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9/28/26 -- Dan Ball w/ Col. Robert Maness, Thomas Corbett-Dillon, Javier Palomarez, Chad Wolf, Ben Bergquam, and Michael Pagano · Real America with Dan Ball

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  Speaker 1: Straight ahead on Real America tonight, five men suspected of
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  Speaker 1: plotting a terror attack on a British Air Force base
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  Speaker 1: that the United States uses are apprehended. But then, what?
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  Speaker 1: They release them in jolly old England while they investigate.
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  Speaker 1: I don't get that one, but that'll top our show tonight. Plus,
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  Speaker 1: right now We had them under investigation. They were looking
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  Speaker 1: to do big damage to our fort. Amen. Good Monday
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  Speaker 1: evening to you. I'm Dan Ball. Thanks for tuning in.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to begin tonight overseas, where we're told five
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  Speaker 1: British nationals suspected of plotting a huge terror attack on
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  Speaker 1: a Royal Air Force base that we, the United States
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  Speaker 1: Air Force, use, especially in conjunction with the attacks on Iran,
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  Speaker 1: now under investigation. They were apprehended. You heard the president
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  Speaker 1: talk about it. But the big break in news is
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  Speaker 1: the Brits released him already while they're investigating. This is
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  Speaker 1: what happens when you let liberals take over, folks. President Trump,
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  Speaker 1: as you heard him right there, commending the UK, saying, thanks,
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  Speaker 1: you did a good job. But again, that story is
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  Speaker 1: far from over. Here's the situation as we know it.
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  Speaker 1: And again, it's changing. So it'll probably change by the
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  Speaker 1: time you go to bed or when you wake up tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Five British men. So again, they're nationals, but we know
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  Speaker 1: how they allow people to become citizens in Britain. So
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  Speaker 1: who knows where they're from and if they were legal,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Anyway, they were age 23 to 25.
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  Speaker 1: Here's pics of them with their faces blurred out. They
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  Speaker 1: got busted Sunday morning near the RAF Fairford Air Base.
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  Speaker 1: That's Royal Air Force Fairford Air Base. That's after police
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  Speaker 1: actually got a call from a local farmer about three
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  Speaker 1: vans near the base, guys wearing masks. Yeah, so he called,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, sir. Now again, evidently we were already watching them.
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  Speaker 1: And then when they were getting ready to act possibly
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  Speaker 1: is when the farmer called. Now they haven't been formally
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  Speaker 1: charged because the Brits are still investigating to see what
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  Speaker 1: their motive is, who was funding it. Again, here's where
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  Speaker 1: things get tricky. US forces. use that particular air base
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  Speaker 1: to store equipment, including bombers. Some of our bombers we've
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  Speaker 1: used in Iran. So of course they're thinking that's the link.
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  Speaker 1: Looking at the pics, I don't know if they're Middle Eastern,
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  Speaker 1: but that would make a lot of sense, right? Now,
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  Speaker 1: we haven't seen any direct ties to Iran yet, but
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people think they may be involved or
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  Speaker 1: they're using a proxy to pay these guys. Who knows?
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  Speaker 1: But in a statement released earlier today, Iran's embassy in
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  Speaker 1: London condemned the claim that they were involved, calling it
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  Speaker 1: unfounded and malicious. Okay, maybe it was just five crazy
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  Speaker 1: Brits who were upset. I don't know. But why would
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  Speaker 1: you let them go? They also claim the circulation of
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  Speaker 1: these claims will fuel more propaganda and what they call Iranophobia. Look,
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  Speaker 1: we're not scared of you. You guys have killed people
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  Speaker 1: for 47 years. You need to be taken out. Nobody's
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  Speaker 1: scared of you. We just want you gone. Additionally, they
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  Speaker 1: said that Iran reserves the right to take legal action
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  Speaker 1: to protect their interests in response to misleading reports in
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  Speaker 1: the mainstream media abroad and here in America about them
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  Speaker 1: being connected. Give me a break, IRGC. If that's not
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  Speaker 1: ridiculous enough, and here's where I'm really upset. Earlier today,
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  Speaker 1: the suspects got released from custody, leading to a whole
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  Speaker 1: bunch of outrage online. Here's the head of counterterrorism policing
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  Speaker 1: who's leading the investigation, breaking the news that they let
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  Speaker 1: him go while they investigate.
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  Speaker 2: The five men who were arrested are being released on
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  Speaker 2: police bail this afternoon. To be very clear, this does
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  Speaker 2: not mean that the investigation is over. They are subject
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  Speaker 2: to stringent conditions on their movement and contact with others.
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  Speaker 2: They absolutely remain under investigation as we explore multiple lines
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  Speaker 2: of inquiry.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. You want to know why the UK is going
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  Speaker 1: down the tubes? Right there. That's pathetic. You arrest them
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  Speaker 1: and let them out within 24 hours? What kind of
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  Speaker 1: message does that send to other people thinking about doing
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  Speaker 1: a terror plot on your country? And if you can't
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  Speaker 1: confirm Iran's involved or not, why would you let them go?
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  Speaker 1: the world's largest sponsor of terror, possibly connected to these five,
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  Speaker 1: and British officials won't even hold them more than a day. Disgusting.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of Iran, Iran's president was making the American media
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  Speaker 1: rounds over the weekend because, of course, we told you
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  Speaker 1: last week was the big UN's General Assembly, and his
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  Speaker 1: whole delegation was in town. He's out there doing the media,
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  Speaker 1: wanted to meet with President Trump, blah, blah, blah, playing
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  Speaker 1: the victim like they do. Oh, woe is me. Just
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  Speaker 1: roll this crap.
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  Speaker 3: They martyred our leader. You saw what they did in
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  Speaker 3: Iraq and Pakistan. This is a matter of faith. So
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  Speaker 3: based on that faith, people can't accept what was done.
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  Speaker 3: Hypothetically speaking, let's say in Iran they want to assassinate.
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  Speaker 3: From the standpoint of the government, if that were what
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  Speaker 3: we intended to do, we would not be sitting at
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  Speaker 3: the negotiating table.
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  Speaker 4: But you're saying it's too politically difficult to meet with
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  Speaker 4: the president now?
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  Speaker 3: Until trust is restored. As long as they don't cease
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  Speaker 3: doing what they're imposing on us every day, it's difficult
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  Speaker 3: to trust them.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry to laugh when people are dying and there's
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  Speaker 1: an actual conflict happening between our nation and Iran, but
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  Speaker 1: for that clown to use the T word, trust, when
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  Speaker 1: discussing Iran, your entire regime, right? You're supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: an actual government of a nation. Your entire regime has
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  Speaker 1: been built on murder and hate and lies and terror.
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  Speaker 1: That's what you have funded around the globe for almost
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  Speaker 1: 47 years. And you're like, it's hard to trust America.
