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Droppin' Bunker-Buster Bombs, Dublin, Defender · Rich Valdés: This is America!

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Speaker 1: This is America with Rich Valdez powered by poliitweek dot
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Speaker 2: Former Christian Administration official.
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Speaker 4: Rich Valdez Communist now with the Washington Times.
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Speaker 1: This is America, Richiev.
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Speaker 1: With your host, Rich Valdez.
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Speaker 3: What's up, America. I am Rich Valdes Valdez with an
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Speaker 3: at Rich Valdes with an s now check this out.
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Speaker 3: We got some breaking news that I want to get
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Speaker 3: into right now. Just a little while ago, the United
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Speaker 3: States has dropped bunker buster bombs on a missile facility
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Speaker 3: that was secretly located near the Strait of Horror Moves.
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Speaker 3: This happened at ten I don't know, ten forty six
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Speaker 3: pm or nine to forty six pm Eastern time is
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Speaker 3: when this broke. So this is again brand new breaking
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Speaker 3: news that happened this evening. This is being reported by
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Speaker 3: the New York Post and it's one of the only
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Speaker 3: publications I see reporting this right now. But again, UK
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Speaker 3: dropping five thousand pounds bunker buster bombs on the Straight
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Speaker 3: of Horror Mooze and this is again breaking news. I'll
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Speaker 3: give you a little bit on this article here. The
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Speaker 3: massive attack was announced by US Central Command. That came
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Speaker 3: as the war with Iran has pretty much slowed down
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Speaker 3: the all shipping through the Persian Gulf Waterway because of
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Speaker 3: the lockdown, a gridlock that we're having in the Strait
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Speaker 3: of Horm Moves. Again, that announcement coming on Twitter again
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Speaker 3: just a couple hours ago, saying US Force has successfully
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Speaker 3: employed multiple five thousand pounds deep penetrator munitions on hardened
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Speaker 3: the Iranian missile sites along with the Rants coastline near
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Speaker 3: the Strait of Horm Mooz. And again that's according to
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Speaker 3: the US Central Command. They went on to say that
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Speaker 3: the Iranian anti ship cruise missiles in these sites posed
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Speaker 3: a risk to international shipping in the strait. So that's
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Speaker 3: the latest on that. Now, these again from the New
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Speaker 3: York Post, these massive bombs were developed to overcome these hardened,
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Speaker 3: deeply buried targets and overcome the challenges and designs were
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Speaker 3: specifically for a fighter and bomber aircraft. That's according to
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Speaker 3: the US Air Force press release from a couple of
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Speaker 3: years ago. Just give you some stats on how they're
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Speaker 3: doing it, what they're doing with and this is what's
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Speaker 3: causing the twenty seven percent increase that we've seen in
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Speaker 3: barrels of crude oil. So again, yesterday I said, or
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Speaker 3: even last week, I might have said, another two weeks
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Speaker 3: to five weeks or another fourteen to sixty some odd
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Speaker 3: days before the Strait of Hormuse is open for business.
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Speaker 3: I think we're well on our way to securing that. Apparently,
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Speaker 3: these bombs that were taken out in this facility that
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Speaker 3: they dropped the bunker buster on, there was two hundred
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Speaker 3: missiles inside this facility. They were hiding them inside a
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Speaker 3: bunker inside like on the side of a mountain. So
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Speaker 3: the last quote on this article here, the US will
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Speaker 3: continue to rapidly deplete Iron's ability to threaten freedom of
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Speaker 3: navigation in and around the Strait of Hormuz. That's Admiral
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Speaker 3: Brad Cooper, commander of US Central Command, and that was
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Speaker 3: released in a video statement. Our progress remained steady and
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Speaker 3: we remain vigilant against the enemy. Thank you, Admiral Cooper,
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Speaker 3: Thank you El Trompito, Thank you the United States military
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Speaker 3: and all of our partners from the Middle East that
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Speaker 3: are joining this effort. This is I think a necessary
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Speaker 3: thing to have a good forty or fifty years of prosperity. Right,
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Speaker 3: I'm looking at the next Industrial Revolution. We're going to
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Speaker 3: call it AI. Right, all sorts of things are going
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Speaker 3: to happen. I'm very bullish. I'm very optimistic on what happens,
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Speaker 3: not just AI, lots of things I think are are
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Speaker 3: going to happen, because when you have money, things will happen.
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Speaker 3: When you are able to eradicate a lot of the
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Speaker 3: nonsense right right now, some of the nonsense we deal
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Speaker 3: with domestically, is we've been dealing with domestically, have been
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Speaker 3: high interest rates, artificially inflated home values, things like that,
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Speaker 3: where people are they're they're not looking to make a deal.
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Speaker 3: Make it twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, when El Trompito and
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Speaker 3: his roaring economy had household incomes up almost seven grand
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Speaker 3: people were saying, you know, yeah, let's hire that new person.
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Speaker 3: Why everybody felt bullish on the economy. It felt great.
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Speaker 3: Interest rates were two percent, one and a half percent,
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Speaker 3: two and a half percent. People were getting four and
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Speaker 3: a half and five percent, three and a half percent,
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Speaker 3: and they were doing cartwheels. Those people are locked in
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Speaker 3: on their homes. They're like, hell, no, I'm not going
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Speaker 3: to sell my house ever where am I going to go?
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Speaker 3: Good for them? That's how you make the economy roar.
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Speaker 3: Not what we're doing now. Right now, we're dealing with
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Speaker 3: some hiccups. Right my buddy, uh when oh shout out
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Speaker 3: to my boy who he works in supply chain distribution
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Speaker 3: for a large hospital and explained that there was a
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Speaker 3: cyber attack on one of the large surgical supply companies
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Speaker 3: that his hospital in particular has a contract with, and
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Speaker 3: they have certain specialty products that they can only get
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Speaker 3: from this particular company that was compromised by a cyber
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Speaker 3: attack from Iran. Right, so Iran is fighting back. I
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Speaker 3: don't want to say they're week. These guys specialize in propaganda,
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Speaker 3: which is, you know, lying on TV and on the internet,
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Speaker 3: in the media and cyber this is what they do,
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Speaker 3: cyber warfare, and Wall Street journals reporting that they're getting
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Speaker 3: support material support from Russia. I know that Marco Rubio
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Speaker 3: is meeting with Sergei Lavrov and the guy who's been
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Speaker 3: with the Ayatola from day one, the Foreign Minister, although
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Speaker 3: I think he might have been killed. But all that aside,
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Speaker 3: this report from the Wall Street Journal is very interesting.
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Speaker 3: I'm going to see if I can get one of
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Speaker 3: my military people to come on and kind of walk
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Speaker 3: me through it. But Wall Street Journal here says March seventeenth,
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Speaker 3: four o'clock in the afternoon, Russia has been expanding its
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Speaker 3: intelligence sharing and military cooperation with Iran, providing satellite imagery
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Speaker 3: and improved drone technology to aid Tehran's targeting of US
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Speaker 3: forces in the region. Russia is trying to keep its
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Speaker 3: closest Middle Eastern partner in the fight against the US
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Speaker 3: and Israel military might, and they want to prolong this
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Speaker 3: war because it benefits Russia militarily and economically. The technology
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Speaker 3: provided includes components of modified Shaheed drones, which are meant
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Speaker 3: in proof, communications, navigation, and targeting as well as you know,
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Speaker 3: everything else they're wreaking havoc on. Russia has also been
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Speaker 3: drawing on its experience using drones in Ukraine, offering tactical
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Speaker 3: guidance on how many drones should be used in operations
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Speaker 3: and what altitudes they should strike from, which included a
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Speaker 3: senior European intelligence officer. So how about that. Russia has
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Speaker 3: also been providing iron with the locations of US military
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Speaker 3: forces in the Middle East, as well of those of
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Speaker 3: the regional allies you know, the once from Middle East.
