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10/27/26 -- Dan Ball W/ Gene Simmons, Dr. Walid Phares, George Papadopoulos, John Reid. · Real America with Dan Ball

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Straight ahead on Real America tonight, disgraced former FBI director
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: James Comey facing charges yet again, this time for allegedly
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: directing his staffers to share classified intel with a reporter. Hmm,
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: now why would they want to do that?
• 0:16
  Speaker 2: Leaker.
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: George Papadopoulos will join us tonight to weigh in on
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: this new revelation plus. Brazilian patriot Flavio Bolsonaro had to
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: flee the country today following a very suspicious election on
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: Sunday with the socialist incumbent Lula da Silva. There's a
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: crazy situation going on in Brazil, folks. We got all
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: the details tonight on what's going down. I say rigged election.
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  Speaker 3: End.
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: This one I've been looking forward to. Iconic rock legend
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  Speaker 1: Gene Simmons from the band Kiss will join us tonight
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  Speaker 1: for an exclusive interview. I'm Dan Ball, and Real America
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  Speaker 1: starts right now.
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  Speaker 4: Well, they're back again. It would almost be funny if
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  Speaker 4: it weren't such an appalling abuse of the Department of Justice,
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  Speaker 4: one that we cannot become numb to. Nothing's changed with me.
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  Speaker 4: I'm still innocent. I'm still not afraid of these people.
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  Speaker 4: And I still believe in the independent federal judiciary.
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  Speaker 1: Good evening, let's begin the show tonight with Mr. James Comey,
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  Speaker 1: the disgraced former FBI director in Moore, hot water. And
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: this time, he sounds a little panicked, and maybe he
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: should be. Here's the latest on the situation. Comey now
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  Speaker 1: facing new criminal charges, and the details, shocking. Federal prosecutors
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  Speaker 1: are accusing him of ordering some of his FBI staffers
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  Speaker 1: when he was in charge to share classified national security
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  Speaker 1: and intelligence information with a reporter over at the good
• 1:49
  Speaker 1: old New York Times. Now, they say, initially in the investigation,
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  Speaker 1: this took place around October 2016, while he was the
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  Speaker 1: FBI director. Again, it's outlined in a criminal information filed
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: under seal earlier this month. Comey was supposedly trying to
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: correct inaccurate reporting by the reporter. Now for this situation,
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  Speaker 1: the DOJ has also filed two proposed felony counts under
• 2:17
  Speaker 1: the Espionage Act. The agency didn't obtain a grand jury
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  Speaker 1: indictment and attorneys for Comey are seeking an outright dismissal.
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  Speaker 1: But this filing could lead to a serious case. Here's
• 2:28
  Speaker 1: where things get a little tricky though. Some say that
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: a federal judge must decide if this approach is valid
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  Speaker 1: as the criminal information was filed right in time, theoretically,
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: extend the 10-year deadline for an indictment. It is 2026. So,
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  Speaker 1: let's see what happens. In either case, this is the
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  Speaker 1: third attempt to now prosecute Comey in the last two years.
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  Speaker 1: But what about those other Remember, we brought them to you.
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  Speaker 1: September 2025, Comey indicted by a federal grand jury for
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  Speaker 1: allegedly making false statements to Congress and for obstructing a
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  Speaker 1: personal proceeding. The two-count indictment arose from his 2020 testimony
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  Speaker 1: concerning the whole Russia collusion hoax. That one got tossed
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  Speaker 1: by a federal judge like right away. But here's the kicker.
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  Speaker 1: The judge dismissed it after ruling that the prosecutor overseeing
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  Speaker 1: the case was unlawfully appointed. Remember her? So the case
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  Speaker 1: itself had merit, yet it got booted because of who
• 3:29
  Speaker 1: they assigned to go after him. Had nothing to do
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  Speaker 1: with the merit of the case. Now, speaking of merit.
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  Speaker 1: There's merit to the ongoing case against him in North Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: If you recall, earlier this year, he was indicted for
• 3:42
  Speaker 1: posting an image on Instagram showing seashells arranged on a beach, no,
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  Speaker 1: not seashells on a seashore, to spell 86-47. Prosecutors argue
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  Speaker 1: the post represents a direct threat against President Trump because,
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: of course, we all know the slang term 86, that
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  Speaker 1: means to get rid of someone, and Trump's 47. Comey
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  Speaker 1: claims he had no idea what it meant. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: do it. He just stumbled upon it as he and
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  Speaker 1: his wife were walking down the beach having a romantic stroll. My,
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  Speaker 1: you know what? Anyway, the jury disagreed. Now his arraignment
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  Speaker 1: and trial are scheduled for next year. The question is,
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  Speaker 1: will justice be served on Mr. Comey in any fashion?
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  Speaker 1: Can I hope so? Yeah. Do you know what I mean? Now,
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  Speaker 1: to weigh in on all this, he is a former
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  Speaker 1: foreign policy advisor to President Trump and the co-host of
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  Speaker 1: the Global View podcast, also author of the book, Deep
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  Speaker 1: State Target, our good pal, George Papadopoulos, back on Real America. Okay, George,
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  Speaker 1: I think you may have come on the program both
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  Speaker 1: those times as well to comment on the 86-47 and
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  Speaker 1: then the bogus testimony about the Russia collusion when he
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  Speaker 1: was under oath in 2020. So will this one have
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  Speaker 1: merit and will this one stick?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's great to be with you, Dan. Look, what
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  Speaker 5: this situation highlights and really sends an unmistakable message to
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  Speaker 5: the world is that no one is above the law
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  Speaker 5: in the United States, and corrupt acts and corrupt figures,
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  Speaker 5: no matter how high up they are, will be prosecuted
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  Speaker 5: if they are engaged in official acts that attempt to
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  Speaker 5: basically usurp the will of the American people and shred
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  Speaker 5: the Constitution and the trust of the American people in
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  Speaker 5: the process. And ultimately, what all of these charges levied
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  Speaker 5: against the disgraced former FBI Director James Comey have summarized
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  Speaker 5: is that Comey, in an official capacity, attempted to put
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  Speaker 5: his finger on both the scale of truth, justice, and
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  Speaker 5: the electoral process to usurp the will of the American
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  Speaker 5: people and spread the Constitution in the process. I sincerely
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  Speaker 5: believe that these charges not only will stick, but ultimately
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  Speaker 5: Comey will be convicted.
