Your News Talk America with Jake Smith – 10/14/2025
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09:06 AM ET
Show Open:
- CNN’s Christine Amanpour: “The Israeli hostages have probably been treated better than the average Gazan because they are the pawns & chips that Hamas had.” Evyatar David was quite literally forced to dig his own grave. Absolutely unacceptable from CNN. (Eyal Yakoby on X)
- So how did the Maggots in Marxist State Media behave over the past week – as we edged closer to the cease fire and the release of the remaining Israeli hostages?
- NBC Reporter Frets Palestinian ‘Hostages,’ Celebrates Gazans Having ‘Their Land’ Back. (Curtis Houck)
- CBS Foreign Correspondent Gives Equal Time to Israeli Hostages, Palestinian ‘Prisoners.’ (Curtis Houck)
- Majority of The View’s Cast Refuse to Credit Trump for Ceasefire (Nicholas Fondacaro)
- Alyssa Farah Griffin of ‘The View’ said back in January, that if Trump got the hostages freed, that she would wear a MAGA hat on the show. Is she going to keep her promise? (The Gateway Pundit/Mike LaChance)
Panelist:
Curtis Houck, Managing Editor of NewsBusters (MRC), a division of the Media Research Center.
9:20
Segment Topic:
- The Government shutdown; how is MSM portraying it?
- ABC’s Rachel Scott Pitches In, Runs a Democrat-Coded Shutdown Report. (Jorge Bonilla/Newsbusters)
Panelist:
Curtis Houck, Managing Editor of NewsBusters (MRC), a division of the Media Research Center.
9:35
Monologue:
“Recognition etched in stone!”
10:08
Segment Topic:
- Did Keir Starmer attempt to take credit for Trump’s 20-Point, peace plan? (Education Secretary, Bridget Phillipson on Sky News Sunday with Trevor Phillips.
- Does the Gaza peace deal give Trump leverage to tackle Ukraine and Russia?
- Until now, the idea of a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine has been dismissed as naïve—a diplomatic quagmire with no off-ramp. But Trump’s momentum abroad, coupled with renewed credibility among America’s allies, changes that calculus. “Peace in the Middle East gives Trump something no one else has had—political capital with proof,” says Gilson. “He can now say to Putin and Zelensky, ‘I’ve done this before. It works.’”
- As the world watches the ink dry on the Middle East peace accord, Gilson urges analysts and citizens alike to keep their eyes on what comes next. “Trump has always seen patterns where others see chaos,” he explains. “If he can transform the world’s most volatile region into a stable one, then Russia and Ukraine aren’t beyond reach—they’re next in line.”
- Yesterday, Conservatives in the UK marked the 100th birthday of former Prime Minister, (Lady) Margaret Thatcher. What do you remember most about writing speeches for Lady Thatcher?
Panelist:
Geoff Gilson is a retired lawyer, development consultant, and political strategist and speechwriter. He began his career crafting speeches for Margaret Thatcher.
10:35
Segment Topic:
- Multiple verbal confrontations erupt between lawmakers as government shutdown enters third week!
- Jeffries tells Lawler to 'keep your mouth shut' as shutdown sparks Capitol Hill confrontations. (Fox News)
- Chuck Schumer claims that the BBB destroyed healthcare in America. Wasn’t Obama, Schumer and the rest of their party which drove up premiums, drove up deductibles and forced Americans out of private insurance and onto the Govt exchanges?
- Congressman, where are we with regard to the government shutdown and does Mike Johnson have the leverage to force the Dem-Coms back to the negotiating table?
- Will the American people accept healthcare for illegals?
- Will the American people accept fewer budget cuts by way of reconciliation; deep cuts we were promised?
- Should tariff revenue be used to fund some government programs?
- Your analysis on President Trump’s foreign policy achievement this week.
Panelist:
MD First District Congressman, Andy Harris
11:06
Segment Topic:
- Targeting “WOKE” in higher education!
- Is it WOKE? Or is it really Marxist, Socialist or Communist ideology which has infested higher education?
- How did “WOKE” and DEI (Affirmative Action) infect colleges and universities in the first place?
- Are a majority of professors infecting their students with a skull full of mush? (Professor Charles W. Kingsfield)
- Palestinians in Gaza were chanting: Trump, Trump, Trump. Do you think you will find students at any “WOKE” school chanting President Trump’s name positively?
- Does today’s college age student really understand what a NAZI or fascist is?
- The Federal Government is offering a “Golden Age” of academic excellence on higher education if colleges and universities enter into an agreement. Is this the responsibility of the Federal Government?
- Is the Trump Administration finding it too difficult in cutting off tax dollars to these schools?
- Is cleaning up “WOKE” in higher education a multi-generational problem?
Panelist:
Cornell University Law Professor, William A. Jacobsen.
Jacobson is author of the conservative law blog, Legal Insurrection.
In October 2017 William Jacobson, a professor of law at Cornell University and, as a conservative, something of an endangered species among Ivy League academics, was invited to deliver a lecture at Vassar College in upstate New York.
The event had been organized by a group of conservative students, and was intended to challenge the climate of repression at colleges and universities that had steadily banished views dissenting from the progressive orthodoxies. The title of the talk was “An Examination of Hate Speech and Free Speech on College Campuses”.
The notice of the event was met by unironic rage. Student groups organized to protest and object and try to have the talk cancelled. The Vassar authorities quickly sided with the protesters and the college president condemned the speech.
The lecture nevertheless went ahead, under heavy security. College administrators arranged for students both to protest and to retreat to “safe spaces” where they could be insulated from the offensive views. (Times of London)
11:35
Segment Topic
- The race for governor in New Jersey. It’s the price of energy stupid!
- Why are energy prices at the top of the voters list of grievances?
- Blue states are notorious in tinkering with energy supply and prices – in order to control the population.
- Mikie Sherill wants to declare a state of emergency over electric rates. Is she kidding? Her and her party created this mess and now it is an emergency?
- Will Jersey voters choose Citarelli to fix the energy supply problems in the Garden State?
Panelist
Michael Donahue, Chair: New Jersey Republican Party
11:50
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