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What's happening to gun rights in Virginia? Jan 12, 2020

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The Democrats have taken over the state legislature and have made big plans to highly restrict the rights of gun owners. Second amendment sanctuary counties and cities are spreading through the state in response. What happens in Virginia could have big implications for the rest of the country. In this episode of The Gayle Trotter Show: RIGHT IN DC, Gayle takes a deep dive look into this issue and why restricting gun rights is a really bad idea. Mentioned: Virginia Citizens Defense League rally at 11 am in Richmond, VA on January 20, 2020: https://www.vcdl.org/event-3647199 https://gayletrotter.com/gayle-trotters-full-senate-hearing-testimony-america-gun-violence/ Watch Testimony: https://youtu.be/qRTOPYl1rWU Degrading Scientific Standards to Get the Defensive Gun Use Estimate Down, by Gary Kleck (PDF) https://www.saf.org/wp-content/uploads/journals/JFPP11.pdf ---------- Follow Gayle Trotter-- WEBSITE: GayleTrotter.com TWITTER: @GayleTrotter FACEBOOK: facebook.com/gayle.s.trotter INSTAGRAM: @gayle_trotter Support: patreon.com/gayletrotter You can also listen to The Gayle Trotter Show on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, Google Play, TuneIn, Stitcher Voice-Over Artist: Rick Regan voice123.com/rickregan/

Impeachment of Trump; Bill Barr Interview with CBS; YouTube Demonetization of Steven Crowder Jun 07, 2019

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In this special edition of RIGHT IN DC, political analyst and lawyer Gayle Trotter talks about her thoughts on: • Possible impeachment of President Trump and Congress ignoring more important issues • Attorney General Bill Barr's interview with Jan Crawford on CBS • Steven Crowder and his demonetization by YouTube and the fight going on over that MORE Transcript of CBS interview https://www.cbsnews.com/news/william-barr-interview-full-transcript-cbs-this-morning-jan-crawford-exclusive-2019-05-31/ https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/ - - - Follow Gayle Totter: WEBSITE https://gayletrotter.com TWITTER https://twitter.com/gayletrotter FACEBOOK www.facebook.com/gayle.s.trotter YOUTUBE www.youtube.com/channel/UCe-r-daMbJVVmejZ9OaRScg Support Gayle's RIGHT IN DC Podcasts: www.patreon.com/gayletrotter

New "WAR HEROES" TV Series Jun 02, 2019

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On RIGHT IN DC, my guest is Jack Thomas Smith who is a producer, writer and a director. He is currently working with Benghazi hero Kris ‘Tanto’ Paronto on a new pro-military documentary TV series called “War Heroes.” Everyone knows all about the lives of reality TV stars, but we don't know about the lives and sacrifices of American soldiers who serve and protect our country. The show personalizes these soldiers by telling their real-life stories at home and abroad. Each episode will profile an individual service member or veteran up close and personal, detailing their unique lives, service, and sacrifice. We talked about this new TV show, what inspired him to embark on this project, the status and what is planned, the stories that are coming in, and the activism that is needed to help soldiers. We also talked about how (and why) the entertainment industry and the mainstream media portray the military the way they do, his thoughts on socialism, and how he got interested in film-making. MORE War Heroes Official Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAr7wQKDR80&feature=youtu.be WEBSITE https://www.warheroestv.com/ FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/warheroestv TWITTER https://twitter.com/WarHeroesTV INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/warheroestv/ https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/may/23/jack-thomas-smith-war-heroes-honors-american-soldi/ War Heroes: Thriller filmmaker shares inspiration from stories of American soldiers SGT Ryan E. Doltz Memorial Foundation http://rememberingryan.org/index.html https://www.facebook.com/SGTRyanEDoltzMemorialFoundation/ Jack Thomas Smith http://jackthomassmith.com/ http://www.twitter.com/jacktsmith1 https://instagram.com/jackthomassmithofficial/ - - - Follow Gayle Totter: WEBSITE https://gayletrotter.com TWITTER https://twitter.com/gayletrotter FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/gayle.s.trotter YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe-r-daMbJVVmejZ9OaRScg Support Gayle's RIGHT IN DC Podcasts: https://www.patreon.com/gayletrotter

