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âWe had a case of a little cell of Christian believers who were all converts from Islam, and they were meeting secretly. And they were infiltrated by a radical terrorist group called Al Shabaab, and they burnt down the house. They captured some of them, they took them onto the beach, and only two of them managed to survive, because they killed the rest of them.â
Charmaine Hedding is the founder and president of the Shai Fund, a humanitarian organization that aids, protects, and even rescues persecuted minorities throughout the Middle East and Africa.
âIn 2014, I watched as the Islamic State swept over Syria and Iraq. And I watched as the Yazidi and the Christian women were taken as sex slaves and sold in the markets of Raqqa and in Turkey and across the Middle East. And I thought to myself, âWhoâs going to do something about this?ââ she says. âThe greatest struggle in the Middle East and in Africa, at the moment, is this concept of freedom of religion and belief.â
Hedding was born and raised in South Africa, where her father and grandfather were outspoken anti-apartheid activists. Because of their activism, they were eventually forced to flee to Jerusalem when Hedding was a child.
âBy the time I was 12, we were harassed by agents. And we had agents in the church. We were followed,â she says. âThe question that I remember asking myself as a child after reading the stories of the Holocaust is: If I was a European, what would I have done? And would I have put myself at risk to save a Jewish family? And thatâs what motivated me, that question.â
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âIn the last four years, weâve seen an aggregate inflation of about 26 percent. So thatâs a quarter of your purchasing powerâphoosh goneâjust disappeared across the board,â says Stefan Rust, founder and CEO of Truflation, a blockchain-based financial data service that provides real-time economic and inflation data.
What will be the impact of DOGEâs aggressive cost-cutting? Could it cause a short-term reduction in the size of the U.S. economy?
Some people have been talking about risks of deflationâis that really a concern? And what will be the economic impact of Trumpâs tariffs?
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In this episode, I sit down with John OâSullivan, a former policy and speech writer for British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and former editor-in-chief of National Review and executive editor of Radio Free Europe. Today, heâs the president of the Danube Institute, a Hungary-based think-tank.
A âunified national identity is an absolute essential for a successful democracy,â he says. âIf we continue on a multicultural path, itâs a path which is going to go in the directions of ever more aggressive and hostile identity politics, and people will feel that their neighbors are their enemies.â
OâSullivanâs latest book is titled: âSleepwalking into Wokeness: How We Got Here.â
âThe idea of post-nationalism is unachievable if youâre a state. You donât remain just a post-national state, what you become is something else,â he says.
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The Chinese AI app DeepSeek recently became the most downloaded iPhone app in the United States and caused U.S. tech stocks to plummet. President Donald Trump described it as a âwake-upâ call for American companies.
So whatâs really going on? Is DeepSeek as powerful as people think? Or is there a bigger story here?
In this episode, we sit down with AI expert Nicolas Chaillan, former chief software officer for the U.S. Air Force and now founder of the generative AI company Ask Sage.
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âThe fires themselves are pretty much out. Thereâs a few smoldering remains, but the trouble has just begun,â says Edward Ring, director of Water and Energy Policy for the California Policy Center. âItâs going to be very hard to get everything rebuilt in Los Angeles.â
In this episode, we do a deep dive on the California wildfires. How did they originate? Why was the devastation so horrific? Could they have been prevented? What is the scope of the damage? And in the aftermath, what should be done?
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âTheyâre at war for the American mind. Thatâs why you have TikTok out there. Thatâs why you have DeepSeek. Thatâs why you have the China Daily. Theyâre out there trying to control information and your perception of reality,â says Rep. Abe Hamadeh (R-Ariz.), who was recently elected for his first term.
His first bill seeks to ban the widespread distribution of the China Daily in the House of Representatives. China Daily is a registered foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. In 2020, the newspaper was among many Chinese state media outlets designated as foreign missions in the United States.
âItâs propaganda by a foreign government thatâs trying to influence the highest echelons of the United States government. Itâs unacceptable,â Hamadeh said.
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Michael Pack is a documentary filmmaker and the president of Palladium Pictures. During Donald Trumpâs first presidency, he led the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which oversees Americaâs state-funded news networks, including Voice of America.
