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Maduro Discovers Freedom In Handcuffs | Episode 197 · V

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  Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to this edition of Vince on
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  Speaker 1: a Tuesday. Great to have you with us. As always,
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  Speaker 1: the best audience anywhere. We have a mighty show ahead
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  Speaker 1: for you. Of course, it's January 6th. You may know
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  Speaker 1: it as one of the high holy days of the left.
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  Speaker 1: Peace be upon them. It's a huge day. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to go back and take a look at some of
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  Speaker 1: the ways in which they're obsessing over January 6th, 2026.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you forget it. Also, Tim Walls, of course, announced
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  Speaker 1: that he's dropping out in Minnesota. That's wonderful. We've got
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  Speaker 1: Maduro going in before court yesterday in New York City
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  Speaker 1: and being stunned by what a functioning justice system looks like.
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  Speaker 1: And Michael Knowles stops by. Yes, we have a very
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  Speaker 1: busy show for you. And I'm so glad you're here.
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  Speaker 1: January 6th, ladies and gentlemen. If you still have the
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  Speaker 1: tree up, I know what you can do with it.
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  Speaker 1: Adorn it with a Palestinian flag, perhaps, or a pride flag,
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  Speaker 1: or put your COVID masks all over it. That's right.
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  Speaker 1: Or your Maduro poster. Put that up in a prominent
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  Speaker 1: place in your house and celebrate January 6th. It's an
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  Speaker 1: important day. Sometimes I still wake up in terrors and
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  Speaker 1: think about when the Capitol Police were leading the Viking
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  Speaker 1: guy jet like a tour around the Capitol building or
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  Speaker 1: when the Capitol Police egads open the doors to allow
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  Speaker 1: people in. I can't stop thinking about it. Do you
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  Speaker 1: remember all the assault selfies that were taking place? That's right.
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  Speaker 1: People were holding up their fully automatic assault cell phones
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  Speaker 1: and taking pictures of themselves inside of their own Capitol building.
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  Speaker 2: Disgusting.
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  Speaker 1: Disgusting. I can't believe that happened. And every day since
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  Speaker 1: then has been January 6th. Don't believe me? Well, today, Politico's,
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  Speaker 1: one of Politico's idiots, a guy called Kyle Chaney, if
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  Speaker 1: that's even his real name, He posted the following to
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  Speaker 1: social media today. It was accompanied by a big piece
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  Speaker 1: that he's promoting, but it's hilarious. He wrote, new, Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump's escape from accountability for January 6th has been the
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  Speaker 1: animating force in his second term. A president willing to
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  Speaker 1: test and cross constitutional lines, knowing the institutions meant to
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  Speaker 1: check or punish him can't or won't. What is he
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  Speaker 1: talking about? Donald Trump has followed the constitution and the
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  Speaker 1: law to the T, even to the point that it's
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  Speaker 1: been frustrating. So watch. He keeps following the law. That's
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  Speaker 1: the feature. Everyone around him is trying to destroy him,
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  Speaker 1: has been breaking the law and the Constitution. But Kyle
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  Speaker 1: goes on and he goes, five years later, January 6th
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  Speaker 1: is every day. Now, that's hilarious. And what does he
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  Speaker 1: mean by that? January 6th is every day. Where is
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  Speaker 1: January 6th? Is January 6th every day inside of your house?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, maybe January 6th is every day inside of
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  Speaker 1: the Ms. Now green room. Maybe that's where January six
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  Speaker 1: is every day. Or perhaps he means January six, a
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  Speaker 1: day where nobody was actually staging an insurrection. What kind
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  Speaker 1: of insurrection doesn't have weapons? The whole thing is so stupid.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe he means that the right continues not to
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  Speaker 1: try and violently overthrow the country because we prefer law
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  Speaker 1: and order. Maybe that's what he means. January six is
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  Speaker 1: every day. Or maybe what he means is January six,
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  Speaker 1: in his view, is a violent insurrection. So are we
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  Speaker 1: getting violent insurrections all the time? Hmm. Yeah, from the left.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe that's what he means. No, we know what
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  Speaker 1: he means. We know that the left continues to cling
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  Speaker 1: desperately to January 6th as some sort of tool that
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  Speaker 1: they can use to expand their power. Nancy Pelosi launched
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  Speaker 1: an entire fake committee using January 6th as a pretext,
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  Speaker 1: despite the fact she was the one who didn't even
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  Speaker 1: call the National Guard. And she resisted having the National
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  Speaker 1: Guard there precisely for this purpose. The left is desperate
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  Speaker 1: for handholds in order to rise back to power. So
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  Speaker 1: they'll use any pretext for it. And Kyle Cheney is
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  Speaker 1: a willing little lick spittle for that purpose. Oh, January
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  Speaker 1: 6th is every day. He wants January 6th to be
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  Speaker 1: every day. His thing is to wish cast that January
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  Speaker 1: 6th be every day so that the left can get
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  Speaker 1: more power. And our answer to that is hell no.
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  Speaker 1: We don't view it that way. In fact, what we
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  Speaker 1: fervently want is, is for a restoration of the rule
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  Speaker 1: of law. It's why we voted for Donald Trump in
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  Speaker 1: the first place. It's why we sent him back into office,
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  Speaker 1: despite your many theatrical and tyrannical protests. Yeah, no, we're
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  Speaker 1: sending that guy back. We want to restore order in
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  Speaker 1: the Constitution. And so we did. January 6th is every day.
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  Speaker 1: And they're still using anything they can desperately. to try
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  Speaker 1: and undermine president Trump, including, including, and especially January 6th. Um,
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  Speaker 1: here's another one for you today. This is from Politico.
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  Speaker 1: Another one from Politico. I don't know what Politico, they
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  Speaker 1: woke up and they chose idiocy today. Um, here, Politico
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  Speaker 1: is rooting for the pipe bomber to go free today.
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  Speaker 1: They're rooting for the pipe bomber to go free. Brian
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  Speaker 1: Cole Jr. Who, I don't know if you're familiar with this,
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  Speaker 1: but there's a, there's a fellow called Dan Bongino, who
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  Speaker 1: is going to be back behind a microphone very soon. And, uh,
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  Speaker 1: He comes into the FBI deputy director and he makes
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  Speaker 1: one of his most important priorities to capture the January
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  Speaker 1: 6th pipe bomber. They just brought him into custody a
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  Speaker 1: month or so ago. They finally catch this guy after
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  Speaker 1: all these years. And to be clear, I want to
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  Speaker 1: remind people it wasn't based on a bunch of new information.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't based on new tipsters or anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: It was simply based on the information that the Biden
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  Speaker 1: led FBI refused to act upon. They had it in
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  Speaker 1: their custody and they refused to take this guy into custody.
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  Speaker 1: That's the truth. And so they finally take Brian Cole Jr.
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  Speaker 1: into custody. He confesses in his conversations with authorities that
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  Speaker 1: it was him. They got him dead to rights. If
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  Speaker 1: you go read all the available legal documents on the subject,
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  Speaker 1: they've got his cell phone patterns. They got his license plate.
