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China Arms Iran Ahead of Xi Visit, Antisemitic Hate Crimes Surge in NYC, Are Therapists Breaking Up Families | Your News Talk America
Your News Talk America with Jake Smith
Show Notes for Tuesday, August 4, 2026
9:00 Show Open: China Arms Iran Ahead of Xi’s Visit
Jake opens with reporting that China has decided to supply Iran with hundreds of rocket launchers, a move national security analysts say confirms what is already plain: the Chinese Communist Party is America’s foremost rival and is drawing closer to regimes hostile to US interests.
- Why would Beijing arm Tehran just weeks before Xi’s scheduled White House visit next month?
- Is China betting that Iran shoots down US aircraft before the 2026 midterms?
- What does this say about the deepening axis between China and America’s adversaries?
Guest: Nan Su, Senior Investigative Reporter and China affairs expert, The Epoch Times · theepochtimes.com/author/nathan-su
9:20 Does Citizenship Still Matter?
Jack Tomczak argues that the growing push to let noncitizens vote in local elections changes the very meaning of American citizenship, and that protecting the ballot is really about protecting the value of citizenship itself.
- States and municipalities keep testing the boundaries of noncitizen voting, and the trend is spreading.
- The constitutional and policy case for reserving the vote for US citizens only.
- Why Americans for Citizen Voting is pursuing a constitutional amendment to protect citizen only voting nationwide.
- Jack’s new Washington Examiner op-ed: Noncitizen Voting Devalues American Citizenship, When Exceptions Become the Norm.
Guest: Jack Tomczak, National Director, Americans for Citizen Voting · onlycitizens.vote
9:35 The War Over American History
Author Ray Deptula joins Jake on the fight over how America tells its own story, including his reaction to the Smithsonian’s efforts to reframe the nation’s history.
- Most Americans know Lexington and Yorktown, but few know the brutal Southern campaign that ultimately won the Revolution.
- In Can’t Find My Way Home, the sequel to A Dog Before a Soldier, former US Naval Officer Ray Deptula follows British deserter Jack Halliday and his friend Custis, an enslaved man, through the chaos of South Carolina after the Battle of Camden.
- A story of friendship, loyalty, and moral courage set in one of America’s most overlooked conflicts.
Guest: Ray Deptula, author of Can’t Find My Way Home · on Amazon · raydeptulaauthor.com
10:00 A Border Collapse in Spain and a Farm Labor Fight at Home
Lora Ries of the Heritage Foundation joins Jake after tens of thousands of Moroccan migrants breached the Spanish city of Ceuta, with local officials describing the border as having totally collapsed.
- Video showed a sudden stream of migrants circumventing the border fence and running freely once ashore. The migrants numbered roughly 70 percent of the city’s population.
- Continental Europe has permitted mass illegal migration from North Africa for years. What was behind this surge, and was social media partly to blame?
- Her analysis of the Securing Agriculture’s Workforce Act. Is SAWA just another Republican amnesty bill, 40 years later? And do we not already have a guest worker program for farm labor?
Source: Heritage, 5 things to know about the agriculture amnesty bill (Daren Bakst)
Guest: Lora Ries, Director, Border Security and Immigration Center, The Heritage Foundation · heritage.org/staff/lora-ries
10:20 Could One Bad Post Wreck Your Career?
Ryan McCormick joins Jake on the growing risk that a single social media post can end a career, and on PostCheck, a tool built to flag that risk before you hit send.
- A Harris Poll for Express Employment Professionals found nearly 9 in 10 employers, 88 percent, say they would fire someone over an inappropriate post.
- CareerBuilder research found 34 percent of employers have disciplined or fired an employee over online activity, and 57 percent found content that led them not to hire a candidate.
- PostCheck analyzes draft posts, emails, and messages for career, legal, financial, and reputational risk, a five second reality check before publishing.
- Should people share political or social views online at all, especially when coworkers are watching?
Guest: Ryan McCormick, cofounder of Goldman McCormick Public Relations and creator of PostCheck · postcheck.net
10:30 Are Therapists Fueling Family Estrangement?