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  Speaker 1: So I always go back to the first one with
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  Speaker 1: the Russia collusion thing and the lying under oath. That
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  Speaker 1: one should have stuck. Again, I forget her name, you
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  Speaker 1: probably remember, but everything came down to the prosecutor that
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  Speaker 1: the administration assigned, right? This judge went, she wasn't appointed properly,
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  Speaker 1: so this whole case is bogus and threw it out.
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  Speaker 1: But the case wasn't. We never even got to trial
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  Speaker 1: and talked about the merits of what he did, what
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  Speaker 1: he testified that he did or didn't do. It was
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  Speaker 1: all about that female prosecutor, right?
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  Speaker 3: Well, absolutely.
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  Speaker 5: And what his lawyers have attempted to do is to
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  Speaker 5: try to politicize, once again, the cases against him to
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  Speaker 5: basically suggest that this is some sort of weaponized effort
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  Speaker 5: against him and to have these charges dismissed. But unfortunately
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  Speaker 5: for Comey, this is an ongoing criminal investigation. And this
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  Speaker 5: doesn't begin and end with James Comey. No one at
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  Speaker 5: the FBI or the Department of Justice has suggested that
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  Speaker 5: this is the last charge that they're going to levy
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  Speaker 5: against James Comey. I truly believe that panic is officially
• 7:12
  Speaker 5: setting in for James Comey. The DOJ and the FBI
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  Speaker 5: is building an airtight case against this individual. And moving forward,
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  Speaker 5: once discovery occurs and this does go to trial, the
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  Speaker 5: world will eventually see how corrupt this person really was, Dan.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know why an FBI director would be
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  Speaker 1: trying to contact being in this industry for 34 years plus.
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  Speaker 1: A reporter at the New York Times to straighten something out,
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  Speaker 1: according to him, right? That's what he was allegedly doing.
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  Speaker 1: We hear about this all the time, leakers. And I
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: always wonder, how does the New York Times always get
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  Speaker 1: such good inside scoop in Washington, D.C.? Now we know
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  Speaker 1: because they're like an arm of the Democrat Party, right?
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  Speaker 1: Dems can just call them up. An FBI director can
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  Speaker 1: just call them up and influence stuff happening at the
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  Speaker 1: New York Times. Again, I'm alleging this. I don't have
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  Speaker 1: any proof right in front of me, but they seem
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  Speaker 1: to be one of the big ones that always leak
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  Speaker 1: stuff out of D.C.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's an unfortunate situation.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, what happened basically is under the Obama and
• 8:16
  Speaker 5: the Biden administrations, the FBI... and the Department of Justice
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  Speaker 5: were basically deputized to go after conservatives writ large and
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  Speaker 5: to basically protect the higher echelons of the corrupt Democrat Party,
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  Speaker 5: including the Biden crime family. And that's really what this
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  Speaker 5: whole notion of a two-tiered justice system is.
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  Speaker 2: Really all about, Dan.
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  Speaker 5: And what the president of the United States is attempting
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  Speaker 5: to do here is to restore trust and credibility in
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  Speaker 5: the institutions that Americans have revered since the inception of
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  Speaker 5: this country.
• 8:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'll tell you, I appreciate what the president's
• 8:57
  Speaker 1: trying to do, but it's disgusting how the Democrats and
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  Speaker 1: the media, mainstream, try to twist it, right? No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: Trump got back in, and now he's weaponizing the government
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  Speaker 1: to go after his enemies that attacked him. But then
• 9:10
  Speaker 1: they stop. That's where the Democrats and press stop their coverage.
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  Speaker 1: You should say, no, he's going after crooks who attacked
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: him with false accusations and lawsuits and criminal charges and B.S.,
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  Speaker 1: And because they were breaking the law and they were
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  Speaker 1: the corrupt ones and they weaponized the federal government, he's
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: trying to right those wrongs. But they don't ever add that.
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: It's kind of like George, the old very fine people.
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: They forget the most important part of that sentence, right?
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  Speaker 5: That's exactly what, unfortunately, the mainstream media has been basically
• 9:43
  Speaker 5: on the dole of the Democrat Party. They've been ingratiated
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  Speaker 5: within the Democrat Party. That's why the president calls it
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  Speaker 5: fake news. And what this court filing shows here is
• 9:53
  Speaker 5: how comfortable Democrats and politicized FBI directors are with the
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  Speaker 5: mainstream media in which they believe that they could illegally
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  Speaker 5: leak classified information during an election season to harm the
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  Speaker 5: Republican candidate vying for the presidency. That is outrageous. It's
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  Speaker 5: something that occurs in banana republics in which the media
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  Speaker 5: and the administration at the time are basically colluding to
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  Speaker 5: pick who will be the leader of that country. And
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  Speaker 5: the president stopped it before it could get too bad
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  Speaker 5: in this country. And that's really why this prosecution of
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  Speaker 5: the Comey case is so important, Dan.
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  Speaker 1: About 30 seconds left. I just want to throw the
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  Speaker 1: headline up and get your take real fast because I
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: love talking about him because I don't like this guy.
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: Former disgraced Congressman Eric Swalwell. So besides when they, what,
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: went after him a couple months back? They just now
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: raided one of his good buddies' billionaire home mansion out
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: in Beverly Hills. This, again, is that deep dive probe
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: and investigation into his dirty dealings and connections. We, of course,
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: know all about Miss Fang Fang, the Chinese spy that
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: he was hooking up with, and God knows what else,
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: the lies he told about Trump, and I'm sure there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot more when it comes to Mr. Swalwell, so
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  Speaker 1: I just thought I'd let my viewers know that we're
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  Speaker 1: still going after him and get George's take on that. George,
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  Speaker 1: final question to you.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, Swalwell, I think, was a walking, talking national security
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  Speaker 5: threat from Feng Feng, from being exploited by Chinese spies,
• 11:30
  Speaker 5: being up to his neck in corruption and pay to
• 11:34
  Speaker 5: play and all of these various allegations, including sexual misconduct.
