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: Welcome to Today's Issues, offering a Christian response to the issues of the day. here's your host, Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association.
Tim Wildmon: Hey, good morning everybody. Welcome to Today's Issues on this, I guess. Tuesday, August 11, 20, 2026. Welcome to the program. Here as always, we thank you for listening to American Family Radio and joining, me in studio is Wesley Wildmon. M. Good morning, Wesley.
Wesley Wildmon: And good morning.
Tim Wildmon: Good morning, Fred Jackson.
Fred Jackson: Good morning to you and Krish Woodward.
Chris Woodward: Hello.
Tim Wildmon: All right, Krish, what's happening? What's wrong, man? I, I, you know, it's in your step.
Chris Woodward: I, I mentioned last week it's going to be like a dick, Vanliere Dyke. Sometimes I'm going to sidestep the ottoman. Sometimes I'm just going to tumble over it.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, the old Dick Vanliere Dyke show. You watch that, do you?
Chris Woodward: I watch, I watched a lot of, Yeah, I watched a lot of old television. yeah, before TV Land was started, Nick at night. Nickelodeon would play old TV shows at night.
Jenna Ellis: Yeah.
Chris Woodward: And it was Nick at night. And so I watched, I watched that and the monkeys.
Tim Wildmon: there are a lot of moral lessons in the monkeys you can draw from.
Chris Woodward: I'm a, I'm a daydream believer.
Tim Wildmon: Are you?
Chris Woodward: Yes. It's what you have to do when you cover doom and gloom every day.
Tim Wildmon: We're just trying to be friendly. All right.
Wesley Wildmon: We got a guest at the bottom of the hour.
Tim Wildmon: Who will our guest be?
Wesley Wildmon: Guests would be our. Our own Jenna Ellis, host of Jenna Ellis in the Morning. She'll be discussing Covid vaccines and pregnancies. We got an update there.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, we've got some news from doc. From some of Dr. Anthony Fauci's, memoirs.
Wesley Wildmon: Well, you got that. Now we also have the, signature, by Trump.
Tim Wildmon: Oh, yes, absolutely. Some good news to report that President Trump did, yesterday. So I say the signature.
Wesley Wildmon: What's the official executive order? That's what I was looking for.
Tim Wildmon: He issued an executive order, regarding the number of vaccines. Fred, give us a synopsis.
Fred Jackson: Yeah, instead of, giving multiple vaccines to little babies shortly after their they're born, they're going to separate them out over time because there is a belief among science, in the science community that giving a bunch of vaccines all at once does harm to the health of that little baby. So we'll be talking about that or
Tim Wildmon: could potentially do so.
Fred Jackson: Yes, yes.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, so we'll be talking about that with Jenna.
Fred Jackson: Uh-huh.
Tim Wildmon: Coming up to the bottom of the hour. That's right. We don't have that discussion before, do we?
Chris Woodward: no. I had some other stuff to run by you.
Tim Wildmon: Okay. All right, well, anything else to. Any house cleaning, Cleaning matters to discuss?
Wesley Wildmon: No. We wrapped up our Truth for the Youth Bible. We did week, well, last week, and we finished it up. We actually ran it over the weirdest ransom spots over the weekend, and we wrapped it up Sunday afternoon and we had a, record breaking. That's what I mean to say.
Tim Wildmon: Six, over 65,000 Truth for Youth Bibles were, called in by our listeners to distribute all over the country, by teenagers who do know the Lord, and give them to teenagers who don't know the Lord. So it's a very evangelistic cause and we're very happy about that, and many, many lives will be changed because of it. So we thank you everybody who, called in and committed to that. As you know, the Bibles were free, except if you ordered a box of them, then they were just $2 apiece. So, the Bibles were free. They were paid for by Revival Fires Ministries and American Family Radio. So we ask is that you get them in the hands of people who don't know Jesus Christ. all right, so a lot to talk about today. What's first on the docket there, Brother Krish?
Chris Woodward: Well, we need to continue to be in prayer for the people of Columbia, because as I mentioned, at the beginning of yesterday's program, Colombia was rocked by a 7.4 magnitude earthquake. At the beginning of yesterday's show, I mentioned that there were at least two people killed. By the time Steve and I swapped out, we were up to around 50. And when I left yesterday evening, we were at well over a hundred people killed. And unfortunately, that number is probably going to go up more today because I'm looking at the Associated Press right now in a story this morning. It says over 3,000 people are still missing in Colombia. you've got more than a hundred people killed, hundreds of buildings damaged or destroyed. There's a lot of rubble, and international aid is being offered. So it's a terrible situation that, we're going to continue to watch it.
Tim Wildmon: Afm now, we have posted a video. Is that true?
Chris Woodward: Oh, I can do that. I failed you in this.
Tim Wildmon: You failed?
Chris Woodward: I did.
Tim Wildmon: Okay, but I got you.
Wesley Wildmon: I'm gonna post the first segment.
Tim Wildmon: We're going to. We're going to, post this video is a, of a. Is on YouTube. And it was a cell phone video collage of the earthquake as it was happening in Colombia. And it was stunning, terrifying to watch. it looked like something out of a Hollywood movie. Fred, did you see this?
Fred Jackson: I did. It's a portion of a building, at least just collapsing over. Is amazing what you're seeing.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Well, also, I mean, you're talking about a 7.2. Is that what it was?
Fred Jackson: 7.4, actually.
Tim Wildmon: 7.4. And as Steve Jardo has explained to us before, the, Richter scale that measures the power of an earthquake, the, increase in power, like, is exponential. Is exponential. Yeah.
Fred Jackson: Like, you may hear Somebody say 7.2. Oh, it just went up a couple of points to 7.4. No, no, no. 7.2 to 7.4 is much bigger. There's a big difference in that.
Tim Wildmon: And, my guess is just looking at those videos, by the way, we posted those on our Facebook page. We're going to. The videos were just, As I said, I wouldn't be surprised if thousands of people aren't dead, especially in the cities where the buildings collapsed.
Fred Jackson: Yeah. And if you go to afn.net, i posted an AP video of the destruction there. And once again, you look at that, and the question that comes. How can anybody survive this?
Chris Woodward: It's up now.
Tim Wildmon: You know, the video we're talking about, you posted it on our Facebook page for today's issues. Here's the thing. You know, what was it about a month ago, six weeks ago, this happened in Venezuela in June.
Fred Jackson: Yeah.
Tim Wildmon: Now Colombia borders Venezuela.
Fred Jackson: Yeah, they're, they're neighbors.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah. In South America. So there's something going on there underground. I don't know if there's a major fault there or whatever. But also, you got to remember in these countries, even Venezuela and Colombia, I don't know if you classify them as quote, third world countries. but that's their, architecture. Their architecture, their structure, their engineering, is not the same as we have here in the United States or Canada. it's not as advanced. A lot of these buildings look like they maybe were built in the 60s and 70s and even then they're, they're not. You know, San Francisco or Los Angeles perhaps could survive maybe something like that without buildings falling down. Now you have a 7.4 earthquake, you're going to have roads collapse, you're going to have bridges fall sometimes. But I'm talking about the buildings themselves that maybe apartment buildings that house people and so forth.
Fred Jackson: It's only been in recent years where some of these earthquake, prone, areas you mentioned, San Francisco, those that they've started, for instance, with bridges and with high rise buildings, building them in such a way that there's more flexibility.
Tim Wildmon: Right.
Fred Jackson: So when an earthquake hits.
Tim Wildmon: Right.
Fred Jackson: The, the building can actually, and I heard it described as almost like on pucks, the big beams that come down, they're on a cushion almost, and that's oversimplification, but they're on a cushion so they can absorb that shaking.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
Wesley Wildmon: I've never experienced being in a, earthquake. But where, where in the. Do we. We don't have many of those in the United States.
Chris Woodward: We, we are actually on a fault line. yes, the NewSong Madrid fault line. It's. You'll see it here from this picture. It's portions of Arkansas, Tennessee.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah. There is the NewSong Madrid fault. Ah. That runs from Illinois to Mississippi, I think.
Chris Woodward: Yeah.
Tim Wildmon: There's the, But the, the San Andreas fault. Is that what it is in California then? Does that run all the way up to Oregon?
Fred Jackson: It runs all the way up.
Tim Wildmon: Okay.
Wesley Wildmon: And so, maybe where they happen in the States, they're not around big cities, so I don't hear about them as much. Ah, maybe, but.
Fred Jackson: Well, I was living on the west coast when that one hit. San Francisco, many years.
Tim Wildmon: Do you feel that?
Fred Jackson: Well, we didn't feel it.
Tim Wildmon: You're in Calgary, right?
Fred Jackson: No, in, Vancouver.
Tim Wildmon: Vancouver. Excuse me.
Fred Jackson: Vancouver. But we did feel some Earthquakes there. The thing about earthquakes, you know, we have a very sophisticated weather forecasting system now. So that tornado weather, we can almost tell several days. Hurricanes, hurricanes, all of that yesterday when that earthquake hit Columbia. Beautiful sunny day.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
Fred Jackson: Gorgeous weather.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah. You can't predict earthquakes.
Fred Jackson: It just, it happens.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Yeah. All right. You're listening to today's issues. Well, fellas, I'm considering a, career change. I haven't talked to you all about that, but in light of these two former NBA players declaring for the. They declared for the WNBA draft.
Wesley Wildmon: Right, Right.
Tim Wildmon: And I was a pretty good basketball player back in the day.
Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, sure.
Fred Jackson: Okay.
Tim Wildmon: And I need a challenge.
Fred Jackson: Okay.
Tim Wildmon: So I'm thinking about declaring for the wnba.
Wesley Wildmon: Fantastic.
Tim Wildmon: But if I do that, I'll be your agent, I've got to say. Well, I got identified as a girl.
Wesley Wildmon: Oh, okay. Well then, hang on.
Tim Wildmon: But I don't know, is it. It depends on how much money I would make sure, you know, we're all for sale.
Wesley Wildmon: That's right. Compromise.