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  Speaker 1: They've got him all around this place. They got him
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  Speaker 1: on video. He's dropping the bombs on the evening of
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  Speaker 1: January 5th. They got their guy. And now Politico is
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  Speaker 1: arguing Donald Trump may have accidentally pardoned him. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Come again. He accidentally would he slip any pardon? Was
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  Speaker 1: he walking by the auto pen machine and had Brian
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  Speaker 1: Cole's name on it and he accidentally hit the button?
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  Speaker 1: What are you talking about? He accidentally pardoned Brian Cole Jr.
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  Speaker 1: Look at this. This is a real headline. Check this
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  Speaker 1: out from Politico. Trump may have accidentally pardoned the January
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  Speaker 1: 6th pipe bomber.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 1: So. You start to wonder what the hell are they
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  Speaker 1: even talking about? So what they hang their hat on
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  Speaker 1: is the fact that President Trump upheld a campaign promise
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  Speaker 1: to pardon the defendants on January 6th, 2021. Anybody that
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  Speaker 1: the Biden administration went after and tried to destroy their
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  Speaker 1: life tyrannically just because they wanted to hurt Trump supporters,
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  Speaker 1: imprison them, lock them up for months on end. They
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  Speaker 1: were left with nothing but the ability to sing the
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  Speaker 1: national anthem to each other each evening from their jail cells.
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump gave a pardon to all of these people
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  Speaker 1: because he ran on it and then he fulfilled that
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  Speaker 1: promise as soon as he got into office. Politico is
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  Speaker 1: now hoping that the pipe bomber can walk free on
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  Speaker 1: that basis. Now, this is insanity for any number of reasons.
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  Speaker 1: But one of the clearest ones, one of the clearest
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  Speaker 1: ones is ready for this. Even Politico's piece quotes the pardon.
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  Speaker 1: Trump's proclamation commuted the sentences of 14 individuals and also granted, quote,
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  Speaker 1: a full, complete and unconditional pardon to all other individuals
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  Speaker 1: convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or
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  Speaker 1: near the United States Capitol on January 6th, 2021. I
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  Speaker 1: want to reiterate something. On January 6th, 2021, for those
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  Speaker 1: of you playing along, we've been following this story closely
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  Speaker 1: enough to know the details. When did Brian Cole Jr.
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  Speaker 1: plant the bombs? Which day? Which date? I'll wait as
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  Speaker 1: you process that. January 5th. Thank you. The shadow has it.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. The shadow knows. Remember that? The shadow knows.
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  Speaker 1: The shadow does know. It was January 5th. that the
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  Speaker 1: pipe bombs were placed. So the pardon wouldn't even apply.
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  Speaker 1: The text of the pardon, the plain syntax of the pardon,
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  Speaker 1: says on January 6th. It was like idiocy. The other
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  Speaker 1: piece here is that in this case, Brian Cole Jr.,
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  Speaker 1: when he sat down with authorities, He straight up said
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  Speaker 1: that his actions had nothing to do with the congressional
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  Speaker 1: proceedings the next day. Who said that? The suspect said that.
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  Speaker 1: So in what world would a pardon that applies to
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  Speaker 1: the events that occurred on January 6th related specifically to
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  Speaker 1: the United States Capitol building? In what world would that
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  Speaker 1: apply to Brian Coltrane? It wouldn't. Now, am I saying
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  Speaker 1: that some left wing judge is not going to buy
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  Speaker 1: this convoluted logic? No, I'm not saying that at all.
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  Speaker 1: We've seen that kind of garbage happen over and over
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  Speaker 1: and over again. And this may be a big assist
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  Speaker 1: from Politico as the defense team for Brian Cole Jr.
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  Speaker 1: tries to find some way to get their guy out
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  Speaker 1: of this. But I'm telling you, this is I mean,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it amazing? So the left. who goes on a
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  Speaker 1: jihad against every grandma who waved an American flag inside
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  Speaker 1: of their own Capitol building on January 6th now is
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  Speaker 1: working overtime once again to say, stop focusing on the
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  Speaker 1: pipe bomber, let them go free. What is this? It's
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  Speaker 1: like the Ray Epps thing all over again. It was like,
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  Speaker 1: why wasn't that guy arrested? Why he's yelling for everybody
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  Speaker 1: to go on the Capitol. What is that all about?
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  Speaker 1: And then the media goes full time in defense of
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  Speaker 1: that guy.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry.
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  Speaker 1: I thought the whole point was, You guys are trying
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  Speaker 1: to absolutely crush any Trump supporter wherever you can find them.
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  Speaker 1: And then, you know, the second, you know, you see
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  Speaker 1: you take somebody into custody, you drop some couple of
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  Speaker 1: pipe bombs. You're like, no, this guy needs to go free.
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  Speaker 1: You walk me through this. Exactly. Walk me through this.
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  Speaker 1: Brian Cole Jr., by the way, no Trump supporter. He
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  Speaker 1: said he detested both political parties. And that's again, he
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  Speaker 1: was telling authorities this. And then he planted the pipe bombs.
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  Speaker 1: But in case you're wondering, are they still delusional about
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  Speaker 1: January 6th? Hell yeah. To this very day, they're still
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  Speaker 1: pumping this. And lastly, on this thing about Politico, you know, remember, like,
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  Speaker 1: you wondered to yourself, was there ever a time that
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  Speaker 1: Politico has lied to us? Like, maybe, Vince, maybe I
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  Speaker 1: should trust Politico. Maybe they're right about this. Let's see.
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  Speaker 1: How about this one? Do you remember this one? Justin,
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  Speaker 1: will you put this on screen for me? Remember this story?
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  Speaker 1: Hunter Biden's story is Russian disinformation, dozens of former intel
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  Speaker 1: officials say. Yeah, I'm not sure I reflexively trust Politico
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  Speaker 1: on any of this. It's like, you know who's probably
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  Speaker 1: going to get away with it? The pipe bomber. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: because Trump pardoned him. Yeah, sure. That makes a lot
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  Speaker 1: of sense. That makes no sense, actually, whatsoever. But that
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  Speaker 1: is what's going on. Just to keep you apprised, which,
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  Speaker 1: of course, is my job. We're keeping you apprised. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see what else is going on other than the
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  Speaker 1: insanity of January 6th. We've got– well, let me get
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  Speaker 1: to Maduro. Maduro showed up in– speaking of the justice system,
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  Speaker 1: Maduro showed up in a New York City courtroom yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: and he pled not guilty to all of these various charges.
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  Speaker 1: And he was saying, I'm the leader of a country.
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  Speaker 1: I'm the leader of a country. First of all, you're
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  Speaker 1: not the leader of anything. Even in the first Trump administration,
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  Speaker 1: you guys remember– President Trump didn't even recognize him as
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  Speaker 1: the leader of Venezuela. Juan Guaido, who remembers that name?
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  Speaker 1: Juan Guaido was recognized as the official leader of Venezuela
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  Speaker 1: by the Trump administration then. And in this current Trump administration,
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  Speaker 1: they've outright declared, because it's true, that he was fraudulently
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  Speaker 1: acting as the president of Venezuela. So any claim that
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  Speaker 1: we captured the leader of Venezuela is already on its
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  Speaker 1: face broken. It's just false. This guy was a guy
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  Speaker 1: who occupied, occupied the position of power inside of Venezuela unlawfully.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't with the consent of the governed. They have
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  Speaker 1: a democracy there, nominally, and he seized control of power
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  Speaker 1: without consent of the governed. And so he shows up
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  Speaker 1: in court yesterday and he's whining, I'm the leader of Venezuela.
