Your News Talk America with Jake Smith – 08/05/2025
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09:06 AM ET
Show Open
- Is a Grand Jury investigation lipstick on a pig?
- The Justice Department is opening a federal grand jury investigation of former Obama administration officials who allegedly conspired to whip up a scandal about President Trump’s purported links to Russia during the 2016 election campaign, The Post has learned.
- The major legal development opens the door to criminal charges against prominent Cabinet members who served then-President Barack Obama, including former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey.
- It was not immediately clear whether the grand jury would be based in heavily Democratic Washington, DC, or elsewhere. (NY Post)
- Is the announcement of a Grand Jury investigation a way to cool off Bondi’s critics?
- How much time should we spend on this report?
Panelist:
DIAL Producers / Callers
09:20
Segment Topic:
- Texas can’t hold-‘em after all!
- All-out war': Fleeing Texas Dems side with Newsom as redistricting standoff continues: 'fire with fire'
- California governor threatens retaliation if Texas Republicans advance redistricting plans.
- Dem-Com governors provide sanctuary to lawless state legislators from Texas.
- California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he is ready to fight "fire with fire" as state Republican lawmakers try to enact redistricting in Texas, opposing the move though promising to pursue similar measures if needed.
- Cathy Hochul threatens Republicans over redistricting. Jasmine Crockett threatens Republicans daily!
- Rye’s Changing Congressional Districts
- After population and demographic data from the 2020 census were released last August, states and local governments began the once-a-decade process of redistricting. When new voting district boundaries are drawn primarily to influence who gets elected, it is called “gerrymandering”. The term is named after Albert Gerry, who approved the practice as governor of Massachusetts in 1810.
- New York State’s Governor Hochul recently approved the Democratic-controlled legislature’s proposed congressional districts over strong Republican claims of gerrymandering. An article in The New York Times determined that these New York boundaries would give Democrats an advantage in 22 of the state’s 26 congressional districts.
- At the time of the national election in 2020, the City of Rye was within New York’s 16th congressional district, which included the northern Bronx and the southern half of Westchester County. The previous representative, Eliot Engel, held the seat from 2010 to 2020. However, he lost the Democratic nomination that year to Jamaal Bowman, a progressive, who was elected as District representative in 2020.
- What is happening to Rye’s future congressional representation is potentially even more problematic than in the recent past. Rye and other Westchester communities along Long Island Sound are being moved to New York’s third congressional district, which includes part of Westchester, Nassau, and Suffolk counties, as well as a portion of the Bronx and Queens. (The Rye Record 3/22/22)
- Rye’s Changing Congressional Districts
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DIAL Producers / Callers
09:35
Monologue:
“107 Daze”
10:08
Segment Topic:
- Update on mass deportations:
- Paul, in the case of Raul Luna Perez, if he is arrested by law enforcement for killing a mother and her 11-year old daughter in New Jersey, does he serve his term (if convicted) in New Jersey and then ICE will grab him upon release and deport him?
- Raul Luna Perez Illegal had a lengthy criminal record, but was NEVER deported. Why?
- Illegal Alien Child Rapist from El Salvador Captured in Sanctuary Massachusetts After Wild Chase.
- Milford Police, alongside federal authorities, chased down, fought, tased, and arrested an illegal alien from El Salvador accused of raping a child and possessing child pornography.
- Manuel Umana Solorzano, 29, an illegal immigrant who had no business being in this country, was finally taken into custody early Friday morning after a desperate foot pursuit that ended with him assuming a fighting stance and reaching for his waistband, forcing officers to deploy a Taser to subdue the predator.
- Manuel Umana Solorzano was booked at the Milford Police Department at 5:49AM and will be arraigned at Milford District Court later today on the following charges:
- Indecent A&B on Child Under 14
- Possess Child Pornography
- Reckless Endangerment of Child
- Photograph Sexual or Intimate Parts of Child
- Statutory Rape of Child, Five Year Age Difference
- Rape of a child with force
- Lascivious Pose/Exhibit Child in Nude
- Resisting Arrest
- How did President Trump close the border when the Democrat Communists were telling us that Congress needed to act on immigration?
- Is it true that border agents who resigned under Biden are now coming back?
- How do ICE and border agents feel about Sanctuary Policies? and the
- How would you rate overall, the Trump Administration's Border Record and overall success?
- Would you agree that the border is going to be on the minds of voters who go to the pools to vote in midterm elections next year?
Panelist:
Paul Perez, President of the National Border Patrol Council
10:35
Segment Topic:
- Hamas had NO intention of peace. Let’s stop pretending!
- A senior Hamas member, Ghazi Hamed, said on Al-Jazeera that "weapons constitute the Palestinian cause" and "no Palestinian is saying now that the resistance must end." And by "Palestinian cause," of course, it's meant "eradicate Israel, kill all Jews.
- Will the Knesset approve Netanyahu’s plan for occupation?
- Will adjoining Arab states get involved?
- What will Canada, UK and France do now that Israel is going to occupy Gaza?
- Do the Israeli’s attempt to rescue the remaining hostages and recover the remains of those who are already dead?
- Did the video of an Israeli digging his own grave and another who appears to be a prisoner in a NAZI concentration camp backfire on Hamas?
- Hamas is not going to rely on Iran for help anymore. That is not happening.
- The language and threats by the Democrat Communists prove they are not functioning as a Party – they are a splintered revolutionary force.
- Their words, threats, insurrection, war, revolution, we had better start taking them seriously. They mean business.
- Latest Bold and Blunt Podcast: Democrats ratchet anti-MAGA lawlessness!
- Violence against ICE agents is up of 800%!
- Ex-ABC News reporter Terry Moran admits network, traditional media biased against Trump: ‘A kind of deafness.’ Now you admit it Terry!
- Their words, threats, insurrection, war, revolution, we had better start taking them seriously. They mean business.
Panelist:
Cheryl K. Chumley, Online Opinion Editor, The Washington Times. Host of the “Bold and Blunt” Podcast
11:08
Segment Topic:
- The Russia Hoax: Accountability or skepticism?
- Attorney General Pam Bondi directed her staff Monday to act on the criminal referral from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard related to the alleged conspiracy to tie President Donald Trump to Russia, and the Department of Justice is now opening a grand jury investigation into the matter, Fox News Digital has learned.
- Bondi personally ordered an unnamed federal prosecutor to initiate legal proceedings and the prosecutor is expected to present department evidence to a grand jury, which would allow the department to secure a potential indictment, according to a letter from Bondi.
A DOJ spokesperson declined to comment on the report of an investigation but said Bondi is taking the referral from Gabbard "very seriously." The spokesperson said Bondi believed there is "clear cause for deep concern" and a need for next steps. (Fox News)
Panelist:
John O’Connor:
John O’Connor is an experienced trial lawyer, practicing law in San Francisco since 1972. He has tried cases in state and federal court throughout the country. He served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Northern California, representing the United States in both criminal and civil cases.
John is the nation’s foremost expert on the Watergate Scandal and has written two books on the events in 1972, which changed our nation and the media’s role in America forever!
Postgate: How the Washington Post Betrayed Deep Throat, Covered Up Watergate, and Began Today’s Partisan Advocacy Journalism And: The Mysteries of Watergate – what really Happened: postgatebook.com
11:35
Segment Topic:
Late Breaking News
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DIAL Producers / Callers
11:50
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