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LIVE on Sunday Night with Bill Cunningham 7/7/2025

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Willie is back breaking down the media lies on Trump and the BBB. Also, are you proud to be an American? Willie speaks to Jeff Crouere and Steve Goreman.

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Speaker 1

Portions of the Bill Cunningham Show may be pre recorded.

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Willie Through You by Choice Hotels, Econo Lodge and Roadway In Hotels are serving up double points for over qualifying. Stay book at Choice Hotels dot com. Now here's the man who's been recognized as radio's best, the recipient of not one, but two prestigious Marconi Awards for his broadcast excellence, the one and only Bill Cunningham.

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Now I'm Philly Cunningham to great America, go to hear me with me this Sunday night, and a great tragedy occurred, of course, in central Texas, in the Austin area west of that San Antonio eighty two or dead news conference about three hours ago by Governor Abbott. They have confirmed eighty two deaths which include twenty eight girls, twenty eight children. Eleven kids are still missing at about seventeen adults are missing. So the probability of the death toll going past one

hundred is quite good. It's always bad when anyone has killed or died for any reason, but I have children died at a Christian evangelical camp named after called the Camp Mystic. Is particularly sad because innocent children, some of the stories like to watch some sports on Sunday afternoon,

but I found myself glued to Fox New CNN. Also every now and then MSNBC had a lucid moment which is quite rare putting on the actual victims of what they went through On the fourth of July and the evening, thirty foot wall of water formed and wiped out everything in his path, including taking the bark off trees, including

knocking over one hundred year old oak trees. It was something that was in a sense predicted, not the total catastrophe by the National Weather Service, but warnings and watches were issued in fact, because the left again is trying to politicize this. How do you politicize a thunderstorm? How do you politicize a flood that used to be the province of the particularly insane when you think politics should play a role in snow or rice and storms and

hurricanes and tornadoes, et cetera. But somehow the left wants to politicize this and blame Donald Trump cutbacks in the National Weather Service, by the way, which are false. And also the behavior once again is George Stephanopolis this morning, he's going to get another lawsuit because he put on Larry Summers talking about that Donald Trump is going to kill one hundred thousand Americans. We're going to play it

for you later on. It's absurd that ABC News, the work of David Brinkley, etc. And so many others of Nightline did go to work for so long with Ted Copple. He's lost his way completely too. David Mure right now is a leftist giving us the news that they're kind of pinning the tail on Donald Trump to kill one hundred thousand Americans over the next ten years. And also George Stephanopolis spent time with an ABC News correspondent today

simply lying about the National Weather Service. So about two hours ago, I'm sorry, about three hours ago, at seven to twenty eight pm Eastern Time, Homeland Security put out a short email that says the following. The mainstream media is deliberately lying about the events leading up to the catastrophic flooding in Texas. The National Weather Service executed timely, precise forecasting and warnings despite unprecedented rainfall overwhelming the region.

Then they go into a lengthy timeline of all the reports issued by the National Weather Service and it goes on to say the mainstream media is deliberately lying about the events leading up to the catastrophic flooding in Texas and goes on and on, and they actually have the print out of the number of watches and warnings that were being issued, which were beginning twelve hours before the event, and the point was made by those on the ground.

The last time flooding like this took place was about half a century ago, and at that point the river banks of the various rivers were not built up as they were today. There were seven hundred and fifty girls who were staying at Camp Mystic, and the owner of Camp Mystic gave his life to save as many as he could. It happened at nighttime when thunder and lightning and terrible storms are coming, one tends to honker down,

and they did in their cabins. And the proper warnings are issued by the National Weather Service, as they always are now. The flip side of the coin is, it's like crying wolf. I live in Cincinnati, Ohio, and we get so many watches and warnings, whether it's hot, cold, rainy, dry, stormy, windy, humid, snowy, whatever it is. Many times you simply get in the

habit of ignoring what the National Weather Service says. You get them probably hundreds every year in the Midwest about tornadoes are coming, it's gonna rain, it's gonna be thunderstorms, flash flood warnings are in effect. There's said so many times, as so many people ignore it because they think, here we go again. But to its credit, the National Weather Service and also all the local meteorologists in Austin and Waco and San Antonio all issued numerous watches and warnings.

Whether radio was being used. It wasn't a failure of the government in a sense. It was Mother Nature dumping as much as twelve to fourteen inches of rain into an area that could not handle it. And you've seen the videos. It is devastating. Fact, it is beyond devastating. Whenever a child lose this is her life. There's nothing to say. And when I get to Heaven, is I pray one day I will with you, Hope you and I will be standing at the pearly gates at some point.

Hopefully I'll be admitted, may have to spend some time in purgatory. That's a different issue. I've committed some moral misdemeanors in my life. No felon needs, to my knowledge, a lot of moral misdemeanors. But I want to ask, God Almighty, why do you allow children in this case, as many as twenty eight little girls to be washed away and killed in horrible ways. I like to know why those things transpire, why they happen. And I don't know what to say, except I said a prayer last night.

I went to Mass today at Saint Gertrude's and I lit a candle for the girls and for those who gave their life. Currently, the death tolls eighty two, and that's very likely to rise, and we hope they're going to keep looking for more. There's eleven children still missing,

and as many as twelve adults. Of the eighty two that are dead, eighty two or two, I'm sorry, eighty two that are dead, twenty eight our children, and it is time for sadness and reflection on their life, to build and make your life better, using their innocence as a boundary and as a sentinel to live your life better. It's sad, I would point out, as what happens in

today's world. I think America's patriotism has ended. My good friend and yours Ben Shapiro wrote a column in town Hall and elsewhere about the end of patriotism, and he makes the note from the Gallup poll. When I saw Harry Inton on CNN, He's my only reporter on CNN, I pay attention to Harry Innton about how America's feels

so differently today. About the flag. July the fourth, I was in a couple parades, flew the American flag, did everything I could honor the sacrifice of the founders of this country beginning in seventeen seventy six, and what they did for us is truly unbelievable. But the Gallup poll says that if you identify as a Republican slash conservative, that ninety two percent of us and I'm a conservative generally vote Republican, but I'm a conservative, ninety two percent

are extremely or somewhat proud to be an American. You know, my Moniker is the great American. I'm proud of this country. It's about all his piples and warts. By far is the greatest country in the world, by far, the greatest country and the history of the world. So ninety two percent of us, courding Gallop, that I identify as conservative are extremely proud or somewhat proud to be an American. And that's up. In fact, in twenty twenty two was eighty four percent of us are proud. Now it's ninety

two percent. Pretty good in your mind. Think about what Democrats say to the same question, are you proud? Are you proud to be an American? Well, among Democrats, that number, coding to George Gallup, is thirty six percent, down from eighty percent ten years ago. So if you're a self identifying liberal Democrat, thirty six percent say you're proud to be an American. And if you're part of of the younger crowd, if you're under thirty years old, under thirty

years of age, it's twenty two percent. In other words, about eighty percent of young Americans are not proud to be an American. It is the death of patriotism, the end of it as we know it. It's unbelievable, needless is say. Gallup says, those are the worst numbers that

they've ever experienced in fifty years. That right now here we sit Sunday evening on July sixth, that a great bulk of the American people are not proud to be an American at all overall in the whole country, that the number is about fifty eight percent overall everyone, independence, Republicans, Democrats, conservatives, liberals, whatever description you might be. That the numbers is extremely low, which is fifty eight percent. That means about forty two

percent of us aren't proud to be an American. The American flag has not flown in many of our communities. I wonder in Los Angeles or the city of Chicago, did you see any American flags? How about New York City, Cincinnati? In certain areas yes, and other areas absolutely not. These numbers are startling. Every occasion is used by some on the left as a reason to riot, protest, or boycott.

Portland's going through a living hell right now. On the fourth of July, there were dozens of riots and demonstrations all over the country, not well covered by the mainstream media, in which liberals are marching protests and complaining constantly about this great country of ours. It's truly an incredible thing to watch. It's not well covered, but one of the sad things. And we're going to play the bit with short stuffanopolis later on Larry Summers, in which she accuses

Donald Trump of killing one hundred thousand Americans. But this story I thought needed some mention that there's a city of Houston. You can imagine tonight how there should be in the city of Houston, Texas. Real empathy for the parents, for the brothers and sisters, for the husbands, the wives, the grandparents, for everyone that's been lost. The number clearly is going to go above one hundred, extremely said in an event that is one of those weather events, it's

just incredibly unpredictable. Well, there's a woman in Houston as part of the city government in Houston, and her name is Sadie Sa d em I, saying that correctly, Sauda sa d E Perkins, she's a member of the Houston Food Insecurity Board, made the claim that Camp missed it in Hunt, Texas. She said in her video, this is a white only conservative and Christian group. White only conservative, she went on, are probably going to be canceled for saying this, But she said, quote Camp Mystic is a

white's only girls Christian camp. They don't even have a token Asian, they don't have a token black. It's all white, white only conservative Christian camp. She went on to say that if this was a Hispanic camp or a black campout? How about me using the term an American camp? But she went on to say nobody would give and she dropped the F bomb. What So there's that sickness loose in America that somehow our country only cares about white

evangelical girls and no one else. I would care just as deeply about black little girls that are being killed for horrible purposes in major American cities and those who may be victimized by floods that I I don't see color, I see an American child. But if you're a left doing extreme liberal like this saud a woman, saud A Perkins in Houston, Texas, all you see is color and the Christian flag is not something she's too happy with either,

And she dropped the F bomb in reference to this event. Sick, sad, and demented. It's the end, the death of patriotism as we know it.

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Not.

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About forty percent of us overall aren't proud to be Americans. Democrats thirty six percent are proud, Republicans ninety two percent are proud, and independence have fallen. Also, they dropped from seventy six percent and ten years ago to now fifty three percent, overall fifty eight percent, and it's not getting better. I'll just take a short break. When we come back. I want to play the words of George Stefanopolis, who

was successfully sued by Donald Trump before. He's putting up the idea now through the mouth of Larry Summers at Clintonista, that somehow Donald Trump himself is going to be responsible for killing one hundred thousand Americans. What Donald Trump is a murderer?

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What?

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And George Stephanoppolis served it up. He also served up the idea that the National Weather Service was cut by Donald Trump that indirectly caused the tragedy in Texas. That is George Stephanopolis really the face of ABC News this side of David Muir. Also, I would point out that ABC News produces the view enough said, let's continue. We'll take some calls, of course eight sixty six six four seven seven three three seven eight six six six four

seven seven three three seven. Of course, we have tonight dozens of stations in Texas. And if you have particularized knowledge about what's happening tonight, I've watched all the news conferences, I've seen the video and it's a time for sad reflection upon the lives of these innocent men, women and children that were killed because of a weather event, not because of Donald Trump. Eight sixty six six four seven

seven three three seven. Bill Cunning in the Great American with you every Sunday night, my Billy hunting in the Great American. We're gonna play for this segue with George Stephanopolis and Larry Summers in about seven or eight minutes to tell you where the Left is going in this country and how ridiculous it is.

