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China, Cuba, Clinton, Carvalho · 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 1: Rich Valdes is with us.
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Speaker 2: Former Christian Administration.
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Speaker 4: Rich Valdez commnist now with the Washington Times, This is America, Richiev.
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Speaker 5: And who remembers when Jesus said who amongst us without sin,
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Speaker 5: let him cast the first stone. Of course, that was
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Speaker 5: a passage from the Bible and catches Mary Magdalene and
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Speaker 5: an act of ill repute. Everybody was about to stone
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Speaker 5: her to death, and his words, he who is without sin,
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Speaker 5: let him cast the first stone. I feel like that's
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Speaker 5: where we are today. I would contend that we've abandoned
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Speaker 5: the Christian principle of forgiveness, and too many of us
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Speaker 5: have doubled down on this unattainable accountability. In fact, it's
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Speaker 5: a level of justice and accountability that we've honestly never
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Speaker 5: experienced in this planet or in our lifetimes. I'll say
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Speaker 5: to you this, whoever's lived a life and you've noticed
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Speaker 5: how government works, We've never had a system of government
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Speaker 5: that's devoid of corruption. Right, They've never gotten every last
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Speaker 5: deep state swamp creature. There's never been a time where
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Speaker 5: there wasn't corruption. So what we we had was a
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Speaker 5: time where we were distracted by phishing and sports and
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Speaker 5: TV networks, Hollywood, other types of entertainment, the media, those
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Speaker 5: types of things, and we love those things. We love
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Speaker 5: these illusions, right, We love that Ronald Reagan and Temple
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Speaker 5: O'Neill were like best friends and bipartisanship was somehow sacrosanct.
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Speaker 5: It was holier than now. But now the tables have turned.
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Speaker 5: We feel like we've been awakened, so to speak. We're
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Speaker 5: trying to wake up others that are still asleep. But
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Speaker 5: the circumstances remain the same, even though what we see
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Speaker 5: is a little different. So I'm going to ask you
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Speaker 5: who amongst us has lived in a world that's free
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Speaker 5: of corruption, where governments don't fall victim to the plague
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Speaker 5: of self dealing, self interested, a depraved heart. Just like
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Speaker 5: every person in our society and every other walk of life,
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Speaker 5: none of us has lived that way. We should always
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Speaker 5: seek and fight for the truth, and we should never
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Speaker 5: abandon the pursuit for justice or accountability. But we shouldn't
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Speaker 5: fixate ourselves on fabrications of fiction, deluding ourselves into thinking
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Speaker 5: that corruption can disappear from this life or from this earth. That,
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Speaker 5: my friends, can only happen in the second coming of Christ.
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Speaker 5: And until then, we live each day the best we can.
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Speaker 5: Right with God, God bless Donaldus Magnus, God Bless the
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Speaker 5: men and women in our armed forces. God bless our
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Speaker 5: first responders, God bless America. How rich Vael does I
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Speaker 5: approve this message right? It sounds like a campaign speech,
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Speaker 5: but I wanted to bring that up because we want
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Speaker 5: something that we can't have and we still see all
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Speaker 5: sorts of depravity and then people feel like, hey, but
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Speaker 5: I thought, but I thought, I thought we voted against that.
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Speaker 5: We did, but it doesn't mean it's the end. Now
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Speaker 5: I want to talk to you about a guy named
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Speaker 5: Gerald Eddie Brown, Junior. This guy's a retired Air Force
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Speaker 5: officer with twenty four years of experience. He was arrested
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Speaker 5: in Jeffersonville, Indiana, on federal charges that include providing and
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Speaker 5: conspiring to provide unauthorized defense services to the Chinese military. Brown,
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Speaker 5: who's a major retired major, was training pilots of the
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Speaker 5: People's Liberation Army Air Force without obtaining a state department license,
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Speaker 5: which is a violation of the Arms Export Control Act
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Speaker 5: AECA for those who know, and some other international trade regulations.
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Speaker 5: We're going to get to that in the moment. Plus
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Speaker 5: Hillary Clinton testified today behind closed doors. I got some
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Speaker 5: of the scoop on that we're going to get to that.
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Speaker 5: Cuba has killed a boat filled with Americans, six of
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Speaker 5: them on there for them are dead.
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Speaker 6: By Cuban authorities of an incident off the coast to Cuba.
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Speaker 6: We immediately began to look into it. As it stands now,
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Speaker 6: the Department of Homeland Security, the Coast Guard, others are involved.
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Speaker 6: The majority of the information was still possessed. Is what
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Speaker 6: Cuban authorities are providing both the public and.
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Speaker 5: The US government.
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Speaker 6: We have our embassy on the ground in Havana working
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Speaker 6: this as we speak, asking for access to the people
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Speaker 6: that were on those vessels, if they were American citizens
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Speaker 6: or permanent residents. According to the Cuban regime, a vote
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Speaker 6: was registered in Florida. We're tracking that down. We won't
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Speaker 6: know shortly, and we won't quickly many more facts about
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Speaker 6: this incident than we know right the majority of.
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Speaker 7: The facts.
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Speaker 6: Cubans. We will verify that independently and well. As we
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Speaker 6: gather more information, then we'll be prepared to respond. According
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Speaker 6: to me, I'm not going to speculate. I'm not going
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Speaker 6: to pine on what I don't know, but we're going
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Speaker 6: to find out exactly what happened here, and then we'll respond,
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Speaker 6: according to.
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Speaker 5: Me, Mom, Donnie's in the White House lobbying Trump to
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Speaker 5: let go of a hamas terrast sympathizer. Guess what he won?
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Speaker 5: Trump said, you got it. He let her go, and
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Speaker 5: all that is coming up straight ahead. Retired Air Force
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Speaker 5: General Blaine Holt joins us, don't go anywhere. I'm Rich Valdez.
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Speaker 1: This is America. This is America.
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Speaker 3: Bara in Glace or Prims Barah richmald Is e s
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Speaker 3: Dous America Awara.
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Speaker 8: Cuba's government says four people on a speedboat registered in
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Speaker 8: the United States have been shot and killed.
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Speaker 9: Cuba's Interior ministry says the boat was intercepted in Cuban waters.
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Speaker 8: NBC News correspondent George Solisi's tracking this one, now, George,
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Speaker 8: what more have we learned about this incident?
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Speaker 10: Hey guys, this is a very fluid situation. As you mentioned,
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Speaker 10: the Cuban government announcing that four people were killed as
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Speaker 10: a result of this boat attack and six others were injured.
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Speaker 10: From the Ministry of the Interior there, what we're learning
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Speaker 10: is they're saying of the morning this morning today they
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Speaker 10: detected an illegal speedboat there off the northern coast of Cuba.
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Speaker 10: They're saying their own officials approached this boat and there
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Speaker 10: was an ensuing gunfight and during this gunfight. They're saying
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Speaker 10: that four of these people on board this boat, we
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Speaker 10: don't know what they were doing there, we don't know
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Speaker 10: what their purpose was, were reportedly killed, and these six
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Speaker 10: others were injured. They were then transported. We're not sure
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Speaker 10: we're at this hour. Cuba is saying that as the
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Speaker 10: consequence of this, they are trying to protect their waters.
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Speaker 2: In their words, the.
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Speaker 10: Cuban state is safeguarding its sovereignty and stability in the region.
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Speaker 10: Right now, we are starting to get some reaction from lawmakers,
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Speaker 10: specifically Representative Carlos Semenez here in Florida, who x posted
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Speaker 10: a little bit ago saying, quote, the dictatorship in Cuba
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Speaker 10: has just attacked a boat from Florida and murdered those
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Speaker 10: on board. Those are his words, saying, this regimen, regime,
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Speaker 10: excuse me, must be regulated to the dust bin of
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Speaker 10: history right now. And of course we are out to
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Speaker 10: other officials as well to learn more about this incident.
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Speaker 10: We do know as far as this vessel it was
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Speaker 10: registered here to Florida, but again what it may have
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Speaker 10: been doing there and this part of Cuba when this
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Speaker 10: attack happened still remains unclear.
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Speaker 5: Guys, welcome back America. Rich Valdez keeping your company tonight,
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Speaker 5: and I want to bring in an official official, like
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Speaker 5: a referee with a whistle. General Blaine Holt retired United
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Speaker 5: States Air Force General. He was the deputy representative for
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Speaker 5: NATO for the United States and he's one of the
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Speaker 5: best out there. You've seen him on Newsmax. I've heard
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Speaker 5: him on my show a bunch of times, and he's
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Speaker 5: with us now. General, welcome, what's great to be with you.
