Tim Wildman: Steve was trying to explain origins of anti Semitism
>> Ed Vitagliano: Today's Issues continues on AFR with your
>> Steve Jordahl: 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. I'm Tim with Ed and Wesley. Last names are not important. Steve Paisley Jordal.
>> Steve Jordahl: Mine is apparently middle name.
>> Tim Wildmon: Middle names are important. And if your name is Paisley.
>> Steve Jordahl: That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: there you go. so you're listening to Today's Issues here on the American Family Radio Network. Yes, Ed.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, I just wanted to. I promised before the break. We were almost out of time. I was trying to explain some of the origins of anti Semitism in Europe and in the wider West. Now, talking about the history of the Jewish people in Europe after they were, you know, settled there. but I. In case someone thinks I was making that up about Jews, not largely, but being very influential in banking in Europe and this kind of slander that they control the money and therefore run the governments around the world. This was from Hannah Arendt. I've, been reading, a book she wrote, Origins of Totalitarianism. And she's long been dead. I think she died in the 70s. But she was a German and Jewish, historian and political, scientist, philosopher. One of the probably most influential thinkers, of the last century. But she was laying out the history of her own people in Europe and how the idea kind of sprang up that the Jews control the money and thus they are in charge of governing the world. And the kind of anti Semitism we have today, I think largely still flows from some of that kind of ethnic slander of the Jews. But Hannah Arendt, a R E N D T, if you can find some of her books. The paperbacks are still available, but I managed to find a, very reasonably priced hardcover. But there's a fascinating history of the Jews in Europe and how that resulted in Hitler and Stalin's and some of the others, anti Semitism.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, Steve, go ahead.
>> Steve Jordahl: Hey, good morning, everybody.
>> Tim Wildmon: Good morning, Steve.
One of the Senate seats in Texas is up for election in November
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, while you guys were talking about, war and while, the world is trying to figure itself out, Texas had their primaries yesterday. And, so, in November, every House seat is up for election.
>> Tim Wildmon: Ah.
>> Steve Jordahl: And one of the Senate seats in Texas is up for election. there was a runoff. There was the primaries. Democrats voted for Democrats, Republicans voted for Republicans. And they had some interesting results. So in the Senate, the Republican Senate was a hotly contested, affair. we had. The current Texas senator, John Cornyn was running against Ken Paxton, who's a longtime politician in Texas. but has come up with quite some baggage in the last, year or so. And, the, third candidate, was Wesley Hunt, a conservative. Good one. But, he is out of the running. There is a runoff, for these two between John Cornyn and Ken Paxton. They're headed for a runoff. And, they are, at this point, it's pretty close. But John Cornyn had a little bit of a lead, a momentum, which is good news, I think. I don't think that, the, Republicans were looking forward to trying to defend Ken Paxton, and his baggage.
>> Tim Wildmon: You just gave your own personal opinion, Steve, and that doesn't reflect ours necessarily. Well, I know this is an awkward moment.
>> Steve Jordahl: No, I. No. Well, I'm just. I'm not trying to opinionate. I'm trying to say that this is what I've.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, you said.
>> Ed Vitagliano: You.
>> Tim Wildmon: You said that it's good because Paxton has baggage.
>> Steve Jordahl: I'm saying that.
>> Tim Wildmon: And Cornyn is a, doesn't.
>> Steve Jordahl: I'm saying that. That's what I'm reading out there. It's not. I haven't Trump saying.
>> Tim Wildmon: Some people say.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Okay, you're not helping the awkward moment.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, let me just set it straight. And Steve. Yeah, Steve has a right to his opinion. Sure. Right.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Absolutely.
>> Tim Wildmon: I'm just saying that, people. Yes, Ken Paxton did. The Attorney General of Texas did have baggage. marital problems that he had,
>> Steve Jordahl: that I wasn't going to get specific.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, everybody knows this came into play here, and, he. And the first politician to experience this. But, he was. Anyway, it's a close situation, and some people don't like Cornyn because they think he's, establishment guy to. Not conservative enough. So they voted for Paxton even though they would have had problems with his personal life.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: So it's a. It's a, I don't. So anyway, it was a tie. Right. And now they're gonna have a runoff.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yes, within a point. Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, so that's coming up. What happened on the Democrat side, Steve?
