Americans are over-diagnosed with mental health issues to receive chemical treatments rather than taking care of the spiritual lack at the root of the problem, according to Dr. Greg Gifford. Gifford, an assistant professor of biblical counseling at The Master’s University, appeared on Morning Wire on Sunday to talk about his recent book, “Lies My Therapist Told Me,” in which he dissects an over-diagnosis of mental health issues in the United States. Far more Americans are diagnosed with mental health problems, such as depression and anxiety, than are truly suffering from physiological issues. Many such problems can be solved if the patients are willing to address deeper spiritual issues, according to Gifford. “When you believe that all that there is is a natural explanation, when you have a naturalistic worldview, then you’re looking for a naturalistic category to explain what’s happening in your inner person,” Gifford told Daily Wire reporter Megan Basham. “Naturalism has set the stage for us to blame things on our brain that are not truly brain issues.” Christmas Sale – Get 40% off New DailyWire+ Annual Memberships The process for diagnosing mental health issues relies on flawed arbitrary, naturalistic science. In addition, once a person is diagnosed with a mental illness, the “therapeutic terminology” used to describe a supposed chemical imbalance comes to define how a patient sees themselves–as a patient with an illness rather than a person with a spiritual crisis. In reality, many people are missing a proper understanding of themselves and their relationship with God, leading to tension in their “mind” and soul that has been confused for a biological problem with their brain, according to Gifford. “The mental health movement has actually confused the brain and the mind and used medical terminology to describe the immaterial mind, and our mind is not material. You can’t touch it. You can’t put it under a microscope. You can’t study it with scientific methods because it’s immaterial,” said Gifford. To heal many problems seen as mental illness, Gifford says that people should go see their pastors before seeing a therapist. “As a Christian, if you’re saying, ‘Wait a minute, I need to go to my psychologist, my therapist, to help me with my mind,’ I’m saying, no, I think you should actually go to your church and look to your pastor, and look to the means of grace that God has provided to bring about mind renewal, which is what the Bible calls it,” said Gifford. “You’re going to see better results than what your psychologist was ever going to provide for you.” Watch the entire interview here.

CBS News legal analyst Jan Crawford insisted that despite recent history suggesting otherwise, 2026 would be a year of losses for President Donald Trump, particularly in the Supreme Court. Crawford joined the discussion on Sunday morning’s broadcast of “Face the Nation,” and although she conceded that the Trump administration had seen “tremendous success” with regard to the Supreme Court, she was absolutely certain that pattern would not hold. WATCH: The Trump administration will “absolutely not” win its case before the Supreme Court on the legality of President Trump’s executive order that seeks to end birthright citizenship, says @JanCBS. The Court’s next term in 2026 is “highly consequential” as it also rules on tariffs,… pic.twitter.com/mGLeSqyJDd — Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) December 28, 2025 Despite the fact that the Supreme Court has given President Trump a lot of wins in the form of emergency rulings — which pause lower court rulings and allow his policies to take effect while the related litigation plays out — Crawford predicted that Trump’s luck in the high court was likely to dead end in the case on birthright citizenship. “Those are temporary, interim orders,” Crawford said of the emergency rulings. “And the administration has been very strategic and only appealing adverse ruling from courts below that it thinks it can win.” “Again, these are just interim orders. Once we do get to the merits, I don’t think Trump’s going to win all of these cases,” Crawford continued. “And I certainly don’t think he’s going to win the birthright citizenship case.” “You don’t?” host Margaret Brennan pressed. “No, absolutely not,” she replied. “And he may not wn the tariffs case. Right now it’s looking great for Trump in the Supreme Court, but it may look very different come June when we’ve kind of gotten through some of these big landmark rulings.” Crawford went on to say that a number of other major issues would be a part of the “highly consequential” slate facing the Supreme Court in the coming months, from gun rights cases to trans identifying men in women’s sports.

