Speaker 1: Billy Cunningham, the Great America. Welcome this Friday afternoon in
Speaker 1: the tri State fifty thousand watch but sounded like a million.
Speaker 1: And I have some announcement to make later on about
Speaker 1: yours truly, and we'll deal with that later. But first
Speaker 1: of all, we have many fallouts from the last few
Speaker 1: days about what happening in Providence and what happened in Massachusetts, mit, etc.
Speaker 1: Plus we have sometime around three o'clock today supposedly the
Speaker 1: Epstein files are going to be released, at least those
Speaker 1: not redacted. We've got that going on, and more so,
Speaker 1: joining you nine now is the great Leland Vinter. The
Speaker 1: main character, the main host on News Nation is Leland Vitter.
Speaker 1: I'm promoting you and Leland welcome again to the Bill
Speaker 1: Cunningham Show. And I like to think this is a
Speaker 1: great year for Leland Vitter. Number one, you have a
Speaker 1: new bride and number two a best selling book. So
Speaker 1: what do you think about this year from a personal perspective?
Speaker 2: Well, I am blessed and as you, as you pointed out,
Speaker 2: got married, have a new nephew, my parents' first grandchild
Speaker 2: came and Rachel somehow had been completely flummixed and totally
Speaker 2: disregarded both her better judgment and everyone's advice and actually
Speaker 2: walked down the aisle in June. And then, as you noted,
Speaker 2: Born Lucky, my book about growing up with autism and
Speaker 2: my dad's adapting me to the world, has has done well.
Speaker 2: I think the best part of Born Lucky, really, and
Speaker 2: I think the part of it this year that's been
Speaker 2: the best is helping so many people. You know, we
Speaker 2: say Born Lucky is hope for every parent of a
Speaker 2: kid having a hard time, and that has proven out
Speaker 2: by the hundreds of letters that I have gotten from
Speaker 2: families not just of kids with autism, but ADHD, anxiety,
Speaker 2: difficulties with bullying, all sorts of different things who said
Speaker 2: that Born Lucky really gives them this real sense of hope.
Speaker 2: And I think it's why it's taken off, why it's
Speaker 2: been such a huge Christmas gift, is because there's so
Speaker 2: many families who are looking to realize that they're they're
Speaker 2: not alone, and that is the Born Lucky story.
Speaker 1: Something just clicked in my mind, which occurs now and then,
Speaker 1: is that having autism and you still have it and
Speaker 1: uh being so successful. I'm thinking about Minneapolis, Minnesota and
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about a program there made up by Tim
Speaker 1: Waltz and others to assist specifically Somali kids with autism,
Speaker 1: which is needed, and then they have that program looted
Speaker 1: by criminals who are buying villas in Spain. Fancy joins
Speaker 1: fancy food to loot the money intended for kids with autism.
Speaker 1: How did that strike your heart?
Speaker 2: Offensive but unsurprising. And the therapy that was used in
Speaker 2: the fraud right was called Aba therapy is highly effective
Speaker 2: and it's by far the best thing that can happen
Speaker 2: for kids in The idea that the Somali community figured
Speaker 2: out basically how to fake a massive number of autism
Speaker 2: diagnoses and then not give the services obviously to the
Speaker 2: kids who had had fake diagnoses, but also to the
Speaker 2: kids who had real diagnosises is just offensive at so
Speaker 2: many levels. I think it's unsurprising, but it goes to
Speaker 2: the level of suicidal empathy that I think we are
Speaker 2: seeing as it relates, especially in Minnesota, but also around
Speaker 2: the rest of America. When it comes to the broader
Speaker 2: threat of radical Islam or of just Islam itself into
Speaker 2: the United States. I think we're going to look forward
Speaker 2: to twenty twenty six. One of the big stories and
Speaker 2: through lines is going to be the rise of the
Speaker 2: threat of jihad in America and the rise of the
Speaker 2: incompatibility of Islamists and Islam with Western values.