• 11:38
  Speaker 5: This person deserved to go down. He was a key
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  Speaker 5: purveyor of the whole Russiagate conspiracy theory from the helm
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  Speaker 5: of Congress. He intentionally weaponized Congress. He intentionally lied to
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  Speaker 5: the American people, and I couldn't be more happy to
• 11:55
  Speaker 5: see him go down the way he is, Dan.
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, can we please now, next, do pencil neck. Let's
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: get to Adam Schiff, because he was one of the
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: worst with the Russia bogus crap that tried to take Trump, you,
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: and others down. George, as always, thank you, sir. Appreciate you.
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate it, Dan.
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: Thanks. Yep. All righty. Coming up after the break, we're
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: going to head to the great state of Virginia, where
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: more fraud, rather, is being uncovered, all thanks to who? Republicans. Plus,
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: our exclusive interview with rocker, original co-founder of the band Kiss.
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: He's a legend. Gene Simmons will join us tonight for
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: an extended, candid conversation about the band celebrating over 50
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: years of rockin'. And then, a little bit later in
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: the program, we'll head down to Brazil, where something stinks.
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: After their presidential election over the weekend ends with the
• 12:42
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• 12:45
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• 13:28
  Speaker 3: Ms.
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  Speaker 6: Lucas, for the last nearly five years, accumulated nearly $ 5
• 13:32
  Speaker 6: million in ill-gotten gains through her criminal enterprise. During her
• 13:36
  Speaker 6: time as Virginia state senator, instead of enforcing the law,
• 13:39
  Speaker 6: she was actually breaking the law, as alleged in the indictment,
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  Speaker 6: and then using her position of power and public trust
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  Speaker 6: to deflect and defend against her own criminal enterprise. Truly
• 13:49
  Speaker 6: the epitome of hypocrisy for a public official.
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: No kidding. I call that huge hypocrisy kind of like
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  Speaker 1: we're saying last night on the show, right? It's like
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  Speaker 1: people in certain positions when they do something illegal or
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: off color or disgusting, isn't it even worse, right? If
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: your pastor or priest is cheating or doing something bad
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: or a cop is breaking the law or a Congress
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  Speaker 1: person or a state Senator is doing something, don't you
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  Speaker 1: get even a little more hot under the collar? I
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  Speaker 1: know I do. Well, you heard about it right there
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  Speaker 1: from Kash Patel, Correct to the FBI as we speak,
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  Speaker 1: Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas. There she is. Hi, honey.
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  Speaker 1: You're facing federal charges.
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Because allegedly, you led a multi-million dollar criminal marijuana distribution enterprise.
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  Speaker 1: The count includes racketeering, conspiracy, conspiracy to launder money, conspiracy
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  Speaker 1: to commit honest service fraud via bribery, conspiracy to distribute
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  Speaker 1: and possess marijuana with intent to distribute and maintaining a
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  Speaker 1: drug-involved premise.
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  Speaker 2: Woo!
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  Speaker 1: How about all that? According to the indictment, she allegedly
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  Speaker 1: used her position as finance chair within the state Senate
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  Speaker 1: to shield what she was doing. Wow. Which was pretty
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: much run local cannabis shops, shops that she bragged about.
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  Speaker 1: She also bragged about trying to legalize marijuana, just to
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  Speaker 1: allegedly make millions over the course of five years with others, including, again, allegedly,
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  Speaker 1: her daughters and even a grandson. Now, I get it,
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  Speaker 1: it's legal in some states, but if it's not legal
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  Speaker 1: where you live, you don't get to do this, especially
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  Speaker 1: when you're a lawmaker. Law, legal.
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  Speaker 2: Ms.
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  Speaker 1: Lucas, despite the charges, the 82-year-old lawmaker says she's not
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  Speaker 1: planning to resign. Maintain her seat, keeping her committee chair
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  Speaker 1: and all that crap, saying that there is nothing ethical
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  Speaker 1: or illegal that she did that could make her step
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: down so she ain't going nowhere. Surprise, surprise. Unfortunately for her,
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: the facts don't look good in her court. That brings
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: us to the Attorney General, Todd Blanch. Blanch recently walked
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: through the indictment, and it sounds pretty legitimate, Ms. Lucas.
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  Speaker 7: The indictment alleges that Senator Lucas approved and directed criminal
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  Speaker 7: activities and other activities to benefit the affairs of the
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  Speaker 7: Lucas Enterprise. that she arranged for the acquisition and distribution
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  Speaker 7: of marijuana, that she supervised the laundering of marijuana proceeds,
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  Speaker 7: and that she used her political influence to demand and
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  Speaker 7: accept a bribe and attempted to influence Virginia legislation for
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  Speaker 7: the benefit of herself and her family.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds pretty legit, ma'am. Joining me now to sound off
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  Speaker 1: about all this, he's a former Republican candidate for Virginia's
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  Speaker 1: lieutenant governor and host of the Reed Revolution podcast. John Reed,
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  Speaker 1: back on the program. John, nice to see you again.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't we have you on a while back, if I recall,
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  Speaker 1: talking about some hot water Miss Lucas was in, I
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: think before the marijuana stuff even. Has she always had
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: controversy swirling around her since she got into office? You've
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: been down there a long time.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, listen, she is the godmother of this part of
• 16:55
  Speaker 8: the state in the city of Portsmouth. It's run exclusively
• 17:00
  Speaker 8: by Democrats. And when I was campaigning across the state,
• 17:04
  Speaker 8: Last year, a lot of people said, hey, be careful
• 17:05
  Speaker 8: if you go to campaign in Portsmouth. Don't get pulled over.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: And I thought, are you kidding?
• 17:09
  Speaker 8: Are we really in that kind of environment where I
• 17:12
  Speaker 8: have to be worried as a candidate driving by myself
• 17:15
  Speaker 8: whether the cops will pull me over and whether I'll
• 17:17
  Speaker 8: be treated fairly? I mean, the whole place led by
• 17:21
  Speaker 8: her has the stink of Chicago corruption without the benefits
• 17:26
  Speaker 8: of Chicago. And I do think that if you read
• 17:29
  Speaker 8: the indictment material that was released last week, Louise Lucas
• 17:35
  Speaker 8: used language which really doesn't give her much wiggle room.