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Speaker 2: Thanks for having me on you bet now.
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Speaker 5: General, I know that you were in an undisclosed location,
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Speaker 5: which is why we can't see your face, but we
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Speaker 5: do know that you were on the phone with us,
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Speaker 5: and I want to know from your perspective. You know,
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Speaker 5: I like to make a joke out of everything, but
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Speaker 5: this doesn't seem like a joking matter. I'm going to
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Speaker 5: toss this to you, and I really want you to
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Speaker 5: take the ball and run with it because it seems
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Speaker 5: like the Cubans have shot a boat out of the
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Speaker 5: water filled with Americans. Tell us what's going on?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, So all we know so far is the Cuban
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Speaker 2: government released their side of the story. They say they
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Speaker 2: were fired upon, then they dropped and killed. I think
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Speaker 2: four so far that we know of others injured. Six
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Speaker 2: Americans taken prisoner. They are in detention now getting medical
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Speaker 2: care as well. Is what the Cuban government is relaying,
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Speaker 2: and we're told that these are Cuban Americans that found
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Speaker 2: their way into the territorial waters of Cuba. So we
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Speaker 2: haven't really heard too much from our government yet except
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Speaker 2: the usual starting story, which is, look, we're going to
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Speaker 2: do everything in our power to get them out of there.
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Speaker 2: But a whole lot of this story does not add up,
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Speaker 2: and it's a very very serious thing, especially when you
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Speaker 2: think of the pressure we're applying to Cuba right now
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Speaker 2: the Castro government and what it would look like for
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Speaker 2: Americans to be in a detention situation. There no word
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Speaker 2: on whether this was some sort of clandestine op from
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Speaker 2: the United S state. It's no word on any of that,
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Speaker 2: But hopefully the US government will have a statement here
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Speaker 2: before too long to kind of shed some light on this.
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Speaker 2: It's very serious, yeah.
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Speaker 5: It seems that way. And again I know that there
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Speaker 5: are clandestine operations that are obviously clandestine right their secret
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Speaker 5: they're top secret, they're oftentimes not sanctioned by the country
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Speaker 5: per se. They are you know, happening outside of the
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Speaker 5: realm of official conduct. What's the I don't want to
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Speaker 5: say likelihood, but I guess probability possibility based on your
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Speaker 5: experience when you hear about a bunch of Americans and
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Speaker 5: getting caught in the outskirts of some country. I would
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Speaker 5: feel like if this were a bunch of guys that
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Speaker 5: were fishing and got lost off of Key West, that
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Speaker 5: the White House or others would be saying, Hey, we're
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Speaker 5: taking this really seriously, what's going on? How dare you?
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Speaker 5: And I don't seem to be hearing any of that
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Speaker 5: coming out of Washington.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's exactly right. And it's kind of another tell.
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Speaker 2: And let's you know, the likelihood that a random fishing
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Speaker 2: boat from Key West got wildly off course and then
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Speaker 2: all of a sudden, the crew of ten is well
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Speaker 2: armed with a bunch of weapons. Ah, we're probably looking
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Speaker 2: at some operation that didn't go so well. Or you
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Speaker 2: could be looking at private security contractors like you know,
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Speaker 2: in the old days we had Blackwater. There are several
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Speaker 2: like them, but they get paid an extensive amount of
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Speaker 2: money to do extractions or to go in and get
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Speaker 2: something done, and if they get discovered this is the
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Speaker 2: thing that it could be, So it could We can't
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Speaker 2: roll that out either.
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Speaker 5: Right, Well, let's talk about that a little bit. And again,
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Speaker 5: because I think this is an interesting area. Right, let
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Speaker 5: us say you know, you are someone with significant means,
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Speaker 5: You've got your mansion in Miami, You've done really well
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Speaker 5: for yourself, you have some family that are back on
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Speaker 5: the island in Cuba, and you say, you know what,
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Speaker 5: I'm going to send some guys to get you. I
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Speaker 5: was at a great shindig at mar A Lago just
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Speaker 5: saying making this up, and I met a guy who
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Speaker 5: runs the private security companies. Guys are all former seals,
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Speaker 5: former CIA, black ops guys, and they said, for this much,
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Speaker 5: we can go get your family member, make sure we
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Speaker 5: get them home safely, and they get hired for this.
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Speaker 5: This has nothing to do with the government, right, And
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Speaker 5: you're saying something like that could also be the case.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it could be the case. I know firsthand that
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Speaker 2: these things happen around the world for very very high
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Speaker 2: sums of money. And if you recall, during the Fall
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Speaker 2: of Kabble, it was many of these organizations that stopped
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Speaker 2: their profit part of their company and applied themselves to
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Speaker 2: getting as many of the interpreters and the families of
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Speaker 2: the interpreters that helped us through Afghanistan to get out
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Speaker 2: of there. And so I have, in my own work
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Speaker 2: to try to get friends of America out of Afghanistan,
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Speaker 2: come into contact with several of these folks. But if
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Speaker 2: they are not paid in significant amounts of money to
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Speaker 2: go do this type of work, it's very dangerous. And
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Speaker 2: the reason they bring the weapons because if they get discovered,
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Speaker 2: they intend to use them. And I'm not saying that's
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Speaker 2: what happened here. I'm saying maybe this was a clandestine thing.
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Speaker 2: There is a very strong Cuban American organization and presence
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Speaker 2: down in southern Florida. Maybe maybe they came up with
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Speaker 2: something that they wanted to do on their own. You know,
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Speaker 2: we're all anticipating that eventually the government in Cuba is
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Speaker 2: going to fall. They're largely blockaded right now, and as
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Speaker 2: that heat gets turned up, we're wondering, well, will the
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Speaker 2: Cubans take their own liberation into their own hands. We
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Speaker 2: won't know for a while, but as that falls, can't
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Speaker 2: you see or imagine that the Cuban American contingent down
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Speaker 2: in South Florida that would really love to see a
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Speaker 2: free Cuba and see it flourish, that they would they
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Speaker 2: would take up matters like these to get influence operations
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Speaker 2: going in ahead of any new government in general.
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Speaker 5: A couple of years ago, there was this big scandal
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Speaker 5: that came out that the United States Federal Law Enforcement
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Speaker 5: I think it was the FBI in particular, was purchasing
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Speaker 5: consumer data from a very large tech company. And it
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Speaker 5: was scandalous because this was information the government should not have,
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Speaker 5: but they were able to buy from a private company
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Speaker 5: that could supply it. The company was Twitter, and the
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Speaker 5: government was under Joe Biden, and they were buying Geodata,
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Speaker 5: and they're tracking data on where people were by way
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Speaker 5: of their cell phones. And in effect, the argument was
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Speaker 5: made that this is the federal government, without a warrant,
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Speaker 5: without any legal right, surveilling the American people. And their
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Speaker 5: argument was no, no, we were just buying marketing data,
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Speaker 5: just like any other company can do. And it was problematic.
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Speaker 5: And I bring all of that up to say, sometimes
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Speaker 5: the government does things this way. I'm not saying this
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Speaker 5: government is doing that. But it's also possible that the
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Speaker 5: government hired these mercenary private security company to do X,
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Speaker 5: Y and Z.
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Speaker 2: Right. No, you've got it exactly right. It's possible, and
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Speaker 2: it's a slippery slope because if you have you know,
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Speaker 2: we've had intelligence agencies just basically rape the piggybank in
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Speaker 2: clandestine operations, but they didn't commit to them. They basically
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Speaker 2: funneled all the money into NGOs who went and did
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Speaker 2: their bidding, and then it's off book, off budget. You
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Speaker 2: can't see what it is and can't be asked questions
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Speaker 2: about it in Congress either. So, but getting back to
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Speaker 2: the central point that you are making, Yeah, I think
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Speaker 2: we're on this path to a very very bad place
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Speaker 2: if we don't hit the emergency brake and really start
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Speaker 2: to review the different indirect ways that the government can
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Speaker 2: usurp our rights and freedoms. If you find a third
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Speaker 2: party to go ahead and take separat us from our freedoms,
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Speaker 2: Like I don't want to be surveiled today, well we're
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Speaker 2: going to do that through a company called flock. They're
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Speaker 2: the ones doing the surveiling. Or like the Twitter thing,
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Speaker 2: we're going to curtail your First Amendment rights. It's not
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Speaker 2: us doing it, it's the Twitter guys. But in effect,
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Speaker 2: in effect, it's just a game, and it's just semantics,
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Speaker 2: and it's lawyer lawfare. They're usurping the constitution. Not only
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Speaker 2: should we hold that up to the light, but the
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Speaker 2: folks that engage in this type of behavior need to
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Speaker 2: be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. The
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Speaker 2: Constitution needs to be a vengeful document that that offending
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Speaker 2: the Constitution should cause the Constitution itself to be a vengeful.