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You know.

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I have print out almost all nine hundred pages of the bill, which is called the Big Beautiful Bill, just on the issue of Medicaid. To prepare yourself for what you're about to hear. There are no cuts to Medicaid. Can I say that several times. If you're a citizen, you're in great shape. If you're a criminal, illegal alien, or if you're a freeloader, you might be in bad shape. Because it is not the intent of Medicaid to pay

the medical bills of those from Lithuania or Bolivia. It's not our intent to pay bills of those from Mexico or Venezuela that are here illegally. In fact, is illegal for Medicaid to be used for such purposes, but the States do it all the time because of reimbursement. They're not supposed to do it. So if you are an American that receives Medicaid, your benefits will be there for you. However, if you're a freeloader on your mother's couch in the

basement and refuse to work. There's about seven million American males between the ages of eighteen and fifty nine that get Medicaid that are capable of working, going to school, or donating their time, that refuse to do so. That, by the way, that's a Bill Clinton idea for the

nineteen nineties. So if you're one of those seven million men that refuse to work, or if you're here illegally, what part of illegal don't you understand, then you're not going to get Medicaid benefits we hope administered by the states. You know, many times in life there's a budget, but in medicaid, you put out a goal and what should be spent. Then the states determine who to give Medicaid benefits to, and they seek reimburst them from the Feds

anywhere between fifty and seventy one percent. So each state now is going to be under a mandate not to give medicaid to anyone who's here illegally. How about that novel suggestion. So the liberals are going nuts. There is no cut in medicaid for Americans. There is hopefully cuts in medicaid for those here illegally or the freeloaders who

refuse to work. In addition to that, because of Josh Holly, there was an additional fifty billion dollars put in the budget, the Big Beautiful Bill passed by the House on July third, what was that on Friday Thursday for rural hospitals to get fifty billion dollars extra money. So if you're in a rural area, that money will be there for you. That bill allocates fifty billion dollars to support facilities in so called rural areas of this country. So that's been

taken care of. Also, did you know that, of course not also SNAP or food stamps. The amount would very based on the state's payment error rate. But if you're getting SNAP benefits and you are an American, there are no cuts. However, if you hear illegally, there is a cut, and if you refuse to work when you can in your able body, you shouldn't get a nickel of snap and or food stamps. Correct you agree with me? On raise your hand if you agree with me, I agree.

So the media is lying to you about cuts and medicaid because it fits their purpose. If the facts don't matter, and the facts don't equip itself with your opinion, simply is you an opinion untethered by facts, which is what Larry Summers did this morning with ABC News George Stephanopolis, And after the break, we're going to play those about two or three minutes of comments which accuses Donald Trump

of killing one hundred thousand Americans. This is George Stephanopolis, who was sued successfully by Donald Trump before and Larry Summers. They both maybe suit again for line. Then we'll go to the calls eight sixty six six four seven seven three three seven Bill cunning into Great American with you and all great Americans of course every Sunday night, now,

Billy cunning into Great American. I fully understand a liberals, left wing extremists bounced from democratic politics in the mainstream media. It happens all the time. George Stefanopolis is the obvious example, who spent years as a Clinton easterntor operator who got the main job on Good Morning America also on Sunday Morning because he's a liberal Democrat that represents the viewpoint of ABC News. That's fine, we understand that, but don't

picture yours is something different than you. Truly are a democratic left wing operative. That's what he is, and that's what the view is. That is they represent the viewpoints of the editorial directors of ABC News. That's what they do. And ABC News on the left is not much different than NBC, god forbid, or CBS or the Washington Time or Washington Post of the New York Times. It's all

the same thing. The opposite doesn't happen. I couldn't imagine Steve Bannon, who worked for Trump as senior advisor, Steve Bannon leaving the White House and getting the main repertorial job at CBS News or ABC. You're in NBC. Could you imagine Steve Bannon being offered ten million dollars a year to do this week with Steve Bannon on ABC News on Sunday Morning. Is that possible? No, It's impossible. My concern is not the expression of different viewpoints. I

have a viewpoint, you have a viewpoint. Monopolis has one, Steve Bannon has one. The lie is the mainstream media of picturing itself as journalists when they're not journalists. They're left doing idea logs pretending to be journalists. And you figured it out because the trust of the mainstream media is now below used car dealers and god forbid attorneys, so we don't trust it. But they picture themselves as

somehow independent arbitrators. That is simply not the case. Just two days after the flooding in central parts of Texas, the left is out right now in full force to blame the tragedy on Donald Trump. He did it. They want to pin every scandal on Donald Trump since he returned to the White House, whether true or not. The National Weather Service issued repeated warnings about what to do

in central Texas. One can argue about crying wolf constantly with all the watches and warnings, but according to National Weather Service, I'm looking at the log they gave repeated warnings, as did local TV and radio stations all over central Texas. Donald Trump is not responsible for this, but then he puts on the course one of his fellow left wingers to discuss whether or not the Big Beautiful Bill is somehow going to kill a whole bunch of people, which

is now what the left is doing. And so George Stephanopolis, doing what George Stephanopolis always does, puts on a left wing audiologue Larry Summers, who works with the White House for a long time, and here's a few of the words. This is allegedly objective, fair, independent journalism. On Sunday Mornings with George Stephanopolis, Danny Gleason hit.

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It, George, just to start with what your people have been describing is the biggest cut in the American safety net in history. The Ial Budget Lab estimates that it will kill over ten years, one hundred thousand people.

Speaker 7

That is two thousand days of death.

Speaker 6

Like we've seen in Texas this weekend. In my seventy years, I've never been as embarrassed for my country on July fourth. These higher interest rates, these cutbacks in subsidies to electricity, these reductions in the availability of housing, the fact that hospitals are going to.

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Have to take care of these people and pass on the costs to everybody else.

Speaker 6

And that's going to mean more inflation, more risk that the Fed has to raise interest rates and run the risk of recession, more stagflation. That's the risk facing every middle class family in our country because of this bill. And for what a million dollars over ten years to the top tenth of a percent of our population. Is that the highest priority use of federal money right now? I don't think so. This is a shameful act by our Congress and by our president that is going to set our country back.

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Part of the President's argument is that economic growth sparked by the bill will alleviate the dangers that you talk about here. The chair of the Council of Economic Advisors is up next and his councilor should report this week projecting eleven trillion dollars in deficit reduction from growth, higher tax revenue, and savings on debt payments.

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How do you respond to that, It is, respectfully nonsense. None of us can forecast what's going to happen to economic growth. What we can forecast is that when people have to hold government debt instead of being able to invest it in new capital goods, new machinery, new buildings, that makes the economy less productive.

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What we can forecast is.

Speaker 6

That when we're investing less in research and developments, investing less in our schools, that there is a negative impact on economic growth.

Speaker 1

All right, let me tear that apart. He just said nobody can predict the future. Well, he predicts the future using as his guidepost a study from Yale, not exactly some independent arbitrator of the truth. In fact, just the opposite. May I say again, Can I put a ten inch high italicized letters make a neon? There are no cuts to medicaid if you are an American citizen here legally, which of course you are. And secondly, you're not a freeloader.

In fact, they have budgeted about a six percent increase to medicaid over each year for the next ten years, as opposed to the regular ten to twelve percent increase. And so facts don't matter in the mind of a left wing itelogue. In fact, just the opposite. Does anyone trust the Yale Budget Lab that he.

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Yale Budget Lab estimates that will kill over ten years one hundred thousand people, That is two thousand days of death.

Speaker 1

The Yale Budget Lab forecast one hundred thousand Americans will die because of Donald Trump. Why does ABZ News put that kind of crap on unless they want to undermine the authority of the President to tell lies to their viewership and to bring about something they seek to avoid, which is a fruitful, happy harvest of the American people. Let's face it, if you are an American citizen and you're not a freeloader, there's about a six percent on

average increase of Medicaid. Did you know that from the mainstream media coverage? I don't think so. He also talked about tax cuts, et cetera. There's no tax cuts. What it is the continuation of the twenty seventeen budget resolution. The evil one percent pay forty percent? Can I say that again? One percent of way journers pay forty percent of the bills tax bills. The top five percent, those who make above one hundred and ninety five thousand dollars

a year, pay about seventy percent. The bottom fifty percent of way journers pay no federal income tax. It's hard to give a tax cut to someone who doesn't pay taxes. So when this is across the board cut in taxes, those who pay the most taxes will get the most minuscule relief and that's simply the facts. The tax rates are going to return to their twenty seventeen levels beginning in September thirtieth to twenty twenty five, and so it continues the way it is. So if the truth doesn't work,

make up lies. Have people like George Stephanopolis and David Muir and others, Tom Lonis, Lester Hoole, perhaps and the Sunday Morning shows lie about the fact that one hundred thousand Americans are going to be killed by Donald Trump. There's the headline. Is that true? Hell no, it's not true. But the truth doesn't matter if you want someone out of power, and believe me, the mainstream media wants Donald

Trump out of power. Also, there's a tax cut on overtime pay, car loans and tip income up to twenty five thousand dollars a year. I don't think a millionaire or a billionaire is getting overtime. I don't think anyone who makes five million dollars a year or I have to worry about interest on American car loans, or about number of tips or Social Security. How about this? The bill would allow seniors to deduct up to six thousand

dollars off their social Security income. If you have an income of over seventy five thousand dollars a year as a person, or one fifty one hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year, you do not get any benefit at all. It is intended for the ninety percent of Social Security recipients who rely upon their check every month. So Donald Trump is fixing that so that if you have a high income and you're seventy five years old, you don't

get a cut at all. If you have an income of less than one hundred and fifty thousand bucks a year, you get a cut. You get a benefit by taking Social Security? Is that fair? Is that about the little guy? The big guy? Not too many millionaires I know or actually worried about overtime or income tax on tips. You know what I'm saying, And may I say one other thing?

