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Tim Wildman hosts Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network

>> Jeff Chamblee: 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, and welcome to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. thanks for listening. Today is Monday, April 28, 2025. I'm, Tim Wildmon, and joining me in studio is Ed Battagliano. Good morning, Brother Ed.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Hey, good morning, Tim.

>> Tim Wildmon: And Fred Jackson. Good morning, brother.

>> Fred Jackson: Hello, Tim.

>> Tim Wildmon: You guys have a good weekend?

>> Fred Jackson: Had a really good weekend.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, it was. It was good. I had to preach a funeral of a dear friend who had passed away. Good Christian woman on Saturday. Had a men's meeting at church, last night. So it was a busy, week.

>> Tim Wildmon: like men. Men only.

>> Ed Vitagliano: It was men only.

>> Tim Wildmon: You guys need to get up to speed on what's happening in society, huh?

>> Ed Vitagliano: And listen, I don't know, probably 300 guys showed up, and, and they cooked. Had cooked steaks for everybody. I don't know how they cooked that many steaks, but.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Oh, it was. It's our church.

>> Tim Wildmon: Tim, you didn't cook? No, I didn't go. Sorry.

>> Ed Vitagliano: I'm just.

>> Tim Wildmon: I'm picking on you anyway.

>> Fred Jackson: You sacrifice cows at your church?

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, somebody sacrificed. They sacrificed for the. For the men of the church.

>> Tim Wildmon: Let me tell you. I know this church is a bunch of carnivores, like 100. these ain't no veggie vegan people.

>> Ed Vitagliano: He's a manly man.

>> Tim Wildmon: They hunt, kill and eat.

>> Ed Vitagliano: You're lucky if it's cooked.

>> Fred Jackson: I'll take the raw piece.

>> Tim Wildmon: You're lucky if it's cooked.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Now get back to your table.

The Canadian geese start having little ones this time of year

>> Tim Wildmon: All right. Well, we hope everybody had a nice weekend. And, what did you guys do of bread?

>> Fred Jackson: Well, just enjoy being outside. We have a lake near our home base here in Tupelo. We have a Lake about 20 minutes from our house. Yeah, Lake Lamar Bruce for those.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Oh, it's yours?

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, he's a real estate tycoon.

>> Fred Jackson: We love going there. And just sitting by the shore.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.

>> Fred Jackson: And just enjoying the scenery.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.

>> Fred Jackson: And, this is the time of the year when the Canadian geese, my brother.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.

>> Fred Jackson: the Canadian geese start having little ones. Oh. And so you have. You know, it is absolutely fascinating.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.

>> Fred Jackson: Do you know that. That geese, male, female, they mate for life.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Really?

>> Fred Jackson: Yeah. They stick together for life. Oh, it's amazing. And, so we're starting to see, you know, ones that are three or four weeks old, a couple of weeks old, that sort of thing. It. It's amazing to watch.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Okay.

>> Fred Jackson: We have a lot of fun.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Let me just ask you a question here. Okay. I'm not up on geese like I should be.

>> Fred Jackson: Okay. Okay.

>> Ed Vitagliano: But, like, we had a couple fly over the house this weekend.

>> Fred Jackson: Okay.

>> Ed Vitagliano: And I do this every time. You hear him fly over, honking. I say, welcome home, boys. But you're saying it's probably a male and female.

>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, that could be. This is the time of the year, and we have a warm enough climate here that, these geese around here stay all year.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Oh, okay.

>> Fred Jackson: They don't go to Mexico.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Okay.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.

>> Fred Jackson: I think it's a tariff thing going on.

>> Tim Wildmon: They're Canadian geese, but they. But they speak Southern.

>> Fred Jackson: That's right.

>> Ed Vitagliano: They've been slapped with a terror.

>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: but, so that's. It's interesting. So the male and female stay together.

>> Fred Jackson: Yeah. It's just fascinating to watch. And those. The way they move through the water. There's mama, I think is out in front.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.

>> Fred Jackson: Then there's the babies, and then daddy behind that. They go. I guess what's called Indian file.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.

>> Fred Jackson: And.

>> Ed Vitagliano: And that's very similar to, Italian, households where the wife starts the car in the morning. the husband starts. I always tell my go. You know, it's cold, you know, go, go start the car. You know, and years ago, it used to be. Because, you know, if someone planted a bomb, you know, wife. The wife starts the car.

>> Fred Jackson: I didn't bring it up. I didn't bring up the mafia thing.

>> Ed Vitagliano: I'm just kidding. F. Please don't email Tim.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Why? Because Tim has a garage that shuts. That way nobody has to go start the car early.

Federal agents raid Colorado nightclub and arrest over 100 illegal immigrants

All right, well, we hope everybody had a nice weekend. And, we have, got a lot going on in our world. something big happened in Colorado last night, Fred.

>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, well, it was early, early Sunday morning, and there was a raid on what's being called an after hours nightclub. And it was. You know, I. I wouldn't be so surprised if it was in Boulder, Colorado or even Denver, but this was in Colorado Springs. And this after hours nightclub apparently has been in existence for some time. And about 200 federal agents from various federal agencies were involved with this. They raided this club and over 100 illegal immigrants were arrested along with, and I'm sorry To report this, 12 active members of our military were either in the club or were providing security. Attorney General Pam Bondi was on Fox and Friends this morning and talked about this raid early Sunday morning.

