Your News Talk America with Jake Smith – 10/17/2025
Your News Talk America with Jake Smith.
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9:06
Show Open:
- John Bolton Indictment:
- Did the neocon or the neocon’s put our national security at risk?
- Trump’s former National Security Advisor John Bolton was indicted by a grand jury in Maryland on Thursday.
- Counts 1–8: Transmission of National Defense Information
- Counts 9–18: Retention of National Defense Information
- If convicted, Bolton is facing decades in prison, which would be a life sentence for him because he is 76 years old.
- Bolton was indicted on 18 counts under the Espionage Act.
- John Bolton transmitted classified emails over a private server system and they were intercepted by Iran, according to the indictment.
Panelist:
DIAL Producers / Callers
9:20
Segment Topic:
Marxist State Media circles the wagons to defend John Bolton – a neocon they once detested!
Panelist:
DIAL Producers / Callers
9:35
Monologue:
“Confessions of a former neocon!”
10:08
Segment Topic:
- What is the mood inside Israel today in contrast with the return of the hostages?
- In a recent message you say that Israel must remain on HIGH Alert!
- This was a hostage release, not a peace deal.
- It is a joy to see all the living hostages returned, however, Hamas, its Islamist funders and enablers, have no intention of peace.
- They are using this opportunity to regroup, rebuild, and restock the weapons they’ll soon aim again at innocent Israeli families.
- While many outside Israel breathe a sigh of relief, we know better. We’ve seen what happens when we let our guard down.
- What has been the opinion of Hamas public executions?
- Why have we not heard any of those blaming Israel for mistreatment of the Palestinians – when they now have proof of mistreatment of Hamas.
- Hamas agreed to return the bodies of the dead – but are now claiming they do not know where those bodies are.
- What was the response in Israel to Hamas dressing up and turning over the body of an imposter – dressed in an IDF uniform?
- Fewer than one in five Jewish Americans now feels safe in America.
- 42% of Jewish Americans surveyed do not wear anything which identifies them as Jewish while out in public.
- That is up 16% since 2023.
- 42% of Jewish Americans surveyed do not wear anything which identifies them as Jewish while out in public.
Panelist:
Jonathan Feldstein: President, Genesis 1-2-3 Foundation
10:33
Segment Topic:
Precious Freedom explores this question in a powerful novel that is drawn from the pages of history. Informed by ten years of research and hundreds of interviews with US Marines, Viet Cong snipers, and Vietnamese fighters, politicians, and leaders, Precious Freedom is storytelling at its finest.
In 1967, nineteen-year-old Chip Zobel enlists in the Marines, answering his government’s call to defend democracy in South Vietnam. But what he finds on the ground shakes his faith: poisoned punji sticks, rotting uniforms, Agent Orange–tainted drinking water, constant ambushes, a brutal case of malaria—and the realization that many of the Viet Cong he’s fighting are actually South Vietnamese locals—the men and women he thought he was fighting to defend.
Back home, Chip’s mother, Betty, initially a staunch supporter of the war, begins to question its morality.
His father, Hank, a former Navy corpsman who fought in the Battle of Saipan during World War II, grows skeptical as he begins to read US military reports that compare Ho Chi Minh to George Washington—a fierce patriot who leads his people to freedom.
Meanwhile, in a quiet Vietnamese hamlet, fifteen-year-old May watches as a US Marine kills her father. She flees to the forest and joins a Viet Cong training camp. Three months later, she makes her first kill as a sniper—eventually, she will kill four more Americans with her rifle. Unbeknownst to her, her path will ultimately cross with that of the Marine who killed her father—Chip Zobel.
James Bradley wrote Precious Freedom to honor all who served in Vietnam and to help a new generation understand the war’s complex truths.
This is a story that America has never been told.
Panelist:
James Bradley, author: Precious Freedom: A Novel
The Vietnam War was a tragedy for America—and for Vietnam. But for the Vietnamese, it was also a victory: they defeated the world’s wealthiest country and most powerful military. James Bradley, the author of Flags of Our Fathers, began to wonder: How did they win?
James Bradley, author of Precious Freedom: A Novel, is the New York Times #1 bestselling author of Flags of Our Fathers, Flyboys, The Imperial Cruise, and The China Mirage. James lived in Vietnam for ten years to research and write his fifth book, Precious Freedom: A Novel of the Vietnam War.