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Speaker 2: Document from the Commander in Chief's desk.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, listen, I'm with you on that one. I don't
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Speaker 5: know that I believe it'll happen. Most of the time.
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Speaker 5: Oftentimes I hate being right, but I say that's not
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Speaker 5: going to happen, and then I'm right. You know, It's
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Speaker 5: like James call me right, I said, Ah, if he
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Speaker 5: gets locked up, I don't think anything will happen. He
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Speaker 5: got locked up, nothing happened. Right. This isn't me rooting
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Speaker 5: for the bad guys. This is me just you know,
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Speaker 5: while you're out there fighting wars and flying four or
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Speaker 5: five thousand hours as an Air Force pilot in general,
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Speaker 5: I've been observing politics from from the sidelines and sometimes
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Speaker 5: from the inside, and I've seen how this stuff gets
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Speaker 5: so swampy, and right and wrong really don't exist. Oftentimes
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Speaker 5: it's who's got power that's usually what exists. And it's
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Speaker 5: a sad thing. But one thing I could say is
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Speaker 5: I've seen that trend change and the pendulum is swinging
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Speaker 5: back towards we the people with the election of Donald Trump,
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Speaker 5: thank God for that. Has it gone enough? I don't know,
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Speaker 5: all right, I wanted to. I wanted to piggyback on
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Speaker 5: something you said on a different topic, because I was
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Speaker 5: talking with a journalist a couple of days ago, you know,
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Speaker 5: left of center journalists that covers the border and cartels,
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Speaker 5: and the one area we agreed was the CIA and
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Speaker 5: how he was saying the CIA has got in the
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Speaker 5: way of the quote unquote war on drugs since he's
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Speaker 5: been down at the border, and he's been down there
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Speaker 5: for thirty years, and I agreed with him. I figured,
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Speaker 5: you know, I remember President Obama, right, that's the president
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Speaker 5: of the United States sending guns to the cartels, and
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Speaker 5: that's it. No, we didn't do it, Harrik Holder said, right,
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Speaker 5: fast and furious, But that happened, right, and so then
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Speaker 5: we wonder when these cartels are killing one another, and
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Speaker 5: we didn't just do it there. I mean we did
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Speaker 5: it with bin Ladin. It's been a thing, right the
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Speaker 5: enemy of my enemy is my friend, and we've used
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Speaker 5: these Macavelian concepts throughout history and sometimes they bite us
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Speaker 5: in the butt. But with respect to this, we were
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Speaker 5: talking about how there's been some sightings of military or
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Speaker 5: at least militia with Ukrainian emblems in Mexico, and the
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Speaker 5: explanation was that these guys are hired guns, and they
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Speaker 5: were working in Ukraine on behalf of the Ukrainians and
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Speaker 5: now they're working on behalf of the cartels, and that
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Speaker 5: they are these same guys that we're talking about, right,
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Speaker 5: like Wagner group and others. There's a lot of these
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Speaker 5: groups out there, So tell me what you know about that,
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Speaker 5: just I know that you have experience in that area.
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Speaker 5: With respect to Mexico, how much of these cartel militia
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Speaker 5: are just hired guns and how many of them do
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Speaker 5: you think are exclusive to the cartel like their own
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Speaker 5: private army.
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Speaker 2: Well, I think, unfortunately a great deal of them are
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Speaker 2: exclusive to the cartels. So this gets to where I
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Speaker 2: think the mainstream media really has to start to depart
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Speaker 2: from the way that they cover wars around the world.
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Speaker 2: And what I mean by that is, right now, today's news,
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Speaker 2: we're talking about Iran. When are we going to start
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Speaker 2: dropping bombs? And then that's that story, and it's not
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Speaker 2: like any other story, and we don't relate it to
19:47
Speaker 2: any other story. Those days are over. Iran is linked
19:52
Speaker 2: to the cartels, the cars are linked in Mexico. But
19:57
Speaker 2: you've got the Russia Ukraine war. Wait a minute, all
19:59
Speaker 2: that money, all those weapons flowing in there. A lot
20:02
Speaker 2: of the black market weapons got into the hands of
20:04
Speaker 2: the cartels too. We know that stingers got into the
20:07
Speaker 2: hand and javelins got into the hands of the cineloas.
20:10
Speaker 2: So now wait a minute, it gets worse. The IRGC,
20:13
Speaker 2: the Iranians have terror camps where they train militarily the cartels.
20:18
Speaker 2: Then the cartels want to go get combat experience. Where
20:21
Speaker 2: are they going to go get that? Well, there's a
20:23
Speaker 2: hop and war over there in Europe. So they go
20:24
Speaker 2: on over to Europe. They get themselves on the front,
20:27
Speaker 2: some of them get killed, but they come back with
20:31
Speaker 2: combat experience. Training from Iran. The black marketing weapons, money
20:35
Speaker 2: laundering all over the place. And so that you've heard
20:38
Speaker 2: me say it before. That's why the president's war on
20:40
Speaker 2: the cartels is the number one thing we're doing. But
20:44
Speaker 2: then when people get this bloodlust, like Lindsey Graham, they
20:47
Speaker 2: want to see bombs dropping on Iran right away, It's like,
20:49
Speaker 2: not so fast. We've got four years of open borders here.
20:53
Speaker 2: So we've got cartels and Iranian terror cells right here
20:56
Speaker 2: at the ready on Main Street, ready to go. Have
20:59
Speaker 2: you figured that part of this out yet, because you
21:02
Speaker 2: may find very quickly that your foreign war becomes a
21:04
Speaker 2: domestic one here at home, because all these puzzle piece
21:07
Speaker 2: is rich interlock.
21:09
Speaker 5: You know. That was the point that we came up
21:12
Speaker 5: with with the journalist that was down there, that the
21:16
Speaker 5: money that Iran funnels to has Bella, they also funnel
21:19
Speaker 5: to the cartels, and that these cartels, in fact have
21:22
Speaker 5: either they are one and the same or they're operating
21:25
Speaker 5: as one and the same. These Iranian sleeper cells are
21:29
Speaker 5: the cartels, or at least are being brought into the
21:31
Speaker 5: country by the cartels. So yeah, how are we going
21:34
Speaker 5: to go drop a bahma on Iran or take out
21:37
Speaker 5: the Ayatola or whatever the move is in Iran before
21:40
Speaker 5: we shore things up at home. I think that makes
21:42
Speaker 5: all the sense in the world, but it's an interesting
21:44
Speaker 5: geopolitical puzzle piece that I think a lot of people
21:47
Speaker 5: were missing, and in particular, as you mentioned, the mainstream media.
21:52
Speaker 5: All right, so that puts a pin in that conversation.
21:55
Speaker 5: I want to pause right here, and we're going to
21:57
Speaker 5: come right back. We're going to continue with Brigadier General Blaine.
22:00
Speaker 5: He's retired from the United States Air Force, and the
22:02
Speaker 5: Air Force making some headlines yesterday also breaking news, why well,
22:06
Speaker 5: because they found an Air Force pilot that was training
22:11
Speaker 5: the Chinese. Now we're going to talk about how the
22:13
Speaker 5: Chinese fit into this more in our geopolitical conversation with
22:16
Speaker 5: General Blaine Holt. Straight ahead, I'm Rich Faldez.
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Speaker 1: This is America. This is America.
22:36
Speaker 5: President Tim.
22:36
Speaker 2: Take your up, mister President.
22:38
Speaker 5: Welcome to the program.
22:38
Speaker 3: Sir well, thank you, Rich, and thank you for everything.
22:42
Speaker 3: I know you very well and I have I listened,
22:44
Speaker 3: but I have a lot of people that listen and
22:47
Speaker 3: they love your show and I appreciate it very much.
22:50
Speaker 11: And a former US Air Force pilot has been arrested
22:53
Speaker 11: for allegedly providing defense services to the Chinese military.