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  Speaker 1: Joining me now to weigh in on this foiled terror
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  Speaker 1: plot and the release of the bad guys within 20-some hours,
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  Speaker 1: he's a retired Air Force combat veteran, host of the
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  Speaker 1: Rob Maness Show, and author of the book, What Can
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  Speaker 1: You Do About It? Retired Colonel Rob Maness. Joining him,
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  Speaker 1: we thought we better get somebody from across the pond,
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  Speaker 1: even though he came to his census and now lives
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  Speaker 1: in America. He's a former advisor. UK Prime Minister Boris
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  Speaker 1: Johnson and a digital media campaign expert and a conservative commentator,
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  Speaker 1: my friend, Thomas Corbett Dillon. I wanted a little take
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  Speaker 1: from America and a little take from jolly old England,
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  Speaker 1: and I got it. Let me first begin, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: with you, Thomas. Colonel, sorry, I usually begin with you
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  Speaker 1: on the military side of things, but I just gotta ask.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who this head investigator guy is, we
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  Speaker 1: just ran the sound bite from, but what the heck's
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  Speaker 1: going on over there? Why would you release people within,
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  Speaker 1: they got busted Sunday morning, and this morning they're already out.
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  Speaker 1: So 24 hours in custody. Again, they're wearing masks, they
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  Speaker 1: got vans, they were possibly making explosives, they wanted to
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  Speaker 1: go blow things up on a base, and your police,
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  Speaker 1: your government, your military, let them go while they're still
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  Speaker 1: surveilling them and investigating. Why, Thomas? Make it make sense.
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  Speaker 5: Well, look, I'm not surprised at all. This is exactly
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  Speaker 5: what they love to do. You know, they were so
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  Speaker 5: desperate to name them British nationals. As you said, we
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  Speaker 5: give citizenship to anyone. So British national can mean they're
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  Speaker 5: literally from anywhere in the world. They just carry a
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  Speaker 5: bit of passport that we probably gave them, you know,
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  Speaker 5: six months ago. And they're desperate to say, oh, but,
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  Speaker 5: you know, maybe they're just innocent guys caught up in something.
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  Speaker 5: We need to know the full picture. It's clear they
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  Speaker 5: were up to no good. And that's the real problem
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  Speaker 5: with England. We've let so many illegal people into our country.
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  Speaker 5: We have no idea if these are good guys, bad guys. Well,
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  Speaker 5: I can tell you they're bad guys. Whatever they were doing,
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  Speaker 5: it wasn't a good thing.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I got another one for you in a second about
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  Speaker 1: them and who they might be in the process of
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  Speaker 1: your folks allowing them into the country. But let me
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  Speaker 1: go to the colonel first and ask about this Royal
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  Speaker 1: Air Force Base. So we stored bombers there. We were
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  Speaker 1: using that runway and that base to do some operations
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  Speaker 1: for Iran. Was it currently still being used, even though
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  Speaker 1: we haven't had strikes in a while with these bigger bombers?
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  Speaker 1: So were they targeting stuff that we still had on
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  Speaker 1: the ground? What do you know, Colonel?
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  Speaker 7: I can't confirm or deny whether we were still using
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  Speaker 7: it operationally, but my guess is the support equipment at
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  Speaker 7: a minimum is still there because we still have ongoing operations.
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  Speaker 7: But I'm not sure about the presence of B-52s, B-1s,
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  Speaker 7: or tanker aircraft. But we do have a combat support
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  Speaker 7: wing that is the parent U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Air Force.
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  Speaker 7: Wing there. They run the security forces operation, and it's
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  Speaker 7: my understanding they had increased their force protection condition to delta,
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  Speaker 7: which means a terrorist attack is imminent well before these
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  Speaker 7: individuals were reported and caught. That tells me that the
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  Speaker 7: security forces intelligence part of the unit was operating very effectively.
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  Speaker 7: I'm very proud of those guys. I had a group
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  Speaker 7: under me when I was a wing commander, a whole
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  Speaker 7: cop group, and that's very, very good if that turns
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  Speaker 7: out to be true. From another perspective, I'll put my
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  Speaker 7: EOD hat on, explosive orders disposal hat, from my enlisted
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  Speaker 7: days and just say there's been some reporting that says
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  Speaker 7: the materials found in the vans were not viable explosives. Well,
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  Speaker 7: quite often now, especially when explosives are being obtained surreptitiously
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  Speaker 7: in a, say, on enemy foreign territory like these guys were,
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  Speaker 7: they're going to use what's called a binary explosive, where
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  Speaker 7: you get the components separately, and they're not viable explosives
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  Speaker 7: when they're separate. So we don't know the for sure status,
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  Speaker 7: but I will tell you the EOD teams thought they
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  Speaker 7: had something based on the initial reconnaissance because they used
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  Speaker 7: their tools and techniques, which I'm not going to go into,
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  Speaker 7: but I can tell by looking at the photos that
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  Speaker 7: they did.
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  Speaker 1: So I wonder then, is that maybe some of the, well, no,
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  Speaker 1: this is going to go back to Thomas on why
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  Speaker 1: they let him out so early, and I was going
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  Speaker 1: to say, well, maybe because it wasn't deemed viable, they
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  Speaker 1: could have done any harm, the weak liberal Brits went, okay, well,
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  Speaker 1: there were no bombs, so let's find out. I have
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  Speaker 1: a feeling it was more, and you weigh in here, Thomas,
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  Speaker 1: it was more, well, these folks are probably going to
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  Speaker 1: be Middle Eastern, it looked like by the skin in
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  Speaker 1: the pit. Thank you, Colonel. They are. And, and your
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  Speaker 1: lovely leaders don't want to piss off the massive Muslim
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  Speaker 1: population in the UK since a big part of your
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  Speaker 1: government and the mayor of London and all of them
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  Speaker 1: are Muslims. So let's not get Islamophobic and tell your
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  Speaker 1: country in the world who these five jokers were. They're
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  Speaker 1: radical Muslims probably. Anyway. No, that's exactly right.
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  Speaker 5: And also, they don't want to admit that we have
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  Speaker 5: a problem.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. That is the key here.
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  Speaker 5: They're desperate to cover anything up and say, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I can already imagine when the government, when that picture
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  Speaker 5: came out, they were furious.
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  Speaker 1: They were like, oh, why weren't they far right?
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  Speaker 5: That's what we wanted them to be. Unfortunately, of course,
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  Speaker 5: as always, these are clearly Islamic terrorism, but this just
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  Speaker 5: shows you that you've got an American base in the
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  Speaker 5: United Kingdom that's running patrols as if it's in Afghanistan.
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  Speaker 5: That's how dangerous the United Kingdom has become for Americans.
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  Speaker 5: This is an embarrassment for my country.
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  Speaker 1: It is, and thank you for saying so, Thomas. Colonel,
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  Speaker 1: back to what the president said. that they had been
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  Speaker 1: watching these guys for a little bit. And you obviously said,
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  Speaker 1: if we were at that threat level, then intelligence knew
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  Speaker 1: there could be an attack on that RAF base and
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  Speaker 1: our troops was imminent. So everybody was taking precaution. Do
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  Speaker 1: you think, because I've heard of this before, that when
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  Speaker 1: sometimes they bust these guys, sometimes the material was actually
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  Speaker 1: sold to them by counterintelligence-type people because they get on
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  Speaker 1: the dark web. We've got our agents. Interpol's got their agents.
