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0:00 Are you ready? Yeah, Okay, let's do an Ill Martinez Live, a program about current events, our culture, our values, our politics, and our future. And now Bill Martinez. Six minutes after top of the hour, Bill Martinez here, and we've got Joshua Fellow back with us. Always good to have him on the show. He is an award winning journalist senior investigative reporter at Epic Times. Joshua, good to have you back with us. How are you. It's always a pleasure in interesting times. No shortage of news at. Least, well to say the least. I mean. Meanwhile, you know, iron Is, I don't know, it seems and we're hopeful that maybe we're coming to some point of you know, some kind of agreement or settlement here. I don't know.

0:50 I just think that, you know, knowing these people traditionally, this is a death cult. It's the same way as Hamas, you know down in the Za. You know, you got to root them out. And I don't think they're gonna give They're gonna give up this easily. I think they're just playing a game. You know. We keep getting mixed messages on what's actually happening there. You know, I think there's a lot of concern now that we're gonna be sending ground troops. Trump saying that's not going to happen. Israel says it's needed. Trump is sending, you know, I believe, like an air division. Uh it seems right now these troops are going to be working on rebuilding some of the destroyed bases, which will be used as like platforms to launch air you know, air attacks.

1:32 As as things currently stand, the United States basically controls the air and the sea, which you really can't defend against. On the ground. We have a ten ward hogs blasting and they're sitting in Apache helicopters now, you know, really, I think what we're watching is the whittling away of the entire Iranian military. The Navy's already basically gone, the air force is gone, the air defense is gone. I think the next step is just the ground forces and what remains of those. But even checkpoints are being blown up on a regular basis. I don't think the Iranian regime is going to last much longer. But you're right, there are also a death colt. They really are, and they will fight to the last man, I believe well.

2:16 And the thing is is that you know, Trump is trying to be prudent and not destroy their economic infrastructure, whatever's remaining. You know, Israel is saying, look at we just want you got to take them out. And Israel knows better than us and Donald Trump, even though his ego won't allow him to, you know, to consider that because they have been there, you know, and this is something that they've been dealing with for thousands of years. This is not something that's only happened in the last couple of years. Right well, you know, it kind of reminds me of the early days of Desert Storm, when you know, America rolled into be Rock and I believe with Saddam Hussein set all the oil wells on fire exactly. You know, they were saying it was going to take forever to put those out. The US put them out relatively quickly.

3:07 They made these They're pretty cool looking. These giant vehicles are like giant wind blowers. Basically, Israel had started blowing up the oil infrastructure in Iran. Trump stopped them. I personally believe Trump stopped them because he wanted to. He wanted to try to make a peace deal with the Iranian regime. They're an oil economy. They're entirely their entire economy is oil. Any future the country is going to be probably oil. And you know, on that point, it's not like you blow it up and you can't build it back again. I do. I do think in America's interest, probably even other countries' interests, it would be better to destroy those, take away the ownership and have different companies build them. Then it would be under different ownership, not under Iranian ownership. But I think what's what's at play with that is kind of whether or not the ability to negotiate on a future for he run with the what remains of the leadership?

4:05 Well, and the problem that you have is what is where's what's the leadership right now? I mean, they've killed everybody and you know, and this is the question that that most people are asking, is that okay? And I want to believe I want to have faith and trust in Trump that you know, he is making his decision based on people he's negotiating with, but he's saying, look at it's backed up by action. You know, they they have whoever is there that he's negotiating with has some sphere of influence to be able to do this but you know, how long will that last? Before you know, they they treat him like a like a wrestler they don't like anymore and send him to the gallows. Well, I mean that that is a real question. So you know current Iranian leadership. Basically, here's what happened. You know, Trump rolled in Israel world in they killed the entire leadership.

4:56 It seems there was a bit of a bait and switch. He Ron believed that there was not going to be a US strike, and they all got kind of put their guard down. They gathered in a single building and they just blew up the entire building. As what happened. They then got together, appointed new leadership, and then the Trump team and Israel killed the entire new leadership. Then they appointed a third wave of leadership, and it's kind of all over the place. I think part of the problem they're having right now in terms of, you know, making a deal really is there's no real Iranian leadership right now. If you want my personal take, I'd say a lot of it's being run from outside Iran. I would say that you probably have sources or elements that had some influence over the government, based probably in Russia, maybe even some in China, but I'd say more likely Russia, and I think they're pulling the strings on it. The question is can they appoint a new leadership while the son of the former Shah of Iran, he's kind of the choice right now. Trump doesn't seem too keen on him, but he does seem to be the choice, especially among the Iranian people and the sad reality or good reality, I don't know, a lot of these countries, the only stable form of government tends to be monarchy. You know, Hamas is a democratically elected government. You know, let him choose their own government. It's going to be Isis or something like that. You know, Hamas is a democratic So maybe monarchy is a solution left to see.

6:23 Well, Iran hasn't traditionally, I mean yes, with the Shaw of Iran, a monarchy initially started out. He was somewhat more leaning toward democracy, and then he got carried away with himself, and then of course we saw what Jimmy Carter did, no, thank you very much, and then we bring you know, we bring the Iatolas in and the Malas. You know, what a great exchange on that deal. But you have I think what I'm hearing on the ground there within Iran is that you know, they don't want a monarchy. They don't want certainly they don't want another religious you know, totalitarian form of government like the Iatolas, and you've got a government in exile, so to speak of Iran, that is saying, look at we want to you know, govern Iran with you know, non nuclear ambitions, being democratic, you know, letting women you know again enjoy the things that women enjoyed forty nine years ago, and you know, which could would be quite revolutionary and quite refreshing if that could happen. I mean, that could that could have just a great impact on the Middle East, don't you think.

7:37 It actually could? In Iran is kind of a different Not all these countries are the same, you know, and that sounds funny to say, but it's really true, and they're very different. Iran. The Iranian people are much different from you know, the Afghanis for example, where you're dealing with more of like a medieval type population. You know, they're they're kind of still in the Middle Ages. They're different, for example, from the Iraqi people, who you know, tend to be more at least they used to be very much embedded with the kind of leadership they had. The Iranian people, most people who fled Iran after the collapse of you know, after the coming up out of the Iranian Revolution and so on, you know, seventy nine, they don't call themselves Iranian.

8:21 They call themselves Persian. And if you talk to a lot of them, they say that Iran used to be a Western country, like they regarded it as a Western country, right, and if you saw videos and images or whatever else from before the seventy nine revolution, they were very close to a Western country. A lot of them really do not like the leadership, you know, at the times. They have some good sources. We've actually been talking to sources on the ground there. There is actually pretty broad support for the son of the Shah. There is massive, massive lack of support for the current regime. And oddly enough, and this may sound surprising to some people, a lot of the Iranians really like is that's and I'm not just saying that is some like oh, you know political thing.

9:04 Well, there's some history there. Let's go to quick break. We'll pick it up on the other side. More from Joshua after this stay with us. Spring brings brighter days and more time to show off your coal Styles. School drop off a chance for your outfit to shine in the morning, raise the sun filtering through your windows, practically a personal spotlight, and family walks all perfectly timed for Golden Hour. Shop Coals for fifteen percent off and make the most of more daylight. Your outfits deserve it. Selick Styles All Friends, April fourth. Some exclusions apply. See store coals dot com for details. Do you owe the Irs ten thousand dollars or more in back taxes? Are you being audited or investigated? Has the IRS sent you a letter demanding payment? You may not owe what they claim. Make this free call to the tax doctor. Now let them negotiate with the Irs on your.

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14:03 And you're right, I mean, they were traditionally very you know, very progressive, very westernized. And I think it's quite interesting because when you go back in the history of Persia, it was the Persians that liberated Israel if you remember, under King Cyrus, if I remember correctly, and then now here you've got Israelis coming in to liberate Persia, Iran to return the favor. I think it's quite quite interesting. Yeah, So at the Times we actually published a story on this. It's kind of it's kind of funny. It's a bit dark, but kind of funny. Basically, you know, Trump right now is trying to get the Iranian people to rise up and overthrow the regime. And I think that is the real goal he wants the Iranian people to take back their country. The problem is is when you're a country where you're not allowed to own guns, and.