Tim Wildmon: So we'll see how that goes. No, there's that. This, reason I want to bring this up. This inter. Ns. Cantor Freedom, that's the fellow's name. He's one of two former NBA players who have announced that they are going to enter the WNBA draft. Now, Ennis Cantor Freedom, he made it official with a document he signed that was sent to the WNBA telling them he was legal and eligible. And he, he also m. Made their requirements, if you can, if you want to say that, that they, have deemed necessary to enter the draft. I'm talking about the wnba. And he does, he does. So he's, he's. I don't know what they're gonna do with this one. Go ahead.
Wesley Wildmon: I'm looking at the picture of him signing, signing the document officially. And his shirt says invest in women, pay women and hire women.
Tim Wildmon: Right. That's what his T shirt.
Wesley Wildmon: He's a woman now.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, well, yeah, that's what he's. He's identified as a woman. And this other fella. What's the other gentleman's name?
Chris Woodward: Royce White.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah. The two of them. Fred, where do you think this is going to go? Because this is kind of boxing in the woke wnba who, you know, want us to, They kind of not wanting to take a stand on this. And now they're going to have to. Right?
Fred Jackson: Yeah, they're going to have to. What these, these two guys are doing are challenging the insanity, that we have seen, that's threatening women's Sports. And so I just think it is great that these guys are doing this. I think they're making a point. But to your point, so what is that league going to do now with these applications? What are they going to do? They can't say they're not qualified. pretty good basketball players. so what are they going to do about it? They're going to have to seriously consider. Can you imagine if this goes forward and these guys show up?
Tim Wildmon: Oh, it's going to happen. Because that's the reason that Enes Cantor Freedom officially signed the documents yesterday to make him eligible. So he isn't just grandstanding, he's going through with this. Go ahead.
Fred Jackson: I love it.
Chris Woodward: I was just going to say, in addition to the Columbia earthquake video, I have also posted the AFN cartoon of the day on the Today's Issues Facebook page. It is the, it says back to school and it features what is supposed to be the WNBA commissioner looking at a biology book to determine what a woman is.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, they're going to have to. What they're going to have to do. Now keep in mind, I don't understand all the legalities, but the, wnba, their players association has a collective bargaining agreement with the wnba. And does it specifically. I don't know. I don't think it specifically talks about, this issue. Does it or does it? Anyway, we can find out. But this is going to be fun to watch.
Fred Jackson: Yes.
Tim Wildmon: because those who say we really don't know what a woman is, or you can, you can be a woman, if you just say you are.
Wesley Wildmon: Right.
Tim Wildmon: Okay. That's going to be challenged, right here. And it's going to force the woksters to have to say, as everybody else who has common sense says, there is a biological, it's xxxy. Right. there's a biological difference between males and females and it's unfair for males to compete in athletics against girls. That's, that's bottom line. That's as simple as that. And why these lefty, you know, people struggle with that. I don't, I don't exactly know why, except that they want to, say that they sympathize. They, they don't want to see transgendered people cut out of sports. it's really a, ah, that is
Wesley Wildmon: a straw man because they're not cut out of sports. They can play sports. They just have to play in their own category.
Tim Wildmon: Bingo. Right?
Wesley Wildmon: Right.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
Wesley Wildmon: You want to play transgender sports? Play transgender sports.
Tim Wildmon: Listen, why couldn't you just say, I identify as a pro basketball player and if you don't draft me, then you're, discriminating. I mean, why couldn't you say that?
Wesley Wildmon: Sure.
Tim Wildmon: You know what I'm saying. so it's just going to be fun. It's going to be, it will be, as they say, get the popcorn out.
Chris Woodward: Yeah.
Tim Wildmon: Okay. But when is the end. When is the WNBA draft? Because I would definitely take Enes Canter Freedom as my first pick. The dude is 610, 250 and still looks in really top fit shape. I think he could grab a rebound for you right there. Huh? what do you think?
Jenna Ellis: What do you.
Chris Woodward: Oh, I have no doubt.
Tim Wildmon: When is the draft coming up?
Chris Woodward: April of 2027.
Tim Wildmon: All right. This is going to be the most watched WNBA draft in history.
Chris Woodward: That's the thing about the wnba. this is the most attention this league has. It league's been around for 20 years now. ish. and this is the most it's been talked about in its existence since
Tim Wildmon: Caitlin Clark came in.
Wesley Wildmon: There's, there's a, side of me that says this may not be a bad strategy for the WMA because I will watch if, if he gets to play.
Tim Wildmon: Right, Right. But we'll see if he's drafted or if they discriminate against.
Wesley Wildmon: That's right.
Chris Woodward: It's been around since 97, 30 years. Ish.
Tim Wildmon: Well, the WNBA, is subsidized by the NBA. Did y' all know this?
Wesley Wildmon: Yes. Oh yeah.
Tim Wildmon: They're subsidized by the NBA.
Wesley Wildmon: There's not enough people watch right now.
Tim Wildmon: Caitlin Clark, when she joined the Indiana, Fever and came into the league, she brought a lot of. And still does. She brings a lot of eyeballs to because of the way she, she, I remember watching her in college and she, she's brought that to the end to the wnba, sure too. But Caitlin Clark, I would watch her when she was at Iowa just because, man, when that girl got past half court, the, it was, it was like a, she was like a machine and she could drop the bottom ball in the bottom of the net from 25ft, no problem. And so she would just. And she ended up being the all time leading scorer in college basketball for women. And so, when she got drafted, you know, it brought a lot of attention to the wnba. It was great for women's sports, especially for women's basketball. And so now, if Rick Cantor freedom can bring his 610, 250 pounds
Wesley Wildmon: that's a good to the low post.
Tim Wildmon: it's gonna be hard to stop him.
Wesley Wildmon: Hey, that guy.
Tim Wildmon: Excuse me.
Fred Jackson: Her.
Tim Wildmon: Her. See, there I go, there I go.
Wesley Wildmon: So anus was a third pick overall in 2011.
Tim Wildmon: Right.
Wesley Wildmon: And then 11 seasons. Not two seasons for 11 season.
Tim Wildmon: 11 season in NBA finish, with
Wesley Wildmon: averaging close to 12 points a game and eight rebounds.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, you probably do that against the girls. Excuse me, with the girls in the competition. Next story. Krish.
Chris Woodward: All right, let's play, let's play this, clip. We often play clips of Senator Jon Kennedy.
Tim Wildmon: It's Fred's favorite. Senator from Louisiana, right?
Chris Woodward: Yes, from Louisiana, born in Mississippi. Senator from Louisiana.
Tim Wildmon: He's got that country wit about it.
Chris Woodward: He does, he does. in this particular case, he's frustrated that his Republican colleagues won't come together and pass the SAVE act that President Trump and other Republicans want the Senate to approve. And, here is a bit of Senator Jon Kennedy sharing his frustrations.
Tim Wildmon: Clip 6 I was proud when we passed the Lindsey Graham Russian sanctions bill with 85, 86 votes. but there are other times when the Senate is like high school, but no one ever graduates. What's he frustrated about now, Fred?
Fred Jackson: Well, it's not passed in the SAVE act, which President Trump has been hoping, that, the Senate would do before they take their four or five week break, which they're on right now. So he's, you know, it seems to me Kennedy is sharing the frustration of President Trump for more secure elections, more security with regards to voting.
Tim Wildmon: What's the two, three things that the SAVE act does? Do you guys know proof that you're
Chris Woodward: a citizen to vote?
Tim Wildmon: Yes.
Wesley Wildmon: Voter ID Secure the election for all 50 states.
Fred Jackson: Yes. And I think part of the argument has also been, we're not going to allow for, ballots that are mailed on election Day. We're just going to keep, keep counting and counting and counting and counting.
Chris Woodward: Election Day in California doesn't end for 37 days after the polls close.
Tim Wildmon: What could go wrong there?
Chris Woodward: Yeah, ask Spencer Pratt what could go wrong there.
Tim Wildmon: As we've said many times before, if you want a big state model,
Tim Wildmon: on how to handle elections, Florida is exhibit A.
Fred Jackson: That's right.
Tim Wildmon: They have, I want to say 23, 24 million people, something like that in the state of Florida. I mean, it's, you got California as far as population goes. You got California and then Texas, and I think Florida now is third ahead of NewSong York. State of NewSong York. I think I'm right on that. But anyway, Florida has, You can vote in advance, right? And so you do have, quote, mail in ballots. but they're counted. Yes, they're counted leading up to election day.
Wesley Wildmon: They're verified, too.
Tim Wildmon: And verified. And so by election night, you have the electronic votes that have all been tallied, you have the mail in votes, you have the absentee votes that have all ballots that have all been candid. So you know who won and lost at 10pm or 11pm or 12pm 12am M. I guess it would be on election night.
Fred Jackson: Yeah.
Tim Wildmon: So, why. But you get California, you know, you can be two, three weeks out.
Wesley Wildmon: Every bit of.
Tim Wildmon: It's, just, So when you have a lot of ballots that have not been counted and are still being counted, it leads to people being suspicious of, where they're coming from, are they legal, who's verifying these? All those questions come. We used to have election day, all right. And then it became election season, but we used to have election day, our country, and that's really, that's the way it should be. My opinion is you, if you need to vote prior to election day, I mean, if you have an election day, then you need to make sure your ballot is in time. I know one time I had to be out of town. This is in the state of Mississippi. I don't know. probably not the same in every state. Well, it's not, because we've talked about that before, but I had to go down to the. Whatever it is, Chantry clerk or whatever it is, whoever handles that, and tell them why I'm going to be out of town, tell them why I needed to boat absentee. Well, I just told them I'm going to be out of town, so I need to. I don't think I had to, you know, hold my hand over the Bible or on the Bible or anything, but I had to tell them legitimate excuse. And you have people who do have legitimate excuses. Maybe they're homebound or they're traveling military. Are in their military. So there are reasons why, but you just can't. You just couldn't willy nilly, you know, get a. Get a ballot.
Fred Jackson: Yeah.
Tim Wildmon: So anyway, go ahead.
Wesley Wildmon: And it depends on what state you live in. Some of this may sound like, that's not true because each state's different. But in this case, just a reminder, there's still, 15 or 14 states, not including Washington, D.C. where you do not have to show any identification in order to vote.
