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00:01:57.920view heading into our nation 250. Clay did start texting in from the beach yesterday and I told him
00:02:05.400that phone in the canvas beach bag and enjoy himself but if he has any other thoughts I'm
00:02:12.140sure he'll share them today during the program with the team we have a lot to discuss. The
00:02:19.920aftermath of socialism night in NYC our friend Ryan Gerdusky will join on that as well in the
00:02:26.780third hour I think it's the third hour yeah so we'll be talking to him about the data because
00:02:32.600here's where some of you took this said well Buck but so few people voted and it's such a small
00:02:37.780snapshot and it's such a crazy area of a crazy city politically New York yeah but I want to give
00:02:46.080you some other other perspective on that and that oftentimes it's the very committed crazies
00:02:53.840who change a whole lot of the world around them.
00:02:58.960It's not about being popular all the time, my friends.
00:03:23.840I'm actually wondering, what would be, before I found out that I had celiac disease,
00:03:29.900I think fried dough was my go-to, which has got to be one of the worst things you could possibly eat at it.
00:03:36.460I think cotton candy is healthy compared to fried dough, because cotton candy is pure sugar,
00:03:41.780whereas fried dough is sugar plus dough, which is basically just more sugar fried in oil, which is fat.
00:03:47.280But it's delicious. It is delicious. So maybe fried dough.
00:03:52.660But aren't there, like, some Italian versions of fried dough that people eat at, like, the San Lorenzo Festival or whatever it's called in New York?
00:07:01.520And we extended temporary protected status many times in the past,
00:07:07.980And sometimes it goes for years. Sometimes it goes for decades.
00:07:13.920And that's where you start to say, well, how temporary is this really?
00:07:17.280Clearly, there have been people in this whole thing who have thought to themselves, I can stay forever.
00:07:25.640And the open borders Democrats view this as a way of getting us to a forever, getting people to a forever status.0.91
00:07:32.800So in 2025, the Trump administration ended TPS for Haiti specifically, and they had had it for a number of years, and finally Trump said, okay, Haiti's doing well enough that Haitians can go back now.
00:07:52.820Remember, the program was never supposed to be you skip the immigration system altogether, you just get to stay here forever, hence the temporary protected status.0.66
00:08:01.540But you see, no good deed when it comes to immigration, no good deed goes unpunished.
00:10:47.800And they get to make that determination.
00:10:49.160So you'll notice this was not a hard case when it comes to the law, but Kagan, Sotomayor, Jackson, the leftists pretending, the leftist legislatures pretending to be judges all went against it.
00:11:10.240The other case that came down, so that was a 6-3, the other case that came down here, also a 6-3, noticing a pattern, had to do with the Immigration and Nationality Act, which provided that an alien who arrives in the United States may apply for asylum and be inspected by immigration officers.
00:11:30.180So back in the first Trump administration, Department of Homeland Security had a metering, which effectively meant a turn back policy of, look, we can only allow 100, 500, whatever the number is, people at this port of entry today to present themselves for an asylum claim because we're swamped.
00:11:52.420We just can't handle all the rest of the people that are showing up.
00:11:57.060Now, keep in mind, these are people who aren't actually, in any legal sense, asylum seekers.1.00
00:12:02.280They just want to come to America, skip the immigration line, and stay here forever.1.00
00:12:06.440They don't show up, 70, 80, 90% of them don't show up for their actual hearing.0.73
00:12:10.980They just disappear into the American interior.0.98
00:12:13.460This became a huge bad faith scam that allowed millions, millions of illegals to just come
00:12:20.740to americans and and the democrats all the time are saying but it's humanitarian it's about asylum
00:12:25.160no it's not just want to be in america and i get that that doesn't make people bad people by the
00:12:29.860way i i don't i i'm not uh shocked that there are people who would rather live here than uh be
00:12:38.800impoverished in honduras or deal with the regime in cambodia or you know whatever the case may be
00:12:47.040I get it. But we have a country here that we're trying to maintain and we have laws.
