Latest / Rich Valdés: This is America! / Willie Colón RIP, Wild Weekend NYC, Will Cuba fall?
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- 0:05Speaker 1: This is America with Rich Valdez powered by polidweek dot
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- 0:10Speaker 2: Rich Valdes is with us.
- 0:11Speaker 3: Former Christian Administration official.
- 0:13Speaker 4: You work at Chris Christieve and follow us each on
- 0:14Speaker 4: a lot of public service stuff.
- 0:16Speaker 5: Rich Valdez calumnist now with the Washington Times.
- 0:18Speaker 3: This is America, Richiev.
- 0:20Speaker 5: You're on the air with the Nation of the Nation
- 0:23Speaker 5: with America.
- 0:24Speaker 3: With your host, Rich Valdez.
- 0:26Speaker 5: What's up, America. I am Rich Valdes Valdez with an
- 0:29Speaker 5: s at Rich Valdez on all of the social media,
- 0:32Speaker 5: your liberty loving Latino. I'm going to go right here
- 0:34Speaker 5: seventeen blocks away from Madison Square Garden here in Times Square.
- 0:38Speaker 5: Our phone number if you want to join us on
- 0:39Speaker 5: the phone, the Duck phone, you know, the number eight
- 0:42Speaker 5: seven seven Valdest number one, eight seven seven Valdest one
- 0:46Speaker 5: is our phone number. And I'm looking forward to talking
- 0:49Speaker 5: with you guys. I want to get into a bunch
- 0:50Speaker 5: of things. This is the Monday night edition of This
- 0:54Speaker 5: Is America, and I want to thank you for being
- 0:59Speaker 5: in the audience because you guys, being in the audience
- 1:02Speaker 5: truly is a blessing. It's a blessing to me. It's
- 1:04Speaker 5: a blessing to those that listen. This type of conversation
- 1:06Speaker 5: that we have really makes a difference. And if you're
- 1:09Speaker 5: wondering why am I dressed in black, No, I'm not
- 1:11Speaker 5: applying for a second job as an undertaker. Although I
- 1:14Speaker 5: am thinking of getting into the restaurant business. I don't know.
- 1:16Speaker 5: We'll talk about that a little bit later. But I
- 1:18Speaker 5: want to get into a bunch of things tonight. A
- 1:21Speaker 5: why I'm wearing black and b the wild weekend we
- 1:27Speaker 5: just had in New York City, Right, not one but
- 1:29Speaker 5: two bombs went off, not one but two airplanes having
- 1:32Speaker 5: to make emergency actions, right, take emergency actions, I should say,
- 1:38Speaker 5: because of people yelling a lah ouh akbar. So we're
- 1:41Speaker 5: gonna get to that momentarily. Bear with me on that,
- 1:44Speaker 5: plus El Trompito in Miami with Marco Rubio talking about
- 1:46Speaker 5: the future of Cuba, what's going on with the Iran war,
- 1:49Speaker 5: and so much more. But I want to circle back
- 1:51Speaker 5: to why I'm wearing black, Well, Familia, I'm wearing black
- 1:57Speaker 5: because I was at the funeral earlier today of South
- 2:00Speaker 5: Legend Extraordinaire. He was a trombone player, he was a vocalist.
- 2:04Speaker 5: He's a true legend in the sense of the word.
- 2:07Speaker 5: Willie Cologne Willi Colone passed away recently and his funeral
- 2:11Speaker 5: services were today in Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York City.
- 2:15Speaker 5: And I'd been to Saint Patrick's Cathedral as a kid,
- 2:18Speaker 5: I think on a school trip if I'm not mistaken,
- 2:20Speaker 5: But I'll tell you this, what an immaculate, what a
- 2:24Speaker 5: impressive piece of architecture, right, absolutely gorgeous and beautiful Catholic
- 2:30Speaker 5: liturgy in the ceremony, very just fitting, very fitting for
- 2:38Speaker 5: the type of life that Willie Cologne lived. And a
- 2:41Speaker 5: lot of people are taking exception to Willie Colone right
- 2:43Speaker 5: now because in his older age he'd become a conservative,
- 2:50Speaker 5: he'd gotten into Republican politics, conservative politics, and I'm going
- 2:57Speaker 5: to get into that in the moment. But the moment
- 2:59Speaker 5: that you have likely seen on social media that I
- 3:03Speaker 5: was there for and I took video of, was absolutely
- 3:06Speaker 5: I'll use the Spanish word imprescione. It was absolutely just
- 3:12Speaker 5: a moment, right. You had to be there when so
- 3:15Speaker 5: many of his fellow trombone players joined him in a
- 3:19Speaker 5: trombone salute as the casket was coming out of the
- 3:24Speaker 5: church is absolutely extraordinary. And I got a clip of it.
- 3:26Speaker 5: Checked this out. M absolutely classic, absolutely classy. Again l
- 4:50Speaker 5: r P too, Willie go along. Now, I want to
- 4:52Speaker 5: get into a little bit of what the controversy is
- 4:55Speaker 5: all about. Right, instead of morning the South sad legend,
- 4:57Speaker 5: some people saying, oh, but he was mag he was this,
- 5:00Speaker 5: Oh but he was that. And the truth is Willi
- 5:02Speaker 5: Colonne Evold evolved over time.
- 5:05Speaker 6: Right.
- 5:06Speaker 5: He once wrote a song about you can't correct nature
- 5:12Speaker 5: in reference to a homosexual cousin that inspired of his
- 5:18Speaker 5: that died of AIDS, and it inspired a song about
- 5:22Speaker 5: a transvestite, and all these things can be true, right.
- 5:29Speaker 5: I mean, there's a lot of people that look at
- 5:30Speaker 5: life one way. This guy was involved. I'm going to
- 5:33Speaker 5: use the term sex, drugs, rock and roll, right, and
- 5:34Speaker 5: I'm not saying he did those things, but that's the
- 5:36Speaker 5: industry he was in. He was a musician, he was touring,
- 5:39Speaker 5: He was in that world. And he got out of
- 5:44Speaker 5: that world. He got into law enforcement with the Westchester
- 5:46Speaker 5: County Police, where he was an active member there until
- 5:50Speaker 5: twenty twenty. And guess what his views changed. When you
- 5:55Speaker 5: see crime up close and personal and you understand the
- 5:58Speaker 5: other side of the fence and you say, huh oh, interesting, right.
- 6:02Speaker 5: So I think Willie Colonne had a nuanced approach to
- 6:05Speaker 5: his journey in conservatism, and he himself notes that it
- 6:09Speaker 5: was mainly his disdain, his dislike for Hillary Clinton, who
- 6:14Speaker 5: he had once endorsed, but in twenty sixteen he said,
- 6:18Speaker 5: can't do it. And we got a clip of that.
- 6:20Speaker 5: It's in Spanish, but it's transcribed in English, because I
- 6:23Speaker 5: think he makes a really good point when he says
- 6:25Speaker 5: they became geniuses at doing this stuff. He's talking about
- 6:28Speaker 5: Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton and how they became genius
- 6:31Speaker 5: at getting away with things. In that timeframe, the questions
- 6:35Speaker 5: were surrounding the aid. There was foreign aid that was missing.
- 6:41Speaker 5: They said they were going to build hospitals in Haiti
- 6:43Speaker 5: and millions and millions of dollars and yet no hospitals
- 6:46Speaker 5: were built. So that became an area of concern for
- 6:50Speaker 5: a lot of people. And here he is on Pedo Tura,
- 6:55Speaker 5: which is a show out of Puerto Rico, talking about
- 6:59Speaker 5: that very topic, regarding why he was going to vote
- 7:01Speaker 5: for Trump instead of Hillary.
- 7:02Speaker 7: Clinton and.
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- 7:59Speaker 8: that is not approximately Perando Trump wom pivot algo illegal
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- 8:32Speaker 5: And quite fully cokay, major satisfaction, quite well, the major
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- 8:43Speaker 7: Yes, yes.
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- 9:04Speaker 8: Nozlen Repertorio.
- 9:09Speaker 5: So Willi Cologue was very clear, adamant about his position, saying, yeah,
- 9:13Speaker 5: you know what, I might vote for Trump. And she says, hey, Demonio,
- 9:17Speaker 5: and he says, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna vote for Trump.
- 9:20Speaker 5: And he later on doubled down and became a Trump supporters,
- 9:23Speaker 5: all in on Trump. And like many people, I think
- 9:25Speaker 5: there's some people that see what Trump is up to
- 9:27Speaker 5: and some people that don't. Willi Cologne was one of
- 9:29Speaker 5: those others say I know what Trump is up to,
- 9:31Speaker 5: but it's somehow sinister or evil or nefarious, and it's not.
- 9:36Speaker 5: And I could probably spend a lot of time on that.
