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Footbaths, Fake News, Foolproofing A.I. Firing Squads · Rich Valdés: This is America!

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Speaker 1: This is America with Rich Valdez, powered by poliitweek dot com.
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Speaker 2: Rich Valdez is with US former Christian administration officials.
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Speaker 3: He works at Chris Christie and Fallisleach on a lot
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Speaker 3: of public service stuff.
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Speaker 4: Rich Valdez columnist now with the Washington Times.
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Speaker 5: This is America, Richiev.
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Speaker 4: You're on the air with the Nation of the Nation
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Speaker 4: with America.
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Speaker 5: With your host, Rich Valdez.
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Speaker 4: What's up, America. I am Rich Valdez, Valdest with an
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Speaker 4: ass a Rich Valdez on all of the social media.
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Speaker 4: You're liberty loving Latino amigo, seventeen blocks away from Madison
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Speaker 4: Square gardener right here in Times Square, NYC. Honored. I'm
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Speaker 4: blessed to be here with you, my wonderful audience. It's
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Speaker 4: the Monday night edition of This is America, our late
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Speaker 4: night national town hall conversation. And you want to join
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Speaker 4: the show, give me a call eight seven seven Valdez
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Speaker 4: one eight seven seven eight two five three three seven one,
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Speaker 4: Share your thoughts and we'll get it onto open phone America.
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Speaker 4: And I want to start with the Muslim foot washing
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Speaker 4: stations at the airports in Texas. And by the way,
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Speaker 4: speaking of callers and speaking of Texas. You'll never guess
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Speaker 4: who I had breakfast with today. I would give you
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Speaker 4: a few tries, but you would probably never guess, even
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Speaker 4: though those are the clues, right Texas and caller, if
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Speaker 4: you have an idea, send it to me on social media.
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Speaker 4: But I'm going to give you the answer in about
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Speaker 4: three two one three seconds. Here we go the Gilla
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Speaker 4: from Manila. One of our favorite longtime callers, Gil from Manila, Philippines,
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Speaker 4: as he mentioned on the air with us, he's been
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Speaker 4: in Texas tending to some business with the VA and
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Speaker 4: I thank him for his service. And I'll tell you
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Speaker 4: all about my breakfast with Gil from Manila, Philippines right
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Speaker 4: in New York City this morning. So keep it locked
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Speaker 4: right here for all of that. But let's dive right
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Speaker 4: in fummy, because there's a lot to talk about. Picture this.
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Speaker 4: I'm sitting here in the greatest city on Earth, thinking
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Speaker 4: back to my teen years back in Hudson County, New Jersey,
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Speaker 4: after you know, we moved from Brooklyn, New York. I
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Speaker 4: was cutting hair in my barbershop to the old timers
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Speaker 4: argue about politics over a little cafecito, you know, and
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Speaker 4: one of those Cuban coffees, honestly, because that's what they
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Speaker 4: made in my area. And one of those coffees that
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Speaker 4: could wake up the dead, right as they would say
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Speaker 4: in Spanish, and sole anthem went And those days taught
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Speaker 4: me one thing. Common sense isn't always common, especially when
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Speaker 4: the media gets involved. So let's fast forward now to
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Speaker 4: the DFW airport in Dallas forth Worth, and they had
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Speaker 4: plans for adding Islamic foot washing stations which people use
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Speaker 4: in the process. What they call this is called woodoo, right.
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Speaker 4: They do this for ablution to prepare themselves to clean
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Speaker 4: their body in order for them to pray. Now, these
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Speaker 4: ablution facilities for the ritual wash before the prayer are
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Speaker 4: under scrutiny because Governor Abbott stepped in like a boss,
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Speaker 4: in my opinion, threatening to yank the state grants and boom,
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Speaker 4: the airport has scrapped the extra stations. Now, Governor Habit
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Speaker 4: point or I should say, go to Arabbit points out
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Speaker 4: that these are government owned facilities and you can't single
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Speaker 4: out one religion for any type of special treatment because
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Speaker 4: that's against the establishment clause of the Constitution. I thought
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Speaker 4: that was pretty plain and simple, but I've got a
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Speaker 4: clip on that and I want you to hear it.
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Speaker 4: Check it out.
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Speaker 6: Texas Governor Greg Abbott takes aim at Dallas Fort Worth
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Speaker 6: International Airport over its plan to instill foot washing stations
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Speaker 6: for Muslim prayer. Airport officials announced Friday that they would
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Speaker 6: scrap the planned Islamic washing stations amid pressure from the governor. However,
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Speaker 6: Governor Abbott is still directing a review of state grants
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Speaker 6: to the airport for possible revocations citing religious discrimination, and
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Speaker 6: a letter to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, Abbott also requested
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Speaker 6: a federal review of religious facilities and accommodations not only
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Speaker 6: at the DFW Airport, but also Houston International Airport, which
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Speaker 6: has already installed such facilities.
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Speaker 4: So this is about the constitution, not religion. This is
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Speaker 4: not about anything other than equal protection under the law,
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Speaker 4: not religious favoritism. Of course, a lot of people in
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Speaker 4: the media, the usual suspects, They want to contort it
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Speaker 4: into some sort of anti religion crusade. Suddenly it's Islamophobia
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Speaker 4: or something else like that, instead of saying, hey, why
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Speaker 4: no special stations for Baptists or for Jews or Catholics
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Speaker 4: or anybody else. Right, And the problem is because we
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Speaker 4: don't have that right. For example, let's say we were
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Speaker 4: to put in a holy water font the stoops that
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Speaker 4: are in the church filled with holy water for you
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Speaker 4: to make the sign of the cross. This is pretty
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Speaker 4: much exclusively reserved for people of the Christian faith when
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Speaker 4: they enter a house of worship. And guess what, I
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Speaker 4: think people will be up in arms about this right
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Speaker 4: because many airports have interfaith chapels, but they don't necessarily
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Speaker 4: have these religion specific things for that specific reason. Oftentimes
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Speaker 4: there's public money involved. Now, sometimes private organizations will create
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Speaker 4: these interfaith chapels that include a little bit of every
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Speaker 4: religion so that everybody could use it comfortably. This isn't
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Speaker 4: about making Muslims less comfortable. This is about honoring the Constitution.
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Speaker 4: Remember you heard it here, and I believe we all
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Speaker 4: have to stick with this. No constitution, no country. That's
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Speaker 4: the bottom line. We can't contort the constitution to do
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Speaker 4: things that are unconstitutional just because they seem right or
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Speaker 4: we like them or don't like them. Another crazy thing
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Speaker 4: that we're hearing about, and this is just a parallel,
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Speaker 4: is people saying that there should be a pause or
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Speaker 4: a postponement of the upcoming mid term election. Now, it's
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Speaker 4: not the first time I've heard this craziness, but every
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Speaker 4: time I say the same thing not going to happen.
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Speaker 4: How do you say that, which is such certitude? Rich
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Speaker 4: Very simply, I look at our history. There has never
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Speaker 4: ever been a pause in our elections, Not during the
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Speaker 4: Spanish Flu, not during the Civil War, not during anything
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Speaker 4: the Revolutionary War, which has kind of kicked everything off,
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Speaker 4: but never There's never been a postponement of elections because
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Speaker 4: the Constitution mandates that we have them on the day
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Speaker 4: that we have them. They're not interchangeable. Now, in certain
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Speaker 4: situations that may have gone to court, they may have
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Speaker 4: moved one jurisdiction, perhaps by a couple of hours and
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Speaker 4: maybe in some cases by a day to give them
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Speaker 4: more time to vote because of some sort of unforeseen thing.
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Speaker 4: But this is America in twenty twenty six. Power outages
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Speaker 4: don't wipe out the entire country, cyber attacks don't wipe
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Speaker 4: out everything. Things are isolated. On election day, especially in
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Speaker 4: federal elections. Most people are running at a minimum three
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Speaker 4: thousand elections right because there's about three thousand counties across
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Speaker 4: this country, and each county is in charge March, and
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Speaker 4: the Constitution says that the federal government doesn't have the
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Speaker 4: right to dictate the time, the place, or the manner
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Speaker 4: of set election. So that's the constitution. That's what's going
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Speaker 4: to happen. And for some reason, some people, I would say,
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Speaker 4: to their own chagrin, like to fool themselves into thinking
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Speaker 4: that somehow what's coming afoot is worse and bigger than
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Speaker 4: anything we've ever seen. Bigger than World War One, bigger
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Speaker 4: than World War two, bigger than the Civil War, bigger
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Speaker 4: than the Spanish American War, bigger than the Korean War,
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Speaker 4: bigger than anything that we've seen of pestilence or famine.
