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'Murica!, Mexico's El Mencho, Mamdani · Rich Valdés: This is America!

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  Speaker 1: This is America with Rich Valdez, powered by politweek dot Com.
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  Speaker 2: And Rich Valdees is with US former Christian Administration official.
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  Speaker 3: You worked for Chris Christie. You've been follo US each
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  Speaker 3: on a lot of public service stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Rich Valdez calumnist now with the Washington Times.
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  Speaker 1: This is America, Richiev.
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  Speaker 3: You're on the air with the Nation of the Nation.
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  Speaker 1: This is America with your host, Rich Valdez.
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  Speaker 5: What's up, America. I am Rich Valdez Valdez with ans
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  Speaker 5: at Rich Valdez on all of the social media. Welcome
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  Speaker 5: to the Monday night edition of the program. It's a
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  Speaker 5: thrill and honor, a blessing to be here with you,
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  Speaker 5: live and national. You're liberty loving Latino. I'm me go
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  Speaker 5: eight seven seven Valdez one. It's my thrill to speak
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  Speaker 5: with you as well, So let me know if you
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  Speaker 5: want to give me a call. And I want to
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  Speaker 5: get into a bunch of stuff. A lot of things
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  Speaker 5: happened over the weekend. Right one of the first things
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  Speaker 5: that happened, I think, is the violence everybody's been seeing
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  Speaker 5: coming out of Mexico. We're going to have an interview
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  Speaker 5: with somebody from the news media. You know people like
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  Speaker 5: President Trump says fake news news. Well, I've invited them
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  Speaker 5: many times and they don't come. But we got a bite.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm not saying this guy's fake news. I'm just
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  Speaker 5: saying he's mainstream media guy and he's been covering Mexico
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  Speaker 5: and the cartels and the CIA's operation down there for
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  Speaker 5: about three decades, and he has agreed to join us.
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  Speaker 5: We're gonna talk to him in the next segment, so
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  Speaker 5: stay tuned for that. What I want to get into
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  Speaker 5: right now, a little bit of the Olympics overseas, because
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  Speaker 5: lots of drama coming out of there. Right Number one,
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  Speaker 5: the US hockey team, Team America, Team America beat the Canadians.
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  Speaker 5: I thought it was pretty funny. I should say they
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  Speaker 5: tried to troll us. But our commander and trolling doing
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  Speaker 5: all this, Magnus El Trompito, the forty fifth and forty
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  Speaker 5: seventh President of the United States.
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  Speaker 6: Nope, nobody, nope, believe me, nobody chose better than El Trompeto.
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  Speaker 6: Believe me, biglely, he chose Bigley.
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  Speaker 5: And guess what, Yes, he did troll Bigley. Justin Trudeau
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  Speaker 5: and his funny socks. He tried to troll the United
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  Speaker 5: States saying it's our game, you can't win, blah blah
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  Speaker 5: blah blah blah. And of course President and Trump tweeting
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  Speaker 5: probably the most epic picture ever on his truth social account.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely classic and I love that. But that opens the
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  Speaker 5: conversation to so many things. There's a lot of heat
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  Speaker 5: coming on a lot of people. There's a few stories here.
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  Speaker 5: I want to talk about the huff Pot thing, and
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  Speaker 5: I want to talk about the invitation of the teams
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  Speaker 5: to the White House, to the drama with Cash Hotel.
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  Speaker 5: So I don't know. Let's see where we start. Team wins.
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  Speaker 5: They do some beautiful stuff. A fallen hockey player, they
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  Speaker 5: bring his family up there. They do the right thing.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's a classic thing to do. Kudos to
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  Speaker 5: them for doing it. But then we get the locker room.
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  Speaker 5: They go in the locker room, they're having a few
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  Speaker 5: cold ones, and guess what, they're joined by another hockey fan,
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  Speaker 5: a player himself, FBI director Cash Pattel. Now Cash Hotel
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  Speaker 5: is in there, he's pounding a brew with them. This
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  Speaker 5: is all on camera. All of a sudden, it's the
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  Speaker 5: worst thing ever. And I'm gonna be honest here I'm
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  Speaker 5: gonna say, had it been someone from the other side, right,
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  Speaker 5: I am a conservative, so had it been a I
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  Speaker 5: would have been like, unbelievable. These people, God, I'm better
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  Speaker 5: to do than go hang out in the locker rooms.
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  Speaker 5: I can't believe them. I might have said that. I
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  Speaker 5: might or might not have. Why because I tend to
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  Speaker 5: like to have a good time too, and I don't
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  Speaker 5: want somebody doing that to me, so I try not
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  Speaker 5: to do that to other people. Right. That's why I think, Hey, listen,
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  Speaker 5: you might catch me one day at a red carpet
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  Speaker 5: at the Oscars or the Grammys or something like that,
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  Speaker 5: and not because I love all of those people, but
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  Speaker 5: because that's a cool party. I know. I know, Q
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  Speaker 5: the hate. I'm gonna get a little hate there, but
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  Speaker 5: it's satanic. But it's this, But it's the degradation of
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  Speaker 5: I understand. I'm sorry. When I go to bars, I
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  Speaker 5: like to drink beer. So when I go to those parties,
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  Speaker 5: I want to have a good time. You hang out
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  Speaker 5: with the cool entertainers. Listen, I'm not that enlightened just yet.
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  Speaker 5: I might have been in the past life, but I'm
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  Speaker 5: not there now. But my point is I might have right,
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  Speaker 5: I might have said, hold on a second, did they
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  Speaker 5: use you know, air Force three or Air Force four
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  Speaker 5: or whatever it is era The FBI director gets to
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  Speaker 5: fly around and as I understand it, he was there
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  Speaker 5: on some other business. And the argument I would make
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  Speaker 5: for it is I would say, the FBI director, is
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  Speaker 5: there a supporting team USA. They don't deserve representation from
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  Speaker 5: the FBI. They flew there on a plane. That's team Morocca. Right.
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  Speaker 5: President Trump offered a military escort to bring him to
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  Speaker 5: the State of the Union, which is tomorrow, by the way,
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  Speaker 5: So stay tuned for my thoughts on that Manyana at night.
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  Speaker 5: But anyway, this viral clip of Cash Bettel drinking a
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  Speaker 5: beer and showing his support and enthusiasm, I don't think
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  Speaker 5: it's a big thing, and I could see why people
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  Speaker 5: are critical of it, But I don't think it's the
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  Speaker 5: end of the world. Right, what was Was there a
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  Speaker 5: national secret that was somehow released or harmed? Now there wasn't,
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  Speaker 5: So I'm letting that one go. Now, where I think
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  Speaker 5: the media, the fake news media, the left within the
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  Speaker 5: media was off their rocker and out of control. Is
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  Speaker 5: in this regard this particular tweet I don't know if
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  Speaker 5: you guys can get this one up for me, but
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  Speaker 5: I'll read it to you off my phone just so
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  Speaker 5: in case the team doesn't get it on screen quick enough.
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  Speaker 5: If waiving the American flag or chanting USA turns you off,
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  Speaker 5: right now, you're not alone. Now that wasn't some random
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  Speaker 5: lefty that doesn't like America tweeting this. This was the
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  Speaker 5: Huffington Post, right, started by Arianna Huffington way back when.
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  Speaker 5: And she's a big media player, and it was her
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  Speaker 5: and Matt Drudge it started, you know this and the
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  Speaker 5: Drudge Report and stuff like that. These are big, major
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  Speaker 5: y two K media players the blogosphere. But anyway, I
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  Speaker 5: think she's since sold it. But my point is stupid
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  Speaker 5: thing to say, and it really shows you the heart
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  Speaker 5: of where the left movement in our country is. Right,
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  Speaker 5: the leftist is a hater, a hater of Mourca Team America.
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  Speaker 5: If the Olympics can't bring us together, right, I mean,
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  Speaker 5: I think there's certain things where Look, I do this
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  Speaker 5: all day. I talk about my opinion, my philosophy, all
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  Speaker 5: sorts of things. But when it comes to the country,
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  Speaker 5: come on, I think we should agree. Now, I'm not
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  Speaker 5: saying you have to be in lockstep with me, not
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  Speaker 5: at all. I don't believe that to be true. I
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  Speaker 5: think what's important here is that you do what you
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  Speaker 5: gotta do. If if you find it absolutely necessary to
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  Speaker 5: hate America every day of the week, then you go
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  Speaker 5: ahead and hate America every day of the week. I'm
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  Speaker 5: not here to stop you, right, I'm gonna say that
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  Speaker 5: you're right, But what I will say is, come on,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, don't you think it's a good idea to
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  Speaker 5: try and band together on one particular issue the Olympics
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  Speaker 5: Team USA. Shouldn't that represent all Americans? Now, some of
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  Speaker 5: these athletes that were in the Olympics, they were saying
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  Speaker 5: things like, just because I'm playing for Team USA doesn't
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  Speaker 5: mean I agree with everything our country does. I think
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  Speaker 5: that goes without saying. But if you feel they need
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  Speaker 5: to say that, go right ahead say what you want
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  Speaker 5: to say. By the way. Consequently, every one of those
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  Speaker 5: athletes that was making those types of critical comments about
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  Speaker 5: you know, being on team but not from the USA,
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  Speaker 5: or you know, I'm on the team, but I don't
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  Speaker 5: represent them, kind of like the old women's soccer team.
