and boc are Ram inside this
country. I don't know what we look like. We don't so when a
day or two ago, the religious leader of Tehran, Iran, which is
a branch of Shia Shia religion, not the Sunnis, the Shia, gave
a speech and it was translated. I didn't understand the word he said,
but the translation was, we must kill Jews, we must murder Americans,
we must kill the infidel. I'm thinking, wow, how many religious leaders
in this country say such things? I'm looking at this story out of a
Muslim mob in Pakistan. They pulled a woman out of a marketplace, beat
her to within an inch of her life, and then set her on fire.
And then while she was on far they stoned her. I guess to
death. It was medieval. This is supposedly in Pakistan and Iran. The
religion of Peace. Basically what it is is going back to the dark ages
medieval times, which, by the way, Catholics and Christians did that for
hundreds of years during medieval times. Thank God, we're out of it,
but that's where we are. So when you tell Israel and tell the Jews,
it's time to stop. Stop the war in midstroke. When the leaders
of Hamas and cut Her in other places are billionaires who rape and rob and
pillage gods their residents themselves, this war should end tonight should be look,
we've lost you one, we surrender. If Sinhwar and others who control Hamas
would understand and care for their own people as they claim to do but do
not and simply say, look, we lost man, We're decimated, laid
on our arms. We surrender. Come in with all the aid, all
the assistants, all the medical supplies, all the housing you want, because
we care about Palestinians living in Gos, of the million of them, including
four hundred thousand children. The killing has got to stop. We surrender.
We lost Israel U one come in, un come in and please we surrender
help our people. Is that possible? The answers no. The leadership of
AMAS have said in interviews the killing of civilians in Gaza is what they want.
They want their own people killed by the Israelis to turn more public opinion
against the jew So when the leadership says we want to kill our own people
directly or indirectly. Listen to what they're saying. They don't want the war
to end. And they promised that twenty or thirty thousand Nomas murderers remaining in
the tunnels, many living at homes right now, well having a few a
dozen hostages that might be alive. They've said that what happened on October the
seventh will be ten to twenty to one hundred times worse the next time.
They're going to rape and kill more Jews. And the leader of Iran,
the head of the Snake, says, yes, yes, we want to
do. We're going to give our money to Hesbla and Amas and hurt our
own people in Iran because we want to kill Jews. How does a religious
leader today say I want to kill people, I want to rape Jewish women.
I went their babies cut out of their mother's bellies. And that's what's
happening in this world. And can I say again that American Muslims are not
part of this radical islam tenant. Thank god, they're not much different than
you and me when it comes to living the American dream, whether it's in
Dearborn County or in New York or Cincinnati. There's about one hundred thousand Muslims
or so that live in the Tri state area which we call Ohio, Kentucky,
Indiana and family or in it. Believe in God, open businesses,
get the work, and they ask q violence. I've been in criminal courts
most of my life. You seldom in Cincinnati, Covington, Dayton, Columbus,
Lexington, Louisville. Ever see a Muslim in a criminal court in America
or a Jew or a practicing Roman Catholic. Almost impossible. That's the essence
of what I'm saying. There's a part of Islam that has seized control of
Iran that Joe Biden is funding, that allows it to give arms, money,
missiles, cruise missiles, artillery shells to Hesblah and a moss and boc
are Ram and the Taliban, and isis to kill Jews wherever they might be
found. It's a convenience scapegoat. You know what I'm saying. Well,
let's continue, got thousands of old millions are listening. Let's take some calls
with your permission, and then we'll go from there. Let's go to Let's
go to Brian in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I don't care much for the Steelers
or the beat up on Cincinnati all the time. Brian and Pittsburgh. Welcome
to the Bill Cunningham Show. Brian, how are you hello, Bill?
I'm fine, Thank you, sir. I appreciate this opportunity to ask you
something. I want your like, your opinion, because you're a national talk
show host and an attorney, and this is something I've thought about for a
little while, but I haven't heard a clear answer. So here it is.
You've heard of the vast purchases of farmland ranch land by Chinese nationals,
and particularly when it surrounds some of our military bases. Yes, you've heard
of that. Absolutely. Here's what I want. Here's what I want to
ask you. If you don't mind, I'll try to be brief. Apparently
it's legal. I mean it's not. They're not disallowed to purchase this land.
Is that correct? Correct? Have to be a statue of law.
Let's face it. It isn't done from someone in Beijing. It's done through
Limit LLC's you create a limited liability company and you Biden. I'm looking at
some article out of Forbes that they're saying there's about five hundred thousand acres of
US agricultural land purchased through Chinese interest by March first of twenty twenty three,
generally around our military bases. Now, one might ask, do they what
is the purpose of doing that? The purpose, I think is to keep
an eye on our military. I think the purpose is to bring into the
country tens of thousands of Chinese age military men to work on the farms around
these areas, to work in plotforms, to work in making drugs, to
work in the laboratories where they have bachulism concocted, to destroy America from within.
And if ever China, which I think they will do, invade Taiwan,
then all hell's going to break loose inside this country, and we're going
to because of the open southern border. Joe Biden will give the policies that
let it happen. Okay, hey, can I ask you this. Let's
say, if the previous owners, whether they were deceased the retiring, can't
afford the farm or ranch the land, don't pass it on to their heirs,
is that the reason I mean is that I mean I guess that that
could be why the land was purchased by the Chinese, and the money's coming
from the Chinese government directly or indirectly. That's why they've taken over the illegal
pot business inside of America. They make billions and billions of dollars every month
illegally selling pot, and the Chinese workers are there. They get huge amounts
of money. And then you and I. Let's say Brian and Pittsburgh,
and we'll get to ed and Tampa Bay and we'll get Mark and I.
We'll get three or four guys together, and the money can be put in
suitcases, can be given to us one way or another through all the illegal
pot sales happening, and then it goes through the bank and then the front
guy might be might be you. But the money comes from China. And
you understand that we have an LLC. Just come up with a fancy and
they have with the Great American LLC, and we buy the farm land and
we close. We hire an attorney in that area. We have some Americans
saying, Okay, I'll buy it. It's an LLC. I want to
grow corn. And the money comes from the illegal Chinese pot operations that are
encouraged because of the policies of Joe Biden. The money's available, we draft
an LLC, which I do frequently, and then we have investors. We
put the articles and articles of incorporation together, we have the directors, we
have the shareholders, and we understand the money's coming from communists Red China.
But we buy a few hundred thousand acres around military bases using LLCs. And
who's the wiser for any of that? Nothing? Yes, sir, hey,
last last comment. I hope please all take us long. But if
when those people go to town and do their day to day business our grocery
store or the bank, whatever, can't we throw a few hints at them
that say, you know that's it that you can't refuse to serve somebody,
but you could discourage them. Well look at this, ray Brian. There
aren't like five Chinese showing up with a closing to put money down through a
bank to buy farmland. It doesn't work that way. In fact, nobody
knows who the LLCs are, who owns the shares, and who are the
incorporators, and who are the directors and what shares they own. It's all
some LLC and behind it is the Chinese money and then they manipulate those that
operate the land for good or ill, and no one's going to show up
at a closing. Five Chinese nationals from Beijing to buy farmland. Doesn't work
that way. They work indirectly, and we're giving them the rope to hang
ourselves. Can you imagine how much money is made in the state of California
because the Chinese and Mexican drug cartels have collapsed the legal market marijuana. It
was thought by Governor Newsom that there's going to be a billion dollars a year
in revenue to the State of California, plus putting to work fifty thousand people
of processing, growing, and then selling the product legally. Or the Chinese
got involved, they collapsed the market. The money now going to the State
of California is under one hundred million, which is a drop in the bucket
to what they thought they were going to make. And those working in these
businesses, they are all illegal. Chinese men come across the southern border and
they're not paying workers comp they're not paying unemployment, they're not paying sales tacks,
they're not paying anything. And their slave laborers put there in these platforms
to get cash billions of dollars in cash to buy farm lands and use them
for other illicted purposes. And if they want to act legally, put together
an LLC and come up with some American sounding names, and then then money's
available to close. They close. The LLC owns it, and no one
knows who actually owns it, but you and I know who owns it.
Are the Communists Chinese. And that's the way the game is played, and
we allow it to happen, hopefully not in Oklahoma much longer. Let's continue
Bill Cunning and the Great American with you on All Great Americans every Sunday Night
over the last few months, maybe a year or two. Off Struck,
I've quite a friendship with a Chris Cuomo of News Nation comes on with me,
I don't know, once or twice on a Sunday night a month,
and I love having him on. His brother Andrew Cuomo is making a lot
of sense. Believe it or not. Bill Maher has more lucid moments now
on HBO than Bill Maher has ever had. So listen to this colloquy between
Bill Maher and Andrew Cuomo about Donald Trump's absurd charges in the state of New
York where they free the Columbia University arsonist, but they want to convict somebody
on a paperwork was here's Bill Maher and Andrew Cuomo. The trial in New
York, the one he got convicted for, was the greatest fundraising bonanza he
is now. He was lagging behind Biden and now he's pulled quite a bit
ahead. That trial was the greatest reason people had to send their checks for
five, ten, twenty five whatever dollars to Donald Trump. So I was
always with you on the one in New York, the hush money trial.