>> Pam Bondi: Cut number one, America is safer tonight thanks to Donald Trump. During the Biden administration, they received 17911 calls to that club alone. That club we were just watching. 170 calls. Wouldn't you think that would have been a red flag? Nothing happened. Guns, shootings, ag batteries, nothing happened. So under Donald Trump, DEA, FBI, U.S. marshals, ATF, ICE, everyone went in together, DEA led this investigation, went in, got 115 illegal aliens in our country, arrested them, two with warrants, 12 guns seized.

>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, along with other things. They apparently, according to the reports coming, from authorities, when people went into this club, they were given a sheet of paper that was a menu for illegal drugs and they could pick which illegal drug they wanted. And also there was rampant prostitution going on in this place. I hope you heard what Pam Bondi said. When Joe Biden was president, there were over 17911 calls on this club. Nothing was done under Joe Biden, didn't touch it. But now we have these people arrested. Like I say, sorry to report that 12 of those arrested were active members of the military. There's quite a few military bases in the Colorado Springs. so we will see what happens.

>> Tim Wildmon: Well, but why would that be a, state ish, I mean a federal issue? 911 calls. Go to your sheriff's office.

>> Fred Jackson: Well, the question is going to be why didn't the sheriff notify somebody in immigration? Perhaps they did, but Joe Biden's administration decided not to do anything. I think that's what Pam Bondi said.

>> Tim Wildmon: I got you.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, and I'm looking at a Fox News story. I didn't check to see if it's on American Family News about the, photos at the White House. Do we have a story on that? Anyway, it's photos at the White House, kind of big posters, yard signs of 100 illegal immigrants. and it's just all in a row. And I just watched a video as someone drove by from Fox News, catching all of these yard signs with these individuals. I Was shocked at how many involved crimes against children.

>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.

>> Ed Vitagliano: And minors. Yeah, these were some bad folks. Allegedly. I'm not calling out any names, but I'm reading what's underneath. Distribution of fentanyl Ms. 13 member and homicide. And also sexual crimes against, women adults. So these are some bad folks. And I just got to tell you that the. The, I know we're all kind of, as Tim puts it, with our fingers crossed about the, tariff situation, but in terms of the border, the, Trump administration is hitting home run after home run. Yes, they are determined to, to secure that border, which it looks like it is absolutely secured. I noticed a quote from Tom Homan, again, the Biden administration. Plenty of deserved criticism, but he said, quote Tom Holman, who's the border czar? Joe Biden was the first president in the history of this nation who came in office and unsecured the border on purpose.

>> Fred Jackson: We have that from Tom, Holman this morning. Apologize for cut number five. No, it's okay.

>> Speaker G: I've been Atlas for over 40 years. I worked for six presidents, starting with Ronald Reagan. Every president ever worked for took border security seriously because you can't have national security if you don't have strong border security. We got to know who's coming in, what's coming in, where it's coming in, why it's coming in. Right. Even President Obama and President Clinton took some steps to secure the border because they understood national security was important. Joe Biden was the first president in the history of this nation who came into office and unsecured a border on, purpose. That's just a fact. We handed the Biden administration, after President, Trump's first administration, we hand the Biden administration the most secure border in my lifetime, and he unsecured it on purpose. Now, President Trump and this administration here, their success is unprecedented. We beat Trump's first administration on board of success. Border numbers are historic low today. As I'm standing here. We are the most secure border in the history of this nation, and the numbers prove it.

>> Tim Wildmon: Well, that was Tom Homan, the, M. Does he have an official title other than border czar?

>> Fred Jackson: I think that's it.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.

>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: Ah, he works under. Directly under President Trump, or is he working under Homeland Security?

>> Fred Jackson: Homeland Security.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, so, just one political point on that, and we've mentioned this many, many times. but to. To Tom Holman's point right there, and he has 40. He said 40 years of experience. And notice he didn't criticize Other Democrat presidents.

>> Ed Vitagliano: M. Right.

>> Tim Wildmon: He, he did not say Obama did this. He, he said every president he'd worked under since Ronald Reagan, both Democrat and Republican, had taken border security seriously. Yeah, that's what now, maybe some to one degree or another, more or less. However, he said Joe Biden, destroyed, intentionally destroyed the border security apparatus that was in place.

>> Fred Jackson: Can I give you some firm numbers? And this is from the Associated Press this morning, the liberal group. All right. In December of 2023, Joe Biden is president. Border crossings, illegals.

President Trump has shut down illegal entry into this country

249,740.

>> Ed Vitagliano: In one month.

>> Fred Jackson: In one month. All right. In February of this year, 8346.

