Today's Issues continues on AFR with your host, Tim Wildman
>> Today's Issues continues on AFR with your host, Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association.
>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, welcome back, everybody, to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Tim Wildmon here with Ed Battagliano and Steve Paisley. Jordow will be with us. Steve's not in the studio at this moment, but any, Any, second or minute, he will be in with us. He went to get a audio clip that we need to play during this half hour. Hey, you know these bombs that we dropped on Iran?
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: From these B52s.
>> Ed Vitagliano: B2s? The beach.
>> Tim Wildmon: Excuse me. Yeah, B52s, they were.
>> Ed Vitagliano: We still have. I think they were a band 52s, but they were.
>> Tim Wildmon: I think they. I think they separated drugs and alcohol and the beef rock band stuff. Anyway, no, the B2s, I should say, they went over to. From Missouri to Iran and dropped these bunker. Bunker busting. You call them missiles? What do you call them?
>> Ed Vitagliano: No, they're bombs.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. Bombs, down the air vent shaft over there. I'm saying this is how precise they are. I think, these smart weapons can hit, a target the size. I think Vice President Vance said something about the size of a cell phone or something. I don't know. You know what I'm saying? That's just how remarkable these smart bombs are that we use, here.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah. It's different from World War II, where there was skill involved, certainly with the scope, but these are guys.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, that was carpet bombing. Yeah, we did a lot of that back in those days.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Even in.
>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, Steve Paisley. Jordan.
Distance between Israel and Iran is about 1100 miles
>> Steve Jordahl: Good morning, everybody. Sorry I'm late.
>> Tim Wildmon: Why are you late?
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, I was, grabbing some sound, some. Some things we could listen to, hear about.
>> Ed Vitagliano: well, while you catch your breath, you had mentioned in the previous segment. I did look it up. the distance between Israel and Iran is about 1100 miles.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Ed Vitagliano: So that's to your point that they're not next door.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Ed Vitagliano: That's.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's on the global scene. That's close, but still, it's not like they're neighboring countries that have, Have a tradition of war against each other.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: So. All right, Steve, go ahead.
Several Democrats are calling for President Trump's impeachment over Iran bombing
>> Steve Jordahl: All right, so, I spent the weekend wondering what the world we could talk about today. I was worried about it. one of the things that happened in the wake of the, bombing, of Iran by the U.S. were, several Democrats, including Ocasio Cortez, AOC, calling for Donald Trump's impeachment, saying that he was acting against the Constitution, and that these kind of things needed approval, needed to come from Congress. I had a brief conversation with my friend Jeff Crank, who is, Republican congressman from Colorado, about his thoughts on that whole thing, and I want you to have a listen to what he had to say. Cut 16.
>> Jeff Crank: Democrats always claim to support Israel, but then when it comes right down to it, do they. It's another week. And of course, that means it's another call for impeachment from Democrats of President Trump. These are the same Democrats, by the way, that didn't care when Bill Clinton launched cruise missiles without any authorization from Congress. Also, when Barack Obama was sending drones in to, attack and kill people. Our founding fathers made it very vague, right? They, they gave the president the power of being commander in chief, but they also gave Congress the power to declare war. Congress, said, you know, you have, you can act, according to your wishes, as commander in chief for 60 days. and the president did that. He's on day three now of that.
>> Ed Vitagliano: You know, it's, it's, it's interesting that, that at least conceptually, as this congressman pointed out, Congressman Crank, you said, okay, that the Constitution does give. Give. The president is commander in chief. He is in charge of the military forces. Congress has to give a declaration of war because they have the purse strings, they would fund a war. But at the time the Constitution was written, we did not have a standing army like we do now. Navy, Air Force, it's already been paid for. So back when the founders wrote the Constitution, the Congress would have to author. Have to, issue a declaration of war and then authorize the funding to raise an army to go and fight. We already have a military that is paid for and trained. And so I think it makes sense, the kind of, the compromise between Congress and the executive branch that we have. You limit what the president can do initially. You give him. You take the reins off that military that's already paid for. You can use it since you're the commander in chief, but if you want to go long term, you've got to get Congress involved. It seems to me that the people like Alexandria Ocasio, Cortez, they are just, they just have that flu virus, tds, Trump. They hate everything he does.
