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Vindicated: ICE Shooting, Vickie Paladino, Voting Against Marxism · Rich Valdés: This is America!

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Speaker 1: This is America with Rich Valdez, powered by politiweek.com.
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Speaker 2: And Rich Valdez is with us, former Christie administration official.
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Speaker 3: You work for Chris Christie, you've been in politics, a
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Speaker 3: lot of public service stuff.
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Speaker 4: Rich Valdez, columnist now with the Washington Times.
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Speaker 5: This is America.
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Speaker 4: Richie V, you're on the air with the nation.
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Speaker 5: This is America with your host, Rich Valdez.
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Speaker 6: What's up, America?
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Speaker 4: I am Rich Valdez, Valdez with an S, at Rich
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Speaker 4: Join us on the open phone America part of the show.
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Speaker 4: And I want to get into some stuff because last
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Speaker 4: night there was a shooting. Apparently, There was a guy
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Speaker 4: in an SUV. He had his kid in the car.
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Speaker 4: He was suspected of being a Trinitarios gang member. This
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Speaker 4: guy goes ahead and gets pulled over by ICE. They're
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Speaker 4: trying to apprehend him. He tries to get away. He
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Speaker 4: hits two different parked cars on the way out of
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Speaker 4: the scenario he was in, eventually stopped by the bullet
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Speaker 4: of an ICE agent because he tried to run the
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Speaker 4: guy over. Well, all of that happened, and guess what?
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Speaker 4: Mayor Zoran Mamdani's still doubling down, defending the criminals.
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Speaker 6: What a surprise.
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Speaker 4: Democrats can't seem to get out of their own way
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Speaker 4: when it comes to absolutely embracing the criminality in our country.
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Speaker 4: Listen to this.
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Speaker 2: Man's vehicle before opening fire. They wore construction vests and
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Speaker 2: masks that concealed their faces. There was no reasonable way
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Speaker 2: to identify them as ICE agents. When ICE agents opened fire,
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Speaker 2: a five-year-old child, a five-year-old child was in the backseat
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Speaker 2: of the car. Thank God that child is physically unharmed.
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Speaker 2: For the past two hours, I have been on the
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Speaker 2: phone with President Trump and Secretary Mullen, negotiating the release
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Speaker 2: of the man ICE agents shot. Those negotiations.
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Speaker 4: Hold on a second. Did he say he's negotiating the
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Speaker 4: release of the man they shot? They shot him because
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Speaker 4: he tried to kill a cop and he was wanted.
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Speaker 4: And guess what he's wanted for?
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Speaker 6: Shooting a cop. That's right.
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Speaker 4: A federal border patrol agent, a customs and border patrol
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Speaker 4: officer that was shot in the neck in New York
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Speaker 4: about a year ago.
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Speaker 6: This time.
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Speaker 4: I remember that like yesterday. Yet Zora Mamdani wants this
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Speaker 4: guy released.
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Speaker 6: Why?
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Speaker 7: Why?
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Speaker 4: Matter of fact, Zoran Mamdani had this guy in custody.
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Speaker 4: The police, NYPD, had him in custody and they let
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Speaker 4: him go. Why? Sanctuary City. They don't care if you're
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Speaker 4: a criminal.
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Speaker 2: Why?
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Speaker 4: Because they want to abolish ICE. They want to abolish prisons.
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Speaker 4: They want to abolish law and order. They want to
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Speaker 4: abolish safety. Go ahead, play the tape.
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Speaker 3: We're unsuccessful.
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Speaker 2: Just moments ago, ICE put the man in an unmarked
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Speaker 2: vehicle and whisked him away. Let me say this plainly.
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Speaker 2: What happened today was an outrage.
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Speaker 4: An outrage. Anyway, so the New York officials are now
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Speaker 4: giving details about what happened last night, Thursday night, in
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Speaker 4: the ICE-involved shooting. The man was left hospitalized. An officer
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Speaker 4: fired at least seven rounds into the car, wounding the man,
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Speaker 4: while five-year-old his son, five-year-old boy, sat in the back,
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Speaker 4: unharmed in the back seat. And that's according to the mayor.
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Speaker 4: Thank God the kid's okay. But again, the bullets weren't
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Speaker 4: intended for him, and this is a professional law enforcer, right?
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Speaker 4: who was using a long gun at that. This was
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Speaker 4: a targeted operation. They knew who they were going after.
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Speaker 4: This guy is a suspected gang member who's also wanted
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Speaker 4: for questioning related to the shooting of a Border Patrol officer.
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Speaker 4: This is what Zoram Mambani had to say. I mean,
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Speaker 4: it blows me away that he takes the side of
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Speaker 4: the bad guys each and every time. I understand this
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Speaker 4: man is innocent until proven guilty, but we already know
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Speaker 4: that he's guilty of other crimes because he's got a
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Speaker 4: huge rap sheet. This man came to America to rob people,
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Speaker 4: to stick people up. He didn't come here legally. He
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Speaker 4: didn't come here to be a bodeguero, to make America
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Speaker 4: great again. So pardon me, forgive me, and miss me
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Speaker 4: with your drama. I don't have any sympathy for this.
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Speaker 4: Were we supposed to let this guy run the cop over?
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Speaker 4: It seems like there's so many people out there that think,
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Speaker 4: you know what? What should happen here in a case
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Speaker 4: like this is that the cops would just put their
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Speaker 4: guns down, move out of the way and let the
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Speaker 4: bad guys go. What? What are you enforcing at that point?
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Speaker 4: What kind of example are you setting at that point?
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Speaker 4: You're not doing a damn thing except telling them, hey,
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Speaker 4: they're in charge and you're not. They could do whatever
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Speaker 4: they want and you can't do anything. The public is
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Speaker 4: not safe. All of the public, the entirety of society
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Speaker 4: has to suffer at the hands of this thug. because
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Speaker 4: of a handful of stupid politicians. No thank you. Hard
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Speaker 4: pass for me. I'm not interested. I think everybody has
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Speaker 4: a right to be safe, and that's government's number one function,
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Speaker 4: is to keep us safe, to keep everybody safe. Now,
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Speaker 4: el Trumpito de Naldes Magnus, the 45th and 47th president
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Speaker 4: of these United States, Donald J. Trump, el presidente.
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Speaker 6: He weighed in on this.
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Speaker 4: He's here in New York, up in Syracuse, stumping for
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Speaker 4: Bruce Blakeman. And he had a few things to say
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Speaker 4: about last night's ICE shooting, as did Secretary Mullen, as
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Speaker 4: did a couple others. And we're going to get to
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Speaker 4: a lot of this reaction. Plus, I'm going to go
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Speaker 4: one-on-one with Councilwoman Vicky Palladino, New York City Councilwoman, on
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Speaker 4: her thoughts on this ICE shooting. You know, she's always
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Speaker 4: beating around the bush and never telling us what's really
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Speaker 4: on her mind. Wink, wink, ha-ha. You know how she
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Speaker 4: does it. So we're going to talk to her in
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Speaker 4: the upcoming segment. But I want to get to this
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Speaker 4: clip of Trump because I think Trump always has a
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Speaker 4: way of putting things so plainly. And this, to me,
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Speaker 4: should be open and shut. It should be the easiest
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Speaker 4: thing ever. But yet, somehow, some people like Mamdani are
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Speaker 4: confused about it. Check this out.
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Speaker 8: And just yesterday, our heroes of ICE apprehended a man
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Speaker 8: with a criminal record a mile long who was wanted
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Speaker 8: for possible murder and.
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Speaker 3: Murder in a gang.
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Speaker 8: In other words, the gang murdered somebody. Very nice person.
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Speaker 8: He's a very dangerous man. And they got him. But
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Speaker 8: instead of being praised, ICE was scorned by New York
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Speaker 8: politicians who set him loose.
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Speaker 4: They want to set him loose.
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Speaker 5: We want him to be loose.
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Speaker 8: Guys wanted for murder.
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Speaker 6: They want him to be loose.
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Speaker 8: And then they're surprised when they see your crime stats.
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Speaker 8: If you want to stop illegal alien criminals from being
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Speaker 8: released into your communities, you must elect Bruce Blakeman and
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Speaker 8: the Republican Congress. And we will ban sanctuary cities and
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Speaker 8: sanctuary states at long last.
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Speaker 4: Now, how could you disagree with what El Trompito is
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Speaker 4: saying here?
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 4: The guys wanted for murder. He's escaping in a car.
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Speaker 4: We don't know if that's his kid or not. They
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Speaker 4: didn't even know there was a kid in the car.
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Speaker 4: But now we know there's a kid in the car
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Speaker 4: and that's how he behaves. Now, of course, he's going
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Speaker 4: to say, look, I was scared. I didn't know this
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Speaker 4: guy had a traffic vest on. He was waving a
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Speaker 4: rifle at me. His car had police lights in front.
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Speaker 4: I don't know. I thought he was somebody like me
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Speaker 4: that pretends to be the cops that rob people, blah, blah, blah.
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Speaker 6: Right.
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Speaker 4: That's what when you're a criminal, you act and behave
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Speaker 4: and react like a criminal. I think most people, if
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Speaker 4: they get pulled over by the cops, they realize that's
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Speaker 4: the cops and they don't think twice about it. But
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Speaker 4: this guy, and again, I don't believe it for a second, right?