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  Speaker 5: They also took an l now who didn't take an
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  Speaker 5: l is the women's hockey team. They won gold and
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  Speaker 5: they were also invited to the State of the Union.
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  Speaker 5: And they said, if you I don't want to go,
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  Speaker 5: all of them, the entire women's soccer team is not
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  Speaker 5: interested in coming to the president's invitation for the State
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  Speaker 5: of the Union. Now again, that's again they're right. It's
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  Speaker 5: not like you go to those things because you think
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  Speaker 5: it's cool, like going to the Oscars or the Grammys
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  Speaker 5: or something like that. No, it's more like an honor, like, hey,
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  Speaker 5: I got to represent my country, and as part of that,
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  Speaker 5: the president of the country I represented as an athlete
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  Speaker 5: invited me to an official function and we're going to
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  Speaker 5: go to pay our respects to our country. Salute hello, Marikrima,
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  Speaker 5: bye bye. That's it. But there won't be any of
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  Speaker 5: that for the girls team. But back to this story.
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  Speaker 5: I was having an ADHD movement this huff Post piece
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  Speaker 5: where they said, again, if waving an American flag or
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  Speaker 5: chanting USA turns you off, right now, you're not alone.
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  Speaker 5: Jimmy's famous seafood from I believe they're from Massachusetts, they tweeted,
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  Speaker 5: go after yourself. This was met to the accolades of
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  Speaker 5: many a lot of people thought that was the right
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  Speaker 5: response and agreed with them and said they're following and
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  Speaker 5: ordering and all that stuff. So shout out to Jimmy's
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  Speaker 5: famous seafood. And again, am I encouraging that type of discourse? Absolutely, yes,
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  Speaker 5: of course I am. I think that this is the
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  Speaker 5: same free speech I was saying the lefties could have.
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  Speaker 5: You could have it too. I mean, do you have
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  Speaker 5: to be vulgar, that's up to you. I prefer not
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  Speaker 5: to be, but listen, I think it's good to stand
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  Speaker 5: up for the country you believe in. Right. My parents
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  Speaker 5: are born in Puerto Rico. I don't know another country.
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  Speaker 5: This is the only country I know. This is a
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  Speaker 5: country where my parents, who were poor, by the way,
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  Speaker 5: who we grew up in poverty, probably enough poverty to
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  Speaker 5: allow us to live in the projects. But because of pride,
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  Speaker 5: we didn't live in the projects. We just lived very poor.
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  Speaker 5: And I can tell you that there was never a
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  Speaker 5: not even a little bit of hating America, not even
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  Speaker 5: a little bit. When I was growing up. We all
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  Speaker 5: loved this country. We loved Hulkogan, we loved America. We
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  Speaker 5: loved Sergeant Slaughter, we loved the World Wrestling Federation before
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  Speaker 5: it was world wrestling entertainment. Right, we just loved being
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  Speaker 5: Americans and what Americans did the Yankees? God, our flag,
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  Speaker 5: our mom right, apple pie, That's what it's all about.
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  Speaker 5: So you can love the country that you're in, the
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  Speaker 5: country that you've come to, even when I'm gonna dare
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  Speaker 5: say that you've assimilated to right, Because my parents didn't
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  Speaker 5: grow up speaking English, but they definitely learned how to.
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  Speaker 5: And my dad's name is Juan, and he could have
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  Speaker 5: had sons named Louise, Jose, Alberto Ricardo, but instead he
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  Speaker 5: got John and Joe and Lewis and Richard because he
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  Speaker 5: felt the anglicized versions of our names were the appropriate
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  Speaker 5: thing to do. His choice. I probably would not have
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  Speaker 5: made that choice, but I would have made the same
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  Speaker 5: choice to make sure that we spoke English and that
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  Speaker 5: we learned how to speak it well, so that we
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  Speaker 5: did the right thing, Because ultimately, I think assimilation doesn't
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  Speaker 5: mean the erasure of your culture. It just means that
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  Speaker 5: you embrace the one that's there. And nobody's saying that
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  Speaker 5: you can't keep yours right. Nobody's saying you can't continue
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  Speaker 5: eating corned beef and cabbage while you're learning how to
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  Speaker 5: eat McDonald's right. It's just not a thing. I grew
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  Speaker 5: up eating rice and beans and McDonald's right. That's how
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  Speaker 5: that works. So I say all of that to say,
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  Speaker 5: in a very roundabout way, none of these things are
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  Speaker 5: as simple as people try to make them out to be.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 5: If these athletes want to hate on America, go right ahead.
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  Speaker 5: If the huff Post wants to hate on America, go
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  Speaker 5: right ahead. But don't be fooled and don't get it twisted.
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  Speaker 5: America has every right to fire back. America has every
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  Speaker 5: right to say, Hey, we don't want to be hated upon.
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  Speaker 5: We don't like what you're saying, we don't like what
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  Speaker 5: you're doing, and we're not messing with you anymore anyway.
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  Speaker 5: I'm gonna put a pin in that, and I'll leave
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  Speaker 5: you with the words of Jack Hughes. Jack Hughes, who
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  Speaker 5: is the the hockey player who took the winning shot
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  Speaker 5: in the game that won us the gold, had some
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  Speaker 5: great things to say about being American as he was
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  Speaker 5: sucking back the blood from losing his teeth. Amazing watched this.
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  Speaker 5: This is all about our country right now.
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  Speaker 7: I love the USA, I love my teammates.
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  Speaker 5: It's unbelievable. The US or Hockey brotherhood is so strong.
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  Speaker 3: And we have so much to court for next players.
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  Speaker 7: I'm so proud of the Americans grow.
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  Speaker 5: This was such an incredible game to grind out. I
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  Speaker 5: mean you're bleeding right through it just looking at you
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  Speaker 5: right now.
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  Speaker 8: Can you just talk about how difficult this gold medal
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  Speaker 8: was to win.
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  Speaker 7: Unbelievable game by Hellibuck, he was our best player tonight
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  Speaker 7: by mile. Unbelievable game, unreal game by our team. That's
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  Speaker 7: just a ballsy, gutsy win. That's American hockey right there.
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  Speaker 7: That's a great Canadian team. But we're USA.
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  Speaker 5: We're so proud to be Americans.
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  Speaker 3: Tonighter's all for the country.
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  Speaker 5: What does this gold medal mean to USA Hockey? It's everything.
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  Speaker 7: Like I said, the USA Hockey brotherhood means so much.
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  Speaker 7: Look at these guys where it's such a team. We've
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  Speaker 7: been to the Iver for two weeks. We're such a team.
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  Speaker 7: The USA Hockey brotherhood is so strong, and we're so
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  Speaker 7: proud to win.
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  Speaker 3: For our country.
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  Speaker 5: Jack Hughes is a Patriot. Kudos to him and the
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  Speaker 5: entire team and all the Americans, even the ones that
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  Speaker 5: were criticizing America, all the Americans that won in the Olympics.
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  Speaker 5: I salute you. Now I want to get into this
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  Speaker 5: stuff that's going on in Magel because these cartels are
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  Speaker 5: at war with the government. A lot of things went
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  Speaker 5: down here. It seems to me the Cartel Nueva Hennaedasiung. Right,
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  Speaker 5: what do they call CJNG. I think that's the acronym
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  Speaker 5: they go by. They they got done in. Elmentcho supported
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  Speaker 5: that he was killed. I talked to some of my
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  Speaker 5: friends that are former military, high ranking people, and they say,
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  Speaker 5: we don't think he's dead. You think he's in US custody.
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  Speaker 5: And why do we think that, Well, maybe because there's
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  Speaker 5: one hundred of his friends are in US custody too.
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  Speaker 5: Now there's a piece in the New York Post came
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  Speaker 5: out just a few hours ago. Let's see if you
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  Speaker 5: can put a screen grab of this up on screen. Please.