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  Speaker 1: You've got all these different agencies we work with, and
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  Speaker 1: sometimes they'll sell them something that is inert that won't
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  Speaker 1: work so we can at least get them and nail them.
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  Speaker 1: Could that have been something, and that's how we were
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  Speaker 1: tracking them, or how do you think we were? Again,
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  Speaker 1: I know you can't say too much, Colonel.
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  Speaker 7: Well, that's also a potential part of the story, Dan.
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  Speaker 7: And the other thing that's a potential part of the story, well,
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  Speaker 7: it is part of the story, is that the witness
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  Speaker 7: that called it in, the farmer that called it in,
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  Speaker 7: said they thought that there was about 10 people and
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  Speaker 7: only five have been picked up. So there's some open
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  Speaker 7: questions as to exactly what the number of personnel was
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  Speaker 7: around this incident. Why did they use three bands? Why
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  Speaker 7: so many people? I mean, these were not jihadist suicide bombers.
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  Speaker 7: If you've got between five and 10 operators that are
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  Speaker 7: not just putting the bombs together, but going to place
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  Speaker 7: them and do some other type of unit tactics. So
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  Speaker 7: what were the targets? How are they going to approach
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  Speaker 7: those targets? All open questions that, based on the facts
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  Speaker 7: we know, have to be answered in this investigation. I
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  Speaker 7: cannot believe The British authorities released these individuals. You know,
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  Speaker 7: it's unbelievable that they will not call them what they are,
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  Speaker 7: Islamic jihadis. And I look forward to the Brits confessing
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  Speaker 7: that they lied to their own people and they lied
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  Speaker 7: to NATO. This is a NATO issue, too. Then I'll
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  Speaker 7: just go ahead and throw that in there. It's an
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  Speaker 7: embarrassment to NATO. They're also embarrassing the president of the
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  Speaker 7: United States because he made a statement that their actions
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  Speaker 7: are not congruent with. So they need to get their
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  Speaker 7: act together in that country and decide, are you going
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  Speaker 7: to be an Islamic country that's allowed yourself to be
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  Speaker 7: taken over, or are you going to be the United
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  Speaker 7: Kingdom and Great Britain that's a NATO ally, and you're
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  Speaker 7: going to work with the NATO allies in good faith?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'll let Thomas answer that, but I'll chime in
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  Speaker 1: my 10 seconds and say, Judging by who's in charge
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  Speaker 1: of that country right now, I don't think that's ever
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  Speaker 1: going to change. You would have to kick out so
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  Speaker 1: many people in high office, their parliament, their mayors, that
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  Speaker 1: are mostly all Islamic folks to stop that takeover. And
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  Speaker 1: I think it's just too late. I think, Thomas, didn't
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  Speaker 1: you describe it as your country's in stage four cancer?
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  Speaker 1: We're in stage two. We could still beat it, but
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  Speaker 1: I think your country's going down. That's right.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it sounds like I should make the Colonel
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  Speaker 5: the Prime Minister. You seem to have some good answers
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  Speaker 5: to our problems. But look, this is the problem with
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  Speaker 5: the UK. And, you know, we're talking about the fact
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  Speaker 5: that they've been released. Let's not forget that if you
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  Speaker 5: were a, you know, a right wing conservative and you
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  Speaker 5: maybe tweeted something that the government didn't agree with, there's
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  Speaker 5: no bail for you.
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  Speaker 1: You're staying in jail.
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  Speaker 5: We've got a bunch of guys that were rioting a
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  Speaker 5: couple of weeks ago. There's no bail for them. They're
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  Speaker 5: locked in jail. They're releasing these terrorists. It's completely insane.
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  Speaker 5: And as the colonel said, they've gone against what the
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  Speaker 5: president said, which is just completely outrageous. So I once again,
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  Speaker 5: as every time I'm on here, I'm just embarrassed to
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  Speaker 5: be British, to be honest with you.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you moved to America. So you're one of us.
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  Speaker 5: Land of the free.
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  Speaker 1: It's totally OK. Yeah, it's exactly the land of the
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  Speaker 1: free and the brave. Appreciate you, Thomas, for coming on, Colonel.
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  Speaker 1: You as well. Gentlemen, I'll probably need you again later
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  Speaker 1: this week as we learn more. If the Brits will
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  Speaker 1: give us the details. Thank you, guys.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks.
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  Speaker 8: And while we're proud to advocate on behalf of men
• 17:57
  Speaker 8: and women who happen to be of Hispanic descent, we
• 18:00
  Speaker 8: never forget that we are first and foremost American business.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: Amen. And so well said. And that person right there,
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: I'll fill you in in just a second, is going
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: to be our next guest. But if you weren't watching
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: earlier today, you missed what we were airing. The United
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: States Hispanic Business Council hosted a huge event down in Dallas,
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: and they were covering all kinds of critical topics facing
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: business owners ahead of the midterms. We're talking health care costs, immigration,
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: small business advocacy. These are all top issues for all
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: communities and especially the Hispanic community. Now, speaking of the midterms,
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: one of the guests at the big summit today, Texas
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Attorney General and Republican Senate candidate and our good friend,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Ken Paxton, was in attendance. Matter of fact, he was
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: there for about an hour talking with a panel. And
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: I hope it does some good because Ken has to win.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: We cannot have James Tallarico, in my opinion, in the Senate. Now,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: today's event, critically important. Why? Well, because you've got millions
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: and millions of eligible Latino voters in Texas. And which
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: way will they go? Left or right? What's more, an
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: estimated 36 million Hispanic individuals are eligible to vote in
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: this country. Latinos represent the second largest group of voting
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: age citizens in our country. About 65% of all Hispanic
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: eligible voters live across just five major states, Arizona, California, Florida,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: New York, and Texas. And securing their vote is critical.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: That's why events like this are critical for Republicans to win. Now,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: the man behind today's event, our next guest, says the
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: number one central challenge for small businesses is affordability. And
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: that issue, of course, was addressed with Paxton on the
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: stage earlier today.
• 19:49
  Speaker 9: Part of my plan is also to give a $ 25, 000.
• 19:51
  Speaker 10: Deduction for medical expenses.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: So people are inundated now.
• 19:55
  Speaker 11: With medical expenses and prescription drug costs.
• 19:58
  Speaker 10: This would allow them to deduct for each person and
• 20:00
  Speaker 10: their family.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Up to $ 25, 000. It could end up being a lot
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: of money. Joining us now, the man behind the event,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: President and CEO of the United States Hispanic Business Council,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Javier Palomares, on the program for the first time. Javier,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: thank you so much for coming on. Why do this
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: event in Texas at this time, 36 days before? Fill
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: us in.
• 20:24
  Speaker 10: Well, I mean, if you think about it, Texas is
• 20:27
  Speaker 10: a huge economy. It's the second largest economy in the
• 20:29
  Speaker 10: United States. On a global basis, Texas by itself would
• 20:34
  Speaker 10: rank the sixth largest economy globally. This is no small feat.