I don't think they should have brought that one. It was just always going
to look like a sex case and people were always just going to look at
it that way. So that case, the Attorney general's case in New York,
frankly, should have never been brought. And if his name was not
Donald Trump any if he wasn't running for president, I'm the former ag in
New York. I'm telling you that case would have never been brought. And
that's what is offensive to people, and it should be because if there's anything
left, it's belief in the justices. Thank you. It's Andrew Cuomo,
the former governor of New York and Bill Maher and I would ask you this
talk about the criminal justice system. What have liberals done to the criminal justice
system in America? It's best reflect in New York City in which the arsonists
and the thieves and the crooks that destroyed Columbia University were all set free by
the same prosecutor that went after Donald Trump. What have the liberals done to
our universities through our colleges. What have liberals done to our high schools,
especially in major American cities that they've destroyed? What have liberals done to elementary
schools or to children's innocence? You can't even be a boy scout anymore.
What have liberals done the marriage and family life or children who say they're the
opposite sex? To mutilate the genitals of children? What have liberals done to
journalism? Look at Bagdad Bob also known as Morning Joe. What have women
done? What have liberals done to women's psychological health or the black white relations
poison him completely? What have liberals done to music and to the military?
The military camp meet its goals anymore? Because why fight for a country not
worth saving? Why fight for a country where the clowns at a golf tournament
run on the eighteenth hole. Climate activist is we locked up for years?
What has what have the liberals and that philosophy done to law enforcement and to
the FBI destroyed it or the CDC and Anthony Fauci supporting him. What if
they're done to the American Medical Association, the American Bar Association. What have
liberals done to our previously great medical schools or the free speech rights I thought
we had, or to women's sports and destroying Title nine that all of us
fought for beginning in fifty some years ago. What have liberals done to the
border of this country? What have liberals done to the economy or fighting crime?
Or the magnificent American major cities that are largely destroyed and devastated. Can
you tell me where liberals have succeeded magnificently? In New York City with Alvin
Bragg, or Washington, d C. With Bowser, or in California with
Gavin Newsom or Portland, Oregon is destroyed, or to take Seattle, Washington
down the tube? Chicago? Are you kidding me? That's what's happened to
our country and the philosophy to stop that's going to take more than four years,
maybe more than eight years, and it begins on Thursday night. Would
you join me in saying a prayer, whether you're a Catholic or Christian,
or Jew, or Muslim or sekh, whatever it might be, that God's
attention is not diverted and that he inspires Donald Trump to do what's right to
save this country from the liberals and those who would destroy it. Let's continue
now. Coming up next to Jeffrey crue Air from New Orleans about the debate
on Thursday night and more, Bill cunning into Great American with you and all
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jeff crue Air headquartered in New Orleans, New Orleans, with a great
mayor down there, wonderful Mayor and he's an author, he's a radio talk
show host and one of the great conservative thinkers in America today. A few
days ago he had to column up Morning, Joe has become America's bag Dad
Bob, which is I read this and I said, I got to try
to get him on. And bag Dad Bob, of course, was a
mouthpiece of Sodom Hussein, who reported on the NBC News at the time,
quote, the Infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Bagdad.
They're ready to surrender, to be burned in their tanks. They will
surrender. It is they the Americans who will surrender before the mighty Republican Guard.
Joining you and I now is Jeff crue Air and Jeff crew Air.
Welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. And make the comparison if you will,
between Scarborough who was a red conservative congressman from the Panhandle of Florida who
is now become an apologist for the radical American left, and please tell the
American people your column Well, Bill, thanks for having me. And Bagdad
Bob was sort of a complete joke. I mean, constantly saying that we
were losing and that Saddam Husan would prevail, and of course he got out
of the propaganda business when the regime fell was arrested, and eventually he's in
cutter now. But you know I thought of him when I examined what Joe
Scarborough is doing. I mean, Joe Scarborough has gone from a Republican conservative
seat in Pensacola, right down the road from US near New Orleans, to
an apologist extraordinaire for Joe Biden. I think he's Joe Biden's favorite anchor.
Joe Biden watches Mourning Joe, of course every day, Bill Cunningham, and
I think that this is inspiring Mourning Joe to become even more blatant in his
few should praise for Biden. He said, he has the audacity to say
that this is the best version of Joe Biden ever, that the guy we
see now, stumbling, bumbling, fumbling, mumbling, is the best Biden
of all time. Now, admit, Bill, he's never been good.
Joe Biden has never been someone to be impressive. But the guy we have
now can barely stand, barely talk, And Joe Scarborough wants us to believe
that this is the best version of Joe Biden ever amazing to me. It
is un and this isn't the character of Joe Scarborough. This is NBC News,
this is John Chancellor, this is the history of NBC News, It's
ms NBC. So I'd have to assume Jeff Crueer, what Joe Scarbrough is
doing. He's signed a multi year, multi million dollar contract is exactly what
NBC News wants him to do. So it's not the character of Mika Zeka
Brazinski. It is not that, it is not all the it's not all
the Devo tayes that hang around him. This is NBC News and Lester Holt,
this is what they want. Is that fair to say? That is
fair to say. And if you watch that show, and unfortunately I run
into it on occasion, he has every left wing guest he can possibly have
on their All they do is demonie Donald Trump, constantly praise Joe Biden.
This was the guy right before the twenty twenty election who went on TV and
called out Republicans for questioning the Hunter Biden laptop that it was rush Into's information.
And he's never apologized for that bill and of course he never will.
Willie. Of course he won't no, and he does what his minders want
him to do. So he's if he was off the script, he wouldn't
have the job. So is I said, the personality one thing. It
reminds me of a great comment of some who have said, Look, it
isn't the fact that some liberal democratic officeholder does stupid stuff. It is the
fact that those voters who put him in charge are still there to put the
next person in charge of stupid stuff. It's the voters themselves. So in
Scarborough's case, and your colin points it out headline, mourning, Joe has
become America's bag dead bomb. He's doing what his handlers want him to do
because if he didn't, he'd be gone. And so when he says,
Joe Biden is just brilliant. This guy, it reminds me of Abraham Lincoln,
Ronald Reagan. He's a great order, he's a thinker. I sat
down with him for breakfast one morning, and this guy surveyed the scene of
the world that NATO, the UNISEF, how great things are building that great
peer, you know in Gaza, that's a wonderful citadel to America's freedom,
which is floating out in the Mediterranean somewhere, and all of a sudden,
this guy is just spouting the company line. Now. Secondly, to me,
it is unbelievable. The debate's coming up on Thursday. I'm thinking,
well, why would Joe Biden's handlers put up this mumbling, stumbling, fumbling
fool as a president to debate? And the reason is, of course,
I've said it before and I'll say it again as loud and proud as I
can, Joe Biden will not be the nominee of the Democrat Party. He
will not be the nominee. He's one stumbled away from losing it all.
Of course, Joe Scarborough would say, look, he was doing a summersault.
He was trying out for the Olympics. He's doing somersaults when he fell
down, No and so and so tell me why the Democratic Party agreed to
a debate this early. Well, let me just say this about the stumbling,
fumbling Joe Biden. I mean, Joe Scarborough compares him to fb FDR.
He said, you know, FDR couldn't walk and he won two wards,
so pretty much saying that Joe Biden is FDR FDR FDR couldn't walk.
He was in a wheelchair with polio since he was thirty seven years old.
Maybe there's a different but I didn't hear this. Joe Scarborough compared Joe Biden
to FDR. Yes, indeed, yes, indeed, yes, indeed,
so so Bill Cunningham, I would say this. The reason that they're doing
this for one, of course, you're on an extreme liberal network, you
have extreme liberal moderators. But I think they're setting up Joe Biden because if
he has a terrible performance, even though he's going to be juiced up on
extra vitamins, if he has a terrible performance, which is likely going to
happen, that'll be their excuse to pull the plug on his campaign. He'll
be able to move on out and then incomes the next candidate. And I'm
getting all kinds of names from my listeners, from Michelle Obama to Hillary Clinton,
the Gavin Newsom, who knows who it's going to be. Billo.
Well, to me, the reason the handlers did this was to usher him
off. The last thing the Democrats won is for Joe Biden to appear coherent.
That is the last thing they want because come the middle of August,
God knows what's going to happen, and I hope Donald Trump acts and performs
like in the second debate in twenty twenty. Yes, not in the first
debate, not the first one was he was too aggressive in the first one.