14:56 I was gonna say, they've only killed we were talking to got your pint, you know, boots on the ground, you know the guy and he's you know, we're saying, you know, because news reporting, you know, some like forty fifty thousand people have been it's built. Let's know, it's like try eighty five thousand. Yeah, but that also creates a lot of bad blood and discontent. Like a lot of them really do not like the regime. The problem is they haven't really been able to do much about it. One of the ways the regime has been suppressing people is with checkpoints. So they set up these checkpoints and they check for people like you know, dissidents and everything else, and they kill them. And so what's been happening now is that the Iranian people, I don't know how they did it, but they have like a quick line to Israel. Anytime there's a checkpoint, they call it, they actually report it, and very rapidly Israel rolls in with drones and destroys it. It's actually become so common now that it's It's also become an element in Iran where when people get stuck in traffic lines because it's a checkpoint, they play on their on their radio loudly the sound of a drone and then they watches the checkpoint guards like flee for their lives.

16:07 It's almost like a joke. They have, Oh my gosh, well that's well, you know, leave it, leave it to the people to figure this out. And and God blessed them, you know, for being able to do that, you know, because again, I mean you think about the boldness. I mean, here it is. They kill you know, they hang a noted wrestler, you know, along with two other I think they were what nineteen year old kids for you know, standing up against the government. You know, they were part of the resistance, and they hang them. I mean what does that say? Well, and you know the important thing is you're like you could say, oh, well, they killed all the you know, all the people who tried overthrowing the regime. Every one of those people has a mother and a father, and cousins and aunts and uncles and you know, probably siblings, maybe even kids. You do that to a person, those people are going to hate the regime. They're going to hate the regime. And not only did the Iranian regime kill people who are protesting, they were even going into the hospitals afterwards and killing all the people who were injured, which was crazy. They were even tracking people down afterwards and killing them. And so, you know, I think for the Iranian people, they're still a bit hesitant on going out and protesting. They're still kind of worried out, well, are they going to kill me? Like, what's going to happen?

17:33 I think right now what they need is clear assurance that the policy is the destruction of the entire Iranian leadership, that they will be held to account. Then I think the Iranian people will probably rise up. But you know, I do think Trump is betting on that happening, and they're trying to work towards that as well. How can they do it without being armed? No, I mean, you. Know that can be arranged well yeah, exactly, but yeah, and an other that or you get the you know, the local military for the local law enforcement, you know, to come across and cross the line. I RGC forget that. They're not going to, although they're in a little bit of pain because unless they've stalked away money. But I'm hearing that they're running you know, they're running law on funds right now as well.

18:19 Well. So this is important too. And this was told to us by other sources actually in Israel, you know epic times. Of course, we have a lot of good sources. What we were told was that when when Israel was launching, you know, this is kind of the second chapter of the battle they had with Iran. The first part was that of this was before when there was an exchange of missiles. They had the exploding pagers as everybody might remember. During that during that exchange, Israel actually killed a lot of the military leadership of Iran. So a lot of the generals of the IRGC, a lot of the ones who were carrying out the domestic suppressions, a lot of them were killed. What we're told is that a lot of the current security in Iraq, and you know, the regime forces, a lot of it's foreign, a lot of us brought in through other other Muslim countries.

19:07 Okay, yeah, that makes but you know, I want to switch here just a moment because you bring up something in your article about Narco Polo. Because we said this, right away is that you know, America's adversaries have got to be looking at America's firepower and what's on display, and talking specifically about Russia and China, I mean, what a demonstration of military might enforce? Right, So China and Russia's military is both of them are a bit of a paper tiger. There's a lot, there's a lot of smoke and mirrors when it comes to military power. You know, one of the big scandals in China, others there's a few big scandals. Let me lay it out. Basically, China was selling the world missile defense systems, military equipment, saying, buy from US and you can defend yourself against the United States of America. Venezuela was buying stuff from them. Iran was buying stuff from them.

20:07 And then the world watched as Chinese air defense systems were taken out immediately. Did not defend the leadership. They could not even defend the president of the country in Meduro's case, from being abducted, not even killed, but just even like boots on the ground abducted. They watched is the entire infrastructure, missiles, everything failed. The Chinese military effectively is useless against the power of the United States. It is useless, and that was that terrified Chinese leadership based on what we were told. Also the other thing too, is it turns out as the CCP has been investigating its own weapons systems, they're finding massive corruption. There's been reports of missiles filled with water. It's a giant show of smoke and mirrors. The guy who made the J twenty China so called fifth generation fighter jet, it turns out the thing a death trap, it's a it's a giant sham. There's allegations right now that Shiji Ping even had the guy killed who made it. One of the top engineers allegedly had him killed because he defrauded the country so badly claiming that they had developed a fifth generation fighter jet when it's not. Not only is it not, which I think they knew, it's actually it was actually based on a Soviet era four point five generation jet.

21:26 It didn't have any of the stealth capabilities of claim it did, which even then was a bit of smoke in mirrs because Russian never finished the thing, right, it just doesn't work, you know, it's all else aside, and we watched the Russian military, you know, try to roll into Ukraine. That thought they thought it was going to be a blitzkrig. You know, over in two weeks they got stuck in the mud. Flat tires made in China, tires, by the way, flat tires stuck in the mud. The entire invasion got stalled. We watched the entire Soviet or Russian spetsnas get wiped out within the first few weeks, this whole you know, propaganda fighting force, they were wiped out almost immediately. And we're seeing now that the Russian fighting force is basically a little better than Soviet era, right.

22:12 I think. I think what we're seeing instead is, you know, these basically Walmart drones are the future of war. And that's as good as you get with a lot of these countries. They're not going to have the capability to fight against the power of the United States. What about China's navy, They've been building boats like crazy. I don't know what the number is, some like three four times what we have. But they're saying, you know, they're they're probably of the same measure as as these jets, these supposed jets that they they created, right. They're they're about the same measure as the Iranian Navy, and you know, I believe it was. I believe it was. Might have been. Pete Hegseth came out and actually made an announcement that we decided we would share the ocean with the Iranian Navy. We get the top part, they get the bottom part of the ocean. And we watched how that worked out. You know, it would be the same thing for the Chinese Navy. A lot of the navy is retrofitted fishing boats. A lot of it is not really warships. I mean, some of it is. But but the reality we've seen is that, you know, honestly, America just decimated the Iranian Navy like like it was nothing.

23:25 You know, they were even publishing you know, Iran was publishing AI videos trying to make it seem that they actually did something they didn't. It was, it was, it was, it was like shooting fish. In a barrel. Right now. The US, again, as I mentioned, they have a ten Warthogs, you know, low slow flying the anti tank air aircraft initially, but they're using them to go after fast boats now and other things. They're they're using Apache helicopters to wipe them out. If you get to the realm of fifth termation fighter jets, whether it's the F thirty five or the F twenty two, like the long range strike capabilities of those these ships are just sitting ducks. They're big targets. You know. It's it's like it's like shooting the you know, the rear side of a mountain. You know you're not going to miss, right, And I think they're realizing the vulnerability they're in right now.

24:12 Well, Uh, the mere advantage that you suggested earlier that they still maintain is with drones. But I think it's just it's probably a matter of days or weeks that the US perfects something that manages these drone attacks. What do you think e M P electromagnetic pulse the they America already has it, so any any kind of large warship, any kind of major American you know, defense in infrastructure, will use e MP. This is kind of the less talked about domain of modern warfare, electronic hardening and electronic warfare. If you are if you already hear from me that the new battlefield electronic warfare is is is bigger than armor. It's bigger than armor plating. You can basically wipe out entire drone fleets using e m P, and they've demonstrated it. You can use directed energy weapons EMP to previously, I mean going back ten years, I remember that some of the major arms manufacturers in the US they were just they were displaying such precise e MP weapons that they could be put on fighter jets, that they can they can shut off a single floor of a building. They could do it so precise. If you understand what that means for modern military equipment, any any any military infrastructure that is not hardened against EMP,

25:43 which would be fifth generation level, like which other countries don't even have basically like most most don't really have. They're not hardened to defend against that any kind of fire. You could have a fleet of a thousand fighter jets if they're not hardened against EMP, you could drop them out of the sky like flies would say. It would be nothing because you could fry them. And so drones we're watching kind of a not really high tech but like like a low tech high tech war in Ukraine where they're using cheap technologies but modern technologies. That's not going to work when you're dealing with a major military force.

