Your News Talk America with Jake Smith – 2/3/2026
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9:06
Show Open:
The focus on mental health in America:
Yesterday, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz announced an "Action for Progress" initiative to address mental health and addiction.
Kennedy and Oz also discussed why they thought faith-based initiatives were important, as well as the issue of widespread loneliness. Secretary Kennedy said, "When we cut off our relationships with other human beings, we lose that access to the divine, and that is a healing power. (C-Span)
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- Final nail in Planned Parenthood coffin?
- Planned Parenthood announced it is voluntarily dropping its lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s ability to withhold Medicaid payments under a provision in President Donald Trump’s tax bill.
- The organization sued in July after President Donald Trumpsigned a spending bill that included prohibiting federal funding from going to abortion providers, a section of the legislation that Planned Parenthood attorneys argued unfairly targeted their clinics and would leave patients with even fewer health care options.
- In December, a federal appeals court ruledthat the administration could continue to withhold Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers.
- A New York jury has awarded a detransitioner $2 million in the first medical malpractice suitof its kind to go to trial.
- The six-member Westchester County panel found that psychologist Kenneth Einhorn and surgeon Simon Chin disregarded “standards of care and procedural guardrails by pressuring” their patient, Fox Varian, then 15, “into addressing gender dysphoria with permanent surgery.”
Varian, now 22, is a biological girl who believed herself to be a boy for a time in her teenage years.
Panelist:
JP De Gance: President of Communio.
https://communio.org/leadership/
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9:20
Segment Topic:
Segment Topic:
- How can you negotiate with the Iranian Regime when they cannot be trusted?
- Is the “armada” (as Trump refers to it) in place? Are all our military assets in place for an attack if so ordered by the President?
- Recently, it was disclosed by the Pentagon that the Iranian nuke facilities hit by U.S. airstrikes last June have had roofs built over them. Is this a sign that they are being rebuilt or that the regime is attempting to hide the extent of the damage from satellite monitoring?
Panelist:
Ryan Morgan, reporter for The Epoch Times. Ryan focuses on military and foreign affairs. @R_S_Morgan
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9:35
Monologue:
Remembering the impact of Chuck Negron! Rebroadcast of Monologue: 5-5-23 (Jeremiah Was A Bullfrog)
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9:45
Segment Topic:
- Report: Texas Wind and Solar Failed During This Week’s Winter Storm, Grid Carried by ‘Natural Gas and Coal.’ Shouldn’t the wind and solar have been secondary sources?
- Didn’t Texas have this same problem several years ago? Didn’t they learn their lesson the last time?
- The recent snow storm that overtook Texas reportedly crashed the state’s wind and solar energy generators, leading to natural gas, coal, and nuclear providing most of the state’s electricity.
- Kerry Clapp, an online writer cited by meteorologist Ryan Maue, reported in his Substacklast week that “renewable generation declined almost immediately” as the snow storm took over.
- “Wind, solar, and batteries fell from briefly supplying ~63% of generation to ~7% within roughly 48 hours,” he wrote. “Battery storage played a negligible role, constrained by high pricesand lack of surplus electricity.”
- In conclusion, Clapp reported that “natural gas, coal, and nuclear carried the grid, covering both lost renewables and rising demand.” (The Gateway Pundit/V. Saxena)
- Republican Senators, led by the RINO Bill Cassidy are trying to force a carbon tax on American families. I thought the Republicans were supposed to be our firewall against the EU Socialist crap?
- “Behind closed doors, and without any transparency, a small group of Republican House and Senate members used a legislative sleight of hand to set the wheels in motion for a carbon dioxide tax on American families. Though the language is not enshrined in law, the proponents, including Senators Kevin Cramer and Bill Cassidy, have already indicated that they will use the report language to try to force the Trump administration to build a case for eventually establishing the tax. (ACE)
Panelist:
Daniel Turner, Executive Director of Power the Future @DanielTurnerPTF
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10:06
Segment Topic:
- Republicans taking the bait?
- Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said Sunday that federal immigration operations in Minnesota shouldn’t have “excessive use of forces” amid controversy over the Trump administration’s immigration agenda.
- “The mission, I think, is to get violent felons out of the country. Most people support that. It’s a president — the number one issue the president won the election on. What I worry about is turning a winning issue into a liability,” McCaul told CBS News’s Margaret Brennan on “Face the Nation.” (The Hill)
- Recent coverage, including this piece in The Hill on Rep. McCaul and Minnesota ICE operations, misses the bigger story: these confrontations aren’t spontaneous. They’re deliberately engineered.
- Activist networks are swarming ICE and Border Patrol operations to force a lose-lose outcome—either agents stand down and look ineffective, or they act and hand opponents viral “excessive force” footage. Either way, immigration enforcement gets reframed as chaos, turning a Republican strength into a political liability.
- What’s striking is how many GOP leaders refuse to name this tactic. By focusing only on optics or de-escalation, they play directly into it. This isn’t organic outrage; it’s a classic provocation strategy designed to flip enforcement into scandal ahead of the midterms.
Panelist:
Ammon Blair, Senior Fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, is a 20+ year U.S. Border Patrol veteran, and one of the clearest voices on America’s national security and immigration.
https://www.texaspolicy.com/about/staff/ammon-blair/
He says: The GOP's tepid pushback on this engineered crisis leaves only a few REVOLTING possibilities:
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- They're fully persuaded by the communists' propaganda, swallowing the false narrative of "excessive force" hook, line, and sinker.
- They're kowtowing to the insurgents, weakly appeasing them just to limp through to the 2026 midterms without rocking the boat.
