Date: May 23, 2025
Host: Jim Schneider
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From studios in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Crosstalk brings news items to listeners each Friday to keep you informed. Here’s a sample of what was shared this week:
–Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has been coming under fire for leading Pentagon staffers in prayer. Jim provided audio.
–Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer.
–Former President Biden’s last prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test was done in 2014. Is it possible the president had cancer at the start of his presidency?
–U.S. Senator Ron Johnson sent letters to 28 former Biden cabinet members regarding their knowledge of President Biden’s cognitive and health decline during his time in office and while running for re-election.
–President Trump vowed an investigation into the Biden administration’s use of the presidential autopen.
–The autopen controversy also involves a whistleblower. Department of Justice official Ed Martin, who’s now a pardon attorney overseeing a weaponization task force, has named in the alleged scheme Anita Dunn, Bob Bauer and Ron Klain. Martin indicated that the president can use an autopen, “… but he must be mentally fit for the contract to have the force of law.”
–Federal authorities arrested and charged a 32 year old with assault after she allegedly spit on Ed Martin in May.
–The suspect accused of killing two Israeli diplomats in a terrorist shooting at a Jewish museum in Washington, D.C., could face the death penalty.
–The Department of Defense has selected a design for President Trump’s Golden Dome missile defense initiative.
–Wednesday morning the U.S. Air Force launched a nuclear capable “Minuteman” ICBM capable of delivering a nuclear warhead to anywhere on earth.
–During a video of Hillary Clinton’s appearance at a Newmark Civic Life Series Talk in Manhattan, she explained how she believes that the importance of having children is overrated and that a renewed focus on family life would be to go backwards.
–Iranian/U.S. negotiators are resuming talks today in Rome to resolve a decades long dispute over Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
–A series of Israeli airstrikes last week killed Mohammed Sinwar, the defacto commander of Hamas in Gaza.
–The Department of Defense accepted a Qatari-owned Boeing 747 aircraft as a gift that the U.S. military will modify to be the next Air Force 1.
–Striking a defiant tone Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laid down his conditions for the end of hostilities.
Other stories included: Ukrainian prisoners released today in an exchange with Russia; the One, Big, Beautiful Bill; ten prisoners escaped from a New Orleans jail…and much more!