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Speaker 4: And guess what, We've always had elections. So there is
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Speaker 4: zero reason to think that that's going to happen. And
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Speaker 4: even some professors that I heard talking about this recently
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Speaker 4: on you know, on the more fringe types of programs,
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Speaker 4: are saying, but for some sort of national emergency, guess what,
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Speaker 4: We've had plenty of national emergencies, and we've never skipped
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Speaker 4: an election. So I would normally say get that out
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Speaker 4: of your head, but I'm not going to say it.
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Speaker 4: I'm going to say leave it in your head. If
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Speaker 4: you like, but leave this too. The election will be
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Speaker 4: held as it always has been held bunto if he
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Speaker 4: period the end. Why Because no constitution, no country. This
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Speaker 4: is why we fight for the constitution. It's that simple anyway.
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Speaker 4: Speaking of what's going on here right because I want
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Speaker 4: to get into a little bit more on this stuff
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Speaker 4: a little bit later. But Minnesota, there's more fraud coming
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Speaker 4: out of Minnesota right now. You got victims of trafficking
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Speaker 4: that are now involved. Yep. The Land of ten Thousand
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Speaker 4: Lakes keeps serving up ten thousand ways to fleece the taxpayers.
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Speaker 4: Listen to this one.
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Speaker 7: The big sex trafficking case in Hennepin County is also
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Speaker 7: a major fraud case, with the defendants allegedly using the
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Speaker 7: sex trafficking victims as phony employees and patients when they
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Speaker 7: build the state for taxpayer Medicaid reimbursements. All with the
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Speaker 7: help of this guy, Solomon Elmy, who was just charging
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Speaker 7: Ramsey County with Medicaid fraud. Elmy owns a home healthcare
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Speaker 7: company called Riva Health with the top defendant in the
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Speaker 7: trafficking case, Frank Reeves, that is built for two point
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Speaker 7: five million dollars in taxpayer money. For mental health services
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Speaker 7: that investigators say were not provided. Trafficking suspect Andrea Sampson
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Speaker 7: owns an autism center, an assistant living center, and a
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Speaker 7: housing stabilization services business that also built for a total
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Speaker 7: of more than two million dollars. Elmy was a celebrated
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Speaker 7: Minnesota entrepreneur, getting an award from the Minnesota Department of
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Speaker 7: Human Services as an outstanding refugee. His website says, mister
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Speaker 7: wonderful Kevin O'Leary from Shark Tank gave him a million
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Speaker 7: dollar investment for an app.
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Speaker 8: That he came up with.
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Speaker 7: Back to the Medicaid fraud, the criminal complaint says the
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Speaker 7: defendants gave one victim the job title mental health worker
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Speaker 7: another autism provider for kids in order to scam the state.
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Speaker 7: Lots more still to come on this case. I'm louvergose so.
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Speaker 4: Investigators say that thirteen victims described vibed being forced to
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Speaker 4: pay for online advertising and leave one hundred dollars in
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Speaker 4: envelopes at their homes in Minneapolis Saint Paul. Many of
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Speaker 4: these homes were owned by Andrea Samson. Prosecutors alleged Frank
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Speaker 4: Reeves led the operation with Victoria Coomonash Komnash and Catherine
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Speaker 4: Tomes thhombs running websites, and Samson provided locations to help
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Speaker 4: set up all the companies to hide the profits. Drew
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Speaker 4: Evans of the Superintendent of the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension,
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Speaker 4: said that this was a complicit scheme. Now, the scheme
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Speaker 4: was designed not only to exploit the victims in the
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Speaker 4: cases to take advantage of them, but also structured to
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Speaker 4: hide the money in the proceeds. That was done with
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Speaker 4: multiple individuals, including these built out shell companies. Mary Moriarty,
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Speaker 4: the Hennepin County Attorney, said Miss Samson, who was at
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Speaker 4: the time working as an attorney excuse me as an
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Speaker 4: attorney in the Anaka County Attorney's office, secured and provided
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Speaker 4: locations for commercial sex transactions and also assisted in maintaining
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Speaker 4: the shell companies to hide and funnel the profits from
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Speaker 4: the sex trafficking ring. Isn't that wild? So they had
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Speaker 4: someone on the inside. It's insane to me, investigators say.
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Speaker 4: Some of the homes used for sex trafficking were later
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Speaker 4: converted to assisted living facilities as part of the medicaid scheme,
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Speaker 4: and when the local Fox affiliate visited these homes only
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Speaker 4: one person answered to confronted it was now an assisted
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Speaker 4: living facility, but the client to answer any of the questions.
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Speaker 4: So now the Attorney General's office in Minnesota, which is
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Speaker 4: Keith Ellison, they filed a related fraud case against Salmon
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Speaker 4: Elmy involving Sampson's assisted living homes that build medicaid at
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Speaker 4: about one point two million dollars between twenty twenty three
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Speaker 4: and twenty twenty six, So in total, they say two
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Speaker 4: and a half million dollars were built for autism services
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Speaker 4: by Reeves, Komonash and Samson jointly, and that they did
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Speaker 4: all this with the rent stabilization, housing stabilization assistedly. All
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Speaker 4: of it was presumed to be fraudulent, Ain't that crazy? Samson,
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Speaker 4: who is the one that worked as an Anaka County
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Speaker 4: prosecutor in twenty seventeen, was arrested in February and is
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Speaker 4: no longer employed there. Mari already said it's disappointing that
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Speaker 4: all kinds of things could be commented her on her
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Speaker 4: conduct and whatnot, but at this point, because we're in
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Speaker 4: the prosecution stage, it's not appropriate for me to comment
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Speaker 4: on that. Again, that's the current prosecutor. So that's what's
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Speaker 4: going on. Bale's been set at a million bucks, and
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Speaker 4: we'll see what's happening the backstory here. Some of the
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Speaker 4: investigators are saying that it was the victims that helped
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Speaker 4: to bring down this operation, coming forward with their you know,
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Speaker 4: basic stories of being exploited showed true bravery and courage,
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Speaker 4: So kudos to them. It's still unclear how and when
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Speaker 4: Samson transitioned from being a sex worker to a co conspirator.
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Speaker 4: Isn't that something because apparently Samson was once involved in
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Speaker 4: this as well. As we get more on this bizarre
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Speaker 4: case coming out of yep, Minnesota, land of the il
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Speaker 4: han Omar, we'll get you more information on that. Anyway,
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Speaker 4: there is plenty more to come. I got more. Let
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Speaker 4: me see what else do I got here? I got
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Speaker 4: a few tricks up, must leave, I believe, Uh let
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Speaker 4: me see. Oh yeah, there's a ron announcing a bounty
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Speaker 4: on US troops. I'll get into that on the way back.
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Speaker 4: Keep it locked right here. I'm rich Valdez.
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Speaker 5: This is America. He's brown, he's bald, and he's breaking
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Speaker 5: it down.
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Speaker 4: Oh he's still had some what's his name?
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Speaker 9: Richveldays the first two day.
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Speaker 10: And what we're watching at this hour. The radical Islamic
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Speaker 10: regime claims it now has full control over the critical
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Speaker 10: oil shipping waterway, the Strait of Hormuz. In fact, Aaron
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Speaker 10: held negotiations with another country, Oman, about possibly imposing fees
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Speaker 10: for ships to travel through the strait. President Trump has
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Speaker 10: said time and time again they do not control the strait,
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Speaker 10: and he is warning Oman to not get involved. There
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Speaker 10: will be serious consequences if Oman does. There are reports
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Speaker 10: of more threats from Iran against President Trump and our
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Speaker 10: American warriors in the region. Iran's military reportedly offering a
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Speaker 10: thirty thousand dollars bounty for any Iranian citizen who captures
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Speaker 10: or kills a US service member, and a top Iranian
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Speaker 10: lawmaker posted this. The President of the United States, instead
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Speaker 10: of his endless bluffs regarding the Strait of Hormuz, should
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Speaker 10: be thinking about securing his own safety so that he
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Speaker 10: doesn't have to resort to fleeing to a food truck,
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Speaker 10: a reference obviously to a secret plane switch in Turkey
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Speaker 10: upon news of possible Iranian assassination plots. I'm Harris Faulkner.
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Speaker 4: With no actual US troops in Iran on the ground,
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Speaker 4: it seems a little far fetched they're going to be
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Speaker 4: able to get them now. Is this a call to
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Speaker 4: get oman involved in the war? Is this a call
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Speaker 4: to get you know, sleeper cells in Bahrain in other
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Speaker 4: areas to go after US troops. Probably, But the simple
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Speaker 4: fact of asking women to get involved in doubling the money.
