The "Bad Guy With A Gun"....Who Stops Hi...

In this deeply moving episode, Michael reunites with legendary one-handed MLB pitcher Jim Abbott, whose incredible journey is now the focus of the new ESPN documentary "SOUTHPAW". Abbott shares how he overcame bullying, physical limitations, and public doubt to throw a no-hitter ... Show More

Michael dives into a hot-button issue with today's poll question at Smerconish.com: Should religious leaders be permitted to endorse political candidates in churches and other religious centers without losing their tax-exempt status? The IRS just made a quiet but potentially seis ... Show More

Michael speaks with New York Times reporter Christopher Flavelle about the tragic Texas floods that have claimed over 100 lives so far. They discuss critical staffing shortages at the National Weather Service that may have impacted warnings and emergency response. Then, Michael c ... Show More

In the battle to dismantle gun restrictions, raging in America’s courts even as mass shootings become commonplace, a Times’ investigation has found that one study has been deployed by gun rights activists to notch legal victories with far-reaching consequences.Mike McIntire, an i ... Show More

A bad guy with a gun.At 09:30am on the 14th December 2012, the staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School locked the school's doors, a security precaution they took every day. At 09:35 a gunman shot his way through a glass panel and entered the school. By 09:40am twenty children and s ... Show More

Warning: this episode contains descriptions of violenceIn 2023, the unrelenting epidemic of gun violence in the United States has claimed the lives of more than 41,000 people. Throughout the year, each and every one of those shootings was chronicled by a website that has become t ... Show More

The New York Police Department said they arrested a 27-year-old man early Wednesday morning with a cache of weapons. According to the NYPD Chief of Department, officers searched his SUV and found a gun, large amount of ammunition, handcuffs, multiple knives, two axes and other it ... Show More

 Joe Spoke with Bloomberg's Joe Carroll live from the NRA convention in Houston, Bloomberg Congress reporter Steven Dennis discussed negotiations for a gun control package in Congress, and panelists Adam Goodman, Republican media strategist, and Edward R. Murrow senior fellow at ... Show More

President Biden has heralded the recent gun safety bill as the most significant federal attempt to reduce gun violence in 30 years.But after a gunman opened fire from a rooftop onto a Fourth of July parade in a Chicago suburb, questions abound about what the landmark legislation ... Show More

President Biden calls on Congress to ban assault weapons as the nation reels from back to back mass shootings. The gunman who opened fire in Tulsa on Wednesday has been identified as Michael Louis, a disgruntled patient of one of the victims. This, as the focus of the Uvalde scho ... Show More

Across the United States, hundreds of towns and cities are trying to get guns off the streets by turning them over to businesses that offer to destroy them.But a New York Times investigation found that something very different is happening.Mike McIntire, an investigative reporter ... Show More

Matthew McConaughey took over the White House on Tuesday to lecture Americans on guns. It wasn't all bad, but the bad stuff was HORRIBLE! We break it down point by point. Also, pro-abortion extremists are on the rampage, and you won't see it on the news. And the FBI has failed, o ... Show More

As questions continue to grow over the police response at the Robb Elementary School massacre, the former head of the FBI’s active shooter program Katherine Schweit tells Don that Uvalde police officers didn’t follow their training, and says we must ask ourselves if their current ... Show More