22:58
Speaker 12: Federal officials say sixty five year old Gerar Gerald Eddie
23:02
Speaker 12: Brown Junior. He was taken into custody in Indiana. The
23:05
Speaker 12: former F thirty five instructor pilot was charged with violating
23:08
Speaker 12: the Arms Export Control Act.
23:11
Speaker 11: Prosecutors alleged Brown conspired to train pilots with China's People's
23:15
Speaker 11: Liberation Army without this required State Department license. According to
23:21
Speaker 11: the complaint, Brown traveled to China in late twenty twenty three.
23:25
Speaker 11: He allegedly provided combat aircraft instruction there after coordinating the
23:30
Speaker 11: foreign nationals.
23:31
Speaker 12: One of those individuals was a previously convicted Chinese hacker
23:35
Speaker 12: tied to military espionage now the Justice Department, said the FBI,
23:40
Speaker 12: saying that the case underscores growing efforts by Beijing to
23:44
Speaker 12: exploit former US military expertise. They vowed to hold anyone
23:48
Speaker 12: who assists America's adversaries accountable.
23:51
Speaker 5: All right, America, welcome back, Rich Valdesk, keeping the company tonight.
23:54
Speaker 5: I'm here with Brigadier General Blainholt joining us on the
23:57
Speaker 5: phone from an undisclosed location somewhere where the water is
24:01
Speaker 5: very pretty. That's all I can say. And in general,
24:04
Speaker 5: we're having a conversation about a lot of things geopolitically
24:08
Speaker 5: and headlines are coming in. We just saw a little
24:10
Speaker 5: update on that Air Force pilot retired from the United
24:14
Speaker 5: States Air Force working with the Chinese to train the Chinese.
24:18
Speaker 5: Sounds like somebody sleeping with the enemy. What's going on here?
24:23
Speaker 2: It's just awful news. And as an airman, it breaks
24:25
Speaker 2: my heart to have our good name and our reputation
24:29
Speaker 2: besmirched by someone who would not only disgrace us and
24:33
Speaker 2: our reputation, but do so in a treacherous way with
24:37
Speaker 2: arguably our number one adversary on the globe. Is this
24:42
Speaker 2: officer wasn't a very accomplished officer in his career. How
24:46
Speaker 2: do I know that? Well, he went twenty four years,
24:48
Speaker 2: got to retirement day, and he was a major. Should
24:51
Speaker 2: have been at least a lieutenant colonel by that point
24:53
Speaker 2: in time, So that's an indicator. Then he goes into
24:57
Speaker 2: flying heavies and cargo ships. Doesn't work out for him.
25:01
Speaker 2: Then he spends his later days he apparently he's sixty five,
25:05
Speaker 2: flying as a contract simulator instructor in the F thirty five.
25:09
Speaker 2: And then with all that knowledge, he decides, well, what
25:11
Speaker 2: I'm probably pretty valuable in China. I bet I could
25:14
Speaker 2: make a lot of money there, and he goes to
25:15
Speaker 2: China in twenty twenty three and he stays and we
25:20
Speaker 2: we bet this is the thing. We have to start
25:23
Speaker 2: holding people accountable for this crap in the country. And so, yes,
25:27
Speaker 2: today's day was a bad day for our air force.
25:30
Speaker 2: Just walk around the swamp in DC and think about
25:33
Speaker 2: all of those elected officials, all the staffers, all of
25:36
Speaker 2: the cubicle dwellers who in some fashion or form are
25:39
Speaker 2: either compromised, extorted, blackmailed, and we don't put a paw
25:43
Speaker 2: on them. You know, Swallwell with his girlfriend Fang Fang,
25:46
Speaker 2: and he still gets to sit on the Intel Committee.
25:49
Speaker 2: And so this is the thing. If the swamp is
25:52
Speaker 2: going to just become this unaccountable place where there's two
25:55
Speaker 2: sets of rules to sets of justice systems, then you
26:00
Speaker 2: could easily see failed pilots or failed military professionals say well,
26:05
Speaker 2: I mean listen, if the top tier is going to
26:07
Speaker 2: do it, why wouldn't I go make a bug? And
26:09
Speaker 2: it's sad because he should have thought about his creator,
26:11
Speaker 2: and he should have thought about his constitution in his
26:13
Speaker 2: country before he did any of those things.
26:16
Speaker 5: You mentioned the creator, you mentioned the constitution, you mentioned
26:19
Speaker 5: the career and a word with a T trader this
26:23
Speaker 5: is treason, and legitimately, I would say this is probably
26:26
Speaker 5: the realest sense of the word treason. I know that
26:29
Speaker 5: we throw it around a lot because it feels treasonous
26:32
Speaker 5: a lot of the things that we see, but from
26:34
Speaker 5: the United States Code Statue, right, a country that we're
26:38
Speaker 5: actively engaged in some sort of hostility with, and that's
26:42
Speaker 5: China for sure, right, I say, they're our biggest enemy.
26:45
Speaker 5: So I'm with you one hundred percent on this stuff.
26:49
Speaker 5: I say, you know, hang them high. But how do
26:52
Speaker 5: we fix that? How do we go about it? I
26:54
Speaker 5: remember a couple of years ago they caught a few
26:56
Speaker 5: people in the Pentagon, some chief of staff there that
26:59
Speaker 5: during the Biden days that was compromised by the Iranians,
27:02
Speaker 5: and they disappeared. That was it. It was like, oh wow, great,
27:07
Speaker 5: how do we stop that? Because I think you're right,
27:11
Speaker 5: you know, and you said, walk around Foggy Bottom, walk
27:13
Speaker 5: around wherever in DC. You're going to find a lot
27:16
Speaker 5: of places that where the enemy wants to find people
27:19
Speaker 5: that they can compromise. And I'm sure in many instances
27:21
Speaker 5: or some instances, they have. What's the counter to that?
27:26
Speaker 2: The counter is so at the micro scale with some
27:30
Speaker 2: clown like this one we're talking about, who's done a
27:32
Speaker 2: lot of damage to us. By the way, the counter
27:35
Speaker 2: to him is make an example out of him. He
27:38
Speaker 2: needs to be at the highest sentencing that can be
27:42
Speaker 2: levied against what could be proven in a court. Yes,
27:44
Speaker 2: have your due process, but then justice should be swift
27:48
Speaker 2: and it should be meaningful. The second part, the bigger issue,
27:52
Speaker 2: is the president at some point is going to have
27:55
Speaker 2: to review both sides of the so called aisle that
27:58
Speaker 2: doesn't exist in my book, I think they are just
28:00
Speaker 2: one big mess. And then what needs to happen is
28:05
Speaker 2: the president needs to take a serious evaluation about whether
28:08
Speaker 2: our government is incapacitated or not. Do we even have
28:13
Speaker 2: the ability to prosecute treason in our government? Or is everybody,
28:17
Speaker 2: in some facet or form in some form of compromise
28:21
Speaker 2: and the breadcrumbs are there to go look for the
28:24
Speaker 2: compromise when you see someone pulling for drug dealers that
28:28
Speaker 2: have sunk to the bottom of the ocean from an
28:30
Speaker 2: American missile and you're pulling for them, when you decry
28:35
Speaker 2: terrible things about this ice operation to try to save
28:40
Speaker 2: the next lake and Riley incident from happening. You probably
28:44
Speaker 2: can make a reasonable assessment that they're getting their influence
28:46
Speaker 2: from somewhere other than the United States and their constituency.
28:51
Speaker 5: So we need to deal with that. I agree, I
28:54
Speaker 5: just don't know what the remedy to that is. It
28:56
Speaker 5: seems like we have a lot of lobbyists for the cartels,
28:59
Speaker 5: we have lobbyists for straight up criminals, we have lobbyists
29:02
Speaker 5: for mogadishue. It seems like everybody's lobbying for everybody else
29:06
Speaker 5: and everything else except for what's good, what's holy, and
29:09
Speaker 5: what's American right.
29:11
Speaker 2: So, in my view, if you can make an assessment
29:14
Speaker 2: about how much of the government, DC, the cubicle dwellers,
29:18
Speaker 2: the defense industrial base, that think tanks, how much of
29:21
Speaker 2: that is ethically unsound and at its worst treasonous through
29:28
Speaker 2: compromist blackmail, whatever, you have to make an assessment about
29:33
Speaker 2: do we have a standing, functional government, Do we have
29:35
Speaker 2: a duly elected government under the constitution? And if we don't,
29:40
Speaker 2: then I think the president should strongly consider, as tough
29:43
Speaker 2: as the medicine is, strongly consider declaring that the government
29:48
Speaker 2: is incapacitated under the constitution and bring in the military
29:52
Speaker 2: to hold down the fort while all this stuff gets adjudicated.
