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- 0:05Speaker 1: This is America with Rich Valdez powered by politicweek dot com.
- 0:10Speaker 2: And Rich Veldees is with US former Christian Administration official.
- 0:12Speaker 3: You worked for Chris Christie.
- 0:13Speaker 4: You've been follos each on a lot of public service stuff.
- 0:15Speaker 5: Rich Valdez columnist now with the Washington Times.
- 0:18Speaker 6: This is America, Richiev.
- 0:20Speaker 4: You're on the air with the Nation of the Nation.
- 0:22Speaker 6: With America with your host, Rich Valdez.
- 0:27Speaker 3: What's up, America.
- 0:28Speaker 5: I am Rich Valdez Valdez with ans at Rich Valdez
- 0:30Speaker 5: on all of the social media.
- 0:32Speaker 3: Welcome to our program.
- 0:34Speaker 5: It is a little bit late at night if you
- 0:35Speaker 5: want to get me on social media at Rich Valdez
- 0:38Speaker 5: with an SBR seventeen blocks away from Madison Square guard
- 0:40Speaker 5: in New York City. It's a pleasure to be back
- 0:42Speaker 5: with you guys. God bless America. Happy to be in America.
- 0:46Speaker 3: As you know.
- 0:46Speaker 5: I spent the last couple of weeks, uh doing a
- 0:49Speaker 5: whole bunch of things. I went to Seapack in Hungary.
- 0:52Speaker 5: Then I on my way home, I missed a flight
- 0:55Speaker 5: and that put me in Zurich, Switzerland for a couple
- 0:57Speaker 5: of days and enjoying the site. And then I came
- 1:01Speaker 5: back home and I was not going to attend Seapack Texas,
- 1:06Speaker 5: the United States version of Seapack, because you know, it
- 1:09Speaker 5: was exhausted from going overseas. But SEAPEC Chairman mattch Slapp
- 1:14Speaker 5: graciously invited me to conduct the fireside chat with Ambassador
- 1:18Speaker 5: Mark Wallace. And who says no to an opportunity like
- 1:21Speaker 5: that from the main stage. So back on a plane
- 1:23Speaker 5: to Dallas, Texas. Spent a few nights there as well.
- 1:26Speaker 5: I think I was there for three days and I
- 1:29Speaker 5: just got back and I'm with you guys now doing
- 1:31Speaker 5: this show real late at night. So if I sound
- 1:33Speaker 5: a little bit discombobulated, I lost my voice out in Dallas.
- 1:36Speaker 5: That's why I sound a little rough around the edges here.
- 1:38Speaker 5: But what an honor and a pleasure it is to
- 1:40Speaker 5: be back with you, my audience.
- 1:42Speaker 3: I love you guys.
- 1:42Speaker 5: Sorry to leave you hanging in this digital world. It's
- 1:45Speaker 5: not the same as being alive all the time where
- 1:50Speaker 5: you can have somebody jump in your chair and you know,
- 1:52Speaker 5: cover the show for you. This is a little bit different.
- 1:54Speaker 5: So thank you for your patients, and I guess I'll
- 1:58Speaker 5: start with the recap of a little bit about what's
- 2:00Speaker 5: going on, what happened? How the vibe looks in Budapest, Hungary,
- 2:05Speaker 5: which was eight and a half hours to Zurk. Then
- 2:08Speaker 5: I switched in a lay over there for another hour
- 2:11Speaker 5: and forty minutes over to Budapest, Hungary.
- 2:14Speaker 3: Beautiful place.
- 2:15Speaker 5: The people love America, they love liberty, very clean, very quiet,
- 2:20Speaker 5: so quiet that on a Saturday night I was like,
- 2:22Speaker 5: what do we do run here? But really really good people,
- 2:26Speaker 5: good people from America that I met there, good people
- 2:28Speaker 5: from Hungary that I met there, good people from.
- 2:29Speaker 3: Germany that I met there. Lots of really good people there.
- 2:32Speaker 5: And what I think is so cool about all of
- 2:36Speaker 5: it is the fact that you have a place that
- 2:39Speaker 5: is pushing the anti globalist agenda so much so that
- 2:44Speaker 5: they have become the capital, right the capital of anti globalism,
- 2:49Speaker 5: the capital of the conservative movement in Europe is Budapest, Hungary.
- 2:55Speaker 5: The leader of that movement, Victor Orbon, the leader of
- 2:59Speaker 5: the Center for Fundamental Rights who hosted c PAC Hungary,
- 3:03Speaker 5: mik Lo Santo, great guy. I didn't get a chance
- 3:07Speaker 5: to speak with him very much. I said hello, and
- 3:08Speaker 5: he was in the middle of a million different things.
- 3:10Speaker 5: But grateful to him and his team for hosting me,
- 3:14Speaker 5: and lots of really good speeches, former prime ministers, the
- 3:18Speaker 5: President of Argentina, hobber Malay was there.
- 3:21Speaker 3: It was really.
- 3:25Speaker 5: Quite an event, really quite an event. Lots of energy
- 3:28Speaker 5: in the room because Victor ORBN is up for reelection
- 3:31Speaker 5: in a couple of weeks, so as we get more
- 3:34Speaker 5: on that election, excuse me, I will bring you up
- 3:38Speaker 5: to speed on that. But there was a number of speeches,
- 3:40Speaker 5: and many of them in different languages, and you had headphones,
- 3:43Speaker 5: you know, kind of like if you're at the un
- 3:44Speaker 5: where they would translate them. But one of the speeches
- 3:47Speaker 5: that was in English was from somebody well known to me.
- 3:50Speaker 5: He's Stefano Forte. He is the head of the New
- 3:54Speaker 5: York Young Republicans in New York City, and he did
- 3:58Speaker 5: a great job, as to say, a Marco Rubio esque speech,
- 4:03Speaker 5: and I'll play that for you in the next segment,
- 4:05Speaker 5: along with a quick interview I did with him following that.
- 4:09Speaker 5: And the audio is a little tough because you know,
- 4:11Speaker 5: it's a conference and there's people yelling and there's other
- 4:12Speaker 5: speeches going on. But we'll get to that momentarily. But
- 4:16Speaker 5: I wanted to kind of dig into a couple of
- 4:18Speaker 5: different things. One of the things that I thought was
- 4:20Speaker 5: really fun for me at the end of the whole
- 4:23Speaker 5: Seatpack experience was vice excuse me, Prime Minister Orbon and
- 4:28Speaker 5: his Minister of Defense arranged to have the Buddha Castle
- 4:34Speaker 5: available to Miklo Santo and match Slap. The Seatpack organizers
- 4:39Speaker 5: to invite some of their VIPs and guests and some
- 4:42Speaker 5: members of the foreign media, and I had an opportunity
- 4:46Speaker 5: to go, and I gotta tell you, this was absolutely gorgeous.
- 4:49Speaker 5: This was a thirteenth century castle, a real life castle
- 4:53Speaker 5: that during the day as a museum and that night
- 4:56Speaker 5: it was a nightclub. It was great. There were some
- 4:59Speaker 5: beautiful bar set up, an amazing dance floor, lights everywhere,
- 5:03Speaker 5: disco lights, that type of thing. It really was quite
- 5:07Speaker 5: a vibe, a great way to end seepack red carpet entrance.
