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Charlie James talks missing kids, campaign post boxes, and USAID fraud.

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In this segment of The Charlie James Show, host Charlie James highlights law enforcement efforts that successfully recovered nearly 80 missing children in Ohio, contrasting the achievement with a lack of mainstream media coverage. He then takes a call from Christina in Travelers Rest, who raises questions about campaign fundraising practices involving shared P.O. boxes and the status of government fraud uncovered by Elon Musk's DOGE initiative. James notes that while much of the USAID fraud was halted, broader fraudulent practices across various federal programs continue to operate.

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Full Transcript Charlie James: Man, times have changed. Um, they really have. When you look at how many children went missing under the Biden administration, it is—it is absolutely mind-boggling. It really is. And the fact that Tom Homan um and and—and his folks have been able to recover a lot of those kids, and he gets absolutely no press coverage whatsoever. None. Under Joe Biden, we're talking about almost 300,000 kids went missing released into the United States, completely lost track of during the Biden administration. Mainstream media, they didn't want to hear anything about it, and they still don't want to hear anything about it. They don't even acknowledge when children are found. Now, listen to this: an extensive month-long operation by the U.S. Marshals Service has recovered nearly 80 children that were reported missing or endangered in Ohio. It's the largest operation in state history. Let me tell you something, folks: when I was growing up, you want to talk about—let's even talk about early '80s, mid-'80s—if the Marshals Service found 80 missing children, that would have been headline news for days! Absolute days! But now, what do we get from the mainstream media? You get nothing. So the effort here was helped by Cleveland's Amanda Berry, who more than a decade ago became one of the most stunning abduction cases in U.S. history when she escaped after being held captive for a decade with two other girls in her kidnapper's home. Yesterday, Ohio's Northern District director of service announced in a statement the conclusion of Operation Meridian, which was launched in August in coordination with federal, state, and local partners, and resulted in the recovery of 79 children ages 6 through 17 in various parts of the state. Meridian focused on children reported missing due to a range of circumstances, including suspected sex trafficking, physical and emotional abuse, neglect, runaways, and other forms of endangerment. Almost 80 kids! The United States Marshals Service, through its Fugitive Task Force, locates and arrests the most violent fugitives in our communities. Using the same resources and methods, we have the ability to seek and recover missing and endangered children. We are proud to be able to assist our law enforcement partners in locating and reuniting missing children with their families. That's—that boggles the mind! "Hey, 80 missing kids were found!" "Oh, okay. All right, what's the—we got a good story?" "I just told you, 80 missing—" Yeah, it doesn't matter. We don't care. We don't care that these kids are being reunited with their families. Folks, when I tell you that this country's lost our soul, that's what I'm talking about. Let's go to Christina in Travelers Rest. How you doing, Christina? Christina: Okay, thank you. Charlie James: All right. Christina: I have two, maybe three now, informational questions to ask you. So when you—when the term "data center" is used, is that synonymous with AI? In other words, are—are the data centers being used for anything else BUT AI? Is the term synonymous or— Charlie James: That's where everything is stored. I mean, whenever you take a picture and you send it to the cloud, that's where it's going. Christina: Hm. Okay, so it's not necessarily—so a data center is not necessarily synonymous with AI. Charlie James: No, they're not the same thing. They're not the same thing, but that's where the data is stored to feed the AI programs. Christina: Ah, ah, okay. So, of course, this whole AI thing, as—as Tara has pointed out, it's the absolute Catch-22. We HAVE to keep up or keep ahead of the Chinese, but yet, but yet as that very informed lady was saying earlier, the AI may may kill us all off by the end of the decade. So that was my—that was my first question, so thank you very much. So my second question is, I'm sure you, being a like a registered Republican like I am, get like a 4-inch stack every day of campaign materials. So, so—but I actually like ...

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