Then I'm gonna go to the telephone calls. A lot's been made and made of the Jeff Bezos wedding last week in Venice, Italy, and from that the left going crazy on Jeff Bezos, who contributed it mainly to the Democratic Party. I might add that he spent about sixty to seventy million dollars on his marriage with that woman names and chess. Now where did that sixty million dollars go? Did he put it in a large suitcase and drop

it into the ocean. No, the sixty million dollars he spent went to wedding planners and went to dressmakers, It went to restaurant owners, It went to those who run hotels, all the tips that were given. Much like when you build a five million dollar mansion somewhere south of Chicago, where does the five million dollars go? It goes in

the pockets of butchers, bakers, candlestick makers. How about plumbers, electricians, dry walls and roofers, appliance manufacturers, blacktoppers, carpenters, and more So, when the so called evil rich spend five million dollars on a house, the moneys go one hundred percent in the pockets of middle class Americans, and that dollar then

reverberates seven times in the economy. So when the carpenter or the plumber, or the electrician or the drywall has a big time job and makes fifty thousand dollars over the course of six months, he takes that money and spends it in other parts of the economy. It is not an evil thing for a rich man or rich woman to build an expensive home. In fact, for the economy, it's a great thing. It's a good thing to spend one hundred thousand dollars on a wedding. The money isn't

burned in a bonfire. The money goes in the pockets of middle class Americans who put the wedding on. And so the Trumpster said, if you have an American made on amobile, you can induct the interest on the car loan. Who except the middle class would do that. Not too many rich people I know take out a car loan. They write a check. So that Donald is trying to give as much tax benefits as possible to middle class Americans. I'll just take a short break, and when I continue,

I'll take some calls. We have call some Florida, Michigan, Idaho, and Cincinnati. Three lines are open. Your calls are next eight six six six four seven seven three three seven. What part of the Big Beautiful Bill do you like? What part don't you like? And do you believe? According to ABC newses George Stephanopolis and his guests Larry say Iale, budget lab.

Speaker 6

Estimates that it will kill over ten years one hundred thousand people.

Speaker 7

That is two thousand days of death.

Speaker 1

George Stephanopolis is going to get sued again because you just accused the president of killing one hundred thousand Americans, which is a damnable lie. Do you buy it? Bill cunning and the Great American with you every Sunday night.

Speaker 6

The Ille budget Lab estimates that it will kill over ten years one hundred thousand people.

Speaker 7

That is two thousand days of death.

Speaker 1

It's a I'm flambering, asked that that the ABC News would use its public trust and its public airwaves to accuse the President Donald Trump purposely killing one hundred thousand Americans over the next ten years when it's a lie. It's completely false. Only in Washington is an increase in spending a cut only in Washington? You say, well, now, Medicaid's gone up fifty percent in the past four years,

that's ten to twelve percent a year. Need to rein that into about four to six percent a year increase, Get illegals off, which they shouldn't be there in the first place. And if you're a freeloader in your mom's basement and you're healthy and your seven million males are in this category. You refuse to work, why should the government support you? But there's Larry Summers and George Stephanoppolos saying that Donald Trump's going to kill one hundred thousand Americans.

How does that work? It can't. That's why you got a dump button. That's why you might record something ahead of time to make sure you have a guest that doesn't accuse the president of killing Americans. Are you kidding me? No, that's where That's where the left is in this country. Much like the City of Houston official who is not concerned about the white Christian girls being killed in those

terrible floods because they're white Christian girls. And she said, I know I'm gonna get in trouble for saying this. Both they were Hispanic girls or black girls, nobody would given she dropped the F bomb. What That's where the left is. So when others have written, including George Gallup, the Gallup pool says that we've lost her patriotism. We're

not in very good shape. On about twenty two percent of Democratic millennials think America is a great country, and overall the Democratic Party the number is thirty six percent. About two thirds of Democrats do not think America they're proud to be an American. That's two thirds of the party. What are you doing? You're reading the New York Times, in the Washington Post and watching CNN. Well, if you watch that and you read that, and you watch things

like democratic officials. By the way, Larry Summers used to be the president of Harvard, including being Clinton's secretary of Treasury, that.

Speaker 7

Is two thousand days of death.

Speaker 1

What when you're increasing medicaid funding and you're providing fifty billion dollars for rural hospitals? Now, Donald Trump is a killer?

Speaker 9

Right?

Speaker 1

How does that work? Wow? Let's continue. So before I will take some calls. I got to get to the lines. I got calls all over. I got to get to the lines. Some of the great stuff is on defense spending and on funding immigrants and border security. The legislation would dedicated about one hundred and fifty billion dollars over ten years in order to deliver on core promises. That

includes immigration officials, building the wall, et cetera. And by the way, House Trump done already with Biden type money and keeping illegals out. Can can someone give me a gift? Donald Trump a standing ovation for that one. Really, we were told for years Joe Biden needs more power and more money to keep the illegals out. Donald Trump did it within the first ninety days. Back in the month of May, there were zero intrusions on the southern border.

On a year earlier, there were twenty six thousand a day, and this down to zero. Did the media cover that, of course not. They never do their ideologues masquarining as independent journalists. And one thing I don't like is the five trillion dollar debt sealing increase. I don't like it. I guess has passed the Trump term. I don't I get at all. I pull out the twenty twenty one budget, which is what four years ago, and whatever was spent in twenty twenty one, we're gonna spend out in twenty

twenty five. If we did that, we'd have a three hundred billion dollar surplus and not a two trillion dollar deficit. It's unbelievable. We owe thirty seven trillion. The Republicans say, over the next ten years, we're gonna put at least twenty trillion more on top of the thirty seven will be closed to sixty trillion dollars right now, one trillion dollars in interest on the national debt, which is twenty two percent of O income tax collections go to pay

interest in the interest alone. But on the other side, I'm gonna quit babbling. I've had enough. I'm gonna take your calls at least for the next hour. Eight sixty six six four seven, seven three three seven. Bill Cunningham with you. Every seven.

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Willie through you by Choice Hotels, Econo Lodge and Roadway In Hotels are serving up double points for every qualifying stay book at Choice hotels dot com. Now here's the man who's been recognized gives radio's best, the recipient of not won but two prestigious Marconi Awards for his broadcast exodence, the one and only Bill cunninghad.

Speaker 1

Let's continue on this fourth of July, a great celebration. We more in the dead, especially the children in Central Texas. And I'm certain that God Almighty's welcome them into the pearly gates and they'll spend eternity in heaven waiting for their parents. And which is pray to God that the damages can be kept to a minimum, that somehow more lives can be saved, possibly down the road, possibly to see what occurs. Let's get your calls, and I'm proud

to be an American. I'm known as the Great American, and Cincinnati they called the ballpark after me, the Great American. I feel proud about that. And as an American, I'm part of the ninety three percent of Conservatives who say they're proud to be an American, which is a large number compared to only about thirty six percent of Democrats who say they're proud to be Americans. Let's go to

Jim and Jacksonville, Florida. Then calls from all over the nation and including Mark and Monroe and Jim and Jacksonville. Welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show. Jim, how are you.

Speaker 9

I'm doing real, mister Cunningham, thank you for taking my call. Yes, sir man, it's an honor to speak with you.

Speaker 1

Thank you.

Speaker 9

I just wanted to speak about being proud to be an American.

Speaker 1

Why, well, what happens in this country, Jim? That gives you a sense of pride in this country that liberals and Democrats don't understand.

Speaker 9

I could not explain that. I remember as a kid, although I myself did not serve.

Speaker 10

I grew up on.

Speaker 9

An air force base and when I was really young, I remember at the end of the day, me and my friends.

Speaker 11

Would do all we could to ride our bus.

Speaker 9

It goes to the main gate at Barksdale Air Force Base, because at five o'clock they would broadcast the national anthem basewide, all traffic would stop. Everybody got out and either put their hand or their hat over their heart, and we would always try to get as close as we could to watch the detail fold the flag further before it was raised next morning.

Speaker 12

And I'll never forget that.

Speaker 1

Things are a bit different now, and.

Speaker 9

I absolutely do not understand what's wrong with these people. But the main point was I have not ever heard any guys mentioned that if they hate America so bad and they think it's so horrible, there's one wonderful thing about a free country. You are free to.

Speaker 1

Leave doors, swings both ways. One of the worst images of the Los Angeles riots are seemingly illegual aliens Mexicans waving the Mexican flag on top of burned out LAPD police cars, and to have Democrat after Democrat, including Karen Bass. The mayor not find that to be one of the worst symbols possible for her city. I'll ask you this question, Jim.

We have terrible US cities in decline. Whether it's Chicago, New York, if New York goes the Communist or Marxists were in more trouble, and La San Francisco just picked the American city. All of them are a complete decline by any objective measurement. Can America be a great nation if it's ten largest cities are in moral, cultural, financial, educational collapse? How does America succeed when our major cities are in complete denial, in complete collapse? How does that happen?

Speaker 9

I cannot understand it myself, Sir. I have no explanation. I don't I can't comprehend what's wrong with these people or what they're thinking. But again, like I said, if these people hate America so bad, why don't.

Speaker 5

They just leave?

Speaker 1

The door swings both ways. Let's go to Ray and Cincinnati and then Mark and Monroe, Wisconsin. And he just hung up, So let's go to Mark and Monroe, Wisconsin. Mark, give me a full report.

Speaker 12

Okay, Hey Bill, That ABC News team is really pathetic, as we all know. Starting with George Stephanapolis, in my opinion is he has a Napoleon complict, John Carling more than a total weasel, and Terry Moranne he's gone, well, yeah, I know, he must have crossed the line, which to me is actually flabbergas because I didn't think they get rid of any of those clowns. But yeah, like I said,

he must have crossed the line. So compared to CBS what I call sixty spinets, maybe they're not as bad as as all the spins that CBS puts out so.

Speaker 1

Well, to me, we figured, you know, the thing is the differential between what they promote themselves as being, which is the mainstream media, which is liberal journalist, as to what on one hand, as to what they truly are in the other. And that is the reason we hold the media in such low contempt, as we figured out, because the talk radio and podcast that we're not getting

the truth. But have ABC News and George Defanopoulos allow and broadcast across the world the fact that they have a guest that says Donald Trump is going to kill one hundred thousand Americans. I mean I watched that, I played it for you earlier. It is stunning that on the public airwaves can be used for such purposes and Stuffanopolis is setting up BABYC News for another Trump lawsuit, and one of the worst things you can do is

threatening you're going to kill Americans. And they're threatening Donald Trump. They just said that Trump's gonna kill one hundred thousand Americans. It's like what the.

Speaker 6

Ill Budget Lab estimates that it will kill over ten years, one hundred thousand people.

Speaker 7

That is two thousand days of death.

Speaker 1

Mark, I mean, that's the public airwaves being used to remote lies and homicidal defamation against our president. Unbelievable.