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Speaker 4: If it's a woman that captures a US soldier, This
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Speaker 4: is more of their propaganda, trying to make it look like,
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Speaker 4: you know, they've got the United States on their heels.
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Speaker 4: Trump escaping in a catering truck and not leaving on
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Speaker 4: air force one which was untouched and unfazed. By the way,
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Speaker 4: doesn't do much for me, right, It doesn't tell me
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Speaker 4: anything that Iran's got anything going on other than they
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Speaker 4: received some intelligence and they took a precaution and we
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Speaker 4: know now that nothing happened, right, nothing happened. So anyway,
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Speaker 4: President Trump speaking with reporters, obviously not even addressing this
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Speaker 4: thirty thousand dollars bounty because there are no troops on
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Speaker 4: the ground in Iraq, but taking a moment to explain
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Speaker 4: that he wouldn't mind making the Strait of Hormuz a
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Speaker 4: US territory. Listen to this.
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Speaker 11: We have a blockade.
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Speaker 12: We control it with the blockade, and I like the
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Speaker 12: idea of declaring of the territory.
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Speaker 11: We have total control over the street.
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Speaker 12: Now they can be a nuisance, they can put a
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Speaker 12: mine in the water, and people don't like having mindset.
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Speaker 11: They have billion dollarships, you know, et cetera.
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Speaker 12: But the blockade has been very effective, and you know
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Speaker 12: we're taking out Now, maybe that will stop, or maybe
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Speaker 12: they'll open up even further, but we're taking out millions
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Speaker 12: of barrels of oil a week.
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Speaker 11: If you look at the kind of numbers that we're doing.
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Speaker 11: We're doing.
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Speaker 12: The Strait is open, and the oil prices are coming
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Speaker 12: down and they will continue to come down unless we
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Speaker 12: decide to do something far more drastic than we're doing.
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Speaker 11: Iran is in big trouble.
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Speaker 12: They have three hundred percent inflation, The country's a mess,
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Speaker 12: and the military is totally defeated.
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Speaker 11: Thank you very much with them.
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Speaker 4: So President Trump, also tweeting on truth social There are
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Speaker 4: no talks or conversations going on or scheduled with the
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Speaker 4: Islamic Republic of Iran. The naval blockade remains in full
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Speaker 4: force and effect. The horror moves Strait is open and operating.
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Speaker 4: All water mines have been removed or detonated. Thank you
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Speaker 4: for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump.
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Speaker 4: So ed Trumpito has spoken, Now, of course things are
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Speaker 4: getting bad, and they're getting bad quickly, in the sense
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Speaker 4: that the sixty day Memorandum doesn't seem like it's working,
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Speaker 4: and we're going to get to that moment of reckoning
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Speaker 4: and one that of course, I think Trump is going
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Speaker 4: to do what he has to do, but he's giving
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Speaker 4: every opportunity to not be that guy that provokes. Trump
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Speaker 4: likes to be the guy that ends. Things don't start
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Speaker 4: none and won't be none. That kind of guy. The
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Speaker 4: question is will Iran allow for that. I don't think
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Speaker 4: they do. Meanwhile, their own military commanders from the IRGC.
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Speaker 4: What is the IRGC Islamic Republican Guard Corps or the
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Speaker 4: Iranian Republican Guard Corps. Either way, they're a military arm
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Speaker 4: They're said to be having back channel conversations directly with
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Speaker 4: the White House because they're getting pummeled out there and
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Speaker 4: they don't want to keep dying. And they're not as
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Speaker 4: radical apparently as the clerics that are running the country
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Speaker 4: in Tehran. So that information coming from Trey Jinks from
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Speaker 4: the Fox News Channel.
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Speaker 13: Listen to Isyanks just spoke with President Trump and joined
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Speaker 13: US now from Tel Aviv, Trent.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, Hey, guys, good morning. I just got off the
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Speaker 14: phone with President Trump, who discussed the situation with Iran
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Speaker 14: as the sixty day Memorandum of Understanding expires. The President
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Speaker 14: told Fox News Iran should raise the white flag of surrender.
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Speaker 14: He went on to say, I have no time schedule.
20:49
Speaker 14: I'm not in a hurry, the president, indicating that the
20:51
Speaker 14: US naval blockade is continuing to put new economic pressure
20:55
Speaker 14: on the Iranian regime. Despite what the Iranians have said publicly.
20:59
Speaker 14: He said they're good poker players, but they're dying, and
21:02
Speaker 14: that the midterms in the United States have nothing to
21:05
Speaker 14: do with the President's thinking now. I asked the President
21:07
Speaker 14: about these parallel talks that are taking place between Iran
21:11
Speaker 14: and Oman about control of the Strait of Hormuz, and
21:13
Speaker 14: the President told Fox News, if Oman gets in the way,
21:17
Speaker 14: we'll bomb the s out of them. We went on
21:20
Speaker 14: to talk about a variety of different regional topics, including
21:23
Speaker 14: the US stockpiles of weapons that are currently stationed in
21:26
Speaker 14: the Middle East. The President says, what we've used so
21:29
Speaker 14: far is peanuts. He went on to say the United
21:32
Speaker 14: States has a lot of mid level weapons and that
21:34
Speaker 14: many of the more advanced systems. The President says, we're
21:37
Speaker 14: given away by President Biden to Ukraine, for example, when
21:40
Speaker 14: we're talking about air defense that is needed right now
21:43
Speaker 14: in the Middle East. The President also spoke about US
21:46
Speaker 14: ally Israel. Remember his son in law and top negotiator,
21:49
Speaker 14: Jared Kushner, is in the region. He met yesterday with
21:52
Speaker 14: Khalil al Haya, the current Hamas chief in Egypt, and
21:56
Speaker 14: the President said that they have a different channel with
21:59
Speaker 14: Hamas and that ultimately they are giving up their guns.
22:02
Speaker 14: Talking about the demilitarization of the Gaza strip. I asked
22:06
Speaker 14: the President about the upcoming Israeli elections in October, and
22:10
Speaker 14: President Trump told Fox News, I think it's most appropriate
22:13
Speaker 14: for me to stay out of Israeli elections, but I
22:16
Speaker 14: may endorse somebody. And so a lot of headlines here
22:19
Speaker 14: the President talking about the latest in terms of the
22:21
Speaker 14: Strait of Hormuz and the Iranian regime that at this
22:24
Speaker 14: moment appears unwilling to reach a diplomatic solution with the
22:28
Speaker 14: United States.
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Speaker 4: President Trump saying the Iranians should waive the white flag.
22:34
Speaker 4: I agree, that would be fantastic. And I tend to
22:38
Speaker 4: believe my own opinion right that the midterm elections do
22:42
Speaker 4: play a part in this decision. I'm not saying Trump's
22:44
Speaker 4: a liar. I think that politically speaking, right, they matter
22:48
Speaker 4: to me. I think President Trump is standing on principle here,
22:51
Speaker 4: and he's saying, look, if I got to get impeached
22:53
Speaker 4: over this, I will, but we're going to get this
22:55
Speaker 4: thing done. And God bless him, but I think you
22:59
Speaker 4: hit the gas just a little bit, just a little
23:02
Speaker 4: bit so we can get this stuff done. Here we
23:04
Speaker 4: are mid to late August, I'd say by end of September,
23:09
Speaker 4: this stuff has to be getting wrapped up so that
23:12
Speaker 4: all through October you do your victory lap, and come
23:16
Speaker 4: November we do better at the polls than some are anticipating. Now.
23:22
Speaker 4: Right now, I think, as it stands, we hold we
23:25
Speaker 4: hold our majority, the Republican majority in the House and
23:35
Speaker 4: in the Senate. But there's other models out there, some
23:38
Speaker 4: saying you lose one, you keep the other. You lose
23:40
Speaker 4: the House, you keep the Senate. No removal of Trump,
23:45
Speaker 4: but nothing is taken for granted. Right, you got to
23:47
Speaker 4: play like you're behind, and there's so much on the line.
