Today's Issues features Tim Wildman, president of the American Family Association

Ed Vitagliano Today's Issues continues on AFR with your host, Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association.

Tim Wildmon Hey, welcome back, everybody, to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Thanks for listening to AFR. If you want to send us an email, it's commentsfr.net, commentsfr.net is our email address. Tim, Ed and Fred here. Steve's not here today. Krish isn't here today, so it's just us three. the, President Trump we've mentioned is in France right now meeting with the G7. He's meeting with, Macron. Macron right now, at the, G7 summit. They get together those, What is that? Once a year, Twice a year or something like that? these economic, powers.

Fred Jackson I think it is once a year. They were mentioning that the last meeting Trump left early, it was held in Canada and he was miffed with Prime Minister Carney. they have been getting along trade wise. Ah. But they are supposed to meet a, have a side meeting at this G7

Tim Wildmon meeting, Trump and the Prime Minister of Canada.

Fred Jackson Yeah. Because this big trade agreement that Mexico, U.S. and Canada are involved with, is that NAFTA? It's coming up.

Tim Wildmon Yeah, the NAFTA renegotiation deal.

Fred Jackson Yes. Yeah.

Tim Wildmon Okay. So, but anyway, what I'm going to. What I was going to say was. But President Trump and, is

Ed Vitagliano the

Tim Wildmon talk is that he's going to go to Switzerland.

Fred Jackson Geneva.

Tim Wildmon Geneva. That's Switzerland.

Fred Jackson Yes.

Tim Wildmon And, to sign the peace deal with Iran himself on Friday. Is that right?

Fred Jackson That's what we're hearing this morning. Initially, you were right. There were talk about he was going to send J.D. vance, to that signing. But, apparently this morning there's reports he's going to hang around and.

Tim Wildmon Well, who would sign it on behalf of the Iranians?

Fred Jackson I'm not sure, but this is a deal to bring up this point now. This is a deal between the United States and Iran. Israel has not been at the table.

Tim Wildmon Okay, I want to ask you about this because. Because this is Israel. Where is Israel in all this? what's the. Because Israel has been an American ally forever.

Fred Jackson Yes.

Tim Wildmon And, so they are. What's the situation? Well, where does this leave them? I'm asking you.

Fred Jackson All right, let me bring into the program right now Trey Youngster. If you watch Fox frequently over the last several months, especially Trey Angst, excellent correspondent. This is going to be cut to Brent, excellent correspondent. He's the guy that stands out in the hotel when the missiles are coming. In, in Israel. He's an incredible guy. He was asked about this this morning. Cut number two.

Dr. Jessica Peck Yes, There are many Israelis, officials here in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem that do not want this deal because they believe it doesn't address what they are concerned most about. But the president and members of the administration have tried to tell the Israelis, look, this ultimately is going to address Iran's nuclear program. And privately, Israeli officials talking to Fox News over the past several weeks agreed. They also want a deal. They want the right deal. And we are still waiting to get the final language of this agreement. But broadly, it is going to open the Strait of Hormuz, and it will ultimately address Iran's nuclear ambitions.

Fred Jackson Well, that's what said. But Israel announced this morning it is not withdrawn. You will remember back a month ago, Israel moved troops into Lebanon because Hezbollah was firing missiles into Israel. Israel announced this morning that m. For now, it is not withdrawing its forces out of Lebanon because, and rightly so, they don't trust the Hezbollah terrorists. And Israel, if Hezbollah terrorists open up, fire once again with missiles, Israel will respond.

Israel went to war with Iran to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons

Ed Vitagliano Well, there were several issues when Israel and the US Went to war with Iran. Uh-huh. Okay. Now, there was another strike the year before in 2025. We're talking about the war that kicked off February 28th. There were a handful of issues that were, at the core of what the war was about. First and foremost, it was to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons. We were all told by those who were negotiating at the negotiating table with the Iranians. We were told that US Negotiators were told by the Iranians that they were very close to getting one. You remember all that? So Iran can't have a nuclear weapon. there was also the, possibility of a regime change. There was Iranian support for these terrorist organizations, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, other groups. Okay. Because Iran was fomenting its revolution throughout the Arab world. I think those are the three, main ones. and so that. That was what we apparently went to war about. Regime change, we mentioned. Probably not going to happen, at least not in the near term. we don't know about the support for revolutionary groups. if President Trump is able to actually get Iran to stop its nuclear programs, its nuclear program, that could be considered a pretty substantial win. If you can get verification.

