WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:03.439 Portions of The Bill Cunningham Show may be pre recorded. 2 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:33.479 Willie Brove You by Choice Hotels, Econo Lodge and Roadway 3 00:00:33.520 --> 00:00:36.320 In Hotels are serving up double points for every qualifying 4 00:00:36.359 --> 00:00:39.880 stay book at Choice Hotels dot com. Now here's the 5 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:43.840 man who's been recognized as radio's best, the recipient of 6 00:00:43.960 --> 00:00:48.719 not one, but two prestigious Marconi Awards for his broadcast exodence, 7 00:00:49.119 --> 00:00:51.359 the one and only Bill Cunningham. 8 00:00:51.359 --> 00:00:54.359 All right, Billy cunning Into Great American Welcome this Sunday night, 9 00:00:54.439 --> 00:00:57.280 Durha Memorial Day weekend. In fact, even sixty minutes at 10 00:00:57.280 --> 00:01:00.200 a fair report a few hours ago on the sacrifice 11 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:03.200 of American soldiers. It was a story about a twenty 12 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:06.400 nine year old sealed team member who killed himself at 13 00:01:06.439 --> 00:01:10.439 the age of twenty nine, and his father, who names Larkin, 14 00:01:10.439 --> 00:01:13.719 who's a hero's working his damness to make sure that 15 00:01:13.879 --> 00:01:17.280 it's understood what happens through traumatic brain injury. It might 16 00:01:17.319 --> 00:01:20.319 not be one event like an ied, could be thousands 17 00:01:20.319 --> 00:01:23.359 of bullets fired with the sound and the reverberations and 18 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:26.120 one good thing. Every now and then, sixty minutes has 19 00:01:26.159 --> 00:01:28.840 a lucid report, and tonight was one of them. But 20 00:01:28.920 --> 00:01:32.400 I first, want to begin by acknowledging the sacrifice of 21 00:01:32.439 --> 00:01:35.519 about one point one million Americans who gave their life, 22 00:01:35.840 --> 00:01:39.519 which is why we celebrate Memorial Day, which is tomorrow 23 00:01:39.560 --> 00:01:42.200 Memorial Day Week. And hopefully you had time to attend 24 00:01:42.280 --> 00:01:45.439 to parade or go to a cemetery where the veterans 25 00:01:45.719 --> 00:01:50.079 the dead had been buried, and remember what they've done 26 00:01:50.079 --> 00:01:53.480 for us, and take advantage of the opportunities they provided, 27 00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:57.519 especially also the family members left behind right now, there's 28 00:01:57.560 --> 00:02:01.040 about twenty five thousand spouse is who are living right 29 00:02:01.079 --> 00:02:04.239 now with a loved one who died giving his life 30 00:02:04.239 --> 00:02:08.199 for this country, along with forty thousand parents and grandparents 31 00:02:08.280 --> 00:02:11.000 and children and left behind. And we can never do 32 00:02:11.159 --> 00:02:14.599 enough for our veterans. And just remember today it's not 33 00:02:14.719 --> 00:02:17.919 Veterans Day, it's not Independence Day. It's to acknowledge the 34 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:21.879 dead by one point one million who died in sacrificing. 35 00:02:21.960 --> 00:02:24.680 Later on, Danny Gleeson, my executive producer, is going to 36 00:02:24.680 --> 00:02:27.280 play a little two and a half three minute cut 37 00:02:27.639 --> 00:02:30.080 from We Are Soldiers with Mel Gibson, which is a 38 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:34.840 fabulous recitation of the hero the heroic values of the 39 00:02:34.840 --> 00:02:37.560 American soldier. And if you have time, Tony to look 40 00:02:37.599 --> 00:02:40.960 at the remarks of General Douglas MacArthur in nineteen sixty 41 00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:44.000 four when he received the Thayer Award. It's the duty, 42 00:02:44.039 --> 00:02:46.719 honor and country speech and download it, read it, and 43 00:02:46.759 --> 00:02:51.280 it describes definitively what the American soldier is. But thanks 44 00:02:51.280 --> 00:02:53.719 for listening. As you travel thither and fro. There's something 45 00:02:53.800 --> 00:02:58.039 like fifty million Americans going somewhere tonight, and hopefully you 46 00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:01.120 have a safe exit in return to your home. Now 47 00:03:01.199 --> 00:03:05.400 let's continue. We have lots of coming in tonight, including 48 