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  Speaker 1: I was captured at my home. Uh-huh. Got it, buddy.
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  Speaker 1: And that said, this guy was stunned, apparently, by our
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  Speaker 1: justice system. He had no idea that in our justice
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  Speaker 1: system that he might be entitled to any sorts of
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  Speaker 1: rights in the process. Watch this cut from yesterday as
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  Speaker 1: a Fox analyst breaks this down. Maduro stunned by how
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  Speaker 1: generous the United States is being to him. Cut one. Interestingly,
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  Speaker 1: he said after the judge read him a version.
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  Speaker 3: Of Miranda rights and included the fact that he had
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  Speaker 3: the right to potentially be released on bail. Maduro said
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  Speaker 3: he was unaware of those rights, and it struck me
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  Speaker 3: that he's coming from a very different legal system because
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  Speaker 3: it seemed like he had never even conjured the notion
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  Speaker 3: that he's entitled to an attorney, he may be able
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  Speaker 3: to apply for bail, and he has the right to
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  Speaker 3: stay silent. He has the right that none of the
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  Speaker 3: material that he has said outside the purview of counsel
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  Speaker 3: necessarily has to come in. So it was interesting to
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  Speaker 3: see him sort of taking that in in a system
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  Speaker 3: very different from the one I'm sure he's used to.
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  Speaker 1: He was like stunned. He's like, wait a second. People
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  Speaker 1: are entitled to rights? What is this? That's because Maduro
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  Speaker 1: doesn't govern things like this. I mean, people are eating
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  Speaker 1: zoo animals because they don't have access to anything in Venezuela.
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  Speaker 1: Eight million people at least have fled that country in desperation.
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  Speaker 1: because of Maduro and before that Hugo Chavez's tyrannical rule.
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  Speaker 1: And so he's being given, I'm telling you what, I've
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  Speaker 1: been saying this and I'll continue to say this, the
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  Speaker 1: Trump administration is being awfully nice to this guy. The
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  Speaker 1: fact that we sent Delta Force there as a chauffeur
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  Speaker 1: service is pretty decent of us. We didn't put a
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  Speaker 1: bullet in his head. We put him in a helicopter.
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  Speaker 1: Who gets to fly in a helicopter? That's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine getting to fly in a helicopter. They put him
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  Speaker 1: on a helicopter. They fly into the United States. He gets,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's surrounded. He's got a security detail. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: brings him in. They bring him into a New York
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  Speaker 1: City courtroom. They even Marco Rubio said they read him
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  Speaker 1: his rights when they took him into custody. We're pretty
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  Speaker 1: decent country. That's over the top generosity on our part.
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  Speaker 1: And then we put him before a judge and then
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  Speaker 1: he gets to have his rights in a court of law. Now,
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  Speaker 1: from my perspective, this guy's out of control. He's killed
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  Speaker 1: a lot of Americans. He's absolutely been dastardly. He's been
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  Speaker 1: working with all these authoritarian regimes. He's been empowering China.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a complete disaster. I'd be perfectly happy with
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  Speaker 1: us just dropping him off in Gitmo and forgetting an
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  Speaker 1: entire legal process for him. Because in my view, look,
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  Speaker 1: the American Constitution is for American citizens. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: pretty straightforward. But we're a decent country. And so we're
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  Speaker 1: affording him rights in a court of law. He's going
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  Speaker 1: through it right now. Fine. But man, that's President Trump
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  Speaker 1: for you. Speaking of the guy, he's trampling the Constitution
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  Speaker 1: and the rule of law. No, he's following it to
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  Speaker 1: the T. He's even giving Maduro... his day in court,
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  Speaker 1: which Maduro was stunned by. So kind of fascinating to
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  Speaker 1: watch all that because it's like this guy is not
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  Speaker 1: accustomed to this at all. He was actually, you could tell,
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  Speaker 1: he was fully stunned that he's being shown these courtesies
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  Speaker 1: at all. Pretty amazing. Oil tankers, by the way, are
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  Speaker 1: trying to break through the blockade outside of Venezuela because
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  Speaker 1: President Trump's got an armada there and he's blocking everything
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  Speaker 1: up At least 15 U.S. sanctioned oil tankers have reportedly
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  Speaker 1: been breaking through the blockade. What they do is they've
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: been going into something called dark mode tactics and they've
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  Speaker 1: been trying to skirt the ships. They paint names of
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  Speaker 1: decommissioned vessels on their halls. They misrepresent their positions. They're
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  Speaker 1: trying to leave in coordinated fashions to escape the blockade.
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  Speaker 1: They're being tracked by U.S. satellites. I love how these
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  Speaker 1: guys think they're just going to get away. We I mean,
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• 18:01
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• 18:04
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• 18:07
  Speaker 1: these ships, whether or not they get through the blockade.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: But they all try and leave en masse. But this
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: is amazing for a million reasons. But I tell you what,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: this is something I was saying yesterday. I'll reiterate today.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: This is amazing because what we've done is we've shut
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: down the world's gas station for authoritarian regimes. We've shut
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: it down. This is a massive, massive deal. Cuba is
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: absolutely struggling right now trying to figure out what they're
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: going to do. You've got China, which has been taking
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: so much of this oil. Key adversary on the planet.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: You want to talk about the big adversary? It's China.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: It's China. This disempowers them. And China, of course, has
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  Speaker 1: been working at our expense immensely. And so if we're
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• 18:57
  Speaker 1: on the black market in order to hurt us. That's
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: a huge deal. So, look, this has been obviously very dramatic.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: It's been an historic event. But President Trump is navigating
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: it right now. And I think, you know, just like
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: a lot of this stuff, he's just got to place
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: trust that he's handling it the right way. And they're
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: doing everything they can to make it so that this
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: guy sees justice and that the Venezuelan people restore their
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: historic traditions of democratic governance and this ultimately and most
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: importantly serves the interests of the american people that's what
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: this is all about and if there's anybody who can
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: handle that juggling act handle juggling those chainsaws it's donald
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: trump he definitely who else pick somebody else it's that
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: guy all right more in a moment Tim Walz is
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: bowing out. He said, I'm out, I'm out. I'm not
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: running for governor anymore because I gotta spend more time
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: hunting down the criminals, he claims. And he's got a
• 19:53
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• 19:56
  Speaker 1: he's a great guy. You will not be surprised by
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: his character witness. And I'm pretty sure it was unsolicited endorsement,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: which Tim Walz may be regretting. More in a moment. Hey,
• 20:05
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• 20:17
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• 20:20
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• 20:22
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• 20:25
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  Speaker 1: See homeserve.com for details. Tampon Tim Walls has decided to
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: wave with both hands and leave the governor's race in Minnesota.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: By the way, does that guy not have the weirdest
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: hand gestures you've ever seen? There's only one other guy
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: who's got perhaps even weirder hand gestures, and that would
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: be greasy Gavin Newsom from California. You know him? Gavin
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Newsom always looks like he's milking an imaginary cow he's
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: doing the he's doing the cow milking thing he's like
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: moving his hands gesticulating yeah he's he's milking imaginary cows
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Tim Walz is doing spirit fingers and waving with both
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: arms and those guys are supposed to be the avatars
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: for masculinity on the left at any rate Gavin Newsom
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: has decided to endorse Tim Walz Gavin Newsom greasy Gavin
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Newsom dove in yesterday to thank Tim Walls as his
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: time as governor of Minnesota. Gavin Newsom wrote this on
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: his stupid ex account. He wrote, Tim Walls is a
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: man of character, strength, and compassion. He has served Minnesota
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: with heart and dignity. Everything about this is a lie.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Minnesota and America is better off thanks to his lifelong
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: public service. Wishing him all the best in this next chapter.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Tim Walls. America and Minnesota are way worse
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: off because of Tim Walz. Tim Walz is not a
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: man of character. He's a scumbag and a liar. Tim
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Walz is not a man of strength. He's a man
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: of weakness. Tim Walz is not a man of compassion.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: He's a man of villainy and cruelty. Tim Walz has
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: enabled some of the most destructive fraud in our entire
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: country's history. We're looking at upwards of $ 19 billion, and
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: perhaps that's a low figure, stolen from you and from
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: me and from the people of Minnesota on Tim Walz's
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: watch and clearly with his implied approval at the very least.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Spare us. The whole thing is so stupid. But a
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: character endorsement from greasy Gavin Newsom is probably the cherry
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: on top of all of this. So who loves Tim Walz?
