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Today's Issues continues on AFR with your. Host, Tim Wildman

>> Chris Woodward: Today's Issues continues on AFR with your.

>> Tim Wildmon: Host, Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association. Hey, welcome back, everybody, to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Today's issue is the name of this program. I'm Tim with Ed and Wesley. And now Chris, Plaid Woodward joins us. even though he's not wearing plaid today, I've nicknamed you. I don't know if that'll stick, like Paisley Jordahl.

>> Chris Woodward: But you know what? You can call me what you want as long as my pronouns remain gainfully employed.

>> Tim Wildmon: That's a good one. That's a good one. All right.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Actually, those aren't pronouns.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. All right, there's Ed, ladies and gentlemen, adding joy and happiness to our show. And sarcasm. Yeah. So, what is your first story, Chris?

CNN polled on where Gen Z is on issues like marriage and children

>> Chris Woodward: Well, at the beginning of the previous hour, Fred brought in, how Americans come down on the issue of socialism, and I bring in a poll, on where Gen Z is on issues like marriage and children.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. Tell the baby boomers who the Gen Zers are. Yeah, Gen Zers, they're way back down the line.

>> Chris Woodward: Correct. thank you very much, for this opportunity. Gen zers are people that were born, a few years after the start of this century. Somewhere around 2005, 2006. Well, actually, Gen Z may actually begin somewhere around the very late 90s, depending on some pollster.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, just real quick. I don't want to overanalyze this, except, Ed and I are baby boomers, Wesley. And you are in what category?

>> Chris Woodward: I'm a millennial.

>> Tim Wildmon: Is that what you are?

>> Chris Woodward: I'm one of the older millennials. I was born at the beginning of the generation.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, and then behind the millennials is who?

>> Chris Woodward: Gen Z.

>> Tim Wildmon: Is that who we're talking about?

>> Chris Woodward: Yes.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Where's Gen X?

>> Chris Woodward: Gen X would be people born between boomers and millennials. So from mid-60s up to about 1980, you would be Gen X.

>> Wesley Wildmon: So I am going to belabor this point. All right.

>> Tim Wildmon: They belabor it.

>> Wesley Wildmon: I would like to go with just ages. If you're between 25 and 30. 35 and 40, when you were doing the gin and. And the X and. And.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, this. That's why I asked because it gets confusing. But the.

>> Wesley Wildmon: But I'm not blaming you, Chris.

>> Chris Woodward: I get it. I get it.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. For the purposes of this story, I wanted you to define it. So a Gen Z is who we're talking about?

>> Chris Woodward: Yes.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, go ahead.

>> Chris Woodward: Early 20s.

>> Tim Wildmon: Early 20s.

>> Chris Woodward: So NBC, along with something, called Survey Monkey, did a poll, and found that Gen Z's gender divide reaches beyond politics and into its views on marriage, children and success. Long story short, Gen Z men who backed Trump in 2024 rated having children at the top of a list of choices of how to define personal success. Gen Z women who backed Kamala Harris in 2024 put things like marriage and children near the bottom in terms of personal, success. And that's a sad state of affairs, I think for these United States of America where you've got a large number of people out there that don't want to get married and have kids. You're missing out on such a blessing.

>> Tim Wildmon: So what percentage of Gen Z don't? You don't. So you're saying they don't value marriage and family?

>> Chris Woodward: Gen Z women who backed Kamala Harris put those things near the bottom.

>> Tim Wildmon: Oh yeah.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, and what, what, what do you attribute that to? We, in our story meeting, you said something about the fact that a lot of the women in this category, this age group, have grown up being told that the world's coming to an end for environmental reasons. Humans are to blame for that. And the more people we have, the worse that problem gets. So is that driving a lot of this?

>> Chris Woodward: Some people would tell you as much. I don't have this clip, but Mark Morano of Climate Depot was on Fox's the Will Cain show yesterday talking about this very poll. And Mark Morano, somebody we feature a lot on afn, mentioned that, NPR and some other liberal news outlets were to blame because a lot of young people, not just women, but young liberals, have grown up being told that, that having children is a negative on the environment and we all need to stop having kids, which is just terrible, for somebody to even think that and promote it on the public airways.

>> Ed Vitagliano: It's also true though, isn't it? That is true.

>> Tim Wildmon: Isn't it true?

>> Ed Vitagliano: Isn't it true?

>> Tim Wildmon: Or is it Mr. Woodward?