âThe budget is something like $900 million,â he says. âItâs only a mid-sized government agency, but itâs one of the largest broadcasters in the world. Theyâre broadcasting over 70 languages to hundreds of millions of people a week. So itâs really a potent tool, and itâs designed to promote American ideas and values abroad.â
In this episode, we discuss his recent films, the future of media, and how the U.S. government can better leverage public diplomacy as a tool against its adversaries.
âWe could do nothing better, really, than to knock [Chinaâs internet] firewall down. I think if people in China had a chance to hear the range of ideas out there, it would change the country more than almost anything else. And itâs not expensive,â he says.
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Eric Berg, popularly known as Dr. Berg or âThe Knowledge Doc,â is a nutritionist and chiropractor specializing in weight loss and alternative health care. He has published more than 6,000 videos and amassed 13 million followers on YouTube, and has trained more than 2,500 doctors and health care practitioners in how diet can impact your health.
âWhen you reduce carbohydrates, it then forces your body to go after your own fat as fuel. So for weight loss, itâs great. And for other things, itâs good too,â says Dr. Berg.
In this episode, we discuss Dr. Bergâs approach to health, why he advocates for a keto diet and intermittent fasting, and his thoughts on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary.
âIf we are going to make some changes, we have to, first of all, make people aware of these hidden ingredients and start to get them out of your diet,â he says. âThey find these loopholes and they try to cheat the system. And itâs called âorganic,â but is it really organic?â
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Suella Braverman is the former home secretary of the United Kingdom, and a conservative member of the British parliament. While she was in Washington for President Donald Trumpâs inauguration, we sat down to talk about whatâs been happening in the U.K., and what Trumpâs election means to her and her constituents.
âWe need to learn a lot from the MAGA movement, from the success of the Republicans under Donald Trump, and really try and apply some of those lessons to U.K. politics right now, because we are mired in the depression, the recession, and the doom and gloom over socialism,â said Braverman.
We discussed the grooming gangs scandal currently making headlines in Britain, in which predominantly migrant gangs of men have been sexually assaulting and abusing young girls for roughly two decades.
âThe Pakistani men who were involved in this abhorrent behavior were targeting white girls for a specific reasonâthat they have an outdated, unacceptable view of women. And the authorities failed to act because they were scared of the charge of racism,â said Braverman. âItâs one of the biggest national scandals in our history.â
We also discussed issues related to anti-Semitism and free speech.
âWeâve got this problem in the U.K. of hate marches, where extremism, antisemitism, and Islamism can be paraded on our streets, and the police wonât take any action. And itâs caused a real increase in antisemitism, and itâs made parts of our streets and our public realm no-go zones for Jewish people,â she said.
âWe have a crisis of free speech in the United Kingdom, and I use that word deliberately. We have a situation where the police have the powers to record your information and log your details, if youâve said something that might be offensive to someone. It doesnât matter about the objective nature of what youâve said. If someone, somewhere, happens to be offended by what you have said, and it relates to a personal characteristic, race, gender, religion, or sex, then thatâs it. The case is closed. You will be considered guilty of what we call a ânoncrime hate incident.'â
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At a young age, Cooper Davis was diagnosed with ADHD and prescribed a low dose of Ritalin, which helped his ability to focus but caused unwanted side effects. To counteract them, he was prescribed other medications. By age 30, Davis was dependent on six different psychiatric drugs at any given time, whatâs commonly known in the mental health community as a âprescription cascade.â
âItâs complicated enough that the scientific consensus will generally say, âWe donât quite understand why these drugs work,ââ says Davis.
Today, he is executive director of the Inner Compass Initiative, where he addresses Americaâs mental health crisis and overmedication problem by helping people make informed choices about prescription drugs, diagnoses, and withdrawal.
âOnce people experience withdrawal symptoms, they get back on the drug. They treat it as confirmation that they are still mentally ill,â says Davis. âExperiential expertise, expertise gained from your own life, is just as validâand probably more useful in many, many cases than clinical expertise.â
Davis says that one out of four adults in America and 6 million children are currently taking at least one psychiatric drug.
âThatâs going to be inclusive of teenagers, but it is certainly the trend that more and more kids that are younger and younger are being diagnosed and prescribed earlier and earlier.â
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In this episode, we have a special guest: Paraguayâs President Santiago Peña.
