TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Feds Arrest Judges Hiding Illegal Immigrant Gang Members

Episode Date: April 25, 2025

Federal agents arrested two judges this week for allegedly helping illegal immigrant gang members evade justice: former New Mexico Judge Joel Cano and his wife were charged with hiding Venezuelan Tren de Aragua members at their home, while Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested for obstruction after reportedly blocking federal agents from apprehending an illegal migrant inside her courtroom. These arrests come as the FBI intensifies scrutiny of government officials aiding illegal aliens and amid rising political fallout over immigration enforcement nationwide.Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart. Airdate 4/25/25You can partner with us by visiting TruNews.com, calling 1-800-576-2116, or by mail at PO Box 399 Vero Beach, FL 32961.Get high-quality emergency preparedness food today from American Reserves!AmericanReserves.comLearn How You Could Protect and Diversify Everything You’ve Worked for with the Top-Rated Precious Metals Company - Goldco! Call 844-960-GOLD To Get Your Free 2025 Gold & Silver Kit, Plus Up to A 10% Instant Match on Bonus Silver for Qualified Accounts.Trunews4Gold.comIt’s the Final Day! The day Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. Now available in eBook and audio formats! Order Final Day from Amazon today!Amazon.com/Final-DayApple users, you can download the audio version on Apple Books!books.apple.com/final-dayPurchase the 4-part DVD set or start streaming Sacrificing Liberty today.Sacrificingliberty.comThe Fauci Elf is a hilarious gift guaranteed to make your friends laugh! Order yours today!Trunews/faucielf

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Don't take the risk. Try my favorite America-loving brand, American Reserves, for your emergency food supply needs. Federal agents arrested two judges this week accused of hiding gang members who are in America illegally. This is true news for Friday, April 25th, 2025. So let's begin our analysis and commentary of today's news with this report by the Albuquerque Journal newspaper about a New Mexico judge who was arrested yesterday.

And then we'll tell you about the judge who was arrested today. So Albuquerque Journal, former judge and wife arrested in Las Cruces on federal charges. Former magistrate judge Joe Cano and his wife Nancy were arrested by FBI agents Thursday afternoon on federal charges of tampering with evidence. Doc Burkhardt is here, Doc. We've entered a new phase in the roundup of illegal immigrants who happen to be gang members. The feds are now arresting judges who allegedly have been harboring, hiding these people. Yes, and when we say that harboring, hiding these people. Yes, and when we say that, harboring or hiding,

we mean literally. Not in their home. Not in their interference, but in their home. This guy was hiding gang members in his house. Yes, the Albuquerque Journal reported that Judge Kano resigned from the bench last month, days after a February 28th raid at his Las Cruces home ended in the arrest of three Venezuelan men

who'd been living in a studio on the property. All three of the men arrested on the property reportedly have immigration cases pending and have been accused of involvement in the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, an allegation that the judge called highly sensationalized and without merit in his response to the charges. KTSM, Channel 9 and El Paso also has this,

that the New Mexico judge and wife were arrested following a Trade Aragua member investigation. We have this report from Channel 9 in El Paso. We continue to follow today's top story out of New Mexico, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement have arrested a former judge and his wife.

This after federal law enforcement learned that their tenant and alleged train day Aragwa gang member was arrested at his home. Thank you for choosing KTSM 9 News at 10. I'm Andy Morgan. Monica has the night off. Now we're also learning other Venezuelan nationals were arrested and are in HSI custody. An ICE spokeswoman said the former judge, Joel Cano, and his wife, Nancy Cano, was taken

into custody earlier today as part of an ongoing HSI-led criminal investigation. This was at a home on North Raymond Street in Las Cruces. As KTSM reported, former Dona Ana County Magistrate Judge Joel Cano rented out his quote, casita or small home behind their house to Christian Ortega Lopez. They met when his wife hired Ortega Lopez to install glass. The district attorney's office says Ortega Lopez was seen with multiple firearms and pictures that were posted on social media. You're seeing those now. The feds seized those firearms and arrested Ortega Lopez in February. Ortiz-Loya allegedly admitted to entering the country illegally in 2023 and faces a

charge of illegal alien in possession of a firearm. It's not known if the Canoes knew of Ortega Lopez's alleged gang affiliation. This is a look at the house where agents made the arrest. You can see agent vehicles parked all around the neighborhood, both the former judge and his wife being charged with tampering with evidence and are expected in court tomorrow. Initially, we came back here to arrest his wife.

And as we started obviously conducting our interviews and started looking at evidence, we subsequently arrested Mr. Cano as well. The couple is being interviewed and could face additional charges depending on that outcome. Officials have not provided further details on the Venezuelan nationals who were also arrested. We are following this story closely and we'll bring you the latest as soon as we learn more. Well, Doc, the Channel 9 news anchor said it's not known if the judge and his wife were aware that

these people were members of a Venezuelan gang. Well, he was a county judge. Yes. And county judges hold trials for criminals. Yes. And before he was a county judge, he was a police officer for 24 years, and police officers arrest criminals. Right. Do you think? I mean, you'll have to make a big leap of logic there to assume that he knew. And had him living in his home, in his home, and so there there was no vetting there, there was no...how do you know

that this person that's living there isn't, you know, a murderer, a rapist or anything else like that? This is a video from KFOX in El Paso showing the actual time that the judge and his wife were taken into custody yesterday afternoon. Well, Doc, you know, again, thinking a police officer, 24 years a county judge for years, you know, you would just think he would look at tattoos. You know, I'm starting to look at tattoos now, particularly tattoos on knuckles. I noticed that the other day.

I was in a restaurant picking up some to-go food, take it to my house, and I I was noticing the the tattoos on the knuckles of the young man who was waiting on me and I'm like, okay, what does that mean? Because what I every time I've seen pictures of these guys that are in gangs they're they've got They have letters and numbers on their knuckles. So as simple as looking at tattoos, you know this judge, former police officer, recognized this man in his house was a gang member.

Not just a gang, one of the most violent gangs in in the Americas so he and his wife got arrested yesterday and if they're if they're at the federal level the FBI came in yes if and if they're guilty I let them go to prison right all right look at this here's a. Look at where we're at right now. That's a Democrat judge arrested by FBI agents for harboring a gang member in his house. We've got a major problem in this country with judges. Corrupt Democrat judges. Doc, it's a serious problem. The judges are actually hiding and helping criminals. So today we have another one. This one was in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Yes. Here's WSAU, FBI to open. Now This is a several days ago. This is how the story developed just on April 22nd

FBI to open investigation into Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan after helping illegal migrant evade arrest So it says a Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Circuit Court judge is reportedly under federal investigation after allegedly helping an illegal migrant hide from FBI and ICE agents who had come into the courthouse to make an arrest. Yes, and according to sources who spoke to a local radio host, the alleged incident happened this previous Friday, last Friday, when the clerk for Judge

Hannah Dugan, that's a name you're going to hear us talk about here quite a bit, had been informed that federal agents had entered the courthouse and were planning to arrest the subject. Chief Judge Carl Ashley allowed the agents to enter Dugan's courtroom after he was presented with a warrant, mind you a federal warrant, to enter the building and arrest the suspect, leading them to learn of Judge Dugan's alleged obstruction. Now, fellow Milwaukee County judge and former Democratic State Assembly member

Marisabel Cabrera also responded to the email that she would not comply with ICE warrants due to them being, in her opinion, unconstitutional. And this follows after a memo from Governor Tony Evers' Department of Administration was sent to government employees informing them that they can help illegal migrants avoid arrest by federal agents by refusing to answer questions, including when an agent asks about someone you know or presents a warrant with an individual's name.

And that memo from the governor further instructed government employees to deny the agent's access to any paper files or computer systems without speaking to your attorney, including when the agent presents a warrant. This is the governor. That's right. speaking to your attorney, including when the agent presents a warrant. This is the governor. That's right.

Now, this is the same governor who, back in 2020, remember the fires, the Black Lives Matter riots, and he refused to take any action? Right. Yes. This is the same governor. Right. take any action. This is the same governor. These Democrats are communist revolutionaries. Right. And who has the right to ignore a warrant? Rick, can you ignore a warrant?

A federal warrant, if someone presented you a federal warrant, do you have the right to ignore it? Of course not. And being a white Christian male, I would be arrested. But we've got two standards of the law now in this country. And it's not supposed to be this way, but we have judges that are actively engaged in criminal activity on behalf of criminals. Well, in Judge Duggan's case, the law has caught up with her.

This is Channel 58 Milwaukee, and this is today. Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Duggan arrested on charges of obstruction. The report says that Brandy McCarran, a spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service, confirmed that Dugan was arrested at 8.30 a.m. this morning on local courthouse grounds where she works. She was then processed by the Federal Marshals Service. She will appear before a federal judge in the Eastern District of Wisconsin. McCarran said she is currently in a holding cell. She's been released since the statement came out.

FBI Director Cash Patel had this to say regarding the arrest. Just now, the FBI arrested Judge Hannah Dugan out of Milwaukee on charges of obstruction after evidence that Judge Dugan was obstructing an immigration arrest operation last week. on charges of obstruction after evidence that Judge Dugan was obstructing an immigration arrest operation last week. We believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected

federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse, allowing the subject and illegal alien to evade arrest. Thankfully, our agents chased down the perp on foot, and he's been in custody since, but the judge's obstruction created increased danger to the public. We'll increased danger to the public. We'll have more to share soon.

Now, Dr. Patel deleted that tweet. Yes, well, yes, he deleted it, posted it early this morning, deleted it at 9.45, and then it reappeared a little after 12 noon today. In the same form? Yes. It's really very, very strange. Does that mean somebody at the FBI took it down without his authorization?

I don't know. That's the question. But it's the same tweet, and it definitely was taken down, and definitely did come back up in the same form. And at least I didn't detect any changes in the formatting, you know, between the two tweets, the two ZEETs as they're calling them now. Well, you know, at the jail, can you imagine the buzz that was in the jail?

Hey, they got a judge down the hallway and locked up. Well, and she was arrested, she was processed, and she up. Well and she she was arrested she was processed and she made bail and we have a clip of her leaving the Marshal's office there in Milwaukee this is number eight for control so you can see her reaction as the media tries to catch up with her here. So here she is coming out. Judge, anything to say about this? That's her attorney there with her, by the way. And so, they're getting out of Dodge really quick there, or out of Milwaukee real quick, is the case. She seemed to be in a bad mood.

Yeah. Hey, I want to run that one more time, and I've got a question for you, Rick. Okay. So, as we see this, is she hiding another illegal under her coat there? She was hiding one in her courtroom. There was enough room under that coat for another one. Who knows? There could be one in the vehicle.

We don't know. But they're being caught. And the message is being sent today and yesterday from the Trump administration, times of change, we're going to arrest radical Democrat judges who are hiding illegal immigrant criminals. It's one thing, you know, you're giving sanctuary to a little immigrant mother with six kids and she's cleaning houses and she's doing her best just to pay her bills and take care of her children. You know, you have sympathy. Right.

But these people... Not pregrown men with weapons. Yes. The Democrats are a criminal outfit. The party itself is a criminal entity. You think we're gonna see more, Doc? Yeah, we're gonna see a lot more. I'll give you a picture. This is a picture that Judge Dugan had posted a while back from her courtroom. This tells you all you need to know about her right here, just looking at this picture that she posted.

Criminals wear masks. Yeah, criminal, thieves, robbers, and infected people wear masks, okay? I'll tell you something. You've got the Ukrainian symbol there, you've got... Well, she's got it all going on. She's got it all, so. Is there a Star David in there?

