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so much for tuning in on this busy Tuesday newsday. Yeah,
the Carolina Hurricane looking to break a two game losing streak.
After they came to Florida, they lost to the Panthers,
blew a three goal lead, the next day blew a
three goal lead and loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning.
The Cup will stay in the Sunshine State and they
head back to South Florida tonight. I think she said
to take on the Panthers once again. All right, so
I am here. I did not win Powerball and you
didn't win either. Once again, there was no winning tickets
or tomorrow night, Christmas Eve, the jackpot will be one
point seven billion dollars. We talked a lot about this yesterday.
Anytime you want to chime in, by the way, seven
oh four five seven oh one oh seven nine, seven
oh four five seven oh one oh seven nine, someone
is going to win one of the biggest lottery jackpots
in history on Christmas. Talk about a Christmas blessing or
a Christmas miracle. Honestly, at this point, I think it's fixed, right,
like they want someone to win on Christmas because it's
such a great story. I mean, there are people like
buying hundreds of dollars worth of tickets for the last
week or two. As soon as it got near a
billion people going in there, like give me one hundred tickets,
maybe some people spending thousands and still no winter. It's unbelievable.
And what's what this magnificent weather in Charlotte sixty degrees
It's going to be seventy on Christmas, right, seventies or
into seventies. That is not Christmas. The one time that
you want it to be cold, it's warm. Never fails
Murphy's law, it should be cold on Christmas. I know
you may not be complaining about the weather, but it's
much more Christmas y when it's cold. Right. When I
moved to Charlotte January twenty twenty two, the very next
day it snowed. I'm from Florida. I drove to Charlotte
on Saturday, woke up on Sunday morning it was snowing.
Not kidding. Two weeks later it snowed again. Everybody there
at WBT was like, you know, joking around, Ah, you
must have brought the snow from Florida. It hardly ever
snows in Charlotte, and after those two snows, I don't
think it snowed for a while, but it was pretty
darn cold in the winter. Oh. Speaking of Christmas, on
my podcast yesterday, I featured a couple of segments on faith, Christianity,
and keeping Christ in Christmas. I had even posed the
question on X do you display a Nativity in your
front yard, you know, with your Christmas decorations or at
least somewhere in your home at Christmas time? Right, David
Chadwick is probably talking a lot about this this week,
or maybe today he did. That was yesterday on The
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Then last night I come across this story from Mullen,
South Carolina. You may have heard about this. We're the
mayor of the town, Miko Pickett, ask the people in
charge of the town's Christmas decorations. They have a little committee,
the Beautification Committee, I think it's called. The mayor asked
them to take down the Nativity scene out of fear
that it would offend residents of other faiths. Are you
kidding me?
Speaker 3: Or what?
Speaker 1: Miko Picket? Mayor Picket, that is everything that is wrong
in America right now right there. Oh, we don't want
to hurt anybody's feelings or offend anyone. Why should anyone
be offended by someone's religious beliefs, right, I personally know
people that celebrate Ramadan. Who cares Mayor Miko Picket of Mullens,
South Carolina, the town's beautification committee, who said they paid
for some of the decorations themselves. On top of all
of that, they paid for some of the decorations themselves
because they thought it would help the city and maybe
help drive some business. They refuse to take down the Nativity,
So good for them, good for the people of Mullen's,
South Carolina. Bad on the mayor. Mayor Picket, in a
Facebook statement said he only asked for them to be
removed the Nativity to be removed from the public parking
area because the separation of church and state applies to municipalities.
I see all kinds of municipalities all over the place
with nativities and minoras for Hanakah. Right. Anyway, that is
the kind of stuff that Christians and people of faith
are now up against. It's ridiculous. Yesterday on this show
here on WBT, I spoke with former RNC chair and
North Carolina Senate candidate Michael Wattley. Hopefully you will hear
for that if you were not and you're interested. It
is now on the WBT website under the Pete Calender podcast.