>> Tim Wildmon: Wow. Wow. That's just a, credit to President Trump and his team. They have shut down illegal entry into this country. I also say this again to make the. It's a political point to make, but still needs to be said. Again, just to Tom Holman's point there, you might ask, well, surely a president of the United States, would care about border security. Surely not. Because President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris too, and the, the people that surrounded them, they didn't believe in borders. No, they believe borders are immoral. to the extent that they have a moral value system, they believe that. So, so, yes, they wanted as many people to pour into our country as possible. And not only Biden, but the Democrat Party, what the Democrat Party hopes to get out of this. The reason they don't care how many people pour into our, m. America. And they didn't, because they could have stopped it too. They could have said to their own president, hey, you, what are you doing now? Some did, the mayor of New York, for example, but he got, you know, indicted soon after.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes.

>> Tim Wildmon: He criticized, Biden on this and fellow Democrats because it was personally affecting him and his city. You know, they were being told, you got to house all these people, but we're. The federal government's not going to give you any money to help you on that. But the, the ultimate goal would be, you say, well, why would the Democrats, why wouldn't they care about border. How many people come in here illegally? Because they want them to become legal so they vote for Democrats.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.

>> Tim Wildmon: That's the, that, that's the objective. That's the ultimate objective. they want all these people that if the millions that they let in then convert them to a, quote, pathway to citizenship.

>> Tim Wildmon: And that pathway to citizenship leads them to being lifelong Democrat voters.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah. Turn the whole country blue.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right.

>> Ed Vitagliano: That was their goal.

>> Tim Wildmon: So it was a political objective by the Democrats to let as many m. Millions of people pour into our country illegally. They don't care. With their Ms. They don't care.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.

>> Tim Wildmon: They just said, let them all in. If you. If you deny letting them all in, then you're putting kids in cages. You know, that's basically the narrative that the Democrats wanted to put out there. So Trump, Trump has, you know, he followed through his administration are following through with their promises to secure the border and in addition to that, to get rid of all the. As many as they can of the bad guys that are here right inside the country now, dealing in drugs and violence and gang activity and fentanyl and all these things that are harming our nation. Tom Holman and President Trump, they want to get these bad guys out. So that's what they're. That's why this raid took place at this club in Colorado. Was it last night or Sunday night?

>> Fred Jackson: Early Sunday morning.

>> Tim Wildmon: On this Sunday morning. And how many people were arrested?

>> Fred Jackson: 115.

>> Tim Wildmon: 115. And so I guess they're having to. They're being arrested. They're having to be adjudicated or find out what they're.

>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: What their claims are now, by the.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Way, I did look up, and Tom Homan does have an official title. It is White House Executive Associate Director of Enforcement and Removal Operations, which is why everyone calls him Porter.

>> Fred Jackson: Hard to put that.

>> Tim Wildmon: What's that? What's the acronym for that? Airplane.

>> Ed Vitagliano: That's, something.

>> Tim Wildmon: I don't know what.

>> Fred Jackson: One more point. Tom Holman was on. He was giving a briefing from the White House this morning. One of the other things he mentioned that Joe Biden did, he said there was. The policy in place is when someone enters this country illegally, they're caught by the border people. they are immediately deported. They don't have to go to a court hearing. He said what Biden did is immediately shipped these people who entered the country illegally off into the interior, and they.

>> Tim Wildmon: Sent him into the interior to be lost.

>> Fred Jackson: And that was very deliberate.

>> Ed Vitagliano: In the middle of the night.

>> Tim Wildmon: Because.

>> Fred Jackson: Because when they're freed, when they are freed, all of a sudden that detention goes away, and they may not have a hearing for years.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.

>> Fred Jackson: So this was very.

>> Ed Vitagliano: I think this was an abomination, what Biden did.

>> Fred Jackson: Yeah. It was an invasion.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.

>> Fred Jackson: That's what it was, an orchestrated invasion.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right. Imagine having a house and you have the door locked.

Federal agents arrested Judge Hannah Dugan on Friday for allegedly helping an illegal alien

Okay. And to keep people out, and then people Know that the door lock, it secured deadbolt or whatever, and behind that, somebody with a gun, they're not going to. That's going to deter 99.9% of your people wanting to break in. However, if you just go over there and unlock the door and leave it wide open and go to bed, that's what Biden did.

>> Ed Vitagliano: And put a sign on the front door, y'all come. Y'all come make yourself a sandwich.

>> Tim Wildmon: That's what Biden did.

>> Fred Jackson: Well, in fact, he created an app.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. These people get around the house, press this button here. In another era, that would have been, impeachable.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes.

>> Tim Wildmon: What he did. But again, when you've got 50% of the Congress made up of Democrats, and the Democrats agree with Biden to let everybody in, and, you know, maybe with the possible exception of John Fetterman, I don't know, but there only a handful of Democrats would have. Would have been critical of letting millions of people pour in here illegally.

>> Fred Jackson: You know, one of the problems that Trump has faced is judges trying to, you know, curtail as much as possible his efforts to deport people. Well, on Friday, they arrested one of these judges, a judge in Wisconsin. Federal agents moved in and arrested her on Friday because she helped an illegal alien. She escorted him out of her courtroom. When she heard that federal agents, ICE agents were in the building, she escorted this guy out of the building. She said, come with me. And anyway, this happened several days. But before the arrest on Friday, again, here's Attorney General Pam Bondi talking about this arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan. Cut number two.

