If we lose this cultural war, we're going to have a hedonistic society
>> Ed Vitagliano: If we lose this cultural war, we're going to have a hedonistic, humanistic society.
>> Jeff Chamblee: Discover the story of the culture warrior, Don Wildmon and how he went head to head with Hollywood playboy, the homosexual agenda and the Disney empire. The movement Don started paved the way for Christians to boldly stand for truth and righteousness in a hostile culture. Watch Culture Warrior today for free. Visit culturewarrior movie.
Today's Issues offers a Christian response to the issues of the day
>> Jeff Chamblee: Welcome to Today's Issues, offering a Christian response to the issues of the day.
>> Tim Wildmon: Huh?
>> Jeff Chamblee: 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 to afr. I'm M. Tim Wildmon. M. And in studio with me is Ed Battagliano. Good morning, Brother Ed.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Good morning, Tim.
>> Tim Wildmon: And Krish Woodward. Good morning.
>> Chris Woodward: Good morning.
Let's talk about the weather. Just three brains here today to tell you what's happening
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, that's it, people. Just three of us. That's it. Just three brains here today to tell you what's happening in our world and a lot to talk about, a lot going on, including the weather. Let's talk about the weather. Just a minute. I stepped, outside where we are. Yes, I know we have listeners all over the country and weather's different, but it is where we are. There were snow flurries falling.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: From the sky.
>> Chris Woodward: I need to leave to get some bread. Hold on.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, the bread and eggs. Bread and egg. Milk. so, we've, we've had this cold, front move through the country now and wreaking havoc on the travel and everything like that, and bringing old man Winter back for his one last stand, hopefully, at least for us here, huh?
>> Ed Vitagliano: is encore. And that's after like 15 straight days of it being 16 degrees above normal. I mean, we got wasps already coming
>> Tim Wildmon: out and, the flowers are starting to bloom. The trees are getting buds on them and the grass is growing.
>> Chris Woodward: Smell the Bradford pears.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Oh, yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: But two day, a couple days from now and then, I think most of the country is going to warm back up again. Yeah, it looks like. So I listen, I don't mind an
>> Ed Vitagliano: early spring myself, as long as we get some spring. I don't want to just dive headlong into summer. I don't want it to be 90 degrees. Let's have some 70s, a little bit cool mornings, and I'll be happy I'm here.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, I'm here for that.
America is a big country in terms of variety of ecosystems and weather temperatures
All right. Well, did any tornado strike yesterday?
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah, there were some, tornadoes, reported in various parts of the country, a lot of high winds, Some places got hit with a lot of snow. And believe it or not, folks out in the Southwest today are being warned about a heat advisory.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, that's why I said in our story meeting, America is a big country in terms of the variety of, ecosystems and weather temperatures.
>> Tim Wildmon: Break it down, Ed. Break it down.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, you're just going to get a real, it's kind of.
>> Tim Wildmon: We're here for it.
>> Ed Vitagliano: It's a melting pot in the water
>> Tim Wildmon: ecosystems around the country.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, for example, the, ecosystem in NewSong Mexico is one of the most varied in, the world. You can get snow, you've got desert, you've got. So, it's, I just want to say America is a big, varied place. And folks, that's what you're tuning in to this show for is that kind of analysis, that kind of depth of thinking of meteorology.
American Family Radio is gathering listener stories for its spring Share a Thon
All right, before we, before we go, to the news of the day, folks, I do want to let you know, you've been hearing it on AFR, in April, April 7, 8 and 9, we're having our spring Share a thon. Whatever the weather is, we're having our share a thon. And so what we're doing at this point, we're gathering stories to play during, on the air during our spring Share a thon. We'd like to hear from you. And, so here's the question we're asking you to, just wax eloquent about. Has the Lord used American Family Radio in your life? Has God impacted you through this ministry? If so, we'd like to hear your AFR story. Could be a blessing. It will certainly be a blessing to the people who work here, but it could be a blessing and an encouragement to others. So how do you do that? Well, call 877-876-8893. That's our Listener Storyline 877-876-8893 and share for a minute or two, folks. It's got to be short and sweet, and you might hear yourself during shareathon. So call, Share your testimony, your listener story for a minute or two, 877876, 8893. And you might hear yourself during Sheriff on. Thank you.
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Iranian drone strike on Dubai airport temporarily halts flights
All right, Krish, what's happening, man?
>> Chris Woodward: Well, we, we do have a ton of things to go over that relate to the war or conflict with Iran. one of the things that we were just talking about here before the show was this, Iranian drone strike that took out a fuel tank at the airport in Dubai, temporarily halting flights, destroyed, a fuel, tanker there. Huge explosion, massive fire. they have been working to get, it out, and I think, they're being successful in that effort. but this was, not what you needed at a time of busy, air travel season at a place like Dubai. For those that are not aware of, Dubai is a, pretty busy travel hub for people flying to and from the area.