• 20:39
  Speaker 10: And anybody running to represent the state of Texas has
• 20:43
  Speaker 10: got a very large role to fill. And so we
• 20:48
  Speaker 10: were delighted that General Paxton was able to spend an
• 20:53
  Speaker 10: entire hour with us to talk about a variety of
• 20:55
  Speaker 10: issues that you've already pointed to, immigration, affordability, energy prices,
• 21:02
  Speaker 10: health care, things that matter to the American small business community.
• 21:06
  Speaker 10: There are three and a half million small businesses in
• 21:09
  Speaker 10: the state of Texas. 1.8 million of those are Hispanic owned.
• 21:14
  Speaker 10: And we were in lockstep with the smaller business community
• 21:19
  Speaker 10: throughout the nation. But having somebody with the stature and
• 21:23
  Speaker 10: the knowledge and the experience of General Ken Paxton was
• 21:30
  Speaker 10: wonderful for us and it was a great conversation. He
• 21:32
  Speaker 10: spent a lot of quality time, addressed the issue straight on,
• 21:36
  Speaker 10: no slogans, no double talk. He spoke clearly about the
• 21:42
  Speaker 10: issues that matter to our community.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Javier, he said he spent an hour with you on
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: stage there answering the questions and not using slogans and jargon.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: What'd you make of Ken personally? And two, did you
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: invite James Tallarico?
• 21:54
  Speaker 10: We will be talking to James Tallarico on Wednesday.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Oh, OK.
• 22:00
  Speaker 10: What I made of Ken Paxson, listen, I got a,
• 22:04
  Speaker 10: you know, kind of a sneak preview of his life
• 22:07
  Speaker 10: and his calendar when we were trying to coordinate this event.
• 22:11
  Speaker 10: And it is mind boggling how busy this guy is.
• 22:16
  Speaker 10: So for him to spend this kind of time to
• 22:18
  Speaker 10: fly in just to do this event and then quickly
• 22:21
  Speaker 10: get out. And I tell you, he promised an hour.
• 22:25
  Speaker 10: We did exactly 59 minutes. And then he's got a
• 22:29
  Speaker 10: job to do. He's on the job, actually.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I know. I've been trying to he's come
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: on the show a lot in the last few months.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: It's hard to get him. And that's fine. I want
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: him out there campaigning. Let me ask another important one.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: What are Republicans, because this is a conservative opinionated talk show,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: what are Republicans going to need to do to get
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: the Hispanic vote in 36 days, Javier?
• 22:48
  Speaker 10: You know, I think they need to stay focused on
• 22:49
  Speaker 10: the issues. For our community, Dan, it's not about slogans.
• 22:53
  Speaker 10: It's about we need honest, sincere candidates and elected officials
• 23:01
  Speaker 10: that will speak plainly to us. We've talked about data
• 23:04
  Speaker 10: centers by way of example. And, you know, everybody's kind
• 23:08
  Speaker 10: of demonizing the data center issue. I'm not here to
• 23:11
  Speaker 10: say it's right or wrong. But the reality of it
• 23:13
  Speaker 10: is we spend four times as much water watering our
• 23:18
  Speaker 10: golf courses than we do providing water for our data centers.
• 23:23
  Speaker 10: And yet I don't see anybody demonizing.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Saying shut down. That's a good point of view.
• 23:28
  Speaker 10: It's that kind of candor. and honesty that we respect
• 23:32
  Speaker 10: and that we expect from our elected officials.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: And he did it.
• 23:35
  Speaker 12: He nailed it.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: So you want somebody to be speaking honestly. Hey, you're
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: dealing with politicians, Javier. Hold on. You don't want slogans
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: and you want actions, not just words. I'm going to
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: leave it right there. If folks want to learn more
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: about what you do for Hispanic small businesses, what's the
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: website they can go to?
• 23:52
  Speaker 10: USHBC.com.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: There we go. Javier, thank you. Appreciate you, sir. Take care.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: God bless.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: God bless you. Okay, folks, the war on drugs now
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: turning to a war on peptides. The peptide craze hitting
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: the U.S. and now China taking notice, flooding our market
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: through Mexico with dangerous fake peptides. Former acting Secretary of
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Homeland Security under Trump, Chad Wolf, weighs in next. For
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• 25:05
  Speaker 13: We've seen drug seizures go up and the availability of
• 25:09
  Speaker 13: drugs in our cities go down. Fortunately, we've seen fentanyl
• 25:14
  Speaker 13: deaths go down, but they're way, way too high. That's
• 25:17
  Speaker 13: all the pressure that we continue to pour into it.
• 25:19
  Speaker 13: That's because of President Trump's leadership.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Thank you, sir. DHS Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen a couple
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: of months back there during a budget hearing. And we've
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: got to give big props to President Trump, as he did,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: because he's actually getting dangerous drugs off of our streets,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: not allowing more to pour in like the previous regime.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: From preventing drug trafficking by closing the border, and I
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: mean closing it, You saw my special report a couple
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: weeks back where I went to the actual border. We
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: were on a boat, in a plane, on the border
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: in a truck. They've stopped the crossings, folks. Like, it's
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: the lowest number since we've been keeping numbers. Again, why
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: didn't Obama do it? Why didn't W do it? Why
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: didn't Biden do it? Took Trump to do it. The
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: White House is making record progress. And again, the numbers,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: the data, they prove it. You can't fake math. In fact,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: where I live, where OAN's based, the San Diego area,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: their field office, Customs and Border Protection, seized over 8,000
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: pounds of narcotics in July alone. 144 drug smuggling operations
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: busted alone. They took over 2,000 pounds of coke off
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: the streets, 5,000 pounds of meth off the streets, hundreds
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: and hundreds of pounds of heroin and fentanyl. Estimated street value,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: 67 million bucks. Again, thanks to the brave men and
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: women of CBP and the Trump administration. The Coast Guard
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: also hit a record this summer, confiscating over 225,000 pounds
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: of cocaine just in the Eastern Pacific. Dubbed Operation Pacific Viper,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: the mission started in August of 25, targeted major maritime
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: routes that those narco-terrorists used. The historic crackdown on cartels
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: also set the stage for the creation of a massive
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: coalition to combat cartels in the Western Hemisphere. It's called
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Shield of the Americas. Again, launched by President Trump, of course,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: nobody else. Back in March of this year, it contains
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: 19 countries, and their summer summit took place in New
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: York last week amid the 81st session of the United
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Nations General Assembly. President Trump hosted that meeting and called
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: for more action to stop the drugs.