>> Ed Vitagliano: Oh yeah, there's Perry Mason.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, isn't it true?

>> Ed Vitagliano: Isn't it true?

A lot of times refusal to have kids is related to economic fears

Right, now you're going to get me doing impressions again, that a lot of times the, refusal to have kids is related to economic fears, financial fears. And if you, if you look at a generation that seems to have the least amount of, hope for a good financial future, it would probably be Gen Z, however, that's that not really.

>> Tim Wildmon: Tell me what 22 year old does think they're going to have a bright economic future.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, I mean, up until this generation, every generation seemed to do better Than their parents.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, right.

>> Ed Vitagliano: This one seems. But what I was going to say.

>> Tim Wildmon: Is they're living with their parents.

>> Ed Vitagliano: That. That, that wouldn't explain the divide between males and females in this generation.

>> Chris Woodward: Yeah. To your point here, you know, NBC and Survey Monkey, they got into all these issues. Men versus women. women are almost all the time reading from the poll. Women are almost all of the time anxious or worried about the future. there's all kinds of issues, in the workplace, where the workplace is unfair. There are issues involving the economy, things like that. So, yeah, it's an issue.

>> Wesley Wildmon: In addition to this conversation, if you remember when Kamala was running for president.

>> Ed Vitagliano: There was also a glorious time.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Actually, what I'm about to say precedes that. When Roe versus Wade was overturned, you had a lot of Kamala supporting young women who were saying, well, now that Roe. Ver. Roe versus Wade. Okay. And it was done by men. Overturned by men. Therefore, I'm not going to get married. I'm going to, protest, procreating and having sex and all that kind of stuff. If you remember that there was a wave there, and that was, contributing factor at the time for why they weren't going to have families or get married or have kids.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Just the overturning. It was like, out of spite of their political views being overturned.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.

>> Chris Woodward: I got to tell you, for. For young people out there that are listening to the show, first of all, thank you for listening to this show versus terrible, things on npr. But two, I'm m not a millionaire, but as a married father of two, I am a wealthy man. Based on things I've got heartwarming.

>> Tim Wildmon: what you just said, it touches me. What did you just say?

>> Chris Woodward: I am not a millionaire, but as a married father of two, I am a wealthy man.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Tim, you're gonna have to be careful because you people are not going to take you seriously. When you want to be serious, they're not going to take you serious.

>> Chris Woodward: You're going to be like, joe, but no, I'm serious. You know, like, you have to specify.

>> Ed Vitagliano: When you say that warms my heart.

>> Tim Wildmon: What was wrong with that?

>> Ed Vitagliano: There's not a regular listener to ti. Who believes what you. When you. When you say that, it speaks to him or when you say, I'm, just sharing my heart.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, no, but you.

>> Tim Wildmon: But I don't know how much more real I can be trying to lay it out there.

>> Ed Vitagliano: But listen, what Chris would you said is a. That's a bible and Christian idea.

>> Chris Woodward: Yeah.

>> Ed Vitagliano: And if you, and if you have a generation that has moved further away from God, like I think Gen Z generally has, they are going to be without hope in the world because they don't have a relationship with God, Christ. So they are always afraid. They are afraid of death and they are afraid of the future.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, Big story.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett was trying to calm fears about Supreme Court ideological bias

>> Chris Woodward: All right, speaking of, the future here, Amy Coney Barrett was trying to calm some, fears.

>> Tim Wildmon: Supreme Court Justice.

>> Chris Woodward: Yes, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a Trump nominee, she was trying to calm some fears about the Supreme Court being an ideological driven court and whatnot. and she made comments like, you know, we're not making decisions based on politics. Let's play the clip and then I'll bounce the question off of you. Clip 14.

>> Speaker E: We don't wear red and blue. We all wear black because judges are nonpartisan. And the idea is that we are all listening to the law. We're all trying to get it right. We're not playing for a team. We don't sit on, specific sides of the bench, left and right. You know, we sit in order of seniority.

>> Chris Woodward: Now that sounds great and I think a lot of people would agree with that.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Warms my heart.

>> Chris Woodward: Yeah, it does. But. But there's at least three liberal justices in every case, regardless of what the Constitution says, that do rule and write opinion based on their political beliefs.

>> Tim Wildmon: Not in every case. There have been some surprising. You're right. Almost every case, you know, there's left and right on. Everybody knows it as conservative, liberal, moderate on the Supreme Court. I mean that's the way they vote all the time. So I don't know what she's saying exactly is that there's no. Maybe she's saying there's no group think, on the on, on the Supreme Court.