>> Pam Bondi: They found out that the judge learned that ICE was outside because he was an illegal alien from Mexico, to arrest him, to deport him. She found that out. She raised her voice with ice, told them to go see the chief judge, came back in while court was going on. She motioned for the defense attorney and the defendant to come up. Snuck them out through a private chamber. You can't make this up. In her courtroom. Snuck them out a back exit so he could run down the street. ICE ended up chasing him down the street. Someone saw him, chased him, caught him eventually. But, you know, the reason ice, they make arrest in courtrooms all the time is because it's safe. A defendant has gone through security. They don't have a weapon. It's an easy arrest. No one's injured. But because she did this, she jeopardized the lives of law enforcement officers, even the defendant by doing this. They had to have a chase down the street.

>> Tim Wildmon: So this is a Wackadoodle. Liberal judge.

>> Tim Wildmon: I put the wackadoodle.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes.

>> Tim Wildmon: you could interchange that with liberal Democrat. Huh? good. To me it's a whackadoodle. so she is helping somebody. ICE wants to detain or arrest to. Because they're here illegally and they're hardcore, Ah. Criminal. And so I suspended the time, energy and effort to go to the courthouse to get. Detain this guy, to arrest this guy. And you're telling me a judge inside the courthouse is helping him escape?

>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Knowing full well that he was going to be arrested.

>> Fred Jackson: Yeah. She, she told the ICE agents to go down the hall somewhere. This guy who is up.

>> Tim Wildmon: Who is up on charges in Wisconsin.

>> Fred Jackson: This is in Wisconsin. This guy is up on charges of assault. His victims are. Are sitting there in the courtroom.

>> Tim Wildmon: Wow.

>> Fred Jackson: He needed. Nearly beat somebody to the death. that's the allegation.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.

>> Fred Jackson: So she sends these ICE agents. Go down the hall, go down there. Okay. And then she says to the charged guy, the illegal alien and his lawyer, come with me, come with me and we'll go this door here.

>> Tim Wildmon: Why did she do that?

>> Ed Vitagliano: She did not want ICE to arrest an illegal immigrant.

>> Fred Jackson: Yes.

>> Tim Wildmon: And listen, but I mean, how can a. Excuse me for. And I know I'm asking a rhetorical question, but how could a judge who is a symbol, if there ever was one, of law and order, a state. She's a state judge, right? I guess, yes. how could she.

>> Ed Vitagliano: she's a Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge.

>> Tim Wildmon: So she decides it's up to her to help this illegal immigrant, criminal escape justice.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes. Yeah. And if you think, if you think that's whack a doodle.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.

Protesters on Saturday marched outside the FBI office protesting the arrest of a judge

>> Ed Vitagliano: Protesters on Saturday marched outside the FBI office, the Milwaukee FBI office, protesting the arrest of the judge. Okay. They're protesting the arrest of the judge. And a Democratic state representative, Ryan Clancy spoke to the crowd before it started its protest and said, quote, the judiciary acts as a check to unchecked executive power and functioning democracies do not lock up judges. This is what a Democratic state representative said. Listen, I understand that you don't want a situation where, where judges who are doing their constitutional legal duty are not arrested by political opponents. But this judge, I guess the allegation is going to be that she obstructed justice and broke the law. And I would think the Democratic state representative, this Ryan Clancy, would say no one's above the law.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right.

>> Ed Vitagliano: A judge. but that's not what the Democrats are saying. And they are. Listen, we were talking, we talked last week about Democratic members of the U.S. congress flying down to El Salvador and taking, you know, choosing sides with someone who again, I guess allegedly. But it seems like the Trump administration is very clear. This is an MS.13 gang member and leader. Okay. But the Democrats are taking his side.

>> Tim Wildmon: This is one of the Democrats. The Democrats won't. They want lawyers. They want to lawyer up for all these thousands and thousands and thousands of, gang members and people that we're deporting. They want, they want them all to have, have court hearings and trials and go on for.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, they want to go on for years. And Trump's out of office.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Really? They're, they're, they're siding with the bad guys.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: I mean, it's unbelievable. But, this judge got caught and now she's being charged federally with obstructing justice. That's just amazing. You know, if she, so she's, she, like you're saying, she's whispering the allegation. Come down here and we'll hide you from the feds.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.

>> Fred Jackson: Yep.

>> Tim Wildmon: All right, we'll be back momentarily with more of today's issues on the American Family Radio Network.

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On May 7th you'll need a real ID to get on an airplane

>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, welcome back everybody to Today's issues on the American Family Radio Network. Today's Issues, the name of this show I'm Tim with Ed and Fred. And again we thank you for listening to AFR. You guys know that on May 7th you're going to need a, what's called a real ID in order to get on an airplane in America, right?

>> Fred Jackson: That's correct, yes.

>> Tim Wildmon: On a commercial aircraft.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.

>> Tim Wildmon: You do know this already?

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, I've got one.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, well, I've got a. You said there's a. On the state of Mississippi. It's your state. If you look at. Let me just slow down. If you have a U.S. passport that, that overrides everything.

