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Speaker 1: Hi, Billy Cunningham, the Great America. Welcome this glorious Sunday
Speaker 1: night between Christmas and New Year's glorious December the twenty ninth,
Speaker 1: with you Live. I would note the passing of President
Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter. He had not much of a presidency, but
Speaker 1: had a great post presidency, spent forty five years in
Speaker 1: life after he left the office of the presidency to
Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan. Thank god that happened. If everyone that knew
Speaker 1: him or met him, he was a great guy. He
Speaker 1: was a good husband of good father, grandfather, great grandfather,
Speaker 1: and certainly his conduct after they left the office was meritorious.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 1: President Donald Trump a few hours ago issued a statement
Speaker 1: and to the Cardon family offering his condolences and talking
Speaker 1: about the positive things in Jimmy Carter's life. As an
Speaker 1: old man once said, and may all the good be
Speaker 1: remembered in the bed in turred with the bones. So
Speaker 1: I pray that Jimmy Carter is in the hands of
Speaker 1: God Almighty tonight, and that he's with his lovely wife Rosalind,
Speaker 1: and that he has earned his place in heaven because
Speaker 1: of his conduct. And I wish the Carter family well.
Speaker 1: And secondly I wish you a merry Christmas and a
Speaker 1: happy New Year. We have about two two days to go.
Speaker 1: Something good or bad could happen the next two days.
Speaker 1: Joe Biden, after all, is still in charge, so to speak.
Speaker 1: We don't know what the hell's going to happen. But nonetheless,
Speaker 1: may you and yours have a wonderful and a prosperous
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. I said to one of my guests
Speaker 1: earlier this afternoon, as I was talking to Scott Powell,
Speaker 1: of course off the air, about imagine what would have
Speaker 1: happened if things had gone wrong and November the fifth,
Speaker 1: and that somehow we'd be sitting here tonight talking about
Speaker 1: the first term of Kamala Harris and Tim Waltz as
Speaker 1: president and vice president, where we would be as a nation,
Speaker 1: where the world would be right now, there's a sense
Speaker 1: that the Ukrainian war is going to somehow wrap up,
Speaker 1: that Hamas is going to play ball and release the hostages,
Speaker 1: that all the world's leaders are making their way to
Speaker 1: mar A Lago to talk to the Donald. There's a
Speaker 1: sense of strength and power. There's a strength of compassion,
Speaker 1: There's a strength of competency that otherwise would not be president.
Speaker 1: How Kamala Harris could have gotten that close to the
Speaker 1: presidency when in twenty nineteen she did not last in
Speaker 1: the Democratic primary long enough to get one vote. Her
Speaker 1: four years as vice president were ridiculous. She had the
Speaker 1: lowest ratings of any VP. She had one point five
Speaker 1: billion dollars that she blew on stuff like paying off
Speaker 1: Oprah Winfrey, John bon Jovian Moore ran a terrible, awful campaign,
Speaker 1: could not even articulate why she was running for the presidency,
Speaker 1: Yet she still received something in the range of seventy
Speaker 1: four million votes the final tally. Trump won by one
Speaker 1: point eight million popular votes, receiving forty nine point eight
Speaker 1: and she received forty seven percent. But most importantly, the
Speaker 1: Trumpster got three hundred and twelve electoral votes, and that's
Speaker 1: how things are measured. And he won first president to
Speaker 1: win the popular vote since twenty oh four, and the
Speaker 1: terrible presidency of Bush forty three continued. Of course John
Speaker 1: Kerry would have been worse. But I wish you and
Speaker 1: yours merry Christmas in a happy new year coming up.
Speaker 1: Many issues are going to have to be dealt with today.
Speaker 1: One there's Joe Biden himself. He gave a sort of
Speaker 1: an interview and what she has said his only main
Speaker 1: regret as president was not prosecuting Donald Trump harder so
Speaker 1: ball humbug. So that's Joe Biden somewhere in Saint Croix,
Speaker 1: near the Islands where Alexander Hamilton was born, saying a
Speaker 1: couple of days ago that his only regret is that
Speaker 1: he didn't put Donald didn't put Trump in jail. But
Speaker 1: he says he's going to go to the inaugural and
Speaker 1: some three or four dozen lawmakers Democrats say they're not
Speaker 1: going to go. They don't recognize him, they don't accept
Speaker 1: the outcome of elections. But that is somewhat illustrative of
Speaker 1: a difficulty. And I did spend some time this afternoon
Speaker 1: on the phone speaking to some congressman, and I listened
Speaker 1: with interest. Congressman Michaeh. Lawler of Rhode Island. He's a Republican,
Speaker 1: he makes a lot of sense. He's the bearded one.
Speaker 1: And he said, Mike Johnson's going to get two hundred
Speaker 1: and eighteen votes. One of them supposedly will not come
Speaker 1: from Thomas Massey of Northern Kentucky. Well, I know Thomas
Speaker 1: talk to him about a week or two ago. He
Speaker 1: said he's not going to it for Mike Johnson. That
Speaker 1: if that's the case, two eighteen becomes two seventeen, in
Speaker 1: which case we may have a crisis. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but Mike Lawler says it. And when I talked to
Speaker 1: one or two other Congressmen and a certain person connected
Speaker 1: to the top of the Trump administration, they believe they
Speaker 1: have the votes to have Mike Johnson selected as the
Speaker 1: next speaker, which has to happen on the third, maybe
Speaker 1: as late as the fourth. It can't go to the
Speaker 1: sixth because, let's face, they're going to get back in
Speaker 1: session on Thursday or Friday of this week, and the
Speaker 1: first order of business has to be to select a
Speaker 1: speaker of the House and needs to be Mike. It
Speaker 1: needs to be Mike Johnson and Louisiana because the Trumpster
Speaker 1: wants him. And uh. But those I speak to say
Speaker 1: somehow it's going to happen. I would also know it.
Speaker 1: This morning an ABC News with Jonathan Carl, they were snickering,
Speaker 1: as Jonathan Carl always does, about the tech Bros against
Speaker 1: the factor of John with Bannon on Steve Bannon on
Speaker 1: one side and the tech Bros on the other, and
Speaker 1: they and their ABC News is calling it a war.
Speaker 1: It's not a war, it's a disagreement. I think I'm
Speaker 1: on the side of the Trumpster when it comes to
Speaker 1: many of these visas that have to be extended for
Speaker 1: survivalship of the country. I'm gonna give you some salient facts.
Speaker 1: I spent some time looking them up because I love
Speaker 1: Peter's eye hand. He's often in exotic ports of call,
Speaker 1: but he's a philosopher who notes with interest that Russia
Speaker 1: and China are both in a death spiral. They cannot
Speaker 1: survive more than two or three more generations because of
Speaker 1: the lack of births, and the one China policy is
Speaker 1: killing the future of communists. Read China also Russia is
Speaker 1: in a spiral population wise, and guess what. America is
Speaker 1: also in the death spiral population wise. Give me the numbers.
Speaker 1: By the end of this century, America is going to
Speaker 1: have a demographic problem of incredible proportions. In nineteen fifty,
Speaker 1: which wasn't that what seventy seventy four years ago, every
Speaker 1: woman had on average three point five babies. Three point
Speaker 1: five A woman has to have two to maintain the
Speaker 1: population the baby boomers through nineteen sixty four, three point five,
Speaker 1: that's good number. Nineteen eighty got down to two point
Speaker 1: five per woman. Well, that's a little bit above sustaining
Speaker 1: the population. Every woman allegedly must produce two point one
Speaker 1: in order to maintain the population. By the way, men
Speaker 1: do not have babies. Women do not have testees testicles,
Speaker 1: and women do not have the ability of producing children,
Speaker 1: and men do not have fallopian tubes. I hate to
Speaker 1: say that, but that's the case. And twenty twenty it
Speaker 1: got down to one point six. So in America every
Speaker 1: woman on average has one point six babies, which means
Speaker 1: you got to have two point one to maintain the
Speaker 1: population or losing the population. But the other thing is
Speaker 1: happening We're not losing population because of illicit immigration into
Speaker 1: the country. So to me, the immigration debate is not
Speaker 1: about immigration yes or no. Immigration must be yes, But
Speaker 1: the issue is who's coming into the country and who's
Speaker 1: not coming into the country. We went into the country.
Speaker 1: We want those best and brightest. We want legal immigration. Americans,
Speaker 1: We're so good, so many peoples all over the world
Speaker 1: want to come here. We can pick and choose who
Speaker 1: can supply us with legal immigration that we need. They
Speaker 1: could be tomato pickers, that could be engineers, they could
Speaker 1: be nuclear physicists, or they could be waiters. Whatever it is,
Speaker 1: America must decide, not the marketplace. So the debate to
Speaker 1: me is not about illegal immigration or ilegal immigration. The
Speaker 1: only debate is who to legally admit into the country
Speaker 1: and who to keep out of the country. Because having
Speaker 1: an unbridled immigration system where those coming into the country
Speaker 1: decide who comes, is a disaster. It is the most
Speaker 1: important issue, a vital issue, because it affects every part
Speaker 1: of your life and every part of my life. It
Speaker 1: affects every part of the American way of life. It
Speaker 1: affects the macro economy and the micro economy. It affects
Speaker 1: the labor market. Who's hired, who's not hired. Many Americans
Speaker 1: don't want to apply for work anymore because the jobs
Speaker 1: they want to take are not available. It impacts terribly
Speaker 1: negatively the welfare state. I live in Little Cincinnati, Ohio.
Speaker 1: We have a county about one hundred miles away named
Speaker 1: Clark County. Will Springfield, Ohio, is located in that little
Speaker 1: area of forty thousand people. The government, Joe Biden, put
Speaker 1: twenty thousand hations in a community of forty thousand that
Speaker 1: doesn't work, and none of their job skills are needed
Speaker 1: in Clark County. Believe me. Now many are dispersing all
Speaker 1: over the country. The welfare costs are well over one
Speaker 1: hundred billion dollars a year. And on top of that,
Speaker 1: the criminal expenses, the cost of crime committed by these illegals,
Speaker 1: it's well over one hundred and fifty billion dollars a year.
Speaker 1: It affects the welfare state, It affects national security. We
Speaker 1: don't know where the thousands of terrorists are in this
Speaker 1: country because of Joe Biden. We don't know where they're located.
Speaker 1: It affects everyday crime, It affects all the Chilean and
Speaker 1: Venezuelan gangs praying in major cities because of the policies
Speaker 1: of Joe Biden. It affects our language, our religion, our culture,
Speaker 1: our values, It affects our ethics. It affects our customs,
Speaker 1: our lifestyles, our habits, and our way of life. I've
Speaker 1: gone to several legal immigrations, swearing in sara ceremonies in
Speaker 1: a federal court. It is heartwarming to watch individuals who've
Speaker 1: gone through the system legally, that know what the first
Speaker 1: Amendment is, that know what the federal's papers are, that
Speaker 1: know how many states there are that I've sworn them in,
Speaker 1: and I feel great about that. We need legal immigration
Speaker 1: in ever increasing numbers for the needs that we have,
Speaker 1: and also illegal immigration affecting all those other things, the
Speaker 1: ethics and the values, the morals, the customs, the lifestyle,
Speaker 1: the language, and fundamental questions about our politics. How are
Speaker 1: we literally a nation with no borders? How does that work?
Speaker 1: It doesn't work. We've tried it now for the past
Speaker 1: forty to fifty years since Ted Kennedy stuck his nose
Speaker 1: into it, and it's accelerated the past four years under
Speaker 1: Joe Biden, with the goal of replacing the electorate with
Speaker 1: these large numbers of illegals. Who if the Democrats have
Speaker 1: won the House and the Senate and the President and
Speaker 1: see in November, guess what we would have illegals voting
Speaker 1: tether and fro and the country is done. So I
Speaker 1: don't consider a debate between Viveake Ramaswami on one hand
Speaker 1: and Steve Bannon on the other. The debate among we
Speaker 1: Trumpsters is we need legal immigration. H one ends absolutely,
Speaker 1: but we decide who comes in. They don't decide by
Speaker 1: walking and or legally entering the country. The founding fathers
Speaker 1: recognize this. I'll get into this later with the Scott
Speaker 1: Powell and that we're the only country on Eor two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen countries. There's only one that says in
Speaker 1: our constitution that individual citizens living in the United States
Speaker 1: of America receive their rights from God, from divine providence.
Speaker 1: And the purpose of government is to protect our rights
Speaker 1: given by God. So it's God citizens, and government protects
Speaker 1: the rights given to us by God. Every other country
Speaker 1: like Canada, has rights given to citizens in Canada from government.
Speaker 1: Government decides what your rights are, and government can take
Speaker 1: away those rights because they gave them to you in
Speaker 1: the first place. But government only exists in this country.
Speaker 1: God bless America in order to protect us from those
Speaker 1: who want to take from us God given rights. That
Speaker 1: analysis doesn't work anywhere else in the world, but in
Speaker 1: the good to the United States of America. So as
Speaker 1: we begin twenty twenty five, I want to share with
Speaker 1: you a few words from Alexander Hamilton, one of the
Speaker 1: founding fathers, one of the most important. He was the
Speaker 1: main author of the Federalist Papers, which I'll explain to
Speaker 1: you later what those are. And he opined in eighteen
Speaker 1: oh two before he was murdered by Aaron Birth that
Speaker 1: the safety of a republic he's talking about America being
Speaker 1: a republic, depends essentially on the energy of a common
Speaker 1: national sentiment, on a uniformity of principles and habits, on
Speaker 1: the exemption of the citizens from foreign bias and prejudice,
Speaker 1: and that love of America will almost invariably be found
Speaker 1: to be closely connected with birth, education, faith, and family.
Speaker 1: He lastly said, how extremely unlikely is it that foreigners
Speaker 1: will bring with them that temperate love of liberty so
Speaker 1: essential to real republicanism quote unquote, It says it right there.