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Speaker 3: This is all being reported by the Wall Street Journal. Now,
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Speaker 3: by the way, this information here is coming from two people,
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Speaker 3: an officer within the military there and a Middle Eastern diplomat,
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Speaker 3: at least according to the Wall Street Journal, and they're
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Speaker 3: saying that this is similar to the intel legence that
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Speaker 3: and the assistance that the United States and the European
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Speaker 3: Union are giving to Ukraine in recent years, whether it's
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Speaker 3: satellite imagery, etc. Etc. Now, part of what they targeted,
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Speaker 3: according to this article, is that the Russians gave Iran
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Speaker 3: information on how and where to strike US radar systems
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Speaker 3: in the region, which is why they're striking places in
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Speaker 3: other countries. For example, we have something called what are
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Speaker 3: these things called here, They're called pad THAAD stands for
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Speaker 3: Thermal high Altitude Area Defense, and we have these systems
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Speaker 3: in Jordan as well as Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman, and
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Speaker 3: Iran has been targeting those with the information provided to
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Speaker 3: them by the Russians. According to the Wall Street Journal,
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Speaker 3: the Kremlin did not respond to request for comment on this.
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Speaker 3: Looks like they haven't confirmed it. And I don't know
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Speaker 3: the outcome of the conversation between Secretary Rubio and Secretary
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Speaker 3: Minister Lavrov from Russia and his counterpart from Iran, but
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Speaker 3: suffice it to say, I think that everybody's a double
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Speaker 3: agent here, right. I'm sure Russia is there saying we
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Speaker 3: have very interested in seeing a very quick, expeditious end
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Speaker 3: to this conflict. We don't like it. And at the
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Speaker 3: same time, you know, he's wink wink non non to
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Speaker 3: his friends in Iran.
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Speaker 5: He's like, by the way, the Americans over here, do
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Speaker 5: you hang a left, you go down the block, you
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Speaker 5: go over here they have bunk or buster or bom.
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Speaker 5: Be careful, don't be you know, don't get in their face,
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Speaker 5: don't let them know that type of thing. Of course,
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Speaker 5: I'm oversimplifying here with my Dracula accent. It's the best
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Speaker 5: Russian I could come up with. But point is, does
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Speaker 5: this bring us to a new level of escalation? Does
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Speaker 5: this bring us to a.
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Speaker 3: Place where, I don't know where we say, hey, Russia,
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Speaker 3: we're gonna do this too. I don't think so. I
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Speaker 3: think Russia's got too much other stuff going on for
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Speaker 3: us to really get in their face. And quite frankly,
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Speaker 3: why pick another fight? Right? And I think that's the point.
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Speaker 3: But of course the media will skewer Trump saying, oh,
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Speaker 3: of course he's gonna go. He's not gonna do whatever.
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Speaker 3: He's Putent's puppet, he's this, that and the other, because
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Speaker 3: that's what they do. Everybody's always making up stories. Now
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Speaker 3: there's another story here I want to get to that
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Speaker 3: I saw in the post. Not a story. There was
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Speaker 3: a commentary that I thought was very very interesting, which
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Speaker 3: was let me just see here. Okay, this is a
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Speaker 3: commentary by I don't want to miss up the name here. No,
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Speaker 3: that's not the one. I guess I screwed this up. Well,
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Speaker 3: it was a really good editorial that I saw here
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Speaker 3: by Martin Gurry and very very very well put. I'm
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Speaker 3: not going to read all of it to you, but
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Speaker 3: it was I think well said. He says. At the
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Speaker 3: start of his second term, President Trump surveyed slowly the
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Speaker 3: rotting swamp that was the post Cold War landscape, and
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Speaker 3: he did not like what he saw. He's determined to
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Speaker 3: scour clean of dangerous attachments, conditions, and as we do regimes,
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Speaker 3: the President considers to be a legacy of past American weakness.
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Speaker 3: His ultimate objective a world open for business that realistically
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Speaker 3: reflects the preponderance of American economic military power. That's I
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Speaker 3: think quite true. The economic power in the military power
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Speaker 3: of the United States wields is considerable. And I think
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Speaker 3: he's reminding everyone, and that is the big stick that
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Speaker 3: he's carrying. In this case, he had to use the
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Speaker 3: big stick on her own. Hopefully we don't have to
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Speaker 3: use it again. I think that's you've got to be
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Speaker 3: willing to use it, right, And that's that's why I
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Speaker 3: admire President Trump. He is truly a pacifist, never wants
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Speaker 3: to get the conflict unless they really force his hand.
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Speaker 3: And when I say they, I don't meant in Yahoo,
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Speaker 3: in these rallies, I mean the bad guys right in
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Speaker 3: this case Iran not relenting, saying yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 3: yeah yeah. Obviously, if they have the ability to take
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Speaker 3: a shot, they're gonna take it. You can't wait till
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Speaker 3: they have The weapon is up there. The threat is imminent.
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Speaker 3: It's too late at that point. Anyway, towards the goal,
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Speaker 3: he stormed the world with disruptive force, the force of
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Speaker 3: a Category five hurricane. This war with Iron is only
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Speaker 3: a moment in Trump's geopolitical pilgrims process. It was preceded
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Speaker 3: by aggressive moves against China, Panama, Greenland, Gaza, Mexico, and Venezuela.
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Speaker 3: It will be followed by a setting of the family
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Speaker 3: business with Cuba settling excuse me. America's global priorities have
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Speaker 3: been radically rebalanced. NATO allies have been told to pick
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Speaker 3: up their burden if they wish to see the US
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Speaker 3: stick around. Meanwhile, Latin America, long treated like a poor
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Speaker 3: looms large in the administration's thinking. The world will not
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Speaker 3: be the same. The recent Shield of the America's Summit,
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Speaker 3: held in Ralph, Florida, brought together a dozen elected leaders
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Speaker 3: from this hemisphere who have defied history by openly proclaiming
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Speaker 3: themselves as pro American. Some like Argentina's Xavier Malay or
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Speaker 3: El Salvadors Nay Bukeli sound decidedly pro Trump, and mister
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Speaker 3: Gury says he has no idea whether the President's hard
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Speaker 3: charging strategy will succeed, but he says this with confidence.
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Speaker 3: The world will never be the same. An avalanche of
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Speaker 3: events has been set loose and it cannot easily be stopped.
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Speaker 3: Relations that were based on the pretense of order have
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Speaker 3: been swept away and replaced by chaotic scrambles for security.
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Speaker 3: I think I disagree with that statement. I think these
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Speaker 3: pretenses that once existed, or dare I say, pretexts of security,
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Speaker 3: we're nothing more than the honor amongst thieves, a gentleman's
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Speaker 3: agreement amongst those that were in the elite that were corrupt. Right,
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Speaker 3: the wink wink and the nod nod of Joe Biden
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Speaker 3: to his friends in Ukraine to do business as usual,
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Speaker 3: the same thing Obama. Obama saying we're going to be refunding.
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Speaker 3: Let me be clear, We're gonna be refunding the Iranians.
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Speaker 3: There the money we've sanctioned them right by giving them
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Speaker 3: literally the money back in cash. Number one, why sanction
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Speaker 3: them if you're gonna give the money back, that's a question.
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Speaker 3: Number two, why do it in actual cash paper that
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Speaker 3: you had to put on an airplane, an airplane so
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Speaker 3: large that you couldn't fit any more money on this thing.
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Speaker 3: It's bizarre, right, it's bizarre. We're talking about the United
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Speaker 3: States government. They could have easily just sent the money
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Speaker 3: back in a transfer, but no, they didn't do that.
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Speaker 3: They decided to do it with palettes of cash. This
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Speaker 3: sounds like a drug deal. I'm not saying it was
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Speaker 3: a drug deal. I'm just saying it sounds like a
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Speaker 3: drug deal. Called it a prisoner exchange. They called it
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Speaker 3: a refund on sanctions. To me, this was Obama saying, hey,
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Speaker 3: here you go, Poal, get that nuke, do whatever it
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Speaker 3: is you gotta do, right, I'm not getting in your way.
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Speaker 3: They tried to call it the JCPOA. Trump put an
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Speaker 3: end to that, Thank goodness. But let me tell you
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Speaker 3: just so many bad decisions from Obama to Biden and
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Speaker 3: now here we are so President Trump. But by the way,
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Speaker 3: I never wished everybody a happy saint Patrick's Day. I
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Speaker 3: was supposed to start with that. Forgive me, forgive me,
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Speaker 3: Happy Saint Patty's Day to everybody. I will do that.