- 9:38Speaker 5: Maybe I'll so go back to that, but I wanted
- 9:40Speaker 5: to talk about Willi Colonne specifically and about a couple
- 9:43Speaker 5: of points on Puerto Rico specifically. Right because Puerto Rico,
- 9:47Speaker 5: I think is so important in the in the national conversation,
- 9:50Speaker 5: because right now we talk about Cuba, Cuba's about to
- 9:53Speaker 5: be liberated, uh from a communist regime. Venezuela liberated from
- 9:58Speaker 5: a communist regime. You've got Iran. They are not only
- 10:05Speaker 5: communists like right Marxists, but they're Islamist with a t fundamentalists, radicals,
- 10:14Speaker 5: you know, killing people in the name of Islam and
- 10:16Speaker 5: stuff like that. So this is a pretty radical position
- 10:21Speaker 5: and this is what they're looking at now in Puerto Rico.
- 10:25Speaker 5: We don't face that when you talk about liberating Puerto Rico,
- 10:28Speaker 5: it's liberating it from the United States. And this would
- 10:32Speaker 5: be a mistake in my opinion, and I think in
- 10:34Speaker 5: the opinion of most Puerto Ricans that have voted in one, two,
- 10:37Speaker 5: I think four plebiscite referendum elections. They've asked the people
- 10:42Speaker 5: of Puerto Rico, do you want to be a state?
- 10:45Speaker 5: And each and every time more than seventy percent of
- 10:48Speaker 5: them have said yes. I think the first time is
- 10:50Speaker 5: something closer than ninety percent than above eighty percent. I
- 10:53Speaker 5: think the lowest one has been in the seventy in
- 10:56Speaker 5: the seventieth percentile. So that tells me Puerto Rico see
- 11:00Speaker 5: the value. And again, let's talk about some of the
- 11:03Speaker 5: reasons why we should do this, right. Forget about what
- 11:05Speaker 5: aoc all out crazy my least favorite congresswoman from the
- 11:08Speaker 5: Bronx and Queens says. Because Alexandria O court this as
- 11:11Speaker 5: I call her all out crazy, she has an all
- 11:14Speaker 5: out crazy position on statehood for Puerto Rico. And I
- 11:18Speaker 5: bring it up only because I see so many parallels
- 11:20Speaker 5: to what's happening across the world. Right check this out
- 11:25Speaker 5: right now. For example, if you live on the island
- 11:28Speaker 5: of Puerto Rico, you're just as as American as me
- 11:31Speaker 5: living in the New York metropolitan area in New Jersey.
- 11:34Speaker 5: But guess what I get to vote for president? You don't.
- 11:37Speaker 5: Is it because I'm somehow better than you, have a
- 11:39Speaker 5: better head of hair or a nicer beard. Maybe, but no,
- 11:43Speaker 5: that's not why. The real reason is because they don't
- 11:47Speaker 5: get the political representation on the island for a very
- 11:49Speaker 5: simple reason. It's a territory, not a state. States have
- 11:53Speaker 5: those rights. Territories don't. The citizen has the right, but
- 11:58Speaker 5: where the citizen is based matters. So Puerto Ricans oftentimes
- 12:02Speaker 5: moving to Orlando, Florida, right, the biggest suburb of Puerto
- 12:05Speaker 5: rican besides the Bronx, they end up going and voting
- 12:10Speaker 5: in Orlando, so they can have a say in US elections.
- 12:13Speaker 5: So I think it's important if you're an American that
- 12:15Speaker 5: you actually have full representation where you live. Not a
- 12:19Speaker 5: bad idea. Equal federal funding, right, So currently Puerto Rico
- 12:24Speaker 5: receives a fraction of federal funding because they don't pay
- 12:27Speaker 5: in to federal funding. They're not part of the federal
- 12:30Speaker 5: income tax agenda. So what happens, right, they get a
- 12:34Speaker 5: little bit of medicare, a little bit of SSI for
- 12:37Speaker 5: the people that are disability and incapacitated and whatnot. This
- 12:43Speaker 5: is not ideal for the people on the island, especially
- 12:46Speaker 5: when because you don't have a you can't only Texas, right,
- 12:54Speaker 5: I think the Texas Constitution is the only state that
- 12:56Speaker 5: says we can stop being part of the United States,
- 12:59Speaker 5: but every other can't stop being a state. So if
- 13:03Speaker 5: you're investing in a state, if you're investing in a
- 13:06Speaker 5: business that's somewhere you can say, well, yeah, I'm going
- 13:09Speaker 5: to make this investment, but there's always this uncertainty that
- 13:12Speaker 5: goes with that because it may no longer be the
- 13:14Speaker 5: United States. That's something that I think that would bother
- 13:18Speaker 5: a lot of businesses, right. It would bother me if
- 13:21Speaker 5: I were making an investment somewhere where I say, right now,
- 13:23Speaker 5: they're connected with this country, but you know, you never
- 13:25Speaker 5: know what could happened politically as a state. Puerto Rico's
- 13:28Speaker 5: as American as apple pie, and you can put your
- 13:30Speaker 5: money there, and a lot of people are doing that
- 13:33Speaker 5: right now, and that's a good thing, but it's not enough.
- 13:37Speaker 5: It's not reciprocal, right because they're not paying into federal
- 13:41Speaker 5: income tax. So we're paying people in Puerto Rico a fraction,
- 13:46Speaker 5: but albeit a fraction, but we're still we're pushing money
- 13:50Speaker 5: out from the federal government, our tax dollars, and we're
- 13:53Speaker 5: not getting them back. So financially, it makes all the
- 13:56Speaker 5: sense in the world for every America to want Puerto
- 13:58Speaker 5: Rico to be a date, to have permanent status, to
- 14:02Speaker 5: have what I'm just mentioned here the right to be
- 14:08Speaker 5: represented in Congress. Right, currently, they have one person called
- 14:11Speaker 5: a resident commissioner, which is a non voting member of Congress.
- 14:14Speaker 5: The last non voting member of Congress is the current governor,
- 14:17Speaker 5: Jennifer Benziallees Cologne. Now, she is a Trump supporting Republican,
- 14:24Speaker 5: but she's got her hands tied when she had her
- 14:29Speaker 5: hands tied when she was in Congress because she was
- 14:31Speaker 5: one person representing an island that probably has about as
- 14:34Speaker 5: many people as New Jersey. New Jersey has a whole
- 14:37Speaker 5: mess of congress people. I think we have thirteen or
- 14:40Speaker 5: fourteen congressional districts. Right, you get typically for every seven
- 14:45Speaker 5: hundred thousand people or so, you get a congressman or congresswoman. Well,
- 14:50Speaker 5: guess what. Puerto Rico has won and they can't vote
- 14:53Speaker 5: outside of their committee votes. What does that tell you?
- 14:56Speaker 5: They're underrepresented in the government. Now, if you want to
- 14:59Speaker 5: change that, all you got to do is stick with
- 15:02Speaker 5: the plan. Now, why hasn't changed. The reason that hasn't
- 15:04Speaker 5: changed is real simple. The main Republican for so long
- 15:07Speaker 5: in the United States Senate agreed with AOC no, thank you.
- 15:13Speaker 5: He was afraid, he was afraid that even though you
- 15:16Speaker 5: have Republicans that get elected as Resident Commissioner of Puerto
- 15:19Speaker 5: Rico and then go on to become the governor of
- 15:22Speaker 5: Puerto Rico, and even the Democrats or opposing party candidates
- 15:27Speaker 5: like Juan Dalascas right, who replaced Ricardo Ro said, Joe
- 15:31Speaker 5: the former governor, she endorsed Trump and she wasn't She
- 15:36Speaker 5: wasn't a conservative by any means. So there are Puerto
- 15:40Speaker 5: Ricans that support Trump, and it makes all the sense
- 15:44Speaker 5: in the world. Everybody wins Why Mitch McConnell, and he's
- 15:51Speaker 5: convinced some of his colleagues in the Senate and some
- 15:53Speaker 5: of my colleagues to believe that if Puerto Rico were
- 15:56Speaker 5: to become a state, that it would automatically have two
- 15:59Speaker 5: Democrats serving as United States Senators and four or five
- 16:05Speaker 5: who knows how many congress people. This is a I
- 16:09Speaker 5: think it's a fallacy. I mean, I think it's a
- 16:11Speaker 5: toss up based on the districts, right, depending on which
- 16:15Speaker 5: neighborhood these congressional lines are drawn. But call me crazy,
- 16:19Speaker 5: but wouldn't you want to do it while you have
- 16:21Speaker 5: a Republican president, while you have a Republican Senate and
- 16:26Speaker 5: a Republican House, and a Republican in La Portalisa in
- 16:30Speaker 5: the governor's mansion in Puerto Rico. Wouldn't it be a
- 16:32Speaker 5: good idea to say, hey, let's draw these lines right
- 16:35Speaker 5: now and make sure that we maintain as much power
- 16:37Speaker 5: as we can. Isn't that the name of the game
- 16:39Speaker 5: in politics, especially when the people have voted four times
- 16:43Speaker 5: in favor of becoming a state. So it's the United
- 16:45Speaker 5: States Senate that is stopping this from happening with a
- 16:48Speaker 5: cheap excuse that if Puerto Rico becomes a state, it
- 16:51Speaker 5: will guaranteed be become a blue state. There's no proof
- 16:55Speaker 5: for that. Literally, isn't proof for that. So I could
- 16:59Speaker 5: argue the other way, and I think Marco Rubio, Secretary
- 17:01Speaker 5: of State, he's argued the other way for decades, or
- 17:03Speaker 5: at least for the last decade. He's been on the record,
- 17:05Speaker 5: writing op eds, giving speeches. He shares the same position
- 17:08Speaker 5: as I do. So anyway, speaking of Mark and Rubio,
- 17:12Speaker 5: Marco Rubio, I want to get into a couple of
- 17:16Speaker 5: clips on him. I want to talk about the wild
- 17:18Speaker 5: weekend that we had in New York City. Man, it
- 17:20Speaker 5: was crazy, not one but two bombs outside Gracie Mansion
- 17:23Speaker 5: thrown by the same guy, these young guys out of Pennsylvania.