And the second one he was great. He won clearly, and I
think it gave him a boost. He did very well. And it's always
Donald Trump versus his Democrat opponent and the moderators. He said the other day
he was going to be three on one. He was going to be taking
on the moderators and Joe Biden. Now, lastly, Axios, which I
monitor so you don't have to has a list of Trump officials either arrested and
dieded, tried and convicted. I look at Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro.
Peter Navarro doing hard time, daddy in a Florida federal prison for contempt of
Congress. Steve Bannon's got to report to prison come July first. And he's
not been a Trump favorite, and then at times he is a Trump favorite.
And so actually says a list of several dozen Trump officials who have spent
millions and millions of dollars in legal fees, bankrupting them all for democratic prosecutors
coming after them. There have been numerous occasions occasions over the past several years
where the Republicans in Congress have sent a contempt citation to the Department of Justice
to pursue individuals like Eric Holder or Mayorkas, who's a character that the president
cannot pronounce his name, which again, can you imagine if Trump was up
there in a big congressional proceeding and he just didn't know who his Department of
Defense was. You know that the Austin guy, what's his name? And
then my yorkis but he didn't know what he's talking about. And so isn't
it illustrative that if you work for Trump, prepare to disgorge yourself of all
your assets, put on a stripe senter, report to federal prison. But
if you're a Democrat, my god, you get professorships and you get your
line dined and pocket lined for the rest of your life, including of course
Alvin Bragg and Judge at Mershawn will be wine, dined in pocket lined for
the rest of their lives. Isn't this kind of a story that if you
work for a Republican you go to prison. If you are for a Democrat,
you'll become a multi millionaire. You're exactly right. I mean, we
have a double standard of justice that is so extreme, so obscene, that
I think the vast majority of the Americans can see it. Bill. Two
quick things. Discontempt of Congress, nonsense that they're taking Peter Navarro and putting
him in jail, and same with Steve Benn. And remember as he pointed
out Eric Holder, nothing happened to him, Lois Lerner, nothing happened to
her. What about Merrick Garlin. Wasn't he just held in contempt of Congress?
Yeah? Shouldn't he be going to prison? Yeah? Bill, not
gonna happen, Not gonna happen. We have a double standard of justice.
I remember that Roger Stone raid where they had looked like the entire FBI outside
his house at four am in the morning, and of course the nn cameras
happened to be this just a coincidence. They're the ninja warriors front and back,
and they were propelling down on the ceiling, dressed up like turtles,
and they had dozens of agents with automatic weapons in their garb. And of
course Roger Stone comes out the door and said, what he's in his underwear
and a pair of sucks. They treated him like it was a pro life,
pro life protester. For God's sakes, and the grandmother's being locked up.
These people are treated worse than Al Qaeda terrorists. I mean, it's
it's absolutely insane. So what I'm hoping is, you know, when Donald
Trump gets in there, the Department of Justice can be revamped from top to
bottom and let's get back to real justice. Bill. I don't think he
has to go on a retribution crusade. We just have to have real justice,
no matter whether it's a Democrat or Republican. Right now, it's just
one sided. They just go after Republicans. And you're right, if you're
a Trump fan, if you're a Trump official, get ready to be investigated
and possibly indicted. Haven't they been successful in doing this strategy? Because can
you imagine standing before a New York City jury and you're a Republican or being
Washington, DC as a Republican and you say, wait a minute, I'm
exerting executive privilege. My name is Peter Navarro. I work in the executive
branch of government. I'm a trade analysis representative. I've traveled all over the
world. I work in the White House, and I want to exert executive
privilege, and I don't want to tell the trial jury the private discussions I've
had with the President about trade policies, and I want to exert executive privilege,
submit that issue to a Washington d C. Jury, as Peter Novarro
did, and find out what happens. It's like it's like Emmett Till in
in Mississippi who was found the murderers of Vatt. Till was found not guilty
because the jurors knew they could not go back into their private life having found
the murderers of emmettil guilty and continue with their life, and so they have
the home court advantage, which we can't affect. Correct. That's exactly why
they're doing all these cases in DC, in New York, in Fulton County,
Georgia. I mean, they've got it all planned. Bill, This
is planned they I have to give them credit. They've executed this plan brilliantly,
but they've just overplayed it. And I think the American people are waking
up to what's going on and saying enough is enough. That's why I'm predicting
a big Donald Trump victory in the fall. I think they've had enough of
this. We need to get our country back. Bill, And these people
are ruining America. And yeah, they're going after people just because of ideology.
And we can't get any justice. You and I can't get any justice
in Washington, DC or New York. There's no way, you know,
you talk about ruining America. What has liberalism done to universities, to high
schools, to children's innocence, to marriage and family, to journalism, to
women's psychological health, to the military, to the FBI, to the CIA,
how about to the CDC? How about the medical schools, how about
women's sports, how about the border? Think about liberal Just get that list
together. What has it done? Ye, it's not good, Jeffrey,
it's not good. It is destroyed everything. Just like you look at any
country that is run by a socialists or communists, and that is a failed
nation. The ideology has failed. It never works anywhere, and it certainly
doesn't work here. So we don't want more of it. We don't want
four more years of this bill. We can't survive four more years of this
insanity. We can't. Well. I had a suburban woman tell me a
few days ago. Who's not paying a lot of attention. You know,
only about forty percent of us pay attention to politics. The great bulk of
the American people are trying to raise families, paying their bills, driving their
cars, and they don't pay attention because they can't take it anymore or they
don't care. Something hopefully seeps through the groundwater, and hopefully suburbanites begin to
understand the things we've laid out. Pay attention to what's happening to your life,
to what's happening to inflation into religion and the faith and family, what's
happening to our colleges and to our high schools and the women's sports. Pay
a little bit of attention, and if they do, it'll be forty nine
states for Donald Trump, and the message must be sent, and maybe it's
already lost. I can't imagine New York City, Atlanta. I can't imagine
New Orleans, Cincinnati, Chicago start voting for constitutional Republicans. I'd be shocked,
but at least be an impediment or a speed bump to our destruction.
And Jeffrey Crue, Yeah, more of the people in those cities hopefully will
see the light and do the right thing. Bill. I'm praying for that.
We need it. This has been a disaster three and a half years
of the worst president in American history. Bill Cunningham. Well, Joe Scarborough
says he's FDR with a touch of Eisenhower maybe George Washington. I mean,
this guy's brilliant thinking. Bag dad, Bob, how about bag dad Joe.
It's Une. He represents NBC News. It isn't just him, it's
NBC News. Lester Holt, all right, Jeffrey Crueer, thanks for coming
on. God bless you and God bless America. I know you got a
great mayor of New Orleans. She's doing a fabulous job. That's wonderful,
wonderful. She's a disaster. Oh no, she's wonderful, wonderful. Jeffrey
Crueer, thank you very much. Bill Cunningham, the Great American. Live
with you every Sunday Night by Billy cunning into Great American. I love Hary
from jeff crue Are. He's in the Southern Command in New Orleans, which
it clearly has about the worst mayor this side of that idiotic female south of
Chicago. And when he wrote the story about Bay about mourning Joe becoming bag
Dad Bob. I had to get him on to talk about it. It
is amazing. I watch MSNBC many mornings so you don't have to. And
the official company line is that Donald Trump is the devil and carnate, he's
lucifer, and that Joe Biden is the brightest, most supple minded president we've
had at least since Teddy Roosevelt. And they talk about Joe Biden, and
I would like to think Thursday, during the Great Debate, he'll be exposed.
But I'm not so sure about that because if he falls down, tumbles
and is not able to complete a declarative sentence, if he doesn't know who
the Secretary of Defense is or Homeland Security, he didn't know that My Yorkis
was his home Land Security chieftain, that we'll see what happens with Bagdad Bagdad
Bob also known as Morning Joe, because the media is going to declare immediately.
The media will declare immediately the winner, and the winner, irrespected of
the performance, will be, of course, none other than Joe Biden.
He was brilliant, he was supple, his intellect was bright. This guy
was unbelievable and that's what you're gonna get. And it's not going to change
one ioda, one iota from that. From that situation, they're gonna love
him. They will love him to death after the Great Debate, and you
know, when you go back in time, I'm not sure there's ever been
a more consequential president presidential debate than we're going to have on Thursday night,
nine o'clock Eastern time till ten thirty. Supposedly, Joe Biden's going to stand
there for about an hour and a half. Do you think Joe Biden can
stand in one place for an hour and a half and make any sense?