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Tim Walls. Walls is on the way out. Walls did
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: a press conference yesterday. And when he did his presser
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: to announce that he's stepping aside, you would think that
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: you were like, hey, I'm not going to be the
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: governor anymore. I'm not running for office anymore. You think
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: maybe you would, you know, answer a couple of questions
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: about that subject. Walls took no questions. Here he is.
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: Watch.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: No one's taking this away from us. Not the fraudsters.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Certainly not this president. Not on my watch. Tomorrow, I'll
• 24:07
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• 24:09
  Speaker 2: America's best paid family medical leave program that is now
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: a week into it. And at that time, I'll take
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: all your questions. Thank you all.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: I thought you were going to take questions. By the way,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: that video keeps going and going and going. It's just
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: reporters all grumpy. They're like, I thought this was a
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: press conference. What the hell was that? So you tell me.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: I said this yesterday, and I'll reiterate it here. You
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: tell me. You think Walls is leaving on his own terms?
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: You think Walls is leaving because everything is great, that
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: he's just got to double down on excellence? You think
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Walls is leaving because I don't want to be distracted
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: by politics. I just got to focus on the excellence
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: of the, of the people of Minnesota. You really think
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: that's why he's leaving? No, of course not. Nobody thinks that.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: He's leaving under a storm cloud. This guy is leaving
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: because the Democrats are giving him the heave-ho. He's a
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: huge liability going into the midterms. The last thing they
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: need is this cartoonish Elmer Fudd goofball who has led
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: to this massive fraud in America being front and center
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: in the American consciousness leading up to the midterms. That's
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: the last thing that they need. Additionally, who's to say
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: that he doesn't get prosecuted soon And who's to say
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: that he's not aware that the walls are closing in?
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: The walls are closing in. It certainly feels that way.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: And if anybody deserves it, it's him. The Minnesota U.S. attorney,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: by the way, is very clear that he's tackling fraud.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: He just did a huge press conference on the subject.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: And Tim Walz certainly deserves it. And Walz isn't alone.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: You know who else deserves it? Gavin Newsom and every
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: one of these other Democrat governors who are operating their
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: states with utter impunity. and letting fraud run rampant. In fact,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: here's what President Trump had to say on the subject
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: this morning. You ready for this? Here's a Truth Social post, 8.21
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Eastern time this morning. President Trump on Greasy Gavin Newsom.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: He says this, California under Governor Gavin Newsom is more
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: corrupt than Minnesota, if that's even possible. Three question marks.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: The fraud investigation of California has begun. Thank you for
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: your attention to this matter, President Donald J.
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: Trump.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Oh, but no, the president's not allowed to tell the
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Justice Department to investigate things like this. Yeah, you're not
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: in any way familiar with Article 2 of the Constitution. Yes,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: he is. He's in charge of the United States Department
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: of Justice. If he detects criminality, he can order the
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Justice Department to investigate it. That's his right as the
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: duly elected president of the United States. You only vote
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: for that guy. him and the vice president of the
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: United States. Those are the two. He's in charge and
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: he's ordered an investigation into the state of California. Good, good.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: And cut them off and please, for the love of God,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: impose consequences. Impose real consequences. I'm talking handcuffs, orange jumpsuits,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: jail time for people, not just the people who committed
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: this fraud, but the people who enabled it to advance
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: their political careers. I mean, the reality is in Minnesota,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: for instance, not only is Tim Walz the governor and
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: he's been taking money from these fraudulent operations, Ilhan Omar
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: taking money from these fraudulent operations, but also you got
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: the attorney general of the state, Keith Ellison. You know,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Keith Ellison is caught on tape. Keith Ellison, the attorney general,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: was caught on tape. Talking to his donors who were.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: a part of fraud convictions in the food scam, telling
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: them that he would protect them. This is all on tape.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: There's audio of all of this. Sounds like evidence to
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: me and a predicate for imposing legal consequences on people
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: like Keith Ellison and anybody else who's committed this kind
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: of crime against the American people. All right, coming up,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Michael Knowles is going to join us. I want to
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: ask him about the ongoing, well, pattern of trans violence
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: in the country did you see that jd vance's house
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: in ohio was just attacked by another transgender lunatic how
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: much of this i mean at what point do we
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: have a a big national conversation about trans violence you
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: know how often do we see schools being attacked by
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: people who've been overtaken by this demonic ideology we just
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: saw a guy killed charlie kirk who's boyfriend was some
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: sort of furry trans something. Again, this just keeps happening.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Are we going to put a stop to it? Are
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: we going to actually like, you know, speaking of being
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: empathetic and being compassionate, are we actually going to intervene
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: or are we just going to keep affirming delusions until
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: they manifest themselves in the most violent and destructive possible ways?
• 29:16
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  Speaker 1: with us back on the program, sir. Good to see you.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Merry Christmas.
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: Happy January 6th, which Christians call the Feast of the
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: Epiphany and liberals call the worst day in the history
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: of this or any republic.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: So however you celebrate, you know, happy, happy day. It is.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: No, I was I started the show by saying it's
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: one of the high holy days of the left for sure, because,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: you know, they're hanging their covid masks all over their houses. OK,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: so let's let's talk about this attack on J.D. Vance's home.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: This is what I'm interested in in your thoughts on this,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: because because we just got news yesterday that J.D. Vance,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: although he wasn't at his house in Ohio, it is
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: protected by the Secret Service. And some lunatic who has,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: you know, the characteristic serial killer eyes. went to the
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: house with a hammer, smashed a Secret Service vehicle, then
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: walked up to the windows of the house and began
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: smashing the windows. And finally, I guess the sleepy Secret
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Service agents who were tasked with defending the property finally
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: showed up, took him into custody. Here's the update on this.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: The guy calls himself Julia. He's transgender. And his parents
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: are both pediatricians who happen to be maxed out Democrat donors.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: Are you surprised by any of this, Michael Knowles?