>> Ed Vitagliano: I think everyone hopes that people are following the law. But listen, we've had Abraham Hamilton III on this show. I'm sure he has said it many times on his own program that most law schools, I think there are Christian law schools that are exceptions. Most law schools do not even teach the Constitution. They said he'd never had a class in the Constitution. This is what the Constitution says.

>> Wesley Wildmon: All Jackson said the same thing. But he went to college 15 to 20 years earlier than.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, he said it's been since the, the middle of the last century they started doing this. All they teach lawyers to be are what people have ruled about what the law says, not the Constitution. So we all would imagine that Supreme Court Justices would just rule according to the Constitution and the law. But that's what naive.

>> Tim Wildmon: In the end, it really doesn't matter because they're there for life.

>> Ed Vitagliano: another. Yeah, good point.

>> Tim Wildmon: Red, blue or purple?

Biden's auto pin scandal is nothing short of a coup

I want to change something just a minute. About a topic you didn't, you didn't know I was going to bring up, but there was a story that caught my attention on the New York Post, and I'm just going to read the first few paragraphs, so I can get your blood pressure up. This is a story. The title of the story is Biden's auto pin scandal is nothing short of a coup and the culprits need to be held accountable. This is on the New York Post right now.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Switching teams. Going to mag. I hear you.

>> Tim Wildmon: Listen to this. Listen to this. This is appalling. Just months ago, a travesty was taking place in the nation's capital as Biden administration drew to a, close. As the Biden administration drew to a close. On his way out the door, President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of more than 4,000 federally incarcerated offenders. Did you know this?

>> Ed Vitagliano: Say that again.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, well, pay attention. We're doing a show together here.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, you got me to the New York radio and there's lots of good stuff.

>> Chris Woodward: Okay, yeah, I will post this for you. I found it.

Joe Biden commuted the sentences of more than 4,000 federal prisoners

>> Tim Wildmon: All right, so, this story says on his way out the door, President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of more than 4,000 federally incarcerated offenders.

>> Ed Vitagliano: I did not know that.

>> Tim Wildmon: I didn't either. Listen to this. This is the next paragraph in this story. You're going to put this story on our Today's issue.

>> Chris Woodward: Yes.

>> Tim Wildmon: Facebook page.

>> Chris Woodward: Doing it right now.

>> Tim Wildmon: Only it was, this writer says, only it wasn't Biden issuing the record shattering number of commutations. It was his auto pin. And who control that? The auto pins, last minute pardons and commutations were approved. Weren't, weren't, were not approved by the Justice Department.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Now we should explain what Justice Department. Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yes. And the auto pin, which I'd never heard of till we learned Biden was using it. But maybe, maybe other presidents have used it in some form or fashion. But, an, auto pin is basically the signature of the president to certify a document, or a, an executive order, for example. And so whereas the president himself doesn't personally have to sign it, they use an auto pin. Kind of like you use a docusign. You ever done that on the rubber stamp or a stamp on a check?

>> Ed Vitagliano: You know, but I Don't even think that traditionally I may be wrong on this, because I'm like you. I didn't know that this was being done for these important things. I thought an auto pen was for, you know, you're handing out awards to.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So many things to sign. You don't have time to sign them all, or you don't have a hand that can hold up to 4,000.

>> Ed Vitagliano: But for signing laws or executive orders, I thought the president had to physically sign it because I think that's what the Constitution says. Or. Or the law.

>> Tim Wildmon: Here. Here's what this guy say. This. I haven't read the whole article. remember, now, this is Biden's Justice Department that never approved these commutations, right? This quote is from this. This quote is from a source told the DC Insider, a publication Axios. So Axios got this quote from somebody who's unnamed about what Biden was doing here. Really? Biden wasn't doing it. It was. Whoever was on Biden's staff was. It was. It was Weekend at Bernie's. Okay. Is what was going on here, if you've ever seen it, it's about a dead man who's propped up by people. And, okay, this. This guy says there was a mad dash to find groups of people that pardon, and then they largely didn't run it by the Justice Department to vet them. So you had. Whoever was. I don't know, whoever was in charge of the White House. It wasn't Biden.

>> Ed Vitagliano: And we may never know.

>> Tim Wildmon: We may never know.

>> Ed Vitagliano: 1500. You said four.

>> Tim Wildmon: 4000.