Even at the State of the Union address for example, even at that that
was about forty five or fifty minutes long, and he was goofy as a
bed bug during that presentation, mispronouncing names of individuals since looking goof Of course,
the media declared it was the greatest address since since Obama gave his last
State of the Union address himself. So we'll see what happens. But it's
pretty sad as to where we're headed. So let's continue with more. Coming
up next is is a Jason Isaac, as you know, an energy expert
and with the weather being as hot as hot as it is, we have
to get some perspective of what is going on, what is not going on
when it comes to the weather and energy and so much more. And also
later on, as Josh Crawford and also the Great Leland vivit, the line
becomes available eight sixty six six four seven seven three three seven, Bill cunning
into Great American. I try to be a Great American with you and all
other great Americans every Sunday by Billy cunning In The Great American, of course,
is a great push by this administration to spend serious money. We're not
talking millions, We're not talking billions. We're talking trillions of dollars on behalf
of the climate crusade. And right now, as you know, it's hotter
than the hinges of Hell. That's another excuse to talk about climate change and
all the glories of evs and things of that character. And joining you and
I now is Jason Isaac. He's the CEO of the American Energy Institute.
And Jason Isaac, welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. And first of
all, I've read your columns on this subject matter. Can you tell the
American people. The amount of public money generally we're spending on so called climate
change evs and all related matters. Oh my goodness, it's astronomical, you
know, decimated to be fifty trillion dollars, But when you look at the
evs, it's fifty thousand dollars per EV sold. And that's just through twenty
twenty one. The numbers are going to get higher through twenty two and twenty
twenty three as we continue to subsidize them with more than just this tax credit
to seventy five hundred dollars a vehicle. People are paying more for used vehicles
because of evs, are paying more for internal combustion engine gasoline and diesel cars
new ones because those vehicles are subsidizing the cost to the tune again of nearly
fifty thousand dollars per EV sold. So every EV that we buy as Americans,
normally there's a large subsidy involved, which is a tax credit, not
a deduction. You can actually a tax credit for it. But then on
top of that or all the other ancillar expenses. And Jason I mentioned this
to you off the air, The University of Michigan is not exactly an enclave
of conservatism, would you agree? Not exactly the wolverines. How about this?
A recent study from University of Michigan to shed light on a critical challenge
facing the global transition to electric vehicles, which is the inability of copper mining
to keep pace with the growing demand. Some trade publication Energy I'm Sorry Engineering
and Technology reports that copper, which is a critical component and electricity generation,
distribution of storage is fundamental to a battery production evs, et cetera. It's
entitled Copper mining and Vehicle Electrification. It's revealed that the current rate of copper
production is insufficient to meet the projected demand for the metal in the coming years.
There's seven hundred and nine operational copper minds in the world, few in
America. Despite this huge output, they can't keep up with the so called
demand. In fact, six new large copper minds must come online every year
for the next twenty years, which is one hundred and twenty more copper minds
on top of the seven hundred and nine. By the way, the seven
on nine is going down, not up. You can't open a copper mind
and the go to the United States of America. It must be overseas and
they're saying, we're at our limit, we can't do it. Does anyone
take into effect that when Michigan study highlights the fact that ev requires three to
four times more copper than a gasoline powered car, does anyone said, Okay,
if we're going to do this, these are the things you must do
in addition to it. Does anyone take that into account? No? No,
don't know. You look at what's required to meet today's needs. If
we were to go one hundred percent renewable, it would take a thousand years
to mine the goods to meet today's requirements for this green New deal, this
political agenda of the energy transition. But Billy, you haven't heard about all
the minds, the copper minds that are opening up around the United States everywhere.
They're everywhere. They're at electric vehicle charging stations because people are stealing the
copper wires out of them because the cost of copper is increasing astronomically. And
guess where they are. At a good dense quantity that's already been mined and
pulled out of the ground and refined, you can get pure copper. The
thefts of these things are it's just laughable. Already in Los Angeles, over
half of the charging stations don't work, and that number is getting worse because
people are stealing the copper charging wires from EB stations. About two or three
weeks ago, I watched Margaret Brennan on Sunday Morning, Sunday Morning News I
like to watch. I watch CBS, I watch Morning Joe. I read
the New York Times so you don't have to. And there was a classic
exchange between Margaret Brennan and Pete Buddha. Judge, can you explain that to
the American people? Oh, mayor Pete, this is the guy that just
thinks we're going to have this force energy transition. This is the guy that
drives up in SUV's and then jumps out on a bicycle and rides about a
block and a half. That's probably all he can stand. But you know,
he's forcing this energy transition down our throats. They're raising the fuel economy
requirements to fifty miles a gallon, which is essentially an electric vehicle mandate.
Keep in mind, Ford's losing over one hundred thousand dollars per EV sold.
Rate payers. Taxpayers and other vehicle buyers are pitching in another fifty thousand dollars
and the average cost is sixty thousand dollars, so it's over two hundred one
thousand dollars in cost per EV. That's why the most of the people that
are buying them, I think it's over eighty percent, are wealthy individuals.
Most of them are third vehicles. This is an extra vehicle. They're just
fancy golf carts that people use to virtue signal to drive to and from the
grocery store. And that's about it. Jason, you talked, you're just
one of that. Quickly you're saying, Ford, which is at difficulty,
great difficulty, loses how much per EV it's now over one hundred thousand dollars
per EV sold. Their profits last year would have been double had it not
been for EV's over two billion dollars in losses. And who's picking that up?
The shareholders are also adding those subsidies in there. That's something I haven't
considered in our research. But when you've got these woke financial institutions like black
Rock that are telling Ford they better embrace this energy transition or their compensation is
going to be affected. They're going to be board members are going to be
replaced. They're going to go down this path, and it's complete detrimental the
peoples whose pensions funds are investing in companies like Ford. You know, this
is firefighters, police officers, teachers, municipal and state government employees who are
having their four to oh one ks and pensions invested in these companies that are
and they're being weaponized against these countries unbeknownst to the investors that are depending on
those of their retirement. But Jason Isaac, normally, if a company loses
serious money over a period of many years, they stop bidding themselves in the
head. In the early nineteen sixties they put together a product called the Ford
Edsel. After two years of terrible sales, they finally said, we can't
do that anymore. So if Ford keeps losing this kind of money, why
do they keep doing it? Against that pressure from those those financial institutions,
the global financial institutions that are some of the largest shareholders. You just need
to look no further than who are the top ten shareholders of the companies that
are doing this down this path. It's really dangerous and dumb, and it's
quite deadly to certain investors. They're losing their pensions, their retirements, but
look at those top shareholders and they're all part of it. Jim Jordan's committee
out of Ohio just came out, you know, with this report talking about
the collusion of these companies with their environmental, social and governance agenda, this
ESG agenda. It's a great, lengthy report that you know. I've worked
in this area for the last two decades now pushing back against these woke financial
institutions, and it's great that the light is getting shown on them because hopefully
they'll just get back to fiduciary responsibility, return on investment. We produce things
in this country more responsible than anywhere else in the world, and this energy
transition is just transitioning everything to being made in China, place that could care
less about the environment or human rights. What percent of the batteries and evs
are made in China, No, it's you know, one hundred percent.
You look at ninety nine point nine nine nine percent of the graphine that's necessary
for the batteries comes from China, So it's we are one one hundred percent
dependent on China for manufacturing of electric vehicle batteries. A battery that for each
car requires five hundred thousand pounds of earth to be moved to get the component
components for that battery. Forty thousand kids in the Congo in Africa, between
the ages of four and thirteen that are using their hands in small handheld tools
to pull the cobalt out of the ground. Again, no care for environmental
concerns, no care for human rights. And these things are being made with
child and slave labor. Well and Jason Isaac I thought liberals cared about black
kids more than anything else. Do they know that children, by large numbers
hundreds every year die and copper and cobalt mines in Africa because liberals demand evs.
Do they know what they're doing to the children? Do they know that?
They absolutely do. And you look at states like Arizona, which led
it was one of the first states in the nation to pass a bill that
any materials of the state buys, typically state vehicle are solar panels or any
kind of battery storage, that they would have to certify that those materials were
made without child and slave labor. Past their legislature on its way to becoming
law, and their governor guess which political party she's part of vetoed the bill.
Of course, she's a clown. I would note on Monday, Fisker,
in ev startup in California, which was hotter than a firecracker, has
filed bankruptcy. I would note that Tesla stock, once over six hundred dollars
a share, is bouncing up against one hundred dollars in share. People are
figuring it out that what we're doing is killing black kids in Africa and enriching
China with these evs. Can you discuss for a moment hybrids? Why didn't
we go to hybrids? Toyota's gone to hybrids and not EV's. How come
we didn't go to hybrids instead of EV's. Well, there's this illegal multiplier
at the Federal Registry. Senator Rick Scott recently wrote a letter about this.
