The Great America Show - The Great America Sunday Show： May 3, 2026

00:00:00.000 hello everybody and welcome to the great america show it's great to have you with us on an

00:00:07.540 especially beautiful great day in america things are going swimmingly today folks and for the past

00:00:13.740 four hours or so i've been smiling from ear to ear and hopefully by the end of tonight's show

00:00:19.000 you folks will as well they finally got him once again james comey they're gonna have some fun with

00:00:26.740 this guy. By the way, Todd Blanche, before we get started,

00:00:30.740 there's been some criticisms of him, personal criticisms for myself, from what I've heard.

00:00:35.400 But I got to be honest.

00:00:38.480 From some of the stuff that Todd has done so far

00:00:42.000 in this DOJ, now there's some people who are never going to be happy,

00:00:46.600 which is understandable, because there's people who always want more. I get it.

00:00:49.680 But for what Todd Blanche has done so far

00:00:54.160 inside this administration,

00:00:56.740 In the short period that he's been interim attorney general of the United States, I think is absolutely commendable, whether it be reinstating the firing squad, whether it be going after the Southern Poverty Law Center for funding the KKK.

00:01:14.980 or whether it be today

00:01:18.160 or whether it be

00:01:20.760 the Fauci advisor

00:01:22.680 one of Fauci's henchmen

00:01:24.480 who was charged this afternoon over COVID

00:01:26.980 which we're going to talk about as well

00:01:28.660 or the Somali daycare raids in Minnesota

00:01:31.420 or the four rogue prosecutors

00:01:35.060 who have been since fired

00:01:36.080 it's day 26 of acting AG Todd Blanche

00:01:39.380 it seems

00:01:41.200 he's got his act together

00:01:43.540 One that certainly wasn't together for Pam Bondi.

00:01:49.560 One that we struggled to watch each and every single day, as she did absolutely nothing and sat on her hands.

00:01:56.880 So, the big news of the day, the arrest warrant has been issued for former FBI Director James Comey

00:02:03.840 after he's indicted by a grand jury in the Eastern District of North Carolina related to his Trump assassination post on Instagram.

00:02:10.880 U.S. Marshals were asked to provide Comey with the indictment, and they issued an arrest warrant as well.

00:02:17.120 Comey faces up to 20 years in jail.

00:02:19.820 For those of you who don't remember, it was that cute little 86-47 post, which you see on your screen there,

00:02:25.880 to which he simply said, cool shell formation on my beach walk.

00:02:30.660 86 kill, 47, Donald Trump is the president of the United States, the 47th president of the United States,

00:02:37.720 to which James Comey claimed their ignorance because he's a career police officer who had no

00:02:43.220 idea what 86ing somebody means. I'm not a cop and I know what it means. Take a listen. AG Todd Blanche

00:02:50.700 today announcing the indictment and to let us know that nobody is above the law. Today, a grand jury

00:02:57.840 sitting in the Eastern District of North Carolina returned an indictment against James Comey on two

00:03:03.860 counts the first count is that honor about may 15th of last year he knowingly and willfully

00:03:10.740 making a threat to take the life of and to inflict bodily harm upon the president of the united

00:03:16.560 states count two same day may 15th 2025 that the defendant james comey knowingly and willfully

00:03:24.140 transmitting in interstate commerce a communication that contained a threat to kill the president

00:03:29.680 of the united states both of these counts carry a maximum term of imprisonment of of 10 years

00:03:36.360 so i think it's fair to say that threatening the life of anybody is dangerous and potentially a

00:03:46.200 crime threatening the life of the president of the united states will never be tolerated

00:03:51.560 by the department of justice over the past year this department has charged dozens of cases

00:03:59.060 involving threats against all sorts of individuals we take these seriously every single one of them

00:04:07.780 for example just today in the northern district of florida there was a guilty plea from an

00:04:14.360 individual who threatened multiple political leaders including president trump in the eastern

00:04:20.600 district of north carolina where this case was indicted earlier today there are multiple

00:04:24.800 threats cases very similar to this one including one where the defendant pled guilty recently to

00:04:31.360 threatening former president biden another one that's scheduled to go to trial this summer

00:04:36.100 another one indicted an individual was divided was indicted for threatening tom homan i say that to

00:04:44.800 say that while this case is unique and this indictment stands out because of the name of

00:04:50.800 defendant his alleged conduct is the same kind of conduct that we will never tolerate and that we

00:04:57.840 will always investigate and regularly prosecute i want to take a moment to to thank the hard-working

00:05:05.440 members of the fbi who investigated this case over the past 11 months or so the united states

00:05:12.100 secret service who also assisted in this investigation and the united states attorney's

00:05:16.840 office for the eastern district of north carolina led by united states attorney ellis boyle who's

00:05:22.860 standing to my right this was an investigation that remains ongoing that's been ongoing for

00:05:29.440 about a year um and and that's all we're going to say about it today i will let the u there you have

00:05:36.780 it nobody's above the law folks no big is too no crime is too big no crime is too small comey should 0.86

00:05:43.840 know the law and hopefully this is just the tip of the iceberg to which these scumbag ilk who've 0.96

00:05:50.580 sought to undermine this president who have sought to kill this president are finally going to now 0.95

00:05:55.400 start to pay the price a very expensive price i may add because americans are tired of it we've

00:06:02.620 been tired of it for a very long time and we've been waiting for for things to metastasize for a

00:06:07.520 while. So hopefully this is just the beginning of people being held accountable. Like I said,

00:06:15.420 no crime is too big and no crime is too small. And it all boils down to one thing,

00:06:22.100 and it's Trump derangement syndrome, which is pushed and perpetrated by the Marxist-run

00:06:26.520 mainstream media. Senator Fetterman has had enough of it. He says, end the Trump derangement