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  Speaker 8: She talked about how she's too old not to be greedy.
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  Speaker 8: People have suspected her of bad behavior, if not illegal behavior,
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  Speaker 8: for a long time. And she sued everybody who dares
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  Speaker 8: stand up against her. So, you know, even the media
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  Speaker 8: in and around the state capitol is scared to cover
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  Speaker 8: her and be critical because they don't want a $ 20
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  Speaker 8: million lawsuit. It may get thrown out in the long run,
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  Speaker 8: but they're scared to engage with her.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I'm not scared of you, Ms. Lucas,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm just reporting the facts of what the FBI
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  Speaker 1: says you've allegedly done. And by the way, this is
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: an opinionated talk show, so I can throw my opinion
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  Speaker 1: in if I want. You can't sue people for free
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  Speaker 1: speech and opinion, Ms. Lucas. But on the surface right now,
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  Speaker 1: why would you? I mean, you've got Kash Patel out
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: front and center. talking about the charges, and Blanche, the AG.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Usually sometimes if it's a smaller case or nothing that big,
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: you'll have the deputy DA, right, or the deputy director
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: of the FBI. This seems like it's pretty legit, and
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: it's been going on for decades possibly. Otherwise, they wouldn't
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: be making such a big deal and hoopla about it. Right.
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  Speaker 8: I don't think you would see both of these men
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  Speaker 8: putting their reputation on the line if they didn't think
• 18:45
  Speaker 8: they had a very solid case. And no one who's
• 18:48
  Speaker 8: been following Virginia politics is at all surprised about this.
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  Speaker 8: And one of the problems we've got in Virginia, and
• 18:54
  Speaker 8: I say this as a Republican, I'm not pleased, but
• 18:59
  Speaker 8: Democrats are solidifying their control over the state. And This
• 19:06
  Speaker 8: is a problem, especially when you're dealing with people who
• 19:09
  Speaker 8: overtly tell you that they don't want to obey the laws,
• 19:12
  Speaker 8: that they're going to break all traditions. This is a
• 19:15
  Speaker 8: big problem, and we've got to come up with candidates
• 19:18
  Speaker 8: who will be able to shake the control that the
• 19:21
  Speaker 8: Democrats have. They've got governor, lieutenant governor. They have an
• 19:24
  Speaker 8: attorney general who the people of Virginia voted for, even
• 19:27
  Speaker 8: though he said that he wouldn't mind seeing his political
• 19:30
  Speaker 8: opponents killed and their children shot in front of their face.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: That's what you were up for. I remember that.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: It's crazy.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that didn't sway enough voters. I mean— You've
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: got some wacko liberals in that state, but that's every
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: state in this union because so many people have been
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: lied to by the mainstream media. They're brainwashed by what
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: they see on social media. They actually believe their Democrat
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: leadership and the fake news, and so you have a
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: lot of misguided People that just can't use common sense anymore, John,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: because anybody could look at the majority of these Democrats
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: who are embracing socialism into their party and say, what
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: in the hell are we doing? This is the United
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: States of America, a democratic republic, not a democracy, we're
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: a republic. And oh, by the way, we're based on capitalism.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Yet they're out there supporting Democrats who are now embracing
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: socialism and communism. John, with that, I'll give you the
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: final word, not just on Ms. Lucas, but on Virginia
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: and some of the races down there. Some are getting close,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: two to three points. So some Republicans might pull some
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: wins down there. I'll give you the final one.
• 20:29
  Speaker 8: Yeah, look, I hope people are going to see the
• 20:31
  Speaker 8: arrogance and the corruption that seems to be on parade
• 20:34
  Speaker 8: here and say enough. You know, however you feel about
• 20:37
  Speaker 8: what's happening in Washington, this is a time to stand
• 20:40
  Speaker 8: up against the communists. and the jihadists who are now
• 20:43
  Speaker 8: fully in control of the Democrat Party. And if Republican voters,
• 20:47
  Speaker 8: the 600,000 Trump voters who didn't show up last year
• 20:52
  Speaker 8: show up this year, then we can turn the tide
• 20:54
  Speaker 8: in Virginia and probably across the country. But you've got
• 20:57
  Speaker 8: to turn out no matter how you're feeling about things.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: That's the key. That's the key. Did you hear him, folks?
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Turn out and vote, either now, early voting, or next Tuesday.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: John Reed, check out his podcast, The Reed Revolution. Appreciate you, sir.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you.
