Your News Talk America with Jake Smith – 02/27/2025
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10:10 AM ET
Segment Topic:
Jake and the Judge:
- Supreme Court STOPS Biden Judge’s Midnight deadline, halts order forcing Admin to pay $2 Billion in foreign contracts.
- Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard Calls UK ordering Apple to create ‘Backdoor’ To Encrypted Consumer Data an ‘Egregious’ violation of Americans’ rights (or First Amendment Protections).
- Pam Bondi slow-walks release of JFK and Epstein files.
- Donald Trump and Government by Experts!
- Post Chevron; where are the legislators?
Panelist:
Judge Andrew Napolitano, Senior Judicial Analyst, Newsmax and he Host of Judging Freedom podcast!
10:35 AM ET
Segment Topic:
- Latest revelations from DOGE!
- Elon Musk’s DOGE uncovered another huge scandal involving a former ICE employee-turned Biden official.
- According to DOGE, the HHS has been paying an empty migrant facility in Pecos, Texas, $18 million a month since March 2024.
- The shady deal was brokered by a former ICE employee-turned Biden transition team member.
- DOGE said the sketchy contract was terminated, saving taxpayers more than $251 million per year.
- Former Biden Transition Official Andrew Lorenzen-Strait Describes His “Corrupt Bargain” Scheme; Brokering Massive $2 Billion Immigration Contracts with Federal Government “There’s a much easier way to earn $2 Billion than caring for 80,000 kids…” “@CherokeeNation is not this benevolent humanitarian actor. They make most of their money with alcohol and gambling.” “It’s been f***ed up, but it’s been a boom for my business.”
- Credit Card Update! Pilot program across 14 civilian agencies to audit unused/unneeded “P-cards” (~700K accounts with ~$30B of spend in FY24). After 8 days, 24,000 cards have been de-activated, which will likely double by end of week. Credit cards were also addressed in the President’s 2/26/2025
- Executive Order - Credit Card Freeze:
- To the maximum extent permitted by law, all credit cards held by agency employees shall be treated as frozen for 30 days from the date of this order, except for any credit cards held by employees engaged in, or charges related to employees utilizing such credit cards for, disaster relief or natural disaster response benefits or operations or other critical services as determined by the Agency Head, and subject to such additional individualized or categorical exceptions as the Agency Head, in consultation with the agency’s DOGE Team Lead, deems appropriate.
Panelist:
Jim Hoft, Editor, The Gateway Pundit
11:10 AM ET
Segment Topic:
- The Supreme Court on Wednesday temporarily blocked a judge's order giving the Trump administration an 11:59 deadline to release billions of dollars in U.S. foreign aid.
- Chief Justice John Roberts said the order issued by U.S. District Judge Amir H. Ali will remain on hold until the high court has a chance to weigh in more fully.
- Ali had ordered the federal government to comply with his decision temporarily blocking a freeze on foreign aid, ruling in a lawsuit filed by nonprofit groups and businesses. An appellate panel refused the administration's request to intervene.
Funeral Planned for NPR?
(The Gateway Pundit):
- Conservatives have wanted to yank taxpayer funding for National Public Radio for years. Could it finally happen?
- Two Republicans, one in the Senate and one in the House, have introduced a new bill that would accomplish this task, and in our current environment of cutting waste, fraud, and abuse, the time is right to strike.
- Law professor Jonathan Turley recently said it was time to end NPR’s taxpayer funded gravy train.
- The GOP needs to get this done. But will they this time? Don’t hold your breath!
- Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 'dark money corruption' hypocrisy revealed in ethics complaint, expert says: “This is the height of hypocrisy,” Brett Tolman, former U.S. attorney. (Fox News Digital)
- Legal experts are pointing out what they say is hypocrisy as Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., faces an ethics complaint over a potential conflict of interest that resulted in millions of dollars in federal grants for a nonprofit associated with his wife.
- "Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, who has made his political career accusing others of dark money corruption, appears to be throwing stones in his glass house," said Mike Davis, the former chief counsel for nominations to former Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa.
Panelist:
DIAL Producers
11:35 AM ET
Segment Topic:
- Segment left open for (possible) release of Epstein Flight Logs.
- Uni-Party’s, Congressman Dan Crenshaw threatens to kill Tucker Carlson but then denies he did on X.
- Audio evidence proves Crenshaw was lying.
- Crenshaw said he wasn’t serious.
Panelist:
DIAL Producers
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