>> Steve Jordahl: That was pretty interesting because Jasmine Crockett, who is a current congressman, congresswoman from Texas, she's the one that is quite, She's kind of. Kind of a squad type. everything is racial with her. And she was running against James Talarico, who is being billed as the moderate, and, he has, won the race. Jasmine Crockett lost the race.
>> Ed Vitagliano: It was 50, pretty significantly.
>> Steve Jordahl: 53 to 46, basically. now, James Tallarico has been, quoted. He uses his faith a lot, but he is so far from, an, orthodox faith. He believes in abortion. He, believes in gay marriage, and he tries to use scripture to justify all of these things. So I wouldn't call him a moderate. But James Talarico is going to be running in the November election against whoever wins the runoff between Cornyn and.
>> Tim Wildmon: What happens now to Jasmine.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Jasmine.
>> Tim Wildmon: Jasmine Crockett. Because she gave up her House seat to run for a Senate. Right.
>> Steve Jordahl: She did give up her House seat. And, she is now out of politics, which means I'm sure she'll be hitting the. The circuit.
>> Wesley Wildmon: It's just frustrating. We need people like, we need Democrats like her to win more because it helps us out. It really does.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I will say this. I think Talarico is a real threat in this.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's what I'm saying.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah. Because.
James Talarico did well with Latino voters, according to one consultant
>> Wesley Wildmon: And Jasmine's less of one.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Wesley Wildmon: She's more of a clown.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah. It's a good way of putting it. Because her views are clownish. Her behavior sometimes is clownish.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Right.
>> Ed Vitagliano: It's easy to mock it.
>> Tim Wildmon: She's gone.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I know, but what, Wesley's saying is we. If you're a conservative and you believe in real people like her. Yeah. And what the Bible actually says, what I, the reason I say James Talarico is, is a threat is because I've watched him. He's very articulate. He is. Thinks quick on his feet.
>> Tim Wildmon: What does he do now? What's his job now? Is he a representative or something?
>> Ed Vitagliano: I don't know.
>> Steve Jordahl: I'll have to check that.
>> Ed Vitagliano: But, and he talks Christianese. And this is going to be difficult for even a lot of Bible believing Christians to sift.
>> Wesley Wildmon: These bigger cities too.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah. In these bigger cities, Dallas. I think he could be a real
>> Tim Wildmon: threat, to women, Paxton or Cornyn.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I think so. I haven't seen initial polls.
>> Tim Wildmon: Also, the Republicans are,
>> Steve Jordahl: Tellarico is a member of the, Texas House of Representatives.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Okay.
>> Tim Wildmon: So he's a state legislator.
>> Steve Jordahl: State legislator also in this race. Did very well with a Latino vote. He's not Latino, but, we have a cut here of Eryn McGuire, a political consultant who says that Talarico did well with Latinos and the Republicans should watch out because he could siphon off quite a few Latino votes. They're not taken for granted in Texas anymore. Cut 13.
The Latino vote in Texas is going to be a key indicator in runoff
>> Pam Bondi: There's a lot of big stories coming out right now out of last night election, and one of them is going to be the Latino vote in Texas. That's really what propelled James, James Talarico over Jasmine Crockett and Jasmine Crockett is set to likely. You know, this will likely be the end of her political career as we know it. She had to not run in the primary for her House seat. So I imagine you'll see her leftist nonsense all over the news going forward, including her election denialism here. But that Latino vote you see in Texas is going to be a key indicator going not only into the runoff for Republicans, but also into the general election. This is a base that moved quite frequently. You saw a big move in the 2024 election for those Latino voters toward Republicans. And are we going to see that pendulum swing back with this. With this runoff coming in May, you will see what is going to continue to be one of the most expensive primary in US History. All eyes on Texas.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, if the Republicans lose that Senatecy, that would be a big blow, because that's. Texas is still a red state.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Would then also be a surprise as well.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, it would be. It'd be an upset. I understand what Ed's saying. I don't disagree that it'll probably be close. And this, James Talarico is a formidable opponent for either Paxton or, Cornyn Corn. And whoever wins that runoff there. And they're in. They were in a dead heat, those two guys. So, I hope they don't. Well, I don't. Anyway, I was going to say I hope those two don't just destroy each other. Yeah. Slice and dice. But I mean, that's going to happen. That, you know, they're going to go anyway. All right, go ahead, Steve.
