Your News Talk America with Jake Smith – 12/31/2024
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10:10 AM ET
Segment Topic:
- Russia rejects Trump transition team’s floated ideas to end the war in Ukraine!
- Russia’s foreign minister Monday rejected the peace proposal being floated around by President-elect Donald Trump’s team to end the war in Ukraine.
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow was appalled over reports that Trump and his aides were considering pushing a peace deal that would keep the door open for Ukraine to join NATO.
- “Judging from numerous leaks and Donald Trump’s interview with Time magazine on December 12, their idea is to suspend hostilities along the line of contact and transfer responsibility for confrontation with Russia to the Europeans,” Lavrov said at a news conference.
- “We are not happy, of course, with the proposals made by members of the Trump team to postpone Ukraine’s admission to NATO for 20 years and to station British and European peacekeeping forces in Ukraine.”
- NABLUS, West Bank — A top Palestinian leader told The Post he expects that President-elect Donald Trump will “destroy Iran,” which will cause remaining Hamas influence to crumble.
- Hamas has been decimated by Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip, but in the West Bank the terror group has been rising up against the Palestinian Authority, which is run by the rival Fatah party.
- The Palestinian Authority is supported by western governments including the US, and Hamas and other Islamist groups accuse it of cozying up to Israel. (NY Post)
- “We are confronting Hamas’ ideology,” Mohammad Hamdan, Secretary General of the PA’s ruling Fatah party, told The Post.
- “We are confronting Hamas’ ideology. Our problem is with Hamas’ link to regimes outside Palestine,” Mohammad Hamdan, Secretary General of the PA’s ruling Fatah party told The Post, referencing Iran in particular.
- Trump Says US Control, Ownership of Greenland an ‘Absolute Necessity’ (Epoch Times)
- The United States made previous offers to purchase Greenland, first in 1867 and again in 1946.
- President-elect Donald Trump said on Dec. 22 that U.S. control and ownership of Greenland is “an absolute necessity” for “national security and freedom throughout the world.”
- During his first term, Trump expressed interest in purchasing the strategically located, resource-rich island, which is an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark. Greenland has faced long-standing financial challenges.
- “Essentially it’s a large real estate deal. A lot of things can be done. It’s hurting Denmark very badly because they’re losing almost $700 million a year carrying it,” Trump said at the time. “So, they carry it at [a] great loss, and strategically for the United States, it would be nice. And, we’re a big ally of Denmark and we help Denmark, and we protect Denmark.”
- China is positioning itself to takeover Greenland!
- Chinese Hackers Breached Workstations, Stole Documents, Treasury Department Says! (Epoch Times)
- China’s Influence in Panama Under Scrutiny After Trump Issues Warning Over Canal (Epoch Times)
- Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino responded by saying “every square meter of the Panama Canal’ belongs to Panama.”
- Trump took to his Truth Social account on Dec. 21 to criticize Panama for charging “exorbitant prices and rates of passages” for U.S. naval and commercial vessels passing through the canal, while also expressing concerns about the Chinese regime’s growing influence in the waterway.
- Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino responded by saying “every square meter of the Panama Canal’ belongs to Panama.”
Panelist:
Brigadier General Blaine Holt, USAF Retired
Brig. Gen. Holt is a former Deputy United States Military Representative to (NATO). He supported the Military Representative and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in executing the U.S. political-military mission at the North Atlantic Council.
General Holt was a command pilot with more than 3,900 flying hours in a variety of aircraft. He is a
frequent contributor to Newsmax.
Blaine Holt to Newsmax on 12/28: China Enabled by 'Years of Failures'
10:35 AM ET
Segment Topic:
- Is the end of LAWFARE in-sight?
- US Attorney Matthew Graves to resign after failing to charge Hunter Biden, letting DC crime run rampant!
- Graves was at the center of numerous controversies — including allegedly covering for the first family and also choosing not to prosecute a large share of people arrested in DC during a violent crime wave early in his tenure. (NY Post)
- Three senior DOJ officials leaked non-public investigative information ‘days before an election’: inspector general! (NY Post)
- Three senior Justice Department officials violated internal policies and engaged in “misconduct” when they leaked details about a non-public investigation to the media “days before an election,” the agency’s inspector general revealed Monday.