>> Tim Wildmon: What area would that be, Krish?
>> Chris Woodward: The Middle East. The United Arab Emirates.
>> Tim Wildmon: I got you. Just wanted people to know. We know our geography as well as our meteorology.
>> Chris Woodward: I know the ecosystem there as well.
>> Tim Wildmon: You know the ecosystem?
>> Chris Woodward: It's hot and dry.
>> Tim Wildmon: Listen, Dubai, I think I'm correct when I say this. more passengers go through the Dubai International Airport daily than any other airport in the world. I'm hesitant to. I can't confirm that because Atlanta's. Atlanta is pretty big. To Heathrow, Heathrow, London Airport. Type in,
>> Ed Vitagliano: Okay.
>> Tim Wildmon: Type in that.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I did, Tim. I anticipated this question. Dubai International Airport is the world's busiest airport for international passenger traffic, having handled 95 million passengers, passengers in 2025, a record that solidified its dominance. So for that to be shut down, that's going to put a real.
>> Tim Wildmon: It's kind of the crossroads of, of between Asia and Europe, and, Africa. And I don't know, maybe there's some direct flights to North America from Dubai. Probably is, I'm sure. But it's just, it's a major. What's the number one most traveled international airport in the world? So, yeah, for them to be, have a drone hit on a oil tanker which supplies, you know, the gasoline to the jets, and just not to mention the terror that those people inside the airport are probably experiencing right now. That's that. So that was sent over compliments of Iran.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Chris Woodward: Yes. It's actually the third attack on this airport since February 28th.
>> Tim Wildmon: Why is Iran mad at, Dubai, Ed? And Dubai is a city within the United Arab Emirates.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. United Arab Emirates, country, go ahead.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I'm just guessing because the uae, United Arab Emirates, is considered kind of pro Western, and so they're not radical like Iran. And now Iran has released a statement or two saying we are not attacking our neighbors, talking about in the Middle east because we're mad at them, but because they are helping the United States and Israel. So I, I. Other than that, I mean, that's a guess as to why they, it is right across the strait from, of Hormuz. So, the nation of Iran is directly north across that strait. And so maybe. Maybe they're doing it kind of to let everyone know, if we want to cut that straight off and all traffic stopped, we can do it.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. I don't know how much the UAE is helping us, be the United States, in this effort, in this, war with a small w, I guess you could say, in Iran. But, that. That is. Listen, there's no love loss between the Sunnis and the Shias, okay?
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Two. Two large branches of Islam. The Sunnis are the Arab countries, basically. The Shia are the Persian countries, basically. And, so they have a rivalry of their own. People think. A lot of people in the United States think, oh, the Muslims, as if they're monolithic.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: They're not. and so many of the Arab countries, they don't want, Iran having a nuclear weapon either. That's why they've not come out opposed to the United States or Israel, attacking, Iran here. So, that's, But they. If you launch a drone and you hit the Dubai airport, that's kind of scary for the people there, you know, and for. Go ahead.
Drones are changing the face of warfare, Ed says
>> Ed Vitagliano: I was going to say these drones are. They're kind of changing the face of warfare, to some extent, you know. M. Warfare, Modern warfare since, maybe the first Gulf War, has really been a, matter of technology. And whoever has the most technologically agile, aircraft, for example, and aircraft that, is, you know, is invisible to radar, cruise missiles, all that kind of hypersonic missiles, whoever has the best, fastest, most technologically advanced, they're the ones who were pretty much seen to be able to dominate the battlefield. But these far less expensive drones equipped
>> Tim Wildmon: with a warhead, they're basically kamikaze, aren't they?
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, I mean, there's no one in them, so nobody's like, dying in it. But they are, one. To your point, you.
>> Tim Wildmon: They explain themselves. M. Yes.
>> Ed Vitagliano: They're done when they. They're not dropping anything, they're hitting something and detonating. But. But they're, Iran has hundreds and hundreds, maybe thousands. Now we have kind of degraded that capability somewhat. But a country like Iran can have, thousands of drones, and you have to use expensive missiles to knock them out or they can do this kind of damage. And Ukraine was, for example, using these to take out Russian tanks. And it is, to some extent, changing the face of warfare. And they swarm defenses.
>> Tim Wildmon: I think the days of the Marines storming the Beaches are yesterday. they're no longer, I mean you're going to have I guess troops here or there. But being engaged in war by troops, I mean, you know, battalions on the ground marching from city to city or from. But I think that's basically over. I think we're in the era, of what you would call smart warfare. By that I mean computer, as you said, Ed, computer generated, launching missiles and drones from far off distances.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: so that there aren't not putting your own military personnel in harm's way.