00:03:05.439 --> 00:03:09.960 a call from Israel relative a man there named Neir Solomon, 49 00:03:10.439 --> 00:03:14.240 who is going to comment on the murder of those 50 00:03:14.280 --> 00:03:17.800 two diplomats in the Israeli embassy about a week ago, 51 00:03:18.280 --> 00:03:24.680 and the reaction of Iran seemingly backing the murderer and 52 00:03:25.039 --> 00:03:29.840 offering praise for what the murderer did, you know, Free Palestine, Free, 53 00:03:29.879 --> 00:03:32.360 free Palestine, that kind of stuff. And I have a 54 00:03:32.400 --> 00:03:34.800 guest come on to address himself to that. Plus later 55 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:38.840 later on, as Leland Vinterck of News Nation about Biden's 56 00:03:38.840 --> 00:03:41.719 a mental decline, more and more came out over the 57 00:03:41.759 --> 00:03:45.000 weekend after the book of Jake Tapper. I think my 58 00:03:45.080 --> 00:03:48.479 good friend Sean Hannity calls him fake Jake Tapper, who 59 00:03:48.759 --> 00:03:53.080 kept secret the information he knew about Joe Biden's mental 60 00:03:53.120 --> 00:03:56.000 decline beginning about five or six years ago from his 61 00:03:56.120 --> 00:04:01.520 employer CNN, you know, the Clinton New Network, the cable 62 00:04:01.639 --> 00:04:04.639 news network of which he's a proud The face of 63 00:04:04.680 --> 00:04:07.840 the News network is Jake Tapper. He didn't tell us 64 00:04:07.840 --> 00:04:10.560 the truth about what he knew until he could write 65 00:04:10.599 --> 00:04:13.680 a book and get paid for it. That's wonderful. So 66 00:04:13.719 --> 00:04:16.199 we have a guest coming up later to address himself 67 00:04:16.199 --> 00:04:19.560 to that, and also the great Scott Powell as a 68 00:04:19.639 --> 00:04:24.000 story up on Discovery Network and also on Newsmax and 69 00:04:24.079 --> 00:04:27.560 my friend Christopher Ruddy in which we're going to discuss 70 00:04:28.040 --> 00:04:31.199 with you the remarks of Senator Ron Johnson and Wisconsin. 71 00:04:31.720 --> 00:04:34.240 Of course, you and I have great respect for conservatism. 72 00:04:34.600 --> 00:04:36.680 We have great respect for those who want to build 73 00:04:36.680 --> 00:04:39.399 and not destroy. We have great respect for those who 74 00:04:39.439 --> 00:04:41.959 want to pay and not be freeloaders. We have great 75 00:04:42.040 --> 00:04:44.879 respect for the achievers in our society and not those 76 00:04:44.920 --> 00:04:48.160 are right on the back of the achievers. And Senator 77 00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:52.759 Ron Johnson did an interview on news Max and what 78 00:04:52.959 --> 00:04:55.600 he said repeatedly and every every time I listen to 79 00:04:55.680 --> 00:04:58.279 Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, and he makes it, he makes 80 00:04:58.360 --> 00:05:02.439 more sense. He makes a point that despite the efforts 81 00:05:03.040 --> 00:05:08.360 of Donald Trump and Speaker Johnson and a majority leader 82 00:05:08.399 --> 00:05:12.439 Thuon John Thune to raid in federal spending, they haven't 83 00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:16.800 done it. Every time I hear or see a so 84 00:05:16.920 --> 00:05:20.920 called newsperson saying there's cuts to medicaid, I want to 85 00:05:21.000 --> 00:05:24.920 jump through the listening device or my TV screen because 86 00:05:24.959 --> 00:05:28.240 it's a lie. There are no cuts to anything in 87 00:05:28.279 --> 00:05:33.720 the federal program. Federal budget only increases. Ron Johnson points 88 00:05:33.720 --> 00:05:38.000 out some facts. You know, facts are stubborn things. And 89 00:05:38.079 --> 00:05:42.000 number one, during the eight years of Barack Hussein Obama, 90 00:05:42.720 --> 00:05:48.000 he averaged one point nine trillion dollars of deficits. So 91 00:05:48.160 --> 00:05:52.519 write that down if you can, Obama, I'm sorry, I'm 92 00:05:52.519 --> 00:05:55.560 want to rescind the record. Obama averaged nine hundred and 93 00:05:55.600 --> 00:06:00.000 ten billion dollars of deficits per year over eight years. 