29:54
Speaker 2: But we're going to that place. It may sound really
29:57
Speaker 2: incredible and incredible right now to even talk this way,
30:01
Speaker 2: but the more Epstein stuff that drops, the more things
30:04
Speaker 2: you can read about people who did terrible things to
30:07
Speaker 2: their country, kids and trafficking and laundering and all of
30:10
Speaker 2: this stuff on both sides of the aisle, the more
30:13
Speaker 2: you have to ask these very serious questions, and they
30:15
Speaker 2: are serious questions.
30:18
Speaker 5: Sounds like a page out of the Q and on
30:21
Speaker 5: playbook general this crazy stuff, it really is. It's wild
30:25
Speaker 5: to see what's going on now moving forward with this guy.
30:31
Speaker 5: What's the remedy here? Do we get him from China?
30:34
Speaker 5: We got him, what happens to him now? What does
30:37
Speaker 5: the consequence look like?
30:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know what his physical disposition is right now,
30:42
Speaker 2: whether he's in China or in US hands. Maybe he's
30:46
Speaker 2: in our embassy, not really quite sure. I guess we're
30:48
Speaker 2: going to find that out in the coming days. But
30:51
Speaker 2: then what will happen is we will bring him back
30:53
Speaker 2: and we will probably try him in a military court.
30:57
Speaker 2: But I will tell you I'm the weakest person to
30:59
Speaker 2: tell how they're gonna legally maneuver that to get him
31:03
Speaker 2: back on duty active duty because he was such a
31:05
Speaker 2: low ranking officer. So well, but but he will face
31:09
Speaker 2: justice and it should be for treason. And what you're
31:12
Speaker 2: gonna hear on the TV is all these talking heads going, oh,
31:15
Speaker 2: I don't think they can prove treason, even though in
31:18
Speaker 2: the light of day here they are training. They already
31:21
Speaker 2: stole our F thirty five plans, good thing that there
31:24
Speaker 2: is a real maintenance mess. And so here he is
31:28
Speaker 2: trying to create J thirty five pilots as good as
31:31
Speaker 2: F thirty five pilots. That that's that's not a that's
31:35
Speaker 2: not a harmless thing. And as a major, he was
31:37
Speaker 2: taught better than that, and he did know better.
31:39
Speaker 5: They were able to prove seditious conspiracy for people involved
31:42
Speaker 5: in January sixth.
31:44
Speaker 7: They did.
31:45
Speaker 5: I'm hoping that they could get some at a minimum
31:48
Speaker 5: seditious conspiracy in a criminal court. Okay, so watch this,
31:52
Speaker 5: so watch this.
31:52
Speaker 2: So so when this thing starts to evolve and develop,
31:56
Speaker 2: if we start seeing them take a velvet hammer to
31:58
Speaker 2: this guy, you can bet your bippy that the Chinese
32:02
Speaker 2: government called in a lot of political favors that they
32:05
Speaker 2: are owed in DC you can bet that that's the case.
32:08
Speaker 5: What about if if they say, all right, we're gonna
32:11
Speaker 5: take it easy on this guy him seven years for
32:13
Speaker 5: whatever being a bad guy, and you're like, what seven years?
32:16
Speaker 5: This guy's Benedic Darnold, And it's not that he's being
32:22
Speaker 5: protected by his spy handlers in Beijing, but that he
32:26
Speaker 5: has given up his spy handlers and now we have
32:28
Speaker 5: a handle on how they're infiltrating. Is that a possibility.
32:31
Speaker 2: Oh, that's a possibility. I'll give you that, that's an
32:34
Speaker 2: absolute possibility.
32:35
Speaker 5: I'm optimistic. I'm just I'm always looking for the way.
32:38
Speaker 2: I do love your optimism. Just from the pictures that
32:42
Speaker 2: I've seen of him, I'm not sure he's that clever,
32:45
Speaker 2: and I'm not sure the Chinese have really armed him
32:47
Speaker 2: with anything of use for us, But yes, if he
32:51
Speaker 2: has some compelling information or he brought us back the
32:55
Speaker 2: gonculator that the Chinese uses as a secret weapon in everything,
33:00
Speaker 2: maybe it's okay. I don't know, but I but I
33:03
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you that I think he's
33:05
Speaker 2: in a whole lot of trouble.
33:07
Speaker 5: Yeah, General Holt, I always appreciate your time Politically speaking,
33:11
Speaker 5: and I don't bring you on to get your political
33:13
Speaker 5: take because I have too much respect for you. And
33:16
Speaker 5: generals are so good, they really are good at staying
33:18
Speaker 5: above the fray in politics. But the President gave what
33:22
Speaker 5: I considered to be a unifying state of the Union,
33:26
Speaker 5: where he used the the platform to allow the Democrats,
33:34
Speaker 5: certain Democrats to put themselves out there as as the
33:39
Speaker 5: enemies of American values, so to speak, by not standing
33:44
Speaker 5: up for things that were normal, right, they weren't political,
33:48
Speaker 5: so to speak. Do you think this resonates in your
33:53
Speaker 5: in your world, you know, with your retired military brass
33:57
Speaker 5: type of people. What's it looking like? What have you
34:00
Speaker 5: been hearing?
34:01
Speaker 2: Yeah? So I think it's good hard cold medicine to
34:07
Speaker 2: some of those military folks who are still longing for
34:10
Speaker 2: the old DEI woke days. I think it's a nice
34:13
Speaker 2: slap in the face to go and look at the
34:16
Speaker 2: people that you've aligned yourselves with. They won't even stand
34:20
Speaker 2: for a CW five, one of the most rarest of
34:23
Speaker 2: ranks you could obtain in the army, and they won't
34:25
Speaker 2: even stand for him because he can barely stand for
34:27
Speaker 2: himself after he got shot up going down to Maduro
34:30
Speaker 2: mission and he is there to receive the Medal of Honor.
34:33
Speaker 2: And I just the President has a great way of saying, well,
34:37
Speaker 2: here we are, let's look at who's who. And if
34:40
Speaker 2: you won't stand for this, gentleman, if you won't stand
34:43
Speaker 2: for Lake and Riley, you won't stand for the angel parents,
34:46
Speaker 2: you're certainly not standing with America. And we can see you.
34:49
Speaker 2: And I hope that there's a lot of these previous
34:51
Speaker 2: Wokesters who were drinking that kool aid during the Biden administration.
34:54
Speaker 2: Whether they're in uniform or in a suit, doesn't matter,
34:58
Speaker 2: that are going to art seriously considering what side of
35:03
Speaker 2: this am I on? Am I just nothing more than
35:06
Speaker 2: a glorified Bolshevik, because that's exactly what they are.
35:10
Speaker 5: Sir Edmund Burke often used the quote used by others,
35:13
Speaker 5: if you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything, and
35:17
Speaker 5: this is a clear example of that. In my opinion, general,
35:20
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35:22
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35:26
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35:30
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36:00
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36:26
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36:29
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36:32
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36:35
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36:38
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36:40
Speaker 5: He's General Blaine Holt.
36:42
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37:12
Speaker 13: I never met Jeffrey Epstein, never had any connection or
37:18
Speaker 13: communication with him. I knew Gallainne Maxwell casually as an acquaintance.
37:25
Speaker 13: But whatever they asked me, I did my very best
37:28
Speaker 13: to respond.
37:30
Speaker 5: What's up, America. Welcome back Rich Valdez. And check this out.
37:34
Speaker 5: Some breaking news. We got some footage of Hillary Clinton.
37:37
Speaker 5: Hillary Clinton speaking outside of her deposition, which was cut short.