- The DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG), which has been run by Michael Horowitz since 2012, launched a probe after it received a complaint alleging that a “politically motivated” disclosure related to “information about ongoing matters” was made in the runup to an unspecified election.
- “The OIG investigation found that three then Senior DOJ Officials violated DOJ’s Confidentiality and Media Contacts Policy by leaking to select reporters, days before an election, non-public DOJ investigative information regarding ongoing DOJ investigative matters, resulting in the publication of two news articles that included the non-public DOJ investigative information,” the DOJ OIG said in a brief investigative summary.
Panelist:
Dr. John Eastman is the former Henry Salvatori Professor of Law & Community Service and former Dean at Chapman University's Dale E. Fowler School of Law, where he had been a member of the faculty since 1999, specializing in Constitutional Law, Legal History, and Property.
He is a founding director of the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, a public interest law firm affiliated with the Claremont Institute that he founded in 1999. He has a Ph.D. in Government from the Claremont Graduate School and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, and a B.A. in Politics and Economics from the University of Dallas.
Prior to joining the Chapman law faculty, Dr. Eastman served as a law clerk to the Honorable Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, and to the Honorable J. Michael Luttig, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and practiced law with the national law firm of Kirkland & Ellis.
11:10 AM ET
Segment Topic:
The last, best hope to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is: One Jewish State!
- The United States has a “biblical” duty to support Israel’s annexation of the occupied West Bank, former US President Donald Trump’s ambassador to Israel argues in a new book, unveiling a plan for “one Jewish state" that he said he would share with Trump. (Middle East Eye)
- “President Trump has often said that he was indifferent to one state or two states - whatever the parties might agree to,” former US ambassador David Friedman writes in the book, One Jewish State: The Last, Best Hope to Resolve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
https://www.amazon.com/One-Jewish-State-Israeli-Palestinian-Conflict/dp/1630062944
- One of the leading architects of the historic Abraham Accords, David Friedman explains why in these turbulent and dangerous times, the simple phrase of three words – ONE JEWISH STATE – must be the guideline for Israel and the world’s collective future.
- Each word of ONE JEWISH STATE is deeply instilled with meaning:
- ONE: There is only ONE country earmarked for the Jewish people; ONE. There are 49 Muslim countries, and many Christian, Buddhist, and Hindu countries, but only ONE Jewish State.
- JEWISH: This Jewish State is exactly that – JEWISH. It is the place where Jewish history was born, where Jewish values were created and where more Jews live than anywhere else. It is situated on the land given to the Jewish people by God in the words of the Holy Bible.
- STATE: Israel is not just a place; it is a country with sovereignty over its land and responsibility for its inhabitants. Today that sovereignty has been called into question by the nations of the world and even by some within Israel. But Israel cannot be Jewish without sovereignty over the places that make it Jewish.
- Panelist, Ambassador David Friedman proposes a goal and a path, with God’s help, for Israel to have complete sovereignty over all its biblical homeland – in a just manner that brings peace, prosperity, and essential human dignity to ALL of Israel’s inhabitants. In ONE JEWISH STATE he will explore:
Panelist:
Ambassador David Friedman, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel (Trump).
Ambassador Friedman is the bestselling author of Sledgehammer: How Breaking with the Past Brought Peace to the Middle East, and the executive producer and co-star, with former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, of Route 60: The Biblical Highway, a film about Judea and Samaria. In 2021, he launched the Friedman Center for Peace through Strength which has recently launched a project that bears the name of this book: One Jewish State.
He lives with his wife, Tammy, in Jerusalem and Florida, and is a proud father and grandfather.
11:35 AM ET
Segment Topic:
- Is DEI dead or will it survive and exist in secret?
- Is DEI an updated version of Affirmative Action?
- Is DEI just lipstick on the Affirmative Action pig?
- Ohio efforts to outlaw DEI
- COSTCO refuses to abandon their DEI policies.
Panelist:
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