Your News Talk America with Jake Smith – 11/18/2025
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Your News Talk America!
9:06
Segment Topic:
- America has many enemies, however, the most dangerous of those enemies is the eroding of our cultural norms and our sacred traditions.
- 12th grade girls are less likely than boys to say they want to get married someday. (Pew/Dana Braga)
- According to the poll, 61% vs. 74%, just a decade ago (girls were more pro-marriage).
- S. high schoolers are less likely now than in the past to say they want to get married someday. And a smaller share today says that they’re very likely to have children if they do get married, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of survey data from the University of Michigan.
- American culture, the American way of life cannot survive if this poll is accurate.
- The erosion of the American family started in Europe over 30-years ago. In some Scandinavian countries, most couples simply shack-up.
- What has caused this further erosion?
Panelist:
JP De Gance, the founder and president of Commun-io and the co-author of the book, Endgame: The Church’s Strategic Move to Save Faith and Family in America.
In past research; young adults tied their desire to marry to the “happily ever after” stories they grew up with. Today those marriage-positive narratives have all but disappeared from kids’ media, replaced with identity-driven themes, and its reshaping girls’ expectations for adulthood.
9:20
Segment Topic:
- There is good news with respect to saving American culture:
- New Yorkers turning to the church, number of Catholic converts soaring, according to priests. (NY Post/Kirsten Fleming)
- Young people come to New York City to chase careers, materialism and pleasure. The pursuit of faith isn’t exactly on the Big Apple checklist.
- However, at a recent, very crowded Sunday night mass at Joseph’s Church in Greenwich Village, Father Jonah Teller, OP made a simple announcement indicating that times are changing.
- According to Fr. Teller, the number enrolled in the parish’s Order of Christian Initiation of Adults — the process in which adults convert to Catholicism — had tripled since last year, with roughly 130 people signing up.
- That’s the case in NYC – but what about nationally?
- What’s going on here?
- Is this spike in conversions the answer to 12th grade girls having no interest in marriage and children?
- Did a communist being elected NYC mayor spike the interest in conversion?
- Is the answer to restoring American culture conversion?
Panelist:
Shawn Carney, devout Catholic and the leader of 40 Days for Life.
9:35
Monologue:
What to do about the FBI? (Rebroadcast from 9-1-22)
There is something very wrong with the official story and that invites conspiracy theories.
The president demanded answers months ago. A man was murdered. What is going on?
Then-FBI Director Chris Wray told Congress after the July 13, 2024, attack that the bureau had found nothing in Crooks’ online history that pointed to a motive or political ideology.
A week later, Wray’s deputy Paul Abbate told Congress that comments posted on one of Crooks’ social media accounts “appear to reflect antisemitic and anti-immigration themes to espouse political violence and are described as extreme in nature.”
Thanks to an enterprising source who uncovered Crooks’ hidden digital footprint, we can see that Abbate misled Congress by omission, because he left out an entire section of Crooks’ online interactions from January to August 2020 when he did an ideological backflip and went from rabidly pro-Trump to rabidly anti-Trump and then went dark, never seeming to post again.
Among the 17 accounts uncovered by our source were ones on YouTube, Snapchat, Venmo, Zelle, GroupMe, Discord, Google Play, Quizlet, Chess.com and Quora.
The online interactions from when Crooks was ages 15 to 17 give us a better understanding of his evolution into an assassin, and invite more questions about what — or who — reversed his ideology.
“The danger Crooks posed was visible for years in public online spaces,” says the source. “His radicalization, violent rhetoric and obsession with political violence were all documented under his real name. The threat wasn’t hidden.” (NY Post/Amanda Devine)
Kash Patel is over his head and needs to be replaced NOW!
Bondi has needed to go for months!
Nuclear option – get Trump’s nominees confirmed. Enough of these stalling tactics. A year has been wasted already!
10:08
Segment Topic:
- Has Marjorie Tailor Greene destroyed her political career?
- Did she really believe that she could conduct a public spat with President Trump and survive politically?
- She criticized the President for spending too much time traveling abroad, however, he traveled abroad to bring business and high paying jobs to America.
- Trump tried (with internal polling data) to show her that she was NOT a popular statewide candidate.
- What about her apology tour in enemy territory (The View and Marxist State Media?
- How does that kind of capitulation sit with conservatives in Georgia?