- 17:26Speaker 5: We're going to get it to that in the moment.
- 17:28Speaker 5: Plus what else do we have? Oh Trump in Miami.
- 17:31Speaker 5: Trump was at his Dural golf course in Miami inviting
- 17:34Speaker 5: the presidents of a bunch of different countries in Central
- 17:38Speaker 5: South America for the Shield of America's right. So the
- 17:43Speaker 5: Central America, North America, South America Consortium of leaders converged
- 17:49Speaker 5: on Miami to discuss how they get together to fight
- 17:53Speaker 5: narco terrorism. And it was interesting. We got some clips
- 17:56Speaker 5: from Trump's and clips from Marco Rubio had a couple
- 17:59Speaker 5: other people that I think we have lined up and
- 18:02Speaker 5: we have time. We'll get to all of them. I
- 18:03Speaker 5: got that. But us, I've got Mom, Donny, Mom, Donny.
- 18:06Speaker 5: Despite all the crazy that's going on, the guy throwing
- 18:09Speaker 5: the bomb, shouting allah bar, people in planes screaming that
- 18:13Speaker 5: they have bombs, shouting allah a bar. You mustn't like
- 18:17Speaker 5: the bomb.
- 18:19Speaker 3: That all hell. But I love.
- 18:35Speaker 2: Sit down, Just be careful to Camel, sit down.
- 18:45Speaker 5: But Mike, my your.
- 19:03Speaker 2: Is that your phone?
- 19:04Speaker 9: Have you got anything on you?
- 19:07Speaker 6: Have you got anything on you?
- 19:10Speaker 5: Why you why are you doing that?
- 19:13Speaker 6: Check you check this.
- 19:14Speaker 5: Populars do surely.
- 19:24Speaker 3: I'm down.
- 19:28Speaker 5: Table? Where are you sitting? Where is your seat?
- 19:32Speaker 2: Is there anything in.
- 19:33Speaker 3: Your Is there anything in your back?
- 19:34Speaker 7: Is there anything on your back?
- 19:37Speaker 2: Is there anything in your back?
- 19:40Speaker 5: Is there anything in your back?
- 19:43Speaker 3: Have you got? Have you got you.
- 19:48Speaker 6: Nothing? Have you done?
- 19:50Speaker 7: Move you got you got?
- 19:52Speaker 3: Have you got a bob?
- 19:54Speaker 2: Why do you have you got anything on you?
- 19:56Speaker 5: Despite all that you've got mom Danny out there saying
- 19:59Speaker 5: this is because as you're being an islamophobe. What Hold
- 20:01Speaker 5: on a second, it's walking like a duck, and that
- 20:04Speaker 5: is talking like a duck. Hold on a second. Anyway,
- 20:06Speaker 5: we're gonna talk about that.
- 20:08Speaker 8: Uh.
- 20:08Speaker 5: Plus, some reports are saying that Iran is activating these
- 20:11Speaker 5: sleeper cells and that's why we're seeing all of this
- 20:14Speaker 5: chaotic behavior. More on that straight ahead, Plus your calls
- 20:17Speaker 5: eight seven seven Valdesz one eight seven seven Valdez one.
- 20:22Speaker 5: Don't go anywhere, keep it locked right here. I'm Rich valdesk.
- 20:25Speaker 1: This is America, This is America. He's brown, he's bald,
- 20:40Speaker 1: and he's breaking it down.
- 20:42Speaker 5: Oh he's so handsome. What's his dad?
- 20:44Speaker 3: Rich Valdez?
- 20:47Speaker 5: All right, I mean goes. Welcome back, Rich Valdes, keeping
- 20:49Speaker 5: your company tonight. Happy to be here with you. Eight
- 20:52Speaker 5: seven seven Valdes one again at eight seven seven Valdes one.
- 20:58Speaker 5: Give me a call on the duck phone. Yes, this
- 20:59Speaker 5: is an ode to the Jersey Show. I love that
- 21:02Speaker 5: show and the Jersey Shore Family VAK all that stuff.
- 21:05Speaker 5: This is what I do to unwind. But give me
- 21:08Speaker 5: a call. I want to talk to you on the duck.
- 21:10Speaker 5: Holler at me. Plus, we're going to get into the
- 21:12Speaker 5: wild weekend in New York City. That's right. Two bombs
- 21:16Speaker 5: are thrown outside Gracie Match and that's where Zorin Mambani lives.
- 21:19Speaker 5: Plus we've got two guys shouting alach Bar on airline flights.
- 21:24Speaker 5: I'm going to get into all of that and more
- 21:26Speaker 5: straight ahead. But first I want to talk about Ed Trumpito.
- 21:29Speaker 5: Donaldis Magnus, the forty fifth and forty seventh President of
- 21:34Speaker 5: the United States, Ed Trumpito and Presidente. He says lots
- 21:38Speaker 5: of things. Actually, he was in drylh, Florida at his
- 21:41Speaker 5: Trump Miami golf course, and he invited all these presidents
- 21:45Speaker 5: from Central and South America, North America. Lots of people
- 21:48Speaker 5: that were there discussing the coalition against cartels, and this
- 21:53Speaker 5: is pretty interesting stuff because he talked about having a
- 21:55Speaker 5: missile defense system. He's talking big about going after what's
- 21:59Speaker 5: going on with the Narco terrorists. Plus Marco Rubio chiming
- 22:03Speaker 5: in on what's going on with all the millions of
- 22:05Speaker 5: things that he's doing, and a great job that, in
- 22:08Speaker 5: my opinion, that he's doing as Secretary of State. Literally,
- 22:11Speaker 5: him and Trump seem to be fixing so many global
- 22:14Speaker 5: problems through military action, through tariffs, through different types of
- 22:20Speaker 5: strategic foreign policy that I think the sum may not
- 22:24Speaker 5: be very welcome, but to others is likely the only
- 22:27Speaker 5: way we're going to fix these problems. So we'll hear
- 22:30Speaker 5: from Marco Rubio. We're also going to hear from Let
- 22:32Speaker 5: me see who else do I got here? I have
- 22:33Speaker 5: a little list here, shall we? We shall? All right,
- 22:36Speaker 5: let's take a look here.
- 22:37Speaker 10: This is.
- 22:40Speaker 5: We've got bomb bomb bomb. Those are for the next one.
- 22:43Speaker 5: Speaking of bombs and Iran, we've got the United States
- 22:49Speaker 5: military not only getting into new military action with the
- 22:54Speaker 5: Ecuadorian military. I'll get into that maybe later, maybe tomorrow,
- 22:58Speaker 5: but I'll also talk about what's going on with the
- 23:03Speaker 5: United States taking the small island outside of Iran, which
- 23:07Speaker 5: is where they store their oil, which is another strategic move.
- 23:10Speaker 5: But I want to talk about what happened with Trump,
- 23:13Speaker 5: what he said about Cuba, and what he said about
- 23:15Speaker 5: the cartels, because I think it's very important watch this.
- 23:18Speaker 10: We're calling this military partnership the America's Counter Cartel Coalition,
- 23:25Speaker 10: and that's what you need.
- 23:26Speaker 3: You have cartels. They seem to.
- 23:28Speaker 10: Grow in this region unbelievably rapidly. Has to do with drugs, largely.
- 23:34Speaker 10: Earlier this week here in Miami, Secretary of War Pete Hexa,
- 23:38Speaker 10: who's right here. You are fantastic, doing a great job.
- 23:41Speaker 10: We're proud of you, and representatives of seventeen different nations
- 23:45Speaker 10: formally entered this new alliance. The heart of our agreement
- 23:50Speaker 10: is a commitment to using lethal military force to destroy
- 23:55Speaker 10: the senters to cartels and terrorists networks once and for
- 23:59Speaker 10: we'll get rid of them. We need your help. You
- 24:02Speaker 10: have to just tell us where they are. We have
- 24:04Speaker 10: amazing we have amazing weaponry, as you probably noticed over
- 24:08Speaker 10: the last short period of time.
- 24:11Speaker 5: All right, Marco, letting him know how it goes. I
- 24:14Speaker 5: think Marco Ruby is doing a fantastic job. I can't
- 24:16Speaker 5: say that enough because I think think of the last
- 24:18Speaker 5: Secretary of State that was really John blazing the trail. Yep.