>> Ed Vitagliano: 4000.

>> Tim Wildmon: 4000 people were let out of federal prison because Joe, somebody, the White House was using a rubber. Basically, what amounts to a rubber stamp. Right? So what they did probably, they just took, people, friends. Friends of. Friends of friends who said, hey, I want to pardon. And, in addition, Biden pardoned all his family. You remember that? But they just, It was get out of jail free card by whoever was signing things at the White House with this auto pin. I can't even believe that's constitutional.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, it's not supposed to be because. And this. The person who wrote this piece, for the, New York Post, his name is Daniel McCarthy. He concludes this column, this opinion piece, by saying what happened under Biden was a coup. And it's not mitigated by the fact that Democrats committed a coup against an incapable president of their own party. The auto pen is meant to represent the President, not take his place, which is just. That's Excellent. Right.

>> Tim Wildmon: I was just stunned. We did put this story on our Today's Issues Facebook page. I was stunned by the sheer number 4000 let out of federal prisons. Be very interesting by an auto pin.

>> Ed Vitagliano: To track these at some point and find out how many, commit new crimes. Oh, yeah, we're talking about the soft on crime approach of a lot of these blue cities. This is the blue White House, a Democratic Party, president incapable of doing it himself. So he would have to answer the questions. If he had actually signed these, he'd have to answer the question, right. Why did you let this person?

>> Tim Wildmon: Right.

>> Ed Vitagliano: But now we may never know who used the auto pen. It's probably done in some side room and you just put the piece of paper there and press a button. You know, you may never know who did this.

>> Tim Wildmon: I know this is fantasy land, but in a, in a, in a real world, what should have been done in a. If we didn't have these?

Democrats should have forced Biden out after disastrous debate with Trump two years ago

Just the, just the rank divide in Washington, D.C. what should have happened with Biden two years in? He should have been forced out. M. He should have been forced out at the midterm level. And then, by the Democrats themselves. They should have done what they ultimately did after that disaster of a debate with Trump in Atlanta when Biden was staring out into space. Remember that? Yeah. Okay. And then that's when Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and all told him he's got. Went in and said, you got to go, you got to leave. They should. Why they didn't do that two years earlier is kind of mystifying because then, Well, I don't know. You would. But maybe they couldn't. Maybe Biden wouldn't go and you would have had to oust him using a 25th amendment. M. 25th amendment. And if they did that, they would make their whole party had divided, wouldn't it?

>> Ed Vitagliano: I think they were gambling. They were gambling. Yep. They were gambling that he could win Biden and then he could step down afterwards. Let Kamala.

>> Tim Wildmon: You know, the biggest mistake they probably made Biden and his team and the Democrats right there setting up that debate. Because m. He didn't have to debate Trump. It was a June debate, you remember.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes. And traditionally 26 at the end of June.

>> Chris Woodward: Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: Traditionally presidential debates would have, been done by then. Biden would have probably done better in retrospect, not even debating Trump at all.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Did in the first.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right.

>> Chris Woodward: You could.

>> Ed Vitagliano: We said we. I predicted that they're not going to let him debate. And what they're going to say is President, Biden doesn't debate criminals. Okay. This was after the law say that, yeah, felons. And this was after all the lawfare against Donald Trump.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Had, quote, unquote, succeeded. These Democrats got what they wanted. Joe Biden should have said, I don't debate felons. And, this is a serious thing. He's not a serious candidate.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right.

>> Ed Vitagliano: And you're better off taking whatever follow comes from that.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yes. Then what happened there?

>> Ed Vitagliano: Because that was the beginning of the end for Joe Biden.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah. Prior to the debate, I thought it was very small margins if they were to vote that, you know, the day before the, debate, you know, if Trump would have won, it would have been really close. But when I found out they were debating, I'm like, this is all we needed.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes.

>> Wesley Wildmon: We mean in the Republican conservatives, if we, if Trump's going to win, we need one debate. Just give us one. And sure, they did. And they did.

>> Tim Wildmon: And they signed up for it and they didn't have to.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah.

>> Ed Vitagliano: And he did so badly and looked so incompetent. Incompetent and so mentally blank. that he tanked from then.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right.

>> Ed Vitagliano: From then on there. And they would have been better. It probably still would have been close because we had four years of suffering under the Biden policies, I think.

>> Wesley Wildmon: I mean, close. But if they hadn't done the debate, I think that's what he would have.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Had a better chance at beating Trump.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right.