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Speaker 4: I mean, everybody always says, hey, listen, we only ran
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Speaker 4: because we were scared. 99% of the world doesn't run
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Speaker 4: away when they're approached by the police. 99%. So if
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Speaker 4: you're the 1% that decides to run away, then hey,
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Speaker 4: lucky you, you made it to the 1%. I'm glad
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Speaker 4: I'm in the majority here. Not in the minority on
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Speaker 4: this one. Anyway, El Trumpito is right on here. This
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Speaker 4: guy is not a good guy. He doesn't represent anything
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Speaker 4: that's good for society or about society. So we should
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Speaker 4: bend over backwards to protect him. Like I was going
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Speaker 4: to say Barack Hussein Mamdani. I guess that's a Freudian slip.
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Speaker 4: Like Zoran Kwame Mamdani. Come on, man. Like in the
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Speaker 4: words of Joe Biden, come on, man.
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Speaker 8: Anyway.
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Speaker 4: Secretary Mullen had a lot to say a little bit
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Speaker 4: earlier with respect to this as well. Listen to this.
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Speaker 9: Speaking facts, the mayor speaks with political tone. His words
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Speaker 9: are dangerous and incite hostility. It doesn't help. Once again,
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Speaker 9: the mayor was completely silent last week when his own
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Speaker 9: NYPD officer was stabbed seven times by two criminals that
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Speaker 9: they had released back into the streets. He didn't see
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Speaker 9: the outrage that he spoke from a podium last night from,
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Speaker 9: but he wants to go after ICE for enforcing our
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Speaker 9: nation's laws. He used words like New Yorkers by describing
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Speaker 9: Oscar as a New Yorker. I'm sorry, he's from the
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Speaker 9: Dominican Republic.
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Speaker 4: He's talking about Oscar Belgal. He is the suspect in
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Speaker 4: this case that was shot, that was fleeing federal law enforcement,
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Speaker 4: Oscar Belgal.
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Speaker 9: He came to this country legally a few years ago,
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Speaker 9: and ever since he's come in, he's committed crimes. Crime
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Speaker 9: after crime. When the mayor uses language like he used
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Speaker 9: last night, yet he's silent when his own officer gets stabbed.
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Speaker 9: By the way, those two individuals from the Dominican Republic too,
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Speaker 9: just to make the connection, he's silent on that, but
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Speaker 9: yet he throws a, as I would say in Oklahoma,
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Speaker 9: a ringtail fit.
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Speaker 4: About this criminal.
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Speaker 6: It's hypocrisy.
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Speaker 4: 100%.
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 1: Really?
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Speaker 4: Like, where is the outrage when your cop is getting
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Speaker 4: stabbed seven times? Nothing, right? Or the time that the
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Speaker 4: cop shot the guy because the guy tried to stab him.
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Speaker 4: This was a few months ago, maybe eight or nine,
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Speaker 4: 10 months ago. Cop is in the house. Guy grabs
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Speaker 4: a knife, tries to stab the cop. Cop shoots the guy.
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Speaker 4: Mamdani sides with the guy who tried to stab the cop.
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Speaker 4: I mean, you just can't make this stuff up. Go ahead,
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Speaker 4: play the tape.
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Speaker 9: It's not actually truthful. It's all about show and tell.
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Speaker 9: It's political theater. And he knows it. And hopefully the
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Speaker 9: public knows it.
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Speaker 4: That's Secretary Mullen. Again, slamming New York Governor Kathy Hochul
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Speaker 4: and Mayor Zora Mamdani. after these ICE agents shot a
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Speaker 4: suspect in New York City in front of a five-year-old, actually,
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Speaker 4: and the kid was in the backseat, again, unharmed, right?
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Speaker 4: This is the way it's being presented in the media.
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Speaker 4: I'm reading to you from NBC News. NBC News wants
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Speaker 4: you to take the position that how dare they, yet again,
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Speaker 4: ICE doing another bad thing, right? And listen, I get it.
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Speaker 4: I get it. I understand it's very easy to try
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Speaker 4: and constantly be woe is me and to never use
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Speaker 4: common sense. And it works like a charm. I tried
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Speaker 4: to correct somebody online the other day with what I
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Speaker 4: thought a very endearing comment, just saying, hey, look, I
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Speaker 4: think your work is great as an actor. My comment
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Speaker 4: was that, look, I think your work is great, but
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Speaker 4: I disagree with this. I don't embrace communism. Not exactly
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Speaker 4: those words, but that was the tone. And some of
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Speaker 4: the other users on there were commenting, saying, oh, here's
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Speaker 4: another sellout, another... Another one of those. And so I'm
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Speaker 4: a sellout because I don't embrace communism. I mean, that's
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Speaker 4: the level of rhetoric that they have. There is no
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Speaker 4: free thinking, right? And that's where Mamdani is. And that's
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Speaker 4: where a lot of people that support Mamdani are. If
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Speaker 4: you somehow support ICE, if, you know, doing their job,
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Speaker 4: federal law enforcement, this is, you're a bad human being.
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Speaker 4: These types of false dichotomies are what weak, minded people
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Speaker 4: fall for every single time, right? You'll hear me say
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Speaker 4: something like this. You either love America or you don't. Now,
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Speaker 4: I say this because I do believe it to be
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Speaker 4: factually true, but that in and of itself is a
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Speaker 4: false dichotomy, right? You could take me to task on
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Speaker 4: that and say, well, look, you know, I may not
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Speaker 4: love America, but I respect America. I'm here. I'm I
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Speaker 4: followed your immigration laws. I came here as an immigrant.
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Speaker 4: I've worked. I've paid my taxes while I was here.
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Speaker 4: I paid whatever fees I had to pay. And the
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Speaker 4: money I've earned while I was here, I sent back
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Speaker 4: home to my country to build a farm, to buy
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Speaker 4: my parents a home, to buy a car, to set
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Speaker 4: up a life for myself. Because it's going to be
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Speaker 4: a lot better for me to retire with a bunch
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Speaker 4: of money that I earned in America and save than
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Speaker 4: spend somewhere else where the cost of living is easier
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Speaker 4: than here. I won't say this person hates America. And
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Speaker 4: I don't think this person is an enemy of the
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Speaker 4: United States. I think that's a person that is doing
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Speaker 4: everything under the law. And that's their prerogative.
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Speaker 6: Right?
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Speaker 4: So I can't say that they hate America. But when
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Speaker 4: I say you either love America or you don't, I
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Speaker 4: still think I'm right.
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 4: Because you don't necessarily hate the country just because you
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Speaker 4: don't love it. And that's why I say it the
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Speaker 4: way I do. Because otherwise, people would label me the
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Speaker 4: way I label others, trying to pit people. You know,
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Speaker 4: either love America or you hate America. There's a reason
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Speaker 4: I don't say that, because I realize that there's an
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Speaker 4: in-between of people that are just not affected by this stuff.
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Speaker 4: They don't care that much, but they're following the rules.
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Speaker 4: So I guess I'll correct myself and say there wasn't
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Speaker 4: a false dichotomy to say that if you love America,
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Speaker 4: you don't. It would be more so if I said
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Speaker 4: either love America or you hate America. And there's a
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Speaker 4: lot of this going on online. And this is what
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Speaker 4: the communists use. That is their tactic. And it always
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Speaker 4: bothers me when I see it being used on our side, right?
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Speaker 4: The side of patriotism, the side of liberty, the side
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Speaker 4: of the constitution.
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Speaker 10: Why?
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Speaker 4: Because you've got really well-intentioned people telling me, look, you've
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Speaker 4: got crooked politicians out there. We can't have this. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: I agree that we shouldn't have this, that we can't
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Speaker 4: have it as a different thing. We have it. So
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Speaker 4: to say that we can't have it You make it
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Speaker 4: seem like this just started. No, you just realized it.
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Speaker 4: But it's always been there, right? The idea of political
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Speaker 4: corruption is so old, they had a name for it
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Speaker 4: back in the Roman Empire, dating back a couple of
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Speaker 4: thousand years. And the word for that, I did a
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Speaker 4: whole podcast on this years ago called, well, it's in
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Speaker 4: the podcast title, I believe, but the word is ambitus, A-M-B-I-T-U-S.
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Speaker 4: And that was the word for the political corruption that
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Speaker 4: was going on back in the early days of the
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Speaker 4: roman empire so we see that now i've got a
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Speaker 4: lot of people that wear the red maga hat that
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Speaker 4: love america they love their mom they love god and
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Speaker 4: they love apple pie but they'll say things like look
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Speaker 4: there's two types of americans the ones that can stay
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Speaker 4: and the ones that gotta go right kill them all
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Speaker 4: let god sort them out and These are funny bumper
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Speaker 4: sticker sayings, but they're not real and they don't work.
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Speaker 4: And you can't enforce them. You can make an idea
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Speaker 4: in your mind to say, all right, well, we're going
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Speaker 4: to assassinate. You know, that's what Tehran did, right? That's
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Speaker 4: what the IRGC did. They said, oh, these are the
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Speaker 4: people that are criticizing us? All right, kill them all.