I was wondering to... Don't look too deep. So I would you know based on that memo from Wisconsin Governor Evers I would think he might himself be a a prospect for federal arrest. Well I mean how do you instruct how do you instruct people to ignore federal warrants? How is that allowed? I just don't get it, Rick. I can't go out publicly, like on a broadcast medium like this, and say, ladies and gentlemen,

when the federales show up with a warrant, ignore that warrant. Well, you know what usually happens when you ignore a warrant? They whip out weapons on you. Yes, but also people that tell criminals to evade arrest, break the law. If you are actively frustrating law enforcement, you've made yourself a candidate for arrest. Yes, because you're interfering with law enforcement. So Governor Tony Evers of Wisconsin sent a memo to Wisconsin government employees telling them to help illegal migrants avoid arrest

by federal agents by refusing to answer questions. Well, that's a crime. Yes. Look, unless you're pleading the fifth because it's gonna incriminate you. Right, you're obligated to answer questions. Yes. Including when an agent asks about someone you know or presents a warrant with an individual's name. I say round them up. Round them up, arrest them, lock them up. Finally Mr. Trump,

you're starting to lock them up. Let's do it. Let's clean up this country. Yes. And now it looks like the judges are going to have to be arrested. Well, and Attorney General Pam Bondi was on Fox this morning, and she was speaking about this particular incident in Milwaukee that we've been talking about and also the one in New Mexico. And she had this to say about other activist judges. You see these judges trying to obstruct your efforts to make this country safer. What is your message to them?

We are going to prosecute you and we are prosecuting you. I found out about this the day it happened. We could not believe actually that a judge really did that. We looked into the facts in great depth. That's her picture up on the screen. Hannah Dugan, who is now in custody. You cannot obstruct a criminal case. And really, shame on her. It was a domestic violence case of all cases, and she's protecting a criminal defendant over victims of crime.

I never thought I'd see something like this, where a judge tells a criminal, go in here and hide. Yes. Someone who's appearing before the judge on a domestic violence charge. Yes. Incredible, Rick. Okay. Corrupt judges are a symptom of the judgment of God on a nation.

According to Isaiah chapter 3, it says, I will send you corrupt leaders, corrupt judges, because you have rebelled against me. That's what the prophet Isaiah said. So, let's properly interpret that verse, Doc, because it doesn't mean God sends judgment because you have corrupt people. No. He sends corrupt people as the judgment. Yes, that's right. So you're being ruled by corrupt people because we deserve it. Yes, absolutely. That's the proper way to interpret. We're being ruled by mentally ill people because we deserve it. Yes. It's part of

the judgment. And He's going light on us. Yes, He said, I'll give children to be your princes and your lords, and babes shall rule over them. And isn't that the mindset that we have? Childish emotions, baby emotions that's ruling from the bench there? And Doc, it's God's mercy that the extent of the judgment is only being ruled by crooks and insane people. Because if you want the full judgment, there's war and slavery. That's right.

And that's where it leads to next. That's where it takes you next in Isaiah chapter 3. And so we really as a nation need to consider our ways and our standing before God, that God's fed up with us playing the religious game. And there's going to be a payday someday, as the old sermon used to say, Rick. And so, you know, on the one hand, I cheer the fact that we're finally cracking down on these activist judges, these corrupt judges, but at the root of it is a deeper thing that's going on. It's the sin of our nation that we refuse to repent of. That's right.

All right, so let's take a look at the craziness going on inside the Pentagon. Boy, isn't it crazy right now. Wall Street Journal, polygraph threats, leaks, infighting, the chaos inside Pete Hegseth's Pentagon. Says Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was rattled. Word had leaked that he was planning a classified briefing for Elon Musk on China. This revelation infuriated President Trump

and raised alarms inside the Pentagon, giving Musk business ties to Beijing. And now from there, it starts to get pretty crazy. Yes, Wall Street Journal reported that, I'll hook you up to a polygraph and using an expletive along with that, Hegs has shouted at Admiral Christopher Grady, the then acting chairman of the Joint Chiefs. According to at least two people familiar with the exchange, Secretary Hegseth demanded

proof that Grady hadn't leaked news of the March 21 briefing, calling an admiral. The acting chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Now Admiral Grady was never subjected to a polygraph. Secretary Hegseth would accuse several other people of the leak, including Lieutenant General Doug Sims, the Joint Staff Director, whom Secretary Haig-Seth also threatened with a polygraph test.

And problems only snowballed from there, Rick. At least five political appointees now have been fired or resigned, and Haig-Seth has said he is referring some of the aides for criminal investigation. Meanwhile, he, Hagseth, Secretary Hagseth is under investigation by the Pentagon's Inspector General for the alleged mishandling of classified information on the Secretary's part. You know, from the Republican slash Trump slash MAGA perspective,

Pete Hicks is the hero and these other people are bad people and they're trying to get him, trying to take him down. But let's just stop and think it through. If it was true that Elon Musk was on his way to the Pentagon to participate in a top-secret briefing about war plans with China, and somebody leaked it to the press, and Elon Musk's participation in that meeting was aborted Then that was a good thing. I Agree with you Elon Musk had no business in a top-secret meeting about war plans for China He had no business first of all he's he's in business in China. Yes. He depends on

Xi Jinping's good mood towards him to make money on Xi Jinping's good mood towards him to make money. Number two. What qualifies him to talk about war with China? He has no qualification, and he's not under any oath of secrecy. He had no business being in a meeting. I'm glad they've pushed Elon Musk out. He was a wrecking ball.

I mean running around with a chainsaw. The guy was a wrecking ball. And Donald Trump made the right move by sending him back to Tesla headquarters. But he should never have been invited to a top-secret war planning meeting at the Pentagon. But it appeared that Elon Musk was literally becoming the co-president of the country. He was out of control. A lot of the stuff he was doing for Doge was good, but the way he was going about it, just going in and walking over top the cabinet

secretaries. In fact, there was a report earlier this week about a shouting match in the White House between Elon Musk and Treasury Secretary Besant. Yes, and Karen Levitt just kind of laughed off. She said, oh, boys will be boys. That's exactly what she said. Well, they said it was so loud that the Italian prime minister was in the Oval Office with President Trump and they could hear the shouting. So Mr. Besant, the Treasury secretary, told Elon Musk, get out of the Treasury Department. Now, remember when Mr. Greg Shapley was appointed

acting director of the IRS? We go, I don't like that. That was great. But Secretary Bessent didn't appoint him. Elon Musk did. Elon Musk had no authority to appoint somebody to run the IRS. Five days later, he was out.

He was out. Yes. Right man, but wrong method. It should have gone through the cabinet secretary of the Treasury. But Elon Musk was acting like he was the super secretary over all the cabinet and just doing whatever he wanted to do. And so I have a feeling that there was a,

probably a majority of the cabinet members met with President Trump and said, either get him out of here or we walk, we resign. You're probably right, Rick. So it's probably gotten to that point. And you notice that Elon Musk has had kept a pretty low profile past week and a half or so. Well, yeah, because his Tesla investors are furious.

Yeah, Tesla's down 71% profits quarter to quarter from last year. Well, people don't buy a car that other people are going to key. Right. So sales have plummeted because people are afraid to buy a Tesla. But he got himself in that mess. So anyhow, this whatever's going on here at the Pentagon, it's not good. I'm not certain, I'm not certain that these military officers who are being portrayed as the bad guys, I'm not sure that they are. I think they may have done the right thing as a as patriots and

put their foot down and said, Elon Musk will not attend a secret meeting about war with China. Now, there's been that shakeup, of course. You've had five people that have, depending on who you is reporting, five people have been dismissed. But Hexas chief of staff, Joe Casper, now he's known forever.

He's known this guy for a couple decades. And at the initial reports was that he was dismissed also yesterday, but then Secretary Hegseth came on Fox News earlier today and said when he was asked about Casper, he gave an interesting answer and said, oh we have not, Casper's not going anywhere. He's simply working in another area now. And I was like, wait a minute. I know you got rid of Dan Caldwell, and you got rid of the Dylan, I can't think of his last name,

the other guy. But you didn't let Joe Casper go. You reassigned him. Gave him another job. Right. Look, I said before the Senate confirmed Pete Hagstaff, I said, the guy's going to be a disaster in the Pentagon. He's completely inexperienced.

He's over his head. And I'm not saying, I'm sure he's a nice guy. However, everybody likes to paint him as this upstanding Christian young man, and if you go back and you look at that quote, I'll hook you up to a, you know what, polygraph, okay? Christians don't talk that way. I'm sorry, I'm not going to give him a pass on it. Yes. The vulgar, foul language is not the fruit of a Christian. So people can get upset with me if they want, but... By their fruit, you'll know them, right?

By your fruit, you'll know them. So I'm sure he's a nice guy, but he's an inexperienced man to run a government division that spends what, how many, is it $900 billion a year? A trillion dollars a year, yeah. Almost a trillion dollars budget. I don't know very many people that could manage a trillion dollar budget. And that's just the publicly of knowledge. Right, we don't know about the black hole, you know, with the dark money. With the $900 hammers and $2,000 toilet seats.

Right. And you know, there's another thing about all this money that Doge supposedly found. Where is it? Where are all these savings? Why is the Congress passing a bill that's going to have a tax increase in it and more deficit spending? Right. Well, I'll tell you what they did with it. They're using the money that they literally are finding money that's fraud and waste. Yes. But they're using it for other purposes. Right. They figure

hey we got it let's use it. So they there's not a so they're talking about a tax increase they want to put a you know a tax on wealthy people increase the revenue. Washington doesn't have a revenue problem. It has a spending problem. Right. To say, and you hear these politicians talking all the time, well you know we've got to pass this bill this year and then we're going to work at a better bill at cutting spending for next year they say the same thing every year yep and never cut never cut it's like we need more money before we can cut the budget yeah we need more money before we can start saving that's

what they're saying that's like a that's like a drunk an alcoholic saying I'll tell you what I'll quit drinking after this drink. You give me some more liquor and I'll deal with my drinking problem. No, they have a problem. They are spendaholics. And you've got to cut them off. But I don't think the American people will ever do it.

So let's move on here. Hey, folks, I got one more week, and after this, you don't have to listen to my opinion about these people. And I'm not going to talk about them anymore, because you know what? They're going to be the same next year, and the year after that. And then look at this from NBC. The Trump Organization is selling Trump 2028 apparel at the official Trump store. Yes, that's right, Rick. The Trump Organization's begun selling red hats online

with the slogan Trump 2028, embroidered in bright white along the front, as well as t-shirts with the slogan. The hats were listed for $50 with the description, the future looks bright, rewrite the rules with the Trump 28 high crown hat, fully embroidered with a snap closure in the back, this will become your new go-to hat.

The shirts at $36 also feature the phrase, rewrite the rules. Here's the first one, this is the hat that's listed there, this is on the official site for the Trump store. And so, so. And here's the shirt. Yes. Now, some people will say, oh, he's just

trolling the Democrats. Yes. No, he's not. Let's go back to 2019. Yes. No, he's not. Let's go back to 2019. Yes. Here is a, this is a post on Twitter from Donald Trump in 2019, Trump forever. Watch this. And that wasn't just somebody posting that. That was on Donald Trump's Twitter account.

Obviously it was funny and it irritated people. But what did it start with? 2028. Yes. And it says rewrite the rules. What are the rules? The Constitution. That's the rule. The United States Constitution. Should presidents, should we go back to unlimited terms? That's

for the American people to decide. But right now... The Constitution restricts that. Yes. So unless you figured out a way around the Constitution, which they might have. And the rumor is, JD Vance will run for president and Donald Trump for vice president. When they're sworn in, President Vance will resign at the inauguration. And Vice President Trump will be sworn in. That's one of the rumors.

Of course, you've got Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, and Ivanka Trump. And then further out, Barron. Barron Trump. So you have a dynasty. And that's really the message he's sending. We're entering the Trump dynasty, where the Trump family will rule forever. Some people would like that. I'm not going to have an opinion anymore, because the only dynasty that's going to last forever is the kingdom of God. That's right. That's the only kingdom that shall have no end.

That's right. And that's the kingdom I'm excited about. The Lord Jesus Christ. Everything else is just men and women seeking power and glory and prestige. South China Morning Post, it's everything. Five-year high pork cancellation signals China weaning off U.S. farm goods. That's right. South China Morning Post is reporting after canceling record orders of U.S. pork amid a raging trade war. Analysts said China

is poised to reduce U.S. ag imports even further. Last week, Chinese importers withdrew orders for over 12,000 metric tons of American pork. This is the largest cancellation since the pandemic in May 2020, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Analysts suspect American pig farmers to feel the pinch, even though most do not rely exclusively on the Chinese market, producers of other ag goods to bear greater burden in the trade war. So this is a targeted response from China to hurt the parts of the U.S. that are red, said Dexter Roberts, a U.S.-based senior fellow at the Atlantic Council Think Tank's Global China Hub. Most American farm states are considered Republican leaning and voted for US President Donald Trump in the last

election. People are very aware of this and very worried, Roberts said, one bad year and you might be mortgaging the farm. So Xi Jinping said let's do something that hurts Republican states in America. That's right. Let's hurt the farmers. Especially pork farmers. And so this is going to be interesting to see how this plays out. We've gotten conflicting reports that there are talks going on, that Xi and Donald Trump have had a conversation.