00:12:52.640So in this in this border case, you had asylum seekers, quote unquote, and of course, a nonprofit.
00:13:01.600Oh, always these nonprofits sued, saying that anybody, even if they're in Mexico, even if they have not been able to cross onto American soil,
00:13:11.700if they are in the vicinity of a port of entry that should mean they have the right to present
00:13:18.640themselves for asylum so if you have a thousand people show up at a port of entry they all have0.97
00:13:24.700to be brought into america so that they can brought on physically brought onto american soil
00:13:30.100so that they can um say that they're asylum seekers and pass that the initial credible fear test
00:13:38.460which I've been down to the border, I've seen this myself,
00:13:41.220they have wristbands that the cartels give them,
00:13:43.220they've been coached to say just the words,
00:13:46.060I have a credible fear of violence in my country,
00:13:48.360the Biden administration let this just turn into a total free-for-all.
00:15:52.200This is for people who are trying to go to a port of entry through the legal entry way.
00:15:57.760There is illegal crossing, which tons of people were doing, and then they turn around and say, I want defensive asylum, they call it, which is where you basically get to skip even the port of entry line.
00:16:09.100But we made this harder because we had border patrol set up, and now the Trump administration has been turning people away.
00:16:13.960But the point here is 6-3, you can't tell our ports of entry that they have to process 10,000 people who show up all at once because some judge says so.
00:16:27.020You also can't say that the Trump administration doesn't get to make temporary protected status for Haitians temporary because Sotomayor thinks Trump doesn't like Haitian people, which is basically what the whole claim here was.
00:16:43.9606-3, 6-3, another decision, not as big, but also something else in the legal realm that I want to talk to you about here in a second.
00:16:51.620We'll hit that, that Supreme Court decision, and also a look ahead in just a moment.
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00:20:44.300We have a lot to dive into in the aftermath of those election results in that primary in New York City.
00:20:53.620And I understand there's a bit of a debate and the people on the right feel somewhat, some of them feel differently about this.
00:21:00.940there's the who cares it's new york it just happened in a and it's a small amount of voters
00:21:06.840and it's just a congressional primary and a few state assembly seats and all this
00:21:10.960the other side of it though is there's a trend here isn't there of incredibly radical far left
00:21:20.820and really destabilizing and hateful individuals now they always say of course that we're hateful
00:21:28.800I don't hate anybody. I mean, I hate people doing very bad things, but I don't approach politics with hate in my heart for anyone. I think people are very wrong. I think there are evil decisions and I think there are evil people, but I don't approach this with the desire to like get at my enemies or anything like that.
00:21:52.580I don't think conservatives do that in general.
00:21:55.520There are a lot of leftists who really do.
00:25:22.380Instead, what the left has, and I'm going to tie this all into the New York City thing,
00:25:27.880But what the left has is, I think that billionaires and millionaires and billionaires, and now a trillionaire, I don't like them because they have more than me.
00:25:40.700And I think, again, I'm speaking from a leftist perspective, and I think that they victimized people to get what they have through capitalism, of course.
00:38:26.800There were some others that were in the mix.0.89
00:38:28.520What matters looking at this stuff to you?
00:38:32.700I think when you look at her, I call her a DAC because it's easier.
00:38:36.620The woman who ran against Espelot in Harlem, in the Harlem District, Harlem and part of the Bronx.0.91
00:38:43.560Part of that race that no one is talking about is the fact that the black part of Harlem really always had a very negative relationship with Espelot.
00:38:52.240Because Espelot, 10 years ago, ran against a former congressman, Charlie Rangel.
00:38:58.260Charlie Rangel, for those who don't remember, his most famous thing in his life was he didn't pay taxes, even though he wrote the tax code because he said it was too complicated.
00:39:07.200But anyway, that district was historically a black district and a black representative.