94 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:05.120 That was about approximately eight trillion dollars in deficit spending 95 00:06:05.199 --> 00:06:08.560 adding to the budget. And then, of course Donald Trump 96 00:06:08.680 --> 00:06:12.720 was elected for four pretty good years. In the first 97 00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:19.120 four years, the Donald Trump, as you may know, averaged 98 00:06:19.439 --> 00:06:24.160 on averaged of two point two trillion dollars. He blames 99 00:06:24.199 --> 00:06:27.920 the last year, of course was COVID, but nonetheless, approximately, 100 00:06:28.399 --> 00:06:32.759 Donald Trump in eight years his first term added eight 101 00:06:32.839 --> 00:06:37.680 more trillion dollars to the federal deficit. And so it's 102 00:06:37.680 --> 00:06:41.480 eight years with Obama, eight years with Trump, and then 103 00:06:41.600 --> 00:06:44.560 Biden comes into office, and those around in the Pollot 104 00:06:44.560 --> 00:06:49.160 Bureau around Joe Biden added about another over four years, 105 00:06:49.160 --> 00:06:53.879 eight trillion dollars. So since twenty eight we've added about 106 00:06:53.879 --> 00:06:57.600 twenty four trillion dollars to the national debt. And so 107 00:06:58.120 --> 00:07:01.720 Senator Johnson makes the point. He says, quote, I'm sorry 108 00:07:01.720 --> 00:07:05.240 the house build to probably add, I've calculated about four 109 00:07:05.319 --> 00:07:09.759 trillion more. You're saying that's on top of already the 110 00:07:09.800 --> 00:07:13.079 budget at for trillion over the next ten years. That 111 00:07:13.199 --> 00:07:15.800 means Donald Trump's going to average in his second four 112 00:07:15.879 --> 00:07:22.079 years another eight trillion dollars in deficit spending. And I 113 00:07:22.199 --> 00:07:25.800 know you recall the chainsaw and doze cuts, all of 114 00:07:25.839 --> 00:07:29.680 which are very important, no question about it. Those who's 115 00:07:29.680 --> 00:07:32.120 done a great job. In fact, I'm looking at a 116 00:07:32.199 --> 00:07:36.079 story here with doctor Oz who's discovered the something to 117 00:07:36.120 --> 00:07:40.079 the range of twenty four billion dollars in double payments 118 00:07:40.079 --> 00:07:43.279 by Medicaid twenty four billion. That's a lot of money. 119 00:07:44.040 --> 00:07:48.319 Doze talks about savings of one hundred and fifty billion, Well, 120 00:07:48.480 --> 00:07:54.040 that's a lot of money. But from Senator Johnson's perspective, quote, 121 00:07:54.319 --> 00:07:57.439 one of my disappointments with what the House process is 122 00:07:57.639 --> 00:07:59.959 about the number we have even heard of one point 123 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:04.360 five trillion. That's every year for ten years, one hundred 124 00:08:04.360 --> 00:08:07.560 and fifty billion. That's one point five trillion, which is great, 125 00:08:07.600 --> 00:08:10.600 he says, but that's a drop of the bucket. It's 126 00:08:10.639 --> 00:08:15.319 a rounding error. It's not that important a number. He 127 00:08:15.480 --> 00:08:20.199 says that ten years from now, on the glide path 128 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:23.399 that we're on, we're gonna add two trillion dollars a year, 129 00:08:23.399 --> 00:08:26.680 which is twenty trillion dollars more. On top of thirty seven, 130 00:08:28.040 --> 00:08:32.600 you're looking at fifty seven trillion dollars in non serviceable debt. 131 00:08:33.879 --> 00:08:37.080 And you know what happens when you have non serviceable debt, 132 00:08:38.200 --> 00:08:42.120 it's bankruptcy or default. There's got to be an urgency 133 00:08:42.519 --> 00:08:45.120 and can it be done? Absolutely? Will it be done? 134 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:50.399 Absolutely not. In fact, the two members of the House 135 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:56.000 that voted no was my guest last Sunday, Congressman Warren Davidson, 136 00:08:56.000 --> 00:08:57.519 who told you, I'm not going to vote for this 137 00:08:57.559 --> 00:09:01.799 thing because it doesn't cut federal spending at all. In fact, 138 00:09:01.840 --> 00:09:05.399 he said it increases it. Same way with Thomas Massy 139 00:09:05.480 --> 00:09:09.519 of Northern Kentucky, another one of my friends and congressman. 