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  Speaker 5: Trump quietly got Mexico to hand over one hundred cartel leaders,
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  Speaker 5: including Elmencho's brother, before the Holy School raid. Now again
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  Speaker 5: they bring you up to speed on this stuff. Elmencho
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  Speaker 5: is the guy that's the head of the CJNNG cartel.
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  Speaker 5: He is captured by US intelligence, they tell the Mexicans
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  Speaker 5: in a joint effort that they're on. They say, hey,
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  Speaker 5: we've got this guy, we know where he is, go
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  Speaker 5: get him. So therefore the Mexicans say, let's go get him,
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  Speaker 5: and they do. They go. When they get them, apparently
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  Speaker 5: he's killed. That's the official report. Now some people are
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  Speaker 5: saying it wasn't supposed to be that way. They were
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  Speaker 5: supposed to capture him, not kill him. But it's because
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  Speaker 5: the government had so many people that were complicit with
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  Speaker 5: these cartels. They had to kill him because the Americans
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  Speaker 5: were involved. They had no choice but to kill him
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  Speaker 5: because he might talk to the Americans. I don't know
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  Speaker 5: any of the details on that, but I do know
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  Speaker 5: it's being officially reported that this guy at Menchell is dead.
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  Speaker 5: It's also being officially reported that one hundred cartel leaders,
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  Speaker 5: including his son, have also been arrested and are in
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  Speaker 5: US custody. Right and again, Mexico's not making a lot
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  Speaker 5: of noise about it, but they've quietly shipped one hundred
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  Speaker 5: suspected cartel drug traffickers to the US to stand trial
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  Speaker 5: after President Trump branded them narco terrorists last year. Let's
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  Speaker 5: see what else is relevant here and just give you
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  Speaker 5: a couple of and I think are pretty important. The
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  Speaker 5: suspects include the brother of Namesio elmentcho O Segua Servantes,
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  Speaker 5: the Brutaljalisco New Generation Cartel CGNJ CJNNG excuse me leader
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  Speaker 5: who was killed by the Mexican Army on Sunday. Justice
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  Speaker 5: Department said many of the ninety two defendants released to
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  Speaker 5: the Americans had US extradition requests that were not honored
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  Speaker 5: during the Biden administration. Now some are also saying that
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  Speaker 5: this whole entire operation took place right now with the
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  Speaker 5: urgency that it did for one reason, a strike that
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  Speaker 5: is coming on Iran, and that this particular group had
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  Speaker 5: some ties to Iran and they were known for working
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  Speaker 5: with Iran, whether it's in the area of smuggling Iranians
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  Speaker 5: terror cells things like that into the country or related.
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  Speaker 5: And if that is in fact the case, then smart
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  Speaker 5: moved by Eddrampito and the team, they say, those are
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  Speaker 5: the assets they have close to the US. Let's take
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  Speaker 5: them out right now this way when we do what
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  Speaker 5: wherever we're gonna do, which I would suspect is to
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  Speaker 5: take out the Aatola one way or another or the
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  Speaker 5: Malas or some form of the leadership in Iran. Their
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  Speaker 5: next move is going to be a cyber attack. Their
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  Speaker 5: next move is going to be to activate whatever cells
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  Speaker 5: they have on the ground.
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  Speaker 3: Here.
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  Speaker 5: These guys would be the guys that facilitate those things.
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  Speaker 5: And there's been videos all week and long about these
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  Speaker 5: army groups. Right, they look like, let me see if
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  Speaker 5: we can, if you can put one up on the
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  Speaker 5: screen for me right here. So you got these guys
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  Speaker 5: that are basically mercenaries, right, these guys are hired guns.
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  Speaker 5: For the most part, they are not necessarily the Mexican military,
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  Speaker 5: nor do they exclusively work for the cartels. Some reports
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: are saying these guys are trained by foreign intelligence, not
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: expressly for the purpose of doing what they do in
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: this context, right, but similar to it during the Ukraine
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: War they had the Wagner group and other groups. There
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: are these groups of people that they are hired guns.
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: They go to the highest bidder. Now, what happens with
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: some of these cartel groups is sometimes they if they
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: represent one faction, they won't represent another warring faction because
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: turf and you know, they're exclusive in that sense. But
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: for the most part, whoever's paying is getting a hired gun.
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: And that's why they're so well equipped. And they look
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: like they represent some sort of nation state, and people
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: are like, oh my gosh, these cartel soldiers are so
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: well equipped. Yeah, they likely are. I mean, they make
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: more money than everybody else, and they have the access
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: to get in and out of the United States. Remember
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: a couple of years back, it was none other than
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: President Barack Obama. Right, what was that called fast and Furious?
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: I remember that, Like yesterday, who were they arming cartels?
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: So we were sending us guns down south of the border.
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: Why likely for guys like this for whatever reason, because
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: the CIA will go ahead and put weapons in the
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: hands of those people that even if they don't like them,
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: because they don't like somebody else. It's the Machiavellian concept
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: of the enemy of my enemy is my friend. So
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: this is what happens. So ultimately, now here we are,
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: these guys are acting up, They're setting things on fire,
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: all sorts of things are happening. This report that you're
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: about to see kind of sums it all up. And
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: then we're going to jump right into our guests. We've
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: got bill excuse me, what's that? Okay, thank you, Sorry
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: about that. But we have the author of the Great Pretense,
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: A Tour through the boneyard of the CIA War four Drugs.
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: Bill Conway joins us. And this is gonna be an
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: interesting interview because I don't know that I agree on
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: everything with Bill Conroy. But that's not why we invite
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: him on. We invited him on because he's been down
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: at the border and has his own views and understandings
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: of what's going on. And he says the approach that
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: the last five administrations in the United States have taken
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: against the cartels have only allowed them to get stronger.
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: So he's going to make his case about his book
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: and how the one thing I know that we do
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: agree on, the CIA is usually at the crux of
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: all this, Right, So we think that this is all
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: about drugs or about terrorism, about this, or about that,
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: A lot of times it's just the CIA doing what
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: the CIA does, whether it's to destabilize the nation, to
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: influence a certain nation, to keep certain things under control.
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: So we're going to get into all of that and
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: so much more. Straight ahead, keep it locked right here.
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: I'm rich Aldez.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: This is America, this is America.
• 19:38
  Speaker 8: The forty fifth President Donald Trump thinks it's an honor
• 19:42
  Speaker 8: to speak with rich Valdez.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Oh, very good.
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: The honor is all yours. Conservative talk with a dash
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: of sofrito.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: Now here's Rich Valdez.
• 20:00
  Speaker 8: Explosions erupting across Puerto Wayata tonight, black smoke seen rising
• 20:04
  Speaker 8: over the resort city on Mexico's Pacific coast. Mexico's military
• 20:10
  Speaker 8: forces launching a daring operation to capture cartel leader Reuben
• 20:14
  Speaker 8: n known as Elmentcho. Multiple cars on fire in the streets.
• 20:19
  Speaker 8: Mexican officials say during their operation, military personnel were attacked.
• 20:24
  Speaker 8: Several cartel members were killed, including Elmentcho, the head of
• 20:28
  Speaker 8: the New Generation Halisco cartel, who died while airlifted to
• 20:32
  Speaker 8: a hospital in Mexico City. Mexican authorities say the United
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: States provided complementary information for their operation, a US Defense
• 20:40
  Speaker 8: official telling ABC News Northcom provided information for the raid.
• 20:46
  Speaker 8: The violence forcing the Puerto Yeta Airport to suspend all flights,
• 20:50
  Speaker 8: this stranding many US citizens trying to get home. Border
• 20:54
  Speaker 8: cities like the Juana are now reporting criminal activity, and
• 20:57
  Speaker 8: the State Department is telling US citizens and impacted areas
• 21:00
  Speaker 8: in Mexico to shelter in place.
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: All right, America, welcome back, which Valdez has promised.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: We've got a journalist who's got a lot of experience
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: in this. He's written a number of books, and whether
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: you think his opinion is popular or not, you're about
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: to find out what he thinks about this stuff.
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: With else fight. Now, we've got Bill Convoy.
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: Bill Conways spent several decades on this topic. He's the
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: author of a number of books, not to mention the latest,
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: The Great Pretense.
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: Bill Conway, welcome.
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: Glad to be here. Thanks for apps for having Eric.
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you. I appreciate you being here because I
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: find this a very interesting thing. There is a war
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: apparently going on in Mexico, at least a bunch of skirmishes.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: And what's interesting about this to me is that Number one,
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: what's interesting is that the cartels are getting some pressed.
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: I feel like the cartels never get pressed. They always
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: blame this, always blame that. They never blamed the cartels
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: for what's going on. So that's number one.