>> Ed Vitagliano: You can get on a plane with a passport.

>> Tim Wildmon: With a U.S. passport. However, if you don't have a U.S. passport, you're going to need your driver's license.

>> Ed Vitagliano: State issued driver's license.

>> Tim Wildmon: So the driver's license aren't all necessarily real ID?

>> Fred Jackson: That's right.

>> Tim Wildmon: It's called CAPS R E A L ID. Anyway, this goes to into effect May 7th, so I didn't want people who are getting ready to get on an airplane to travel somewhere after May 7th or May 7th. You're not going to be able to get on the plane unless you have one of these. Either you have a US Passport or a real id.

>> Ed Vitagliano: It's a, it's a state, It's a state issued driver's license. But the states have agreed to work with the federal government to make sure. There's this. I, guess supposedly reproducible or unreproducible little insignia. I think it's a yellow.

>> Fred Jackson: Yeah. Star up in the right hand.

>> Ed Vitagliano: In the right hand corner.

>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.

>> Ed Vitagliano: And that, that means it's an, it's, it's working with, in conjunction with the federal government. This is a valid driver's license rather than something. Rather than a fake.

>> Tim Wildmon: But you said that your ID had a star on it.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes, in Mississippi. I'm not sure if they all do.

>> Fred Jackson: I don't have.

>> Tim Wildmon: I don't mind. Mine's in the car, but. So mine doesn't. So I've got to go down.

>> Ed Vitagliano: You have to get. You'll have to get a. It depends when you got yours some. Like in Mississippi you can, you can get a. I think like a 10 year driver's license. See, that's it. It's a, it's a white star.

>> Tim Wildmon: Showing me an example here.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Right there. Oh yeah, the white star in a yellow, circle. I should have said yellow star. That's, that's hearkens back to the Nazis, but it's a white star and A yellow circle. Yours does not have that.

>> Ed Vitagliano: I know.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Mississippi, you can get like a 10 year license and I, get one.

>> Tim Wildmon: Like on the black market or people.

>> Ed Vitagliano: no, that's the point of having this. I know you're kidding. that's the point of having this. So you cannot get a fake id. This stuff on the back and all that too.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, but you don't have to go to any, like, secret meetings and make pledges to the devil or anything like that to get this done.

>> Ed Vitagliano: I didn't.

>> Tim Wildmon: You didn't.

>> Ed Vitagliano: I can only speak for myself. Okay, I'm not sure now you want to get one that.

>> Tim Wildmon: It looks like a pentagram to me. I'm just saying.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, a star is a pentagram, but this is not an upside down star.

>> Tim Wildmon: That would be a. Duly noted. I got a little paranoid there. Yes, I, I admit that.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Now you don't want to get one with a kind of a greasy photo like Brent, Creeley. That's whose, ID we're looking at. He looks like he just came in from working out the yard.

>> Tim Wildmon: We don't always. We don't always look our best when we go get our picture taken for our driver's license.

>> Ed Vitagliano: I, folks, I, I tease Brent all the time and he teases me.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Good grief. About your shoe on this.

>> Tim Wildmon: You guys tease each other about your parents?

>> Ed Vitagliano: Oh, anything. Anything and everything.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. Anyway, thank you, Brent, for showing us that.

>> Ed Vitagliano: I appreciate it.

You need a driver's license that has some kind of marker on it

>> Tim Wildmon: All right, Anyway, and also, by the way, a military ID is, Is. Is considered valid. in addition to your passport. Those would be. Other than that, you need a driver's license that has some kind of marker on it from your state indicating it's a, quote, real ID compliant license. And that goes into effect May the seventh week.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, next. Next. Next, week sometime.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.

Man charged with multiple murders after driving through Filipino festival, leaving 11 dead

All right. you're listening to today's issues on American Family Radio. Next story.

>> Fred Jackson: Fred, I think, I've mentioned from time to time over the years that I moved here to Mississippi from Vancouver, British Columbia.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, you've mentioned it.

>> Fred Jackson: It's, many, many different. it is a, an ethnic group of various groups of people where. Vancouver, in Vancouver.

>> Tim Wildmon: It's an international city.

>> Fred Jackson: It is very much so. And, I'm very familiar with the, eastern end of Vancouver. a lot of East Indian folks. my wife used to go to some of their, kind of second hand places there in Main Street, Fraser Avenue. Also, Filipino community is quite large there in Vancouver, and they were having a festival, on the weekend. And all I can say is the 30 year old man has been arrested because this man who's been arrested now charged with multiple murders because he got in a vehicle and he drove through these people who were out at this street festival. Eleven people died, many more were injured. All we know about this guy who has been arrested, he is 30 years old. His name is Kaji Adam Low. He is well known to police. We are told he has a history of mental issues. but a very tragic time for that Filipino community. For a while when we were living in Vancouver, we, went to a church that was predominantly, ah, Filipinos. We got to know these dear folks. They are happy, they are joyous. They will do anything at all to help you. it was a wonderful church to be part of because they just, it's endless celebration.