>> Tim Wildmon: Everything. Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter if, there an MRNA.
>> Steve Jordahl: Vaccine for that, because, you know.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, you know what, it's interesting to me, though. See, I'm not, I'm not hearing a whole lot of pushback or criticism of President Trump from The Democrats right now.
>> Steve Jordahl: Several of them are in favor. We listened to John Fetterman this morning who full on applause of it. Most of them are just being silent, not saying a whole lot of anything. And then there are the far left. not too many, but a couple.
>> Tim Wildmon: That are, well, like Alexandria.
>> Elon Musk: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Ocasio Cortez. She's going to be against anything President Trump does.
>> Steve Jordahl: Jasmine Crockett, same squad.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, but, but, I'm just not hearing a lot of criticism yet. I mean some, but even, I saw where. What's the MSNBC host? Scarborough.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, Joe Scarborough.
>> Tim Wildmon: So Scarborough said basically any president would have done the same thing, although they didn't. Yeah, I don't know. Yes. But I don't know if they were faced with this moment.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, they, it seems from everything we've heard is that Iran was so close.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Ed Vitagliano: To finalizing the development of Israel.
>> Tim Wildmon: Israel did all the dirty work.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: to get everything prepped for what, what the US Did. And then, and then Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israelis just said, hey, you got, we can't, we can't finish them off. You can you help us and can you help the world? Yes, because it'll be, and stay clear of a Iranian nuclear, bomb.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Previous presidents could, could still. Now, the Biden administration did nothing to slow Iran down.
>> Tim Wildmon: He didn't know what was going on right. At the time.
>> Ed Vitagliano: But previous presidents had tried, to slow down Iran to, you know, let's have negotiations and, and all that. But when you get, when you get right up to it, the moment when they were about to finalize it, Trump did. I agree with Scarborough, that's rare. But Joe Scarborough said any president would have probably done the same. Yeah. you could not let, no. That group of apocalyptic nutcases get nuclear weapons because we had heard last week that they might be close enough to produce enough material for nine atomic bombs.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Or missiles.
Social media site reports spike in pizza orders around Pentagon hours before attack
>> Steve Jordahl: All right, Steve, interesting thing that happened around the Pentagon while this was going on. maybe a little security leak that they might want to start, putting to a close. Here's a social media site called the Pentagon Pizza Report and they take a look at the activity of pizza parlors and restaurants around the Pentagon. And if it comes to, as in this case Friday night at 9 o' clock and all of a sudden there's a sudden surge in pizza orders around the Pentagon. They have a fear feeling something might be up. And an hour before they launched this attack, they, reported that the pizza, the pizza Papa John's Pizza had a huge spike about 7pm on Friday. Had a huge spike in orders. And they also, noted that there's a Freddy's, beach bar, restaurant and bar near the Pentagon was running abnormally low activities. So nobody was going out. Everybody was ordering in. And, they say that that's a tip off. That might be a tip off.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I thought that was kind of fascinating that, that there are people who watch this kind of thing and that, that this is a, this is a real thing. People are paying attention. My understanding is that at that time on a Friday night, there's usually no wait if you order a pizza. But because of the extraordinarily high activity, there was a long wait and that's. They, Their, Their guess is that, every. Everyone is ordering in because it's going to be a long night. The only way to stop that is you just tell everyone who's coming in, bring your own lunch. Bring a, Bring a couple of sandwiches. Because we don't want to. I'm just kidding.