00:39:12.840Espelot challenged him, saying there's more Dominicans than blacks now.0.91
00:39:17.180This should be a Dominican district.0.95
00:39:19.160Black political leaders and black voters, older voters in that area, never forgave him for that ever.
00:39:24.920So he should have been doing better, even among people who don't care about socialism.
00:39:31.080But he underperformed Cuomo by a good measure in the black parts of Harlem and the urban parts of Harlem.
00:39:37.940Something that really struck me, though, when I broke down precinct by precinct was really the turnout level in these heavy transplant, high college educated, very far left districts.
00:39:50.260So in that same district, in the district I talked about in Harlem and in South Bronx, in the parts like by Columbia University in the area north of that, Morningside Heights, where it is very trans, up transplants, very white for northern Manhattan, but a lot of other people, high income, high college education.
00:40:13.120The average precinct, election precinct, which is only just a couple blocks long, had between two and six hundred people show out in each precinct.
00:40:23.820And there's dozens of precincts in that area.
00:40:26.820The Bronx, for example, which is Espelot's area that he was very strong in, there rarely broke 100 votes per precinct, sometimes maybe at most 150.
00:40:37.380But the turnout numbers were very lopsided in favor of where a socialist was running and a DSA candidate was running.
00:40:46.460Over in Brooklyn, over in the other district where Valdez was running, the only people to really mobilize and vote against the DSA and show up in big numbers were the Hasidic Jews.
00:40:58.140They did show up in big numbers against the DSA candidates, but there just weren't enough of them.
00:41:02.540Most of them actually live in Hakeem Jeffries' district.
00:41:04.580And this also goes to show over in Grace Meng's issue. Grace Meng is an Asian-American congresswoman, Democrat from Queens. She is very unnoticeable. No one knows any of her record whatsoever. She is a very small part of the commie corridor in her district.0.69
00:41:22.500Nonetheless, in her Asian-majority district, she only won by 15 points because in the Asian-predominant precincts over in Chinatown and Flushing, Queens, over in the ethnic white neighborhoods out near Whitestone or Middle Village and parts of Glendale, the average turnout was 80 to 100 people per precinct.
00:41:46.200Over in the commie corridor area, there were 300 to 400 persons per precinct.
00:41:53.040So the turnout intensity, Democrat turnout nationwide has been high.
00:41:58.100But among those people who are mobilized by socialism, it is near presidential level turnout, even for these kinds of midterms.
00:42:07.960And the average blue-collar, working-class Democrat, many of them who are either ethnically white or black and Hispanic, have nowhere near that intensity whatsoever.
00:42:20.400So I saw this. DSA co-chair, this was a quote circulating on X.
00:42:25.740We're using the Democratic Party as a ballot access vehicle, not because we share its goal.
00:42:30.780This is from the Democrat Socialists of America.
00:42:34.320we build our own organization get elected on the democratic label caucus with democrats when it's
00:42:41.420useful and push our own agenda from the inside we see the democratic establishment as an obstacle
00:42:47.000not a home the dsa how powerful is it in new york elsewhere is this part of the leftward lurch of
00:42:56.120the party what do you see well in new york in new york is the is the goal is the crown gem of the
00:43:03.140dsa network right nowhere is it more powerful than in new york city especially in the quote
00:43:08.960unquote commie corridor where almost every single district wait what's the commie i'm from new york
00:43:14.500what's the commie court you used to live in astoria is that part of the commie corridor
00:43:17.920what's the commie corridor the commie corridor stretches it's every part of brooklyn and
00:43:22.760manhattan that touches the water across from manhattan so it stretches from astoria queen
00:43:28.740to Sunset Park, Brooklyn, that entire strip that goes out of the water.
00:43:33.580Every people, all the people who couldn't afford to live in Manhattan anymore back in the 90s
00:43:38.380that moved to Williamsburg, they have extended themselves throughout the entire, everything
00:43:43.260that touches the water that goes to Manhattan, and they are all very far left.