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: For years, cartels have waged war on the people of
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: this hemisphere. Now, we're waging war on them. The job
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: of every leader in this room is, above all, to
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: protect the physical safety of your people. These are violent terrorists,
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: paramilitary forces in control of physical territory, and that's because
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: nobody ever did anything to stop them. You're much tougher
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: than them, and you have the backing of the United States.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Mr. President. Now, let's talk about this war
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: on drugs, of course. You know who's funding a lot
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: of it or allowing it to happen as well or
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: even pushing it? Our biggest adversary, China. Reports indicate Chinese
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: chemical manufacturers previously tied to the sale of fentanyl precursors
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: are now expanding into the peptide business. You've heard me
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: talk about peptides. I use them. My wife uses them.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Bobby Kennedy Jr. promotes them. Now you've got to watch
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: out for those, folks. They're reportedly making Precurs for illicit drugs, however,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: they're exploiting this rising demand for peptides. And now you've
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: got consumers out there probably getting bad peptides, thinking they're
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: getting good ones. So now what are we going to
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: do about it? We need the regulators to come in,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: try to regulate peptides better, and know what you're getting,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: what you're going to inject. Joining me now to weigh
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: in on all this, he's the former acting Secretary of
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Homeland Security under President Trump, and now the Chairman of
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Homeland Security at the America First Policy Institute, our good friend,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Chad Wolf.
• 28:59
  Speaker 9: Back on Real America.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Chad, this was concerning to me because literally I had
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: heard about peptides before, never had used them. And then,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: of course, Bobby started talking about them. My wife looks
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: into them. We talked to a professional. We started using
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: them in March of this year. Now, I get them
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: from an accredited company in America. They're all American sourced.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: They're 99.9% like pharmaceutical grade. I know mine are good.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: But most Americans... might not know what they're getting is good.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: And now we got to worry about counterfeit peptides. Welcome back, brother. Yeah,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: it's good to be here. And you're exactly right, Dan.
• 29:33
  Speaker 14: I think, you know, that's the concern that I have
• 29:37
  Speaker 14: and what a lot of Americans should really be on
• 29:39
  Speaker 14: the lookout for, right? Because you have, unless it's being
• 29:41
  Speaker 14: prescribed by a doctor, you're getting it from a licensed pharmacy,
• 29:46
  Speaker 14: you know where you're getting your peptides from, it becomes
• 29:49
  Speaker 14: very concerning. Because as you indicated, I think China is
• 29:55
  Speaker 14: allowing or I should say pushing a lot of these
• 29:58
  Speaker 14: peptides unauthorized peptides into the United States. And a lot
• 30:02
  Speaker 14: of Americans, millions of Americans who are injecting themselves and others, uh, don't,
• 30:07
  Speaker 14: don't really know what exactly they're injecting themselves with. Um,
• 30:11
  Speaker 14: a lot of this stuff is mislabeled. A lot of
• 30:13
  Speaker 14: it is not FDA approved. Um, and so it's not,
• 30:16
  Speaker 14: so it's illegal to sell. Um, but that's what we
• 30:18
  Speaker 14: see today.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: You were the top dog at Homeland Security. Why do
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: you think China's trying to get into this game? Is
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: it because the peptide or pardon me, the fentanyl sales
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: have gone down since we actually shut down the border,
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: made the cartels terrorists and we're actually stopping it from
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: coming in. So what the Chinese manufacturers went, oh, here's
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: another way we can make some money off the dumb Americans.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: We'll give them crappy peptides.
• 30:40
  Speaker 14: Well, I think, you know, in a lot of instances,
• 30:42
  Speaker 14: you follow the money.
• 30:43
  Speaker 10: Right.
• 30:43
  Speaker 14: And as the United States and the Trump administration, as
• 30:46
  Speaker 14: you indicated during the monologue there a little bit, is
• 30:49
  Speaker 14: that they have really cut back and really enforced fentanyl
• 30:53
  Speaker 14: coming into the United States, primarily through Mexico, but the
• 30:57
  Speaker 14: precursors obviously coming from China. And so those Chinese manufacturers
• 31:00
  Speaker 14: have shifted their focus and said, okay, well, if you
• 31:03
  Speaker 14: stop us there, then we see the appetite that Americans
• 31:06
  Speaker 14: have for these peptides. We're gonna continue to make our
• 31:10
  Speaker 14: money one way or another. And so we're gonna go
• 31:12
  Speaker 14: down this route and it becomes very difficult, right? Customs
• 31:16
  Speaker 14: and Border Protection can't inspect every box, every package that
• 31:20
  Speaker 14: comes into the United States. And so a lot of
• 31:23
  Speaker 14: this stuff is mislabeled on purpose and is coming in.
• 31:27
  Speaker 14: And again, you know, my warning to the American people
• 31:30
  Speaker 14: is making sure that you understand what you're injecting into
• 31:33
  Speaker 14: your body and making sure that that, again, is coming
• 31:36
  Speaker 14: from a physician, a licensed pharmacy, an entity that you
• 31:41
  Speaker 14: know very well.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. And besides that warning we just threw up
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: from the FDA, throw that other headline up, Chris, if
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: you would, please. There's a lot of people out there.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: And again, my wife found this. A lot of women
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: that are trying to get on peptides for different reasons,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: whether it's menopause and hot flashes or to get in
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: better shape, whatever it may be. Now there's a big warning,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: especially to those women trying to take them on the
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: gray market. They're reaching out on social media, online. I
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: guess they call it the dark web. There's secret words
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: and code words like, hey, I need this tied, and
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: I don't know what. Again, I do mine legally, so
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: I don't know anything about this crap. But this is
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: a New York Post article, and this is legit, folks.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: So if you're out there and you're thinking of getting them,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: don't be using secret codes and dark websites and TikTok
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: or Snapchat. It's not going to be good for you.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Real quick, before I lose you, Chad, I want to
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: run this warning from our top guy over at Health
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: and Human Services, and that, of course, is RFK Jr.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Roll this.
• 32:37
  Speaker 9: And we're going to end the war at FDA against
• 32:39
  Speaker 9: alternative medicine. Thank you. The war on stem cells, the
• 32:42
  Speaker 9: war on chelating drugs, the war on peptides, the war
• 32:45
  Speaker 9: on anything that, you know, is not going to make
• 32:50
  Speaker 9: big harm.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Music to my ears.
• 32:52
  Speaker 9: The war on vitamins.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 32:54
  Speaker 9: Vitamins, minerals, amino acids, nutrients, peptides. I mean, these things
• 32:58
  Speaker 9: that can heal humanity. Our position is that FDA has
• 33:01
  Speaker 9: a job. just to do the science on these kind
• 33:04
  Speaker 9: of issues and then tell the public what they've learned
• 33:07
  Speaker 9: from the science, but not tell people and not tell
• 33:09
  Speaker 9: physicians what they can and cannot prescribe.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Chad, I feel like when Bobby said that, like we're
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: going to end the war on peptides, it was like
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: opening the door for folks to go, yeah, I wonder
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: what they were. Now I'm going to go try them.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: That was this summer. And now all of a sudden,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: within about three, four months, we get this report about
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: the Chinese manufacturers pushing these fake, crappy, God knows what
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: they're mixing with peptides into America. I don't want to
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: throw any blame on Bobby because I'm glad he is
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: trying to get rid of that stigma about peptides and
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: get rid of the war the federal government had on
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: them because they can be good. What I'm worried is
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: because he opened that door and now men's Americans want
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: to try it, they're going to get bad stuff that
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: could poison them. I give you the final word, sir.