- 5:10Speaker 5: There's lots of lighting. If you guys saw my Instagram post,
- 5:13Speaker 5: you could see, you know, what it looked like. And
- 5:16Speaker 5: it was really a nice touch and made me feel
- 5:19Speaker 5: so welcome, you know, in Budapest, and it's my second
- 5:22Speaker 5: visit there. But some of the big takeaways from that
- 5:26Speaker 5: were the conversations I had with people while I was there,
- 5:29Speaker 5: and what's interesting to note is that while some of
- 5:33Speaker 5: these people that I met were you know, millennial gen
- 5:38Speaker 5: z younger people, we shared the same goal, a goal
- 5:45Speaker 5: that focuses on liberty, a goal that shuns collectivism, authoritarianism,
- 5:51Speaker 5: and not always for the same reason. Right I was
- 5:54Speaker 5: talking to a young man and a young lady, they
- 5:56Speaker 5: were a couple. Part of what I found in interesting
- 6:00Speaker 5: about this was he was asking me a lot of
- 6:02Speaker 5: questions about what it's like, you know, in the US,
- 6:05Speaker 5: and why my interests are the way they are. And
- 6:08Speaker 5: I followed up with very similar questions to him because
- 6:11Speaker 5: he was interesting and so much as he was British,
- 6:14Speaker 5: so he was, you know, a Brexit type of guy,
- 6:19Speaker 5: which you know, there's a lot of those right now.
- 6:20Speaker 5: There's a lot of people Tommy Robinson, a large movement
- 6:24Speaker 5: of people fighting against what they call the Blob.
- 6:27Speaker 3: And I thought it was quite.
- 6:29Speaker 5: Interesting that he was an atheist, while so many of
- 6:35Speaker 5: the other people at these gatherings that I'd been to
- 6:39Speaker 5: were there because they were fighting for God and country,
- 6:42Speaker 5: their country and their god right. These are people from
- 6:45Speaker 5: the Orthodox Church, from different types of Christianity, but that's
- 6:51Speaker 5: the prevailing faith. And it was interesting as this guy
- 6:59Speaker 5: was like, I'm kind of godless, right. He was not
- 7:02Speaker 5: anti God, he just wasn't you know, he was atheist.
- 7:06Speaker 5: And it was a fascinating conversation that we had because
- 7:09Speaker 5: he was so aligned with Judeo Christian principles of conservatism
- 7:17Speaker 5: or I should say and conservatism that I found it
- 7:19Speaker 5: interesting where these things were coming from. And I guess,
- 7:23Speaker 5: without saying it, he really didn't explain much about where
- 7:25Speaker 5: he got these but they all seem to be rooted
- 7:29Speaker 5: in a God centered worldview, but he didn't want to
- 7:35Speaker 5: cite God for whatever reason. And I thought to myself,
- 7:38Speaker 5: this guy is the exception to the rule. Right, he
- 7:42Speaker 5: is an anomaly in many ways. Not often are you
- 7:45Speaker 5: going to see somebody twenty three, twenty four years old
- 7:48Speaker 5: that is going to embrace these big ideas without having
- 7:53Speaker 5: a desire to make a family, or without having the
- 7:56Speaker 5: desire to get married, or without having a background where
- 8:00Speaker 5: they were brought up in the church or had those
- 8:03Speaker 5: fundamental ideas.
- 8:04Speaker 3: Right now, I don mean morality.
- 8:06Speaker 2: Right.
- 8:06Speaker 3: I once had an argument.
- 8:07Speaker 5: Or a debate with a atheist over you can be
- 8:10Speaker 5: an atheist and still want what's good for people. That's
- 8:13Speaker 5: not what I'm talking about. It's not about morality. It
- 8:15Speaker 5: was really about worldview and the focus that they had.
- 8:20Speaker 4: Right.
- 8:20Speaker 5: One of the biggest things facing Europe, especially like places
- 8:23Speaker 5: like Berlin, France, Paris, France, London, England, that they're being
- 8:29Speaker 5: overrun with more immigrants from non westernized nations, in particular
- 8:39Speaker 5: North African nations that are emigrating there. That in some
- 8:44Speaker 5: cases illegal immigration where the incompatibility is resulting in rapes
- 8:50Speaker 5: and all sorts of other things that are commonplace in
- 8:54Speaker 5: North Africa. And I hate to put it that way,
- 8:56Speaker 5: but that's a thing, right that you can google this
- 8:58Speaker 5: stuff for yourself. There was a time where because of
- 9:01Speaker 5: the AIDS issue, they were saying, if you rape a virgin,
- 9:06Speaker 5: you would be cured. So you had these men all
- 9:08Speaker 5: over in North Africa raping young girls because they believed
- 9:12Speaker 5: that that was the cure to AIDS. Now, this type
- 9:15Speaker 5: of misinformation obviously leads to lawlessness, but if you take
- 9:21Speaker 5: someone who has that outlook on life, that cortumbre is
- 9:27Speaker 5: the word that's coming to mind in Spanish, right, those customs,
- 9:30Speaker 5: that way of living their life, that experience, and they
- 9:35Speaker 5: bring that to a place like London, England, or Dublin, Ireland,
- 9:38Speaker 5: or or even Paris, France, then of course you're going
- 9:44Speaker 5: to see a big change in the culture. And we've
- 9:46Speaker 5: been seeing that this is not six months old, this problem,
- 9:49Speaker 5: These problems are bordering the last several decades. So in
- 9:53Speaker 5: many ways, those of you who had traveled to London
- 9:55Speaker 5: some time ago, the London you once knew, eight, nine,
- 9:59Speaker 5: ten years ago, not the London of today. Right, That's
- 10:03Speaker 5: just how it is. And I'm all for people growing
- 10:08Speaker 5: and doing what they do, but I also think it's
- 10:10Speaker 5: important if you want to hold on to your traditions,
- 10:13Speaker 5: then you should and you ought to do what you
- 10:16Speaker 5: can to memorialize them and fight for them and ensure
- 10:19Speaker 5: that your way of life is not deluded by someone
- 10:22Speaker 5: that's new to the party. Right, you may want to
- 10:26Speaker 5: accept some of that, but you don't want to lose
- 10:27Speaker 5: yourself in the process. And it seems that's what's going on.
- 10:32Speaker 5: So that's what I think so many in the rest
- 10:34Speaker 5: of Europe, at least in that those areas close to Budapest,
- 10:39Speaker 5: you know, in the immediate surrounding area like Bulgaria, places
- 10:44Speaker 5: like that, there's a lot of people that are saying,
- 10:45Speaker 5: you know, we don't want that to happen here, or
- 10:48Speaker 5: you got people that are not in Berlin but outside
- 10:51Speaker 5: of Berlin and Germany saying, hey, we don't want to
- 10:53Speaker 5: have those problems here. So a lot of those people
- 10:56Speaker 5: converged on this confab in Hungary to here and to
- 11:01Speaker 5: connect and to network and to check out some of
- 11:04Speaker 5: those speeches, and let me tell you, they it was
- 11:06Speaker 5: a really refreshing thing to push back on the globalists.
- 11:10Speaker 5: And I wish I could play all these speeches for you,
- 11:12Speaker 5: and I have a few clips of different ones, but
- 11:15Speaker 5: I'm going to play a clip for you of the
- 11:16Speaker 5: Stefano forte one because I thought it was for a
- 11:19Speaker 5: guy who's twenty something years old, president of the Young Republicans.
- 11:23Speaker 5: I thought it was quite a speech. Reminded me of
- 11:26Speaker 5: Marco Rubio's speech in Munich, and I want you to
- 11:30Speaker 5: hear it when we come back. Of course, we're going
- 11:32Speaker 5: to talk about that. Then we're going to get into
- 11:33Speaker 5: all the things that are unfolding the rest of this week.