>> Ed Vitagliano: You can, you can, you can take trucks, 18 wheelers and have them designed to open up from the top. You can, you countries can park that 18 wheeler somewhere and then remotely have swarms of drones come out of the back of that 18 wheeler. now those are less destructive than the bigger ones that can hit, targets. But it is changing. Like you're saying, Russia found out that now they've done a lot of damage, killed a lot of people in the Ukraine war, but they've been bogged down in a lot of places because it's just the days of maybe just tanks m, swarming over a battlefield. I don't know if they're over, but they certainly, that's, countries have to take into account that your expensive tank could be taken out by a $10,000 little drone.
Wall Street Journal and Daily Mail concerned that Strait of Hormuz could endanger sailors
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, you're listening to today's issues on American Family Radio. Next story. Krish?
>> Chris Woodward: Well, I want to stick with the drone story here for just a moment
>> Tim Wildmon: because you got a drone on and on, are you?
>> Chris Woodward: I am, I am. Bear with me while I, share this important news story, from the Wall Street Journal and Daily Mail. Both of those news outlets, are concerned that the Strait of Hormuz could become a so called kill box for US sailors. President Trump sends deadly warships to battle Iranian drones in that troubled waterway. For those not aware, the Strait of Hormuz is kind of a vital narrow maritime, choke point connecting the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea. And a lot of the world's oil goes through the Strait of Hormuz. President Trump, in a story we have on our website, is actually calling for various countries to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz and ensure that that the words world's oil supply makes it freely through that area. because Iran has already been in trying to sabotage ships going through that part of the world.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, the Strait of Hormuz out, some reason I heard that the narrowest point, which is borders. Iran is 20 miles across.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I think I read that, too.
>> Tim Wildmon: So that's, that's just. You can almost see that far, probably from one side to the other, on a clear day. But it is, it's a strait between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. It provides the only sea passage from the Persian Gulf to the open ocean and is one of the most strategically important choke points. So it's been that way for centuries. So, what did you say? 20% of the world's liquefied, natural gas and 25% of the, oil trade of the world passes through that strait annually?
>> Chris Woodward: Yes. And President Trump talking about this with reporters. I don't have the audio. The quality wasn't great. But he was talking to reporters on board or aboard Air, Force One. He said that we're not really concerned about this in terms of our own oil because we have a large supply.
>> Tim Wildmon: So.
>> Chris Woodward: But in terms of, like, our allies,
>> Tim Wildmon: Europeans, isn't that the reason that gas prices are going up? It is where oil is going up.
>> Chris Woodward: That and speculators that are trying to make a buck, amid this conflict or war.
Some parts of Mississippi saw gas below 2 bucks a gallon before Iran war started
I've got the gas prices in front of me. Today's current average for a gallon of Regular gasoline is $3.71. A month ago, it was $2.92. Some parts of Mississippi were seeing gas below 2 bucks a gallon before this issue with Iran started. And now, you know, $3 and more.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Some people, some people ask, well, how, how come prices jump so quickly when there's something like the Iran war? They jump at the, at the pump. And I remember reading an article about someone who owned a gas station was explaining this, and what they were saying is, yes, it does jump quickly, because, the owner of the gas station has to calculate what they will pay for gas the next time they have to fill those big underground tanks up. and they're going to have to pay the higher price. So they raise the prices at the pump immediately so they can take in more money, so they can pay for the added costs of the next delivery of gas. Because a lot of people get frustrated and they say, well, the prices don't drop that quickly. And I remember reading this, this article and being a little more sympathetic to the local owner of the gas station who doesn't want money coming out of his or her own pocket. So that is why the price jumps so quickly.
>> Chris Woodward: It also came at a really bad time in that it's spring break for a lot of People in the, in this country. So demand is going up because people are going to the beach or taking a road trip or whatever else. It's also that time of year when we are starting to put more stuff in our gas to make it cleaner and better for the environment.
>> Tim Wildmon: I do.
>> Chris Woodward: So it's a perfect storm of gas problems, if you will.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes. and some increase in price in the spring for these other reasons you're talking about is normal and typical and throughout the summer. And then usually it drops back a little bit when you aren't traveling as much.
>> Tim Wildmon: You know who mostly depends on the oil and the natural gas coming through the Strait of Hormuz or Asian countries.
>> Chris Woodward: China is.
>> Tim Wildmon: China, Japan, India, South Korea. Yeah, they're, they're so they have a higher percentage, I believe Iran is letting, without fire fare, as in shooting at them, these tankers come through that are not American, certainly not Israeli, but not American. That's, that's what I've read.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Which goes to the original point you were making and with the story selection that because it's so narrow, American warships would have less time to respond to incoming missiles if those ships, destroyers or what, were going along with tankers accompanying.
>> Tim Wildmon: President Trump has said the we, the American, military will bomb the blank out of, out of Iran should they fire on, I guess American merchant ships. But I wouldn't want to be the first one to go through there.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
CBS News claims the new Ayatollah was not favored by his father
>> Tim Wildmon: So next story. Krish.