- 24:23Speaker 5: Oh wait, was it the one that served under Obama?
- 24:29Speaker 5: Was it the one that served under Biden? Who even
- 24:32Speaker 5: was the one that served under Biden? Exactly my point.
- 24:34Speaker 5: Marco Rubio is actually getting the job done. He's all
- 24:37Speaker 5: over the world, He's actually making things happen. This is
- 24:40Speaker 5: a good thing. Now, kudos to him. President Trump weighing
- 24:44Speaker 5: in on Cuba at that same event, the Shield of
- 24:47Speaker 5: Shields of America event in Trump Terrall in Miami, saying this,
- 24:52Speaker 5: check this out and doubling down, right, doubling down on
- 24:56Speaker 5: exactly what's going on with Cuba today. President Trump asked
- 25:02Speaker 5: by the meat by the White House Press Corps about
- 25:06Speaker 5: what's going on with Cuba? Is there a deal on
- 25:09Speaker 5: the table? He had made a comment over the weekend saying, look,
- 25:13Speaker 5: a deal we made, whether we make one for them
- 25:15Speaker 5: or whether they choose to make one on their own,
- 25:17Speaker 5: and he doubled down on it and elaborated, here, watch
- 25:19Speaker 5: this one.
- 25:20Speaker 10: I've been hearing as a little boy, I'd be hearing
- 25:22Speaker 10: about Cuba. You know, Cuba is a disaster. But I've
- 25:27Speaker 10: been hearing so much about Cuba. But Cuba is in
- 25:29Speaker 10: its last moments of life as it was. It'll have
- 25:33Speaker 10: a great new life, but it's in its last moments
- 25:36Speaker 10: of life the way it is.
- 25:39Speaker 3: But our focus right now is on Iran and we'll
- 25:43Speaker 3: do that. I would say, what would you do?
- 25:45Speaker 10: Take about two days off Marco now will maybe an hour.
- 25:48Speaker 10: He'll take one hour off and then he'll finish up
- 25:51Speaker 10: a deal on Cuba. That'll be an easy one, but
- 25:56Speaker 10: it'll be the entire region that we're doing that. Many
- 25:59Speaker 10: of you have come today and they said, I hope
- 26:01Speaker 10: you can take care of Cuba because you've had problems
- 26:03Speaker 10: with Cuba, right you mentioned.
- 26:06Speaker 5: Man. I gotta tell you Ed Trompito sounds like he
- 26:09Speaker 5: really means business here, and it's just amount of time.
- 26:11Speaker 5: He's just waiting for Cuba to what they've been doing
- 26:15Speaker 5: to us right just waiting for us to kind of
- 26:18Speaker 5: just hm, lean over and play dead. It's not gonna happen.
- 26:22Speaker 5: I don't think Cuba it wasn't gonna happen before. Right
- 26:25Speaker 5: now that he's actually put a real embargo, he's actually
- 26:27Speaker 5: there's a real stranglehold on this regime, and that's what's
- 26:31Speaker 5: important here. In the past, they were the ones playing
- 26:33Speaker 5: the waiting games with us. We were saying, well, you know,
- 26:36Speaker 5: we'll do this and we'll do that, and they said,
- 26:37Speaker 5: you know what, as long as this guy keeps talking tough,
- 26:40Speaker 5: we just keep doing what we do and wait. Because
- 26:42Speaker 5: we've been here for five decades and that's how these
- 26:46Speaker 5: regimes work. They will play a waiting game any day
- 26:48Speaker 5: as soon as there's a new sheriff in town. They
- 26:50Speaker 5: don't care. They don't care. What they care about is
- 26:53Speaker 5: to continue to live good and to continue to maintain power.
- 26:56Speaker 5: It's rule number one in politics, maintain and gain power.
- 27:01Speaker 5: So Ed Trompito talking, not tough, talking seriously, right, He's
- 27:05Speaker 5: not saying we're gonna go in there, we're gonna bomb them,
- 27:07Speaker 5: We're gonna it's gonna be your believe me, Believe me.
- 27:10Speaker 5: He's not doing any of that. Fact, he's saying, their
- 27:13Speaker 5: days are numbered, right, moments left in the life of
- 27:17Speaker 5: Cuba as we know it. This is music to so
- 27:20Speaker 5: many people's ears, even those detractors of mine. Right, I
- 27:24Speaker 5: have some very close friends that don't agree with me
- 27:26Speaker 5: on my position on Cuba. Most of my Cuban friends
- 27:29Speaker 5: do agree, but I have a couple. Right about four
- 27:32Speaker 5: years ago, twenty twenty two, I threw a party, a
- 27:37Speaker 5: private party and Trump Tower to celebrate my national syndication deal.
- 27:43Speaker 5: And I invited, you know, some close friends, had a
- 27:46Speaker 5: sprinter full, a van ful of my closest friends with
- 27:49Speaker 5: a great time, uh, some supporters, some colleagues. I invited
- 27:53Speaker 5: Mark Levan and Rudy Giuliani and Councilwoman Vicki Palladino. And
- 27:57Speaker 5: it was around Thanksgiving time, so not everybody was able
- 28:00Speaker 5: to be there, but everybody that did show up did
- 28:04Speaker 5: so with a degree of sacrifice because again it was
- 28:06Speaker 5: during the holidays. And one of the people that showed
- 28:10Speaker 5: up was my good friend, Ruben the Cuban. Ruben the
- 28:15Speaker 5: Cuban a good friend of mine, his whole family, they're
- 28:17Speaker 5: wonderful people. And he's the guy that if you've ever
- 28:23Speaker 5: heard me talk about my Cuban friend that came from Havana,
- 28:27Speaker 5: Cuba to Key West, Florida on a jet ski in
- 28:33Speaker 5: order to get to America, That's who I'm talking about.
- 28:36Speaker 5: And after Councilwoman Vicki Palladino gave a toast and congratulated
- 28:41Speaker 5: me on the new show and whatnot. In my remarks,
- 28:45Speaker 5: which are very limited, believe it or not, I shouted
- 28:48Speaker 5: him out and the people that were active listeners of
- 28:52Speaker 5: the show were so happy that my liberal Democrat friend,
- 28:57Speaker 5: Ruben the Cuban was there. And I bring him up
- 29:00Speaker 5: because Ruben the Cuban and I have this constant back
- 29:04Speaker 5: and forth and the one area we agree is that
- 29:07Speaker 5: the regime in Cuba must fall. I argue that the
- 29:10Speaker 5: Democrats are too communistic, and he says they're not communists
- 29:14Speaker 5: at all. In his opinion, they are following the Constitution
- 29:18Speaker 5: to a t because this country has something Cuba's never had.
- 29:21Speaker 5: And I say, what's that? And he says, separation of powers,
- 29:25Speaker 5: and then we go on to talk. The other day
- 29:26Speaker 5: he called me and he said, man, I got to
- 29:28Speaker 5: tell you the document that you guys call the Constitution.
- 29:34Speaker 5: This is probably one of the most perfect documents I've
- 29:37Speaker 5: ever written. And he went out and said, no, no, no, no,
- 29:39Speaker 5: but but seriously, it's like they knew what the future
- 29:42Speaker 5: would be. They thought about everything ahead of time. Now
- 29:45Speaker 5: again we don't agree. So while I agree with that
- 29:48Speaker 5: statement too, I mean, maybe the Bible might be more perfect,
- 29:51Speaker 5: but constitution is a close second. Right, But he says,
- 29:55Speaker 5: what happens here is that the fourteenth member is clearest day.
- 29:59Speaker 5: I don't even know why going to the Supreme Court.
- 30:02Speaker 5: If you're born in this country, you're a citizen. So
- 30:04Speaker 5: of course I say, well, you know, during the debate
- 30:07Speaker 5: way back when, and we talked about this on the
- 30:09Speaker 5: on the radio and whatnot. If you are the pregnant
- 30:13Speaker 5: wife of an ambassador who's stationed in the United States
- 30:17Speaker 5: representing another country, right, so ambassador to wherever you fill
- 30:22Speaker 5: in the blank, wife has baby because I am the
- 30:26Speaker 5: ambassador to another country working at the embassy in the
- 30:30Speaker 5: United States, they have baby. The baby's a citizen of
- 30:34Speaker 5: where all right. Remember I'm now a proud patriot. I
- 30:37Speaker 5: represent Oman, I represent Nigeria, I represent the Dominican Republic
- 30:43Speaker 5: you fill in the blank. The ambassador doesn't want his
- 30:46Speaker 5: kid to be an American. The ambassador wants his kid
- 30:48Speaker 5: to be the country he represents. Right, they're patriotic, proud people.
- 30:53Speaker 5: He says, Oh, coman, you know what I mean. So no,
- 30:56Speaker 5: I don't know what you mean. But the fourteenth Amendment
- 30:58Speaker 5: isn't clear enough. This is the problem that's why it's
- 31:01Speaker 5: going to court. But on this issue, we haven't agreed.