00:06:35.800 syndrome and get the hell over yourself drop the tds you know let's just build this ballroom

00:06:40.480 and uh we always as democrats we want to be the party of abundance you know but but you know we

00:06:47.500 have a history shutting things down or taking years years and years to do the very basic kinds

00:06:52.920 of a thing of construction and the president is not going to be in office when that thing's even

00:06:58.200 going to be finished you know so this isn't really him but so that's that's part of it and

00:07:03.980 the concern uh you could have a lot more inclusive and frequent and secure the most important secure

00:07:10.960 events just in a facility like that i i never really had a problem with it to begin with but

00:07:16.440 i've been at events where people are in tents i mean it's just like you know that's not the the

00:07:22.620 most powerful country in the world where people trodging around and sod uh you know in tents for

00:07:29.500 for state events so like that's that's part of it that's really the reality here and after

00:07:37.140 after that event we got so lucky as a nation so why are we arguing about is this too big is it

00:07:44.680 too this or too that it's just i mean let's just let's do this who would have ever thought john

00:07:51.540 fetterman would have been a voice of reason i mean the man just it's so crazy to think that

00:07:58.400 everything we were told about this man i don't agree with him 100 politically you don't agree

00:08:02.020 with anyone 100 politically there's republicans who disagree with republicans all the time

00:08:05.600 i certainly don't agree with fetterman on a lot of things but to ask somebody to be a decent human

00:08:12.500 being to reconcile on some things i don't think is too much to ask for and i don't think really

00:08:19.300 is that political for some though it has been and for others they've been able to make compromise

00:08:27.300 with people like Fetterman.

00:08:29.340 But we were told this is the most rogue Marxist dem out there.

00:08:33.260 And I'd argue with you that there's more Republicans out there

00:08:36.180 who are Marxist than this man, John Fetterman.

00:08:41.560 But the Trump derangement syndrome stuff is bad, folks.

00:08:45.180 Bad.

00:08:46.160 And it's so bad that at the White House Correspondents Association

00:08:48.980 day of the night, Congressman Andy Ogles overheard a reporter

00:08:53.460 praying that Trump was shot that night.

00:08:56.540 There was a reporter. I probably shouldn't say this, but I'm gonna say it. There was a reporter in the room who was under a table. And when the shots went off and everybody's hiding, she said, I hope they killed the orange MF.

00:09:10.020 That was a journalist in the room who was hoping that when she stood up, the president of the United States would be dead. 0.52

00:09:16.720 so i'm coming to a public venue where i know it might be hostile to expose myself to an honest

00:09:25.020 dialogue an open dialogue if you ask me a question i don't have an answer i will get

00:09:28.880 you something i'm writing or we can talk on the phone but when you have members of the press

00:09:33.160 openly enticing hoping talking about killing the chief executive officer this officer of this

00:09:40.220 country again muslim jew hindu i don't care that's a problem i'm sorry what did you say 1.00

00:09:45.260 i hope they killed the orange mf 1.00

00:09:49.140 absolutely sick folks that's what we're up against now john brennan who's close confidant 0.99

00:09:57.860 of james comey had this to say just moments ago on msdnc defending his good buddy or is he

00:10:05.440 as he prepares himself to have a little bit of issue.

00:10:09.180 The reality is there is a similar zeal to punish you

00:10:13.820 for doing more than exercising your First Amendment rights,

00:10:18.820 for doing your job as the then director of the CIA.

00:10:22.900 What is it like to sort of watch this news come across the,

00:10:28.060 it's not a wire anymore, but come across our devices?

00:10:32.000 Well, Nicole, an overused term is appalling.

00:10:34.540 i find it appalling jim comey served as a u.s attorney and the deputy attorney general for

00:10:41.140 president george w bush he served as the director of fbi for president barack obama it is absurd to

00:10:47.460 think that jim comey would be advocating violence against anyone much less a president united states

00:10:52.940 i served with jim comey during the last years of the obama administration uh he is somebody who

00:11:00.040 I think served his country with integrity, with professionalism, and with determination to make

00:11:06.020 sure that the rule of law was going to be followed. And so, as you pointed out, I think

00:11:11.860 there has been a litany of these efforts over the past number of years, the past year and a half by

00:11:17.460 Donald Trump, to exact revenge against some of his perceived political adversaries. So I feel

00:11:27.860 very very dismayed that jim comey is ah brennan i'm glad you think that way because you should

00:11:35.320 be worried too because i think your rear end is next now just moments ago if not seconds ago james

00:11:40.400 comey responded he's still doing his big tough guy act well they're back this time about a picture

00:11:47.520 of seashells on a north carolina beach a year ago yeah and this won't be the end of it but nothing

00:11:54.960 has changed with me i'm still innocent i'm still not afraid and i still believe in the independent

00:12:01.440 federal judiciary so let's go but it's really important that all of us remember this is not who

00:12:09.360 we are as a country this is not how the department of justice is supposed to be and the good news is 0.99

00:12:14.640 we get closer every day to restoring those values keep the faith just an arrogant scumbag that guy 0.99

00:12:23.840 is just an arrogant sob what a total joke of a human being and so is brennan and so is the rest 0.99

00:12:33.280 of them but hopefully this is like i said the turning of the tide of todd blanch getting to 0.93

00:12:40.040 the bottom of the deep state that rot it's sewage it's quite honestly what it is folks i want to

00:12:48.160 take a quick break here actually you know before we go to break let's talk real quickly before we

00:12:53.420 get to break about another man who was indicted today. And as one of the top cronies of one of

00:12:58.560 the most destructive political figures in recent memory, David Moretz, who was a former senior

00:13:04.060 advisor to Dr. Anthony Fauci, was charged with several crimes, including conspiracy against the

00:13:08.840 United States, destruction, alteration, falsification of records in a federal investigation, concealment,

00:13:14.620 removal, and mutilation of records, and aiding and abetting. This was one of Fauci's top henchmen

00:13:21.980 as Fauci is now on the run.