Well, Mr. Trump said that today. Mr. Time is recording that today. Mr. Trump is saying that they're having talks, and Xi Jinping came out and said, no, we're not. I don't know who's telling the truth there. NBC News, product shortages and empty store shelves loom with falling shipments from China. Now, this is talking about what's going to be happening as we get into the fall and winter months here, especially.

Retailers are warning that U.S. consumers could again face empty store shelves, just like back in COVID, and the kind of supply chain snarls that mark the COVID area if President Donald Trump's tariffs on China remain at the current levels. Companies have been canceling their shipments of goods from China and halting new orders after President Trump put a 145% tariff on nearly all Chinese imports earlier this month. As a result, the number of freight vessels scheduled to arrive at the port of LA is on track to be down nearly 33% year over year

for the week ending May the 10th. Now typically US retailers would be ramping up their orders for two critical periods later this year, the fall back to school shopping season, and of course the winter holidays. So they're making their holiday buying decisions now. That's according to Jonathan Gold, VP of Supply Chain and Customs Policy

at the National Retail Federation. He goes on to say, it's a challenge for folks to figure out how to order properly in price with all the uncertainty that's out there on the tariffs. Chinese vendors told NBC News this month that American companies including Target have halted orders.

One vendor who sells press on nails to US retailers said her products are ready to ship, but they've been sitting in China now. She doesn't expect to be sending any products to the US in the first half of the year. And the National Retail Federation expects imports to drop by at least 20% in the second half of this year if tariffs continue at their current level.

Now, Jonathan Gold went on to say some of the products likely to go missing from store shelves in the coming months, so take note of these items, will be lower cost footwear, apparel, toys, and electronics for which manufacturing is heavily concentrated in China. And other perishable items from China, and this is- Did you know apple juice comes from China?

No, I had to look it up just to see if it was true. We don't have enough apples here. Apple juice and fish, which have limited shelf life and more difficult for retailers to stockpile. Like back during COVID, where we had shortages of toilet paper, we're going to start seeing that in more and more goods, said Sean Stein, President of the US-China Business Council.

Starting in a couple of weeks, we are just going to start running out of stuff. In a couple of weeks. Couple of weeks, and if the administration waits to resolve the problem until we have the shortages and hoarding, that is just too late. And what happens is psychology tech starts stepping in? When people start seeing scarcity on the shelves,

what is their natural inclination, Rick, to hoard? Of course, of course. And then you have more empty shelves. So if you go, let's say this goes another month, and they work it out, does that solve all the problems? No, because the problems are already in the supply chain now. The supply chain's already been disrupted. Right. And that's what this says, even if President Trump were to

reduce the tariffs, the disruption caused to the supply chain could take weeks or months to unravel, given the time it takes for ships to cross the Pacific and for the other pieces of the supply chain to snap back into place." Right. And he quotes Dean Croak, principal analyst at Dat Freight and Analytics. He said, quote, you have an eight-week period where volumes are going to crash before they can even come back up. And that's if things return to normal. All this comes at a time of the year when volumes really should start to increase. Right.

For stores are placing their orders for the Christmas season. And they're not placing the orders. They're holding back. And they're not placing the orders. They're holding back. And that's obviously having a major impact in China because they have to lay off employees. So Rick, if you're watching True News right now, or listening to True News wherever you're at right now, you've got this information in your hand. So do you believe God provided this information to you? Yes. So what do you do with this information? What decisions should viewers and listeners be

making right now, Rick? Well this is the way I use AI. I would ask AI, give me a list of all the consumer goods that are made in China, exported to the USA. I mean, I don't need to know about machinery and things that I'm not gonna be buying. I wanna know about consumer merchandise. Yes, give me a list of the items. And that would give me an idea

where we're gonna have shortages. Right. And what percentage of those items come from China? I mean, if it's only 10 percent, well, the market will absorb that. But if it's 60, 70, 80 percent, then there's going to be shortages. Right. And so like toys and electronics, that's an obvious, easy one for the Christmas. Most things are made in China.

I mean, that's the way it is. We've allowed that to happen. I'm surprised at apple juice. Doc, I read, maybe it was in this article. I read so many things and I forget, you know, if they're in the articles that we're showing right now. But almost all dog toys are made in China. I didn't know that.

That was a new one. Fudge is not going to get anything for Christmas. Is it all? Go back to sticks. That's what you're going to do. Go back to sticks. But all dog toys are made in China. So you're going to see pet supplies drying up. Now hey, a lot of dog food comes

from China, which that was something when I had my golden retriever, I would not buy anything that had any ingredients from China. And I'll tell you why. Some years ago, dogs were dying. Yes, I remember that story. All right their their livers their kidneys were so they were having organ failure and it was traced to toxins in the dog food. Heavy metals yes. That came from China and I I believe that they were deliberately killing our pets. It was intentional. Most of our medicine comes from China.

Yes. You're trusting Communist China to make the medicine? You're putting in your body? And now we know apple juice comes from China. I thought apple juice was from American orchards, I know I Don't we have apple trees everywhere around I thought so I thought we did look at this one Financial Times Apple is going to move

Production of iPhones out of China to India. Yes. Now this is going to hurt China. There will be a lot of Chinese workers put out of work. So it's these kind of things that are impacting Xi Jinping and the Communist Party because they don't need social unrest. But this says, again, Financial Times, Apple plans to shift the assembly of all US-sold iPhones to India as soon as next year, as President Donald Trump's trade war forces the tech giant to pivot away from China. The push builds on Apple's strategy to diversify its supply chain but goes further and faster than investors appreciate, with a goal to source from India the entirety of the more than 60

million iPhones sold annually in the USA by the end of 2026. Now, what that means is that that target would mean doubling, doubling the iPhone output in India after almost two decades in which Apple has invested heavily in China to create a world-beating production line that powered its rise to a three trillion dollar tech giant. The US accounts for about 28% of Apple's iPhone shipments according to the International Data Corporation. Apple would need to increase its capacity in India further to fulfill all those US orders.

And yet they're saying they're be able to do it by the end of 2026, Rick. So why didn't Apple invest heavily in America? Why? Because they could make their phones cheap. I mean, tell you, to make them, the labor cost is cheap in China, but the retail cost is high in America. Right. They could make them in America. And who benefits from that, Rick?

The stock owners of Apple. Right. The stock owners of Apple. Higher profit margins. It's not that they can't be made in America by American workers. It's just Apple's investors won't get as much money. Right. That's the bottom line of it. You could sell it for the same price, which is inflated, but your profit margin would be smaller. And so they moved everything to China for maximum profits. We heard that a week or two ago, one of the Chinese businessmen said, hey, wait a minute.

You Americans, you came over here. You brought your factories over here to us to take advantage of our cheap labor. I was like, you're telling the truth. And it never occurred to me, that Wall Street was taking advantage of China also. That's right. And you have to believe this was orchestrated years ago. Oh, way back in the 70s, old Alan Greenspan.

Yes, that he had the intention of merging our two economies and make them dependent on each other and who benefited from that? Wall Street. Wall Street. Right now and Understandably China's being painted as a bad guy here, but let's be real There have been the robber barons have benefited from this for years. They are the real enemy. They're the real enemy. The people that control what, 90 some percent

of the wealth in this country, we looked at that chart yesterday. Yes. Look at this story out of Tallahassee, Florida, Tallahassee, Florida. Tallahassee.com. The minority leader, the Democrat minority leader of the Florida State Senate, quit the Democratic Party yesterday. He said the Democratic Party in Florida is dead. Now if this was just a regular Democrat, it wouldn't make news.

But he's the highest ranking Democrat in the Florida Senate. His name is Jason Pizzo. Right. He's stepping down as Florida's, as the Florida Senate's Democratic leader because he's quitting, just quitting the Democratic Party itself. Now, Pizzo represents part of Broward and Miami-Dade counties and surprised the chamber floor after the 24th session with this announcement. And he's going to remain a senator, but one with no party affiliation. We have video of his announcement.

To whom I'm finding may not want it. There'll be a caucus meeting later this afternoon where I hope that the members of the Democratic caucus will elect a new leader. For today, I FedExed my voter registration form to change my party affiliation to no party affiliation. Joe Scott should receive that by 8 a.m. tomorrow morning in Broward County. And here's why. Our constituents are craving practical leaders, not political hacks. We are entrusted to be guided by our conscience, and while I suppose it's easier in theory than it is in application, even my worst detractors have no valid claim that I can be bullied, that I can be bought, or even borrowed for a special interest.

I am my father's son even in his death. I am my mother's son while she is still alive. I will not miss another one of her birthdays and I will return to who I was when I became a young man independent, independent in thought, in my passion, and my conscience, not consultants. Well, you know... In other words, he got his life back. Yes. But you know, this is a trend among a lot of Democrats, a lot of Democrat senators and Joe Manchin of West Virginia.

Yes. Of course, everyone's familiar with Mitch McConnell. He's not going to be here. Dick Durbin announced this week that he'll be stepping down And not stepping down, but won't be running for reelection and on numerous Congress people that have announced Mainly Democrats that they would not be running next year. And so Do you think it's the rats? Jumping the sinking ship here or something else going on? Oh they're definitely jumping ship. Mr. Pizzo is, the party's too, it's too radical for him.

And he's a liberal Democrat and he's saying that he can't represent it in the state Senate anymore. So Doc, he plans to run for governor of Florida as an independent. So the 2026 election here in Florida is going to be different. You're going to have, I think, probably a serious independent candidate for governor of the state.

A lot of people are just fed up with both parties, and I'm one of them. I mean, the only reason I vote Republican is because they're not Democrats. That's it. Is there any reason? They're not Democrats. But am I delighted that the Republicans are? No, I'm not.

I wish that there were, I wish, personally, I don't think there should be political parties. I don't think so either. In fact, we started out that way. That's right. And George Washington did not want us to have political parties. And they've been a detriment to the country since the beginning. You can't ban them, let them exist, but all elections should be nonpartisan. There shouldn't be any party labels on the ballot.

You're voting for a candidate, not a party. Now wouldn't that make voters do research instead of just walking in saying look at their party okay that's who I'm voting for. Right. And you could have your primaries would be nonpartisan. You'd have people of all kinds of political persuasions running in a primary and maybe you're voting for the top four. Right. And then you have another primary and maybe you're voting for the top four right and then you have another primary and Now you eliminate it down to two and then you have the general election and now that person And so that means whoever wins has at least

50.1 percent of the vote right but Rick that would require an involved electorate Yes, and it also would nip the special interests. It would clip their wings. It would really defang the lobbyists and the big money guys. And I don't think people should be able to donate political money if they don't live in the district.

I agree with that too. So why you know why are people in New York financing campaigns in Florida and why are Floridians financing campaigns in California? You know you understand a presidential campaign something like that. Congressional race or dog catcher or mosquito board. Look at the money they poured into Wisconsin last month in that like that, but not a congressional race or dog catcher or mosquito board, anything like that. Look at the money that poured into Wisconsin last month in that Supreme Court justice race. Right, which broke down along partisan lines. It should have been only people from Wisconsin should have been allowed to donate. That's my view, but hey, who cares, right? It doesn't matter.

But hey, who cares, right? It doesn't matter. Let's look at World War III. Financial Times, Steve Witkoff holds peace talks with Vladimir Putin in Moscow today. Yes. So he was back in Moscow. They're still trying to keep this alive. Sky News, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says the US and Moscow moving in the right direction. He said, we are ready to reach a deal. And so apparently the Russians think something's going to happen unless there's going to be a deal between Russia and the United States,

and it does not involve Ukraine. In other words, they just make a decision, we're going to divide up Ukraine. Don't rule that out. Don't rule that out. That Russia and the United States unite and decide the fate of Ukraine. The Soviet Union and the United States decided the fate of Germany. That's right.