• 33:49
  Speaker 14: Well, absolutely. Obviously, the growth has certainly been there on
• 33:54
  Speaker 14: the use of peptides recently. I believe what the secretary
• 33:56
  Speaker 14: is really referring to And the FDA is doing a
• 34:00
  Speaker 14: good job is on known peptides that have been around
• 34:03
  Speaker 14: for some period of time. You know, he doesn't want
• 34:06
  Speaker 14: the war on those types of things that have been
• 34:09
  Speaker 14: out there and known to millions of Americans. But the
• 34:13
  Speaker 14: reverse of that is obviously new peptides. The ones that
• 34:15
  Speaker 14: we are talking about, the ones that are coming in
• 34:17
  Speaker 14: from China today are almost completely new. A whole class
• 34:22
  Speaker 14: of peptides that, again, many Americans and certainly FDA are
• 34:26
  Speaker 14: having a hard time tracking. And so What this lends
• 34:30
  Speaker 14: itself to is an enforcement approach across the federal government,
• 34:33
  Speaker 14: from the FDA to the Department of Justice to DHS
• 34:36
  Speaker 14: and Customs, and a spotlight, just as the Trump administration,
• 34:40
  Speaker 14: rightly so, has put a spotlight on fentanyl interdiction. They
• 34:45
  Speaker 14: also need to look at these peptides and making sure
• 34:49
  Speaker 14: that what's coming in and what's being injected by Americans
• 34:53
  Speaker 14: is truly safe.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: There you go. Folks, you heard it from Chad, you
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: heard it from Bobby, everybody in the administration. Use them.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: They're good for you, certain ones. Just make sure you
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: know where you're buying them and getting them from. Like
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Chad said, get a health professional. Don't just be talking
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: to your gym rat friend that's training you and say, oh, yeah,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: these tides are good. No, no, no, no, no. Get
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: a professional. Make sure you know where they're coming from. Chad,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: as always, thank you, sir, for coming on. Appreciate you.
• 35:17
  Speaker 14: Good to see you.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: Yep, nice seeing you. All righty, straight ahead. Last week
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: we told you another celebrity... overdose. This one, young, young man,
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: the son of supermodel Cindy Crawford. His death now raising
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: the warning flags for all families out there. Talk to
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: your loved ones. Addictions are running rampant out there. Our
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: good friend, independent journalist Ben Berquam, if you didn't know,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: he dealt with addiction in his past for years. Now
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: he's sharing his experience to a brand new book. He's
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: going to join us next to discuss. Don't go away.
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  Speaker 15: So the Adderall was to hopefully, I guess, fix what
• 36:38
  Speaker 15: they thought. I don't really understand diagnosis that well. I
• 36:42
  Speaker 15: do know that they're handed out like candy. So at
• 36:45
  Speaker 15: the time, they thought I had ADD or ADHD and OCD.
• 36:51
  Speaker 15: And that was to hopefully kind of hone my thoughts
• 36:54
  Speaker 15: and quiet the chaos.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: In retrospect, folks, that is so hard to watch. That there,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: if you don't know, was Presley Gerber. He's now late
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: son of supermodel Cindy Crawford. He was only 27 years
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: old when he died just about a week and a
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: half ago. And obviously, judging by that, he was clearly
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: struggling for years. Matter of fact, he documented his battle
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: with addiction and his mental health issues online for several years.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: And he is one of the countless celebrities. I'll forget that.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: He's one of the countless Americans to deal with and
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: then to succumb to their issues. The news of his
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: death shook his family. Hollywood, investigation now underway on how
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: you check into a place and then still overdose when
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: you're at a clinic. Here's what we know. Gerber checked
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: into a recovery center in Santa Monica, California, Saturday, September 19th.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: Reports were he were under the influence when he checked in.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: Then 12 hours later, first responders got the call. When
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: they showed up, he was already in cardiac arrest. They
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: suspected an overdose. He was pronounced dead within minutes of
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: the call. Police investigating his death as an overdose focusing
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: on now tracing the supplier of what killed him. Local
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: mental examiner waiting for the full toxicology reports, but there
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: are still so many unanswered questions. Now, he had a
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: weekly social media series called Mental Health Mondays, where he
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: talked about addiction, recovery, and he was trying to help
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: other people through it. Take a look.
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  Speaker 15: The reason that that person's reaching outside of themselves is
• 38:29
  Speaker 15: because they're hurting, and they're trying to make themselves feel better. So,
• 38:33
  Speaker 15: if you know, you want to break this down. Giving
• 38:36
  Speaker 15: that person more reasons to feel shameful is going to
• 38:41
  Speaker 15: fuel that fire. It's going to make them feel more shame,
• 38:44
  Speaker 15: which is going to bury them deeper in that whatever
• 38:47
  Speaker 15: hole they're trying to dig themselves out of.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: He was trying so hard, folks. And so was this actress.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Remember what we told you several weeks back about Hayden Pantier?
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: She died at the age of 36. New reports now
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: say that her death was caused by fentanyl Xanax, and
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: several other drugs that were all in her system. Investigators
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: say they found a bunch of prescription pill bottles throughout
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: her rental property, including one that contained fentanyl-laced pills disguised
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: as Adderall. And now the DEA is trying to find
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: the source of those drugs. No suspects have been identified yet,
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: but they are looking into a drug dealer out in
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: LA where they believe she bought them. All the while,
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: we're continuing to get a glimpse of the struggles she
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: and millions of Americans face with addiction.
• 39:36
  Speaker 16: I realized that I was more afraid of being alone
• 39:39
  Speaker 16: than being abused. And in order to be around that
• 39:42
  Speaker 16: kind of behavior, it took me dulling my senses. and
• 39:46
  Speaker 16: numbing myself with substances in order to silence that rational
• 39:50
  Speaker 16: voice in my head that was telling me exactly what
• 39:53
  Speaker 16: was going on and the many reasons why I needed
• 39:57
  Speaker 16: to get myself out of this toxic relationship.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: And that leads us to our next guest. You've seen
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: him on the program for several years, and he has
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: firsthand experience with addiction, He has beat it, he has
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: documented it, and now he wrote a book about it.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: Step Into Fear, A Journey from Addiction to Courage and Purpose,
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: which is now available on Amazon. And you'll probably recognize
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: that guy in the picture. He's the founder of Frontline America,
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: the host of Law and Border over on RAV, and
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: he's been on this show a lot. I got to
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: catch up with my good friend Ben Berkwam and talk
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: about his new book, and I learned a whole bunch
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: about his life of addiction, how he battled it, beat it,
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: and won. Watch this. Ben, congrats on the book, putting
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: it out. I firmly believe, bro, you're going to save
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: lives with this. Just briefly, tell folks your story on
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: how you went from addiction to a patriotic, independent reporter
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: who's broke and covered some of the biggest stories over
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: the last five, six years.
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: Well, thanks for having me on, Dan. Yeah, it's timely
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: and tragic, the amount of deaths we have going on.
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: A lot of people don't know my entire story, but
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: next month will be the 10-year anniversary.
• 41:07
  Speaker 11: Of getting clean from crack addiction.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: Good for you.
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: I was a crack addict for three years.
• 41:12
  Speaker 12: Nobody knew.