It was signed on by several of his colleagues to the Department of Energy,
to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, asking for explanations about why they're allowing
this illegal multiplier that's supposed to be for liquid fuel vehicles, alternative liquid fuel
like maybe propane. They're supposed to get this credit, which I think is
absurd in of its mean. It's the corporate average fuel economy credit, but
they allow electric vehicles to qualify for this multiplier, and so a Tesla that
may get it's rated at one hundred miles per gallon, multiply that time's six
point sixty seven, and they're essentially getting credit per gallon of I think it
comes out to just over five hundred miles per gallon. And then Tesla sells
those credits, and so there's this. They sell them to GM, they
sell them to Ford, they sell them to other automobile manufacturers. In twenty
twenty one, it was almost two billion dollars in revenue for Tesla. They
likely wouldn't have been profitable without selling these fake, arbitrary credits that the government
created, and so that's increasing the cost for other automobile manufacturers. So they're
saying, well, hey, if we build evs, then we're going to
get those credits and we can spread it out amongst our fleet. And this
is how those corporate average fuel economy standards, which they're trying to raise now
to fifty miles a gallon, that's how it's costing people that buy gasoline engines
and diesel engines cars more money per vehicle because they're subsidizing those evs. So
this is why people aren't doing hybrids, because there's just not this government market
distorting policy to benefit hybrids. But if the markets were free, almost everybody
would be driving. We'd have hybrid electric trucks right now calling freight across this
country, getting high fuel economy, better standards, lower pollution. It would
be great. But that's just not the way the government has distorted the market.
What is better? Can you tell us, say you have a gasoline
powered vehicle, a brand new one versus a brand new EV, which is
more harmful to the environment the new EV. I mean you're going to spend
more money on maintenance costs, you're going to drive fewer miles, but when
you look at the environmental impact, you're going to replace the tires every seven
to ten thousand miles. That tirewar becomes particular matter. It's pollution. I'm
not worried about the air in this country. We're world leader's environmental protection,
but we certainly don't want it to get worse. In driving evs could potentially
make our air quality worse because of that tirewar. That becomes particular matter.
This pollution that in certain concentrations could be harmful to human health. That we've
been a world leader at reducing now could be coming back because of evs and
the tirewear. You look at the environmental impact in places where they're mining the
cobalt, the lithium, the rarer earth elements, and the critical minerals that
go in evs. There are cancer villages in China where this stuff is being
pulled out of the ground because they don't use the standards that we do to
produce things. How many pounds of earth must be moved for each e sold?
How many pounds it's five hundred thousand pounds of earth has to be moved
to get the materials to make one electric vehicle battery. Lastly, there was
a comment made by the Trumpster a few weeks ago in which he was in
Michigan talked about a bloodbath in the auto industry as we speak in Mexico with
no, if any standards. Mexico under the Chinese leadership, China is building
huge automobile factories in Mexico to produce evs and to undercut the market. Explain
what happens to the auto workers and the tire manufacturers and the car repair shops
in America, and the carpeting and the rubber and the tin and the metal,
all of which goes into a vehicle. What happens when China is permitted
to build large amounts of evs in Mexico then ship them into this country under
cutting prices. That's what Trump talked about, the bloodbath. Explain what happens.
Yeah, the bloodbath time. I love the fire storm that came up
about that, because that's a term used in economics, and that's what's happened
in Germany. Germany companies like bas A Chemical Company, they're moving their operations
out of Germany, which is where they were started and where they're from.
And they're citing high energy price because Germany politicians have embraced the political of the
inner transition net zero. That's completely the detriment of Germany. The largest BMW
manufacturing facility is not in Germany, it's in South Carolina because they can get
cheap, affordable, reliable energy there. So that's what's going to happen to
the United States. It's going to start to de industrialize if we increase regulations
that don't do anything to improve human health. All we do is we export
the jobs, and then we import the products, and we import the pollution
from these companies that are controlled and owned by the Chinese Communist Party. So
it would be incredibly detrimental to American workers if we continue to do this.
We need to reshore all the manufacturing. We should make everything we need and
want in this country, because do it more responsibly than anywhere on the planet.
Now, if the liberals have their way, I can only imagine after
November, if Joe Biden is reelected for about six months, then Kamala Harris
takes over for the next three and a half years, and she accelerates the
same policies that she was part of in the first four years of Joe Biden's
term. Think what America looks like then? Are we gonna have electric battleships?
Electric eighteen wheel trucks? Are we gonna have electric tractors in Iowa?
Are you kidding me? That's not possible? Yeah, don't forget the electric
tanks flying the trans flag. You know, I'm sorry. I'm sorry about
that. The electric tanks? Are you kidding me? And they're serious about
this, aren't they? Because they got some cause they wouldn't want to impose
irrespective of the cost, the jobs and the environmental damage. The evs destroy
the environment much more than gasoline powered cars. What doesn't the media call them
on this. I wish they would. But you've even got the large manufacturers
of these that are embracing this. They're feeding the crocodiles, hoping they'll be
the last one eating. And that's one of the reasons why we've launched a
trade organization representing American energy producers. I tell people at the American Energy is
too. We don't feed the crocodiles, We wear them. We support free
markets and American energy, and we're not going to be out there appeasing people
with virtue signaling like decarbonization and net zero and energy transition in a low emission
future. We live a high carbon lifestyle and the rest of the world should
get to live a high carbon lifestyle too. And because of that high carbon
lifestyle, we have economic prosperity and environmental leadership. Those two things go hand
in hand. And we need these companies to quit virtue signaling to their customers
and to their investors and be proud of the products that they produce, and
they should want to move all of that production back to the United States,
Jason Isaac. Lastly, what is your website? American Energy Institute dot com.
You're a great America and the truth will set us all free in Isaac,
thank you very much for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. Thank you,
Jason, It's great to be on. Thanks for having me. Bill
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Jason Isaac make a whole bunch of sense as to what we should be doing.
Evs have no chance of success zero. And when Ford Motor Company loses
one hundred thousand dollars every time they sell an every time to sell an EV
they lose one hundred thousand dollars, one might consider not selling them anymore.
Just an idea. I know many of the dealers now are suing Ford Motor
They mainly a lot of them to say that Farley's got to go. Things
of that character. So we'll see what happens. Coming up next is the
great Leland Vidder going to put a call into him to talk about from News
Nation about the great debate happening on Thursday. But also something that is present
throughout much of the country is the collapse of the legal marijuana busines. It's
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Now there's many many issues Parkla all across the nation and NewsNation and Leland vetditts
on top of so many of them that affect so many Americans, and Leland
Vetterer, welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. And Leland, can you
tell the American people for those who didn't watch News Nation in the last few
nights about what's happening with illegal pod operations all over the country, especially in
the state of Oklahoma. Had a great segment on by Brian Inton, who's
our senior correspondent and one of the great great investigators, especially when it comes
to criminal stories and things involving crime. He went down to Oklahoma and found
that they bust ten to fifteen Chinese run marijuana growing operations. These are essentially
what the Chinese mafia has done is exploiting the loopholes in legal marijuana medical marijuana
to grow mass quantities and then send it out to the East Coast to sell
illegally and then ship of millions and millions back to China. According to the
Attorney General out there, they've basically overlaid feentanyl trafficking and human trafficking, prostitution
and the like on top of the marijuana distribution networks that they've built. It
is un I watched the Governor your interview a few a few nights ago,
and I think Oklahoma, and God bless Oklahoma is in the middle of nowhere,
but I imagine the climate is perfect for growing marijuana. The same story
happened in California where they rolled up five thousand illegal Chinese grow operations in one
year, and in the state of Maine like Kenny Bunkport, Maine that they've
done four thousand operations. And I'm thinking across the country, there's got to
be hundreds of thousands of illegal grow operations and the purpose is to get money,
get more Americans on illegal drugs well may be laced with fentanyl. So
across the whole country. Can you extrapolate from California, Oklahoma and Maine as
to how many workers it takes, how much money is raised, how hard
do the workers have to work otherwise they get killed, and the impact it
has on American society. This is a huge story. It's an enormous story.
You're you're asking to connect an awful lot of dots which I don't have,
But I can give you the dots I do, which is we've seen
the stream, the big screen increase of Chinese military age men coming across the
southern border, and we've always wondered, when we've gotten the videos of them,
well, what are they going to do? Right? You know,
obviously you'd think some are Chinese intelligence here, and we've seen them testing military
installations and doing probing attacks and that kind of stuff. But the second thing
is where are they all work and where are they all going? And what
it appears is is that one of the big places they're going is these grow
operations in Oklahoma. They're not growing them outside in the farmland, and they're
growing them in greenhouses. They're building massive greenhouses because the power is so cheap
there. So these greenhouse operations require a lot of electricity in a lot of
water, and they can get that in Oklahoma. So they're going there,
and as you point out rightly, the workers, if you want to call
them, that, are held basically enslave like conditions to produce these and then
they just move on to the next operation when they're shut down. Leyland.