But today another challenger has emerged in the GOP primary
for the North Carolina's open Senate seat, despite Wattley having
President Trump's complete endorsement. We talked about the event in
Rocky Mount on Friday night, which, you know, Trump gave
a big speech, of course, but it was essentially a
rally for Michael Wattley, and again Trump endorsed him. Michelle Morrow,
who previously ran unsuccessfully for state superintendent, has thrown her
hat into the Senate ring. She also told Queen City
News that right now she is the only person in
the race that can beat former Governor Roy Cooper. Morrow's
one of several Republican challenges for Wattley for the seat
that's opening up from Tom Tillis's retirement. Retiring Senator Tom Tillis. Yesterday,
we spoke a lot about former Governor Cooper, Michael Wattley,
and I the presumed Democratic nominee, but didn't really talk
that much about the challengers within his own party because really,
you know, mainly because he has the complete endorsement of
the President. But there you go. Michelle Morrow thinks she
is the person for the job. She's thrown her hat
into the ring challenging Michael Wattley for the Republican Senate
seat in North Carolina. She will no doubt be confronted
about some of the very controversial things that she has
said and posted on social media in the past, once
saying something about Obama should go in front of a
firing squad. So when she starts speaking to the media again,
that'll be interesting because, like I said, I anticipate her
having to answer a lot of questions. Last night was
the Kennedy Center Awards on CBS. Did you see that
was actually filmed? As you likely know, in Washington a
week or two ago, President Trump had handed out the
awards to Kiss, Sylvester Stallone, singers Gloria Gayner, Michael Crawford,
and George Straight in the Oval Office. This is a
snippet of what it sounded like. Then, all right, we'll Cot.
Speaker 4: And the members of the incredible rock band Kiss, Paul Sanley,
Gene Simmons, Peter Chris and Ace Frehley, who now is
resting in peace. And his beautiful daughter is here too
accept the award. Thank you very much, thank you for
being here. Thank you.
Speaker 1: So that was like a week and a half, two
weeks ago in the Oval Office. The President went on
to talk about how he's known Gene Simmons for a
long time. Gene Simmons was on the TV show that
Trump used to have the name of the show now
slipping my mind. But you know you're fired, which I
think Gene Simmons got fired. Yeah, the Apprentice, Thank you, Nick. Yeah,
Gene Simmons, you know, was one of the many, many
many guests on The Apprentice, which ran for all of
those years. But anyway, so that was in the Oval Office,
and then they went over to the Kennedy Center for
the Performing Arts. Did the whole show. It aired on
CBS last night. This, of course, after all the hubbub.
Now a boy President Trump adding his name to the
Kennedy Center after allocating millions of dollars for renovations. It's
now called the President Trump and John F. Kennedy Center
for the Performing Arts. Members of the Kennedy family are
all up in arms over this.
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Speaker 1: Pete hopefully having a well deserved vacation. Talking about the
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Awards show that aired
last night, I mentioned you probably knew that it was
filmed more than a week ago in Washington, DC. President
Trump brought all the rest recipients into the Oval office,
gave them the actual medals, talked a little bit about
each of them, and then after that, a couple of
days after that, I think it was, he went on
to add his name to the John F. Kennedy Center
for the Performing Arts there in DC, which, if you
don't know, has undergone a massive renovation, mostly thanks to
the efforts of President Trump. It's now called the President
Trump and John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
He did not replace JFK's name, He just added his
name in front of it. I mentioned that the Kennedy
family is now all up in arms about it. Maria
Shriver on X this is what she wrote, adding your
name to a memorial already named in honor of a
great man who snuck mistresses into the White House, including
an underage girl. No, she didn't say that. I just
added that in. But she said, this doesn't make you
a great man. Quite the contrary. Putting your name on
top of someone else's doesn't mean that people will speak
of you in the same breath as they speak of
the other man. Putting your name above another man's name
on his existing memorial. What is this all about? What
does that do? What are people supposed to think? And
what will be next? Will Donald Trump add his name
to the JFK Airport in New York or will it
become the Donald Trump Abraham Lincoln Memorial? And she went on,
you know, she went on with a lot of other digs,
Maria Shriver on the renaming of the Kennedy Center or
the additional name we should say. And there's you know,
there's a lot of people that are upset about that.