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: My wife didn't know. She knew something was wrong. We
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: had been married for over 10 years at that point.
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: And I just kept going further and further down this
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: hole of darkness. I was living a double life on
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: my own, getting high on my own and hiding it
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: from everyone, trying to pretend like I had it all together.
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: And the night I actually came clean to my life
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: is the night that I was set free from the addiction.
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: both crack alcohol and tobacco all in one night um
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: and you know for everyone it's different there's there's different
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: reasons why people use different substances i just thank god
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: that fentanyl wasn't around when i was using yeah but
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: uh i also uh i just that was part of
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: right the reason to write the book was to give
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: people hope that there is a way out that you
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: can succeed that it's not hopeless and that's my prayer
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: with the book is that it becomes a uh an
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: inspiration for people that are either addicted or just searching
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: for purpose in their life and want to make the
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: world a better place and fight for this country.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: I know you sent me one. I can't wait to
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: read it, Ben, and God bless you, brother, for being
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: that voice. I want to throw up a stat that
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: is staggering. Over 48 million Americans, and these are the
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: only ones that are diagnosed, have a diagnosed substance disorder
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: in the U.S. I would say that number probably 20,
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: 30% higher from the ones who aren't diagnosed, who aren't
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: seeking help. What do you think?
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's clearly an epidemic in our country. The irony
• 42:38
  Speaker 4: is in places like where I'm at now, we're in LAX,
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: we're speaking down in California tomorrow. Cities and states like
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: California and places like LA actually do more harm than good.
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: In many cases, they provide the tools for people to
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: get high rather than.
• 42:53
  Speaker 11: To get clean.
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: And they've taken away, they incentivize getting high and they
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: take away the penalties for the accountability that comes with
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: poor choice.
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: You're talking about the drug kits, right? Ben, the drug
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: kits they give out in San Francisco and LA and
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: Portland and Seattle.
• 43:07
  Speaker 11: And needles and all of that.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: These blue cities give them stuff to take the drugs.
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: How insane is that?
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's totally, I mean, it's great if you want
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: to keep people addicted. It's terrible if you want a
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: sober society. And so that's what we have now. We
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: have a generation of young people in particular that went
• 43:25
  Speaker 4: through COVID, that are lost in life, that don't have
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: a purpose, that don't know the Lord. God's been taken
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: out of society and replaced with this inept government. And
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: so it's no wonder so many people turn to substance
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: to try to fill that void in their life. And
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: I'm living proof that there's much more to life than that.
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: And you do have a purpose and you can get
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: set free and it's not the substance.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: You know, you talked about your faith. I got a
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: headline here about the rule of faith. I think that's
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: where people need to be looking because you look at
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: our medical profession these days and I don't see too
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: many docs actually helping people. It's like, oh, let's get
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: you off this drug by prescribing another drug. So how
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: about you go talk to your pastor, your priest, your
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: faith leader? How about you get in a pew, get
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: your butt in church, start talking to God, reading the Bible.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: I know that helped you a lot, didn't it, Ben?
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, that was the key.
• 44:15
  Speaker 11: That was my foundation.
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: That's what set me free. God set me free, recovered
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: my marriage, recovered my life.
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: Gave me purpose.
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: And that's what it's about, finding your purpose in life.
• 44:25
  Speaker 4: And the key, the initial key to that is finding God,
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: because that's.
• 44:28
  Speaker 11: Why we're all here.
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: So that to me, if you don't get that right,
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: everything else falls apart.
• 44:33
  Speaker 11: If you get that right, you got a chance.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: Love it. Ben, I'll let you get on the road.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: Remind them what the book's called and where do I
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: find it. I know you're sending me one, but I
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: want my viewers to grab it, brother. Where do they
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: get it? Yeah, Step Into Fear.
• 44:44
  Speaker 11: You can order it everywhere now.
• 44:45
  Speaker 4: It's got my entire journey, all the goods and the
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: bads and everything in between. You can watch the videos.
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: It's got QR codes that you can scan the videos.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: It's awesome.
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, anywhere that books are sold. Just
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: type in Step Into Fear and you'll find it.
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: Love it. Ben, thank you, brother, for being strong and
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: sharing your story. No man especially wants to come out
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: and admit that they have in addiction, you hit it
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: and took it on head on, you beat it, and
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: now look at you, man. You're prospering, you're flourishing, your
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: family is, God bless you, you're a patriot, we love you,
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: take care. Thanks for sharing, Ben, I can't wait to
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: read that book. Already a brand new film out with
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: Brad Pitt is putting a spotlight on military canine units
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: and what happens to them after their years of combat service.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: They usually get put down, folks. That's not good. So
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: we'll be joined by a veteran who's helping to raise
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: money for these brave, furry heroes to ensure they can
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: lead a full life after their service, and we'll tell
• 45:46
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  Speaker 16: Put her.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: There, pal.
• 46:41
  Speaker 6: Damn, you're handsome.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: It's okay. Come on. Just a bad dream.
• 46:55
  Speaker 16: We're not there anymore.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: Did you watch it this weekend? You know the old phrase,
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: dogs are man's best friend. Well, there's a brand new movie.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: You've got to go watch it, I'm telling you. Heart
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: of the Beast, produced by Paramount, starring, duh, Brad Pitt.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: But I say the big star of this film is
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: not Brad. It's the dog, Odin. So in this film,
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: he takes through a journey to survive a horrific plane
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: crash in the Alaskan wilderness. Now, this was released with
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: a nonprofit that provides treatment to retired military dogs called
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: the Warrior Foundation. Their representatives have promoted the film all
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: over social media. Why? Because they're trying to explain that
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: these heroes that serve our military in combat come home.
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: And if no one will take them, they're put down.
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: And we need to stop it.
• 47:49
  Speaker 17: What the movie really depicts well is that trust in
• 47:51
  Speaker 17: the bond that's been forged there I don't think can
• 47:53
  Speaker 17: ever be broken. Mickey and I have some of the
• 47:55
  Speaker 17: same qualities and attributes in our relationship. The bond that
• 47:59
  Speaker 17: this dog has to me, it's inseparable. It's unconditional. And
• 48:02
  Speaker 17: that's only amplified by the bond that he and I.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: Have through our military service.
• 48:07
  Speaker 17: I would thank him. I would thank him for being
• 48:09
  Speaker 17: such a positive part of my life when I was
• 48:11
  Speaker 17: in the military. And then in retirement, I would thank
• 48:14
  Speaker 17: him for being the sole purpose in life.
• 48:19
  Speaker 11: That brought my smile back.
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: Now, there are several nonprofits out there that work to
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: help military dogs heal from their trauma, provide them with
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: rehabilitation and lifelong care, and also several charities that help
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: them just make sure they survive, that they don't get euthanized. Which,
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: by the way, for decades, that was the military's standard
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: operating procedure. They were like a piece of equipment. You
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: use them in combat, they come home, they get put down.