>> Chris Woodward: All right, let me mention this one and it's Iran related, but it involves some audio here. Fox ran a, pretty lengthy segment on this, earlier this morning and it's piggybacking off of something CBS reported over the weekend. CBS News claims the new Ayatollah, the son of the guy that was killed in the airstrikes when they started, the
>> Tim Wildmon: son of the Ayatollah.
>> Chris Woodward: There you go.
>> Tim Wildmon: So. Song by Jimmy it is.
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah, the Carpenters. But anyway, so there is a CBS report claiming the new Ayatollah, was not favored or well liked by his father. the slain Ayatollah did not want his son to follow in his footsteps. And again, for people not paying attention to this situation, the son of the Ayatollah has been the. He's been picked, to run the regime. Right. but apparently dad didn't want his son to follow. four reasons that Steve Harrigan explains here.
>> Speaker F: Clip one CBS News citing a U.S. intelligence report that the elder Khamenei, the Ayatollah the Supreme Leader who was killed on the first day of the strikes, never wanted his son to follow in his footsteps. The report says the elder Khamene was wary of his son ever taking power because he was perceived as not very bright and was viewed as unqualified to be leader. According to sources, President Trump speculated that perhaps the younger Ayatollah, the 56 year old Mojtaba, Khamenei, might not even be alive. President Trump telling NBC News, I don't know if he's even alive. So far, nobody's been able to show him. The younger Ayatollah, of course, has not been seen in public since the start of the war.
>> Chris Woodward: Now, we saw one other story and I think it was attributing information to a Korean news outlet. But the Ayatollah may be in Russia getting surgery, getting surgery for wounds suffered in this conflict.
>> Tim Wildmon: well, listen, they're running out of
>> Ed Vitagliano: running, out of Khomeini.
>> Tim Wildmon: They're running out of Khomeini. They're running out. Yeah, and, and I would, I would expect that the volunteer list is you know, is getting short too. I don't think there are many hands going up. No, I'll do it. Hey, Khomeini's out. Hey, sign me up, I'll take the leadership role. Listen, but in all seriousness, this guy, this report is that the Kuwaiti News service, if you believe this, says that he Khomeini's son, the 56 year old who is, I, put in charge, I put that quotations, went to Russia to get treated for his
>> Ed Vitagliano: wounds, who knows, and might have had a leg amputated. So it could be very serious injuries. I, ah, know who knows?
>> Tim Wildmon: The Israelis know.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes, they do. But listen, you, just if you're this guy, the son of the the, the dead Khomeini, the live Khomeini, he's just like, well, thanks dad. Thanks. Thanks for your vote of confidence.
>> Tim Wildmon: I'm dad's dad.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I'm not too smart. listen, I'm looking at a NewSong York Post headline. Trump briefed that Iran's new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei is probably gay. That's on the NewSong York Post. So it's going to be. I'm just saying whether that's true or not, if that's the rumor and if his father, said, my son's dumb, he's dumb as a desert rock.
>> Tim Wildmon: did he say he's dumb? And Gay.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I don't know. But how is this guy going to run the country? How's you not going to have any respect of the military and that kind of stuff? those who are running the country, the Iranian, Republican Guard.
>> Tim Wildmon: And listen, in all seriousness, not that you haven't been serious there, but in all seriousness. And that story. I said that is on the NewSong York Post, this Trump brief that Iran's new supreme leader is, probably gay, which is a. no, no, in Islam. Islam. but m. Listen, we are going to need somebody to negotiate with. this guy doesn't seem like the one, this Khomeini son, because of the reasons we mentioned here. He's probably been hit and injured. I mean, they were. He was targeted, so. But soon we're going to need somebody to negotiate with so that we can end this thing, don't you think?
>> Ed Vitagliano: Oh, absolutely, yeah. There's got to be somebody in charge. Officially, it is the, Ayatollah Allie Khamenei's son that he's in charge, but it doesn't sound like it. To the point of the clip that Krish just played, nobody's seen him. I mean, when he was accepted, when they had a little gathering, they. They had a, like a poster.
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Of him.
>> Chris Woodward: He wasn't. He wasn't there on the stage.
>> Ed Vitagliano: It's, possible he just didn't want to get blown up.
>> Tim Wildmon: I think that's probably it.
>> Ed Vitagliano: It's also possible he's injured in Russia getting surgery, so. But to your point, who's in charge? Who's in charge?
>> Tim Wildmon: Who's in charge? And.
AFR hopes that the war with Iran will be over soon
All right, so a lot happening, in our world, and, certainly we hope and pray that this war will be over soon.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Like in the next couple weeks. Hopefully two to four weeks. I think that would be great if this could be over with, but again, it would be great if we could have somebody from Iran emerge that is a reasonable person that we could negotiate with, settlement with. But who knows if that will happen and who that might be? We'll be back momentarily with more of today's issues on afr.