President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he believes Russia and Ukraine are “closer than ever” to reaching a peace deal that would finally bring about an end to the carnage and bloodshed of the last nearly four years of war. “In a few weeks, we will know one way or the other,” Trump said in a Mar-a-Lago press conference alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, where he also revealed that he’d spoken at length to Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier in the day. “It’s been a very difficult negotiation.” .@POTUS delivers remarks upon meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr @ZelenskyyUa at Mar-a-Lago: “We had a terrific meeting. We discussed a lot of things. As you know, I had an excellent phone call with President Putin… and I do think we’re getting a lot closer.” pic.twitter.com/tIHjR0wko2 — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) December 28, 2025 “We had a terrific meeting. We discussed a lot of things. As you know, I had an excellent phone call with President Putin,” Trump said as the press conference began. “And I do think we’re getting a lot closer … We could be very close. There are one or two very thorny issues … but I think we’re doing very well. We made a lot of progress today.” Trump went on to explain that Zelensky might need to take any deal upon which the leaders agreed t the parliament or to the people via a referendum — but, he added, “Everybody wants [the war] ended… I want it ended because I don’t want to see so many people dying.” The president then took a number of questions — and when asked about the “thorny issues” he’d mentioned earlier, Trump said that was almost entirely to do with the land that had been seized by Russian military forces and who would control it once the ink was dry: “The land, they’re talking about. Some of that land has been taken, some of that land is maybe up for grabs, some of that land may be taken over the next couple of months … You’re better off making a deal now.” Another reporter asked for a timeline, wondering how long it might take to get a deal across the finish line if they were, in fact, “closer than ever.” Trump’s response was simple: “In a few weeks, we will know one way or the other… it’s been a very difficult negotiation.” Reflecting on his earlier phone call with Putin, Trump said that the Russian president had seemed different than in past interactions. “I saw a very interesting President Putin today,” he said. “I think we’re going to get there. .. I was on the phone with him for almost two-and-a-half hours. We discussed a lot of things. We didn’t talk about the weather.” .@POTUS on his call with Putin: “I saw a very interesting President Putin today… I think we’re going to get there… I was on the phone with him for almost two-and-a-half hours. We discussed a lot of things. We didn’t talk about the weather.” pic.twitter.com/DUilLAh6lc — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) December 28, 2025 “I really believe we’re probably, Mr. President, closer than — by far — closer than ever before with both parties,” Trump declared, and when he looked over at Zelensky, the Ukrainian leader nodded his agreement.

Editor’s note: This week, we’re reprinting some of our best stories from the past year. In this piece, originally published in April, Kassy Akiva joined ICE agents as they executed deportation raids around Boston. *** BOSTON—The Daily Wire joined U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Todd Lyons and his agents in Greater Boston as they hunted down criminal illegal aliens. The operation comes as President Donald Trump marks his first 100 days in office, and Border Czar Tom Homan vows to “go to Boston and bring hell with me” in an effort to arrest illegal aliens who have sexually assaulted children. “We did more arrests in these 100 days than the previous administration did last year,” Lyons told The Daily Wire in his first interview. Lyons became the acting director of ICE in March after five years as Boston Field Office Director. He said morale is at an all-time high following the Trump administration giving the support needed to remove illegal aliens. ICE is focused on deporting the “worst of the worst” that the Biden administration ignored, like violent criminal illegal aliens or those who have been deported before. “It’s the worst crime in the world when you sexually assault a child,” Homan said in a White House press briefing on Monday. “That’s why I made a statement that one time I was going to go to Boston and bring hell with me.” ‘MEXICO’S DOOR’: DAILY WIRE’S KASSY AKIVA SEES THE BORDER CRISIS FIRSTHAND During the ride-along on Friday, ICE arrested 55-year-old Miguel Angel Chavez, who was convicted on two counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 and deported in 2013. Chavez, a citizen of El Salvador, illegally re-entered the United States at an unknown place and time following his first deportation. The second arrestee during the mission was 69-year-old Jose Lazaro Ayala, who illegally entered the country undetected and was convicted in September of leaving the scene of an accident involving an injured person or death. Ayala is pending removal to El Salvador, according to ICE. “These aren’t the people you want in your neighborhood,” Lyons said. “These arrests right here show what we’ve done these first 100 days and what Secretary Noem and President Trump have been really pushing for: that ICE gets the worst of the worst.” ICE was unable to target three other criminal illegal aliens in the mission, possibly because poor weather kept them from going to their outdoor jobs. Miguel Angel Chavez and Jose Lazaro Ayala were arrested in the Greater Boston area on Friday for being criminal illegal aliens. (Yisroel Tietelbaum) The Daily Wire witnessed firsthand the challenges ICE is facing in sanctuary jurisdictions during the ride-along. According to Lyons, migrants are attracted to places like Massachusetts because of its generous social service benefits. Numerous sanctuary cities make deportations more difficult by often refusing to cooperate with ICE. “One of the big difficulties operating in our sanctuary jurisdiction is that these are actual public safety threats,” he said. “A jail, a police department, a sheriff’s department, and state police have deemed these individuals a public safety threat and locked them up. Yet instead of working with the federal government, they decide to release them back on the street.” Lyons said that in sanctuary jurisdictions, agents have to work harder to surveil targets and gather information about them to plan arrests. “For these two today, anywhere between 40 to 80 hours could have been put in just on surveillance in research into these crimes, because, number one, there are ghosts,” he said. “The state doesn’t provide us driver’s license data, registration data. So really, the men and women of ICE have to go and create these cases on their own and then get out there and do surveillance and try to get court and police records.” Daily Wire reporter Kassy Akiva interviewed the new Acting Director of ICE, Todd Lyons, in his first on-video interview in his new role. (Yisroel Teitelbaum) By not working with ICE, sanctuary cities increase the number of deportations, according to Lyons. Instead of simply picking up criminal illegal aliens at jails, ICE is forced to track them down at their workplaces or in their neighborhoods. This often results in other illegal aliens — violent criminals or not — being arrested as well. MAYORS OF BOSTON, CHICAGO, DENVER AND NYC CALLED TO TESTIFY IN CONGRESS OVER SANCTUARY CITY POLICIES Lyons credited ICE’s recent success to Trump’s whole-of-government approach, which pairs ICE with agents from other federal agencies, including the FBI, DEA, IRS, Diplomatic Security Service, and others. “With no doubt, ICE is helping the president establish his goals and his pledges that he made during the campaign, which was to get the worst of the worst outside of our communities, and I think this first hundred days have been a great success,” Lyons said.