The other countries were there, but they were just really spectators to the whole show. So it's happened in the past during World Wars. We've got a sound bite video clip of Sergey Lavrov. This is on CBS. I guess he's going to be on Face the Nation. This Sunday he's going to be a full interview, but they've shared a few clips already of the interview and if the clips have are any indication what the interview is going to be like, man I'm setting my alarm. Alright so we know what we know what video clips will have on Monday.

That's right. Okay. Watch this. The President of the United States says he thinks the US and Russia have a deal. Let's get it done. Does President Putin agree? Well, the president of the United States believes, and I think rightly so, that we are moving in the right direction. The statement by the president mentions a deal and we are ready to reach a deal, but there are still some specific points, elements of this deal, which need to be fine-tuned. And we are busy with this exact process.

And the president of the United States did not spell out the elements of the deal, so it is not appropriate for me to do this. But he did say there was a deal and that he was sending his envoy, Steve Witkoff, to meet with Vladimir Putin Friday in Russia. Is that meeting still happening? And should we expect a deal this week? Well, you don't trust the word of the president of the United States? I was asking your president's word.

What will he tell the U.S. envoy? We continue our contacts with the American side on the situation in Ukraine. There are several signs that we are moving in the right direction. First of all, because President Trump is probably the only leader on earth who recognized the need to address the root causes of this situation. When he said that it was a huge mistake to pull Ukraine into NATO, and this was a mistake by Biden administration,

and he wants to rectify this. I just half expected Secretary of Minister Lavrov to just pull out a cigarette and light it and start smoking there and say, listen, I've had enough of you. Maybe he does. What did your president say? What did your president say?

And don't you trust your president? I'm watching this. He's unique. I never watch Deface the Nation. I'm watching this weekend. Well, here's the, unfortunately, Ukraine today, they murdered a Russian general, a car bomb in Moscow. That's right.

And they also burned down an Orthodox church called the New Jerusalem Temple. Right. RT article, and according to Orthodox Church officials, numerous Ukrainian drones intentionally attacked the church. And we've got a… I think we have some video. Do we have… No, we don't have any video. Oh, we didn't have the video?

Okay, all right, all right. I thought I had it. Okay. Anyhow, the video looked like the… it looked just like the image right there, you saw the church on fire. Next one here, New York Times. President Trump says the United States could lead a military action against Iran. Oh man, I hope he doesn't do this. And I'm assuming he's just talking tough to push the Iranians into a deal. But I would be so disappointed if he allowed himself to be

pulled into war with Iran. But he did say something interesting in the interview that is going to be popping up this weekend that he did with Time magazine. And he said after being asked if he was worried that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel might drag him into a war with Iran, the president said, I may go in very willingly if we can't get a deal. If we don't make a deal, I'll be leading the pack. But they didn't provide the full quote there.

Several outlets are saying that Benjamin Netanyahu doesn't drag me anywhere. And said, so we'll see if that actually shows up in the interview here over the weekend. But did he say, I may go in willingly? Yes, but I'll lead the pack I hope not You know why Israel's not gonna lead it will lead it

Why is it the interests of the United States of America what Iran does? Does Iran threaten to attack us if we do what we want to do No, not at all. I mean, I can give you the answer, Rick. Yeah, we know the answer is Israel and the Jewish lobby. Right. Our greatest friend, the greatest democracy in the Middle East. Oh, hey, before we finish, let's talk about what's going on in India and Pakistan.

Folks, you got to hear this one. Yes. So this is the Telegraph India. Pakistan's defense minister, Qawaz-e-Asif, has admitted that his country has long funded and supported terrorist groups. But wait until you hear why. Yes. We'll play the video and then we'll come back and talk about it. This is Sky News. And I just... Number 28. Yes. I think we caught him off guard. Yes I did, I did did. All right. So let me read a quote from Sky News. This is what the Pakistan defense minister said to a question on Sky News about the allegation that Pakistan has been funding terrorists and aiding and abetting terrorists and hiding

terrorists and doing all that abetting terrorists and hiding terrorists and doing all that bad stuff with terrorists. And the country's defense minister, a chief, he said, quote, we have been doing this dirty work for the United States for about three decades, and the West, including Britain. In other words, we've been paid for 30 years to take care of terrorists for the United States and Great Britain. Where did the al-Qaeda, remember al-Qaeda? Yes. Created by the CIA. Where did Osama bin Laden, where was he hiding? According to the story, where was he hiding?

When we caught him. Yeah, when we killed him, right? Pakistan, right? Yes. Oh, he was in Pakistan. Well, according to the Defense Minister, they were paid to take care of American terrorists. And of course, old Osama bin Laden, the Bin Laden family, they were in business with the Bush family in construction and oil.

The one Bin Laden brother was a business partner with George W. Bush. The father had a construction company. He got the contract with the U.S. government to rebuild the barracks that were blown up in Lebanon. I mean, it's just one long, incestuous relationship with the Bushes and the CIA and the deep state. But Secretary Asif was saying that this goes all the way back to the Soviet Union days, Rick. Well, here's why. Afghanistan. Yes. The CIA created Al Qaeda. This was an invention. They created Al Qaeda. Back then it was called the Mujahideen. Right. See, they give them new names.

Right. They just rebrand. Then we had ISIS, you know, and we just have different groups. But when they were the Mujahideen, we created that in order to fight the Soviets. Yes. And we knew a proxy war with the Soviets. And they gave money and weapons to a guy named Osama bin Laden, whose brother was a business partner with George W. Bush. Yes. So you can't make it up. Right. It's like this is real. And then we're told, well, they sealed Team Six,

they tracked him down, they got him. They killed him in Pakistan. And then, hey, you're bringing him to trial, right? Wrong. For blowing up the World Trade Center. Okay, the US military, they've got this rascal. He's gonna be brought back to the United States. We're gonna put him on trial.

No, what did they do to him? They dumped him in the ocean. They buried him. They buried him in the ocean. Buried him at sea. Along with his dialysis machine. And when he was living, he's running his al-qaeda network from

a cave remember the cave propaganda right somewhere in Afghanistan can't get him he's in those caves he's got he's got electricity he's got internet he's got satellite communication he's a sly he's running a worldwide terrorist operation and a business operation. Oh, that's right. Because he was wealthy. Yes. And the American newspapers and the television networks and Fox News, they all pushed that propaganda to the American people and the people just lapped it up like cats with warm

milk. But one thing that, getting back to our story with this defense minister from Pakistan, he's just basically saying Pakistan's been a CIA operation since the days of the Soviets. Right, we're just doing what you paid us to do. Do we have it ready? We do. All right, here it is. And all again the same thing is true. You do admit, sir, that Pakistan has had a long history of backing and supporting and

training and funding these terrorist organizations. Well, we have been doing this dirty work for United States for about three decades, you know, and West, including Britain. So that's your argument that... No, that was a mistake and we suffered for that and that is why you are saying this to me. If we had not joined the war against Soviet Union and later on the war after 9-11, this Pakistan's track record was not an unimpeachable track record. Now, the reason why this is so important right now is because there's conflict going on

between India and Pakistan. And they're shooting at each other now. Yes. And so the media is painting Pakistan as a supporter of terrorists. Right. And so the defense minister said, well, wait a minute. We've been doing your country, which was Great Britain for that reporter, and America. We've been doing this dirty work for 30 years.

And now you're upset with us? Now you're mad at us? She didn't have an answer, did she? She didn't know what to say. I thought, oh, they're going to go to commercial break. There's going to be a technical glitch. She had no response. She goes, that's your argument?

That is the argument. That is. Yes. The West. You know, when we were done with Imran Khan in Pakistan, we took him out. When we were done with him, just like we do every other leader we set up, when we get tired of him,

we take him out, and we did that with Imran Khan. We've got the new guy in there now. But the defense minister, I don't know whether it went off script or this is the new policy in Pakistan that, hey, we're just going to tell the truth. Just tell the truth. It's a new mood in the world, Doc. Tell the truth.

Let's not pretend anymore. They all know that the world order has collapsed. They know there's not going to be more funding for what they were doing for years. Quickly, South China Morning Post, China's military identifies US and Japanese destroyers as enemy vessels. That's all you need to know about that article. That's right. So we've got a couple ships going through the Taiwan Strait right now. And they're called enemy vessels. That's right. What do you do with enemy vessels? You shoot enemy vessels. We're

headed in that direction, folks. We're in World War III. CNBC, Metta lays off employees working on virtual reality. Are you saying the public doesn't want virtual reality? Apparently so. Yes, that's the case. And they tried to get this new Met meta glasses and everything going out this year but that has kind of fallen flat. Metas laid off employees in its Reality Labs division

tasked with VR augmented reality and related wearable devices. Some teams within Oculus studios are undergoing shifts in structure and roles that have impacted team size. Man that's a nice way to put it. These changes are meant to help studios work more efficiently on future mixed reality experiences for our growing audience, while still delivering great content for people today. We're deeply saddened to share some of these changes

because it'll, you know, the loss of some of our incredibly talented team members goes on to say there that that hey, we're cutting back because AR, VR, and IR just have not caught on with people. Why? Because artificial intelligence is here. That's what's doing it. People want AI. People want AI. They're not, they didn't buy into virtual reality. Right. But they are buying into AI. You know why? Because it's practical. They can use it every day. And AI is becoming ingrained in society. One of the things that we told the True News audience

many years ago, in fact, my first tech conference was 2017. Seems so long ago. And we came back from Barcelona and said, hey, they're gonna have driverless cars. They're gonna have driverless taxi cabs. And at that time they were talking like by 2020. Yes, they were hoping it would be by 2020. But here we are in 2025, and Alphabet, which is Google, they own a company called Waymo. And CNBC reported that Waymo now has a quarter million paid

rowboat taxi rides per week. I found this headline surprising. That's a million per month in the United States. These are driverless taxi cabs. And that's basically just in three primary cities. Only three? Yeah, that's right. San Francisco, LA, well, four, Phoenix, and Austin.

OK, so how's this? If you're a taxi driver, if you own a taxi cab company, if you are an Uber driver, you better pay attention to this. That's right. Because taxi cabs and Uber vehicles are going to be pushed out of the market by driverless cars. And to show you how fast this is growing, Rick, in February it was just $200,000 a week. In March, it was $250,000 a week. That's how fast it's growing. That's amazing.

In only three major cities. Yes. But they are gonna be rolling out a service. Okay, so it says, I think maybe it's four. San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Austin. Yes. And then they will be bringing the service to Atlanta this summer. I've got a short video that shows you...

Actually, we've got two of them. The first one is the official Waymo promotional video. Let's watch this one. So that was our quick promotional video for the four primary cities where Waymo is operating now. So if you don't have a driver to pay, your fares can be lower. You would think, right? Right.

So that could be an argument there. That's what I'm saying. If you're a taxi driver or a taxi cab owner or an Uber driver, you're going to be eliminated by a driverless robotic car. Very, very soon. Now Rick, when did you, I know you probably got your license when you were 16, but if you grew up in small towns

like you and I both did, when did you first start driving? Well the first one, unofficially, Doc, was when I got in my dad's car in the driveway and I was probably Six and I started earlier than me No, seriously, I started it up. I was so little in the seat. I He left a key in it. It's his fault then. It's his fault. Alright so I started it and I reached up and I pulled the gear shift down not really sure what was going to happen and the car took off and I drove through the garage door. Oh my

goodness. Yes so that was my first time behind a wheel. Well imagine sitting in the back seat of a car. Just imagine this first of all and in the front seat is nobody. Looking up there and seeing no one sitting there. Well we have video of this. When I watched this I was like this makes me really uncomfortable but then I'm 60 years old too. So let's watch the video. What's the purpose of the steering wheel? Eventually they're gonna have to eliminate it because right now the government is saying You still have to put a steering wheel in the car, but you don't have to put a driver in it

The driver's just a steering wheel. Okay, let's watch the video. There you go. It makes me uncomfortable. And they were sitting in a stop light, police car goes by, you saw that. Imagine policemen looking over and there's no one at the wheel. Would you feel more comfortable if there was a robot driving in a car? I would feel, probably, I don't know why, I would probably feel more comfortable with a mannequin sitting in the seat.