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: Number two, what's interesting here is what's actually happening.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: People have seen the videos of people coming out of
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: armored personnel vehicle wearing military fatigues, and all of them
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: saying these are not the army, this is not the FEDS,
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: these are the cartels. So I'm curious to know your
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: thoughts bring us up to speed on what's going on
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: in put To Bayata and in the Kancun airport where
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: people were taking shelter, the United States telling Americans to
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: take shelter, take it away.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: Bill. Yeah, Well, first of all, there's the reporting on
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: it and the headlines, and then there's the situation and
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: reality on the ground. And I was able to talk
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: to people there this morning. And also I've covered this,
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: I've seen this act before. We have a kingpin strategy
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: that has never worked. And every time we do something
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: like this, the same thing happens, and then we forget,
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: and then we do it again and again. And I
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: guess it's because they feel like they're doing something but
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: it's not effective. And I'll tell you why. First, I
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: can name a dozen cartel leaders. You know, there's like
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: a half a dozen major cartels in Mexico, so cartel
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: is really the wrong word. They're organized crime group syndicates
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: and they're structured completely different than anything in the Middle
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: out East, we dealt with anywhere in the States that
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: we deal with. Their their they are command groups that
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: control plazas right or ports where the drugs come in
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: and out, and they demand tribute of anyone doing business
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: through those plazas. And that's really the cartel's big role.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: And they have obviously big security forces and then underneath
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: them and a lot of what you're seeing are pairamilitaries
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: and mules and just thousands of people that work in
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: the business, and some of them work you know, mostly
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: they have to work exclusively for one cartel when they
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: when they're called up, but otherwise they could freelance, right,
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: so they could be kidnapping people on their own, and
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: then when the cartel needs them to do something, they will.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: They all snap in line. And so trying to take
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: the head off that snake is very difficult because it's
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: actually many, many, many, many snakes that are of all
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: twewn together. You know, you got, you got. You can't
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: do it that way. It just doesn't work. And every
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: time we do it because during the Obama administration, this
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: isn't like which administration that none of them have had
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: a very good approach on the drug war. In my opinion,
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: a lot of money, billions of dollars thrown at it,
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: big budgets, real pressure to make cases and get headlines
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: and stats to keep the money flow. That's and corruption
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: on both sides of the border, because you're talking about,
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: you know, five hundred to trillion dollar business globally. There
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: is so much money that they can buy people off
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: easily on both sides of the border, and they do
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: mostly to get the drugs across on the US side.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: I lived on the border, right I know, I covered
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: cases customs and spector border patrol and higher up you
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: know that were later you know, busted for you know,
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: taking bribe from the cartel it loads to it, stuff
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: like that. That's the that's the normal on the border,
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: you know. And once you get further away from the border,
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: you don't see it as much. Just like the ice
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: opera rations going out on in the city now, cities
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: now that are violent, that same violence has existed for
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: years on the border. That's how border patrol operates down there,
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: because it's it's kind of a different environment, right uh.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: And so what you have happening in Mexico right now
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: is we chopped a head off another cartel just like
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: we took down al Mile and Choppa Guzman. The Cineloa cartel,
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: which is the other major cartel right now, big one
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: in Mexico that's still around. It's still moving a lot
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: of drugs into this country, you know. Uh, the new
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: the one we're attacking now, at least of a new
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: generation a cartel which sprung up in two thousand and
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: five after we chopped off the heads of some other cartels.
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: They formed.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: The guy that we took out was you know, a
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: local cop. A lot of these guys get into the business.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: They're cops there, they're they you know, or military. Not all,
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: but a number of them end up coming from that
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: background in Mexico. So the corruption is infiltrated into to
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: the all aspects of the Mexican business and law enforcement
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: and military. But that doesn't mean the whole government's corrupt anymore.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: It means our whole government's corrupt because you have corrupt
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: actors within it doing things that are wrong. It just
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: means we have a problem, you know, Houston, and you
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: got to start thinking about this thing more holistically if
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: you want to solve it. So the violence that we're
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: seeing in Alisco that made headlines, you know recently, like
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: yesterday today, it's already dying down. Parts of Mexico have
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: already died down. And that happens every time that these
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: are more. No one was killed in violence. There's probably
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: be some that we hear about later, but it was
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: burning cars. It was like, you know, yeah, burning grocery
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: stores or convenience stores and jamming roads with these flaming
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: cars is more like a riot. Right. These people are upset,
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: they know that. Especially in Guanalajara. The guy they took
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: out they liked because he uses a lot of money.
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: Talking about right elmnha, Yes he would.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: He was like Escabar did the same thing. They have
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: a lot of money and they you know, they dole
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: it out in the community and the community starts to
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: like them, love them whatever. They don't necessarily think about
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: the violence. And you remember in Mexico there's since two
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: thousand and six, there's at least a couple hundred thousand
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: people murdered murdered directly related to drug well mostly cartel battles.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: Were a lot of innocent bystanders that you know, maybe
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: their cousin was involved, or maybe they were on the
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: wrong street. Corner and the bullets were flying, because they're
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: actual shootouts at times. What what we haven't seen so far?
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: And you mentioned the people coming out of the you know,
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: like that are dressed in paramilitary outfits. That's very crime.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Amen.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: I go to Mexico, I see that. That's like, that's
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: very co It's not unusual.
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: These are the guns you're saying.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I've run in the cartel people eating
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: at restaurants down there in in you know, southn Mexico City.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: Everyone knows who they are in the community. Of course,
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: they're dangerous, of course that's that can be a problem
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: if you cross them. But most of the time there's
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: kind of a symbiotic relationship because they throw money into
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: the community and they stay out of the business of
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: the cartel for obvious reasons. So it's not like cartels
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: are just hated in Mexico. They're part of it. They're there,
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: they lived, they Yeah, it's part of their culture.
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know right, not the ethnic culture. Yeah, they're
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: ready to do business.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: I want to ask you gangsters just like the gangsters
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: were loved, I hate to say it, whatever, they were
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: admired whatever back in then, Like no in our country.
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: Yess what I'm saying like the cosonstra the.
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, yeah, you're talking about yeah, the Italian mom.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: But I'm talking more way back to the component era. Okay, Yeah,
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: when those guys are running around the country, Robin Banks
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: and you know, you know, booze is the same as
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: drugs running. Drugs run booze. They weren't reviled by everybody, right,
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: many people were back. Yeah, exactly right.
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: Right, they had a fan club. Well, so what I
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: want to go with this?
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: So I saw a clip of the president Claudia schein Maum,
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: President of Mexico, is that they're saying, absolutely not, You're
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: not going to get bring a war against narco traffickers.
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: That's not going to happen. It's unconstitutional. It would deprive
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: them of any process rights because they're killing people as
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: if they were enemy combatants.
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: Is wrong. And I thought to myself, that's the cheapest
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: rhetoric I've ever heard.
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: But I happened to be a fan of Trump's idea
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: of labeling the narco terrorists because to me, that's a
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: step further than anybody else has done in trying to
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: combat this. So what do you think of President Shinebaum's
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: comments that it's on Mexican if you want to go
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: well the cartels, And.
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: What she's saying is she doesn't want unilateral US action
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: like US going in there with drones and troops and
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: shooting things up. If we're going to do it, it's
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: got to be cooperative. And so in this case, US
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: intelligent agencies were providing real time intelligence to locate the guy,
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: right that's how they found them. And also there's at
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: least nineteen Navy seals down there were just sent down
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: there about a week ago. And in the past what
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: happened is they ebed. I mean, how do you train them,
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: get in bed with the troops, they go out in
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: the field. So I fully expect we'll hear more about
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: that later. That there was probably a good deal of
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: US support for this operation, but it was in cooperation
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: with the Mexican government, and that she's willing to do.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: But what she doesn't in which most Mexicans know, this
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: kingpin strategy just creates carnage in their country. It doesn't
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: work if you don't well, because so many end up
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: getting killed because there's cartel violence, turf wars. After you
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: create a power vacuum like that. So it's not an
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: effective way.
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: It doesn't effect in your opinion as a journalist.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: Sorry, I'll get in that because I wanted to make
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: one more point about her. What she's saying, here's her situation.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: She knows this is the case. She would not be
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: cooperating with the US other than the fact that the
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: tariffs are key really socked it to them with tariffs
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: and hurt the country's revenues. That would hurt all their
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: social programs and would create even more social and rest
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: in the country, you know, if the volume of trade
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: really substantially was affected. So she's in kind of the
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: spot where this is the lesser too evils, really and
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: so they're cooperating, right, and then you, as you asked,
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: you better ask that other question again. That's the point
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: I wanted to make.
