00:00:52.720We discovered he's come out of hiding.
00:00:54.360He went on TV and what little sense he makes.
00:00:58.480He's blaming the loss in 2024 on racism, on sexism, on everything except his disastrous record and his policies that simply don't work.
00:01:08.880And finally, we're going to tell you about an unbelievable story about Planned Parenthood being caught in a sting in an undercover operation prescribing sex change hormones to minors.
00:01:32.600Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago has been elected as the 267th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
00:01:39.900This marks the first time an American has ascended to the Papacy.
00:01:44.900And I've got a lot of friends that are Catholic.
00:01:47.480They were beyond thrilled about this announcement that was made following the appearance of that white smoke you mentioned from the Sistine Chapel signaling the successful conclusion of the conclave.
00:02:01.120Well, it is, and it's a big moment for the world.
00:02:03.900You have over a billion faithful Catholics across the globe, and a new pope is a moment of history, a moment of great import, certainly in the Catholic faith, but also great import across the world.
00:02:18.880And for the pope to be an American, that's a big deal for our country.
00:02:43.820You know, we will know many more details on the pope as time goes forward, but we know several things just from the early reporting.
00:02:52.760We know that this is according to the New York Times, quote, as bishop in Chiclayo, a city in northwestern Peru, he opposed a government plan to add teachings on gender in schools.
00:03:07.040The promotion of gender ideology is confusing because it seeks to create genders that don't exist, he told local news media.
00:03:13.460New York Times also reported that, quote, in a 2012 address to bishops, he lamented that Western news media and popular culture fostered sympathy for beliefs and practices that are at odds with the gospel.
00:03:28.200And he told the Vatican's official news website last year that, quote, the bishop is not supposed to be a little prince sitting in his kingdom.
00:03:37.440Rather, he said, a church leader is called to be authentically to be humble, to be close to the people he serves, to walk with them, to suffer with them.
00:03:48.120And I certainly hope and pray that God's blessings will be on him and that he will convey God's love to the Catholic Church and to the world.
00:04:36.420And this is the part about selecting the pope that is really, I think, one of those moments.
00:04:41.680I was in the airport when it was happening and everybody was watching it like it was almost like a World Series or a moment in history where you remember kind of where you were.
00:04:54.060And every TV, people around it, and then the smoke came up, the white smoke, and people were clapping in excitement over this.
00:05:01.780And it's kind of cool, Senator, that you've got a president that finds out the same way everyone else does.
00:05:16.740And I'll say you and I have to be a little bit careful because we're two Southern Baptists discussing the selection of the pope within the Catholic Church.
00:05:23.960And for faithful Catholics, they believe that God has ordained the pope.
00:05:30.940And I do believe God raises up leaders across the world in all sorts of context.
00:05:39.300And so it is a moment of great spiritual import to faithful Catholics.
00:05:44.960But it's also a moment of great consequence to the country.
00:05:48.280You know, you look back at Pope John Paul, and you and I, we remember the Reagan presidency, and the leadership that President Reagan had, and that Margaret Thatcher had, and that Pope John Paul had.
00:06:03.820The three of them quite literally changed the world and defeated the Soviet Union.
00:06:10.540And so the pope is someone who is listened to everywhere, and I hope that this American pope, I wish him all the best.
00:06:23.380I'm proud that he's an American, and we will learn more about his, who he is, what his passions are, what his beliefs are.
00:06:34.340All of that will come in the days and weeks and months ahead.
00:06:38.020But an American pope is really something quite extraordinary.
00:06:43.300And it's going to also be very interesting to see, as those words that you read earlier, how big of an impact this pope could have.
00:06:51.480And being a leader, and not just as he described it sitting there, but actually leading on some of these issues,
00:06:57.800there is a lot, I think, of hope now for many that a new pope will mean that, yeah, there are some strong stances that can be taken on different issues and can lead around the world.
00:07:08.700You talk about Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan and the pope.
00:07:11.860I mean, it was somewhat described, I think, in history unorthodox for the pope to get that involved in the way that he did.
00:07:19.340And yet that was the type of leader that people wanted at the time.
00:07:22.960And I think that's part of the reason why every time there's a new pope, there's a moment of excitement of, okay, what could we see now?
00:07:29.740And if you have someone like this pope from America that's on the record on some of these issues,
00:07:35.460there is some excitement around what could he lead on and how could that impact the world?