This is here in Ohio. We don't get much coverage in Ohio nationally for
anything in Ohio. And November of last year we passed recreational pot and we
gave the legislature the ability to fill in all the blanks. Here we are
maybe seven eight months later, and they're still fighting and arguing about who gets
the licenses, the growth, the processing, the dispense race. We can't
do a damn thing right because Ohio is completely Republican, and when there aren't
Democrats around, Republicans fight with their Republicans, and as a consequence, they're
fighting like crazy, and they're going through machinations about who gets to grow the
pot where they can grow it and assuming that Oklahoma will be similar to Ohio
when we get this thing underway, I would assume that Chinese grow operations and
many empty buildings are going to proliferate. And by the time you roll up
ten to fifteen a day according to the governor of Oklahoma, and rolling these
things up to Ohio is going to have literally thousands and thousands of illegal grow
operations run either by the Chinese or by the Mexican drug cartel. And if
we don't that means from other states, they're going to be tractor trailer size
loads of marijuana coming into Ohio anyway. In order to and this is multifaceted.
Number one, the southern border needs to be shut down to stop this,
if it's possible to do so. A Number two, the state of
California. I read this story out of the Sacramento b in which they anticipated
there would be at least one billion dollars a year in taxes paid to the
citizens of California for the sale of recreational pot. It's now well under one
hundred million, and grow operations legally in California are now filing bankruptcy. So
if you do it legally, after a few years of the multi million dollar
investments for legal grow operations, you end up without the money because the illegals
are dominating the market. You lay off all the legal pot growers. The
thousands of employees they thought would pay taxes aren't paying the taxes, and the
sales taxes don't exist anymore. So the storefronts are shutting down because California,
much like Oklahoma and Maine, cannot stop it from occurring. As someone who's
a newsman, is this you look at the multifaceted circumstances of the taxes not
collected, the legal employees not working, and then you had the illegal operations
laced with fentinal to hook people and other drugs. Is this something? Does
this demonstrate to you that somehow America cannot enforce its own laws. Well,
America has always had a hard time enforcing its own laws, right, We
go back to prohibition and when you tried to outlaw things that didn't work out
very well either. So I'm not sure it's a new problem or a new
phenomenon. You very rightly point out that when you're involved with with you know
product if you will, and you want to call it back, but drugs
that has where there's an enormous amount of money to be made and very high
taxes. There's almost always criminality involved in it. You know, there's illegal
cigarette smuggling, there's there's all these there's all these gangs that we're going to
find some ways to make money. So I think where where we're at with
this is that we have not caught up in terms of how to regulate and
how to deal with the marijuana problem in America or the marijuana industry in America.
It's not going away, you know. I don't think we're going to
all of a sudden decide next year that we're going to criminalize marijuana across the
country. That's not where it's going. That's not where Republicans have it going
or Democrats have it going. So the question is how to regulate it and
how to I think you rightly point out deal with the illegal side of the
legal business. All right. I don't know what to say about other than
with the best of intentions, we go down one road and we can't enforce
our own levels properly. We can't shut down the border. We have to
charge high taxes for legal growing in marijuajuana, which is undercut by the illegal
market, and we can't stop it. Page two. Alvin Bragg, the
Alvin Bragg a day or two ago, I think Wednesday or Tuesday or Wednesday,
said that is dismissing the thousands of charges against hundreds of Hamas sympathizers,
about half of whom were students and half of whom were professional agitators, who
destroyed literally hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property at Columbia Universe in New
York City. And look at the video of windows being broken into, spray
painting, taking over buildings, destroying furniture. The amount of money that was
destroyed by these so called protesters, writers whatever is a large amount of money.
And I watched some Jewish students, I think some were with Cuomo and
some were maybe with you or Abrams, that talk about they don't feel safe
on campus, that they're being called out on some way subway cars, that
it is unsafe to go to school in New York City if you're a Jew.
And now Alvin Bragg, who spent year and a half and literally millions
and millions of dollars prosecuting an alleged paperwork mistake by Donald Trump, using the
connections of Matthew Colangelo and the Department of Justice. He also was paid Downtown
law firms in New York City were paid millions of dollars on aspects of the
Trump prosecution. Uh. And he went after a paperwork mistake with hooks and
claws and pursued it, pursued it like a like a wolf going after a
caribou. However, when it comes to on video large amounts of damage caused,
this isn't protesting that this is criminal damaging and burglary in New York City
buildings. Once again, he dismissed the cases. Can you square those two
issues? Well, obviously when you when you set it up that way,
No, and they're not designed to be squared, right, this is inherently
political. We took a little bit different approach to this on the show,
which I think is interesting. The sound you're hearing, if you can hear
the helicopter overhead in Washington, DC, is what's called MUSCLE, which is
the Andrews Air Force Base Huey Squadron that is the evacuation team for VIPs and
members of government the continuity of government operations in DC, and they fly their
practice missions up and down the Potomac, which is always sort of fun to
watch and loud to hear. You feel like you're in the opening of a
movie sometimes. But what I think is most interesting about the Alvin Bragg story
in we said this when it related to the subway situation that you talked about
about Jews being told that they have one chance to get off the subway and
on and on and on, is where are the American Jews? And I
say that, where are the Jews in New York City that have enormous political
power. They've got an enormous amount of political power when it comes to their
donations. Where are they standing up and saying we're going to feel the candidate
to take on Alvin Bragg. Where where is the Jewish students at Columbia saying
we're not going to pay tuition and we're going to go on a tuition strike.
You want to kick us out, kick us out, but we're not
paying tuition to a school that engages in this kind of behavior. And American
Jews have They've started to awaken a little bit, but they have certainly not
come out fighting in Really you think about the Jewish business community in New York
that could go after Alvin Bright and they have not. So, uh,
you know, at some point people have to not be the victims and people
have to fight back. A group has to fight back. And I think
that that time, that time needs to come hasn't happened yet, has it?
And I would think I can't think. And as you know, I
spent five years in New York City on my TV show, and uh,
the Jewish culture, the Jewish people were everywhere and great respect, faith and
family, follow the rules, follow the law, get together the businesses,
the jewelry trade, and uh, it's just dominated, if not completely dominated
by Jews who have great power. And they're watching their own people being called
out by how mass sympathizers loudly and proudly, and the silence is deafening.
I'll give you an analogy. Here in Cincinnati, We've had numerous cases where
uh they're domestic violence victims of women and girlfriends. Baby mom is beaten to
within an inch of their life and strangled. And the men who do this,
because we have liberal judges all over Cincinnati now release domestic violence perpetrators,
attempt at murderers, and flownies as sell persons with no bond or a little
bit of bond. And there's a group in town called Women Helping Women,
which is a liberal group. And I certainly want to help women. My
mother's a woman, my wife's a woman, my granddaughter is female. I
want to help them. But the liberal pressure groups are silent. They do
nothing. When liberal female judges release domestic violence abusers who kill or almost kill
beat the death they're victims. And you can't find Women Helping Women in Cincinnati
with a search warrant. And here in New York City, we're getting ready
for school to start. I guess at the end of August exactly the same
thing's going on. To me is flabbergasting that New York City, which is
the number one city in America for Jewish power and influence, they're silent.
Tell me again, why, tell me why? Well, first of all,
I don't think it's a monolithic group. You can't do that. My
analysis is for a lot of Jews in America, especially those of Ashkenazi descent,
who come from and the you know, the the real trauma and the
continued trauma of the Holocaust that their persecution was brought about by the right in
the form of Hitler, and therefore it is much more important to be liberal
than it is to be Jewish and to be seen as liberal. And that's
that's sort of where their ethos there. Their ethos is now. Is that
going to change? As an as an American Jew? I certainly hope so,
but it is it is a Look, I'll give you a perfect example.
There was the protests, if you want to call them that, a
mini riot outside the White House a couple of weeks ago, where a bunch
of Prohama sympathizers and I think you rightly call them that, the face statue
use and through bottles and rocks at Secret Service agents and on and on and
on and on. Obviously any other kind of protest for any other cause,
they would have been arrested swiftly, which they should have been. But Adrian
L. Rod, who's President Biden's advisor, went on TV and said,
look, this is their first Amendment right to do and yes, yes,
yes, it is their first Amendment right to protest and to say things.
That's you're right, but I think it's also the responsibility of our leaders to
roundly, soundly and loudly condemn that kind of behavior and those kinds of calls
for violence, and I'd say, you know, if there had been a
klu Klux Klan rally in Lafayette Park, they have a first Amendment right to
do that is awful and as horrible as that is, they have a first
Amendment right to do that. Fine, but I guarantee you the White House
would have been talking about it in a very different way. Yeah, liberalism
Trump's reality. I have a list here, and this is the last thing
I was going to talk about, first of all, the debate on Thursday,
but we can't get to that. But I have a list here of
thirty six indicted Trump officials, some of whom are serving hard time daddy like
Steve Banyon, about to go to jail, and others. And I look
for list of Obama slash Biden officials held in contempt by the Congress. Refer
to the Department of Justice, some say the Department of Injustice, and there's
no action at all. So if you're a Republican in Arizona, Georgia,
Washington, DC, New York City, and you associate yourself with Donald Trump,
with the Republicans, the prosecutors come after you with hooks and claws.
