Your News Talk America with Jake Smith – 11/12/2025
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9:06
Show Open:
- Sunny Hostin YELLS at Dem Senator Fetterman for Reopening Government! (Newsbusters/Nicholas Fondacaro)
- Hostin unloaded on Fetterman during Tuesday’s edition of The View, she literally yelled at him for flushing away all the leverage and political points the Democrats racked up by not paying federal workers and withholding SNAP benefits. And as Fetterman was schooling Hostin on her extremism, they conveniently had to go to a commercial. (Newsbusters)
- How did the media cover the Democrat cave to end the shutdown?
- With the ongoing government shutdown grinding to a close, it is clear that some in the Elitist Media wanted it to go on, perhaps indefinitely. ABC is exceptionally frustrated, and it showed throughout their coverage of the shutdown.
- Watch as World News Tonight anchor David Muir delivers yet another over-the-top editorial masquerading as an introduction to Rachel Scott’s report:
- MRC analysts examined every evening newscast on ABC, CBS, and NBC between October 1 and October 31, 2025. Across the 67 reports and news briefs which discussed the government shutdown, 87 percent of the coverage favored Democrats. Analysts found 83 evaluative statements in which anchors or reporters were critical of Republicans, but just twelve criticizing Democrats. (Newsbusters/Bill D’Agostino)
- Were they so angry because Trump won again?
- ANTIFA thugs target TP USA event at UC Berkley:
- Witnesses reported that Antifa-linked protesters targeted attendees trying to enter the venue, shouting obscenities and physically blocking entrances.
- San Francisco ABC affiliate calls ANTIFA thugs (terrorists) protesters repeatedly during the package!
Panelist:
Bill D'Agostino, MRC Senior Research Analyst
9:20
Segment Topic:
- In a heated press conference on Capitol Hill, Democrat House minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries erupted after Congress votedto reopen the federal government.
- His fiery remarks quickly spreadacross social media, where conservatives hailed the meltdown as proof that Democrats had lost control of the shutdown narrative.
- The government will soon be officially reopenedafter weeks of tense negotiations, with Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Republicans pushing through a clean funding bill that excluded the additional spending Democrats demanded. (The Gateway Pundit/ Gregory Lyakhov )
- The Democrats cave proves that they are no longer a party; but a Democrat Communist Revolutionary Council.
- What is party leadership going to look like in the short and long term?
Panelists:
Hugh Fike, Senior Director at the Conservative Partnership Institute
9:35
Segment Topic:
- The shutdown of 2025:
- Patty Murray admits the shutdown was about Obamacare subsidies.
- Brit Hume tells the truth about the shutdown.
- What is the truth about the subsidies? (Fox Business)
Panelists:
DIAL Producers and Callers
9:50
Segment Topic:
- Is Chuck Schumer finished?
- David Axel grease thinks he is?
- CNN data analyst Harry Enten compiled polls dating back to 1985 comparing the popularity of Democratic leaders among Democratic voters. Schumer, he found, was the least popular of them all.
- "Chuck Schumer — his days are over. If he cannot keep his caucus together, he needs to go," Sunny Hostin, a co-host of "The View," told audiences on Monday.
Panelists:
DIAL Producers and Callers
10:08
Segment Topic:
- How has the Democrat Shutdown impacted businesses?
- Rich Gandhi recently wrote the op-ed listed below.
- The government shutdown is having a big impact on small businesses. How?
- The shutdown means no government conferences, no agency trainings, and far fewer lobbyists booking rooms or events. Tourism is down as federal sites are closed. Normally, this time of year is filled with business travelers and agency meetings tied to the federal calendar. Now, we have vacant rooms, night after night.
- The shutdown’s adverse effects are forcing some entrepreneurs like me to float our businesses, hoping we can hold out until the government reopens. But we can only remain unprofitable for so long before we have to start making tough decisions.
- I’ve already had to lay off two housekeepers in an effort to mitigate the shutdown’s impact, and additional cuts may be needed. Layoffs are always difficult and are done as a last resort because I know the consequences they have on families.
- From a businessman’s perspective, how is the U.S. economy right now?
- Labor market in freefall as U.S. loses 50,000 jobs in October, Mass Layoff Notices Soar! (Goldman Sacks)
Panelists
Rich Gandhi, hotel owner of properties across the East Coast and a partner of Job Creators Network Foundation.
All we hear is how the government shutdown affects government – but; how does it affect businesses; smaill businesses? Our next panelist has written an op-ed in “The Hill” and joins YNTA to discuss.
10:33
Segment Topic:
- The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
- The UK’s decision marks a significant break from its closest ally and intelligence sharing partner and underscores the growing skepticism over the legality of the US military’s campaign around Latin America.
- For years, the UK, which controls a number of territories in the Caribbean where it bases intelligence assets, has helped the US locate vessels suspected of carrying drugs so that the US Coast Guard could interdict them, the sources said. That meant the ships would be stopped, boarded, its crew detained, and drugs seized.