23:50
Speaker 4: This isn't about simply winning a political election. This is
23:53
Speaker 4: about the only president that's brought about major cases. Right,
23:58
Speaker 4: Second Amendment rights ruined, decision Boom, people can carry again,
24:03
Speaker 4: the decision that nullified Roe v. Wade. You're talking about major, major,
24:12
Speaker 4: major cases that have gone to the Supreme Court. You're
24:15
Speaker 4: talking about fixing a major problem where twenty million illegal
24:21
Speaker 4: immigrants came through the southern border, the border effectively wide open,
24:25
Speaker 4: and the policies that have a stopped that bleeding m
24:29
Speaker 4: b are trying to rectify that situation, and yeah, it's
24:32
Speaker 4: an ugly process for sure. So just as much as
24:36
Speaker 4: I think myself and others that are like minded want
24:39
Speaker 4: to hold on to those victories, there are people that
24:42
Speaker 4: want to hold on to their own victories, like abolishing eyes,
24:46
Speaker 4: abolishing the Supreme Court, or packing the court expanding it
24:50
Speaker 4: to thirteen justices so that it's always having a liberal bent.
24:54
Speaker 4: There's a lot on the line here, and the media
24:58
Speaker 4: does what they do. Now, speaking of the media, something
25:01
Speaker 4: I wanted to share with you with respect to the
25:05
Speaker 4: media and really propaganda at large, there is a highly
25:11
Speaker 4: concentrated group of cultural elites in universities, entertainment, corporate newsrooms, etc.
25:18
Speaker 4: And they enforce a worldview that is wildly out of
25:21
Speaker 4: step with the average American. What do I mean by
25:25
Speaker 4: that exactly that they tell a story that's not really
25:30
Speaker 4: the shared experience of most Americans. And when they tell
25:34
Speaker 4: that story, they begin to convince people that that is
25:37
Speaker 4: the shared lived experience of most Americans and it's just
25:42
Speaker 4: factually inaccurate. For example, there are more people in the
25:48
Speaker 4: United States that watch conservative leaning Fox News Channel than
25:54
Speaker 4: all the other networks combined. Is that factor fiction? That's fact,
26:00
Speaker 4: very simple, it's a reality. Why do more people watch
26:04
Speaker 4: Fox News than anything else? You can come up with
26:07
Speaker 4: all the reasons you want, but I'll tell you the facts.
26:09
Speaker 4: More people do it for thirty years. That's number one.
26:14
Speaker 4: Number two, there are more people in this country that
26:18
Speaker 4: voted for Donald Trump than voted against Donald Trump. There
26:23
Speaker 4: are more people in this country that voted for Donald
26:26
Speaker 4: Trump on two occasions, and there's a third that's questionable.
26:31
Speaker 4: Now somebody will say, well, he didn't win the popular vote,
26:33
Speaker 4: but he won the electoral vote, and there were more
26:37
Speaker 4: people in those electoral college counts than elsewhere. Bottom line
26:44
Speaker 4: here is, people try to make it look like the
26:46
Speaker 4: whole world hates Trump. People try to make it look
26:49
Speaker 4: like everybody wants a transgender neighbor, like everybody hates the military,
26:55
Speaker 4: everybody hates America. Everybody is part of the left leaning, progressive,
27:03
Speaker 4: communist sympathizing agenda. Everybody is a Mamdani supporter. That's a lie.
27:11
Speaker 4: There are more of us than there are of them. Now.
27:13
Speaker 4: Perhaps if you live where I live, I'm outnumbered. That's
27:16
Speaker 4: a fact, right, You're out numbered in New York. You're
27:19
Speaker 4: outnumbered in New Jersey, you're out numbered in Chicago, you're
27:21
Speaker 4: out numbered in California. But this is where your battleground is.
27:25
Speaker 4: This is where you fight the culture war. But some
27:29
Speaker 4: people like this end up going to the military, and
27:32
Speaker 4: when you get to the military, you get upset. You
27:34
Speaker 4: have certain expectations, like this one sailor that put a
27:37
Speaker 4: video out and it was shared widely all over social media.
27:42
Speaker 4: It's got that annoying music that's all over TikTok and
27:45
Speaker 4: Instagram of the horns playing. But I'm gonna let you
27:49
Speaker 4: hear a little bit of this. He shows you a
27:51
Speaker 4: bathroom on a battleship, the USS Abraham Lincoln, and he
27:56
Speaker 4: says it's unlivable, clogged toilets, etc. Grime floors. Honestly, it
28:01
Speaker 4: looked like an old battleship to me. But not making
28:04
Speaker 4: any excuses for anything, but for saying, I think this
28:08
Speaker 4: man is a disgrace to his uniform. He's saying that
28:11
Speaker 4: he needs to blow the whistle when he should really
28:15
Speaker 4: be focused on killing the Islamist jihadists that are taking
28:20
Speaker 4: the Iranian people hostage. Just my two cents, right, the
28:25
Speaker 4: one that the Jordanians are helping to eradicate, the one
28:28
Speaker 4: that the Saudis are helping to eradicate, right, the ones
28:30
Speaker 4: that so many of their neighbors have agreed to help
28:33
Speaker 4: and get rid of. Right, This isn't about a religion.
28:36
Speaker 4: This is about the hijacking of a religion. How the
28:39
Speaker 4: Islamist with a t has hijacked the Muslim faith for
28:46
Speaker 4: their political ideology. This political Islam, that's the real problem.
28:50
Speaker 4: Listen to this, all right, y'all.
28:52
Speaker 3: Also a couple y'all wanted to see how the ship
28:54
Speaker 3: look for the head. Look aka the bathroom. It's the
28:57
Speaker 3: showers right here?
28:58
Speaker 5: You feel me?
28:59
Speaker 4: This is what we go through.
29:00
Speaker 3: One a carrier in the navy, he say, join the navy, right,
29:04
Speaker 3: join a night and look at this. This is crazy,
29:08
Speaker 3: this aim and the worst part a man saint tetrocious,
29:12
Speaker 3: which y'all see the toilets man, look at the toilet.
29:14
Speaker 4: Y'all expect me to take a duty.
29:15
Speaker 1: With this, y'all?
29:17
Speaker 5: Nah?
29:18
Speaker 4: Yeah, crazy lis Come on, all right, I've had enough
29:22
Speaker 4: of this guy. But again, this guy is here, you know,
29:24
Speaker 4: saying that the place is dirty. Instead of cleaning it,
29:27
Speaker 4: he'd rather video it and complain about it. Hopefully, you know,
29:31
Speaker 4: he gets what's coming to him now. Of course, after
29:34
Speaker 4: all the drama related to this video and the left
29:37
Speaker 4: globbing on to it and making sure it gets amplified
29:41
Speaker 4: everywhere and anywhere they could play it. The commander of
29:46
Speaker 4: Synthcom Admiral Cooper, the United States Central Command officer, he
29:53
Speaker 4: made a visit to this ship, and we got a
29:56
Speaker 4: report from the Fox News channel telling you exactly what
29:58
Speaker 4: went down.
29:59
Speaker 15: Listen to this this Sentcom commander visiting the USS Lincoln.
30:04
Speaker 15: There were questions about morale and questions about how these
30:08
Speaker 15: sailors at see for what is it two hundred days
30:11
Speaker 15: plus encounting, I do believe, and now the USS Washington's
30:14
Speaker 15: going to leave Japan and head for the Persian Golf
30:16
Speaker 15: and give it relief. General, how significant was that visit
30:18
Speaker 15: and what's important do you think that we should understand?
30:21
Speaker 16: Yeah, well, first of all, I did talk to Admiral Cooper.
30:24
Speaker 16: He had a great visit with the troops there. They
30:26
Speaker 16: feel good about what's happening here. I've never seen such
30:30
Speaker 16: misrepresentation in the media of the actual facts that took place.
30:36
Speaker 4: A soldier fell.
30:36
Speaker 16: Overboard, it was rescued. They were claiming that multiple soldiers
30:40
Speaker 16: were committing suicide, not soldiers, sailers. I don't want to
30:43
Speaker 16: insult the sailors by calling them soldiers, but the reality
30:48
Speaker 16: is the misreputation has really been quite significant. I mean,
30:53
Speaker 16: I understand people disagree with the war. I got that,
30:58
Speaker 16: and those arguments should be made. But this, I'm glad
31:02
Speaker 16: Cooper went there. He wrote a great article in a
31:05
Speaker 16: Wall Street Journal op ed that's worth reading to give
31:08
Speaker 16: you his assessment of what's took place. And it's insulting
31:11
Speaker 16: to these troops. I mean, they've been there for a
31:13
Speaker 16: long time, standing tall representing the United States, and that's
31:18
Speaker 16: what they volunteered to do. And when they're doing something
31:21
Speaker 16: like that, they really feel good about the meaning and
31:23
Speaker 16: the purpose of what it's about in their families, a
31:25
Speaker 16: sacrificing as well. I mean, we should be very proud
31:28
Speaker 16: of them, wrapping our arms around them figuratively in terms
31:31
Speaker 16: of what they've accomplished. Well done heading home to their families.