Fred Jackson Yes.

Ed Vitagliano And get the materials that they had already enriched, that would be a pretty significant win. they also degraded the military of Iran. That was probably a fourth one that, we set out to do, and that has been accomplished already.

Tim Wildmon Well, one of the reasons Israel attacked Iran is because Iran has been known to give money to Hezbollah and Hamas to attack Israel on its borders. Because Hamas and Hezbollah, they don't have a lot of income on their own. you know, they're just terrorists, and they live to try to kill their proxies. Right? So, I wonder if Iran will be stopping their financial support of Hezbollah and Hamas, or at least they will say something about that because that's a big deal. Because Israel, if you didn't have Hezbollah on the north part of Israel and Hamas on the south part of Israel in the Gaza Strip, Israel would be at peace with everybody else. They're at peace with, Egypt. They're at peace with Jordan, they're at

Ed Vitagliano peace with Saudi Arabia.

Tim Wildmon Saudi Arabia. They're at peace with Syria. they're at peace with, Lebanon as a country itself. It's just that Hezbollah operates inside Lebanon and Lebanon seems incapable of doing anything to stop them. So anyway, we'll see what happens there. I know it gets confusing, but, we should care about Israel's, and Israelis thoughts and feelings on this whole arrangement between us and Iran and whether it does, whether it's also helpful to bring peace for the Israeli people who are war weary.

Ed Vitagliano And one more quick thing. We are seeing on news outlets that, the U.S. and Iran have already signed the deal digitally. They did that yesterday, according to Vice President J.D. vance.

Tim Wildmon So what does the deal say?

Dr. Jessica Peck We won't.

Ed Vitagliano We won't. I don't guess we'll know.

Fred Jackson President Trump apparently at this news conference is being held right now with, Macron of France. He says the text of agreement will be released, quote, pretty soon.

Ed Vitagliano This is, this is all breaking news. And so the Friday signing would be the media event portion of it.

Tim Wildmon You know, again, we've talked about this before, but President Trump is 80 as of yesterday. Right? He just had the deal in Washington D.C. and then he flew across the ocean and he's meeting at the G7 and he acts like, I don't see how he does it physically.

Ed Vitagliano I don't either. There's no telling how. I mean, I'm sure he did not sleep the whole way on the flight across after his birthday party.

Tim Wildmon Now it is nice to have, have Air Force One at your beck and call.

Ed Vitagliano Right?

Tim Wildmon And he doesn't have to go get his own coffee if he drinks it, or his own big, his own Big Mac he does have. There, are perks. But how much sleep did I talk about? Still, you Got to sleep and you gotta, you gotta be able to think on your feet and everything like that. And he just, he just, he's over there at the G7. After he did what he did yesterday, I would say, no, I'm not going today. Yeah, I'm taking the day off. I got to regroup. We just had a big birthday bash at the.

Ed Vitagliano I'll be in on Tuesday. Tell them not to start without me.

Tim Wildmon Yeah, tell them right now it's going to be G6 for them because the number seven staying at the White House, I'm going to have. That's right, sleep in.

Ed Vitagliano I need to, I need to take some pto.

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

President Trump made a threat that he could run Washington on a federal basis

All right. You're listening to today's issues. What's the next story, Fred?

Fred Jackson Well, President Trump sometimes, I guess gets bored with all of this. he was asked on the weekend, there's a mayoralty election coming up for Washington D.C. they haven't had one, for the mayor's position there in 10 years. And President Trump is not happy with the candidates. In fact, basically he refers to them as socialist and anti law enforcement. That's what he had to say about it. And he's made a threat. Threat number eight, maybe we'll take back

Tim Wildmon Washington, run it on the federal basis.