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Speaker 4: Some estimates say 30,000, some say 50,000. They killed 50,000
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Speaker 4: people for not complying with the mullahs' orders. That's not
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Speaker 4: the America I live in. That's not the constitution I
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Speaker 4: believe in. That's not the Christianity I subscribe to. Punto
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Speaker 4: y final. This is a country that we live in
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Speaker 4: right now that has dealt with things like this before.
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Speaker 4: Whether it's political corruption, ideologies that are seeping in. I
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Speaker 4: don't know if you remember the Salem Witch Trials. And
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Speaker 4: I'll do more on this a little bit later, but
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Speaker 4: just to put it out there. The Salem Witch Trials...
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Speaker 4: were witches, right? These women were being charged for being
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Speaker 4: part of the Wiccan religion, so to speak, which is
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Speaker 4: legal in our country, right? Because we don't ban any religion.
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Speaker 4: And they were sentenced and whatever, and eventually this became
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Speaker 4: a thing where you can't prosecute witches anymore. I'm sure
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Speaker 4: people were up in arms about that at some point.
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Speaker 4: What do you mean we can't prosecute them? That's clearly wrong.
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Speaker 4: Use common sense.
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Speaker 7: Come on.
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Speaker 4: Come on, man. Right? But Ultimately, we don't really have
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Speaker 4: a witch problem today, or maybe we do, and it's
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Speaker 4: so rampant that they're blended into society and we can't
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Speaker 4: see it anymore. I'll concede that point to however way
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Speaker 4: you want to go on that. But some people say,
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Speaker 4: you know, Wiccans or Satanists or witches are incompatible with
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Speaker 4: the West, incompatible with the United States, incompatible with our society,
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Speaker 4: and you're probably right. But the argument to that would be,
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Speaker 4: That's your problem, right? They're incompatible to you because your constitution,
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Speaker 4: the one you uphold, says that I have a right
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Speaker 4: to be here. So we can't have it both ways.
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Speaker 4: That's why I always stick with the constitution. I'm not
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Speaker 4: going to sit here and start a campaign against Islam.
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Speaker 4: I will speak out against radical Islamists that have made
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Speaker 4: a militant radical movement out of their faith, where it's
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Speaker 4: no longer a faith movement, it's a political movement. And
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Speaker 4: that is a thing. And that's a perversion, in my opinion.
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Speaker 4: And I can speak out against Islamism, but I'm not
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Speaker 4: going to condemn everybody of a particular faith.
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Speaker 5: Why?
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Speaker 4: For many reasons. One being, I don't think it makes
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Speaker 4: logical sense. And two being, it's unconstitutional. It's never going
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Speaker 4: to happen.
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 4: Unless we get a two-thirds majority somewhere in Congress that says, hey, look,
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Speaker 4: The Constitution, it says we're allowed to have freedom of expression,
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Speaker 4: freedom of this, freedom of that. You can have freedom
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Speaker 4: for anything except for things that are incompatible with Western culture.
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Speaker 4: Except for yada, yada, yada. It doesn't say that. So
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Speaker 4: that's just misplaced ire, right? Misplaced anger. People need to
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Speaker 4: figure out how to solve their problems without saying, I
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Speaker 4: hate you and you've got to go. That's my opinion.
19:00
Speaker 4: And Mullen's taking the right approach here on this one.
19:03
Speaker 4: He's not taking the bait. He's not getting into any
19:06
Speaker 4: of these things. He's taking it case by case. Look,
19:09
Speaker 4: this guy is wanted for this and that. We think
19:12
Speaker 4: he's no good because of this and that. And it's
19:15
Speaker 4: wrong of you to want to set this guy free. Anyway,
19:18
Speaker 4: we're going to take a pause right here. Councilwoman Vicky
19:21
Speaker 4: Palladino is coming up next. After that, I believe we
19:24
Speaker 4: got some words from Speaker Mike Johnson, who's also weighing
19:28
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19:31
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Speaker 4: All right, familia, welcome back. It's Rich Valdez keeping you
20:01
Speaker 4: company tonight. And a lot of stuff unfolding yesterday night.
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Speaker 4: There was a shooting ice following this guy that he's
20:08
Speaker 4: on their worst list.
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Speaker 6: They get him, but guess what? He tries to get away.
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Speaker 4: Guy's running away in a gray Honda SUV, a CRV
20:16
Speaker 4: to be exact. He hits two different cars, tries to
20:18
Speaker 4: run over the ICE agents who then take aim with
20:20
Speaker 4: an AR-15 or whatever long arm they were using.
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Speaker 6: They get him. They're able to get him. He doesn't die.
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Speaker 6: He's in custody.
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Speaker 4: Now they're framing it as the guy thought he was
20:28
Speaker 4: getting away from other bad guys. You can't make this
20:31
Speaker 4: stuff up. This stuff is wall-to-wall coverage here in New
20:33
Speaker 4: York City. And with us to break it all down,
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Speaker 4: Councilwoman Vicki Palladino. Councilmember Palladino, welcome.
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Speaker 11: Thank you, Rich. Thanks for having me. Good to be here.
20:43
Speaker 6: My pleasure.
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Speaker 4: So, you know, Vicky Palladino, I'm looking at this and
20:48
Speaker 4: I think if we looked at every case in the
20:51
Speaker 4: world of a bad guy trying to get away from
20:54
Speaker 4: the cops and them saying, oh, I didn't know it
20:56
Speaker 4: was the cops.
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Speaker 6: I thought they were trying to get me. I was afraid.
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Speaker 6: I was scared for my life.
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Speaker 4: I believe that's the story I've been hearing my whole life, right?
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Speaker 6: They always go, no, I thought they were coming to
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Speaker 6: get me. Do you buy it? Do you think this
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Speaker 6: is a viable defense?
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Speaker 11: No.
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Speaker 12: First of all, Look, what's going on in the Bronx
21:14
Speaker 12: right now, the guy was a known gangbanger. And since
21:17
Speaker 12: Biden opened the borders and we've allowed close to a
21:22
Speaker 12: million people into New York City, most of these people
21:25
Speaker 12: back in that day, which is about three years ago,
21:28
Speaker 12: it's 2026 now, we allowed these gangbangers into our city.
21:34
Speaker 11: They teamed up.
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Speaker 12: I can't pronounce the name of the gang this guy
21:38
Speaker 12: is affiliated with.
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Speaker 6: Trinitarios.
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Speaker 11: There you go.
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Speaker 12: And them and MS-13 have been clashing now for years.
21:49
Speaker 12: So they're both deadly gangs. They do not care who
21:53
Speaker 12: they hit, who they kill. When they're going at each other,
21:57
Speaker 12: it's open warfare on the streets.
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Speaker 4: You might remember, not to cut you off, but you
22:02
Speaker 4: might remember a case where everybody was screaming justice for Junior,
22:05
Speaker 4: a poor 15-year-old kid who ran into a bodega to
22:08
Speaker 4: save his own life. It was this gang that did this,
22:12
Speaker 4: and apparently it was mistaken identity. Junior had nothing to
22:14
Speaker 4: do with it, and eventually those guys were all caught
22:17
Speaker 4: and brought to justice.
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Speaker 6: But you're right. When you're talking about war on the street,
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Speaker 6: they go after kids. They go after anybody.
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Speaker 11: They don't care.
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Speaker 12: And one of the things I made mention of was
22:29
Speaker 12: there was recently a shooting of a young child And
22:33
Speaker 12: it's not the first time. It's several times. You mentioned Junior.
22:37
Speaker 12: He's 15. But I'm going to go a little younger
22:39
Speaker 12: than that. The two-year-old, that is, the mother was pushing
22:42
Speaker 12: the baby in the carriage. And because of the war
22:45
Speaker 12: that was going on, a random gunshot shot and killed
22:50
Speaker 12: this young child, okay? This baby in a carriage. Not
22:53
Speaker 12: the first time. And when certain reporters put to me, well,
22:58
Speaker 12: you know, the people are afraid to leave their homes.
23:02
Speaker 12: People are afraid to go to their local stores, send
23:05
Speaker 12: their kids to school. The reason why they're afraid to
23:08
Speaker 12: send their kids to school is not because of ICE.
23:11
Speaker 12: And let me be very clear about that. And that's
23:13
Speaker 12: what I told the reporter. Let me be very clear
23:15
Speaker 12: about that. What they're afraid of is the random violence
23:19
Speaker 12: that is so prominent in the borough of the Bronx.
23:24
Speaker 12: So to see and to hear this last night, is
23:29
Speaker 12: not unusual. This is the way they're going to go
23:31
Speaker 12: about it. This guy knew he was wanted. He got
23:35
Speaker 12: arrested the first time, I believe it was December of 2023.
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Speaker 11: He was arrested seven different times. He was deported.
23:43
Speaker 12: He came back again, okay, to go back to the
23:46
Speaker 12: life he had prior, not to make a better life
23:49
Speaker 12: or to try to be a better person. No, he
23:52
Speaker 12: was exactly the same gangbanger he was when he was
23:55
Speaker 12: deported and came back. This guy knew he had a
23:58
Speaker 12: five-year-old in the car. This guy knew when he crashed
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Speaker 12: into two different vehicles, okay, to try to escape the
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Speaker 12: ICE agents that he knows damn well is after him.
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Speaker 12: Everybody knows ICE is on the streets now in New York.
24:13
Speaker 12: You know, Holman said it.