31:34
Speaker 4: It's good news. That's General Jack Keen from the America
31:38
Speaker 4: First Policy Institute, and he's one hundred percent right right.
31:43
Speaker 4: There's massive misrepresentation going on in the media. Now you've
31:47
Speaker 4: got other sailors and marines that are weighing in on
31:50
Speaker 4: social media talking about this, saying that none of this
31:53
Speaker 4: happened when they were on this job. You know, you
31:57
Speaker 4: got people that are have served in Korean Vietnam, in Pulayu,
32:02
Speaker 4: in Fallujah, serious serious conditions right Vietnam, two hundred and
32:07
Speaker 4: forty days of jungle combat, sixty to eighty pound backpacks
32:10
Speaker 4: on their backs, no air conditioning in Korea, freezing, living
32:15
Speaker 4: on candy that they had with them because they didn't
32:17
Speaker 4: have access to food. MRIs had run out. Palelu nineteen
32:20
Speaker 4: forty four. You got fighting on solid coral, couldn't dig
32:24
Speaker 4: in to the ground. Sound the alarm, somebody please. I
32:28
Speaker 4: mean this is serious business. And videos like this one
32:31
Speaker 4: I'm about to play for you are all over the
32:33
Speaker 4: internet right now with people standing up for the military,
32:36
Speaker 4: standing up for the job, standing up for their own service,
32:40
Speaker 4: standing up for the United States, saying, you know, this
32:43
Speaker 4: guy should be embarrassed for himself for complaining about a
32:46
Speaker 4: dirty toilet and because he's been at work for almost
32:48
Speaker 4: a year. Hello, that is the job. Easy for me
32:53
Speaker 4: to say, right from my air conditioned studios here in
32:55
Speaker 4: Times Square. But whenever I've made the attempt to join
33:00
Speaker 4: the service. I knew that I could face these things.
33:04
Speaker 4: I think everyone does listen to this.
33:07
Speaker 17: This I don't care. We're gonna talk about the USS
33:09
Speaker 17: Abraham Lincoln. They've been out to see for about two
33:12
Speaker 17: hundred and fifty days. There is a ship on the
33:14
Speaker 17: way to relieve them. I was in the Marine Corps
33:16
Speaker 17: for twenty three years. I've been on two West PACs,
33:18
Speaker 17: so I spend a lot of time on ship. No,
33:21
Speaker 17: I was never out to see for two hundred.
33:23
Speaker 4: And fifty days.
33:24
Speaker 17: Normally ninety days is considered like the suck. And when
33:27
Speaker 17: that happens, you're supposed to have a beer day, which
33:30
Speaker 17: basically means, you know, you get two beers per like
33:34
Speaker 17: you know, service member, and some of the ones I
33:36
Speaker 17: was a part of we would have a steel beach,
33:39
Speaker 17: which basically just meant we were having a barbecue, and
33:42
Speaker 17: some you know, lax time. Here's why I got a
33:45
Speaker 17: problem is with all the people on social media. The
33:48
Speaker 17: news is sensationalizing this shit, and I hate to break
33:52
Speaker 17: it to everybody.
33:53
Speaker 4: This is the job.
33:54
Speaker 17: I'm not saying they should be particularly happy about it,
33:57
Speaker 17: but that's the job.
33:58
Speaker 4: And there's he's one hundred percent of riding. That is
34:02
Speaker 4: the job. But the media does what they do. And
34:07
Speaker 4: you know, when you look at the raw statistics of
34:09
Speaker 4: the American population, when it comes to religion, north of
34:14
Speaker 4: sixty percent Christian Muslims make up one to two percent
34:17
Speaker 4: of our population. Now, what does that have to do anything.
34:19
Speaker 4: I'm just trying to draw a picture for you. Family
34:22
Speaker 4: and sexuality. Statistically, the vast majority of the population is
34:25
Speaker 4: heterosexual ninety ninety three percent. According to Gallipoli, traditional family
34:30
Speaker 4: structures remain the aspiration for most parents. That's what they
34:33
Speaker 4: want for their children. They don't want the crazy right,
34:37
Speaker 4: they don't want their kid to be the one that's
34:40
Speaker 4: the quote unquote queer right, the odd man out. When
34:47
Speaker 4: it comes to institutions like the military and others. This
34:50
Speaker 4: is a strategy used by the Communists, right, the Fabians.
34:55
Speaker 4: They were called the Fabians, the Fabian Society, and and
35:00
Speaker 4: they call it the long March through the institutions. It's
35:02
Speaker 4: a well documented political concept and their strategy is basically
35:06
Speaker 4: focused on gradualism, slowly entering schools, courts, media, the military
35:11
Speaker 4: over decades to change society's values from the inside out
35:15
Speaker 4: rather than trying to win people over through a sudden
35:19
Speaker 4: violent revolution. Like their communist counterparts, the Marxists, the Fabians
35:25
Speaker 4: differed in saying, hey, let's slowly drip drip drip steal
35:28
Speaker 4: this thing. And of course all of our colleges teach
35:32
Speaker 4: people to be like this, this entitlement attitude, where everything
35:35
Speaker 4: is for you and if it's not happening, then whate
35:38
Speaker 4: was you. You've got something like ninety percent of faculty
35:42
Speaker 4: in academia being liberal progressives. That creates a mainstream illusion
35:47
Speaker 4: because the small progressive minority that's in the university establishment,
35:55
Speaker 4: they command the levers of cultural production, right writing the textbooks,
35:59
Speaker 4: producing the evening news, directing the Hollywood content, etc. Etc.
36:03
Speaker 4: So they possess this power to frame their specific worldview
36:07
Speaker 4: as the mainstream. This creates a psychological phenomenon where everyday
36:12
Speaker 4: Americans feel isolated, feeling like they are in some sort
36:16
Speaker 4: of minority. Like this soldier right here, this marine who's
36:21
Speaker 4: saying that that's the job. Of course, that's the job.
36:25
Speaker 4: Because that one soldier who really was the odd man
36:28
Speaker 4: out complaining about a dirty ship, saying that the guy
36:31
Speaker 4: jumped off, or at least that was his understanding a
36:33
Speaker 4: guy jumped off and was rescued because they say he
36:37
Speaker 4: fell off the ship. But in either case, that's not
36:40
Speaker 4: the majority. That is the exception, not the rule. And
36:43
Speaker 4: that is the problem that propaganda presents in our modern
36:48
Speaker 4: day public discourse. How do we fix it? We got
36:51
Speaker 4: to know more stuff. It's that simple. Reagan called on
36:54
Speaker 4: us to be informed patriots. That's why I show up
36:57
Speaker 4: to work every day. Don't go anywhere child does.
37:01
Speaker 5: This is a Maria, This is Amria.
37:19
Speaker 4: President Donald takes you rough. Mister President, welcome to the program.
37:22
Speaker 5: Ser well, thank you, Rich, and thank you for everything.
37:25
Speaker 11: I know you very well and I have.
37:27
Speaker 12: I listened, but I have a lot of people that
37:30
Speaker 12: listen and they love your show, and I appreciate it
37:32
Speaker 12: very much.
37:33
Speaker 4: All right for Emelia, welcome back, Rich Valdeesk keeping your
37:36
Speaker 4: company tonight. And I want to get into a few
37:38
Speaker 4: things I as promised. I'm going to get into my
37:41
Speaker 4: meeting with Gil from the Philippines. He is in the
37:44
Speaker 4: United States. We did have breakfast outside of Grand Central
37:47
Speaker 4: Station in New York City just this morning. And I
37:51
Speaker 4: also want to get into some conversation on a couple
37:54
Speaker 4: of interesting offbeat topics here one of those topics is
37:59
Speaker 4: in this prising way the Netherlands is helping their disabled
38:02
Speaker 4: population to have intercourse. This is an old story, more
38:06
Speaker 4: than a dozen years old, but it's the first I've
38:08
Speaker 4: heard of it. So I'll get to that in the
38:09
Speaker 4: next segment, as well as the interesting phenomena that occurs
38:14
Speaker 4: with Koalas. Yeah, uh huh, little midnight zoo for you there.
38:19
Speaker 4: But I want to start off this segment with what's
38:23
Speaker 4: going on in the workplace right because economically speaking, the
38:28
Speaker 4: Supreme Court has ruled that one hundred and eighty billion
38:32
Speaker 4: dollars of tariffs have to be refunded. Who gets that money?