Fred Jackson We won't put up with it.

Tim Wildmon We're not going to lose our businesses. By the way, Washington now is a safe, beautiful place. We have a thriving community.

Fred Jackson We got rid of the crime.

Tim Wildmon We're 92% down on crime. Think of it. And we're going to be close to 100%.

Fred Jackson Yeah. So that election's coming up, within a matter of days. And as you heard there, President Trump says he's not happy with the candidates because apparently they want to roll back some of the things that President Trump has brought into effect, which have been extremely successful in bringing some law and order to D.C. which was crime ridden.

Ed Vitagliano So this Lewis George is a democratic socialist like Mamdani in NewSong York. Right. So can the President, I'm not sure on this in terms, can the President take over dp?

Tim Wildmon I think he can.

Ed Vitagliano He can't.

Tim Wildmon Yeah, I think he. Okay, I'm going. Washington D.C. is a federal city. Yeah, the federal city. There's a reason they don't have, congressional, representation, senators or congressmen, because it's supposed to be an independent, area. And so it's not, so, it's the federal city. That's why he was able to tell, the National Guard to come in and take over the city and patrol the city is because it's under his authority. yeah. I mean, I don't know how much authority is between him and Congress, but, it's not a, It's not a state.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Tim Wildmon It's not a territory. It's a District of Columbia. But it is called the Federal city. So I think he is correct when he says he can take it.

Ed Vitagliano He,

Tim Wildmon you know, the president, whoever it may be, can. Can. Can quote, take over the city in terms of operations.

Ed Vitagliano Listen, that would be interesting to take because it is a blue, blue city. It would be very interesting to see how much good you could do. just in comparison, if he is constitutionally allowed to do that. that would be an interesting. Because you have NewSong York City and then D.C. new York City is probably going to fail utterly with Mamdani.

Tim Wildmon Utterly. That's the second or third time we've used that utterly.

Ed Vitagliano It would be very interesting to see, you know, how much, you know, crime goes down and if you can get schools to improve, all that kind of stuff. Anyway, that would be interesting.

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

Lawrence Mayor vows to actively stop ICE from enforcing federal immigration law

Next story. Fred.

Fred Jackson Well, speaking of socialists. Yeah. Ed's favorite socialists are on mum.

Tim Wildmon Donnie been talking about Joran Mandami.

Fred Jackson Yeah.

Tim Wildmon to the rescue.

Fred Jackson To the rescue.

Tim Wildmon Doesn't that sound like a. I just sounds like a superhero name for.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah, we keep saying this. You say superhero, I say super villain.

Tim Wildmon Okay, well, maybe so.

Ed Vitagliano Zoran. Mom.

Tim Wildmon Either way, he belongs in a comic book. Comic. A, comic magazine.

Fred Jackson Yeah, he's. He's, at war. Mamdani is right now with the head of ice, Thom Holman. Thom Holman says he's going in, with. With guns a blazing. And I'm using.

Tim Wildmon That's not good, Fred. You need to rephrase that. Yeah.

Fred Jackson In a kind of full bore.

Tim Wildmon Well, metaphorically.

Fred Jackson Metaphorically speaking. All right.

Tim Wildmon Going in where?

Fred Jackson Basically, Thom Holman, Mamdani keeps saying, it's a sanctuary city. I'll let him talk here in just a minute.

Tim Wildmon All right.

Fred Jackson It's a sanctuary city. We think ICE is absolutely terrible. we don't want them in our city. Thom Holman says we're going in because you got a bunch of bad guys who are in the country there illegally. So let's listen to Zoran Mamdani. Cut number 16.

Joseph Parker These kinds of threats, as you've said, from Thom Homan and the federal administration, they're not new and neither will our response be. We continue to be proud of being a sanctuary city. We continue to be ready to stand up for our immigrant neighbors. And we continue to be ready to use every single tool at our disposal. And I've said to the president directly that I believe that ICE raids are cruel and they do nothing to serve in the interest of public safety. And I do believe it's a rogue agency that should be abolished because we need an approach to immigration in this country that has more humanity at the heart of it.