Speaker 1: We've tried for fifty years, since the nineteen eighties, and
Speaker 1: Ted Kennedy through now to go the other route. Open
Speaker 1: the borders, report date years in advance, live in the country,
Speaker 1: get the benefits of citizenship without the cost of the
Speaker 1: price bankrupting the treasury, affecting our major cities, affecting home land, security,
Speaker 1: affecting crime, and the culture and religion and values and
Speaker 1: ethics and morals and customs, and all of a sudden
Speaker 1: we find ourselves now saying enough is enough. We can't
Speaker 1: take it anymore, so let's continue. I have also some
Speaker 1: comments to make about the comments of one Joe Biden
Speaker 1: saying that the Afghan when we had thirteen service members
Speaker 1: murdered at the gates of the airport and Cobbo Afghanistan,
Speaker 1: that wasn't a serious problem that Joe Biden had. The
Speaker 1: worst problem was not prosecuting Donald Trump quicker to get
Speaker 1: him locked up so he couldn't be the president. Plus,
Speaker 1: I want to get in a little bit about the
Speaker 1: Greenland and about the Panama Canal and things of that nature.
Speaker 1: And we'll continue glad to be with you live tonight.
Speaker 1: The name of the show is after all, Bill Hunningham
Speaker 1: live between Christmas and New Year's I'm with you now,
Speaker 1: and now let's take some calls and number to call
Speaker 1: his eight sixty six six four seven seven three three seven.
Speaker 1: I want to hear from you what went right this
Speaker 1: year went went wrong? I think one thing went right.
Speaker 1: I almost exempt from your comments Donald Trump, but picked
Speaker 1: something else that went right, because that was the hand
Speaker 1: of God making sure that Donald Trump became the president
Speaker 1: and didn't continue the policies of Barack Obama. Because obviously
Speaker 1: Biden has not been the president. By all the reporting,
Speaker 1: he had no clue what was going on. He still
Speaker 1: has no clue, and he probably won't give any eggs
Speaker 1: in interviews or any statements because he's babbling and the
Speaker 1: country knew it. The Washington press corps knew it. Democrats
Speaker 1: knew it, Republicans knew it. The media knew it and
Speaker 1: didn't do a damn thing about it. In fact, anyone
Speaker 1: in the press who sat in the Presidential press briefing
Speaker 1: room the Brady Briefing room should not get a renewed
Speaker 1: pass press of a press pass, because, after all, they
Speaker 1: didn't do their job the last four years. Why anticipate
Speaker 1: they might do their job the next four years. Let's
Speaker 1: continue eight sixty six, six, four, seven, seven, three three seven.
Speaker 1: Happy New Year, Bill Cunningham, the Great American with you
Speaker 1: and all other great Americans. Every Sunday night, it calls
Speaker 1: some Louisiana, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City in Florida. If two
Speaker 1: lines open, I get to in a moment, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take calls quicker tonight because I want to hear from you,
Speaker 1: the American people. One thing that has to occur, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, to change the direction of this country. It
Speaker 1: can't be four years, because the Trumpster this time will
Speaker 1: not be besieged by his own FBI, by illegal search warrants,
Speaker 1: by eavesdropping and lawsuits and all the rest, and by
Speaker 1: the FBI out to get them under James Comy and
Speaker 1: then under Christopher Ray. But for this to be a
Speaker 1: successful movement, Jane Vance needs to step up, which he's
Speaker 1: done so magnificently thus far, and be the nominee in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight and twenty thirty two. It needs to
Speaker 1: This can't be a four year run than back to
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris or back to the governors of Pritzger or
Speaker 1: Illinois or the governor of California or some other left winger.
Speaker 1: It can't happen that way. It's got to be a
Speaker 1: long period of time in which you have eight to
Speaker 1: twelve years to turn the country around. And Janey Vance
Speaker 1: is fluent in the language of the modern GOP. His
Speaker 1: performance in that debate against Tim Waltz was great, unbelievable.
Speaker 1: His appearances in person on the campaign trail has been very,
Speaker 1: very good. He's demonstrated a nimbleness and an acumen that
Speaker 1: many forty year olds do not have. He's the freshman
Speaker 1: senator from Ohio. On the other side, I'll tell you
Speaker 1: a story. The first time I met him, which was
Speaker 1: about seven or eight years ago, and the guy right intelligent,
Speaker 1: only had a one kid at that point, and we
Speaker 1: talked a little bit about the future. He wasn't going
Speaker 1: to be involved in politics, but then something changed his
Speaker 1: love of country. He said, why not choose me? Like
Speaker 1: in the Marine Corps. Jd Vance said, I'll go. So
Speaker 1: let's continue and if line becomes available eight six six
Speaker 1: six four seven seven three three seven quick story about
Speaker 1: jad Vance on the other side, then your calls Bill Cunninghan,
Speaker 1: the Great American with you and all of the great
Speaker 1: Americans Happy New Year every Sunday night. And then David
Speaker 1: and William and Larry and Andy and many others I
Speaker 1: first met why this must be an eight to twelve
Speaker 1: year process, because four years will not be nearly enough
Speaker 1: to correct what ails this country. But jd. Vance has
Speaker 1: got to be the anointed one to have four to
Speaker 1: eight years, hopefully eight years after Donald Trump, who Ronald
Speaker 1: Reagan was so popular. Nineteen eighty eight, the American people
Speaker 1: took a flyer on Bush forty one, which turned out
Speaker 1: to be a disaster. Bush forty three was even more
Speaker 1: of a disaster, and Dick Cheney even more of a disaster.
Speaker 1: So anything can happen. And I have trust, in faith
Speaker 1: that JD. Vance would not go the way of Bush
Speaker 1: forty one or Bush forty three, and that he'll pick
Speaker 1: up the cues from Donald Trump, the greatest politician, the
Speaker 1: greatest survivor, the greatest comeback story in the history of
Speaker 1: not just American politics but American life. I first met
Speaker 1: him in twenty sixteen or twenty seventeen. There's a county
Speaker 1: north of Hamilton County called Butler County, and as you
Speaker 1: may know. JD. Vance spent many years in Butler In
Speaker 1: Butler County, Middletown, Ohio, we call it Middle Tucky, and
Speaker 1: he grew up in a dysfunctional household. His father was
Speaker 1: not in the picture. His mother was a drug addict
Speaker 1: and worse. But nonetheless he had someone in the family
Speaker 1: that showed him the light and they came out of
Speaker 1: Butler County, got to eventually got to the Marine Corps.
Speaker 1: He had the sense as a young guy saying, you
Speaker 1: know what, there's got to be a world out there
Speaker 1: other than the drug addiction of so many in Butler County, Middletown, Ohio.
Speaker 1: He spent about four years in the Marines. That gave
Speaker 1: him the money to go to Ohio State, which he attended.
Speaker 1: That gave him the mental ability to finish top of
Speaker 1: his class to get to Yale Law School. That's where
Speaker 1: he met his lovely wife, Usha, and the rest is history.
Speaker 1: Made his way out to Silicon Valley and wrote a
Speaker 1: book called Hillbilly Elergy, which was the best seller and
Speaker 1: Hollywood made it into a successful movie. So as happens
Speaker 1: in many counties. As you may know, there's something called
Speaker 1: the Lincoln Reagan Fundraiser once a year, each County Republican
Speaker 1: Headquarters has a speaker come in to to raise money
Speaker 1: to keep the headquarters aflat and Butler County is a
Speaker 1: wonderful county north of Hamlet County. It says, I would
Speaker 1: think about three hundred and fifty thousand people in Butler County.
Speaker 1: And at that point, needless to say, JD. Vance wasn't
Speaker 1: the biggest draw in the world. We're going back twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: had the book JD. Elergy, and so someone made a
Speaker 1: connection with JD to come and be the Lincoln Reagan
Speaker 1: Day speaker. And he asked that said, you know, public
Speaker 1: speaking is not something I've done a lot of. At
Speaker 1: this point, what he would have been thirty one thirty
Speaker 1: two years old, and said, someone said, what about getting
Speaker 1: Bill Cunningham to kind of interview you on stage about
Speaker 1: your book Hill Billy Elergy, how it relates to today
Speaker 1: and in Butler County right now? If JD. Vance showed
Speaker 1: up in Butler County, you can hold to get together
Speaker 1: at the pay Course Stadium where the Bengals play. But nonetheless,
Speaker 1: at that point they wanted to bring in JD. Wanted
Speaker 1: me there to you know, to modestly say to add
Speaker 1: a little more star power. But Jade Vance was a
Speaker 1: guy that lived in Butler County, but not really connected
Speaker 1: to the Butler County Republican Party or in fact any
Speaker 1: Republican Party. In fact, at that point he had used
Speaker 1: the H word to describe Donald Trump and was a
Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton supporter. So I said to the organizer, I said,
Speaker 1: you know, this is raising money for the Republican Party,
Speaker 1: and I don't know jd Vance from Adam. I read
Speaker 1: the book. I then called him in preparation for the
Speaker 1: appearance to promote the appearance and talked about the book.
Speaker 1: He'llbilly Elogy, and I said to him, you know, we
Speaker 1: have to kind of downplay your support for Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 1: Had a Republican function. He said, oh, I understand completely.
Speaker 1: That was twenty sixteen, might have been twenty seventeen. So
Speaker 1: they sell it out, get two hundred and fifty tickets sold.
Speaker 1: And my good friend, Sheriff Richard K. Jones was the
Speaker 1: co chair of the Republican Party in Butler County along
Speaker 1: with Don Dixon, who county commissioner. And so I met
Speaker 1: him for the first time, and I'll say it, he
Speaker 1: was shy. He was uncertain of himself because he was
Speaker 1: appearing as a Republican, but he had Democratic viewpoints eight
Speaker 1: nine years ago. But he wanted to, you know, connect
Speaker 1: with Butler County Republican Party. That as a kid growing up,
Speaker 1: grow up, growing up in Middletown, Oh he had no
Speaker 1: idea about politics at all, didn't care. And it's pretty
Speaker 1: hard to come out of Silicon Valley at that point
Speaker 1: and not dislike Donald Trump and not love Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 1: But that's a different story. So we're up there in
Speaker 1: front of the stage and we have the book a
Speaker 1: little podium there and I'm giving a little bit of
Speaker 1: the history of JD. And I look at him and
Speaker 1: he's nervous, and I said to you, okay, so and
Speaker 1: I'm fine. You ask questions and if I get off track,
Speaker 1: get me back on track. And so when I saw
Speaker 1: him at the Republican National Convention in Minnesota, when I
Speaker 1: I saw him at that speech, I said, my god,
Speaker 1: is he a quick learner. This is wonderful. Jane Vance
Speaker 1: is wonderful. And it began. It started there and then
Speaker 1: after the Trumpster won in twenty sixteen, he later I
Speaker 1: had a conversation with him later about you know that
Speaker 1: was pretty good presidency. I said, yes, it was. So
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, he decided more or less on
Speaker 1: his own to run for a Senate seat in the
Speaker 1: state of Ohio that was available because Rob Portman, my
Speaker 1: friend lives about two miles from where I broadcast from,
Speaker 1: was retiring and they had you know, it was an
Speaker 1: open primary, which seldom happens, and he was running against
Speaker 1: a lady named Jame Timpkin who was chair of the
Speaker 1: Republican Party, very popular woman and a Trump supporter, and
Speaker 1: against a state senator named Matt Dolan, who family own
Speaker 1: owns the Cleveland not the Indians, but the Guardians. He's
Speaker 1: rich and jd Vance had one way of winning, and
Speaker 1: that is going down to mar A Lago, reconnecting with
Speaker 1: Don Junior, who is a great guy, Donald Trump Junior,
Speaker 1: wonderful person, and working that avenue to get to the
Speaker 1: Trumpster to have Donald Trump endorse jd Vance In twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two, all this is improbable, would you agree? If
Speaker 1: you take a kid in the drug wards of Middletown,
Speaker 1: we'd call it Middle Tucky, Ohio, and say that kid
Speaker 1: living in that drug house is going to be the
Speaker 1: vice president of the United States. No, only in America.
Speaker 1: Only in America can that happen. And so he ran
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two and against an incumbent, Matt Ryan Ryan,
Speaker 1: who was pretty good US congressman. In fact, I think
Speaker 1: he was fai to win. But with the Trump endorsement,
Speaker 1: and in twenty twenty two, with JD. Vance working crazy,
Speaker 1: he went to every county, met every chairman, had the
Speaker 1: endorsement Donald Trump. He pulled it out. He beat the
Speaker 1: Democratic congressman from Youngstown, barely, but beat him, and he
Speaker 1: becomes the new Senator from the state of Ohio. And
Speaker 1: have him on my local radio show all the time.
Speaker 1: And then it comes up that he's down to the
Speaker 1: final three to be selected by Donald Trump to be
Speaker 1: the VP. I think, you know, the other two would
Speaker 1: have been great, to Mark or Ruby. I think it
Speaker 1: would have been great. You could take almost any of
Speaker 1: the senators and they would have been great. But he
Speaker 1: wanted a new generation. And he met with with j
Speaker 1: D and his wife and his family. He's got three
Speaker 1: beautiful kids. Still lives about three miles from where I
Speaker 1: broadcast from. And the guy is bright, he's committed, he's loyal,
Speaker 1: and that the person that grew up in Middletown, Ohio,
Speaker 1: by the way, about five or six miles from for
Speaker 1: Veake Ramaswami where he grew up. He grew up in
Speaker 1: Hamilton County, Ohio, which is the county south of Butler County.
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable and that whenever I talk to JD it's like,
Speaker 1: can you believe this is happening? And he smiled, I
Speaker 1: can't believe it. So for Donald Trump, for the Mega
Speaker 1: Movement to succeed, it can't be forty eight months. It's
Speaker 1: got to be ninety six months. It's got to be
Speaker 1: eight years, or it's got to be twelve years, one
Speaker 1: hundred and forty four months, whatever it is. Because the media,
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party, the tech savvy individuals, colleges, universities aren't
Speaker 1: gonna lay down the next four years. They're going to
Speaker 1: fire everything they got at Donald Trump, and JD. Vance
Speaker 1: will be great armor because he can turn an argument
Speaker 1: against someone like a Yale Law school graduate. Should I'm
Speaker 1: proud of JD. Vance for Vake ramas Swam, I mean
Speaker 1: what they've accomplished. So with that said, not four years,
Speaker 1: eight to twelve years, then the country can give back
Speaker 1: to its basic roots of legal immigration. H one ends
Speaker 1: absolutely no problem. But we pick, not the whole world picks.