>> Ed Vitagliano: But I'll tell you, we talked about God giving our nation a reprieve sometimes. God, is. Well, God is always in charge. And it just seemed like it was the hand of God getting the President back. Donald, Trump in for the second time. Yep, for the second time.

Young man tells story about school forcing him to change gender when he was in kindergarten

>> Tim Wildmon: Next story.

>> Chris Woodward: Chris, there is a young, man, he's 12 years old, young man that's, making the rounds. He was, at the Museum of the Bible yesterday when President Trump came out to, make some remarks about religious freedom in our country, something Trump said he vowed to protect during his time in office. but this young man, told the story about some of the, gender identity stuff that was, forced on him and other members of his class when they were in kindergarten. First grade here, clip 13.

>> Shane Sidas: I'm Shane Sidas. I've been a Christian my whole life, and Jesus means everything to me. When I was in fifth grade, my school forced me to teach my kindergarten buddy about changing his gender using a book called My Shadow is Pink. The book said you can choose your gender based on feelings instead of how God made us. I knew this was not right, but I was afraid of getting in trouble after my family spoke up. The school treated us badly, and kids started bullying me and my brother because of our faith. And the school did nothing to stop it. It hurt a lot, but I kept trusting God. I believe kids like me should be able to live our faith at school without being forced to go against what we believe. I hope no other family has to go through what mine did. Thank you.

>> Chris Woodward: Now, I cut it off there. He went on to have a huge round of applause, and President Trump himself said, great job there. But, kind of a moving moment and something shocking, that you're not going to hear on npr.

>> Ed Vitagliano: What, what, city and state was this young man from?

>> Chris Woodward: it is in the Encinitas Union School District in California, and his name is Shea or Shane.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, that kind of thing has, has happened all over the country, especially, before the 2024 election, but also, during the Biden administration. That's kind of when the tide began to turn against this transgender nonsense being coast to coast. now it's still, they're still doubling down in a lot of communities. But that kind of thing is what, another four years of the progressives in charge, I quote, unquote, that kind of thing would have spread clear across the country. We would have had a Department of Education that was going all in. Oh, yeah, under a Kamala Harris, under.

>> Chris Woodward: The threat they were going to take federal funding away, and people would have been, oh, yeah, that's the right thing to do. But now that Trump says we're going to do that, if you don't do what I want to do, people lose their mind and call them a dictator.

Joe Biden is reportedly raising money for his presidential library in Delaware

In other presidential news here, going back to Joe Biden for a minute. he's.

>> Tim Wildmon: We have to.

>> Chris Woodward: Yes. For the purpose of this story, Joe Biden, according to cnn, is starting to make the rounds. He's going to be fundraising for his presidential library in Delaware. And in typical Joe Biden fash, the presidential library, for one Joe Robinette Biden is supposed to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars in terms of the cost here. Hundreds of millions of dollars.

>> Tim Wildmon: Well, that. Isn't that private money, though.

>> Chris Woodward: It is, it is. Do, do we need to have a. Do we need to reach a point?

>> Tim Wildmon: We can have Joe Biden's museum in, where in Delaware? Yeah, you can see here 16 annual visitors a year. 16 visitors a year.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Oh, well, I'LL say I've never presidential library I'm not even sure where they're.

>> Tim Wildmon: All go to Joe Biden's if you know if he builds one how much.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Percentage of that are they keeping?

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, that's what I want yeah the.

>> Chris Woodward: Money they the big guy gets 80% of the cut the big guy.

>> Wesley Wildmon: That's it.

>> Tim Wildmon: All right. We're out of time it's probably a good thing, actually. I don't know.

>> Wesley Wildmon: I thought the program was pretty good today.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, as opposed to yesterday when I.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Wasn'T here it's kind of like leaving.

>> Tim Wildmon: Want more saying that's what they say.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Leave them wanting more. But we sure did that But I.

>> Tim Wildmon: Used to say about my college team's offense they left me wanting more.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Not on Saturday, but not this but.

>> Tim Wildmon: Last Saturday, the Mississippi State Bulldogs rose to the occasion and and one and thrilling big game.

>> Chris Woodward: I told my unborn grandchildren about the events of Saturday night.

>> Tim Wildmon: Did you take goal post off the field? Was that you?

>> Chris Woodward: No, I wasn't.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.

>> Chris Woodward: I can neither confirm nor deny those.

>> Tim Wildmon: All right, we'll see you tomorrow, everybody.