- 11:36Speaker 5: We've got some Supreme Court stuff coming up on April's
- 11:38Speaker 5: fools Day, it's a couple of days away. Then we've
- 11:41Speaker 5: got President Trump saying that the warrant around is over
- 11:45Speaker 5: and what that really looks like?
- 11:48Speaker 6: Right?
- 11:48Speaker 5: Will the Strait of Hormuz be opened up? The negotiations
- 11:52Speaker 5: seem to be ongoing. We'll give you the update on that,
- 11:55Speaker 5: as well as everything else I've gotten in store for you,
- 11:58Speaker 5: So keep it locked right here, don't go anywhere.
- 12:00Speaker 3: I'm Rich Valdez.
- 12:02Speaker 6: This is America. This is America.
- 12:19Speaker 7: Bara in glas or primal nomrodos Blara, Richvaldez e s
- 12:25Speaker 7: dos America alwona.
- 12:30Speaker 5: All right, amigos, welcome back, Rich Valdez. Thank you for
- 12:32Speaker 5: putting up with my Raspe voice. I lost my voice
- 12:35Speaker 5: in Dallas, Texas at the Sea Pack and Grapevine, and
- 12:39Speaker 5: we'll get to that maybe in the next episode, but
- 12:42Speaker 5: right now I'm recapping what happened on my trip to Europe.
- 12:46Speaker 5: I was in Europe for several days, just under a week,
- 12:49Speaker 5: and lots of lots of really beautiful things I saw.
- 12:52Speaker 5: I visited the basilica of Saint Stephen's Right I think
- 12:59Speaker 5: it's called buzz Zilika san Istivus in Budapest, Hungary, and
- 13:06Speaker 5: they have an artifact there in a private chapel known
- 13:09Speaker 5: as the Holy Right and the holy right right is
- 13:13Speaker 5: the right hand of Saint Stephen, who was uh, excuse me,
- 13:22Speaker 5: I think that was his name. I think it was
- 13:24Speaker 5: the first king of Hungary, if I'm getting it right.
- 13:26Speaker 5: And he fought to defend against a takeover at the time,
- 13:34Speaker 5: and his right hand is mummified in a glass case
- 13:39Speaker 5: and held in the cathedral in the Basilica, Saint Stephen's Basilica,
- 13:44Speaker 5: a beautiful place, incredibly picturesque. Guy put some pictures of
- 13:47Speaker 5: me having a little cafacito a little espresso right outside
- 13:51Speaker 5: down the block from there on my Instagram page. But
- 13:54Speaker 5: what I want to get into here is that is
- 13:59Speaker 5: the culture, right, This is largely a very homogeneous, homogeneous
- 14:06Speaker 5: culture that you have in Hungary. You don't see a
- 14:10Speaker 5: ton of diversity, although from my visit in twenty twenty
- 14:14Speaker 5: three to my visit in twenty twenty six, I can say,
- 14:18Speaker 5: or twenty twenty four, excuse me, there was quite a
- 14:23Speaker 5: bit of diversity, more diversity this time than last time.
- 14:27Speaker 5: It was a very large synagogue in Budapest while it's
- 14:34Speaker 5: there last time, I didn't see any Orthodox Osidic Jews
- 14:38Speaker 5: while I was. While I was there, you know, in
- 14:40Speaker 5: their long black trench coats and their big hats, but
- 14:43Speaker 5: I did see them this time. I also, I know
- 14:47Speaker 5: that there are four mosques in Budapest, I mean in
- 14:51Speaker 5: Hungary overall, and I'd not seen anybody traditionally dressed in
- 14:57Speaker 5: Muslim garb, but I did see that this time around.
- 15:02Speaker 5: And what I saw the most of, besides men that
- 15:05Speaker 5: looked Hungarian and women that looked Hungarian, many of which
- 15:08Speaker 5: were very pretty, was.
- 15:13Speaker 3: The Asians.
- 15:14Speaker 5: There was a very large, very vibrant Asian population. I
- 15:19Speaker 5: asked a couple of them where they were from. They
- 15:20Speaker 5: told me they were from Vietnam and China. And it
- 15:26Speaker 5: was a lot, a lot more than i'd seen the
- 15:28Speaker 5: last time. And maybe I didn't get out enough on
- 15:30Speaker 5: my previous trip, but I can say that I saw
- 15:34Speaker 5: a lot more diversity there this time than last time.
- 15:37Speaker 5: I'm not saying it's a good thing or a bad thing.
- 15:38Speaker 5: I'm just saying for someone who's on the outside looking in,
- 15:43Speaker 5: I saw some difference. So people are saying that Orbon's
- 15:46Speaker 5: not letting in this or not letting in that. Not
- 15:49Speaker 5: clearly not true.
- 15:51Speaker 4: Right.
- 15:51Speaker 5: There were a lot of people working there that were visiting,
- 15:55Speaker 5: I mean that were foreigners. You know, they weren't natural
- 15:59Speaker 5: born to to Hungary, and everything again, very clean, very quiet,
- 16:04Speaker 5: very nice. Now, all that being said, the folks at
- 16:09Speaker 5: the Sea Pack gathering, the folks supporting the Center for
- 16:12Speaker 5: Fundamental Rights make Locis Disentho and his team and everybody
- 16:17Speaker 5: that was there. Right, you talk thousands of people. They're
- 16:21Speaker 5: there to protect their way of life. They want to
- 16:23Speaker 5: hold on to their traditions. They want to keep Christianity
- 16:27Speaker 5: at the forefront of their culture. And this is not
- 16:32Speaker 5: about fear. It's not about what's the word they always
- 16:38Speaker 5: throw at you and you, xenophobia. It's not about that, right.
- 16:42Speaker 5: This is truly just about people holding on to what
- 16:46Speaker 5: they've got right. The Bible says to not be unequally yoked.
- 16:49Speaker 5: Now that that takes on a lot of different meanings
- 16:52Speaker 5: to a lot of different people, but I think their
- 16:55Speaker 5: sense in it doesn't mean that if you if you're
- 16:59Speaker 5: a white and you marry a black person, it's that
- 17:01Speaker 5: a bad thing in and of itself. I don't think
- 17:04Speaker 5: it's a bad thing if you marry outside of your culture,
- 17:12Speaker 5: your race. It doesn't, I guess, automatically create an issue.
- 17:20Speaker 5: And it's not about the race. Or the custom it's
- 17:24Speaker 5: moreover about the agreement on the future and childering. Right,
- 17:29Speaker 5: So if you marry somebody that's from a different part
- 17:32Speaker 5: of the world, they have different culture and different customs
- 17:35Speaker 5: and you want to do things a certain way, you
- 17:38Speaker 5: may find a lot of compromise going on, a lot
- 17:40Speaker 5: of discussion, a lot of disagreement, and some people want
- 17:45Speaker 5: to avoid that, so they marry somebody with similar cultures
- 17:48Speaker 5: and values and customs as they have. And I don't
- 17:52Speaker 5: think there's anything wrong with that personally either way. Right,
- 17:55Speaker 5: if you want to venture off into a different culture,
- 17:59Speaker 5: that's on. You just know the consequence when it comes
- 18:02Speaker 5: to child rearing, which could be a lot. And that's
- 18:06Speaker 5: really the extent of it for me. But there are
- 18:10Speaker 5: a lot of people that want to hold on to
- 18:12Speaker 5: to their traditions, excuse me in Hungary and they made
- 18:17Speaker 5: it clear. And when you look at your neighbors like
- 18:20Speaker 5: Berlin probably most notably, that is unrecognizable. And again it's
- 18:26Speaker 5: not about the people changing and looking different, because evolution
- 18:31Speaker 5: is evolution, it happens. It's really about the safety of it.