00:13:25.580 Because I think at any day now,

00:13:29.240 Fauci could become the...

00:13:33.300 If he's not already, by the way,

00:13:35.320 he could be the subject of a grand jury indictment.

00:13:38.580 As we speak, we don't know.

00:13:40.940 They're, of course, sealed.

00:13:42.980 But, tick-tock, tick-tock,

00:13:47.220 the walls are caving in.

00:13:49.740 You all thought you were safe.

00:13:51.980 um let's hope todd blanch is doing the right thing folks i want to take a quick break here

00:13:57.080 on the other side i want to i want to talk about some fun stuff the russia ukraine war has sort of

00:14:03.700 been put on pause right while everything's going on over in iran but so is climate change you

00:14:10.460 really don't hear anybody talking about climate change anymore now this is what some democrats

00:14:14.960 That's said, the greatest existential threat to ever happen in this country.

00:14:20.560 So where has it gone?

00:14:23.660 Is it still there?

00:14:25.300 Is Florida still sinking underwater?

00:14:28.360 Is the world still coming to an end?

00:14:31.080 I have those questions, and I want to ask our next guest,

00:14:34.680 a friend of mine, friend of the show, Mark Morano of ClimateDepot.com.

00:14:37.580 We're going to take that up with him and so much more gas prices,

00:14:41.600 all of that, and much, much more, folks, on the other side of this quick break.

00:14:44.400 So please stay with us. We're coming right back on The Great America Show in less than 60 seconds.

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00:15:02.820 Thanks, everybody, for staying with us here on The Great America Show.

00:15:05.460 So now, as promised, let's have a little fun and bring in a friend of mine, Mark Marano, the founder, the CEO, the president, all in one of ClimateDepot.com.

00:15:14.740 Mark, it's been a while since we spoke.

00:15:17.560 So I guess I want to get your sense.

00:15:19.620 I was down in Florida, and you're probably going to be sad to hear this.

00:15:22.720 I was down in Florida last week, and against all odds, it's still there.

00:15:27.460 The beaches are still there.

00:15:28.760 The shoreline's still there.

00:15:30.760 Everything's still there.

00:15:31.840 There's no flooding in the state.

00:15:33.380 There's no erosion of the state.

00:15:35.140 So what's going on with climate change? Is it happening? Is it not happening?

00:15:40.060 Because it seems much like the Iran war, the Russia-Ukraine war, that's sort of been put on hold and disappeared while we deal with Iran.

00:15:48.360 What's happening with climate change?

00:15:50.700 Well, this has been quite remarkable. And yes, John, you've noticed something that's actually like I've never seen.

00:15:56.640 And I've been following this issue closely since 2000. That's 26 years for those people keeping score.

00:16:01.920 and i've never seen anything like this it's almost as if well it's very similar i think to the

00:16:07.920 transgender issue where remember everything was like all the pop culture a trans woman is a woman

00:16:13.580 and then they just realized they overreached they got completely defeated at the polls they got

00:16:18.800 completely defeated in culture and then it just sort of dropped it now you still have some people

00:16:23.080 i would actually argue the trans movement is more strong and healthier in terms of healthy

00:16:28.560 a wrong word but you know more active than the climate movement but it's the same sort of thing 0.59

00:16:33.200 they're just sort of laying low but in the sake of climate they're almost you know they're almost

00:16:37.540 dead but they're not dead but the only person who's really stuck to his guns you got to give

00:16:41.460 him credit is al gore now it could be financial incentive ideological but you're absolutely right

00:16:47.100 and the acid test for this is that donald trump came in in january 2025 and in one year did over

00:16:55.780 300 actions to dismantle, in the words of EPA chief Lee Zeldin, the climate scam or the climate cult.

00:17:02.340 And there was virtually and almost 100 percent no pushback at every measure.

00:17:08.000 And I'm talking here's the significant things and the endangerment finding that the Obama administration put in,

00:17:14.460 which basically gives mid-level bureaucrats the ability to regulate carbon dioxide,

00:17:19.080 what we humans inhale from our mouth as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act or even though the Clean Air Act

00:17:25.000 never once mentioned carbon dioxide was not designed to regulate carbon dioxide. It was

00:17:28.800 actually for real air pollutants, not human breath. But Trump dismantles the ability of

00:17:35.040 mid-level unelected bureaucrats to control a complete huge swaths of the U.S. economy. Number 1.00

00:17:40.800 one, no pushback. He then pulls us out of the U.N. Paris Agreement, which we all expected.

00:17:46.360 No pushback. But here's the real thing. He pulls us out of the 1992 Rio U.N. Earth Summit Treaty

00:17:53.500 from that George H.W. Bush got us into in, I believe it was late May or June of 1992,

00:18:01.120 which was the bottom Jenga block for the whole U.N. climate scam globally.

00:18:07.760 The U.S. has now signaled our intent. We're out officially next February.

00:18:12.560 And legal experts claim it would require the next president, say a Gavin Newsom got in,

00:18:17.960 to have a new U.N. treaty signed and have a new treaty ratified by the Senate like the 1992 Rio

00:18:24.120 summit was. So this is considered the most permanent steps Trump can take to kill the scam.