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, sure you've made it these three points so far
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: as saying that you think going after the chief of
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: the bad guys is the bad is the wrong way
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: to do it. Say, are you saying you should go
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: after the underlings or the tail of the steak rather
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: than ahead of this name?
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: No, no, no, What I'm really saying and what we
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: haven't done we've made you know, done it here and there,
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: but always you pulled it back. Is go after the money,
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: because if you take them, that's what this is all about.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: This isn't I hate it when people call it terrorism.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: It's not terrorism. Terrorism has to have a political objective.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: These drunk card tells they don't get it crap about politics.
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: They care about money and also maintaining their organizations. So
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: if you dried up the money, if you made it,
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: you know, like money laundering. This none of this happens
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: without all the money. All the drugs come north, all
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: the money goes south, it goes all around now, but
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: the point is it's laundered to our financial system, to
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: our banks, and now with crypto, well all the rules
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: taken off of that. It's a major way to launder money.
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: So if we were really serious about this, we would
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: shut the money down. But you know why we wouldn't
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: we haven't in the past, and I don't think we
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: will now is it would threaten our financial system and
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: potentially the stability of some of the governments in Latin
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: America because this revenue is coursing through the veins of
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: the global financial system and it ends up in real
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: estate and cars and whatever. Once it's cleaning, can buy anything,
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: and they do. They've invested in, you know a lot
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: of the resorts down there that these guys are staying at,
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: These Americans are staying at parts of them our own
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: indirectly through shell companies buy cartel money, okay, and I
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: guarantee in Miami or you look in our pass, you
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: go around the country here, you're going to find similar
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: uh scenarios. And that's they're trying to crack down on
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: it here by making you reveal the identities of the
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: players behind these shell companies. But uh, you know, I
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: think that programs didn't quite get off the ground with
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: the new administration. I haven't heard much since then. It
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: was it was something that was just getting put together
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: Treasury Department. But that would be the one key, right
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: is go after the money.
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: So to stop the money. And then you say, if
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: we stop the money, then the whole world and no.
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: You dry up. You If I can't make money off
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: of selling like cocaine because it's getting all my money's
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: getting seized, then I don't got money to pay anybody.
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: I don't have money to buy the buy the product.
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: That is one way, just like we have a bunch
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: of reasons why it's not happening, because governments would become
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: unstable and the world would cease to exist.
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: As we know.
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: This is what I well, it cease to exist is
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: strong and we've been you know, we're kind of like ants.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: We just rebuild the county. But the point I'm getting
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: at is this isn't just me saying this. This is
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: experts I've talked to and people that were involved in
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: these money laundering operations. They got shut down by the
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: government because they got too close to the wrong people
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: like heads of state, right, and they don't That suddenly
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: becomes CIA territory, and CIA has interest in maintaining you know,
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: the pre flow of capital in the regular economy in
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: these countries. I mean, if the Mexican economy collapsed, it
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: would have a major blowback in our economy. I mean,
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: even though we think of them as just these little
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: people in Mexico, they're a major you know, and Latin
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: American general has a lot of firepower economically when you
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: look at it, and it will affect us, it will.
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: We got banks down there, we got car we got
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: so much stuff across the border in Latin America that
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: is US owned, even if it's Mexican employees or Colombian
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: employees or whatever. So that's the point I'm getting at.
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: It would mess with the financial system because it's getting
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: laundered through the financial system. When you look at how
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: many banks have been busted for money laundering US banks
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: operating in Mexico, you know, it's got to be a
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: half a dozen, and this is in the last ten years,
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: maybe more. And what happens is they get a slap
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: on the wrist, they pay a fine, they agree not
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: to do it anymore, nobody goes to jail, what and
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: they actually probably made money on the deal because they
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: make a lot of money. And it's it's it's individual
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: players in these banking systems that get bought off, get corrupted.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: It's not like the entire boards it's down. Let's launder money. No.
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: Money laundering is a clandestine act, but it happens all
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: the time, right, And it's the only way. The only
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: way that the drug business works is if the money
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: is laundered, you know, because how do you get if
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: I'm selling cocaine on the street ten twenty or one
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: hundred bucks a clip and I got all these bills
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: that cash has to get into the financial system and
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: it has to get laundered so it looks legitimate. Otherwise,
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: what's the point of they're not going to do this
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: for free. They're not. It isn't a terrorism thing like
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: they want to, you know, they want to wreck the
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: US economy.
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: That's saying it is a terrorism thing. And it becomes
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: a terrorism thing when when they act like terrorists. And
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: for the most part, it's not.
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: Well, you're talking about violence, Yeah, it is a very
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna the violence is real, I mean, and
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: it's it's mostly perpetrated in Mexico. Okay, let's just keep
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: it to Mexico. Two hundred thousand plus dead there since
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: two thousand and six from the drug war. Another sixty
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: thousand disappeared, just nobody knows where they are. That's who
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: pays the price for the drug war we have. We
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: don't even track it up here. You know, I did
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: a story a number of years back trying to figure
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: out how many deaths were really related to drug crimes
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: or drug and you know, I had a reconstructive from
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: FBI data. It's very imperfect, but you know, it's like
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: you know, it's it's a tiny, tiny fraction of what's
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: who's dying in Mexico, right, It's just not comparable. And
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: so that's why the drug war in Mexico has a
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: different complexion than than us looking down at it. Because
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: all the demand is here, right, we don't do much.
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: That's the other thing we need to do is get
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: serious about addressing addiction and treat some of this as
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: healthcare prop them so we can get you know, reduce
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: the demand up here. Because as long as there's demand,
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: there will be drugs, and it will be people there
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: to serve those drugs up to make money off it.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: That's the game. That's it. It's that simple. And we
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: put all this dressing on it like it's narco terrorism
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: and it's this and these are evil like all blackhead
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: guys like under you know, evil horses and dragons. It's
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: it's it's fiction, you know, it's what Hollywood sells us.
• 37:23
  Speaker 9: And then let's be focused to put the spotlight on
• 37:27
  Speaker 9: the audits so they can focus your attention there.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: I think more so, Yeah, there's there's obviously there's programs
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: out there, but not enough, not many of them, not
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: well run, and many of them not uh, you know,
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: the people that need them the most have no money,
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: so you know, with insurance that kind of thing, right,
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: So it's it's very hodgepodge in this country. I think
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: a serious effort with some smart people that understand this,
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: this issue and and the healthcare implication, the addiction issue,
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: at least for fetanahl, because fetanoyl is a drug we
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: want off our streets because it I see it here
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: in Seattle where I live. You know, the fetanyl slump.
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: I mean they just stand up and slump over and there.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: So it's it's it destroyed. It isn't good. And I
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: and when you talk to addicts will agree. But the
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: problem is between fetanah and heroin. Getting off it is
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: hard once you're addicted. So we yeah, that would help
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: because less heroin, we buy less money the cartails make.
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: You know. We saw this with with the legalization of
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: cannabis and the you know decriminalization anyway, and I you know,
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: Seattle was one of the it was the second state.
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: Colorado was first. And now you know half the states
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: in the Union have medical marijuana or recreational marijuana. And
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: you notice they're not making big buses of marijuana. It
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: still happens. There's still black market marijuana because it's a
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: little cheaper and people will pay want to pay a
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: little less. It's a lot of riskier to buy. So
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: you go down to the store. It's highly it's heavily regulated.
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: The prices are, you know, to be honest with you,
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: fairly reasonable. And that is a product that there's not
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: a lot of money in it for the cartels anymore.
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: Now they can get into the legal market up here,
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: maybe through through front companies and stuff. But you know,
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: that's why it's regulated.
• 39:10
  Speaker 9: There's going to be organization or decolonization of sensia.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: Dude, No, that's what I'm saying that there's there's some
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: that we start with the drugs where we can decriminalize
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: or legalize and regulate, just like alcohol. Alcohol is far
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: more dangerous than cannabis. Let's be honest. It kills far
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: more people every year. Cannabis. What are you gonna Yeah,
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: But the point is, and we had to say problem
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: with alcohol during prohibition, This is not unlike dealing with
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: some of the issues we had. Prohibition. Is a incredible
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: demand for something and it's got you know, you know,
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: bad side effects. For the society and for the individual.
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: So alcohol I think is a bigger problem than than
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: has bigger problem as any of these other drugs coming
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: than in terms of sheer numbers. But fenyl, yeah, fenoyls
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: is a is not a good thing to have floating out.