- 18:37Speaker 5: They brought in people that brought in crime. I'm not
- 18:41Speaker 5: trying to demonize every last immigrant. I'm trying to demonize
- 18:44Speaker 5: the immigrants that are in Berlin that are robbing people
- 18:48Speaker 5: and raping women. These are things that should never be acceptable,
- 18:52Speaker 5: yet they're happening. I just saw a video a couple
- 18:55Speaker 5: of days ago. This was in Barcelona, Spain of five men,
- 19:02Speaker 5: young men sitting down at an outdoor cafe, like a
- 19:05Speaker 5: sidewalk restaurant, and a young man from likely I'm going
- 19:14Speaker 5: to presume from somewhere North Africa, one of those types
- 19:18Speaker 5: of asylum seekers that have been going into Spain was
- 19:23Speaker 5: circling them, almost like a shark would circle prey, and
- 19:26Speaker 5: he was dragging a four or five foot metal pipe
- 19:31Speaker 5: along the cobblestone floor as he circled them, and all
- 19:35Speaker 5: you heard was the sound of that pipe dragging across
- 19:37Speaker 5: the cobblestone. I wish I had a sound effect to
- 19:40Speaker 5: mimic it, but it was an eerie sound. It was scary,
- 19:43Speaker 5: you know. And at one point he picks it up
- 19:45Speaker 5: and he's just staring at almost almost teeing up like
- 19:49Speaker 5: he's about to hit somebody with it, and they don't react.
- 19:53Speaker 5: And I thought to myself, I don't want to put
- 19:55Speaker 5: myself in their shoes. Because it is scary if you're
- 19:59Speaker 5: faced with somebody the really long pipe like that and
- 20:02Speaker 5: they're pointing it at your head and you think you're
- 20:04Speaker 5: gonna you know, even if you put your arm up,
- 20:06Speaker 5: your forearm up to block it, that could be the
- 20:09Speaker 5: end of your forearm. So I get the consequence of it.
- 20:13Speaker 5: But my thinking was there were five of them and
- 20:15Speaker 5: one of him. There was another guy looking in the background.
- 20:19Speaker 5: Don't know if he was with the guy that was
- 20:21Speaker 5: holding wielding the pipe, but either way, two on five,
- 20:26Speaker 5: one on five, I think I would have taken my
- 20:29Speaker 5: chances to just disarm him and take the stupid pipe away.
- 20:33Speaker 5: But you know, at no point did he actually threaten them.
- 20:38Speaker 5: He was just intimidating them. For me, you know, I
- 20:43Speaker 5: would not have accepted it. I think it's way too
- 20:45Speaker 5: much he was. He was way too close, and when
- 20:48Speaker 5: he picked it up off the ground and kind of
- 20:50Speaker 5: held it over the guy, I said, you know what, jegamo,
- 20:53Speaker 5: this is as far as we go. I think I
- 20:55Speaker 5: would have stood up and tried to close the distance
- 20:57Speaker 5: between the pipe and me so that it can't hit me,
- 21:00Speaker 5: and then hopefully the other guys come we overpower him,
- 21:02Speaker 5: take the stick. Away, send him on his way. But
- 21:05Speaker 5: all that being said, these are the types of things
- 21:09Speaker 5: going on every day all over Europe. And Secretary Rubio
- 21:14Speaker 5: recently gave a speech in Munich about really the world
- 21:20Speaker 5: and it was quite impressive, and equally is impressive. Honestly, equally,
- 21:26Speaker 5: I was very impressed to hear Stefano, the head of
- 21:29Speaker 5: the New York City Young Republicans, give an equally effective
- 21:35Speaker 5: speech that was on point, and I got a clip
- 21:39Speaker 5: of it. Let's see if we can get that queued up,
- 21:41Speaker 5: guys and play it for the audience, because I think
- 21:43Speaker 5: they'll enjoy it.
- 21:44Speaker 3: Go right ahead.
- 21:44Speaker 1: The New York Young Republican Club is proud, honored, thrilled
- 21:51Speaker 1: to endorse Victor Orbond for Prime Minister of Hungary in
- 21:57Speaker 1: the coming elections. He is one of the few men who.
- 22:04Speaker 8: Could assist our great President in bringing peace to Europe
- 22:08Speaker 8: Donald J.
- 22:09Speaker 4: Trump.
- 22:11Speaker 6: Prime Minister.
- 22:12Speaker 8: Orbon is the proud creator of the Constellation of Nationalisms
- 22:17Speaker 8: United at Sea pac Hungary, the man who made Budapest
- 22:21Speaker 8: the international capital of conservatism, and the leader that Hungary deserves.
- 22:28Speaker 8: God Bless Hungary, God bless the New York Young Republican Club,
- 22:32Speaker 8: and God bless the United States of America.
- 22:35Speaker 3: Well, there you go again.
- 22:37Speaker 5: That was Stefano Forte, the president of the New York
- 22:41Speaker 5: City Young Republican Club. And again I think he did
- 22:43Speaker 5: a great job here. I was very impressed. You didn't
- 22:47Speaker 5: really get a whole large clip. That was really just
- 22:49Speaker 5: the endorsement part of it. Ideally, it was well received
- 22:54Speaker 5: and it was on point with so much of what
- 22:57Speaker 5: I heard there.
- 22:58Speaker 3: And I had a.
- 22:59Speaker 5: Chance to catch up up with Stefano, and we're gonna
- 23:01Speaker 5: get into my conversation with him immediately following his speech.
- 23:05Speaker 3: Straight ahead, don't go anywhere.
- 23:07Speaker 6: This is America. This is America.
- 23:19Speaker 9: The forty fifth President Donald Trump thinks it's an honor
- 23:23Speaker 9: to speak with Rich Valdez.
- 23:25Speaker 4: Oh, very good budget honor, Thanks Rich.
- 23:30Speaker 9: The honor is all yours, conservative time with a dash
- 23:35Speaker 9: of sofrito.
- 23:36Speaker 6: Now here's Rich Valdez.
- 23:40Speaker 5: All right, I mean, he goes, welcome back, Rich Valdez,
- 23:42Speaker 5: here with you keeping your company the number eight seven
- 23:46Speaker 5: seven Valdez one. We do have a couple of messages
- 23:48Speaker 5: and we're going to get to those in a little bit.
- 23:50Speaker 5: I just need to do a lot of catching up
- 23:52Speaker 5: here because I was gone for a hot minute, and
- 23:55Speaker 5: I caught up with Stefano right after the speech. The
- 23:58Speaker 5: audio is a little tough to hear on, but I
- 24:00Speaker 5: thought it was a good conversation and I wanted to
- 24:03Speaker 5: share it with you.
- 24:04Speaker 3: All Right, boyster, all right, what's up America? Rich about this?
- 24:09Speaker 2: And I'm here with one of the speakers. This guy
- 24:11Speaker 2: is the seventy seventh.
- 24:13Speaker 10: President of the New York New York City Young Republican Club,
- 24:17Speaker 10: Stefano Forte.
- 24:17Speaker 4: What's my man?