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Speaker 3: We'll talk about the Prime Minister of Ireland who goes
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Speaker 3: by the title of t Shuck. The t Shuck of
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Speaker 3: Ireland is what they call the Prime Minister. He was
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Speaker 3: in the oval office of President Trump. We will get
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Speaker 3: into that erin go brag top of the morning to
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Speaker 3: you all of that fun stuff. Will do that in
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Speaker 3: the next segment, my friends. But to finish off and
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Speaker 3: try to continue it with my lucky charms accent here
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Speaker 3: talking about trumpes. Trump is changing the world order of things.
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Speaker 3: He's changing the way you do everything you see because
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Speaker 3: President Trump, he's like a hurricane category five, like this
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Speaker 3: gentleman from the New York Post is. But he's doing
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Speaker 3: it for the good. He's doing it to put the
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Speaker 3: United States in a position of strength. He's doing it
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Speaker 3: to make sure. I don't know why I'm talking in
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Speaker 3: this accident. It doesn't add any value, but it's kind
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Speaker 3: of fun. But in reality, this whole international situation that
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Speaker 3: we find our citizen, this reevaluation of the United States
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Speaker 3: global currency. And I don't mean the currency we spend,
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Speaker 3: I mean, the currency we have as Americans is being reevaluated,
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Speaker 3: our positioning of strength. This is where we need to be.
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Speaker 3: This is where we should shout erin go Bragg because
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Speaker 3: at the end of this rainbow there certainly is a
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Speaker 3: pot of old, even if it's in bitcoin. Don't go anywhere.
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Speaker 3: I'm Rich Valdez.
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Speaker 1: This is America, this is America.
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Speaker 4: President vanalche Trump, mister President, welcome to the program.
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Speaker 2: Sir well, thank you, Rich, and thank you for everything.
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Speaker 6: I know you very well, and I have I listen,
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Speaker 6: but I have a lot of people that listen and
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Speaker 6: they love your show, and I appreciate it very much.
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Speaker 3: All right, amigo's welcome back. It's Rich Valdes. I went
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Speaker 3: a little long there and I got stuck in my
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Speaker 3: in my Irish accent, which occasionally can become like a
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Speaker 3: Scottish accent, like a missus doubt fire. But anyway, I digress.
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Speaker 3: The reason I'm just so scatterbrained it's called adhd, so
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Speaker 3: forgive me. But I want to talk about the Prime
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Speaker 3: Minister's visit because there's so many things that President Trump
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Speaker 3: spoke about in that visit that have to do with
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Speaker 3: what's happening right now. There's two things I want to
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Speaker 3: share with you. Number one is another big breaking news
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Speaker 3: item from today that I will get you. Let me see.
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Speaker 3: Let me see here there it is Boom. I'm trying
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Speaker 3: to these names, they all blend in together. Ali Larijani,
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Speaker 3: secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, has been killed.
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Speaker 3: That's according to the Fars News agency, sixty seven years old.
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Speaker 3: Widely seen as the Islamic Republic of Iran's second in command,
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Speaker 3: with the official serving as the de facto ruler after
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Speaker 3: I had totally come in. He was killed on the
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Speaker 3: twenty eighth. He was killed today. He's also the tyrant
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Speaker 3: in charge of killing people who decided to go to
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Speaker 3: the streets and say we don't like what Iran is doing.
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Speaker 3: The government of Ironda Malla's he's that guy. Those thirty
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Speaker 3: thousand people that were killed for protesting, this is him.
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Speaker 3: The Israeli Ministry Defense confirmed that one of their strikes
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Speaker 3: hit Larajani early today Tuesday morning, with an overnight strike
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Speaker 3: in Tehran that also killed General golam Reza Solemani, the
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Speaker 3: head of the Revolutionary Guards all Volunteer Bassiege Force Bassiege
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Speaker 3: is the name of their elite fighters. Larijani and the
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Speaker 3: Bassige commander were eliminated last night. Again, that's a separate
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Speaker 3: General Solomoni, not the General Solomoni from before. Defense Minister
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Speaker 3: Israel Katz said in a statement that was released the
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Speaker 3: head of the annihilation program along with those eliminated from
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Speaker 3: the Axis of Evil and the depths of Hell was
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Speaker 3: what he said in his quote. You gotta love those guys.
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Speaker 3: Iranian state media did not immediately confirm the death and
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Speaker 3: had published a handwritten note by Larijani commemorating sailors that
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Speaker 3: were killed in the US at whose funeral was expected
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Speaker 3: today as well. The latest statement from Iranian media confirms
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Speaker 3: the latest killing of the top leaders of war with
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Speaker 3: the US and Israel. Along with Khamani and Larijani, the
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Speaker 3: war has also claimed the life of Ali Shamkhani, he's
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Speaker 3: the head of Iran's National Defense Council, and Mohammed Pakpour,
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Speaker 3: he's the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. That's
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Speaker 3: a big deal. Lara Jhani's death came after he threatened
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Speaker 3: President Trump last week, telling the president watch out for
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Speaker 3: yourself lest you be eliminated. Lara Jhani was among the
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Speaker 3: ten Islamic Republic officials who had a ten million dollar
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Speaker 3: mounty placed on his head Friday by Secretary Marco Rubio.
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Speaker 3: So again, another one bites the dust, One more dead terrorist.
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Speaker 3: All I could say is great job by the US
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Speaker 3: dropping that five thousand pound bunker buster bomb today on
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Speaker 3: their secret missile facility near the Strait of Hormuz. It
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Speaker 3: sounds like we have a good strategy going on there,
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Speaker 3: and it's a little bit of door to door clean
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Speaker 3: up in Aisle twelve, and we'll be out of there
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Speaker 3: soon enough. I don't mean to trivialize this. I realize
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Speaker 3: this costs lives and blood and money, but I realize
21:16
Speaker 3: that this is going to last, in my opinion, for
21:19
Speaker 3: a generation, for a generation where we will have peace
21:24
Speaker 3: and economic prosperity. Of course, things can go south. We
21:29
Speaker 3: can have Vietnam, we can have Iraq, we can have Afghanistan.
21:32
Speaker 3: But I think nobody's looking for the twenty Year War
21:35
Speaker 3: and the way President Trump has been conducting his warfare,
21:39
Speaker 3: which has largely been with the idea of winning in mind.
21:45
Speaker 3: We've done just that. Remember previous foreign policy and previous
21:51
Speaker 3: military intervention wasn't done with the goal of winning. It
21:57
Speaker 3: was done with the goal of prolonged military action. Let's
22:02
Speaker 3: expend more bombs, spend more money, create more things, more rules,
22:06
Speaker 3: take away more freedom. Trump's never been about those things.
22:10
Speaker 3: He's using this military action because it's necessary, and kudos
22:16
Speaker 3: to him for doing it. So rip Sir, mister Lara,
22:21
Speaker 3: Johnny and General Solomoni Part two. They're both dead. Now
22:24
Speaker 3: I want to get into some other interesting news, not
22:28
Speaker 3: only from the t shuck the Prime Minister of Ireland
22:34
Speaker 3: sitting with President Trump in the Oval Office today, but
22:37
Speaker 3: also some of the topics they discussed were related to
22:40
Speaker 3: a guy named Joe Kent. Now, Joe Kent is a
22:43
Speaker 3: Green Beret who served this country, and I have no
22:48
Speaker 3: reason to believe that his military service was anything other
22:51
Speaker 3: than honorable. Joe Kent is someone that was nominated to
22:57
Speaker 3: this administration by the Resident to serve in the National
23:03
Speaker 3: Office of Counter Terrorism as its director, and yesterday he
23:08
Speaker 3: said he'd resigned because he will not fight Israel's war. Now,
23:12
Speaker 3: I don't know if his friendship with those in what
23:17
Speaker 3: Mangino calls the black Pillars or Levin calls the woke
23:21
Speaker 3: reich r eih or I just call them malcontent populists
23:27
Speaker 3: because that's in effect what they are. And listen, the
23:29
Speaker 3: propaganda's real. If it wasn't for the fact that I've
23:32
Speaker 3: always believed the stuff I believed, I think had I
23:35
Speaker 3: not had conviction, some of this propaganda would have gotten
23:38
Speaker 3: me the way it's gotten a lot of other people.