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Speaker 6: Apparently everybody's afraid of him.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, everybody's afraid, right? So you're afraid. What are you doing?
24:21
Speaker 11: You surrender. You know, you're taught as.
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Speaker 12: A kid, whether you're white, black, green, blue, Hispanic, American,
24:30
Speaker 12: I don't care what you are. You're told two hands
24:32
Speaker 12: on the wheel. You stop and you see what's going on.
24:37
Speaker 12: All of this could have been avoided if he would
24:41
Speaker 12: have done the right thing. He chose not to. He
24:45
Speaker 12: chose to escape. That old line about it could have
24:48
Speaker 12: been the good guys after me, the bad guys after me.
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Speaker 11: I didn't know who it was, so I just took
24:53
Speaker 11: off to save my own life. I don't believe that
24:56
Speaker 11: for a minute. These are hardcore people.
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Speaker 12: These aren't people like you or me, Rich, who did
25:02
Speaker 12: something wrong and.
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Speaker 11: The cops want them. This is totally different. Apples and oranges.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, 100%.
25:11
Speaker 4: Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen, Secretary of Homeland Security, saying that
25:14
Speaker 4: there is a– one of the reasons this man is wanted,
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Speaker 4: this Oscar Belgal, is because he's wanted in the questioning
25:22
Speaker 4: of a shooting of an off-duty ICE agent who got
25:25
Speaker 4: shot in the throat last fall.
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Speaker 6: I don't know if you remember that. I remember it
25:29
Speaker 6: like yesterday.
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Speaker 4: Happened to be interviewing Curtis Sliwa in studio, and that
25:32
Speaker 4: was the story we were talking about. And they met
25:35
Speaker 4: their match because he was armed and he shot back.
25:38
Speaker 4: And it was just wild to see these guys pull
25:40
Speaker 4: up on the moped and try to, you know, do
25:42
Speaker 4: them in. So interesting to see that this might be
25:46
Speaker 4: full circle.
25:47
Speaker 6: Your thoughts?
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Speaker 12: Well, my thoughts are good. You know, I believe that
25:52
Speaker 12: I should be here. And I was also asked that question.
25:57
Speaker 12: ICE belongs here. We've got a really we've got such
26:01
Speaker 12: unrest in this city. And then you have the mayor
26:04
Speaker 12: of the city of New York, Zoran, coming out. and
26:07
Speaker 12: condemning ICE in the worst possible way. And what he's
26:11
Speaker 12: doing is he's flaming the flames of hatred. Then you
26:16
Speaker 12: had the Bronx borough president who came out on the steps.
26:19
Speaker 12: I don't know if you saw her, but man, oh man,
26:23
Speaker 12: that F word was flying out of her mouth. Get
26:27
Speaker 12: the F off my block. Get the F out of
26:29
Speaker 12: my borough. You don't effing belong here. It was like,
26:33
Speaker 12: who talks like that? When you want to try to
26:36
Speaker 12: contain a serious problem. And again, gangbangers, you don't speak
26:43
Speaker 12: like that because all you're doing is empowering the bad guys.
26:47
Speaker 11: To continue to do more bad things.
26:51
Speaker 12: In turn, you are then giving ice or laying in
26:56
Speaker 12: ice's feet to react the way they need to react
27:01
Speaker 12: to the actions that are being put To them. Like
27:05
Speaker 12: you said, this guy, the ICE agent that got shot
27:07
Speaker 12: in the neck. You're not giving the ICE agents any
27:11
Speaker 12: other choice but to react in the way they need
27:14
Speaker 12: to react.
27:15
Speaker 11: It's not good. It's bad.
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Speaker 6: I agree that it's bad.
27:18
Speaker 4: And you mentioned the mayor, Zoran Mamdani, saying that he's
27:21
Speaker 4: here to defend New Yorkers.
27:23
Speaker 6: And he doesn't want ICE in New York City.
27:25
Speaker 4: And I'm thinking, what better way to defend New Yorkers
27:28
Speaker 4: than to get the bad guys off the streets? It's
27:30
Speaker 4: not like this guy was the pastor of the local church, right?
27:32
Speaker 4: And I don't want to make him guilty before he's
27:34
Speaker 4: been to court, but he has been arrested multiple times
27:37
Speaker 4: on drug charges, gun charges.
27:39
Speaker 6: He was a wanted man with an ICE detainer.
27:41
Speaker 4: The only reason he was free to do this was
27:44
Speaker 4: because they wouldn't hand him over the NYPD wouldn't hand
27:47
Speaker 4: him over to ICE. So it makes you wonder, why
27:50
Speaker 4: is the mayor doubling down in the name of safety
27:53
Speaker 4: for New Yorkers when the real threat to safety in
27:55
Speaker 4: New York are guys like Oscar Belgan?
27:58
Speaker 12: Well, because he's DSA. This is a police abolitionist. We
28:02
Speaker 12: elected a police abolitionist. You know, he's trying to make
28:06
Speaker 12: a few... turns in his road to try to appear
28:10
Speaker 12: to be more moderate. But let's get down to brass
28:12
Speaker 12: tacks on who Zoran Mondani is. Zoran Mondani and his
28:16
Speaker 12: administration do not believe in law enforcement. This is the
28:20
Speaker 12: same Zoran Mondani who is going to close Rikers Island
28:24
Speaker 12: with the help of Kathy Hochul, upstate New York, in
28:28
Speaker 12: just a year from now. They are saying 2027. So 2027,
28:33
Speaker 12: next year, you and I might be having a conversation
28:36
Speaker 12: about the closing of Rikers Island, even though their so-called
28:39
Speaker 12: neighborhood jails are nowhere near ready to house what's in
28:48
Speaker 12: Rikers right now, which is the absolute worst of the worst.
28:53
Speaker 12: This is something that we need to see through a
28:55
Speaker 12: very clear lens. This is somebody who, so long as
29:00
Speaker 12: they're protecting him, and they did, if you remember, the
29:03
Speaker 12: night before, or was it the same evening that this
29:08
Speaker 12: guy got shot last night, when he stood with the
29:11
Speaker 12: Jews on October 7th?
29:13
Speaker 6: The night before, right. He showed up for the vigil.
29:16
Speaker 11: Okay, and he stood up, and did you see his face?
29:19
Speaker 11: He was miserable.
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Speaker 12: No dimples that night, okay, when he stood with the Jews,
29:25
Speaker 12: but the very same day, Ten minutes later, when he
29:28
Speaker 12: was done, first of all, the police protected him beautifully.
29:31
Speaker 12: From the time he stepped out of his car, protected
29:34
Speaker 12: him against his own Palestinian Islamic terrorist beast.
29:40
Speaker 11: That voted for him.
29:41
Speaker 5: Right.
29:42
Speaker 11: Okay. His base got upset.
29:44
Speaker 12: But right after that, he went to a Palestinian restaurant,
29:47
Speaker 12: you know, from the river to the sea is on
29:49
Speaker 12: the menu. So, you know, this guy cannot have it
29:52
Speaker 12: both ways. So last night it gave him the opportunity
29:57
Speaker 12: to once again, play to his base and, that got
30:00
Speaker 12: him elected on how he hates ICE and how, you know,
30:04
Speaker 12: Mullen did.
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Speaker 11: A fantastic job.
30:06
Speaker 12: 40 minutes he was on, 40 minutes. He took this
30:10
Speaker 12: apart from start A, from the beginning, right through to
30:15
Speaker 12: the end to Z.
30:17
Speaker 11: He dissected this whole thing.
30:19
Speaker 12: The fact that this guy is a thug, and he
30:22
Speaker 12: kept saying a thug, and that we cannot get law
30:26
Speaker 12: enforcement involved to actually do their job here in the
30:30
Speaker 12: city of New York.
30:32
Speaker 11: Because they can't. The police are tied up.
30:35
Speaker 12: And if they were able to, ICE would not have
30:38
Speaker 12: to do what ICE is doing because the police would
30:42
Speaker 12: just hand them over, as they should do.
30:45
Speaker 11: But let's double back.
30:47
Speaker 12: The way Mullen took this apart was beautiful. Like, there
30:53
Speaker 12: should be absolutely no questions to this. He did a
30:57
Speaker 12: fantastic job. They did their job, and he laid it
31:01
Speaker 12: all out there. The problem is, and it will always be, Rich,
31:06
Speaker 12: the media blackout.
31:09
Speaker 11: They will not cover Mullen.
31:12
Speaker 12: They will not cover the conversation that Mullen had with Zoran,
31:17
Speaker 12: the President of the United States, Kathy Hochul, and Zoran Mandani.
31:23
Speaker 11: Four of them on a phone call.
31:25
Speaker 12: And none of that will be discussed under the right light,
31:31
Speaker 12: where people could actually learn. Because you've got to understand,
31:35
Speaker 12: average folks are listening to Channel 2, Channel 4, Channel 7,
31:40
Speaker 12: and Channel 11, and New York 1. And then we
31:43
Speaker 12: could go into our cable. They're not listening to normal
31:47
Speaker 12: folks like us. Give it to them in a very straight, logical,
31:53
Speaker 12: common sense way. Because I think if common sense people
31:57
Speaker 12: actually listen to why this happened and why it can
32:02
Speaker 12: continue to happen, it's because of A, B, and C
32:07
Speaker 12: of the New York City administration being Zoran at the head,
32:11
Speaker 12: Kathy Hochul being the head of the state.