And just mentally, just mentally thinking that way. And inflatable? Yeah, inflatable, yeah. So that only pops up for certain passengers, and so. But to me, as a, you know, I'm 60 years old, it makes me uncomfortable, but I understand why they roll them out in LA, as a, you know, I'm 60 years old, it makes me uncomfortable. But I understand why they roll them out in LA, San Francisco, Austin, and Phoenix.

Younger people, I mean, they would accept that, no problem. I got, last year in Barcelona, I got inside a helicopter drone. You know, it was a helicopter drone. It was a helicopter. They called it a driverless, autonomous-driven drone. It's a helicopter with no pilot. And I got in it. Now, it didn't go anywhere.

They had a green screen, and it made you feel like you were flying across the city. But it gave me the sensation of what it's like to fly across a city in a driverless, pilotless aircraft. And I don't know, Doc. I would do it. I'm hesitant. I guess maybe I'm like my age. So so what let's just go for it you know. What are you going to do to me? Right let's just do it. But you know they made the experience and again it's not real you haven't left the floor you're on the floor of the exhibit hall but But they made it feel very realistic.

And I thought, you know, I can see people are going to sit in here and take a short ten-minute trip across, because you're looking down out the windows, you know, they're not real. I mean, the glass is there, but you're looking at a screen and you're seeing all this traffic on the ground and you're flying right over it. Yes. And you're not in any traffic jams? But you know, if you stop to think about it,

really stop to think about it, you know, I drive my truck to work every day, drive home every day, but most of the time, my truck sits outside the office here, doing nothing, except getting hot in the- And depreciating, and depreciating. That's right, and at night, it's sitting in my driveway, waiting for me to get into the next morning.

Maybe I spend maybe an hour right now a day, weekdays in my truck. Well, what about the other 23 hours? Where we're going. And why am I investing all this money in a vehicle I'm only driving an hour a day? Okay, so where we're going, and you don't hear much about it,

but in those early days of the tech conferences we were attending, the automobile companies were there, like Ford. And they said, we're not going to sell cars. Yes. And you're not even going to lease a car. Right. What you're going to do is get credits.

You're going to buy credits. And let's say, you know, I'm just making up a number. You got 100,000 credits and each ride, the distance, takes so many credits and the type of vehicle will have more or less credits. So if it's just you going to work, you're gonna get the smallest number of credits and you're gonna keep your expenses low. If you're taking the family on a trip,

you're now ordering a bigger vehicle. But every vehicle is going to be different every day. Yes. What shows up at your house in the morning to pick you up is not going to be the same vehicle that came the day before. And isn't that the reluctance for guys like you and I, Rick, because we grew up in our automobile, we identified with the car that we drove. Of course. It was social status.

It was the way it made us feel. The memories we had tied to a particular vehicle or style of vehicle. How it made us feel. That's really your identity. But Klaus Schwab, remember old Klaus Schwab, he said at the World Economic Forum, you will own nothing. You own nothing. You'll lease everything. Right. Even the furniture in your house, everything will be leased. Right. That's the world that they want you to be in. Where you're in constant payment. You never own anything. You're always paying. Right. There's a constant flow of money. It's not even money anymore. It's just just gonna be digits isn't that the way we operate on our phones yes we just pay for what we want to use now video

you know in your home is a la carte too yes we just pay for what won't want to pay for a cable on a thousand channels when you only watch three that's right hey it's a changing world Rick it is so one week from today will be the last true news episode coming to an end after 26 years and It's surreal that I'm saying this But I have to do it. I'm not retiring. I'm not quitting. I'm not running away. I'm not doing anything I'll be here the following Monday.

But we're going in a new direction, and that new direction is focusing on teaching the Word of God through morning manna and teaching children the Word of God through a new project called the Ark Bible School. And that's going to take quite some time to build the Arc Bible School, probably two years and millions of dollars. It's a big project. But we'll be here every day, and we will be teaching the Word of God. I'm just not going to spend seven to eight hours a day looking at, researching, analyzing,

and talking about news. I've done all that I need to do in 26 years. I put my time in and I feel like there's nothing else left to say. I've said it all. I'm just repeating myself. There's a big war coming. We're in World War III right now. There's a big end of this war coming in sometime between 2030 and 2032 It's going to go kabang. Believe me. It's coming. I Don't know what else I can say to people. I want to spend my time leading people to the cross

discipling them discipling them, baptizing new converts, bringing children into the knowledge of Christ, getting their souls ready for what is coming to this world. And that's the reason I made this decision. I've wrestled with it for a long time. Doc knows that. I have wrestled with this. My staff was getting tired of hearing me talk about it. And then when I went to Myrtle Beach last year, last September, the Lord told me that True News had outlived its usefulness for him. He wasn't upset with it. He was, he was, you've done well, but I'm done with it son. Now I have another work for you. So put it to bed and begin working on the new assignment. That's where we're at right now.

I would greatly appreciate those who stay with us. Some will leave. I understand that. This will be a parting of the ways. My blessing to you. I hope you do well But you're just gonna go suck up more news someplace else not gonna do you any good It's just not gonna change. You're not gonna change it. It's not gonna change I'm not gonna get you closer to God not gonna help you on Judgment Day

One thing that you can do, just show me, are you with me in this transition? This is a step of faith. I mean, it's big. Who walks away from something that's twenty-six years old and successful? Who walks away from it? It's just not a logical thing to do unless the Lord is in it. And so I am by faith believing that a bridge, not a physical bridge, but a bridge will be made by the Lord for us to transition from true news to morning manna and the Ark Bible School. And when I say a bridge, there has to be finances that keep the staff going. If not, then we have to lay off everybody and shut down. That's not going to happen. It's not happening in 26 years. It's not going to happen next month. The Lord is going to do something. He has people who will catch the vision

and say, I'm with you on this. I believe it in my spirit. I feel this. It's time to get away from the news and focus on the second coming of Christ. And so that bridge, I believe that one way you can help me with this bridge is a $500 offering to the Lord. And we are going to give you, we're not selling to you a cross. It's a gift to you. It's a gift in appreciation. If you don't want the cross, that's fine. Go ahead and send the

$500 offering to be a brick in this bridge. Help build this bridge from True News to Morning Manna and the Arc Bible School. And I'm asking God for 600 people to step up and put down one of these bricks and build this bridge, because that's what we're going to need to make this transition. So there is the Ark. It's a beautiful – the cross. It is a beautiful work of art, hand-made by a local artisan who is a blacksmith and an artist. You ought to see the other things this man makes. Oh, incredible. I told him the other day, you need to open an art gallery.

I agree. He's got things, he brings us things that he makes and says, here, this is for you. I'm like, you ought to be selling these things. This is beautiful. So this is how this all started. He brought one of these crosses to me. And I said, this is awesome. Can you get me 15 or 20 more? And so it started with just 15 or 20. Now we're in the hundreds. And he's making them as fast as he can. I am believing, I'm speaking with my mouth,

I'm confessing that we will have 600 people who will join in this bridge, this faith bridge. So your gift can be sent by mail, you can make it out to True News, the True News account will be open for quite some time It's not going to go. It's just it's just a name Okay, it all goes into the account of faith and value so you can make a check out to faith and values or true news And you can send your letter to P. O box 399 399 Vero Beach, Florida 32961 32961 is the zip code you can also call 800-576-2116 and

You can go to truenews.com or faithandvalues.com and this banner is there. Just click it take it right to the Page where you can make your gift. But we will get one of these beautiful crosses to you. This is a solid piece of work and you will have it the rest of your life. Yes. It's a great gift to people. It's a great gift to your church,

your pastor, your Sunday school teacher, whoever. Your mama, somebody would like this. Mother's Day is coming up. That's right, I forgot about Mother's Day. This is very nice. Have you got a Christian mama? Here is a beautiful gift. I guarantee you she doesn't have one of these. And then in June, Father's Day is coming up. And there's one. Won't your dad appreciate that too? That's right. So let's get two of them, okay? But it is a very nice work of art. We'd like to send it to you. The other thing is my book, Final Day, which I wrote several years ago, it is part of the Amazon sale this week. Amazon is having a big sale on books, half-price sale, so for a limited time until Monday.

This coming Monday, final day is half-price, $9.99. This is a paperback, second edition, final day. And if you've not read this book, I'm telling you it will change everything you have been told about the second coming of Christ, you will not believe the rapture, secret rapture, seven-year tribulation, you know the whole story, you know the John Hagee, Tim LaHaye story narrative, you won't believe it after you read this book. The Scriptures will change your mind. It's full of Scriptures.

It just lays it out. It's ten things, ten chapters, ten characteristics of the second coming of Christ. What is that? Well, the Lord gave me this idea, and I went through the Scriptures and I took not everyone, I couldn't, the book would be twice as big if I had every scripture, but I found scriptures that talked about the noise. What noises are made when Jesus Christ comes back? So there's a chapter, His Second Coming shall be noisy. There's a chapter called His Second Coming shall be noisy." There's a chapter called,

his second coming shall be visible. I took all the scriptures about people seeing him. So I took these descriptions of the second coming, fiery. His second coming shall be fiery. There's a whole chapter on the fire. There are ten chapters. and I put all those scriptures I found about those topics in each chapter. I don't know anybody who's ever wrote a book about the last days in this style. It's unique and it's half price right now at Amazon until Monday and it is quickly selling out. I checked earlier today what the inventory was and it's being depleted. As soon as I get done this program, I'm going

to have an update on the inventory and I'm going to send out an email to tell you where we're at on inventory at Amazon. So you need to act. you need to act this weekend because a lot of people are taking advantage of this half price sale on final day. What else do we have Doc? Well let's see oh yes the buy one get one on the water filtration. Oh yes so American reserves, American reserves that's the British Brookfield water system. Buy one system and get the second one free. That is an awesome bargain. Fantastic.

Again, a great gift. That doesn't include extra filters. You'll get the filters that normally come with the unit. So each unit will have the appropriate number of filters in it. But you can't buy extra filters and get extra filters free. That doesn't include that. It's just the unit and the filters that come with it. So a lot of great opportunities. And most of all, I encourage you this weekend to spend time with your Heavenly Father.

Carve out some time to be alone with Him, to be quiet, talk with Him, listen to Him, communicate with Him. Just be still. Just have a conversation with your Heavenly Father and see what He tells you. And see what comes up out of your heart, what you tell Him. Because the Holy Spirit might just open you up and say, let's talk about this topic, and you'll be a better person after that conversation. All right, we've got to go.

Doc and I will be back here today. Morning Manna is Faith Friday. It's a good lesson about faith. It's a really good lesson about your mouth, speaking the words of faith, and then the Lord's Supper, Holy Communion, at the end of today's Morning Manna. That's it for today. See you on Monday. God bless you. Good morning.

Welcome to morning manna. And today is faith Friday. And in 2025, we have dedicated Fridays to the study of faith, because all of us need to strengthen and enlarge and develop our faith. And so today we will be focused on some scriptures that will encourage us in our faith. Later in today, in this Bible study, we will go to the Lord's Table for Holy Communion and we invite you to participate with us. Have bread in your choice of grape juice or red wine. And if the only requirements we have for your participation is that you are born again

your participation is that you are born again and you're baptized. And I would add a third, if there's anything between you and the Lord right now or you and another person, just take care of it, okay? But we always have prayer before communion, so we take care of that issue also. Well, let's begin our lesson today. Let's pray. Almighty God, our heavenly father, father, we worship you, we praise you, we glorify you, we magnify you. Father, we are gathered here today to learn more about faith in you. It's not just faith, it's faith in

you. So Father, we ask your Holy Spirit to take His seat at the head of the table of this morning man of Bible class and enlarge our faith. open our eyes, our spiritual eyes and our spiritual ears to see and hear the truth of your word that our faith in you would be enlarged, strengthened, deepened in Jesus name. Amen. So, Doc, we're going to spend today in the 11th chapter of Mark. And so I'm going to give you various scriptures to read throughout the lesson.

Let's start with Mark 11, verses 12 and 14. OK, all right. And so I'm reading from the King James today, Mark chapter 11, starting at verse 12. And on the morrow when they were come from Bethany he was hungry and seeing a fig tree far off having leaves he came if happily he might find anything there on and when he came to it he found nothing but leaves for the time of figs was not yet.