Carolyn Gorman of the Manhattan Institute joins Jake on a growing debate: after decades of urging families to work through conflict, some therapists now encourage estrangement as a form of self care, and a number of researchers say it is doing real harm.
- Critics warn the approach rewards fragility and self delusion and tears families apart, with the bar for what counts as abusive dropping fast.
- About 25 percent of Americans are estranged from a close relative at any given time, and 10 percent from a parent or child, per Cornell researcher Karl Pillemer.
- Among roughly 7,000 estranged parents surveyed in April, a third believed their adult child’s therapist influenced or recommended the cutoff.
Guest: Carolyn D. Gorman, fellow, Manhattan Institute · @CarolynGorman_
11:00 Antisemitic Hate Crimes Surge in New York City
Jake looks at unsettling new NYPD numbers with two guests. Hate crimes rose in New York City this year under Mayor Zohran Mamdani, even as every major crime category fell sharply.
- Hate crimes rose 9.4 percent citywide even as murders and shootings hit historic lows across all five boroughs, per NYPD data released Monday.
- More than half of hate crimes, 56.9 percent, were antisemitic, though Jewish residents make up about 10 percent of the city’s population.
- Antisemitic incidents so far this year rose 8.5 percent, 205 year to date compared with 189 for the same period in 2025.
Source: New York Post on the NYPD hate crime data
Guest: Sydney Altfield, National Director, Teach Coalition · manhattan.institute/person/sydney-altfield
Guest: Rabbi Michael Barclay, host of The Rabbi’s Table: Dialogue Not Debate on CRN Digital Talk Radio · rabbimichaelbarclay.com/podcast
11:30 The Politics Behind the Paramount Merger Lawsuit
Tom Jones joins Jake to follow the money behind California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s lawsuit to block the Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery merger, and who really stands to gain.
- A federal judge in Northern California handed Bonta and 10 other Democratic attorneys general a preliminary win, a ruling the Wall Street Journal editorial board says defies the global antitrust consensus.
- Netflix tried to buy Warner Bros. and lost. Block this merger and its dominant position stays intact.
- Jones digs into the financial ties between the attorney general driving the suit and the family behind Netflix.
Source: Washington Examiner op-ed by Tom Jones
Guest: Tom Jones, President, American Accountability Foundation · americanaccountabilityfoundation.com
11:50 Salute the Troops
Jake closes the show honoring the men and women in uniform, with the final slot held open for any late breaking news. Producers and callers on DIAL help steer the last word.
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Your News Talk America with Jake Smith – 8/16/2024
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Show Notes
10:10 ET
Segment Topic:
The Biden administration is busy celebrating the anniversary of the so-called Inflation Reduction Act and the CHIPS Act. But are they worth celebrating? Scott Lincicome is not so sure.
Lincicome, who testified earlier this year before the Joint Economic Committee, notes that, “When the government showers preferred companies with trade restrictions and trillions of taxpayer dollars, the policies will inevitably produce something. But the real question is what, exactly, all that government support is getting us.” He further cautions, “there are already warning signs,” that could bode ill for the American economy.
Sample Questions:
If both these pieces of legislation ramped up the rate of inflation to 40-year highs, why did the Legislative Branch approve?
How have these two bills hurt the middle class? Have they been more devastating to the poor?
10:35 ET:
Panelist: Commander Stenstrom is the Co-founder Patriot Online and author of “The Parallel Election: A Blueprint for Deception.”
Segment Topic:
Election integrity warrior, Commander Gregory Stenstrom, USN Ret. returns to Digital, Interactive Friday to lay out the dangerous road ahead for election integrity, less than three-months from election day.
Sample Questions:
Last Friday, you were sure by way of hard evidence that President Trump did in-fact win Pennsylvania in 2020. Can you detail how PA was stolen from Trump?
11:10 ET
Panelist: Jack Cashill
Jack Cashill, author of ASHLI: The Untold Story of the Women of January 6, is an independent writer, documentary producer, and media consultant.
Jack has written for Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Weekly Standard, American Thinker, WND, The American Spectator, the Washington Times, and serves as executive editor for Ingram’s, a regional business magazine.