32:14
Speaker 11: And they're never going to get the truth so long
32:17
Speaker 11: as they tune into the mainstream media, which is choosing
32:21
Speaker 11: to black this all out.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, 100 percent. Amigos, we're on with Vicky Palladino, council
32:25
Speaker 4: member from Queens, New York, District 19. You mentioned all
32:29
Speaker 4: these meetings and the mayor being on the phone with
32:31
Speaker 4: the president and with the secretary. And you yourself have
32:34
Speaker 4: been rather tied up with all of this stuff between
32:37
Speaker 4: media events and dealing with your constituents and other city business.
32:41
Speaker 4: I can't remember the last time that shooting a bad
32:43
Speaker 4: guy caused this type of stir in New York City.
32:46
Speaker 4: Do you notice that it seems to be like an
32:48
Speaker 4: event on steroids?
32:49
Speaker 11: Oh, yes, absolutely.
32:51
Speaker 12: You know, think of Daniel Penny, who took down that
32:54
Speaker 12: maniac on the train and they tried to prosecute him
32:58
Speaker 12: and they did prosecute him. But of course, he was
33:01
Speaker 12: let off not guilty. We have, what's his name? Thank
33:05
Speaker 12: God is right. Thank you to Tom Kniff for that
33:09
Speaker 12: and his law firm. Also, the other, what the heck
33:14
Speaker 12: was it? I'm trying to think that they had also
33:17
Speaker 12: Louis Mangione. They made him into a hero.
33:20
Speaker 6: He's a hero for killing the United Healthcare CEO. Right.
33:23
Speaker 12: CEO, point blank, back of the head. They turned him
33:27
Speaker 12: into a hero. What does this tell you? This tells
33:30
Speaker 12: you we're in dire need of change. And I'm going
33:33
Speaker 12: to change in leadership. And I don't know if you
33:36
Speaker 12: saw the Saritha against A.G.
33:40
Speaker 11: James last night, the debate.
33:42
Speaker 6: Yeah, I caught a couple of clips of that, and
33:43
Speaker 6: I think she cooked her.
33:45
Speaker 11: She cooked her. Saritha was so on her game.
33:50
Speaker 12: So here the people of New York have got a
33:53
Speaker 12: golden opportunity here because this is all about prosecution and prosecuting.
33:59
Speaker 12: and getting the job done. New York does not want
34:03
Speaker 12: to prosecute. They don't want a real prosecutor. We have
34:06
Speaker 12: an opportunity to elect Saritha. I cannot say her last name.
34:10
Speaker 12: I'm sorry, but she is fantastic. We've got Bruce Blakeman
34:14
Speaker 12: coming up for governor. We've got to think long and hard, folks,
34:19
Speaker 12: about what we want to do. Do we really want
34:21
Speaker 12: the change that we need in order to fix these problems?
34:25
Speaker 12: Or do we want to continue down the path that
34:29
Speaker 12: we're on? Because if Hochul wins, if Hochul wins this go-around,
34:35
Speaker 12: Zoe Mandani will be empowered.
34:38
Speaker 11: She will be even more so empowered.
34:41
Speaker 12: And now you get someone like Saritha who could actually
34:45
Speaker 12: be a prosecutor and prosecute. Imagine, we could actually flip
34:50
Speaker 12: things around. We could flip things around. And yet, are
34:54
Speaker 12: we going.
34:55
Speaker 11: To do that?
34:56
Speaker 4: Yeah, I hope so. Now, Vicki, you're talking about debates.
34:58
Speaker 4: We got a debate for Blakeman coming up next week.
35:01
Speaker 4: We also have a debate that occurred in Michigan with
35:05
Speaker 4: Abdul El-Sayed and Congressman Mike Rogers. And let me tell you,
35:11
Speaker 4: I think the congressman did a phenomenal job. He really
35:14
Speaker 4: knocked it out of the park because El-Sayed is like
35:16
Speaker 4: a soundbite machine. And he's very good on TV. He's
35:19
Speaker 4: almost like a Zoran Mamdani, but not quite. I think
35:22
Speaker 4: he didn't deliver. He didn't connect the punches in this debate.
35:26
Speaker 4: Your thoughts from what you saw?
35:27
Speaker 11: From what I saw, he floundered and fell flat.
35:30
Speaker 5: You're right.
35:31
Speaker 12: The congressman did what he needed to do. Look, whenever
35:34
Speaker 12: you're in a debate with the likes of a Zoran
35:38
Speaker 12: Mamdani and a Son Piker-led individual that you have in Saeed,
35:43
Speaker 12: whatever his name is, When you have these people, you've
35:46
Speaker 12: got to realize you must take off the gloves and
35:50
Speaker 12: you must be ready to go full throttle, one to
35:53
Speaker 12: the right, one to the left, and knock them out.
35:55
Speaker 12: Because these people think, for some strange reason, that they
35:59
Speaker 12: have got it over the barrel. They're going to win.
36:02
Speaker 12: They've got it. Well, you know what? If you're willing
36:05
Speaker 12: to put up the fight, and do what it takes.
36:08
Speaker 12: And we are now ready, because we are not ready
36:11
Speaker 12: to surrender our Constitution. We are not ready to surrender
36:15
Speaker 12: our Supreme Justices when they try to stack the Supreme Court.
36:21
Speaker 12: They've got a whole agenda planned. They've got it planned.
36:25
Speaker 12: We're just taking apart New York. We need to look
36:28
Speaker 12: at the country on a whole. Then you've got this
36:30
Speaker 12: nut job in Texas, okay, whatever his name is. Yeah, Telerico,
36:36
Speaker 12: another beaut. You've got him. You know, don't be afraid.
36:41
Speaker 12: Anybody who's going to run for office, do what you
36:43
Speaker 12: need to do. Take these people down and pull out
36:48
Speaker 12: the points that need to be put out. Because you
36:51
Speaker 12: made a good point, Rich, when you said he's not
36:53
Speaker 12: real bright, okay? He's led by Hasan Paika. Have you
36:58
Speaker 12: ever seen Hasan Paika in any kind of anything other
37:01
Speaker 12: than behind his keyboard?
37:04
Speaker 5: No.
37:04
Speaker 11: Why?
37:05
Speaker 12: Because he's scared stiff. And he may come across like
37:09
Speaker 12: he's not. But you put him up against any hardcore
37:12
Speaker 12: person that knows what the hell they're talking about, and
37:16
Speaker 12: you will see Hasan Piker really crumble and fall. I
37:20
Speaker 12: wish I had him in my sights for five minutes.
37:26
Speaker 6: Maybe you should.
37:27
Speaker 4: Find him and challenge him on the street like you
37:29
Speaker 4: did with de Blasio.
37:30
Speaker 11: I'm still dying to meet my mayor. Why doesn't Zoran
37:35
Speaker 11: want to meet Vicky Palladino? All right. You got an
37:38
Speaker 11: open invitation, Zoran.
37:39
Speaker 12: I think he's heard about you. He tried to get
37:43
Speaker 12: me thrown off council.
37:45
Speaker 11: Okay.
37:46
Speaker 12: So why not have a meeting with Vicky Palladino, Zoran?
37:49
Speaker 12: Let's sit around a table. Let's try to hash it
37:52
Speaker 12: out fact by fact by fact. And let me ask
37:55
Speaker 12: you a few questions as to why.
37:57
Speaker 7: Why?
37:58
Speaker 11: And answer.
37:58
Speaker 4: I love it.
37:59
Speaker 5: Outstanding.
37:59
Speaker 6: Outstanding.
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Speaker 4: Councilwoman Vicki Palladino, let everybody know how they can find
38:03
Speaker 4: you online, how they can support what you're doing if
38:05
Speaker 4: they want to learn more.
38:07
Speaker 12: Well, the best way to find me would be for
38:10
Speaker 12: the older folks, Facebook. You can find me on Facebook
38:15
Speaker 12: and or Twitter. On Facebook, it's Vicki Palladino for NYC.
38:22
Speaker 12: I also have, of course, my council member page, but
38:24
Speaker 12: you will not see or hear any of this on
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Speaker 12: my council member pages, because you have to follow very
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Speaker 12: strict rules. On my political pages, which is Vicki Palladino
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Speaker 12: for NYC, Facebook, Vicki for NYC on Instagram, or the
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Speaker 12: best place to find Vicki Palladino is the Honorable Vicki
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Speaker 12: Palladino on Twitter.
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Speaker 11: Follow me on Twitter.
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Speaker 6: I follow. You should too.
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Speaker 11: There you go. And that's where you will see this.
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Speaker 6: Outstanding.
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Speaker 4: Councilwoman Vicki Palladino, I want to thank you for being here.
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Speaker 4: You're a gentlewoman, a scholar, and a patriot. Godspeed to you.
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Speaker 11: Same to you, Rich. I love you. Thank you.
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Speaker 6: Love you too.
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Speaker 4: All right, familia, keep it locked right here. We're coming
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Speaker 4: right back. More to come straight ahead. What Speaker Mike
39:11
Speaker 4: Johnson had to say about this. Some of your thoughts, calls,
39:14
Speaker 4: and opinions from comments that are on social media to
39:17
Speaker 4: everything else. Plus, I got a couple other things up
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Speaker 4: my sleeve. Don't go anywhere. I'm Rich Valdez.