>> Steve Jordahl: The Pentagon is the largest office building in the entire world. They have. I did not know that they have to. Well, at one point it was. I think it still is. They have to have at least 10 cafeterias, certainly snack machines, if nothing else.
>> Tim Wildmon: But I'm just curious, what were the number one pizza chores?
>> Steve Jordahl: You know what? I don't know that they, that they went on. That it was somebody. I think there's. I think pizza, around the Pentagon, there was a Papa John's pizza called Bomber on Pizza.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb.
>> Tim Wildmon: Doing a Beach Boys.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, there you go.
>> Tim Wildmon: For just a minute.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Oh, man. by the way, you said you sent something around, Tim, over the, over the weekend. I don't know if I could pull it up, but it was. Someone had created a meme that said talking, about pronouns and that, Iran's, nuclear facilities are now going by the pronouns was and were. That was pretty. That was pretty clever. Several friends on Facebook posted that and sent it around, and it was all over the place, over the weekend.
>> Steve Jordahl: It was pretty funny.
There was a church shooting in Michigan on Sunday that left several people wounded
All right. Hey, there's a, story that may have been leading the news had we not had this happen.
>> Tim Wildmon: What happened?
>> Steve Jordahl: The bombing.
>> Tim Wildmon: What bombing?
>> Steve Jordahl: There was a bombing over the weekend in Iran.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, yes.
>> Elon Musk: Yeah, yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: If not for that, this might have been the lead story. There was a church shooting in Michigan at, Cross Point Community Church in Wayne, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. An erratic driver was coming, came into the parking lot, parked his car Got out with a long gun and a pistol and started walking toward the sanctuary which by the way was full of kids celebrating the last day, I think of their vacation Bible school and started firing bullets into the building. remarkably a ah, guy that was coming into church that night, he was driving his pickup truck, saw this lightning speed thinking. I just got off the phone with Ryan Dobson, Dr. Dobson's son, but who is a security, church security expert in his spare time. the guy came in his pickup, pushed, gunned it and ran this guy down. And then a couple security people at the church came and shot him, killed him. He got into a gunfight with them, wounded a couple of them. Non life threatening. Quick, thinking, both outside the venue and inside, there was a woman on the stage who calmly told all the kids to get up and exit to the left, which was away from the danger. Ryan said if that had gone differently, and he had gotten into the building, she would have been credited with saving untold amounts of lives. Yeah, good quick thinking. Ryan's advice to everybody is whenever you go into not only a church but any public space, just take an inventory where the exits are.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: What was the motivation for the person who attacked them?
>> Steve Jordahl: They haven't, they don't know or they haven't released it if they do know.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, and just, I'm not trying to make everyone, you know, nervous and I have no idea what the motivation was in this case in Wayne, in the city of Wayne in Michigan. But there are concerns that in light of the attack over the weekend, the bombing in the bombings in Iran, that there may be sleeper cells in this country that may be activated. I, I, I don't know. I, I don't know how many are here because of four years of President Biden. Probably nobody does, or how successful they might be or if anything would be. But that was the first thing I thought when I heard of this over the weekend. As I thought, well, is this a lone wolf that is taking revenge? maybe we'll find out. It. It is increasingly typical that in these kinds of cases local law enforcement will sometimes not release manifestos or information. I don't know if they're trying to prevent repercussions.
>> Tim Wildmon: Do you believe, group you think that majority of churches now have security during, during, during the church hours, vacation, Bible school and that kind of thing?
>> Ed Vitagliano: If you don't, I'm not sure how wise it is we have. I'm not going to mention the name of the church but the church that you and I go to, they have full on security teams. We do here at afa, we do regular training and we have all kinds of security measures. If you don't do that. I don't know, but who would.
>> Tim Wildmon: Ever think vacation Bible school.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I know.