Fred Jackson Now, Greg Jarrett is the legal analyst for Fox News. He had this response to what Mamdani had to say about we're not going to let ice in our town. Cut 12.

Tim Wildmon Yeah, the mayor says that's perfectly okay. Look, you and I know, and I think our viewers know, that smearing ICE is cruel and inhumane is nothing more than a cheap bully tactic. It's fear mongering by the mayor. The truth is, ICE is enforcing immigration laws passed by elected representatives in Congress. They're there to, as you point out, Lawrence, protect public safety, remove violent illegals who have criminal convictions or gang affiliations and have outstanding deportation orders issued by immigration judges. All of that is called enforcing the law. And frankly, it's just common sense. Without it, innocent people will continue to be victimized crimes like rape, murder, assault, theft. But apparently, you know, that's okay with the mayor because socialist orthodoxy demands it. And, you know, he's not just, calling for ICE to be abolished. He's vowing to actively stop ICE from enforcing the law. I'd remind him that the Constitution gives him no power to control federal law enforcement. In fact, statutory law says the opposite. Interfering can be charged and prosecuted. It doesn't matter if you're mayor of the nation's largest city. Lawrence.

Ed Vitagliano You know, I generally tend, towards, not liking federal interference in states and cities just as a general principle. But this is a federalist. We do have a federalism in, our Constitution. The federal government has an important role to play. Federal law does when it's in conflict with city and state. Does Trump. Okay, if I can use that word, cities and states authority. Okay. And when we're talking about our border and we're talking about immigration, that is a federal issue. And Mamdani is going to lose on that all day, every day, as he should. And if you, and if you, and if you think like I do, that the federal government has too much power, then you need to vote for people who will pare that back and decrease federal power and federal interference and things like education, for example, or, you know, too many regulations on businesses. You don't just simply defy them like Mamdani seems like he's on the verge of doing. He will lose that fight and he'll do so in embarrassing fashion and to the point just made. You want to abolish ice and then replace it with what? Well, Mamdani doesn't want. And AOC and some of these other folks, they don't want to replace it with anything. And that is a prescription for disaster.

Tim Wildmon Yeah. Go ahead, Fred.

Some Boston kids set up a lemonade stand and they were robbed by gun

Next story.

Fred Jackson Well, speaking of crime, if you're thinking about opening up a lemonade stand. In Boston. You better have a police officer close by.

Tim Wildmon Yes.

Fred Jackson We had some little kids set up a lemonade stand and they were robbed by people with a gun. And one of the suspects been arrested. Now 14 year old boy in Boston, a couple of kids just selling lemonade.

Tim Wildmon And these other two, these teenagers, I don't know how young the kids were.

Ed Vitagliano 11 and 12.

Tim Wildmon So they're 11 and 12. They got a lemonade stand set up in Boston and these other kids, 14 and 13 or whatever come along and it sounds like it couldn't. It's not. We're making this up.

Tim Wildmon No.

Tim Wildmon They literally took their money box at gunpoint. Now, I don't know if they were pointing the gun at them, but they had a gun on them.

Ed Vitagliano They showed flash the gun, lifted the

Tim Wildmon shirt showed in Boston. So they robbed the. They caught him. The cops caught him, I think. Or caught one of them.

Ed Vitagliano They did. listen, first of all, I am shocked.

Tim Wildmon That shocked us.

Ed Vitagliano City of Boston allowed a lemonade stand.

Tim Wildmon That's right.

Fred Jackson Without taxing.

Ed Vitagliano Without taxing them. Okay. I'm so, I'm. I'm just. You think I'm kidding? I'm shocked. That didn't. A cop car didn't pull up and say, hey, you got a. You have a license for this lemonade stand, you fools.

Tim Wildmon Oh, the Frenchman there.