You remember Judge Boseburg, the guy that had ordered the
return of flight the Flight Full of the illegal aliens
several months ago. Well, Judge Boseburg is at it again.
On Monday, he ruled that the Trump administration must arrange
the return of one hundred and thirty seven Venezuela and
men who were deported to L. Salvador and jailed over
alleged ties to criminal gangs. The men that they were
deported back in March under the Alien Enemies Act, US
District Judge James Boseburg ruling that their removal violated due
process rights and are entitled to return to court to
contest their deportation. The Trump administration now has to submit
a plan to allow for their return within two weeks.
That prison in L. Salvador. And by the way, you
remember the very first time the flight was on its
way and Boseburg ordered the flight come back, and they
just ignored the orders and went on with the flight.
But now they have two weeks to respond to this order.
And that prison inn L. Salvador is the same prison
that's at the heart of this whole CBS sixty minutes thing. Right,
this has been blowing up over the last couple of days,
and this is becoming another big fiasco for the network
that has already paid out millions of dollars in the
Kamala Harris edited sixty minute interview fiasco. So they're making
a lot of changes at CBS, right. It's a new
person at the helm shuffling around talent or bringing in
new talent. They're making a lot of changes. But after
the whole Kamala Harris edited interview on sixty Minutes and
the millions of dollars they paid out, now they have
another big fiasco going on with sixty Minutes and that
prison story, and now DHS is offering three thousand dollars
to illegal migrants to voluntarily self deport from the United
States before the end of the year. Three thousand dollars
plus transportation expenses. DHS Secretary Christy Nome's been on several
major news shows over the last day or two talking
about this. This is something they were already doing. I
think they were paying one thousand dollars. Now they're upping
the ante to three thousand dollars and paying travel expenses.
Just think about that. I'm just randomly going to say, Mexico, Okay,
so that's the only one of those countries I've ever
been to. I guess you know El Salvador as well.
But think about how much three thousand dollars is worth,
you know, in a South American country or in Mexico. Right,
that has to be incentive to go back. I mean,
if you're an illegal alien and you're worried about being deported.
This is an opportunity to bypass the chance of being
deported and go back to your country, you know, with
a really good start. And I'm being completely sincere about this.
I'm not trying to be funny about it. Three thousand dollars.
It is triple the bonus. They call it an exit bonus.
It used to be one thousand dollars. Now it's three
thousand for illegal migrants who sign up with the federal
government and depart by December thirty first, twenty twenty five
using the newly rebranded CBP Home app. DHS says eligible
participants will also receive free airfare to their home countries
and may have certain civil finds or penalties waived if
they leave voluntarily. And of course they're using this, you know,
sort of as ammunition, like here's your chance. And that's
what I'm saying. This is legitimately a valid and good
chance to go back home. Now, you probably left for
political reasons or other reasons. You may not care about
the money, but again, three thousand dollars and all expenses paid,
that's a lot of money in a lot of these countries, right,
But they're using that as ammunition to say, if you
don't take advantage of our generous offer, if you are
in the country illegally and we catch up with you,
you're going to be stripped of everything and have no
chance of ever coming back to the country. That's the
you know that, that's the ultimatum. Take advantage of the offer,
or get caught by ice, get arrested, and never be
welcomed back into the United States. That app, the CBP
Home App, is the same app from the Biden presidency,
the CBP one You remember that that was originally used
to schedule asylum appointments. They say the app has been
reworked and rebranded, reconfigurated where now illegals can go on
the app and sign up to be deported with a
huge bonus to go back to their state. Coming up
on the bottom of the hour here on the Pete
Callander Show one O seven nine WBT, if I mentioned
that I am the host of the Newsmas Daily podcast,
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Washington correspondent James Rosen, a veteran of Washington, to say
the least, he will be joining us next here on WBT,
so make sure you stick around for that. We're going
to kind of do a year in review for Trump
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Speaker 1: I'm Telly Marina holding things down for Pete Calendar. And
it's that time of year, right when everyone starts looking
back on everything in the year that was. And we
seem to say this more and more often now as
the years past, but this year twenty twenty five really
was one like we haven't seen before, especially when it
comes to Washington, DC and the White House. Newsmax Chief
Washington correspondent James Rosen is with us to break it
all down. Good afternoon, James, Tony, great to be with you.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: I'm very happy to have you. Thank you, And I mean,
with all that's going on in Washington today, how did
you find time to come on the radio with us.