And Jesus answered and said unto it, no man eat fruit of thee hereafter forever. And his disciples heard it. Amen. So let's, before we begin this lesson, let's first consider the context of these verses in Mark chapter 11. It occurred during Jesus' final week between his triumphal entry into Jerusalem and the temple cleansing.

The cursing of the fig tree was a prophetic denunciation of Israel's pathetic spiritual state at that time. And Jesus spoke a prophetic judgment against Israel's spiritual barrenness. The phrase forever underscores the permanence of the curse. Now the purpose of the curse and its lasting effects are not the topics of today's lesson. This is Faith Friday. Again, the context of why he spoke these words was his denunciation

of the spiritual, again, barrenness. They were producing no fruit for God. It was a barren tree and so he spoke to it. But again, that's not the main message of today's lesson. You could teach another lesson about Israel, That's not the main message of today's lesson. You could teach another lesson about Israel, but that's not for today. So let's focus on, for right now, we'll focus on verse 14.

And Jesus answered and said unto it, no man eat fruit of thee hereafter forever, and his disciples heard it. The world english bible said Jesus told it may no one ever eat fruit from you again and his disciples heard it. So number one Jesus exercised his divine authority over creation. The King James Version says, and Jesus answered and said unto it. The World English Bible says Jesus told it. What's the it? A tree. Spoke to a tree.

Jesus Christ, the Son of God, talked to a tree. You ever talk to a tree? Jesus talked to a tree. He verbally instructed the tree to obey his words. He spoke to the tree with authority. Notice Jesus did not lift his hands and his eyes up to heaven and prayed to his heavenly father to curse the tree. Right. He spoke faith-filled words that he believed

would produce the results he desired. Yes. In all the Bible commentaries I read, all this was framed as this is a teaching about prayer. Not really. It's really about authority. It's about words. Yes. Words that you speak with belief. Jesus spoke with authority to an inanimate object, a tree, and said, Do what I tell you to do. He didn't walk away thinking, and I hope that I hope that tree dies before we return. Or my disciples will lose confidence in me. You know, maybe I should have somebody go, go back at night and pour some poison on the roots and kill it. Just to make sure. Just to make sure because I

did say for it to die. I mean if we go back tomorrow and it's green what's that gonna look like? Now as we're gonna see in verses and later verses, the tree obeyed his words. The tree said, yes sir, I'll die. I'll do it right now. The scripture says, and his disciples heard it. Jesus said it loud enough for everybody nearby to hear his words. He desired them to hear him speak to a tree. You think anybody punched somebody in the ribs

and said, he's talking to a tree. Okay, I've seen it all now. He's talking to a tree. Yes. You think that's something, wait until he tells you to start speaking to mountains. Right. So, but this was a teaching moment. You know, Jesus did His teaching, most of it was out in the field.

It was hands-on, field training. And so he deliberately spoke loud enough for everybody to hear him. Why? Because it was a faith lesson for the people who were there, but it's a faith lesson for us today. Now Doc, let's read Mark 11 verses 19 through 21. Okay. All right.

Mark 11, 19 through 21. And when even was come, he went out of the city. And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots. And Peter calling to remembrance, saith unto him, Master, behold the fig tree which thou cursed is withered away." Okay, so his spoken words produced immediate change. change. I think of Psalm 33 verse 9, for he spake and it was done, he commanded and it stood fast. When God speaks, it's done. Whatever he speaks to obeys. So the subject of our lesson today is not the reason for the curse of the fig tree,

but the method Jesus used to bring judgment on Israel. He used words. Yes. on Israel. He used words. Yes. The tree was dried up at its roots. The effects of his words were full and thorough. That's because his words produced the desired results. Now just some, a little bit, most of it, his words produced whatever he intended to happen. Now let's read verses 22 and 23. Okay. Verse 22,

And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God. For verily I say unto you that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea, and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he sayeth shall come to pass, he shall have whatsoever he saith." All right, so the fig tree's rapid withering underscores the immediacy, the certainty of God's response to our faith, the response to Jesus' faith. Right.

Again, Jesus didn't pray to His Heavenly Father and say, Oh God, please, if it be Thy will, curse this tree for me. Right. No, He spoke to the tree. Right. And you said it was immediate, but it wasn't instant, was it? It was an instant. It was immediate does not mean instant. Right. And so, because it was the next day that Peter noticed the fig tree, and so it wasn't necessarily instant, but it was inevitable. That I will say, because once Jesus spoke it, it was inevitable. And the process of dying began instantly.

Instantly, yes. But the tree wasn't dead until 24 hours later. And this is the way our healings take place many times. The moment you speak the word in faith, and you believe Jesus Christ and you believe his word for your healing, the healing is granted instantly. The physical manifestation may not show up for another day,

a week, a month. It doesn't matter. Your prayer was answered the moment you spoke it in faith. Yes. I hope you're getting that today. I hope that's getting down inside of you today because if you can grab this it's going to increase your faith. You know why a lot of people don't get their healings or whatever they're asking for, whatever they spoke in faith? Because it doesn't come instantly and immediately the devil starts saying see it didn't work did it and Within a day or two you're hanging your head going no it didn't work

It works for Rick. It works for doc. It doesn't work for me. I thought I'd get healed They said I'd be healed but I look I'm still sick. I don't or I'm still I don't have the money I need it didn't happen. I prayed for the money It didn't come whatever it is, right your words Yes, your words are undoing your faith And you're still believing you're just believing in unbelief now. Yeah, you're speaking unfaith There's faith in unfaith unfaith. There's faith in unfaith. Unfaith is unbelief. Well that's what Lord unbelief means. It means unfaith, right? Right. What is belief? My definition of belief is a thought energized with emotion.

energized with emotion. Not every thought is a belief. You have thoughts all day long that come through your head, pass, they're just passing by, they're on a trip, here comes a thought, okay? Doesn't mean you believe it. The thoughts that you attach your emotion to become your beliefs. And those thoughts have energy. They have emotional energy and they can be positive or negative. If you have negative thoughts about something or somebody, that's belief. You've energized with negative emotions. Do the opposite, energize your thoughts with positive emotions.

And turn that positive thought into a positive belief. It doesn't become a belief until you've energized it with emotion. No, emotions aren't bad. Emotions are good when they're used correctly. So, let's look at this again, Mark 11 verses 22 and 23. And Jesus answered, sayeth unto them, there's number one, saith, have faith in God. For verily I say unto you, there's number two, that whosoever shall say, there's number three, unto this mountain be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea and shall not doubt in his heart." There's the belief, the energized thought.

But shall believe that those things which he saith. There's number four. Shall come to pass he shall have whatsoever he saith. There's number five. Say and saith is in this verse five times. faith is in this verse five times. Do you think there's a purpose in putting one word in two verses five times? Jesus believed in it. First and foremost, have faith in God. And Jesus answering saying unto them, have faith in God. So before you do anything here, this doesn't work unless you have faith in God. That's the elementary beginning step.

Knowing that our heavenly Father is faithful, he's trustworthy, he's dependable, his word is true. We place absolute trust in God's ability and willingness to empower your faith filled words to produce the results that you desire for His Kingdom. You, well, these are things I want. Well, you should be wanting things for yourself that are for His Kingdom. Right. Oh, I didn't know that.

Yeah, get yourself lined up with the kingdom. Right. Most people will confuse a faith in faith as a faith in God. It's really just a hope. It's not really faith, because when you believe God, the God who does not lie, you have a guarantee that He will come through, because He's faithful, He's true, He does not lie, He does not fail. So when we say, have faith in God, it's not just some sort of amorphous, you know, spooky cloud that we're believing in here. We're believing because when you say have faith in God you're saying have faith in every word that he has spoken. Have faith in what God has said and start saying the things that God says.

Amen. So you can't have faith in God without knowing what he said. Right. That's why it's more important. You won't know what he said if you don't read what he wrote. He put it in a book. Everything that he said that we need to know about him and his kingdom is in one book.

Is there more out there? You better believe it, but we don't need to know it. If we did, there'd be another book in the Bible. Be like the Mormons, they got two Bibles. At least. Yeah, he put it all in the Bible. Who he is, what he is, what he seeks to do, everything that he desires you to know about him is in the Bible. Right. And he came to earth through his son who was born on earth as a human. And he said, you just study my son. Study him. Read his words. Know him. Get to know my Holy Spirit.

My Holy Spirit will live inside of you and teach you about me. So once you know his word, you'll, you'll eventually know his will for your life. Yes. And when you know his will for your life, your prayers, your words that you speak, your wishes, your desires, your requests will be in alignment with his will. Amen, Rick. And so when your requests are in alignment with his will and your words are in alignment with his words,

guess what happens? Whatever you say comes true. Have faith in God, have faith. Have faith is continual, perpetual. Always have faith. Not have some faith one day and no faith the next day. It's have faith. Continual, perpetual faith.

Bold faith will overcome deep doubt. Be bold. Have faith in God. And then start talking about it. Yeah, he says, whosoever shall say unto this mountain, say, the mountain symbolizes insurmountable obstacles and challenges. It's not necessarily, I'm gonna go over to the Rocky Mountains and I'm just gonna move them. Well, if we were all moving mountains physically, I mean, imagine what the world would look like. He's using a mountain as a teaching tool.

He's saying, you see that mountain is standing in your way with faith, you can tell that mountain to move. He's saying to you and me, you have mountains, you have obstacles, you have things in your path. You're sincerely, honestly seeking to walk the right walk in life to serve me, to please me. But there are obstacles in your path. Sometimes the devil puts them there, sometimes the world does, sometimes God does. And when God puts them in your path, it's not that he's

trying to block you, he doesn't have some kind of sadistic sense of humor. Watch this, I gave him an instruction and they're trying to obey me and I'm gonna put this obstacle in their path and frustrate them. That's not the way he thinks. But it would be I want to build their faith. I want them to trust me more. I want them to speak to that obstacle and see it move and know that I did it for them. And then your faith is stronger. Now, Satan puts it there to absolutely block your progress. But you can just blow him away with words. Your mouth is a mountain blaster.

I mean, just imagine if you had a gun that blows up mountains. You do, it's your mouth. You can also make mountains with your mouth. Mouth mountains. How many mountains have we built with our mouths? Each rock is a word that we spoke. And we've spoken so many bad negative words filled with unbelief criticism whatever contrary to God's will that we've built our own wall blocking our path. Yes. And we did it with our mouth. Yes.

That's okay. But your same mouth mouth can remove it. The same mouth that built that wall can tear it down with faith. So now, Rick, this wasn't an unfamiliar picture for his disciples about moving mountains, about moving mountains because the rabbis of the day had a name for people who were great teachers or people of great faith. They were known as the Okur HaRim and the Okur HaRim, that's what they were called, these great teachers. Okur Ha harem means uprooters of mountains. Didn't know that doc. Yeah and so Jesus is making a you know a direct comparison here saying listen you got these rabbis and stuff over here that talk about great teachers and great faith and everything. I'm telling you can have this great faith. If you have faith in God, you too can be an uprooter of mountains yourself.

You can be an okra haram yourself. And so it wasn't an unfamiliar picture in their minds. They probably had heard this before from other rabbis and other teachers, but never in the application that Jesus brought it into in faith. And that is that have faith in God and you too will be an uprooter of mountains as the rabbis have taught. That is a new insight. I've never heard that before. a new insight. I've never heard that before. The message Jesus is giving us is nothing is impossible when we believe. Absolutely. We are capable of achieving the impossible. No obstacle can stand in the way of God's saints who are carrying out his instructions on behalf of his kingdom on earth.

So the condition, and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass." That means that faith without doubt that's aligned with God's will unleashes divine action in heaven. And Jesus is making the point here, it's available for everyone. It's not for a special person. It's not for a super rabbi. It's not for a king. It's not set aside for someone that has a special class or anything like that. No, he's saying you, you have faith in God and you will uproot mountains. You will. It's not reserved for someone else. You will. Doc, Walt Disney, I don't know what his religious faith was. I don't know what his walk with God was, But he was an amazing man who did not allow obstacles to stand in his way, who dreamed about things that nobody had ever done, and built two of the most amazing theme parks

ever built on earth. I watched a video about him last week and it had a lot of video footage of him talking about his plans. And I was impressed at the confidence he had that his dream would come true. That's what came through in that video, his confidence that his dream would come true. Yes.