38:36
Speaker 4: How's it going to happen? And what about all the
38:38
Speaker 4: money that you and I and the rest of us
38:39
Speaker 4: paid in the higher cost of goods for some of
38:42
Speaker 4: these products. Do we get the refund I'd love that.
38:47
Speaker 4: I just don't think it's going to happen. And this
38:50
Speaker 4: might very much negate those two thousand dollars checks that
38:53
Speaker 4: El Trumpito was adamantly pushing for. So bad on you,
38:56
Speaker 4: Supreme Court. But I want to art off with this
39:02
Speaker 4: article that I saw on newsmax dot com about AI
39:08
Speaker 4: listen to this as an agency called Bridgewater. You know,
39:12
Speaker 4: some firm that measures things, and they say AI could
39:16
Speaker 4: this place eighteen percent of US jobs. That's wild, right,
39:21
Speaker 4: And they say this can happen in the next five years.
39:22
Speaker 4: According to an internal analysis by Bridgewater Associates. This was
39:26
Speaker 4: cited in New York Times on Friday. The warning comes
39:30
Speaker 4: from Greg Jensen and Near Bardia, two senior executives at
39:34
Speaker 4: the investment firm, who argue that the United States faces
39:37
Speaker 4: a critical policy choice manage AI driven disruption now or
39:41
Speaker 4: risk severe backlash later. It probably sounds right to me.
39:46
Speaker 4: In their column from August fourteenth, they say this is
39:51
Speaker 4: one of the most important policy decisions of our lifetime,
39:55
Speaker 4: and they present AI as both an extraordinary economic opportunity
39:59
Speaker 4: and a put potentially destabilizing force. Again, this is a
40:04
Speaker 4: piece by the Newsmax Wire over here, very interesting stuff.
40:09
Speaker 4: Bridgewater says that the one hundred and two billion dollars
40:12
Speaker 4: that they have invested has invested heavily in AI and
40:17
Speaker 4: recognize parts of their business capitalizes on this technology. I
40:23
Speaker 4: get it. They contend that AI could produce a productivity
40:27
Speaker 4: miracle capable of substantially improving living standards, but only if
40:31
Speaker 4: governments established policies that will distribute the gains broadly and
40:36
Speaker 4: limit the danger, so they need some mitigation here. They
40:41
Speaker 4: fear that widespread displacement could undermine social stability if the
40:46
Speaker 4: economic benefits of AI become concentrated amongst companies, investors, or
40:51
Speaker 4: simply just amongst highly skilled workers. And why do they
40:56
Speaker 4: believe that Well, they point to historical episodes following major
41:00
Speaker 4: economic transformations, including the political upheaval with industrialization, as evidence
41:06
Speaker 4: that periods of rapid growth can produce dangerous social tension
41:10
Speaker 4: when wealth and opportunity become too concentrated amongst a few.
41:15
Speaker 4: Blah blah blah, blah blah. I'm trying to give you
41:17
Speaker 4: the best it is, but they're thinking of a lot
41:22
Speaker 4: of different ways to do this, and ultimately they say
41:24
Speaker 4: that number looks like eighteen percent in the next five years. Now,
41:30
Speaker 4: I think many different technologies can replace eighteen percent of
41:37
Speaker 4: a workforce in five years, not just AI, right. I
41:40
Speaker 4: think that's probably a number that's consistent with other technologies.
41:44
Speaker 4: And I might be wrong on that, but it doesn't
41:45
Speaker 4: seem too far fetched eighteen percent for something that's as
41:49
Speaker 4: disruptive as AI has been. But Forbes magazine has a
41:54
Speaker 4: whole different piece by Brian Robinson, PhD headline, Here is
41:59
Speaker 4: different different investment organization giving analysis. Here, AI is making
42:05
Speaker 4: certain jobs irreplaceable even as hiring rates are going down
42:09
Speaker 4: by as much as twenty four percent. Right, so, in
42:12
Speaker 4: the midst of people losing their jobs, AI still can't
42:17
Speaker 4: replace certain jobs, and some of the jobs are these.
42:22
Speaker 4: Check this out and this research comes from Vizier Visier
42:26
Speaker 4: or maybe VCA if you're doing the French. They analyze
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Speaker 4: millions of employee records and they indicate that a twenty
42:33
Speaker 4: four percent drop in overall hiring is going on. Instead
42:36
Speaker 4: of broader replacements, AI is revaluing roles making distinctly human
42:41
Speaker 4: skills like judgment and interpersonal understanding. More crucial occupations such
42:46
Speaker 4: as educators, lawyers, and architects are proving difficult to automate.
42:51
Speaker 4: I wonder if radio hosts fall into that, right, media
42:54
Speaker 4: personalities guys like me that do some talking. Are we
42:57
Speaker 4: easy to automate or not? I don't know. I hope not.
43:01
Speaker 4: I don't know what else I'd be good at. Geez,
43:03
Speaker 4: I better start looking. This suggests a massive reorganization beneath
43:07
Speaker 4: the surface of everything. Where workers should focus on what
43:10
Speaker 4: AI cannot do, making their unique human contributions valuable. Yeah,
43:16
Speaker 4: I agree with that. Artificial intelligence they say is fueling
43:21
Speaker 4: millions of workers, and they could find themselves competing with
43:24
Speaker 4: machines for those same jobs. But instead of simply replacing
43:29
Speaker 4: the entire occupation, AI wants to quietly reshuffle the value
43:32
Speaker 4: of different jobs, making some distinctly human roles a little
43:35
Speaker 4: bit more important. And that's what we want to know
43:39
Speaker 4: because ultimately, you know, those roles that I mentioned, educators,
43:45
Speaker 4: lawyers and whatnot, that's important. It's important for society, but moreover,
43:52
Speaker 4: it proves that roles that rely on your humanity are
43:57
Speaker 4: going to be important. Now, some people might argue and say,
44:00
Speaker 4: and this is a topic we've covered on the show
44:01
Speaker 4: many times, what about people that are going to AI
44:04
Speaker 4: for therapy instead of going to a therapist. They're just
44:07
Speaker 4: talking to an AI and all the doctors and the
44:11
Speaker 4: real people warn don't do it. And I would agree,
44:14
Speaker 4: doesn't sound like a good place. But correct me if
44:17
Speaker 4: I'm wrong. But you and me both have had I
44:20
Speaker 4: don't know, a gas pain or something and gone to Google,
44:23
Speaker 4: which many of us called doctor Google, and you know,
44:26
Speaker 4: used to be WebMD. Now there's a million different sources
44:28
Speaker 4: in the Google Gemini AI. You know, you know I
44:30
Speaker 4: got this pain in my side, and you know we're
44:34
Speaker 4: automatically diagnosing ourselves. I think more people than not do that.
44:39
Speaker 4: So the question remains, which of these jobs are the
44:42
Speaker 4: jobs that you and I should be striving for besides
44:46
Speaker 4: being a teacher or a lawyer. So the occupation in
44:53
Speaker 4: Viziers data identifies certain AI proof jobs including, like I mentioned,
44:59
Speaker 4: had yoution, being a lawyer, architecture, and security. They rely
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Speaker 4: on human superpowers that algorithms just can't replicate, like ethical judgment, empathy,
45:10
Speaker 4: navigating unpredictable environments, and managing human trust. So let's look
45:15
Speaker 4: at the first one, education, which involves the trust and
45:20
Speaker 4: mentorship factor. The reality here is AI can generate a
45:23
Speaker 4: perfect lesson plan and it could even grade a quiz
45:27
Speaker 4: in seconds. The irreplaceable human factor is that it can't
45:32
Speaker 4: inspire a struggling student, read a room's energy, or provide
45:35
Speaker 4: emotional support. I would say the emotional support part. Maybe
45:41
Speaker 4: I could see an AI saying, hey, hang in there, Champ,
45:43
Speaker 4: you can do this. Right. Doesn't seem that difficult. AI
45:48
Speaker 4: can feed you information but it takes a human teacher
45:51
Speaker 4: to turn that information into actual knowledge and character. I
45:54
Speaker 4: support that idea, but that's only because I was never
45:56
Speaker 4: trained by an AI. So I don't know if I'm
45:59
Speaker 4: wrong or if I'll be wrong with the future on
46:00
Speaker 4: that one. But I think for now, I think we're good.
46:02
Speaker 4: And I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want
46:04
Speaker 4: to send my kid to an AI kindergarten teacher, would you.