Speaker 3: I took the extraordinary step of going on vacation. So
greetings from vacation lands.
Speaker 1: Oh very good, very good. Okay, So I'm going to
just toss this over to you and let you kind
of work your magic. But for folks that may not
be familiar with you, I mean, you have been in Washington, DC,
covering the White House, covering Capitol Hill, covering all things politics,
for a few decades, right.
Speaker 3: I don't know if a few, I guess a decade.
I came through Washington in nineteen ninety nine, so we're
coming up on reaching the milestone of a few decades.
Speaker 1: Right, right, Okay, so you've seen a lot, is what
I'm trying to say. It all started.
Speaker 3: But I like to think of myself as youthful and vibrant.
Speaker 1: Tony Well, knowing you personally, you are youthful and vibrant.
Also an author, Also an author, James has a great
book about Scalia. That's actually the title of the book.
We can talk more about that at the end, but
you definitely want to check out james book. At James's
book and going back, let's go back to the beginning
of the year, James, because I said, you know what
everyone is saying that this was one heck of a
year and what's been happening in the White House. In fact,
all started out with the first outdoor inauguration in forty years, right.
Speaker 3: Well, it got moved indoors, right because the cold was
so bad.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, that's what I meant. And I'm sorry,
that's what I meant. The first indoor inauguration in forty years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and President Trump delivered his inaugural address inside
the capital, and then the earliest measure of how different
this presidency was going to be from anything else we've seen,
certainly in modern times, was that the president's remarks didn't
end with his inauguration address. He gave two or three
sets of remarks, some of them I think equally long
as the inauguration address. People might forget. The very first
act of the Trump two point zero presidency was what
it was after it was for the presidents of the
United States to point his finger directly at the Chief Justice.
That's what the president after the two men shook hands,
and it was a bracing gesture, and he did it
with a smile on his face. And yet it kind
of announced how this presidency was going to unfold in
your face, bold, unprecedented, and sometimes with a wink and
a nod. That's the kind of presidency we've had in
two point zero so far. But it has been so
different in so many categories, and policy itself has changed
so sharply in so many different categories that there isn't
a radio segment long enough to tally it all. But
just by way of hitting some of the highlights, Tony. Certainly,
foreign policy has been upended. We saw this president unleash
strategic bombing attacks on Iran's nuclear sites. That was something
that had been talked about by presidents for perhaps we
can say safely a few decades, and it had never
been done before. And President Trump did it, and that
helped reshape the Middle East. He got the hostages home
with the aid of Steve Witcoff and Jared Kushner and
a number of intermediary countries such as Egypt and cutter
and we've seen the reaffirmation of his ties with Saudi Arabia.
The Russia Ukraine War has remained stubbornly beyond President Trump's
reach to resolve. It was something that he boasted and
he now tells us mockingly or it was in jest sarcastic.
During the campaign. He told us he would get that
settled within a day, and it's proved elusive. And of course,
that scene with President Zelensky in the Oval Office, that
was February of this year. It seems like maybe a
decade ago, because but he hadn't seen anything like a
scene like that in the Oval Office play out in
public in American history, and the tariff program, which has
brought in a lot of revenue but which has upended
our alliances. It has been truly a presidency like no other,
and we had some good reason to expect that, given
the way mister Trump operated in one point Zho. So,
I don't think anybody, even his severest critics, have been
prepared for the sheer velocity with which he has attacked
policy changes on so many fronts.