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Speaker 5: This is America. This is America. Mr.
39:46
Speaker 4: Call Screener, who is a budding radio starbud, Richie Valdez
39:51
Speaker 4: is terrific. With programs like America at Night with Rich
39:56
Speaker 4: Valdez and Donald Trump as a guest, who's going to
39:58
Speaker 4: watch late-night TV?
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Speaker 7: Come on.
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Speaker 8: Who would want to? I want to listen to you, Rich,
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Speaker 8: all the time.
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Speaker 5: Richie V.
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Speaker 8: I want to thank you. People need to know you're
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Speaker 8: not only a great call screener, you're even a better broadcaster.
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Speaker 6: President Donald J.
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Speaker 4: Trump, Mr. President, welcome to the program, sir.
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Speaker 8: Well, thank you, Rich, and thank you for everything. I
40:24
Speaker 8: know you very well, and I listen, but I have
40:27
Speaker 8: a lot of people that listen.
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Speaker 3: And they love your show, and I appreciate it very much.
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Speaker 4: All right, familia, that was nice. So, welcome back. We
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Speaker 4: continue the conversation. Now, Speaker Mike Johnson getting in on
40:41
Speaker 4: this ICE shooting in New York as well. And you
40:44
Speaker 4: would suspect that he has... Just common sense things to say,
40:49
Speaker 4: and you'd be right. Listen to this.
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Speaker 7: Blue Dog Democrats, the conservative Democrats who used to know,
40:53
Speaker 7: they believed in God and country. They believed in the
40:55
Speaker 7: founding principles of America. They believed in faith and freedom
40:58
Speaker 7: and all these things. The free market. Those ideals are
41:01
Speaker 7: now held in disdain by the Democrat Party. I'm telling you,
41:05
Speaker 7: the insurgent left is taking over the Democrat Party. This
41:08
Speaker 7: radical Marxist communist ideology.
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Speaker 6: Is consuming them.
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Speaker 7: And the party that we knew is.
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Speaker 5: No longer going to exist.
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Speaker 7: And this new Congress... in the next two years, four
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Speaker 7: years and beyond. We're not going to be having the
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Speaker 7: old traditional arguments about, oh, marginal tax rates or shades
41:23
Speaker 7: of difference in foreign policy or regulation. We're going to
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Speaker 7: be arguing about whether or not we're going to keep
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Speaker 7: the greatest nation in the history of the world, keep
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Speaker 7: the republic, or break it down to the rubble and
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Speaker 7: rebuild it in the vein of this communist utopia. That
41:36
Speaker 7: is a dangerous fool's error, and it's never worked. Karl
41:39
Speaker 7: Marx used to use socialism and communism interchangeably.
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Speaker 4: Because if you remember from.
41:43
Speaker 7: History, he thought socialism was a step to get to
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Speaker 7: communism that they thought was the utopia of the perfect society,
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Speaker 7: it never works. It begins with all the opposite premises.
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Speaker 6: It's anti-American.
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Speaker 7: We started a website a few weeks ago, contrastforamerica.com, and
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Speaker 7: we summarize in two pages why communism has failed every
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Speaker 7: single time. Socialism, Marxism, all of it together. It leads
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Speaker 7: to human suffering, famine, poverty for everybody, and death. Communism
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Speaker 7: has been the reason that millions, tens of millions of
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Speaker 7: innocent people were murdered in the 20th century alone. That
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Speaker 7: is anti-American.
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Speaker 4: Anti-American is right. And what's fascinating about all this to
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Speaker 4: me is you've got a lot of people asking questions
42:24
Speaker 4: about this, right? This isn't what it used to be
42:26
Speaker 4: where people were like, oh, I don't know what's going on.
42:28
Speaker 4: This doesn't make sense to me. No, no, no, no. No,
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Speaker 4: now we have African-American voters that are saying, you know what? No,
42:36
Speaker 4: I'm not buying this. This doesn't make sense to me.
42:39
Speaker 4: You've got all sorts of voters that are going against
42:41
Speaker 4: the grain. Hispanic voters, right?
42:43
Speaker 6: White voters, too.
42:44
Speaker 7: Right.
42:44
Speaker 4: Let's not just sadly, I think for the white voters,
42:46
Speaker 4: they're going further to the left lately. They're all becoming
42:49
Speaker 4: Bernie bros. They're all becoming these, you know, all men
42:52
Speaker 4: are dangerous type of, you know, this new age leftist thinking.
42:57
Speaker 4: But it's good to see that some people still have brains. Right.
43:01
Speaker 4: Common sense, not this emotionally driven.
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Speaker 6: I hate men.
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Speaker 4: Yada, yada, yada. Listen to this.
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Speaker 10: Oh, well, looky here. Y'all always want to talk about
43:13
Speaker 10: how Republicans are racist. And I'm like, oh, well, these
43:15
Speaker 10: new age Republicans ain't the same.
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Speaker 4: I ain't trying to hear all that.
43:18
Speaker 10: Because the Democrats never changed. I don't know why y'all
43:20
Speaker 10: think there was a switch. That don't even make sense.
43:23
Speaker 10: But anyways, check this out. Because I got proof. So
43:26
Speaker 10: y'all can hear it from the horse's mouth.
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Speaker 4: We had all kinds of ways to keep black people
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Speaker 4: from voting.
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Speaker 11: We had poll taxes.
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Speaker 3: I want to ask you who we is. And in particular,
43:37
Speaker 3: what party... Was it that implemented poll taxes in the South?
43:41
Speaker 3: I'm pretty confident it was mostly the Democrats.
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Speaker 5: Shocker.
43:45
Speaker 3: And what party was it that put literacy tests in
43:47
Speaker 3: place in the South? Same answer, mostly the Democrats. What
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Speaker 3: party were the founders of the Ku Klux Klan from?
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Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure that was the Democrats.
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Speaker 6: Don't look at me.
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Speaker 3: That's your party. Indeed. In fact, Nathan Bedford Forrest, the
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Speaker 3: founder of the Klan, was a delegate to the 1860
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Speaker 3: Democrat National Convention. What party wrote the Jim Crow laws
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Speaker 3: in the South?
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Speaker 5: The Democrats.
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Speaker 4: Oh, this just keeps getting worse.
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Speaker 10: I mean, what racist thing haven't y'all done?
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Speaker 3: The first Republican president. Abraham Lincoln. The Republican Party was
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Speaker 3: literally founded to oppose slavery. We came into existence because
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Speaker 3: slavery was a grotesque evil. And it was President Lincoln,
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Speaker 3: the first Republican president, who signed the amendment.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, I can finish it from here. He was the
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Speaker 10: first Republican president that signed the Emancipation Proclamation that freed.
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Speaker 4: All the slaves.
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Speaker 10: I'm tired of y'all talking.
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Speaker 11: About all Republicans is racist.
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Speaker 10: Know your history. This is why I be looking at
44:42
Speaker 10: y'all black people in here like, is you stupid?
44:44
Speaker 13: Is you dumb?
44:46
Speaker 10: You gotta be dumb because ain't no way that just
44:50
Speaker 10: lets you know black people couldn't have freed themselves without
44:54
Speaker 10: the help of some white people we were outnumbered okay
44:58
Speaker 10: so y'all cannot sit up here and try to get
44:59
Speaker 10: reparations from every white person that you see walking down
45:03
Speaker 10: the street because you feel like the ancestors had something
45:05
Speaker 10: to do with your your ancestors enslavement because we've never
45:08
Speaker 10: been slaves i don't know what that feels like i
45:11
Speaker 10: live a great happy life That's why I can get
45:13
Speaker 10: up on here and talk about this stuff. And with
45:15
Speaker 10: happiness comes knowledge, education, understanding. Try to understand some shit, okay?
45:22
Speaker 10: Y'all just out here looking ignorant, bro. And y'all can
45:24
Speaker 10: feel how y'all want to feel, okay? And I'm going
45:26
Speaker 10: to be on here again clutching my pearls because I
45:28
Speaker 10: got me some more. And I bet you they won't
45:30
Speaker 10: break because they sturdy, okay? They sturdy. Anyways, you guys,
45:34
Speaker 10: y'all stay beautiful, stay blessed, and stay prosperous. And if
45:37
Speaker 10: you want truth like only Bougie can do, make sure
45:39
Speaker 10: you hit that follow button because why not? And if
45:41
Speaker 10: you want to join the conversation, leave a comment below, okay?
45:45
Speaker 10: I will be glad to indulge you, okay? Anyways, you guys,
45:48
Speaker 10: your girl is out.
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Speaker 4: All right, that's a clip from ItsBougieBrat on Instagram. You
45:55
Speaker 4: can follow her at ItsBougieBrat. I follow her. I think
45:59
Speaker 4: she's really funny. And she makes a lot of sense, right?
46:03
Speaker 4: She's what we're all supposed to be in this business,
46:05
Speaker 4: entertaining and informative. But how about that? A couple of
46:09
Speaker 4: truth bombs. And again, most of you guys listening to
46:11
Speaker 4: this show, you've heard this stuff a million times, but
46:14
Speaker 4: you didn't always hear it on Instagram. That's for sure, right?
