The Adult in the Room

Kyle Rittenhouse is a free man after his acquittal on murder charges this past Friday. Adult In The Room's producer, Kenny Hitt, joins the program to help dissect the controversial "Hocus Pocus Out of Focus" video introduced by the prosecution, and to talk about why bad practices with video evidence could bite both prosecutors and defendants. Then, the one and only Kurt Schlichter returns to give his always-lively thoughts on the trial, its repercussions for self-defense cases in America, and the prosecutors' ethics (or lack thereof). Shop books by Kurt Schlichter on Amazon! Kyle Rittenhouse and the Red-Pilling of America by Kurt Schlichter at Townhall.com TOP STORIES Rittenhouse Jury Has Questions – Prompting Even More Questions From Verdict Watchers Defense Wants State to Try Rittenhouse Again?! Mr. President: CALL OFF YOUR MOB BREAKING: NBC/MSNBC News BANNED From Kenosha Courthouse Stuck Rittenhouse Jurors Ask to See Hocus Pocus Out of Focus 'Provocation' Video and All Hell May Break Loose KYLE RITTENHOUSE NOT GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS How Unethical Were the Prosecutors Trying to Put Kyle Rittenhouse in Prison? Let Us Count the Ways... We Need 'Kyle's Law' to Put DA's on the Hook for Lying to Create Political Show Trials MORE INFO VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

The Law of Self-Defense's Andrew Branca joins this special edition of The Adult in the Room. The jury has convened to begin deliberations after one of the most bizarre and controversial courtroom dramas in recent memory: the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse. Andrew gives his thoughts on the decision to put Rittenhouse on the stand, how effective he feels both sides' closing arguments are, and why the judge made a wise call in getting rid of the weapons charges against him. Buy The Law of Self-Defense: The Indispensable Guide for the Armed Citizen by Andrew Branca on Amazon TOP STORIES: Wisconsin Gov. Puts National Guard on Alert Before Rittenhouse Verdict – Something He Didn't Do for 2020 Riots Until It Was Too Late BREAKING: Judge Drops Controversial Charge Against Rittenhouse Before Jury Gets Case The Media Were All Wrong. Kyle Rittenhouse Legally Possessed Gun at Kenosha Riots YouTube Cuts Off the Best Real-Time, Legal Coverage of Rittenhouse Trial and Immediately Regrets It Shorter Prosecution Wrap: Kyle Rittenhouse Deserved It; Should Have Fired Warning Shot or Taken Beating During Kenosha Riot. Now the Jury Decides. HUGE: People Who Know About Self-Defense Against Leftist Mobs Are in Kenosha to Support Kyle Rittenhouse MORE INFO: VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

Karl Brauer of iSeeCars.com is the guest today for a deep dive into how the current supply chain mishaps are affecting the sales & prices of both new and used cars in this country. Could this lead to a new crisis in the auto industry? Plus, a hip-hop ode to the "Let's Go Brandon" chant tops the charts despite censorship by Google, Dan Bongino is MIA after speaking out about his station's vaccine mandate, Portland students have a walkout in support of a vaccine mandate, and an activist rounded up as part of the January 6 investigation speaks out about his situation in jail as he awaits his day in court. Buy "Let's Go Brandon" by Bryson Gray on iTunes TOP STORIES: West Coast, Messed Coast: 'Let it Burn,' Animal Style Washington State Football Coach's Firing Just Gave Away Governor's 'Illegal' Mandate Trick Play Ugly: He Urged Jan. 6 Protesters to Attack the Capitol, but Is This Instigator Really a 'Fed! Fed! Fed!'? Rittenhouse Trial: Judge Rules Defense Can Call Teen's Kenosha Attackers 'Rioters' and 'Looters' Radio Silence: Where's Dan Bongino? Report: Joe Biden's Insane Plan to PAY $1 Billion to Illegal Aliens Separated by Trump's Border Policy West Coast, Messed Coast: 'Homelessness and Homicide' Edition MORE INFO: VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

On today's edition of The Adult in the Room Podcast, Victoria welcomes two guests with a lot to say about mandates, government control and freedom. First up is radio host Todd Herman, who also gives his thoughts and memories of working with the late, great Rush Limbaugh. Then, she welcomes Dr. Chris Rake, an anesthesiologist with UCLA Medical Center who was recently escorted from his workplace for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine. TOP STORIES: West Coast, Messed Coast: It's Hammer Time Twitter Censors Obit of Washington Woman Who Died From Covid ... Vaccine L.A. County Sheriff Says No to Forced, 'Politicized' Covid Shots for Cops Amid Already 'Catastrophic Shortages,' Oregon Nurses Get Ready to Walk Over Forced Covid Vaccines And Just Like That, Washington State's Fire Marshal Will Lose Job Over Forced Covid Shot MORE INFO: VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