The people around him, his own employees didn't believe it could come true. Right. In fact, I remember, this is years ago and I don't remember who said it. It was a top executive of the Disney Corporation after Walt Disney died. Maybe this comment came in the maybe in the 90s, you know, and he said, we still have plans written by Walt Disney that we don't know how to implement. Well, that's vision there. Yes. And James Rouse, who I recognize that name because he was quoted in this video. James Rouse was a legendary urban planner. He

designed and built the city of Columbia, Maryland, which back back in the 60s, 70s, Columbia was like the the futuristic city this is the way cities are going to be built. But he said no Epcot. Epcot is the most futuristic city known to man. Right. And they still haven't implemented everything in Epcot. That's what I'm talking about. That's what that executive was saying. There are plans for Epcot. We don't know how to do it yet. how to do it yet. Yeah. You know, Rick, I grew up in the Brunswick and Missouri area in Missouri. And Walt Disney was from Marceline. Marceline was about 10, 15 miles north of

where I grew up. And so that was, you know, where he went to church. We went to church on regular basis. He was actually named after his pastor. Really? Who baptized him. I didn't know that. Yeah, who baptized him as a baby. When we talk about faith, we first of all have to believe in something.

When we talk about faith in God, we're believing his word. And to use that picture of Walt Disney, when you go to Disneyland out in California or in Main Street USA or you go to Disney World over here in Orlando and you go to Main Street USA, you are looking at downtown Marceline, Missouri. you are looking at downtown Marceline, Missouri. Really? The main street? Honestly, you are because I know what downtown Marceline looks like. I grew up around it.

We would go up there and say, this is where Walt Disney grew up. They even had a sign in Marceline Main Street, USA. When you would go to the theme parks, you were seeing really Marceline, USA. And so when you would go to these, the theme parks, you were seeing really Marceline, Missouri. And so Walt Disney brought that vision, if you will, his belief, what he saw, and now brought it to the whole world. And we do the same thing with the Word of God. We see it, we receive it, and then we speak it. And Walt Disney did the same thing with the things he saw as a youngster growing up in Missouri, and then brought those things to life. Why? How? By the words that he spoke.

He said, I'm going to build this. This is what I'm going to build. And so there's power in the words, even in the natural, there's power in the words that we speak, but how much more in the absolute promises of God? Say, say, say, say, say. That's the message. By the way, Doc, I heard a story many, many years ago, and I've never tracked it down to find out if it's a legend or a true story. That Walt Disney as a boy met Samuel Clemens, who was Mark Twain. Mark Twain was from Missouri. Walt Disney was from Missouri. And Disney was born in 1901.

Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens died in 1910. I heard a story decades ago. And again, I've never been able to verify it, that Walt Disney was on his family farm and he was supposed to be working and he was doodling, he was drawing cartoons. And his father came over and grabbed the paper and tore it up and told him to get busy, stop wasting time. And Walt Disney, you know, kind of ran away to get away from his dad and took a walk and met an elderly man on the walk. And that man was Samuel Clemens.

I don't know if that's true. Well, then, and I remember as a kid watching Wonderful World of Disney, and they did a special one night about Walt Disney and about his dream, and they did a dramatized version of that meeting that when Walt Disney was a little boy he met Mark Twain and told him to pursue his his dream. That's true. And that suppose I mean they put it in this

documentary and that's why you see that's why you had the riverboat rides at Disneyland and Disney World. You know, as a throwback to Mark Twain, and they even call it Tom Sawyer's Island and everything. So you know what, maybe where I heard it was watching Walt Disney TV show. That's probably where I heard it. You know, as a kid. Now, supposedly that maybe it happened, maybe it didn't happen, but it's a great story, no matter what. But, you know, But it was kind of like the baton was being passed one from Mark Twain to Walt Disney storyteller, righter, visionary.

Well, that's good to know. Getting back to these verses, okay? Jesus said, verily I say unto you, whenever Jesus said verily, that said, hey, you can take this check to the bank and cash it. I'm telling you, that said, hey, you can take this check to the bank and cash it. I'm telling you, I'm saying to you, and this is the truth and it's the absolute truth. Yes.

It's always the truth. Verily I say to you, It's always the truth. Verily I say to you, if thou can believe all things are possible to him that believes. Yes. If you can believe, can you believe?

Can you believe? These signs shall follow them that believe. That's what Jesus said, these signs shall follow them that believe. You know why we don't have healings and miracles and signs and wonders in the churches today? Because we don't believe. Yeah, we've been told that God is powerless, that he doesn't have the ability to do things that he's always been able to do. And you're right, he won't do it because you don't believe. Have faith in God. These denominations teach he's changed his name from I am to I was. I could, but I used to be. I'm really old now. Just think how old God is.

The ancient of days. He's ancient. He calls himself ancient. Well, anybody who's ancient, you know, can't be up to what they used to be. But that's what's taught the seminaries. Jesus said, if you can believe, all things are possible. He said, these signs shall follow them that believe. If pastors and preachers and Christians in churches would believe there would be signs in the churches, the signs would happen.

These signs shall follow them. It's like you turn and look behind you. Hey, look at that. There's a sign. There's wonders. There's miracles and healings. They're just following me. Why are they following you?

You're speaking God's word. You're speaking God's word with faith and power and belief. You believe the words that you're speaking. Therefore, the signs and wonders, the miracles are following you. You don't have to work them up. You don't have to conjure them up. You don't have to say, well up you don't have to say well i'm going to lay hands on this sick person i sure hope they get healed no you speak god's word and the signs are following you the word gets them healed yes if they believe the word they see they have to believe If they believe the word, they see they have to believe. If they believe all things that speaks of God's infinite

power, if thou can believe that challenges you and me to exercise active unwavering faith in God and his word. Faith opens the door to divine action. Without faith, the door is closed. Right. Have faith, speak his words, believe it, believe what he said. See if pastors would believe that these signs shall follow them that believe, their churches would be full of miracles. But they're not full of miracles because they don't believe. So

these signs will not follow those who will not believe. Precisely. Let's look at this one more time. I want to read this now. Count, say, or sayeth, and Jesus answering, sayeth unto them, have faith in God. For verily I say unto you that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea, and shall not doubt in his heart, into the sea and shall not doubt in his heart,

but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass, he shall have whatsoever he saith. Five times. Let's recap it. Jesus said it. There's the first thing. He said these words that automatically makes it true. It doesn't say Frank said it. Yes.

Jesus said it. All right. It's true. Yes. so Jesus said it first. And he said the very first thing you need is have faith in God, your heavenly father, have faith. That means that means you believe he is who he says he is and he does what he says he does. Yes. And that his words are true. That's your faith right there. Right. That it is his will to heal you. It is his will for you to prosper. It is his will for you to be in good health as your soul prospers. He said it. That's how I know. He said it. Therefore I have faith in him, I believe him.

Then Jesus said for verily, again, modern, folks take this to the bank, this is for real. I'm telling you the truth. I say unto you, here again, Jesus is speaking to us. Jesus says, I'm saying to you, Doc Burkhart, what's he saying? That whosoever, that means the whole human race,

the entire human race is available. This is available to every man and woman on the planet. Not to a special class, not to individuals, everybody. Yes. Whosoever shall say with his or her mouth, unto this mountain, be thou removed, be cast into sea, and shall not doubt in his or her heart. As you're saying it, you're thinking, as this isn't gonna work. See, if you're saying something you don't believe, you just nullified the action.

If you're saying something, saying, I'm gonna try to act religious here, but in your heart, you're going, I don't believe this. I just don't believe this is going to happen. But I'm going to say it. I don't believe it. Well, you just, you, you negated, nullified, you, you've canceled out what you were saying. Right. nullified, you've canceled out what you were saying, right,

shall not say in his heart, but shall believe in his heart that those things which he saith out his mouth shall come to pass, he or she shall have, shall possess whatsoever anything you saith. And that's why it's important sometimes Rick that even if we lack the ability to do it, find someone who will say it. Find somebody in your life who will believe

the word of God and say it for you. And believe that they have faith for you. Yes. Believe that they have the faith for you. So I'm going to give you a real life true example. This happened last night. Okay. And then we'll go to communion. I don't know, so maybe three or four years ago, I experienced something at night in bed asleep, and that was a very severe muscle spasm in my leg. And then weeks later it happened again, and then over a couple of months,

I noticed I'm having muscle spasms. I better find out what's causing this. So as I did research, first thing I learned was, oh, this comes with aging. And I remember thinking, well, isn't this wonderful? What else is, what are the other benefits out there for getting older? What's going to happen when I'm in my 80s? I didn't know about muscle cramps in my 70s. What happens to you in your 80s? That's the way I was thinking. Like, okay, this is new

to me. I've never had this before. So, you know, I read, okay, it can be from dehydration, low magnesium, comes with aging sometimes. Hey, just because you're getting older, it happens, okay? So, okay, I'll deal with this. So I started taking magnesium and, you know, trying to make sure I was hydrated all the time. And, you know, I'd go months without spasms, okay? And one night, I was sleeping on my side

with my legs bent, kind of in a fetal position. And I turned over on my back and stretched my legs. I turned over on my back and stretched my legs. And I instantly had muscle spasms in both thighs. Doc, I never had a spasm ever in one thigh, let alone two. I'm not exaggerating. It was the worst pain I've ever experienced in my life. Oh, I know, yeah.

Okay, so the way I would describe it, imagine somebody thrusting a butcher knife in your thigh and then splitting open your leg, but doing it to both legs at the same time. Yes. Oh yeah. I've been there, done that. You've had them in your thigh? Yes. Oh, oh, it was horrible.

Oh, so painful. It was breathtaking. I was gasping, gasping. And I was begging God, oh God, please help me, help me praying. Oh God, please take this pain away. And the first time it, you know, this lasted for over five minutes. I couldn't get any relief talk and can't move. You can't do it.

You can't move. I'm trying to get up to, I can't even the moment I make the slightest move. It got worse. Okay. to I can't even the moment I make the slightest move it got worse okay so that create a fear in me what if this happens again I don't want this to happen again you mean every time I go to bed I have to think about these kind of spasms I'll just stay up all night I'll never sleep again I can't do it was horrible so anyhow you know I got on you know I did the necessary things magnesium water everything like that and and like I said it would go

sometimes I would go five six months without a spasm and then it would happen again. So doc, this is the truth. Last year, I woke up in the night with spasms. And I think they were in my calves. I don't think it was in my thighs, but I think it was in both of my calves. And I immediately thought, oh, it's happening again. This is gonna be horrible. Okay, call the ambulance. I can't take it, okay? Just knock me out.

And I got myself out of bed and I'm leaning on the nightstand trying to stand up and I'm crying out to God, oh God please Jesus help me, help me take away the pain Jesus, please take away the pain. And doc, I'm not exaggerating this, I know the Lord's voice, I know when he's talking to me. I know the Lord's voice. I know when he's talking to me. And the Lord said, Brick, I want you to take it away. I knew where you were going with this. And this is the honest truth.

I said to him, and I'm gasping, I'm trying to hold myself up on the nightstand, okay? And my legs are just throbbing with pain. And I'm saying, oh Lord, can we have this conversation in the morning? I knew. You're like a lesson right now. Well, I knew he was about to give me a lesson.

And I actually said, oh Lord, can we have this lesson in the morning? Could you just take away the pain now and then teach me in the morning, please. And he's like, Rick, I want you to take it away. And I, I was having a conversation with Christ as I was gasping for air saying, Oh my Lord, it hurts so bad. Please make it stop. And he's still talking to me. as I was gasping for air saying, Oh my Lord, it hurts so bad. Please make it stop. And he's still talking to me.

And I finally said, Okay, Lord, what do you want me to do? He said, speak to your muscles. What? Speak to your muscles. Use my name and speak to your muscles. I said, okay, I'll do it. I said, leg muscles, relax in Jesus' name. Be still. Peace be still, muscles, in Jesus' name. Doc, instantly the spasm stopped. Praise God. Instantly. praise instantly instantly

so ever since that night that was a year ago whenever these spasms have hit me i no longer fear this is going to be excruciating pain i just immediately get out of bed and speak to my legs. Praise God. Happened last night. Okay, so when I went to bed last night, I asked the Lord to give me a theme for today's lesson.