46:16
Speaker 4: From a black woman with dreadlocks. So I think we're
46:20
Speaker 4: making some gains. It doesn't mean we're out of the
46:25
Speaker 4: water just yet. I think we're still in the deep
46:28
Speaker 4: end looking for that life preserver. We're not across the
46:31
Speaker 4: finish line just yet with this midterm because they're making
46:35
Speaker 4: gains too, right? If I had to put money on it,
46:38
Speaker 4: I would say that it's going to be a very
46:40
Speaker 4: tight race in Michigan. It's not going to be a
46:42
Speaker 4: slam dunk. You would think that a guy who's hanging
46:45
Speaker 4: out with a guy that says 9-11 was something America
46:48
Speaker 4: deserved would not win. But meanwhile, this Dr. Abdul El-Sayed,
46:56
Speaker 4: he's doing all right. Now, Congressman Mike Rogers, does he
47:01
Speaker 4: have what it takes? Absolutely. Did he nail him in
47:05
Speaker 4: that debate? Hell yeah. He did a great job. And
47:09
Speaker 4: my suspicion is that he'll continue to do a good job,
47:12
Speaker 4: at least ride those numbers, because we're ending the first
47:18
Speaker 4: week in October. You got three weeks left till Election Day.
47:23
Speaker 4: Might be enough. May not. I don't know. We'll see.
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Speaker 4: I think it's going to be tight. I think El-Sayed
47:28
Speaker 4: has charisma. He's got some money. I think Mike Rogers
47:32
Speaker 4: has a bunch of campaigns under his belt, and he's
47:35
Speaker 4: way smarter. Anyway. Let us move on. Now, keeping this
47:41
Speaker 4: same vein or the same line of thinking, I was
47:46
Speaker 4: at the Puerto Rican parade not that long ago and
47:51
Speaker 4: met a couple of really great people, a lot of
47:54
Speaker 4: really good people. One of the individuals I met was
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Speaker 4: a girl named Marion Richards, or was it Richardson? She's terrific,
48:02
Speaker 4: by the way. Forgive me for not saying her name right.
48:05
Speaker 4: And she was, uh, there with, uh, Kathy Hernandez, Kathy
48:09
Speaker 4: talk on Instagram and at a Bruce Blakeman event. And
48:13
Speaker 4: she was, uh, really articulate, really cute, very nice girl,
48:16
Speaker 4: great personality. And I really enjoyed it. Well, I saw
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Speaker 4: a video of her recently debating a guy named Brian Shapiro.
48:23
Speaker 4: He's a big lefty. This is on, uh, the, the Sean,
48:27
Speaker 4: I mean, not mess up his name, Sean, Michael Kelly show. And, um,
48:33
Speaker 4: It was great. I thought it was a really good exchange.
48:35
Speaker 4: I wanted you to hear it because, again, they were
48:37
Speaker 4: discussing that topic again of black Americans, which I think
48:41
Speaker 4: people tend to misunderstand, at least in my estimation. Go ahead.
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Speaker 1: In 1960, I'm just asking you some very basic questions
48:48
Speaker 1: because that's when you would define America being great. So
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Speaker 1: it was America.
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Speaker 3: Let me just finish.
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Speaker 6: Was America great?
48:54
Speaker 1: When black people weren't even allowed to use the same
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Speaker 1: fountains as white people, that when they had to sit
48:58
Speaker 1: in the back of buses, and when women weren't allowed
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Speaker 1: to vote, that would be a time in history where
49:03
Speaker 1: you think America was great?
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Speaker 13: Okay, so can we be clear about what we're about
49:07
Speaker 13: to say? What you're suggesting is that because I acknowledge
49:10
Speaker 13: that we had a stronger family unit in that time,
49:13
Speaker 13: because we had a stronger likelihood for people to start
49:16
Speaker 13: small businesses and be community centered. You're suggesting that that
49:19
Speaker 13: means that I think we should regress on our civil agreements, right?
49:24
Speaker 13: I'm not suggesting that. I'm not suggesting that. that black
49:26
Speaker 13: people should not be allowed into spaces that you're allowed in.
49:29
Speaker 13: I'm not suggesting that women should not be allowed to vote.
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Speaker 13: What I'm suggesting is that we had a time in
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Speaker 13: this country before there was a huge push of feminism,
49:37
Speaker 13: before there was a huge push for sexual liberation, et cetera,
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Speaker 13: where we had two-parent households at much higher rates. From
49:43
Speaker 13: my remembering, we had something around 75% two-parent households up until.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the divorce rate is up, I agree, as a whole.
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Speaker 1: Black people are much better off now than they were
49:52
Speaker 1: in that time frame. And when we talk about segregation
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Speaker 1: and the civil rights movement and Martin Luther King Jr.
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Speaker 13: What's much better off?
49:58
Speaker 1: Okay, I think black people are much better off now
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Speaker 1: than they were in the early 1900s. So we're better off.
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Speaker 13: With higher incarceration rates than we had back then. We're
50:06
Speaker 13: better off with higher drug uses. We're better off with
50:08
Speaker 13: higher fatherless homes.
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Speaker 3: I'll respond to that.
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Speaker 13: We're better off with more black people relying on government assistance.
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Speaker 1: So it's not just black people. It's America as a whole.
50:16
Speaker 1: You specify black people. Well, because, first of all, you
50:19
Speaker 1: can talk about black people in poverty, and you can
50:22
Speaker 1: talk about the unemployment numbers, and you can talk about incarceration.
50:24
Speaker 1: We can talk about all those things.
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Speaker 11: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: But yes, I would still say regardless of those numbers,
50:30
Speaker 1: Black people were not treated as human beings.
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Speaker 13: When we're talking about great, when we're talking about better,
50:36
Speaker 13: what frustrates me is that you're going to lean on
50:38
Speaker 13: money as the equivalent of being better. But my community
50:42
Speaker 13: is broken because of Democratic policies. Telling us, OK, if
50:46
Speaker 13: you want to be a part of our society, if
50:48
Speaker 13: you want to have a spot at the front of
50:50
Speaker 13: the bus, you also have to rely on daddy government to.
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Speaker 6: Give you that.
50:53
Speaker 13: If you want to join the white man's university, because
50:56
Speaker 13: get it, don't get it twisted. We had black universities
50:58
Speaker 13: and the reason we created them is because of because
51:01
Speaker 13: of segregation. And we were actually stronger because of that.
51:03
Speaker 13: We had black owned businesses in black communities. neighborhoods, in
51:08
Speaker 13: black communities. Redlining was bad, but it also forced us
51:11
Speaker 13: to stay together. When we were not allowed to spend
51:14
Speaker 13: our money at your companies, we bought things from our
51:18
Speaker 13: own small businesses. So again, I am not suggesting that
51:21
Speaker 13: desegregation or the fusing of our different economies or our
51:25
Speaker 13: different communities was a bad thing overall, but I'm saying
51:28
Speaker 13: that it came along with a deterioration of the black community.
51:33
Speaker 13: And I would like to see the black community go
51:35
Speaker 13: back to being a family-focused, Christ-focused community that does not
51:40
Speaker 13: lean on the government for its entire livelihood.
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Speaker 4: Outstanding. This, for me, is the truth about any community.
51:49
Speaker 4: I don't care if it's black or not. They're framing
51:51
Speaker 4: it that way because they love to do that because
51:53
Speaker 4: a lot of individuals want to glom onto race as
51:57
Speaker 4: the reason for the victimhood, but the victimhood, you can
52:02
Speaker 4: use it any way you want. This is the same
52:03
Speaker 4: case in Puerto Rico, right? In Puerto Rico, people are
52:05
Speaker 4: all because of the United States, because the United States
52:08
Speaker 4: pours millions, billions and billions of dollars a year into
52:12
Speaker 4: Puerto Rico. They blame the United States for everything. Now
52:15
Speaker 4: I'm not going to say the United States is not
52:16
Speaker 4: to blame for certain things, right? Just for an example,
52:19
Speaker 4: try and eat a Puerto Rican avocado. You can't, unless
52:23
Speaker 4: you go to Puerto Rico, you can't get one here.
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Speaker 5: Why?
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Speaker 4: Because the United States, um, The Department of Agriculture, they
52:31
Speaker 4: don't allow it. There are rules against it. You can
52:35
Speaker 4: get an avocado from the Dominican Republic. You can get
52:37
Speaker 4: one from Mexico. But you can't get one from Puerto Rico,
52:40
Speaker 4: which is a U.S. territory. Talk about America first. So
52:43
Speaker 4: I understand how these debates are formed. And the reality
52:46
Speaker 4: is there's right and wrong or there's true and false
52:50
Speaker 4: in a lot of these statements. But by and large,
52:52
Speaker 4: what Marion's talking about here, she's nailing it on the head.
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Speaker 4: I mean, that's exactly correct. Can't deny it. Anyway, if
53:01
Speaker 4: you want to follow her, she's at hashtag underscore Marion,
53:04
Speaker 4: M-A-R-I-E-N on Instagram. And this to me is the crux
53:10
Speaker 4: of this. There's always this, oh, we're a lot better
53:13
Speaker 4: off because of FDR. She made so many good points.
53:16
Speaker 4: The black nuclear family was a thing. Blacks used to
53:19
Speaker 4: get married at a higher rate than they do today.