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>> Tim Wildmon: You know, one thing I don't think you'll see anytime soon is Royal Caribbean advertising a trip through the Strait of Hormuz. I just don't think. Huh? Do you think I don't care how much lobster you're gonna serve? I don't think that's going to be appealing for quite a while. What do you think?
>> Ed Vitagliano: I think you're exactly right. I don't. I don't care what the. If they were giving me two tons of gold, I'm not getting on that cruise ship. Are you that straight?
>> Tim Wildmon: All right. Last week we had a couple of terror attacks on our domestic, on our homeland. One was a situation at Old Dominion University where a man, who was, a Muslim, supremacist, I guess you could say. They, he went in and, shot the, ROTC instructor who was a veteran. Killed him in the name of Allah and Allah Akbar. And, you know, so that happened. And then, there was one dad right there. He was the alone death. Right. A lot of other carnage was saved because the, students in the class attacked. The guy had a gun. But in Michigan, you had a fellow take his automobile, which had explosives, and drive into a Jewish synagogue which had a lot of children there for daycare or, for school, I guess. I'm not sure exactly what. So what Happened there. Krish.
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah. The update with this story is the Israeli military said over the weekend that the brother of the man who drove a truck into the synagogue last Thursday was a Hezbollah commander who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon earlier this month. The, synagogue attacker has been identified as Ayman Mohammed Ghazali, who was a naturalized US Citizen born in Lebanon. Four of his relatives were killed in an Israeli airstrike on March 5. His brother Ibrahim and his two kids, as well as another brother Kassim, are. Have ties with Muslims in Michigan. this could have been really bad. I was actually on vacation. so you guys are the experts on this particular story. But from the reports that I got, while I was out of town, it was. I mean, well, it could have been.
>> Tim Wildmon: It could have been a Sandy Hook.
>> Chris Woodward: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: situation all over again. I mean, I guess. I don't know that the ammunition, that he had in the car didn't detonate or didn't detonate as much as they. He thought it would. But, he. But, the fact that that wasn't a mass casualty situation with a lot of children dead is a miracle.
>> Chris Woodward: It is, yeah. It. And the unfortunate thing is, I think, these kinds of things inspire other radicals to try to do something awful because this one in Michigan followed the shooting in Austin, Texas by a guy that was a sympathizer.
>> Tim Wildmon: You know, let it be pointed out here that you mentioned the last three national stories involving shooters. That people get shot all over America every day. They do usually just garden variety robberies. Right.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Or drug deals.
>> Tim Wildmon: Drug deals. People like gang rivalries. As far as terrorism, motivated, it's been, the Muslim. I, call a Muslim supremacist, because if it's a white person, they call it a white supremacist. So, it's a Muslim supremacist. And old. At Old Dominion in Austin. And now the guy there in, Michigan that we. The story we just discussed. So this is a growing. Of course, this is a growing threat. What gets me is sometimes the media. the media, that's a broad general. But I. Not necessarily the. Just the media, but like the other day when the, FBI agent, I think in Michigan was doing a briefing, she, said we have no idea what the motivation was. And I don't know what the protocols are for releasing information on the motivation of a shooter or a. Would be terrorist of a killer like that. But when a Muslim man drives a car into a Jewish synagogue with, with explosives I don't, this is Captain Obvious. Okay. This is so, but notice oftentimes how the media and the, especially the media, they're hesitant to point out any motivation if it involves Islam. And I'm not, maybe that's my own observation. But they're, but they're not hesitant if there's a, a white person who's a white supremacist. By the way, the white supremacist Joe Biden said is the number one threat to our country.
>> Chris Woodward: He did several times.
>> Tim Wildmon: And we're not hearing anything from them. they're not the white supremacists I'm talking about. They're just, they're not, they just don't seem to be motivated or what. Why are you laughing?
>> Ed Vitagliano: I was trying to keep a straight face for this, but I m mean
>> Tim Wildmon: they're just, they're just not doing anything. They're not to be the number one threat to our country.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: They are really, really just non, non existent.
>> Ed Vitagliano: They're not exactly self starters, are they?
>> Tim Wildmon: No, they don't appear to be ambitious. You know why, I mean we're, why we're saying these things in jail, Mocking the mocking statements, mocking the Biden. Because white supremacists are so few that they don't even, they don't even act out on their, what, what, what Biden and the rest, a lot of the Democrats want to say is the threat because they, they, they, they're just non existent. They don't have, they don't have meetings out there.
>> Ed Vitagliano: They don't, they're not renting the ballroom at the local Ramada.