The Schumer-Pelosi Border Disaster May 15, 2019

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On RIGHT IN DC, my guest is Mark Krikorian, a nationally recognized expert on immigration issues who has served as Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) since 1995. He is the author of the books, " Open Immigration: Yea & Nay," "The New Case Against Immigration, Both Legal and Illegal" and "How Obama is Transforming America Through Immigration." Mark's knowledge and expertise in the immigration field are sought by Congress, where he frequently testifies. He has published articles in numerous outlets including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and elsewhere. He is a contributor at National Review Online, and has appeared on all major cable and broadcast news networks. Mark holds a master’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University. On today's show, we discuss the border disaster, which is spinning completely out of control because of Congressional inaction by Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi to fix major legal loopholes that illegal immigrants exploit. Mark explains: • How these loopholes in the law (like allowing any illegal to be released if they bring a child) got started • Why the immigration issue got Donald Trump elected President • Why the main issue in the 2020 elections will be immigration and the border crisis • How Democrats, the Left and mainstream media who have Trump Derangement Syndrome have made themselves paralyzed to address and fix the crisis and how this will hurt them in the elections • The growing shift in tone by the New York Times and political figures who aren't up for election who are acknowledging the real crisis at the border • The surprising reason for what is really driving illegal immigration to the US from all over the world • Data that shows how the cost of helping a Middle East refugee in the US is 12 times greater than helping more refugees in the place they first took refuge in the Middle East • Comparing the refugee policy after WW2 to the change in policy today which has corrupted the system and how these resettlement charities have benefited from government money • Why refugee settlement is actually an immoral and selfish act that doesn't help the most amount of people • The solutions to fixing the illegal immigration crisis MORE: https://cis.org/ https://twitter.com/MarkSKrikorian https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/11/refugee-resettlement-immoral/ Refugee Resettlement Is Immoral BOOKS: Open Immigration: Yea & Nay https://cis.org/Open-Immigration-Yea-Nay The New Case Against Immigration, Both Legal and Illegal https://cis.org/Book/New-Case-Against-Immigration-Both-Legal-and-Illegal How Obama Is Transforming America Through Immigration https://cis.org/How-Obama-Transforming-America-Through-Immigration -- Follow Gayle Totter: GayleTrotter.com twitter.com/gayletrotter www.facebook.com/gayle.s.trotter Support Gayle's RIGHT IN DC Podcasts: www.patreon.com/gayletrotter

Grant Haber: The Continuing Threat of IEDs and How to Deal With Them Apr 22, 2019

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My guest on RIGHT IN DC is Grant Haber, one of America's foremost experts on IEDS (improvised explosive devices) and HME's (homemade explosives). He has spent his life in the field creating detection innovations that help save the lives of American troops and foreign troops throughout the world fighting for freedom. Haber has been involved with explosives detection, blast mitigation, and bomb containment technologies since 1998, and serving the law enforcement/ first responder community since 1995. His company, American Innovations, Inc., specializes in anti-terrorism solutions including detection of homemade explosives precursors and explosives detection. His training classes are used by military Explosives Ordnance Disposal (EOD) and non-EOD personnel, civilian bomb technicians, and police worldwide. We discussed • Why IEDs are the enemy's weapon of choice in their asymmetrical warfare against us • Why the threat of IEDs has not diminished but increased with 2018 being the highest year of IED fatalities since 2001 and IEDs being the • The fact that IEDs are the number one cause of US military, NATO and Afghanistan casualties • How the US can pull troops out of Afghanistan without creating a vacuum • How bureaucracy is undermining President Trump's plan to remove troops as well as failing the US military and taxpayers • The $5.9 Trillion dollar question of what American taxpayers have paid for as the result of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars • How the formation of ISIS had its roots in the inability to combat IEDs • Why it is so important to proactively go after the chemicals, the bulk materials that IEDs are made from • IED detection solutions MORE http://americaninnovations.com/ 845-371-3333 http://americaninnovations.com/documents/Haber-Homemade-Explosives-Precursors-Attacking-The-Core-of-the-IED-THREAT.pdf HOMEMADE EXPLOSIVES PRECURSORS, ATTACKING THE CORE OF THE IED THREAT A SIMPLIFIED AND EFFECTIVE CONOPS FOR DEFEATING IEDs Nitrate Fertilisers and Potassium Chlorate are common Homemade Explosives (HME) Precursors, aka bomb making ingredients, that comprise the main charge in most Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) today. Targeting these bulk materials is required to defeat this proliferating threat and lessen the devastating casualties they inflict. -- Follow Gayle Totter: GayleTrotter.com twitter.com/gayletrotter www.facebook.com/gayle.s.trotter Support Gayle's RIGHT IN DC Podcasts: www.patreon.com/gayletrotter