- 31:05Speaker 5: And I said, listen, I believe that on Trump's watch,
- 31:09Speaker 5: you're going to see a change in Cuba. And that
- 31:11Speaker 5: was a while back. Now he's saying, I think it's
- 31:14Speaker 5: gonna happen. He's like, but I won't believe until I
- 31:16Speaker 5: see it. And that's all Cubans, And that's okay. None
- 31:19Speaker 5: of us believe anything till we see it. Right, none
- 31:21Speaker 5: of us thought the Ayatota was going to be killed
- 31:23Speaker 5: in the first ten minutes of an attack on Iran.
- 31:29Speaker 5: Guess what he's dead now, Moshtaba. His son has taken over.
- 31:34Speaker 5: But who's he right? The Iatota was like eight hundred
- 31:36Speaker 5: years old and had all this experience, and he was
- 31:39Speaker 5: the guy. This new guy's walking into a war with
- 31:42Speaker 5: the biggest superpower. The America's Air force is the largest
- 31:49Speaker 5: air force in the world, and I think we have
- 31:52Speaker 5: the second third and fourth largest or the second third
- 31:55Speaker 5: and fifth largest air forces in the world. The Navy,
- 31:59Speaker 5: the Marines, the Coast Guard. I mean, we have serious
- 32:02Speaker 5: aerial fleets that rival in our other branches of the military,
- 32:06Speaker 5: that rival countries all across the world. There's reports that
- 32:11Speaker 5: we don't have enough bombs, we're using too many missiles,
- 32:13Speaker 5: or fighting fronts, we're fighting wars on too many fronts,
- 32:16Speaker 5: or military conflict on too many fronts. Whatever. As a
- 32:21Speaker 5: biased observer, I'll ask myself and you this question. In
- 32:24Speaker 5: a hypothetical matchup, Iran has the ability to manufacture drones
- 32:30Speaker 5: fast enough for us to blow them up, and for
- 32:32Speaker 5: them to blow up while they're attacking stuff and keep
- 32:34Speaker 5: producing more, take one hundred a day or some crazy
- 32:36Speaker 5: number like that. Do we believe that Iran is somehow
- 32:39Speaker 5: more capable of manufacturing drones than the United States is?
- 32:44Speaker 5: And if so, brought in the question, do we believe
- 32:47Speaker 5: that the United States or Iran or any country? Honestly,
- 32:53Speaker 5: maybe Russia might be the closest rival. Let me praise
- 32:57Speaker 5: it this way. Which country do you think can make
- 32:59Speaker 5: more bombs then the United States? And faster? He is
- 33:03Speaker 5: a big country. We specialize in this. Anybody who doesn't
- 33:08Speaker 5: know about that the United States. There's a reason we
- 33:10Speaker 5: have the top four or five air forces on the planet.
- 33:13Speaker 5: There's a reason why we have the amount of nukes
- 33:15Speaker 5: that we do. There's a reason why we typically win
- 33:20Speaker 5: military activity that we get involved in. We're better at
- 33:25Speaker 5: it than they are. We build better weapons than they do,
- 33:27Speaker 5: we have better bombs than they do. Doesn't mean that
- 33:30Speaker 5: they're incapable and that they can't fight. Just means we're
- 33:33Speaker 5: better at it, That's all I'm saying. So when you
- 33:37Speaker 5: hear reports that the United States doesn't have enough missiles
- 33:40Speaker 5: and they might use a tactical nuke, and listen whatever,
- 33:44Speaker 5: that's me hearing the cop taste the guy three times
- 33:47Speaker 5: and he's gonna go for his gun if the guy
- 33:49Speaker 5: keeps coming back. Okay, get I get it. Yes, and
- 33:53Speaker 5: thank you very much. Next, I don't see a loss
- 33:56Speaker 5: in sight. I see doing it right and taking the
- 34:00Speaker 5: amount of time that it takes to do it right. Yes,
- 34:02Speaker 5: and I have volunteered, and yes, you can have my
- 34:04Speaker 5: children too. I don't know if they want to go,
- 34:07Speaker 5: but I'm not opposed to them saying, you know what,
- 34:10Speaker 5: I want to fight this war for the six sided star. Right,
- 34:14Speaker 5: that's the going the going rhetoric. Right, we're fighting Israel's war.
- 34:18Speaker 5: And I'm getting off the deep end here a little bit.
- 34:20Speaker 5: But my point is, were we fighting to for America
- 34:27Speaker 5: when World War One or World War II? Happened. Maybe, yes,
- 34:30Speaker 5: when we were hit by the Kamakazi pilots in Pearl Harbor.
- 34:34Speaker 5: But outside of that, we have fought many in many
- 34:38Speaker 5: conflicts in Korea and Vietnam, in you name it, I
- 34:42Speaker 5: mean plenty of places where we weren't attacked. It's part
- 34:47Speaker 5: of the job. And I've always supported that, and I've
- 34:51Speaker 5: always supported a strong military, and I support us getting
- 34:54Speaker 5: involved militarily and something else I support that you can
- 34:57Speaker 5: criticize me for, and I'll take the criticism. I support
- 35:01Speaker 5: regime change, maybe not the nation building part and not
- 35:06Speaker 5: the twenty year war, right, but whatever it takes, I
- 35:11Speaker 5: do support. I support putting in the right people, and
- 35:15Speaker 5: sometimes that changes, right, Biden's version of the right people
- 35:19Speaker 5: may be different from Trump's version of the right people,
- 35:21Speaker 5: and Trump's version of the right people might change six
- 35:24Speaker 5: months from them, especially when you have, like we say
- 35:27Speaker 5: in Spanish, guatema ia order. Right, That's always the question,
- 35:32Speaker 5: what's happening in Cuba is very bad?
- 35:34Speaker 3: Yes?
- 35:36Speaker 5: Am I really gonna believe that we don't We don't
- 35:40Speaker 5: put pressure on the Cuban regime. Why because who comes
- 35:43Speaker 5: in after might be worse. That's a risk. You've got
- 35:47Speaker 5: to be willing to take. If you're a woman and
- 35:49Speaker 5: your husband is beating on you daily, you can't sit
- 35:53Speaker 5: here and rationalize with yourself and say I'm gonna keep
- 35:56Speaker 5: my husband, because you know what, if I try, I
- 35:58Speaker 5: leave them, I find another and he beats me too,
- 36:01Speaker 5: and he beats me even worse. Is that any way
- 36:03Speaker 5: to live? Of course not. We don't live that way.
- 36:07Speaker 5: We don't do things that way. We try to do
- 36:10Speaker 5: things the right way. So all of this rhetoric about
- 36:14Speaker 5: oh what happens, listen, it's a roll of the dice.
- 36:16Speaker 5: People were here to help, right. You see an old
- 36:19Speaker 5: lady walking down the street. You can sit there and go,
- 36:21Speaker 5: well this, if I get involved, that guy instead of
- 36:23Speaker 5: killing Harry, might kill me too. You could think that
- 36:25Speaker 5: way if you want, Or you could say, you know what,
- 36:27Speaker 5: I'm gonna get involved. She's got a better chance at living, surviving,
- 36:29Speaker 5: holding onto her pocketbook. If I get involved, you get involved,
- 36:33Speaker 5: you know what could happen. Maybe no, maybe you don't
- 36:36Speaker 5: get killed. Maybe you knock the guy out, cops come
- 36:40Speaker 5: to handcuff him, and you get a bad guy off
- 36:42Speaker 5: the street. Maybe you don't knock the guy out. He
- 36:45Speaker 5: sees you coming, and he says, forget it. This old
- 36:47Speaker 5: lady's too tough to rob. Let me move on to
- 36:49Speaker 5: a different old lady. Do we do things because we're
- 36:54Speaker 5: fortune tellers. Do we do things because of the outcome
- 36:57Speaker 5: that we know is going to happen? Or do we
- 36:59Speaker 5: do things based on what's right and wrong? Do we
- 37:01Speaker 5: have an internal locus of control? What guides us, what
- 37:06Speaker 5: moves us right? That's the question we have to ask ourselves.
- 37:09Speaker 5: Number two, what does it take to stay number one?
- 37:15Speaker 5: I'll tell you what it takes. It takes not being
- 37:17Speaker 5: number two. You can figure out what it takes to
- 37:20Speaker 5: stay number one by looking at a lot of different
- 37:23Speaker 5: number ones. Now, some people are going to try and
- 37:27Speaker 5: take me out of context and say, ol, come on,
- 37:28Speaker 5: or are you saying anything? Do anything, absolutely anything, break
- 37:31Speaker 5: as many rules as you want. No, I'm not saying that.
- 37:34Speaker 5: Why would I say that. I'm just saying we're going
- 37:37Speaker 5: to do what we have to do within the confines
- 37:39Speaker 5: of the law. A lot of people are trying to
- 37:41Speaker 5: beat me up or beat up beat them because of
- 37:43Speaker 5: my support of him, because I say, yeah, the United
- 37:47Speaker 5: States has every right to defend themselves, and the United
- 37:50Speaker 5: States has every right to use the military. We can't
- 37:54Speaker 5: sit here and adopt with new Gingrich called I think
- 37:58Speaker 5: on Monday night a little while ago. He said, we
- 38:04Speaker 5: cannot adopt a doctrine of imminency and I thought that's interesting.