00:07:41.060Well, and we've seen that as a cardinal that he has been on social media and he's been critical of Donald Trump and critical of J.D. Vance.
00:07:51.440And I hope, as pope, he does not use the papacy to advocate, for example, for open borders and for the kinds of disasters that we saw over the last four years.
00:08:11.280But that's going to be a choice that he's going to make, and it's going to have real consequences.
00:08:16.080What he chooses to speak out on, what he chooses to focus on, it's going to have a consequence for Catholics across the world,
00:08:24.680but it'll have a consequence for discussion and world leaders across the world as well.
00:08:28.800Senator, I want to move to Bernie Sanders.
00:08:32.000It was one of those oof moments this week, called out for his hypocrisy on his Fighting Oligarchy Tour.
00:08:40.320Now, this is a tour that he and AOC famously jet-setted, I'm not exaggerating, around the country to speak to the big crowds as they're trying to lead the Democratic Party.
00:08:50.340Nothing says a communist or a socialist like taking a private jet but telling others you can't do the same thing.
00:08:56.720He was asked about it. It didn't go very well.
00:09:00.920And I've got to say, there are moments when the left, it becomes impossible to satirize them because they are a living Saturday Night Live sketch.
00:09:10.440Like at this point, they're simply parody.
00:09:14.280So Bernie Sanders is in the middle, as you said, of a Fighting Oligarchy Tour.
00:09:18.680So he is standing up to the man, to those terrible rich people.
00:10:44.860And you think that this is hitting a mark?
00:10:47.160You think it's scratching the itch that voters want to hear from?
00:10:51.920I think at a time when the people on top are doing phenomenally well, when seniors, working class people are struggling,
00:10:58.100people want to hear action to stand up to the people who have the wealth and the power and create an economy that works for all of us, not just the people on top.
00:14:45.660They are lying when they say they believe this because if they believed it, they wouldn't get on a private jet to do their fighting oligarchy tour.
00:14:55.460They wouldn't get on a private jet to go to Iceland to get an award for apparently fighting for the climate.
00:15:02.360That hypocrisy is through and through.
00:15:26.380And by the way, you've got a lot of left-wing Democrats making money on the offset scam, which is a way they can excuse.
00:15:32.340You know, both John Kerry and Bernie Sanders remind me of an old commercial from when we were kids of the fellow who rolls down the window of the Rolls Royce and says, pardon me, sir.
00:18:39.180It was an absolute repudiation of the train wreck that was Joe Biden, the Democrats' extreme agenda.
00:18:46.380And yet he's living in this world where, well, it was just because I was so successful that, you know, I mean, you know, of course he was so successful.
00:18:59.940Then when he's downplaying President Trump's victory in 2024, give a listen to what Biden had to say on The View.
00:19:06.740Mr. President, you had previously said that you thought that you would have won.
00:19:10.600Since then, Donald Trump won all the battleground states and made inroads with almost every major demographic, from working class voters to Hispanic men to black men.
00:19:20.360Knowing what you know now, do you think you would have beat him?
00:19:23.740Yeah, he still got seven million fewer votes.
00:19:42.360And so, look, I, you know, every time I've been on the show, which you've been fortunate, I've been fortunate to be on more than once, thanks for having me, is that we talk, you guys don't focus on as much, and I think it's good, on polling numbers.
00:20:21.320I mean, I don't even know what that answer was.
00:20:23.340The one thing that was funny in there, Senator, is the fact that he's like, I love that you guys don't look at poll numbers because the poll numbers would say it's the complete opposite of what I'm saying right now.
00:20:34.880Yet he goes back to polls and says, oh, well, I had more votes than he did, and it wasn't a slam dunk.
00:20:39.940When you win all of the swing states, that is literally the definition of a political slam dunk that every candidate dreams about when they're running for president.
00:21:22.300So when when when Biden says it's the worst first hundred days in history and everyone there applauds, oh, yes, oh, yes, beautiful, Joe, it's the worst one.
00:24:27.420We did it right after after the debate.
00:24:29.780We put out a special podcast and and you and I predicted that night that that was the most consequential presidential debate in the history of the country.
00:24:39.840And the reason we predicted that is we said Joe Biden is going to drop out of this race.
00:24:45.360He will not be the nominee because of this debate.