Tim Wildmon: But you do. But you do probably did have it. Get a library card.
Wesley Wildmon: Everything else you do. Which is why the SAVE act, starting with California.
Tim Wildmon: I just don't know why any state would not want to have a voter id. What's going.
Wesley Wildmon: All of them are blue.
Tim Wildmon: That don't work.
Wesley Wildmon: Every one of them. But two.
Tim Wildmon: You know what's gonna happen?
Wesley Wildmon: Two of the 14 are not blue.
Tim Wildmon: What's gonna happen soon is you're gonna have two Democrats get in a close election and one of them is gonna accuse the other one of stealing it. And then they're gonna say, we,
Wesley Wildmon: where's the SAFE Act?
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, they're gonna say, well, we need voter id. Oh, really? That's what, that's what the. So we can verify these votes. That's what's gonna happen. You watch.
Fred Jackson: Sure it is.
Jenna Ellis: All right.
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Tim Wildmon: Welcome back, everybody, to today's Issues on American Family Radio, where we are going to Greece and Italy in March of 2027. So check that out. Tours.AFA.net tours.AFA.net a, lot of folks are signing up to go with us. Going to be a great time. And I, do stand corrected. that was not the gondola, or the gondola that Paul took.
Wesley Wildmon: Did you go back and double check
Tim Wildmon: on his trip to Venice, St. Paul? It was actually Peter who did that. That was the one that Peter took. So I do stand corrected on this. A listener called in and told me that.
Anthony Fauci: Huh?
Tim Wildmon: stand corrected. Stand corrected on that. All right. You're listening to today's Issues on American Family Radio. It was a weak joke, I admit, but, you know, I tried.
Jenna Ellis: Huh?
Tim Wildmon: I got very. I just got courtesy smiling.
Chris Woodward: I will laugh at all of your jokes as long as you continue to pay me.
Tim Wildmon: It's not genuine laughter, Krish.
Fred Jackson: It's.
Chris Woodward: I'm, I'm lolling.
Tim Wildmon: Okay, you're lol. All right. So, Fred, Wesley, Krish and Tim here, and we thank you for listening to today's issues. Well, we got some good news to talk about. Some good news and some concerning news, I guess you could say, regarding the, what rfk, Robert Kennedy. Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy. the secretary of. What is the secretary of. Fred, do you know?
Fred Jackson: Health and Human Services.
Tim Wildmon: Health and Human Services, that's right. You won. You won. Health and Human Services. He had a big announcement yesterday along with President Trump's executive order that I think vast majority of our listeners are certainly going to be pleased with. Also, there was some, some concerning news regarding the, Covid vaccines and pregnancy. And joining us to talk about it is Jenna Ellis. Jenna is host of Jenna Ellis in the Morning, right here on American Family radio, weekdays 7 to 8 o' clock Central Time. 7 to 8 o' clock Central time. You want to join Jenna every morning to get up to speed on current events and what's happening in our country and in our world that you need to be aware of. Jenna, good morning to you.
Jenna Ellis: Good morning. And it's great to be with you. And I just want to clarify. I heard in the actual best translation of the Bible that it was the Royal Caribbean that Paul took.
Tim Wildmon: Oh, it's the Royal Caribbean. I'm writing that down because I'm gonna double check you on that one. Okay. Because that just sounds strange. But I'll. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt till I learn otherwise. The Royal Caribbean, who took hate mail to mine. Okay. All right, so first of all, Jenna, what did, Let's talk. Let's start. Start with the COVID vaccines and pregnancy. What was the news yesterday?
Jenna Ellis: Yeah, so there have been a lot of documents that Senators Ron and Rand Paul have released, in that go back and actually show what Fauci and others knew at the time while they were saying, this is totally safe. You'll never get Covid. There are no side effects. I mean, we all remember that and obviously not accurate. but one of the publications, said that the mandated and doctor recommended Cove 19 shot for pregnant women was effectively an abortion shot. That was Katy Pavlik, who was, a reporter. And according to the document, the authors claimed a miscarriage rate of 12.6%. But the raw data revealed an 82% miscarriage rate in women vaccinated during the first trimester. And that is consistent with the 81% miscarriage rate noted in the Pfizer's post market data. And, that is just totally shocking that Fauci and and others who were emailing back and forth and they've now released the Senate has release these documents, were aware of these rates, were aware of the complications and the effects, and yet continued to not only encourage women to take this, pregnant women, but without any sort of warnings. But then ultimately Fauci, of course, was pro the federal mandate that coerced, many Americans into taking the Cove shot.
Fred Jackson: Jana, we have some actuality of, Dr. Fauci as to what he was saying to the public versus what he was saying to his friends. Those documents that Senator Johnson and others have been releasing. So this is what he was telling the public at the time. Cut 11.
Anthony Fauci: Thus far, with thousands of people who, women who were pregnant having gotten the vaccine following the eua, there have been no red flags of anything that anyone would be worried about. There are severe adverse outcomes for mother and baby during COVID 19 infection. Therefore, it is extremely important for pregnant women and women planning to get pregnant to get vaccinated.
Fred Jackson: Yeah. So there you have it. That was his public statement. But as you were alluding to in these documents that have been released, he had, he had concerns and he shared those concerns with some of his friends. Jenna.
Jenna Ellis: Yeah, and for those who don't know the lingo, the EUA he was referring to is the emergency use Authorization. And that was prior to, Fauci and the HHS kind of pushing through the COVID shot, through FDA approval, because that was the big sticking point, not only for religious freedom at the time, but also just medical freedom. To say that something that doesn't even have FDA approval and only has emergency use authorization should not be foisted as mandated on the public because there obviously is not informed consent, because you don't know what you don't know. And clearly Fauci, knew more than he was transmitting to the public at the time. And so this is one of the. Possibly the biggest scandal in the medical history of the United States because this clearly shows that Foushee was just out for power, attention, accolades, and was hiding a lot of really relevant and important information from the public. And so on my show this morning, I had Florida Attorney General James Usmeier, who said, of course, you know, because the. The pardon on the federal level, ostensibly, unless it's challenged, successfully covers Foushee for any federal crimes, that doesn't mean that he can't be charged for other, ah, crimes or civil litigation in the states. And so Florida at least, has opened an investigation based on all of this, has subpoenaed Fauci, and hopefully we'll see at least some accountability for this on the state level because this is absolutely horrific.
Tim Wildmon: Two things I want to go back to just a moment. One is I want to make sure I heard your statistics correctly. I know you're quoting from. Can you tell us that you said an 82% miscarriage rate for.
Jenna Ellis: Yeah. In women vaccinated during the first trimester.
Tim Wildmon: Where did you get this stat?
Jenna Ellis: This was part of the, the documents that were released by the. By Senator Ron Johnson. And according to at least what it looks like online is, one of the, the studies that appeared in this. In a journal and also an op Ed. an op ed, that was published by the then cdc, director.
Tim Wildmon: Okay, that just sounds unbelievable. But anyway. But I'm not saying I don't believe it. I'm just saying it's just, staggering. The other thing I want to ask and Fred, you or Jenna, either one you mentioned, Dr. Fauci was saying one thing publicly and another thing privately. What's the private part? And do you have a. Where was that learned the private part.
Fred Jackson: And Jenna, correct me if I'm wrong, private part was, concerns on the. He was texting on this phone, this government phone, which Senator Johnson and others. Now we have access To. And he was texting and saying, Hm. I'm hearing about problems with this vaccine and women in a certain stage of pregnancy. but. So he was, he was concerned. However, he decided. And Jenna, you can talk about possible motives. He decided not to share those concerns that the, what the vaccinations could be doing to pregnant women. He decided not to share that with the public.
Jenna Ellis: Yes, that's right. And this is according to his own personal text messages on the government phone. So they're not really personal, but, of course they were shielded from the public. These weren't public statements at the time. And then also emails from his official, email address, his government, email address at the nih, that he was communicating there. At least several that he was communicating even with the Surgeon General at the time, Vivek Murthy, who was under the Biden administration.
Tim Wildmon: You know, if you. We're going to listen to this clip again from Dr. Fauci, by the way, do we know when this clip was? Was this his testimony?
Chris Woodward: It's a combination of two different.
Tim Wildmon: Okay.
Chris Woodward: Moments.
Tim Wildmon: I want to listen to it again is because if I heard that right, he puts a caveat on this by saying, to date or, we don't know. Now, that's not an absolute certainty of a potential problem or not. That's him saying, I don't know. We don't know. Exactly. Or there's no evidence to support at this point. and then I got a comment about that. Let's make sure I heard that right here.
Anthony Fauci: Thus far, with thousands of people who, women who were pregnant having gotten the vaccine following the eua, there have been no red flags of anything that anyone would be worried about. There are severe adverse outcomes for mother and baby during COVID 19 infection. Therefore, it is extremely important for pregnant women and women planning to get pregnant to get vaccinated.
Tim Wildmon: Okay. Thus far, that's the caveat.
Fred Jackson: what he was saying is to women, you better get the vaccine, because if you don't, Covid would have a terrible effect on you.
Wesley Wildmon: Right.
Fred Jackson: So go out and get the shot. Your baby, go get the shot.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, yeah. Here's the thing.
Jenna Ellis: But meanwhile, he was. Meanwhile, privately, he was actually flagging concerns. So that's the hypocrisy.
Tim Wildmon: Yes, which he should have been doing because that's his job, but he should have made that public. Seems to me, the other thing is about that, the COVID vaccine and pregnancy. And of course, he put. Thus far, here's one of the big deals about the whole COVID vaccine push that a lot of Americans, reacted to negatively. And this is, and this is still, we, those who did, who are skeptics or at least didn't want to go along with every mandate, are owed an apology, quite frankly, from those who wanted to jam it down your throat or stab it in your arm and say, deal with it like it or not. And that is this. I mean, if you watch television at all, we see countless advertisements for drugs. I mean, all you gotta do, I don't care what programming you're watching, if you get commercials, probably a quarter of them are advertisements for drugs, right? I mean, you got a, every drug. And people are always dancing around, aren't they? Just out in the street. I mean, they're. But do you know how they end their commercials?