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: Vince, it's always the ones you most expect that. I
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: think that's a good rule of thumb to live by.
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: It's always the ones you most expect. And so, you know,
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: we were talking about a month or so ago before
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: Christmas about trans violence, which really came to the public
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: for with the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the subsequent
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: justification and celebration on the left and more left wing
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: violence since then. But there do seem to be some
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: common themes. Violence is much more likely to be justified
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: and perpetrated by ideological leftists.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Than by the right.
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: It's not even close. Even the left-wing outlets like The
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: Atlantic are admitting that now. Violence is much more likely
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: to be carried out by people who have psychological problems,
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: especially including transgenderism, than people who are normal and who
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: accept who they are. That's undeniable at this point as well.
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: And so then the only question becomes, are we going
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: to do anything about it? 20 years ago, this would
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: not have been a controversial point at all. Yeah, if
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: a guy doesn't know what his sex is or if
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: he thinks he's the opposite sex, he's probably got a
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: skewed perception of the world. and he's probably more likely
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: to behave in psychotic ways. This is the premise of
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: like every horror movie ever. This is Psycho. This is
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: Silence of the Lambs. This is Hannibal Lecter and all
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: the rest of it. So, you know, we all understood that.
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: And now we have just willfully denied the reality that
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: we've always kind of known. The question for us now,
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: and frankly, this gets into the Maduro raid. This gets
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: into the shift in foreign policy. This gets into the
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: way we're talking about immigration. To me, the big political
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: shift is, are we going to acknowledge reality and do
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: something about it, or are we going to keep playing
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: pretend on our domestic fantasies, our sexual fantasies, and our
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: foreign policy fantasies? I think reality is winning right now, happily,
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: but that's the big shift.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: I agree with you. I think reality is winning. I
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: think the right, as much as there's so many people
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: who are pessimistic on the right for any number of reasons,
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: should acknowledge the victories that we've had, meaningful ones, when
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: it comes to issues like the transgender delusions or the
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: war on cops or borders or any of these other
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: big issues. We've had a lot of victories, definitely. But
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: the problem we continue to have is we have increasingly
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: thin margins, for instance, in the House. We're dealing with
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: the Democrats who continue to have way too much power
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: in this country. And the Democrats are operating under a
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: completely incoherent worldview. Everything about it is incoherent. They'll condemn
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Americans for living on stolen land. And then when we
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: go back and try and reclaim American energy companies in Venezuela,
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: they pretend it's Venezuelan. So, I mean, it's like There's
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: no coherence to this. They tell you that January 6th,
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: grandma's waving flags inside the Capitol building are evil villains.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: But anyone who tries to convince someone they were born
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: in the wrong body is just doing something totally normal.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: So how do we have debates or anything approaching improvement
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: when you've got an entire political party dedicated to that poison? Well,
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: I think we should recognize, yes.
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: Apparently, there is no cohesion here between, say, the LGBT
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: crowd and the pro-Hamas crowd or whatever, whether we're talking
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: about Venezuela and the Lakota Sioux, same principle. But there
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: is at a very deep level a simple coherence, which
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: is they all have a common enemy. And the common
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: enemy is America. The common enemy is the church. The
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: common enemy is the West generally.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: That's it.
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: That's the common enemy. And so that's how you're going
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: to get Greta Thunberg marching around in a Palestinian keffiyeh.
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: And it kind of makes sense because they don't agree
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: with each other on a lot, but they do have
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: a common enemy. And so I think we need to
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: think about politics in that kind of practical way as well.
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: In these periods where you have a unified government, as
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: we do right now on the right, there's often a
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: lot of infighting. And there's more infighting on the right
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: because we're more ideologically diverse than the left, which is progressives,
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: super progressives, and John Fetterman.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: Otherwise, they're pretty much all on the same team. And
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: we less tyrannically enforce these views. I mean, we actually
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: have more spirited debates, whereas the left will primary you
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: into nonexistence if you dare say that securing the border
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: is good.
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: Yes, unlike in America broadly, when it comes to ideological coalitions,
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: diversity actually is our strength, and we have benefited from
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: that because it allows us to react to changing circumstances.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: But it does mean that at the.
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: End of the day, when we're going to the ballot box,
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: when we're bringing ballot watchers to make sure there's no
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: fraud– we've seen a lot of fraud recently– when that happens,
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: we do need to unify. Politics– is about results. It's
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: about actually getting things done in a real community. And
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: this is where we could learn a lot from Mr.
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: Cocaine Mitch McConnell, even though he's not so popular on
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: the right right now. He made at least one very
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: good observation, which is the winners make laws and the
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: losers go home. And so all the debates and the
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: introspection can all be very, very good. But we do
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: have to keep our eyes on the prize because if
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: we lose, especially if we lose unified government eventually, they
• 38:16
  Speaker 5: are going to ship us to gulags. They're going to
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: treat us much worse than Trump treated Maduro.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: Amen. I totally agree with you. And by the way,
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: there are seasons for debates. So usually in the wake
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: of an election, that's the perfect time to have that
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: sort of intraparty debate about what the future holds. And
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: then you saddle up on some of those scores. And
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: then you move on to unity as you head towards
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: an election, because in the end, the left is playing
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: for keeps, as you point out. It's a it's a
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: power scenario for them. And we should recognize it in
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: the same way, which is it's we need power because
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: we're trying to restore decency, law and order to our country.
• 38:48
  Speaker 5: Yes, you know, look, it's great to write white papers.
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: It's great to chat. It's great to do podcasts and
• 38:55
  Speaker 5: interviews and all the rest. That all plays a role
• 38:57
  Speaker 5: in the political order. But when election time comes around,
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: we all need to keep our priorities in order. You know,
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: politics is the art of the possible. It's the art
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: of inclusion, the art of the second best, it's sometimes called.
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: And so I think we conservatives need to keep that
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: in mind. And there's no substitute for victory. And I
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: think this is what the Venezuela operation shows you. is
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: that the right, at least in the chattering class, had
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: been mired in this kind of civil war and a
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: lot of it was personal and vying for position. And
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: then what happens? Trump sends in 150 airplanes and abducts
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: the illegitimate leader of this foreign nation, the socialist country,
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: in 88 minutes from arrival at the palace to being
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: in international waters. And it shows America on the move,
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: making moves on immigration, on energy, on fighting our geopolitical adversaries.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: And it's just awesome.
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: And now you see virtually every conservative is backing that.