23:40
Speaker 3: You've got some people that are totally convinced that the
23:44
Speaker 3: United States is running some sort of undercover sting operation
23:47
Speaker 3: being run by the military, and that all the bad
23:50
Speaker 3: guys are being brought to justice by way of death.
23:54
Speaker 3: And none of us know what's going on unless you're
23:56
Speaker 3: part of a secret society of researchers called Digital Soldiers.
24:03
Speaker 3: And then a guy named Q and another guy named
24:05
Speaker 3: Q plus these guys are the guys that give the
24:08
Speaker 3: cryptic messaging on Twitter and used to be on four Chan,
24:12
Speaker 3: and they are the enlightened ones. And the fact that
24:15
Speaker 3: we see Hillary Clinton or anybody else out there, they
24:17
Speaker 3: say these are clones, body doubles. These are not the
24:21
Speaker 3: real people because those people were quote put down end
24:25
Speaker 3: quote because of their crimes against humanity. Yeah, I know,
24:31
Speaker 3: so I don't believe a word of that, but I
24:35
Speaker 3: do know that a lot of people believe that, and
24:37
Speaker 3: the same way people believe that, people believe now that
24:40
Speaker 3: somehow every bad thing that occurs in the world is
24:42
Speaker 3: because of its rue. Now I'm gonna say something controversial.
24:47
Speaker 3: I think there might be bad Israelis. I think there
24:49
Speaker 3: might be bad Jews. I think there might be bad Americans,
24:52
Speaker 3: and I think there might be bad Christians. I believe
24:56
Speaker 3: there might be bad Muslims that might think there might
24:59
Speaker 3: be good Muslim Evil knows no nationality. Evil is evil.
25:10
Speaker 3: But I will say this, when you look at what's
25:15
Speaker 3: going on in life, right we talked about these attacks
25:19
Speaker 3: last week in New York City. Every single last one
25:22
Speaker 3: of those attacks that happened last week, whether it was
25:25
Speaker 3: Old Dominion, the bomb number one outside Gracy Mansion in
25:29
Speaker 3: New York City, bomb number two outside Gracy Mansion, two
25:34
Speaker 3: different guys on a plane, all of that happened in
25:36
Speaker 3: the last seven days. All of that stuff that happened,
25:39
Speaker 3: every single one of those instances, somebody shouted a la
25:44
Speaker 3: u akbar. I am not here to discredit or begrudge
25:49
Speaker 3: any Muslim. It's not my purpose. I respect you do
25:54
Speaker 3: your thing because I do believe that there are people
25:59
Speaker 3: many that are of the Muslim faith that are respectable,
26:02
Speaker 3: good kind people. I've known them in my life. I
26:07
Speaker 3: also believe that you have people that are like the
26:10
Speaker 3: Blind Shake from Jersey City. You have lots of people
26:16
Speaker 3: that are co opting the faith their faith that have
26:23
Speaker 3: taken a more radical, extremist view of scriptures. Right there
26:26
Speaker 3: are Christian scriptures that say that the violent taketh by force. Now,
26:34
Speaker 3: is this a command from Christ that we go out
26:37
Speaker 3: there and all become crusaders? I certainly don't believe that.
26:42
Speaker 3: I believe that's what the grand differentiator in the Christian
26:46
Speaker 3: faith versus any other is that Christ is love is
26:51
Speaker 3: that he says turn the other cheek. He doesn't call
26:54
Speaker 3: us to be Peter and go cut the guy's ear off.
26:58
Speaker 3: In fact, he chastises Peter for that. He calls on
27:02
Speaker 3: us to do what he did, to live like he did,
27:06
Speaker 3: to let the dead bury the dead, let tomorrow worry
27:10
Speaker 3: about itself, to take up your cross and follow him.
27:13
Speaker 3: So I realize that it's our human nature that doesn't
27:17
Speaker 3: want to be that level of enlightened where we can
27:24
Speaker 3: say I will not take vengeance on you, I'll let
27:27
Speaker 3: the Lord take vengeance on you. That takes a lot
27:29
Speaker 3: out of it, takes the fun out of it. Right,
27:31
Speaker 3: you don't get to get angry. You have to forgive.
27:35
Speaker 3: But before we get onto my spiritual soapbox, my point
27:38
Speaker 3: here is that there are people out there, bad people
27:42
Speaker 3: that are looking to do very, very bad things in
27:44
Speaker 3: this world. Right. That's a quote from Kamala Harris. I
27:47
Speaker 3: think I'm kidding, I'm oversimplifying for the purpose of making
27:52
Speaker 3: this point that with the good comes to bad. But
27:56
Speaker 3: by and large, we've been fighting the same kind the bad,
28:02
Speaker 3: and that's why it's important to take that bad out.
28:05
Speaker 3: And I think we're doing that, right. I think we're
28:07
Speaker 3: going after the most radical elements, with Iran being the
28:12
Speaker 3: funder of those things, through Hamas, through Hesbo Lah and
28:16
Speaker 3: through the Houthis. Now. Interestingly, these same people here, the
28:24
Speaker 3: Houthis Hamas and whatever. Some people gathered in New York
28:28
Speaker 3: City over the weekend. And who were they praising, who
28:31
Speaker 3: were they cheering on? None other than those people. I mean,
28:36
Speaker 3: this is some of that stuff that you just you
28:37
Speaker 3: really can't make this stuff up. Now, it's kind of
28:40
Speaker 3: a lengthy clip. I don't want to play too much
28:41
Speaker 3: of it. But I want you to hear a little
28:44
Speaker 3: bit of this where people start, you know, supporting hezbolah,
28:51
Speaker 3: we support hesbe Lah here, we support Hamas here. It's
28:54
Speaker 3: what they're saying. Listen to this, glare. I think you've
29:27
Speaker 3: heard enough, right. These people are masked, not all of them,
29:34
Speaker 3: just the ones doing the shouting, masked with a kafia
29:38
Speaker 3: wrapped around their face and their head. They don't look
29:41
Speaker 3: Middle Eastern. They look white. And again, you can be
29:44
Speaker 3: as white as you want. I'm just saying, this is
29:47
Speaker 3: not somebody that I'm going to believe. If they tell
29:49
Speaker 3: me that that their grandmother and that their lineage has
29:54
Speaker 3: been chased off of their land in in the Gaza strip,
29:59
Speaker 3: I'm not going to believe them. Not that I would
30:03
Speaker 3: you say that white people can't have that type of lineage,
30:05
Speaker 3: But it doesn't seem like it makes sense. I'm looking
30:08
Speaker 3: at this crowd here. It's a bunch of Middle Eastern
30:11
Speaker 3: looking people at this rally. None of them have their
30:13
Speaker 3: face covered. One woman's holding a picture of Ayatola comny
30:18
Speaker 3: ah many excuse me. But the ones doing the shouting
30:22
Speaker 3: in the middle, inciting the rest of them holding the flags,
30:25
Speaker 3: they're the ones that are masked, and it makes you wonder,
30:28
Speaker 3: why why are they masked? What is going on here?
30:32
Speaker 3: Why do we have in New York City? This stuff
30:36
Speaker 3: literally happened right outside of our studio forty seventh Street
30:41
Speaker 3: in Broadway, started on thirty fourth in Broadway, and they
30:44
Speaker 3: walked their way up in the Alcudes March. This happened
30:49
Speaker 3: just this weekend. This is wild to me because this is,
30:53
Speaker 3: in my opinion, beyond freedom of speech. During the Civil War,
30:57
Speaker 3: Right America was at war with itself against General Lee
31:05
Speaker 3: Right and the pseudo president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis,
31:11
Speaker 3: and under the law, President Lincoln got those that were
31:15
Speaker 3: colluding with the enemy, people that were publishing pamphlets, people
31:19
Speaker 3: that were running newspapers to spread the message of the enemy.