Even when you win. You know what legal fees are, Like, I
talked to one guy that has spent a million dollars on legal fees and he's
bankrupt and you can't defend yourself anymore. But I look for list of Obama
slash Biden officials similarly situated and there's no charges, no indictments, Department of
Justice, prosecutors office. This is where cases go to die based upon your
political affiliation. Well, Leland vendit. We got to run once again.
Thanks for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. We only scratch the surface,
but I know you cover it every night on News Nation Monday through Friday.
The big debate is on Thursday. We'll see what happens. Love to get
you on after that to talk about the results. Leland veter once again,
We've only scratched the surface. But thank you for coming on the Bill Cunningham
Show. Thank you, Leland, Thank you, my friend. God bless
America. Let's continue with more Bill cunning Into Great American, Live with you
every Sunday night. Now, Billy cunning Into Great American. You know,
when you think about the promises of legal marijuana and all the money flowing into
the states that do this and the reality. There's a wide gulf between the
promises and reality because we don't have effective law enforcement in many states, because
the governors, especially of blue states, do not want to do the necessary
work to make sure that the legal marijuana market flourishes and the illegal market dies.
And when almost every year for the past year, we've had about forty
to fifty thousand Chinese age males enter the country to work, believe it or
not, to work inside these illegal marijuana operations. Along with the Mexican drug
cartel. You see the absolute collapse, the absolute collapse of the revenue that
was supposed to come to California. I like the governor of Oklahoma. Oklahoma's
one of my favorite states. Never been there one to spend time there.
The governor says, they roll up almost every day ten to twelve illegal pot
operations. Is that possible. We're talking about three or four thousand a year,
and the illegal market in Oklahoma continues to proliferate. So I don't know
what to say. If the state of Maine has four thousand illegal operations and
the legalization of marijuana has had absolutely no impact on the revenue and hiring tens
of thousands of workers. We're in trouble. We're in big trouble. Let's
continue with more. But Leland Vetterer's got his finger on the pulse of what's
going on, and the great debate on Thursday night is going to be so
consequential. I pray to God. I believe there's a God in heaven.
Went to Mass this morning and I prayed for Donald Trump so that he can
have a great performance on Thursday Night of such a character that even Morning Joe
and Zeka Brazinski would have to say, Man, that was great. Biden
cannot do the job. Let's continue with more. Bill Cunningham, Josh Crawford
is next. Bill Cunningham, with you every son, you know, Billy
Cunningham, the great American. Of course, we have a great divide in
America between the criminals and the politicians. When I watch the morning shows,
always learning that the crime rate is way down, which I think is a
canard. It's not way down. I think crime is up, but the
arrest and prosecution and sentence is way down. But nonetheless, Josh Crawford is
a nationally renowned criminal justice expert, and he has a column in the Hill
that says there's a crime divide between Americans and politicians and voters are watching,
including fund to play, including defund the police, et cetera. And for
the first time, I think, Josh Crawford, welcome to the Bill Cunningham
Show. And can you tell the American people your column specifically talking about the
crime divide between Americans and politicians and the voters are watching. Please explain to
the American people. Well, thank you for having me. And what the
piece is essentially about is that there is this disconnect between the average American and
our political class on the issue of crime right now. That's what folks are
seeing around them, is what you articulated. They're seeing things like drive by
shootings and carjackings on the rise, they're seeing smash and grab robberies on the
rise. And what we're hearing from politicians time and time again is that they
need not worry about that crime is down, you know, don't worry about
what your lying eyes are showing you. And what's interesting is the broad depths
or the broad width with which voters are caring about this. That Republican primary
voters care about this issue quite significantly, and black Americans care about this issue
quite significantly, so it's not necessarily partisan among the voters, but it does
seem to be among the politicians. I find it amazing that when you're trying
to sell something that cannot be bought by the voters or by average Americans,
you keep doing it nonetheless. And it is an article of faith among the
left in this country that crime is way down, that FBI statistics indicate that
crime is down. I've had on John Lott and many others that actually reference
the fact that about thirty percent of cities do not report crime to the FBI
database, and that you have many judges, including here in Cincinnati, that
if it's a juvenile under the age of eighteen, they put them on the
diversion dock, and in which case there's no conviction, there's no sentencing at
all. And police are demoralized, have out on head of the FOP,
et cetera. The cops are demoralized. Cops are feeling as if why arrest
somebody when nothing happens anyway, and I might put myself at risk, and
I'll be fired and sued for the rest of my life. And I don't
have a limited immunity, So I can't ever buy a house or a car,
so I might as well not do anything. And so in reality,
Joshua Crawford, what is the reality about crime in America today, especially when
we have maybe seven or eight million additional people here, young males that come
here without work skills, so to speak, and they have don't have a
lot to do. So what is the reality of crime in America today?
What is your perspective? Yeah, So there are two major national sources of
crime data. One is the one that you reference those FBI numbers that are
collections of official statistics from police departments, and that's a voluntary program and there
were some changes made a number of years ago, and participation in that FBI
program is even less than it used to be. And so those numbers are
the official statistics. They sometimes don't match up with the departmental statistics of major
cities and are a bit less reliable today than they have been in the past
because of that non participation. The other major nationwide set of crime statisticts comes
from something that's called the National Crime Victimization Survey, and what that is is
a survey of Americans that ask various questions about crime victimization. And so because
of that second set of data, we've known for a long time that Americans
don't really report property crime. That essentially, unless your car is stolen,
most property crime goes unreported to law enforcement. What has emerged in the last
year or so, though, is that Americans are not reporting pretty dramatic levels
of violent crime as well, serious assaults, robberies, those kinds of things.
And so the official statistics or the arrest statistics or the statistics given a
law enforcement show some declines in those areas. But there's pretty good reason to
believe that a lot of those declines are the result of not reporting crime as
opposed to crime actually being down. And why aren't citizens reporting crimes? I
would think, if your car gets broken into two or three times, you
don't call the police anymore. If things get stolen from your store and you
walk out under one thousand dollars, you don't call the police anymore. But
I would think that if you're assaulted, if you're beaten a burglary, if
you're sexually assaulted, you want to call the police. But you're saying that
even in many blue cities and blue states, in blue cities and red states
that individuals of assaults and robberies and armed robberies, they're not calling the police
either. Why a lot of it is that same demoralization that you spoke to
earlier, that citizens feel that same lack of trust in the institutions of public
safety, that the actors of those institutions feel. That law enforcement feels like,
oh, I can make this arrest, I can do this pursuit,
but it's not going to go anywhere because I live in a jurisdiction with the
progressive prosecutor is going to dismiss the case, or we've got a judiciary that
doesn't take these issues seriously, and these guys are going to be right back
out on the street. The American people have largely responded to that, and
it's led to two things. It's led to an increase in self help justice
sort of vigilanteism, if you will. That has problems associated with it,
But it also has the problem with people just not reporting crimes, and again,
more serious crimes than we've typically seen it in the past. You see
I read in your column in the Hill it says this crime, especially violent
crime, saw its peak as an election issue in the mid nineteen nineties,
I'll stop right there. In the mid nineteen nineties, Bill Clinton ran a
campaign in nineteen ninety six of hiring one hundred thousand more cops, and then
Joe Biden headquartered the idea of under the leadership of the NAACP, that crack
cocaine needs to be treated equally with powdered cocaine, in fact, giving more
penalties for crack cocaine. And so when I tell Democrats today, well,
in the mid nineteen nineties, Joe Biden and Bill Clinton wanted more cops and
more incarceration, which impacted the black community more than other communities. People look
at me like I'm crazy. But there was a time when Bill Clinton wanted
more money, one hundred thousand more cops. Many cities were given the money
under a three year program than they had to fund it themselves. After that
that, the Democratic Party stood for closed borders, and they also stood for
the issue of more cops and treating crack cocaine worse than powder cocaine. And
people their eyes glazed over. Was that successful? Why did it happen?
And why don't Democrats do it today? Yeah, you're actually starting to see
what I refer to as sort of the law and order Democrat re emerge at
the local level. You've not seen them sort of break out in the national
politics, but in cities like Philadelphia and Houston, Texas and a few other
places, you've seen basically the most law and order oriented Democrat mayor roal candidate
win mayoral primaries and then go on to win the general election in these places.
