Episode Details
Back to EpisodesIssues And Ideas: News Commentary & Politics Analysis With Chris DeBello October 4 2026
Description
Join us for this Best Of edition featuring commentary, analysis and insightful conversations about the latest current events, news and politics including the current status and future of Social Security, American elections and Donald Trump's claims of voter fraud, the actions by ICE which have resulted in deaths and how the Bible defines leadership.
If you haven't already, please subscribe and follow us.
If you already have, THANK YOU! Please share the Issues & Ideas With Chris DeBello podcast so others can learn the facts and truth about the important issues in America today.
(00:00) Charles Blahous, Senior Research Strategist with the Mercatus Center and former Public Trustee with the Social Security Administration, explains how and why Social Security has fallen into the current financial state and what is needed to strengthen it.
(11:48) Ken Block, who was hired by the 2020 Trump campaign to prove that voter fraud existed, tells stories from that experience, the validity of Trump's claims about elections and gives his insight into the voting system.
(28:25) Molly Linhorst, staff attorney with the ACLU-NJ, discusses the deaths of immigrants while in ICE custody, the conditions of facilities they're being held in and the ways these issues need to be addressed.
(44:55) Chris DeBello reveals what the Bible establishes and instructs about leaders and leadership.