Speaker 12

Let me ask you this bill, do you think the American public, after you know, all the experience, you know, all the way back to the twenty twenty what I call the Joseph Stolen Election J six and all the media propagianda, and like you said, the first lawsuit with Stephanopolis, do you think I mean, they assume or they don't care. I guess it's a better way of putting it. They're playing in the America public. We the people being its

stupid that we can't figure anything out. Apparently, I don't know how else you can explain it.

Speaker 1

Well, Mark, you know, all of us have a dump button. If someone comes on here and says that Donald Trump is going to kill one hundred thousand Americans, I dump it because that is a terrible defamation. I mean, it was that what we but this was done like okay, that's fine, let's keep it going a little bit longer.

And this was just any guests. This was the former president of Harvard, Larry Summers and former Secretary of Treasury under Obama, interviewed by an Obama and Neista at Clinton Easta George Stephanopolis, having just successfully paid Donald Trump I think it was ten or fifteen million now sixty minutes in CBS is going to pay him sixteen to twenty five million now here online tonight. Another lawsuits coming against ABC News because of broadcasting this lie.

Speaker 12

It's like what Bill, I think he kind of answered my question. Anyhow. Obama was so pro Harvard. The minute they were going to get cut off funding, he went immediate to the podium and you know, cried Wolfe about it that the universities, you know, especially the poison ivy I are so you know, used to become an anti American movement. It's not even funny, you know that. I

know that I hope the American public knows that. So you you send your kid to a major university like that, a boukoo dollars and he's going to be an un American and try to tear this company, I mean, this nation.

Speaker 1

Apart. You know, well, Mark at Mark look at it this way. You pay what two hundred thousand dollars to go send your kid to some elite college. They come out marching Marxist. They come out owing a lot of money. May have you paid it? And you come out with viewpoints about this country which are at odds to reality. They do not teach reality. They teach left wing ideologues to become marching Marxist. And how somebody can claim differently is beyond me. Whether it's Yale or Harvard or Columbia.

Why send your kid there to come out as a marching Marxist. I don't get it, don't understand it. Hopefully I never will. Let's go to Gregan Michigan and then calls from Utah and Maryland and Greg and Michigan. Welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show.

Speaker 5

Greg, how are you American patriot? Billy Cunningham, mister positive, I got to tell you you. Jeez, I can't even speak. You've done your homework, mister positive loves you. But I got to ask you two things real quick. Elon Musk wants to start a third party? What does he know about politics? Number one? And what philosophical platforms would he have? And number two? The view? I watch it watched, yeah, yeah, But here's the thing, it's I hope they're listening. You know,

they're so divisive, they're always one sided. You and I know, Billy and my buddy Chris Cuomo. If you want to get to the truth, you've got to hear both sides. You've got to hear both sides, America. If you only listen to one side, it's gonna be biased. It's going to be a narrative that fits your thing, fits your philosophical stance, but that might not be the truth. But this is what I like about Billy c. I mean, I love bad to the bone that you play. You are a spot on, You are bad to the bone,

and you make a lot of sense. But I want the view, and I want Musk, but more so the view to be more level, to be more measured, to make sure that you say both sides. I mean here. It is real quick. Whoopy will not mention Donald's name, whether you like Trump or not, She's one of the reasons that there's division. It's all right, Whoopie. You can say Donald Trump, say that he might be wrong, but you better give a good argument for both sides. And Billy,

this is what I like about your show. It's that you are trying to get to the truth, that you are not spinning a narrative that is just one sided. One hundred thousand people like you said, really, how do you know? You're exactly spot on? Billy, mister positive wants everyone to go for your dreams and keep being you. Billy and the Marconi Awards, I am very impressed, and you know, just keep on being you. And you know hear both sides. Though I have no.

Speaker 1

Problem with being a great American, I have no problem being I am. And when you listen to talk radio, you listen to Mark Levin, my favorite, listen to Sean Hannity, the greatest of all time, Rush Limball, the greatest talk show host of all time, didn't make it in TV, and Bill O'Reilly, maybe the greatest cable star of all time,

couldn't make it in radio. But Sean Hannity dominates radio and dominates TV because when you listen in or watch, you know the viewpoint you're gonna hear when you when you listen to me on Sunday Nights, I'm gonna conservative of libertarian influences, and I present a viewpoint. I do not tell you I'm objective. I'm a journalist. I'm gonna tell you the truth, unvarnished. I have an opinion, and when you call in, you understand that I have that viewpoint.

That is not the case of NBC, CBS, ABC, etc. PBS is the worst that they present themselves and lie to you by saying we're journalists when in reality they're left rowing audiologues and they trick people into believing lies because it fits their bias. And the last election, if a person received most or all of their news from the mainstream media outlets, they voted Democrat eighty two percent of the time because you didn't get a different viewpoint. I spend time. I cannot watch the view that's a

bridge too far from me. But I often will watch MSNBC so you don't have to. I watch Dana Bash on CNN so you don't have to I try to watch Laura Coats in the Evening and Abby Philip because that means you don't have to. They pretend as if they're objective, were just the opposite is true, So they lie to you in a regular basis to allow public airwaves to be used to accuse our president of killing one hundred thousand Americans.

Speaker 6

The ill Budget Lab estimates that it will kill over ten years one hundred thousand people.

Speaker 7

That is two thousand days of death.

Speaker 1

That's Larry Summers broadcasted by ABC News and George Stephanopolis going to get sued again and probably pay off again because that is false. It is a lie. There are no cuts to medicaid. In fact, Medicaid spending is going up now. If you're an illegal alien or you're a freeloader, you hopefully will be cut off Medicaid by the federal government and cooperation with the states, and it should be that way. That's the Clintonesta approach about government benefits to

able bodied American adults. So if you're able bodied, get the hell off Medicaid and food stamps, go to work. On the other hand, if you're illegal, you should get zero benefits. Overall benefits spending for medicaid is going up every year for the next ten years. As far as I can see, only in Washington is an increase of four to six percent considered a cut only in Washington. Well,

let's continue. We have full lines. Of course, of a line becomes available, next call be from Utah and then Maryland, then Florida and Idaho and many places in between. We have time for your call. Eight six six six four seven seven three three seven. Bill cunning in the Great American with you every Sunday. By Billy Cunning in the Great American. Let's continue. The Big Beautiful Bill has passed sign on the fourth of July, and the left uses this as an occasion to riot in cities like Portland,

Oregon and Seattle. Have millions protesting all over the country on the fourth of July. You know, we spoke practically everything in the Big Beautiful Bill is something that Donald said he would do if elected. Go down the line he's keeping promises. So in a democratic way, with a small d we voted. Fifty seven million plus of us said,

you know what, that's what I want. I want to I believe that if we elect this guy, he's going to give us things like continuation of the tax cuts and a child tax credit and no taxes and overtime and tips, and social security reduction and funding the border wall, and increasing defense spending and reforming medicaid even though it's increasing and spending every year. Illegal should not be on it. We have to do something about the salt cap that byther we went up to forty thousand dollars over my

objections and many others. So going down the top list of the bottom, he said exactly what he was going to do, and damnit, he did it. And now it's been passed and there's two or three more reconciliation bills coming. This is in the end of it is the beginning. The Democrats fear success. They'd rather have the country lose

as long as they get power back. And if Trump is successful over the next almost year and a half until the next election, there'll be more jobs, there will be less budget deficit, the southern border will be more secure, the military with the Golden Dome will be in better shape, and working class Americans will get a tax break. Not too many rich people I know rely upon tips. Not too many rich people I know rely upon social security. Not too many rich, rich people I know pay tax

on overtime. It doesn't happen. This is a working class bill that probably ninety percent of this, if on the ballot by itself, would easily pass. But by the time the mainstream media gets done smearing Donald Trump and calling him a killer of one hundred thousand people, one hundred thousand America is going to be killed.

Speaker 6

But the ill Budget Lab estimates that it will kill over ten years, one hundred thousand people.

Speaker 1

That's ABC News George Deefanoppos's friend and guest Larry Summers. This morning headline is ABC News about to get sued again because that is untethered to reality and the Democrats fear success. What happens if these things work as they always have been with John F. Kennedy Ronald Reagan on the first Trump term, you have minuscule tax reductions generating more economic activity, meaning there's less deficit, less debt, more people are working, happy days. You're here again. It's morning

in America. Every time it's been tried, it's worked, and the Democrats fear it's going to work. So the messaging needs to get out that Donald Trump's going to kill one hundred thousand Americans. What wow. Let's continue with your calls all over the country. If line becomes available eight sixty six six four seven seven three three seven. Bill cunning and the Grand American with you. And by the way, all great Americans on this fourth of July weekend, celebration

with you every Sunday night, Franell. Let's continue. Whenever stop, we simply continue if line ever becomes available eight sixty six six four seven seven three three seven. They have a sense the media and the Democrats are rooting against the success of our great nation. That they want it to fail makes them feel better, confirms their viewpoint of this country. And the younger you are, the more edge that you are, the more indoctrinated you are, the more

you have ill feelings about America. Garbage in, garbage out. One cannot watch the mainstream media or read a big city newspaper and think, boy, this is a great place to live. I can't wait to get up the moorrow morning. It's going to be better. Are you kidding me? You can't do it? And it's sick and it's said, I've not read this. I'm told by a senator, a friend of mine that PBS and NPR has been defunded, but now they have lawsuits pending to keep their funding coming.