>> Tim Wildmon: How many died? 11.

>> Fred Jackson: 11.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Including a five year old.

>> Fred Jackson: Yes.

>> Tim Wildmon: So, so this guy, 30. 30 years old.

>> Fred Jackson: Yes.

>> Tim Wildmon: Got a car and just started mowing people down.

>> Fred Jackson: Yes, he did.

>> Tim Wildmon: Like what happened in Wisconsin, that Christmas parade.

>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, very similar, very similar.

>> Tim Wildmon: And New Orleans.

>> Fred Jackson: Yep. Very sad.

>> Tim Wildmon: Remember that? New Orleans. What was that? Back during the. But, New Year. So that New Year's or some.

>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, it was around that time. New Year's. Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: Remember the guy got the car, went downtown?

>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: So, yeah. You know, nowadays you just got to be aware if you, if you have a parade or something like that, you got to get.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Have barriers or.

>> Tim Wildmon: Barriers. Yeah, yeah.

>> Ed Vitagliano: You know, like they do at the, at the White House. I mean these concrete barriers where, where people can't access, where the people are going to be. And ah, that, that's, that's a, that is a terrible shame. But this individual had a history of apparently of mental health issues. I don't know, I don't know what you do about that because it's not illegal to be struggling with emotional or mental problems. Until that person struggling with it does something like this, I don't know how you prevent it.

>> Tim Wildmon: I would say this too. There is evil in the world. And I know a lot of atheists and agnostics and others scoff at even the use of that word. But the devil. If you don't believe in the devil, then you can take that up with Jesus because Jesus spoke of the devil.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Right?

>> Tim Wildmon: And I'm not talking about a character with a, in a red suit, with horns and a tail and a pitchfork. Okay? It's not comical. I'm talking about a real evil entity, a spirit. Correct me if I'm Wrong.

>> Ed Vitagliano: No, you're right.

>> Tim Wildmon: If I, if I say something that the Bible doesn't say. So the Bible talks about this, and Jesus talk about a, A spirit or a entity called the devil, Right. Or Satan. Those words are used interchangeably, right?

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes.

>> Tim Wildmon: So that.

Sapp says man's mind may have been possessed by Satan

What I want to say is that, I think with a lot of this mental illness that's out there, maybe not always, but with a lot of, with a lot of the mental illness that is out there, it's just the devil taken over somebody's mind. Because to me, there's no explanation for, for what happened here where a man gets in a car and runs over people indiscriminately, even children. For what purpose and what reason? What does he hope? It's not a political statement he's making. It's not a, you know, it's not Ukraine versus Russia statement that he's making. This. When this kind of thing happens and it's senseless, as you, as we, as it appears, this is no particular motivation, then you have to say, well, what. What happened to this person? Well, I'll tell you what happened to this person. Even they were, sometimes they're on drugs, but, even so, being on drugs is satanic, I think. so, when this kind of thing happens like this and you go, why would somebody do something like this? It doesn't make any sense. Well, it only confirms to me what Jesus talked about and what the Bible talks about in that somebody can have their minds taken over by the devil. Is that.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, in the, in the Bible, in the New Testament, it specifically states that Satan, filled someone's heart. Okay. And that, that seems to be different than what the New Testament calls, being possessed by a demon.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Which is the person does not have much, control. But if I'm not mistaken, Judas was, the statement was that Satan filled his heart. And that seems to be something a little bit different than possession. It seems to be that a person is susceptible to the ideas that Satan or a demon would put into their hearts and minds, which is why drugs is in some cases, is an open door. Because anytime you lower inhibitions and, it could be drugs, could be alcohol, could be a number of things. You lower inhibitions to these suggestions, and then these suggestions take root and the person carries it out and they are totally at fault. This is not a case of a, demon being in charge. I'm just speaking biblically. Some people out there are probably rolling their eyes. I don't believe in the devil. They don't believe in demons, but this is the clear testimony of the New Testament.

>> Tim Wildmon: Also, in addition, amen to what you just said in terms of the biblical correctness of it. But I would also say this, what I mean by somebody, this is the hand of the devil on something like this is that this, this person, why didn't this person go mud riding? You know, why didn't, why didn't they get a truck and go, go just, right out in the wilderness and, and howl at the moon or something? No, they decided, I'll get in a car and I'll run over people. I'm all over. I'll kill this. I. Do you know these people? No, I don't know these people, but I'll just kill them and mow them down. Well, the Bible says also that the devil comes to kill, steal and destroy. So he. The devil hates human life, right? Doesn't matter whose human life it is. So the fact that this guy got in a car and decided to run over people that he didn't even know, there was no purpose or reason to it, no political statement, as I mentioned earlier, just indiscriminate killing and murdering people says, to me it's his mind was possessed. Because there's no, there's no other reason for it.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, here, here's just an example from Acts, chapter five. this is the story of Ananias and Sapphira who, wanted people to believe that they had sold all their property and had given it to the church. Well, what they did was they sold part of it and gave the proceeds to the church, but claimed that they had sold all of it. Okay, so they were wanting credit publicly for giving. And so this is what Peter says to him. When Ananias came to the church. Peter said, ananias, why has Satan, filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land while it remained unsold, did it not remain your old, your own? So Ananias wasn't forced to sell the property. He could have kept it. All right, but the interesting part is, for the discussion we're having is that the Apostle Peter tells Ananias that Satan had filled his heart to lie. and so we're not talking about being controlled by the devil. We're talking about being susceptible to the suggestions of, of the enemy. And it's as a frightening. That's a frightening thing. We got to keep our hearts and minds pure even as Christians, to, be obedient to God's. Word.