Speaker 1: And we already knew going in to this uh to
this presidency from his first presidency. Just at the pace
at which he works and gets things done. It's it's
it's funny when you sometimes see some of your your
your Washington colleagues, you know, admitting that they just can't
keep up with it.
Speaker 3: Right, I'll tell you who else couldn't keep up with it.
The White House Stenographer's Office. So they stopped providing White
House transcripts of White House events. That's a big change.
There is no official record from the White House of
these events except that which they place on the White
House YouTube page or in less release forms sometimes. But
the official transcripts of everything that the President of the
United States says, that's not a function the White House
performs anymore, perhaps because the sheer torrent of words coming
out of President Trump on a day to day days
was too much for their tired fingers, right.
Speaker 1: And of course in those White House press briefings, they've
also it's not only the tone and the pace of
the briefings, but now they've opened it up to let's say,
non traditional journalists, right, all these podcasters and independent journalists
that are now will get a seat in the press briefing,
which has never happened before either.
Speaker 3: And the phenomenon you're describing, Tony really takes a number
of different forms itself. There is, as you say, the
admission of what we might call new media to the
briefing room. And they've gotten this sort of seat of
honor to the left of the presidential lectern there or
the Press Secretary's lectern, and they get to ask the
very first question of each briefing. But even more sweeping,
the White House announced that it was removing from the
White House Correspondence Association the traditional purview over who fills
out the pool every day. The pool is the smaller
group of journalists and photographers that consists of personnel on
a rotating basis from the three broadcast networks, plus CNN
and Fox News. Fox News was added to the pool
in nineteen ninety seven, and those five organizations share the
burdens and the privileges of covering the presidency on a
day to day basis. There's an in house pool for
when he's in the White House, there's the in town
pool for when the president travels somewhere within the vicinity
of the White House, and then there's the out of
town pool for when the president leaves towns. And this
is an elaborate operation. Traditionally, the White House Correspondence Association
and the Bureau chiefs had set which print organization is
in the pool today, which which radio organization is in
the pool today, et cetera, and the White House announced
it's simply commandeering that. And for example, the Associated Press,
which is the venerated wire service along with Reuters, typically
they used to ask the first question. The senior Wire
Service reporter would ask the first question at every presidential
event or news conference that's gone. And in fact, because
the Associated Press refused to recognize the legitimacy of the
president's renaming of the Gulf of Mexico, to the Gulf
of America. The Associated Press has been effectively blocked out
of covering a lot of presidential events at the White
House and then from enjoying the traditional role of the
wire Service. And in fact, the Associated Press has sued
the White House on this basis, and as I understand it,
not gotten the greatest ruling so far. So yes, treatment
of the press another area of major sweeping and very
swift change. We should point out tony that in the
eyes of the of the president's critics, some of the
velocity with which he has accomplished these things, that the implosion,
let's say, of USAID or the Department of Education, the
trimming of some three hundred thousand workers from the federal workforce,
Some of these major things that have been accomplished in
large measure through the power of velocity, in the eyes
of the president's critics, have been accomplished by trampling the law.
One example they would cite is that the president early
on fired a number of inspectors general at the different agencies,
and under the relevant law that's not allowed to happen
unless the president gives thirty days notice and sufficient reasons
to the Congress. None of that was observed. So the
president and his team have been using the power of
velocity in ways that sometimes the president's critics or those
who would be determined to enforce the law to the
strictest letter, can't even catch up with.
Speaker 1: Well, James, I'm going to have to start wrapping it up.
But you know, the president has certainly given plenty of
ammunition to both his supporters and his detractors. I just
want to mention again real quick. I mentioned that at
the open Scalia Supreme Court years nineteen eighty six to
two thousand and one. That's James Rosen's book. It's coming
out February tenth, the tenth anniversary if Scalia's passing is
February thirteenth. Fantastic book. You're definitely going to want to
check that out. James Rosen, you do a fantastic job
on every single hit, every single day on Newsmax, and
I appreciate you coming on today. And as you said,
you know at the beginning, there's there's no radio show
or hit that is going to give you nearly the
amount of time that it would take, you know, to
cover what's been happening there in Washington. But thank you
I'll talk to you soon. Have a wonderful holiday. You
and your family appreciate it.