00:43:47.920So all the way up from the top of Astoria, all the way down to Sunset Park and Bay Ridge,
00:43:52.560Brooklyn, it's really now to Bay Ridge.
00:43:54.140So that entire strip of land, those are a lot of seats.0.93
00:43:57.040And what Democrats did – this is why Democrats are so stupid in New York sometimes – Democrats, to prevent Republicans from winning any local office seats in Queens and Brooklyn, they ran their districts east to west instead of north to south.0.91
00:44:11.800Had they ran them north to south, they would have given Democrats, socialists fewer seats to win.0.98
00:44:18.600But because they ran them a long ways east to west, they have more seats to campaign than to win because it's a little bit of the commie corridor and a lot of other areas that just don't have high-intensity voter turnout.
00:44:34.540So you have ethnic white areas that voted for Trump that have a local representative who is a member of the DSA because they refuse to give Republicans any seats in the state of legislature in New York.
00:44:49.760And that's why the DSA is, in fact, more powerful than it even should be, is because they were trying to get as many Democrats in the state legislature as possible.
00:44:58.980so harry antin of cnn the poor man's ryan gurdusky he uh was was looking at the data after this
00:45:07.420election and and he there was a graphic he put up on the screen i'm trying to find it but it's
00:45:11.480basically the view uh among democrats not nationwide the view among democrats of socialism
00:45:17.020i think it was 10 years ago versus today something like that and it has gone up dramatically and
00:45:23.600there are people i saw uh you know matt walsh ben shapiro jesse kelly i've seen a bunch of people
00:45:29.240on x who are saying guys the bolsheviks were never popular either but they started out as
00:45:35.320a committed minority and then shaped things to their will over time is the democrat party
00:45:41.520lurching left toward a more open embrace of socialism or how does that look going into the
00:45:48.900midterms. Yeah, I mean, the thing is, is that, you know, everyone tries to paint this as a New
00:45:54.660York particular election and as a New York phenomenon or just an inner city phenomenon,
00:46:00.640because remember, mayor of Washington, D.C. is now a DSA member. Mayor of Seattle is now a DSA
00:46:05.540member. Potentially the mayor of L.A. will be a DSA member. However, DSA members have won other
00:46:12.480primaries. They won a primary in rural Maine. They won a primary in Montana. They have they
00:46:18.240They have elected officeholders now in most states of the country in Democratic primaries.
00:46:24.240In deep red states, they will find that sole blue pocket, and they will put their flag there and then win primaries everywhere else.
00:46:35.740What has really been surprising more than anything, and there's been no backlash, nothing from the Democratic Party, is really how there's been a displacement.
00:46:45.680which for my life, they've always had black candidates run for office as Democrats, being that blacks are the most loyal Democrats there are.
00:46:55.040And now it's a lot of Arab candidates who are running as the DSA candidates, and they're winning, oftentimes beating black candidates.
00:47:04.120It's just the observation of how quickly those demographics and that changes happen.
00:47:09.880But, yeah, so the party is changing very quickly, and what we're seeing is both it's college-educated whites, but it's not just college-educated whites, and it's not unemployed college-educated whites.
00:47:21.820Parts of these areas, the DSA members winning, are very wealthy.
00:47:25.220These are people who live in $3 million, $4 million townhouses in Brooklyn.
00:47:29.380It's also assimilated second-generation immigrants.
00:47:33.280Those Asian Middle Easterners, sometimes African immigrants, their kids did assimilate. They didn't assimilate to Archie Bunker and John Wayne's America. They assimilated to AOC's version of America.
00:47:47.700They have assimilated, and that's why sometimes this woman, the DAC up in Harlem, who's radical, who doesn't believe in biracial, oh, sorry, multiracial coupling because you should not have a relationship with a colonizer is what she said.