00:18:29.980 And still there was no real pushback. It's gotten so bad that when I was at COP30 in Brazil,

00:18:35.800 the U.N. climate summit, the 30th annual, Al Gore showed up not to attack Donald Trump,

00:18:41.640 but to attack Bill Gates because Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos. And now we have Sergei Brin,

00:18:47.060 the founder of Google, they're all going MAGA. And why? Because of AI data centers. They now

00:18:52.100 realize Larry Fink of BlackRock has said the quiet part out loud. You cannot power AI data

00:18:58.400 centers, which all the billionaire big tech people want, with solar and wind. Therefore,

00:19:04.120 the agenda is no longer convenient. Jeff Bezos pulled out of the base, pulling out a major,

00:19:08.540 I think it was the Bezos Earth Fund. Jeff Bezos editorials at the Washington Post sound like

00:19:13.640 Donald Trump and Lee Zeldin. They're trashing Biden's legacy. They're trashing the Green New

00:19:18.000 Deal. They're trashing net zero. It's like we woke up in bizarro world all of a sudden.

00:19:23.700 And again, even as we mentioned, Greta has moved on. She's now fighting for the Palestinians or 0.82

00:19:30.480 Hamas. And she is no longer even really involved in the climate movement. There's very few of the

00:19:36.900 old names. Just to give you an idea, Senator Whitehouse was the only one really who showed

00:19:41.340 up. Gavin Newsom showed up briefly at the U.N. Climate Summit, but he didn't really say much.

00:19:46.540 Capitol Hill's gone silent. Most of the activists. It's unbelievable. It's like a complete we should

00:19:51.620 almost have a funeral, Mark. Don't you feel sorry? I mean, this is a death, a death in our politics.

00:19:56.240 Shouldn't we take a moment to mourn? You mentioned the transgender mental illness with the comparison. 1.00

00:20:01.960 I think it's a comparison. There's one thing I'd argue with you there, Mark, is that the transgender 1.00

00:20:06.320 mental illness, they at least have a leg to stand on because they go to the hospital and they get 1.00

00:20:10.820 themselves mutilated and incapacitated in some forms the climate people have absolutely no foot

00:20:17.640 to stand on because they don't practice what they preach but yeah looking on their private jets they

00:20:21.920 still get in their gas powered vehicles they still go pump their gas at a gas station i like i said 0.96

00:20:27.700 i'd argue that the the transgender's uh mental illness at least have a leg to stand on because 0.96

00:20:33.060 they practice what they preach yeah they have the courage the transgender has the courage of their 0.99

00:20:37.980 conviction they're willing to chop off you know their appendages or get a appendectomy said 0.58

00:20:43.420 slightly other way uh you know however they want to do it because they you know they're actually

00:20:47.260 doing the mutilation that takes courage that takes commitment whereas the climate activists

00:20:51.800 it was a virtue signal from the beginning and no one ever really believed it you could say that

00:20:56.520 confidently by looking at their lifestyle let me ask you this mark we see nick shirley and now

00:21:01.480 jd vance is heading up the uh the task force of fraud waste and abuse i've got to assume mark

00:21:08.560 that in this climate scam that there was billions if not trillions of dollars of waste fraud and

00:21:14.640 abuse that was spent towards climate agenda if you were to speak to jd vance right now or jd vance

00:21:21.920 were to hypothetically see this uh where should he be looking that i have the answer we've been

00:21:27.240 talking i've been talking about this now for the last several months since he's taken over

00:21:30.480 He's got to go after the climate science research funding

00:21:35.220 And what this means is

00:21:37.060 There's two ways to go about it

00:21:38.540 First of all, it's notoriously hard

00:21:40.300 To cut budgets in Washington

00:21:42.160 Ask Doge, ask Danny Vance

00:21:44.200 Ask the reinventing government of Al Gore

00:21:46.880 Bill Clinton, ask Ronald Reagan

00:21:48.640 I mean, it's really difficult

00:21:50.300 So you have two options

00:21:51.640 Number one is to actually cut the budget

00:21:53.680 But I got to tell you

00:21:54.600 We have a little problem called Republicans

00:21:56.820 In Trump's first term

00:21:58.440 He submitted a bill to the Congress

00:22:00.260 Republican Congress, majority Republican Congress, 2017, 40 percent cut in the EPA budget.

00:22:05.900 What do you think happened? Dead on arrival on Capitol Hill. So it's very difficult.

00:22:10.840 So here's what I would suggest as a pragmatic. Remember, we're not all ideologues here.

00:22:15.420 I'm trying to be pragmatic. Let's divert the money from the usual left wing Marxist academic

00:22:22.200 scientists who do the same crap. You and climate modeling. This could happen. That might happen. 0.99

00:22:27.780 You know, the same people who say, well, first of all, the facts are polar bears are more than we've ever counted.

00:22:34.360 U.S. Geological Survey says they're at or near historic population highs.

00:22:38.360 But a climate activist will tell you it's worse than we thought.

00:22:40.500 Why is it worse? Because our climate models now show more of a catastrophe in the year 2080 for polar bears.

00:22:46.080 So when current reality fails to alarm, they make scarier and scarier predictions of the future.

00:22:51.080 J.D. Vance can go right to the heart of that and he can start funding, literally switch the money.

00:22:56.740 If you can't cut it, switch it to people like Roy Spencer, to Dr. John Christie, to Will Happer, to Dr. John Clouser, Nobel Prize winner.

00:23:06.040 These are all outspoken climate skeptics with peer reviewed studies and scientific credentials up the wazoo.

00:23:12.560 And imagine the outrage if we could switch the money from the usual suspects at Harvard or Caltech or wherever and put that money to known climate skeptics and start doing studies debunking the entire premise.