>> Tim Wildmon: Who would ever think somebody would come in for vacation Bible school and try to kill people and kill children. Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And I don't even know if the person knew that VBS was going on, but good grief. there is a, whatever the percentage is of people in this country that have lost their minds, they're possessed by the devil, however you want to describe it. But it in, you've got to take precautions. If your state allows it and if it doesn't leave the state, get out of those, states.
>> Steve Jordahl: Wayne Police Department According to Fox News, the Wayne Police Department has named the now deceased shooter as Brian Anthony Browning, 31 years old, lived in Romulus, Michigan in a neighboring town. Police have not commented on a potential motive, but they said Browning's mother is a member of the church and that he had attended the church two or three times over the last year.
>> Ed Vitagliano: You know, sometimes these things, there, have been times when shootings have happened and it's a personal vendetta. but now this guy opened up from outside the church, shooting blindly into the church. So this, sometimes they'll show up at a service and someone's doing something wrong with someone else's wife and then that unfolds. There's all sorts of different scenarios.
>> Tim Wildmon: But if somebody had not been at the church with a gun to do, to be this. He was there for security purposes. Right. This person. Or did he just happen to be there and he's carrying?
>> Steve Jordahl: No, the, two people that engaged him were part of their security team.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, so they had a security team, for the vacation, Bible school graduation or whatever it was this all started.
>> Steve Jordahl: look up the date. in Colorado Springs is a church, they're a large church. the name has just escaped me. But, it had this. One of the first church shootings that I remember. I was working at folks at the time, which is a block away from this church. And the guy came into the parking lot, started shooting. He unfortunately killed two sisters who were leaving church, getting into their car. Security, an off duty police officer at the church engaged the guy when he got in the building and killed him.
>> Tim Wildmon: But the next, I remember that the.
>> Steve Jordahl: Next day, the next Sunday, every church in Colorado Springs and I think shortly thereafter every church in the country had a plan, if not a security. We had. We had armed police at our church. Very visible the next Sunday, for the next month. And they still are. There's still an armed. my old church back in Colorado Springs. There's still an armed police officer in the lobby at all times anytime the church is open.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, listen, that was. Remember folks on the family.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yep. Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: That was an attempt of an individual to go and kill everyone there.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And they had a security guard. He got. He did get shot, I think, but he ended the threat.
>> Tim Wildmon: That was at Family Research Council.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Family Research. Yeah. Frc.
>> Tim Wildmon: Frcc.
>> Steve Jordahl: There actually was a guy in Focus that, came in and held the lobby hostage.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
There's a bullet hole in the wall at Focus that dates back years
And held, the lobby.
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, the. The secretaries, the people who are the gate at the lobby. And of course, right off the lobby at Focus, there's like, a bunch of departments that have offices there. But he came in. This was years before I even got there. he got off one shot. And it's. There's a bullet hole in the wall they kept. And a plaque under the bullet hole saying, on this date, God, saved us from this. So, yeah, it does happen.
According to Elon Musk, we are about a year away from curing blindness
Hey, I want to. There's other stuff, political stuff we can get to, but I really am anxious to talk about this. we are. According to Elon Musk, we are about a year away or less from curing blindness. Yes, you heard me right. Cut 14.
>> Elon Musk: In the next six to 12 months, we'll be doing our first implants for vision where even if somebody's completely blind, we can write directly to, the, visual cortex. and we've had that working in monkeys. Actually, I think one of our monkeys now has had a visual implant for three years. And at first it'll be relatively fairly low resolution, but long term, you would have very high resolution and be able to see multispectral wavelengths. So, you could see an infrared, ultraviolet radar. It's like a superpower situation.
>> Steve Jordahl: Isn't that something?
>> Tim Wildmon: I just know one thing. If you're in, Elon Musk graduating class, you got no shot. Valedictorian. No shot at valedictorian.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Ah, you're going to be number two.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I mean, this guy, he. He. I don't know what history is going to write about him, but he's like some kind of, like a Edison, or, you know, Einstein kind of person because he excels in almost everything he does. You know, whether it's launching space, having children, craft. You had to go there. Yeah. Ah, that's a, that's a different parallel. we may have to parallel him with some well known athletes. but I mean just about everything. Tesla, I mean he wants to put people on Mars.