26:25 And we all believed Russia was a major military force. They're not. It's a bit, it's a bit of a sham. You know that there's still a nuclear power, but a lot of the other stuff's a sham. Exactly what do you think when they hear that Trump is asking for another one point five trillion in military defense? Well, I think it might be necessary. And you know, I mean people think, oh, well, military industrial complex, it might it might be necessary. And here's why we lack domestic manufacturing. This, this is the Achilles heel of the military. Right now. We don't have rare earth minerals that we need to do we need to resupply, we even need we don't even have the rare earth minerals we need to build new ammunition. We get it from China. Right We don't have wartime manufacturing. It's it's insane. We would not be able to develop or produce ships or jets or weapons, or let alone ammunition on the scale required for weapons if we were to go to war. We don't have medications, not even things like blood thinners or IV bags or anything like that. We get it from China. As crazy as that.

27:38 So we gave it to them, and now we're going to them. It's just insane. Well to be continued, Joshua, again, we appreciate you coming on the show. Joshua Philip, the host of Crossroads and a senior investigative reporter with Epic Times, have a great day, take care, Thank you, you got it. Do you have Medicare and do you use a sea path machine? This is a national healthcare alert regarding your SEAPAP supplies. Using a clean SEAPAP mask and clean supplies is important to staying healthy. The best way to make sure your SEATPAP equipment is clean is to get new supplies. If you have Medicare, we have great news. Medicare will pay for you to have new clean supplies every ninety days.

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31:36 Good morning, Bill. It's so good to be with you. They're always good to be sharing this time, especially on this Holy Week. Huh. I love this time of the year because I'll tell you a time, like anything, it's such a contrast for people who may feel hopeless. We know that hope is coming. It's just around the corner, isn't it. Well, it is just around the corner. And that hope is hope that only Christ can provide, and that believing in God and believing in Christ, that He was crucified and he resurrected. He died for our sins, not because we deserve it, but simply because God loves us that much.

32:20 It should give hope to all people, and for. People who already believe and understand and have accepted God's love. This special Holy Week is a week for us to reflect on the sacrifices God made and to just spend moments in deeper prayer and reflection with God as we head into to Mandy Thursday, Good Friday, and then Easter. Exactly. Well, I saw a great movie. I need to recommend everybody. It's actually going to come out officially on the third. It's called The Awakening Sight and Sound. I don't know if you've heard about it. I saw the trailer for it.

33:01 Yeah, I just watched it. What an incredible blessing. I think the timing of it. I spoke with the director Joshua, and I met Joshua probably about ten years ago, and he's been with Citing Sound for a long time and this is their second full you know, movie that they have done. They do a lot of stage production there at their facilities there in Pennsylvania and also in Branson. But the Great Awakening is such a blessing because kind of like what we're talking about, the root of America's founding was Jesus Christ is Jesus Christ, and we have moved away from that. And since we've moved away from it, we've been paying a price. At some point, you would think people say enough of this. I mean, the evidence is clear, what happens, what America looks like with Jesus, what America looks like without Jesus. Benjamin Franklin realized that of all people, because people didn't look at Benjamin Franklin, you know, not necessarily an atheist, but he was probably one that you wouldn't think would be instrumental, but in this case he was.

34:04 I did not know that he was close friends and partners with Whitfield. Yeah, I did not know that either. So I'm really looking forward to seeing the film. It looks like it's very well done. The production quality is very good production quality, and it's going to tell another story of our founding. And we're celebrating our two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. It's the right time for those stories about our founding to be out and to see. To learn more about Benjamin Franklin's faith in the interaction he had with George Whitfield is going to be interesting because I'm not familiar with that part of history. And then during that trailer, I heard one of the phrases that, well, I guess really it's a Bible verse that I hear every morning when I do the wake Up Call podcast with J. D.

34:58 Walt. Wake Up Sleeper from the Dead and Christ will be with you, and I heard them then I mentioning that there's a scene with that in the trailer, and it just it really looks very good. And I think that that message is appropriate today because of where America sits, and it's been caught up in chaos, it's been worn out, and that should be an indication. I think that again in God's timing, God directs everything. I think that the timing of this being you know, Holy Weak and Easter and this message again reminding us because one of the things that we've been saying repeatedly on the show here recently is that we need to return to first principles. Jenny Beth, you know we've lost sight of that.

35:43 Yeah, we really do need to return to first principles, and and Bill. We have lost sight of it. And even people on the right side of the political aisles, some of them, I think, are being seduced, if you will, by by clickbait and things that you see online. And we're just we're falling into the trap. It doesn't matter which side of the political aisle you're on, you fall into this trap of just seeing something on social media, jumping to the worst conclusion allowing that social media headline to affect us emotionally, which is what it's trying to do. And we don't take that step back, use our reasoning skills and think about those founding principles.

36:26 And it's one thing that I. Appreciate about you in this program because you do reference to founding principles and we have to just keep going back to those otherwise where we as a country are going to become extremely lost. You know, Jenny Beth, you touched on something it's so critical right now, and that is that we need to think again, learn to think again and critical thinking. Embrace that how important it is. Number one. Number two, we need to discern the difference between a truth and a lie, especially in light of the information age, as you said, clickbait, the amount of information is coming out. You know, what tells you if something is right or wrong? And I don't mean left or right, I mean right or wrong, good or evil? What is truth and what's a lie?

37:12 You need to be anchored and have that discerning radar, if I might say, in place and well practiced, otherwise you're going to be clearly and easily duped. Yeah, that is that is very true. It's in it just t it takes a moment, like think things through if you see it. When I was a kid, you know how you would see all these advertisements in your child, you just believe everything. And my mother would always say, you can't believe everything you see on TV. Well, you can't believe everything you see on a screen period, whether it's a television, your computer, or your phone. And you've got to use your brain to think through, to think it through. And all those headlines and the people who are making livings off of the more likes and clips and interactions that they have, they are designed to hit us emotionally. And when they hit us emotionally, either in the god or in the heart, we we respond in kind. They're not designed to make us think. The ones that are designed to make us think usually are the more boring ones that we don't we don't want to click on as often.

38:19 Yeah, exactly, Well, again, we're reminded that God is a god of order, and that should be the first indication. Whatever you're coming in contact, is it promoting order or disorder. If it's promoting chaos, you got to know that it's not from God. And again, if we are going to return to our roots and become a God fearing nation once again. Then God may be so. Because all this chaos that we've been dealing with, this gender dysphoria, the political process, where the you know, politics has been you know, reversed. We find that politics is upstream culture where it's never was intended to be, always supposed to be downstream culture.

39:02 The tail is shaking the dog here. And if we're going to get control of the politics and our government, then we need to return to those first principles that state that it's a government of for by we the people. Right, That is exactly right, You're right there, and we have to just we've got to make sure that we're thinking about the first principles that we're studying and understanding what why the founders designed the country the way that they did, and using that as our lens through which we look at political events and current events today. Yeah, and this way, you won't get caught up in the noise and the emotion of why our government is not doing its job and funding our government, and why we have government employees that have been without a paycheck for as long as they have been Jenny Beth that's that is so unacceptable.

39:55 It is completely unacceptable, and I don't I really actually am questioning whether it's constitutional. I understand the people who are working right now will get paid because we've always done that when there is a government shutdown, and because you can't make somebody work for free, that is unconstitutional. We don't have slaves in this country. But making sure that ultimately they get paid, while also stringing them along for twelve weeks out of six months, delaying paychecks and giving that kind of uncertainty in their life and expecting them to show up to work anyway.