Chris Woodward: And sometimes death
Tim Wildmon: may cause nausea, high, blood pressure, fever, your eyelids being frozen. Okay. your knees going out, may cause you to do somersaults involuntarily and, or lead to death. I mean, we all hear that half the commercial is how it could kill you or make your life worse or how it may not work.
Wesley Wildmon: The first time I caught that, I thought it was a joke. Yeah, but they're serious.
Tim Wildmon: No, they're on all that. They have to put what I'm. My point is they have to put disclaimers on the medication because it may not work for everybody. Like they're presenting it in the, by the actors on the tv. So, and these are drugs that have been tested properly and gone through the rigors of, protocols and, and lab testing and, and whatever they call them when they tested on real people out there, you know, before it goes to market. So I've forgotten what you call that. My point is, if that's true of other vaccines and of other drugs, then why wouldn't you have put that kind of a caveat on something that was experimental?
Jenna Ellis: So there's no good answer to that. I mean, that's why under the EUA and the emergency use authorization, that generally covers people who. It's kind of their last option. I mean, we all remember Natalie Harp's situation, who was the young lady who now works for Trump who is facing a brutal form of cancer. And she wanted an experimental treatment knowing it was experimental, and she wanted to be able to do that in a potentially life saving fashion. And Trump was able to help her obtain that specific treatment. And that was in a literally life saving but very much informed consent situation. But this, to have this type of emergency use Authorization and then telling people, go out and get it. When it's totally experimental, you have no idea. the potential long term side effects is reckless beyond reckless.
Tim Wildmon: Right, but was. Yes, absolutely so. But the whole, the worst thing of the whole, of the whole situation there, looking back, we've talked about this before was what we just described here. Listen, nobody faults the, drug companies for trying to come up with a vaccine for Covid. Everybody hoped that they would and that it would and be. You know what I'm saying? So that was great. but it was rushed. I mean, what was a warp speed, project? What do they call it? Something warp. Operation Warp Speed. I'm going, that's not a good, promotion for vaccine, or medication. Operation warp speed. But anyway, the point of the matter was not that they came up with that. It was that it was then taken and said, you must take this or we're going to shame you. We're going to cost you your livelihood. In the case of the military, we're kicking you out. the forced vaccinations of an experimental drug was anti American. it was just, something that you don't know what the long term effects are. And by the way, we mentioned this before too. It was then learned that the Cove vaccine shot could not prevent you from getting Covid and it could not prevent you from spreading Covid. So you're going. So it doesn't keep you from getting it.
Wesley Wildmon: So it's not a vaccine.
Tim Wildmon: That's actually what a vaccine, generally speaking, in layman's terms, has always been understood. You get a smallpox vaccine. That's what it does. It keeps you from getting it.
Wesley Wildmon: Yep.
Tim Wildmon: I mean, am I right? you get a polio vaccine, guess what keeps you from getting polio? So when they were pushing all this out and rolling all this out and forcing it on people again, that's the problem, that people were being forced.
Wesley Wildmon: That's right.
Tim Wildmon: or either. Or either you lose your job. Some, some companies made it mandatory. Oh yeah, and the Moats.
Wesley Wildmon: but how many times have we been to the doctor and then we didn't. We were a little bit unsure about what they're saying versus what we've googled. So we go get a second opinion. Whatever. We go, everybody. If you've gone to the doctor over any amount of time for anything serious or even minor, it's not uncommon to go get a second opinion on something. But there was only one opinion on this and it was get the vaccine or.
Tim Wildmon: Right. And that was what, all the professional organizations, the American Medical association, and all of them were one voice. And that is don't question this. Take the vaccine, get the vaccine or else you're contributing to deaths.
Jenna Ellis: Well, and you were canceled and fired. I mean, and especially doctors. But I think it's important to remember, even before the government compulsion under the Biden administration, Trump was never for compulsory vaccines. He wanted it to be widely available. But the thing that I do, hold the Trump administration, the first one accountable for was not listening to Dr. Scott Atlas and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya at the time, who now thankfully Jay, is the head of the NIH instead of Fauci. But both of those doctors at the time were going into the Oval Office in the summer of 2020 and telling Trump, here are the actual statistics. This is not any more, really more dangerous than the flu. Yes, it can be lethal, just like pneumonia or the flu to the, the high risk populations. But you know, here are the other statistics. And you know, I worked for the Trump campaign at the time and I remember very clearly having statistics out of now my home state of Florida, and how the the hospitals here were taking a, if someone tested positive for Covid, they would retest them and make sure it was a positive, and then three days later test and then maybe you know, five or 10 days later. And each of those positive tests was being reported as a new case. And that kind of, and so that just multiplied kind of the fear in the public. And a lot of this was being misreported in a lot of different ways. And you know, there's a lot of research now that's, that's done on how much everyone was misreporting all of this. That statistic was known to Operation Warp Speed. And Vice President Mike Pence absolutely handled this wrong. And I think as one of the most prominent faith based evangelicals, the fault of a lot of this because Trump basically abdicated Operation Warp Speed to him and Dr. Fauci, that was Trump's fault. But Vice President Mike Pence absolutely failed at this as well.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, I remember I remember when that, you know, when Dr. Fauci came on the scene and then Vice President Pence and then President Trump, they were all trying to figure it out in real time. And the advice that they were giving, you know, was like, you know, the social distancing and the wear the mask, don't wear the mask. In other words, a lot of the things were like common Sense questioning. You were questioning. Oh, I know what I know. I was going to say, I remember there was big money involved here and we don't have time to go into all this. This was a lot of the problem. I think there was big, big money involved in Covid. I remember a man. I didn't. This wasn't told to me by him personally. It was told to me by a friend, colleague here work. A man died of a motorcycle accident. Okay. Well, when the hospital wrote down his cause of death because he had Covid. Yeah, they put down Covid. Don't ask me to document this because this is a long time ago, a few years ago. And it was. Somebody told me this in the hall.
Chris Woodward: Yeah.
Tim Wildmon: Okay.
Chris Woodward: I'm familiar with.
Jenna Ellis: There were a ton of people.
Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, there were. Okay. People okay with that.
Tim Wildmon: The only one who heard that, Tony
Chris Woodward: Perkins much on, Washington Watch. Tony has a relative that. So.
Tim Wildmon: So I was told the reason that they marked this motorcycle accident down as COVID death was so they could get money.
Fred Jackson: Absolutely.
Tim Wildmon: From the. Is that true?
Jenna Ellis: Well, ah, yes. And also to just fast forward this to the problems that we're having with inflation affordability today when the government was printing a ton of money and was giving hospitals so much money and was giving all of these handouts with all the BBB stuff. This is part of the primary reason that we are having such a problem with affordability today. And unfortunately, if the Democrats wanted to message this well and go back to the Trump Covid era, that's where this started in the first administration. And no one has really gotten a handle on it. And I addressed this, off the top of my program Monday with, the Vice President of Economics from Advancing American Freedom and went into great detail with it. And that, I think is one of the other biggest lessons beyond medical freedom. We also need to look at the impact that continues on the economy.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, yeah. And there was a lot of people invested in the COVID vaccines from a financial point of view too, to make sure they were, you know, rolled out and pushed out and sold.
Wesley Wildmon: One of my most memorable moments. There's a lot of them with Fauci. One of them was when he said, so do you think we should be wearing goggles? It was an interview. He was being interviewed. Okay. And he said, you know what, I'm paraphrasing. I hadn't really thought it, but I think so. I think we should be wearing goggles.
Tim Wildmon: He said that?
Wesley Wildmon: Yes, he did.
Tim Wildmon: Did he wear them?
: No.
Chris Woodward: Well, he didn't do a lot of things that he told people to do. That's just it. Remember, he. He threw out the opening pitch at a nationals game, and some, Some journalist took a picture of him in the stands where we weren't allowed to be m. He was sitting in the stands, not wearing a mask.
Wesley Wildmon: And he was not 6ft, though I
Chris Woodward: had removed it to get a drink of water.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
Wesley Wildmon: But there's a reason why I'm okay. I don't. 99% of time. I don't like lawfare, but I'm okay with it on this guy.
Jenna Ellis: Okay, well, because it's not actually lawfare. It's accountability and justice.
Tim Wildmon: did we even get to the vaccines? we did not.
Wesley Wildmon: Executive order.
Fred Jackson: Huh?
Tim Wildmon: Huh?
Wesley Wildmon: From president.
Tim Wildmon: You know about the executive order yesterday, Jenna.
Jenna Ellis: Yes. And so real.
Tim Wildmon: Can you stay?
Jenna Ellis: Yes. Sure.
Tim Wildmon: Okay.
Jenna Ellis: All right, we'll talk.
Tim Wildmon: Stay right. Don't move. I'm talking about don't move.
Chris Woodward: Good.
Jenna Ellis: I'll have more than 30 seconds to describe it.
Tim Wildmon: You got. yeah, that's what I'm saying. We don't want to rush this like we rushed the vaccine.
Chris Woodward: Break out and dance, y'.
Wesley Wildmon: All.
: See what it did there?
Tim Wildmon: That's a pro right there, my friend. all right, we're gonna take a break. So Copper and Todd. Todd are in the background there. We heard them.
Jenna Ellis: Oh, you did? Yeah. Have the door open.
Tim Wildmon: Did the Amazon delivery man come to the house or what?
Jenna Ellis: I think it was the lawnmowers. They've been mowing around the neighborhood today.
Tim Wildmon: Oh. So they. They don't like that much sometimes.
Jenna Ellis: So they just bark at them and, like, run. Run the fence and stuff instead of,
Tim Wildmon: get off my lawn. Quit mowing my neighbor's lawn?
Jenna Ellis: Pretty much, yes.
Wesley Wildmon: Okay.
Tim Wildmon: We'll be back in a minute. Stay with us.
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: Welcome to Today's Issues, offering a Christian response to the issues of the day. here's your host, Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association.
Tim Wildmon: Hey, good morning everybody. Welcome to Today's Issues on this, I guess. Tuesday, August 11, 20, 2026. Welcome to the program. Here as always, we thank you for listening to American Family Radio and joining, me in studio is Wesley Wildmon. M. Good morning, Wesley.