>> Steve Jordahl: The boring company.
>> Ed Vitagliano: The boring company.
>> Steve Jordahl: Which is not lack of interest. It's, it's tunnels that this guy drills under cities.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes. And can do it far quicker and far cheaper than anybody else. But this here. Now I do have some concerns with Elon Musk and some of his visions and go. He doesn't appear to know God or I don't even know what his beliefs are. But he's, he's a big fan of what's called transhumanism. that's got nothing to do with transgender ideology. It has to do with the joining of human beings biologically with machinery. M. Or the Borg. Yes, like the Borg on Star Trek. where, where the, the human body would be combined. When you're missing an arm or you're missing, you know, you know, a heart or whatever. you know that, that there.
>> Tim Wildmon: Can be like the lion.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Huh?
>> Tim Wildmon: Like the lion.
>> Ed Vitagliano: It's exactly on the wizard of Oz if you don't have a heart.
>> Tim Wildmon: Missing a heart.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes. No, that was, yeah, that was courage. Yeah. And it was, it was.
>> Tim Wildmon: No, it's a tin man.
>> Ed Vitagliano: You know, he had a heart.
>> Tim Wildmon: I just wanted to give people an analogy they could understand.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes, thank you, thank you for that. so I, I, I have a hard time understanding, you know, the long term ethical implications, but to try to give sight to the blind, it's extraordinary.
>> Steve Jordahl: I would, I was going to say the ethical problems would be a lot less if you were blind.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes. No, no, I'm turn, and talking about in terms of combining humans biologically with machines and computers and all that kind of stuff.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I'm sure I'm not saying it in the right scientific way, but that's, that's extraordinary. Six months to a year.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah. He said six months to a year.
President Obama gave cash to Iran, according to Babylon B president
Hey, I got some breaking news.
>> Tim Wildmon: break it.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yep. According to the Babylon B president, Obama is making a statement. He's distraught as Trump has bombed the cool nuke factory that he paid for.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Babylon. Be. Well, listen, President Obama will live in infamy for a number of reasons, but sending pallets of unmarked bills in the, in, in the nighttime on, on a.
>> Tim Wildmon: Plane, hoping to not be discovered.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes, just.
>> Tim Wildmon: What, gave cash. Yeah. Giving cash to Iran.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: And he claimed a billion dollars. I don't know how much.
>> Steve Jordahl: It was like 2 or 3 billion, I think.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah. And, and it was which is more than twice what I have in the bank. I'm just saying.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: More than twice.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Ah, yeah. and, of course, President Obama tried to defend what he did by saying, well, this was only money that belonged to Iran when, when their assets were frozen after the Iranian Revolution in 1979, which is complete bunk, because there were outstanding demands that Iran pay money. It was a, It seemed completely unethical what President Obama did.
>> Tim Wildmon: Or complete bunker busters. Which one did you say?
>> Ed Vitagliano: Complete bunk.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, bunk.
>> Ed Vitagliano: But it.
>> Tim Wildmon: Thank you, Steve.
>> Steve Jordahl: My pleasure.
>> Tim Wildmon: Thank you. Ed.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: You're conscious.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I was still talking to your show.
>> Tim Wildmon: I know you were, but we're about out of time. You hear the music?
>> Ed Vitagliano: I do.
>> Tim Wildmon: Trying to help.
>> Ed Vitagliano: It was Frank Turek said it's Shut up music.
Please pray for President Trump and his team today as they make critical decisions
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, thank you for joining us, ladies and gentlemen. And on a serious note, please do pray for President Trump and his team today, as they make, critical decisions about, the situation at hand that we've talked about for the last hour and a half. We'll see you tomorrow. Everybody take care.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Of.
