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We're always pleased to welcome U.S. Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin to the show. This week he joined us on the morning the President was set to unveil his executive orders on guns. We spent some time talking about that topic and turned the conversation to national security and the President's failed foreign policy...

  Congressman Adam Kinzinger (IL-16) joined "Riley & Scot" this week to talk about the recent terror attack in California and the President's address from Sunday evening. However, we couldn't let him go without asking him about the recent comment from Donald Trump about to barring all Muslims from entering the country, taking down the Internet in certain places, and possibly endorsin

Every morning, Riley & I have the in-studio television monitor tuned to “Fox & Friends” on FNC to see what’s being discussed. It’s been this way as long as we’ve done our show together, and we often remark that we never get to hear the actual voices of the hosts or guests; we only read them on the closed-captioning. So ...

Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner has temporarily suspended accepting new Syrian refugees to the state. The news comes in the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris and the revelation that at least some of those involved apparently entered the country while embedded in the current wave of Syrian war refugees...

WROK’s Hugh Hewitt continued his conversations with the 2016 presidential candidates on Tuesday night as U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham joined the show. You can listen to the full interview and find the transcript at Hugh’s website. Graham is a foreign policy hawk and is expected to make the issue a focal point of his campaign...

U.S. Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin joined the show this week to discuss the thwarted terror attack in Texas and whether the government can be doing more to identify and track those who might be willing to take part in such activities. Johnson tells us we're trying to find a needle in the haystack, and the problem is the stack keeps growing and there are more needles to be found...

Earlier this week Jorge Ramos of Fusion TV asked Sen. Marco Rubio a question about whether he'd attend a friend or family member's same-sex wedding or commitment ceremony. As Guy Benson points out at Townhall.com, Rubio handled the "gotcha" question as well as could be expected: Rubio says he absolutely would attend a loved one's gay wedding, out of love for that person...

A Madison man has been charged with trying to provide support for ISIS. According to the U.S Justice Department, 34-year-old Joshua Ray Van Haften intended to travel to Iraq or Syria to join the militant group. He was arrested Wednesday at O’Hare Airport in Chicago...

An Illinois National Guard member has been arrested for allegedly planning an attack on an northern Illinois military base. According a statement from the Justice Department, 22-year-old Army National Guard Spc. Hasan Edmonds was arrested at Midway Airport Wednesday night while he was attempting to fly to Cairo to join ISIS...

U.S. Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin joined the show this week to discuss the DHS funding bill in the Senate, the continued threat posed by ISIS, and his re-election strategy for 2016. Johnson says the Obama administration is not providing the leadership needed to mount an effective fight against ISIS terrorists...