140 00:09:09.600 --> 00:09:12.799 In fact, the two congressmen who voted against it our 141 00:09:12.879 --> 00:09:15.360 guest on this show, and I know them both well, 142 00:09:15.960 --> 00:09:18.600 and they said, at some point, we got to acknowledge 143 00:09:18.919 --> 00:09:22.759 that we don't have the money. Now. When I watched 144 00:09:22.759 --> 00:09:26.879 Bill Hammer and others talk to Scott Bissett, the Treasury secretary, 145 00:09:26.879 --> 00:09:29.960 he talked about dynamic scoring, which is, how do you 146 00:09:30.000 --> 00:09:33.519 know the increased economic activity that will be caused by 147 00:09:33.519 --> 00:09:38.519 these minuscal tax cuts and without cause more money to 148 00:09:38.559 --> 00:09:41.559 come into the treasury. The answer is, yes, it probably will, 149 00:09:42.200 --> 00:09:45.840 but the spending is the problem. Give you an example 150 00:09:46.759 --> 00:09:50.639 in twenty twenty one, four years ago. We're not talking 151 00:09:50.679 --> 00:09:55.320 about nineteen fifties. I'm talking twenty twenty one. The federal 152 00:09:55.360 --> 00:09:59.519 spending in that year was four point seven trillion dollars 153 00:10:00.519 --> 00:10:05.120 in twenty twenty one. Beginning in October of twenty twenty five, 154 00:10:05.399 --> 00:10:07.759 what about four months from now, it's going to be 155 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:13.200 about seven trillion dollars. How's that possible? And in fact, 156 00:10:14.320 --> 00:10:18.360 the irs will bring in this year about five trillion 157 00:10:18.440 --> 00:10:21.279 dollars in taxes and tariff. Some people like you and 158 00:10:21.360 --> 00:10:24.600 I great majority of us pay our taxes. I think 159 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:26.720 taxes are rent to live in the greatest country in 160 00:10:26.759 --> 00:10:31.000 the world. So yes, So if we return the federal 161 00:10:31.039 --> 00:10:36.240 budget to twenty twenty spending levels, we have about a 162 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:39.759 four hundred billion dollar deficit every year. But we can't 163 00:10:39.799 --> 00:10:45.000 do that, not even close. So make no mistake about it. 164 00:10:46.279 --> 00:10:49.600 I love Ron Johnson. I love what he stands for. 165 00:10:50.759 --> 00:10:52.960 And we have to limit the size and the scope 166 00:10:52.960 --> 00:10:57.240 of government and make it work efficiently and effectively. And 167 00:10:57.279 --> 00:10:59.519 the spending has got to stop. We don't have a 168 00:11:00.159 --> 00:11:03.960 revenue problem, we have a spending problem. And when there's 169 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:08.360 little more tax cuts being administered, maybe five point one 170 00:11:08.480 --> 00:11:11.720 trillion in income tax receipts might be five point two 171 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:15.039 trillion or five point three trillion, But then we're going 172 00:11:15.080 --> 00:11:19.279 to spend north of seven trillion dollars on an annual budget. 173 00:11:20.159 --> 00:11:24.720 Can we return to the spending levels of twenty twenty one? 174 00:11:25.039 --> 00:11:28.120 The answer is no. The media will not allow it, 175 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:33.039 Democrats don't want it. And ninety nine percent of Republicans 176 00:11:33.039 --> 00:11:35.320 don't want it. They want to spend money on different 177 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:39.639 things that Democrats spend money on. And it's a miracle. 178 00:11:40.879 --> 00:11:41.039 You know. 179 00:11:41.120 --> 00:11:42.679 One of the things in life is you want to 180 00:11:42.720 --> 00:11:47.919 maintain the status quo, and you're a complete denial. And 181 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:51.440 we have ten trillion dollars in debt borrowed at two 182 00:11:51.480 --> 00:11:55.000 percent coming due in the next nine months, ten trillion, 183 00:11:55.399 --> 00:11:57.720 and that's going to triple the interest rate paid on 184 00:11:57.759 --> 00:12:01.399 those funds. Right now, we pay over one trillion dollars 185 00:12:01.440 --> 00:12:04.919 a year just an interest on the national debt, which 186 00:12:04.960 --> 00:12:09.120 isn't very sexy, but it's real numbers. And we're on 187 00:12:09.159 --> 00:12:11.440 the glide path under Donald Trump, and I'm sure the 188 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:15.240 next president to keep borrowing two trillion dollars every year. 189 00:12:16.159 --> 00:12:19.559 In fact, the GOEO has scored the passage of the 190 00:12:19.559 --> 00:12:22.879 bill by Speaker Mike Johnson and that over the next 191 00:12:22.919 --> 00:12:25.240 ten years we need to come up with twenty trillion 192 00:12:25.279 --> 00:12:28.879 dollars of money just to pay the accumulated national debt 193 00:12:29.240 --> 00:12:32.720 over those ten years, which is an additional twenty trillion 194 00:12:32.919 --> 00:12:36.840 dollars on top of the thirty seven trillion my simple 195 00:12:36.879 --> 00:12:39.799 Deer Park High School Matt tells me, that's fifty seven 196 00:12:39.879 --> 00:12:44.840 trillion dollars in accumulated debt. How is this possible? In 197 00:12:44.879 --> 00:12:49.240 the year twenty oh one, the accumulated national debt was 198 00:12:49.360 --> 00:12:54.639 four trillion. Now it's thirty seven trillion, what eight and 199 00:12:54.679 --> 00:12:59.799 a half times, and it's accelerating. It's not there's no cuts, 200 00:13:00.440 --> 00:13:03.360 real cuts to any federal spending program. So how do 201 00:13:03.440 --> 00:13:06.360 we get out of it? Number one by telling the truth? 