Wesley Wildmon: And good morning.
Tim Wildmon: Good morning, Fred Jackson.
Fred Jackson: Good morning to you and Krish Woodward.
Chris Woodward: Hello.
Tim Wildmon: All right, Krish, what's happening? What's wrong, man? I, I, you know, it's in your step.
Chris Woodward: I, I mentioned last week it's going to be like a dick, Vanliere Dyke. Sometimes I'm going to sidestep the ottoman. Sometimes I'm just going to tumble over it.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, the old Dick Vanliere Dyke show. You watch that, do you?
Chris Woodward: I watch, I watched a lot of, Yeah, I watched a lot of old television. yeah, before TV Land was started, Nick at night. Nickelodeon would play old TV shows at night.
Jenna Ellis: Yeah.
Chris Woodward: And it was Nick at night. And so I watched, I watched that and the monkeys.
Tim Wildmon: there are a lot of moral lessons in the monkeys you can draw from.
Chris Woodward: I'm a, I'm a daydream believer.
Tim Wildmon: Are you?
Chris Woodward: Yes. It's what you have to do when you cover doom and gloom every day.
Tim Wildmon: We're just trying to be friendly. All right.
Wesley Wildmon: We got a guest at the bottom of the hour.
Tim Wildmon: Who will our guest be?
Wesley Wildmon: Guests would be our. Our own Jenna Ellis, host of Jenna Ellis in the Morning. She'll be discussing Covid vaccines and pregnancies. We got an update there.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, we've got some news from doc. From some of Dr. Anthony Fauci's, memoirs.
Wesley Wildmon: Well, you got that. Now we also have the, signature, by Trump.
Tim Wildmon: Oh, yes, absolutely. Some good news to report that President Trump did, yesterday. So I say the signature.
Wesley Wildmon: What's the official executive order? That's what I was looking for.
Tim Wildmon: He issued an executive order, regarding the number of vaccines. Fred, give us a synopsis.
Fred Jackson: Yeah, instead of, giving multiple vaccines to little babies shortly after their they're born, they're going to separate them out over time because there is a belief among science, in the science community that giving a bunch of vaccines all at once does harm to the health of that little baby. So we'll be talking about that or
Tim Wildmon: could potentially do so.
Fred Jackson: Yes, yes.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, so we'll be talking about that with Jenna.
Fred Jackson: Uh-huh.
Tim Wildmon: Coming up to the bottom of the hour. That's right. We don't have that discussion before, do we?
Chris Woodward: no. I had some other stuff to run by you.
Tim Wildmon: Okay. All right, well, anything else to. Any house cleaning, Cleaning matters to discuss?
Wesley Wildmon: No. We wrapped up our Truth for the Youth Bible. We did week, well, last week, and we finished it up. We actually ran it over the weirdest ransom spots over the weekend, and we wrapped it up Sunday afternoon and we had a, record breaking. That's what I mean to say.
Tim Wildmon: Six, over 65,000 Truth for Youth Bibles were, called in by our listeners to distribute all over the country, by teenagers who do know the Lord, and give them to teenagers who don't know the Lord. So it's a very evangelistic cause and we're very happy about that, and many, many lives will be changed because of it. So we thank you everybody who, called in and committed to that. As you know, the Bibles were free, except if you ordered a box of them, then they were just $2 apiece. So, the Bibles were free. They were paid for by Revival Fires Ministries and American Family Radio. So we ask is that you get them in the hands of people who don't know Jesus Christ. all right, so a lot to talk about today. What's first on the docket there, Brother Krish?
Chris Woodward: Well, we need to continue to be in prayer for the people of Columbia, because as I mentioned, at the beginning of yesterday's program, Colombia was rocked by a 7.4 magnitude earthquake. At the beginning of yesterday's show, I mentioned that there were at least two people killed. By the time Steve and I swapped out, we were up to around 50. And when I left yesterday evening, we were at well over a hundred people killed. And unfortunately, that number is probably going to go up more today because I'm looking at the Associated Press right now in a story this morning. It says over 3,000 people are still missing in Colombia. you've got more than a hundred people killed, hundreds of buildings damaged or destroyed. There's a lot of rubble, and international aid is being offered. So it's a terrible situation that, we're going to continue to watch it.
Tim Wildmon: Afm now, we have posted a video. Is that true?
Chris Woodward: Oh, I can do that. I failed you in this.
Tim Wildmon: You failed?
Chris Woodward: I did.
Tim Wildmon: Okay, but I got you.
Wesley Wildmon: I'm gonna post the first segment.
Tim Wildmon: We're going to. We're going to, post this video is a, of a. Is on YouTube. And it was a cell phone video collage of the earthquake as it was happening in Colombia. And it was stunning, terrifying to watch. it looked like something out of a Hollywood movie. Fred, did you see this?
Fred Jackson: I did. It's a portion of a building, at least just collapsing over. Is amazing what you're seeing.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Well, also, I mean, you're talking about a 7.2. Is that what it was?
Fred Jackson: 7.4, actually.
Tim Wildmon: 7.4. And as Steve Jardo has explained to us before, the, Richter scale that measures the power of an earthquake, the, increase in power, like, is exponential. Is exponential. Yeah.
Fred Jackson: Like, you may hear Somebody say 7.2. Oh, it just went up a couple of points to 7.4. No, no, no. 7.2 to 7.4 is much bigger. There's a big difference in that.
Tim Wildmon: And, my guess is just looking at those videos, by the way, we posted those on our Facebook page. We're going to. The videos were just, As I said, I wouldn't be surprised if thousands of people aren't dead, especially in the cities where the buildings collapsed.
Fred Jackson: Yeah. And if you go to afn.net, i posted an AP video of the destruction there. And once again, you look at that, and the question that comes. How can anybody survive this?
Chris Woodward: It's up now.
Tim Wildmon: You know, the video we're talking about, you posted it on our Facebook page for today's issues. Here's the thing. You know, what was it about a month ago, six weeks ago, this happened in Venezuela in June.
Fred Jackson: Yeah.
Tim Wildmon: Now Colombia borders Venezuela.
Fred Jackson: Yeah, they're, they're neighbors.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah. In South America. So there's something going on there underground. I don't know if there's a major fault there or whatever. But also, you got to remember in these countries, even Venezuela and Colombia, I don't know if you classify them as quote, third world countries. but that's their, architecture. Their architecture, their structure, their engineering, is not the same as we have here in the United States or Canada. it's not as advanced. A lot of these buildings look like they maybe were built in the 60s and 70s and even then they're, they're not. You know, San Francisco or Los Angeles perhaps could survive maybe something like that without buildings falling down. Now you have a 7.4 earthquake, you're going to have roads collapse, you're going to have bridges fall sometimes. But I'm talking about the buildings themselves that maybe apartment buildings that house people and so forth.
Fred Jackson: It's only been in recent years where some of these earthquake, prone, areas you mentioned, San Francisco, those that they've started, for instance, with bridges and with high rise buildings, building them in such a way that there's more flexibility.
Tim Wildmon: Right.
Fred Jackson: So when an earthquake hits.
Tim Wildmon: Right.
Fred Jackson: The, the building can actually, and I heard it described as almost like on pucks, the big beams that come down, they're on a cushion almost, and that's oversimplification, but they're on a cushion so they can absorb that shaking.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
Wesley Wildmon: I've never experienced being in a, earthquake. But where, where in the. Do we. We don't have many of those in the United States.
Chris Woodward: We, we are actually on a fault line. yes, the NewSong Madrid fault line. It's. You'll see it here from this picture. It's portions of Arkansas, Tennessee.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah. There is the NewSong Madrid fault. Ah. That runs from Illinois to Mississippi, I think.
Chris Woodward: Yeah.
Tim Wildmon: There's the, But the, the San Andreas fault. Is that what it is in California then? Does that run all the way up to Oregon?
Fred Jackson: It runs all the way up.
Tim Wildmon: Okay.
Wesley Wildmon: And so, maybe where they happen in the States, they're not around big cities, so I don't hear about them as much. Ah, maybe, but.
Fred Jackson: Well, I was living on the west coast when that one hit. San Francisco, many years.
Tim Wildmon: Do you feel that?
Fred Jackson: Well, we didn't feel it.
Tim Wildmon: You're in Calgary, right?
Fred Jackson: No, in, Vancouver.
Tim Wildmon: Vancouver. Excuse me.
Fred Jackson: Vancouver. But we did feel some Earthquakes there. The thing about earthquakes, you know, we have a very sophisticated weather forecasting system now. So that tornado weather, we can almost tell several days. Hurricanes, hurricanes, all of that yesterday when that earthquake hit Columbia. Beautiful sunny day.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
Fred Jackson: Gorgeous weather.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah. You can't predict earthquakes.
Fred Jackson: It just, it happens.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Yeah. All right. You're listening to today's issues. Well, fellas, I'm considering a, career change. I haven't talked to you all about that, but in light of these two former NBA players declaring for the. They declared for the WNBA draft.
Wesley Wildmon: Right, Right.
Tim Wildmon: And I was a pretty good basketball player back in the day.
Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, sure.
Fred Jackson: Okay.
Tim Wildmon: And I need a challenge.
Fred Jackson: Okay.
Tim Wildmon: So I'm thinking about declaring for the wnba.
Wesley Wildmon: Fantastic.
Tim Wildmon: But if I do that, I'll be your agent, I've got to say. Well, I got identified as a girl.
Wesley Wildmon: Oh, okay. Well then, hang on.
Tim Wildmon: But I don't know, is it. It depends on how much money I would make sure, you know, we're all for sale.
Wesley Wildmon: That's right. Compromise.
Tim Wildmon: So we'll see how that goes. No, there's that. This, reason I want to bring this up. This inter. Ns. Cantor Freedom, that's the fellow's name. He's one of two former NBA players who have announced that they are going to enter the WNBA draft. Now, Ennis Cantor Freedom, he made it official with a document he signed that was sent to the WNBA telling them he was legal and eligible. And he, he also m. Made their requirements, if you can, if you want to say that, that they, have deemed necessary to enter the draft. I'm talking about the wnba. And he does, he does. So he's, he's. I don't know what they're gonna do with this one. Go ahead.