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: Research shows military dogs face extreme stress, and they actually
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: experience PTSD just like their handlers. Experts also estimate that
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: about five to 10% of deployed military dogs also show
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: signs of extreme psychological trauma, which dogs can get aggressive,
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: dogs can get depressed. Enter our next guest. He's a
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: retired Lieutenant Colonel with over 28 years of service in
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: the Marine Corps, and he also hosts a big annual
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: fundraiser in Southern California right near the OAN studios, here
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: near San Diego. He's trying to put golf, veterans, and
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: these dogs, and hopefully some of your cash all together
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: so we can save these brave heroes. Because folks, that's
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: what they are. They serve us just like I did,
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: just like our next guest, just like many of you
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: watching right now that are veterans. And if you've ever
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: worked with these canines, you know what I'm saying.
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: Is true.
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: Joining us now, Marine Corps vet and president of VetSource Inc.,
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: Michael Pagano on the program for the first time. Mike,
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: nice to meet you, man. We've been texting and talking
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: back and forth on the phone. Somebody told me about
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: what Mike does with this golf tournament, helping support these
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: charities that help these dogs. And with this movie coming out,
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: it all just came together. Perfect timing. Mike, welcome, brother.
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: How are you doing?
• 50:04
  Speaker 11: Thank you. Thank you so much for having me on today.
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about these charities. One of them
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: that's featured, I think towards the end of the film,
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: they do a little thing that tells you, the warrior one,
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: you're benefiting, but there's other ones out there. There's not
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: a lot, but there is several charities out there that help.
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: Give folks the numbers at home because for years, we
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: didn't even, did we even give the troops the option
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: to take the dog? Like I know cops, cops, they
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: can take the dog if they want to, otherwise they're
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: put down too. What happens in the military?
• 50:33
  Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean, back in, 2000, as far as back
• 50:37
  Speaker 12: there about 26 years ago, they were still putting the
• 50:39
  Speaker 12: dogs down. And a couple of these organizations, one started
• 50:43
  Speaker 12: by a retired Navy SEAL, Mike Ritland, back in 2010.
• 50:49
  Speaker 12: He's based out of Texas and has a sanctuary there,
• 50:51
  Speaker 12: and that's with Warrior Dog Foundation. And what you're seeing
• 50:54
  Speaker 12: there right now on the video is his ranch, his sanctuary.
• 50:57
  Speaker 12: And to be honest with you, some of them are
• 51:00
  Speaker 12: rehabbed and rehabilitated.
• 51:02
  Speaker 11: They have PTSD. They have a lot of scars on them.
• 51:05
  Speaker 12: And he rehabilitates them with a staff, but some of them,
• 51:09
  Speaker 12: they're just too far gone. And so he has them
• 51:13
  Speaker 12: stay at their sanctuary and live out their life.
• 51:15
  Speaker 11: And they live a good life. I love that.
• 51:17
  Speaker 12: He's got about 25, 30 dogs all at one time
• 51:20
  Speaker 12: on his sanctuary, being trained, trying to be rehabilitated with
• 51:26
  Speaker 12: their handlers or former handlers.
• 51:28
  Speaker 11: And then if not, they live out their life in
• 51:30
  Speaker 11: the sanctuary.
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: Mike, what's the other one? I know there was two
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: charities at your golf tournament benefits.
• 51:35
  Speaker 12: Yes, and then Mission Canine Rescue, both based out of Texas.
• 51:39
  Speaker 12: They're down more in the Houston area. They take military
• 51:43
  Speaker 12: dogs and reunite them with their owners.
• 51:45
  Speaker 11: And it costs a lot.
• 51:46
  Speaker 12: You know, Kristen, the CEO, she'll go from, say, Texas
• 51:50
  Speaker 12: to Washington, D.C., pick up two retired military dogs and
• 51:53
  Speaker 12: fly them to Korea and reunite them with their handlers
• 51:57
  Speaker 12: in Korea that are still serving in the U S
• 52:00
  Speaker 12: air force at say Kunsan or Osan.
• 52:02
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 52:02
  Speaker 12: So that's her right there in the video there.
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: And she's- Mike, why aren't we lobbying Pete? Why aren't
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: we getting ahold of the Secretary of War Hegseth? You know,
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: he is so pro-troop versus the politicians who've run our
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: war department over the last decades. We gotta get him
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: to change the rule. I mean, most police units out there,
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: if the officer wants, when the K-9 retires, they can
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: take them home. Doesn't always happen and they do get euthanized,
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: but a lot of officers will take the dogs home.
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: Why don't we give that option to the troops to
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: take their dog with them home?
• 52:32
  Speaker 11: And they should.
• 52:32
  Speaker 12: They try to do that and get some of the handlers,
• 52:35
  Speaker 12: but it doesn't always work out that way. And rescues
• 52:38
  Speaker 12: like this, especially these two, they're the ones that facilitate that.
• 52:43
  Speaker 12: And there you can see one of the sanctuaries.
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: Great looking facility down there in Texas.
• 52:47
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: All right, Mike, real quick to wrap things up. I
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: know it's a far stretch for some folks. They'll probably
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: be able to make it out here in several weeks.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: But you've got the big annual golf tournament coming up
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: in SoCal. Put the info on the screen if they
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: want to learn more about how they can donate to
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: these charities through you or donate to play in the
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: golf tournament. Where do they go? How do we find
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: the info?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Dan.
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  Speaker 12: So they can go on golf. for canines.com. So it's
• 53:11
  Speaker 12: G O L F for the number canines.com. And, and
• 53:16
  Speaker 12: you don't have to go play golf here. You can
• 53:19
  Speaker 12: sign up and donate right there to either one of
• 53:23
  Speaker 12: the two rescues or directly to our event. We also
• 53:26
  Speaker 12: have like silent auction items that anyone around the world,
• 53:29
  Speaker 12: like even now McLaren F1 racing is a big sponsor
• 53:32
  Speaker 12: of ours. And when they start getting people out there
• 53:35
  Speaker 12: and looking at our event, they're bidding on stuff, say
• 53:38
  Speaker 12: from the UK, uh, and then we ship it out
• 53:40
  Speaker 12: to them. Everything is donated. No one's getting a paycheck.
• 53:44
  Speaker 12: Everybody's volunteering to help out, and we're trying to squeeze
• 53:46
  Speaker 12: out every dime to get to both of these rescues.
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: Real fast, when's the tournament? Where at? Give us that.
• 53:51
  Speaker 12: November 23rd at Cota da Casa Country Club in Southern California.
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 11: Orange County.
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: November, Orange County. It's a Monday, I believe. Yep, it's
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: a Monday. Get out there and donate to help save
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: these dogs, folks. They're serving their country just like Mike
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: and I did, and they deserve a happy life after
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: their service. And I'm so glad that Brad Pitt did
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: this film. Big shout out to him. And will you
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: show up for the golf tournament or at one of
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: these charities, Mr. Pitt? Let's throw it out there and help.
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: And a call out to Pete Hegseth. Let's change the rules.
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: Let the troops take their pooches home. Mike, God bless you, brother.
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you.
• 54:26
  Speaker 11: Thank you very much for having me on.
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: And folks, that does it for a Monday edition of
• 54:30
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• 54:33
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• 54:36
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• 54:38
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