- 24:18Speaker 2: What's going on? My man? So good to see you.
- 24:21Speaker 2: Absolutely check this out. I'm here. I see if you
- 24:23Speaker 2: get up there, you tear it. I mean, you're the
- 24:25Speaker 2: speech for the agents into the Marvel Lubio's speech.
- 24:29Speaker 4: Right now, I'm going to the mechanics of a little bit.
- 24:33Speaker 2: I want to get in most of why you said,
- 24:37Speaker 2: I'm sure hungry you want to reinforce it. Know the
- 24:39Speaker 2: State stands with President Orbon and.
- 24:42Speaker 10: Cepac and it talk to me about how you put
- 24:46Speaker 10: that together and and why.
- 24:50Speaker 2: Here absolutely, so I can't take all the credit for
- 24:53Speaker 2: the speech. And thank you for the kind words. Okay,
- 24:55Speaker 2: I know everything I know about public speaking because of
- 24:57Speaker 2: this guy over here. But what I will say is
- 25:01Speaker 2: the Marco Rubio was to speak. Marco Rubio's speech was
- 25:04Speaker 2: the one that I had in mind when writing this,
- 25:07Speaker 2: So I can't do all the credit. Our policy chairman
- 25:09Speaker 2: at the club, Dovid Holtzmann, he helps me with all
- 25:13Speaker 2: of my speeches. So when we were putting it together,
- 25:16Speaker 2: I told him, I said, I want this speech to
- 25:18Speaker 2: be high energy, right, I like my speeches to be
- 25:21Speaker 2: high energy to get the crowd involved. Thank you, I
- 25:23Speaker 2: appreciate that. And I said to him, I want this
- 25:27Speaker 2: speech to be why are we here and why should
- 25:29Speaker 2: we care? For an American perspective, and the reason why
- 25:32Speaker 2: we should care about Europe is because without a strong Europe,
- 25:36Speaker 2: Europe will get overwhelmed, and then Americans Germany like Germany correct,
- 25:40Speaker 2: and America's allies in the region, they're gonna be the
- 25:44Speaker 2: We're gonna be left without allies in the region essentially,
- 25:46Speaker 2: So when I said be strong, remember who you are,
- 25:50Speaker 2: I want the people in here to remember a vote
- 25:52Speaker 2: for Victor Ormond is a vote for sovereignty, it's a
- 25:55Speaker 2: vote for your family, it is a vote for their
- 25:58Speaker 2: Christian heritage, and a vote for Peter my Yard. That's
- 26:01Speaker 2: going to be a vote for Russells. That's going to
- 26:03Speaker 2: be a vote for the rubber staff in the Russells
- 26:05Speaker 2: that wants a war. Right, we want to end the war.
- 26:08Speaker 2: We want peace through strength, and the only way that
- 26:10Speaker 2: Europe will have peace is through strength.
- 26:14Speaker 4: Let's talk about you just.
- 26:15Speaker 11: Mentioned this connection to the Savior, to Christ, Jesus. This
- 26:20Speaker 11: is not something you hear in every speech, something you
- 26:23Speaker 11: hear in church.
- 26:24Speaker 2: We're here lives, yes, give.
- 26:29Speaker 4: Be back.
- 26:33Speaker 2: And that's what will.
- 26:38Speaker 4: But let's talk.
- 26:38Speaker 2: About the importance of bringing Jesus into the speech. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. One.
- 26:43Speaker 2: I'm an Orthodox Christian first and foremost my faith. My
- 26:48Speaker 2: politics is downstream from my faith. My faith is important
- 26:52Speaker 2: to me, and I want to proclaim the name of
- 26:54Speaker 2: Jesus Christ wherever I go, wherever there's an audience. The
- 26:58Speaker 2: solution to every problem is faith in Jesus Christ. Right, So,
- 27:03Speaker 2: if we want to better our nations, if we want
- 27:06Speaker 2: to better ourselves, cement in our nations and ourselves in
- 27:11Speaker 2: Jesus Christ is the most important thing that you could do.
- 27:14Speaker 2: It will make you stronger, it will make you kinder,
- 27:17Speaker 2: and the hygiene of your soul is so important to
- 27:23Speaker 2: the hygiene of the nation. So I proclaim Jesus Christ
- 27:26Speaker 2: wherever I go. He is a part of my life.
- 27:29Speaker 2: He is my Lord and Savior. And I want people
- 27:31Speaker 2: to know that this is not a private thing. This
- 27:33Speaker 2: is something that I want to play. Yeah, amen, and
- 27:36Speaker 2: I think we should.
- 27:37Speaker 11: I don't know how one can have a worldview that
- 27:39Speaker 11: isn't rooted in something. For as, I got to be
- 27:41Speaker 11: rooted in something and lot better than the Lord.
- 27:43Speaker 12: Now, if I can add onto that just very quickly,
- 27:46Speaker 12: I just want to add on to that.
- 27:48Speaker 2: If your worldview is not rooted in the Lord, it's
- 27:51Speaker 2: rooted in something else, and that something else can only
- 27:54Speaker 2: be yourself. If your worldview is rooted in yourself, you
- 27:57Speaker 2: will come from a place of arrogance. You will want
- 28:00Speaker 2: to be God right. That's why you see these people,
- 28:04Speaker 2: like the transgender movement. They're trying to play God right.
- 28:07Speaker 2: They're trying to say, no, the way God intended it
- 28:10Speaker 2: is a man and a woman. That's wrong. We're going
- 28:12Speaker 2: to recreates right. Yeah, exactly, I got this. So a
- 28:16Speaker 2: firm faith in God is so much.
- 28:19Speaker 10: You mentioned keeping things kind of structurally whole, and this
- 28:24Speaker 10: structural integrity.
- 28:26Speaker 2: It's kind of what we're talking about here. I think
- 28:28Speaker 2: with immigration immigration, if we're talking about this earlier a
- 28:33Speaker 2: few friends with Germany. I think that if you change
- 28:37Speaker 2: the bones of the building, the building gets weak. You
- 28:40Speaker 2: can add and you can have diversity, but you can't
- 28:44Speaker 2: change and you can't.
- 28:45Speaker 4: Move the power.
- 28:46Speaker 2: Right, and if your immigration is unchecked, like we've seen
- 28:49Speaker 2: in Germany singing in the UK, talk to me about
- 28:54Speaker 2: the importance of that, Well, I'll talk from an American
- 28:56Speaker 2: perspective because that's what I know the best. And what
- 28:59Speaker 2: I can say is if you are bringing in people
- 29:04Speaker 2: that know nothing about your culture, nothing about your history,
- 29:07Speaker 2: your country will fundamentally shame. It's just the way it is.
- 29:11Speaker 2: The key here is not just illegal migration, legal migration
- 29:16Speaker 2: as well, making sure you're taking people in that have
- 29:18Speaker 2: some sort of cultural significance to your country where they
- 29:23Speaker 2: can understand your culture on a deep level. Right, look
- 29:26Speaker 2: at Soa Mamdani, he was a legal immigrant into the
- 29:29Speaker 2: United States. He is as un American as they get. Right.
- 29:32Speaker 2: When we want people to come into this country, we
- 29:35Speaker 2: want them to assimilate into our country. We want them
- 29:38Speaker 2: to understand the country that they're in. So Soa Mamdani,
- 29:41Speaker 2: like I said, he is the perfect example of an
- 29:44Speaker 2: unassimilated migrant.