>> Steve Jordahl: Just to finish up Dan Crenshaw, who has left the Maga 10 a while ago. He lost his primary, so he's not going to be in there. On the other side, if you're a baseball fan, Mark Teixeira, former major league baseball player, has, he picked up a, He's going to be running, for a seat in a, In Texas.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, he's replacing Chip Roy.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yes, thank you.
>> Tim Wildmon: Chip Roy, the congressman from Texas. Ah, very conservative guy. He's going to run for attorney general, I think, of the state of Texas. So he's going to leave Washington and go to Austin. So, anyway, next story, Steve.
Steve Bannon recently said ICE should be deployed at the polls in next election
>> Steve Jordahl: All right. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was at the Senate yesterday, and, she was answering questions about, ICE and things. Still, the Democrats still upset a little bit about that. And I wanted to play you a couple clips. Let's start with this one. Senator Krish Coons thought he had, maybe a little Gotcha moment. When he asked her, would you please pledge that you're not going to put ICE or Border Patrol agents in polling places? Like we don't want you to do that. And, listen to her response. Cut 15.
>> Tim Wildmon: Steve Bannon, long an advisor to the president, one of his earliest public supporters, recently said that ICE should be deployed at the polls in the next election.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Will you rule out the deployment of
>> Tim Wildmon: ICE or CBP to polling places this November?
>> Kristi Noem: There are no plans to have ICE officers at our polling locations.
>> Tim Wildmon: And I'm glad you hear that. But would you rule it out? Would you say it will not happen?
>> Kristi Noem: Do you plan on illegal aliens voting in our elections? I do not, in fact, unless you plan on illegal alien voting.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, well, that's a great. He picked up the dart and threw it right back at him and got
>> Ed Vitagliano: him right between the eyes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right between the eyes. And then he started to quote the Heritage foundation with the liberals hate them. But that's a conservative think tank in Washington. But it will good for her. You know, the Christie gnome there, she's the, Homeland Security, what am I saying?
>> Steve Jordahl: Secretary of Homeland Security.
>> Tim Wildmon: I mean, that's a cabinet level position. And President Trump, President Trump has stuck by her despite the fact she's been under siege from the, Democrats in particular and the left wing media. And they, they've called her ICE Barbie from day one. And I would say these left wing groups who call her ICE Barbie, the news media, if it were a Democrat woman, Right. Who's running, the agency, you think they would call her Barbie?
>> Ed Vitagliano: No, it's very disrespectful.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right. It'd be a feminist sexist attack.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: And so. But the Democrats and the liberal media are fine with, demeaning her in that way. Listen, she said she's had to, defend the agency because. Primarily because we had these two killings. Killings, in Minnesota and, when Ms. And Minneapolis, that got, you know, everybody knows about those. Those two people lost their lives and that's that those actions, are still being investigated as to what led up. Right. We do know that those two people who, who died were shot and they were, they had been physically confronting ICE agents. That's why they were out there. They were trying to prevent ICE from doing their jobs, to put their bodies between whoever ICE was going after. And I've. Now, I've not understood that part of the. I know we're going to get off on this, but, in. Wesley, feel free to comment. Just. Steve, Ed, what, the people that are. It's one thing to have an opinion about ISIS actions, I guess. but it's. It's another thing to. I'm gonna. I'm gonna go out there today and I'm gonna find me an ICE agent or two, and I'm gonna spit in their face. I'm gonna get between them, I'm gonna call them the pigs that they are. And, so I get my car, and that's what I'm off to do.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Why? What motivates that? Because what if ICE is going after a. A child molester or a rapist or a drug dealer or somebody involved in human trafficking? You're going to prevent ice, Wesley? You're. You really want to go prevent ICE from arresting those people, getting them off the streets? What, what, what's the motivation here?