Because when I went to bed last night, I didn't know what I was gonna talk about today. So I got leg cramps. I spoke to the cramps. And he says, why don't you tell them about this today? Praise God. Tell them to speak to the pain. Speak to the mountain.

Yes. If Jesus can talk to trees, and he can tell you to speak to mountains, then why can't we speak to leg cramps? That's right. You can speak to muscles. What do you want the muscle to do? Relax? Yes. Relax. Relax. Be still, be peaceful. And a couple of times as this has happened, it's like it'll relax and then you could feel it starting up again.

Stop it, stop it, muscle, obey in the name of Jesus obey, relax. And now I just go back to bed and I don't think about it. Yes. I don't have that fear that something horrible in the night's gonna happen and I'm gonna be screaming in pain. So what is it that you fear? What is it that Jesus is tormenting you with?

Speak to it. Master it. Master it with the words of the master. Yes. Yes, Mary said I just spoke to my headache and went away. Yes. Amen. And what's our in the natural? What's what do we normally do in a situation?

Where's the aspirin at? Or whatever it might be, instead of immediately speaking to the mountains. Yes. And notice in this passage here, I know we're short on time, that Jesus didn't say, now here's what you got to do. You got to ask the Father, oh Father, you see the mountain and Father, you know, you see that mountain. It's big, it's a big mountain, it's got snow on the top.

It's, you know, it's gonna be hard to move, Lord, but you can move it, God, you can move that mountain. That's not what this says, does it? No, but that's the way it's being taught. Right. You speak to it. Right, with His words. Rosanna said,

I put my hand on my lungs and speak healing and I breathe. Praise Jesus. Josie said, I spoke to pain yesterday while I was praying. It wanted to interrupt my prayer time and the pain stopped immediately. To God be the glory. People are doing this. Praise God. They're doing it. Our class members are doing it. You're speaking to things and it's obeying. That pain was trying to interrupt Josie's prayer. She took control, she took authority over it. Amen. And the pain obeyed her words.

This is what I love seeing that your faith is growing I love seeing that your faith is growing as you're attending Morning Manna, and you're doing things now on your own. Now, Diane, I have stopped the ringing in my ear. Praise God. Praise God. Susan Thomas, I speak to bad dreams and they stop. Amen. Susan, I'll tell you, use that he gives sleep to his beloved. Yes.

All right, there's your word. Find a word about sleeping, about rest. Speak those words to those dreams that are interrupting you. So you're learning it, you're getting it. Praise God. All right, let's go to the Lord's table. Amen. And we appreciate you being here with us today and sharing the Lord's table with us.

We're going to pray for a blessing of the elements of communion here, which consists of bread and either red wine or grape juice. We're going to ask for the Lord's blessing on those elements of the Lord's table here. Before we do that though, we always ask the Lord to search our hearts for those things where we fall short. We all fall short of the glory of God, all have sinned, but at the same time we have the opportunity to ask forgiveness and to settle things before the Lord. Today's theme has been on faith as we regularly do on Fridays, but changing our attitude

instead of saying, you know, the Lord has granted us amazing ability with faith to speak. And instead of asking God to do some things, Let's start believing God and speaking those things. Maybe in our prayer today, Rick, before you enter the Lord's table, Lord, forgive me for those times where I've not taken that step of faith and spoke and agreed with your word. Because sometimes in the natural it's easy to fall back on old habits and where's the aspirin or oh I gotta rub something on my leg, whatever it might be, instead of speaking first and say in Jesus name I say, in Jesus name I say. And so for me Rick, that's going to be an area where I'm say, Lord, I've fallen short on that.

Vicki said, it's not the first time I've heard that God told someone to heal themselves. Yes, this is the faith the Lord wants you to have. That you don't have to go to a preacher, you don't have to go to a healing meeting. You speak the word yourself. to go to a preacher, you don't have to go to a healing meeting. You speak the word yourself. Right. To yourself. With belief, with faith.

The Lord spoke to me a couple weeks ago about, well, it was, I guess, a month or so ago when I was dealing with a respiratory problem. And I said, Lord, this is embarrassing. Here I am teaching faith and healing and I'm wheezing and coughing and the enemy is going to make fun of me in this. And the Lord spoke to me and said, I never promised you wouldn't get sick. I promise I would heal you.

You can't get healed if you're not sick or hurt. It changed it for me. It's like, yes, you're going to get sick from time to time. That's going to happen, but you can count on me healing you. So the next phase in our walk with God is that when we develop any kind of ailment, pain, whatever's going on, you speak to it. Don't spend weeks and months with a pain, a sickness, hoping that'll go away, speak to it.

Speak to it with faith in the name of Jesus. And things will just you'll be surprised how quickly something will go away. Amen. It I've noticing it doc a lots of things something will just pop up in my body. I'll say I'll command it go away in the name of Jesus. I'm not going to tolerate that. And it's gone. And there's a day or two later, I'll like, Oh, Lord, I need to thank you. I just realized that that that pain's gone. Thank you.

So that's the that's the walk he desires you to have that you are. You're ministering to yourself with faith in him. Amen. All right, let's pray almighty God father Father we come to you with grateful hearts thankful hearts Father we desire to have more faith stronger faith

To bring glory to your name to exalt your son Jesus, to expand his kingdom by bringing sinners into your kingdom because they see faith in action. And so Father, forgive us for when and where we have lacked faith and we've been negligent but father now we're learning about faith and we're putting it in action and teach us privately in our homes in our cars and trucks teach us more about faith and give us opportunities to apply faith, to apply your word, so that your Son Jesus is glorified. Father, we thank you for giving us your Son, and that because of His sacrifice, we are forgiven and we are

promised eternal life in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Praise God. Thank you, Lord, for that opportunity. And now, if you have the elements of the Lord's table, we're going to pray a blessing over that and participate in this most holy sacrament that Jesus not only told us to do, but also gave a promise with it too, that one day we would share that table with Him. And I'm looking so forward to that day when we are with Jesus. Let's pray. Almighty God in your tender mercy you gave your only begotten Son Jesus Christ to suffer death upon the cross for our redemption. He offered himself and made once for all time a perfect and sufficient sacrifice for the sins of the whole world. He instituted this remembrance of his passion and death which he commanded us to continue until he comes again. So Father, we ask you to bless and sanctify with your word and with your Holy Spirit these

gifts of bread and wine that we may partake of his most blessed body and blood. Christ, our Passover lamb has been sacrificed once for all upon the cross. Therefore let us keep the feast. Hallelujah. On the night that he was betrayed, our Lord Jesus took bread and when he'd given thanks he broke it and gave it to his disciples saying, take eat. This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me. The body of our Lord Jesus Christ was given for you, preserve your body and soul to everlasting life. This is the bread of heaven.

Take and eat in remembrance that Christ died for you. After supper, Jesus took the cup and when he'd given thanks, he gave it to them saying, drink this all of you. This is my blood of the new covenant which is shed for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins. Whenever you drink it, do this in remembrance of me. Praise God. Hallelujah. Glory to God. The blood of our Lord Jesus Christ which was shed for you, preserve your body and soul to everlasting life. Drink the cup of salvation in

remembrance that Christ's blood was shed for you and be thankful. Behold the Lamb of God, behold him who takes away the sins of the world and blessed are those who are invited to the married supper of the Lamb. This sacrament is the gift of God for the people of God. Feed on Him by faith with thanksgiving that Christ died for you praise God how do we feed on him by faith my faith we just by faith ate the flesh drank the blood of Jesus Christ by faith we feed on him and how else do we feed on him he is he is the bread of life we feed on the bread of life. We feed on the bread of life.

And how do we do that? We consume His word. He's the bread of life. Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. Yes. The bread of life, you eat it. The word of God, you eat it every day.

A couple announcements. First of all, see these little communion cups? See these little communion cups? Very soon, within the next one to two months, we will have morning manna communion cups. Okay? Right. Right? You'll be able to get a box of morning manna communion cups and something else. We are there's a there's a a wood craftsman in the Holy Land in

Jordan Who this very hour this right now is? hand building his hand making olive wood communion cup Box right. I don't know yet. How many communion cups is going to hold? wood communion cup box. Right. I don't know yet how many communion cups it's going to hold 25, 30, 50.

I don't know. It's I haven't seen it yet. I don't have the box yet, but you'll be able to put your communion cups in this box. It will have the morning Nana logo, what you see behind me, it will have it etched into the olive wood top and as I said they're being made this very hour right he's been he's been working on them for many many weeks and I got word yesterday that he's he's three-fourths finished with our first order.

So I guess by the time they get on a boat and get here, we're probably looking at sometime in June. Right. I'm thinking. So anyhow, those are things that are coming up for morning, Madam. Yeah, I'm very excited about that. By the way, these little communion cups here, they have bread in the top here and then the grape juice in here and it's all self-sealed and everything

and so it's very convenient and we're going to be setting things up where you can get these from us and so we're looking forward to that. So many of you have asked for that. And so we are delivering on promises. Promises made, promises kept. Sebastian, he said, I went across, but I can't afford it yet. What you can do, well, Doc, we need to set this up. I'll talk to Paul about it today, or you. We can set it up that people could make.

Speak it, Rick. Speak it. Yes, speak it. Sebastian, say, I have. See, you said I cannot afford it. You said it. Let's rephrase that. Say, I can said it. Let's rephrase that. Say I can afford it.

By faith, I can afford it. Yes. What I was getting ready to say is that maybe we can set up a way that you can make faith offerings, maybe three or four in smaller chunks. And so over time you can have it, you can have your faith pledge fulfilled and we can send the cross to you. We'll find a way, but speak it.

We'll have conversation about that. But you know, Sebastian, okay, I'm gonna give you, what you need is miracle money for a cross. So say to the Lord Lord say to the Lord If you give me miracle money for a cross I will send The appropriate amount of the miracle money To faith and values to receive the cross and you can keep the rest whatever he gives you. All right just say that to the Lord by faith I need miracle money to receive one of these crosses

I want to donate I desire to donate 500 US dollars to faith and values and I'm doing this by faith to faith and values. And I'm doing this by faith. And watch what happens. Watch how quickly the money shows up. That's miracle money. That's a great challenge for everybody on here today. Some of you said, yeah, I'd love to have a cross butt. Well, let's get the butt out of here.

And get the faith in. And get the faith in. And just ask the Lord for that miracle money. This would be a great application of teaching on faith. And speak with your mouth, I have the $500. I have it by faith in Jesus Christ. Yes. And if you need more money, if you need more money for yourself, then speak it with the pledge that you're sending the 500 for the cross when God gives you. If he gives you $1,500 in miracle money,

guess what, you're ahead. You came out a winner. You get a cross and you have thousand dollars left over. Right. But what you do with that thousand is up to you. Right. But you're doing this by faith. Yes. You're doing it by faith and you're speaking it. You're putting faith, belief, words, you're putting this all to action and giving, generosity. Wow. That's an explosive combination, Doc. And I can't tell you how many times,

and I just wanna encourage people on the Miracle Money side of things, because there's a lot of people that brush it off or say negative things about it, or poo-poo it, or whatever. I'm telling you, it works. Cindy, wait a minute, Cindy, Cindy, Cindy, we're not selling crosses. Just don't go there.

Don't go there. Don't, don't, please don't do that. We're not selling crosses. We're giving you an opportunity to put your faith into action to support this ministry. We're going to use the money to teach the word of God to little children. I'm not selling crosses. Yeah, okay. If you want to buy a cross go to Walmart. I'll tell you what cindy just send the 500

And we won't send the cross to you All right, do that do that by faith send500, I won't send a cross to you. I'll use the $500 to build the Ark Bible School. Okay, do that. I'll keep the cross, I'll give it to somebody else. I'm not selling crosses. So, come on folks, don't do this to me. I don't like that.

Okay, time for me to go to work. Bye everybody. All right everyone. Well thanks for joining us here on Today's Morning Manor. We love you very much. And we're going to jump right back into Romans on Monday. God bless you. we love you, we'll see you on the next edition of Morning Manet.