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Speaker 1: Dot Com and speaking of Christmas. I mentioned at the
open you know what's with this weather for Christmas? And
I know a lot of people are happy about it.
But as I mentioned, Christmas is supposed to be cold.
Scott Lorimore with the Weather Channel is with us and Scott.
It's not just here in Charlotte, but you know, people
traveling all over the country to see family and friends.
Let's talk about the weather in Charlotte first, but then
let's talk about where people may run into some bad weather.
Speaker 5: Hey, Tony, and merry Christmas. So I'll tell you what.
We've got some records on the table for this holiday.
It's not just ham and turkey that's being served up
for tomorrow and Thursday. We're talking mid seventies for high
temperatures here in town. And we will knock on the
door of some records, and in fact, on Christmas Day,
we will knock on the door of some very long
standing records from the nineteen fifties here at the airport.
I think we'll easily smoke our record tomorrow. The record
high temperature tomorrow is seventy three degrees at the that's
from twenty fifteen. We'll push past that one easily tomorrow.
We're up into the mid seventies tomorrow, and then on
Christmas Day, I think will be just shy of touching
or tying our record. Our record high here at the
airport officially on Christmas Day is seventy seven degrees from
nineteen fifty five. Some of the southern suburbs could get
close to that number, but I don't think we'll quite
touch that number at the airport for Christmas Day. So
it is definitely gonna be warm. If you like a
warm December, you will love our forecast for the holiday,
although it does get cold again early next week, Tony.
Speaker 1: Okay for New Year's Like I said, I don't I
don't hear a lot of people complaining about the weather,
but you know, and I live in Florida, so I'm
used to having that kind of weather and even hotter
on Christmas, but it just doesn't feel like Christmas. So
seventy seven good point Yeah, seven was the record. Yes, yes,
almost seven is the record for day.
Speaker 5: And it's a long standing room from the nineteenth.
Speaker 1: Sitty nineteen fifty five, nineteen fifty yeah, all right now,
so a lot.
Speaker 5: Of people are going to touch it, but will be close.
Speaker 1: A lot of people in North Carolina are headed up
north where you know they originally came from to visit family.
What's it going to be like up in the Northeast,
let's say, and in New England.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so southern New England and New York City, they're
going to get a white Christmas right after the holiday.
So they're going to have mild weather in New York
City for Christmas Day with temperatures in the forties. Boston
could have some snow on the ground for Christmas Day,
and Albany, New York, could have some snow on the
ground for Christmas Day. But that's about it. Southern New England.
That's about the only place in the East that you
could go to see a white Christmas. Everyone else is
warm tony. From Chicago to Florida to the Gulf Coast,
everyone is warm. And if you happen to be traveling
out west, there's not a lot of snow out west.
The big story out west is the flooding rains coming
to southern California, and they're actually.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been hearing about that. I've been hearing about
pretty sick.
Speaker 5: Not not just.
Speaker 1: Rain, but potential not just rain, but potential flooding.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know the recent burnscar areas out there that
makes it easy for the soil to move. But they're
going to get a lot of rain. Talking three and
four inches of rain. That would be a lot of
rain for us here in Charlotte, right, four inches of
rain in Los Angeles is a lot of rain short
amount of time.
Speaker 1: Wow, Okay, so it's not just Charlotte. Pretty warm and
and uh, seasonal season, I guess you can say seasonable
season all all over the country. No, not too many
white Christmases this Christmas.
Speaker 5: The only exception is, like, yes, southern New England is
like the only exception. Everyone else is pretty warm in
the east and even the Gulf Coast. We're headed into
what's known as a La Nina weather pattern, which is
kind of wet in the northwest and warm here in
the southeast, and so it looks like it's kind of
winning out for the winter forecast.
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