Speaker 1: He was intended for the best purposes. Tim Waltz is
Speaker 1: going to run for a third term. I think it's
Speaker 1: likely he'll win because if you're a Democrat in Minnesota,
Speaker 1: that's ten amount to being re elected. And now he's
Speaker 1: going to be the policeman. Well before he was kind
Speaker 1: of a Putts and allowed to happen because you can't
Speaker 1: win in Minnesota, I'm told by talk show hosts of
Speaker 1: Minneapolis unless you have the support of the Somali community
Speaker 1: who vote in block So there might be about ninety
Speaker 1: five thousand Somalis, there's about forty thousand that vote, and
Speaker 1: if you begin the election forty thousand to zero against
Speaker 1: your opponent, that's the way to get elected. In fact,
Speaker 1: they pander so much that the mayor, guy named Fry
Speaker 1: in Minneapolis, has begun to learn Somali so that he
Speaker 1: can speak to Somalis in Somali. That's the pandering. And
Speaker 1: you use the term suicidal empathy, and I see that
Speaker 1: almost everywhere in the SNAP program, et cetera. And I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: somehow will Minnesota's buy the idea that Tim Waltz is
Speaker 1: really serious about cracking down on fry. That might be
Speaker 1: I've seen reporting with you between one and three billion dollars,
Speaker 1: which in Minnesota is a huge amount of money, and
Speaker 1: the FEDS paid for a chunk of that too, and
Speaker 1: it must be stopped. And if not, and you talk
Speaker 1: about g had And I watched your interview the other
Speaker 1: night with Debbie Wasserman Schultz Schultz, she's a Florida congresswoman,
Speaker 1: and you asked her a good question, which is, you know,
Speaker 1: a congressman, she's leader of the Democratic Party, how much
Speaker 1: of a threat in America? How big of a threat
Speaker 1: is jihad? We see it happening out all over the world,
Speaker 1: that this Christmas marks and Mars and Europe shutting down.
Speaker 1: That I guess Paris is not going to have a
Speaker 1: New Year's Eve celebration this year because of the threat
Speaker 1: of terrorism, not from Catholics, I might add the threat
Speaker 1: of terrorism from Islamist And she had a startling answer
Speaker 1: that Donald Trump is going to damage America more than
Speaker 1: Islamic terrorist. And you were stunned and you push back.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine if that's the mind set of the
Speaker 1: Democratic Party, she's one of the leaders. You would never
Speaker 1: work with someone who's worse than an Islamic terrorist that
Speaker 1: killed innocent people in Australia, your comments, you.
Speaker 2: Are seeing a situation where Western way of life, and
Speaker 2: by that I mean liberal democracy in the classical sense,
Speaker 2: not liberal democrat or republican liberal, is under threat by
Speaker 2: the rise of Islam. And we're seeing it in Western Europe,
Speaker 2: you know. To the point is you pointed out where
Speaker 2: Christmas markets are now being closed or having to have
Speaker 2: barricades around them, or being drowned out by the call
Speaker 2: to prayer, where New Year's Eve celebrations are being canceled.
Speaker 2: So rather than protect against the threat of terrorism, or
Speaker 2: to kick out the people who would be terrorists or
Speaker 2: to arrest them, Titians in western countries Europe and Australia
Speaker 2: are capitulating and are are are are so afraid of
Speaker 2: being called Islamophobic or not bowing to the needs of
Speaker 2: the few, of the of the Muslims, that they are
Speaker 2: willing to transform the life of the many. And you
Speaker 2: could say it'll never come to let me tell you
Speaker 2: it can and it will, and you're seeing you're seeing
Speaker 2: the little tiny flippers of it in places like you're born, Michigan.
Speaker 2: You're seeing little tiny slippers of it in places in
Speaker 2: Texas where where groups are trying to do this, where
Speaker 2: the where the Islamist community there is trying to supersede
Speaker 2: Western values with Islamist values. And that, by the way,
Speaker 2: is what the Quran says to do. And anybody who
Speaker 2: wants to have a debate about this with me, bring
Speaker 2: it on. Spent four years in the Middle East, interviewed
Speaker 2: to lology hotties. In my time, when people tell you
Speaker 2: who they are, and people show you who they are,
Speaker 2: you should believe them. And when you don't, you do
Speaker 2: so at great risk to yourself. And that's what's happening.
Speaker 1: They compare it to church bells ringing before Mass, which
Speaker 1: is the call to prayer. In dearborn, Michigan. We have
Speaker 1: the new mayor of New York City, Mamdani, who will
Speaker 1: not criticize globalizing the Intafada. He beats around the bush there.
Speaker 1: He runs around with the worst elements of Islam. And
Speaker 1: I would add that Cincinnati and other great cities have
Speaker 1: a lot of Musques around at Toledo, Ohio, for example,
Speaker 1: as a large one. There's a large branch of Islam
Speaker 1: that is extremely violent, treating Jews and Catholics and Christians
Speaker 1: and Americans like mice and cockroaches. There's another branch of
Speaker 1: that tree where the word Islam is peace, wanting to
Speaker 1: live with others. Have you noticed that American Muslims living
Speaker 1: in peaceful conditions with families and work and businesses are
Speaker 1: not speaking up. There's no leader of Isam like there's
Speaker 1: a pope, like a pope and a cardinal or whatever.