>> Wesley Wildmon: The ones that we are referring to that are going to that degree are radicalized. I believe. Now, I will say this, though. There are a lot of. There are a lot of people in the Democrat Party that have not quite made that connection yet. But here's why. Here's why I know that I saw. I saw a video the other day of a man, on the street, and he was walking through D.C. and then he had. He was. He was presenting himself as, getting a petition, getting petition names to get those that were deported to come back. That was his position. And he said, basically went around, there's 15, 20 people, Washington, D.C. and was like, hey, I'm trying to get those that were deported back to the United States, illegal immigrants that were deported back. Would you sign this petition for me? And they began signing it. And as they were signing it, he said, also, I'd like to make you aware of this, just so you know, he had actual illegal immigrants with actual names with actual criminal records. And he began to read them off. And in each video, they would pause as they were signing the signature. They would say, well, if he's been convicted for murder, we don't want that. And so there was this ongoing. They were. They were just as surprised that they had a criminal record and associating with, bringing them now. Well, if they've already made it over, we'll just leave them there, you know?
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Wesley Wildmon: And then one of them that said, there was a couple that said, well, absolutely deserves a second chance, blah, blah, blah. Then he said, well, that's great, because the next question I have is, we're looking for a place for them to stay when they get back. And he asked him, would they host them at their Home. And at that point, even the person that said bring them back was like, well, not at my home. And so my point is they were. I was surprised to see how many people were still associating ice with deporting families that have been here for 10 years that are just for no reason at all.
Durbin: There is still ignorance on the other side on this issue
Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Just willy nilly. Because they don't like them.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Because they just don't like them. And so there is still a bit of a com. I would say at this point, purposeful ignorance, not wanting to know the answer. There is still that on the other side. That's just so that is if you
>> Tim Wildmon: can find that Brent Creely, our producer here, and we'll put it on our Today's Issues Facebook page. But that, you know, actions speak louder than words. that is genius. Somebody to say, would you sign my petition so that we can get all the people who are deported by the Trump administration, Can we bring them back to the US and they start signing it. And then you say, oh, by the way, they are a convicted murderer, a rapist. rapist.
>> Wesley Wildmon: One was a drug dealer, sex offender.
>> Tim Wildmon: And then. So that can imagine that person signing it, getting halfway through their name going, wait on him. Wait just a minute, I'm signing to bring who back. He did what? that is that. But that proves the point.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, also, because I have seen other videos too. I don't know if you've seen these, where someone will come with the camera and microphones and all that, and with a group of people, they get off a bus and they go to a house. Have you guys seen these? And. And they say, hey, I understand that you signed something. And about,
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Supporting illegal immigrants who have been deported.
>> Tim Wildmon: We brought them to your home.
>> Ed Vitagliano: We brought them to your home. And they're all like, oh, no, no, no, not here. And yeah. And shutting the door. I think a lot of Americans, are. They are. They're not deep thinkers. I'm not saying we are.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Let's go with this issue.
>> Tim Wildmon: They watch Joy, Sonny and Whoopi. I'm saying, I'm saying Joyce, Sonny, who.
>> Ed Vitagliano: They're on their phones and they're getting bits and pieces and they make decisions and they're not digging down into who's actually getting deported and why.
>> Tim Wildmon: Having an emotional reaction.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Now, let me, let me be rarely be critical though, of, the Trump administration. I do think that on this issue, they could do a lot better job of communicating what they're doing and how in the process and the steps in which they're doing. I still am very aggravated that we have not yet to have. if you've seen this stop, say, no, it's happened. And I'll say I'm wrong. Then I've yet to see a thorough. I'm Talking about a 45 minute hour press conference with predominantly individuals that are being deported in their criminal record. And the ones that are like, as they're being toted out, like, that's the kind of communication and, I would
>> Ed Vitagliano: expect that's public relations.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Public relations.
>> Tim Wildmon: I agree with that. I think some of that is the liberal news media don't want to cover that.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's true.