00:23:26.040 that would actually be useful. I actually would argue that's actually more useful than just

00:23:30.160 cutting the climate research. Let's actually do it as something that matters and use it to debunk

00:23:35.320 that. We saw a hint of that with Chris Wright, the energy secretary's energy report, which was

00:23:41.500 phenomenal. By the way, that's another example of you got to be careful in Washington. You got to

00:23:46.500 cross all your T's and dot all your I's. What do you think? Do you remember what happened to that

00:23:50.500 energy report? It was the first government report by any government in the world pushing back on

00:23:55.060 the united nations since 1990 when the first u.n climate report came out it was a phenomenal report

00:24:00.540 huge attention official government report and apparently one of the scientists didn't fill out

00:24:07.100 one of the bureaucratic forms correctly when they entered into the you know when they did the report

00:24:12.540 and a left-wing environmental lawsuit sued a federal court ruled in their favor and it invalidated the

00:24:19.580 whole report so they had to pull it from the website i'm telling the truth here this is

00:24:22.900 unbelievable now this report still was out there it's still there it had an impact but it's no

00:24:27.800 longer an official u.s government report they had to pull it which is why we're trying now to see

00:24:32.700 if we can get a u.s senate committee to pick up the report but it just goes to show you you know

00:24:37.420 the left owns washington even when republicans even like when donald trump's in charge when i

00:24:43.280 say own it i mean the whole system is set up in their favor micro bureaucracy confusion all done

00:24:50.640 to favor the deep state and to favor the status quo of the establishment, which is what that did.

00:24:55.720 So this report had to be pulled of the most low level, absurd, like a form wasn't filled out

00:25:01.780 correctly. That's how absurd we're talking about it. But anyway, the long story short, that's what

00:25:06.160 we should do is get that funded. Second thing I just want to mention on funding, and this is

00:25:10.020 big, is that Trump deserves all the credit as well as OMB and for going after the, and Lee

00:25:17.400 zelda and epa going after the inflation reduction act that biden uh went nuts on particularly after

00:25:22.960 from november until uh january remember they fast-tracked trump roughly got 65 percent of

00:25:29.500 the 1.2 trillion dollars back that was going to the green new deal version hiding under the

00:25:34.700 inflation reduction act people will say well that's still a half a billion you know half a

00:25:38.840 what am i yeah half a trillion dollars yeah it got through but at some point it became more

00:25:44.020 expensive to stop the money for going to the solar and wind, because then you would have

00:25:47.860 prolonged court cases. And there's a legal precedent that once, you know, once the money

00:25:51.960 is released to a bank and an organization, you can't just pull it back because there's a new

00:25:56.440 president. So he did the best they could. They got way over half the money back. That was a big

00:26:01.360 savings as well. This lady on the screen is the congresswoman who's very high ranking. 1.00

00:26:07.580 I saw this debate. Are you going to show that? It was incredible. We're going to roll it in a

00:26:11.360 second here i was it was a stand up and cheer moment for america this is a this is who the

00:26:16.260 democrats mark this is who the democrats uh look to uh for yeah their their climate change advice

00:26:23.340 this is the kind of people that the marxist dems uh cheer parade to me it's sort of strange that

00:26:31.080 they can't find somebody that looks a little bit normal that they could at least sell their point

00:26:35.100 a little bit better and say you know listen folks um you know this is this is what we're selling to

00:26:40.820 And this is the normal level headed person who is not 65 years old and still dying their hair blue in exchange with Lee Zeldin.

00:26:50.080 Change is flooding our streets, poisoning our air, driving up health care and disaster courts.

00:26:56.780 How can the EPA justify abandoning that duty to protect Americans to appease polluters under the false flag of economic growth?

00:27:04.800 Following the law, Section 202 of the Clean Air Act, where does this say anything about fighting global climate change?

00:27:10.820 loper bright supreme court case you're familiar with it no i i maybe others are i'm not but let

00:27:17.500 me ask but that's really important as a member of congress loper bright says that we as as an

00:27:22.180 agency don't have the authority to get creative if section 202 of the clean air act no no but you

00:27:27.920 don't have excuse me you do not have the right to say climate change does not exist that it's a

00:27:33.680 hoax and that's where this is you don't have a right and you're upset that you don't know what

00:27:37.100 Loper Bride is. Do you know what the major policies doctrine is? I'm upset because you know what the major policies doctrine is. You're a member of Congress. You should know. Well, you're you're you have moved from someone who defended the environment to all of us. I'm very defensive about not knowing the two biggest landmarks. Supreme Court cases of the last year. You are very. You are very defensive about changing your policy and your positions with regard to the environment. You just want me to tell you what the two biggest Supreme Court cases are of the last

00:28:07.080 few years this is what i want michigan versus epa whoa west virginia versus you know you're here

00:28:11.880 because you need money from us so halt for the second and wait for the questions and answer the

00:28:17.260 question i answered your question and you didn't like my answer because you don't know what loper

00:28:21.200 right is because you don't know what the major policies doctrine is because you you're asking

00:28:25.640 me questions you're asking about section 202 of the clean air act and you don't you don't read it

00:28:29.920 you don't know what it says listen and what you want to do is to deny you want no i actually read

00:28:35.040 the law i do my homework really you're just somebody who likes to have the microphone on you

00:28:40.000 know what i have to do i read the law i read the supreme court cases and i would say no what you

00:28:45.200 should do for your constituents is actually a read statute budget is at real risk read your

00:28:50.480 supreme court this is the appropriations committee oh you're here you care about science now you're

00:28:55.200 threatening to defund it oh my god no you don't fund because you don't know what loper break is

00:28:59.520 because you don't know what the major policies doctrine is your message to our our folks at the

00:29:04.480 epa is that you wanted to listen to this bs bs you think i made up these cases yeah i think you

00:29:12.040 have made up i made i made up loper bright i made up west virginia versus epa i made a michigan versus

00:29:17.540 epa whoa whoa is right uh what what are you doing why are you helping the looters

00:29:23.220 let's just say by the way i gotta say lee zeldon looks better than ever he looks like he lost a

00:29:33.100 He looks 10 years younger, which is usually the reverse of what happens when you go into a cabinet position.