PJ Media's Stacey Lennox joins the program, and she has a lot to say about a lot of things, including parental choice in education curriculum, the continuing legal fallout from the January 6 Capitol riots, media fear-mongering driving political division & strife, and Trump's recent interference in Georgia's political process. Check out Stacey's work at PJ Media, and join her on the Loftus Party Podcast with comedian Michael Loftus! TOP STORIES: West Coast, Messed Coast: The Secular Taliban Wins DeSantis Orders Biden to Keep His Federal School Board Cops Out of Florida Now the FBI Is Investigating Your Google Searches. Here's What You Need to Know. Thank God (and Mitch McConnell) Merrick Garland Isn't a Supreme Court Justice The COVID Purge Begins: UCLA Med Center Doctor Escorted Out by Security for Refusing Shot MORE INFO: VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

Pass the vinaigrette, because General Mark Milley is tossing a word salad worthy of Delta House as he's grilled by Congress over the disastrous pullout from Afghanistan. Plus, useful idiot (she's legally an adult, so don't even start) Greta Thunberg whines before a global warming handshake party masquerading as a conference about how we're all eating meat and how people in the Sahara are using air conditioning, but her arguments are anything but verbose. TOP STORIES: It Gets Worse: Look Who Worked Together to Frame Donald Trump With Fake Russia Hoax West Coast, Messed Coast: Redemption Edition FBI Narrative About the Jan. 6th Capitol 'Insurrection' Is IMPLODING Here's What We Did With Our California Recall Ballots The 'F*** Joe Biden' Chant Is EVERYWHERE Portland TV Station Cancels News for One Day to Deal With 'Stress.' Did Anyone Notice? Things Just Got Worse for the Marine Who Slammed Pentagon Brass for Afghanistan Disaster in Viral Video It Starts: Dem Leader Gives Biden a Pass on Disastrous Illegal Alien Policies Because of How He Identifies More Federal Indictments Issued Against Hillary's Lawyer for Russia Hoax Op Shots Fired: Iconic Gunsmith 'Smith & Wesson' Gets the Hell Out of Springfield, Massachusetts MORE INFO: VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

Author, veteran, columnist and attorney Kurt Schlichter returns, as cantankerously as always, to discuss the aftermath of the California recall, why accusations of widespread fraud are ridiculous, and why -- despite his conservatism -- he has no desire to leave the Golden State. He also gives his thoughts on the disastrous pullout from Afghanistan, as well as the current generation of military leadership and why he's recommending that young people not join the military. PLUS: Victoria gets her California ballot -- despite not living there in over a year -- and another Trump conspiracy theory goes up in smoke. Shop books by Kurt Schlichter on Amazon! TOP STORIES: You'll Have Only One Question When You See This Hospital's COVID Shot Religious Exemption Form: Is This Thing Legal? Portland Activists Survey Themselves and Conclude Un-Woke Cops Are to Blame for Their Riots Latest Durham Indictment May Make Russiagate the Most Corrupt Scandal in U.S. History Antifa Activist Sues Portland Police for Livestreaming and Showing Faces of Rioters BLM Organizer Sues L.A. After Cops Surround Her House ... to Save Her. Then It Happens Again. MORE INFO: VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

The recall is over, and unfortunately Gavin Newsom has managed to hang on to his seat as California governor. Red State's Jennifer Van Laar joins the program to talk the post-mortem...what went wrong? What went right? And will California ever manage to get itself free from under the treads of the Democrat party machine? MORE INFO: VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

Joe Biden isn't hiding his motives anymore: "This is not about freedom or personal choice," he said while announcing his unconstitutional, unenforceable plan to force employers to vaccinate their staff or face heavy fines from the Department of Labor. But could that cause more problems than it potentially solves? Plus, it's judgment day for Gavin Newsom, as opposition frontrunner Larry Elder, an African-American, is attacked by a white person in a gorilla mask and somehow that isn't racist, because reasons. TOP STORIES: Joe Biden's 9/11 Legacy: Treating Terrorists Better Than the American People Man Gunned Down by Antifa Assassin During 'Summer of Love' Sues Portland for Millions Here We Go: Irregularities Reported in Newsom Recall Election 'Put a Stake in the Heart of Evil': #MeToo Actress Backing Larry Elder in California Recall MORE INFO: VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

Retired Marines Scott Huesing & Mike Rosen join the program to give their thoughts on the Afghanistan withdrawal fiasco, including the deaths of 13 US warriors and Joe Biden's inexcusable behavior when their remains arrived home. Learn who they believe benefits the most from the retreat, and their own personal feelings as veterans seeing their work come to naught. PLUS: Teachers are busted discussing on video their intention to radicalize public school students! Purchase Scott Huesing's Echo in Ramadi: The Firsthand Story of US Marines in Iraq's Deadliest City on Amazon TOP STORIES: What Took You So Long? After Years of Antifa Assaults, Portland 'Journalists' Finally Muster Outrage at Latest Attack Military Brass Finally Fire Someone for Afghanistan Debacle ... the Marine Who Called Them Out 'America Hates You': Mom of Marine Killed in Kabul Writes Scathing Message to Joe Biden—and Is Silenced by His Big Tech Buddies Here's One Guy No One Thought Joe Biden Would Leave Behind in Afghanistan MORE INFO: VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media