Paraguay is a unique country. It is one of only 12 countries in the world that recognize Taiwan instead of communist China.
It is also one of only six nations in the world, alongside the United States, that have moved their embassies from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Peña said he made the decision despite immense opposition from other world leaders.
An economist, Peña served as Paraguayâs minister of finance before he was elected president. He assumed office in August 2023 after a landslide victory. During his tenure, Paraguay has seen robust economic growth, outperforming many other Latin American nations. Last year, Moodyâs awarded Paraguay an investment grade rating.
In this episode, I ask President Peña about what President Donald Trumpâs return to the White House means for Paraguay and Latin America more broadly, his hopes and economic strategy for Paraguay, why heâs concerned about communist Chinaâs influence in the region, and what he thinks about Trumpâs recent comments about controlling the Panama Canal and renaming the Gulf of Mexico.
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President Trump says he wants the United States to control the Panama Canal and other regions and waterways that he says are crucial to Americaâs national security interests.
âThe question we would have to have with Panama is: Do you truly, verifiably know everything that China is doing in regards to your canal for national security concerns? And unless they could give us an answer of â100%, we do,â I think that weâre going to have to have more transparency on that. And I think thatâs where the conversation is at today,â says Joseph Humire. He is an expert on Latin America, specializing, in foreign policy, national security, and asymmetric warfare.
âWorst case scenario for the United States would be that [China] would find a way to disrupt the Panama Canal so that the United States no longer has rapid reaction capabilities to be able to move from the Atlantic into the Pacific,â he says.
In this episode, Humire breaks down the context of Trumpâs recent comments and explains how vulnerable the United States is to increasing Chinese, Russian, and Iranian influence in the region.
âThe United States has not had a grand strategy for the Western Hemisphere arguably in 100 yearsâarguably since the Monroe Doctrine,â he says.
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âIn America, we really donât have a health care system, even though we call everything âhealthâ insurance, âhealthâ care, and this and that,â says Dr. Jingduan Yang.
âWeâre not healthy as a nation because we allocate all resources trying to deal with consequences of problems or disease, rather than to prevent [them] and find the root causes that cause those problems,â he says.
Yang is a specialist in psychiatry and integrative medicine, and is a fifth-generation practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine. Heâs the CEO of Northern Medical Center and founder of the Yang Institute of Integrative Medicine.
Western medicine could learn a lot from the approach of Chinese medicine, he says, which emphasizes prevention before problems become structurally damaging and looking at every part of the body as part of an integrated system.
âIn Chinese medicine, every organ is connected. ... Therefore, thereâs no way you could address any part of the bodyâs issue without looking at the whole system,â Yang says.
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âThe UK has now banned puberty blockersâprobably will ban cross-sex hormones too, is my prediction, in the next few years,â said Leor Sapir, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
He has been following the massive increase in children identifying as transgender and undergoing whatâs known as âgender-affirming careâ treatmentâfrom puberty blockers to double mastectomies.
â[The World Professional Association for Transgender Health] commissioned systematic evidence reviews as part of the process of developing [Standards of Care Version 8]. When it found out that the evidence reviews, specifically for minors, were unimpressive and did not get them the results that they wantedâthat would support their medical approach, they suppressed them. They basically instructed the researchers at Johns Hopkins University who were doing these systematic reviews to not publish them,â said Sapir. âAny way you look at it, WPATH greatly deviated from how responsible, trustworthy medical guidelines are supposed to be developed.â
His current area of focus is the pushback to gender interventions for minors, including state bans, lawsuits, and a landmark case now at the Supreme Court.
âThis case has tremendous consequences for whatâs going to happen in the 26 states that have banned these interventions in minors,â said Sapir.
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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is stepping up its efforts to destroy a religious group in America that it sees as a threat to its rule, according to leaked information from multiple CCP insiders.
Tactics include lawfare, bomb threats, smear campaigns, impersonation attempts, and bribing U.S. officials. The Department of Justice sentenced a Chinese agent for trying to bribe an IRS agent to target practitioners of the Falun Gong spiritual discipline.
So whatâs going on exactly? And why would this be a priority for the Chinese regime?
Today, Iâm sitting down with Erping Zhang, president of the International Falun Dafa Association.