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: Yep.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: All right. We're getting rid of politics for a second
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: because coming up next, Rockers, get ready. It's the interview
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: you've been waiting for, especially if you're a member of
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: the Kiss Nation. That's right. Straight ahead, our exclusive interview
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: with the original co-founder of the band Kiss, Gene Simmons,
• 21:29
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• 22:01
  Speaker 1: get anywhere else. Talk about timeless music, folks. I got
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: to say it. They don't make it like that anymore.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, they just don't. I'm trying to think of
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: a band, not a single artist, but a band today
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: in 2026 that just came out that made that kind
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: of music like Kiss and other great bands of the 60s, 70s, 80s,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: and 90s too probably. And talking about that great music,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: that brings me to music today and a critical bipartisan
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: bill that's been backed by our next exclusive guest tonight.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Matter of fact, they're celebrating over 50 years of dominating
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: rock and roll. And I'll get to that guest in
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: just a moment. But we got to do a proper
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: introduction and also talk a little, you know, politics and bills.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: So our guest is one of the original founding members
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: of KISS. He's also a very outspoken warrior for truth, justice,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: rock and roll, and America. And on that note, he's
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: been backing legislation called the American Music Fairness Act. The bill,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: currently sitting in Congress, would require radio stations in the U.S.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: to pay performance royalties to recording artists and musicians. It
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: seeks to end a century-old loophole in copyright law, and
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: it would totally change the entertainment landscape in our nation.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: How about that? I think it's a great idea, especially
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: for the artists. Come on. They're the ones that put
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: the blood, sweat, and tears into it. Now currently, the
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: US is the only country where terrestrial radio plays songwriters
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: but don't pay royalties to the actual performers. Contrasting with
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: digital streaming platforms such as Apple Music and Spotify, dozens
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: of American recording artists are calling for change and change
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: now to finally see some compensation. So, if passed, the
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: bill would also protect their radio income from the EU,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: where some countries refuse to pay American artists for their
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: work to this day. And we're talking artists decades ago.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Among the musicians? One's our next guest. Matter of fact,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: wrote an article about the issue, including an op-ed for
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal this past summer. And he even
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: testified before Congress all about it. Take a look.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: American Music Fairness Act. Yes, it's an act. that's fair,
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: because there isn't fairness ongoing right now, but it's American music. America.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Last time I checked, Zimbabwe gave the world no music.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: I can't sing you a French song, and nobody else.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: It's America's music that rules this planet. Elvis, baby, the king. Elvis,
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: who sang hundreds and hundreds of songs, and I met
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: the gentleman when he was alive, and sadly, Elvis never
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: got a penny for all the times, all the millions
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: of times that his music was played around the world.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Joining us now, I don't think he needs an introduction
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: after that. You know who he is, Mr. Gene Simmons, co-founder,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: bassist from the legendary rock band KISS. And I got
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: to say, I'm kind of geeking out as a fan
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: right now. Gene, thanks for coming on the program. Nice
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: to meet you, sir.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Nice build-up. My ego has grown even bigger. So, for
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: those of you that have the attention span of a gnat,
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: let me repeat it. And I'm in my bathrobe because
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: I don't care. Thank you, Gene.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: I've always liked that about you.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Life is short. Not everybody loves Jesus either. It's like,
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: just lead your life and let the pieces fall where
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: they may. So, Here's a simple idea. America is based
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: on the fact that by the sweat of thy brow,
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: which my people wrote in a very good book called
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: The Bible, which we gave the rest of you guys.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: But by the sweat of thy brow, you should get paid.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: That's the backbone, the premise of America. Capitalism, baby. And
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: for those of you that don't like it, there are
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: other countries, socialist countries and communist countries.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: Oops, they're the same.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Yes, they are. That, you know, have different philosophical— I don't
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: want to live there. I like it here, where you
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: get paid for your talent, not for sitting back and
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: wanting the same amount of money as your next-door neighbor
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: for doing nothing. So the simple idea is, for a
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: hundred years, back through Bing Crosby's era, I'm dreaming of
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: a white— written by a Jewish gentleman, by the way, Irving Berlin.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: The most played, biggest song of all time. All the
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: times that song and you ain't nothing but a hound.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: All that and Kiss and Garth Brooks. Everybody that's been
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: played on AM radio has received for 100 years a
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: total of zero, a goose egg, for the music that's
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: been played. By the way, radio, specifically AM radio, And
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: they're not villains. We all need AM radio. We want
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: to be in our cars, driving down the highway, and
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: we turn on the radio to hear our favorite music.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: We love AM radio, but AM radio made $ 14 billion
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: this last year. How much did George Strait make for
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: the countless times they played his songs about Amarillo? Nothing.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: So this is an injustice. And the Senate invited me.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: I was very honored to appear and address both houses,
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: you know, both sides of the aisle when Kiss was
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: invited by the president to receive the Kennedy Center honors,
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: which we did. And Garth Brooks, bless him, was there
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: with Cheap Trick to honor us and do our songs
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: and all that. Very much appreciate it. And I have
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: to say that I spent some face time with the
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: president back in that room where he gives hats and
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: presidential M & Ms and things like that. He was
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: very much appreciated. He was very kind and gracious. And
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: he is in support of this. Hopefully, he's going to
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: issue a presidential executive order. But in the meantime, I
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: spoke with the Speaker of the House Congress. And Congresswoman Blackburn, Mr. Schumer,
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: like both sides of the aisle are in favor of this.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: And this will pass. And we have to right this
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: wrong because it is patently un-American for radio to be
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: making $ 14 billion just this last year. That means in
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: 10 years, they've made $ 140 billion. How much did the
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: artists make that they play on the radio? Zero. So
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: that's got to change. And I aim to make sure
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: I'm going to raise a ruckus and they need to
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: get paid. Not just for rich a-holes like me. I've
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: got some money. That's fine. But what about the future?
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: What about our children? We have two kids who are
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: deeply in music. Nick is on a 40-city tour now
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: with his band. The old-fashioned way. You roll up your sleeves,
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: get into an old-battern pickup truck, and you just go
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: from city to... There he is, 6'8. He's just tall.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: A big kid.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: And come to think of it, the male on that
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: is kind of tall. So, Sophie, our daughter, likewise, is
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: very successful in music. She has hundreds of songs, more
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: like pop songs.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: But.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: When they get played on AM radio, they receive nothing.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: That's not gonna stand. I'm not gonna let my kids
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: get nothing for the work they put in. This bill
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: will pass.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Can I say something that stands out that's so ironic
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: to me? I go back to when I'm a little
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: kid and I'm watching Kiss and I'm getting told I'm
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: not supposed to. You know, I had that town. You
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: can't watch Kiss. You can't watch that bad music. Fast
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: forward 40, 50 years, folks. Gene Simmons and Kiss now
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: is bringing the left and the right on Capitol Hill
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: together and has a bipartisan bill that will probably pass.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. That's great, Gene. It is the right thing
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: to do.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: Above and beyond politics, there is what's right. Yes. The
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: backbone and the premise of America is we no longer
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: have slaves. Thank the Lord. that we got over that
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: period and make America's shameful past. And it keeps getting better.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: But there are some injustices that have to be fixed.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: Among them is the artists that radio plays must get paid.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: And this will pass. I've spoken to both members of
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: the aisle, and we have full support on that. And
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: I know there are wars going on in the world.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: I do understand that. These are really important issues. But
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: this is also important. There's time to do this. And
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: the only reason I keep making a ruckus about this,
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: you're not the only interview I'm doing, with all sides
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: of the aisle. I don't care what political branch you're
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: part of, is that everybody agrees this has got to
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: get changed. Because, by the way, Russia pays their acts
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: that they played on Russian radio. We can't bring ourselves
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: to at least do that. That's got to change.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Agreed. All right, can I switch gears and we talk
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: a little kiss? Because from what I recall, again, I
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: was born in 74. I think when you guys officially
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: formed was 74, 73? When was it?