>> Tim Wildmon: They want to because that they want to have the Trump administration blame so that it hurts them in the midterms. I'm talking about the liberal news media and the Democrats. They don't care that you arrested five murderers.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: They only care that you, maybe you detain one person who's not, guilty or are not as guilty as you. Sure they are. And then they say, see what ICE is doing? They're arresting fathers of kindergarteners who were on their way to a soccer game and.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah. And they pulled them and they left the child by themselves.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: go ahead, Steve.
>> Steve Jordahl: To that point, my pointer. All your point, but yours particularly.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, thank you. No, I'm not looking for.
>> Ed Vitagliano: We, know you're not.
>> Tim Wildmon: I'm not looking for, you know, attention. I just wanted to know whose point you were.
>> Steve Jordahl: Kristi Noem M and Senator Dick Durbin had, an interaction a little more calm than the ones we've had before. But Dick Durbin rolled out this. 85% of ICE arrests are for people who don't have a criminal record. And Kristi Noem set him straight on this point. Cut 14.
>> Tim Wildmon: Let me ask you about the fact that 85% of the 400,000 immigrants that ICE arrested during President Trump's first term in office had no violent criminal record. The President said over and over at his rallies, we're going after the worst of the worst. The terrorists, the murderers, the rapists. And then it turns out that 85% of the people you've gone after have no criminal history whatsoever. How do you explain that, sir?
>> Kristi Noem: When you talk about violent crimes, what you're saying, the crimes that don't matter, that you aren't counting, are ones that affect American families every single day. You're not counting DUIs, you're not counting embezzlements, you're not counting, theft, and drug trafficking and Proliferating that. So if you don't count those as crimes that these individuals and impacting families in this country, they are counted, and
>> Tim Wildmon: they calculate 14% of those.
>> Kristi Noem: Those are not counted. In your 14%, if you were counting crimes that these individual illegal aliens in this country have committed, it would be well over 65 to 70% of the individuals that are detained today have those crimes on their record besides the crime of being in this country.
>> Tim Wildmon: Can, you back that up with some information for me?
>> Kristi Noem: Absolutely. I, will.
>> Tim Wildmon: I certainly hope you will.
Tim Ferriss: Democrats drifting towards hatred for women over transgender issue
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, Ice Barbie didn't come to play Patty cake.
>> Tim Wildmon: You're not calling her Barbie.
>> Steve Jordahl: No.
>> Tim Wildmon: The liberal news.
>> Ed Vitagliano: That's probably. You know, what? Democrats continue to, by the way, Democrats have started drifting towards a kind of hatred and a form. A kind of hatred for women, at least when it comes to transgenders playing in women's sports. This is almost completely looped back around to saying women don't count. And. And so I'm not sure the Democratic party can claim to support women when they insult women in power just because they're conservative. Talking about calling Kristi Noem Ice Barbie and the transgender issue.
>> Wesley Wildmon: It proves that ideology is more important than gender.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Wesley Wildmon: For in this case, because they're criticizing her, not because the traditional feminists from the. From the left side was support women at all costs.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Wesley Wildmon: And now if they have a different ideology, then we don't.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Why are they calling her Ice Barbie? Because, I'm just saying, relatively speaking, Christine ome is a beautiful lady, and she wears makeup, and. And her hair looks good. It's not cut off like a man's hair. And these are the kind of women that they don't like, especially if they're conservative.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yep.
>> Tim Wildmon: Thank you, Steve.
>> Steve Jordahl: My pleasure.
>> Tim Wildmon: We're out of time.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I don't like chick fil A. Huh? My pleasure.
>> Wesley Wildmon: My pleasure.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's true. That's what they say every day.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Can't get them. You can't get them to not say it.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right. thank you, Wesley.
>> Wesley Wildmon: You're welcome.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Thank you.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Absolutely.
>> Tim Wildmon: As always. And I like your attitude and your spirit. M too. And I, really do thank you, Tim. They means a lot, I would say today on this show, you were a
>> Ed Vitagliano: bright, shining star that burned out towards the end of the program. Well, but you shown for a while.
>> Tim Wildmon: An hour and 28 minutes. You were there.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And thanks for that. Five minute. Five minutes I had left to explain anti Semitism.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes. Ladies and gentlemen, we're out of time, and we thank you for yours. And we will see you back here tomorrow. Keep listening to AFR.
