Aug 13, 2026 3-5pm ET
Thursday on The Robert Scott Bell Show:
Hour 1
Special Guest: Jonathan Emord
For the past 37 years, Jonathan W. Emord has litigated against the federal bureaucracy, winning over and over again. Ron Paul calls Jonathan “an expert in constitutional theory and history” and “an expert litigator with a long string of legal victories over the federal bureaucracy.” George Noory calls him “a Knight in Shining Armor” and “a warrior out to save our rights.” Congressmen Dan Burton and John Doolittle describe him as “an intellectual warrior for the rights and freedoms of people in America.” Jonathan has a unique, detailed knowledge of the federal bureaucracy, the deep state. He knows how to defeat it. Jonathan graduated from the University of Illinois (BA, political science and history, 1982) and DePaul University College of Law (JD, 1985). He served as an attorney in the Federal Communications Commission during the Reagan administration. A leading constitutional law and litigation expert, he is the author of five critically acclaimed books. He has won more cases against the Food and Drug Administration in federal court than any other attorney in American history, earning him the nickname “FDA Dragon Slayer.” He is a columnist for Townhall.com, PJ Media.com, Americangreatness.com, and the U.S.A. Today Magazine. He frequently appears on national radio and television programs. He is married to Sheryl Emord, and they have two children, twins Justice and Angelica. They reside in Clifton, Virginia.
Trump’s Executive Order on Vaccines — What Does It Mean? Experts Weigh In President Donald Trump’s executive order signed Monday calls for reducing the number of diseases for which children receive routine vaccines, aligning U.S. recommendations with peer countries, spacing shots across separate visits, exploring alternatives to aluminum adjuvants, and directing the Justice Department to investigate states that may violate parental rights, religious freedom, disability accommodations, and medical or religious exemptions. Children’s Health Defense CEO Mary Holland described it as a significant commitment to freedom, while Dr. Jane Orient called it a positive step that will stimulate currently squelched debate, and CHD’s Brian Hooker said it contains positive steps toward addressing the chronic disease epidemic. Attorney Rick Jaffe noted that executive orders lack the force of law, school vaccine mandates fall under state police power, and the order has little immediate operative effect on the CDC schedule or state requirements, though states have already begun diverging from federal guidance. CHD’s Karl Jablonowski observed that anything done by executive order can be undone by one and that limited time remains before the next election to conduct needed science and implement changes. A federal court stay continues to block prior CDC schedule changes and new ACIP appointments pending the AAP lawsuit appeal. Experts questioned the federal government’s authority to compel religious exemptions, noting courts have not recognized a constitutional right to them, though funding leverage or DOJ investigations remain possible tools, and Jaffe suggested the order’s greatest near-term impact may occur in exam-room conversations by legitimizing shared clinical decision-making and spacing of shots. CHD advocacy director Michael Kane highlighted the timing near midterm elections as signaling that medical freedom has become a mainstream Republican issue, with HHS plans due within 90 days.
Fauci contempt vote presents DOJ with ‘incredibly messy’ choices The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved a criminal referral for contempt of Congress against Dr. Anthony Fauci after he invoked his Fifth Amendment rights 111 times during a hearing, but the measure has not been vetted by the full Senate, creating pitfalls for any Justice Department prosecution. Former prosecutors note that traditional process requires full chamber approval while in session before referral, and bypassing it risks allegations of vindictive or selective prosecution, with one describing the approach as incredibly messy and political. Experts argue Fauci has a strong Fifth Amendment claim based on reasonable fear of prosecution given statements by Sen. Rand Paul seeking to put him behind bars, even though Republicans contend a Biden pardon covering 2014 to January 2025 eliminates that fear, though gaps remain for potential perjury or state-level charges as three state attorneys general have issued subpoenas. Judges are typically cautious about questioning Fifth Amendment assertions, Paul’s long history of calling for Fauci’s prosecution would complicate the case, and securing a grand jury indictment in Washington, D.C., where Fauci remains popular could prove difficult. The Trump administration may also hesitate because pursuing the case could undermine the value of presidential pardons that the president has indicated he plans to issue preemptive ones for his own team.
Republicans vote down farm bill amendment enabling lawsuits against pesticide companies, a blow to MAHA Senate Republicans on the Agriculture Committee voted down along party lines an amendment to the farm bill offered by Sen. Cory Booker that sought to clarify that pesticide labeling requirements under federal law do not block lawsuits against chemical companies for failure to warn of additional health impacts and would have authorized companies to list cancer warnings on labels. Booker described the measure as restoring the fundamental right of cancer victims to have their day in court and said he would continue pushing for the protections despite the defeat, accusing the administration of abandoning its Make America Healthy Again promise. The amendment followed a recent Supreme Court ruling that language in the nation’s pesticide law requires companies to list only health impacts formally recognized by the EPA, thereby blocking state-level failure-to-warn lawsuits, a decision that arose in a case involving Monsanto’s Roundup glyphosate product which the EPA states does not pose a risk to human health under lawful uses while thousands of lawsuits have alleged a cancer link. The vote represents a blow to pesticide critics within the MAHA movement even as some MAHA-aligned House Republicans pursue similar efforts, and the Senate committee also failed to advance the broader farm bill itself.