202 00:13:07.600 --> 00:13:10.240 Number two by saying we have to live within our means. 203 00:13:10.799 --> 00:13:12.759 Very simple. We have a guest coming up later to 204 00:13:12.799 --> 00:13:18.240 address himself to this. And I understand that the Trumpster 205 00:13:18.279 --> 00:13:21.399 and the Republicans are not happy with Warren Davidson of 206 00:13:21.440 --> 00:13:25.360 Ohio and Thomas Massey of Kentucky. But there were two 207 00:13:25.440 --> 00:13:29.039 persons that stood up and said, we're not cutting federal spending. 208 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:32.679 At the bottom line, we're spending more money and we're 209 00:13:32.720 --> 00:13:37.720 still going to borrow two trillion dollars over every year 210 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:40.759 as far as the eye can see. According to CBO, 211 00:13:40.879 --> 00:13:45.320 the deficits average two point two trillion over ten years. 212 00:13:45.320 --> 00:13:49.240 That's twenty two trillion, But if you have dynamic scoring, 213 00:13:49.480 --> 00:13:52.159 the number might be closer to twenty trillion. Borrowed in 214 00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:55.759 ten years, which is two and a half times the 215 00:13:55.799 --> 00:13:59.639 money we borrowed from seventeen seventy six to two thousand 216 00:13:59.639 --> 00:14:02.879 and one. Think of the world events that took place 217 00:14:03.320 --> 00:14:07.080 from the Revolutionary War through nine to eleven, and the 218 00:14:07.200 --> 00:14:10.879 spending is accelerating, it is not decelerating. We're passing on 219 00:14:11.360 --> 00:14:13.799 in five or ten years to our children a non 220 00:14:13.879 --> 00:14:19.120 sustainable course of action. Completely. No one is saying that 221 00:14:19.159 --> 00:14:23.879 we can continue to have these deficits and the deficits 222 00:14:23.960 --> 00:14:28.320 yearly and the accumulated debt without having a complete bankruptcy 223 00:14:28.360 --> 00:14:32.960 happening in this country. Let's continue and if line becomes available. 224 00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:36.120 We have two lines in use and we have Gale 225 00:14:36.159 --> 00:14:39.120 from Pennsylvania will be first. We have four lines open 226 00:14:39.399 --> 00:14:43.200 at eight six, six, six, four, seven, seven, three three seven. 227 00:14:43.600 --> 00:14:45.600 If you want to spend time on the sacrifice of 228 00:14:45.639 --> 00:14:49.159 the American soldier, Memorial Day weekend is for that purpose. 229 00:14:49.279 --> 00:14:52.679 Plant an American flag somewhere at the grave of a 230 00:14:52.919 --> 00:14:55.559 soldier that has died in battle or a veteran that 231 00:14:55.639 --> 00:14:58.320 gave all, came home and lived a great life and 232 00:14:58.360 --> 00:15:01.879 has met his reward, because we can never repay them sufficiently. 233 00:15:02.519 --> 00:15:04.559 And also later on, We're going to talk about the 234 00:15:04.600 --> 00:15:07.399 mental acuity of one Joe Biden, who was the president 235 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:10.519 of the past four years. It wasn't Joe Biden, likely 236 00:15:10.600 --> 00:15:15.559 Hunter Biden, Anita Dunn, and maybe Donalin. And Hunter Biden 237 00:15:15.639 --> 00:15:18.399 controlled everything, and the media couldn't have cared less because 238 00:15:18.440 --> 00:15:21.120 they kept they think Donald Trump out of the White House. 239 00:15:21.679 --> 00:15:25.080 So let's continue eight six six six four seven, seven 240 00:15:25.120 --> 00:15:27.559 three three seven Bill cunning in the Great America with 241 00:15:27.600 --> 00:15:37.720 you every Sunday night by Bill cunning in the Great America. 