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âI think race is a very emotional issue with black America, and it can be very easily manipulated. And it has been manipulated for decades by people who use it to direct blacks to vote in a certain way.â
In this latest episode in our special series on the U.S. presidential transition, I sit down with Bob Woodson and Joshua Mitchell. Woodson is a civil rights activist and the Founder and President of the Woodson Center. Mitchell is a professor of political theory at Georgetown University.
âThe partisan debate on race is driven by guilty whites who are seeking absolution from crimes they never committed, and entitled blacks who are seeking absolution from injustices they never suffered,â says Woodson.
What does Trumpâs victory mean for black America? Will Trump be the first post-racial president? And what is the role of mediating institutions and what Woodson and Mitchell call âinvisible knowledgeâ in revitalizing American communities?
âWe have levels of despair and depression because the state has become this administrative behemoth, making citizen competence impossible,â says Mitchell. âWeâve got this invitation, literally, to return to the foundersâ vision, where we have citizen competence. The only way you can have small government is if you have massive citizen competence.â
âThe biggest challenge weâre facing is a moral and spiritual free-fall that is consuming people of all races and all colors,â says Woodson. âBut weâre not going to be able to find the source of this solution if we are separated by race, and thatâs why we must become post-racial.â
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âOur bodies are not meant to handle these man-made chemicals that have been invented in the last 50 years. These chemicals are invented for one sole purpose, and thatâs to improve the bottom line of the food industry, not improve our health.â
In this episode, I sit down with author and activist Vani Hari, popularly known as the âfood babe.â For over a decade, she has been exposing toxic ingredients in Americaâs foodâand getting companies to stop using them.
â[The FDA has] not reviewed the safety data of these artificial dyes in over 10 years. However, childrenâs consumption of these artificial food dyes have increased 500 percent,â says Hari. âWeâre not trying to stop fast food or get rid of fast food. We want to make it the same as they do in Europe. McDonaldâs french fries: 11 ingredients here in the United States, including dimethyl polysiloxane, an ingredient you would find in silly putty ... but in the UK, thereâs three ingredients, and the fourth ingredient is optional. Itâs just salt.â
Hari argues that food companies should add a warning label to every product that uses artificial food dyes, as they already do in Europe.
âThat would automatically almost force the food industry to remove them here as well, because they do not want parents to be concerned about their products,â she says.
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In this latest installment of our special series on the U.S. presidential transition period, Iâm sitting down with Nazak Nikakhtar, former assistant secretary of commerce for industry and analysis under the first Trump administration. Sheâs an expert on trade and national security and a partner at Wiley Rein LLP.
In this episode, we dive into the debate surrounding the use of tariffs. How have Chinaâs unfair trade practices destroyed American manufacturing? Will tariffs work? Or will they make things worse for the average American? And what other tools will Trump have at his disposal that can restore and protect U.S. industry?
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âWeâre being lied to about chronic disease. Thatâs 90 percent of medical spendingâ92 percent of American deaths are chronic disease. Only 8 percent are infectious. And we have this system that profits from that. But what we could do, which is what President Trump and Bobby Kennedy talked about, is get to the root cause.â
In this episode, I sit down with Calley Means, co-author of âGood Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health.â
He has been working in the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement on a blueprint for reforming the public health establishment.
âWeâre going to let information out. Weâre going to do new research on why weâre getting sick. Weâre also going to release the existing research. Weâre going to stop infantilizing the American patient. Weâre going to trust Americans that theyâre trying to make the best decisions for their health and their kids,â says Means.
âI really think that the problem with public health in America right now is weâve relied too much on the experts. We should have expertise, we should have to read science, but we should have it open, and then really unlock flexibility for Americans to make the best decision for their personal situation with their doctors.â
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âWe do need to shrink our spending and we need to get a hold on the debt, but it needs to be done in a way that you have the growth go first. Otherwise, youâre going to end up with less revenue, which means youâre going to actually widen the deficit and create a worse problemâa âno good deed goes unpunishedâ type of scenario.â
As part of our special series on the U.S. presidential transition period, Iâm sitting down with Carol Roth, a former investment banker and author of several booksâmost recently, âYou Will Own Nothing: Your War with a New Financial World Order and How to Fight Back.â
In this episode, we discuss the biggest financial challenges facing the incoming administration and how best to navigate them.
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