News Roundup and Comment

From studios in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Crosstalk brings news items to listeners each Friday to keep you informed. Here's a sample of what was shared this week: --Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has been coming under fire for leading Pentagon staffers in prayer. Jim provided audio. --Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. --Former President Biden's last prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test was done in 2014. Is it possible the president had cancer at the start of his presidency? --U.S. Senator Ron Johnson sent letters to 28 former Biden cabinet members regarding their knowledge of President Biden's cognitive and health decline during his time in office and while running for re-election. --President Trump vowed an investigation into the Biden administration's use of the presidential autopen. --The autopen controversy also involves a whistleblower. Department of Justice official Ed Martin, who's now a pardon attorney overseeing a weaponization task force, has named in the alleged scheme Anita Dunn, Bob Bauer and Ron Klain. Martin indicated that the president can use an autopen, "... but he must be mentally fit for the contract to have the force of law." --Federal authorities arrested and charged a 32 year old with assault after she allegedly spit on Ed Martin in May. --The suspect accused of killing two Israeli diplomats in a terrorist shooting at a Jewish museum in Washington, D.C., could face the death penalty. --The Department of Defense has selected a design for President Trump's Golden Dome missile defense initiative.