- Or, worst of all, this is their golden opportunity to finally admit what they've hidden all along: they're secretly in favor of mass amnesty and wide-open borders, betraying the base and the rule of law.
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10:33
Segment Topic:
- “We’re Right on Their Ass!” – Trump Goes Off on Somali Fraud in Minnesota, Says Somalis are “Not an Asset to Our Society and We Got to Get Them Out”
- President Trump went off on the Somali fraud scandal in the “rigged state” of Minnesota on Tuesday, highlighting the massive amount of taxpayer dollars that have been stolen through social services on Monday.
- The Gateway Pundit has long reported on the Somali scams in the US, which have once again come to the center following Nick Shirley’s exposé on Somali daycares in Minnesota.
- In 2016, Somali welfare recipients were busted funneling millions of dollars in suitcases full of cash through Seattle, Washington, one of the states with the largest Somali populations in America. In 2018, we reportedthat over $100 million was funneled through St. Paul International Airport in just one year.
- And over a decade ago, a whistleblower inMinnesota exposed fraud totaling over $100 million, with at least four daycare centers exploiting Minnesota’s Child Care Assistance Program. But officials, as they continue to do now, covered it all up.
- While speaking to former DBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, Trump said, “They have a country where they have no money, they have no nothing, and they come over here, and they steal, they’re able to steal more than $19 billion.” He then declared, “We’re right on their ass” as investigations into the fraud and complicity of state officials remain ongoing.
- Trump further slammed Somali immigrants, calling them “people that don’t work” and “people that are just not an asset to our society, to put it mildly.”
- “And we got to get them out, most of them, and it’s most of them,” Trump added.
- As The Gateway Pundit reported, it was recently revealed that Somali fraudsters have transported roughly $700 million in bulk cash through the Minneapolis airport to Somalia since 2024, according to Department of Homeland Security officials. (The Gateway Pundit/Jordan Conradson)
- Jordan, you spent so much time investigating allegations of election fraud in AZ back in 2020. What do you make of the raid in Fulton County and did the presence (at the location) of DNI Tulsi Gabbard indicate evidence of foreign involvement in the theft of the 2020 election?
- You posted on X yesterday: “HUGE WIN.” Why?
- President Trump keeps hinting that explosive information is coming out about 2020.
- FBI Director Kash Patel recently suggested that electronic voting machines helped to steal Maricopa County in 2020.
- What about the connection with Maduro?
Panelist:
Jordan Conradson, Investigative Reporter: The Gateway Pundit, host of: DC Dive! Jordan is one of this nation’s foremost investigative reporters! @ConradsonJordan
Audio Cut 1: Michael Holstrom: MN State Senator with Jon Glasgow
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11:05
Segment Topic:
- What is Brandon Johnson preparing for? An all-out Communist Revolution in Chicago?
- Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order on Saturday, launching investigations into ICE agents and laying the groundwork for criminal referrals for alleged law violations. The order “creates a framework for public accountability in the event federal agents violate local or state law while operating in Chicago,” a press release from Johnson’s office reads. “Nobody is above the law.
- “Nobody is above the law. There is no such thing as ‘absolute immunity’ in America,” Johnson said in a statement.
- “The lawlessness of Trump’s militarized immigration agents puts the lives and well-being of every Chicagoan in immediate danger. With today’s order, we are putting ICE on notice in our city. Chicago will not sit idly by while Trump floods federal agents into our communities and terrorizes our residents.”
The same commie, Brandon Johnson said back in November that; imprisoning violent criminals is racist and immoral.
- Chicago teacher put on leave after posting a social media comment praising ICE.
- A Chicagoarea teacher is on administrative leave and facing calls to lose his job over a Facebook post last week offering support for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
- "GO ICE," the teacher at West Chicago’s Gary Elementary School, posted on Facebook last week. Shortly after the post was made, activists in the predominantly Hispanic community quickly began sharing the post and calling for action to be taken against the teacher, who Fox News Digital is not naming due to safety concerns.
- "Imagine working as a teacher in an elementary school in West Chicago where the Latino community is highly populated and promoting ICE, sick AF," one social mediapost said. (Fox News)
- Mark, you have spent quite a bit of time in Iraq; what are your thoughts about the discussions going on right now between the U.S. and Tehran and what role will Iraq play in we decide to attack?
Panelist:
Mark Vargas Editor in Chief of the Illinois Review. Mark is a passionate conservative! From 2007 to 2010, Mr. Vargas served as a civilian within the Office of the Secretary of Defense on a special Iraq task force. In 2009 he was awarded the Secretary of Defense Global War on Terrorism Civilian Service Medal. His civilian service included 14 trips to Baghdad. Follow Mark on X: @MarkAVargas
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11:33
Segment Topic:
- Another government shutdown; yawn?
- This is supposed to be a partial government shutdown. How does this shutdown differ from the last one?
- Who is being hurt by this government shutdown?
- Does a partial government shutdown effect GDP, consumer confidence, jobs number?
Panelist:
David Hebert, PhD: Economist: American Institute for Economic Research Dave Hebert, Ph.D, is a senior research fellow at AIER. He was formerly a professor at Aquinas College, Troy University, and Ferris State University. He has also been a fellow with the U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget and has worked for the U.S. Joint Economic Committee. Dr. Hebert’s research has been published in academic journals such as Public Choice, Constitutional Political Economy, and The Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice and popular outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Investor’s Business Daily, RealClearPolicy, RealClearMarkets, The Hill, and The Daily Caller. He also serves as an Associate Director of The Entangled Political Economy Research Network.
https://aier.org/people/david-hebert/
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11:50 Salute the Troops
U.S. Army Spec. Michael T. Osario
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