By the way, aren't I public radio? Yes, Premiere, et cetera. The number of stations I'm on, the outlets I have from Collier County all the way through Atlaska to why Over to Maine. Isn't the great American Bill Cunningham? Aren't I involved in public radio? I'm in the public and I'm in radio. But the government doesn't pay me five

hundred million dollars a year to broadcast my viewpoints? Why do we have Lowsey NPR And every now and then PBS says something on I may want to watch, Like the Roosevelt thing over the weekend was pretty good, but by the way, his policies FDR policies didn't work. Despite all the media fawning over FDR, he took over in March of nineteen thirty three, and things are just as bad in thirty seven, thirty eight as they were in thirty one, thirty two, and thirty His policies didn't work,

but the media loved the guy. But nonetheless, we don't need a public broadcaster right now because I am public broadcasting and so's so's this Sunday Morning with George Stefanoppli's GMA. That's public and they're talking about Donald Trump killing one hundred thousand people over the next ten years because of non existent Medicaid cuts. Yes, if you're here illegally, you may be cut off Medicaid because that's the law. And if you're a free loader using the Clinton rule, don't

get government benefits. If you're able to work, go work, get off snap. Other than that, there are no cuts to medicaid. But public broadcasters are saying that the President's going to kill one hundred thousand Americans? Are you kidding me? Let's go back to the telephone calls as time allows. Coming up later. See Jeff the Great Jeff crewe Heir who wrote a book, a column, and a book about

the great things Donald Trump is doing. And I want to post in the question how do we have a great country if our top twenty American cities are in complete collapse? I don't know. Can you walk through the streets of Chicago Michigan Avenue at this hour and after a great Cubs victory over the Cardinals and survive? Can you walk around Los Angeles or San Francisco or Washington, d C. Try being a couple coming out of the Jewish Embassy in Washington. Can you walk around downtown Memphis

or Atlanta? I don't think so. It's dangerous, and no rightful parent, given a choice whatever send their kids to public schools because little or no education is occurring anyway. It's awful. And so there needs to be almost a Marshall plan for the major cities in this country. We get the government we deserve, so the voters in these towns. I met over the weekend a resident of Chicago who listens to me every sun in that on GN and thinking, you know, why don't I've asked her how come Chicago

has not had a Republican mayor? She said, in one hundred and fifty years. I said, how bad things have to be under the dailies. It wasn't that bad. There were Democrats, but they were normal Democrats. What's happening with Lorie Lightfoot now and Johnson are truly unbelievable. And he's up for election. I guess either this year or next, and if the voters don't turn him out, you get

what you deserve. Karen Bass has likely be re elected the mayor of Los Angeles, for God's sakes, and didn't think I'd ever say this, but I kind of hope Mayor Adams wins re election in New York City. Other than the alternative. I don't know if he's a communist, but he certainly is a Marxist. Unbelievable. Let's go back to the calls William in Salt Lake City and William in Salt Lake City, Welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show, and William, how are you?

Speaker 10

I needed the greatest American I could find anywhere. I thought I'd give you a call.

Speaker 1

God bless America. Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 10

Okay, I remember when Rush got three phone calls from guys saying, why don't we drop back and let him take it once? Just to show what they would do for an example. Well, they stole Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and it's thanks so bad we could smell it over here.

Speaker 1

Yeah, a big garbage strike. It's terrible. What large American city controlled by Democrats for more than fifty years is well run, safe, plenty of good jobs, a respectful police division, in good public schools. Give me the name of that city.

Speaker 10

I think they stole it as what I think they did that election.

Speaker 1

Well, we'll say by the Chinese drivers line. Question was no.

Speaker 10

Second question was what would the benefits to the Second Amendment in the Great Big Blue Bill.

Speaker 1

Oh, having the synopsis, I see there's something to do with silencers. There was supposed to be some effort to illegalize silencers, and that didn't happen. So the Second Amendment has left to I think right now the Second Amendments in pretty good shape, except in the major cities in which they keep passing law saying you can't protect yourself. In fact, if the next Mayor of New York is elected, we may have a circumstance where he's going to try to confiscate all the guns in New York City. He

wants he wants no bail for criminal offenses. He wants to eliminate as much as possible, eliminate all the court system and the police. It's really unbelievable, I.

Speaker 10

Pic sure in New York City completely surrounded. Well, my third point was, wo must go ahead and start a party. Go ahead. I understand he's not a US citizen. He was born in Southend, Africa.

Speaker 1

Well, he's legal, I guess in a sense. But Elon Musk will have little or no success with the third party. Talk to Ross Perrau about that. In fact, if I'm a shareholder of one of the companies owned by Elon Musk, he's getting sued by hundreds of shareholders because the CEO is not devoting his time to the success of the business he ought to spend his time. He's built great businesses and he's from South Africa, which is fine. Came

into the country legally. He built these huge businesses. But every now and then I think he loses his way. And by that I mean Elon Musk gotta worry about business and leave politics alone. What do you think about that.

Speaker 10

Sixth te for Tyrannus?

Speaker 1

Well, there you go. Well let's continue And I have a text here for my good friend, and I mean my good friend Bootsy Collins. Hey, this is Bootsy Colleges. He said, don't hate on PBS. I think they do a good job. I don't like the politics BS. They weave it into writing. They should have to put the opposite views on these stations. I Bootsy Collins in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the best there is backed up James Brown, front man couldn't agree more if

PPS and NPR. By the way, PPS has lots of good series I watch every now and then, but NPR especially to give the other viewpoint. That's all I'm saying that government should not fund left wing extremist government. If they have a funding of a public broadcaster should have equal time. But I think it's unnecessary completely in today's world, with the Internet, with podcasts, et cetera. But he ends. Bootsy ends up to me by saying, much love Bill.

I love your shows, and you Bootsy Collins. If you were a woman, i'd kiss you right on the lips. I love Bootsy Collins. Let's continue in your calls and see maybe I shouldn't have said that, but I love Bootsy Collins. And now let's continue now with Chris and Fort Collins, Colorado. I believe Chris and Colorado. Welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show. Chris, how are you?

Speaker 13

I'm doing great, Bill, Thanks for having me, and thanks to being a great American.

Speaker 1

Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 13

I got a two part question. First of all, you being a big libertarian. Me myself, I'm a libertarian. And as far as this too, you know this Elon Musk Party thing. What happened to Elon? I thought he was the dodge King all of a sudden. When it comes to killing his programs, he's not for killing government waste. What's up with that, Chris.

Speaker 1

I'll say this that when you get into a fight with Donald Trump, there's not been too many have succeeded in that pugilistic effort. And I don't get it. Elon Musk receives literally billions of dollars from the federal government, and right or wrong, good or bad, Donald Trump has the ability to severely impact his businesses in a negative way. Whenever a businessman gets involved in politics and want to sell products to everyone across the political spectrum, you're making

a mistake. And one thing I think Elon and Muscot to do is to vote more of his time and talents to his businesses and which shareholders demand his time and talents to increase the value of their holdings. Elon must do. He spent months and months on the campaign trail. What was he spending with Tesla or SpaceX or He's got fifty other businesses and God bless him, he helped I think Donald Trump get elected. Honestly, his money he spent about a quarter of a billion dollars promoting Donald Trump.

He spent about eighty million dollars in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race. That didn't work at all, by the way, and his time and talents is in business, not politics. And so if I'm a shareholder, I'm concerned about a leader who's more involved in politics than business. His goal is a business owner ought to be doing and hands value for the shareholders. It should not be to get

in politics because you want to sell. When I was actively involved in the chicken wing business, I own a bunch of chicken wing restaurants.

Speaker 5

Hell.

Speaker 1

I wanted to sell chicken wings, the Democrats, Republicans, to white, black, brown, green, purple, dot. I want to sell chicken wings to everybody. I didn't want anybody get angry at me because of politics. And I buy my chicken wings. And so if I'm Elon Musk, you ought to be in the business of maximizing shareholder value and let politics die on the vine. He was very useful to Donald Trump. But I would not want in a fight with that guy, would you.

Speaker 13

Well, it's pretty obvious, Yeah, don't you don't pick a fight with Donald Trump. No, he doesn't forget. No, he doesn't forget. And you know, Elon did great, So I'm a big Elon fan, but I don't know why he flipped. But my second question is this, what happened to the sales of government land and Sean Ryan all right getting people to stop that.

Speaker 4

Did it go through?

Speaker 1

It did not? It did not a center. Mike Lee was another one who wanted to sell off millions of acres of government land. And it's not in the big beautiful bill.

Speaker 13

And how do you feel. What's your opinion on government land ownership and should it just be national parks? And how much do we own? And should we sell it?

Speaker 1

We should sell as much as possible and use the money to pay off the national debt, which is confiscatory of our children's future. We cannot have a country that spends a trillion dollars year in interest. And if these two trillion dollars a year deficits continue, and that's what Trump says is going to happen for a long time. Well, we're going to be spending two trillion dollars in interest

on the national debt ten years from now. And we're as close to that as we are of the year twenty fifteen when the Trump's it came down the escalator. My only disappointment with him is a failure to cut government spending in a more serious way. He did everything he could. Look what the Democrats and the media are doing with the guy when he's increasing Medicaid spending by four to six percent every year. He's called a killer

by ABC News, George Sephanopolis and Larry Summers. And you can imagine the real money is in Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid. And you know it put me in charge. You got to increase the retirement age significantly. If you're rich and retired, you should not get Social Security at all. And it just seems to me the solutions are obvious, but the government can't do them because look how Donald

Trump is attacked for increasing spending on Medicaid. He's called a killer for increasing it but not increasing it enough. And that is ridiculous. Thanks for your call. Is continue the line becomes available, which it never does eight sixty six six four seven seven three three seven. Whenever I get a text from the Great Bootsy Collins puts a big smile on my face. Bill Cunningham, with you every Sunday Night. Let's continue in every stop, we simply continue.

One of my favorite columnists is Cheff crue Heir. He's a native New Orleans and Los Angeles and ringside politics this his genre, has written many books on the subject, and I had him on a few months ago about what happened New Orleans with that Islamic radical that killed so many on Bourbon Street and how the incompetence of New Orleans police allowed it to take place. And their mayor is a typical mayor of a big city, spending large amounts of money on stupid stuff and not fully

funding law enforcement in one sense or another. And New Orleans is one of those great cities that it's a nice place to visit. I wouldn't want to live there. I'm not even sure Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Atlanta, Washington, d C. Memphis nice place to visit. I'm not sure

it's a nice place to visit. I had on your friend and mine, Wayne Allen Root last week, who said that if you live in Los Angeles, you don't drive a nice car worth a one hundred grand or more because the gang bangers will are wedge you in and put guns up against the windshield and just steal rob you right there. There's about one hundred and twenty five thousand gang members in Los Angeles. One hundred and twenty

five thousand members of gangs. There's about another one hundred thousand that are homeless, individuals on drugs, using drugs on city streets, urinating, fornicating, defecating in public, and tents living in streets with filth everywhere, Rampant crime, non existent law enforcement. LAPD is thoroughly demoralized. They don't want to rest anybody. Taxes are confiscatory, and that's the true of many great

American cities. Had opulent, wonderful, soaring American municipalities, and the last twenty to thirty years they've gone right down the crap. Or Democrats functioned for large parts running big cities, like the Dailies in Chicago, or the Bloomberg who was a Democrat, really ran New York City for twelve years, did a pretty damn good job, and they were good mayors in Los Angeles. But right now the cities are ruined. Can we be a great nation long term? If every major

American city is in total collapse? Can that happen? And Jeff Crer has written some columns about the looming threat to our homeland. We got through fourth of July without the Iranians terrorists let into the country by Joe Biden do anything too dastardly that we're aware of. Of course, the run of the mill. About one hundred people were shot this weekend in city of Chicago and my city

of Cincinnati. This year, there's going to be five hundred people shot in the little city of Cincinnati, and it's going to be what twenty twenty five thousand murders. There'll be more than one hundred and fifty thousand people wounded on the streets of America and the large cities. It's awful. Crime takes place everywhere, but the frequency of crime and

the major cities is despicable. And now that the Iranian terrorists have gotten the green light to attack us, I guess all of us are holding our breath until the attacks come from Islamic terrorists, including the burning of Jews openly in Colorado, the gunning down of Jewish couples in Washington, d c. Governor's home Shapiro, and Pennsylvania was firebombed, and this unspeakable violence is happening, and cities proceed Willy Nelly

as if it's okay. Well it's not okay. We cannot be a great nation with large American cities in complete collapse. And I've write columns, let la burn, let them go, leave Chicago alone. If the voters will not throw out the bums and the derelicts, why should the general American taxpayer under the assistance of people in Chicago. If you're not willing yourself to get rid of the feckless, foolish Marxist that runs city government, why should we and of

New York City in November really elects a communist slash Marxist. Well, many say let them live with it, live with it. I'm not so sure that's the case. But I do not believe as a great American myself that we can long survive as a great nation if every major American city is in complete collapse. And that's what's happening. So stay tuned. I'm going to put a call in the Jeff crue Heir and UH and New Orleans about what's

happening New Orleans, the looming threat to our homeland. He's got to call them up about how cities are run today later on as Steve gorm On Weather and things of that character. If line becomes available eight sixty six six four seven seven three three seven Bill cunning and the Great American with you and all great Americans every Sunday.