40:38 In so many. Cases, that is simply it's just wrong. And the Democrats continue to prevent the government from being funded. Last week, the Republicans and the Senate, especially the Senate Majority Leader Thoon, created some sort of bizarre deal that would fund the Department of Homeland Security and completely zero out and not fun ice and immigration, so immigration and customer enforcement. We have to have that function in our country. We can't just zero it out and say we'll deal with that another day. So we're still at this impasse, and I think Congress should leave their recess, get back from Disney World, get back from wherever you are, go to Washington and take care of the problem at hand.

41:29 You wanted this job, you chose to run for election, So step it up and do the work you were elected to do. Nobody forced any of them to run for office exactly. We got to leave it there. Jenny Beth Martin from the Tea Party Patriots Action Jenny Beth, How can they be in touch? Go to Tea Partypatriots dot org, Tea Party Patriots dot org and check me out on all the social networks at Jenny bethm. Spring brings brighter days and more time to show off your Coal Styles. School drop off, a chance for your outfit to shine in the morning, raise the sun filtering through your windows, practically a personal spotlight, and family walks, all perfectly timed for Golden hour. Shop Coals for fifteen percent off and make the most of more daylight your outfits deserve it. Selix Styles All Friends, April fourth. Some exclusions apply see store coals dot com for details.

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46:19 Absolutely not because he is a looker and she has her mom's temperament. So the world's in trouble. Well, but you most immediately, absolutely, this is it. Well, congratulations to you and the family. I mean, this is awesome, you know. And so hopefully, you know, we'll get a chance to send me a picture, you know, I love to see pictures because we're going to be praying. We're going to be praying for Violet Rose, Okay, that all will be well, and that God's destiny will be upon her and that she will stay true to the course and what he has plan and purpose for her life. Absolutely well, Andrea Barnes's numbers USA external relations manager, and we're here to talk about, you know, speaking of birth birthright citizenship.

47:04 Right absolutely, And here's what's going on here. The Supreme Court is going to rule whether Donald J. Trump, President Donald TR Trump has the ability and the power to deny citizenship to the children of illegal aliens and tourists. That is what is. Being reviewed right now, and they're going to review that on Wednesday. So the Supreme Court is going to review the fourteenth Amendment and what the fourteenth Amendment was meant to do. It was meant to protect the freedoms of recently freed slaves exactly not to be extended to everyone that was born on US soil. This is the contradiction.

47:54 This is what Donald Trump is arguing is a misinterpretation, which I told you. Agree. Now, there's a few. Things that can happen in the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court can rule that he doesn't have the right to do so. The Supreme Court could decide that they're going to defer to Congress. And if they defer to Congress, we want Congress to take action because we can't really influence. The Supreme Court. The Supreme Court is going to rule based on their interpretation of the law. But we can press our elected officials to change this policy because this policy just opens up a loophole. What we're seeing is that illegal aliens and tourists are having around three hundred and fifty thousand babies every year, and what it is due to American citizens.

48:43 It does a few things. It increases the cost of housing. It can also increase class sizes. It can also increase the times that we're sitting in the line to get to the er. And all these complaints Americans have and these are loopholes through through the birthright Citizenship Amendment that Congress is going to review. That Congress can change this right now. Well, Andre, to your point, this has been something that has been kicked around. It's another one of those cans that Congress likes to keep kicking around here the fourteenth Amendment. So this isn't use to them. What's disgusting again, where Congress should have stepped in a long time ago, and even when Donald Trump brought this up, Congress should have acted on this. Why did they? Are they waiting for the Supreme Court like all of a sudden. I mean, Congress is so protective, it seems these days about you know what their duties are according to the Constitution. Well, wait a minute, you're dropping the ball here. You continually drop the ball because if you see something as some sort of political hot potato, then you defer it. And now the Supreme Court is, in a sense doing your job exactly exactly.

49:59 And what we're seeing is that Congress doesn't want to make a decision about illegal aliens. And what we need is long term legislation. We have to push them towards this long term legislation because if we don't, then we're going to see the pendulum swing to the next administration and they're going to just undo everything that President Trump has done to secure our borders. Well, the issue that Democrats always bring up is that immigration is broken. Okay, good observation. What's your solution. Oh, it's broken. Now, you already told me that. You've been telling me that for you know, decades. Okay, what's your solution.

50:41 It's just it's broken. It's so complex. Well, yes, it is complex. This is just one of the elements in the complexity of the whole immigration process. We need to bring this into order and into compliance so that we can begin to chip away at this eight hundred thousand pound gorilla that's been sleeping in our living room for all these decades, right exactly. And what. We need to do is recognize that the left, they actually do have a plan. Their plan is to dismantle ICE and dismantl DHS. That's her point.

51:22 They want to open these borders. Back up, Delia. He actually went and said that she has a bill, a bill on the ready that she's gonna use to close down ICE and DHS. Now, this goes back to a problem that we have in our sanctuary cities. And I think that. Ryan Lonergan really hit this on the nose. He said this, He said, in sanctuary cities, illegal aliens lives have the highest value, while American citizeny citizens barely have none. You have none. And that was obvious right during the years during the State of the Union when the President said, who are you going to support an American citizen or an immigrant?

52:10 An illegal immigrant? And the Democrats couldn't even stand to say they were in support of America's citizens. Absolutely absolutely. And it's even gotten crazier because we have some Democrats that are saying that not only should we dismantle ICE, but there should be some sort of reparations towards illegal aliens because of the harms that ICE has caused to them. That is on taxpayer dime. This is what people need to know ahead of the midterms. The Democrats will open up the borders, they will dismantle ICE, they will dismantle DHS. Americans will be less safe, and then on top of that, they're going to use taxpayer.

52:50 Money to give more money to illegal aliens. Did they not come in with free hotels, did they not come in with free food? Did they not come in with free education. What are we even talking about that? They need their lives need to be repaired? What about in lives? Yeah, yeah, exactly. They did come in. Oh that's right. They came in illegally. They basically have been robbing the American citizen. And it's been the Democratic Party that have been, you know, co conspirators in this whole process. Right, So look at vote the Democrats at your own peril. These are the same people that are supporting lawlessness that at a time when we need ice, we need our national security fully funded and operational. Because that's right, we're having a little bit of a battle with a country named Iran that has been saying repeatedly for what almost five decades that they want to kill all Americans. So here we are in a fight with them right now. We've already had what four or five incidences that you can directly relate to to the Mullahs, to Iran. And meanwhile we have Democrats in Congress saying, oh, we don't want to fund that part of our defense mechanism, Like are you kidding me? I mean, this is uh, this is the height. It's not even ignorance, it's just abject stupidity

54:21 in the name of partisan politics. I can talk about the abjects stupidity towards immigration policy. I won't delve into a war policies, because that's a whole different. Can of worms. But what I can tell you is that all of this, all of this. Echoes Lincoln Riley. It's just an echo Lincoln Riley. And what even burns my skin up more is that all these weird things that we've talked about that that Democrats and people on the left and people that want open borders are saying, they're even taking it further and trying to create the narrative that this, this incident in Chicago with the woman being shot by the illegal alien is the fault of President Trump. Can I read you a quote from one of the directors from CATO. His name is David Beer, and he said, it's interesting that Ice didn't track him down after his shotlisting arrests as mandated by the Lake and Riley Act, because Trump's DHS has completely ignored the Lake and Riley Act in favor of racial profiling random people on the street. So what he's saying it is Trump's fault that they didn't follow the Lake and Riley Act getting the worst of the worst, and they allow this guy to slip through the cracks. Well,

55:53 let me give people a little bit of a reality check, and David Beer a reality check because Ice, I mean, Chicago has denied ICE detainers. Yes, and it's been for the city and the counties. It has been almost eighteen thousand that they rejected. So if they're rejecting ICE detainers, how are they going to get people that are in jail that have already committed crimes and to deport them out in the country. It is another narrative that they're trying to create to force Americans to believe that the will of the people is to dismantle Ice, that ICE is racially profiling, that ICE is doing all the things wrong.