Wesley Wildmon: I'm looking at the picture of him signing, signing the document officially. And his shirt says invest in women, pay women and hire women.
Tim Wildmon: Right. That's what his T shirt.
Wesley Wildmon: He's a woman now.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, well, yeah, that's what he's. He's identified as a woman. And this other fella. What's the other gentleman's name?
Chris Woodward: Royce White.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah. The two of them. Fred, where do you think this is going to go? Because this is kind of boxing in the woke wnba who, you know, want us to, They kind of not wanting to take a stand on this. And now they're going to have to. Right?
Fred Jackson: Yeah, they're going to have to. What these, these two guys are doing are challenging the insanity, that we have seen, that's threatening women's Sports. And so I just think it is great that these guys are doing this. I think they're making a point. But to your point, so what is that league going to do now with these applications? What are they going to do? They can't say they're not qualified. pretty good basketball players. so what are they going to do about it? They're going to have to seriously consider. Can you imagine if this goes forward and these guys show up?
Tim Wildmon: Oh, it's going to happen. Because that's the reason that Enes Cantor Freedom officially signed the documents yesterday to make him eligible. So he isn't just grandstanding, he's going through with this. Go ahead.
Fred Jackson: I love it.
Chris Woodward: I was just going to say, in addition to the Columbia earthquake video, I have also posted the AFN cartoon of the day on the Today's Issues Facebook page. It is the, it says back to school and it features what is supposed to be the WNBA commissioner looking at a biology book to determine what a woman is.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, they're going to have to. What they're going to have to do. Now keep in mind, I don't understand all the legalities, but the, wnba, their players association has a collective bargaining agreement with the wnba. And does it specifically. I don't know. I don't think it specifically talks about, this issue. Does it or does it? Anyway, we can find out. But this is going to be fun to watch.
Fred Jackson: Yes.
Tim Wildmon: because those who say we really don't know what a woman is, or you can, you can be a woman, if you just say you are.
Wesley Wildmon: Right.
Tim Wildmon: Okay. That's going to be challenged, right here. And it's going to force the woksters to have to say, as everybody else who has common sense says, there is a biological, it's xxxy. Right. there's a biological difference between males and females and it's unfair for males to compete in athletics against girls. That's, that's bottom line. That's as simple as that. And why these lefty, you know, people struggle with that. I don't, I don't exactly know why, except that they want to, say that they sympathize. They, they don't want to see transgendered people cut out of sports. it's really a, ah, that is
Wesley Wildmon: a straw man because they're not cut out of sports. They can play sports. They just have to play in their own category.
Tim Wildmon: Bingo. Right?
Wesley Wildmon: Right.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
Wesley Wildmon: You want to play transgender sports? Play transgender sports.
Tim Wildmon: Listen, why couldn't you just say, I identify as a pro basketball player and if you don't draft me, then you're, discriminating. I mean, why couldn't you say that?
Wesley Wildmon: Sure.
Tim Wildmon: You know what I'm saying. so it's just going to be fun. It's going to be, it will be, as they say, get the popcorn out.
Chris Woodward: Yeah.
Tim Wildmon: Okay. But when is the end. When is the WNBA draft? Because I would definitely take Enes Canter Freedom as my first pick. The dude is 610, 250 and still looks in really top fit shape. I think he could grab a rebound for you right there. Huh? what do you think?
Jenna Ellis: What do you.
Chris Woodward: Oh, I have no doubt.
Tim Wildmon: When is the draft coming up?
Chris Woodward: April of 2027.
Tim Wildmon: All right. This is going to be the most watched WNBA draft in history.
Chris Woodward: That's the thing about the wnba. this is the most attention this league has. It league's been around for 20 years now. ish. and this is the most it's been talked about in its existence since
Tim Wildmon: Caitlin Clark came in.
Wesley Wildmon: There's, there's a, side of me that says this may not be a bad strategy for the WMA because I will watch if, if he gets to play.
Tim Wildmon: Right, Right. But we'll see if he's drafted or if they discriminate against.
Wesley Wildmon: That's right.
Chris Woodward: It's been around since 97, 30 years. Ish.
Tim Wildmon: Well, the WNBA, is subsidized by the NBA. Did y' all know this?
Wesley Wildmon: Yes. Oh yeah.
Tim Wildmon: They're subsidized by the NBA.
Wesley Wildmon: There's not enough people watch right now.
Tim Wildmon: Caitlin Clark, when she joined the Indiana, Fever and came into the league, she brought a lot of. And still does. She brings a lot of eyeballs to because of the way she, she, I remember watching her in college and she, she's brought that to the end to the wnba, sure too. But Caitlin Clark, I would watch her when she was at Iowa just because, man, when that girl got past half court, the, it was, it was like a, she was like a machine and she could drop the bottom ball in the bottom of the net from 25ft, no problem. And so she would just. And she ended up being the all time leading scorer in college basketball for women. And so, when she got drafted, you know, it brought a lot of attention to the wnba. It was great for women's sports, especially for women's basketball. And so now, if Rick Cantor freedom can bring his 610, 250 pounds
Wesley Wildmon: that's a good to the low post.
Tim Wildmon: it's gonna be hard to stop him.
Wesley Wildmon: Hey, that guy.
Tim Wildmon: Excuse me.
Fred Jackson: Her.
Tim Wildmon: Her. See, there I go, there I go.
Wesley Wildmon: So anus was a third pick overall in 2011.
Tim Wildmon: Right.
Wesley Wildmon: And then 11 seasons. Not two seasons for 11 season.
Tim Wildmon: 11 season in NBA finish, with
Wesley Wildmon: averaging close to 12 points a game and eight rebounds.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, you probably do that against the girls. Excuse me, with the girls in the competition. Next story. Krish.
Chris Woodward: All right, let's play, let's play this, clip. We often play clips of Senator Jon Kennedy.
Tim Wildmon: It's Fred's favorite. Senator from Louisiana, right?
Chris Woodward: Yes, from Louisiana, born in Mississippi. Senator from Louisiana.
Tim Wildmon: He's got that country wit about it.
Chris Woodward: He does, he does. in this particular case, he's frustrated that his Republican colleagues won't come together and pass the SAVE act that President Trump and other Republicans want the Senate to approve. And, here is a bit of Senator Jon Kennedy sharing his frustrations.
Tim Wildmon: Clip 6 I was proud when we passed the Lindsey Graham Russian sanctions bill with 85, 86 votes. but there are other times when the Senate is like high school, but no one ever graduates. What's he frustrated about now, Fred?
Fred Jackson: Well, it's not passed in the SAVE act, which President Trump has been hoping, that, the Senate would do before they take their four or five week break, which they're on right now. So he's, you know, it seems to me Kennedy is sharing the frustration of President Trump for more secure elections, more security with regards to voting.
Tim Wildmon: What's the two, three things that the SAVE act does? Do you guys know proof that you're
Chris Woodward: a citizen to vote?
Tim Wildmon: Yes.
Wesley Wildmon: Voter ID Secure the election for all 50 states.
Fred Jackson: Yes. And I think part of the argument has also been, we're not going to allow for, ballots that are mailed on election Day. We're just going to keep, keep counting and counting and counting and counting.
Chris Woodward: Election Day in California doesn't end for 37 days after the polls close.
Tim Wildmon: What could go wrong there?
Chris Woodward: Yeah, ask Spencer Pratt what could go wrong there.
Tim Wildmon: As we've said many times before, if you want a big state model,
Tim Wildmon: on how to handle elections, Florida is exhibit A.
Fred Jackson: That's right.
Tim Wildmon: They have, I want to say 23, 24 million people, something like that in the state of Florida. I mean, it's, you got California as far as population goes. You got California and then Texas, and I think Florida now is third ahead of NewSong York. State of NewSong York. I think I'm right on that. But anyway, Florida has, You can vote in advance, right? And so you do have, quote, mail in ballots. but they're counted. Yes, they're counted leading up to election day.
Wesley Wildmon: They're verified, too.
Tim Wildmon: And verified. And so by election night, you have the electronic votes that have all been tallied, you have the mail in votes, you have the absentee votes that have all ballots that have all been candid. So you know who won and lost at 10pm or 11pm or 12pm 12am M. I guess it would be on election night.
Fred Jackson: Yeah.
Tim Wildmon: So, why. But you get California, you know, you can be two, three weeks out.
Wesley Wildmon: Every bit of.
Tim Wildmon: It's, just, So when you have a lot of ballots that have not been counted and are still being counted, it leads to people being suspicious of, where they're coming from, are they legal, who's verifying these? All those questions come. We used to have election day, all right. And then it became election season, but we used to have election day, our country, and that's really, that's the way it should be. My opinion is you, if you need to vote prior to election day, I mean, if you have an election day, then you need to make sure your ballot is in time. I know one time I had to be out of town. This is in the state of Mississippi. I don't know. probably not the same in every state. Well, it's not, because we've talked about that before, but I had to go down to the. Whatever it is, Chantry clerk or whatever it is, whoever handles that, and tell them why I'm going to be out of town, tell them why I needed to boat absentee. Well, I just told them I'm going to be out of town, so I need to. I don't think I had to, you know, hold my hand over the Bible or on the Bible or anything, but I had to tell them legitimate excuse. And you have people who do have legitimate excuses. Maybe they're homebound or they're traveling military. Are in their military. So there are reasons why, but you just can't. You just couldn't willy nilly, you know, get a. Get a ballot.
Fred Jackson: Yeah.
Tim Wildmon: So anyway, go ahead.
Wesley Wildmon: And it depends on what state you live in. Some of this may sound like, that's not true because each state's different. But in this case, just a reminder, there's still, 15 or 14 states, not including Washington, D.C. where you do not have to show any identification in order to vote.
Tim Wildmon: But you do. But you do probably did have it. Get a library card.
Wesley Wildmon: Everything else you do. Which is why the SAVE act, starting with California.
Tim Wildmon: I just don't know why any state would not want to have a voter id. What's going.
Wesley Wildmon: All of them are blue.