242 00:15:37.759 --> 00:15:42.399 And you know what Jake Tapper and the NBC, ABC, CBS, 243 00:15:42.440 --> 00:15:46.240 the Washington Post headquartered in Washington has been wanting us 244 00:15:46.279 --> 00:15:48.279 to believe the last few weeks is that they were 245 00:15:48.360 --> 00:15:51.039 like a piano player in a house of ill repute, 246 00:15:51.480 --> 00:15:55.440 playing their music without knowing what's happening upstairs. It's a 247 00:15:55.440 --> 00:15:59.039 bunch of bs. And now that the truth is coming 248 00:15:59.039 --> 00:16:02.320 out because of these books by Jake Tapper and others 249 00:16:02.360 --> 00:16:04.120 saying no, wait a minute, we didn't have a president 250 00:16:04.200 --> 00:16:07.960 for four years and he was mentally corrupt. He was 251 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:12.240 also financially used by Hunter Biden to benefit the Biden 252 00:16:12.360 --> 00:16:16.080 family the tune of millions of dollars where's the investigation 253 00:16:16.240 --> 00:16:20.440 for that wire fraud, bribery, etc. I'm waiting for those 254 00:16:20.440 --> 00:16:23.320 indictments to come out of somebody. Because the Biden family 255 00:16:23.399 --> 00:16:26.360 the crime syd to get made millions of dollars, according 256 00:16:26.399 --> 00:16:29.759 to Congressman Comer of Kentucky, and they used their influence, 257 00:16:29.759 --> 00:16:32.600 shall I say, Hunter Biden and the Biden family used 258 00:16:32.600 --> 00:16:36.000 their influence to make millions of dollars in others suffering 259 00:16:36.039 --> 00:16:40.559 financial calamities because the gravy train is over and so 260 00:16:40.960 --> 00:16:44.120 I can't imagine how Jake Tapper and the main anchors 261 00:16:44.159 --> 00:16:47.360 of the main networks keep any credibility when they had 262 00:16:47.440 --> 00:16:50.159 dropped in their lap the obvious story that we didn't 263 00:16:50.159 --> 00:16:52.600 have a president for four years that was mentally alert. 264 00:16:53.200 --> 00:16:55.679 He put a lid on activities about four o'clock in 265 00:16:55.679 --> 00:16:58.519 the afternoon, spent half of his time on a beach 266 00:16:58.559 --> 00:17:02.399 somewhere stumbling, mumbling and fumbling in Delaware, and the media 267 00:17:02.440 --> 00:17:05.680 watched it all going on without inquiring about the president's 268 00:17:05.680 --> 00:17:09.240 mental status. And now some want to benefit through their 269 00:17:09.240 --> 00:17:14.519 own mistakes, errors and cover up. Jake Tapper, CNN, the 270 00:17:14.599 --> 00:17:18.759 Clinton News Network participated in the cover up of the 271 00:17:18.759 --> 00:17:23.559 president's mental instability and then failed to report in real 272 00:17:23.599 --> 00:17:26.480 time what was occurring because he had to wait to 273 00:17:26.519 --> 00:17:29.920 make millions of dollars writing a book. I don't know 274 00:17:29.960 --> 00:17:32.680 how CNN keeps them. I don't know how CNN keeps 275 00:17:32.720 --> 00:17:36.279 any of the anchors. The main anchor of CBS is gone. 276 00:17:36.640 --> 00:17:40.079 Leicester Hold is stepping down, thank god. David Muer's only 277 00:17:40.119 --> 00:17:42.920 when left and us like watching left wing propaganda half 278 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:45.640 the time? Where were they for the four years that 279 00:17:45.720 --> 00:17:49.720 Joe Biden was not the president? And that's some coterie 280 00:17:49.839 --> 00:17:52.839 or a pilot bureau of leftists were in charge doing 281 00:17:52.839 --> 00:17:56.559 whatever they wanted to do to the chagrin of this nation. 282 00:17:56.680 --> 00:17:58.839 I heard the argument, Well, give me an example how 283 00:17:58.920 --> 00:18:01.279 Joe Biden didn't do his job. Well, how about on 284 00:18:01.319 --> 00:18:04.160 the southern border with ten to twelve million illegals coming 285 00:18:04.160 --> 00:18:07.880 across it. How about the decision someone made in Kabo, 286 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:12.200 Afghanistan resulting in the murder of thirteen service personnel. How 287 00:18:12.240 --> 00:18:15.720 about the responses to the invasion of Ukraine, or what 288 00:18:15.839 --> 00:18:20.640 happened in what happened in Gaza with Hamas October the 289 00:18:20.640 --> 00:18:22.759 seventh of a year and a half ago. How about 290 00:18:22.759 --> 00:18:25.599 all that? How about the fact that he added eight 291 00:18:25.640 --> 00:18:28.759 trillion dollars to the national debt and only four years. 