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DATE: MONDAY, 03.17.25 LAST UPDATE: 06:18 PM ET PREPARED BY: CB, RR, JB, SK, BM |
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We have the following scheduled for today's program:
TOP OF HOUR 2 GUEST: Spencer Klavan TOPIC: Klavan: “Be rude to Grok.” TOP OF HOUR 3 GUEST: Steve Baker TOPIC: Blaze News EXCLUSIVE: Nancy Pelosi had a "fixer" at the Capitol on January 6?!
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| Here are some highlights from this day on previous shows:
March 17, 2010 - Using the Slaughter rule to pass health care… Chuck Schumer audio… Kansas City Star’s moronic snooping… St. Patty’s Day… Homeland Security… FBI at last night’s Insider Extreme broadcast… Al Gore working with Hollywood?...
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HEADLINES - RAW & UNVERIFIED |
Trump ties for highest approval he’s ever had — as more Americans say US is on right track than any time in 20 years: Poll Trump’s approval rating reaches 47%, the highest approval rating he’s ever had in an NBC poll, while 44% say the U.S. is on the right track — the most positive outlook since 2004 and a drastic turnaround from last September when the number was 28%. Trump signs spending bill to keep government funded through end of fiscal year “Congratulations to Chuck Schumer for doing the right thing — Took ‘guts’ and courage!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. “The big Tax Cuts, L.A. fire fix, Debt Ceiling Bill, and so much more, is coming,” he added. Trump guts government-funded media outlets The Trump administration on Saturday ordered nearly all 1,300 employees of Voice of America to be placed on leave. It also terminated funding for its sister broadcasters such as Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, and Middle East Broadcasting Networks. Pentagon killing think tank linked to Crossfire Hurricane Hegseth has ordered the closure of the Office of Net Assessment, a Cold War-era Pentagon think tank, which has wasted millions on useless studies — including one speculating on Putin’s Asperger’s. Senator Chuck Grassley praised the move, which will save taxpayers $20 million annually. Trump Administration Slashes Millions More in Grants to Columbia The Trump administration on Friday slashed additional grants to Columbia University totaling approximately $30 million, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. Musk exposes Obama’s past push for government cuts, says it sounds just like DOGE A resurfaced 2011 clip shows Obama announcing a plan to eliminate government waste, saying, “No amount of waste is acceptable, especially when it’s your money.” He pledged to slash billions in spending, including to eliminate leases on “thousands of buildings across the country that no one uses.” |
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Tornadoes, wildfires, and blinding dust sweep across the US as a massive storm leaves at least 35 dead The dynamic storm from Friday through Sunday earned an unusual “high risk” designation from weather forecasters. Still, experts said it’s not unusual to see such weather extremes in March. Hear the death threats Republican senator received about Trump Voicemails shared by Tillis' team, which were filled with profanity and fueled by discontent with Trump, reveal a frightening new reality. The senator's senior adviser, Daniel Keylin, said "the volume of threats and harassment directed at members of Congress and their staff is the new normal." AG Bondi targets Tesla vandals — vows to expose bankrollers of destruction "When we say we're ending the weaponization, we're ending it. People will be held accountable," Bondi stated. Grassley, Johnson, drop records revealing FBI obtained cell phones of Trump, Pence The revelation was unveiled in legally protected whistleblower disclosures from Grassley and Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Chairman Ron Johnson and was part of the FBI's Arctic Frost investigation. FBI investigating rise in ‘swatting’ incidents against conservative media figures “This isn’t about politics — weaponizing law enforcement against ANY American is not only morally reprehensible but also endangers lives, including those of our officers. That will not be tolerated,” FBI Director Kash Patel wrote on X. US anti-Semitism task force to meet leadership of four major cities The Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism is meeting with the mayors of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Boston over rising anti-Semitic incidents in local schools and to see if federal intervention is needed. While Hunter Biden vacations in South Africa, a brave whistleblower rots in a Cyprus jail Gal Luft, the Israeli-American professor who told the FBI in 2019 that Hunter and his uncle Jim Biden were paid millions by a Chinese company while Joe Biden was VP, has been in a bleak Cypriot jail for six months awaiting extradition. California officials hunt for man who decapitated sea lion, fled on e-bike Authorities are searching for a suspect who allegedly sawed off a sea lion’s head at a Sonoma County park and rode away with it in a plastic bag.
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Court attempts to halt Trump illegal gang members being deported, El Salvador president says 'too late' An activist federal judge blocked the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan gang members under the Enemy Aliens Act, but the ruling came too late — El Salvador had already taken in nearly 300 Tren de Aragua and MS-13 criminals. El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele confirms country received Venezuelan gang members from US "Today, the first 238 members of the Venezuelan criminal organization, Tren de Aragua, arrived in our country. They were immediately transferred to CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center. ... The United States will pay a very low fee for them, but a high one for us." Rubio Rips Censorship Advocates For Saying Pro-Terrorist Foreigners Have First Amendment Rights “If you are in this country to promote Hamas, to promote terrorist organizations, to participate in vandalism, to participate in acts of rebellion and riots on campus, we never would have let you in if we had known that, and now that we know it, you’re going to leave.” |
Still searching for COVID-19 origins 5 years after ‘Proximal Origin’ paper tried to end debate Five years ago, the Proximal Origin paper dismissed the Wuhan lab leak theory, shaping public perception of COVID-19’s origins. Emails now reveal Dr. Anthony Fauci “prompted” the article, which helped suppress debate despite scientists privately admitting a lab escape was “highly likely.” NY Times Opinion: We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives Since scientists began playing around with dangerous pathogens in laboratories, the world has experienced four or five pandemics, depending on how you count. UK minister buried MI6 lab leak intel to protect China and research funding A MI6 dossier given to Boris Johnson in March 2020 claimed COVID-19 "beyond reasonable doubt" leaked from a Wuhan lab, but Lord Vallance, the Government's chief scientific adviser at the time, allegedly shut it down to avoid angering China and risking research funds. Bernie Sanders, AOC mocked after telling supporters to mask up for West Coast town halls Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic, Fox News Digital can confirm that the RSVP for the events in Denver and Las Vegas includes guidance that “masks are advised for all attendees of this event.”
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Britain inches closer to embracing Europe’s right-wing trend with Farage’s Reform UK Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Party, aiming to replace the Conservatives as the dominant right-wing force in Britain, is surging in polls ahead of the May 1 local elections, where voters will decide over 1,500 council seats, six mayoralties, and eight unitary authorities. New poll reveals Labour is the ‘anti-fun’ party that loves to ban things people enjoy The upcoming ban on disposable vapes and smoking for those born after 2008 is pinned as a key driver of this resentment, with Sir Keir’s government being accused of interfering too much in the lives of Britons. ‘Zionists are not welcome in Ireland’: Israeli man spat on in Dublin restaurant Pro-Palestinian accounts later tried to share the Israeli man's whereabouts. Muslim trio locked up for assault, abduction of Jewish-Israeli man in Wales The attackers — one of whom wrote, "All three of us have complete 100% faith in Allah so we can't fail" — planned to extort the victim, who they believed to be wealthy because he was Jewish.
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