00:29:39.320 It could be the RFK Jr.

00:29:40.700 Maybe he's banned seed oils for cabinet members.

00:29:43.820 I'm not sure.

00:29:45.120 Definitely didn't ban Diet Coke, though.

00:29:46.640 I'll tell you that.

00:29:47.520 Yeah.

00:29:48.180 Well, this is a classic example.

00:29:49.500 First of all, Lee Zeldin, the most consequential EPA chief in the agency's history since Richard Nixon started the agency in the early 1970s.

00:29:59.560 Lee Zeldin should win every award possible Lee Zeldin is articulate Lee Zeldin is competent

00:30:07.780 I mean that's the understatement but I mean he is the most consequential Trump cabinet member I

00:30:13.280 would argue he has come in and just like laser focused dismantled everything that not only

00:30:21.500 Biden had done but what Obama had done and restoring the EPA back to its original mission

00:30:27.240 Remember, EPA was hijacked by the environmental movement to the point where East Palestine, toxic waste dump, lead in the drain, who has time, sewage in the patrol, who has time for that kind of stuff?

00:30:39.520 We're focusing on 2040 and EV mandates and net zero, blah, blah, blah.

00:30:44.380 He's returning the EPA back to its thing.

00:30:46.580 And what he told her was absolutely there's three Supreme Court cases, all critical, basically saying unelected bureaucrats can't regulate the climate, can't do their own interpretations.

00:31:01.640 And the Supreme Court is also saying you have to consider economic costs of these environmental protections.

00:31:09.360 And the Supreme Court has said that the EPA is going to be, as I say, going to be because the endangerment findings have to come up as a second test.

00:31:19.960 This is West Virginia versus EPA.

00:31:21.780 But they're saying that they're going to they've shown willingness to severely limit the EPA's ability to regulate greenhouse gases without explicit legislation passed by Congress.

00:31:33.240 Imagine that bureaucrats at an agency can't just decide to wake up one day and say, hey, we're going to ban gas stoves today.

00:31:39.560 Next ceiling fans. Next wood burning pizza ovens. Next gas. 1.00

00:31:43.720 This is how it's done. That's how the gas powered car ban was started in California.

00:31:48.300 Unelected bureaucrats, California Air Resources Board.

00:31:51.260 So we have three Supreme Court rulings that are now laying the groundwork, given the current makeup of the court, by the way, which is one reason they're trying to fast track.

00:31:59.640 You don't know if a Supreme Court member is going to resign, die, and they're going to start appointing.

00:32:03.220 These are five, four decisions, a lot of these.

00:32:05.340 So we are in a precarious moment, but you cannot ask for a better commander than Lee Zeldin at EPA.

00:32:13.260 I am blown away. In fact, when we were at the conference climate summit in D.C. three weeks ago, Lee Zeldin spoke.

00:32:20.000 I spoke the next day. But the media was there and they were asking him, what do you think is when Pam Bondi had stepped down?

00:32:26.080 What do you think if Pam Bondi goes to leaves, would Lee Zeldin be a great justice replacing her at the Department of Justice?

00:32:34.280 And everyone was like, absolutely not. We cannot lose Lee Zeldin.

00:32:37.180 Do you know how hard it is to get a first of all, a a ideologically consistent EPA chief?

00:32:44.440 And secondly, someone who's competent.

00:32:47.000 I think the only way you'd have that, Mark, is if you had Donald Trump himself running.

00:32:50.560 yeah so but that that debate with the congresswoman no epa and chief in history has ever pulled

00:32:58.580 something like that off it was brilliant to watch it was a stand up and cheer moment and just again

00:33:03.480 it goes and by the way she said one thing that was interesting she said you used to be basically on

00:33:08.580 the other side and he was i wasn't that excited on climate when lee zelden i was like lee zelden

00:33:14.880 And it turns out years ago, maybe 10 years ago, he was basically open.

00:33:20.000 He was in New York talking about New York Republican. Yes.

00:33:23.300 And so then he went, you know, then he sort of moved away from that.

00:33:27.400 And by the time he was picked, he's been like the strongest climate skeptic doing exactly what needs to be done.

00:33:32.500 So you never dismiss someone because of, you know, past views is what I would say.

00:33:36.900 And that, you know, how can you say that? I'm the ultimate example of that because I thought RFK was a complete climate alarmist.

00:33:44.540 And he probably was. You know, when I interviewed him in 2014, he was talking about jailing the CEOs of energy companies for their role in climate change and making it so skeptical politicians couldn't challenge climate change.

00:33:57.060 And, you know, now he says climate has been hijacked by the World Economic Forum, UN for totalitarian control.

00:34:02.180 When he ran for president, never. He said, I'm not going to talk about climate change.

00:34:05.000 He just removed it from his vocabulary. So it's amazing stuff.

00:34:08.640 And I love the fact you said you can't you challenge the you call climate a hoax.

00:34:12.520 you're not you shouldn't be allowed to do that what we're gonna have like a ban on the epa chiefs

00:34:17.220 telling science as they see it and their agency sees fit it's it's complete lunacy but yeah so

00:34:22.540 that was a great exchange the thing that troubles me the most is that these climate people they

00:34:33.600 they want to look to the farcical things the things that just show absurd ridiculously absurd

00:34:38.060 may never happen probably will never happen almost guaranteed to never happen and you had

00:34:42.920 mentioned something that we never even spoke about because there's been some time since we spoke it

00:34:46.240 was the the 300 million gallons of sewage and turds that were floating down the atomic river

00:34:52.020 in january when a 72 inch pipe collapsed yes somewhere in maryland which is a local municipality

00:35:00.080 issue of dc and maryland not a federal government issue but you didn't hear anybody talking about

00:35:05.140 that guess who stepped in to save the environment the environment hater himself donald trump and

00:35:11.720 his justice department want answers on why this happened donald trump was the one who sent crews 0.95

00:35:16.720 out there federal government was to go clean the shit up no pun intended and these democrats are 0.98

00:35:22.500 just so far beyond their means they don't even know what the hell happened the only thing that 0.99

00:35:27.980 leads me to believe uh mark is that they're getting money from some corrupt organization

00:35:32.480 Well, it's it's it's again, it's money and it's it's ideology slash virtue signaling.