Editor’s note: This week, we’re reprinting some of our best stories from the past year. In this piece, originally published in September, Daily Wire White House Correspondent Mary Margaret Olohan broke the shocking news that the federal government agreed to use female pronouns for the man who attempted to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. *** WASHINGTON—The man who attempted to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh identifies as a transgender woman and was deeply mentally ill and suicidal, according to court documents first obtained by The Daily Wire. The Department of Justice is recommending that the defendant, 29-year-old Nicholas Roske, be sentenced to 30 years in prison for attempting to kill the Supreme Court justice in 2022, according to a Friday filing outlining the case against Roske. Roske pled guilty to the attempt to kill a United States Supreme Court Justice in April 2025, three years after authorities arrested him in Kavanaugh’s neighborhood, carrying a bag full of weapons and burglary tools. A filing from Roske’s defense attorneys shows that Roske now goes by “Sophie Roske” and that his legal team will refer to him using female pronouns. A footnote on the filing, obtained exclusively by The Daily Wire, explains that the defense will not use Roske’s legal name “out of respect” for the would-be assassin. “The case is captioned as United States v. Nicholas John Roske,” lawyers for Roske state. “That name remains Ms. Roske’s legal name, and she has not asked to recaption the case. Out of respect for Ms. Roske, the balance of this pleading and counsel’s in-court argument will refer to her as Sophie and use female pronouns.” A source familiar with the legal proceedings in the case told The Daily Wire that Roske was using female identities online before the attempted murder, and now goes by the female name reflected in the defense filings. Attorney General Pam Bondi told The Daily Wire that the attack is viewed as “political violence” and referred to Roske as a “disturbed individual.” “This attempt against the life of a Supreme Court Justice was an attack on the entire judicial system that cannot go unpunished,” Bondi told The Daily Wire on Friday morning. “This Department of Justice condemns political violence and our prosecutors will ensure that this disturbed individual faces severe consequences for his deranged actions.” In the filings obtained by The Daily Wire, Justice Department attorneys argue that the court’s sentence “must send the unequivocal, clear, and strong message that attempted violence and threats of violence against members of the judiciary — as well as other public and federal officials — cannot and will not be tolerated, and will be justly and severely condemned.” They specifically state that the court’s sentence must be significant enough to not only “reflect the harm sought to be inflicted on the judiciary,” but also to send a message that the “consequences for these acts — no fewer than 30 years to life in prison — are not worth the perceived ideological ends.” The revelation that Roske has been using a female name and pronouns is significant, given the rise in transgender violence across the United States. A gunman living with his transgender boyfriend is accused of murdering Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk last week. Kirk’s murder came only a few weeks after a 23-year-old trans-identifying gunman named Robin Westman opened fire on Catholic school children while they were praying in Minneapolis. Kirk’s accused killer, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, was living with a 22-year-old trans-identified male named Lance Twiggs, who was thrown out of his family home for allegedly abusing drugs and alcohol and excessive gaming. Robinson and Twiggs were in a romantic relationship, authorities said. (Photo by Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune/Getty Images) The killings have prompted calls for investigations into transgender violence and extremism. Earlier this month, Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to President Donald Trump and senior director for counterterrorism, told The Daily Wire that the new draft U.S. Counterterrorism Plan addresses transgender violence. The Daily Wire reported September 4 that the Justice Department was considering blocking trans-identifying people from buying firearms as part of “a range of options to prevent mentally unstable individuals from committing acts of violence, especially at schools.” Those discussions centered on the fact that those who identify as transgender suffer from gender dysphoria, a mental disorder describing the sense of unease that a man or woman may feel if he or she thinks that their biological sex is mismatched with their so-called gender identity. And on Thursday, the conservative Oversight Project urged the FBI to designate “Transgender Ideology Violent Extremism” (TIVE) as a domestic extremism threat category and to “use the full toolkit of the FBI to prevent future attacks inspired by this ideology.” Though it was reported in 2022 that Roske portrayed himself as a self-styled “trans gamer girl” on the internet, more information about the attempted assassin’s gender identity has not been made available to the public. Roske’s story had largely vanished from public scrutiny, other than occasional updates on his sentencing and charges. The Friday DOJ filings show that Roske “meticulously researched, planned, and attempted to assassinate at least one — but had a stated target of three — sitting judges of the United States Supreme Court” with the “explicit objective” of “single-handedly” altering “the Constitutional order for ideological ends.” He conducted internet searches for the homes of the four