37:41
Speaker 5: Why because congressom and Lauren Bobert shout out to Congressman
37:44
Speaker 5: Lauren Bobert snapping the pick and messing up Hillary's whole
37:48
Speaker 5: mental game. As soon as she heard of the picture
37:51
Speaker 5: had gone viral of her inside the deposition, and you're
37:53
Speaker 5: gonna take a look at that on screen. In a moment,
37:56
Speaker 5: she lost it. She absolutely says, no, thank you, I
38:00
Speaker 5: don't want I want nothing to do with this. So
38:03
Speaker 5: Hillary Clinton freaking out in her deposition. I love that
38:06
Speaker 5: for her. Plus the the comments, of course that you
38:12
Speaker 5: heard from Hillary Clinton. She says she knew nothing, She
38:15
Speaker 5: knows nothing, but she did try to throw ed Trompito
38:18
Speaker 5: under the bus right now, ed Trumpito. He's been very
38:23
Speaker 5: clear on this a million times. He's exonerated by one
38:26
Speaker 5: of the victims themselves, Virginia Jeffrey. But I want to
38:32
Speaker 5: hear from Jen Kerns on this. Jen Kerns is the
38:35
Speaker 5: author of the real war on women. We're gonna try
38:37
Speaker 5: and have her on tomorrow, so let's try and make
38:39
Speaker 5: that happen. Control Ken, We thank you, and let's focus
38:43
Speaker 5: now on what's going on in La right, because just
38:48
Speaker 5: like we had this deposition on Hillary Clinton, there was
38:52
Speaker 5: this raid on the superintendent of schools, Superintendent Carvaljo. Right,
38:57
Speaker 5: Carvalo sounds like a Portuguese name. And I brought this
39:01
Speaker 5: up yesterday, but I didn't get into any of the
39:03
Speaker 5: clips on it because I think this is a very
39:05
Speaker 5: interesting thing. There's a number of cases that involve sexual
39:09
Speaker 5: assault sexual abuse that are currently being litigated, a number
39:14
Speaker 5: like several hundred, and he himself is in a little
39:18
Speaker 5: bit of hot water. But listen to this report about
39:21
Speaker 5: mister Convalo. I say it right, Convalue check this out.
39:27
Speaker 14: Breaking today, federal agents raiding the Los Angeles Unified School
39:31
Speaker 14: District headquarters and the home of Superintendent Elberto Carvallo, the
39:35
Speaker 14: FBI confirming that it executed search warrants, but with holding
39:39
Speaker 14: any further detail. The superintendent has recently made headlines for
39:42
Speaker 14: fighting with federal officials over immigration enforcement efforts in his district.
39:48
Speaker 5: Okay, John, thank you the contract right. That's a report
39:50
Speaker 5: from the Fox News channel. As you can see, they
39:52
Speaker 5: are going after his home. They're going after his home
39:55
Speaker 5: in Florida, They're going after his his office name, They're
40:00
Speaker 5: going after him. They all believe that this is because
40:02
Speaker 5: of an AI company that sold the district and AI
40:07
Speaker 5: package that this tool was supposed to help with absenteeism.
40:13
Speaker 5: What it did, I don't know, but apparently it didn't
40:15
Speaker 5: work and they lost a few million bucks. Now the
40:19
Speaker 5: question becomes, what did he have to do it, what
40:21
Speaker 5: did he know and when did he know it. I
40:25
Speaker 5: think we're going to find out from mister Carvalue what
40:27
Speaker 5: the story is on that when he tells us more.
40:31
Speaker 5: But he did have this to say, listen to this.
40:34
Speaker 4: And I want to confess to you for those of
40:36
Speaker 4: you may not know, I would be a hypocrite if
40:39
Speaker 4: I did not fight for those who today are facing
40:43
Speaker 4: conditions that over forty years I faced as an un
40:47
Speaker 4: documented MIGRANTO this company. I want to repeat that I
40:52
Speaker 4: would be the biggest hypocrite in the world in regardless
40:56
Speaker 4: of my position today, if today I did not fight
40:59
Speaker 4: for those who find themselves in the same predicament I
41:04
Speaker 4: faced over forty years ago when I arrived in this
41:08
Speaker 4: country at the age of seventeen as an undocumented immigrant.
41:14
Speaker 4: Education made me unsaved me. I became a teacher, a principal,
41:19
Speaker 4: a superintendent, leading the nation's largest districts, four times selected
41:24
Speaker 4: as national Superintendent the year. Do not underestimate the power
41:28
Speaker 4: of the immigrant child, who may very well become an
41:31
Speaker 4: adult who does well and good by America. If I
41:36
Speaker 4: come across with a certain degree of contempt and anger,
41:39
Speaker 4: I am. I am because Monday Monday actions were taken
41:46
Speaker 4: in this community that have no place in our city,
41:51
Speaker 4: in our state, or across America. I'm still mystified as
41:56
Speaker 4: to how a first, second, third, fourth, or sixth grader
42:03
Speaker 4: with pose any type of risk to the national security
42:08
Speaker 4: of our nation that would require Homeland Security to deploy
42:13
Speaker 4: its agents to two elementary schools.
42:18
Speaker 5: All right, So Carvalio, now speaking out of course, you know,
42:22
Speaker 5: says he did nothing wrong. I've done nothing bad. I
42:25
Speaker 5: did not have sex with that woman. Huh no, that's slick. Willy,
42:29
Speaker 5: forgive me, and now we've got this.
42:33
Speaker 9: I'm here at the Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters
42:36
Speaker 9: were earlier today, FBI Los Angeles raided the office and
42:41
Speaker 9: home of LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvallo this morning. Aerial footage
42:46
Speaker 9: showed federal agents carrying boxes out of Carvallo's San Pedro home.
42:52
Speaker 9: I am told he also has a home in Florida
42:54
Speaker 9: that was raided by the FEDS. Some reports indicate recent
42:58
Speaker 9: settlements amounting in hundreds of millions of dollars in payouts
43:02
Speaker 9: may be tied to this raid. As part of a
43:04
Speaker 9: larger probe into misuses of Prop twenty eight funds, LAUSD
43:10
Speaker 9: received approximately seventy seven million dollars annually for Prop twenty
43:14
Speaker 9: eight funds to expand arts and music education. However, a
43:19
Speaker 9: twenty twenty five lawsuit brought forward by former superintendent Austin Buner,
43:23
Speaker 9: who recently dropped out of the LA Mayor's race, allegis
43:27
Speaker 9: misallocation of funds set aside to hire new teachers and staff.
43:32
Speaker 9: An investigation into twenty one billion dollars in EDD unemployment
43:37
Speaker 9: insurance program funds leading back to COVID era fraud may
43:40
Speaker 9: also be playing a role in the larger scheme of things.
43:44
Speaker 9: This could lead to a wider question, as the weather
43:47
Speaker 9: funds were used to cherry pick settlements for lawsuit payouts
43:51
Speaker 9: and pay existing staff. In late November twenty twenty four,
43:56
Speaker 9: LAUSD declared itself a sanctuary district refused to cooperate with
44:01
Speaker 9: federal immigration enforcement.
44:03
Speaker 7: Los Angeles City Council approved an ordinance that officially makes
44:07
Speaker 7: LA a sanctuary city. Minutes later, the Los Angeles Unified
44:11
Speaker 7: School District Board approved a resolution also declaring itself a
44:16
Speaker 7: sanctuary district. The resolution prohibits employees from voluntarily complying with
44:21
Speaker 7: immigration authorities, including sharing information about a student's immigration status.
44:26
Speaker 9: Superintendent Carvallo made statements back then saying he would intervene
44:31
Speaker 9: and interfere with any federal operation.
44:35
Speaker 15: I have directed our own police force to redouble their
44:39
Speaker 15: efforts and establish perimeters of safety around graduation sites to
44:45
Speaker 15: intervene and interfere with any federal agency.
44:50
Speaker 9: Affidavits of today's raids are sealed and LAUSD is not
44:55
Speaker 9: commenting at this time.
44:57
Speaker 5: It's the latest with that. Catherine Harriet, I drag Catherine Heridge.
45:00
Speaker 5: She was with CBS News, she was with Fox, she
45:03
Speaker 5: was a storied reporter. Catherine Herridge had an interview with
45:06
Speaker 5: an attorney who says that there's three hundred and some
45:10
Speaker 5: odd cases involving sexual abuse coming right out of California.
45:15
Speaker 5: This is interesting because nearly all of them are teachers.
45:21
Speaker 5: Listen to this.
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Speaker 13: What's the issue in the California public school system K
45:26
Speaker 13: through twelve?
45:28
Speaker 16: The main issue is is that there is an epidemic
45:31
Speaker 16: of sexual abuse in the state, the by teachers, by coaches,
45:37
Speaker 16: and by other school employees. It wasn't until twenty twelve
45:40
Speaker 16: you could actually file a lawsuit, a civil lawsuit for
45:44
Speaker 16: damages as a victim of sexual abuse in California. And
45:48
Speaker 16: since then, our firm alone has filed dozens. Our firm
45:51
Speaker 16: alone has discovered over three hundred and fifty or three
45:55
Speaker 16: hundred and sixty perpetrators teachers.