292 00:18:29.039 --> 00:18:33.200 How about the fact that ninety three billion dollars was 293 00:18:33.240 --> 00:18:38.319 funneled out of the EPA to liftist groups to be 294 00:18:38.400 --> 00:18:41.480 kicked back to the Democratic Party. Should I go on 295 00:18:41.640 --> 00:18:45.240 with the number of lies and hoaxes perpetuated by the 296 00:18:45.240 --> 00:18:48.559 mainstream media who now seek to financially benefit from not 297 00:18:48.839 --> 00:18:53.000 doing their job. I hope not. Let's continue take your 298 00:18:53.000 --> 00:18:57.799 calls next. We have calls from Wisconsin, in Pennsylvania and 299 00:18:57.960 --> 00:19:01.519 Fort Wayne, Indiana and Cincinnati have a couple of lines 300 00:19:01.599 --> 00:19:04.160 open at eight six six six four seven seven three 301 00:19:04.279 --> 00:19:08.599 three seven. I particularly like to work holiday weekends, especially 302 00:19:08.680 --> 00:19:12.319 this one, because I love complimenting the American soldier, sailor, 303 00:19:12.359 --> 00:19:15.920 and marine and the sacrifices so many have made. Some 304 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:20.119 gave the ultimate sacrifice, some gave all, and all gave some. 305 00:19:21.000 --> 00:19:23.440 And for those veterans who are listening, thank you for 306 00:19:23.480 --> 00:19:26.680 your sacrifices. Let's continue with more. Phil Cunningham, The Great 307 00:19:26.680 --> 00:19:39.640 American with you every Sunday by Billy Cunningham, The Great 308 00:19:39.720 --> 00:19:44.759 American and one of my favorite movies was put together 309 00:19:44.799 --> 00:19:47.680 about twenty three years ago, of course, by Mel Gibson 310 00:19:48.359 --> 00:19:51.279 starring him and Sam Elliott. I loved him. I loved 311 00:19:51.319 --> 00:19:56.119 Sam Elliott, especially in some of the some of the 312 00:19:56.200 --> 00:19:59.359 recent films that he's had. I think Sam Elliott is 313 00:19:59.440 --> 00:20:04.359 wonderful and especially when he deals with Western characters. And 314 00:20:04.759 --> 00:20:08.000 great Kanear was there and tell us the story of 315 00:20:08.279 --> 00:20:12.720 one of the first battles of the Vietnam War when 316 00:20:13.000 --> 00:20:15.519 Mel Gibson and Sam Elliott led a group of Green 317 00:20:15.640 --> 00:20:18.480 recruits into the Valley of Death, which was the first 318 00:20:18.599 --> 00:20:22.079 one of the first major conflicts between the American soldiers 319 00:20:22.079 --> 00:20:25.920 in North Vietnam depicted in this movie. And this is 320 00:20:25.920 --> 00:20:28.160 about a two minute segment I want to share with 321 00:20:28.240 --> 00:20:31.039 you now to talk about Melt Gibson, what he said 322 00:20:31.440 --> 00:20:33.880 as they were getting ready for battle and Danny Boy 323 00:20:33.960 --> 00:20:34.960 Gleason hit it. 324 00:20:36.720 --> 00:20:38.599 In the seventh Cavalry. 325 00:20:39.519 --> 00:20:40.839 We got a captain from the. 326 00:20:40.880 --> 00:20:53.920 Ukraine, another from Puerto Rico. We've got Japanese, Chinese, Blacks, Hispanics, Jerokee, Indians, Jews, 327 00:20:53.960 --> 00:20:57.960 and Gentiles, all Americans. 328 00:21:00.079 --> 00:21:00.680 In the States. 329 00:21:01.920 --> 00:21:07.559 Some men in this unit may experience discrimination. 330 00:21:07.039 --> 00:21:10.799 Because of race or creed, but for you and me. 331 00:21:10.839 --> 00:21:11.319 Now. 332 00:21:13.279 --> 00:21:15.359 All that is gone. 333 00:21:16.000 --> 00:21:18.839 We're moving into the Valley of the shadow of death, 334 00:21:21.000 --> 00:21:23.200 where you will watch the back of the man next 335 00:21:23.240 --> 00:21:27.400 to you as he will watch yours, and you won't 336 00:21:27.400 --> 00:21:32.160 care what color he is or by what name he calls. God. 337 00:21:34.160 --> 00:21:40.039 They say we're leaving home. We're going to what home 338 00:21:40.880 --> 00:21:46.799 was always supposed to be. So let us understand the situation. 339 00:21:48.720 --> 00:21:55.559 We are going into battle against a tough and determined enemy. 340 00:21:59.240 --> 00:22:03.000 I can't promise you and I will bring you all 341 00:22:03.039 --> 00:22:03.680 home alive. 342 00:22:06.359 --> 00:22:08.119 But this I swear. 343 00:22:09.759 --> 00:22:13.839 Before you and before Almighty God, that when we go 344 00:22:13.880 --> 00:22:18.279 into battle, I will be the first to set foot 345 00:22:18.359 --> 00:22:22.279 on the field, and I will be the last to 346 00:22:22.319 --> 00:22:27.319 step off, and I will leave no. 347 00:22:27.279 --> 00:22:30.039 One behind. 348 00:22:33.960 --> 00:22:35.319 Dead or alive. 