31:24
Speaker 3: They were imprisoned and they were shut down. That was
31:27
Speaker 3: legal during the time of war. Now some people say, wow, Rich,
31:30
Speaker 3: you're a real authoritarian. You want Trump to put everybody
31:33
Speaker 3: into No, I'm just saying we are at war right now,
31:36
Speaker 3: whether or on, whether it's been declared or not. Right
31:38
Speaker 3: there's a military operation and hopefully we'll be out of
31:40
Speaker 3: there soon. These people are killing American soldiers. They've been
31:44
Speaker 3: killing us for years. Right, Let's never forget what happened
31:47
Speaker 3: in Beirut. Was that two hundred and eighteen soldiers And
31:49
Speaker 3: forgive me if I messed up that number in their sleep,
31:52
Speaker 3: slaughtered by his bilot at the hands and the funding
31:56
Speaker 3: of the Iranians twa airline hygiene. I forget how many
32:01
Speaker 3: hosage is there, but plenty for more than four hundred
32:04
Speaker 3: days in captivity all Iran So these people actively kill
32:08
Speaker 3: Americans and they shout death to America. So you have
32:11
Speaker 3: these people and now they're claiming free speech rights. I
32:15
Speaker 3: would argue, this to me seems like some sort of
32:18
Speaker 3: involvement with the enemy. This shouldn't be allowed. You can
32:21
Speaker 3: want to talk about your Bible, talk about your Quran,
32:24
Speaker 3: talk about whatever you want. But to sit here and
32:26
Speaker 3: say we support Hasbola here, we support Hamas here, that
32:31
Speaker 3: to me, I believe is material support for terrorism. It
32:35
Speaker 3: should be questioned at the very least right that to
32:38
Speaker 3: me doesn't fall in the realm of free speech. Now
32:42
Speaker 3: if I'm wrong, and the courts can decide that, but
32:44
Speaker 3: to just turn a blind eye. Now somebody's saying rich,
32:47
Speaker 3: this is I mean, this is really rich coming from you,
32:50
Speaker 3: because you're the same guy that gets mad when they're
32:52
Speaker 3: harassing people for praying in the UK. These people aren't praying,
32:58
Speaker 3: they're saying they support people that we're at war with.
33:01
Speaker 3: We all know there are limitations on things. Don Lemon
33:04
Speaker 3: tried to say the same thing. And guess what we
33:06
Speaker 3: found out yesterday that all thirty nine of those guys
33:09
Speaker 3: in that attack that I should say that protest if
33:12
Speaker 3: you will on that church in Minneapolis, they were all arrested.
33:15
Speaker 3: So anyway, I just wanted you to hear this because
33:17
Speaker 3: I thought this was really really rich and interesting to
33:21
Speaker 3: see what's happening in my part of the world right
33:24
Speaker 3: with the Muslim mayor that's got guys in there that
33:28
Speaker 3: are these same people supportive of what's going on. Does
33:32
Speaker 3: that mean that I don't like Muslims? Does that mean
33:34
Speaker 3: that we are anti Muslim? No, that means we are
33:37
Speaker 3: anti terrorists, and they're not one and the same. But
33:41
Speaker 3: people that are terrorist sympathizers whatever you're listen, I'm an
33:45
Speaker 3: equal opportunity hater here right. The people that sympathize with
33:49
Speaker 3: the Puerto Rican terrorists, I don't like them either. And
33:52
Speaker 3: you've heard me talk about that dozens of times over
33:55
Speaker 3: the years. Right, the people that support Lolita Lebron as
33:59
Speaker 3: a hero, No senyor I don't believe that to be
34:04
Speaker 3: the case at all. Anyway, I mean goes. I'm gonna
34:06
Speaker 3: pause right here. We're gonna come right back. We're gonna
34:08
Speaker 3: continue our conversation. I've got a bunch of stuff that
34:10
Speaker 3: i want to get through, and I'm really gonna try
34:11
Speaker 3: and get through it. We've got my trip to overseas.
34:14
Speaker 3: I mentioned that yesterday. I'll give you a little bit
34:16
Speaker 3: more info on that when we come back as well.
34:18
Speaker 3: We also have, oh this Utah mom, a bunch of
34:21
Speaker 3: a couple of legal cases. I guess we'll call it
34:23
Speaker 3: our true crime segment. By the way, I haven't heard
34:25
Speaker 3: from anybody on a dear Richie topic. If you guys
34:27
Speaker 3: don't send me one, I'm gonna have to pick one.
34:29
Speaker 3: Hopefully it's as funny as what you guys come up with. Anyway,
34:32
Speaker 3: keep it locked right here. I am Rich Valdez. More
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Speaker 3: to come straight at.
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Speaker 1: This is America. This is America.
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Speaker 3: The forty fifth President Donald Trump thinks it's an honor
34:56
Speaker 3: to speak with rich Valdez. Oh, very good, bugging honor.
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Speaker 1: Thanks, Rich.
35:02
Speaker 3: The honor is all yours, Conservative talk with a dash
35:08
Speaker 3: of sofrito. Now here's Rich Valdez. All right, he goes,
35:14
Speaker 3: Welcome back, Rich Valdez, here with you keeping your company
35:16
Speaker 3: this evening, Tuesday night, eight seven seven. Valdez one is
35:19
Speaker 3: the phone number. And I want to get into President
35:22
Speaker 3: Trump's conversation in the Oval Office with Michael Martin. Michael
35:26
Speaker 3: Martin is the t shuck the Prime Minister of or
35:30
Speaker 3: is it mkill mkill Martin, Prime Minister of Ireland and
35:36
Speaker 3: President Trump weighing in on this guy Joe Kent. Now,
35:39
Speaker 3: I have a clip on Joe Kent, and I want
35:41
Speaker 3: to play before I get into that stuff. I went
35:43
Speaker 3: off on a tangent there right, I was talking of
35:44
Speaker 3: all sorts of things, and I went into all sorts
35:46
Speaker 3: of things, but I started with Joe Kent in the
35:48
Speaker 3: last segment then, and I'm gonna continue with Joe Kent
35:52
Speaker 3: right here now. Joe Kent. Sean Ryan, my former colleague
35:56
Speaker 3: from Westwood One who has an amazing podcast. He was
35:59
Speaker 3: on a show when I don't know last year, the
36:02
Speaker 3: year before. He does an amazing job. He had mister
36:07
Speaker 3: Kent on his show back in two thousand and four,
36:11
Speaker 3: and here's what mister Kent had to say back then
36:15
Speaker 3: about Iran. Right, so it seems like his position has
36:19
Speaker 3: changed a little bit. But listen to this.
36:21
Speaker 7: They're still registering for the draft, aren't they. Like that's
36:23
Speaker 7: that's the logical conclusion to the direction that we're heading
36:26
Speaker 7: in right now, unless we make some serious changes.
36:28
Speaker 8: I mean, it's already I've already heard rumors that Fifth
36:32
Speaker 8: Group is going to be sending guys to Iraq because
36:36
Speaker 8: of the escalated situation with Iran.
36:40
Speaker 7: Now, yeah, I mean most Americans aren'tren't aware of it.
36:43
Speaker 7: We've our troops in Iraq and Syria have been attacked
36:45
Speaker 7: one hundred and fifty plus times by Iranian proxies. And
36:48
Speaker 7: when we say Iranian proxies, we've got to be clear
36:50
Speaker 7: on what that is. That's the Iraqi government that we pay.
36:54
Speaker 7: Because after the Iraqi military we spent two trillion on
36:56
Speaker 7: surrendered to ISIS, we had to go back in there
36:58
Speaker 7: in very short order stand a military back up again.
37:01
Speaker 7: And guess who filled the breach. The Shia militious controlled
37:03
Speaker 7: by Iran did. And the Iraqi government's controlled by Iran.
37:07
Speaker 3: So these are so there, he is giving you his
37:10
Speaker 3: geopolitical analysis, which I don't necessarily disagree with. What I
37:13
Speaker 3: disagree with is his decision to resign, saying that we're
37:17
Speaker 3: fighting Israel's war and that he's not, you know, in
37:21
Speaker 3: effect saying he doesn't want to take he's bought into
37:23
Speaker 3: this kool aid. Right, And all of a sudden, now
37:26
Speaker 3: everybody is a geopolitical expert. APAC is in charge, and
37:29
Speaker 3: Yahoo's in charge, and I just find it laughable, right,
37:32
Speaker 3: because I notice things. Right. One of the things I
37:35
Speaker 3: notice is I meet people from the Dominican Republic, I
37:40
Speaker 3: meet people from Ireland, from UK, from everywhere, right, and
37:47
Speaker 3: many of them will talk about, oh, you know, because
37:49
Speaker 3: I have dual citizenship, I can I can go here,
37:53
Speaker 3: or you know, my kids can go to college for whatever.