Speaker 1: And have you seen circumstances or Islamic leaders speak up
Speaker 1: and say that's not us. Have you seen that?
Speaker 2: Right that? That is the issue here right in? What
Speaker 2: you are seeing is the quote unquote moderate parts of
Speaker 2: Islam not speak up and not police their own And
Speaker 2: that is the really dangerous change. And you know, what
Speaker 2: you want to call Islam and peaceful religion, there's an
Speaker 2: argument to be made for that, But then those who
Speaker 2: preach peace must stand up to those who preach hate,
Speaker 2: and they must turn them in and they must call
Speaker 2: them out. And that is not happening. And you know,
Speaker 2: you come to you know, I think about this as
Speaker 2: my grandparents who came came to America. You come to
Speaker 2: America because you want to embrace American values, not because
Speaker 2: you want to bring your values here. And what we
Speaker 2: are seeing, especially in the Somali community in Minneapolis, is
Speaker 2: group people who are bringing their values to America and
Speaker 2: saying America must adapt to us. Yeah, that's not how
Speaker 2: this deal works. And if we allow that to happen,
Speaker 2: you are going to have the same thing here that
Speaker 2: you have in Sydney, Australia, where there are large parts
Speaker 2: of the city that have turned into little Damascus. No
Speaker 2: different than places in the United Kingdom that feel much
Speaker 2: more like you know, Islamabad than they do, like Birmingham,
Speaker 2: and where Islamic values are effectively viewed as replacing Western law.
Speaker 2: And that is a extraordinarily dangerous thing because of what again,
Speaker 2: separate any individual Muslim of whom I have friends and
Speaker 2: of whom I think many are wonderful people, from the
Speaker 2: values of Islam, from Mohammedism. And there's a big difference.
Speaker 2: And I think we are finally now starting to be
Speaker 2: able to have an honest conversation about whether or not
Speaker 2: Islam is compatible with Western values. And the answer really
Speaker 2: is that in let that no one of them is
Speaker 2: going to have to adapt, and that is a real problem.
Speaker 1: There are Brits in England that are arrested at three
Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning in their homes by London police
Speaker 1: if they post something online against the Islam religion. Are saying,
Speaker 1: why are we doing this? It's not hate speech. They're
Speaker 1: criticizing the practices that they see in their hometowns in
Speaker 1: London and England, and they're arrested by the police in
Speaker 1: their homes at three am and put in jail many
Speaker 1: times for months until they until they reckon order their opinions.
Speaker 2: So it's unbelievable if you or I said in the
Speaker 2: United Kingdom what we are saying right now, if we
Speaker 2: said what we are just said on the radio online,
Speaker 2: we would be arrested in the United Kingdom, we would
Speaker 2: this would be considered anti social behavior to say what
Speaker 2: we have just said. In America has to be honest
Speaker 2: with itself about if that's where we want to go.
Speaker 1: No, well we have to fight. Minneapolis is at the
Speaker 1: breaking point, I think. But you know, we live in
Speaker 1: a republic who with democratic overturns and the people of
Speaker 1: Minnesota have got to say this is not going to
Speaker 1: become the Islamic Republic of Minnesota. And if Tim Waltz
Speaker 1: gets re elected, if Fry gets reelected, Keith Ellison, the
Speaker 1: AG gets reelected, well that's what you get. And it
Speaker 1: is sick. I often say, we get the government we
Speaker 1: deserve and the times that concerns me greatly. Now secondly,
Speaker 1: I mentioned this earlier at three o'clock Eastern time today,
Speaker 1: in about three hours, they're going to release the Epstein files.
Speaker 1: May I share with you one thought of mine on
Speaker 1: that matter? Please, I'm watching. It was either you or
Speaker 1: it might have been I might have been a CNN.
Speaker 1: It's been about four or five months, and they had
Speaker 1: on one of the US attorneys from the Southern District
Speaker 1: of New York who in seventeen, eighteen and nineteen thoroughly
Speaker 1: investigated the Epstein matter because they assumed, like I assume,
Speaker 1: like I assume, you assume. I can't assume what you assume,
Speaker 1: but I assume. And Tony Bender assumed that there's all
Speaker 1: these important guys from Bill Gates to Bill Clinton, Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: just this name the person Wexner, etc. That had sex
Speaker 1: with teenage girls, inappropriately. There's no inappropriate sex with the
Speaker 1: teenage girl, and I assume that even sitting here, I
Speaker 1: guess that's the case. However, may I use the term?