46:08
Speaker 4: That's my point. Then you've got the law, all right,
46:11
Speaker 4: ethical judgment and different nuance related to this, Like in
46:15
Speaker 4: public safety. AI is great at scanning millions of pages
46:19
Speaker 4: very quickly, contracts, case law, et cetera. But the irreplaceable
46:25
Speaker 4: human element here is that it can't outweigh the moral
46:28
Speaker 4: gray areas. It can't cross examine a witness with emotion
46:31
Speaker 4: and intuition, or argue the nuances of human justice in
46:34
Speaker 4: front of a jury, at least not yet. And I
46:37
Speaker 4: don't think it'll get there. I mean, maybe it'll get
46:39
Speaker 4: there in terms of making a script, but you'd have
46:42
Speaker 4: to combine the AI with a robot and a robot
46:44
Speaker 4: that has a heck of a performance art in order
46:47
Speaker 4: to nail this down, all right, you'd have to say,
46:50
Speaker 4: you know, create me a model that's a cross between
46:53
Speaker 4: the girl from Legally Blonde and Metluck. I don't know.
46:57
Speaker 4: I don't know if that flies. So I can read
47:00
Speaker 4: the law, but it doesn't understand justice. So you still
47:03
Speaker 4: need human lawyers to navigate the ethical gray zones. Check
47:07
Speaker 4: architecture right, that requires human creative vision and spatial needs
47:13
Speaker 4: that some people just don't get if you're looking at
47:16
Speaker 4: words on a page. The tools can spin out thousands
47:19
Speaker 4: of blueprints, but that's only based on the data that
47:22
Speaker 4: you input. What makes it irreplaceable here is it lacks
47:24
Speaker 4: the cultural context, the artistic vision, the physical understanding of
47:29
Speaker 4: how humans actually want to live, how they want to interact,
47:33
Speaker 4: and how they want to move through a physical space.
47:35
Speaker 4: And I guess if that stuff is documented on the webs,
47:37
Speaker 4: somehow the AI can grab it, but it's likely going
47:40
Speaker 4: to miss the mark. So AI can build a structurally
47:45
Speaker 4: sound box, but I think it takes an actual human
47:48
Speaker 4: architect to design a space that actually tells a story
47:51
Speaker 4: and feels like a community. And the last section here
47:55
Speaker 4: in these career fields, public safety, physical security, split second,
48:00
Speaker 4: crisis management, AI, cannor monitor cameras, it can identify anomalies,
48:07
Speaker 4: and it could flag digital or physical breaches of security,
48:11
Speaker 4: but it completely falls apart during dynamic, unpredictable physical crises
48:16
Speaker 4: where a human must make a split second, high stakes
48:19
Speaker 4: decision under immense pressure, stuff that cops have to do
48:23
Speaker 4: every single day, right, especially when their face and pulling
48:25
Speaker 4: the trigger. So that's what makes that irreplaceable. And I'm
48:29
Speaker 4: sure we can replace elements of it, right I don't
48:31
Speaker 4: think it's before too long we're going to see people,
48:34
Speaker 4: you know, getting dinged on an easy pass or getting
48:36
Speaker 4: dinged in real life for some sort of infraction that
48:40
Speaker 4: was captured by AI the way we do now at
48:42
Speaker 4: red light cameras and speeding cameras and the like. I
48:46
Speaker 4: think that'll continue to grow in that field, but it
48:48
Speaker 4: won't replace them overall. And those are the four that
48:52
Speaker 4: the article really kind of brought up and talked about.
48:55
Speaker 4: So I think the real angle here is, you know,
48:57
Speaker 4: those are some of the white collar jobs. Is AI
49:00
Speaker 4: going to replace plumbers of of course, not electricians, of
49:03
Speaker 4: course not When it comes to the blue collar fields,
49:06
Speaker 4: those are the fields I think that are going to survive,
49:08
Speaker 4: and they're going to continue to flourish. And not for
49:11
Speaker 4: a little while, but for like a really long while,
49:14
Speaker 4: because ultimately that's where it's at. You can't have a
49:18
Speaker 4: data center and AI data center without somebody building these things.
49:22
Speaker 4: Without somebody who understands plumbing and electricity. You can't have
49:25
Speaker 4: mostly anything without those things. You need plumbing and electricity
49:30
Speaker 4: to run every app, to run every server, even if
49:33
Speaker 4: you're remote. To develop the software, to write the code,
49:38
Speaker 4: you need electricity, and you're likely going to need a bathroom,
49:42
Speaker 4: right and if it's one of those data centers, you're
49:44
Speaker 4: going to need water to cool the facility. So long
49:48
Speaker 4: story short there. I think the blue collar jobs will
49:52
Speaker 4: rule the roost for days to come. Now, I want
49:56
Speaker 4: to get into a little bit of this Steve Moore
49:58
Speaker 4: stuff and who gets the refund on the tariffs. I'm
50:04
Speaker 4: going to play a couple of minutes. It is. It's
50:05
Speaker 4: a pretty involved clip with Steve Moore and somebody debating him.
50:09
Speaker 4: This was on News Nation, but I thought it was
50:11
Speaker 4: interesting and worth listening to.
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Speaker 2: It kind of Stephen Moore and Ryan Cummings, former Biden
50:17
Speaker 2: Council of Economic Advisors is with us gents. I'm good
50:20
Speaker 2: to see you, Steve. Where's my refund.
50:25
Speaker 8: Well, I knew this was going to be a problem,
50:27
Speaker 8: you know, when the court decided made its correct decision
50:30
Speaker 8: that this money had to be returned. And the way
50:33
Speaker 8: the law works, Leland, just as a matter of law
50:36
Speaker 8: is that whoever wrote the check to the government for
50:39
Speaker 8: the terrorists that were collected gets the refund.
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Speaker 2: But you raise a very important to talk about the
50:44
Speaker 2: law of public opinion, Steve.
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Speaker 8: Well, I get that, and that's this is a big
50:48
Speaker 8: public opinion issue. You're exactly right, because these companies get
50:52
Speaker 8: the refunds, but in many cases, these companies passed on
50:56
Speaker 8: the cost to consumers. Now we don't know exactly how
50:58
Speaker 8: much that was, So my feeling is that these companies
51:02
Speaker 8: really should provide some relief to people, whether it's cutting
51:06
Speaker 8: prices in the future.
51:08
Speaker 2: I'm still waiting for Amazon to lower prices because of
51:11
Speaker 2: the terriff refunds. But Ryan, I think this is an
51:14
Speaker 2: excellent point because you've got I wulsay Ed and other democratic, socialist, communist,
51:19
Speaker 2: Marxist whatever you want to call them, out there talking
51:21
Speaker 2: about seizing the means of production. This is a giant miss.
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Speaker 13: A giant miss in terms of seizing the means of
51:28
Speaker 13: production from the terraff refunds.
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Speaker 2: No, a giant miss in terms of what to talk
51:31
Speaker 2: about that people care about rather than sounding like communists.
51:35
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, they are definitely talking about the tariff refunds.
51:38
Speaker 13: And by the way, there's also a seven percent interest
51:41
Speaker 13: that's typically the interest they have to pay on the
51:44
Speaker 13: terriff refunds too. So not only are the corporations going
51:47
Speaker 13: and getting the refunds, they're also getting interest due to
51:50
Speaker 13: them from the government. I highly doubt we'll see.
51:52
Speaker 2: You so as actually due to them from the government.
51:55
Speaker 2: So we're actually paying we the taxpayers, are paining these
52:00
Speaker 2: companies' interest.
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Speaker 13: Seven percent interest. By the way, if you go to
52:05
Speaker 13: your bank and you want to put money in a
52:07
Speaker 13: savings account, you might get four or five percent, So
52:10
Speaker 13: it's a pretty sweet interest rate. In addition to one
52:12
Speaker 13: hundred and seventy one billion dollars is what's being estimated
52:16
Speaker 13: as the total bill right now by the Cato Institute.
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Speaker 2: Wow, Steve, again for the intersection of politics and economics
52:26
Speaker 2: that you're good at. This feels like a real disaster
52:29
Speaker 2: for Republicans.
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Speaker 8: Well, there's nothing really Republicans can do about it. I mean,
52:36
Speaker 8: the fact is that these companies are owed the money.
52:39
Speaker 8: I think the real issue was, will these companies, the
52:42
Speaker 8: Amazons of the world and the major retailers, will they
52:45
Speaker 8: find a way to get some of this money back
52:47
Speaker 8: to the consumers who paid some of it. I don't
52:50
Speaker 8: exactly know how they would do that, but it would
52:52
Speaker 8: be good public relations. It's the right thing to do
52:55
Speaker 8: to get some of this money back, and we deserve it,
52:59
Speaker 8: because you're right, we as consumers paid a good portion
53:02
Speaker 8: of these rafts.