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: There's a street drug for all kinds of reasons, and
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: we do. I'm not saying you don't have any law enforcement,
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: but I'll be honest with you. You're playing whackam trying to
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: bust you know, loads of little pills brought by you know,
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: by individuals by a hundred different ways that get injured,
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: so you know, so easy to smuggle. So you you've
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: got to work on, you know, making sure people don't
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: you can take it.
• 40:25
  Speaker 5: And also.
• 40:28
  Speaker 9: If you go after the demand side, right, you have
• 40:32
  Speaker 9: to supply side, but the demand side, and there because
• 40:38
  Speaker 9: the demand there's many wolves.
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: Probably you're saying the demand is what I'm saying.
• 40:46
  Speaker 9: If I'll take a final clock and I'm saying, oh,
• 40:48
  Speaker 9: I'm not going to go after Build Conrad for selling drugs.
• 40:50
  Speaker 9: I'm going to go after Michell blind them. I'm not
• 40:54
  Speaker 9: any more who all partings are going to go and
• 40:58
  Speaker 9: say control demand in a country.
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well no it's not. It's not either or right.
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. We don't have a comprehensive approach
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: to dealing with this. We have one approach, a hammer,
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: and then everyone goes, yeah, I hae them, mater. Every
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: time it gets worse, it gets worse. And we're going
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: the drug wars fifty years old. Fifty years old.
• 41:21
  Speaker 9: If you want to go through now there's things that
• 41:23
  Speaker 9: will end one, then.
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: No, because I think too many people have an interest
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: in keeping it going the way it is. It's it's
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: all budget like to get hot, well, it's all that,
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: and also huge careers are built on it. Do you think,
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: dee a, what would happened to DA of all drug traffickings?
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: Not you think they'd say, well, we're done, We're going
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: to pack up our bags and quit and retire. They're
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: going to find another got it? The get slashed, Yeah,
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: you've got it, you know, So they don't you know, Yeah,
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: they want to make busts, they want to get headlines
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: so they can increase their budgets. And there's all this
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: by selling his hype to the boorters to get more money,
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: to get Congress to push more money into these budget,
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: billions of dollars in this Trian's over the fifty year
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: history of it, and what do we have to show
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: for it. Drug prices are cheaper, there's more of them,
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: and there's more violence than ever salt of our border
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: and in our streets.
• 42:20
  Speaker 9: So Fenton is doing as much damage to early as it.
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: Was two years ago.
• 42:27
  Speaker 9: Yeah, and any that are coming out saying that the
• 42:31
  Speaker 9: people buying one another row and there's less dediction.
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: It ebbs and flows in a particular drug right fatnel.
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: That was more to do with dealing with China because
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: China create all makes all the precursor chemicals and it's
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: just made in Mexico and transport it. But that was
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: pressure on China that helped to reduce and is helping
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: to reduce that. But I'll tell you you know, cocaine
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: seizures at the border that we supposedly shut down are astronomical.
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: They went through the ceiling after these drug boat attack
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: you know why. And caeizars are not They're just like
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: a bell weather it's for everything seas. There's two loads
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: to get through and so those went through the ceiling. Well,
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: what's that tell you? It tells you, well, a lot
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: of them got you decide, let's move it through the
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: border instead of these boats, because they're they're picking off
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: our boats. They will find a way again. They bring
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: it on airplanes, they bring it in on There's so
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: many ways it's done. Yeah, yeah, there's so many ways,
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: by ships, by huge container ships. You know, there's just
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: too many. You can't plug all the holes. Now. It's
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: not to say you shouldn't have law enforcement effort on.
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: You should, certainly you should, but you gotta have more
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: and you got to look at it, you know, a
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: much bigger picture. And we can't do it without the
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: cooperation of nations south of our border where this is
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: coming from, because you know, it's a problem for them too,
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: when two hundred thousand people are dead there. They don't
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: they don't have a vested interest that the ones that
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: are not in the business in keeping it going either,
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: they would love to find ways to end this and
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: so we could actually have, you know, less death and
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: and more life right for for everyone. But you know,
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: I hope you can see what I'm saying. It's like.
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: And we've seen this with governments before. They don't they're
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: afraid to take risks. So and the and the people
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: that are shooting up new ideas are almost always causing
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: ways for the people that have done something the same
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: way for a long time and are getting paid big
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: money for it. So it's how do you break through that.
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: You know, you have to you have to have voters
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: who finally wake up and say, you know, I must
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: start voting for politicians that look at this not just
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: as a hammer, but you know, that's one tool in
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: the chest. But we got to we gotta work harder
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: on some of these other tools. And the money laundering,
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: on the on the addiction and healthcare aspects of it,
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: on the and the last one I didn't mention is
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: most of the guns used to kill these people. And
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: you know our U s guns. You can sell a
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: pistol form of the some pay for sending guns there.
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: Yea gun trafficking. Gun trafficking is a huge business is
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: up there with drugs. And they go together and get
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: one as another on this group together because they have
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: different objectives. Yeah, c I A is concerned about intelligence
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: and the national security objectives set by the White House,
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: which have nothing to do with drugs. Generally, it has
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: to do with regime change or are making sure the
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: right people. Yeah, exactly, and so you know that's that's
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: part of the part of the equation that you got
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: to consider. So the c I will to draw, cultivate assets,
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: or get the intelligence they need or or or to
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: move things the way they want them to. They will
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: let drugs in. They're not worried about drugs getting in.
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: You know, if if they cultivate a narco trafficker as
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: an asset because he has inroads into a government they
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: need some to put pressure on or get intelligence from,
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: they're not gonna They're not gonna make put the narco
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: traffic in jail. In fact, they're not gonna do anything
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: to them because they'll be suspicious. You won't be any
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: good as an asset. So they let them keep trafficking.
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: And that creates problems for de A, which I had
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: these conversations with d A and c I folks. Their
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: turf wars are like boom. They steal each other's informants.
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: They have opposite missions. The DA does everything it can
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: to keep cases away from CIA because they get blown
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: up by ci A. So there is within our own,
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: our own approach, our law enforcement and intelligence agencies. You know,
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: despite the rhetoric they put out, there are built in
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: long standing turf wars between F B I, D E A,
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: ICE C I A, N s A more so, you
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: know N SAS is the years down there and they
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: probably as much involved, but the you know, and to
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: the point in Mexico, you know what the cartels call.
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: They don't care which agency they're from. They just call
• 46:52
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• 46:55
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• 47:50
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• 47:55
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  Speaker 5: accurate or not, but I do know there's a bunch
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  Speaker 5: of snow out there, and I know we're scheduled to
• 49:58
  Speaker 5: have more snow in the days. Come. Oh, I want
• 50:01
  Speaker 5: to talk about the snow because of course Mayor Mom
• 50:03
  Speaker 5: Donnie on Friday was taking some heat because he said, hey, look,
• 50:06
  Speaker 5: if you guys want to shovel, the city has a
• 50:08
  Speaker 5: snow shoveling program. You could come. You could make nineteen
• 50:10
  Speaker 5: or twenty something dollars an hour. And who isn't going
• 50:13
  Speaker 5: to sign up for that? Right? Who's even going to
• 50:14
  Speaker 5: check to see if they did the work. If they
• 50:16
  Speaker 5: sign up, trust me, they're getting paid. There's nothing the
• 50:19
  Speaker 5: city loves to do more than give away money, tax dollars, right,
• 50:22
  Speaker 5: because you know, they're like rich people in a strip bar.
• 50:24
  Speaker 5: That's just how they work. But Mam Donnie took all
• 50:28
  Speaker 5: that heat and he came back and he said, none. No,
• 50:30
  Speaker 5: Hold on a second, what do you think this is?
• 50:32
  Speaker 5: Listen to what he had to say in response to
• 50:35
  Speaker 5: his critics, like me, check this out.
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: There's been this controversy over the snow laborers and the
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: sort of what some see his onerous need to have documentation.
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: Can you just talk about it if that's new, and what
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: you make of the controversy.
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  Speaker 10: This is all long standing. This is a long standing
• 51:00
  Speaker 10: program and long standing requirements, and this is a way
• 51:03
  Speaker 10: that New Yorkers get paid to shovel snow in assistance
• 51:07
  Speaker 10: with the city's response to a winter storm event. Federal
• 51:11
  Speaker 10: law requires that employers get authorization and documentation to pay
• 51:16
  Speaker 10: people for their work. We are not allowed to just
• 51:18
  Speaker 10: cut checks to individuals for their work. And these are
• 51:23
  Speaker 10: the policies that we've had in place. But I understand
• 51:25
  Speaker 10: that for many it's the first time that they've ever
• 51:26
  Speaker 10: heard about it.
