The Adult in the Room

Director Chris Burgard and Actor Nick Searcy released two documentaries on the infamous January 6, 2001 Capitol riots, exposing how federal law enforcement acted with both malice & incompetence in the course of their investigation. Subsequently, they were both targeted by those same departments. Burgard joins the program to discuss, in his own words, his dealings with federal officials and the subsequent fallout, as well as more details on the bureaucratic malfeasance he and Searcy uncovered.

Pastor Anatoly Kaluzhny of the New Life Church in Kiev has spent the first half of the holiday season here in the United States, meeting with political figures and influential leaders of faith in order to tell firsthand the stories of his people. Thousands of soldiers and conscripts have perished in Russia's attempted takeover of the eastern part of Ukraine. Cities destroyed. Families left homeless. Children orphaned. Now, with the changing of the US administration, many who find themselves on the front lines fear it's strongest world partner could abandon them to go it alone, with little in the way of military technology to defend themselves. Pastor Anatoly discusses how he and members of the clergy in Ukraine have been providing aid and morale to the troops and their families, and why he believes support from the west is vital to the ultimate goal: for the former Bloc to be left in peace, to rebuild & thrive as free nations.

Cleta Mitchell rose to prominence in the political world when she helped Tea Party groups fight back against the Obama-era IRS and their invasive and opaque decisions regarding who and who isn't considered a nonprofit. Then, under the Trump Administration, she led the questioning of the ballot tabulation in the state of Georgia in 2020. Now, with Trump returning to the White House, she joins Victoria to talk about the things the nation has done right and wrong in the 4 years since the contentious 2020 race, and what still needs to be done to ensure that all American voters' rights are protected against foreign interference and partisan meddling.

With less than 60 days left until Trump returns to office, speculation abounds that current President Joe Biden will use the remainder of his lame duck term to shove through unpopular legislation, pardons, or executive orders. And none may be more concerning than the Democrats' demands for a "climate emergency" declaration, which would treat climate change the same way we treat war and the COVID pandemic: as an excuse to curtail liberty and manipulate the economy. Daniel Turner joins to discuss the repercussions of such a declaration, why he feared it would be used as a way to manipulate the 2024 elections, and why the threat can't be ignored in future administrations.