>> Tim Wildmon: Amen. You're listening to the radio program Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network.

Canada is voting today on whether to keep the Capital L Liberal Party in power

>> Fred Jackson: Well, we'll stay in Canada for a minute because there's a national election up there in Canada today. they are voting, on whether to keep the Capital L Liberal Party in power, which it has been for 10 years now, or select, someone new. Pierre Poiev is the head of the Capital C Conservative Party in Canada. interesting to talk about this because Donald Trump has been a factor in the Canadian election. The new, prime minister who replaced Justin Trudeau, his name is Mark Carney. He's a former financial adviser to Justin Trudeau. if the election had been held a year ago with Justin Trudeau, the Liberals would have lost big time. But what happened was Justin Trudeau steps down. Several months ago, this guy, Mark Carney, becomes the new prime minister, head of the Liberal Party, and he has used the tariff war and Donald Trump saying he wants to make Canada the 51st state. and he has made Donald Trump the issue. Hey, if you want to protect Canada against Donald Trump, you need to vote for me. Now, Pierre Poilievre, he doesn't care for the tariff war either, but he is trying to remind, and has been trying to remind Canadians throughout the very short campaign up there that, you know, this Mark Carney guy is going to make life just as miserable his life was under Justin Trudeau. the cost of living in Canada is, is something that you would not recognize here in the United States. Housing costs, the cost of gas. Can you imagine gas prices? Six and seven dollars a gallon. Just think about that. Justin Trudeau brought in a carbon tax. It's an extra tax every time Canadians fill their cars with oil, gas, whatever the case may be. So what, what basically Pierre Poliev is saying, if you want another at least five years of what Justin Trudeau gave you, you need to vote for me. if you want that or you don't want that, vote Conservative. So that's what it's all about today. As I say, Trudeau are. Trudeau, is gone. But what Pierre Poliev is saying is you better be careful because this carny guy who says, yeah, I'm going to change things, I'm going to, you know, lower prices for you, etc. Etc. Basically, Pierre Paliev is saying, this guy will continue those policies because he advised former, Prime Minister Trudeau on his financial policies.

>> Tim Wildmon: So who's favored?

>> Fred Jackson: Well, here's the interesting thing.

>> Tim Wildmon: The Liberal or the Conservative, the Liberal.

>> Fred Jackson: Is winning in the polls.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.

>> Ed Vitagliano: And I have a poll from yesterday. I Think this is Canadian cbc.

>> Fred Jackson: I used to work for them.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes. Wait until God delivered you. Yes, Liberal, Mark Carney is up on the Conservative, by a little over three points. There are six parties listed with an other. So there may be more than one and that maybe drains some support from one or the other.

>> Fred Jackson: Yes, they have what's in Canada. They have the Capital Liberal Party, the Capital C Conservative Party. Then they have the New Democratic Party, which is, they're socialists. So is the Liberal Party, but the NDP is Socialist. and then they have the Green.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Party and then they have Bloc Quebecois.

>> Fred Jackson: Bloc Quebecois.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Quebecois.

>> Fred Jackson: All right, there are about 50, federal seats in the province of Quebec, but the Parti Quebecois pretty well controls that block.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.

>> Fred Jackson: All right.

>> Tim Wildmon: But those who don't know Canada is the parliamentarian system, of government. So it's not, it's, it's not exactly like we have here in the US with representatives, who are voted on every two and six years and president over four years. It's different, but so it looks like a fairly tight race. I mean, three points to me is.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Well then there's the People's Party. So you've got the Capital Liberal and Capital C Conservative.

>> Fred Jackson: Yes.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Then you got New Democrat, New Democrat Block, Quebecois, Green and People's Party. All those seem like they might be.

>> Fred Jackson: And the People's Party is kind of Conservative too.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Oh, it is. Okay.

>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.

>> Ed Vitagliano: All right.

>> Fred Jackson: Yep.

>> Tim Wildmon: There's also the Hockey Party.

>> Ed Vitagliano: I see here all of those.

>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, that's a party. Yeah, hockey, they're all hockey.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Hockey is a party.

>> Tim Wildmon: hockey is a party. All right. You're listening to today's issues on the American Family Radio Network. So that's what's happening. Big day for our, that's today, right?

>> Fred Jackson: That is today up there. And they they had to have an election by law by October of this year. But Justin Trudeau was so unpopular he agreed to resign back there about two, three months ago.

Pierre Poliev says the polls are all wrong ahead of tonight's election

>> Ed Vitagliano: All right, so let me just ask you a quick question. So is this the kind of thing where they have to have, if they don't get 50%, they have to have coalitions.