Tim Wildmon: That don't work.
Wesley Wildmon: Every one of them. But two.
Tim Wildmon: You know what's gonna happen?
Wesley Wildmon: Two of the 14 are not blue.
Tim Wildmon: What's gonna happen soon is you're gonna have two Democrats get in a close election and one of them is gonna accuse the other one of stealing it. And then they're gonna say, we,
Wesley Wildmon: where's the SAFE Act?
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, they're gonna say, well, we need voter id. Oh, really? That's what, that's what the. So we can verify these votes. That's what's gonna happen. You watch.
Fred Jackson: Sure it is.
Jenna Ellis: All right.
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Tim Wildmon: Welcome back, everybody, to today's Issues on American Family Radio, where we are going to Greece and Italy in March of 2027. So check that out. Tours.AFA.net tours.AFA.net a, lot of folks are signing up to go with us. Going to be a great time. And I, do stand corrected. that was not the gondola, or the gondola that Paul took.
Wesley Wildmon: Did you go back and double check
Tim Wildmon: on his trip to Venice, St. Paul? It was actually Peter who did that. That was the one that Peter took. So I do stand corrected on this. A listener called in and told me that.
Anthony Fauci: Huh?
Tim Wildmon: stand corrected. Stand corrected on that. All right. You're listening to today's Issues on American Family Radio. It was a weak joke, I admit, but, you know, I tried.
Jenna Ellis: Huh?
Tim Wildmon: I got very. I just got courtesy smiling.
Chris Woodward: I will laugh at all of your jokes as long as you continue to pay me.
Tim Wildmon: It's not genuine laughter, Krish.
Fred Jackson: It's.
Chris Woodward: I'm, I'm lolling.
Tim Wildmon: Okay, you're lol. All right. So, Fred, Wesley, Krish and Tim here, and we thank you for listening to today's issues. Well, we got some good news to talk about. Some good news and some concerning news, I guess you could say, regarding the, what rfk, Robert Kennedy. Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy. the secretary of. What is the secretary of. Fred, do you know?
Fred Jackson: Health and Human Services.
Tim Wildmon: Health and Human Services, that's right. You won. You won. Health and Human Services. He had a big announcement yesterday along with President Trump's executive order that I think vast majority of our listeners are certainly going to be pleased with. Also, there was some, some concerning news regarding the, Covid vaccines and pregnancy. And joining us to talk about it is Jenna Ellis. Jenna is host of Jenna Ellis in the Morning, right here on American Family radio, weekdays 7 to 8 o' clock Central Time. 7 to 8 o' clock Central time. You want to join Jenna every morning to get up to speed on current events and what's happening in our country and in our world that you need to be aware of. Jenna, good morning to you.
Jenna Ellis: Good morning. And it's great to be with you. And I just want to clarify. I heard in the actual best translation of the Bible that it was the Royal Caribbean that Paul took.
Tim Wildmon: Oh, it's the Royal Caribbean. I'm writing that down because I'm gonna double check you on that one. Okay. Because that just sounds strange. But I'll. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt till I learn otherwise. The Royal Caribbean, who took hate mail to mine. Okay. All right, so first of all, Jenna, what did, Let's talk. Let's start. Start with the COVID vaccines and pregnancy. What was the news yesterday?
Jenna Ellis: Yeah, so there have been a lot of documents that Senators Ron and Rand Paul have released, in that go back and actually show what Fauci and others knew at the time while they were saying, this is totally safe. You'll never get Covid. There are no side effects. I mean, we all remember that and obviously not accurate. but one of the publications, said that the mandated and doctor recommended Cove 19 shot for pregnant women was effectively an abortion shot. That was Katy Pavlik, who was, a reporter. And according to the document, the authors claimed a miscarriage rate of 12.6%. But the raw data revealed an 82% miscarriage rate in women vaccinated during the first trimester. And that is consistent with the 81% miscarriage rate noted in the Pfizer's post market data. And, that is just totally shocking that Fauci and and others who were emailing back and forth and they've now released the Senate has release these documents, were aware of these rates, were aware of the complications and the effects, and yet continued to not only encourage women to take this, pregnant women, but without any sort of warnings. But then ultimately Fauci, of course, was pro the federal mandate that coerced, many Americans into taking the Cove shot.
Fred Jackson: Jana, we have some actuality of, Dr. Fauci as to what he was saying to the public versus what he was saying to his friends. Those documents that Senator Johnson and others have been releasing. So this is what he was telling the public at the time. Cut 11.
Anthony Fauci: Thus far, with thousands of people who, women who were pregnant having gotten the vaccine following the eua, there have been no red flags of anything that anyone would be worried about. There are severe adverse outcomes for mother and baby during COVID 19 infection. Therefore, it is extremely important for pregnant women and women planning to get pregnant to get vaccinated.
Fred Jackson: Yeah. So there you have it. That was his public statement. But as you were alluding to in these documents that have been released, he had, he had concerns and he shared those concerns with some of his friends. Jenna.
Jenna Ellis: Yeah, and for those who don't know the lingo, the EUA he was referring to is the emergency use Authorization. And that was prior to, Fauci and the HHS kind of pushing through the COVID shot, through FDA approval, because that was the big sticking point, not only for religious freedom at the time, but also just medical freedom. To say that something that doesn't even have FDA approval and only has emergency use authorization should not be foisted as mandated on the public because there obviously is not informed consent, because you don't know what you don't know. And clearly Fauci, knew more than he was transmitting to the public at the time. And so this is one of the. Possibly the biggest scandal in the medical history of the United States because this clearly shows that Foushee was just out for power, attention, accolades, and was hiding a lot of really relevant and important information from the public. And so on my show this morning, I had Florida Attorney General James Usmeier, who said, of course, you know, because the. The pardon on the federal level, ostensibly, unless it's challenged, successfully covers Foushee for any federal crimes, that doesn't mean that he can't be charged for other, ah, crimes or civil litigation in the states. And so Florida at least, has opened an investigation based on all of this, has subpoenaed Fauci, and hopefully we'll see at least some accountability for this on the state level because this is absolutely horrific.
Tim Wildmon: Two things I want to go back to just a moment. One is I want to make sure I heard your statistics correctly. I know you're quoting from. Can you tell us that you said an 82% miscarriage rate for.
Jenna Ellis: Yeah. In women vaccinated during the first trimester.
Tim Wildmon: Where did you get this stat?
Jenna Ellis: This was part of the, the documents that were released by the. By Senator Ron Johnson. And according to at least what it looks like online is, one of the, the studies that appeared in this. In a journal and also an op Ed. an op ed, that was published by the then cdc, director.
Tim Wildmon: Okay, that just sounds unbelievable. But anyway. But I'm not saying I don't believe it. I'm just saying it's just, staggering. The other thing I want to ask and Fred, you or Jenna, either one you mentioned, Dr. Fauci was saying one thing publicly and another thing privately. What's the private part? And do you have a. Where was that learned the private part.
Fred Jackson: And Jenna, correct me if I'm wrong, private part was, concerns on the. He was texting on this phone, this government phone, which Senator Johnson and others. Now we have access To. And he was texting and saying, Hm. I'm hearing about problems with this vaccine and women in a certain stage of pregnancy. but. So he was, he was concerned. However, he decided. And Jenna, you can talk about possible motives. He decided not to share those concerns that the, what the vaccinations could be doing to pregnant women. He decided not to share that with the public.
Jenna Ellis: Yes, that's right. And this is according to his own personal text messages on the government phone. So they're not really personal, but, of course they were shielded from the public. These weren't public statements at the time. And then also emails from his official, email address, his government, email address at the nih, that he was communicating there. At least several that he was communicating even with the Surgeon General at the time, Vivek Murthy, who was under the Biden administration.
Tim Wildmon: You know, if you. We're going to listen to this clip again from Dr. Fauci, by the way, do we know when this clip was? Was this his testimony?
Chris Woodward: It's a combination of two different.
Tim Wildmon: Okay.
Chris Woodward: Moments.
Tim Wildmon: I want to listen to it again is because if I heard that right, he puts a caveat on this by saying, to date or, we don't know. Now, that's not an absolute certainty of a potential problem or not. That's him saying, I don't know. We don't know. Exactly. Or there's no evidence to support at this point. and then I got a comment about that. Let's make sure I heard that right here.
Anthony Fauci: Thus far, with thousands of people who, women who were pregnant having gotten the vaccine following the eua, there have been no red flags of anything that anyone would be worried about. There are severe adverse outcomes for mother and baby during COVID 19 infection. Therefore, it is extremely important for pregnant women and women planning to get pregnant to get vaccinated.
Tim Wildmon: Okay. Thus far, that's the caveat.
Fred Jackson: what he was saying is to women, you better get the vaccine, because if you don't, Covid would have a terrible effect on you.
Wesley Wildmon: Right.
Fred Jackson: So go out and get the shot. Your baby, go get the shot.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, yeah. Here's the thing.
Jenna Ellis: But meanwhile, he was. Meanwhile, privately, he was actually flagging concerns. So that's the hypocrisy.
Tim Wildmon: Yes, which he should have been doing because that's his job, but he should have made that public. Seems to me, the other thing is about that, the COVID vaccine and pregnancy. And of course, he put. Thus far, here's one of the big deals about the whole COVID vaccine push that a lot of Americans, reacted to negatively. And this is, and this is still, we, those who did, who are skeptics or at least didn't want to go along with every mandate, are owed an apology, quite frankly, from those who wanted to jam it down your throat or stab it in your arm and say, deal with it like it or not. And that is this. I mean, if you watch television at all, we see countless advertisements for drugs. I mean, all you gotta do, I don't care what programming you're watching, if you get commercials, probably a quarter of them are advertisements for drugs, right? I mean, you got a, every drug. And people are always dancing around, aren't they? Just out in the street. I mean, they're. But do you know how they end their commercials?
Chris Woodward: And sometimes death
Tim Wildmon: may cause nausea, high, blood pressure, fever, your eyelids being frozen. Okay. your knees going out, may cause you to do somersaults involuntarily and, or lead to death. I mean, we all hear that half the commercial is how it could kill you or make your life worse or how it may not work.