- 29:46Speaker 12: He came into our country legally, right, stayed in our country,
- 29:50Speaker 12: and was one American as it gets the most un
- 29:53Speaker 12: American mayor, I think in the entirety of the United States.
- 29:56Speaker 12: So it's about keeping the culture of your country being
- 30:00Speaker 12: your civilization.
- 30:01Speaker 2: If you allow people in unchecked, things will change.
- 30:05Speaker 9: What is your Club of New York City Public doing
- 30:08Speaker 9: to push back on Mamdani? And we had a very
- 30:13Speaker 9: big push to disqualify Mam Donnie on the grounds of
- 30:17Speaker 9: him being an insurrectionist, right, we had the deport Mam
- 30:21Speaker 9: Donnie campaign.
- 30:22Speaker 2: As well, which it's never too late. But what we're
- 30:26Speaker 2: doing to push back against Mom Donnie is we are
- 30:30Speaker 2: trying to elect candidates that are going to push back
- 30:32Speaker 2: against them. We want to build an infrastructure that lasts
- 30:35Speaker 2: in New York. Maybe a Republican Mayor of New York
- 30:39Speaker 2: can't be attained now, but we put the groundwork into
- 30:42Speaker 2: future generations. Build an infrastructure, build a party. The party
- 30:48Speaker 2: in New York is severely lacking right now. Other than
- 30:50Speaker 2: some great Polans right the Staten Island GOP. I've had
- 30:53Speaker 2: a great relationship with them, as well as the Brooklyn
- 30:56Speaker 2: GOOP a great relationship with them and now growing relationship
- 30:59Speaker 2: with the GOP. But we want to offer that infrastructure.
- 31:03Speaker 2: We have the people, we have the manpower, we have
- 31:05Speaker 2: the know how to get things done. We have some
- 31:08Speaker 2: of the most talented people in our lawyers, people who
- 31:13Speaker 2: understand the law, people who are accountants, people that understand
- 31:16Speaker 2: how to build right. So we're trying to offer that
- 31:19Speaker 2: to the party and if they don't want us, we'll
- 31:20Speaker 2: do it without them, because we need to build a
- 31:23Speaker 2: Republican party in New York that is sustainable, that is strong.
- 31:27Speaker 2: The fact that we have one Congresswoman, Nicole Mallley pat
- 31:30Speaker 2: is the only Republican in New York the Lower Ranger,
- 31:34Speaker 2: that's unacceptable. We need to get her back up in
- 31:37Speaker 2: the Congress. So that's what we're doing, and that's why
- 31:39Speaker 2: we're here. The reason why we do these diplomatic missions
- 31:43Speaker 2: is it's a fact finding mission for us to learn
- 31:46Speaker 2: from what the Hungarians are doing that we could bring back.
- 31:49Speaker 2: One of the biggest things is the pro natalist policies
- 31:53Speaker 2: that they have here in Hungary. People can bring that
- 31:55Speaker 2: back to the United States. We need people to make
- 31:57Speaker 2: sure they can have children. It doesn't positive and I'm
- 32:01Speaker 2: gonna leg to do that right So absolutely, I want
- 32:07Speaker 2: everybody's how they can get it back in the club. Absolutely.
- 32:11Speaker 10: If you live in New York and you're from eighteen
- 32:15Speaker 10: to forty eight.
- 32:16Speaker 2: Rage, you can join as a general member at www
- 32:20Speaker 2: dot n y y r C dot com. Okay, you
- 32:24Speaker 2: could join on there, follow us on social media at
- 32:28Speaker 2: n y y r C on all platforms. And if
- 32:31Speaker 2: you're above the age of forty and let's say, oh man,
- 32:34Speaker 2: we're gonna miss out on the fund, you could join
- 32:36Speaker 2: as an associate members a member of our club on
- 32:39Speaker 2: www dot n y y r C dot com. You're
- 32:43Speaker 2: gonna see his smiling face at a couple of an
- 32:45Speaker 2: associate member. Yes, absolutely, I don't know how much funky
- 32:48Speaker 2: events are. This is the best plum. This is the
- 32:50Speaker 2: best club.
- 32:52Speaker 3: Yes, let right back, all right.
- 32:56Speaker 5: That's Stefano Forte, president of the New York City Young
- 32:59Speaker 5: Republicans Club, And there is more to come. Straight ahead,
- 33:02Speaker 5: we'll continue our conversation with you all the American people.
- 33:06Speaker 5: And I got a few more tricks up my sleeve.
- 33:08Speaker 5: Don't go anywhere, keep it locked right here. I'm Rich Valdez.
- 33:12Speaker 6: This is America. This is America. He's got the best
- 33:27Speaker 6: head of hair and podcasting. This is America with Rich Valdez.
- 33:35Speaker 5: All right, fun media, Welcome back, Rich Valdees keeping your
- 33:38Speaker 5: company tonight, Happy Monday.
- 33:40Speaker 3: Happy to be back in America. And I was in America.
- 33:43Speaker 5: I was in Texas at the seatback in Texas, and
- 33:45Speaker 5: again I'll dedicate.
- 33:46Speaker 3: Tomorrow's show to that.
- 33:49Speaker 5: But I want to talk a little bit about the travel,
- 33:52Speaker 5: right because one of the big things that was going
- 33:54Speaker 5: on was everybody was talking about how there was going
- 33:58Speaker 5: to be delays and it was going to be the
- 33:59Speaker 5: end of the world.
- 34:00Speaker 3: Then it was not like that at all.
- 34:03Speaker 5: I traveled from the New York area out of Newark
- 34:06Speaker 5: Liberty International Airport to Zurich, Switzerland, and.
- 34:13Speaker 3: No issue.
- 34:14Speaker 5: Literally, I mean international flight and all that quick. Ten minutes,
- 34:19Speaker 5: maybe fifteen at the very most. In some cases it
- 34:23Speaker 5: was like between two and five minutes. Nobody was online.
- 34:26Speaker 5: I'm talking about leaving the Hungarian airport, leaving Dallas, Texas.
- 34:34Speaker 5: All of it very minimal line, if any at all.
- 34:38Speaker 5: I did see some ICE officers, DHS officers, despite the shutdown.
- 34:43Speaker 5: I did see them post it up, looking sharp in
- 34:46Speaker 5: their uniforms. But I say all of this to say
- 34:49Speaker 5: that people keep freaking about about these airport lines. And
- 34:53Speaker 5: again the airports I was at, I didn't see anything.
- 34:56Speaker 5: I guess I got really lucky. The DHS shutdown continues,
- 34:59Speaker 5: but President Trump waited on this. He had a little
- 35:01Speaker 5: bit to say, and I'm wondering when do we get
- 35:05Speaker 5: to the end of this. But check this out new one.
- 35:08Speaker 8: Musk is offered a patsa workers during this DHS shut up.
- 35:11Speaker 2: Is this something that you've been picking him about?
- 35:13Speaker 4: Yeah, I love it. I think it's great. Let him
- 35:15Speaker 4: do that. And I want to thank Ice because they
- 35:18Speaker 4: set SI so so strongly.
- 35:20Speaker 2: They'll do gray and if that's not enough, I'll.
- 35:23Speaker 4: Bring in the National Guard.
- 35:24Speaker 7: We're not going to have the Democrats destroy our country.
- 35:28Speaker 4: These people are the most destructive, sick people.
- 35:31Speaker 10: Now.