Speaker 1: We decide who comes here, not those with God knows
Speaker 1: the purposes. That's why it's gonna work. Let's go to
Speaker 1: telephone calls, go to We'll go to Dan and Louisiana.
Speaker 1: Then David and Pittsburgh and William and Larry and Andy
Speaker 1: and Judy and many others. And Dan and Louisiana. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the Bill Cunningham Show. And Dan, how are you Dan?
Speaker 1: I'm great, Bill, Go ahead, go.
Speaker 5: Ahead, Yeah, we two part questions for you. The Obama
Speaker 5: administration did away with the Smith on Sam basically giving
Speaker 5: the liberal media free reign of propaganda with no repercussions
Speaker 5: and not that I know, but as anything since then
Speaker 5: and did not how did he as Americans get that
Speaker 5: in the cross hairs of Donald Trump to restate that
Speaker 5: steroids to stop the media from the blatant.
Speaker 1: Line on the media front. The media sat there for
Speaker 1: four years knowing we had a mentally incompetent president who
Speaker 1: was a crook. They knew he was number one dirty
Speaker 1: financially because of Hunter Biden, and two they knew his
Speaker 1: mind was shot and the media sat there for four years,
Speaker 1: refusing to report on any of that because they would
Speaker 1: have helped Donald Trump. They all wore cheerleaders for the
Speaker 1: Democrat they had their skirts on for four years, and
Speaker 1: lastly put to the side the numerous sexual peccadillos of
Speaker 1: Joe Biden himself, not a few of which is adequately
Speaker 1: reported on, about his own daughter, and about terror Reid,
Speaker 1: and about sniffing little girl's hairs constantly. Well, we hit somebody,
Speaker 1: in my view who's a pervert, who's a crook, and
Speaker 1: he's mentally vacant, and the media sat there for four
Speaker 1: years and ignored it all because they thought in their
Speaker 1: minds this might help Donald Trump. And so I think
Speaker 1: you begin in the presidential briefing room that if you
Speaker 1: hit credentials for those four years and sat there as
Speaker 1: a cheerleader for the Democrat Party, take off your skirt.
Speaker 1: You don't get a press credential. You can't come here
Speaker 1: anymore because you're not a journalist. You're an ideologue serving
Speaker 1: the role of an ideologue. You're not independent, an objective CBS, NBC, ABC,
Speaker 1: especially PBS. We pay for bad left wing TV and
Speaker 1: bad radio with our tax dollars. I think that's going
Speaker 1: to happen, that there's going to be a different approach
Speaker 1: when it comes to Donald Trump dealing with the liars,
Speaker 1: the thieves, and the crooks and the mainstream media. Secondly,
Speaker 1: the Obamas have been in charge of the presidency, not
Speaker 1: Joe Biden for the past four years. Right now, who's
Speaker 1: issuing fifteen hundred commutations, who's issuing these pardons for mass murderers.
Speaker 1: It's not Joe Biden. Someone in his office I can't
Speaker 1: give you a name, chief of staff and others are
Speaker 1: simply putting papers underneath Joe Biden's ink penance had sign here,
Speaker 1: signed there. He's not been the president. In fact, the
Speaker 1: Wallstreet Journal reported that in the spring of twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: four years ago, that the White House staff knew they
Speaker 1: didn't have a president, so they propped them up like
Speaker 1: a dead el sit on a horse and rode him around.
Speaker 1: And the mainstream media permitted it to happen. And in
Speaker 1: a sense, I hate to say this, maybe they did
Speaker 1: us a favor because if they would have adequately reported
Speaker 1: on Joe Biden when he was running over the last
Speaker 1: first two years, that Democrats would have got rid of him,
Speaker 1: they would have had some more legitimate primary and maybe
Speaker 1: a tougher candidate would have arisen other than Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1: So maybe the media unwittingly did us a favor. But
Speaker 1: there's so much illegality that took place, so much money.
Speaker 1: Shapely and Zigler the irs agents testifying in the Congress
Speaker 1: about them wanting to pursue the money is given by
Speaker 1: Chinese and of the bank accounts of all the Bidens,
Speaker 1: and the eight year old granddaughters got twenty eight thousand
Speaker 1: dollars checks put in her account. That's that someone. If
Speaker 1: equal justice means anything, get a bulldog ex prosecutor, give
Speaker 1: him or hern unlimited budget and treat them the way
Speaker 1: they treated Donald Trump. I think turnabout's fair play. What
Speaker 1: do you say?
Speaker 2: I agree?
Speaker 1: Now, I thank you for your call, and I'll say
Speaker 1: you what. Happy New Year. Let's go to David and Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: then William and Salt Lake City about gun rights. David
Speaker 1: and Pittsburgh. Welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show. David, Happy
Speaker 1: New Year, how are you stay?
Speaker 4: Bill?
Speaker 6: Happy to year, buddy. I'm the one that called you
Speaker 6: earlier this year when I went to the Bella Pennsylvania rally.
Speaker 1: Yes you called me after Yes, Yes, I remember that, Yes.
Speaker 6: Yep, everything is good. I think the high point, as
Speaker 6: your alscreen, rafts man, I think the high point obviously
Speaker 6: this year is Troubramania winning back to the office, you
Speaker 6: know with JD And as you were to alluded to
Speaker 6: by the low point, I have to say his President
Speaker 6: of Katta passing away. Unfortunately, God called him home and
Speaker 6: he's with his wonderful wife Russelling and Bill. I'd like
Speaker 6: to mention about Habitat Humanity. I mean, I'm a conservative
Speaker 6: constitutionalist tea party guy. But you know, on the other hand,
Speaker 6: I believe that President Kada was a Christian. He standy
Speaker 6: before God and even though Reagan beat him like a druma,
Speaker 6: I mean a brag like that. But uh, I think
Speaker 6: that President Coatto was a very humble man and he
Speaker 6: did a lot of good with Habitat Humanity.
Speaker 7: You're going to give him his due.
Speaker 1: I've raised money for that group. Homelessness is a terrible problem.
Speaker 1: It's not getting any better, it's getting worse. And Jimmy
Speaker 1: Carter from the time he left the president say he
Speaker 1: spent the next forty four years doing a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of good things, and yes, a live one hundred years living.
Speaker 1: For imagine, he was born one hundred years ago in
Speaker 1: nineteen I say nineteen twenty four. He was born during
Speaker 1: the presidency, wasn't it Calvin Coolidge in nineteen twenty four?
Speaker 1: I think Calvin Coolidge and look at and he was
Speaker 1: an officer with Hymen rickover in the United States Navy
Speaker 1: and the nuclear submarine. He was an officer. And so
Speaker 1: I always respect those who step forward and serve in
Speaker 1: the military, and Jimmy Carter was one of them. So
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not going to smear Jimmy Carter at all.
Speaker 1: From the time he left the presidency. He was a
Speaker 1: great guy and a guy like that. If he's not
Speaker 1: in heaven, you and I have no shot.
Speaker 6: I know exactly, and I am you know. I just
Speaker 6: wanted to say all my prayers go out to the
Speaker 6: Carter film. He's brother, Billy Carter. I believe he's passed away, correct.
Speaker 1: I would think you'd have to. I don't know too
Speaker 1: many people lived. I think Billy might have been a
Speaker 1: few years younger. But you know, I'm not up on
Speaker 1: the Carter family. It was sad to watch to watch him,
Speaker 1: you know, at the one funeral where he came in.
Speaker 1: But David, thanks for your call. Let's have a great
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five good comments. Let's continue with more Bill
Speaker 1: cunning in the Great American with you every Sunday night.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 1: Let's continuing your calls and coming up will be William
Speaker 1: of Salt Lake City about gun rights, and Gary and
Speaker 1: Florida and Bill and Maryland and Paul and Andy and
Speaker 1: Jacksonville many others. One last thought is that DEI, which
Speaker 1: is a form of racial discrimination itself, is on his
Speaker 1: last legs. DEI diversity, inclusion, et cetera is equity is
Speaker 1: something that says to a person that your race, your
Speaker 1: sexual orientation, that kind of sects you enjoy, the color
Speaker 1: of your skin is going to count for something. And
Speaker 1: my source for it not counting for anything is Martin
Speaker 1: Luther King Jr. Andre or colleges universities other than Costco.
Speaker 1: By the way, Costco is not say they're going to
Speaker 1: stick with diversity, equity and inclusion, which is a form
Speaker 1: of race and sex discrimination, because they want to do it,
Speaker 1: and many people are quite unhappy with Costco because of that.
Speaker 1: But many colleges universities are saying, now, how many men,
Speaker 1: how many women, how many straight men, how many religious individuals?
Speaker 1: How many Asians have been discriminated against because of DEI?
Speaker 1: You simply change the object of the discrimination, and that's wrong.
Speaker 1: The Civil Rights Act means you can't do that, and
Speaker 1: Costco should not do that. Let's continue, Bill cunning and
Speaker 1: the great American with you and all of the great
Speaker 1: Americans every Sunday.
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Speaker 3: for his broadcast exodence, the one and only Bill Cunninghead.
Speaker 1: Let's continue now, who will be the last caller of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four? Getting ready for twenty twenty five? I
Speaker 1: would note the murder of a corrections officer. It happened
Speaker 1: on Christmas Day itself in the state of Ohio. Andrew Lanning,
Speaker 1: we spent many years as a CEO in a state prison,
Speaker 1: was a viciously attacked by a long time inmate and
Speaker 1: killed with his bare hands. And this corrections officers in
Speaker 1: the arms of God Almighty as I speak, murdered on
Speaker 1: Christmas Day by a person named Rashaan Cannon, twenty seven
Speaker 1: years old. No weapon was used. The State Patrol in
Speaker 1: Ohio is investigating the homicide. He's married and for the
Speaker 1: last twenty four years, as two kids and many siblings
Speaker 1: and many who loved him. And this criminal simply killed
Speaker 1: Andy for no reason whatsoever other than he wanted to
Speaker 1: kill someone. And this brave officer was standing in a
Speaker 1: long line and he was murdered. Andrew Lansing well respected
Speaker 1: and love by his colleagues at the High Department and
Speaker 1: Rehabilitation and Correction. He's one of about two hundred men
Speaker 1: and women killed in the line of duty, many with guns,
Speaker 1: other with cars and otherwise in the past twelve months.
Speaker 1: Addition to that, about fourteen undred others died or were
Speaker 1: killed by other means while on duty. But as far
Speaker 1: as the use of a weapon, it's about two hundred
Speaker 1: every year, two hundreds going up. But made the soul
Speaker 1: of Andrew Lansing rest in the arms of God Almighty.
Speaker 1: Let's continue with your calls. We have two lines open
Speaker 1: eight six six six four seven seven three three seven.
Speaker 1: In about an hour or so, we have joining us
Speaker 1: to Scott Powell and also later on this John Lott.
Speaker 1: At least for the next hour, it's you and I
Speaker 1: eight six six six four seven seven three three seven
Speaker 1: and William and Salt Lake City and Utah. William, Welcome
Speaker 1: to the Bill Cunningham Show. William, how are you.
Speaker 8: Wonderful? I want to wish you the happiest New Year
Speaker 8: reasonably possible.
Speaker 1: I anticipate, imagine that things are different politically, and we
Speaker 1: just had the continuation of the policies of Joe Biden
Speaker 1: for the next four to eight years. I give thanks
Speaker 1: a wake up with a smile on my face every morning.
Speaker 1: Now you want to talk about gun rights? What are they?
Speaker 9: You know?
Speaker 8: First of all, I knew you would be asking what
Speaker 8: was the greatest things.
Speaker 1: That happened this year?
Speaker 8: Short of the election. I wanted to make mention how
Speaker 8: many gun rights court cases were decided in our favor,
Speaker 8: many that the NRA got cleaned up, and other two
Speaker 8: A groups came out of the walls to find defend us.
Speaker 1: And now we have a president that's going to direct
Speaker 1: the Department of Justice to implement the Second Amendment, which is,
Speaker 1: you know, it's fundamental. When the courts take away a
Speaker 1: person's fundamental rights, I can't imagine a court saying, well,
Speaker 1: you don't have the right to practice your religion. You
Speaker 1: don't know the right freedom of press, you know, the
Speaker 1: right to assemble. Second Amendment is there to protect the
Speaker 1: First Amendment, and for too long, whether it's a state
Speaker 1: legislature or a judge, has written out of the Constitution
Speaker 1: the Second Amendment. We have a president now that will
Speaker 1: defend our rights through the Department of Justice, and that's
Speaker 1: a good thing.
Speaker 8: I've seen so many times the left complained that they
Speaker 8: couldn't win their election, so they turned around and went
Speaker 8: through the courts to get their point across whatever they
Speaker 8: were screaming for, and turned around as fair play.
Speaker 10: It is.
Speaker 1: I guess it is much like investigating all the criminality
Speaker 1: of the Biden crime family. I don't know how any
Speaker 1: other citizen could receive tens of millions of dollars from
Speaker 1: overseas sources to affect governmental policy and simply walk away
Speaker 1: and say, you know what, let's forget about that. Well,
Speaker 1: I can't imagine. I'll tell you what William if you
Speaker 1: had two i RS agents named shape Lee and Ziggler
Speaker 1: who testified under oath that they wanted to pursue criminal
Speaker 1: charges against you in Salt Lake City because you accepted
Speaker 1: twenty eight million dollars to change American foreign policy, and
Speaker 1: the Department of Injustice said, no, don't do it. People say,
Speaker 1: what are you talking about? But the Biden's have gotten
Speaker 1: the Obamas and the Clintons have got away with numerous crimes,
Speaker 1: and seemingly there's no recompense, nothing happens. Donald Trump pays
Speaker 1: off allegedly a porn star and that's thirty four count
Speaker 1: felony conviction in New York City. But I'm looking at
Speaker 1: the Biden crime family, the money, I look at the
Speaker 1: influence pedaling, I look at fair violations Federal Agent Registration Act.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at all the Treasury Department reports on moneys
Speaker 1: coming into this country illegally, and the Bidens in the
Speaker 1: middle of all of it, and the media like they
Speaker 1: can't hear, can't speak, can't see a damn thing. But
Speaker 1: someone ought to look into the illegalities of the Biden
Speaker 1: crime family and the involvements of the Obamas and the Clintons.