The REAL Higher Ed Scandal: New Report Proves Federal Student Loans Make College More Expensive Apr 12, 2019

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Today on RIGHT IN DC, I interviewed Adam Andrzejewski, the CEO & Founder of OpenTheBooks.com – one of the largest private databases of government spending in the world. They just released an explosive new oversight report on the US Department of Education that far out shadows the recent pay to play scandal. This report looks at federally-funded (by taxpayers!) student loans and the effect this has on college tuition, how colleges from the elite wealthy ones down to the questionable and low-performing ones take unfair advantage to game the public subsidies that drive up tuition rates faster than housing, food and healthcare, and how this ends up saddling students with incredible debt they struggle to repay. Adam provides three bipartisan reform solutions that will help to start fix these serious problems of our higher education system. Open The Books Oversight Report – The U.S. Department of Education https://www.openthebooks.com/openthebooks_oversight_report_%E2%80%93_the_us_department_of_education/ Seven Troubling Facts On American Higher Education You Probably Don't Know https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2019/04/10/seven-troubling-facts-on-american-higher-education-you-probably-dont-know/#2b43f5636599 Tucker Carlson interview with Adam Andrzejewski about this report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipFSoPQdGHI&feature=youtu.be MORE: Open the Books website: https://www.openthebooks.com/ https://www.facebook.com/440551812676698 https://twitter.com/@Open_The_Books https://instagram.com/openthebooks Adam's Forbes articles: https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/#1f3bdee25f81 -- Follow Gayle Totter: gayletrotter.com twitter.com/gayletrotter www.facebook.com/gayle.s.trotter Support Gayle's RIGHT IN DC Podcasts: www.patreon.com/gayletrotter

Hans von Spakovsky: Supreme Court Cases in Politics Apr 02, 2019

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My guest today on RIGHT IN DC is Hans von Spakovsky. He's a good friend, a fellow lawyer and a fellow UVA parent. We're going to talk today about one of my favorite topics: Supreme Court cases in politics. To give you a little background on Hans and why he's an expert able to discuss this in great detail, and also in a way that makes it easy for people to understand: Hans is a Senior Legal Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a former FEC commissioner, and a former Department of Justice lawyer. We started off by discussing his recent article, "Courts Should Stay Out of the "Political Thicket" of Gerrymandering" (https://www.heritage.org/courts/commentary/courts-should-stay-out-the-political-thicket-gerrymandering). We talked about: • What gerrymandering is • Recent cases where Republicans and Democrat are suing regarding redistricting • Figuring out the correct proportion of redistricting • Why it's a bad idea to have the Supreme Court rule on redistricting • History of partisan redistricting and court cases • Why voting can go different ways in a district each time there is an election • What his predictions are for these cases • Why the courts will be flooded if the court allows partisan redistricting • How the current political environment will play into these cases • What other cases he is watching • The slow process of confirming nominees MORE https://www.heritage.org/staff/hans-von-spakovsky https://twitter.com/HvonSpakovsky http://www.hansvonspakovsky.com/ --- Follow Gayle Totter: https://gayletrotter.com https://twitter.com/gayletrotter https://www.facebook.com/gayle.s.trotter Support Gayle's RIGHT IN DC Podcasts: https://www.patreon.com/gayletrotter

Interviews at CPAC 2019: Patrice Onwuka, David Harsanyi, Jim Simpson Mar 30, 2019