00:35:38.880 So what happened in the specific case of Maryland and D.C. were in charge of this sewage treatment plant that literally decayed.

00:35:48.480 Plenty of warning. They've been told for decades it needs to be upgraded up to 300 millions of raw sewage dumped into the Potomac.

00:35:56.420 the drinking water for affluent montgomery county maryland for fairfax county maryland many other

00:36:02.480 right yes they're all very affluent very democrat and this went on for weeks upon weeks now it was

00:36:11.160 a comedy of errors and finally the trump administration had to step in and and correct

00:36:15.540 it it's been stopped and now it's going to take you know it's going to be until i think may

00:36:19.840 a shortened timeline they're fixing all the infrastructure but here's the thing dc couldn't

00:36:25.240 handle it maryland couldn't why look at their department of environment both dc and maryland

00:36:30.840 all their websites are are bragging about ev mandates net zero by 2040 cutting emissions

00:36:37.320 all the climate nonsense that's where their eye was off the ball no you could it's not like it's

00:36:43.800 not like they said they just literally it wasn't on their radar to worry about a sewage spill it's

00:36:48.660 not on their radar to worry about toxic plumes it's not on the radar to worry about you know too

00:36:53.780 much lead in the drinking water why because climate has literally hijacked every aspect of

00:36:58.940 it and you can then i have whole reports at climate depot on what the maryland environmental department

00:37:03.280 and what the dc what what their focus was and it was comical like i'm talking about aoc level uh

00:37:09.920 absurd green new deal style goals and focus and this is where they hire people their budgets went

00:37:15.460 but but 300 gallons of raw sewage we don't have no stinking time for raw sewage you know that's

00:37:20.900 that's exactly the attitude they had yeah you mentioned electric vehicle electrical vehicles

00:37:25.640 fell 27 here of a year in quarter one yes no tax credit well no tax credit and people are figuring

00:37:33.080 out uh that the batteries suck i you know i travel a lot mark and when i travel i'll take whatever

00:37:39.020 rental car you know i get whether it be a honda cord or uh i'll take the teslas because i i they

00:37:45.000 truly are great driving cars everything about them oh yeah zero to 60 and what three and a half or

00:37:49.660 The dynamic of the car, the layout of the car, the handling of that.

00:37:53.500 If those things were gas, I'd be driving one right now to get rid of this piece of junk Jeep that I've got.

00:37:57.820 But it's just it's not practical.

00:37:59.840 And I think Elon Musk, who's one of the smartest men to ever walk this earth, has picked up on that, that it's probably not going to last forever.

00:38:06.540 So what has Elon done? He's reinvented.

00:38:09.160 He's going into autonomous vehicles, autonomous cabs, where I think he's rolled out now in in Austin, Texas.

00:38:16.080 He's moved more into the SpaceX side of things where he's going to put one of the biggest valuations and biggest IPOs in the history of this country on SpaceX, whereas these other people are going to get caught with their hand in the cookie jar with their feet in the sand because there is no end to it.

00:38:30.640 But I want to bring up another point, Mark, and it's the Iran war that we're having right now.

00:38:37.160 Seventeen percent of the oil reserves in this country sit right just south of America in the soon to be 51st state of Venezuela.

00:38:46.080 Can you explain to the American people why is it that our gas prices are so high right now for an issue that's halfway across the world when we don't buy most of our oil from them anyway?

00:39:00.240 It's a great question. And the answer to that is decades of negligence.

00:39:04.660 And when it comes to particularly refining oil, it's funny because we actually we actually produce more oil.

00:39:12.940 We're the biggest. We actually export more. We actually export more energy than we produce.

00:39:18.200 We produce more energy than we export import, which is the first time since Harry Truman was president.

00:39:24.480 And now CNN has just announced we produce more oil than any nation in the history of the world.

00:39:29.140 So you would think that, you know, we're self-sufficient. It wouldn't matter what's happening in the Middle East or anywhere else.

00:39:35.160 However, it's a lot of oil that we make isn't necessarily usable and it's not refined.

00:39:40.520 We don't have the capacity to refine it because of all the climate restrictions, because of all the regulatory red tape that has been going on for decades under both Republican and America, going back to George W. Bush.

00:39:50.660 Trump has tried first term. They tried to undo all that. But that takes long term policy stability to change that, because that's like an infrastructure question.

00:39:59.700 So what I will say is this. If you look at America, we're the least affected of any country, including Europe, including Asia, from any Middle East disruption.

00:40:10.240 And that is really because of the first Trump administration and because of the last year.

00:40:15.560 And as CNN announced, and it was February of this this year, 2026, more oil in the history of the planet.

00:40:21.260 So we have all that. And now we can sell that oil back to Europe, sell it to Europe.

00:40:26.740 We're now providing 80 percent of Europe's natural gas, which is we're replacing Russia as their primary source.

00:40:33.060 Because remember, Europe gave up on producing their own energy because they decided, hey, let's do an accounting trick.

00:40:37.920 And let's have China and Russia and all these other countries, Venezuela, they'll get our oil and our fossil fuels and we'll look like we're going net zero.

00:40:47.360 And that's what they did. So it's a complex problem. Also, oil is a global market.