• 31:59
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: About that? 1874. Smartass.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: Okay. And then.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: A lot of folks this year are saying you're celebrating
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: 50 years because you had your first big world tour
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: in 76. But you were writing songs back in the
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: 60s and you and Paul kind of came together in what,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: like 72 and phoned the other members. So this has
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: been going on a lot more than even 50 years.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: And you guys also, I gotta brag you up, besides
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: the 50 year mark plus, you are the all time
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: most selling gold album record sales for a rock band
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: in America. Did I get that right? The most gold
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: albums of any group.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: Any group and any duo, yeah. Yeah.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: That's kind of a big deal, Gene.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: Only in America, baby.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Only here.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's true.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: I mean, I can't name you a French act.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, can I roll a quick clip? Because you've always
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: talked about how great America is, and I feel like
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: she's been under attack with this new red-green alliance, right?
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: You've got Islam teaming up with the Democrats, Socialists, Communists
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: in this country, and all they do is trash talk America,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: and my team found this clip, and I just wanted
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: to see Jean bragging up about you were so proud
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: for you and your mother to come here from Israel
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: all those years ago and to become such a success,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: and that's another reason why you love America so much,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: and I love that about you, so I want to
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: just roll this quick.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: The gift that America has given the world is a
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: sort of a... I can't put it into words. There's
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: a magic here that exists nowhere else in the world.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: I'm embarrassingly patriotic about this country.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: All the rights and.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: Freedoms that native-born children in America have, this is the
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: promised land. The best thing that ever happened to me
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: was coming to America. I mean that honestly, unapologetically.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Can I just say, I am embarrassingly patriotic, and I
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: don't give a damn if you like it or not. So, Gene,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: I love that about you.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: How could you not?
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: By the way, the first question I have for people
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: from other countries and other parts of the world, and
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: I am a legal immigrant, I'm proud to say. I
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: stood in line. I took an oath.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: To be true to America and abide by its laws
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: and its culture. And not to force my culture on
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: the rest of them. You're a guest in somebody's house.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: For God's sakes, have some civility and manners. You're coming
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: to America. That's somebody else's house. And the first thing
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: you should do is learn to communicate in the language
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: of the house.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: Dress boldly. British, think Yiddish. Keep your culture to yourself.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: You're proud of being Serbian. The other one's proud of
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: being Martian. That's fantastic. Here you have the right to
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: do that. But let's meet in the middle and agree
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: on a language and a culture. You don't have to
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: change your religion or anything. Otherwise, we're back to the
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: Tower of Babel where everybody speaks different languages and you
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: have chaos. No, English is the language of America. That's
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: not my first language. That's my fourth language. I speak
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: Hungarian and German, Hebrew and English, and even a little Japanese.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: But English is the country of this country. Get used
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: to it. Get rid of your accent. I used to
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: talk like this. I talk, you know, the clip thing.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: The better you have communication skills, the better you have
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: people skills. Guess what happens?
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: You make more money. Wow. And I know you're proud
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: of that and you love doing it. So do I,
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: my friend. Speaking of that, there's been a lot of
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: artists over the years that knew the golden rule. Elvis,
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Johnny Carson, yourself. But some artists these days decide to
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: jump in and use their platforms for politics. TMZ caught
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: up with you a couple of weeks ago and asked
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: you what you thought about these artists who are spouting
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: off like the Mark Ruffalo's and the rest of them.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: Roll that one.
• 36:08
  Speaker 9: Sounds like a lot of people.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Are kind of, you know, criticizing Trump like Hollywood right now,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: you know, over this war thing.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: Is that fair? Yeah, because everybody in the world should
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: listen to what actors and comedians say because they're so qualified. Basically,
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: shut the f * * * up. Do your art
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: and shut up. Nobody's interested in your opinions. That includes me.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: Who I vote for, who.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: I like, who the f * * * do you
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: think you are?
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: People in America work hard for their living and they
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: don't want to be lectured to by people who live
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: in mansions and drive Rolls Royces. It's time for everybody
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: in the entertainment industry to shut their pie hole and
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: just do your art.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just do your art. Gene, thank you for that.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: That's one of the best clips of the year.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: I just want to say this about, I keep mispronouncing
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: his name, Ruffalo Buffalo. He's very talented.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: Sure he is.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: And Springsteen. I've met him. He's terrific and stuff. and
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: what's his name, Macklemore or Mackleless, I don't know, some
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: guy came out and made political speeches on stage. I
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: think they're fine human beings. Nobody should, you know, you
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: can say whatever you want. Just understand that the rest
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: of us want to come to your show to be entertained,
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: not to be lectured to.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: Nobody asked your opinion. I can't say the word B-I-T-C-H,
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: but I wanted to... Add that as an exclamation point.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: Who do you think you are? That includes me. Do
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: your art and shut the fuck up.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: Yes, thank you, Gene. All right, let's get back to
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: some awesome KISS stuff. I hear there's a documentary coming
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: soon called KISS End of the Road. When does this drop?
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: Who's putting it out? And I'm going to watch it.
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: You're very kind. The Kiss documentary, my God, we've had
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: quite a few. This one is going to entail a
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: full overview of the astonishing story of this band made
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: up of four knuckleheads off the streets of New York
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: who over half a century ago decided to put together
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: the band we never saw on stage. Wear more makeup
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: and high heels than your mommy ever did. Spit fire,
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: fly through the air. Like, just break all the rules
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: and do it. And along the way, we've become very
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: successful thanks to America and the capitalist ideal. But this
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: is not the only thing. We sold the makeup and
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: the trademarks and all that to a wonderful company called
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: Pop House. They became our partners. And so there's a
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: motion picture coming. There's going to be theme parks and
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: an avatar show, all kinds of stuff we never imagined.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: And they're investing in sort of the KISS world. You're
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: just living in it.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, KISS Nation's huge. It's been huge for 50 years. Gene,
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: did I also see that you guys are playing Vegas
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: next month in November? Something's going on in Vegas, I read.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is for the fans. This is the KISS cruise.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: We've done 13 years of that on huge ships and
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: all that stuff with fans from 34 countries get together
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: of all political groups. the loyal opposition and people who
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: have different points, some from socialist countries, all are welcome.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: It's okay. Just leave your politics at the door and
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: celebrate being a human being. So we get together and
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: celebrate life. And this is for the fans. And so...