Jack has published fifteen books under his own name and collaborated discreetly on twenty others. He has produced a score of documentaries for regional PBS and national cable channels.
Jack has a Ph.D. from Purdue University in American studies, has taught media and literature at Purdue and at Kansas City area universities, and served as a Fulbright lecturer in France.
Segment Topic:
ABC Exposes Kamala Harris’s J6 Achilles Heel
LIAR: Kamala never revealed that she was not at the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot. But numerous defendants were sentenced to jail on grounds that she was.
ASHLI: The Untold Story of the Women of January 6, By Jack Cashill
The headline of an August 1 ABC News story by Mike Levine provides the message editors hope the readers would take away: “New DHS watchdog report details how close Kamala Harris came to ‘viable’ pipe bomb on Jan. 6.”
Levine and his editors flirt here with exposing Harris’s Achilles heel — her whereabouts during the afternoon of January 6. Having satisfied themselves long ago with their own propaganda, they likely do not know the peril to which they have exposed Harris. This seemingly helpful “news” story has more potential of blowing up in her face than the alleged pipe bomb ever did.
Apparently, ABC News obtained a copy of a new report from the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general’s office. The report purports to provide “an official and detailed account of how Kamala Harris, then the incoming vice president, ended up within feet of a ‘viable’ pipe bomb that had been planted in the bushes right outside the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters.”
The report, which was shared with members of Congress on Thursday, describes how two Secret Service teams assigned to sweep the DNC where Harris was visiting on the afternoon of January 6 somehow missed a pipe bomb allegedly planted outside the building the night before. As a result, Harris’s armored vehicle came within 20 feet of the bomb.
The real question is not why thousands of women went to Washington on January 6. The real question is why the rest of us did not.
Unlike the women who descended on Washington in 2017 to protest the inauguration of President Trump, the women of January 6 did not come as women. They came as Americans, as patriots, as defenders of the republic. They did not wear pink hats. They wore MAGA hats. Their issues were indistinguishable from those of the men in their lives—the rule of law, free and fair elections, and the preservation of constitutional rights. They brought no laundry list of special needs like, say, “reproductive rights,” because they understood that no one was challenging their right to reproduce. In fact, many had reproduced abundantly.
There was not a single celebrity in their midst—no Ashley Judds, no Gloria Steinems, no Madonnas threatening to “blow up the White House.” These were Hillary’s “deplorables” in the flesh, a whole heaping basket of them, “irredeemable” to the last woman. On January 6, the very presence of these intrepid women at the Capitol so offended the natural order of things that many would be gassed and beaten. Two would never return home.
If resistance to government oppression has a face, it is that of Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt, a determined patriot and an enduring martyr. This is her story, and that of the other gallant women of January 6.
11:35 ET
Panelist: John Tobacco, Host Wise Guys on NEWSMAX
Segment Topics:
Violent illegal crime accelerates in Coney Island (mentioned by Trump at his NC rally) and Randall’s Island. Central Park is every bit as dangerous as it was back in the 1970’s. Have New Yorkers seen enough?
Pro-Palestinian terrorist invade Kamala campaign event in Harlem:
According to WPIX TV, Pro-Hamas protesters stormed the campaign event for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
The event, billed as the “New York City Kickoff to Elect Kamala Harris and Tim Walz,” attracted approximately 200 supporters to a venue on West 135th Street, organized by the Harlem to the Heights Campaign Committee.
Attendees included union members, local voters, and Democrat. Party delegates. Top Democrat leaders like New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, Mayor Eric Adams, and Congressman Adriano Espaillat were also present at the event.
Is this a wakeup call for Eric Adams and Kathy Hochul?
Panelist:
John Tobacco, Host “Wise Guys” on Newsmax
Sample Questions:
John, do New Yorkers remember just ten-years ago, City streets and neighborhoods were safe and if so, do they understand who the party they support has de-stabilized NYC deliberately?
It was scary to see NYPD officers squeezed in between these Pro-Palestinian terrorists in Harlem. Setting off smoke bombs inside restaurants where the Governor and Mayor are in attendance appears to be a major security breach. Do you agree?
What can we look forward to on Wise Guys, tomorrow night at 10PM ET?
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