Wesley Wildmon: The first time I caught that, I thought it was a joke. Yeah, but they're serious.
Tim Wildmon: No, they're on all that. They have to put what I'm. My point is they have to put disclaimers on the medication because it may not work for everybody. Like they're presenting it in the, by the actors on the tv. So, and these are drugs that have been tested properly and gone through the rigors of, protocols and, and lab testing and, and whatever they call them when they tested on real people out there, you know, before it goes to market. So I've forgotten what you call that. My point is, if that's true of other vaccines and of other drugs, then why wouldn't you have put that kind of a caveat on something that was experimental?
Jenna Ellis: So there's no good answer to that. I mean, that's why under the EUA and the emergency use authorization, that generally covers people who. It's kind of their last option. I mean, we all remember Natalie Harp's situation, who was the young lady who now works for Trump who is facing a brutal form of cancer. And she wanted an experimental treatment knowing it was experimental, and she wanted to be able to do that in a potentially life saving fashion. And Trump was able to help her obtain that specific treatment. And that was in a literally life saving but very much informed consent situation. But this, to have this type of emergency use Authorization and then telling people, go out and get it. When it's totally experimental, you have no idea. the potential long term side effects is reckless beyond reckless.
Tim Wildmon: Right, but was. Yes, absolutely so. But the whole, the worst thing of the whole, of the whole situation there, looking back, we've talked about this before was what we just described here. Listen, nobody faults the, drug companies for trying to come up with a vaccine for Covid. Everybody hoped that they would and that it would and be. You know what I'm saying? So that was great. but it was rushed. I mean, what was a warp speed, project? What do they call it? Something warp. Operation Warp Speed. I'm going, that's not a good, promotion for vaccine, or medication. Operation warp speed. But anyway, the point of the matter was not that they came up with that. It was that it was then taken and said, you must take this or we're going to shame you. We're going to cost you your livelihood. In the case of the military, we're kicking you out. the forced vaccinations of an experimental drug was anti American. it was just, something that you don't know what the long term effects are. And by the way, we mentioned this before too. It was then learned that the Cove vaccine shot could not prevent you from getting Covid and it could not prevent you from spreading Covid. So you're going. So it doesn't keep you from getting it.
Wesley Wildmon: So it's not a vaccine.
Tim Wildmon: That's actually what a vaccine, generally speaking, in layman's terms, has always been understood. You get a smallpox vaccine. That's what it does. It keeps you from getting it.
Wesley Wildmon: Yep.
Tim Wildmon: I mean, am I right? you get a polio vaccine, guess what keeps you from getting polio? So when they were pushing all this out and rolling all this out and forcing it on people again, that's the problem, that people were being forced.
Wesley Wildmon: That's right.
Tim Wildmon: or either. Or either you lose your job. Some, some companies made it mandatory. Oh yeah, and the Moats.
Wesley Wildmon: but how many times have we been to the doctor and then we didn't. We were a little bit unsure about what they're saying versus what we've googled. So we go get a second opinion. Whatever. We go, everybody. If you've gone to the doctor over any amount of time for anything serious or even minor, it's not uncommon to go get a second opinion on something. But there was only one opinion on this and it was get the vaccine or.
Tim Wildmon: Right. And that was what, all the professional organizations, the American Medical association, and all of them were one voice. And that is don't question this. Take the vaccine, get the vaccine or else you're contributing to deaths.
Jenna Ellis: Well, and you were canceled and fired. I mean, and especially doctors. But I think it's important to remember, even before the government compulsion under the Biden administration, Trump was never for compulsory vaccines. He wanted it to be widely available. But the thing that I do, hold the Trump administration, the first one accountable for was not listening to Dr. Scott Atlas and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya at the time, who now thankfully Jay, is the head of the NIH instead of Fauci. But both of those doctors at the time were going into the Oval Office in the summer of 2020 and telling Trump, here are the actual statistics. This is not any more, really more dangerous than the flu. Yes, it can be lethal, just like pneumonia or the flu to the, the high risk populations. But you know, here are the other statistics. And you know, I worked for the Trump campaign at the time and I remember very clearly having statistics out of now my home state of Florida, and how the the hospitals here were taking a, if someone tested positive for Covid, they would retest them and make sure it was a positive, and then three days later test and then maybe you know, five or 10 days later. And each of those positive tests was being reported as a new case. And that kind of, and so that just multiplied kind of the fear in the public. And a lot of this was being misreported in a lot of different ways. And you know, there's a lot of research now that's, that's done on how much everyone was misreporting all of this. That statistic was known to Operation Warp Speed. And Vice President Mike Pence absolutely handled this wrong. And I think as one of the most prominent faith based evangelicals, the fault of a lot of this because Trump basically abdicated Operation Warp Speed to him and Dr. Fauci, that was Trump's fault. But Vice President Mike Pence absolutely failed at this as well.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, I remember I remember when that, you know, when Dr. Fauci came on the scene and then Vice President Pence and then President Trump, they were all trying to figure it out in real time. And the advice that they were giving, you know, was like, you know, the social distancing and the wear the mask, don't wear the mask. In other words, a lot of the things were like common Sense questioning. You were questioning. Oh, I know what I know. I was going to say, I remember there was big money involved here and we don't have time to go into all this. This was a lot of the problem. I think there was big, big money involved in Covid. I remember a man. I didn't. This wasn't told to me by him personally. It was told to me by a friend, colleague here work. A man died of a motorcycle accident. Okay. Well, when the hospital wrote down his cause of death because he had Covid. Yeah, they put down Covid. Don't ask me to document this because this is a long time ago, a few years ago. And it was. Somebody told me this in the hall.
Chris Woodward: Yeah.
Tim Wildmon: Okay.
Chris Woodward: I'm familiar with.
Jenna Ellis: There were a ton of people.
Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, there were. Okay. People okay with that.
Tim Wildmon: The only one who heard that, Tony
Chris Woodward: Perkins much on, Washington Watch. Tony has a relative that. So.
Tim Wildmon: So I was told the reason that they marked this motorcycle accident down as COVID death was so they could get money.
Fred Jackson: Absolutely.
Tim Wildmon: From the. Is that true?
Jenna Ellis: Well, ah, yes. And also to just fast forward this to the problems that we're having with inflation affordability today when the government was printing a ton of money and was giving hospitals so much money and was giving all of these handouts with all the BBB stuff. This is part of the primary reason that we are having such a problem with affordability today. And unfortunately, if the Democrats wanted to message this well and go back to the Trump Covid era, that's where this started in the first administration. And no one has really gotten a handle on it. And I addressed this, off the top of my program Monday with, the Vice President of Economics from Advancing American Freedom and went into great detail with it. And that, I think is one of the other biggest lessons beyond medical freedom. We also need to look at the impact that continues on the economy.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, yeah. And there was a lot of people invested in the COVID vaccines from a financial point of view too, to make sure they were, you know, rolled out and pushed out and sold.
Wesley Wildmon: One of my most memorable moments. There's a lot of them with Fauci. One of them was when he said, so do you think we should be wearing goggles? It was an interview. He was being interviewed. Okay. And he said, you know what, I'm paraphrasing. I hadn't really thought it, but I think so. I think we should be wearing goggles.
Tim Wildmon: He said that?
Wesley Wildmon: Yes, he did.
Tim Wildmon: Did he wear them?
: No.
Chris Woodward: Well, he didn't do a lot of things that he told people to do. That's just it. Remember, he. He threw out the opening pitch at a nationals game, and some, Some journalist took a picture of him in the stands where we weren't allowed to be m. He was sitting in the stands, not wearing a mask.
Wesley Wildmon: And he was not 6ft, though I
Chris Woodward: had removed it to get a drink of water.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
Wesley Wildmon: But there's a reason why I'm okay. I don't. 99% of time. I don't like lawfare, but I'm okay with it on this guy.
Jenna Ellis: Okay, well, because it's not actually lawfare. It's accountability and justice.
Tim Wildmon: did we even get to the vaccines? we did not.
Wesley Wildmon: Executive order.
Fred Jackson: Huh?
Tim Wildmon: Huh?
Wesley Wildmon: From president.
Tim Wildmon: You know about the executive order yesterday, Jenna.
Jenna Ellis: Yes. And so real.
Tim Wildmon: Can you stay?
Jenna Ellis: Yes. Sure.
Tim Wildmon: Okay.
Jenna Ellis: All right, we'll talk.
Tim Wildmon: Stay right. Don't move. I'm talking about don't move.
Chris Woodward: Good.
Jenna Ellis: I'll have more than 30 seconds to describe it.
Tim Wildmon: You got. yeah, that's what I'm saying. We don't want to rush this like we rushed the vaccine.
Chris Woodward: Break out and dance, y'.
Wesley Wildmon: All.
: See what it did there?
Tim Wildmon: That's a pro right there, my friend. all right, we're gonna take a break. So Copper and Todd. Todd are in the background there. We heard them.
Jenna Ellis: Oh, you did? Yeah. Have the door open.
Tim Wildmon: Did the Amazon delivery man come to the house or what?
Jenna Ellis: I think it was the lawnmowers. They've been mowing around the neighborhood today.
Tim Wildmon: Oh. So they. They don't like that much sometimes.
Jenna Ellis: So they just bark at them and, like, run. Run the fence and stuff instead of,
Tim Wildmon: get off my lawn. Quit mowing my neighbor's lawn?
Jenna Ellis: Pretty much, yes.
Wesley Wildmon: Okay.
Tim Wildmon: We'll be back in a minute. Stay with us.
Jenna Ellis: The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American Family association or American Family Radio.
Fred Jackson: M.
Tim, Wesley, Fred, and Chris discuss news topics of the day including some of the information that has now come out about the knowledge Anthony Fauci had about effects of the Covid vaccine and pregnant women. Jenna Ellis joins the conversation on this as well.
(00:00) Introduction
(01:15) The Role of Compassion in Unexpected Pregnancies
(10:45) Discussion on Covid Vaccines and Pregnancy
(29:00) Jenna Ellis joins the conversation
(35:15) Anthony Fauci had concerns about vaccines for pregnant women but did not address them publicly
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