00:40:52.020 So when the U.S., even though we have a ton of oil, if the price of oil goes up, you know, $150 a barrel or $200 a barrel, it's going to affect us prices at the pump.

00:41:03.860 The only way to really stop that would be to nationalize the U.S. oil industry. And I don't think anyone's got an appetite for that necessarily. You know, it'd be kind of like the government taking it over and not allowing any profit motive or private companies involved.

00:41:18.480 So that is the reason it's a complex thing. And oil prices are also subject to the whim of how everyone feels.

00:41:26.660 It's a market whim. You know, if there's you know, like remember, Trump would announce a peace deal in the morning.

00:41:31.620 Market would go up. The price of oil would drop. You know, the future market would drop.

00:41:36.000 And then, of course, war would break out again and then the price would drop.

00:41:39.200 So it's we're subject to all those fluctuations fluctuations. So there's two answers.

00:41:43.280 We need more refining capacity, massively more, which will take another five to 10 years to really come online.

00:41:49.820 And secondly, we would need to nationalize the industry to avoid that.

00:41:52.700 But in the meantime, most energy we can produce and the most insulated will be this is the most insulated we've ever been from international energy disruption in our lifetimes.

00:42:03.620 And this is 2026. So that is the good news.

00:42:06.420 I think we only have three refineries in America, Marathon, Valero and Phillips 66.

00:42:14.220 And Donald Trump has offered incentive to these people. Go open up refineries.

00:42:18.700 We'll give you all the tax subsidies that you guys need.

00:42:21.440 Here's the problem. Here's the problem. And I get that. But think about it.

00:42:25.480 Realistically, you're a company and you have to think five, 10, 20 year investments.

00:42:30.760 Who's the next president? What's going to happen in the midterms?

00:42:33.700 Why would you go through and invest all that money and then find out Gavin Newsom's elected in twenty twenty eight?

00:42:39.340 You just lost a bleep ton of money. And that's the that's been the problem.

00:42:44.620 So we have to get America on a rational footing. And by the way, all around about way.

00:42:50.000 And that's what I forgot to mention. What Lee Zeldin did against what's her name?

00:42:53.960 Congressman, purple haired lady. I want to say Iliar Omar. 0.98

00:42:57.180 Yeah, La Rosa. Yeah. That's another significant thing. And this is what will actually help bring apart stable energy.

00:43:04.780 When you flip the narrative the way Energy Secretary Chris Wright as EPA chief Lee Zeldin and Donald Trump has and Trump 2.0 and you call it a scam, a hoax, a religion, a cult, and you mock it and you make fun of it and you highlight all these scientists like the Nobel Prize winner who comes out and says this whole thing is a scam.

00:43:22.120 There is no climate crisis. And by the way, U.N. treaties would have no impact on emissions, let alone the climate.

00:43:28.840 Once you do that in the public, as the CNN Harry Enten pollster pointed out in October of this of 2025,

00:43:36.740 Americans are no more concerned about climate, not much different than they were in the late 1980s.

00:43:41.260 Once you get it out of the radar, it gets harder for someone like Gavin Newsom or AOC or Bernie Sanders to rile up even the Democrat base because they feel so demoralized and defeated.

00:43:52.120 And that's part of my idea of funding the scientists don't necessarily cut the funding for climate science, redirect it in a way that would just lay waste to the scientific foundation for all this nonsense.

00:44:02.900 And I think that's where I think ultimately we have to go. We need stability because ultimately that's the answer to your question.

00:44:09.640 And even though Trump is trying to do all of this incentives and tax breaks and in some cases subsidies and wartime powers to try to get more energy, it's still if it's an infrastructure energy, it's one thing to say, OK, we can start drilling here.

00:44:24.380 But if it's an infrastructure like refining, that's going to take longer and you've got to build, build it up and get the capacity refining year to decades.

00:44:33.140 That is where you're going to have a problem because no one wants to invest.

00:44:36.820 And that's why Energy Secretary Chris Wright is actually, when it comes to nuclear, is actually using taxpayer money.

00:44:43.460 Now, that's causing some controversy because, you know, you don't want to necessarily want a Green New Deal for fossil fuels.

00:44:51.360 That's the wrong phrase, but you don't want necessarily start subsidizing fossil fuels like that.

00:44:55.920 But to use the old Jack Kemp line from the Congressman Jack Kemp about welfare cuts, he said to the extent that we need government to help the poor, we need them to help the poor to the extent that government helped cause the problem.

00:45:09.300 So in the case of something like nuclear or refining, I can see a case being made where taxpayer support would go in to invest with the idea of because it was government that destroyed these industries and it can be government that at least gives them a baseline to attract other investing to actually, you know, make it actually happen.

00:45:29.660 So we're not a yin yang of energy policy every four years.

00:45:32.980 Sorry, it might have been more than you asked for, but that's sort of a wrong answer.

00:45:35.940 I think you're absolutely right. And I think the audience appreciates the long form to understand.

00:45:41.980 You know, you go on TV, you get three seconds to speak. It's over with. And it's like, all right, here's a soundbite.

00:45:47.180 I think the reason people tune into these shows is because it's long form. They could understand.

00:45:51.760 And we're all students, right? We're all students of everybody. We're always evolving and we're always learning.

00:45:55.800 None of us know everything, which is why we have you on here to teach us all.

00:46:00.440 Mark Marano of Climate Depot dot com. It's always a delight to talk with you, my friend.

00:46:04.380 Let's do it again soon.

00:46:05.940 All right. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Look forward to next time.

00:46:09.100 Thanks, everybody, for being with us today here on The Great America Show.

00:46:11.580 We hope to see you back here tomorrow. Truth, justice, and the American way at the forefront always.

00:46:16.160 Until then, folks, may God bless you, may God bless America, and may God bless the great.

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