Speaker 8: What do you think exactly? Damn, You're a great American.
Speaker 1: Thanks, thank you for your call. Let's continue now we
Speaker 1: have Larry am I saying that correctly. Care I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: Carrie and Florida carry how are you?
Speaker 10: I'm good, mister Cunningham. I just want to tell you
Speaker 10: I'm a tremendous man. I look forward to listening to
Speaker 10: you every Sunday night here in Melbourne, Florida. I couldn't
Speaker 10: agree with you anymore, sir. When it comes to JD.
Speaker 10: Vans and we need that young man. He is brilliant,
Speaker 10: he is articulate. We need him for his eight years
Speaker 10: and that will give us through twelve years that we need.
Speaker 10: We needed to this country.
Speaker 1: We got to have a successful presidency. We got to
Speaker 1: have a presidency that average Americans say, like Ronald Reagan,
Speaker 1: we need four more years of that guy. And that's
Speaker 1: how we got Bush forty one. Now I went in
Speaker 1: the last year for the American people to say, we
Speaker 1: need four more years of Donald Trump. We can't get him.
Speaker 1: How about JD. Vance We need that badly. We need
Speaker 1: we need eight to twelve years of sanity and common
Speaker 1: sense in Washington. We don't need four years and back
Speaker 1: to Kamala Harris, or back to Pritzker, or back to
Speaker 1: whoever you want to plug in the Democrat They run
Speaker 1: like pack animals, all vote the same way. And you
Speaker 1: know Gavin Newsom would be a disaster and carry. If
Speaker 1: we don't have eight to twelve years, the country is
Speaker 1: not going to fundamentally change and it needs to. Now
Speaker 1: what else do you got?
Speaker 10: I just want to thank you and congratulate you on
Speaker 10: being bold enough and courageous enough to consess and profess
Speaker 10: that the miracle that had happened in Butler, Pennsylvania, the
Speaker 10: one millimeter miracle, was provided by our good Ruden Savior
Speaker 10: Jesus Christ. And that proves that Donald Trump is truly
Speaker 10: a man, has a mandate of the people and for
Speaker 10: the people.
Speaker 7: And carry.
Speaker 1: I'll say this on that event. I've been to several
Speaker 1: Trump rallies. He saves from the very end of the
Speaker 1: graft in the chart about not migration. It's illegal migration,
Speaker 1: not legal. He's talking about illegal migration till the end
Speaker 1: of his speech. And he does that because he's kind
Speaker 1: of a crescendo and the murderer that's the Secret Service
Speaker 1: negligently allowed to be on that roof. I used the
Speaker 1: term negligently and not recklessly or knowingly to scope him
Speaker 1: out at the moment he turned to the right, so
Speaker 1: he took the last half of his head out of
Speaker 1: the scope of that murderer, that assassin as he turned
Speaker 1: to the right and hit his ear instead of blowing
Speaker 1: off the last part of his brain, like John F.
Speaker 1: Kennedy and Daley Plaza. And the only reason that could
Speaker 1: have happened with the negligence of the Secret Service, much
Speaker 1: like at the golf course in mar Logo, was the
Speaker 1: hand of God Almighty, because I could not have imagined
Speaker 1: what would have occurred if Donald Trump had been assassinated
Speaker 1: in the summertime. There would have been thirty days of
Speaker 1: gnashing our teeth in sorrow. But then the rest of
Speaker 1: the country would have moved on and said, all right,
Speaker 1: here comes Kamala Harris. And that's what would have happened.
Speaker 1: And we never would have had a JD. E Vance
Speaker 1: all that. It would have been different, but for the
Speaker 1: hand of God said no, I can't let this happen
Speaker 1: to the United States of America. That's my representative on Earth,
Speaker 1: and I have to let that matter change. And from
Speaker 1: that moment on I thought the hand of God was
Speaker 1: directing Donald Trump. I know those who don't believe, that's fine.
Speaker 1: Believe what you want to believe you and I believe definitely,
Speaker 1: And so be it. And thanks for your call. Let's
Speaker 1: move to Andy and Jacksonville and then Bill and Maryland
Speaker 1: and evening, good evening, good evening.
Speaker 4: Yes, I want to discuss a few of this very
Speaker 4: tragic plane crash in South Korea. Yes, sir, the plane
Speaker 4: was a Boeing seven thirty seven, eight hundred. Now the
Speaker 4: news media's as well. Maybe it was the landing gear,
Speaker 4: maybe a berfluent to it or something. I would propose
Speaker 4: it just might be all these defective parts that Bowing
Speaker 4: is recycling back into service. And Lord and know's wives
Speaker 4: for a few extra bucks because that plane has gotten
Speaker 4: part of a landing gear that was defective, and no
Speaker 4: one's saying that in the news media.
Speaker 1: I haven't order them anyway, No, I haven't heard that.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I watched the report this morning.
Speaker 1: I guess at the end of that runway, about one
Speaker 1: hundred yards from the end of the runway, it's the
Speaker 1: grassy area. Then there was a six foot high concrete
Speaker 1: embankment that held within the concrete certain instruments that allowed
Speaker 1: planes to land correctly. I'm not sure what they are.
Speaker 1: Maybe TSA would know, FA might not. But the placement
Speaker 1: of that it was forty yards long and five foot
Speaker 1: high of concrete, is what caused the plane, which had
Speaker 1: no landing gear down, to skid off the runway, hit
Speaker 1: the concrete embankment put there by the airport and that
Speaker 1: blew up the plane. Only two survived. There were two
Speaker 1: flight attendants that survived in the back of the plane,
Speaker 1: almost in the tail. But if that concrete structure wasn't there,
Speaker 1: there was another almost a quarter of a mile of
Speaker 1: grass the plane would have gone through before it hit
Speaker 1: like a road. Well, and the and the expert said,
Speaker 1: why would the airport put this forty yard long, five
Speaker 1: foot high concrete embankment at the end of the runway.
Speaker 1: And one might ask, well, why didn't the landing gear
Speaker 1: come down? Or were there birds that got I don't
Speaker 1: we don't. I guess in eighteen months we're going to
Speaker 1: find out, uh, what what the hell is going on?
Speaker 1: But I can't imagine having a runway in South Korea
Speaker 1: or at the end is like a concrete obstacle that
Speaker 1: will blow the plane up if it goes too far.
Speaker 1: I don't get that now, why the plane went too
Speaker 1: far that that could be a parts issue. I mean,
Speaker 1: Boeing has had a terrible year or two, and it's
Speaker 1: America's only a commercial airline manufacturer. We got to have
Speaker 1: a functional Boeing. But we have to have a I
Speaker 1: use the term functional. We have to have a functional
Speaker 1: Boeing because that other than China and Europe, there's only
Speaker 1: three manufacturer in the world. And Boeing's has had underlining
Speaker 1: the word, had the reputation of making the best planes
Speaker 1: in the world. Now it's under some doubt, is it right?
Speaker 7: Now?
Speaker 1: Maybe the Trumps are can correct it. But we need
Speaker 1: a functional commercial airplane manufacturer, and that's only Boeing. All
Speaker 1: the rest of them are out of business except the
Speaker 1: private jets made in Kansas, of course, but the commercial airliners.
Speaker 1: Isn't Boeing the only game in town?
Speaker 4: Agreed? Well, listen, my friend, Happy New Year to you.
Speaker 1: Happy New year, Andy, let's keep going in twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: what do you say? Yes, all right, yes, let's continue
Speaker 1: and next calls will be from Florida and Idaho and Maryland.
Speaker 1: Bill a call. We have three lines open if you
Speaker 1: want to participate. Who'll be the last caller this year?
Speaker 1: Eight six six six four seven seven three three seven,
Speaker 1: Bill cunning and the Great American with you and all
Speaker 1: of the great Americans. Happy New Year every Sunday night.
Speaker 1: You know, I know with interest that many companies, corporations,
Speaker 1: and universities, including University of Iowa, the Iowa system, is
Speaker 1: getting rid of racial discrimination. It's called DEI. You simply
Speaker 1: dress it up. You put wh whip cream on a turd.
Speaker 1: It's still a turd, and racial discrimination is disgusting, and
Speaker 1: it's called now. It's called it used to be affirmative action,
Speaker 1: and after several court cases it's become DEI. And a
Speaker 1: great company named Costco. It's on CNN's website tonight pushing
Speaker 1: back against the idea of them getting it of DEI.
Speaker 1: They say they're not going to do it. Decision after decisions, say,
Speaker 1: including the Title six of the Silver Ice Act, it
Speaker 1: compels federal agencies to ensure that programs receiving federal money
Speaker 1: do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, or
Speaker 1: national origin of religion. The Department of Health and Human
Speaker 1: Services could under Trump prohibit universities from requiring diversity statements
Speaker 1: for employment and promotions. We're at that place now. It
Speaker 1: should be used to compel all universities and all employers
Speaker 1: to disclose why they hire certain people and prove it's
Speaker 1: not based upon racial discrimination. We do not know how
Speaker 1: many Asian students, how many straight white men or straight
Speaker 1: white women who should get jobs haven't gotten them because
Speaker 1: of the color of their skin or their sexual orientation.
Speaker 1: And there have been thousands of instances uncovered over the
Speaker 1: years in which high achieving secondary school students are penalized
Speaker 1: because of the color of their skin or the kind
Speaker 1: of sex that they enjoy to create some sort of
Speaker 1: racial proportionality of those that these gifted so called universities
Speaker 1: and the Doees Office for Civil Rights should target schools
Speaker 1: and companies to eliminate advanced courses due to racial disparities.
Speaker 1: And they should get rid of the Biden era directives
Speaker 1: that say that the color of your skin or your
Speaker 1: kind of sex that you enjoy is a factor or
Speaker 1: not and your hiring or your selection, and if it
Speaker 1: means more Asian students are selected who do well in
Speaker 1: these standardized tests, so be it. One of the criteria
Speaker 1: might be service in the military. I'm all for that.
Speaker 1: Jade Vance used that to get to Ohio State then
Speaker 1: the al Law school. He's unfortunately, according to the Biden administration,
Speaker 1: he's a straight white male. And we can't live in
Speaker 1: a country where we practice racial discrimination and call it
Speaker 1: not race discrimination or affirmative action. We call it DEI.
Speaker 1: And I can't tell you how many millions and millions
Speaker 1: of employees and students have lost out because of the
Speaker 1: color of their skin, or because they're straight, or because
Speaker 1: they're Christian, or because they're Jewish or they're Catholic. The
Speaker 1: according to reports, I see that there are many students
Speaker 1: who score less well on standardized tests that are admitted
Speaker 1: because of the color of their skin or they identify
Speaker 1: as gay. That should not be a benefit and it
Speaker 1: should not be a cost. Remember the words of Martin
Speaker 1: Luther King Junior. We've gotten to the point now and
Speaker 1: the twenty first century. Heck, we're a quarter of the
Speaker 1: way through the twenty first century. The money's being spent
Speaker 1: on public education are obscene. The opportunities are present, and
Speaker 1: to pick someone, to choose someone because of the color
Speaker 1: of their skin or because of their allegiance to a
Speaker 1: gay principle or a non gay principle or whatever it
Speaker 1: might be. Is stupid, But Costco says they're going to
Speaker 1: die on that hill of DEI. They want to select
Speaker 1: those they deal with in a business way and select
Speaker 1: their three hundred thousand employees based upon the color of
Speaker 1: their skin and upon their sexual orientation. That is wrong,
Speaker 1: that's illegal. Hopefully it'll stop soon, But the Department of
Speaker 1: Justice and the Department of Education's officers civil Rights should
Speaker 1: investigate universities that added diversity essay prompts or adopted Jerry
Speaker 1: manderd proxies for race post fa. In other words, wink, wink, nod, nod.
Speaker 1: You can tell us what organizations you've been a part of,
Speaker 1: and that kind of implicitly tells us are you straight
Speaker 1: or gay? It kind of tells us if you're black, white,
Speaker 1: or Asian or Hispanic. Shouldn't mean a damn thing. The
Speaker 1: color of my skin or the kind of sex that
Speaker 1: I enjoy, not much anymore, by the way, but nonetheless,
Speaker 1: or the fact that I'm from Ireland, or my family
Speaker 1: is black or my father is black. According to the genealogy.
Speaker 1: I'm five percent black anyway, there's lots of Cunningham's in
Speaker 1: the black community. It's fine with me. I don't want
Speaker 1: to get a benefit. I don't want to get a
Speaker 1: cost because of my race, directly or indirectly. We should
Speaker 1: live in a meritocracy, not in the kind of racial
Speaker 1: society created by the Democrats, the Democrat Party, you know,
Speaker 1: the ku Klux Plan, the Democrats Confederacy, the slavery, the lynchings,
Speaker 1: ku Klux Plan, you know the Democrats, the Democrats of
Speaker 1: affirmative Action. Now it's the Democrats of DEI. It's a
Speaker 1: political statement and has no place, no role in American society.
Speaker 1: Let's go back to the calls if thousands on hold.
Speaker 1: As we continue, we have calls from Florida and Idaho
Speaker 1: and Maryland and Ohio and Michigan and all places in between.
Speaker 1: If a line becomes available eight sixty six six four seven,
Speaker 1: seven three three seven, should you get a benefit because
Speaker 1: of the color of your skin, or because you're straight
Speaker 1: or gay, or bisexual or intersex or one of the
Speaker 1: other one hundred and sixteen genders. Should that give you
Speaker 1: a benefit or a cost? Noo? All mus continue may
Speaker 1: God bless Donald Trump and what he's going to face
Speaker 1: when it becomes the president three weeks from tomorrow. Bill Cunningham,
Speaker 1: the great American, with you and all of the great Americans.