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  Speaker 5: All right, Mayor Mom, Donny, So the bomb slid clone
• 51:31
  Speaker 5: has gotten the better of you. And I don't care
• 51:35
  Speaker 5: how many shovelers you have out there. Ay, it's a
• 51:38
  Speaker 5: very difficult amount of snow to manage, but b you're
• 51:41
  Speaker 5: doing a piss poor job of it. Sir, you really are.
• 51:44
  Speaker 5: And the argument remains, one of the most important things
• 51:47
  Speaker 5: we do is not shovel snow. One of the most
• 51:48
  Speaker 5: important things we do is go ahead, you fill in
• 51:51
  Speaker 5: the blank, vote right, vote for people. And the fact
• 51:54
  Speaker 5: that we can double down and say that it's racist
• 51:57
  Speaker 5: and bad and all things evil to ask someone for
• 52:01
  Speaker 5: ID to vote. It's racist to do that, but it
• 52:04
  Speaker 5: is not racist, bad and evil to ask them in
• 52:08
  Speaker 5: order to get a paycheck. Right. And this has been
• 52:12
  Speaker 5: the point I think the Conservatives have long made in
• 52:14
  Speaker 5: asking for voter ID to eliminate.
• 52:17
  Speaker 6: You know, it's rigged, folks, It's rigged. They get the
• 52:20
  Speaker 6: whole thing rigged.
• 52:21
  Speaker 5: And guess what you know. A bunch of years ago,
• 52:25
  Speaker 5: four score and seven years ago, I just had to
• 52:28
  Speaker 5: I ran for office, for public office. Wow, I'm doing
• 52:33
  Speaker 5: the math. It was twenty one years ago. I ran
• 52:35
  Speaker 5: for the new Jersey State Assembly, the thirty third Legislative District,
• 52:39
  Speaker 5: which encompassed Union City, where I lived at the time.
• 52:42
  Speaker 5: Forty ninth Street in Palisade is where I lived.
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: And.
• 52:47
  Speaker 5: Parts of Jersey City, parts of I think all of
• 52:51
  Speaker 5: Guttenburg and some other areas anyway, but largely that part
• 52:55
  Speaker 5: of northern Hudson County. There it was so interesting in
• 53:02
  Speaker 5: that time. I mean, it's just a different world back then.
• 53:06
  Speaker 5: But you needed ID for all sorts of things back
• 53:07
  Speaker 5: then too, twenty one years ago. And yet here we
• 53:11
  Speaker 5: are today having the same debate about no voter ID
• 53:14
  Speaker 5: and people don't want voter ID, and I just I
• 53:17
  Speaker 5: find it phenomenal. But one of the things I learned
• 53:19
  Speaker 5: back then was that, yeah, dead people do vote. And
• 53:23
  Speaker 5: I'm not saying my election was rigged and I didn't
• 53:25
  Speaker 5: get beat fair and square by a powerhouse local politician.
• 53:29
  Speaker 5: I did, but and I think I did a pretty
• 53:32
  Speaker 5: good showing for the numbers I had for first the
• 53:35
  Speaker 5: guy who first ran that I think it was only
• 53:38
  Speaker 5: twenty maybe twenty, I want to say, twenty five or
• 53:42
  Speaker 5: twenty six years old. But the point here is that
• 53:47
  Speaker 5: there was no shortage of people telling me, oh, yeah,
• 53:50
  Speaker 5: i've worked the polls. Oh you got to see some
• 53:51
  Speaker 5: of the things I've seen people that would pull me
• 53:54
  Speaker 5: to the side and say, hey, listen, kid, I like you,
• 53:56
  Speaker 5: and I'm glad that you're involved in this, and I
• 53:59
  Speaker 5: like what you stay for, and I'm going to try
• 54:02
  Speaker 5: and vote for you. If they're not watching, and I said,
• 54:04
  Speaker 5: what does that mean. Nobody goes in the booth with you.
• 54:06
  Speaker 5: They said, they have a way of knowing. And they
• 54:08
  Speaker 5: tell us that they have a way of knowing. I'm like,
• 54:10
  Speaker 5: who's they? And they would always tell us the Democrats,
• 54:14
  Speaker 5: and these were democrats. These were people that worked within
• 54:17
  Speaker 5: the city, within the county, and because they had these
• 54:20
  Speaker 5: public jobs, they said, look, as long as I have
• 54:22
  Speaker 5: this job, I keep this job. As long as I
• 54:24
  Speaker 5: give money to a certain event every year. It's like
• 54:27
  Speaker 5: one hundred and twenty five dollars a person, and I
• 54:29
  Speaker 5: give the donations I got to give, and I support
• 54:31
  Speaker 5: the things they tell me to support. They put us
• 54:34
  Speaker 5: on a list that we supported and were good. And
• 54:36
  Speaker 5: when I heard that the first time, I was like, oh,
• 54:38
  Speaker 5: what an exaggerator. When I heard it the second time,
• 54:40
  Speaker 5: I said wow, could it be? When I heard it
• 54:41
  Speaker 5: the third, fourth, fifth, and probably fiftieth time, I said, wow,
• 54:45
  Speaker 5: this reminds me of a little old man that had
• 54:47
  Speaker 5: a bookstore on Burgoline Avenue. I want to say twenty
• 54:53
  Speaker 5: first Street or thirty first Street, Bergoline Avenue, Union City.
• 54:57
  Speaker 5: His name was Nidio Martinez, and Nibio Martinez was a
• 55:01
  Speaker 5: very smart guy who was born in Cuba, came to
• 55:03
  Speaker 5: the United States, loved America. I had a bunch of
• 55:05
  Speaker 5: great books on the US Constitution and other things. We'd
• 55:08
  Speaker 5: have these interesting conversations in his bookstore about politics and
• 55:13
  Speaker 5: really about liberty. And as Nibbio would tell me these things,
• 55:17
  Speaker 5: he too would tell me about what it was like
• 55:18
  Speaker 5: in Cuba, how they forced people to vote a certain way,
• 55:22
  Speaker 5: that's how communist regimes work. So at a very early age,
• 55:25
  Speaker 5: I was exposed to a lot of this information that
• 55:28
  Speaker 5: I couldn't help but make these parallels and say, wow,
• 55:31
  Speaker 5: the Democrats, at least in New Jersey and Hudson County
• 55:34
  Speaker 5: at the time, Bob Menendez, Brian Stack, there was a
• 55:38
  Speaker 5: group of them that made up the local establishment there,
• 55:43
  Speaker 5: in my opinion, operated like the Castroites in Cuba, hardcore communists,
• 55:53
  Speaker 5: Marxists down to the bone. And to me, that was
• 55:58
  Speaker 5: a bad thing. Right today, I say that to something
• 56:00
  Speaker 5: if AOC were here, all out crazy, my least favorite
• 56:02
  Speaker 5: congressman from the Bronx and Queens, if I were to
• 56:04
  Speaker 5: say that to her, she would turn around and say, no, no, no, no,
• 56:07
  Speaker 5: that's a good thing, right, It's good that we follow
• 56:09
  Speaker 5: car Marks. I'm not going to debate the goodness or badness,
• 56:14
  Speaker 5: if you will, of Karl Marx, but I'm going to
• 56:16
  Speaker 5: say twenty one years ago, when I was in my twenties,
• 56:20
  Speaker 5: it was widely known and understood that there was a
• 56:24
  Speaker 5: lot of voter fraud. People knew how to do it,
• 56:26
  Speaker 5: they were experts at it. It was part and parcel
• 56:29
  Speaker 5: of the process. I never saw anything happen to change that,
• 56:34
  Speaker 5: like perhaps voter ID right, if you have to show
• 56:37
  Speaker 5: an ID to vote, Missus Smith, who's been deceased for
• 56:40
  Speaker 5: the last three election cycles, can't vote. But Missus Smith
• 56:45
  Speaker 5: would not be able to vote if they were checking
• 56:47
  Speaker 5: her ID. And that's my point, right, if she were
• 56:50
  Speaker 5: really dead, None of those changes ever happened. So it's
• 56:55
  Speaker 5: difficult for me to think that that stuff just isn't
• 56:57
  Speaker 5: happening somehow. Because the guy who ran the Critical Infrastructure
• 57:05
  Speaker 5: Cyber Security Administration or CISA the season he said that
• 57:13
  Speaker 5: the twenty twenty election was the most secure election in
• 57:16
  Speaker 5: American history. Just because that guy said that doesn't mean
• 57:20
  Speaker 5: that I necessarily believe that, right, So take that for
• 57:24
  Speaker 5: what you will. Right, you can call me a tinfoil
• 57:26
  Speaker 5: hack conspiracy theorist, election denier, or just somebody who's looking
• 57:32
  Speaker 5: at things how they ought to be and how they are.
