Your News Talk America with Jake Smith – 2/2/2026

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9:06

Show Open:

• Fallout from Don Lemon arrest:
• Smoking gun on prosecution?
  • He was aware of the plans of this revolutionary and did not report their terrorist planning to law enforcement.
  • Don Lemon is on video admitting to having foreknowledge of far-left protestors’ plans to storm a church in St. Paul, Minnesota.
  • Don Lemon admitted he was embedded with BLM activist Nekima Armstrong and the group of rabid protestors. (The Gateway Pundit)
  • INTENT: The opening to Don Lemon’s insane livestream is an admission of foreknowledge that the group he was in contact with was going to storm a church, based on his prior communications with its leader. (MRC/Jorge Bonilla)
  • Can Pam Bondi assemble a jury to convict Lemon is another story!
  • The Worst of Don Lemon (Post-Arrest Edition) (Geoff Dickens/Newsbusters)

Panelist: 

Geoff Dickens, Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center

https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/geoffrey-dickens/2026/01/30/worst-don-lemon-post-arrest-edition

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9:20

Segment Topic:

• More Lemonade!
• MS NOW's Barron-Lopez: Don Lemon Arrested Because Racist Trump Doesn't Like 'Facts.' (Newsbusters/Brad Wilmouth)
• MSNOW: Laura Barron-Lopez cannot understand why Trump does not trust the media. (Newsbusters/
• CNN's Abby Phillip Corrected After Giving False Information on Charge Against Don Lemon. (Newsbusters/Steve Malzberg)
• Friday night on CNN's NewsNight With Abby Phillip, the host incorrectly claimed that Lemon was not named in a part of the indictmentwhere he was in fact included, and she wound up being corrected by panelist and New York Post correspondent Lydia Moynihan.
• PBS is now the landing spot for former Bret Baier bobo Steven Hayes – good buddy with Jonah Goldberg!

https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2026/02/01/partisan-pbs-pundit-mob-unanimously-horrified-about-don-lemons

• CNN Staffers Revolt Due to Inability to Tolerate Scott Jennings. (Newsbusters/P.J. Gladnick

Panelist:

Geoff Dickens, Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center

https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/geoffrey-dickens/2026/01/30/worst-don-lemon-post-arrest-edition

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9:35

Monologue:

“My first kingdom”

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9:50

Segment Topic:

Introduction to https://www.jointab.us/ (Take American Back)

TAB trains everyday people with the mindset, skills, and structure to take responsibility, equipping them with a groundbreaking book and a Citizen Servant Leader certification to act decisively at home, in their community, and beyond.

Citizen Servant Leader is a doctrine-based field manual for leadership when authority, control, and permission are no longer guaranteed.

Rather than teaching influence, motivation, or personal branding, this book focuses on the behaviors that stabilize systems under pressure. It is built on one uncompromising principle: responsibility always comes before authority.

Drawing from combat experience, high-stakes international business, and decades of organizational leadership across ten countries, the authors show how leadership forms naturally when individuals are willing to carry burden early, speak truth when it costs something, and create space when control is gone.

Each chapter combines real-world stories with clear standards, recognizable failure patterns, and practical field applications designed to be practiced—not admired. The book examines how silence and passivity quietly erode trust, why truth functions as a structural requirement rather than a moral preference, and how small, disciplined actions prevent collapse at personal, organizational, and civic levels.

Citizen Servant Leader is written for people who already feel the weight of responsibility—leaders without titles, citizens navigating uncertainty, business operators, veterans, parents, and community builders who are done waiting for permission to act.

This is not a motivational book.
It is a practical guide for becoming reliable when others hesitate—and for leading with clarity, restraint, and integrity when systems fail.

https://www.jointab.us/

Panelist:

DIAL Producers and The Talk of Delmarva Callers

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10:05

Segment Topic:

“Take America Back”

• For too long, America has been governed by a political elite increasingly separated from the everyday realities of small businesses, working families, and local communities.
• Decisions that affect everyday life are made far from the people who feel the impact and pay the price. They are made inside systems that rarely face real consequences.
• Power has concentrated within institutions that answer to donors and insiders, not to the citizens they are meant to serve.
• Responsibility is passed from agency to agency, committee to committee — until no one is accountable.
• When no one is clearly accountable, trust erodes.
  And when trust erodes, the nation weakens.
• Take America Back exists to restore a simple truth:
  A nation works best when it is led by citizens who serve — not elites who rule.

We believe that:

• Leadership is service, not status
• Trust is earned through integrity, not position
• Freedom depends on responsibility and accountability
• Progress comes from building what works, not fighting what fails
• Opportunity grows where rules are clear and applied fairly
• Honesty, integrity, and transparency (H.I.T.) are non-negotiable standards for individuals and systems alike
• We believe strong families build strong communities.
  Strong communities build a strong nation.
  And a strong nation protects peace, prosperity, and dignity for its people.
• We believe the government should be limited, effective, and accountable — doing what must be done, and getting out of the way where it does not belong.