37:55
Speaker 3: And most people typically just say, oh, cool, good for you.
37:59
Speaker 3: It's nice that you're into your culture. Yeah, that's nice. Honestly,
38:02
Speaker 3: that's what most people say most, maybe not you, but most.
38:07
Speaker 3: If you are a Jew and you say, oh, yeah,
38:13
Speaker 3: I have a dual citizenship, right away the flags go
38:16
Speaker 3: up and think, oh, so you must have dual loyalties.
38:19
Speaker 3: I've never heard somebody question anybody's loyalty for being a
38:23
Speaker 3: European citizen. For some Italian person saying I want to
38:26
Speaker 3: be a citizen of Italy. I've never heard this in
38:30
Speaker 3: my life. Only when you are a dual citizen with
38:36
Speaker 3: israel Is your dual loyalties question, ask yourself, why is
38:42
Speaker 3: it because somehow the Israelis have done something bad to
38:46
Speaker 3: the United States. I asked somebody that the other day
38:50
Speaker 3: and he looked at me and he said, yes, Epstein.
38:54
Speaker 3: Epstein was bad for the entire world, not just the
38:58
Speaker 3: United States. And I don't know that it's conclusive that
39:02
Speaker 3: this is an Israeli intelligence thing. I think he was
39:06
Speaker 3: kind of a broker for multiple intelligence agencies. As by
39:10
Speaker 3: the way, many people in prostitution and trafficking are. They
39:16
Speaker 3: get information. As they get the information, they use it
39:19
Speaker 3: as leverage and blackmail. Everybody wants this information anyway. Not
39:25
Speaker 3: justifying Evestein in anyway, I'm just saying that's a thing,
39:28
Speaker 3: that's how do you think you have places like New
39:30
Speaker 3: York City, for example, There's this whole place in Queens
39:33
Speaker 3: where the entire time I've been alive, everybody's known that
39:38
Speaker 3: on Roosevelt Avenue. They call it Chicas they literally stand
39:42
Speaker 3: outside the way the men stand outside in Vegas giving
39:44
Speaker 3: out flyers, they stand out on the streets giving out
39:46
Speaker 3: flyers there. And I've heard that ever since AOC took
39:49
Speaker 3: over in the last six seven years, they don't even
39:54
Speaker 3: give out the flyers anymore. They just bring the whores,
39:57
Speaker 3: the excuse me, the prostitutes, these sex workers outside the
40:03
Speaker 3: illegal brothels, and they just hang out in the streets
40:05
Speaker 3: advertising their services, kind of like Hunt's point in the Bronx, which,
40:10
Speaker 3: if I'm not mistaken, is another part of AOC's district.
40:12
Speaker 3: But anyway, she's not the point of this. The point
40:15
Speaker 3: of this is what was the point of this? I
40:19
Speaker 3: got so much going on here anyway, Joe Kent is
40:22
Speaker 3: really where I'm at, and Iran and all of this stuff,
40:28
Speaker 3: and to circle it all back, this is just a
40:32
Speaker 3: remarkable pivot because he's sipped the kool aid that somehow
40:38
Speaker 3: the Jews are bad and this is the Jews War.
40:43
Speaker 3: And this has been a hardcore drum beat just they
40:51
Speaker 3: keep hitting it, they keep hitting it, and some prominent
40:54
Speaker 3: conservatives have bought into this. Many some not prominent conservatives
40:58
Speaker 3: have bought into this, and this is a real rift right,
41:03
Speaker 3: and it typically. I mean, I wish I could say
41:06
Speaker 3: that I knew somebody who said this and meant it.
41:13
Speaker 3: I don't have a problem with chows. I just have
41:15
Speaker 3: a problem with Israel influencing so much of our foreign policy.
41:21
Speaker 3: I really wish that were a legitimate argument that someone
41:24
Speaker 3: would make. However, it's never followed up with any serious
41:29
Speaker 3: question about people having foreign policy concerns or lobbying concerns.
41:35
Speaker 3: It's always followed up with they control Hollywood, they control banking.
41:39
Speaker 3: Who cares? Who controls what?
41:41
Speaker 2: Is?
41:41
Speaker 1: Really?
41:41
Speaker 3: That's my question? Who cares? If you want to control it,
41:44
Speaker 3: make an effort to control it. And to me, this
41:48
Speaker 3: is how it works, right if somebody's working hard to
41:50
Speaker 3: gain influence in a certain area. China, for example, China
41:54
Speaker 3: has worked extraordinarily hard to have influence in the United
41:58
Speaker 3: States government and on our culture. They went out of
42:02
Speaker 3: their way to create this thing called TikTok so that
42:05
Speaker 3: our American youth could be corrupted by it. If you
42:08
Speaker 3: don't like it, then you should try and stop it.
42:13
Speaker 3: I believe that you're gonna blame that on the Mosad.
42:17
Speaker 3: You're gonna blame that on dual citizenship. This is what
42:21
Speaker 3: I mean. People they pick these fights, but they're not
42:24
Speaker 3: really fighting because really what they want to say is
42:27
Speaker 3: I don't like Jews, and they want to couch that
42:31
Speaker 3: in some sort of political babble. And now it's all
42:36
Speaker 3: coming home. You've got a lot of people that are
42:39
Speaker 3: just saying a lot of things to the point where
42:40
Speaker 3: they're because of their doubling down, they're now defending the Iyahtolah, right,
42:45
Speaker 3: they're defending They're like, no, no, listen, listen Iran. This guy
42:48
Speaker 3: just told you how bad Iran was. Joe Kent. He
42:50
Speaker 3: just said that we were attacked one hundred and fifty
42:52
Speaker 3: times by them in their proxies. And guess what, he's
42:55
Speaker 3: quitting the Green Beret with the honorable discharge a patriot.
43:00
Speaker 3: So what I'd like to believe he is is giving
43:02
Speaker 3: up on this war. He's giving up on defending his
43:05
Speaker 3: country as the director of the Office of Counter Terrorism.
43:09
Speaker 3: Why because he says this is not his fight. So
43:12
Speaker 3: his disdain for the Jews, his disdain for Apak, his
43:16
Speaker 3: disdain for IDF, for Israel, or whatever he chooses to
43:20
Speaker 3: have disdain over or with, is greater than defending the
43:27
Speaker 3: Americans that were attacked one hundred and fifty times as
43:31
Speaker 3: of that recording, which was in twenty twenty four. Let
43:35
Speaker 3: that sink in for a second. So President Trump weighed
43:39
Speaker 3: in on this guy not being around anymore on his resignation,
43:43
Speaker 3: and I think he was pretty spot on on this.
43:48
Speaker 3: He Let me just find the right clip here, somebody knows,
43:52
Speaker 3: tell me in my ear. Here we go, we at
43:54
Speaker 3: Trump with the Prime Minister of Ireland, Michael Martin saying
43:59
Speaker 3: it and yeah, there's one two. Let me see, I
44:03
Speaker 3: think I got three of these. So let's start with
44:06
Speaker 3: cut number three if we can, and work our way
44:10
Speaker 3: through here. Because President Trump is the saint here. He's
44:14
Speaker 3: very clear on this, and I think it's a good thing.
44:16
Speaker 3: Check this out.
44:17
Speaker 6: Good well, I read it say, but I always thought
44:20
Speaker 6: he was a nice guy, but I always thought he
44:22
Speaker 6: was weak on security, very weak on security. I didn't
44:26
Speaker 6: know him well, but I thought he seemed like a
44:29
Speaker 6: pretty nice guy. But when I read a statement, I
44:33
Speaker 6: realized that it's a good thing that he's out. Because
44:36
Speaker 6: he said that Iran was not a threat. Iran was
44:40
Speaker 6: a threat every country. He realized what a threat Iran was.
44:44
Speaker 2: The question is whether or not they wanted to do
44:45
Speaker 2: something about it, and many people, many of the greatest
44:49
Speaker 2: military scholars, are saying for years that presidents should have
44:53
Speaker 2: taken out Iran because they wanted a nuclear weapon.