- 38:13Speaker 5: Imminency and he's arguing that are we going to say
- 38:16Speaker 5: that unless we are in imminent danger? And arguing over
- 38:19Speaker 5: what imminent means. So again back to the cop and
- 38:23Speaker 5: bad guy scenario. You're the cop, they're the bad guy
- 38:25Speaker 5: this foreign country. You think they have a gun in
- 38:30Speaker 5: their waistband, do you just because you think you go
- 38:34Speaker 5: and shoot? Probably not, But if they start reaching for
- 38:38Speaker 5: their waistband, do you shoot?
- 38:39Speaker 3: Yes, you do?
- 38:41Speaker 7: You do?
- 38:42Speaker 5: And if they don't have a gun, you go, I'm sorry.
- 38:44Speaker 5: You shouldn't have been doing that when you know I'm
- 38:45Speaker 5: pointing a loaded gun at you. There have to be
- 38:48Speaker 5: rules to engagement. What you don't do is wait till
- 38:51Speaker 5: he pulls the gun out, and then you have a
- 38:53Speaker 5: stare down right, and it's like, hey, put it down?
- 38:58Speaker 5: Who does that? Why would you want to do that?
- 39:01Speaker 5: I don't want to do that. I'm not interested in
- 39:04Speaker 5: letting you point a gun at me. And you shouldn't
- 39:06Speaker 5: be either, so this idea that we've got to wait
- 39:09Speaker 5: till Aron's about to get us. When we've heard the
- 39:12Speaker 5: reports that the sleeper cells are being activated and.
- 39:14Speaker 6: The US intercepted encrypted messages coming out of Iran in
- 39:19Speaker 6: the wake of the death of the Supreme Leader. ABC
- 39:21Speaker 6: News reporting an alert went out to law enforcement about
- 39:24Speaker 6: these encrypted messages, warning about the possibility of a sleeper
- 39:28Speaker 6: cell attack inside the US. President Trump addressed those potential concerns.
- 39:34Speaker 5: One activated any sleeper cells inside the US.
- 39:38Speaker 10: They've been trying for a long time.
- 39:39Speaker 5: We've been very much on top of it.
- 39:41Speaker 4: We're watching every single one of them. Yeah, we know
- 39:45Speaker 4: a lot about them. The biggest problem we have is
- 39:48Speaker 4: the Democrat shutdown. We know a lot about them, but
- 39:51Speaker 4: the shutdown doesn't allow us to do what we have
- 39:54Speaker 4: to do.
- 39:55Speaker 5: And we're seeing the stuff happening on the plane, and
- 39:58Speaker 5: we're seeing all sorts of crazy going on. Listen, no
- 40:01Speaker 5: bwen more on that. Straight ahead, don't go anywhere. I'm
- 40:04Speaker 5: Rich Valdez.
- 40:05Speaker 3: This is America. This is America.
- 40:20Speaker 5: The forty fifth President Donald Trump thinks it's an honor
- 40:24Speaker 5: to speak with rich Valdez.
- 40:25Speaker 10: Oh, very good.
- 40:30Speaker 3: The honor is all yours.
- 40:34Speaker 5: Conservative talk with a dash of Sofrito.
- 40:37Speaker 3: Now here's rich Valdez.
- 40:41Speaker 2: This was a vile protest rooted in white supremacy, entitled
- 40:45Speaker 2: stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City. I'm the
- 40:48Speaker 2: first Muslim mayor of our city. Anti Muslim bigotry is
- 40:52Speaker 2: nothing new to me, nor is it anything new for
- 40:55Speaker 2: the one million or so Muslim New Yorkers who know
- 40:57Speaker 2: this city as our home. While I found this protest appalling,
- 41:01Speaker 2: I will not waver in my belief that it should
- 41:03Speaker 2: be allowed to happen. Ours is a free society where
- 41:07Speaker 2: the right to peaceful protest is sacred. It does not
- 41:10Speaker 2: belong only to those we agree with. It belongs to everyone.
- 41:14Speaker 2: I will defend that right every day that I am mayor,
- 41:17Speaker 2: even when those protesting say things that I abhor. Let
- 41:20Speaker 2: me also be clear about something else. New York City
- 41:24Speaker 2: will never tolerate violence, whether from protests or counter protests.
- 41:29Speaker 2: Many of the counter protesters met this display of bigotry
- 41:32Speaker 2: peacefully with a vision of a city that is welcoming
- 41:35Speaker 2: to all, but a few did not. Two men, Amir
- 41:40Speaker 2: Blat and Ibrahim Kayumi, traveled from Pennsylvania and attempted to
- 41:44Speaker 2: bring violence to New York City. They are suspected of
- 41:48Speaker 2: coming here to commit an act of terrorism. There is
- 41:51Speaker 2: video of these two individuals throwing two devices towards the protest.
- 41:56Speaker 2: The police department has determined that these were improvised explosive
- 41:59Speaker 2: devices made to injure maime or worse. Thanks to the
- 42:04Speaker 2: swift and decisive actions of NYPD officers at the scene,
- 42:07Speaker 2: both men were immediately taken into custody and the devices
- 42:11Speaker 2: they brought taken off of our streets. I want to
- 42:15Speaker 2: commend the officers who were on site.
- 42:17Speaker 5: All right, imicoers, welcome back, Rich valdesk keeping your company.
- 42:20Speaker 5: Remember the phone number eight seven to seven valdesz one.
- 42:22Speaker 5: If you want to join in, we're going to be
- 42:24Speaker 5: doing that right after this. But I want to talk
- 42:25Speaker 5: about this because I find this to be interesting. Now
- 42:28Speaker 5: what's interesting here is Dora Mombini. Right, you just saw
- 42:30Speaker 5: that clip coming in. That was him giving his press
- 42:33Speaker 5: conference this morning, Monday morning, and he says thank you
- 42:38Speaker 5: to the police, which amen, Praise God, hallelujah. Right, we
- 42:42Speaker 5: love the police. He says violence will not be tolerated
- 42:47Speaker 5: in New York City, very very harsh words. When ISIS
- 42:53Speaker 5: terrorists are throwing bombs, right, isn't it amazing?
- 42:56Speaker 4: How?
- 42:57Speaker 5: And again we criticized President Obama for not using the
- 43:02Speaker 5: term radical Islamist terrorism, right, and some people said that's
- 43:08Speaker 5: rooted in bigotry. I don't think so. If this were
- 43:12Speaker 5: the KKK, we wouldn't. I wouldn't. I certainly wouldn't say
- 43:17Speaker 5: two men came to perpetrate violence on people exercising their
- 43:22Speaker 5: right to free speech. I wouldn't say that. I would
- 43:25Speaker 5: say two white supremacists. I would say two Nazis. I
- 43:28Speaker 5: would say two guys from the KKK came and did X,
- 43:32Speaker 5: Y and Z. Now why why would I say that?
- 43:34Speaker 5: Because that's actually what happened. You got to tell the story, right.
- 43:37Speaker 5: But the mayor comes in. Two men were arrested. He
- 43:39Speaker 5: calls them out by name. Let me see if I
- 43:41Speaker 5: have their names right in front of me. Mister Ballat
- 43:44Speaker 5: and mister Kyumi. These are ISIS bombers.
- 43:47Speaker 6: Right.
- 43:48Speaker 5: The bomb didn't go off, thank God. But to sit
- 43:51Speaker 5: here and pretend like this is somehow normal, this isn't normal, right.
- 43:58Speaker 5: This is a legit active terrorism. And it amazes me
- 44:04Speaker 5: that he spent the first part of that talking about
- 44:06Speaker 5: what white supremacy anti Muslim baffles the mind. You have
- 44:14Speaker 5: to be special. I think you really have to be
- 44:19Speaker 5: special to realize the people protesting may in fact be bigots.
- 44:25Speaker 5: They may they may or not be.
- 44:26Speaker 9: I don't know.
- 44:26Speaker 5: The only person I know that was there was Jake Lang,
- 44:28Speaker 5: who I've interviewed on this program. And everybody else that
- 44:33Speaker 5: was there, I don't know their purpose. I saw a
- 44:34Speaker 5: bunch of people wearing kafias, the Middle Eastern scarf. What
- 44:41Speaker 5: I know is this, there were two guys that had
- 44:44Speaker 5: a bomb and through two bombs. That is a fact, right,
- 44:49Speaker 5: and screamed a la u akbar as it was happening
- 44:52Speaker 5: as he was running away. That's a thing, right. These
- 44:55Speaker 5: are called Islamist terrorists. That's who they are.
- 44:58Speaker 9: Now.
- 44:58Speaker 5: I'm not getting upset that you're not using the right term.