- 35:31Speaker 5: One that is President Trump speaking with Mike Carter from Newsmax,
- 35:37Speaker 5: and the question was about Elon Musk saying he's going
- 35:40Speaker 5: to pay the back pay. Looks like there's been some
- 35:44Speaker 5: movement there where the folks in the Senates that we've
- 35:47Speaker 5: come to a resolution. We will pay for DHS, but
- 35:50Speaker 5: we will not pay for ICE. Mike Johnson pushing back
- 35:53Speaker 5: saying Nope, we won't get that signed in the house.
- 35:55Speaker 5: It's got to have ice or nothing. And there's been
- 35:57Speaker 5: back and forth there. Excuse me, so anyway, it is
- 36:00Speaker 5: a little late here. But bottom line, the shutdown now
- 36:04Speaker 5: continues longest in American history. It seems like every time
- 36:08Speaker 5: we have a shutdown it becomes the longest in American history.
- 36:10Speaker 5: And the point I want to make to you, and
- 36:13Speaker 5: I hope that you're gleaning from this is despite shutdowns
- 36:16Speaker 5: longest in history, this that and the third the hype
- 36:19Speaker 5: on the news again, was your life greatly impacted by this?
- 36:23Speaker 5: I know I can tell you mine wasn't. And I
- 36:25Speaker 5: probably did more traveling in the last seven or eight
- 36:28Speaker 5: days than I've done in my whole life, right, I
- 36:31Speaker 5: don't think I've gotten it on two different international trips
- 36:35Speaker 5: plus a domestic trip, all in the same week or so,
- 36:40Speaker 5: and again to have the same experience each time. Now,
- 36:43Speaker 5: what I did have an issue with is this thing
- 36:45Speaker 5: called passport control man.
- 36:48Speaker 3: That sucks.
- 36:49Speaker 5: You would think that you should be able to scan
- 36:50Speaker 5: your way through things with all the barcodes on your passport,
- 36:54Speaker 5: all the cameras that are everywhere. Nope, they want to
- 36:57Speaker 5: give you a hard time talk about thirty minute, forty
- 37:00Speaker 5: bet wait times that stuff you know that blows so anyway,
- 37:05Speaker 5: I just wanted to share that with you.
- 37:07Speaker 3: Happy to be back with you.
- 37:08Speaker 5: I've got so much to unpack and uncover, and I
- 37:11Speaker 5: don't want to go over time here, but I did
- 37:14Speaker 5: want to get into that. I want to talk a
- 37:15Speaker 5: little bit about Iran. I wanted to make sure I
- 37:18Speaker 5: got you all the info that I had regarding the
- 37:21Speaker 5: event in Budapest, because I felt like there was a
- 37:24Speaker 5: lot that I wanted to bring up, and if I
- 37:26Speaker 5: don't talk about it now, I likely won't talk about
- 37:28Speaker 5: it later. I will talk a little bit about the
- 37:30Speaker 5: experience I had in the night life. Budapest is known
- 37:33Speaker 5: for its nightlife, but I didn't have that experience right.
- 37:38Speaker 5: I went to a couple of different bars and there
- 37:41Speaker 5: wasn't a whole lot of music. One of them had
- 37:43Speaker 5: live music. I had a great time. Let me not,
- 37:45Speaker 5: you know, cast any aspersions, but it just wasn't what
- 37:48Speaker 5: I was thinking. I thought there were going to be
- 37:50Speaker 5: some like really serious bumping nightclubs. Now there was one
- 37:53Speaker 5: by my hotel. I stayed at the Hampton by Hilton.
- 37:58Speaker 5: It was actually really really cool, very very nice place,
- 38:02Speaker 5: nicer than I expected it to be. And it had
- 38:05Speaker 5: a nightclub on the corner. There a couple of have
- 38:08Speaker 5: a blockdown.
- 38:09Speaker 3: I didn't go.
- 38:10Speaker 5: It looked a little not my scene, like too many guys,
- 38:13Speaker 5: you know, didn't have like a line of women outside.
- 38:16Speaker 5: I was thinking that probably isn't the best place to go.
- 38:19Speaker 5: But it wasn't what I thought. Cocktails, not a lot
- 38:23Speaker 5: of variety. Not a lot of places made cocktails. A
- 38:25Speaker 5: lot of places were kind of like pub style where
- 38:28Speaker 5: it was either beer or wine or your choice of
- 38:31Speaker 5: you know, whiskey or whatnot, but not too many mixed drinks.
- 38:35Speaker 5: And I did find one place interestingly named after Marx.
- 38:40Speaker 5: I don't know if it was after Karl Marx himself
- 38:42Speaker 5: or but it was called Mark something Bar and restaurant.
- 38:48Speaker 5: And they made me an old fashion there, and that
- 38:51Speaker 5: was actually pretty good. The but the scene again, if
- 38:56Speaker 5: there were twenty tables in the place, six of them
- 39:00Speaker 5: were empty, and this was on a Saturday night. Then
- 39:04Speaker 5: there was another place right across the street from there,
- 39:07Speaker 5: more like a diner looking place, but it was called
- 39:11Speaker 5: not Route sixty six, it was called Interstate fifty five
- 39:15Speaker 5: American bar and grill.
- 39:17Speaker 3: That is interesting.
- 39:18Speaker 5: I go into this bar restaurant and I say, Hi,
- 39:22Speaker 5: can I sit at the bar? She says sure, she
- 39:24Speaker 5: brings me over to a table. I said no, I
- 39:27Speaker 5: just want to sit at the bar, and she's like,
- 39:28Speaker 5: oh okay. So she brings me to the bar and
- 39:31Speaker 5: it's like twenty or thirty feet long, but there's only
- 39:34Speaker 5: four barstools. So I sit down. Then a guy comes
- 39:38Speaker 5: over and he says, I'm sorry, you can't sit here.
- 39:40Speaker 5: I was like, oh, should I move over, like to
- 39:43Speaker 5: the other barstool, and he says no, no, no, there's
- 39:45Speaker 5: no service at the bar. If you want to drink,
- 39:48Speaker 5: you have to sit at a table and eat. And
- 39:51Speaker 5: I was like, oh, okay, why do you put bar
- 39:53Speaker 5: in your name?
- 39:54Speaker 4: Right?
- 39:54Speaker 5: I said restaurant, bar and restaurant anyway, So I left
- 39:57Speaker 5: there kind of puzzled. Went across the street to an
- 40:00Speaker 5: other bar that was about thirty five forty feet long
- 40:03Speaker 5: that also had four bar stools. I asked if I
- 40:06Speaker 5: could sit there, and the guy looked at me like, sure,
- 40:08Speaker 5: if you want to, Like why would you want to,
- 40:10Speaker 5: you know? And I guess it's not a custom in
- 40:15Speaker 5: the downtown Budapest area there to sit at the bar.
- 40:19Speaker 5: So I learned that, and I went to a third
- 40:22Speaker 5: place also that did not allow. It was a place
- 40:25Speaker 5: I forget it was called. It was an Argentinian steakhouse,
- 40:29Speaker 5: and I wanted to have a mal Beck. You know,
- 40:32Speaker 5: I'm a fan of the Malbeck Argentinian red wine, and
- 40:36Speaker 5: I figured if anybody was going to have it, they
- 40:37Speaker 5: were because a lot of these places didn't have any
- 40:40Speaker 5: imported wine. It was all Hungarian wine and that was it. Well,
- 40:44Speaker 5: guess what they told me when I walked into their
- 40:47Speaker 5: long bar that only had four bar stools. That's right,
- 40:52Speaker 5: we don't offer service at the bar. This was the
- 40:54Speaker 5: going trend in the three of the three places I
- 40:58Speaker 5: went to. I was able to sit at one, and
- 41:01Speaker 5: I wasn't there for long. I was only having one
- 41:03Speaker 5: cocktail because I was waiting for dinner. I had dinner
- 41:05Speaker 5: reservations at a restaurant that didn't make cocktails. But I
- 41:08Speaker 5: did have a filet mignon and it came served with
- 41:12Speaker 5: duck liver on top, and I wasn't a fan of
- 41:15Speaker 5: the duck liver. The filet mignon also wasn't that great.