44:56
Speaker 3: He wasn't the only one to say that. Mike Johnson,
44:58
Speaker 3: the Speaker of the House, also waited on this, saying,
45:01
Speaker 3: I don't even know where this guy Kent is getting
45:03
Speaker 3: his information from, because Iran not being a threat. I mean,
45:08
Speaker 3: how do you come up with that one? Check this out.
45:10
Speaker 3: I'm on the Gang of Eight. I got all the briefings.
45:12
Speaker 9: We all understood there was clearly an imminent threat, that
45:16
Speaker 9: Iran was very close to the enrichment of nuclear capability,
45:20
Speaker 9: and they were building missiles at a pace that no
45:22
Speaker 9: one in the region could keep up with.
45:24
Speaker 3: They were far outpacing.
45:27
Speaker 9: Our allies and friends in US in our defense capability
45:31
Speaker 9: because we had personnel installations, members of the armed services
45:36
Speaker 9: and civilians in the region. Iran was building up ballistic
45:39
Speaker 9: missiles at such a rapid pace, and we knew that
45:41
Speaker 9: their plan was to fire them upon Americans. The Commander
45:45
Speaker 9: in Chief and his administration had a very difficult decision
45:48
Speaker 9: to make. I don't know where Joe Kent is getting
45:51
Speaker 9: his information, but he wasn't in those briefings, clearly because
45:54
Speaker 9: the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, and everyone,
45:58
Speaker 9: the Joint chiefs of Staff, General Cain, they had exquisite
46:01
Speaker 9: intelligence and we understood that this was a serious moment
46:04
Speaker 9: for us. Had the President waited, I am personally convinced
46:07
Speaker 9: that we would have mass casualties of Americans, service members
46:11
Speaker 9: and others, and our installations would have been dramatically damaged.
46:16
Speaker 9: And so we had to The President felt that he
46:19
Speaker 9: had to strike first to prevent those mass casualties.
46:23
Speaker 3: Listen, I get it. I realize people don't like war.
46:26
Speaker 3: It's not a popular thing unless you're me, right, I
46:29
Speaker 3: tend to favor the quicker road to getting things resolved,
46:34
Speaker 3: and I realized that sometimes saying hey, let's sit down
46:37
Speaker 3: and talk about this, that's never worked for me in
46:40
Speaker 3: my whole life. Maybe it's my lack of I don't know,
46:46
Speaker 3: long term vision or something, but I rarely when you
46:50
Speaker 3: have people that disagree on things, it's not like if
46:53
Speaker 3: you sit down and talk for some extended period of time,
46:55
Speaker 3: all of a sudden you're going to agree on those things. Now,
46:58
Speaker 3: it's true that there might be misunderstand in life. But
47:01
Speaker 3: this is not a misunderstanding. Iraq wants I mean Iran
47:06
Speaker 3: wants to kill Americans. They shouted from the tops of
47:11
Speaker 3: their lungs. They have put an active hit on the
47:15
Speaker 3: president of the United States. What else do we need.
47:20
Speaker 3: We blew up a mountain where they were making their
47:22
Speaker 3: uranium and Richmond stuff, and they keep going and they
47:26
Speaker 3: said it, we will be back for more. We will
47:29
Speaker 3: not be deterred. Now I get it. What would I say?
47:33
Speaker 3: I'd probably say the same thing if I was the Ayatola.
47:35
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna take it lying down. I'm gonna tell
47:39
Speaker 3: Trump the way it is, all right, So, hey, you
47:42
Speaker 3: chose that route. He had the option of saying, look,
47:46
Speaker 3: Iran just wants to exist peaceably with everyone else. And
47:52
Speaker 3: we know they could have tried that, but they didn't.
47:56
Speaker 3: They pretended to start negotiating. They pretended to let's talk
47:59
Speaker 3: about a potential piece plan. Let's see if let's go,
48:02
Speaker 3: let's go to the table. Right. They did all that,
48:05
Speaker 3: and in the midst of all that, they got the
48:07
Speaker 3: intelligence saying, the longer you wait and play nice with
48:10
Speaker 3: these guys, they're gonna come right back and build this
48:13
Speaker 3: stuff up. So what are you supposed to do sit
48:17
Speaker 3: there and be a Bendel and be like, all right, well,
48:20
Speaker 3: let me give them the benefit of the debt you have.
48:21
Speaker 3: There's no more benefit of doubt. They want to kill you,
48:24
Speaker 3: they want to kill me, they want to kill my children.
48:27
Speaker 3: I think I'm gonna feel bad about killing you first. Sorry,
48:32
Speaker 3: So Joe can't. I think he's a victim of too
48:37
Speaker 3: much of a certain program and not this one. I
48:41
Speaker 3: think he's somebody that just sipped that that. Like I said,
48:44
Speaker 3: like Glivid calls it the woke Reich kool aid. He
48:48
Speaker 3: took the black pill. He's now a malcontent populist. And
48:53
Speaker 3: these populists are going to be our undoing because ultimately
48:57
Speaker 3: that isolationist mentality that is America only, not just America first,
49:03
Speaker 3: but America only. Let the Chinese figure out their stuff,
49:07
Speaker 3: let the Russians do what they want, Let the Ukraine,
49:10
Speaker 3: and that's when it really this is the height of
49:12
Speaker 3: this started. Then That's why I blame the Russians oftentimes
49:14
Speaker 3: for this, and their friends in Iran and China, because
49:17
Speaker 3: they all have the same mission here. But it really
49:19
Speaker 3: started with oh, just just let the Ukrainians fight with
49:23
Speaker 3: the Russians. They're like, this is like sibling rivalry. It's
49:26
Speaker 3: like two brothers. Let him fight it out. The United
49:28
Speaker 3: States shouldn't get involved. Now. When Trump said, you know,
49:31
Speaker 3: if I were president, this never would happen, he's right.
49:33
Speaker 3: And had it happened, he would have been able to
49:35
Speaker 3: contain this very quickly. But most importantly, it would not
49:38
Speaker 3: have happened. Even Putin said that this wouldn't have happened
49:40
Speaker 3: if Trump was around. Why Because Trump brought a sense
49:43
Speaker 3: of order and seriousness to the Oval office. Biden and
49:48
Speaker 3: his weakness, they took us as a joke. So here
49:52
Speaker 3: we are, and now we have Americans that, in my opinion,
49:56
Speaker 3: erroneously believe that we just have to sit back and
49:59
Speaker 3: let everybody else kill each other. And somehow they're not
50:02
Speaker 3: all going to gang up and come kill us. As
50:04
Speaker 3: long as you know, you know, we just give our
50:07
Speaker 3: guns away, right, it's like a gun buy back program.
50:10
Speaker 3: Of course they won't say that. They'll say no, no, no,
50:12
Speaker 3: As long as I got my guns in my house
50:13
Speaker 3: and we got our nukes, we're good. But that's not true.
50:17
Speaker 3: You just heard this guy say in twenty twenty four,
50:19
Speaker 3: we were attacked one hundred and fifty times. I know
50:23
Speaker 3: that we have more than two hundred soldiers that have
50:26
Speaker 3: traumatic brain injuries because of those attacks. You're gonna tell
50:30
Speaker 3: me they took it easy, that they didn't advance on us,
50:34
Speaker 3: that every last cyber attack doesn't have something to do
50:37
Speaker 3: with it. Ron I would suggest that it does. I'm
50:40
Speaker 3: not buying it. So Joe Kent not away though, right.
50:45
Speaker 3: I don't know you, and I appreciate your service, but
50:48
Speaker 3: I think you're wrong on this one, my friend. I
50:50
Speaker 3: really do. And it's a shame to see you go.
50:54
Speaker 3: And there's all these questions about leaking information, maybe even
50:58
Speaker 3: to mister Carlson. Again, these are questions people are asking
51:03
Speaker 3: on the internet. These are not allegations that I'm making
51:05
Speaker 3: or that others have made. But I've seen plenty of
51:09
Speaker 3: people asking a lot of questions as of late, saying
51:12
Speaker 3: did he resign because he knew he was going to
51:15
Speaker 3: get called to the carpet for sharing information with some
51:18
Speaker 3: of his friends in the woke Reich. I don't know,
51:22
Speaker 3: but I think we're gonna find out soon enough. Anyway.