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This is Gail Trotter, host of RIGHT IN DC. I had the pleasure of being able to attend CPAC 2019 and I so enjoyed seeing friends of this show and also friends of mine from the conservative political movement. I enjoyed speaking with Patrice Onwuka of the Independent Women's Forum, David Harsanyi who is an author and a writer at the Federalist, and Jim Simpson who is also a writer. I hope you enjoy these interviews with the three of them as much as I enjoyed talking with them. My first guest is Patrice Lee Onwuka, Senior Policy Analyst at the Independent Women’s Forum and a good friend of mine. In our interview, we discussed the topics she has been primarily been interviewed about recently: socialism, AOC, AOC’s foe Ivanka Trump who advocates for creating jobs, FLOTUS and her style, and the bias of women’s magazine. David Harsanyi, a senior editor at The Federalist, and I talked about CPAC this year and what he has been interviewed on recently: gun control, socialism and infanticide, “Che” AOC. Jim Simpson is an activist, author and freelance journalist. We talked about Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) who he calls the poster child for the Red-Green axis (the collaboration between the hard left in America and the organized Muslim activists aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood—both of whom are hardcore anti-American). We also talked about the Democratic Socialists of America, and the socialist extremists who have come out of the closet, and how this will affect the country and the world. Socialism is organized catastrophe. MORE Patrice Onwuka http://iwf.org/about/patrice-lee-onwuka http://twitter.com/patricepinkfile https://twitter.com/iwf David Harsanyi Twitter: @DavidHarsanyi https://davidharsanyi.com/ James Simpson https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/ilhan-omar-poster-child-for-the-red-green-axis/ https://twitter.com/jamesmsimpson https://www.facebook.com/james.simpson.7549185 http://www.amazon.com/Red-Green-Axis-Refugees-Immigration-Civilization-ebook/dp/B00Z92JPI2/ The Red-Green Axis: Refugees, Immigration and the Agenda to Erase America - - - - Follow Gayle Totter: https://gayletrotter.com https://twitter.com/gayletrotter https://www.facebook.com/gayle.s.trotter https://www.instagram.com/gayle_trotter/ Support Gayle's RIGHT IN DC Podcasts: www.patreon.com/gayletrotter

J. Christian Adams: All About the Mueller Report Mar 27, 2019

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My guest on RIGHT IN DC is J. Christian Adams, President and General Counsel of the Public Interest Legal Foundation which is dedicated entirely to election integrity. There was no one better I could have thought of to talk to about the bombshell news this past weekend of the Mueller Report finally being released. We discussed and analyzed all aspects of this report and the investigation, including its implications, through legal and political eyes. We also discuss Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Gen. Flynn and others caught up in the investigation, the mainstream media's response, the weird, unprecedented over-the-top targeting of President Trump, what the crazies are going to do next, will there be pardons, and much more. BIO: J. Christian Adams serves as President and General Counsel of the Public Interest Legal Foundation. He is also the founder of the Election Law Center, PLLC. He served from 2005 to 2010 in the Voting Section at the United States Department of Justice. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller "Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department" which examines the Department’s election and voting rights record. Prior to his time at the Justice Department, he served as General Counsel to the South Carolina Secretary of State. He also serves as legal editor at PJMedia.com, an internet news publication and appears frequently on Fox News and has appeared at National Review, Breitbart, the Washington Examiner, American Spectator, Washington Times and other publications. He has a law degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law. He is a member of the South Carolina and Virginia Bars. MORE https://publicinterestlegal.org/ https://pjmedia.com/columnist/j-christian-adams/ https://twitter.com/PILFoundation https://www.facebook.com/PublicInterestLegal - - - - Follow Gayle Totter: gayletrotter.com twitter.com/gayletrotter www.facebook.com/gayle.s.trotter/ instagram.com/gayle_trotter Support Gayle's RIGHT IN DC Podcasts: www.patreon.com/gayletrotter

Jessie Jane Duff: McCain, Border Emergency Vote, Women in Combat Mar 22, 2019

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My guest today on RIGHT IN DC is Jessie Jane Duff. Jessie served 20 years active duty in the US Marine Corps and retired as a Gunnery Sergeant. In 2014, she became a Senior Fellow with the London Center for Policy Research. Jessie provides military, veteran, national security, business and economic analysis for major television and radio news networks and is a contributor to various blogs, articles, and opinion pieces. In this episode, we discuss three hot current topics--and she doesn’t hold back: • President Trump’s comments about Sen. John McCain and her thoughts about McCain and his involvement in the fake dossier and Obamacare • Her thoughts about the 12 Republicans who voted against the border wall national emergency and the so-called setting a precedent excuse • The recent court ruling that women should be eligible for the draft and her thoughts about women in direct ground combat and why this issue isn’t about equality MORE https://jessiejaneduff.com/about/ https://twitter.com/jessiejaneduff http://instagram.com/jessiejaneduff http://facebook.com/jessiejaneduff - - - - Follow Gayle Totter: gayletrotter.com twitter.com/gayletrotter www.facebook.com/gayle.s.trotter/ instagram.com/gayle_trotter Support Gayle's RIGHT IN DC Podcasts: www.patreon.com/gayletrotter

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