Graham: I think protocol is correct in these kinds of cases
>> Tim Wildmon: No. And show me where this, where this, where this greatest threat to our country exists. I just think it's, it's, they're
>> Ed Vitagliano: not the greatest threat.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And, and the facts that you're talking, the facts that you're talking about, there are, there aren't meetings, there aren't rallies, statements being issued, they don't go TV shows because it is such a ludicrous statement that Joe Biden made and the Democrats frequently make. Now I will say this, that I think, I think your initial point about protocol is probably correct simply because they may not be able to say with certainty that that's the motive. But also because I'm sure the local district attorney or prosecutors say don't inflame public sentiment because we're going to have to get a jury from the local community and we don't want the defense attorney saying, well, you got them all Steamed because the guy's a Muslim, and that had nothing to do with it. We're calling for a mistrial. I think, I think your first point is I think this is protocol for, these kinds of cases.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. I would just say, if I were, I would say something like, I think we all know what the motive was, but I'm not going to say it. That's what I would say instead of saying, we just don't know. We don't have a clue what the motive is when a, Hezbollah brother of a Hezbollah commander drives his car. They didn't know that at the time, probably. But anyway, next story. Krish.
>> Chris Woodward: Well, it's, it's stories like this that would make you think we need to fund agencies like the Department of Homeland Security. But Democrats, as we have discussed in the show, Graham, on this program for many weeks now, Democrats don't want to fund the Department of Homeland Security because they're concerned about ICE raids, to find and deport illegal immigrants.
>> Tim Wildmon: So they defund ice.
>> Chris Woodward: Yes. And it's gotten to the point that basically we've had government shutdowns now over this, particular situation. and a couple of Senate Democrats, Adam Schiff and Cory Booker, went on Sunday shows over the weekend, to answer questions about they're not wanting to fund dhs. And here's a bit of a montage of Schiff and Booker. Clip 3.
Is it responsible for Democrats to hold up DHS funding with threat of terror attacks
>> Ed Vitagliano: Is it responsible for Democrats to hold
>> Tim Wildmon: up DHS funding with the threat of terror attacks looming during this conflict?
>> Ed Vitagliano: We offered vote after vote, resolution after resolution, even as recently as this week, to reopen those agencies to fund them, and the Republicans voted it down.
>> Speaker F: Isn't it time for Democrats to reopen and refund dhs?
>> Jeff Chamblee: So, first of all, Democrats have tried multiple times to try to get tsa, sisa, the Coast Guard funded. Republicans have refused time and time again to fund. I will not approve another dollar for ice, given all that they're doing.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. I didn't know that. I didn't know what was going on here, by the way. So the Department of Home Online Security, which was created after 9, 11, they're a big, They're a big organization. Okay, so, these TSA agents that are airports, bless their hearts, they are having to work without pay now. They'll get back pay whenever this thing is resolved. government employees always get back pay. But in the meantime, you still got to pay bills. You got to pay bills. And I read where 300 of them had quit because of no pay. They're going on what A month, six weeks without a paycheck. I see what's going on here, though. It's called leverage to political leverage. The, Republicans want a vote on, on funding the whole Department of Homeland Security, which would include ICE and TSA and, I don't know, other. Other branches of the government that, that fall under Homeland Security. And the Democrats want to say we'll fund everything but ice. So they want a bill that will fund everything through ice. so who would you. Well, what would you say there? That's.
>> Ed Vitagliano: This is the way the game is played by both sides. Both sides do this. So you get Republicans on talk shows, they're going to say the same thing. They're going to say, well, we tried to get the Democrats to, you know, to, to fund this, but they keep voting no. Both sides are saying, well, we're trying, but the other side. And in parentheses, what they really mean is like Cory Booker is saying, well, we tried to get the Republican. We try to fund this. The Republicans said no in parentheses, because the Republicans won't do exactly what we want them to do. And the Republicans say the same thing. So this is going to come down to who's going to blink first. And, I'm not sure. I'm not sure who that's going to be. I tend to think the Democrats, because they get, generally speaking, protected by the mainstream media, they usually can last longer than the Republicans.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes.
Do you think the Democrats want any, um, immigration law enforcement at all
Let me ask you this question. Do you think the Democrats want any, immigration law enforcement at all, or do you think they don't? In other words, would they just be fine with, advice didn't exist at all, and there's no organization to arrest, detain and deport people who are here illegally committing crimes? Or do you think they would just assume that the organization not exist?
>> Ed Vitagliano: I think both. I think what they want to do is replace ICE with an organization or with a different government agency, or so severely curtail what ICE can do that they become a shell of their former self. And the reason I say that is because no Democrat is going to. Well, I say no, most Democrats are not going to say, yeah, open borders. We're not. We're not going to deport anyone, no matter what. They're not going to say that. They're going to say, of course we want a secure border. Of course criminals need to go. It's just not going to happen with the current iteration of, Immigration and Customs Enforcement. We need to either swap that out with a new agency or, restrict their activity and until we're, until we're going to. Until we do that, no money for ice, and therefore no money for the government.
>> Chris Woodward: I would say the only time Democrats want things like ICE is when they have a Democrat in office. And I say that based on the fact that back in 2016, when Barack Obama was in the White House, CNN did a ride along with members of ice, ICE officers, to, to do a story on their job, what it is they're tasked with. And CNN things. CNN said things like this, quote, it's part of President Barack Obama's initiative to focus on deporting convicted felons, threats to public safety, and anyone who crossed the border into the US Illegally.