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: all the fans take over the Virgin Hotel in Las Vegas.
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: And you can see the dates and all that there.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: And by the way, in the interest of full disclosure,
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: even though it's going to be held at the Virgin Hotel,
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: you don't have to be a virgin to see.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: I was going to ask you, my wife said, no,
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: don't bring up his tongue. Don't talk about the tongue
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: and those crazy 50 years on the road and partying
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: and having fun. I'm like, he didn't though. Gene was
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: a good boy.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: It is.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: It is hideous.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: Well, I haven't been a boy since before you were born,
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: but it is a hideous thing, this thing that pops
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: in and out of my mouth. It does have a
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: spin and dry cycle, and it can whip up a
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: good froth, but I want to add that normally, just
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: to show it off, I would show you what it
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: can do, but the floor is a little dirty today, so.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: That's okay. I just had to throw it out there
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: because that's something that I pride myself in, but I
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: won't discuss my viewers with mine.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: You pride yourself on your oral appendage, do you?
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: Yes, I do. And I'll leave it right there.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: Well, you may be very popular in jail. You never know.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: I'm very popular with my wife. Let's put it that way.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: And we'll leave it right there.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: End of story.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: By the way, how is the family? You mentioned Nick
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: and Sophie. Everybody's good. This is me wrapping up. Unless
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: you want to hang longer. We'd love to keep chatting
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: with you, Gene, but they told me 20 minutes.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: You're very kind. The wifey's in the other room putting
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: on makeup.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: Hi, Shannon.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: Getting ready to go out and buy Beverly Hills. She's
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: already bought the rest of the world. Because there are
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: extra rooms where the walls have been knocked down because
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: you need room for the extra bags and the extra
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: shoes that you'll never wear. Ask your wife. She'll tell
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: you about it.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Oh, I know all about that. You better take another
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: farewell tour. I know you wrapped one up earlier this year,
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: but I think you might have to start another farewell
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: tour to buy those bags.
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: No, I make a good living. I was thinking of
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: buying Rhode Island when I come to think of it.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: Gene, thank you, sir. We appreciate you so much for
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: over 50 years of rocking us out We love KISS
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: and KISS Nation. Thank you, sir, and for always being
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: a patriot to this nation. God bless you.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: God bless.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: All righty, folks, stick around. Coming up next, we're going
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: to head down south to Brazil for the presidential election there. Well,
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: it seems like it might have been a little rigged,
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: in my opinion. How, you ask? Well, the radical liberal
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: incumbent won the runoff, but he didn't win the original
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: election three weeks ago? Explain that one to me. We'll
• 42:28
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• 43:02
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• 43:15
  Speaker 1: they say elections belong to we the people, right? That's
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: what they say. However, if you look at Brazil right
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: now as we speak, yeah, I wouldn't use that statement
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: down there. The entire world is looking at the largest
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: Latin country in South America this week. Why? Well, because
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: they just had this huge presidential, highly contested election. And
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: guess what? It appears it was compromised. The election took
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: place just this past Sunday. The socialist incumbent, there's that clown,
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: Lula da Silva, allegedly won by about 4 million votes. Now,
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: keep these numbers in mind as I read on. He
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: reportedly got over 64 million votes, despite being projected to
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: lose the race by conservative challenger Flavio Bolsonaro. Yes, the
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: son of the previous Perez Bolsonaro there. You got it. Now,
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: this marks his, what, fourth term for the country? There's
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: a big problem here. The election itself is being disputed
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: for several reasons, and I'm gonna get to that, but
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: I just gotta go back to the whole thing. He
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: lost the original election. This was a runoff weeks later. Anyway,
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: here's one of the big problems. The Brazilian Supreme Court
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: intervened on election night. Supreme Court Justice Cristiano Zanon issued
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: an order about three or four minutes before the polls
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: were supposed to close, extending voting by two hours. What?
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: What?
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: Some sources claim the intervention was designed to resolve emergency
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: petitions by both campaigns, but nobody confirmed that right now.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: Either way, it caught the attention of election experts around
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: the globe. It also caught the attention of President Trump,
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: who's speaking out. Watch this.
• 45:01
  Speaker 10: Do you think the election was fair? Well, it looked
• 45:03
  Speaker 10: terrible to me. I thought it was a terrible looking.
• 45:06
  Speaker 10: I didn't take sides, but it looked like another rigged election, frankly.
• 45:11
  Speaker 10: I didn't take sides, but it was a terrible look
• 45:15
  Speaker 10: for the world. It's another election. You know, elections have
• 45:19
  Speaker 10: to be indisputable, and it looked very bad to me.
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: The election was a complete mess, but the legacy media
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: down there end up here in our country already running
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: the story. Like this is a huge rebuke of the
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: right winger, Bolsonaro, because him and his dad are buddies
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: with Trump.
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: No.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: You even had American celebrities that got involved that were
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: urging people to vote like that clown, Javier Bardem. You
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: saw him. Don't forget Mark Ruffalo. And this is the
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: rest of them. By the way, that's L for loser,
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: you idiots from Hollywood. That's for loser, not for Lula. Anyway.
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: Ah.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: If all that's not bad enough that celebrities got involved
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: from our country in a Brazilian election, what's really bad
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: is how Brazilian officials treated Bolsonaro right after the election.
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: Federal police tracked him down while he was going to
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: visit his dad, said, give us your passport. You can't
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: leave the country. That's what they told him. Well, he
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: did leave, thanks to our US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: He played an integral role in getting him a flight.