- 45:01Speaker 5: I'm getting upset that, like he said, he's the first
- 45:03Speaker 5: Muslim mayor, and I believe he's leaving some money on
- 45:06Speaker 5: the table here. Right. If I'm Puerto Rican, which I
- 45:08Speaker 5: happened to be an American of Puerto Rican heritage, and
- 45:12Speaker 5: let us presume that something happened that I was mayor
- 45:16Speaker 5: of New York City and it was the fa l
- 45:19Speaker 5: N type of terrorists, the the uh Oscar Ribera Lopez,
- 45:25Speaker 5: right is that his name anyway? The people from you know,
- 45:29Speaker 5: Labanda de Lolita Leronde, the people that believe that we're
- 45:34Speaker 5: gonna speak truth to power by bombing buildings. She went
- 45:39Speaker 5: to Congress and shot people in the name of Puerto
- 45:41Speaker 5: Rican liberation. This is no longer a freedom issue, right,
- 45:45Speaker 5: This is a terrorism issue. But in an instance like that,
- 45:49Speaker 5: if I'm mayor and some you know, God forbids something
- 45:52Speaker 5: like that were to happen on my watch, what do
- 45:54Speaker 5: I do. Do I say two men or four men
- 45:58Speaker 5: and a woman answered the Capitol building and shots went off?
- 46:04Speaker 5: Or do I say the truth and again the other
- 46:07Speaker 5: one's not untrue, it's just whitewashing the scenario here, Do
- 46:10Speaker 5: I start my speech by saying hatred against Puerto Ricans
- 46:14Speaker 5: will not be tolerated and neither will violence. And thank
- 46:16Speaker 5: you to the police. No, you gotta come out here
- 46:19Speaker 5: and say, Puerto Rican terrorists they came and they shot
- 46:22Speaker 5: people in the Capitol because that's what happened. And in
- 46:25Speaker 5: this case, two Islamist terrorist ISIS sympathizers or ISIS recruits
- 46:31Speaker 5: were lobbing IEDs. More IEDs were found, improvised explosive device
- 46:35Speaker 5: were found on the upper east side. Come on, we
- 46:40Speaker 5: got to stop playing these games. And the mayor, he's
- 46:43Speaker 5: all down for the games. Zora Mumdani opened up and
- 46:46Speaker 5: you saw that clip and he said white supremacy rally
- 46:52Speaker 5: anti Muslim. And I'm listen. If there may have been
- 46:55Speaker 5: people there that were white supremacists, and there may have
- 46:57Speaker 5: been people there that were anti Muslim, but I can
- 47:00Speaker 5: tell you, by and large, what people don't like is
- 47:02Speaker 5: not a faith. What people don't like is the terrorism
- 47:07Speaker 5: within that faith. Right, these radicals amongst them, and I
- 47:11Speaker 5: believe he left money on the table. He missed an
- 47:14Speaker 5: opportunity to say, you know what, as the first Muslim mayor,
- 47:16Speaker 5: I want to be the first one to condemn this,
- 47:19Speaker 5: not to say we're not going to tolerate violence, but
- 47:22Speaker 5: to say I don't support radical Islam, because you know,
- 47:26Speaker 5: this is where people are nervous now. People want to
- 47:30Speaker 5: know on a separate issue. Right, And there was these
- 47:35Speaker 5: two airlines, right, two different airlines got diverted, one from
- 47:38Speaker 5: Nashville to Florida and another one from from Glasgow Scotland.
- 47:45Speaker 5: And again because of what people were saying on these
- 47:48Speaker 5: on these airplanes, now one of them, they tried to
- 47:50Speaker 5: report it as the guy was praying, he made the
- 47:53Speaker 5: call to prayer. No, no, no, don't be misled this individual.
- 48:00Speaker 5: As matter of fact, I think we have the tape.
- 48:02Speaker 5: Let's go to the tape for that. But before we do,
- 48:04Speaker 5: I want to give credit, thank you for the reminder.
- 48:07Speaker 5: I want to give credit to the police chief, Chief
- 48:11Speaker 5: Aaron Edwards, who literally jumped a barricade like a hurdle,
- 48:17Speaker 5: like he was an Olympian to go after the bad guy,
- 48:21Speaker 5: and he got the bad guy him and I think
- 48:24Speaker 5: it was Sergeant Mugno's kudos to them both. Mamdani thanked
- 48:28Speaker 5: them and I think that was appropriate. Of course it was.
- 48:30Speaker 5: And he made some remarks outside of one police plaza
- 48:34Speaker 5: and we're going to get those for you as well.
- 48:37Speaker 5: Kudos to you, chief. You are a gentleman, a scholar
- 48:39Speaker 5: and a patriot. We need guys like you to become mayor. Right.
- 48:43Speaker 5: I'm sure he wouldn't have tolerated that stuff. He was
- 48:46Speaker 5: just doing the job with humility. God bless him now.
- 48:50Speaker 5: Jessica Tish Jessica tish Is, the police commissioner. She gave
- 48:54Speaker 5: some remarks about this too at the press conference earlier today.
- 48:57Speaker 5: I'm going to play them for you just for the
- 48:59Speaker 5: sake of having them on the record so that you
- 49:01Speaker 5: could hear what she said, because I think she's taking
- 49:04Speaker 5: this a little bit more seriously than the mayor might be.
- 49:07Speaker 5: And if you look at the body language, the mechanics here,
- 49:09Speaker 5: he said what he had to say. He got right
- 49:10Speaker 5: out when it was condemning everything else right, condemning Israel,
- 49:14Speaker 5: condemning Trump, condemning anything he wants to condemn. He's front
- 49:18Speaker 5: and center here, repeats it, repeats it, repeats it. He
- 49:20Speaker 5: talks about it all the time. But when it comes
- 49:22Speaker 5: to condemning these terrorists that he has sympathized with in
- 49:26Speaker 5: the past, like the Hamas ones, like the Holy Land five,
- 49:30Speaker 5: this is the issue. When you have a track record
- 49:32Speaker 5: of being sympathetic towards people like this and then they
- 49:35Speaker 5: come and they do it right outside your house, it's
- 49:39Speaker 5: gonna make people distrust what the mayors bring into the table.
- 49:43Speaker 5: And instead of shutting that down in good faith and saying,
- 49:45Speaker 5: hold on a second, we don't support this. I don't
- 49:47Speaker 5: support ISIS. We're gonna do everything we can. We're gonna
- 49:50Speaker 5: work with the FBI. We're gonna shut this thing down,
- 49:52Speaker 5: he said. He said, We're not gonna two men, two men.
- 49:55Speaker 5: It's almost like when Ill hand Omar said some people
- 49:58Speaker 5: did something. So I don't always agree with commission at Tish,
- 50:02Speaker 5: but I am going to say here, I think she
- 50:04Speaker 5: did a better job than the mayor did in calling
- 50:08Speaker 5: this what it was and saying this was an ISIS
- 50:10Speaker 5: inspired terrorist attack. Check this out.
- 50:13Speaker 11: This is being investigated as an act of ISIS inspired terrorism.
- 50:18Speaker 11: I can also provide some additional information, building on my
- 50:21Speaker 11: remarks from Saturday evening. At that time, we were beginning
- 50:25Speaker 11: to conduct preliminary analysis of two devices that were ignited
- 50:29Speaker 11: and deployed earlier that day, one in a crossroad walk
- 50:33Speaker 11: on East End Avenue and East eighty seventh Street, in
- 50:36Speaker 11: the other on the west side of East End Avenue
- 50:38Speaker 11: between East eighty six and East eighty seventh Streets. That
- 50:42Speaker 11: testing was performed by the NYPDS Bomb Squad and FBI
- 50:47Speaker 11: Special Agent bomb technicians in consultation with an FBI chemist.
- 50:53Speaker 11: Preliminary test results determined that these were not hoax devices
- 50:58Speaker 11: nor smoke bombs. They were improvise explosive devices that could
- 51:02Speaker 11: have caused serious injury or death.
- 51:05Speaker 3: Very good.
- 51:06Speaker 5: Now, before we move on to your calls, your thoughts,
- 51:08Speaker 5: your opinions, and all those fun things, I want to
- 51:10Speaker 5: make sure you have a chance to hear from. Is
- 51:13Speaker 5: there anything else that I have to play here? Let
- 51:16Speaker 5: me see I have a list here. Bear with me,
- 51:19Speaker 5: my friends, Bear with me, my friends. I think we
- 51:22Speaker 5: got that. You saw the two different shots of the bomb.
- 51:26Speaker 5: I got another one where he throws it over the
- 51:29Speaker 5: lib The Lib guy. There's a liberal man, and he's
- 51:31Speaker 5: talking about nobody should be prevented from coming here, immigration
- 51:34Speaker 5: should be allowed for all, Come one, come all, everybody's welcome.
- 51:38Speaker 5: And while he's given his sobs story, the terrorist comes
- 51:41Speaker 5: and dunks right over him and throws the bomb right
- 51:44Speaker 5: over his shoulder. I mean this stuff you can't make up.
- 51:46Speaker 5: Watch this one.