Speaker 1: By the way, Happy New Year, Bill Cunningham, with you
Speaker 1: every Sunday night. All right, Billy Cunningham, I love this
Speaker 1: opportunity every Sunday night to be with you in every county,
Speaker 1: every state, including much of Canada, which may become our
Speaker 1: fifty first state. By the way, I have many friends
Speaker 1: in Canada, and who knows, almost became part of the
Speaker 1: United States in seventeen ninety two, almost again in eighteen twelve.
Speaker 1: If the government at that point was a bit more aggressive,
Speaker 1: Canada was for the taking. I'm not sure it was
Speaker 1: worth taking. But nonetheless it says left wing, as most
Speaker 1: of Europe is today. But nonetheless that's possible. The whole
Speaker 1: Panama Canal thing is a canard when you look at
Speaker 1: what happened. I love the comments of Ronald Reagan that said,
Speaker 1: we dug it, we own it. You might recall also
Speaker 1: that Jimmy Carter, when he was running for office, opposed
Speaker 1: giving up the Panama Canal. Jimmy Carter running and there's
Speaker 1: so many involvements with the Panama Canal right now, with
Speaker 1: the communist Red Chinese, the media want to talk about it.
Speaker 1: Panama joined the China's Belt and Road Initiative. It renewed
Speaker 1: a contract with Hutchinson Ports, a Hong Kong based company
Speaker 1: controlled by Jijiaoping, to manage the canal. The ports around
Speaker 1: the canal are controlled by Chinese companies. China has built
Speaker 1: four bridges over the canal and controls much of the
Speaker 1: construction projects and the vital infrastructure in Panama. This is
Speaker 1: on top of a multi billion dollar port the communist
Speaker 1: Red Chinese have built in Peru. And you look at this,
Speaker 1: it's not good. I think of the Monroe Doctrine and
Speaker 1: I think about the control of ships, and right now
Speaker 1: it's controlled by the communist Red Chinese government. I know
Speaker 1: ABC News in the morning this morning wanted to snicker
Speaker 1: and laugh about taking back the Panama Canal. Ronald Reagan said,
Speaker 1: we dug it, we own it. And they have permitted
Speaker 1: themselves to become compromised with the communist Red Chinese, which
Speaker 1: is building the greatest military in the world, getting ready
Speaker 1: for what it looks like. Adolf Hitler, the nineteen thirties
Speaker 1: building a military for what most of the world is
Speaker 1: tearing down this military like in America, not with Trump.
Speaker 1: But China is doubling and tripling the number of ships
Speaker 1: over the next five to ten years. And we have
Speaker 1: various treaties with Panama that indicates that are transfit through
Speaker 1: the canal will not be a bridge denied. But right
Speaker 1: now Communist China has taken over the Panama Canal. Did
Speaker 1: you know about these facts? But the Hutchinson contract, which
Speaker 1: is through a company in Hong Kong controlled by the
Speaker 1: Communist Chinese Party, and they're actively building billion dollar ports
Speaker 1: in and around South America. It's like one might ask,
Speaker 1: what in the hell's going on around here? Let's continue
Speaker 1: thousands on hold, Let's go to Bill and Bill in
Speaker 1: Maryland and then Lisa in Michigan. Bill and Maryland, the
Speaker 1: Home of the Terrapins. Welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show. Bill,
Speaker 1: how are you com fine? Thanks Bill for keeping us
Speaker 1: in formed. Just to add to what you were just
Speaker 1: talking about, So apparently last year China built twenty one submarines.
Speaker 9: Get how many submarines we.
Speaker 1: Built, I would think zero or maybe one.
Speaker 9: One exactly.
Speaker 1: And they build them in. They're building aircraft carriers three
Speaker 1: a year. And why are they doing this? The economy
Speaker 1: in China, they tell us in trouble when I talked,
Speaker 1: when I listen, listen to Peter's eye hand, he tells
Speaker 1: me there's a population collapse going on. They have trillions
Speaker 1: of dollars they've lost in these ghost cities. Twenty five
Speaker 1: thirty percent of youth are unemployed. And they're doubling and
Speaker 1: tripling the military for what purpose.
Speaker 9: Well, apparently our politicians and the media, and I'm not
Speaker 9: paying all of them. For a large number of them,
Speaker 9: I don't know what they're thinking. They're not going to
Speaker 9: get any sympathy from many of these people and our country.
Speaker 9: I mean, we are, for all intents and purposes, clearly
Speaker 9: in a cold war, but it's being escalated more and
Speaker 9: more and more. And as you said, you know, why
Speaker 9: do they need the submarines, why do they need aircraft areas,
Speaker 9: unless it's just because from World War Two. I was
Speaker 9: just listening to something in World War two and after
Speaker 9: World War Two the top person over there from United
Speaker 9: States and Russia said, the only thing these people understand
Speaker 9: is power and military And I mean it's the same thing.
Speaker 1: Tens of thousands of Chinese students are here, they're tapping.
Speaker 1: There's all these data breaches all over the world happening
Speaker 1: by the communists, rich Chinese. It's a godless communist empire.
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking somebody, and this has happened for what
Speaker 1: twelve of the last sixteen years, You've had Obama and
Speaker 1: Joe Biden not in charge. Obama's been in charge for
Speaker 1: twelve of the last sixteen years. All these things are happening.
Speaker 1: And when you bring up the fact, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: the Chinese just spent one point three billion dollars on
Speaker 1: new ports on the west coast of South America. Now
Speaker 1: they have contracts to control completely the Panama Canal. And
Speaker 1: why are they building a military and doubling in size.
Speaker 1: Why are they doing all this is not to invade Taiwan.
Speaker 1: God knows that could be done in a weekend. If
Speaker 1: they wanted to bombard it with a million artillery shells,
Speaker 1: it'd be obliterated. They're coming after us, and they're using
Speaker 1: our freedoms against us.
Speaker 9: What's the number one way to take over or to
Speaker 9: influence a South American country? Build them a soccer stadium
Speaker 9: that's what they did in Costa Rica. They didn't just
Speaker 9: build them a soccer stadium because they're big soccer fans,
Speaker 9: or they'd like to weather. In Costa Rica, it's all
Speaker 9: about power and influence and hopefully people break up. But
Speaker 9: actually I thought about another question. You have so many
Speaker 9: great topics, So my question is who are the notable
Speaker 9: people that are being pardoned?
Speaker 7: Now?
Speaker 9: What I heard on the news that there's a Chinese
Speaker 9: spy who's having his sentence reduced or eliminated. And then
Speaker 9: I also heard from somebody else that I thought, maybe
Speaker 9: you could verify this that one of the people that
Speaker 9: blew up the Boston marathon he's been pardoned or whatever,
Speaker 9: had his seven sword. And then the man who killed
Speaker 9: all those people in church in South Carolina, do you
Speaker 9: know anything about those?
Speaker 7: I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: There were three who were not granted a pardon for
Speaker 1: a commutation of sentence. Zarnayev is one of the only
Speaker 1: one now under a death sentence. He was not pardoned.
Speaker 1: Another one not pardoned was Dylan Rufe who shot those
Speaker 1: eight or nine black churchgoers. He's still facing the death penalty.
Speaker 1: And also the murderer who went into that synagogue in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: He also is is not pardon so Biden says and
Speaker 1: won him. I'm against the death penalty. But on the
Speaker 1: other hand, he kept in an effect for those three
Speaker 1: And in November twenty fourth there was a Chinese citizen
Speaker 1: who was pardoned by Donald Trump. Another one was swapped
Speaker 1: to China. And this goes into the fact, and this
Speaker 1: is a fact that the Biden crime family has re
Speaker 1: seved millions of dollars from Chinese interest and that Joe
Speaker 1: Biden lied repeatedly about every meeting these business associates of
Speaker 1: Hunter Biden. Now the pictures are all over the place,
Speaker 1: including I was at a state of shock. CBS News
Speaker 1: covered the story a little bit and had the photos
Speaker 1: of Joe Biden with the business partners of his derelic
Speaker 1: son getting millions of dollars from these Chinese energy companies.
Speaker 1: And guess what. CBS News covered it. And I about
Speaker 1: lost lost my lunch when that happened. It is happening.
Speaker 1: Let's continue now with Lisa and Michigan. Lisa and Michigan,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show.
Speaker 8: Lisa, how are you, oh, Happy New Year?
Speaker 2: Bill?
Speaker 10: Thank you, thank you such a joy.
Speaker 11: I had to find you on a different Internet tonight
Speaker 11: just to be able.
Speaker 4: To talk with you.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you. What do you got?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 11: I feel as if I'm connecting the dots the last
Speaker 11: couple of months, and we've got a diabolical president in
Speaker 11: power that's not really the resident, and we've had these
Speaker 11: drone sightings now for months that are not being reported on.
Speaker 11: They're being blown off by the DoD and President Trump
Speaker 11: has been briefed but has been very tight lipped. I'm
Speaker 11: afraid that the shoe is going to drop, that Biden's
Speaker 11: going to declare a national emergency at the last minute
Speaker 11: regarding these drones and prevent our president from being inaugurated.
Speaker 7: What's your take on that, Well, I'm reading a story.
Speaker 1: Radiation levels have dramatically increased in New York City after
Speaker 1: the mysterious drone sidings were discovered hovering over East Coast
Speaker 1: in recent weeks. The new revelations result in officials warning
Speaker 1: Americans to prepare for the worst. According to GQ Electronics
Speaker 1: Geiger Counter World Map, high emission levels were detected in
Speaker 1: the Bronx and in New Jersey and the upper levels
Speaker 1: of Upper Side of New York City. The radiation reading
Speaker 1: scale was two one zero foury counts per minute. Author
Speaker 1: of this play red China's project to destroy America, Golden Chang,
Speaker 1: told Forbes magazine the drunes could be associated with the
Speaker 1: area's high radiation levels. There's been reports of spikes and
Speaker 1: radiation in the New York metropolitan area, two of them
Speaker 1: on each side of the Hudson leads to the conclusion
Speaker 1: that may be looking for an implanet nuclear weapon or
Speaker 1: some sort of a dirty bomb. And Chang compared the
Speaker 1: current drum fiasco with the Chinese spy balloon crisis in
Speaker 1: US airspace, saying that in both instances there was failures
Speaker 1: of our federal government, military and the president to protect
Speaker 1: the American people. And it's ongoing, but it's not reported
Speaker 1: as much. Have you noticed that?
Speaker 10: Oh, have I noticed that?
Speaker 1: Have you noticed that the media quit doing it? And
Speaker 1: I wonder why. According to local sources in New Jersey,
Speaker 1: New York, it's ongoing. In fact, it's accelerating. And Gordon Chang,
Speaker 1: who's often on CNN and Fox News, criticized President Joe
Speaker 1: Biden for refusing to address the recent drone sidings and
Speaker 1: failing to give America's proper briefings on the situation. Quote,
Speaker 1: the president is actually should address the American people and
Speaker 1: tell us what the federal government knows and what it
Speaker 1: doesn't know about the drones and I could be a
Speaker 1: dirty bomb, could be an implanet nuclear weapon, and they're
Speaker 1: trying to find it. And I'm thinking, well, if that's
Speaker 1: the case, well tell us the truth. You know, we
Speaker 1: can handle the truth. Just tell us what the truth is.
Speaker 1: But the sightings have continued, but the media has been
Speaker 1: told not to report it exactly.
Speaker 11: And I'm just nervous that we'll count down to a month,
Speaker 11: a little bit.
Speaker 1: More than a month, three weeks, three weeks to tomorrow, and.
Speaker 11: I'm just afraid that another shoe is going to draw up.
Speaker 11: And we've already had two assassination attempts, so you know,
Speaker 11: and I've heard talked about with you know.
Speaker 10: Iran where where, what's what's next here?
Speaker 11: We've had the pardons, We've just I just you know,
Speaker 11: he's gonna get without any without any.
Speaker 1: Further upheaval, because if something happens to the Trumpster and
Speaker 1: the forces of evil, the crawl of the earth looking
Speaker 1: to ruin lives and destroy souls are right now trying
Speaker 1: to destroy Donald Trump, and if something horrible happens to him, J. D.
Speaker 1: Vance never becomes the vice president, which means he never
Speaker 1: becomes the president. And now we're in a crisis in
Speaker 1: which Mike Johnson, as Speaker of the House, becomes the
Speaker 1: acting president. And I want Donald Trump to be hermetically
Speaker 1: sealed somewhere for the next three weeks. He's not playing
Speaker 1: any more golf. I'm told he won't go on the
Speaker 1: They've said, please don't put yourself in that situation. But uh,
Speaker 1: I don't think the forces of evil, to paraphrase Saint
Speaker 1: Michael the Archangel, is done with Donald Trump.
Speaker 11: Yet I agree, Bill, and I pray. I'm not a Catholic,
Speaker 11: but I pray sixteen thousand times a day that we
Speaker 11: just can keep him safe, to get him pay off
Speaker 11: finish line, get his policies going. Yeah, God, this track,
Speaker 11: you know, get this train back on the track.
Speaker 1: Yep, we needed And uh, before you go to sleep
Speaker 1: tonight to just google Saint Michael, prayer to Saint Michael,
Speaker 1: say it tonight, Lisa, say it tonight, the prayer to
Speaker 1: Saint Michael. Let's continue with more. Several more calls. Line
Speaker 1: becomes available eight six six, six, four, seven, seven, three
Speaker 1: three seven, Bill cunning and the Great American with you
Speaker 1: and all great Americans every Sunday night. Continue now, Kevin
Speaker 1: and Florida. Kevin, Welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show. And Kevin,
Speaker 1: how are you.