00:24:49.400So he's suggesting, gosh, I had a bad debate, but everyone was fine.
00:24:54.820Really, I seem to recall George Clooney writing, saying he went to a fundraiser and was so incoherent that you couldn't understand what he was saying.
00:25:01.520But, you know, Biden, Biden does respond later on in the view when when when there are reports questioning his cognitive abilities and listen to what he says on that.
00:25:12.800Yeah, Mr. President, since you left office, there have been a number of books that have come out deeply sourced from Democratic sources that claim in your final year there was a dramatic decline in your cognitive abilities in the in the final year of your presidency.
00:25:27.600What is your response to these allegations or are these sources wrong?
00:25:31.520They are wrong. There's nothing to sustain that, number one.
00:25:37.180Number two, you know, think of what what we're left with.
00:25:40.840We left with a circumstance where we we had an insurrection when I started.
00:25:49.440We had a circumstance where we were in a position that we well, the pandemic, because of the incompetence of the last outfit, end up over a million people dying.
00:26:01.520Many people dying. We're also in a situation where we found ourselves unable to deal with a lot of just basic issues.
00:26:12.500And I won't go into it in the interest of time. And so we went to work and we got it done.
00:26:18.420Well, what he got done was the most disaster, disastrous presidency in history.
00:26:23.460And his mental decline wasn't just the last year. It was the entire presidency.
00:26:27.700They kept him hidden. I'll tell you, Republican senators, the White House didn't let us talk to him all four years.
00:26:33.960And that's a big part of the reason his mental decline and his disastrous record that he lost.
00:26:39.840And Donald Trump is once again the president.
00:26:41.420Senator, in our final segment, I want to talk about something that is shocking.
00:26:46.640This is exactly why we do this show, why we do a podcast three days a week.
00:26:51.020And what you're about to hear right now, I hope that you will share it.
00:26:55.460Grab the podcast, subscribe, hit that auto download button and share the podcast wherever you are on social media.
00:27:01.280This is why we do this show, to get stories like this out to the masses.
00:27:04.820This one deals with a shocking expose on Planned Parenthood.
00:27:11.040They have now been exposed for prescribing hormones to minors in an undercover investigation.
00:27:19.220Well, that's right. Planned Parenthood was caught in a sting and and undercover phone calls were made by the pro-life activist group Live Action.
00:27:27.680And it showed that Planned Parenthood clinics across multiple states offer cross-sex hormone treatments to minors as young as 17 with very little parental supervision and very little medical supervision.
00:27:42.780Live Action did an undercover investigation in which a woman posed as a 16-year-old minor.
00:27:48.660And she called dozens of Planned Parenthood locations seeking what she called gender-affirming care.
00:27:54.460At least seven different facilities said, sure, they would provide cross-sex hormones at the first appointment.
00:28:04.560So not after a long consultation, just immediately first appointment.
00:28:08.960Come on in. We'll give you those hormones.
00:29:07.720And Planned Parenthood is a multi-billion dollar business that is more than happy to sterilize your child without you even knowing about it.
00:29:17.460By the way, we've got this audio, and I want to play this, coming from live action,
00:29:22.140where you describe them trying to schedule this.
00:32:16.220And by the way, the defenders of this mutilation, and then these are also the folks that defend surgeries where you're actually physically sterilizing little boys or little girls.
00:32:27.120The defenders of this, they say, oh, it's the result of a long, you know, therapy and a medical condition.
00:32:44.140They're in the business of selling abortions, which is their main business, but they're also in the business of selling, sterilizing kids because, look, cross-sex hormones, and that includes testosterone or estrogen given to the opposite gender, they're meant to alter the body to show characteristics of the opposite gender.
00:33:04.660And they can alter the body's natural makeup, they can alter the functions of the body, but they can also result in numerous side effects, including permanent infertility.
00:33:16.180And Lila Rose, who's the president of live action and a tremendous warrior standing for life, here's what Lila Rose said.
00:33:25.180She said that the investigation exposes, quote, a chilling reality that Planned Parenthood is fast-tracking vulnerable children into irreversible hormone treatments with almost no medical oversight.
00:33:42.260These dangerous drugs can sterilize, stunt growth, and leave lifelong scars.
00:33:56.140The last question I have to ask you on this is, after this type of information comes out, is there any role that Congress can play in getting involved now that we see this so clearly?