>> Fred Jackson: Yes. Ah, much like, we see in Israel. Yeah, Israel is much more complicated.

>> Tim Wildmon: Great Britain too.

>> Fred Jackson: Right, Great Britain, the same type of thing. And what happened last time, actually in the last election, the Liberal Party did not get the majority, but the New Democratic Party Joined up with it. Yeah, to give them the power. So we'll have to see what happens tonight. Now, the crowds that have been turning out for Pierre Poliev have been huge. Six, seven, eight thousand people showing up for his rallies. He is saying the polls are all wrong. That the polls, believe it or not, they have very liberal media in Canada.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Like they have here.

>> Fred Jackson: and so as it is, newspapers up there, very left wing. the Globe and Mail newspaper would be Canada's New York Times. And so their polling has favored, Carney. in this, the. The optimists for the conservative side believe that Pierre Poliev will win. there, you know, those who are following the polls say, no, Carney's going to win. we will wait and see.

There is a lack of trust between this White House and the mainstream media

>> Tim Wildmon: All right, next story.

>> Fred Jackson: Well, on Saturday night in Washington, S.

>> Tim Wildmon: A T U R D A.

>> Fred Jackson: Yes.

>> Tim Wildmon: Ah, what, am I the only one?

>> Ed Vitagliano: Bay City Rollers.

>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: Remember that?

>> Ed Vitagliano: Ah, it's a great song.

>> Tim Wildmon: Great roller skating song.

>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: Go ahead. I'm sorry, Fred.

>> Fred Jackson: It was the annual correspondence dinner. Now, in the past, presidents have attended that dinner and other White House officials.

>> Tim Wildmon: It's a roast.

>> Fred Jackson: And it used to be a roast.

>> Ed Vitagliano: You know, comedian roast.

>> Tim Wildmon: Of politicians in particular, whoever the president is.

>> Fred Jackson: Yes.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.

>> Fred Jackson: However, it was a somber occasion this year. No comedians and no president, ah, at all. They were invited, but, they do. But guess what? There is a lack of trust between this White House and the mainstream media. Well, Axios reporter Alex Thompson won an award for good journalism at this, correspondence dinner on Saturday night. But he got up and gave a little bit of a confession that perhaps we didn't cover the Biden administration the way that we should. So I wanted to play you a little bit of that. It's going to be cut. Number 10, myself included, missed a lot of this story.

>> Speaker G: We bear some responsibility for faith in.

>> Fred Jackson: The media being at such lows. What he's talking about there is that, we did not cover Joe Biden's mental decline the way we should have. That, we didn't regard that as a deception being promoted by Biden's people. That you remember, Biden's people were saying, hey, he's great. He's really sharp. you know, Nancy Pelosi at one point, he's really sharp as attack. And of course, Karine Jean Pierre, that bastion of integrity, always, was defending Joe Biden every day. but Thompson's get up. And you know what was really interesting? We didn't hear it in that clip when he did this little bit of self confession. There was only a plight, a, polite applause. in other words, there wasn't an endorsement that we didn't do our job. Oh, no. Most people in that room believe. Well, they covered Biden. Right.

>> Tim Wildmon: Well, of course, neutrality in journalism, which used to be something that was lauded, and taught even when I was in journalism school. Certainly when you were Fred. We were taught, you know, get both sides of the story. don't show your bias in your news. Now there's a place for showing your bias as long as people know that's what you're doing. You know what I'm saying?

>> Ed Vitagliano: Op Ed.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. An editorial comment or an opinion show or something. We all know what Sean Hannity's gonna. He's not trying. Sean Hannity's not gonna. Fox. Not gonna try to play it down the middle.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.

>> Tim Wildmon: You know what I'm saying? So. And his audience knows that, and he doesn't say it, so that's fine. But if you're going to be, a neutral, try to purport yourself to be a objective news agency, like NBC, abc, CBS or. Or others. And you want to say you give. But here they're saying this. This guy's a. He's a media critic. Who is he?

>> Fred Jackson: Alex Thompson.

>> Tim Wildmon: Of a whole. Which is similar to AP type. Similar, to. It's a news agency anyway, left wing for the most part, but, a news agency that a lot of people look at. But, listen, what he's saying is these people, in the mainstream news media, they did not want to cover Joe Biden's mental decline because they thought it would hurt him in the. In the race against Trump. And the last thing they wanted was Trump being elected.

>> Fred Jackson: Yep.

>> Tim Wildmon: So they needed to protect Biden as much as they could from what became obvious later on. That is, he's on the. He was mentally declining before our very eyes.

>> Fred Jackson: And that June debate forced the media to.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yep, it did.

>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: I don't know why, but never did that debate. Be honest with you. I wouldn't have.

>> Ed Vitagliano: It's. It's a kind of ridiculous, though, at this point to be confessing this.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.

>> Ed Vitagliano: No, when it's clear that this is what they did.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right.

>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.

All right. Stay with us for more on this developing story

>> Tim Wildmon: All right. we shall return with, Steve Paisley Jordan, coming up in five minutes after the news. Stay with us.

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