Speaker 12: I'm doing the best we can. But what we got,
Speaker 12: you know, what the country's given us, We're going to
Speaker 12: deal with and everything that happens with us. But I
Speaker 12: want to say, you're a blessing you are to the country,
Speaker 12: to Donald Trump and for us moving forward in an
Speaker 12: honest direction. I'm calling you because of what you had
Speaker 12: said earlier with CBS in the middle of the week
Speaker 12: when I seen that podcast on six o'clock.
Speaker 7: News, I fell asleep that evening.
Speaker 12: I woke up in the middle of the night and
Speaker 12: I was in such a disgust that the media could
Speaker 12: not be honest with American people. And Joe Biden the
Speaker 12: way that he is is a disgrace to the American
Speaker 12: people in the country. That's my opinion, because you know,
Speaker 12: I see passed away. I'm watching grid TV. I see
Speaker 12: Kurt Douglas over here, and then people had respect for
Speaker 12: this country where he has the goal to go over there.
Speaker 13: Under the doctness or whatever they did years ago, and
Speaker 13: for it to be just height it is under the cockpit,
Speaker 13: and to take advantage of this country, that's treason.
Speaker 1: You know, at no point in American history, to my knowledge,
Speaker 1: has seen in the United States president in office took
Speaker 1: money directly and indirectly to change American foreign policy. And
Speaker 1: whether it was a vice presidency or the last four
Speaker 1: years in which he's pardoning commuting sentences of Chinese, it's
Speaker 1: clear listening to the I R S Agents themselves shape
Speaker 1: Leine Ziggler, that this president is family, the so called
Speaker 1: Biden crime family received directly and indirectly in office millions
Speaker 1: of dollars into their accounts, and shape Lein Zigler, by
Speaker 1: the way, both are Democrats, said they wanted to pursue it,
Speaker 1: and doj said don't do it. I mean, if millions
Speaker 1: of dollars overseas one in your accounts, Kevin, You're and
Speaker 1: your family I'm talking twenty eight to forty million dollars
Speaker 1: and IRS agents came after you. You better hire the
Speaker 1: best lawyers money can buy because they're going to put
Speaker 1: you in prison for years. But if your name is Biden,
Speaker 1: you get a Texas el Paso and I'm not even
Speaker 1: touched on the sexual predilections. The guy has the difficulties there.
Speaker 1: And the fact the Median Democratic Party had the biggest
Speaker 1: cover up in American political history by not reporting on
Speaker 1: his mental decline in which he couldn't be the president.
Speaker 1: You put all those three things together, Kevin, How is
Speaker 1: it possible that finally CBS News did a story of
Speaker 1: him saddling up next to the individuals and pictures that
Speaker 1: gave he lied about that gave his son millions of dollars,
Speaker 1: and CBS they're not reporting on his much of his
Speaker 1: mental acuity. This morning, there was a woman on one
Speaker 1: of the CBS morning shows that said that was the
Speaker 1: failure of the media. How is it possible in today's
Speaker 1: age with the Washington Post in Washington, DC, with thousands
Speaker 1: of employees watching this guy not perform a job, not
Speaker 1: asked the question about the cover up of his mental status.
Speaker 1: We've not had a president for four years. We've had
Speaker 1: a crook, and he's gotten away with it. And that's
Speaker 1: why some say, you know what, Kevin, let Trump worry
Speaker 1: about the future.
Speaker 7: Looky, yeah, move to the future.
Speaker 8: I believe that, But let me say this to you.
Speaker 12: He only made a hoss's tail out of himself because
Speaker 12: the country came out and seen through the cracks with
Speaker 12: the deceit that's been going on, and God bless America
Speaker 12: to put his moving forward with what we have going.
Speaker 4: But in all honesty, have you had gg pinion?
Speaker 7: You knew four years ago that they were heighten the
Speaker 7: lies from us.
Speaker 4: He is laughing all the way.
Speaker 12: Makes us look like Cross's asses because of the seat of.
Speaker 14: That that CBS doing and knowing and not telling, not telling,
Speaker 14: federal government, all of them.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, Kevin, if you're listening to Summon talk
Speaker 1: right here, like Sean Hannity, mahe and Angeley Earhart have
Speaker 1: a great life together. I texted with Sean yesterday. I'm
Speaker 1: so happy for him. But nonetheless, few of us are saying,
Speaker 1: way man, that guy is not mentally alert, that guy's
Speaker 1: not right, his mind is gone. And suddenly when the
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal got on it, the media got on
Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal for reporting the facts. This is unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Let's continue with more on the other side.
Speaker 6: We have.
Speaker 1: We have the great Scott Palell coming with us, and
Speaker 1: more Bill Cunningham with you every Sunday.
Speaker 2: Enough Willie.
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Speaker 1: Billy Cunningham, the Great America. Once again we note the
Speaker 1: passing of a Jimmy Carter at the age of one hundred.
Speaker 1: He had a consequential post presidency, not much of a presidency,
Speaker 1: but I remember recording to Julius Caesar, the good lives
Speaker 1: long after a man let the bad be interred with
Speaker 1: his bones. So we offer her tonight, as always, nothing
Speaker 1: but the best for the Jimmy Carter family, the elements
Speaker 1: that may they find peace. And I'm sure Jimmy was
Speaker 1: a good father and a husband. Or Rosalind preceded him
Speaker 1: in death by about eighteen months. But nonetheless, we wish
Speaker 1: the Carter family peace as we get ready for New
Speaker 1: Year's Day and so much more. And joining you and
Speaker 1: I now, of course, is the great Scott Powell. He's
Speaker 1: with the Discovery Institute. He's worked in corporate, academic and
Speaker 1: research worlds for a long time. His latest book about
Speaker 1: a year out number one best sellers, Rediscovering America and
Speaker 1: Scott often has touchstones across the pools of acid in
Speaker 1: which we live, the holidays, the things that America has
Speaker 1: today that touches us back to the founding of the country.
Speaker 1: Between Christmas and New Year's Day coming up in a
Speaker 1: couple of days New Year's Day, I thought it might
Speaker 1: be wise to have Scott Powell on to kind of
Speaker 1: set the stage for what's happened, more importantly, what's going
Speaker 1: to happen in twenty twenty five. I briefly discussed with
Speaker 1: Scott Powell off the air, would what would have happened
Speaker 1: if we're sitting here this Sunday night, and guess what,
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris is getting ready to be sworn in, and
Speaker 1: the world is continuing to take over elements of the
Speaker 1: economic package that Trump otherwise would have, The Chinese would
Speaker 1: continue their assault on the on the Panama Canal, and
Speaker 1: the rest of the world would be laughing at us
Speaker 1: once again. But Scott Powell, welcome again to the Bill
Speaker 1: Cunningham Show. Between these two great holidays. Hope you had
Speaker 1: a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. Scott Powell,
Speaker 1: give me your thoughts, says, we're between these two great holidays.
Speaker 1: What has happened? Where are we and what lies ahead?
Speaker 1: That's not much of a question, but please answer it.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 7: You know, Christmas, of course, is the greatest story ever told.
Speaker 7: We've passed Christmas and we're going to the New Year.
Speaker 7: And it's interesting to reflect on the origins of celebrating
Speaker 7: the new year, and this is quite universal around the world, actually,
Speaker 7: even outside Christian cultures. Many people who recognized the the
Speaker 7: new year needed to start with freshness, and so one
Speaker 7: of the traditions of partying and drinking that a company's
Speaker 7: New year celebration was sort of to act out the
Speaker 7: debauchery that was part of you know, part of people's life,
Speaker 7: and that if they got it out of their system
Speaker 7: on New Year's Eves, it laid the foundation for a
Speaker 7: fresh start in the new year. Now, that's a true
Speaker 7: story for many cultures, and it sort of carried and
Speaker 7: it's kind of goes beyond any culture. But really, what
Speaker 7: America has been through has been a nightmare. It's been
Speaker 7: a nightmare. The last four years have been a nightmare
Speaker 7: under you know, we say under the Biden administration, but
Speaker 7: it's really the people, the evil, the deep state actors
Speaker 7: behind Biden have made our country almost unrecoverable with the
Speaker 7: inundation of over twenty million illegal immigrants, the higher levels
Speaker 7: of crime, and it's just the decline of urban urban
Speaker 7: culture everywhere in America. But we have a new day now,
Speaker 7: you know, the election of Donald Trump brings in and
Speaker 7: look how vigorous his his before he even assumes office,
Speaker 7: He's made all these incredible appointments, and he means business
Speaker 7: and he talks the truth. And leaders from around the
Speaker 7: world are coming, you know, coming to him, meeting him
Speaker 7: at mar A Lanco. Yeah, because they know he means
Speaker 7: business and they want to be you know, they want
Speaker 7: good treatments. So even even the so called enemies are
Speaker 7: willing to meet with Donald Trump. But it's it's it's
Speaker 7: a remarkable period in which we're passing like no other
Speaker 7: period in American history.
Speaker 1: You know, Scott Pond. We went through eight years of
Speaker 1: Barack Hussein Obama. Then we had the the interlude of
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, and he was he was sought out, he
Speaker 1: was besieged, He was beaten bloody to the FBI, the CIA,
Speaker 1: the Secret so everybody was after Donald Trump. He could
Speaker 1: not turn left or right without having his aide and
Speaker 1: assistance being subpoened. They were wiretapped illegally, two hundred thousand
Speaker 1: illegal wiretaps under Faiza. The incredible criminality at the top
Speaker 1: of the FBI and the CIA and Department of Justice.
Speaker 1: He overcame all that, overcame the bullets. He overcame the indictments,
Speaker 1: overcame just sitting in that filthy thirty wrought in New
Speaker 1: York City courtroom for about eight weeks as he's absurd
Speaker 1: charges or run against him, that's going to be reversed
Speaker 1: on appeal. And then Jack Smith went after him in
Speaker 1: two different federal courts. Those have all been dispensed with.
Speaker 1: Now you got Fanny Willison, Nathan Wade, the loving couple
Speaker 1: from Atlanta, Fulton County. They're on the run. It's almost
Speaker 1: as if the hand of God said, Okay, I need
Speaker 1: a representative on Earth. It can't be Western Europe, which
Speaker 1: has lost its way completely. Surely is not China, Russia,
Speaker 1: It's not in North Korea. It's got to be the
Speaker 1: United States of America. And God realized that if we
Speaker 1: had eight years of Obama, the four years in which
Speaker 1: the Trumpster was besieged, and then we had eight years
Speaker 1: after that of Kamala Harris, that's sixteen or twenty years.
Speaker 1: We can't survive. It's over. And I think, well, did
Speaker 1: the hand of God play a part in November the fifth?
Speaker 7: You better believe it. Bill, Of course, the hand of
Speaker 7: God played a role. My goodness, you know, I think
Speaker 7: there were so many people praying for that election, and
Speaker 7: they were praying that the evildoers, that the vote fraudsters,
Speaker 7: that their hands would be tied and that they couldn't
Speaker 7: carry out their vote fraud. And meanwhile you had this
Speaker 7: amazing mobilization of people around Charlie Kirk and so many
Speaker 7: others that got the vote out like never before. And
Speaker 7: so the combination of the two, the vote fraud was mitigated,
Speaker 7: certainly on the presidential level. It was not mitigated in Arizona,
Speaker 7: is not mitigated in various states. There should be far more,
Speaker 7: far more congressman and a few more Senators elected on
Speaker 7: the cotails of Donald Trump's victory, but they were not
Speaker 7: elected because there was vote fraud in some.
Speaker 1: States, massive sending out ballots to every registered not just
Speaker 1: every registered voter, everyone with a driver's license, anyone getting
Speaker 1: a government check in many states simply got the ballot
Speaker 1: in the mail. And to me, it's amazing you won
Speaker 1: Arizona Nevada because there's so much cheating happening in those
Speaker 1: two states. It's amazing, amazing you won.
Speaker 7: Yes, Trump won, but he should have gotten more votes
Speaker 7: in the House and carry Lake should have won that
Speaker 7: sentence seat. She should have won an Arizona. She's a
Speaker 7: terrific candidate, but she was again vote frauded out. I mean,
Speaker 7: it's a very corrupt state, you know. Anyway, Yeah, please
Speaker 7: go ahead, go ahead. I want to ask you one
Speaker 7: more question about Christmas. Sure, yeah, just on a more
Speaker 7: positive note though, we really we have a kind of
Speaker 7: a new opportunity and this this is a this is
Speaker 7: an incredible time to be alive and be an American.
Speaker 1: And I had I watched this morning on one of
Speaker 1: the morning talk shows. Most are ridiculous, but uh, there
Speaker 1: was a set to on ABC with Representative Congressman mikel
Speaker 1: Awler of New York and he's a Republican. It makes
Speaker 1: a lot of sense. And the margin in the House
Speaker 1: this week is going to be extremely slight. In fact,
Speaker 1: my friend, and I mean my friend, Thomas Massey of
Speaker 1: Northern Kentucky uh is uh has announced he's going to
Speaker 1: vote no because Mike Johnson went along with the deal.
Speaker 1: And unfortunately in politics you get you got a deal.
Speaker 1: In the real world and the media, and whenever there's
Speaker 1: a dispute between Elon musk and and Ramaswami, between them
Speaker 1: and maybe Steve Bannon, it's not a dispute, it's not
Speaker 1: a disagreement. It's called a war. Right now, there's warring
Speaker 1: factions in Trump world, which is a bunch of bs.
Speaker 1: I talked to a Trump official who told me, look,
Speaker 1: he's gonna Johnson is going to be the speaker, and
Speaker 1: it needs to happen before the sixth of January. They're
Speaker 1: going to vote on either Friday or Saturday of this
Speaker 1: week coming up, and they you can't let you can't
Speaker 1: let January sixth to roll by without actually counting the
Speaker 1: electoral ballots. And you bring up the in one of
Speaker 1: your articles about a week ago, I read about the
Speaker 1: significance of Christmas. Today, I'm at mass I'm looking at
Speaker 1: the crib. New Year's Days, coming up on Wednesday, another
Speaker 1: holy day of obligation. And there's a lot about the
Speaker 1: Holy Family and three spectacular persons and the role they played.