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: And so I think victory goes a long way.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: And I think this might have juiced us for the midterms.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: And also, President Trump is kind of he's hitting the
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: sweet spot. It's amazing. Like, for instance, I mean, even
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: like if you go back to like the Iran operation,
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: Operation Midnight Hammer, coming out of the wake of that,
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: it seemed like people who thought that we should detach
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: from Israel and think that people who think we should
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: be more sincerely involved in Israel's politics. Like everyone was
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: sort of kind of satisfied by the way President Trump
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: handled that. Yeah, were there debates around it? Sure. But
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: in the end, I think people were mostly kind of
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: satisfied no matter where they fall on that question, which
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: is like how entangled should we be with Israel? The
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: other thing is like with Venezuela, you know, I think
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: back to like we're pretty well trained now by America's
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: foreign policy failures to be cynical about regime change operations,
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: which I think is well-earned. Like I do think that's
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: a good instinct for us to be like, whoa, whoa, whoa,
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: what comes next? That's a perfectly good instinct to have
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: as a voter. But I think what President Trump has
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: done is he's learned from like the lessons, for instance,
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: in Afghanistan. Remember, they go in Afghanistan. The original operation
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: was just kill the bad guys and get out. That
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: was one of the that was what they wanted to
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: do originally. And then it became a big nation building exercise.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: And then we go into Iraq on false pretenses and
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: then we throw out Saddam and then we do nation
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: building there. It's just failure after failure, tribal warfare, tribal warfare. Venezuela,
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: what President Trump has done is he's done a quick strike.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: He grabbed an illegitimate occupier that the people detested and
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: didn't feel they didn't vote for him. He just stole power.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: And then he promised that he's going to give them
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: wealth from the oil that that is being derived from
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: underneath their territory. And and subsequently, you think about it,
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: it's a country with a unified culture and a history
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: of democratic institutions. I mean, we are being dealt a
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: pretty good hand relatively. And President Trump has figured out
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: how do you hit the sweet spot without staying there
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: forever and creating another quagmire for the country?
• 41:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah, the sweet spot is a great way to think
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: about it. The via media, or Aristotle says that prudence
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: is the chief political virtue. So here, you really pacify
• 41:52
  Speaker 5: all of the factions on the right. The people who
• 41:55
  Speaker 5: want to restrain foreign policy or only want to stick
• 41:57
  Speaker 5: to our neighborhood are Well, Venezuela is in our neighborhood.
• 41:59
  Speaker 5: The Monroe Doctrine has been American foreign policy for over
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: 200 years. The more neocon, aggressive foreign policy people on
• 42:08
  Speaker 5: the right, well, they want to weaken Iran.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: They want to weaken China. They want to weaken Russia.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: Guess what?
• 42:13
  Speaker 5: Removing Maduro in Venezuela achieves that as well. The foreign
• 42:16
  Speaker 5: policy realists who only want to intervene when there are
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: material problems interests for the United States at stake here. Yeah,
• 42:24
  Speaker 5: Maduro and Chavez stole our property. Energy is a real
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: material stake. The fact that Venezuela's failures and this failure
• 42:32
  Speaker 5: of the socialist system there had been sending so many
• 42:34
  Speaker 5: migrants across the border illegally, that's a real material interest
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: we have. The drugs, not to forget the drugs that
• 42:40
  Speaker 5: were pouring across the border from Venezuela, which was effectively
• 42:43
  Speaker 5: being run by a cartel All of that, really, this
• 42:47
  Speaker 5: operation has something for everybody. He struck this sweet spot
• 42:51
  Speaker 5: with prudence. And it reminds us, too, that politics is
• 42:53
  Speaker 5: much more an art than a science. It's a practical
• 42:57
  Speaker 5: science rather than a pure science.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: Yes, and it repels China's influence in our hemisphere. So
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: this is one of the biggest pieces of this. I
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: think often there's a lot of the conversation is like, well,
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: we don't want to get into any new wars. OK, fine.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: But should we not defend ourselves against one that's currently
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: being waged against us? So China is clearly undertaking a
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: lot of adversarial actions against the United States, including filling
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: our country with fentanyl. It ultimately comes from China. It's
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: poison that's killing over 100,000 Americans. And then they're buying
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: illicit oil from Venezuela in contravention of our embargo on
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: that oil. So how about no? How about we stop
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: that from happening? And so China, Cuba, Iran, Russia, and
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: certainly obviously the communists in Venezuela are all reeling now.
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: that the United States is actually asserting itself and defending itself.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: It's the same rationale, by the way, that President Trump
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: used in the trade war, which is, no, no, no,
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: I'm not starting a trade war. I want to end
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: one against the United States.
• 43:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah, this is Trump's art of the deal, in which
• 43:59
  Speaker 5: he focuses on a lot, and I think justifiably so,
• 44:01
  Speaker 5: because no one, other than the kookiest people or people
• 44:05
  Speaker 5: who hate our country, no one doesn't want to see
• 44:08
  Speaker 5: our adversaries weakened, right? No one wants to embolden our adversaries.
• 44:11
  Speaker 5: The reason that some of us who want a more
• 44:13
  Speaker 5: restrained foreign policy are skeptical of wars in the Middle
• 44:15
  Speaker 5: East is because we think we're not that good at
• 44:18
  Speaker 5: waging them, and they're kind of far-flung, and we're ignoring
• 44:20
  Speaker 5: our own territories, and we're ignoring more urgent problems. But
• 44:23
  Speaker 5: we still would like to see our adversaries weakened. And
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: so if Trump can go in in this extremely efficient
• 44:29
  Speaker 5: way– I mean historically efficient way– and weaken China by
• 44:33
  Speaker 5: cutting off their oil and weaken Iran, which has always
• 44:36
  Speaker 5: had one foot in the, since the revolution has had
• 44:38
  Speaker 5: one foot in the international order, one foot outside of it.
• 44:41
  Speaker 5: Weaken Russia, which is already occupied in Ukraine. Well, that
• 44:45
  Speaker 5: actually probably will conduce to a more restrained foreign policy generally,
• 44:48
  Speaker 5: because it means that now China is probably less likely
• 44:52
  Speaker 5: to get aggressive in the South China Sea. It means
• 44:54
  Speaker 5: that Iran is probably less likely to get aggressive with
• 44:57
  Speaker 5: American allies.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: In the.
• 45:01
  Speaker 5: But what it means is the cascading downstream effects can
• 45:05
  Speaker 5: be very good, can offer something for everybody. You just
• 45:08
  Speaker 5: have to know how to get a good deal. And
• 45:10
  Speaker 5: Trump knows how to get a good deal. There's no
• 45:12
  Speaker 5: denying it.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: So there's another reaction that I've seen to this that
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: I kind of am sympathetic to. I definitely am, which
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: is domestically. OK, so I definitely think that this is
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: in America's interest, what he did in Venezuela. I love it.
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: I love that Maduro is standing trial and is confused
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: by the rights he's being afforded in a New York
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: City courtroom right now. I love all that. But simultaneously,
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: maybe not Delta Force, but close. I want to see
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: Delta Force go after Tim Walz. I want to see
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: domestic operations. Again, they're American citizens. We afford them a
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: little bit more courtesy, perhaps, but not much more. Because
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: $ 20 billion in fraud against the American people, and you
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: just let it happen? You knew it was happening. You
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: let it happen. Keith Ellison caught on tape saying that
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: he's going to cover up for Somalis. to try and,
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: you know, hassle people who were looking into them. I mean,
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: you get you get kind of these never ending horribles.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: And there is, I think, a reasonable desire among the
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: Trump voting coalition to see more aggressive action to take
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: them down. What do you make of that?