Speaker 5

Night, Willie.

Speaker 2

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Speaker 1

By Bully Cunningham, the Grand American once again. Fourth, My weekend is fabulous. It's celebrating the two hundred and forty ninth birthday, two hundred and fifty. Next year, unfortunately for the Democrats and the Liberals, even going to be better after all the BBB and everything passes. After another year of it, the numbers are going to be more incredible. Of course, the market is up, the job creation is

breaking records the last four months way up. The border is down, which is a good thing because illegals aren't coming into the country. The Trumpster wins at the Supreme Court. He's dropping those bunker buster bombs all over Iran. Gasoline prices are basically below three dollars a gallon might be two dollars by the time in other years, two goes by, and Iran is now subjugated. Everywhere I look, I see greatness happening, except when I listened to a Democrat like

Akeem Jefferies once again. Jeff crue Air is a great author, radio talk show host, many columns up at Jeffcruair dot com. And Jeff once again, welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show. And you have a great column up about how the big beautiful Bill is going to keep energy industry strong. Anyone who's driving this weekend understands what's been going on.

So just get me an overview of the most important, the greatest six months I think any president has had outside of FDR and the behavior of our good friend Donald Trump.

Speaker 14

I mean, it's been amazing, Bill, you outlined it. I'd like to just start on the border. I mean I think that, I mean, of all the great accomplishments, and you hit them all. I mean, reducing the invasion of the border to zero. Going from twenty million to zero in the span of five and a half months is just unbelievable. And you know, it's just been a testament to the fact that President Trump has made it a priority. He's put a lot of effort into it. The border

patrol now is unleashed. They can do their job. Ice is trying to do their job. All the Democrats is trying to stop them everywhere they turn around them. They try to prevent them from deporting criminal alien illegals from our country.

Speaker 4

But I mean, it's just it's going to.

Speaker 14

Take a while to recover from the massive influx that we had during Biden to.

Speaker 4

Round up all these people.

Speaker 14

My prayer is that there's not going to be any kind of an attack launched by any sleeper sales or any kind of you know, terrorist group that has been led into this country by Joe Biden. But we have stopped it, and that is just amazing, as it can get even better with more of the resources going towards the border wall and border patrols. So that's just been an incredible accomplishment.

Speaker 1

Film and Jeff Career. The last couple of years, we've been told repeatedly by the Democratic Party. Biden does not have the power to do shut down the Southern boarder. He can't do that. Win need a lot more agents, winning a twenty five billion dollar bill to not build fences, but a higher more administrative judges, and more lawyers. It can't be done. Well, what what the hell happened to that argument? What happened to the fact that he needs more money? We got? What happened?

Speaker 14

Well, we were lied to, as we have been so many times over the years by Democrats, and it just took a new president, That's all it took. And it took an emphasis on the issue. And we now had that security knowing that we've got a border where we're.

Speaker 4

Not being invaded anymore.

Speaker 14

But we do have the problem that still needs to be tackled of the millions of illegals that are here in the country. We need to take away their benefits. I mean, they're illegals. Shouldn't be getting medicaid, illegals shouldn't be getting constitutional rights. I mean, these people are I'm sorry, when you cross the border illegally, you commit a crime.

Speaker 4

The Criminals Bill, they're criminals.

Speaker 1

As far. You have a great column up about a story I'm told and we pray to God it doesn't happen. It says looming threat to our homeland under date of June twenty third, about ten days ago, in which you lay out Operation mid not Hammer, how good it was. But there's a concern what's happening to the homeland. And there's a concern that we've not seen the end of

Iranian influences. I know there was a concern after Operation min not Hammer was so successful with those bunker buster bombs, the media quickly had to undermine what Trump had done because it was too good for him to had to undermine it quickly. But there's another concern about the sleeper cells. Explain what happened the past four years from the southern border and how those Biden sleeper cells are all over the country right.

Speaker 14

Well, the estimates are that people flooded in here from anywhere between one hundred and sixty to two hundred nations. That between twenty twenty one and January twenty twenty five, up to twenty million people.

Speaker 4

Flooded in here.

Speaker 14

I've heard differing amounts, but let's just say maybe fifteen million be conservative.

Speaker 4

Yeah, we university study.

Speaker 14

He had estimated that we had twenty two million illegals here in twenty eighteen, so you add another fifteen million to that, possibly thirty seven million. We keep hearing from the media that there's only eleven million. Of course that's ridiculous. They've been using that number for thirty years. And among these people are you know, Iranians that were allowed in here by the Biden administration. Iranian nationals twelve hundred and

seventy two. They found Iranian passports, They found prayer rugs at the border of this massive number at least two million or what they called godaways that were not processed, that flooded in here and went who knows where, who knows who they are. Tom Holman says it keeps him up at tonight if he's worried.

Speaker 4

I'm worried. This is a guy.

Speaker 14

Who is an absolute rock star. I mean, we got a borders are now. Remember we used to have Kamala Harris, he.

Speaker 4

Was our borders are.

Speaker 1

Yeah, yeah, Czarina.

Speaker 14

But now we know we got a guy that the President Trump said came out of Central casting. I mean, this is the guy that you want to be the borders are.

Speaker 4

A tough guy.

Speaker 14

That's who we need, and he's doing a great job. Of course, they're trying to prevent ice from from doing their work. They're trying to create protests and chaos and all the big cities, and yeah, we cannot allow that.

Speaker 4

Bill.

Speaker 1

Well, one thing that I see in New Orleans and you have to live it. I live a little bit in Cincinnati. And Cincinnati we have something called the red bikes, which are these temporary means that like a little little mopeds you can put your credit card in a way you go and we're going to have this weekend. You can't get a red bike because in downtown Cincinnati or OTR because of all the car break ins and thievery happening. And I'm thinking, why we can't operate an electric moped anymore?

Or in New Orleans you have about the worst mayor, unless when you consider I think Karen Bass and Brandon Johnson is pretty bad. Of course, the next mayor of New York City would be a joke. You have a terrible And I'm thinking, can we have a great country when our major cities are in complete collapse?

Speaker 4

You know that is a great point.

Speaker 14

Every one of these cities is a disaster zone, and it's because the residents of those cities keep electing these progresses.

Speaker 4

And in New York, there.

Speaker 14

On the verge of electing a communist, we have LaToya the destroya cantrell as our mayor. She is someone that has destroyed the economy. She's traveled all over the world to go to climate change conferences and conferences that are put on by the UN and the Bloomberg Institute and the Aspen Institute. Yeah, we've got a city that needs governing and she cannot care less about New Orleans and wants to just travel over the world. And that's what we see in a lot of these other big cities

mayors that aren't focused on the job. So yeah, I mean it's at some point the residents of these areas are going to have to wake up and see, hey, what we're.

Speaker 4

Doing is not working.

Speaker 14

I mean, these mayors, these policies don't work. Socialism doesn't work, Bill, There's no example of it working anywhere in the world. It doesn't work. And maybe they'll finally start changing how they vote.

Speaker 1

You know, it begins with a public education which is in complete collapse. And I can't imagine going to a New Orleans public school as a broad eyed, six year old first grader, ready to learn and what you have to confront. I can't imagine going to school in Chicago public schools. I know what's like. In Cincinnati. It's a terrible public schools that are more and more expensive. New York City's got to be worse. Hell, there's over one hundred different languages spoken in New York City. You have

to have different interpreters for every classroom. It's completely dysfunctional. In La County schools right now, the academic standards are below Bangladesh. And in Philadelphia, hell, they can't pick up the garbage. And in Chicago this weekend there's going to

be about ten people murdered and fifty people shot. And then the solution I'm looking at, ma'am don on these positions to bring to New York City, our greatest supposedly our greatest city with eight and a half million residents, he says, we're gonna defund the police, We're gonna abolish the prison system. We're gonna have no bail for someone arrested. We're gonna prohibit state operated hospitals from suing anyone who doesn't pay a bill. We're gonna have universal health care

for everybody, everyone who walks into an emergency room. We're gonna ban all private ownership of guns. We're gonna decriminalize sex work. We're gonna provide safe injection zones and sites with needles for illegal drugs that the city in New York's is gonna buy being the drug business. Or we're gonna decriminalize drug possession and end cooperation with federal officials. How we look at a New York city. If this guy gets elected, I'm gonna.

Speaker 14

Make a bowl prediction on your show. I think he will not be elected. Okay, I think enough people will come to their senses.

Speaker 4

There and not elect this guy. He's a communist.

Speaker 14

The problem with it is they're going to eventually run out of other people's money. You know, Margaret Thatcher's famous saying about socialism.

Speaker 4

That's the problem.

Speaker 14

And all the people that are rich in New York, if these are going to be the policies, they're going to start leaving. I mean, Palm Beach will benefit, Florida will benefit, but New York certainly won't. He's so radical. Kathy Hochel hasn't gotten on board with him. Chuck Schumer hasn't gotten on board with him. I mean he does

have AOC. He does have the most radical member of Congress, AOC, who, by the way, in one poll that I saw Democrats looking in twenty twenty eight, was running number two in the presidential line up, behind Pete Buddha Judge, another failure, the mayor of South ben Indiana, who's never accomplished anything. So that two the Democrats are presenting in twenty twenty eight, Mayor Pete AOC. Kamala Harris is so terrible. She is behind those guys. So they're in a world of hurt.