Speaker 1: That little kid born in a major in some out
Speaker 1: of the way place nobody ever heard of the time
Speaker 1: in Judea, and time begins when he was born. Speak
Speaker 1: if you can from your column about the significance of
Speaker 1: the birth of the baby Jesus.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 7: First, first, the account of Jesus Christ is more historically
Speaker 7: verifiable than any other renowned figure and their works who
Speaker 7: lived in that ancient time in the era, including literary
Speaker 7: greats Virgil and Horrors and military kings like Alexander the Great,
Speaker 7: and it's there, and Jesus is more verifiable because of
Speaker 7: the number of eyewitness accounts, the short lapse of time
Speaker 7: between what Jesus said and did and the written account
Speaker 7: of those events, and the number of the surviving manuscripts.
Speaker 7: Those three things make Jesus more historically verifiable by almost
Speaker 7: a factor of a thousand over other figures of that time.
Speaker 7: And of course, no one doubts Virgil and Horace lived
Speaker 7: in originated written poetic masterpieces, nor does anyone doubt the
Speaker 7: biographical account of Alexander the Great, written by Aran and Plutarch,
Speaker 7: some four hundred years after Alexander died, But there were
Speaker 7: only two accounts, and there was four hundred years after.
Speaker 7: But we believed that Alexander the Great lived, we should
Speaker 7: even be more sure that Jesus Christ lived and did
Speaker 7: the things that he did, raising people from the dead.
Speaker 7: And of course, the most important thing that he accomplished
Speaker 7: is which will come up on the celebration of Easter,
Speaker 7: is that he gave his life, that that believers in
Speaker 7: him would have eternal life, that there was a way
Speaker 7: to God, a way of salvation by sacrifice, by Jesus sacrifice.
Speaker 7: God sacrificed his son that we might have a direct
Speaker 7: relationship with God. It's it's incredible and were we are
Speaker 7: the heirs of that, and we should never forget it.
Speaker 7: And it empowers us to be, you know, to accomplish
Speaker 7: greater things than we could just by our own power.
Speaker 1: And as far as the proof two or three, if
Speaker 1: this was on trial somewhere and Scott Powell had to
Speaker 1: prove through testimony through transcripts what happened, how what are
Speaker 1: the two or three pieces you find most persuasive for
Speaker 1: the agnostics and for the critics.
Speaker 7: Well, that historical part is very important. But second, you know,
Speaker 7: Christ is the only person in history, the only one
Speaker 7: in all of human history, who was pre announced, starting
Speaker 7: a thousand years before he was born, with eighteen different
Speaker 7: prophets from the Old Testament between the tenth and the
Speaker 7: fourth centuries BC, predicting his coming birth, his life, and
Speaker 7: his death. Hundreds of years later, the circumstances of Christ's birth, life,
Speaker 7: and death validated these prophecies in surprisingly accurate detail, even
Speaker 7: naming the I think was in Micah who prophesied that
Speaker 7: Jesus will be born in Bethlehem. This is five hundred,
Speaker 7: six hundred years before he was born. How does that happen?
Speaker 7: It happens because you know, these prophets were inspired by God,
Speaker 7: and God knew what was going to happen and when
Speaker 7: it was going to happen, and where it was going
Speaker 7: to happen. This is amazing. No, there's no other figure
Speaker 7: in history where people predicted exactly what was going to
Speaker 7: happen and how he would die. Do you know that
Speaker 7: David prophesied the crucifixion of Jesus a thousand years before
Speaker 7: Jesus was even born, and he prophesied, you know, the
Speaker 7: piercing of the hands and the feet, the piercing the crucifixion.
Speaker 7: Crucifixion was not even known in David's at David's time
Speaker 7: in history. In otherwords, it didn't exist. No one could
Speaker 7: have thought it. No one couldn't have imagined that type
Speaker 7: of death because it didn't exist. But David foresaw that
Speaker 7: it would exist, and that would be the way, that
Speaker 7: would be the means of Jesus' suffering death. And it's
Speaker 7: a horrible death, and Jesus was willing to go through
Speaker 7: that horrible suffering for us. It's incredible.
Speaker 1: Coming up on Wednesdays, New Year's Day, we're close to
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five or three weeks from and a sense
Speaker 1: of deliverance. I would note that President Joe Biden is
Speaker 1: going to go to visit the Pope, to visit Frances
Speaker 1: a couple of days before the inaugural I would anticipate
Speaker 1: there'll be a lot more pardons after that. Why do
Speaker 1: you have hope in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 7: Well, the correct deal of reason, there's a spiritual revival
Speaker 7: going on in America right now. We don't see it.
Speaker 7: It's never going to be publicized by the major media.
Speaker 7: But it is happening. And the reason that it's happening
Speaker 7: is that we've gone through eight you know, the last
Speaker 7: four years have been years punctuated by deceit, deception, lies,
Speaker 7: abuse of power, the likes of which we've never seen before.
Speaker 7: And people have lost confidence. The media has lost its credibility,
Speaker 7: The university system is failing. People don't know what to believe,
Speaker 7: and so when they're confused and that their wits end,
Speaker 7: they say, well, you know, gee, the Bible, we understand
Speaker 7: is the word of God and it's true. And so
Speaker 7: a lot of people rediscovering the heritage that made America great.
Speaker 7: And you know, remember America. Christianity was foundational to America's
Speaker 7: original character. You know, if Christ hadn't been born in
Speaker 7: the way and died the way they did, all of
Speaker 7: history would have been different, and neither Columbus nor the
Speaker 7: pilgrims would have received or have been motivated by the
Speaker 7: good news of salvation through Christ to explore and establish
Speaker 7: new communities for the higher moral purpose in the new world.
Speaker 7: That was the reason for the earliest immigrants to come
Speaker 7: to America. It was to establish a more moral society.
Speaker 7: And indeed, you know the founders, who are a remarkable
Speaker 7: group of people, you know, extremely learned people. But they
Speaker 7: weren't just idealists. They also recognized that that power tended
Speaker 7: to get abused, and so they said about creating a
Speaker 7: system of checks and balances, so one power would check
Speaker 7: the other and mitigate corruption. And they also so created
Speaker 7: a federalist system, so the national government in Washington, d c.
Speaker 7: Would would be checked by the state governments. And indeed,
Speaker 7: the founders had envisioned that the states would have more
Speaker 7: power than the federal government. That's been lost largely. But lastly,
Speaker 7: they created a system where there are elections of the
Speaker 7: legislators who make the laws every two years. So if
Speaker 7: you're not if you're not happy with the legislature, you're
Speaker 7: not happy the way things are going, the longest you
Speaker 7: have to wait to change it all is two years.
Speaker 15: That's a lot of checks and balances. That's unique to America.
Speaker 15: That's called term limits when you have elections. And lastly,
Speaker 15: about a minute remaining, Scott Powell, and that is this
Speaker 15: that the Constitution written in the seventeen and the seventeen
Speaker 15: eighties and seventeen eighty seven the world in seventeen eighty
Speaker 15: seven didn't look a lot different than the world in
Speaker 15: twelve five hundred years earlier.
Speaker 1: But those brilliant men said, you have rights given to
Speaker 1: you by God, and the role in purpose of government
Speaker 1: is to unclutter your path from pursuing the rights given
Speaker 1: to you by God. That's the purpose of government. We
Speaker 1: get rights from God protected by government. We don't get
Speaker 1: rights from government. Get rights from government. Government can give it,
Speaker 1: government can take it away, but it can't take away
Speaker 1: the rights we have as Americans because they're given by God.
Speaker 1: Scott Powell, I got to run up against the clock,
Speaker 1: but may we continue to have open lines of communication.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty five, once again we acknowledge the passing
Speaker 1: of President Jimmy Carter. Hopefully his remaining family can find
Speaker 1: peace and solace. But once again, Scott Powell, once again,
Speaker 1: thank you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show to
Speaker 1: kind of conclude the year twenty twenty four. And Scott Powell,
Speaker 1: let's keep it going.
Speaker 7: It's an honor to be on your show, Bill and
Speaker 7: I mean that, Thank you, God bless you.
Speaker 1: Let's continue with more rights from God, not rights from government.
Speaker 1: Bill cunning and the Great American with you every Sunday night,
Speaker 1: Billy Cunningham, the great American. You know, Scott Powell is
Speaker 1: better than simply excellent when it comes to issues of
Speaker 1: American holidays and the touchstones they had to the founding
Speaker 1: of this country. So the birth of the Baby Jesus
Speaker 1: the most consequential, consequential act ever to occur in humankind,
Speaker 1: much like New Year's Day, beginning on Wednesday and more
Speaker 1: begins a new way, a new approach, something badly needed,
Speaker 1: which is a new direction. For it to be successful
Speaker 1: long term, Donald Trump must have a successful four years.
Speaker 1: Then the American people will be so happy with Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: At that point they want Jade Advance to go four
Speaker 1: more years, and after that four more years after that.
Speaker 1: In twelve years, we can fundamentally fundamentally change the country.
Speaker 1: We must do it. It must occur. So I don't
Speaker 1: want to hear about Donald Trump a good four years.
Speaker 1: I won a great four years involving the mega issues.
Speaker 1: And then four years after this and four years after that,
Speaker 1: we need eight years of jad Advance and away we
Speaker 1: go to country's in better shape. Let's continue with more
Speaker 1: coming up next to John Lott, Crimeresearch dot Org. The
Speaker 1: last caller of the last guest of twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: Bill Cunningham, With you every Sunday Night by Billy Cunningham,
Speaker 1: The Great American and my last guest of twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four is Sean Lott. Spent many years in the Department
Speaker 1: of Justice, but Donald Trump runs Crimeresearch Dot Org. I
Speaker 1: have the website up. It's fabulous, and once again we
Speaker 1: acknowledge the passing of a former president. Jimmy Carter had
Speaker 1: a great post presidency, did a lot of good things.
Speaker 1: I'm sure his family arnold to have been part of
Speaker 1: that family. He spent one hundred years on this earth
Speaker 1: and he's reunited with us with his lovely wife Rosalind,
Speaker 1: and hopefully he's in the arms of God Almighty. But
Speaker 1: tell then, John Lott, Welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show.
Speaker 1: This couple days before New Year's Day, and I thought
Speaker 1: could not be much better than have John Lott'd be
Speaker 1: my last guest of twenty twenty four. And overall, can
Speaker 1: you tell the American people when it comes to crime prevention,
Speaker 1: guns and things of that character? Was twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three good years or bad years.
Speaker 14: Well, Happy New Year. It's an honor to be your
Speaker 14: last guests on for the year. Look, we've had a
Speaker 14: few bad years with regard to things like crime. We've
Speaker 14: had the largest percentage increase in violent crime over any
Speaker 14: three year period that we've had during the Biden administration
Speaker 14: since they started collecting the data for the Bureau of
Speaker 14: Justice Statistics fifty one years ago. You see over a
Speaker 14: three year period we saw a fifty five increase and
Speaker 14: blonious violent crime. You've seen like forty two percent increase
Speaker 14: in rates of sixty three percent increase and robberies, and
Speaker 14: a fifty five percent increase in aggve assaults. And it's
Speaker 14: not rocket science about what's going on there. I mean,
Speaker 14: you you make it so that they're cuts and police
Speaker 14: budgets and many of these major urban areas, you have
Speaker 14: huge numbers of police retirements. You've had bail reform, and
Speaker 14: I've had massive numbers, unprecedented numbers of the legal aliens
Speaker 14: coming into the country, you know, and you've had judges
Speaker 14: going and releasing large numbers of inmates from local jails
Speaker 14: and prisons.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 14: It's you've had district attorneys many George Soros district attorneys
Speaker 14: who've been refusing to prosecute violent criminals. And of course,
Speaker 14: you know, the Biden administration is just has refused to
Speaker 14: criticize people like these district attorneys, and it's just done
Speaker 14: things to make the jobs of a police officer is
Speaker 14: much more difficult than it was before.
Speaker 1: You make a key point the media will not make,
Speaker 1: and that is all we hear. Thank god, the American
Speaker 1: people understand the truth that crime is not down. In fact,
Speaker 1: crime is way up. You have the facts, you have
Speaker 1: the statistics, you have the receipts, but the enforcement of
Speaker 1: crime is way down. And upon those numbers, the Democrat
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris ran and she'd lost miserably because American people,
Speaker 1: you have great stats up that For example, you say
Speaker 1: nineteen percent of American voters think that passing more gun
Speaker 1: control laws will reduce crime. Forty percent think that either
Speaker 1: passing more gun control or strictly enforcing gun crimes would
Speaker 1: reduce crime. So we understand what's happening. You have all
Speaker 1: the statistics up, and it's obvious that if you cut
Speaker 1: the police, defund the police, and the cops are twenty
Speaker 1: thirty years since I've had it. You can't recruit new
Speaker 1: people to come. Another issue is getting rid of qualified immunity.
Speaker 1: If you tell cops and marshall and deputy sheriffs, you
Speaker 1: can personally be sued for a negligent act that you
Speaker 1: can't get a home, can't can't get a visa card.
Speaker 1: And on top of that bail reform which means no bail,
Speaker 1: And on top about the prosecutors' offices like like Fanny Willis,
Speaker 1: et cetera. They're not going to prosecute many crimes. And
Speaker 1: then you have weak judges. You put all that together.
Speaker 1: Crime is way up, but prosecution of crime is way down.
Speaker 1: And the second thing, you have a great column up
Speaker 1: about the about the pardons that Joe Biden granted, and
Speaker 1: you spend time in the Department of Justice. I've tried
Speaker 1: to get pardons from some clients of mine, and the
Speaker 1: literature you got to provide the forums have to go
Speaker 1: through Department of Justice. First explain the pardoning of thirty
Speaker 1: seven of forty on death row and what Joe Biden did.
Speaker 9: Not do.
Speaker 14: Right, Well, there's no kind of logical consistency in terms
Speaker 14: of who he pardoned and didn't. If he doesn't like
Speaker 14: the death penalty. Then, you know, one, he should have
Speaker 14: mentioned it before the election that he was going to
Speaker 14: do something like this. He didn't campaign on it. It
Speaker 14: wasn't in any of his planks or Kamala Harris's planks
Speaker 14: that when they were running. But you know, you have
Speaker 14: mass murderers that he commuted the sentence on, you had
Speaker 14: child murderers, You had people who would horribly torture their
Speaker 14: victims before they were murdered. These people haven't shown remorse.