56:33 It is not Ice. It is the fact that we haven't put into law long term immigration that like HR two and e verify that will actually secure our border. Clearly, they're not interested in securing our border. That's the bottom line, because otherwise they would support policies to that end. I think it's inarguable and it doesn't take a lot of discernment. Just listen to what they're saying and ask yourself how does this make any sense? We got forty seconds left. I'll let you wrap it up. Go ahead. As I was saying before, these echoes of Lincoln Riiley will continue. More Americans will potentially be harmed if we do not secure our border with long term immigration policy.

57:22 We need HR two, we need E verified, and we need to get rid of these loopholes in the birthright system at that President Trump issued through executive order. The Supreme Court needs the rule that he can do it or Congress needs to. Support the law that gets rid of the. Loopholes, and we the people need to keep pressure on Congress. Right and Drake, that's correct. Well, check it out at NumbersUSA dot com. Right, that's right, well dot org now dot org gro Okay, Yes, NumbersUSA dot org being informed and an activated citizen, Ladies. Andre Barnes, Numbers USAHBCU Engagement Director, Thank you, Andre, take care, congratulations once again, my friend, thank you. Have a good day.

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59:48 No, it really doesn't. It's really it's appalling, be truthful, just appalling. Yeah, I mean here, look at your job is to get the job done. And I'll tell you you know, the longer this goes on, the more it exposes the chinks in the armor on both sides. Scott, It's not just about the Democrats. You know, the Democrats keep coming back with is the hallowed response, no ideas whatsoever. It's just about resistance. As I was saying to somebody else earlier, it's just like they're trying to run out the clock here. I would agree, I would agree, but I think that, you know, I don't. I think it's time to you know, rescind the filibuster and get to a vote.

1:00:37 You've got to make something happen. I mean, really, this speaks of the leadership, the lack thereof. I mean, John Tune. I like John. I think he seems like a nice guy. But you know, at the end of the day, as my old mentor used to say to me, Scott, your charm is only as good as your bottom line. What are you producing? You know, and right now we need legislation and what's hanging in the balance here, whether it's negotiating, you know, reopening our government or saving you know, saving America with the Save Acts, Save America Act. You know, you've got to do something otherwise you're you're, you're no different than the Congresses that kept saying that they were going to repeal and replace Obamacare.

1:01:18 That's right, that's right. I mean, I think the faith in government by the America's people is really at a close to an all time low. Yeah, I mean at a time when you really demands leadership. You know, the Democrats are all upset about, you know, what happened with ice in these different cities. Corey Booker the rest of them, you know, are quick to talk about, oh, well, you know you have ICE agents running into schools, you know, shooting people, killing them. And you know, I mean this this ridiculous statement you know that have taken place because of two incidents in Minnesota that really uh that that Ice did not get the cooperation of local authorities that they should have got and they've they've this has been their waterloo. They've planted their flag on this on the bodies are pretty and uh and good and uh that's uh, that's their cause, azure and uh it seems to be resonating with the American people. But again, this is where leadership comes in. I think Tom Homan has done a good job in uh, you know, kind of silencing some of it. But still it requires leadership to really, you know, clarify the vision of what we're doing and you know the job that still is ahead. I mean, you can't have the amount of millions of illegal immigrants coming into our country putting us at risk. And then oh, right now, that's right. We're in the middle of a war conflict call of which you want, with Iran, and you've already

1:02:48 had four incidences that you could say are somewhat connected with the Ayatola and Iran. Can you not? Oh? Absolutely, And we're lucky there haven't been more. I mean there there are certainly more Iranian sponsored sleeper cells in the United States than than just four. So and you can thank the Democrats and Joe Biden for opening up the door. And it seems that even after all this, and that more and more people are understanding what are they doing, Scott, They're insisting that what you okay, so you didn't like, you know, closing the border on you want to open up the border, you want to have sanctuary cities. I mean, look at what's going on the difference between blue states and red states and those states that you know, embrace in cities that embrace sanctuary cities. I mean they're going bankrupt and and they're putting their own people at risk. I mean, here you have the situation in Chicago right earlier for this poor young girl and guess what, She's just one of how many, how many thousands of kids, young people that have been murdered, not counting not counting fentanyl and all the drugs that have flowed in that have all been part and parcel of open borders and all this. You know, this mentality that you know, America doesn't and Americans don't need to be protected. You know, we just need to leave the doors open. Let China, let all these people who who want all kinds of ill for America to come in and destroy our country. And this seems to

1:04:20 be the case and the and the viewpoint of the Democratic Party, at least the hard left anyway, that's controlling the party. You're so right, You're so right, But I think that I mean, it's it's a travesty what's happening right now, particularly because our country is in a war and we need you know, we need you know, we need sensible public policy. Here at home. Well, and you can't have American citizens who rely on a paycheck and rely on our government to be operating and say, well, okay, you're going to miss three paychecks. Sorry, you know, no wonder they're just saying, hey, the heck with this job. You know, you can take this job and shove it, as the old song used to go, right, and uh, I don't blame I don't blame these people.

1:05:13 Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised really if that isn't a part of the plan. Part of the plan of the Democrats is to drive people out of out of government, you know, to drive employees of you know, homeland security. Uh out. I mean at a time when you need national security, let's go ahead. I mean, which is kind of antithical because the Democrats are known, I mean, their only job growth comes from expanding government, right, and and how how many jobs have not been replaced or have been eliminated under the Trump administration in a year and well not even a full year and a half scott by comparison.

1:05:55 Yes, I know, I know. Well anyway, we don't, we can't. We can pray about this, we we we always want to be praying that solutions come because we need them. This is a critical time for our country. You know, we need wisdom and we need like I said, leadership that is that is backed by the hand of God, that has that power to resonate and bring people together, unify people. And you're exactly right, and that's going to come from God. It's not going to come from some you know, political force. Some people might think, you know, God could use political forces to the benefit of all, but you know, we serve a just and righteous God that you know, this has to be a disturbance in the heaven, in the heavenlyes, you know, to see what's happening happening here on earth right now.

1:06:49 Well, I fully agree. I mean, I think that people are waking up to the fact that maybe we are entering the so called end time for you know, for the world. Well, but you know, just because we are. Then you need to understand, well, what is your responsibility in the end times? You know, when I read the Bible, I don't see that people of faith just say, okay, we're in the end times and they put their heels on the desk and just you know, burn novena candles and pray to God and think everything's okay. I believe that there is a job to be done here. I fully agree. I think we have to do. You know, we have to do our very best to fulfill God's you know, God's commandments to us. You know, we don't you know, when we say we love God, yes we do that, but we love people as ourselves. So we have to remain engaged with people. We have to do the right thing by people. And government has its role and the private sector has its role. But when things are not working, it's you know, it's it's disheartening, and you know, you're really just giving ground to the enemy because when people are demoralized, when they lose faith and confidence in the system, we become more vulnerable to the enemy, to the enemy attacks.

1:08:14 Right exactly, Well, as you said, Scott, the Great Commission is still in play. You know, I've not heard that God said, hey, we're done. You don't have to do this anymore. The Great Commission continues, and especially in these the last of the last days, as Billy Graham would say, and how he identified them. And I agree. You see the signs, you see what's happening. But it's up to us, people of faith, to be faithful and to pursue God and pursue his righteousness and to make the difference to continue to make sure that light shines forth, that light for freedom and holiness and righteousness and peace on earth. We've got to go to break. We've got more from Scott on the other side. Stay with us, sing it rings.

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1:14:21 Oh, it is, it is. I mean, this is a you know, such a such an indictment of this regime that this regime needs to be defeated, it needs to be displaced. And you know, nobody really wanted to talk about regime change, but we're in the thick of this right now, right and I think we're well into regime change already. Well, the people who have suffered, who have paid the price with their own blood and have been suffering for what forty nine years, they're insisting on regime change. They don't want They've had it with Mulla's, They've had it with monarchs. They want another stab at you know, democracy in some sort of form. They want to be peaceful, non nuclear. I mean, you're talking about resetting the entire stage of the Middle East, which is consistent with biblical prophecy, is it not? Yes, it is.