• 57:34
  Speaker 5: In my opinion, one part of that, but that was
• 57:40
  Speaker 5: my rant. I'm Mamdani and his silliness regarding the snowshoveling people. Right,
• 57:46
  Speaker 5: it's not that we shouldn't have to take ID for paychecks.
• 57:48
  Speaker 5: We should also have to take them for voting. And
• 57:50
  Speaker 5: there shouldn't be a double standard, right, It shouldn't be
• 57:54
  Speaker 5: making it prohibitive to go and vote. I think that's
• 57:57
  Speaker 5: the bottom line here, and I think most people, when
• 57:59
  Speaker 5: they stop and they think about this, they agree. They say,
• 58:02
  Speaker 5: you know what, No, you're right. Why on earth should
• 58:04
  Speaker 5: we Why on earth should we think that it is
• 58:06
  Speaker 5: racist to ask you for an ID? I would argue
• 58:10
  Speaker 5: that it's racist to presume that because you're a certain
• 58:12
  Speaker 5: color that you can't produce an ID. You tell me
• 58:15
  Speaker 5: if that's not racist. Imagine somebody coming to me going, hey,
• 58:19
  Speaker 5: you're kind of brown, You sure you're able to get
• 58:22
  Speaker 5: an ID. I'd be taken aback and I'd be offended.
• 58:29
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• 58:32
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• 58:56
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• 58:57
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• 59:12
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• 59:14
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• 59:16
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• 59:19
  Speaker 5: to get into something else, something that I think is
• 59:21
  Speaker 5: important for us to discuss, and it's kind of I
• 59:25
  Speaker 5: guess from yesterday's news. If I could find my notes
• 59:29
  Speaker 5: from yesterday's news, yesterday being Friday, right, I guess. But
• 59:33
  Speaker 5: there were a number of things I wanted to cover
• 59:35
  Speaker 5: that I oftentimes don't get to cover everything. Oh, this
• 59:39
  Speaker 5: was it. It was about Prince Andrew. Prince Andrew, of
• 59:43
  Speaker 5: course a former part of the royal family. He's now
• 59:46
  Speaker 5: being suspected of. Not suspected. I think he got in
• 59:49
  Speaker 5: trouble and he's been arrested for some sort of malthfeasons.
• 59:54
  Speaker 5: But he's the one that was, you know, like this
• 59:55
  Speaker 5: with Jeffrey Epstein. This is something again that I've heard
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 5: for a long time. And when I say a long time,
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 5: I mean nine years easy. Had to be the first
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 5: time I heard that for me had to be around
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 5: twenty seventeen that I heard Jeffrey Epstein was selling young
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 5: girls to powerful people, including the royal family in the UK,
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 5: and I didn't know it was Prince Andrew in particular.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 5: That was what I'd heard, and I thought to myself.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 5: Rich people do all sorts of crazy things, right. They
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 5: ever seen that movie The Most or the book The
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 5: Most Dangerous Game? They did a remake some years ago
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 5: with Iced Tea. Shout out to Iced Tea. They get humans, right,
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 5: Rich people would get humans that go run and then
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 5: they would hunt them down humans. This is no different
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 5: than what they did in the Roman colosseums. This type
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 5: of blood sport has been around since the beginning of time.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 5: People having fun at the expense of others. I get it.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 5: Not condoning it. I'm just saying I understand it's real.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 5: Something else that happened back then in the Roman era,
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 5: the grecor and era something called pederaste. Look it up
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 5: p E D E R A s t Y. Pederaste
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 5: was a highly regarded practice back then where parents would say, oh,
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 5: my gosh, I want my son to study with so
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 5: and so. I'm not going to say Socrates, because I
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 5: don't know if Socrates was a part of that, but
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 5: somebody of socrates stature, let's say, a man of wisdom.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 5: They would say, here, take my son, teach him what
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 5: you know and do with him what you must. They
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 5: knew in handing over their kid that he was going
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 5: to be a sexual toy of this professor. This was
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 5: a well established practice back in those days until it
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 5: was outlawed, similar to what the moms did when they
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 5: gave their daughters over to r Kelly. R Kelly was
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 5: known for doing what he did is so known that
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 5: moms are like, hey, we want her to succeed. If
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 5: she got to fool around with you a little bit,
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 5: then so be it. Some moms did that. That's a shame.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 5: I don't know anybody who would actually do that, But
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 5: the fact that it happened just shows you about the
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 5: depravity of man, right, that's just truly. People are falling,
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 5: you know. I mean, we all have our moments, right,
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 5: I know I do. I may not act on every moment,
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 5: but trust and believe how I feel right after I
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 5: get cut off on the highway or things don't go
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 5: my way in a certain situation. I'm not saying bless
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 5: your heart. I'm definitely not saying that. Right. It gets
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 5: ugly sometimes now abusing somebody's kid for the sake of whatever,
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 5: that's a whole different world. But this was the norm
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 5: back then. And so this is just to add some
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 5: context to this. So this Prince Andrew guy, now he's
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 5: been indicted for this, and a lot of people are
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 5: very excited saying, well, finally somebody's been indicted for the
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 5: Epstein files and whatnot, or who's on there. That's great.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 5: I'm going to say, look, and this is not a
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 5: defense of any of that, but it really to me,
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 5: if you going back to our previous conversation right with
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 5: our journalist friend Bill, he was saying, going after the
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 5: head of the snake, the hydra, it's not the way
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 5: to do it. And my argument with that is still
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 5: the same. Then what do we do? Go after the tail?
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 5: So if you go after the people that are abusing
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 5: the kids, and I'm saying you should, right, I'm not
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 5: saying you shouldn't, but I'm saying if you go after
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 5: the people that are abusing the kids and you get them, great,
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 5: they tend to be really good at hiding. But getting
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 5: Jeffrey Epstein, I think put a hamper on the Jeffrey
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 5: Epstein operation. I don't think that you took out Epstein.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 5: You took out Gilane Maxwell and now the X the
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 5: Epstein cartel. If you will that traffic children, it's no
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 5: longer an operation. So to me, that's a very successful
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 5: example of how you take these things out and now
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 5: you can continue to you know, follow the money, follow
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 5: the whatever, and go after the the next big fish,
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 5: in this case somebody from the royal family in the UK.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 5: And I would guess that we all saw this coming
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 5: when they stripped him of his royal titles right and said, hey, no,
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 5: you can't be down. Another interesting tell on this was
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 5: when Prince Harry right think it was Prince Harry met
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 5: and they said, we don't want to be in the
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 5: royal family. WHOA, What was that all about? Was that
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 5: really how it was portrayed. We just want to live
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 5: like normal Americans in America, We just want to be
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 5: regular people. Or was there more to it, like, hey,
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 5: we're not down now. I'm no expert on the royals,
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 5: honestly not even interested in the Royals. But I say
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 5: all of that to come full circle here and say
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 5: I'm glad that they're getting people that are involved in
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 5: this Epstein debacle. But I don't want to say stuck here.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 5: I think the focus should always be on finding the kids,
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 5: on rescuing kids that may be trapped, on releasing them
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 5: from captivity. To me, that's the most important thing that
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 5: we can do, and we shouldn't lose focus over fighting
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 5: about the guy that we got and whether he's a
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 5: live or dead we don't know, but the official story
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 5: he died in jail. That's a good thing. Gelan Maxwell,
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 5: she's still in jail. That's a good thing. I think
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 5: it's a bad thing when we get so distracted with
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 5: the bad guys. We've already caught that everything else falls
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 5: by the wayside. So anyway, that was me on my
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 5: best behavior in the interview before, not interrupting, not arguing,
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 5: hoping he'll come back another day. Because I believe something
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 5: I learned from President Trump, believe it or not, And
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 5: you could check out the interview I did with him
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 5: a couple of years ago. He said something I was
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 5: really profound and not many people notice, and it was this.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 5: He said, you know, it's not an easy job you
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 5: have because if you're too easy on a guest, people
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 5: won't respect you, and if you're too hard on him,
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 5: they won't come back. Nobody will come back. And he's
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 5: right right, it's a balance. So I get that, and
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 5: you want to be fair to people. So I appreciate
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 5: that advice from President Trump. Kudos to him. Shout out
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 5: to Trumpito, And like I tell you always, we got
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 5: to stand for something. If we stand for nothing, we'll
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 5: fall for absolutely everything. And the only thing necessary for
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 5: evil to triumph is for good people like you to
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 5: sit there and do nothing. So time to stand up
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 5: and do something. I start approxy my take care, good night,
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 5: and God bless you America. I'm rich Valdez and this
• 1:06:09
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