Speaker 14: Some of them, in fact, have kind of doubled down
Speaker 14: on gloating and the murders that they've committed. You know,
Speaker 14: you think you at least want to have some remorse
Speaker 14: for the people before you're going to be commuting their sentences.
Speaker 14: They don't have to base the death penalty, but you know,
Speaker 14: the big thing is that people need to understand that
Speaker 14: if you don't have the death penalty, you're going to
Speaker 14: have more murders. And you can see the deterrence effect
Speaker 14: of this just in terms of things like the plea
Speaker 14: bargaining that goes on in some of these high profile cases.
Speaker 14: You have Dylan Rufe, the murderer in Charleston, South Carolina,
Speaker 14: at the church there he didn't want the death penalty.
Speaker 14: He was willing to plete guilty to all the murder
Speaker 14: charges that were there in other charges as long as
Speaker 14: they would take the death penalty off the table. He
Speaker 14: preferred a life sentence over the death penalty. Nicholas Cruz,
Speaker 14: the mass murderer at the Parkland School in Florida, he
Speaker 14: did something similar. He pled guilty to all the seventeen
Speaker 14: murder charges that he had there, but he fought against
Speaker 14: the death penalty. Now you have to ask yourself, why
Speaker 14: are these guys willing to trade off the death penalty
Speaker 14: for a life sentence? If you know, the only way
Speaker 14: they would do that is if they fear the death
Speaker 14: penalty more than they fear a life sentence. And you
Speaker 14: see this half in time after time. I'm sure you've
Speaker 14: seen this in cases too. But there's also a lot
Speaker 14: of empirical evidence that indicates that each execution you have
Speaker 14: deters at least eight murders.
Speaker 7: That are there.
Speaker 14: And so if I think if we had executions more regularly,
Speaker 14: or in more states or at the federal government, you'd
Speaker 14: have an even greater deterrence that's there.
Speaker 1: And John, you know, you look at go ahead, you
Speaker 1: bring up a great point that he kind of made
Speaker 1: the statement to look as if I'm against the death penalty,
Speaker 1: I'm going to see the Pope here on January seventeenth.
Speaker 1: I'll be blessed by the Pope as a so called
Speaker 1: practicing Roman Catholic. And he he referenced the Pope and
Speaker 1: some a talk that he gave about I'm doing what
Speaker 1: the Pope wants me to do. But he didn't do
Speaker 1: it with the as arnayev at the Boston City Marathon.
Speaker 1: He didn't do it with the Jews that were murdered
Speaker 1: in cold blood in Pittsburgh. He didn't do it with
Speaker 1: Dylan Ruth. So if you're against the death penalty, that
Speaker 1: he didn't do more like a constituency and the sense
Speaker 1: of the Democrat party. And he said, well, I'm going
Speaker 1: to pardon all these other ones. He tortured children and
Speaker 1: did horrible things to women and boys and girls and
Speaker 1: mass murderers who got the death penalty, but I'm not
Speaker 1: going to do it for zarnay Evan, Dylan Rufe, and
Speaker 1: the murderer in the Pittsburgh synagogue. If you're against the
Speaker 1: death penalty, you got to include those three, correct.
Speaker 14: I would think so there's no real argument that was
Speaker 14: made in the statement to explain why he didn't just
Speaker 14: commute all their death penalty sentences, why he selectively picked
Speaker 14: the ones that he did. Honestly, I'm not sure what's
Speaker 14: the logical argument would be. If you're against the death penalty,
Speaker 14: you're against the death penalty. But you know, again, it
Speaker 14: would have been nice if if he had the courage
Speaker 14: of his conviction and would have said before the election
Speaker 14: that this was something that he was monny ondoing, because
Speaker 14: I don't think, I mean, at least according to polls,
Speaker 14: it's not a particularly positive thing. But look, I mean,
Speaker 14: it's not just these death penalty cases. Biden in four
Speaker 14: years has pardoned more criminals by a huge factor than
Speaker 14: any previous president, even presidents that have served two or
Speaker 14: even Roosevelt who have served over three terms. You know,
Speaker 14: so on a per year basis, I mean not only
Speaker 14: in terms of total is he likes twice or more
Speaker 14: higher than the next person, no matter how many terms
Speaker 14: that they've had, But on a per year basis, he's
Speaker 14: just astronomically higher than these other ones. And again, you
Speaker 14: have criminal after criminal who showed no remorse for their
Speaker 14: crimes and he's letting them out of prison.
Speaker 4: People.
Speaker 14: You know, you have people like a Chinese spy who
Speaker 14: was just convicted in twenty twenty two, apparently did real
Speaker 14: damage to our country in terms of what he stole,
Speaker 14: and he's been free to allow to leave the country.
Speaker 1: And one thing that's come to light is all these
Speaker 1: photographs of Joe Biden as VP with Hunter Biden and
Speaker 1: Chinese operatives paying his family millions of dollars. By far,
Speaker 1: if there was an objective criteria for an in your
Speaker 1: pocket corrupt politician as president, it would be Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: He's taken more money directly and indirectly from the Chinese,
Speaker 1: from the Romanians, from the Russians, from the billion dollar
Speaker 1: guaranteed to the Ukrainians and Ukrainians to get rid of
Speaker 1: a prosecutor. This guy is financially corrupt, and now he's
Speaker 1: giving special treatment to a Chinese spy. And I guess
Speaker 1: the media has put down their weapons completely beginning on
Speaker 1: the inaugural of in twenty twenty one, they weren't going
Speaker 1: to investigate Joe Biden for anything. And this morning and
Speaker 1: one of the morning talk shows, one of the female
Speaker 1: guests said, the biggest mistake the media was made was
Speaker 1: not investigating the corruption of Joe Biden. That was obvious.
Speaker 1: This guy was taking money directly indirectly to the tune
Speaker 1: of about twenty eight million dollars all over the world.
Speaker 1: And he buries among all of his pardons and commutations
Speaker 1: a Chinese spy connected to the Chinese government. And there's
Speaker 1: so many pardons. There's fifteen hundred hare and fifteen hundred there.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's the reason he pardons so many, So no
Speaker 1: media can look at all the cases individually. The guy
Speaker 1: is corrupt. And secondly, I have serious concerns that he's
Speaker 1: a sexual pervert, such as with his daughter Ashley and
Speaker 1: sniffing girl's hair and with Tara Reid, etc. Who gave
Speaker 1: evidence and testimony that he's sexually assaulted him. And the
Speaker 1: media completely gave him a free pass on the perversions
Speaker 1: and the financial fraud. And I would ask you, John Lott,
Speaker 1: what if Donald Trump had done half of the money
Speaker 1: stuff that Joe Biden has done. And then the big corruption,
Speaker 1: of course, is the fact that he's mentally vacant. He's
Speaker 1: not present a dementia, whatever it is, and the media
Speaker 1: refused to investigate that either you take the sexual matters,
Speaker 1: along with the financial matters, along with his mental state,
Speaker 1: Where in the hell's the media been for the past
Speaker 1: four years?
Speaker 14: Right, Well, obviously it's rhetorical questions. I mean, the media
Speaker 14: surely hasn't been doing its watchdog role. I mean, you
Speaker 14: had a Wall Street Journal story that came out, unfortunately
Speaker 14: after the election, where they are talking to staff members
Speaker 14: in the administration that says, look as early as the
Speaker 14: early spring in twenty twenty one, just after he'd been
Speaker 14: in office for a couple months, he would not They'd
Speaker 14: have to cancel meetings that they were having because he
Speaker 14: was just not having a good day, wasn't with it,
Speaker 14: and so they'd have to reschedule for when he would
Speaker 14: be up for a meeting. You know, this is a
Speaker 14: guy who had eight cabinet meetings during his mystery where
Speaker 14: cabinet members couldn't just speak out and add comments in
Speaker 14: the discussion. They had to go in advance right down
Speaker 14: what they would be saying, and then the staff would
Speaker 14: write out for Biden how he would respond, so they
Speaker 14: would say something, and then he would read what he
Speaker 14: was supposed to be saying to his cabinet members that
Speaker 14: were there I believe.
Speaker 1: I mean, it didn't start a year ago. It started
Speaker 1: in the spring of twenty twenty one, in which he
Speaker 1: couldn't be the president. So I would ask the question,
Speaker 1: he's not making decisions on anything, So who made the
Speaker 1: decisions on the federal judges, Who made the decision on
Speaker 1: the pardons and the commutations, Who went over the thousands
Speaker 1: of people he partner community sentences individually and said this
Speaker 1: guy deserves it. Obviously, Joe Biden is still in Saint Croix,
Speaker 1: I think tonight, don't know where the hell he is.
Speaker 1: John Lott, we know he's not being the president. So
Speaker 1: I would ask rhetorically, at least the last three years,
Speaker 1: who's been the president?
Speaker 14: Yeah, well, I mean it's been somebody else. But look,
Speaker 14: you mentioned the judges. One thing that's interesting is Biden
Speaker 14: his nominated relatively low quality as far as intellectual quality
Speaker 14: goes for judges. He's been much more concerned about whether
Speaker 14: they're kind of, you know, the right politically ideologues and
Speaker 14: extreme going to go and do you know, worried about
Speaker 14: the political result and the quality. One thing I have
Speaker 14: to say is Trump, I believe is appointed the best
Speaker 14: judges to the courts of any president in my lifetime,
Speaker 14: even more consistently better nominations than then Reagan put on
Speaker 14: the court.
Speaker 1: Much like picking as vice president, it was a limited
Speaker 1: category for which to choose. He promised to have a
Speaker 1: person of color, a female black woman, and in that
Speaker 1: category there are many qualified, but Kamala Harris wasn't one
Speaker 1: of them. But the pool available would not be the
Speaker 1: same as if to say I'm basing my decision on merit,
Speaker 1: not upon membership in some racial group, or because this
Speaker 1: person is gay or at LBGTQ plus plus plus. It
Speaker 1: limits the category of those who have the merit. But nonetheless,
Speaker 1: John Lott, once again, I'm looking at you stuff Crimeresearch
Speaker 1: dot Org. It's all there. Thanks for coming on often
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four. Let's keep the lines of communication
Speaker 1: open through twenty twenty five, and let twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: be the beginning of the renaissance of the great greatest
Speaker 1: country on Earth. John Lott, thank you very much.
Speaker 14: Happy New Year, Bill, and thank you for being there.
Speaker 14: You make a difference.
Speaker 1: Thank you, God bless America. Thank you John. All right,
Speaker 1: let's continue with more Crimeresearch dot org. It's all up.
Speaker 1: Let's continue. My last comments of twenty twenty four, are next.
Speaker 1: Bill Cunningham, the Great American, with you every day, every night,
Speaker 1: every afternoon, whenever you need me. Bill Cunningham, with you
Speaker 1: every Sunday night. All right, Billy Cunningham, the Great American,
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to this last show of mine, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four. I could not have imagined a better outcome
Speaker 1: politically a year ago than the one that developed after
Speaker 1: November the fifth. Whenever I'm down, I think about the
Speaker 1: road not taken, which is Kamala Harris, and that clown
Speaker 1: Tim Waltz being a heartbeat from the presidency. And if
Speaker 1: that had happened, surely the House would have gone Democrat,
Speaker 1: and I guess that Keeme Jeffreys would be in charge,
Speaker 1: and who knows what would happen in the Senate. These
Speaker 1: ridiculous left wing extreme democratic judges would still be shall
Speaker 1: we say, appointed, and the world would look completely different.
Speaker 1: I had a caller an hour or so ago. I
Speaker 1: think her name was Lisa from Michigan, Who's going to
Speaker 1: say a prayer that Donald Trump is kept safe against
Speaker 1: the forces of evil, the crawl of the earth looking
Speaker 1: to ruin souls over the next twenty two days and
Speaker 1: I know he is extra careful, extra cautious, and that's
Speaker 1: what we need. I could not have imagined a better
Speaker 1: outcome a year ago. And December of last year, there
Speaker 1: was doubts, profound doubts. What was going to happen in
Speaker 1: the trials, What was Jack Smith going to do? More
Speaker 1: bimbo eruptions, God knows what would occur. Assassination attempts is
Speaker 1: something many of us considered as a possibility without even
Speaker 1: thinking or expressing it. We knew what was possible, and
Speaker 1: we came through the wilderness and we survived at all.
Speaker 1: Now we have the people's Champion about to take office
Speaker 1: on January the twentieth at noon, and Jade Evans backing
Speaker 1: him up. I'm told by a certain Congressman or two
Speaker 1: that Mike Johnson will make it through the end of
Speaker 1: the week. We can't have some great delay there that
Speaker 1: would look ridiculous, that would look utterly ridiculous. To bounce
Speaker 1: up or pass January the sixth, when the Electoral College
Speaker 1: votes are counted, giving Donald Trump the presidency. We got
Speaker 1: to get through that, and he must, by any means necessary,
Speaker 1: please remain safe over the next twenty one days. But
Speaker 1: thank you for listening in twenty twenty four, and I'll
Speaker 1: be with you every Sunday night that I can at
Speaker 1: least fifty to fifty one. And the year twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five will be just fine. We're gonna have
Speaker 1: problems and disabilities of one type or another, but finally
Speaker 1: common sense will be restored to the White House, and
Speaker 1: that we're going to have compliant judges that follow the
Speaker 1: Constitution through the United States Senate. There's going to be
Speaker 1: probably two vacancies, I said, two vacancies in the US
Speaker 1: Supreme Court. And guess what, Donald John Trump will make
Speaker 1: those appointments instead of Kamala Harris. Once again, Merry Christmas
Speaker 1: and happy New Year. Man, you and yours continue to
Speaker 1: have a great twenty twenty five. Bill Cunningham, the Great American,
Speaker 1: with you every Sunday night.