Today's Guests

Curtis Houck, Managing Editor of NewsBusters, joins the show twice this morning for the open and the media roundup segment. Curtis Houck at NewsBusters

9:00 Show Open: Fox Fires Maria Bartiromo

• According to Puck News media reporter Dylan Byers, Fox let Maria Bartiromo go after network executives blocked her from pursuing a story tying China to 2020 election fraud claims.
• Bartiromo reportedly told the White House that Fox would not let her run the story.
• Fox found out about that contact and fired her.
• Jake also asks why Fox allowed Jennifer Griffin to turn a special Pentagon report on the active U.S. military operation against Iran into a pointed criticism of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Source: The Gateway Pundit

Guest: Curtis Houck, Managing Editor, NewsBusters (see bio above)

9:20 NewsBusters Media Roundup

• On the latest NewsBusters Podcast, the hosts argue Politifact has been going easy on fact checking figures on the left. Read more
• Norah O'Donnell is headed back to CBS This Morning despite a rocky run in the anchor chair. Read more
• NewsBusters contributor Gabriela Pariseau reports that ChatGPT told a user Donald Trump is the greatest threat to democracy since Hitler. Read more

Guest: Curtis Houck, Managing Editor, NewsBusters (see bio above)

9:35 School World Order

• Today's students are being logged, tagged, tracked and programmed for tomorrow, and America's education system is undergoing its most dramatic transformation in generations.
• Author John Klyczek argues in School World Order: The Technocratic Globalization of Corporatized Education that today's fights over school choice, artificial intelligence, education technology and digital learning are not isolated reforms but connected pieces of a long term effort to redefine education, citizenship and individual freedom.
• Klyczek was a recent guest on the Dangerous Intellectuals podcast with Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt.

Guest: John Klyczek, author, School World Order Books by John Klyczek

10:00 Charlie Kirk, in His Own Words

• September 10 marks one year since the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
• Before Charlie Kirk became one of the most recognizable conservative voices in America, he was simply a friend who never stopped moving. Christy Edwards Lawton knew him for years before the crowds, cameras and national headlines.
• Her new book, Charlie Kirk, in His Own Words, offers an intimate look at the man she knew, remembered through his own words, photographs and personal memories, with tributes from presidents, leaders, celebrities and strangers worldwide.
• One hundred percent of author proceeds fund young leaders.

Guest: Christy Edwards Lawton, author, Charlie Kirk, in His Own Words Get the book

10:20 Fixing Immigration in America

• For millions of longtime undocumented immigrants, doing it the right way may not be an option. Immigration attorney Robert Coughlon Jr. says the law itself can block people who have lived and worked in the U.S. for decades from ever obtaining legal status, even when they want to follow the rules.
• In his new book, Fixing Immigration in America: A Common Sense Plan for Immigration Reform, Coughlon draws on more than 30 years of immigration law experience to propose an earned legal pathway for longtime residents alongside stronger border security and enforcement and immigration court reform.
• "Allowing these experienced workers to stay and contribute legally is not just practical, it is an economic necessity for national prosperity," Coughlon says.
• Registry reform: updating Section 249 to create an earned path to legal status for peaceful, long term residents.
• Independent immigration courts: moving immigration judges out of Executive Branch control to restore judicial independence and clear massive backlogs.
• Targeted civil enforcement: ICE reforms including a strict 50 mile rule to prevent profiling and keep federal agents focused on serious transnational crime.
• Modernized border security: deploying fully non intrusive inspection technology at ports of entry to help stop drug trafficking.

Guest: Robert Coughlon Jr., author, Fixing Immigration in America Get the book

10:30 The 9/11 Mystery Plane and Black 9/11

• Was the U.S. government aware of the 9/11 threat before it happened, and are those who think so conspiracy theorists or realists?
• Mark H. Gaffney's research surveys the role of the E4B, the military's advanced airborne command and control plane, in the events of September 11 and argues the evidence is hard to reconcile with the official account.
• His 2008 book The 9/11 Mystery Plane documented two E4Bs in the skies over Washington that day. His 2007 research led CNN to air archival footage of one of the planes near the White House that had sat unused for six years, and it confirmed the planes' presence despite official denials.
• His follow up book, Black 9/11, documents evidence of insider trading in the days before the attacks and lays out two lines of evidence that remote access technology existed in 2001 and may have been used against the hijacked jetliners.

Guest: Mark H. Gaffney, author, The 9/11 Mystery Plane and the Vanishing of America and Black 9/11

10:50 Israel Takes Ali al Taher Ridge

• Israel's military said Thursday it has established operational control of the strategic Ali al Taher ridge in southern Lebanon following an offensive against Hezbollah positions, per Fox News' Brittany Miller.
• The IDF said troops secured the area through ambushes, mortar fire, grenades and drone strikes, and that Hezbollah's Badr Unit had built two tunnel complexes there with Iranian funding and planning to direct attacks on Israel over the years.
• An Israeli military official said forces targeted tunnel entrances but found no Iranian advisers or officers on site.
• Reuters reported that Iran warned Washington a full scale Israeli offensive on the ridge would trigger a large scale Iranian response.
• The ridge has been one of the most contested spots in the Israel Hezbollah conflict because of its elevated view over southern Lebanon.

Guest: Professor Paul Davis, Institute of World Politics Faculty bio

11:00 Social Media Burnout Cure

• Former federal agent turned author Cara Chace argues social media addiction was not an accident. Infinite scroll, autoplay and the attention economy were built to capture focus, spike anxiety and keep people scrolling.
• In her book The Social Media Burnout Cure, Chace lays out how to ditch the scroll, quiet an overloaded nervous system and market a business without the chaos.
• On this episode of Dangerous Intellectuals (Episode 51), Chace explains how constant scrolling damages mental health and presence, and offers a path to unplug, digital detox and take attention back.
• Jake asks Chace what her time as a federal investigator taught her about social media's effect on society, and what the first step in taking back control looks like.

Guest: Cara Chace, author, The Social Media Burnout Cure Learn more

11:30 License Plate Readers and Privacy

• Government surveillance predates the rise of automatic license plate readers in our communities.
• New Civil Liberties Alliance attorney Andreia Trifoi writes in a Washington Examiner op ed that plate readers let the government collect and retain large amounts of personal information on Americans who are not suspected of any crime, without a warrant.
• A recent Supreme Court decision, Chatrie v. United States, held that the government's collection of cell phone location history is a search under the Fourth Amendment because people retain a privacy interest in that data. Trifoi filed a brief in the case.
• She argues the government's ability to compile years of someone's location history and build a detailed portrait of their daily life clearly violates their privacy, and that constitutional protections do not disappear just because technology makes surveillance easier.
• Whether through cellphone data, plate readers, ride share records or financial transactions, she says the Constitution requires a specific reason to search a specific person, not mass collection in hopes of uncovering wrongdoing.

Guest: Andreia Trifoi, Litigation Counsel, New Civil Liberties Alliance Attorney bio

11:50 Salute the Troops

Jake closes the show with the daily Salute the Troops segment, honoring the men and women serving in the U.S. armed forces.