You are seeing in some of the bluest jurisdictions in the country San Francisco,
California, Portland, Oregon, law and order oriented prosecutors beat sort of
Soros backed progressive prosecutor incumbents, and so you are seeing this re emerge some
on the local level. You've not really seen it play in national politics yet.
The national tone from the Democrats still is sort of defund the police light,
if you will. But at the local level, even in some of
the most progressive jurisdictions in the country, because business associations are fed up,
because residents in the neighborhood's most plagued by its violence are fed up, you're
beginning to see that tonal shift back to some of what you saw in the
nineteen nineties. I used to go to San Francisco as part of the ABA
American Bar Association for meetings. And at that point you walked around Fisherman's Wharf,
you walked around downtown. It was gorgeous. There was some goofy road
that was like a serpents. Thank you go up and down that. And
now Tony Bender and others made vacation in San Francisco and it comes back with
video of all the downtown stores are shut down, and there there's a poop
map where not to walk. There's lots of human poop and they're hyperdermic needles,
and there's tents all over the place. And I look at a column
Joshua Crawford that you have up that says the following. According to analysis of
data by former Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics Jeffrey Anderson, said,
total violent crime is up fifty eight percent in urban areas since twenty nineteen.
If you remove simple assaults, serious violent crimes in America is up seventy three
percent since twenty nineteen. How do you prove a negative if there's not reporting
being done, If citizens are demoralized and they don't want to report crime,
and cops don't want to arrest anybody anymore, and judges release them constantly with
no bond. How do you know? How do you know violent crime is
up seventy three percent the last of four years when you can't prove a negative.
So explain that to the American people. Yeah, So that comes from
those National Crime Victimization Survey results, and so we compare those year over year.
And that's what doctor Anderson did with regard to the most recent crime Victimization
survey results. And again we have known for a long time that those numbers
and the Uniform Crime Report FBI numbers have always been different because they ask different
things, they seek different data. But what is pretty dramatic over the last
several years is that in one the crime victimization surveys, you see dramatic increases
in victimization, and then the official numbers you see pretty substantial declines in victimization.
So there's a disconnect there between what Americans are saying is happening to them
and what official statistics show. And so that's a problem. A great liberal
columnist for the New York Times wrote a piece taken the states of Washington,
Oregon in California, which is the Situs it's the Jerusalem of progressivism. Their
policies have been fully implemented. There's no Republicans to be located anywhere in those
three states. The eastern half of Oregon wants to get out of Oregon join
Idaho, which is almost impossible because the Congress right after agree to that.
But she made the point that we will not continue to win elections even in
Oregon or Portland. You point out that there were two district council members in
deep blue Portland that lost their jobs, including the permissive prosecutor. That she's
making the point to prove that liberalism and progressivism actually work. It must work
in the state of Washington, Oregon, and California, and by any fair
estimate, nobody believes that progressivism and liberalism is working in those three states.
Was that a clarion call from someone on the left that we have to do
things different? I think so, you know, I think in some of
the sort of left of center intellectual circles, you're seeing this call for moderation
that sort of in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, the left
sort of most radical elements and its worst ideas on public safety emerged victorious and
you saw a number of changes all around the country, but especially in the
most progressive jurisdictions, the Portland Oregons, the Seattle, Washington's, the San
Francisco California is, the Oakland Californias, those kinds of places, and they're
the places that have been hit harder with the hardest with this. I mean,
Seattle has continued to have deadliest year after deadlist year over the last several
years. Portland had substantial increases in homicides and other types of violence over the
last several years. And you're seeing in those places, especially among prosecutors.
You know, Seattle has a Republican city attorney right now that would have been
unfathomable a number of years ago. Portland has thrown out its progressive prosecutor in
favor of a more traditional law and order prosecutor. And so I think you're
seeing voters who are again fed up with this issue. Safety security, Public
safety and public order are sort of the most foundational responsibility of government, and
what you're seeing is these jurisdictions fail that responsibility in such a way that voters
are rejecting the ideology. And Joshua Crawford, lastly, I'm watching CNN the
other night and a guy named Inton, who's pretty good. I laugh at
that guy, and he had a poll up that at this time four years
ago, Biden was had eighty two percent of the black vote locked up.
It turned out to be ninety one percent, and now it's down to like
thirty five percent. Is a collapse of black voters supporting Joe Biden and the
Democrats? And I guess there's a canar to lie out there that somehow black
folks living in major cities and urban areas don't care about crime, but in
reality, they care about it the most. Do you think the collapse of
black support for Joe Biden on maybe the main reason is the lack of public
safety in their community promised by liberal Democrats but destroyed, and black folks are
finally fit figuring it out. I think that that's a major contributor. In
the twenty twenty two election, where you saw crime have the most impact on
voters of changing voting patterns was in urban, majority minority communities. Now,
these communities tended to send progressive Democrats back to Washington, d C. In
those midterm elections, but you saw these shifts that in a statewide election would
make a major difference in just like Philadelphia and Saint Louis and Detroit, and
so a lot of these states that are in play in the twenty twenty four
election. And so if those voting patterns hold like they were in twenty twenty
two, you may see a shift among black voters in inner cities on the
crime issue that benefits former President Trump or especially in the case of former Governor
Larry Hogan's Senate race in Maryland, this seems to be a very particularly palpitable
issue for voters in Maryland Blkimore area. So those voters aren't buying with the
Democrats are selling that crime is way down historically, this is wonderful. They're
looking around saying, no, wait a minute, Harry Anton, what are
you talking about here? Crime is not down. I can't walk at night,
I got my kids. Got drive by shooting. Cincinnati, Ohio's had
repeated drive by shootings and almost all the victims, Almost all the victims are
black, and most of the perpetrators are black. The face of crime in
urban America is a young black male face. But the great majority of young
black males have nothing to do with crime. They're victimized by it, and
I anticipate this could be a watershed election, but we'll see what happens.
The black folks who are Republican voters from the eighteen sixties through the nineteen forties
into the nineteen fifties, and even Richard Nixon received something like forty eight percent
of the black vote in nineteen sixty and still lost. But maybe black folks
have now not listened to what the media tell them to do. They look
around their own life and say, we don't have to live like this,
and maybe this will be the difference. But us Crawford, once again,
great, thank you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. And keep doing
what you're doing and keep writing columns for the Hills. Hill dot com is
pretty good stuff. Thank you for having me, Joshua Crawford. All right,
that's the warning, and we'll see what happens. Bill Cunningham, the
Great American, live with you every Sunday night. Hi, Billy cunning Him
the Great American. Thanks for listening to this glorious Sunday night. And I'll
tell you what. What's gonna happen on Thursday night is the biggest, bigger
than Montana bigger than the Yellowstone. As far as Donald Trump's performance and Joe
Biden's performance at Mass this morning at Saint Gertrude's, I said a prayer for
Donald Trump because I hope he can show up and appear as he did in
the second debate in twenty twenty and not the first debate. And I don't
wish ill on anyone, but Joe Biden should not be the President of the
United States. And the person mainly responsible for that happening is doctor I'm sorry,
Doctor Joe Biden, because he knows how mentally deficient Joe Biden truly is,
and Susan Rice, those around him, the senators, he deals with,
his chief of staff, everyone knows that Joe Biden is not capable of
discharging the duties as president of the United States in a couple of weeks.
I'm going to have it on a nuclear expert that's going to tell you that
from the time North Korea launches a nuclear missile toward California, the president probably
has less than forty five to fifty seconds to make a decision. Does anyone
think that Joe Biden mentally is mentally alert sufficient to make any decisions He has
no clues to what's going on in his life. He doesn't know who his
secretary of Defense is. The other day he didn't know the name My Yorkis
Homeland Security, had no idea who that guy even was. He looks at
people and he's mindless, and so I don't know what's going to happen Thursday
night, we're I'm going to get a hold of Wayne Allen Root, get
on someone from the Trump campaign to talk about it. But this debate for
the five to seven percent of uncommitted voters is critical to the survivability of this
country. We cannot have another twenty to fifty million illegals enter America. We
simply can't. We're not scaled to do it. The schools, to the
hospitals, the eers, the highways, how about the apartments, how about
the homes. Don't have the money. We're collapsing. The country is literally
collapsing, and we need someone a tough guy to get in there, like
a Tony soprano, maybe don He needs somebody in there like Donald Trump who'll
do what's right for this country. I love his pro America, patriotic viewpoints
that you'll never find whatsoever from Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. If Joe Biden
wins the election, and of course the media and the Democrats will kick him
out within the first thirty to ninety days, he's gone. Here comes Kamala
Harris, and then she's going to rule for a thousand years, her and
her philosophy. We have one chance to get it right. It's November the
fifth, and it all begins on Thursday night with Donald Trump. And I
pray that all Christians and Jews, and Sikhs and Muslims pray right now for
Donald Trump. Bill Cunningham, the Great American, with you on all of
the great Americans every Sunday night,