45:57
Speaker 13: Wait, three hundred and fifty, three hundred and sixty just
46:00
Speaker 13: in California, correct, And.
46:02
Speaker 16: We believe there's many, many more. We know there's many more,
46:05
Speaker 16: because we certainly don't have all of the cases.
46:11
Speaker 5: Well, well, well, would you look at that. Now, this
46:15
Speaker 5: I find very very interesting, right interesting, because it's just wrong. Right,
46:21
Speaker 5: what I think is wrong here is mister car value.
46:24
Speaker 5: And again I don't want to make them guilty. I
46:26
Speaker 5: just I think I always have a disdain for people
46:30
Speaker 5: that work in public And I've worked for the government,
46:33
Speaker 5: mind you, And that's why I have this disdain because
46:35
Speaker 5: I think, man, I've worked in the private sector. I've
46:38
Speaker 5: built businesses, my own companies, and that is so much
46:41
Speaker 5: harder than getting a government job. Now does the government
46:44
Speaker 5: job pay you better in the long run? Maybe for
46:47
Speaker 5: some people. Some people really cash out quick. Aside, when
46:51
Speaker 5: I worked in the state of New Jersey, very interesting stuff.
46:54
Speaker 5: Check this out. In New Jersey, you can work for
46:58
Speaker 5: your twenty years or whatever it is required for your pension.
47:01
Speaker 5: I think you're vested after ten years. But you work
47:03
Speaker 5: for your ten years and then guess guess what happens
47:06
Speaker 5: ten years you work, and what happens is the following
47:11
Speaker 5: you up until recently, until a few years ago, Christy
47:14
Speaker 5: put an end to this, Governor Chris Christy. But at
47:16
Speaker 5: the time you were able to do your time, do
47:21
Speaker 5: your twenty years and say hey, you know what, By
47:23
Speaker 5: the way, in the twenty years I've worked, I have
47:26
Speaker 5: never ever taken a sick day. And because I haven't
47:30
Speaker 5: taken a sick day, I want you to pay me
47:33
Speaker 5: my pension, a secondary pension that we call a deferred compensation,
47:39
Speaker 5: very similar to a four to ZHO three B and
47:45
Speaker 5: a cash payout on unused sick days. Now, mind you,
47:50
Speaker 5: most people don't aren't able to work for twenty years
47:54
Speaker 5: and not take a sick day, But somehow, miraculously the
47:57
Speaker 5: people in the best health ever must be all those
47:59
Speaker 5: vaccines and the booster. Because the New Jersey people were
48:01
Speaker 5: doing it left and right, everybody was able to take
48:06
Speaker 5: a retirement and say, yeah, I've got two hundred and
48:09
Speaker 5: twenty thousand dollars in six days. So imagine that pension
48:14
Speaker 5: at sixty five or eighty percent or whatever the number
48:17
Speaker 5: was of your pay and usually your friends help you
48:21
Speaker 5: out along the way, so that whatever the highest grade
48:23
Speaker 5: level or rank you can retire at, you retire at
48:26
Speaker 5: that one pension deferred compensation to another retirement plan. It's
48:33
Speaker 5: a secondary retirement plan like a four H three B.
48:37
Speaker 5: Next cash payout on your sick days, which I'm gonna say,
48:43
Speaker 5: I don't even believe all of that, Well, that was
48:46
Speaker 5: a real thing that was going on in New Jersey
48:47
Speaker 5: for every single person that retired from the government. And
48:50
Speaker 5: guess what, The New Jersey Constitution is required to pay
48:54
Speaker 5: out every last bit of what it owes in pension.
49:00
Speaker 5: The constitution says that it has to pay the pensions.
49:02
Speaker 5: There's a lot of other things on the books that
49:04
Speaker 5: aren't constitutionally protected. Pensions are. So I say all that
49:10
Speaker 5: to say, I met so many people that were really
49:12
Speaker 5: looking out for their future, and God bless them for it.
49:15
Speaker 5: I'm not begrudging them, per se. I'm begrudging a system,
49:19
Speaker 5: a system that creates a dependency on government that is unrealistic.
49:26
Speaker 5: In the private sector, it's unrealistic. There isn't another place
49:32
Speaker 5: where you can retire like that, except for maybe being
49:34
Speaker 5: an executive in a larger company. You know, like a
49:37
Speaker 5: golden parachute type of deal, saying hey, when I leave here,
49:40
Speaker 5: you know, wind loser draw, I'm taking this much, I
49:42
Speaker 5: want this much to be able to leave. And not
49:44
Speaker 5: everybody gets those deals. And it would be a different
49:49
Speaker 5: story if people that worked in government were to say
49:51
Speaker 5: things with humility and say, listen, I know that I
49:55
Speaker 5: get paid way more than anybody would doing the same
49:58
Speaker 5: thing in the private sector. I know that what we
50:01
Speaker 5: have is not even competitive. It blows away anything available
50:05
Speaker 5: in the private sector. I've told people this in the past.
50:07
Speaker 5: I used to work in the state government and I
50:10
Speaker 5: worked in the private sector prior to that. I went
50:13
Speaker 5: from a job. This was many years ago, but I
50:15
Speaker 5: was making eighty thousand dollars a year. It was two
50:19
Speaker 5: thousand nine or ten or something like that, maybe eleven,
50:25
Speaker 5: and I was paying eight eight hundred, almost nine thousand
50:29
Speaker 5: dollars a year for my health insurance. That was my contribution.
50:34
Speaker 5: The employer matched whatever they were matching. Right now, what's
50:39
Speaker 5: fascinating about this to me is you've got me taking
50:46
Speaker 5: a ten thousand dollars pay cut at the time to
50:48
Speaker 5: take a job in the Christian administration. They paid me
50:51
Speaker 5: seventy thousand dollars. I still made more money, how simple,
50:57
Speaker 5: because I was able to pay one percent of my
51:01
Speaker 5: salary or one point five So I paid seven hundred
51:03
Speaker 5: and fifty dollars for a health benefit package that covered
51:09
Speaker 5: me in the family. And listen to this. It's the
51:14
Speaker 5: only time in my life that I was treated with
51:16
Speaker 5: the utmost respect. The utmost respect. When I went to
51:21
Speaker 5: visit my doctor, any doctor, any doctor I went to,
51:25
Speaker 5: and I gave them my blue Cross blue Shield card
51:29
Speaker 5: that said New Jersey State employee on it. No problem,
51:34
Speaker 5: mister val does a doctor see you? I mean, you
51:36
Speaker 5: talk about having a Cadillac health care plan. It was fantastic.
51:41
Speaker 5: I mean, you would use it for anything you wanted,
51:44
Speaker 5: anything you wanted. I know people that work in the union,
51:46
Speaker 5: different unions. I'm not going to say which unions, but
51:48
Speaker 5: some good unions in New York City. Theirs didn't compare
51:52
Speaker 5: to mine. Nothing like the good old government. We got
51:55
Speaker 5: the best gangsters ever government gangster. Shout out to Cash
51:59
Speaker 5: Hotel for that one. And listen. If it were the
52:04
Speaker 5: private sector, I'd say, hey, they built a better mouse trap.
52:07
Speaker 5: They won in the in the marketplace of ideas, God
52:11
Speaker 5: bless them. But no, they didn't develop anything. They didn't
52:15
Speaker 5: create anything. There was no industriousness, there was no ingenuity.
52:19
Speaker 5: It was just sheerly the fact that they take our
52:21
Speaker 5: tax dollars. You make five hundred dollars or one thousand
52:24
Speaker 5: dollars a week and you come home with three eighty
52:27
Speaker 5: or seven hundred bucks because why because those guys are
52:31
Speaker 5: getting great pensions and the Cadillac Plan and the deferred
52:35
Speaker 5: compensation and the cash out on their sick days. How
52:39
Speaker 5: is that fair to anybody? Right, it's totally unfair. It's
52:43
Speaker 5: literally a wealth transfer. You work super hard and then
52:46
Speaker 5: they get the benefit of that. Because it's an unreasonable benefit,
52:49
Speaker 5: but it exists. So I noticed that in the government.
52:52
Speaker 5: I realized there's no way I could work here forever.
52:54
Speaker 5: People they'll beat me up around here. They hear how
52:56
Speaker 5: I really feel about this stuff. End of the story is. Look,
53:00
Speaker 5: it's like mister Carvalio is being investigated, to say the
53:03
Speaker 5: least because of similar Right, we don't know what his
53:07
Speaker 5: involvement with this company was. Apparently this company did the deal,
53:12
Speaker 5: the contract was made. They sold at minimum three million dollars.