349 00:22:37.839 --> 00:22:44.640 We will all come home together. So help me God, Now, 350 00:22:44.720 --> 00:22:49.079 fifteen thousand of my generation did not come home except 351 00:22:49.079 --> 00:22:53.039 in a body bag or in remembrances. And the sacrifices 352 00:22:53.079 --> 00:22:57.160 of the American soldier, despite the political machinations of LBJ 353 00:22:57.319 --> 00:23:00.319 and Richard Nixon, is for the history books. But owen 354 00:23:00.359 --> 00:23:03.559 can question the sacrifice of a great nation trying to 355 00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:07.319 free the people of Vietnam. And of course, the political 356 00:23:07.400 --> 00:23:11.880 leaders knew early on McNamara and Johnson, etc. That we 357 00:23:11.880 --> 00:23:14.839 weren't going to use the right military prescriptions to win 358 00:23:14.920 --> 00:23:17.319 the war. We wanted to compete in that war and 359 00:23:17.359 --> 00:23:20.200 not win, So there was bitterness felt by many of 360 00:23:20.240 --> 00:23:24.000 my generation about the purposes of that war. And now 361 00:23:24.039 --> 00:23:26.599 I guess we're in a sense friends with Vietnam. It's 362 00:23:26.640 --> 00:23:31.839 united under a communist leader who's trending toward capitalism, and 363 00:23:31.880 --> 00:23:35.240 it's a war that was eventually won by the regulars 364 00:23:35.279 --> 00:23:39.160 of the north of Vietnam took over Saigon. And it's 365 00:23:39.200 --> 00:23:41.400 the way it is, same thing almost in South Korea. 366 00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:44.920 We had to have victory there. And tonight's the night 367 00:23:44.960 --> 00:23:48.279 when something in the range and what for a six 368 00:23:48.359 --> 00:23:52.359 hundred thousand civil war veterans on both sides were killed. 369 00:23:52.359 --> 00:23:57.039 Four hundred thousand were killed in World War II, then 370 00:23:57.119 --> 00:23:59.599 the various other conflicts brings the sad number up to 371 00:23:59.599 --> 00:24:02.079 about war one point one to one point two million. 372 00:24:02.119 --> 00:24:05.079 It gave their life, and many come home they never 373 00:24:05.160 --> 00:24:08.759 really are free of those battles. I share with you 374 00:24:08.880 --> 00:24:11.880 on Father's Day coming up in about three weeks, the 375 00:24:11.920 --> 00:24:14.680 story of my father who fought in Guadalcanal and the 376 00:24:14.720 --> 00:24:18.160 Solomon Islands and in China, and that he was in 377 00:24:18.200 --> 00:24:20.880 for two and a half years and Uh, he was 378 00:24:20.920 --> 00:24:23.400 a grunt and he came back a different person. Of 379 00:24:23.440 --> 00:24:26.200 course I wasn't even born yet, but the stories I 380 00:24:26.279 --> 00:24:29.039 heard later about what he went through as an alcoholic 381 00:24:29.119 --> 00:24:30.920 trying to forget what he saw and what he did, 382 00:24:31.599 --> 00:24:33.599 is something that caused a little bit of guilt in 383 00:24:33.640 --> 00:24:37.839 me until the day I die. Because he left, couldn't 384 00:24:37.880 --> 00:24:41.960 handle it anymore. I called, you know, shell shocked, whatever 385 00:24:42.000 --> 00:24:44.880 you want to say. It's now PTSD, but at that 386 00:24:44.920 --> 00:24:47.799 point it wasn't recognized as such. I guess he was 387 00:24:47.880 --> 00:24:50.960 one of the lucky ones that came home. And uh, 388 00:24:51.119 --> 00:24:55.119 after World War Two, about four hundred thousand didn't come home, 389 00:24:55.720 --> 00:24:59.440 and their and their graves mark the land and about 390 00:24:59.480 --> 00:25:02.920 seventy five different nations. So we try to spread packs 391 00:25:02.960 --> 00:25:06.319 from out Mayrkana to the world, sometimes with success and 392 00:25:06.400 --> 00:25:09.799 sometimes not. Let's take some telephone calls and if the 393 00:25:09.799 --> 00:25:12.680 line becomes available eight six six six four seven seven 394 00:25:12.759 --> 00:25:15.920 three three seven, let's go to a Mark in Wisconsin 395 00:25:15.960 --> 00:25:20.519 and many others including Gale in Pennsylvania and Mark and Wisconsin. 396 00:25:20.599 --> 00:25:22.680 Welcome to the Bill Cunningham, Shaw and Mark. How are you. 397 00:25:23.519 --> 00:25:25.160 I'm doing fine, How are you tonight? 398 00:25:25.279 --> 00:25:26.200 Doing well? Thank you? 399 00:25:27.000 --> 00:25:29.039 Well, happy Memorial Eve. 400 00:25:29.240 --> 00:25:31.759 Yeah, it's kind of tough to say have a great 401 00:25:31.799 --> 00:25:36.680