1:15:15 Yeah. A lot of people don't realize that Iran is the fastest has the fastest growing population of Christians of any nation in the world. They have a growth rate of twenty percent. But that means if you extrapolate that Christians would have a majority in Iran by the early nineteen forties if the same growth rates continue, and I have reason to believe they are actually going to accelerate if this regime falls. You know, people need to find meaning in their life, they need to find hope and fulfillment. And it's really the message of Jesus Christ that delivers that message so so profoundly, so clearly, and so simply really.

1:16:04 Right, Well, when you look at what they've had, uh, you know, with the Molas and the Iyatolas, it's in clear contrast to Christianity and what Christianity has done, you know, for the West, what it's done for America, what has done for these other countries, and even in areas that where their oppression reigns. I mean, you've got people in China that are greatly reported you know, oppressed, but you have the underground church that is that is growing exponentially as well in China. Yes, yeah, there's probably one hundred and fifty million Christians in China, one hundred and fifty million. But these are these.

1:16:45 Are real Christians for the most part. When when Christians are born into you know, born through persecution, their faith and their commitment has real substance. And well, yeah, and I want I want you to extrapolate a little bit more because you know, a lot of times people hear Christians and Christianity, but you know, and we just kind of put that all into one bucket. But the things that all the good things, you know, righteousness, the things that are right, you know, good versus evil, These things that you know that are just absolute cornerstones to the West and to a humanity that is that is godly and honors God and honors one another. This is foundational to Christianity and the tenets in which we believe s God. And we need to remind people this is why so many people are turning to Christ, turning to Christianity, because it they they've they've lived enough of the secular world and realize that it's unfulfilling. That there is no way that that a secular white life can provide and sustain any any substantial hope. Hope is in Christ alone and in the Christian principles that you and I believe in.

1:18:09 Profess absolutely well, said Bill, and I think you know, we have to sometimes go through the valley of the Shadow of Death in order to really turn to Christ. I think our country is going through that. I think far more so in Iran, where the Iranian people are really suffering and have been suffering for a long time. I mean, our problem in America is that life has been too good, and so Christians in America are kind of thinner. They kind of take it all for granted. They don't have this deep, abiding relationship with God because life is good if you live in a country like Iran when you're under persecution. We all know the history of Christianity was born out of persecution. The Church grew grew fastest under persecution. So that's what's happening in Iran. The Church is growing very fast there because of the persecution. These people are are the real deal.

1:19:17 These people have a real deep relationship with the Lord. I have no doubt about it. So the future is really quite bright for Iran if we can get through this uh and and get this regime cast into the trash bin of history, which which is where it belongs. How important is is it, Scott, that America have a revival and regain its footing, And it's it's uh its commitment to Christian principles, because as you said, we've drifted and and we've become lax and as a result. You know, we've had some warnings along the way, and the warnings are still there. In fact, there's clear evidence that we are being threatened, you know, Christianity. We we saw the intensifying of persecution under the Biden administration. Lest we forget, and now we're seeing these other uh, these these other influences that are coming into our country, you know, particularly uh with the Muslim religion, with all the musts that are being musts that are being built in our country and the property that they're taking over. And to me, it's no longer an existential threat. It is here amongst us right now, along with all the other things that we're dealing with in America, which is uh, you know, has asked to do with our own integrity, which is why you know, we've had, you know, such a rise in fraud. Uh, you know, more and more reports of

1:20:50 fraud taking place. And it seems that the Somali's what you know, we used to say, we said was that what happens in Minnesota doesn't stay in Minnesota. Well guess what, it's now being demonstrated in California and in other states where they've taken the model. This franchise that has been very successful for the Somalis to come and you know, be received by a welcoming people and nation. And they've come in and they've ripped us off and they're stealing billions. And that's just one. I mean, we're saying the Somalis, but how many other immigrants who have come in for malpurposes and are saying, thank you very much for your hospitality, just get out of the way. Well, we come here and rape, pillage and destroy your country.

1:21:36 I know, it's it's it's it's a sad state of affairs where we're at. But I think you pointed out how important Christian revival is, and indeed that is really our best hope. And it's not just an emotional revival that we need. We need an awakening of people that they really come to understand the key truths, not only biblical truth, but the truths that are going that are you know, that are affecting our lives. You point out that fraud is at an all time high. Well, we can't, we shouldn't be living with that. That needs to be ruted out, that needs to be stopped. And it's really it's it is really spiritual revival that will put things in their place in America. And if we don't get that, uh, you know, it's going to be a continuation of a dysfunctional constitutional republic. Our republic is not functioning properly because the people in government and outside of government are are no longer living within the law, within the odd boundaries.

1:22:45 It's in violation of itself exactly, Scott. Yes, that's that's that's what's going on. Charles Finny says, revival happens when it's most needed, and it seems that historically we've had probably four major revivals in the history of our nation and due for a fifth, and I say, bring it on. We need it in a demonstrative way, you know, for the sins of our country, and we are paying the price. We are reaping what we have sown. Scott. Absolutely. And i'd remind you the audience that the beginning of revival is repentance. Yes. And the problem is that when a society strays so far away from God that it has no bearing anymore.

1:23:29 There's no remorse for wrongdoing, there's no there's no true compass leading us north, and so we need revival will bring that back. But in order for revival to really take root, we as Christians need to repent for our country. We need to repent for those who can't repent because they have no moral bearing in their lives. So we're the remnant that really stands in the place of everyone else. And when we repent, we can call on God to bring a revival to this country. Well, one or two things will happen. Either it will be preceded with God's judgment.

1:24:13 Or you know, the. The natural course of the way God has designed. This. You know, this planet, this world that it just judges itself. It's just like it vomits. The creation itself will vomit that which isn't integrist, and we may be coming to that point. So one of two things, either the system itself will cleanse itself and vomit itself out, or God will come in and judge. And I think both possibilities are imminent and needed in my humble opinion, Scott, I agree, I agree, Bill Yep, Well, we got to leave it there.

1:24:55 Scott Powell always appreciate your insight, and you want to check out his his latest article at town Hall on Trump's trifecta advancement for America and setbacks for China. Great peace. By the way, Scott and I know that our audience would be blessed by reading it, right, well, thank you. Yeah, No, it isn't covered in the news, but it's such an important part of the story, right you know, Iran is only part of the story. Look at what has been accomplished in Venezuela Anima. You know, Cuba. Within weeks, Cuba will have to it'll have to be bailed out to people there have no resources, no electricity, no food.

1:25:37 Yeah, for them it may seem hopeless. But for us who know God and know his mighty exploits, this is an opportunity. This is what you're talking about. So it's up for the remnant. It's up to us to be on our knees, especially during this Lenten season. And I believe that God wants to connect with us in a special way. And get ready, ladies, and John and I think some awesome things because that's the way God operates. It's inefftable, as C. S. Lewis would say, quite awesome that we can look forward to that God's doing. But as Scott said, and he's repeated, this is that first of all, we have to reconcile ourselves to God. We have to realize ourselves how we've missed the mark and how we have offended God, a holy God, and that will lead us to repentance. And when that happens, we'll get ready. Thank you ready, right, yes, exactly. He's the author, member of the committee on this Present Danger China, and a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, author of that great book we keep bragging about rediscovering America. If you haven't, make sure you do get your hands on it. Scott Powell has been with a Scott, thank you, but I appreciate it. Take care.

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1:31:22 have you with us. Thank you Bill for having me. Well. This is important, needless to say when you consider that color rector cancer is responsible for the second leading cause of death here in our country. And you say that screening cancer screening is so critical, especially for younger adults. Right. Absolutely, the screening age changed from fifty enough to forty five en up just recently to get a colonoscopy. This is for patients who don't have a family history of colon cancer. And we're also seeing many other patients who are under forty five who have recto bleeding, change in bowel habits. You know, it's not just hemorrhoids, not something to brush off. It's time to go talk to your doctor and get in.

1:32:10 Yeah, if you have these indications, forget about your age. You need to get screened, right absolutely, And that bowel prep is the thing that stands in the way for a lot of people, over half of people that get a positive at home test, and you know, we do see these at home test commercials on TV, on the radio, and when patients have a positive test, that means there's there's something to be concerned about. Over half don't complete that follow up colonoscopy within a year, and a lot of it has. It comes down to that prep. Right, well exactly, and why are patients being charged for preparation medications? And how are costs affecting whether people get screened, you know, And.