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: and he is now on American soil, we're told, because
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: he feared that Lula, this, not socialist, this commie, would
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: arrest him, like his father, like they tried to do
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: to his brother. That's why his brother already fled, and
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: I think he's in Florida. And oh, by the way,
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: there's a connection to this Supreme Court justice and the incumbent,
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: Da Silva, and I'm going to bring it up with
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: our next guest. Joining us now to sound off about
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: this very controversial election down in Brazil, he's a former
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: foreign policy advisor to President Trump and the author of
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: the book, Iran, an Imperialist Republic and U.S. Policy. Our
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: good friend. Dr. Waleed Ferris, back on the show. All right, Doc,
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: so I know you know, but let me share with
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: the viewers. This Supreme Court justice who did this last minute,
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: two-hour extension of voting happened to be the previous private
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: lawyer for Da Silva before he went into politics with
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: his company or whatever. She was his lawyer, something like that, right?
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: So this Supreme Court justice, changes the rules with three
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: minutes left till the polls close and his best pals
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: with the incumbent. And I'm not supposed to say something
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: stinks in Brazil?
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: You know, this is not just about the lawyer.
• 47:39
  Speaker 9: I mean, that alone wouldn't happen in the United States
• 47:42
  Speaker 9: or in Europe, would that matter? I mean, even with
• 47:44
  Speaker 9: all the divisions, this is like, unfortunately, taking Brazil into
• 47:48
  Speaker 9: the third world type of politics. The entire Supreme Court,
• 47:54
  Speaker 9: or I should say a majority in the Supreme Court,
• 47:56
  Speaker 9: which was brought in by the.
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: Regime, that is now doing this stuff is not.
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: Balanced.
• 48:04
  Speaker 9: They are picking the side of the regime, of Lula,
• 48:08
  Speaker 9: against the opposition. And it did not start yesterday or
• 48:11
  Speaker 9: the day before yesterday. This started under the father.
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: I follow the family very closely. I know the family.
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: And they have suppressed him. There was an attempt. to
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: assassinate him, he got wounded.
• 48:24
  Speaker 9: So it's not about technicalities. It's really, like we had
• 48:28
  Speaker 9: a problem in Florida, right? A couple of decades ago.
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: Yep, hanging chads.
• 48:32
  Speaker 9: Yeah, that is fine. We can handle, our system can handle.
• 48:36
  Speaker 9: But what happened in Brazil, it's basically the regime refusing
• 48:39
  Speaker 9: to quit.
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: Just imagine, that's shocking for me.
• 48:42
  Speaker 9: The first major election, during that election, Bolsonaro was millions
• 48:47
  Speaker 9: ahead of Lula.
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: Yes, can I, let me get the numbers. Yep, hold on, Walid,
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: I gotta tell him the numbers. So the first week,
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: I think it was October 4th, they had their general election, folks,
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: and there were multiple candidates. And in Brazil, you have
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: to reach the 50% threshold to then win the election, right?
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: Bolsonaro only had 47, but da Silva only had, I think, 44.
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: And there was literally almost a six and a half,
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: seven million voting gap. Okay. So, and this is the
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: first time in Brazil history. Now they have to have
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: a runoff with just the two candidates. So the runoff
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: was Sunday and he wins by four so that's an
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: increase of almost 11 million votes from the first week
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: of october until this past sunday waleed and i'm supposed
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: to buy that that this guy gained 11 million votes
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: And he lost that. And, oh, by the way, it's
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: never happened in Brazil history. Every president that's won the
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: first one and had to have a runoff won the runoff.
• 49:41
  Speaker 9: Where were those 11 million? Partying in the Amazon? I mean,
• 49:45
  Speaker 9: it's mathematically impossible.
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, even if it was four, where did the other
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: four million come from?
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: But it's not, it's almost 11.
• 49:52
  Speaker 9: The problem now is that suddenly Brazil got itself in
• 49:57
  Speaker 9: a actual, I don't want to call it civil war,
• 49:59
  Speaker 9: but civil strife. Because the other parts of Brazil, the
• 50:02
  Speaker 9: one that brought the first majority, is not going to
• 50:04
  Speaker 9: accept this.
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: And then The worst of it, Dan, is that a
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: few minutes after.
• 50:09
  Speaker 9: The declaration by the regime of the results, they issue
• 50:13
  Speaker 9: a statement to stop Bolsonaro from leaving the country.
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: That's really fourth world, not third world. This is fourth world.
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: What are you going to capture?
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: What Da Silva told him in that last debate, he said,
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: as soon as you lose this, okay, and I'm back, well,
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: he's in, as soon as you lose this, you're not
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: going to have your immunity. And you've done a lot
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: of bad things. So we'll be coming for you. So
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: he told him in the debate, we're going to come
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: and get you. By the way, did you see the
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: Brazilian markets after the surprise win? Because everybody thought Bolsonaro
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: had this one in the bag because he won the
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: real election three weeks ago. Their markets crashed after the
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: socialist won again. I don't think anybody down there except
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: the crazy folks may be like, I mean, he had
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: a huge, huge support in the LGBT community. We know
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: that the Soros was down there giving him $ 31 million.
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: So we know liberals and commies and the Rainbow Coalition
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: backed him in this country and in his. But millions
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: were backing Bolsonaro. This is bogus.
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, for sure.
• 51:10
  Speaker 9: And on top of it, you're going to see the
• 51:12
  Speaker 9: international socialists, the international wokies.
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: And guess who's behind them? The Islamic regime in Iran
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: with the money. Of course. All that crowd is sitting there.
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: That's a battle for them.
• 51:23
  Speaker 9: But we have Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Venezuela, the United States.
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: Not accepting this.
• 51:31
  Speaker 9: I think that the administration is going to move and
• 51:33
  Speaker 9: it's not going to be easy for the regime in
• 51:36
  Speaker 9: Brazil right now.
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and let's call them what it is. That is
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: a regime. I mean, when you're threatening the competition, when
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: the competition beats you in the first one, when your
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: ex or friend, lawyer friend on the Supreme Court changes
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: the rules in the middle of the game... Somebody needs
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: to go down there in international court and put some
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: pressure and get that Da Silva guy out. That has
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: to be a rigged election, in my opinion. Dr. Waleed Ferris,
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: thank you for weighing in. Appreciate you.
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: And that's going to do it for a Tuesday edition
• 52:04
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• 52:06
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• 52:07
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