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Fox Across America w/ Jimmy Failla

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4.4 • 840 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 112 minutes

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On this episode of Fox Across America, Jimmy Failla explains how late-night hosts like Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert stopped trying to do comedy when they decided to get purposeful. Former Trump 2024 Deputy Communications Director Caroline Sunshine shares her thoughts on who’s out there participating in the ongoing anti-ICE demonstrations in Minneapolis. PLUS, co-host of “The Five” Jessica Tarlov stops by for a civil discussion about the Trump administration’s approach to illegal immigration. [00:00:00] Kimmel tears up during monologue about Minneapolis [00:39:45] Liberals ramp up anti-ICE rhetoric [00:58:45] Caroline Sunshine [01:17:08] Enten reveals polling on Trump’s immigration strategy [01:35:33] Jessica Tarlov Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Everywhere USA, it's Fox Across America with Jimmy Phelon.
0:14.3	Oh, hot damn, here we go, here we go.
0:20.7	Comedy alive from the greatest country in the world,
0:23.4	broadcasting from the tippy top of the world famous Fox News headquarters in New York City.
0:28.0	It is Fox Across America with Jimmy Fela, a man who has never cried on a late night comedy show.
0:34.7	No, ma'am, because if you're crying on TV, you're not a comedian. You are a
0:41.1	Jimmy Kimmel. Correctamundo. Okay, Kimmel, continuing his job to laundering talking points for the
0:49.3	Democrat Party last night, opens with a tearjerker about Minneapolis that...
0:54.6	That was embarrassing.
0:55.5	And it was misleading.
0:56.9	And we're going to get into it in this hour and show you how activist comedians are failing
1:02.1	comedy fans, but misleading Democrat talking points are failing the whole entire country.
1:08.8	888-88-9910, the phone phone number if you want to be a part of
1:13.0	today's show. It's a stack deck episode of the show, if ever there was one. Caroline Sunshine is
1:18.0	going to be here. She worked on the Trump campaign. She worked in the Trump White House.
1:22.6	She was a star on the Disney Channel. Think about that. She was on the Disney Channel, and then she went on to
1:29.5	work for Trump. So, I mean, in her reboot of 101 Dalmatians, the dogs get eaten by migrants in
1:36.0	Springfield, Ohio. Stop it. But if ever there was a show that really did throw its doors open to all
1:44.0	types of viewpoints, political identities,
1:47.4	and stuff of that nature, we are going to close the show today by sitting down with Jessica
1:54.0	Tarloff.
1:55.2	No, God! No, God! Please no! No! No!
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