00:48:31.260That's a perfect assimilation to, you know, libtard, left-wing ideology.1.00
00:48:38.040And that is where they assimilated into mass media and the university system, and so it's perfect.0.99
00:48:44.620So they have this huge population of younger people. I say younger, 40 and under because they're not all like 18. Some of them are well into the middle age. But 40 and younger, wealthy, wealthy, college-educated whites mixed with first and mostly second-generation immigrants who absolutely believe lock, lock, and barrel all this stuff.
00:49:08.700Our next election that we're going to see is in Wisconsin, where this woman, Fong is her last name.0.83
00:49:30.140By the way, also, DAC, you know who one of the people she said was a horrible politician for being too supportive of Israel, this candidate who just won in Harlem?
00:49:40.600Two people she said are on her enemies list, AOC and Bernie Sanders.0.53
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00:57:28.740And the more I got into it, I realized in my life, and I practiced this all through my CBS days, the things I've learned along the way, I didn't dream that up.
00:57:48.720So there's a lot of, I guess, dandism, as you could say.
00:57:52.140That's, for lack of a better term, that's what I named it in the book.
00:57:54.720um short things that i've learned that will help anybody no matter what industry they're in
00:58:00.420and of course buck there has to be oh probably about 30 to 40 percent of funny radio stories
00:58:06.660and that would be bosses jocks recording artists i think i've got them all in there
00:58:13.460so you describe radio in the book as the media backbone of america and chapter seven is titled
00:58:20.960radio is dead with all the ways people consume content now has that changed or just evolved
00:58:26.540well i wrote that chapter i thought about walking by a appliance store in about 1960 62 i saw my
00:58:36.720first color tv and uh i don't know if you remember it you probably don't remember this you're too
00:58:41.800young but the whole slug line for advertising was wow i saw a color tv so the tv people were
00:58:48.880out in force talking about radio being dead and of course cassettes came along cds came along
00:58:55.040you name it it all came along but here we are because radio is about companionship
00:59:01.640and more specifically about making friends
00:59:04.540and i was told this once by a uh a very well-known person in the industry that if you do this right
00:59:15.120And it should be a one-to-one conversation, but perhaps in this case heard millions of times over or millions of one-to-one conversations happening.
00:59:23.420What is the advice that you would give to people who are in this medium about how to establish that very special, that very powerful connection that radio is able to do that things like TV really just – it's just not the same?
00:59:37.920I think radio is a much different medium because it is a call-to-action medium.
00:59:43.400you know you could get on the air a morning show could get on afternoon it doesn't matter
00:59:47.620and raise money for a family who had been burned out of their home you might raise money for
00:59:55.200the dog shelter to get all the dogs adopted for that day and it can happen little not so much in
01:00:02.580tv but radio is that one-to-one communication and like i said before it's a sense of belonging
01:00:08.240People want to belong to something bigger, part of a family.
01:00:22.540You're a guy who knows plenty about NPR and what it does and does not do.
01:00:29.180I've listened to NPR for about 50 years off and on.
01:00:32.660So I think I'm as good as anyone else in this country to make a comment on NPR.
01:00:38.240First of all, um, 1934, the Communications Act, uh, established that there would be non-commercial radio stations and they would get on there and do something a little different that maybe a crazy top 40 station wouldn't do.
01:00:54.740And that, they always had this snooty attitude, always.
01:00:59.360And they were very, no matter what, they were partisan.
01:01:02.520It didn't, it didn't reflect so much until President Obama was, was elected.
01:01:07.740Now this is my two cents, so other people may have a different opinion. In about 1967, the government came along and said, you know what, these guys are not making much money and they need to be on the air still, so let's fund them.
01:01:20.200And that went on from 1967 to recently, just last year, which was about July. It was challenged in March of this year by a federal judge, but it's still going to be a tough putt to bring that back. It was about $1.1 billion.
01:01:36.580So I wrote Commissioner Carr, who I gave a tour to at 1010 Winds, and I told him I have a solution.
01:01:44.360I have the total solution for all of this, and nobody's going to sue anybody.