• 46:15
  Speaker 5: There is a hard political reality to this, which I
• 46:18
  Speaker 5: know frustrates the White House, which is that it is
• 46:21
  Speaker 5: in many ways easier to go in and depose the
• 46:25
  Speaker 5: leader of a foreign country than it is to deport
• 46:27
  Speaker 5: a single illegal alien. It is, in other words, easier
• 46:31
  Speaker 5: for the president as commander in chief of the military
• 46:33
  Speaker 5: to do basically whatever he wants around the world than
• 46:36
  Speaker 5: it is to deal with domestic politics, which has all
• 46:39
  Speaker 5: of these extra rules and just kind of corrupt machine
• 46:43
  Speaker 5: bureaucratic politics associated with it. So I'm impressed by what
• 46:46
  Speaker 5: the president has done. I know there's a lot of
• 46:48
  Speaker 5: attacks on Trump, obviously from the left, but even from
• 46:52
  Speaker 5: the more cynical factions of the right. And they say
• 46:54
  Speaker 5: the economy is not doing that well. The economy is
• 46:56
  Speaker 5: doing great. GDP is way outperforming expectations that all the
• 46:59
  Speaker 5: economists were wrong about the tariffs. Rents have fallen four
• 47:03
  Speaker 5: months in a row. Why are the rents falling? Because
• 47:06
  Speaker 5: of the mass migration. Some people are saying mass migration
• 47:08
  Speaker 5: isn't happening.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: It is.
• 47:10
  Speaker 5: The Trump administration was able to deport effectively two million people,
• 47:13
  Speaker 5: maybe even a little bit more in the first year.
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: So it's good.
• 47:16
  Speaker 5: People just don't feel satisfied given the scope of the problem,
• 47:19
  Speaker 5: given the fact that there are at least 16 million
• 47:21
  Speaker 5: illegal aliens in the country, given the fact that prices
• 47:24
  Speaker 5: rose so much under Joe Biden because of inflation.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: I get it.
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 47:27
  Speaker 5: But, you know, you got to go to war with
• 47:29
  Speaker 5: the army you've got domestically as well as politically.
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: The fact that HHS.
• 47:34
  Speaker 5: Or sorry, DHS, was able to train up forces for
• 47:38
  Speaker 5: mass deportations that have not taken place in decades.
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: They just didn't even have that competency anymore. It's impressive.
• 47:45
  Speaker 5: But, you know, I hope that the White House is
• 47:47
  Speaker 5: aware of this political risk because, you know, there's no
• 47:49
  Speaker 5: excuse at the ballot box, no matter how hard it is.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: You've got to show those results at home.
• 47:54
  Speaker 5: And even more so, you have to persuade people of
• 47:56
  Speaker 5: the reality of the results that maybe you've already shown.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: Well, this gets back to what you were just talking
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: about a moment ago in a different context, which is like,
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: you know, as you mentioned, the chattering class and the
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: debates outside of the White House, outside of Washington. But
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: if there's ever been a time to have a debate
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: between the White House and Congress, congressional Republicans, it's yesterday.
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: I mean, President Trump is being very courteous to John
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: Thune and Speaker Johnson because the impediment to what you
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: and I are talking about, which is arresting bad guys
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: in our own country, it turns out Is the United
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: States Congress. It is Republicans. The blue slip, which I
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: won't I won't go into every detail, but in the
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: Senate is blocking us from having quality judges and U.S. attorneys.
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: And President Trump, I think, is being way too nice
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: to the Senate right now about that nightmare that's keeping
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: us from getting what we need as a country.
• 48:50
  Speaker 5: Yes, especially the Senate. Cause look, there are some great senators. Listen,
• 48:54
  Speaker 5: some of my closest friends are senators.
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 48:55
  Speaker 5: There's some good ones there, but generally speaking, the Senate
• 48:59
  Speaker 5: is a problem and they don't want to do anything
• 49:02
  Speaker 5: when it comes to the house. I have the utmost
• 49:04
  Speaker 5: sympathy for Mike Johnson. I love Mike Johnson because he
• 49:07
  Speaker 5: has the worst job in politics. I would much rather
• 49:11
  Speaker 5: be the dog catcher in Palookaville than be the speaker
• 49:13
  Speaker 5: of the house of representatives.
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: It's hurting cats. He's got a two-vote margin as of today.
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Greene just left, and a congressman just died.
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: A Republican congressman in California just died. They just came
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: out this morning. So now we're down to a two-vote.
• 49:26
  Speaker 5: It's actually the first I'm hearing of it. I feel
• 49:28
  Speaker 5: like Trump with Ruth Bader Ginsburg. That's very sad politically and.
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: Also for his family. It was Congressman Doug LaMalfa has
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: died at the age of 65. No cause of death
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: has been given yet. They say he died suddenly. And
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: that means we dropped a 218 to 213. Republicans can
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: only lose two votes in anything here or else they lose.
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: So you're right. Mike Johnson's got a difficult hand he's
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: dealing with. But the reason I'm concerned about Mike Johnson,
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: the one thing that stands out to me that I
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: don't think people bring up enough is it requires both
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: Mike Johnson and John Thune to put the Congress into
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: a full recess to allow Trump to do recess appointments.
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: And neither of those men have allowed that to happen.
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: And they could if they wanted to. And it drives
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: me nuts that they haven't because it suggests that they're
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: not completely familiar with what time it is.
• 50:16
  Speaker 5: And there is a fear heading into the midterm elections. One,
• 50:19
  Speaker 5: it's going to be harder to wrangle these people anyway,
• 50:21
  Speaker 5: the ones who are up for reelection. So the entire
• 50:23
  Speaker 5: House and and, you know, members of the Senate. But
• 50:26
  Speaker 5: this also shows you why the president is taking so
• 50:30
  Speaker 5: many executive actions. You know, I know there are some
• 50:33
  Speaker 5: principled ideologues on the right who aren't a big fan
• 50:35
  Speaker 5: of executive orders and executive actions. And look, I wish
• 50:39
  Speaker 5: that some of these had, you know, more teeth and
• 50:41
  Speaker 5: longer legs. But what's the president supposed to do? You know,
• 50:45
  Speaker 5: if Congress has over many decades delegated away a lot
• 50:48
  Speaker 5: of its power and now just doesn't even want to
• 50:50
  Speaker 5: flex its muscles, maybe because it can't. Well, someone's got
• 50:53
  Speaker 5: to do something and that's going to be the president.
• 50:56
  Speaker 5: And the libs can whine about no King's protests all day.
• 50:58
  Speaker 5: But I'll take what I can get coming out of
• 51:00
  Speaker 5: the White House.
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: Well, Michael Knowles, I've taken so much of your time already.
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: I always appreciate our conversations. I get a lot out
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: of them. Appreciate you and look forward to talking again soon, sir.
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: Good to see you, sir. Happy January 6th.
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: And Merry Christmas. Thanks, Michael. See, there he is. Michael Knowles.
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: Always good to have him stop by. Gets me thinking
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: about a lot of stuff. But yeah, that is the
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: news this morning. Congressman Doug LaMalfa has died suddenly at
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: the age of 65, according to Republican leadership, meaning we
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: are in a in very, very tight territory. Right now,
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: some vacancies and those things need to be resolved. But
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: it's all the more reason that Republicans need to heed
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: the message that you and I are sending, which is like, hey,
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: do exactly what your voters sent you there to do.