Fred Jackson Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano Inspector Clouseau. and second of all, to me, this is why you don't have legal guns in a city. Boston has allowed the people there to have guns under the second amendment. Have legal. Oh, no, that's right. Wrong city. Okay. how very strict city in terms of legal ownership of guns for the second amendment. Under the second amendment. This is a kid who has an illegal gun.

Tim Wildmon It's disappointing.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah. And so how did that happen, boss?

Tim Wildmon well, the 14 year old who had the gun, why he wasn't obeying gun laws.

Ed Vitagliano Exactly.

Tim Wildmon Tim is your point. I think that's very disappointing actions on his behalf.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Tim Wildmon I Just don't think you'll see now. Thank God nobody was hurt. Okay. The lemonade stand entrepreneurs went unharmed, although they're probably traumatized by somebody coming up brandishing a gun and taking their.

Ed Vitagliano A blue city with entrepreneurs trying to make a living and better themselves, stopped from doing so by criminals with guns.

Tim Wildmon You think this is going to make the, Boston tourism ads? Please come to Boston. Eliminated.

Ed Vitagliano Please come to Boston, please, for lemonade.

Tim Wildmon Red Sox and also some lemonade. Wait, come.

Fred Jackson Come here.

Tim Wildmon Come back with that.

Ed Vitagliano Or get carjacked.

Tim Wildmon Yeah. Anyway, that did take place, and it's in, yesterday, I think it sounds like.

Ed Vitagliano It sounds like a joke.

Tim Wildmon You thought it was when you read.

Ed Vitagliano When I first read it, I thought this is a joke because we always talk about lemonade stands.

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano And here's a couple of kids and they get shut down.

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano By another. Another genius with an illegal gun.

Tim Wildmon All right, we got a couple minutes. You got anything left over there?

Fred Jackson Let's let' the program with the tip of the hat.

Tim Wildmon Okay, let's do that.

Some Japanese fans clean up after World Cup soccer game in Dallas

Fred Jackson To some. Some really good, classy fans of the World cup soccer in Dallas. All right. Some Japanese folks.

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

Fred Jackson Came to watch the game and I guess watch Japan. They watch, you know, they bought some cokes and popcorn and hot dogs.

Tim Wildmon Maybe their team is playing another team. Yeah, another country.

Fred Jackson Now, a lot of fans would just leave the junk there. Hey, there's people here paid to clean up. Not these Japanese folks. I don't know where they got the garbage bags, whether they brought it to the game with them or whatever, but they cleaned up their mess, you know, and. And I thought, okay, where did they learn that? That they have a response. They have a responsibility to clean up their mess, you know, as opposed to, what happened at the, NBA game the other night? NewSong York.

Ed Vitagliano Oh, in NewSong York, after they won.

Fred Jackson They burned buses there, those fans. They burned buses. They got into fights with cops. These Japanese folks. No, they cleaned up. They cleaned up their mess. So kudos to them.

Tim Wildmon Ah.

Ed Vitagliano And did, their team actually lost, didn't they?

Fred Jackson I'm not sure.

Ed Vitagliano Okay.

Fred Jackson I'm not sure. But you know what?

Ed Vitagliano I'm asking the other hockey fan.

Fred Jackson Yeah, that's right.

Ed Vitagliano About a soccer.

Fred Jackson But, you know, it wouldn't surprise me. Win or lose. Yeah, it's part of the character. You know, you take care of the mess that you make and don't leave it to somebody else.

Ed Vitagliano And. And that has been characteristic of, say, Christian gatherings at the Mall in Washington, D.C. when they go there for an event, they generally speaking, clean up their mess as opposed to, you know, some of the more leftist groups who trashed the place.

Tim Wildmon Yep. All right, well, that's. That's. That's a good news story to end the program on. Fred. thank you for listening today, everybody. Appreciate it. thanks to Fred, Ed, Brent Creeley, our producer, Cole Greene, our video man. Video man Frank Turek joined us. Appreciate Frank being on with us. We'll see you tomorrow. Have a great day, Sam.