Speaker 1: For eighteen months to two years? The US Attorney Southern
Speaker 1: District of New York perceived as the best law enforcement
Speaker 1: agency in the country by themselves, they said. This US
Speaker 1: attorney who worked on those cases said, of course, I
Speaker 1: can't speak about grand jury matters, but he said that
Speaker 1: everyone that could be criminally indicted in this, and that
Speaker 1: entire Epstein matter was, which was Jeffrey Epstein and Glainne Maxwell.
Speaker 1: So I'm watching this and the interviewer said, would you
Speaker 1: say that again? Everyone? He said, everyone who criminally is
Speaker 1: liable in our opinion probable cause has been indicted. And
Speaker 1: if that's the case, Leland, vind, are we going to
Speaker 1: learn it? And this would be kept alive for a
Speaker 1: long time because it politically benefits some. Is it possible
Speaker 1: that the men whose photos ninety five thousand photos released,
Speaker 1: all these famous, famous guys, that none of them engaged
Speaker 1: in sex with teenage girls or in a situation where
Speaker 1: a young woman was sexually traffic Because if that was
Speaker 1: the case, one of the members of that office was
Speaker 1: James Comy's daughter, that the one who hated Trump. They
Speaker 1: wanted to get him, they wanted to get everybody involved.
Speaker 1: Is it possible, There's no there, there is that possible.
Speaker 2: Of course it's possible. And there's also a middle ground. Bill,
Speaker 2: there's a middle ground that there is no there there.
Speaker 2: I don't believe there is that there there when it
Speaker 2: comes to Trump, because, as you point out, I think
Speaker 2: if there was a number of different DJs and prosecutors
Speaker 2: would have gone there and right. But there is a
Speaker 2: there is a middle ground here, which is that there
Speaker 2: were men who perhaps were not trafficked under apemen, but
Speaker 2: who were perhaps at the island or in other places
Speaker 2: and engaged in behavior that may not have been criminal,
Speaker 2: but may have been really icky and awful. They have
Speaker 2: gotten the past, and I think the best journalist on
Speaker 2: this is a woman named Tara Palmery, and she has
Speaker 2: pointed out that in the depositions of these alleged victims
Speaker 2: that there have been other names that have been mentioned,
Speaker 2: and there have been other names that have been mentioned
Speaker 2: as men who had sex with them. Now, were they
Speaker 2: underage at the time, That that is a different story,
Speaker 2: but it is very clear that there was a lot
Speaker 2: of other things going on, and you know, now again,
Speaker 2: and I think what the US Attorneys of the District
Speaker 2: of New York setting. I think what's really important is
Speaker 2: everybody that we could prosecute we did, Yeah, which means
Speaker 2: everybody that we could prove guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
Speaker 2: And that's very That's a very different standard than is
Speaker 2: this person a good person? Right, yep, yeah, I like
Speaker 2: those are different things.
Speaker 1: I like your use of the ikey shuffle. You know,
Speaker 1: we think of ikey wouolds, but it's ikey to have
Speaker 1: a sixty five year old guy having sex with a
Speaker 1: twenty two year old woman's but it's not criminal unless
Speaker 1: she was trafficked. Well, look, we got a run, but
Speaker 1: born Lucky's still.
Speaker 2: Out there that happy no merry Christmas.
Speaker 1: Well, we deal with the news, and we take the
Speaker 1: news as it comes, and I hope we have a
Speaker 1: successful twenty twenty six. Keep doing what you're doing. I
Speaker 1: love our relationship. We've met I think one time at
Speaker 1: a place in Naples called Old Old Collier, and I
Speaker 1: hope to see you again down there at some point.
Speaker 1: But let's keep it going. I love the term I
Speaker 1: may take it from you, suicidal empathy. That's a great
Speaker 1: term to describe what's happening in America. But Leland, give
Speaker 1: my best to Rachel and all your family, and may
Speaker 1: God bless you. God bless America, and to you and yours, Leland,
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, Thank you, Bill, God bless Let's continue with
Speaker 1: more and that could be the case. And of course
Speaker 1: the women. There have been dozens and dozens of class
Speaker 1: action lawsuits, tens of millions of dollars paid out to
Speaker 1: the victims of Jeffrey Epstein from insurance companies, banks, and
Speaker 1: brokerage firms. And I'm saying, well, they were paid financially
Speaker 1: for the injuries inflicted upon them, and that's a good thing.
Speaker 1: So let's continue with more news. Next, your home of
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