53:03
Speaker 4: Steve Moore is one hundred percent right there again on
53:06
Speaker 4: the Leland Vitter show on News Nation and on two
53:10
Speaker 4: points here. One, the people are going to be upset
53:13
Speaker 4: if this money goes back to corporations and not to
53:15
Speaker 4: the people. I think people are going to say, hold
53:18
Speaker 4: on a second, I think that this is a thing
53:22
Speaker 4: that we should be upset about, right. I think people
53:25
Speaker 4: like to be upset about things, or evence is very
53:27
Speaker 4: popular these days. And number two, the other point about
53:31
Speaker 4: the DSA right looking like communists, well they are communists.
53:35
Speaker 4: And the second part of it really is the dsay
53:40
Speaker 4: they just make the most nonsensical arguments. He talks about
53:42
Speaker 4: a missed opportunity. Are they missing the mark one hundred percent.
53:45
Speaker 4: They definitely are. We're going to talk about that in
53:47
Speaker 4: the next segment, as we are also going to talk
53:50
Speaker 4: about what your thoughts are on open phones across America.
53:54
Speaker 4: Open phone in America, where you get to call in
53:57
Speaker 4: eight seven seven validvest one, eight seven seven Valdes one,
54:00
Speaker 4: lets your opinion be heard, and looks like we already
54:03
Speaker 4: got a call from north Bergen, New Jersey lined up.
54:06
Speaker 4: Let's see if we get any more before we move on.
54:08
Speaker 4: Hopefully we'll have time for more than one. Give me
54:10
Speaker 4: your thoughts on this on who should get the tariff refund?
54:13
Speaker 4: On the foot washing stations at the airport in Texas.
54:20
Speaker 4: Is this a violation of the constitution? Is this something
54:24
Speaker 4: that is going to be a problem if it's banned.
54:26
Speaker 4: I want to hear your thoughts on that. Plus I'll
54:29
Speaker 4: give you the scoop on my visit with Gil from
54:31
Speaker 4: the Philippines and how he's doing and our breakfast together
54:35
Speaker 4: in New York City earlier today. So keep it locked
54:37
Speaker 4: right here, don't go anywhere. I'm Rich Valdez.
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Speaker 4: All right, film media, Welcome back Rich Valdez. Valdez with
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Speaker 4: welcome back. Our final segment. We call it open Phone
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Speaker 4: in America, right, an age old tradition on the show
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Speaker 4: I used to host and one that I've adopted that
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Speaker 4: we can maintain and continue because man, it's just cool
55:27
Speaker 4: to connect with people across the country. Of course, we
55:29
Speaker 4: only do an hour these days, so with a one
55:31
Speaker 4: hour show sometimes you can't really do all the calls
55:34
Speaker 4: I used to do, but get in where you fit in.
55:36
Speaker 4: And of course I want to give a shout out
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56:10
Speaker 4: want to go to the phones right now. I see
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Speaker 4: that we have a couple of people on hold, let's
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Speaker 18: Go right ahead from north Bergen, New Jersey.
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Speaker 4: Melissa from north Bergen, New Jersey, Welcome, go right ahead.
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Speaker 18: I actually wanted to comment on the Muslim footwa washing
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Speaker 18: only locations for Muslims in the airports, and I don't
56:32
Speaker 18: see there being a problem with it being banned or
56:35
Speaker 18: not being allowed because they've been traveling for years and
56:39
Speaker 18: been you know, praying and doing whatever is necessary without
56:41
Speaker 18: there being a Muslim only foot washing center wherever it
56:45
Speaker 18: is that they needed to go. I don't see why
56:47
Speaker 18: this is an issue, and I don't foresee that it
56:50
Speaker 18: should be a problem showing that it's illegal or that
56:53
Speaker 18: it shouldn't be compensationally allowed. That's my personal opinion.
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Speaker 4: Right Yeah, that's a very good point. Muslims have been
57:01
Speaker 4: traveling forever and this has never been something that they've
57:07
Speaker 4: needed before. Right now, I would imagine it all over Europe.
57:11
Speaker 4: I have been to the bathroom and Heathrow. I just
57:14
Speaker 4: don't recall if there was this voodoo station there for
57:18
Speaker 4: them to prepare their abolution. But I will say that
57:23
Speaker 4: I think you raise an interesting point. And again my
57:26
Speaker 4: perspective on this has nothing to do with being against Muslims.
57:29
Speaker 4: I would also equally be as against holy water stations
57:34
Speaker 4: right the stoop or the font not because I don't
57:39
Speaker 4: want people to have holy water, but because I don't
57:43
Speaker 4: think that the government should be paying for it. And
57:46
Speaker 4: it's really just that simple. We have to stick to
57:48
Speaker 4: the Constitution. Remember say it with me, no constitution, no country.
57:54
Speaker 4: It's that simple. And thank you for your camulus. I
57:58
Speaker 4: appreciate it. Always good to hear from you. And speaking
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Speaker 4: of callers and the constitution and our country, one of
58:05
Speaker 4: our callers, one of our prolific callers, who has been
58:10
Speaker 4: a listener of my show since my debut, is a
58:14
Speaker 4: fill in host for Jim Bohannon, and he's always been
58:19
Speaker 4: very gracious, very kind. He's a fan and I'm a
58:22
Speaker 4: fan of his. Just the same was Gil from Manila.
58:26
Speaker 4: Gil from Manila, Philippines. And Gil's been out of public
58:29
Speaker 4: eye a little bit for a while now because he's
58:31
Speaker 4: been dealing with some health issues. And I don't want
58:35
Speaker 4: to say he's sick, because he's not sick. He's really
58:37
Speaker 4: kind of like taking the car to the shop, like
58:39
Speaker 4: I got to get the brakes done, yeah, and I
58:41
Speaker 4: gotta do I gotta rotate my tires. He's just getting
58:43
Speaker 4: a lot of maintenance work done. And he's been in
58:45
Speaker 4: the States at the VA. As you guys know, he
58:47
Speaker 4: lives in the Philippines. We were in touch and he said,
58:49
Speaker 4: I'm going to be in Connecticut. I'd love to meet
58:51
Speaker 4: you in New York. I said, I am jumping at
58:54
Speaker 4: the opportunity to come and treat you to breakfast. And
58:57
Speaker 4: he gave me that on earlier today. And Gil a
59:00
Speaker 4: terrific guy, somebody that I really enjoyed talking to. We
59:03
Speaker 4: had a lot of fun. Both of us are radio geeks,
59:05
Speaker 4: talking about how radio used to be back in the days,
59:08
Speaker 4: and the evolution of radio and whatnot. And he explained
59:12
Speaker 4: that he's going to be in the States for a
59:13
Speaker 4: little while longer before going back to the Philippines maybe
59:16
Speaker 4: in the fall, and still maintaining a solid presence both
59:20
Speaker 4: here and there, and in addition to radio. Some of
59:23
Speaker 4: the things I talked about with Gil were just his family.
59:25
Speaker 4: He's got a beautiful family. I met his wife Jin
59:29
Speaker 4: from the Philippines and their daughter who's active duty in
59:33
Speaker 4: the military as well and in college, and just a
59:37
Speaker 4: beautiful family, beautiful experience. Gil from the Philippines is alive
59:42
Speaker 4: and well, and he's promised to call into the show
59:45
Speaker 4: more often. He's still listening to the show via podcast
59:48
Speaker 4: the following day. And you can also go to my
59:50
Speaker 4: social media to see a picture that I snapped with
59:53
Speaker 4: Gil from the Philippines, the Gilla from Manila and his
59:56
Speaker 4: wife right across the street from Quran Central in New
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Speaker 4: York City. So if you want to take a look
1:00:02
Speaker 4: at that picture, feel free to do it. And I'm
1:00:05
Speaker 4: grateful for his listenership and his friendship and of course
1:00:07
Speaker 4: his service to the country. Now, I always end the
1:00:10
Speaker 4: show by saying a few things and that they're as
1:00:14
Speaker 4: true today as they've ever been. The only thing necessary
1:00:17
Speaker 4: for evil to triumph is for good people like you
1:00:20
Speaker 4: to sit there and do nothing. So make sure you
1:00:23
Speaker 4: do something. And if you stand for nothing, you'll fall
1:00:26
Speaker 4: for anything. A style approxima, Take care, good night, and
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Speaker 4: God bless you America. I'm Rich Valdez, and this is America.
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