Speaker 1

Bill I would say this, Jeff Carr, I think it's a great idea. I think AOC for president and maybe Jasmine Crockett for VP, and then have Jeff and have Booted Jets secretary of State. And I'm thinking, you know, we get the government we deserve. And so AOC's path to the Senate is wide open against Chuck Schumer in twenty six in fact, she's thirty points up on Chuck Schumer. And so I know what's going to happen in New York and the Empire State if AOC runs for the Senate. Damn, She's gonna win.

Speaker 13

Now.

Speaker 1

Lastly, the big Beautiful bill has exemptions for Americans who work for tips, who enjoy getting overtime pay, and those on Social Security. The last time I checked Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, I don't think they work for tips. I don't think they clocked in for overtime. I don't think they worry about Social Security. But to watch the meet every time, every time I look up, it's Medicaid

cut by a trillion dollar. And so the messaging from the mainstream media, which you can't believe, you know, lie circle the globe before truth can take it first step, that this bill is about helping working class Americans put a tank to gas in their car and getting tip money over time and social Security. But the media doesn't tell that. Tell you that, do they?

Speaker 4

They don't. I mean, the media is a bunch of liars. We know that bill.

Speaker 14

They're they're horrible, they're biased, ninety three percent negative coverage of President Trump, sixty percent positive coverage of Biden. I mean, they're just so left wing. But the deal with this bill is, of course, if it didn't pass, you have a sixty eight percent increase in taxes that would hurt the economy. That would hurt everybody in this economy. We have seen under President Trump inflation going down, gasoline prices going down, eight prices, remember they were talking about eggs

for so long. Eight prices are going down, so people have more money in their pockets so they can spend on their families. That's working class folks can benefit their families more. Not I mean to pay for bidnomics, which was so horrible that we've already had tremendous strives in the right direction in just a few months. The bill is going to help us even more with the with the economy and average working class folks. It's not a

gift to billionaire. That's the tired talking point of the Democrats saying, you know, all all Donald Trump wants to do is healthy at billionaires. His focus is on average Americans, I mean working class people. That's who he's trying to help, and that's why he's so popular. Working class folks that are that are, you know, helping their families and working hard. They understand and Trumps their champion. And that's what the.

Speaker 4

Democrats don't have.

Speaker 14

I don't have anybody that can relate to working class people.

Speaker 1

Do nothing, and in fact they're funded by the shall we say, the elite, The billionaire class funds the Democratic Party headquartered and major cities that are complete collapse. Now, lastly, let's assume the Democrats would have had their way and the BBB did not pass. You give me a number. Let's say you're a working class American and you get some overtime, Well, guess what you're gonna pay tax on that. That's a Democratic plan. If you get tips, I don't

know about you. I don't get too many tips, but nonetheless a lot of people do. I spent a long time as a bar back, as a bartender, I washed dishes, I shared tips. If you're a working schlip. The Republicans want to not tax tips, they want to not tax overtime and give Social Security recipients a break, and they want Medicaid only for Americans and Democrats impose that. Is that the way the media covers that one.

Speaker 14

Yeah, and I think people realize that the Democrats are not for average, hardworking people. They're for illegals, and they're for criminals.

Speaker 4

I mean that's the constituency of Democrat Party.

Speaker 14

I mean, all all the opokems are trying to do is make sure that Medicaid goes to people that are American citizens, not illegals. And make sure that people have minimum work requirements. I mean minimum. I mean you can't be on the couch all day and.

Speaker 3

Expect to be accepting all of these benefits.

Speaker 14

That's not the American way. So the Democrats are crying about that. They want people not to work, They want people to, you know, break the laws. They don't want the members.

Speaker 4

Of ICE to do their job.

Speaker 14

They are on the wrong side of pretty much every issue, and.

Speaker 11

That's why they're in such disarray.

Speaker 14

I mean, they're really out of touch with America more than I've ever seen any party bill. It's a beautiful thing, though, because we don't want them anywhere near power.

Speaker 1

It was wonderful to watch the CNN and MSNBC reaction to the June jobs number predict it was to be one hundred and ten thousand turn out to be one hundred and fifty thousand, fifty percent increase in job creation, and to watch the mainstream to try to spend that was hilarious. But Jeff Crueer continue to have a great Fourth of July weekend. Let's see what happens down the road. But happy days are here again. The Trump there is going to celebrate next summer the two hundred and fiftieth

anniversary the declaration of Independence. A year from now, the economy will be stronger than it is today. Peace will break out throughout the world. The stock market will be higher, jobs will be higher, the border crossings will be down, more Supreme Court victories, gasoline will be given away free, and ron will be contained. We have peace in Central Africa, and the media must find something to attack Donald Trump about.

But Jeff for crue air, good books and good commentary, and once again thanks for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. And I'll tell you what. I'll bet you a bull of jumbalaya. I'll bet you a bull of jumbalaya that somehow Mandamie's gonna win the mayorship in New York City. You want to make up, I'll give you a tub of Greater's ice cream in exchange for a tub of jambalaya. I'll take Mom, Donnie, and I'll give you the field. How about that.

Speaker 4

You got it? You got it. We're on Bill.

Speaker 1

Write that down, Write that down, Write that down. All right, let's see what happened. But Jeff Career, thank you very much. You're a great American. Thank you, God bless you. Let's continue with more the line becomes available and you're the routine and mom, Donnie's going to be the next mayor of the City of New York. Bill Cunningham, The Grand American Live with You every Sunday Night by Billy Cunningham

and Jeff Career makes a lot of sense. And I should write an article on this that how do you have great nations with lousy cities? New Orleans is one of the worst. Cincinnati, where I live, not very good at all. But the worst run city in America is San Francisco, according to Chamber of Commerces, And right up there with them is Los Angeles with Karen Bass, Chicago with Brandon Johnson, and New York City with Adams and

maybe a socialist had taken over the helm. How in the world can you be a great nation when practically every major American city is an economic, social, criminal, and

educational collapse. I don't know, but maybe we can. Maybe the rest of us can overcome our cities and the filth and the degradation and the urination defecation, fornication, all the homelessness, handing out clean needles, dysfunctional public schools and no functional law enforcement and terrible, terrible governance on taxes, rules, regulations, et cetera. Maybe there's some fantasy land and what's a great nation can be great when it's twenty large city stink.

Maybe not. I let's continue with more coming up next to Steve gorm about weather related issues and how it's being used by many in order to feather their own bed and get their own money out of government. Bill Cunning into Great American with you and all Great Americans every Sunday night, Bill Cunning in the Great American. Of course, the climate is, shall we say, a ripe area for liberals to have lots of money to spend for their

pet projects. And now in Wimbledon's ongoing, and right now it's hot in England, which is a little bit unusual and so across the continent that they're certainly living with the idea that man made climate changes occurring, causing hot temperatures,

which is going to destroy the world. In fact, about two weeks ago, I'm one of those word guys that watch c SPAN and Senator Ted Cruz of Texas had on a college professor out of a law school that talked about how the executives of Excellon Mobile should be charged with murder, actual murder, and the large oil companies should be locked up. And of course he came to that hearing was pointed out on a private jet that used aviation fuel and when he got here he got

an uber ride who had gasoline. But that's a different story, completely different story. But of course Man is on these issues great as Steve Gorm, executive director of the Climate Science Coalition of America, author of four books He Knows Where the Bodies Are Buried on energy and climate change, and most to book as Green Breakdown, The Coming Renewable Energy Failure. And Steve Gorm, welcome again to the Bill

Cunningham Show. And first of all, Steve, how do you overcome the idea that the media waits for a tornado or hurricane, cold weather, hot weather, whatever it might be. In the Midwest, we've had cold temperatures largely until about two weeks ago, in which case got hotter than the hinges of Hell. And so when the media keeps drumming and beating the same idea that man made a climate change, and global warming is occurring because of what we've done.

Is it difficult to overcome that with the media keeps pumping in garbage in, garbage out? What's your view on that? Generally?

Speaker 3

Yeah, this is amazing. Hey, great to join you again, will you. The media just loves this stuff. You know, we've now they're naming thunderstorms and things. It wasn't only hurricanes, but they're naming droughts or naming tornado sessions. We have not only temperatures, but we got heat indexes now, which makes everything look higher. You know, it just really is. It's a tremendous boon to media stories, I guess. But yeah,

we had we had some big temperatures last week. We had about one hundred and sixty million people that experienced temperatures approaching one hundred degrees fahrenheit. And we had the CNN saying, quote, heat waves are getting more dangerous with climate change. We had and they said, NPR said it was due to burning of coal, oil and gas, and Time stated that heat waves are now three times occurred three times as oft in the United States as they

did in the nineteen sixties. But they never give any historical data on this, and again a great source is a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which does think we're having climate problems. But they also have a state extremes database and they list not only hot temperatures, but cold temperatures and rainfall and all and all of the records

for the states. And so I like to show a state high temperature records chart which has the highest recorded temperature record in history, and of course we have one for Ohio. Okay, how hot did it get last week in Ohio? Was it close to one hundred?

Speaker 1

Yeah, it was like, well, the temperature was about ninety four. The heat index was one hundred and five in Kentucky. In the midwest, Missouri is the same way Michigan. Even Michigan was hot. But I assume that was record setting. Has never been that hot, has never had that much amidity, never had that kind of heat ever before. Is that correct?

Speaker 3

No, it's not correct.

Speaker 11

I think if your listeners have heard me before, we've.

Speaker 3

Discussed every summer we go through the state record high temperature in Ohio that was set on July twenty first, nineteen thirty four in Gallipolis, one hundred and twelve, one hundred and I'm sorry, one hundred and thirteen fahrenheit was the record in Galas.

Speaker 1

One hundred and thirty. The heat index would have been one hundred and twenty five.

Speaker 11

Yeah, probably was.

Speaker 3

As a matter of fact, we again that Noah database shows us that thirty six of the fifty state high records were set fifty or more years ago, a nineteen seventy five or before. And the biggest decade for state high records was the nineteen thirties when twenty three of the fifty, almost half of the state high records were set in the nineteen thirties, and that was the record decade for Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Michigan were

all set in the nineteen thirties. So they never tell you this when they get their headlines, and it's really a distortion. But we've had water warmer times in the past.

Speaker 1

Well, you talk about July twenty first, nineteen thirty four, that was the during the heyday of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, almost one hundred years ago. Those were the record highs and I would assume at that point the environment was actually in worse shape then than it is today. When I look around, I live in the basin of Cincinnati, which are surrounded by hills. It used to be as a child growing up, I would see a haze over downtown Cincinnati. I think many cities might. You might recall

smog was a huge problem in Los Angeles. But now I look around and there's no haze. There's no smog. Why is that? How can you have all these environmental concerns when in reality the climate was much worse one hundred years ago.