- Is this just propaganda announcement, designed to take the heat off MI6 (intel sharing will continue)?
- What is the difference between MI5 and MI6?
- It was apparently OK with British intel to be complacent in the Russia hoax (Christopher Steele/Steele Dossier).
- BBC bloodbath!
- Embattled BBC Head Tim Davie Resigns Over Trump Deceptive Documentary Edit and Widespread Bias – Chief News Executive Deborah Turness Also Out! (The Gateway Pundit)
- A leaked internal BBC memo showed the program edited two parts of Trump’s speech together to suggest that he encouraged Capitol Hill riots of January 6th, 2021.
- This comes as criticism surged after the Broadcaster showed a documentary, misleading viewers by deceptively editing a speech by US President Donald J. Trump.
- The slander laws in the UK are far tougher than here in the U.S. Trump could and should sue the BBC for BIG BUCKS or Pounds if you will.
- The BBC just announced an increase in their licensing fee for next year.
- Pregnant people?
- The resignations for doctored Trump speech come after a ‘newsroom revolt’ over an anchorwoman who corrected ‘pregnant people’ to ‘women’ being publicly censored, and also over fierce criticism for the biased coverage of the Israel-Gaza war and transgender rights.
- “The corporation had already been under pressure after admitting to breaking editorial guidelines when Bob Vylan’s ‘deeply-offensive’ chant of ‘death to the IDF’ at Glastonbury was broadcast live to millions.”
- A heartbreaking moment during an interview with a British World War II veteran shows that the older generation understands how grave the situation is in his country — the freedom he fought for is gone.
- Good Morning Britain interviewed Alec Penstone, a 100-year-old man who once fought to protect his country from tyranny, on Friday morning. The interview was conducted ahead of Nov. 11’s Veterans Day or for the United Kingdom, Remembrance Day.
- Penstone was asked what his message is as we approach it.
- “The sacrifice wasn’t worth the result that it is now,” he told the room.
- When asked to explain, Penstone added, “What we fought for was our freedom … now it’s a darn sight worse than when I fought for it.”
- Host Kate Garraway tried to lift the veteran’s spirits by expressing her gratitude, but the expression on Penstone told the story of how he felt. (The Gateway Pundit)
- For years, the UK, which controls a number of territories in the Caribbean where it bases intelligence assets, has helped the US locate vessels suspected of carrying drugs so that the US Coast Guard could interdict them, the sources said. That meant the ships would be stopped, boarded, its crew detained, and drugs seized.
Panelist:
Former Margaret Thatcher Speechwriter Geoffrey Gilson Geoff Gilson is a retired solicitor, development
consultant, and political strategist and speechwriter. He began his career crafting speeches for Margaret
Thatcher and leveraged his dual British-US citizenship to navigate elite political circles. With decades of front-row access to senior UK and US officials, Gilson served as a key operative for the British Conservative Party, gaining unparalleled insight into global power structures.
His book, Maggie’s Hammer, is a meticulously researched and gripping exposé that unravels a complex
web of money laundering, arms deals, and political collusion, that leads all the way to connections between
Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, Margaret Thatcher, and Vladimir Putin.
11:05
Segment Topic:
- The USS Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group has arrived in the U.S. Southern Command area of operations north of the Caribbean Sea as part of the Trump administration’s campaign against drug cartels, the Navy’s Fourth Fleet announced Tuesday.
- The carrier’s deployment to assist in operations against Latin American drug cartels was announced on Oct. 24 while it was on a port of call in Croatia. Since then it has made the lengthy transit through the Mediterranean Sea and across the Atlantic Ocean.
- Typically, the Pentagon’s announcements that a carrier group has entered a regional area of operations occur when they have crossed the furthest limits of that area, which for SOUTHCOM means somewhere in the Atlantic east of Florida and Cuba. (ABC News)
- Is the U.S. preparing to invade Venezuela?
- A pair of Senate Democrats is responding to a series of unprecedented U.S. military strikes on alleged drug traffickers at seaordered by President Trump with a plan to force a Senate vote on a war powers resolution blocking the escalated action by the commander in chief.
- Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Tim Kaine, D-Va., are pushing for the vote despite tough odds for passage as support among Republicans appears limited so far. They argue the White House has not provided evidence to justify the attacks, which they believe are illegal and unconstitutional.
The two Democrats also say it's clear Congress has not authorized the use of such force.
Panelist:
Lieutenant Colonel Tony Shaffer, US Army (ret): President, London Center for Policy Research
11:33
Segment Topic:
On Thanksgiving Day, it is tradition to watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and following Santa Claus’s appearance, we switch over to NBC to watch the National Dog Show from Philadelphia.
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- When is the show actually taking place?
- The organization: PAWS will be there – tell us about it.
- When is the show actually taking place?
Panelist:
Representing the National Dog Show Steve Griffith
11:50 Salute the Troops
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