1:32:54 That's the funny thing. They're not supposed to be charged. So the CMS is charge is that patients are supposed to have a screening colonoscopy within their insurance plans. That's within Medicare, Medicaid and commercial insurers. Patients are supposed to have access to colon cancer screening to be able to get screening done. This is a preventable cancer. Okay, And what's unfortunately happened is that insurance companies right now are steering patients to outdated, harder to tolerate vowel preparation options. Patients aren't even being offered choices when it comes to what bowel prep they could do. There are did you know their newer, modern FDA approved low volume options that patients should be able to talk to their doctors about that patients simply they don't even know about, they don't hear about, and the insurance companies aren't covering.

1:33:47 Well, Doctor Shaw. Once again, we're reminded by your statement here that we are our own best advocate, or you know, maybe it's a spouse that comes alongside as well to ask these questions. So I trust that our listeners are taking notes on this, because you know, you don't know, and if you don't ask right. You know exactly, and if you don't know, you know, you might just be staring down a gallon jug, which is sort of what the gastroinrologists and primary care docs used to just routinely prescribe many cases still do. Many patients get pushed into the over the counter aisle, and you know that's that's where the patients have to pay everything, you know, so the insurance company doesn't complain about that their patients aren't getting offered the newer the newer preps that are FDA approved, that meet medical standards that are out there, or even they don't hear about them.

1:34:42 Can you unpack that a little bit more of these newer preps that are available, because we've been hearing more and more about this and I want our audience to be aware, doctor Shaw. Yeah, So there are newer preps that either come in a pill form or they come in two small bottles. Rather than having to drink the large glass of water, large glass of prep every ten minutes, it's two small bottles. And you know what's important is patients with those preps still have to drink an adequate amount of water. So it does have instructions on the prep of how to do it, but the amount of volume is a lot less than what it used to be with the newer preparations. And I think what frustrates a lot of us is that we see patients saying, you know, I'll just put this off, I'll do it next year. And to your point, you know, I think the partner, the loved one, the spouse is really you know, it's really important to to to really help the help our patients, help help the public get in for this screening test that you know, poling cancer is preventable.

1:35:41 You just have to come on in and get screened, you. Know, doctor Shaw. You know, I'm glad that they're lowering the age. In fact, I was surprised they stopped at forty five. I remember when I first read that, I said, why, why, why they're why didn't they you know, might as well just go to forty in terms of as a warning, because as we know, it's all about you know, with anything cancer, you know, the earlier the better when you find out about it, right, Yeah. You know, and I think a lot of us have that same question too. You know that if you have a test that can find early legions that are small a decade before a patient has a chance to even get cancer, so patients stay cancer free, that's ideal. I wish we had the type that type of test for all cancers. You know, we don't, but we do for colon cancer. And and so that's where this this prep issue really really comes into play.

1:36:37 Well, exactly We're talking with doctor Eric Shaw, and he's the gastro entrologist at the University of Michigan and an associate professor in gastro Enterology and Hepatology and director of the Michigan Medicine GI Physiology Laboratories. They're testing my ability to say some of these words, doctor Shaw. Hopefully I passed the test. Okay, you totally did. You know? The core of what we do is colon cancer screening, So you know, for all those thank you for all those nice things, it's really about taking care of patients making sure that we get our colon cancer screening done. That is by far and away the most gratifying part of this job. Well, and as you said, a critical aspect of a colonoscopy is preparation, right.

1:37:24 Yes, So about prep means that a patient will have to clear the colon out of all the stool and all the debris so that the doctor can see what they're doing and make sure with confidence that there are no polyps, there are no cancers in there, there's nothing to worry about. And a clean colonoscopy means a patient can go a decade ten years if there's no family history and no other warning signs, no polyps, you know, normal colonoscopy. Typically patients go every ten years for those. So you know, once you get in and get it done, it really takes the load off after that. And so but getting in is the key. That's how we find these cancers.

1:38:04 Right. You know, again, the sense of urgency about a colonoscopy and color rectal cancer has increased in such a way that you know, this year, Congress past the Consolidated Appropriations Act of twenty twenty six, which urges the Centers for Medicare and Medical Services to clarify that patients should have access to all FDA approved bowel preparations, right, you. Know, and I'll finish on this. That CMS runs Medicare and Medicaid at the federal level, they also commercial insurance plans to follow what they say, and you know, CMS just needs to issue a guidance that would prevent patients from being steered to outdated, harder to tolerate options and to treat bowel prep as part of this screening benefit that all patients are entitled to with their insurance plans, not as an optional add on.

1:39:02 And so this is the time to contact your electric representatives that are in office and your senators to urge CMS to do this. Congress and the President passed a law that encouraged CMS to do this. But they need your help. So contacting your elected representatives, that's what the a SGE is asking for. And to learn more about this, visit a s g e dot org that's American Society for gastro Intestinal Endoscopy ASG dot org to learn more. Well, doctor Shaw, why is CMS delaying on this? I mean, the responsibility you know for Medicare patients and Medicaid you know, patients and the services that they offer. You would think that just a natural reaction would be, uh, you know, to get this information out. That is the question.

1:39:49 And so that is the question that patients and advocates should ask of their elected representatives to ask CMS to please please close this loophole? And why is this not been done already? And exactly? Bill, I really want to thank you for your time. Okay, thank you so much, doctor Shaw. I appreciate it. Doctor Eric Shaw has been our guest on Bill Martinez Live. How would you like to save money on nearly all your prescription drugs? We've set up a special toll free number for the RX Outreach Program. They're a nonprofit company whose mission it is to make prescription drugs more affordable to the masses. They don't take insurance, and in many cases, your prescriptions are even cheaper than your copays. They carry thousands of different prescription drugs, so whatever you're taking, there's a good chance they have it. No couponts are required, and this is not a discount card. It is pure savings on your prescription drugs. They specialize in generic meds for any chronic health needs you have. Call with your prescription and find out for free how little you can pay for your prescription drugs. Remember, we don't take insurance, so call right now.

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1:44:15 Hey, welcome back Bill Martinez here with Bill di Augustino, the research analyst for MRC's News Analysis Division. Hey, mister Bill, how are. We doing doing great? Good to see you, Bill. Hey, always good to see you. Lots to catch up on a lot happening. You know, let's start with the CNN ms Now. What if literally everything is just a distraction they say from Epstein, Right. That's right, that's right, And okay, So the frustrating thing about this is, well, it's it's kind of revealing too. They'll they'll they'll tip their hand a little bit too much when they talk this way. Among the things that are considered distractions from Epstein by ms now and CNN hosts are part of the Epstein files that are released that have nothing to do with Donald Trump. Those are considered also a distraction, as though Trump is going through the files before they're released and saying, oh, okay, well you've got to include more photos of Bill Clinton. Okay, well you have to make sure that you include the Jelaane Maxwell as though as though they're not just trying to release everything that there is, right, And so that's a mask off moment for the media. It's very revealing because what it shows is that anything in the Epstein files that is not specifically about Donald Trump is to them a distraction, which means they don't actually care about this Epstein story. They care about getting Trump and that's literally it. And that's the only reason that they care about the Epstein files.

1:45:46 Right, Yeah, that's what they keep looking for. I mean, there's no doubt they're like a dog chasing after a bone near that's still not in the pile. And you know, think about it, like Donald Trump, as busy as he is, running off of three hours of sleep, we're told every night, like he's going to take the time to go through the millions of documents on the Epstein file, right, come. On, right, or as as as if anybody is curating these at all, Right, I mean, if they were, there'd be a lot of things in there that weren't included on the president's behalf. Maybe not probably not like left out by him, right by somebody working for him. But for example, there were a bunch of ridiculous allegations that somebody made that were later deemed not credible by the FBI that were still included in there because people were saying, release everything, and so they're like, okay, we will release everything, but this isn't going to include a bunch of stuff that we deemed not credible that people will then run with anyway because it looks good, right or it looks good for their cause.