We reject:

• A permanent political class that governs itself
• Lobbyist-written policy disguised as representation
• Division as a political strategy and a business model
• Empty promises without measurement or accountability
• Disorder disguised as freedom
• This movement is not for people who want:
• Power without consequences
• Authority without limits
• Praise without accountability
• Freedom without obligation
• America does not need louder slogans. It needs citizens willing to build again.

Panelist:

Steven E. Kuhn, global business strategist, Founder: Take American Back.   Co-Author: “Citizen Servant Leader” (co-authored with Ron Lynch).  Now available on Amazon. https://x.com/StevenEKuhn

Brigadier General, Blaine Holt, USAF Retired: Host of Podcast: Dangerous Intellectuals! Episode 21 just downloaded (Professor Nathan Kutz). https://www.dangerousintellectuals.com/

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10:33

Segment Topic:

• Additional Topics for General Holt and Steven E. Kuhn:
• S. and Iran secret negotiations (what is being discussed and what is Trump demanding from the Iranian Regime?).
• According to President Trump, Putin agreed to a two-week pause in hostilities; and then yesterday Russia attacked a busload of Ukraine miners – killing 12. How can you negotiate peace without trust?
• Steven, you live and work in Europe, what are European business leaders saying about Trump’s visit to Davos?
• General Holt, what did you think about the Danish Vets protesting at the American Embassy in Copenhagen last week?
• What is each of your response to Spain granting amnesty to a half a million illegals last week? Isn’t it that kind of action which threatens the sovereignty of European nations and isn’t this why there is such a level of political instability in Europe?  Europeans are fed-up!
• The capture of Maduro and the raid at the Fulton County Election Headquarters – any connection?

What should we be watching in the week ahead?

Panelist:

Steven E. Kuhn, global business strategist, Founder: Take American Back.   Co-Author: “Citizen Servant Leader” (co-authored with Ron Lynch).  Now available on Amazon. https://x.com/StevenEKuhn

Brigadier General, Blaine Holt, USAF Retired: Host of Podcast: Dangerous Intellectuals! Episode 21 just downloaded (Professor Nathan Kutz). https://www.dangerousintellectuals.com/

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11:06

Segment Topic:

• 3 Million Pages of Epstein Files Released, Deputy Attorney General Says No Evidence!
• Nick, you say that the Epstein Scandal is a mirror image of the “Franklin Scandal.” Why?
• Tell us what is common about the two scandals and why the Obama Justice Department under (gun-runner) Eric Holder was worried about your involvement investigating Epstein?
• What did the latest document dump on Friday tell us about Epstein’s world – other than Bill Gates contracting VD from a Russian hooker?
• What does it mean that [Redacted] flagged you as a problem in a 2011 email, years before the story broke publicly? Who do you suspect and why do you think the sender was redacted?
• How does that email change—or confirm—your understanding of how closely Epstein monitored journalists and perceived threats?
• What was your reaction to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche openly admitting that none of Epstein’s clients or facilitators will face prosecution?
• Do the three million pages released actually add anything meaningful, or do they function more as a distraction than a disclosure?
• Why do you think it took until 2015 for the flight logs and black book to be published, despite their clear relevance years earlier?
• In your view, who benefits most from releasing massive amounts of material while guaranteeing no accountability?
• What does the Epstein case ultimately reveal about the limits of the U.S. justice system when powerful people are implicated?
• Why does the Epstein story still matter today, and what risks remain if it is allowed to be quietly closed without consequences?
• Nick, if no one is going to be charged; should we care about the Epstein Files?

Panelist:

Nick Bryant is an investigative journalist and director of www.EpsteinJustice.com ​

He spent seven years investigating a child sex trafficking network that was covered up by state and federal authorities, culminating in The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse, and Betrayal. 

Someone in the Epstein files identified investigative journalist Nick Bryant as a problem as early as 2011, according to a newly released email in which someone (redacted) warned multiple recipients—some of them redacted—that Bryant was “calling around again.” That single line, buried inside the Justice Department’s recent release of roughly three million pages of Epstein-related documents, may be the most revealing detail in the entire trove. It establishes that [Redacted] viewed Bryant as a serious threat years before the case became a public scandal, and years before most of the media, political class, or law enforcement showed sustained interest in the network surrounding him.

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11:33

Segment Topic:

• New York City Council (Ruling Junta) targets Newsmax!
• Newsmax is pushing back sharply against the call to remove the network from the city taxi screens. 
  • "This is a pure act of censorship targeting a news organization reaching over 50 million Americans regularly. Newsmax plays it straight and that drives the far left crazy," Newsmax commented in a statement. 
  • Hoylman-Sigal, in a letter first reported by the New York Post, urged officials to intervene and pressure Curb to drop the network.
  • "I urge you to summarily suspend the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission’s partnership with Curb ... and demand that Curb cease its collaboration with Newsmax as a condition of licensure given the platform’s history of misinformation and disingenuous reporting,” Hoylman-Sigal wrotein a letter to Mayor Zohran Mamdani. (Newsmax.com)

Panelist:

Jon Glasgow, Host: Sunday Report on Newsmax

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11:50 Salute the Troops

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