53:17
Speaker 5: They say the loss could be as big as six
53:19
Speaker 5: million dollars. But they want to know where the money
53:22
Speaker 5: went because apparently the AI that they bought never worked.
53:27
Speaker 5: Now I can tell you I sit on a school
53:29
Speaker 5: board now for a public charter school in Jersey City,
53:31
Speaker 5: New Jersey. Shout out to the beloved Community Charter School
53:34
Speaker 5: home of the Owls, Go Owls. And I've been there
53:38
Speaker 5: since inception. It's a great one of my greatest honors.
53:41
Speaker 5: You know, I probably don't hold my weight around there,
53:43
Speaker 5: but I am honored to have my name on a
53:46
Speaker 5: plaque in that building, in the first building that we purchased,
53:51
Speaker 5: and it's it's a beautiful thing. It's a beautiful thing
53:55
Speaker 5: to be able to provide a quality educational system in
53:59
Speaker 5: a economically impoverished area, but one that's on the come up, right,
54:03
Speaker 5: because you've got some really rich people just outside of
54:05
Speaker 5: that area in Jersey City. The point I'm making here
54:09
Speaker 5: is I deal with contracts all the time, reading contracts,
54:13
Speaker 5: taking a look at what's going on for certain deals.
54:15
Speaker 5: Sometimes we are able to get property for a dollar
54:18
Speaker 5: from the county as long as we promised to build
54:20
Speaker 5: on it because we've had a great system. We have
54:23
Speaker 5: an amazing consultant that guided the founder's group and was himself.
54:28
Speaker 5: That is a brainchild of his. These construction projects were
54:32
Speaker 5: done at a fraction of what it would have cost
54:34
Speaker 5: if the state were to do it. So think about
54:36
Speaker 5: that delivering better education at a lower price in the
54:41
Speaker 5: most difficult parts of the city. And that was done
54:43
Speaker 5: intentionally because there was a belief that if you're poor,
54:48
Speaker 5: you can't learn right. Gavin Newsom recently said something like that.
54:52
Speaker 5: Joe Biden said some stuff like that. Kathy Hochel said
54:54
Speaker 5: some stuff like that. Everybody's had these comments, but we
54:57
Speaker 5: didn't believe that. We believe that just because you were,
55:00
Speaker 5: because your parents are poor, or whatever, the indicators were
55:03
Speaker 5: for people not to learn as effectively. Those could be
55:07
Speaker 5: mitigated by larger classroom sizes and more one to one,
55:12
Speaker 5: perhaps a teaching assistant and a teacher in a class
55:15
Speaker 5: of thirty or thirty five. Things that you don't typically
55:18
Speaker 5: hear people's are overcrowded classes. We've had great results kids
55:22
Speaker 5: going into the ivys. We're now in our fourteenth year,
55:25
Speaker 5: I think right. So we've graduated our first class I
55:28
Speaker 5: think two years ago. If I'm not mistaken, our first
55:31
Speaker 5: kindergarten class that graduated in twelfth grade. It's a huge honor. Anyway,
55:35
Speaker 5: I'm not trying to pat myself on the back or
55:37
Speaker 5: break my arm doing it. I'm saying this to say,
55:39
Speaker 5: mister Carvaljo, as the superintendent, he's got to sign. I'm
55:46
Speaker 5: sure the same stuff I've got to sign that says
55:49
Speaker 5: if I'm buying a thousand mugs for the students in
55:52
Speaker 5: this school. You better believe I can't own that company,
55:56
Speaker 5: because if I own this company, then I can't sell
55:58
Speaker 5: you the mugs stand to make a profit, and that
56:01
Speaker 5: would be a conflict of interest. I can't create a
56:03
Speaker 5: shell company that bottles water and then say hey, I'm
56:07
Speaker 5: going to sell you some bottled water and then oh, well,
56:11
Speaker 5: I'm not on the board, but my wife is, and
56:14
Speaker 5: you can't do that, right. This is like the stuff
56:18
Speaker 5: they were doing in Congress. But this type of self
56:20
Speaker 5: dealing is what happens all the time. It's ever present
56:26
Speaker 5: in government. There are people that get into government specifically
56:29
Speaker 5: to enrich themselves. So how do you fix this? Well, hey,
56:34
Speaker 5: that's a condition of depravity of the heart. It's human nature,
56:38
Speaker 5: it's the flesh. It's a spiritual battle, right. The Apostle
56:43
Speaker 5: Paul said that the spirit lusteth against the flesh, and
56:46
Speaker 5: the flesh lusteth against the spirit. Some translations say warreth right,
56:50
Speaker 5: So the spirit is at war with the flesh, and
56:52
Speaker 5: the flesh is at war with the spirit. These are allegories,
56:57
Speaker 5: if you will, for human nature. Got it check. You
57:02
Speaker 5: can't fix that by legislating it, right, But you can
57:05
Speaker 5: try and get people to be people of integrity. You
57:09
Speaker 5: can get people in the selection process, one would hope
57:13
Speaker 5: that will do the right thing. And of course, more
57:15
Speaker 5: than anything, you have to have the safeguards in place,
57:18
Speaker 5: make sure that two or three people have to be
57:20
Speaker 5: signatories and that they can't be related. You know, you
57:23
Speaker 5: can't presume that everybody's going to make a deal for
57:25
Speaker 5: kickback somewhere. Now. I'm not imposing guilt on mister Carvalio.
57:29
Speaker 5: I'm just saying, all too often we see these types
57:33
Speaker 5: of problems, and if there is some sort of mouthfeasons
57:37
Speaker 5: where the FBI is raiding his house in Florida, his
57:39
Speaker 5: house in California and his office, I'm to be cliche.
57:46
Speaker 5: I'll say whether smoke there's fire. I don't want to
57:48
Speaker 5: say that because we've seen what they do with Trump. Right.
57:51
Speaker 5: You could say, man, this guy is a guy thirty
57:53
Speaker 5: four felon accounts, he was found guilty by a judge
57:57
Speaker 5: of sexual sexual abuse. All these things would be factually accurate.
58:02
Speaker 5: Yet they're all wrong. They're a fake and their phony
58:05
Speaker 5: and their fraud. And I would say that because I'm
58:06
Speaker 5: a Trump sycophan. I say that because just factually they're not.
58:10
Speaker 5: These were cases that were fabricated for the purpose of
58:13
Speaker 5: discrediting him. Right. I don't see that happening with mister
58:17
Speaker 5: Carr value, at least not yet. I don't see somebody saying, well,
58:21
Speaker 5: I really wanted to be the superintendent and he was
58:23
Speaker 5: in the way. So I told the FBI that he
58:25
Speaker 5: did this and this and that, but it wasn't really
58:27
Speaker 5: liked it. I haven't seen that, bottom line, That type
58:33
Speaker 5: of thing exists, and it exists everywhere in government, and
58:36
Speaker 5: I know I'm preaching to the choir here, so I'm
58:39
Speaker 5: interested in seeing how this turns out. I'm interested in
58:42
Speaker 5: seeing what the next step in this process is. But
58:45
Speaker 5: it's a fool's errand for any of us to think
58:49
Speaker 5: that we can live in a society where people don't
58:52
Speaker 5: do what's wrong, where people don't break the rules, where
58:55
Speaker 5: people don't cheat, where people don't steal sadly, lamentably. The
59:00
Speaker 5: reality is people are always going to do the wrong thing,
59:02
Speaker 5: and that's why it's up to us individually to do
59:05
Speaker 5: the right thing, to seek what's right, to do what's
59:09
Speaker 5: good for the greater good, for your community, your job,
59:13
Speaker 5: the company you work for, whatever right. It can't always
59:17
Speaker 5: there has to be a we involved, because when it's
59:20
Speaker 5: all about the me, these are the problems that happen.
59:24
Speaker 5: That's all I've got for you today. I mean, he
59:25
Speaker 5: goes astell approxima. I always say you got to stand
59:30
Speaker 5: for something, because if you stand for nothing, you'll fall
59:32
Speaker 5: for anything. And the only thing necessary for evil to
59:36
Speaker 5: triumph is for good people like you to sit there
59:39
Speaker 5: and do nothing. So do the right thing. I'm rich Chaldees,
59:43
Speaker 5: and this is America, this is a Maria
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