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Just the News Evening Editor Ben Whedon says U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika likely had a hard time buying Hunter Biden’s claims that his case was politically motivated when denying his motion to dismiss gun charges. “This is about him allegedly lying on a federal gun form about being a drug user while he’s actually trying to buy a gun. And then it’s also charges related to him possessing that gun while still being a drug user,” Whedon explains.

Heritage Foundation Senior Fellow and former Pentagon official Brent Sadler says Iran’s unprecedented attack on Israel last weekend shows how meaningless President Joe Biden’s verbal warning to Tehran was. Sadler says the Biden administration’s warnings without actions are why Russia and China do not take the United States seriously.

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Heritage Foundation Senior Fellow and former Pentagon official Brent Sadler says the FBI needs to investigate whether a cybersecurity attack caused a shipping vessel to crash into the Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 26. “It doesn’t mean that it is the cause but [it], at the very least, needs to be seriously looked at,” Sadler says, noting that a month before the incident, the White House issued new guidance about Chinese cranes with cyber-attack vectors.

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Taxpayers Protection Alliance Executive Director Patrick Hedger says government software programs don’t have a good track record when it comes to protecting Americans’ data. Hedger notes that the IRS has not addressed any of the 15 security recommendations made by the Government Accountability Office last August.

Taxpayers Protection Alliance Executive Director Patrick Hedger says taxpayers should skip the IRS's new tax filing program and stick with using a private tax preparer. “The IRS hasn’t proven that it can walk and now it’s trying to chew gum and become a software company? That’s not something it really should be doing,” says Hedger.

Former Federal Prosecutor Kash Patel says the FBI and DOJ's warrantless surveillance of Americans is the sole reason the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act needs to be reformed. “It’s not Donald Trump. It’s not the media. It’s the fact that the FBI and DOJ broke the law themselves and broke the American trust in the FISA process that it’s even on the cutting table to begin with,” says Patel. “I think we need to focus on that and make sure we assist Congress in instituting reforms that actually matter and not just political victories in the headlines.”

Former Federal Prosecutor Kash Patel says New York Judge Juan Merchan was acting with “political purposes” when he told former President Donald Trump he would have him arrested if he did not appear in court for every day of his criminal trial. “The two-tiered system of justice is wildly on display here,” says Patel.

Robert Greenway, Director of the Center for National Defense at the Heritage Foundation, says Iran is making an “enormous windfall” from its booming oil exports. “To put it in perspective, one year of the Iranian Defense Budget at its apogee is about $50 billion. So if you made $100 billion off additional resources under the Biden administration, that’s two entire years' worth of a Defense budget. That’s, that’s [an] absolutely staggering amount and all of that goes to support terrorist and surrogate proxies around the region,” says Greenway.

Robert Greenway, Director of the Center for National Defense at the Heritage Foundation, says Iran’s unprecedented attack on Israel over the weekend is a direct declaration of war. “The region is looking at what the United States and Israel are going to do in response to it,” Greenway says. “And if nothing is done, they’ll judge that a green light continues to exist.”

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Real America’s Voice Correspondent Ben Bergquam says the presence of Mexican and Venezuelan cartels in low-income communities within big cities will spark a red wave in November. “Assuming we have fair elections, we’re going to see an uprising in the inner city for Trump and for MAGA that we’ve never seen before,” says Bergquam.

Real America’s Voice Correspondent Ben Bergquam says African, Middle Eastern, and South American countries are sending their worst criminals to our borders. Bergquam says illegal immigrant crossings at our northern border has increased 12 times the amount it was during former President Donald Trump’s administration.

Real America’s Voice Correspondent Ben Bergquam says tens of thousands of illegal immigrants who want to cause harm to our country have already crossed our southern border. “There is no doubt about it, we already have enemies within,” says Bergquam.

Dr. Shea Bradley-Farrell, President of the Counterpoint Institute for Policy, Research, and Education, says her new book “Last Warning to the West: Hungary’s Triumph Over Communism and the Woke Agenda” dives into the ties between the left’s woke agenda and Soviet-era communism. “We are dealing with the very same things; the diminishment of parental rights by our government, promoting legalized abortion as healthcare. This comes right out of Marxism,” Dr. Bradley-Farrell explains.

Dr. Shea Bradley-Farrell, President of the Counterpoint Institute for Policy, Research, and Education, says she does not trust President Joe Biden’s new executive order on women’s health research because of his administration’s push to incorporate transgenderism into women’s spaces. “They are obsessed with mixing transgenderism with women’s initiatives and policy,” says Dr. Bradley-Farrell. “Every policy that they’ve put out, whether it’s domestic like the White House Gender Policy Council or [the] State Department’s Women Empowerment Policy, all of them mix transgenderism, so called “transgender rights” with women’s issues.”

Tim Murtaugh, former communications director for President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign, talks about his comeback story in his new book “Swing Hard In Case You Hit It: My Escape from Addiction and Shot at Redemption on the Trump Campaign.” Murtaugh shares how he triumphed over his decades-long struggle with alcoholism and worked his way up to a senior leadership position on Trump’s reelection campaign.

Representative Ralph Norman (R-SC) says President Joe Biden is intentionally stifling taxpayers through his economic agenda. Rep. Norman says the Biden administration’s “answer to everything” is more taxes and more regulations on small businesses.

Representative Ralph Norman (R-SC) says President Joe Biden’s new student loan forgiveness program won’t improve his polling numbers. “He’s trying to justify everything he’s doing. He cannot justify the unleashing of illegals into this country. He cannot justify the crime that’s going on with basically no consequences. He’s grasping at straws, but that doesn’t surprise me,” says Rep. Norman.

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Just the News Senior Correspondent Nick Ballasy says it’s unclear how House leaders will proceed on FISA reform despite the deadline being one week away. Ballasy says House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) might consider a “clean” renewal of the current legislation that would extend the law for a short period of time while lawmakers continue negotiating.

Stacy Washington, “Eternally Cancel Proof” author and host of “Stacy On The Right,” says Democrats are threatened by former President Donald Trump’s moderate position on abortion. “I think they’re afraid that he and his moderate stance will appeal to voters who really don’t care about abortion,” says Washington. “They want to know how can they get their 401ks back up, how can they seal up the border, lower crime, how can they spend 25% less on groceries like they did when Trump was in office."