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: And that includes accountability in our own our own country.
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: You know, I we mentioned in my conversation with with Michael,
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: talk about the radical left and how violent and crazy
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: they are. That is certainly been true. in the left's
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: threats against ICE agents over the course of the last year.
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you know any lefties in your
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: life or if you've talked to anybody recently who is
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: even a mild disposition towards the things that they hear
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: in the legacy press. But have you noticed how poorly
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: these people treat ICE? The poor reputation that they impugn
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: on ICE? They treat ICE like they're Nazi brownshirts. They
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: treat the men and women of immigration enforcement who are
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: doing nothing but enforcing our laws, nothing but enforcing our laws,
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: and doing it with utter decency and respect for the Constitution.
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: They're treating them like they're Nazis. And the obvious second-order
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: effects of that has been a massive increase in threats
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: and assaults and assassination attempts on ICE agents. That's just true.
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: And to help along these vile lies... There are elements
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: of corporate America, business America, who have helped push this
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  Speaker 1: garbage along. And that includes this week a Minneapolis Hilton franchise,
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  Speaker 1: which decided that it would stop ICE agents from having
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: a place to sleep at night in Minneapolis. Nope. You
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: can't stay here, they said. This is a crazy saga.
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  Speaker 1: One that has Hilton... The parent company, the big banner company, Hilton,
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: scrambling right now to try and mitigate the consequences of
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: being associated with this. Here's what we got. This is
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: DHS yesterday. They posted some screenshots of email traffic, and
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: they wrote, no room at the inn. Speaking of Christmas,
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: Hilton Hotels has launched a coordinated campaign in Minneapolis to
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: refuse service to DHS law enforcement. When officers attempted to
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: book rooms using official government emails and rates, Hilton hotels
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: maliciously canceled their reservations. This is unacceptable. Why is Hilton
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: hotels siding with murderers and rapists to deliberately undermine and
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: impede DHS law enforcement from their mission to enforce our
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: nation's immigration laws? Okay. To be clear, this was posted
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  Speaker 1: at 1227 PM yesterday afternoon. So they, Basically, they're getting
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: rejected from this one hotel because they're ICE agents, because
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: they're DHS. And DHS has released this. God bless them
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: for sharing this in public. All right. So we get that.
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  Speaker 1: Immediately after that, we begin getting statements from Hilton at
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: the national level. Hilton claims that they're addressing this. Oh,
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: we're addressing it. And we're investigating, they said. And Bill
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: Malusian got the statement. Take a look here. Hilton Hotel
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: serves as welcoming places for all. This hotel is independently
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: owned and operated, and the actions referenced are not reflective
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: of Hilton values. We're investigating this matter with the individual
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: hotel and can confirm that Hilton works with government's law
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: enforcement and community leaders around the world to ensure our
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: properties are open and inviting to everyone. What followed after
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: that was another statement from the owner of the hotel. Now,
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: this is the specific owner of the hotel is using
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: the Hilton franchise name. It's called Ever Peak Hospitality. And
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: Ever Peak said, oh, we're welcoming to all. This move
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: was totally inconsistent. Our policy is being welcoming to all.
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: We're in touch with the guests to ensure that they're accommodated.
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: We don't discriminate against any individuals or agencies. We apologize
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: to those impacted. So So as of that statement yesterday,
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: you start to think, OK, well, maybe everything is improving.
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Trisha McLaughlin over at DHS, you know her,
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: the spokesman over there. She said, you know, it's funny.
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: We haven't heard anything from them. So I don't know
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: what they're talking about. And then to clear things up
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: last night, the great Nick Sorter decided, how about this?
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: How about I just go to the hotel and I'll
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: pretend to be DHS. I'll try and book 10 rooms
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: and see what happens. Well, here's what happened. Watch Nick.
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  Speaker 4: What agency is it for? Would it be Department of
• 56:06
  Speaker 4: Homeland Security? So we're not accepting people from immigration, ICE agents, DHS,
• 56:15
  Speaker 4: into our property. It's just our management ownership. Okay, I
• 56:19
  Speaker 4: thought that changed today.
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: I just talked to the owner of the building, and
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: he didn't say there hasn't been any changes. Really? Okay. Yeah,
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: it's just policy.
• 56:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, that's not your fault. Totally get that.
• 56:38
  Speaker 4: So they actually said that was... Honestly, this is the
• 56:43
  Speaker 4: most convenient location.
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 56:45
  Speaker 4: So they told you no, that there's no... Yeah, no immigration. Well,
• 56:52
  Speaker 4: DHS isn't all immigration.
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 56:54
  Speaker 4: Okay, so even with the The thing that they said
• 57:00
  Speaker 4: earlier where they mentioned that there was a statement that
• 57:05
  Speaker 4: they put out, you know, saying that they were that
• 57:07
  Speaker 4: they accept everybody.
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: They didn't. Yeah, the guy even is like, I just
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: talked to the owner. Nothing's changed. No, we're not letting
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: DHS stay here. Now, again, that is in the service
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: of demonizing ICE, treating ICE like they're doing something morally depraved.
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: when in fact they're the ones who are standing up
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: for decency, for law and order, for restoring American communities,
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: for making them safer. The left has so demonized them,
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: it's unbelievable. It is demonic the way they've treated immigration
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: and customs enforcement. But I have some good news in
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: this story, and we'll see if it holds, but here's
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: the update from Hilton. Now remember, this all started early
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: yesterday afternoon, and we get an update 7.54 a.m. this morning.
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: This is an official statement now from Hilton at the
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: national level. Statement from Hilton on a recent video. On
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: a recent video. Come on, this is the most corporate
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: speak ever. How about Nick Sorter's video? They don't even
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: refer to Nick, but okay. On a recent video. Nick
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: should call all of his videos a recent video. That
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: should be his whole series going forward. The independent hotel
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: owner had assured us that they had fixed this problem
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: and published a message confirming this. A recent video clearly
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: raises concerns they are not meeting our standards and values.
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: As such, we are taking immediate action to remove this
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: hotel from our systems. Hilton is and has always been
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: a welcoming place for all. We are also engaging with
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: all of our franchisees to reinforce the standards we hold
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: them to across our system to help ensure this does
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: not happen again. Ladies and gentlemen, what I just read
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: is a sign of your power. What I just read
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: is a sign that corporate America at all of its
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: levels is aware that we will mobilize if they screw
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: us over. Hilton, in the course of just over, what, 15,
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: 16 hours, has decided to remove this hotel entirely from
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: the Hilton brand of hotels. They're no longer allowed to
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: be a franchise of Hilton. They can go on, they
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: could be, you know, Joe's Hotel or whatever else. But
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: Hilton's removed them. They don't want the Bud Light treatment.
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: They don't want the Cracker Barrel fiasco. They would just
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: like to be a hotel. That's what they're going for.
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: They said they just want to be welcoming to all,
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: including ICE, and they've notified every hotel that calls themselves
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: a Hilton franchise that, yeah, we welcome ICE here. That's
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: a good outcome. Keep up the pressure. Thank you to
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: Nick Sorter for sending a camera over there. Hilton pulled
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: the right move here. We'll see if it holds, by
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: the way. It's not over until it's over. It's never
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: over until it's over. But today, this show is over.
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