51:25
Speaker 3: I mean, he goes morning comes straight ahead and went
51:26
Speaker 3: long on this segment as well. I got lots to
51:28
Speaker 3: say before I take off a couple of days to
51:30
Speaker 3: head overseas. So bear with me, coming right back, don't
51:32
Speaker 3: go anywhere. I'm Rich Valdez.
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Speaker 3: All right, Ibi gooes, Welcome back, Rich Valdez, keeping your
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Speaker 3: company here. I am Valdez with an S. And let's see.
52:11
Speaker 3: We've got another six seven minutes together, probably enough time
52:18
Speaker 3: to get through one of these crazy legal stories I
52:21
Speaker 3: wanted to get through, because man, let me tell you,
52:24
Speaker 3: this was a wild story. Let me see if I
52:26
Speaker 3: could find this one here. Let me see, bear with
52:30
Speaker 3: me here, because this is I mean, there's so many
52:34
Speaker 3: of them that I wanted to do them all together
52:36
Speaker 3: in like one good, chunky segment that had to do
52:40
Speaker 3: with crazy legal stories. But I'll give you this and
52:44
Speaker 3: we'll end on a positive note, and we will we
52:47
Speaker 3: will kind of regroup on this tomorrow. But this one here,
52:54
Speaker 3: if we can get this right, this is a story
52:59
Speaker 3: about a woman who shot someone. And I gotta say,
53:09
Speaker 3: you listened to this, and you tell me what you
53:11
Speaker 3: think of.
53:11
Speaker 10: An admitted killer. Police say, eighteen year old ala Chan
53:14
Speaker 10: Torres confessed to shooting a man at least ten times,
53:19
Speaker 10: but investigators says she told them that she did it
53:21
Speaker 10: because the man had inappropriately touched a five year oldttle girl.
53:25
Speaker 10: Fox routeen Choice Grant joins a cyb in Memphis tonight.
53:28
Speaker 10: Troys she had a chance to read through the police
53:29
Speaker 10: Affidavid about exactly what happened.
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Speaker 11: Police say a preliminary examination of the body found about
53:37
Speaker 11: fourteen shots. Now, I went back to the area where
53:40
Speaker 11: Rncoon's body was found. It spoke to neighbors. Many of
53:43
Speaker 11: them told us they don't fault Taurus for what she did.
53:45
Speaker 11: If Ronconn actually did touch a child.
53:51
Speaker 3: Why do you say that I would just shine him
53:53
Speaker 3: a couple more times.
53:58
Speaker 7: Now.
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Speaker 11: Taurus is currently in jail and been charged with first
54:01
Speaker 11: degree murder. Now, coming up at Fox thirteen News at ten,
54:03
Speaker 11: I'll be back with more details about what tourists did
54:06
Speaker 11: after she shot Rencon.
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Speaker 3: Please so again, that's a report from Fox thirteen. In Memphis,
54:15
Speaker 3: a woman was arrested after police say she admitted to
54:18
Speaker 3: shooting and killing a man accused of inappropriately touching a
54:21
Speaker 3: child just before two am on February twenty sixth An
54:25
Speaker 3: officer on patrol discovered a man's body lying on the roadway.
54:30
Speaker 3: Record state that a medical examiner determined the man had
54:32
Speaker 3: been shot fourteen times. The victim was later identified as
54:37
Speaker 3: no Noe like Noel without an L Santigan Frinkon. And
54:43
Speaker 3: this woman has been arrested for his murder, they're saying,
54:51
Speaker 3: And my hope is that she gets away with it.
54:57
Speaker 3: I'm just being frank again, you know, p for me,
55:00
Speaker 3: call my pastor, wrapped me out. I don't know what
55:01
Speaker 3: to say, but uh, you know, hey, there's certain things
55:08
Speaker 3: I think. You just you've got to make it a
55:10
Speaker 3: very bad consequence. You've got You've got a Al Salvador
55:15
Speaker 3: today just passed a law for the death penalty or
55:21
Speaker 3: was it life in prison one or the other for this,
55:24
Speaker 3: for this exact crime. You touch a little kid, you're
55:28
Speaker 3: going to jail for life or you could be put
55:29
Speaker 3: to death. If I'm not mistaken, and if I'm wrong,
55:32
Speaker 3: I'll fact check myself tomorrow. I just read this story earlier,
55:35
Speaker 3: and I just I forgot. I knew it was a
55:36
Speaker 3: severe penalty, and I thought to myself, man, you know what,
55:40
Speaker 3: sometimes you need that. And when I was a kid,
55:43
Speaker 3: I remember I think it might have been Governor Cuomo,
55:46
Speaker 3: not Andrew, but Mario. And maybe it was a different governor,
55:52
Speaker 3: but I think it was Governor Cuomo that created uh,
55:55
Speaker 3: that implemented a statewide syntax. And I remember people were
56:00
Speaker 3: freaking out about it, saying, oh my god, they're going
56:02
Speaker 3: to raise the cost of booze and cigarettes, you know,
56:07
Speaker 3: something like twenty five cent or fifty cents on cigarettes
56:12
Speaker 3: and alcohol something that back then again this was the
56:15
Speaker 3: nineteen eighties, that was a lot. And I thought to myself, Hey,
56:22
Speaker 3: why not, right, that's not something you need to live.
56:25
Speaker 3: If you want to engage in drinking booze and smoking cigarettes,
56:30
Speaker 3: why not. And they were saying at the time, they
56:31
Speaker 3: were like, it goes to kids programs and to you know,
56:36
Speaker 3: to fund the lottery and this and that. And as
56:38
Speaker 3: a kid, I just thought I liked the idea of
56:41
Speaker 3: punishing people so they wouldn't engage in their sinful activity,
56:46
Speaker 3: and not that it's sinful per se to do those things.
56:49
Speaker 3: But again, as a kid growing up, I saw these
56:51
Speaker 3: things and they were directly related. The people that smoked,
56:54
Speaker 3: the people that drank. They weren't the doctors and lawyers
56:59
Speaker 3: in my neighborhood right, they were just weren't so. I
57:03
Speaker 3: in my mind as a six seven eight years old,
57:06
Speaker 3: I associated those things with I'm gonna describe it as
57:11
Speaker 3: with Loserville right at not being successful in life. Today,
57:14
Speaker 3: I realized the best whiskey I ever had was my
57:17
Speaker 3: white uncle. I have a white uncle. My Puerto ricanot
57:19
Speaker 3: married a white guy, and he introduced me to McAllen
57:25
Speaker 3: that McAllen eighteen is that it man, stuff is good.
57:29
Speaker 3: And I realized, hey, you know, everybody can enjoy a
57:33
Speaker 3: good cigar and a good whiskey or a good bourbon
57:37
Speaker 3: or whatever you like. Melboock wine is my favorite from Argentina.
57:41
Speaker 3: Point is, it's not about those things. It's about, you know,
57:46
Speaker 3: curtailing bad behavior, and that ultimately is not something I
57:51
Speaker 3: think the government can do on its own. You can
57:53
Speaker 3: implement all the syntax you want, people are going to
57:55
Speaker 3: figure out a way to get around those things, whether
57:57
Speaker 3: getting around the tax or getting around paying for them things.
58:00
Speaker 3: In general, that's what criminals do, truly mastering oneself and
58:06
Speaker 3: having self control and doing what's right for the sake
58:09
Speaker 3: of doing what's right, whether it's because of your belief
58:12
Speaker 3: in God or your belief in doing good for people
58:16
Speaker 3: is what will bring us forward as a society, and
58:20
Speaker 3: doing the exact opposite is what will continue to bring
58:23
Speaker 3: us down. This is why I always say you got
58:24
Speaker 3: to stamp for something, because if you stand for nothing,
58:26
Speaker 3: you'll fall for absolutely anything. And like Sir Edmund Burke said,
58:32
Speaker 3: the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for
58:35
Speaker 3: good people like you to sit there and do nothing.
58:39
Speaker 3: So do something. Asta labroksima, take care, good night, and
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Speaker 3: God bless you America. I'm Rich Valdez and this is America.
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