Panelist:
Mykel Barthelemy, Conservative News Commentator; Author of the book: TRUMP IS NOT A RACIST! Here's Why: Ms. Barthelemy is a former congressional candidate.
10:20
Segment Topic:
- Mykel Barthelemy discusses relevant topics of the day:
- More criticism over the FBI’s investigation of Thomas Matthew Crooks investigation. Kash Patel appears weak again.
- Should the nuclear option be used to confirm Trump appointments, especially judges and U.S. Attorneys – whose temporary appointments are expiring? We need Trump supporting crime fighters!
- Trump affordability tour.
- Will the shutdown be remembered at the midterms?
- What about the all the fuss over the Epstein files?
Panelist:
Mykel Barthelemy, Conservative News Commentator; Author of the book: TRUMP IS NOT A RACIST! Here's Why: Ms. Barthelemy is a former congressional candidate.
10:33
Segment Topic:
- Trump set to launch the Affordability Tour!
- What should he focus on?
- Some of the prices caused by Biden spending are not coming down.
- America needs higher paying jobs to offset higher prices. That is Trump’s long-term plan. What about the short-term plan (lower tariffs on food)?
- All SNAP recipients required to reapply as Trump admin cracks down on fraud: 'Business as usual is over'
- Stolen benefits cost the government (us) more than $102M in the first quarter of fiscal year 2025
Panelist:
Jason Sorrens, Senior Economist at the American Institute for Economic Research
10:50
Segment Topic:
- Ground beef to $10 a pound?
- Importing beef from Argentina?
- Climate change restrictions are largely to blame for reduced herds and higher prices.
- Do we know the extent of the damage yet – that the shutdown did to the U.S. economy?
Panelist:
Jason Sorrens, Senior Economist at the American Institute for Economic Research
11:06
Segment Topic:
- A judge on Monday ordered the Department of Justiceto hand over grand jury material to former FBI Director James Comey, an unusual move that the judge said was necessary because of the department's "highly unusual" activity during the secret grand jury proceedings.
- Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick scolded the DOJ in the order for what he said was a glaring mishandling of evidence presented to grand jurors and possible misstatements by the case's lead prosecutor, Lindsey Halligan. (Fox News).
- Has Halligan already appealed Fitzpatrick’s decision?
- Why did this judge publicly embarrass Halligan or is he part of the cabal to prevent her from serving as U.S. Attorney from VA?
- The news that the FBI may have deliberately withheld information from the public and lied to congress – what does Kash Patel need to do immediately?
- The information which came out from Tucker Carlson and Miranda Devine (NY Post) about the Crooks investigation by the FBI – is Kash Patel up to the job?
- S. District Judge James Boasberg ordered lawyers for the Trump administrationand for a class of deported Venezuelan migrants to come to court Wednesday to discuss the case's status and the long-stalled question of whether the administration willfully defied his earlier court order and acted in contempt.
- Senators ask chief judge on DC Circuit to suspend James Boasberg pending House impeachment vote! (Washington Examiner/Kaelan Deese)
- Any movement on Senate confirmations for Trump judicial nominees?
Panelist:
Kaelan Deese, Justice Department Reporter: Washington Examiner
11:33
Segment Topic:
- A judge on Monday ordered the Department of Justiceto hand over grand jury material to former FBI Director James Comey, an unusual move that the judge said was necessary because of the department's "highly unusual" activity during the secret grand jury proceedings.
- Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick scolded the DOJ in the order for what he said was a glaring mishandling of evidence presented to grand jurors and possible misstatements by the case's lead prosecutor, Lindsey Halligan. (Fox News).
- Has Halligan already appealed Fitzpatrick’s decision?
- Why did this judge publicly embarrass Halligan or is he part of the cabal to prevent her from serving as U.S. Attorney from VA?
- Is Judge Fitzpatrick the judge or Comey’s attorney?
- S. District Judge James Boasberg ordered lawyers for the Trump administrationand for a class of deported Venezuelan migrants to come to court Wednesday to discuss the case's status and the long-stalled question of whether the administration willfully defied his earlier court order and acted in contempt.
- Senators ask chief judge on DC Circuit to suspend James Boasberg pending House impeachment vote! (Washington Examiner/Kaelan Deese)
- What was your reaction to the news of how badly the FBI botched the Trump assassination investigation in Butler, PA last year?
- Is Kash Patel up to the task of rebuilding the Bureau? He looks weak!
Panelist:
John O’Conner 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
11:50 Salute the Troops
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