53:23
Speaker 4: The family unit has suffered. Under these Democrat policies, under
53:28
Speaker 4: these FDR policies, under the New Deal, social welfare, what
53:34
Speaker 4: it was designed to help, it's hurt. We have housing
53:37
Speaker 4: projects that instead of helping people get a hand up,
53:40
Speaker 4: it's made it a permanent handout. And it doesn't matter
53:44
Speaker 4: who lives there, right? You've got black people living there.
53:46
Speaker 4: You've got white people living there. You've got Hispanics living there. Now,
53:49
Speaker 4: I can't say I've seen a bunch of Asians. I
53:51
Speaker 4: have not seen a bunch of Asians living in housing projects.
53:55
Speaker 4: But this isn't a race thing. My point is, it's
53:58
Speaker 4: about the subjugation of people. It's about FAAX, the road
54:03
Speaker 4: to serfdom, this permanent serfdom that we create, this permanent
54:08
Speaker 4: underclass that the government needs so they have a reason
54:12
Speaker 4: to subsist. For many years, I've said, it's not the
54:15
Speaker 4: government's job to be your daddy. And she said something
54:17
Speaker 4: to that effect as well, going to big daddy government.
54:20
Speaker 4: She's right.
54:21
Speaker 5: 100% right.
54:22
Speaker 4: This is To me, the crux of the matter, liberty
54:27
Speaker 4: is king. It's paramount because it truly allows us the
54:30
Speaker 4: most freedom to do anything. The ability to earn a
54:34
Speaker 4: living and say, hey, I'm going to go buy a
54:35
Speaker 4: house or I'm going to go open a business or
54:37
Speaker 4: I'm going to go do whatever it is I want
54:38
Speaker 4: to do because I have the money to do it.
54:41
Speaker 4: When you're not able to make money because you don't
54:44
Speaker 4: own that business, that business is now part of the collective, right?
54:49
Speaker 4: Workers of the world united, Evita Peron. All that crazy nonsense,
54:53
Speaker 4: that Marxist BS, that gets in the way. It stifles
54:57
Speaker 4: and strangles any type of growth that an individual can have.
55:01
Speaker 4: And you need to lift that one individual so they
55:03
Speaker 4: can lift their family out of poverty. If that one
55:06
Speaker 4: person never gets their bodega, never gets their barbershop, never
55:09
Speaker 4: gets whatever type of business they're into, they don't get
55:13
Speaker 4: to the next level. And you never get to create
55:16
Speaker 4: generational wealth. So keep that in mind. Anyway, keep it
55:19
Speaker 4: locked right here. Coming right back with a preview of
55:20
Speaker 4: what's coming up on Monday. Don't go anywhere.
55:23
Speaker 5: This is America. This is America. He's making podcasting great again.
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Speaker 5: This is America with Rich Valdez.
55:55
Speaker 4: All right, familia, welcome back. Rich Valdez, keeping you company, America.
55:58
Speaker 4: And I want to get into one final topic before
56:02
Speaker 4: I get into... What was I going to get into? Well,
56:07
Speaker 4: as I'm drawing a blank, I'll preface what's coming up
56:12
Speaker 4: in the next show because... On Monday, we're going to
56:16
Speaker 4: get into a few things. Jeff Bezos recently was doing
56:18
Speaker 4: an interview with Brett Baier from the Fox News Channel,
56:23
Speaker 4: and he talked about the rise of socialism. So I'm
56:25
Speaker 4: going to talk about socialism. We're going to talk a
56:26
Speaker 4: little bit about what's going on with Marco Rubio lately.
56:28
Speaker 4: I'm a big fan of Marco Rubio. We're also going
56:31
Speaker 4: to talk about some of the crazy Lindsay Clancy-esque cases
56:37
Speaker 4: that are going on and have been going on. And
56:39
Speaker 4: I know we talked a little bit about that on
56:41
Speaker 4: Tuesday and, excuse me, Wednesday and Thursday. But We'll do
56:44
Speaker 4: a little more of that because they keep happening, right?
56:46
Speaker 4: I mean, it's just so sad about the amount of
56:48
Speaker 4: moms that are harming their own children. But in addition
56:53
Speaker 4: to all that, there is a experiment that I did
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Speaker 4: the other day. I went up to my daughter. She's 21.
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Speaker 4: I have two, but the big one's in Virginia, making
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Speaker 4: her life, making her family, doing what she does. And
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Speaker 4: I went to my younger daughter and I said, hey,
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Speaker 4: what would you want to listen to on a show
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Speaker 4: like mine? And I braced myself for impact, waiting for
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Speaker 4: her to say, I'm not going to listen to a
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Speaker 4: show like yours. But she didn't say that. She just
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Speaker 4: looked at me and her look said it all. And
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Speaker 4: she said, well, maybe, she said, talk about like everything
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Speaker 4: that's online because online there's only one story. And I said, well,
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Speaker 4: what are you talking about? She said, well, like online,
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Speaker 4: everything is Trump is bad and everything that you believe
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Speaker 4: in is bad. That's what she told me. And I said,
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Speaker 4: what do you mean? She said, well, for example, she said,
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Speaker 4: there's a girl, this cheerleader that got beat up by
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Speaker 4: a cop. And I saw that video. I just happened
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Speaker 4: to have seen the one she was talking about. And
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Speaker 4: the police report, again, there's a video and then there's
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Speaker 4: a police report and they're not consistent. In the video,
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Speaker 4: this girl is mouthing off to a cop and she's
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Speaker 4: like over his shoulder, hovering over him while he's trying
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Speaker 4: to lock up, I guess her boyfriend or her friend. And,
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Speaker 4: you know, this is like outside of a bar somewhere
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Speaker 4: in some college town or something like that. And She's
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Speaker 4: in his face and he tells her, get away, get away,
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Speaker 4: get away, back up, back up, back up. She doesn't.
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Speaker 4: So he uses, you know, he's like leaned over this guy.
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Speaker 4: He just looks in her direction, uses his left hand
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Speaker 4: and he shoves her three, four, five feet. She moves back.
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Speaker 4: He goes back to locking her up. Then she gets
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Speaker 4: back at him in his face. And I can't tell
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Speaker 4: what happens in that moment. But the next thing you know,
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Speaker 4: he's tackling her and he's locking her up. Now in
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Speaker 4: that tussle, I don't know if she hits him or
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Speaker 4: not because you can't really make it all out. The
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Speaker 4: police report says that she struck him, at which point
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Speaker 4: then he used more force to do it. It's not
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Speaker 4: a great video, right? It really isn't. Could the cop
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Speaker 4: be guilty of excessive force? Yeah, potentially. Does it look
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Speaker 4: like that to me? No, it doesn't. It looks to
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Speaker 4: me like they were arguing near a bike rack. When
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Speaker 4: he pushed her, she fell over into the bike rack.
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Speaker 4: She tripped on it, which made it look a lot
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Speaker 4: worse than it was and probably you know, got her
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Speaker 4: scratched up a little bit. And I wouldn't want that
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Speaker 4: for my kid. But again, if she's going to get
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Speaker 4: in a cop's face, that's what she's going to get,
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Speaker 4: whether she's my kid or not. And this wasn't my kid, right?
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Speaker 4: But my point is, I try to always look at
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Speaker 4: these things like, well, what if it was your kid? Anyway,
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Speaker 4: bottom line, she tells me stuff like that, you know,
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Speaker 4: just maybe give your side of the story on things.
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Speaker 4: And I explained how, you know, there's all this propaganda
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Speaker 4: out there that's anti-ICE and They make stuff up. And
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Speaker 4: she said, and the other thing she's like, you know,
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Speaker 4: it's not really not politics, but she's like, you know,
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Speaker 4: Marvel has a new movie and she was just recently
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Speaker 4: dressed as Spider-Man for the, for the release of the
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Speaker 4: Spider-Man Phil, the theatrical release. And that just happened a
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Speaker 4: couple of days ago. I think on the 6th or
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Speaker 4: the 7th of October, they released Spider-Man on streaming the
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Speaker 4: brand new day film. And I thought, yeah, maybe it'd
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Speaker 4: be nice if I interviewed somebody from Marvel. So I,
59:59
Speaker 4: In the Spider-Man series, there is a character named Bane.
1:00:06
Speaker 4: And the creator of Bane from Marvel Comics, guy who's
1:00:09
Speaker 4: worked with Stan Lee and so many others, he's going
1:00:11
Speaker 4: to be joining me on Monday. So keep it locked
1:00:13
Speaker 4: right here for that. That's going to be a really
1:00:15
Speaker 4: fun interview. Plus, we're going to talk about all the
1:00:16
Speaker 4: other things that are going on in the world, updates
1:00:19
Speaker 4: on everything else. And, you know, if it's going on
1:00:22
Speaker 4: in America, we're talking about it. And I always leave
1:00:24
Speaker 4: you with the following. You got to stand for something
1:00:26
Speaker 4: because if you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything.
1:00:29
Speaker 4: And the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is
1:00:32
Speaker 4: for good people like you to sit there and do nothing.
1:00:35
Speaker 4: So make sure you do something. Hasta la proxima. Take care,
1:00:38
Speaker 4: good night, and God bless you, America. I'm Rich Valdez,
1:00:43
Speaker 4: and this is America.
1:00:45
Speaker 5: This is America.