Justices, purchased a Glock 17 pistol, ammunition, a rail-mounted tactical light with laser sight, tactical gloves, non-slip grip socks, cable ties, pepper spray, a lock pick set, a screwdriver, and a wrecking bar. “My mental health is too poor for me to fear death,” he wrote on Discord on March 18, 2022, to another user, according to the DOJ filing. “But prison sounds worse. To be monitored to the point where you can’t even kill yourself. So if I did kill someone I would definitely try to get away with it.” In April 2022, he was googling shooting videos, school shooting videos, mass shootings, and shooters, searching how to “buy guns online” and “which person’s death would have the biggest impact on the world?” Court filings show that Roske described himself as “actively suicidal” and said he wanted to “do something positive before I die” by taking out Kavanaugh before the justice could vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. He found Kavanaugh’s neighborhood online after he saw an article with a “picture of the family’s house,” including the house number, because far-left activists had posted the addresses of the justices online in an attempt to intimidate them into preserving Roe. Police officers look on as far-left abortion supporters protest outside the home of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. (Photo by Bonnie Cash/Getty Images) In May 2022, POLITICO published a leaked draft Supreme Court opinion showing that the court was poised to overturn Roe, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision establishing a constitutional right to an abortion. That leak prompted protests outside the homes of the justices, the publication of their addresses online, and Roske’s journey from California to Maryland. “I was thinking about — I was thinking about killing Brett Kavanaugh and then killing myself,” he said to the officers who arrived on the scene, according to January court filings. “And then I texted my sister that I loved her. And then she called me and she told me not to do it. And then I called 9-1-1.” “I saw the news and it was upsetting, and I was already suicidal,” he told detectives later, as he described how he tracked down Kavanaugh’s home and planned the assassination. “And I don’t know. It was something to — it was like a project I guess.” “When I saw the leaked draft, it made me upset and then it made me want to — I don’t know,” he shared. “I was under the delusion that I could make the world a better place by killing him.” The DOJ filings show that after the Supreme Court leak, Roske searched terms relating to combat and body armor approximately 28 times. Within a month, he had searched for firearms-related terms over 90 times. That included “quietest semi auto rifle,” “gun calibers,” “best silencers for glock 17,” and more. He was also searching “do snipers aim for the head or the chest,” “does the secret service protect supreme court justices,” “easiest way to opena. locked door,” “how to break glass quietly,” “how to make shoes quieter,” and “how to make handcuffs with zip ties.” On Discord, he was asking his online friends: “Would [associate justices’ last name] being removed from the [Supreme Court] help women long term?” And, “I was thinking of the Roe decision. I feel like those 9 people make a much bigger impact than most people,” and “the thought of Roe v. Wade and gay marriage both being repealed has me furious.” He was also researching how to kill people. Between May and June 2022, Roske was looking into the “most effective place to stab someone” and “how to quietly knock someone out.” He was searching “How far into the neck is the trachea,” “what is the best length of knife for stabbing,” the “Most effective way to silently kill someone,” and “how much force do you need to stab someone’s neck.” And he had an interest in fleeing to a foreign country — Roske was searching for “countries that don’t extradite to the US,” “how to get a passport in California,” “does Sweden extradite to the US,” and more. He was also fully aware of what might happen after he committed an assassination, searching for information about an insanity defense. “What happens if you are suicidal in prison,” he searched, and, “If you are hospitalized after a crime what happens.” Roske flew from California to Dulles International Airport after he found Kavanaugh’s home using media photographs of protests outside the justice’s home. Far-left abortion supporters protest outside the home of U.S. Associate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on May 11, 2022. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) POLITICO’s report acknowledged that it would likely “intensify” the already feverish debate, in the summer of 2022, over abortion and the Supreme Court decision. The publication was named as a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for the story, though the story did not win the prize. “No draft decision in the modern history of the court has been disclosed publicly while a case was still pending,” wrote journalists Josh Gerstein and Alexander Ward in their story on the leaked draft. “The unprecedented revelation is bound to intensify the debate over what was already the most controversial case on the docket this term.” Authorities have failed to track down the leaker of the Supreme Court opinion. In May, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said that the FBI is giving increased scrutiny to the “leak of the Supreme Court Dobbs case,” among a few other high-profile cases that have not been properly investigated. “I receive requested briefings on these cases weekly and we are making progress,” Bongino said. “If you have any investigative tips on these matters that may assist us then please contact the FBI.”