11:08
Segment Topic:
- It is all but certain that NYC will have an open communist mayor in January. What the long-and short-term results for NYC and the country?
- America’s largest and most powerful cities (NYC, Chicago and LA) have become battlegrounds for democracy.
- Episode One of The Gateway Pundit’s DC Dive with TGP White House correspondent Jordan Conradson, breaking down some of the top stories this week, premiered this week.
- A Chicago judge signed an order Wednesday prohibiting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from making arrests at Cook County courthouses, citing concerns about "fear or obstruction" while suspected illegal immigrants attend court proceedings. (Fox News)
- Local officials in the Midwest sanctuary city, which the Trump administration has targeted in its federal immigration crackdown, claimed people were avoiding court because they were afraid of being detained. The order bans immigration authorities from making civil arrests of any "party, witness, or potential witness" during court appearances.
- ICE AGENTS have taken down a security fence around their immigration in Broadview in response to a judge’s order calling it illegal and a safety hazard.
- S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers were targets of two separate vehicular assaults in the Chicago metro area. In Bensenville, Illinois and again in Norridge, IL criminal illegal aliens weaponized their vehicles in deliberate attempts to ram and injure officers carrying out their sworn duty to uphold our nation’s immigration laws.
- In the first assault in Norridge, IL, Miguel Escareno De Loera, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico, rammed his vehicle into an ICE law enforcement vehicle twice. He then jumped a curb and crashed his car into a stop sign—ending his violent assault.
- Escareno De Loera entered the United States at an unknown date and unknown location, without inspection by an immigration official.
- In the second instance, Widman Osberto Lopez-Funes, a criminal illegal alien from Guatemala, rammed his vehicle into ICE agents during a targeted enforcement operation, and then exited the vehicle and fled into his residence in Bensenville, IL. This criminal illegal alien was later arrested on scene without incident.
- Lopez-Funes entered the United States at an unknown date and unknown location, without inspection by an immigration official.
- Both criminals will remain in custody pending removal proceedings, and the Administration is pursuing criminal charges for assaulting law enforcement. (DHS)
- Appeals court denies Trump administration appeal of National Guard deployment ruling in Illinois
- Earlier this week, the SCOTUS heard arguments on a case which could further weaken the Voting Rights Act.
- The long-running dispute concerns the congressional map Louisiana was required to redraw last year after it was sued under the Voting Rights Act to ensure that there were two majority-Black districts. The original map had only one such district in a state where a third of the population is Black. (NBC News)
- Redistricting could change the balance of power in the House of Representatives for years and may have a significant impact on the 2026 midterms.
- A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked the Trump Administration from firing federal workers during the government shutdown.
- US District Judge Susan Illston, a Clinton appointee, issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) on Wednesday and stopped the Trump Administration from firing federal workers. (Christina Laila/The Gateway Pundit)
- Is President Trump being forced to take serious action against these rogue Federal judges?
- US District Judge Susan Illston, a Clinton appointee, issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) on Wednesday and stopped the Trump Administration from firing federal workers. (Christina Laila/The Gateway Pundit)
Panelist:
David Zere, Host, Breaking Point, Real America's Voice News
Kaelan Deese, Department of Justice Reporter: The Washington Examiner
Jordan Conradson, Investigative Reporter: The Gateway Pundit
11:33
Segment Topic:
Democrats vote against reopening government for the 10th time.
- Are the Dem-Com’s using the shutdown to whittle away at the BBB?
- Is the shutdown about a power struggle inside the Democrat Party for control?
- Some (inside the Beltway pundits) have pointed to tomorrow’s “No Kings” rally’s as the red line for opening the government. If the rallies are well attended and forceful, the Dem’s will keep the government closed. If they are a failure, they will cave.
- President Donald Trump told Fox News' Maria Bartiromo on "Sunday Morning Futures" that Democrats "made one mistake" with the ongoing government shutdown.
- "I think they could just stay out forever, I mean, to be honest with you. Now, what we're doing is we're cutting Democrat programs that we didn't want because... I mean, they made one mistake. They didn't realize that that gives me the right to cut programs that Republicans never wanted. You know, giveaways, welfare programs, et cetera. And we're doing that, and we're cutting them permanently," Trump said. (Fox)
Panelist:
Nathan Worcester, award-winning reporter: The Epoch Times
Mike Palicz, Tax Policy Director: Americans for Tax Reform
11:50 Salute the Troops
SFC: Michael J. Noble
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