1:46:50 Rather it looks bad for Trump. So I mean, yeah, look, if Trump were curating or having anybody curate these files at all, those those kinds of things certainly would not have been and there because they just muddy the water. Could you imagine if Obama's DJ of course you did have Biden's DJ, uh you know, calling through and they had control of this, but could you imagine if they were running you know, the program right now would look like it'd. Be in crabby, it would be it would be only these unfound allegations against Trump. But here, that's that's the other thing, Bill is. I mean, I know we're I know we're not talking about the distractions thing anymore, but but it's this is this point has been made infinity times at this point.

1:47:32 But if, if if there was anything truly. Damning for the president in there, they would have been released under the previous administration. I mean, clearly, how did how did they quote unquote get Trump in the last administration? They went after him for by by the judge's own admission in the case, a victimless crime right where there was there was no identifiable plaintiff or victim. It was basically just the state of New York suing him for essentially an accounting era or that they jacked up to a felony for no real reason. Right, If that's the best you have, then wouldn't you be interested in maybe dumping some of this really damning stuff in the Epstein files if there were some, right, Like, wouldn't.

1:48:13 They be hurt right before the election? You know, right? You know? Right? Yeah, exactly. I want to transition to you know, that story of the Chicago college student. Sadly, here we've got another illegal alien in our country. You know, I guess it was interesting because I saw a report on the numbers, and I think the number is low. They're saying fifteen hundred illegals have murdered American citizen. There's been fifteen hundred cases of it. I think that's a low estimate in my humble opinion. But this story here, this is just another heartbreaking story again as a result of Biden's open borders.

1:48:55 Absolutely, and it's also it's exhausting to see instantly, places like the Cato Institute constantly trying to defend this and and and tout that number, the fifteen hundred number. That's Yeah, if we're talking murders specifically, that's that's only cases where the person is identifiably in illegally alien. It is it is adjudicated murders, right, so like people who have been convicted, not people who are currently charged. And it doesn't include the numerous deaths that are not murders that are still caused by illegal aliens. For example, all of these all of these improperly licensed truckers who are causing all these exactly yeah, right, or or car accidents or just or. Even even negligent manslaughter. Right, that's not a murder.

1:49:38 So yeah, I mean that that number is low because it's it's it's very it's it's intended to be as particular as possible to keep it low. But what's lost on a lot of people here is the fact that every death, whether murder or otherwise, caused by an illegal alien should be should be at zero, right, because these are these are entirely preventable. That's you can't do pre crime with American citizen without dramatically restricting Americans' rights. You can do pre crime with illegal aliens. You just don't let any in. Yeah, what a novel idea. And the thing is, h was about eleven years ago when the country was so outraged. You might recall bill under with Kate Steinley, who was murdered in San Francisco. Right, and you thought, in here we passed the Kate Steinley Bill, we do all this stuff.

1:50:26 There a lot of attention brought to it. We thought, okay, maybe this is good. It's just like it came, we passed it went and here it's forgotten. And now we have another young woman who is dead and whose family is heartbroken for the rest. Of their lives, and so many others in the meantime, right, I mean just going off of just going off of some of the stories that actually made headlines, right, because there are so many more than that. But you have you have Molly Tibbets, you have you have Jocelyn Nungray, right, you have Lake and Riley and so many more who deserve to be deserved to be memorialized through some kind of wall are coverage as well. That just there, frankly, isn't enough time for the media to get to all of the victims, which that alone is is kind of indicative of the problem, right, many victims.

1:51:10 You know this next story, Bill, I hesitate to give Jimmy Kimmel any time on our show. I just think he's so unqualified and is such you know, he's really reduced himself to to a light to be of lightweight capacity. And you know, and he makes a statement about Mullen. I mean, everybody you know, along their way of their lives have worked jobs and worked their way up and and and on. Kimmel, you know, takes a bit of Mullen's background, and you know, for the sake of a joke, but he forgets what Mullin did with his plumbing experience and the businesses that the business that he created, and how many people he hired, right, of course.

1:52:00 It's I mean, it's it's a it's a very cheap, low low kind of dig. Right, It's like this guy used to be a player, and it's like, okay, well what in what capacity? Right? Where did he go with that? He took his father's kind of modest plumbing business and turned it into a like millions and millions of dollars, Right, So if I mean what you might call that as a very successful businessman, right, But beyond that, it's there's something so insanely elitist and hateful about it. And this is this is from a guy who is himself very left wing. The left claim themselves to be the champions of the working class, but this is yet another mask off moment. Right, It shows that no, he actually doesn't really care about the work working class. In fact, he he disdains the working class and will use the fact that they are, that somebody is working class as a dig against them whenever he can, as as evidence that they should not be trusted with any serious responsibility, as if as if he's he's somehow less intelligent or less able to carry out some meaningful duty because he started out working class, right, and again, by the time he got onto the national stage, he was certainly no longer working class as far as economic bracket.

1:53:14 Right, exactly. Well, and I didn't hear kim Will make any jokes about an admiral who is a male in address in part of the Biden administration. Did you hear any jokes you know about the admiral on that? Well, of course not, because that's that's Kimmel's base, right, That's that's probably there are probably an outsized percentage of men in dresses watching Jimmy Kimmel as there are for the regular population. Right. I mean, when you when you consider his politics and the politics of his audience, he's he's probably got the men in dress market pretty much cornered, so he can't upset them. You know when you look in and uh, and I love that Donald Trump is so transparent. I mean, he has the media come in and he's got a cabinet meeting, and you look at the people, the personnel and this that make up his cabinet. And I think, not that long ago we didn't see him I think, but maybe once or twice the cabinet construct of Joe Biden. But even then, the picture comparison of these two cabinets, it's like welcome back to normal, if I can say that.

1:54:23 Yeah, it's it's displays of competency, right as opposed to you. You look around the table and it's it's just a bunch of people who were basically brought into these positions either to either to deliberately dismantle the mission of whatever organization they're running or whatever agency they're running, right like Alejandro Mayorcis, whose whose purpose was basically to bastardize DHS into a tool to import as many illegal aliens as possible, The more criminal, the better, it seems, or people who were literally just put there to check some some meaningless DEI box exactly. Yeah, and and look what we got. Look look at the disservice that America got as a result of DEI and this administration. And I think, you know, the voters should not forget what was delivered to them, whether it was Obama or Biden, a continuation of the eight years of Barack Obama. To wrap things up, the Save America Act.

1:55:21 The elitist media, you know, they just want to ignore it. But this is critical not only for midterms, but I think, you know, for the rediscovery of America on her two hundred and fiftieth anniversary bill. Yeah, I mean there is there is no There was no surprise in any of the coverage that they have aired, right, I mean, we understand how they're going to frame something like this because the media go through a very simple decision tree when they're trying to cover and when. They're trying to cover any kind of election security law. Basically, it's it's will this make voting even slightly less convenient? If yes, then its voter suppression and it's bad? Will this? Will this make elections more secure? Who cares?

1:56:03 Basically that is that is basically the decision tree. And the reason for that, of course, right is because Democrats see much of their electoral future being threatened by a robust voter security bill, and so the media are not going to break with Democrats on something that they see as that existential to their favorite party's existence. So yeah, I mean, what little coverage there has been of it has been negative. But more importantly I think bill is that it's been very vague. They don't want really to talk about what the provisions in the bill are because they, like everybody else in America, have seen the pulling on this and they know that it's actually a remarkably popular proposal. And so instead of just saying, well, look, it'll require you to prove that you're actually a citizen to register to vote, and then you'll have to show an ID to vote, they they don't.

1:56:55 They don't want to go that route because that's that's basically that's going to make the entire audience go, well, what's wrong with that? Right? So instead it's a voter suppression bill. It's a bill that will make it much harder for married women to vote, although nobody seems to understand exactly how that's supposed to be the case. Well, once again, it's a journalistic suicide that they're doing it of their own doing bill. They're sacrificing their credibility on the altar of democratic success. Are not so successful? Yeah, yeah, Well to be determined, certainly in the midterms coming up. Bill The Augustino Research Analyst for MRC's News Analysis Division, Bill, thanks for being with appreciated. Take care.

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