Speaker 3

Well, yeah, and now you're talking about real pollution, And a great story is that air.

Speaker 11

Pollution in the United States has.

Speaker 3

Been declining at least since nineteen eighty. All of our major pollutants covered monoxide, nitros oxide, sulfur dioxide are down more than seventy percent. What comes out of the tail tailpipe of your car, the Voettle organic compounds are down ninety eight percent.

Speaker 5

Yeah.

Speaker 3

I remember when I was a kid, we were driving past the steel mills and Gary, north West Indiana, and literally something just coded our windows as we drove by. We had to stop off and wipe our windows clean for what was in the air.

Speaker 11

That was really bad.

Speaker 3

And we used to have situations where the the river that goes through Cleveland was I forget the name of the river, but they'd caught on fire several times back many decades ago. So our air is getting very much cleaner. The problem, of course, is that the environmental groups and many of the on the left side of the spectrum now called carbon dioxide a pollutant. And carbon dioxide is an odorless, harmless invisible.

Speaker 11

Gas, doesn't cause smoke or smug makes.

Speaker 3

The plants grow. We all exhale about two pounds of CO two a day, and and that's their big concern. We've gotten off track. Let's keep going for a reducing real pollution and uh and not carbon dioxide.

Speaker 1

And for those who find themselves along the Ohio River the Mississippi River, you can see in summer large numbers of people fishing and taking product out of the Mississippi River. I see it in the Ohio River, sam in the Missouri River. In fact, individuals eat the fish coming out of the Mississippi River. Was that possible thirty years ago?

Speaker 11

Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 3

I think a lot of our rivers are definitely better than what they were. I'm not really sure the story there. I do know our forests have been growing as well. New England used to be pretty well devoid of trees. If you look in Virginia and you go to Yorktown battlefield, they talk about all these battles they were fighting. That was in the Revolutionary War between our revolutionists here in the British and they were fighting on plantation areas. There

weren't any trees. If you go to that battlefield, now.

Speaker 11

There's a huge forested area.

Speaker 3

There are no plantations. So you know, we've regrown our trees. We reduced pollution in our air, our water is better. All those things are great. But when you hear the news, it's always doom and gloom on how terrible it is. And so you've really got to take a lot of what you hear in the press with a big green of salt.

Speaker 1

So you don't think those who run oil companies should be charged with homicide and put in prison for the rest of their life.

Speaker 11

Well they shouldn't be.

Speaker 3

And by the way, you know, the Trump administration is pushing back on this. He ordered an executive order about a month or two ago attacking state climate laws and the and he ordered a Pam Bondi to go after these state and local energy laws. And the federal government has now sued Michigan, Hawaii, New York, and I think

it's Rhode Island for their laws. But they were seeking to get millions of dollars, even billions of dollars in damages from oil companies for fast divisions, which the companies didn't even admit they sold the oil that other people used to emit. And so the Trump administration is going after that, and these laws are going to.

Speaker 1

Be defeated in the courts.

Speaker 3

They are unconstitutional and they go beyond the state reason a lot of other problems.

Speaker 1

So you can't be in Texas and be sued by a liberal, say Illinois, a very liberal state. Let's say Illinois wants to sue Indiana, Ohio, Missouri, et cetera for pollutants coming through the air, and that can't happen. You know what I say, Steve gorm this little bit off track. But it's a new neo confederacy underway. You might recall for about one hundred and fifty years the Democrats in the South, who ran everything in the South, said you know what, we don't comply with federal law. Well, we

don't care what the Feds say. We're not going to comply. And here we are one hundred and fifty years later, and the neo Confederates of today will say, well, we got sanctuary city, sanctuary states. Federal LW doesn't apply. They also want to sue everyone. If someone from a red state has a pollutant that may enter into a blue state, they want to sue that other state. Of the oil companies and the Feds are saying, wait a minute, where

one nation under God indivisible. But the Democrats, whether in the eighteen sixties or the twenty twenties, are saying, you know what, federal law doesn't apply here. Isn't that a problem then new cos the Democrats.

Speaker 11

Today, Yeah, there are certain divisions in our laws.

Speaker 3

And it's been ruled that the Clean Air Act, which is an act of the federal government, is what controls air pollution. But for years California has been trying to They've been getting waivers from the EPA that allow them to put in their own pollution laws. But the new EPA under Ease Helden, is getting.

Speaker 11

Rid of those.

Speaker 3

Senate and House have both voted against air pollution laws that California has put into place on electric vehicles, And you're right, Sanctuary states and cities really are not the purview of the states. Immigration law is the federal governments. And same thing with air pollution. So we now have a situation where a lot of these state laws where they're trying to impose their own pollution laws are going to be struck down because those laws of the purview of the federal.

Speaker 1

Government should be But the neo confederacy of today, the big city Democrats Illinois, California, they don't want to follow federal law, nor did they want to do it. During slavery times. They wanted the federal troops out of the South and then in comes to Ku Klux Klan to

crack down on African Americans. And that was one hundred and fifty years ago, doing the same craft today now on the area of this big fight between Elon Musk and the President, the Trump Star wants to get rid of seven and a half thousand dollars of a credit which is a gift from the federal government to buy to make you buy an electric vehicle. I think hybrids

make a lot of sense. Explain Explain why that's a good thing for the federal government not to course people to buy a car they probably don't want because the government will pay you to make that decision.

Speaker 5

Yeah.

Speaker 3

Well, we've been doing that for years with the renewables wind and solar an example too.

Speaker 1

Since nineteen ninety two.

Speaker 3

We've had credits and subsidies for wind and for solar, and the federal and the Trump administration is now moving to eliminate all of those credits and UH and the loans and outright grants. And as you say that, we have the seventy five hundred EV tax credit is likely to be phased out shortly here by the federal UH government. And I think mister mister musk Is is.

Speaker 11

Unhappy with that.

Speaker 3

By the way, I think he's a tremendous guy. He's done great things. He built a trillion dollar company and right and SpaceX and UH and a satellite system up there for communications, just great things. I would hope he'd stay out of the politics, though. I think that's where he's gotten into and it's it's an ugly business there.

Speaker 1

Yeah, you know, yeah, please go ahead.

Speaker 3

And again, I'm not I'm not EV's, I'm not against EV's winning solar. I'm just against subsidiz subsidizing them with the idea. With that, we think we can stop the ocean from rising if we do that.

Speaker 10

That's that's fool of stuff.

Speaker 1

Sounds like Obama wants to stop the win from blowing in the oceans from rolling.

Speaker 5

Uh.

Speaker 1

You have a great column up about romentally friendly. Normally liberals would be caring about the whales and the birds. The so called wind powered farms all over Indiana, for example in Ohio, which tends to be flat, kill hundreds of thousands of birds every year. But this chart you have is unbelievable. Everag units of land total use footprint. Natural gas is zero point eight, nuclear is one point zero, coal is one point seven, solars one hundred and twenty.

Wind is eight hundred and thirty five. Biomass is one thousand, five hundred. So if you want to have environmental friendly use of the land, natural gas, nuclear coal is the way to go. Put those three together. That's about three point zero while wind is eight hundred and thirty five. One of the environmental wackos recognize.

Speaker 3

That, well, this is this is actually data from a scientice in Canada name called Smith. Well. He wrote a whole book saying for one unit of electricity that you produced, how much land do you use? What's the footprint? And it turns out that wind and solar and biomass are more than a hundred times as much land for that one unit of electricity, where as you say nuclear cold natural gas are all about one. And if we didn't have the fear man made warming, we would consider a

windsill on biomass very environmentally unfriendly. I mean, who wants to take one hundred times the land? So we're building these things in farmland or building them off on rich lines. They're also far from population centers, so we have to go build transmission out to these things.

Speaker 11

We got to have all these big towers.

Speaker 3

And by the way, at night, nothing goes through those towers because they go to a wind farm and there rather they go to a solar field and there's no sun at night. So it's just not environmentally friendly. It's not a good idea, and we need to get back to a sensible energy policy. And I think that we can solve the climate with these renewables.

Speaker 1

I think the message is Steve Gorham a green breakdown. The coming renewable and energy failure is that we have currently the best environment we've had for about one hundred years. My mother tells me the story when she when she lived in over tr which is a part of Cincinnati, that they would have newspaper. They would use windows, and they take the newspaper print and put down the window in order to have a little bit of a seal.

And then about once a week there was all this cold dust that accumulated on these newspapers and then have to lift open the window, pull out the ceilant which was the newspaper, and throw it away because there was coal dust everywhere inside the house. And can you imagine, yes, And they had a love.

Speaker 3

Yes, in Chicago in the nineteen fifties, after it snowed within four or five days, they to have a black film on the snow. And the young folks probably don't know what spring cleaning was for, or spring cleaning. Every spring people would wash all the insight of their walls to remove the coal dust.

Speaker 11

But now we have natural guess it's very very clean.

Speaker 1

Yes, and it's just.

Speaker 3

A part of our cleaner environment.

Speaker 1

Well, the truth will set us free. And I'm Steve, I'm glad you're out there with information. The facts are important. But the reason the green energy movement is succeeding is goes liberals take over and they fund their buddies with all these studies and reports. They have huge departments put to work, lots of people, lots of seminars, lots of traveling, lots of hotel rooms, fancy food, fancy wine. They got to be served when in reality we're all against pollution.

All of us are in favor of a clean energy future. And Steve Gorm you're a great American and thanks for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. Thank you, Steve, Thank you, Bill. God bless you. Let's continue with more. The truth will set you free. Bill Cunningham, the Great American, live with you every Sunday night. Hi, Billy Cunningham, thanks for listening tonight. The Big Beautiful Bill is now law. The Democrats in the media are calling Donald Trump a killer and worse.

God have mercy on those who have tried to save the lives of so many innocent children. And you have to think about some eighty one eighty two people are dead, so many little girls are dead, and that they're right to heaven. They're going to be angels immediately in heaven. Above, there's nothing more special than young ladies and girls attending these evangelical Christian camps. They have that happened is really

is unspeakable. So before you go to bed the night, before you close your eyes, say is solent prayer for the repose of the soul of the eighty one or eighty two people that have been killed in those terrible floods in Central Texas. It appears likely the death toll is going to raise itself well past one hundred, and we hope somehow the parents can find peace and the passing of their children. But all I can say is,

Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee blessed Arthelle amongst the women, and blessed is the fruit of our momb Jesus, Holy Marry Mother God. Pray for our sinners now they are of our death. Amen, go cunning in with you every Sunday night.

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