- 51:47Speaker 3: We were pulling and raised.
- 51:48Speaker 9: In New York and we want everyone here to stay
- 51:51Speaker 9: in New York.
- 51:52Speaker 5: You don't get to come from outside and then.
- 51:55Speaker 3: Till everyone else.
- 52:04Speaker 5: Unbelievable. Wow, all right, he goes. That's my highlight reel
- 52:10Speaker 5: for the wild weekend in New York City. Now, what
- 52:13Speaker 5: I want to get into, and I want to apologize
- 52:15Speaker 5: because I think we had a mic issue before, so
- 52:17Speaker 5: forgive me for that. But what I want to get into,
- 52:21Speaker 5: excuse me, no cough button. When you do video you
- 52:23Speaker 5: see in radio land, you never would have heard that cough.
- 52:25Speaker 5: I would have hit my cough button and that would
- 52:27Speaker 5: have been a rap. Anyway, I want to talk. I
- 52:29Speaker 5: want to take a couple of calls. I know we
- 52:30Speaker 5: have a few people that have dialed in. I also
- 52:32Speaker 5: want to talk about just this issue. I hate to
- 52:35Speaker 5: repeat myself, but I think we got to double down
- 52:37Speaker 5: on this. Mayor Mom. Donnie, in my opinion, is a fake, phony, fraud.
- 52:42Speaker 5: He thinks that he could be polished and do all
- 52:44Speaker 5: these stupid gestures that he does, and he's going to
- 52:46Speaker 5: fool people. And guess what, he's fooling a lot of
- 52:49Speaker 5: people that are inexperienced and people that are just innocent,
- 52:51Speaker 5: people that think the best of people that want to
- 52:53Speaker 5: give the benefit of the doubt. I don't trust him,
- 52:55Speaker 5: And the reason I don't trust him is because I
- 52:57Speaker 5: listened to what he says. And when you listen to
- 52:58Speaker 5: what he says, he's telling you exactly how it is.
- 53:01Speaker 5: He won't call these people out because genuinely he doesn't disagree.
- 53:05Speaker 5: He thinks it's okay. His dad is a Columbia professor,
- 53:08Speaker 5: and his dad wrote a book and said, sometimes the
- 53:11Speaker 5: martyr has to be looked at as a modern day hero.
- 53:15Speaker 5: I'm paraphrasing, but that's what he was talking about. He's
- 53:17Speaker 5: talking about sometimes you got to use violence to get noticed.
- 53:20Speaker 5: Sometimes you gotta do this. They believe this is okay.
- 53:23Speaker 5: That's not okay. So shame on every last liberal that
- 53:26Speaker 5: voted for this guy, every last progressive really is who
- 53:29Speaker 5: did it? And he won big time right landslide victory
- 53:33Speaker 5: that to make no bones about it. It's not that
- 53:34Speaker 5: he just beat my guy Curtis. He beat Curtis, he
- 53:37Speaker 5: beat Cuomo, He beat Adams, who wasn't even on the
- 53:40Speaker 5: ballot but had to write in, and he beat him too.
- 53:44Speaker 5: Not to mention all the other fringe independent candidates. I'm
- 53:48Speaker 5: ninety one. Big affordability, affordability, affordability. Since he's been in office,
- 53:54Speaker 5: nothing's more affordable. He's thinking of charging people to park
- 53:58Speaker 5: on the street, like more meters. He's talking about raising
- 54:03Speaker 5: taxes and a couple of terrorist attacks. Nice job, mayor
- 54:10Speaker 5: mum dining. And again some of you are doubling down, right,
- 54:12Speaker 5: those of you that hate on me, you're thinking, oh,
- 54:15Speaker 5: he's not so bad. All right, just wait, it's gonna
- 54:17Speaker 5: get better. It's only been a few minutes, right those January,
- 54:21Speaker 5: we're in March. Give it a little more time. Meanwhile,
- 54:23Speaker 5: on the other side of things, you could say, ed
- 54:26Speaker 5: Trampito's doing a bad job. But guess what, we're not
- 54:30Speaker 5: doing that bad, right, We're really not. We have a
- 54:33Speaker 5: pretty successful military operation that's going on. It's going to
- 54:36Speaker 5: permanently change the world, permanently eradicate the number one state
- 54:41Speaker 5: sponsor of terror. I think that's a good thing, change
- 54:43Speaker 5: my mind. Give me a call. Eight seven seven Valdes one,
- 54:46Speaker 5: eight seven seven valdesz one. Keep it locked right here
- 54:49Speaker 5: on Rich Valdes more to come straight ahead.
- 54:51Speaker 3: This is America. This is America.
- 55:20Speaker 1: He's making podcasting great again.
- 55:23Speaker 3: This is America with Rich Valdez.
- 55:27Speaker 5: All right, Ethicos, welcome back, Rich Valdez wrapping it up here.
- 55:30Speaker 5: But first I want to get into Oakland Phone America
- 55:34Speaker 5: Open Phones Across America, one of my favorite segments where
- 55:36Speaker 5: you guys get to tune in even if you're not
- 55:38Speaker 5: in America. Right, like my buddy Guil from the Philippines
- 55:41Speaker 5: who calls us from the Philippines Manila, to be exactly
- 55:44Speaker 5: the Guilla from Manila. We got a bunch of regulars
- 55:48Speaker 5: that call here. But I know we have a few
- 55:49Speaker 5: people on hold. We've got Texas, Virginia, Pennsylvania. Let's see
- 55:54Speaker 5: what else all been in New York and one of
- 55:56Speaker 5: my faves, Tony in Montreal. Let's let's go to Tony
- 56:01Speaker 5: in Montreal. Tony, go right ahead, you're on what Richald does.
- 56:05Speaker 9: Richard's Tony in Montreal. I have a whole bunch of
- 56:08Speaker 9: texts that I sent you.
- 56:11Speaker 5: Yeah, we got him. Thank you, Tony. Good to hear
- 56:13Speaker 5: from you, brother. What's on your mind?
- 56:14Speaker 9: Hockey? Women hockey is saying that the US Olympic team
- 56:18Speaker 9: is the racist team because there's only white people and it's.
- 56:22Speaker 5: The winning team. Huh, sport, white man for you, I
- 56:26Speaker 5: hear you.
- 56:26Speaker 9: The left is the sickness of the woke people in
- 56:30Speaker 9: the United States. Anybody is available to play on the
- 56:33Speaker 9: US Olympic team if you can put a pair of
- 56:35Speaker 9: blades on and you can skate as fast as anybody else.
- 56:38Speaker 9: You're entitled to be on the ice, no matter what religion,
- 56:41Speaker 9: no matter.
- 56:42Speaker 5: What creed, no matter what political amen.
- 56:45Speaker 9: Agenda you have, no matter what color of tone of
- 56:49Speaker 9: skin you have. As long as you can push the
- 56:51Speaker 9: puck into a net, you're welcome on the US Olympic
- 56:54Speaker 9: team or any Olympic team, including in Canada.
- 56:57Speaker 5: Outstanding thoughts, Tony. I got to leave it right there
- 56:59Speaker 5: because we do have to wrap up. I appreciate it. Brother,
- 57:01Speaker 5: You're a gentleman, a scholar, and a patriot, timber Tony
- 57:04Speaker 5: in Montreal, Canada, and I mean goes. I have to
- 57:07Speaker 5: keep it short today because we're out of time, but
- 57:09Speaker 5: I do want to say this that tomorrow we're going
- 57:11Speaker 5: to get into something called a gay map. That's right,
- 57:14Speaker 5: Members of Congress, we're dealing with this. So maybe we'll
- 57:16Speaker 5: incorporate that into our Dear Richie segment. Plus we're going
- 57:19Speaker 5: to be talking about relationships towards the end of the week,
- 57:23Speaker 5: where there's videos of women that are out there just
- 57:26Speaker 5: saying I'm not going out with a man if he's
- 57:28Speaker 5: not paying for this and this and this and this
- 57:30Speaker 5: and this, and I happen to be a pretty generous guy,
- 57:32Speaker 5: but I'm wondering the one woman said, I'm only going
- 57:34Speaker 5: out with a man if he's paying for dinner. If
- 57:36Speaker 5: I'm paying for dinner, I'm eating alone. I'm thinking you're
- 57:38Speaker 5: probably going to be eating alone a lot, right, because
- 57:41Speaker 5: that's not a realistic expectation. I think forever, right, maybe
- 57:46Speaker 5: first aid stuff like that, but who knows. We'll see.
- 57:48Speaker 5: We're going to get to that, and of course the
- 57:50Speaker 5: rest of your calls eight seven seven Valdez one when
- 57:52Speaker 5: we resume Manyana. But until then, I say, if you
- 57:55Speaker 5: stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything. And the only
- 57:58Speaker 5: thing necessary for evil to try imph is for good
- 58:00Speaker 5: people like you to sit there and do nothing. So
- 58:02Speaker 5: make sure you do something as start approxima. Good night,
- 58:05Speaker 5: and God bless you, America. I'm Rich Valdez, and this
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