>> Tim Wildmon: What voice were you imitating there?
>> Chris Woodward: A CNN anchor. Okay, so what I'm saying.
>> Tim Wildmon: A female.
>> Chris Woodward: It was. Yeah. Okay, well, I don't know.
>> Tim Wildmon: How could you raise your voice?
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah, anyway, yeah, what I'm saying is
>> Ed Vitagliano: gonna have to just deal with this abuse.
>> Chris Woodward: CNN was fine with it when it was Obama wanting to have raids on people.
>> Ed Vitagliano: On the other hand, that is 10 years ago. I think more Democrats now are in favor of a very porous border.
>> Tim Wildmon: They don't want borders.
>> Ed Vitagliano: They don't. They don't want most of these people who are let in under Biden to go back home deported. But none of them, I don't think, are going to say no, we want the criminals to stay.
>> Chris Woodward: That's true. You would think Democrats would be in favor of funding all kinds of agencies because many of the employees are union members. And the more money they get, the more union members they can hire. And then look at all the jobs we've created for union people.
>> Tim Wildmon: You have a divide in our country. And this is, almost along party lines. Most Republicans, the vast majority of Republicans, want, law and order when it comes to our border. Most Democrats want as many people to come here as want to because borders are immoral to some of them. Borders are what they would call immoral and they shouldn't be borders at all. some of them don't want borders because you have to have border control then. And they would view that as racist, they say, but, well, you're stopping people of color from coming to America, so that's racist. So that's the reason I oppose borders. so you have a divide and used, to. Used to. In this country, probably, I would say 30 years ago, even, even. Even when Bill Clinton was president, Democrats were not crazy, right? Crazy left, just anarchist, basically. they, they were sensible, they were liberal, but they were not Wackadoodles. And that changed over the last, probably. Would you say 10 years, 10 to 15 years after Obama. Obama would be considered a moderate.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes. He might not even get the nomination. No.
>> Tim Wildmon: He wouldn't be left enough.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right. I think it was 10 years ago, Trump, the first election of Donald Trump, his first administration, made the left lose its mind because of the, because the radical left, I would even say a lot of the Democratic Party of the more traditional note, but certainly the radical left of the party hate America. And so Trump with his Make America Great Again, and his America first agenda just made them go insane. And then when it became, obvious in the 2020 primaries for the Democrats that Joe Biden might not win, but Bernie Sanders might win the nomination, Democratic leaders, I think, went to the radical left that were getting young people out to vote and they said, look, if you will get behind Joe Biden, we will open the door to your policies. And yes, and that was the way the radicals got into the Democratic Party. And now they represent the excitement, the energy, foot soldiers, the energy of the Democratic Party. And there's no reigning that back in. And those are the folks who want open borders.
Democratic mayors are forming a coalition to push radical ideas against Trump
>> Tim Wildmon: Next story. Krish all right.
>> Chris Woodward: Expect, to hear more from, mayors in the coming, weeks. And I say that based on the fact that Democratic, mayors, people like Zo, run Mamdani, the Mamdani like mayor out in Seattle, LA's mayor, Chicago's mayor, they've all formed a coalition they're saying is going to push radical ideas, things that we haven't done yet. And they're going to push free stuff and higher taxes for people to pay for free stuff. And they're going to oppose Trump and, in a segment on this today, radical for them. Well, because they're forming a coalition.
>> Tim Wildmon: I got you.
>> Speaker F: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: join together. You're going to join hands Across America.
>> Chris Woodward: Right? So in a segment talking about this, today on Fox and Friends, first, Hannah Faulkner, who's a podcaster on the right, she was brought on to comment about all this.
>> Speaker J: Clip 6 It's really frightening. And I think this raises a broader question of when are we going to define what an American looks like? Is it just a piece of paper? Is it a citizen citizenship, or is it the values that one holds? And I think Charlie Kirk was warning a lot about this leading up to his assassination last September, and that ideas like Islam are diametrically opposed to Western civilization and what our country was founded upon. So if we really want to solve this Crisis. just like the five radical mayors you just mentioned. We're going to have to get back to the heart of it. And what does it mean to be an American citizenship? Is it a citizenship? Is it a piece of paper? Or is it the values that one holds dear?
>> Chris Woodward: Now, I bring that up because we know governors fight the Trump administration on a lot of things, but now even mayors are forming a team, if you will.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, the mayors are more left than the governors. the mayors you just listed out, that's a, that's an all, star
>> Ed Vitagliano: axis of evil right there.
>> Tim Wildmon: Or an all star progressive wackadoodle starting lineup there, you listen there.