Unhappy Anniversary This month marks 55 years since President Richard Nixon closed the gold window in 1971, severing the last link between the US dollar and gold under the Bretton Woods system in which foreign currencies were pegged to the dollar and the dollar was redeemable for gold at 35 dollars per ounce. Rising concerns over dollar stability from spending on the Vietnam War and Great Society programs led foreign countries to convert dollars into gold, prompting the closure that left the US with a pure fiat currency. The dollar has since lost over 97 percent of its purchasing power from the Federal Reserve’s 1913 creation, with most of the decline occurring after 1971, making fiat money the real cause of the affordability crisis. Closing the gold window enabled the Fed to monetize growing federal debt, which rose from around 400 billion dollars in 1971 to a trillion dollars a decade later and now exceeds 39 trillion dollars while increasing by a trillion every three to five months. Expanding debt pressures the Fed to keep interest rates low because even small rate increases substantially raise government interest payments, while average paychecks fail to keep pace with inflation and erode living standards. This fuels wariness of economic interventions such as tariffs, more spending, and government investment in private business as well as appeal for democratic socialists promising further spending, though expanded government by either party would worsen debt, further erode the dollar, lower living standards, and risk a major crisis including loss of the dollar’s reserve currency status. The event inspired the author’s congressional runs and educational efforts, including a 2021 conference on the fiftieth anniversary.Hour 2
Breaking Up MMR Vaccine Will Benefit Kids — But It Could Be Years Before Single Shots Are Available President Donald Trump’s executive order calling for the measles, mumps, rubella vaccine to be administered as three separate single-disease shots once domestically available and for childhood immunizations to be given at separate medical visits to the maximum extent feasible is viewed by doctors, scientists and medical freedom advocates as a long-overdue step that would increase parental choice and potentially reduce vaccine-induced inflammation by spacing doses, though separate products could take years to become available. Dr. Robert Malone stated that spacing reduces the amount of vaccine and adjuvant a child’s immune system handles at once, while Daniel O’Connor noted greater flexibility for examining safety outcomes but warned of scheduling challenges and temporary unprotected periods if parents delay. Dr. Ben Edwards and Andrew Wakefield, whose 1998 Lancet study linked MMR to autistic regression and gastrointestinal issues in some children before its retraction, highlighted historical interference between measles and mumps components and the withdrawal of monovalent measles vaccines, with Wakefield calling the schedule bloated and inadequately tested. Brian Hooker said separate shots would allow lower live-virus doses to avoid interference and described MMR safety as a crap shoot, citing 95,296 VAERS reports including 500 deaths since 1990 and the Hannah Poling vaccine-court award. Monovalent measles vaccines have been unavailable in the US since around 2009 after Merck discontinued them due to manufacturing constraints, and reapproval would likely require years of effort with limited manufacturer incentive given market dominance of the combined product. The HHS Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines has 90 days to develop options for individual core vaccines while keeping combinations available, amid ongoing debate over autism links that mainstream groups deny.
Special Guest: Ty Bollinger
Ty Bollinger is a happily married husband and father, a CPA, health freedom advocate, health researcher, former competitive bodybuilder, talk radio host, and best-selling author. After losing several family members to cancer, Ty refused to accept the notion that chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery were the most effective treatments available for cancer patients. He began a quest to learn all he possibly could about alternative cancer treatments and the medical industry. What he uncovered was shocking. There is ample evidence to support the allegation that the “war on cancer” is largely a fraud and that multinational pharmaceutical companies are “running the show.” In 2006, after almost a decade of cancer research, he published “Cancer–Step Outside the Box) which (now in its 6th edition) has become a best-seller (over 150,000 copies sold) and has been called the “most eye-opening book since 1984.” Ty has now made it his life mission to share the mot remarkable discovery he made on his quest: the vast majority of all diseases (including 
cancer) can be easily prevented and even cured without drugs or surgery. In 2011, Ty collaborated with his colleague, Dr. Michael Farley, to edit and publish a revolutionary book on medicinal herbs entitled, “A Guide to Understanding Herbal Medicines and Surviving the Coming Pharmaceutical Monopoly.” Drawing on over three decades of personal experience, observation, and research of Dr. Michael Farley, the book provides a refreshing and enlightening yet simple to understand guide on the medicinal uses of natural herbs. the book simplifies and demystifies herbal medicine and puts it back within the grasp of all who want to reclaim some control over their health options. Teaming up with Dr. Farley once more, in October 2012, Ty published 
“Work With Your Doctor to Diagnose and Cure 27 Ailments With Natural and Safe Methods.” This is a book that contains scientific research and studies to support every treatment that is, contained in its 500+ pages, including natural treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, MS, diabetes, E. Coli, cardiovascular disease, bubonic plague, and Celiac disease. In 2013, Ty published “Monumental Myths of the Modern Medical Mafia and Mainstream media and the Multitude of Lying Liars That Manufactured Them.” This expose was written to help wake people up from their slumber, to help them unplug from the matrix and to help them realize that almost every “official story” of the past century is nothing more than a “monumental myth” fabricated y those who want to control us and keep us asleep, deceived, and obedient. Ty speaks frequently to health groups, at seminars, expos, conferences, churches, and is a regular guest on multiple radio shows, television shows, and writes for numerous magazines and websites.
Question of The Day!
I’m not sure where or how ot search for previous episodes. I’m interesting in finding the one about urine therapy homeopathy- Robert said he talked about this 2 years ago.. – and I’d like to find it,, If possibly can you email it to me please? I’m a Nurse Coach for folks recovering. from Enivoronmental Illness. I saw RSB at the AAEM recently. Thank you
Katharine
Welcome back to another “Homeopathic Hits” episode on The Robert Scott Bell Show!
Today’s Homeopathic Hit is Magnolia grandiflora, commonly known as Magnolia.
Boericke presents this remedy with rheumatism and cardiac lesions as prominent features, especially where there is stiffness, soreness, erratic shifting pains, and alternating pains between the spleen and heart.
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