>> Chris Woodward: I mean the mayor of Seattle, starting
>> Tim Wildmon: at first, Wacky doodle mayor of Seattle
>> Chris Woodward: said they're not going to let grocery stores close. Like they're not going to let a business make a business decision.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, I don't know. The big cities have always been liberal, but the, these people they're electing now, wow. Just. I don't. They just, the guy Chicago, the guy in NewSong York, the woman, in Boston, the woman in Seattle, the, woman in, I'm sure now when I say all this, I don't know, they may identify something else. I don't know. You know what I'm saying? I keep saying woman.
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: But I don't know what they identify as. It could be the, the. But the woman in, la.
>> Chris Woodward: Karen Bass.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, Karen Bass. so anyway, they, they, they've, they've got, they're destroying their own cities, but they don't realize it. I don't think, I don't think,
>> Ed Vitagliano: I don't think they care. I think this is a hill worth dying justice, baby. That's right. You got to, you want to make an omelet, you got to break a few eggs.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's why they look at it.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I would say, to answer her question, who was this that you were, Hannah Faulkner.
>> Chris Woodward: She is a podcaster.
>> Ed Vitagliano: All right. I think the answer is all three. I think Americans, are citizens. They. When she says just a piece of paper, I think you have to have the proof of that citizenship. And then you need to have American values because that's how a society stays cohesive.
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And it stays together instead of fragmenting. I was looking up this morning, one of the things our founders warned about. I need to go back and read Federalist paper number 10. The Federalist papers, of course were, ah, written, by James Madison, John Jay, and I forget who. The other, the third one. Was, But they were defending the idea of a republic and the political, philosophy of federalism. And I remember reading in college, so I have to go back, but Federalist paper number 10 was about factions in a free society and in a republic. And factions were the bane of all sorts of democratic experiments in the ancient world and even in the, middle, late Middle Ages and on into the modern age. And you have to. In order to protect a republic, you have to have something that unites the people. And you can't have everyone doing their own thing because then the experiment breaks into a million pieces and flies apart.
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: That used to be the Judeo Christian value system that used to unite the country. Not that everybody was a practicing Christian or a practicing Jew, but, the standard of morality and right and wrong, was the Bible. And, that was true up until rebellion came to our country against, the Judeo Christian, value system. You know, 70s, whenever you went, inevitably when man begins to rebel against God. And that's what happened, I'm thinking broadly and generally, but that's what happened starting probably 60s, but in the 70s, certainly. And you could go back, it started earlier than that. But that's basically when open, rebellion against God began to be, acceptable and Christian morality. Right.
>> Ed Vitagliano: You know, you had. In the 50s, you know, you had Hugh Hefner and Alfred Kinsey. Yeah, Alfred Kinsey. And I mean, so we don't.
>> Tim Wildmon: Then the seminaries begin to get liberal.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah. And the law schools.
>> Tim Wildmon: And the law schools. So earlier in the century, that happened in, from 19, 50 to 2000, that, that brought us to the place we are today where we have a culture war going on, raging.
U.S. beat Dominican Republic 8 to 6 in World Baseball Classic semifinal
All right, we got about two minutes. What do you got left, Chris?
>> Chris Woodward: All right, I have some audio of the final out of the World Baseball Classic game between the U.S. and the Dominican Republic. for people that did not catch the game, the U.S. beat the Dominican Republic. And here is the final seconds. clip eight.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Mason Miller's eighth pitch to Perdomo.
>> Tim Wildmon: It is on with the championship.
>> Chris Woodward: I had to bring that in because I love baseball. The sound, by the way, is courtesy of Fox Sports 1, which I'm required to say. Now, what's interesting here is the US Is awaiting the winner of the other semifinal matchup between Venezuela and Italy tonight at 8pm Eastern.
>> Tim Wildmon: We know M. Yeah, apparently I think
>> Ed Vitagliano: they beat the U.S. i need to look that up. go ahead, keep going.
>> Chris Woodward: Whoever wins between Venezuela and Italy, tonight will play the US Tomorrow. World Baseball Classic. The greatest sport on earth?
>> Tim Wildmon: No, baseball. I knew the Italians made pizza. I didn't know they played baseball, Ed. Did you know that?
>> Chris Woodward: Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Oh, man.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, that was. I did not mean that like it sounded.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes, you did.
>> Chris Woodward: There's some guy named DiMaggio back in the day.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Italy defeated Team USA in a shocking 8 to 6 upset during the 2026 World Baseball Classic on March 10, 2026, ending the U.S. s undefeated run in pool play. I would never, Seriously, I would never root for Italy against the U.S. right, right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, that's interesting, because the U.S. you know, you would think would dominate baseball because just our sheer population that we have against these countries. But those little, countries are. Those smaller countries are holding it. Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Little Italians. Will it surprise you?
>> Chris Woodward: The cool thing is the WBC allows somebody from that country to play for their home country. So you've got MLB stars playing for Italy or what have you.
>> Tim Wildmon: The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American Family association or American Family Radio.