- 41:17Speaker 5: It was a little bit chewy. I asked for medium,
- 41:19Speaker 5: I got it medium, but it just it was chewy.
- 41:22Speaker 5: It wasn't very juicy. It was very tasty. I'm not
- 41:26Speaker 5: blaming that on the Hungarians. I'm just saying I think
- 41:29Speaker 5: that cut that day, that shift whatever, it just wasn't
- 41:32Speaker 5: wasn't a thing. The potatoes were to dive for, absolutely fantastic.
- 41:37Speaker 5: There was a belly dancer and then there was like
- 41:40Speaker 5: a live sword fight. It was actually pretty cool, dinner
- 41:43Speaker 5: theater type of thing. I enjoyed that, and of course
- 41:46Speaker 5: the sight seeing nothing compares. Some of these sites are
- 41:50Speaker 5: just phenomenal. Saint I mentioned it earlier, Saint Steven's Basilica
- 41:56Speaker 5: where the Holy Rite is the right hand of.
- 41:59Speaker 3: The King of Hungary. That was a pretty cool, very
- 42:03Speaker 3: very cool stop, and I got some good pictures of that.
- 42:06Speaker 3: There was also the.
- 42:09Speaker 5: Buddha Castle that I mentioned earlier, absolutely phenomenal, you know,
- 42:13Speaker 5: people of all ages just really enjoying themselves in this
- 42:16Speaker 5: you know, cultural masterpiece, landmark icon in Hungarian history.
- 42:22Speaker 4: And that was on the.
- 42:25Speaker 5: Buddha side of Budapest. I also spent some time on
- 42:28Speaker 5: the Pest side of Budapest. Budapest, of course separated by
- 42:32Speaker 5: the Danube River, fascinating, lots of history, very rich, the
- 42:36Speaker 5: Parliament building absolutely gorgeous, And that was pretty much it.
- 42:41Speaker 5: Now I wanted to talk to you about the time
- 42:45Speaker 5: I spent in Switzerland. So this is interesting because I
- 42:50Speaker 5: wasn't planning on going to Switzerland. I had a layover
- 42:53Speaker 5: that was forty minutes. It took me more than forty
- 42:57Speaker 5: minutes to get from Terminal A to Terminal E of
- 43:00Speaker 5: the airport. And guess what happens when you get to
- 43:02Speaker 5: the gate two minutes after you're supposed to Yep, that's right,
- 43:06Speaker 5: they locked the door and they don't let you get
- 43:08Speaker 5: on the plane. But when you are in Central Europe
- 43:12Speaker 5: and you're trying to get back to the United States,
- 43:14Speaker 5: and guess what else they don't do. They don't have
- 43:17Speaker 5: hourly flights, so I had to wait till the next day.
- 43:20Speaker 5: So after fighting with a bunch of people about what's
- 43:23Speaker 5: going on and this and that, and what slowed me
- 43:25Speaker 5: down was a woman with many children who cut me
- 43:28Speaker 5: in line to get on the line I was on.
- 43:32Speaker 5: And I didn't want to fight with a woman, so
- 43:35Speaker 5: I let her go. But she had four children plus
- 43:39Speaker 5: her and her mother in law, so that was essentially
- 43:43Speaker 5: six or her mom some woman was with her six
- 43:47Speaker 5: more passports that needed to be scanned on the passport
- 43:49Speaker 5: control line before me, and at one or two minutes each.
- 43:53Speaker 5: That added, you know, somewhere between six and twelve minutes
- 43:56Speaker 5: of wait time for me, and I missed my flight.
- 44:01Speaker 5: So the lesson I learned there was the next time
- 44:03Speaker 5: a mom in a baby carriage with a bunch of
- 44:04Speaker 5: kids in tow tries to cut you in line. Instead
- 44:07Speaker 5: of being a gentleman saying go right to head, no, no, no,
- 44:09Speaker 5: you become like a alignment and you just knock her
- 44:15Speaker 5: out of the way. I don't know what to say,
- 44:16Speaker 5: but you tell her, sorry, I can't, I can't. She
- 44:19Speaker 5: didn't even ask. I mean, she literally just was slick
- 44:22Speaker 5: about it and started talking to the person in front
- 44:24Speaker 5: of me and pretending they were friends. And I knew
- 44:27Speaker 5: that they weren't because the lady was like, oh, you know,
- 44:29Speaker 5: you know that look of surprise. Anyway, bottom line is,
- 44:33Speaker 5: I missed a flight. I had to stay for one
- 44:37Speaker 5: night in Zurich. It was early in today. This was
- 44:39Speaker 5: an early flight. It was about ten o'clock in the morning,
- 44:42Speaker 5: so I left the airport went side seeing, enjoyed lunch,
- 44:48Speaker 5: had a nice day. Saw the Swiss Alps absolutely breathtaking.
- 44:53Speaker 5: When I talk about one of the one of the
- 44:55Speaker 5: most beautiful things I've seen ever in any of my travels.
- 44:58Speaker 3: Besides you know, a.
- 45:02Speaker 5: Like another thing I've seen was a sunset that I saw,
- 45:07Speaker 5: I want to say, over the Hoover Dam Grand Canyon,
- 45:10Speaker 5: absolutely stunning as well. Now these French Alps there just
- 45:15Speaker 5: like the movies. They're just very crisp, very wow, very
- 45:20Speaker 5: nice to look at. But for me, after I don't know,
- 45:23Speaker 5: thirty seconds, forty a minute, two minutes, I'm good. I've
- 45:27Speaker 5: seen all I'm going to see. Very good, Thank you
- 45:30Speaker 5: so much, let's continue. So I also went out in
- 45:34Speaker 5: Zurich at night there and that that one was a doozy.
- 45:39Speaker 5: And again I don't want to bore you with the
- 45:40Speaker 5: personal details of my trip, but I went to a
- 45:42Speaker 5: restaurant that served what did they serve there, I don't know,
- 45:49Speaker 5: seafood or something like that. It was all right, kind
- 45:51Speaker 5: of emptying out. So I left there and I stopped
- 45:54Speaker 5: at a place right by the hotel called the chot
- 45:57Speaker 5: Chot Club now the chat Chat Social club. This is
- 46:01Speaker 5: like a bar lounge type of place. Had a white
- 46:05Speaker 5: tiger attached to the ceiling. There was like a fifteen
- 46:09Speaker 5: or eighteen foot palm tree inside the bar, and lights,
- 46:16Speaker 5: you know, disco lights all over the place. Very interesting crowd.
- 46:19Speaker 5: It was like being in a bar in America. I
- 46:21Speaker 5: had a twenty five foot bar with barstools all across,
- 46:24Speaker 5: and people sat at the bar stools.
- 46:26Speaker 3: They made cocktails. It was really cool.
- 46:29Speaker 2: So I go in.
- 46:31Speaker 5: And I speak with a Frenchman and a German and
- 46:34Speaker 5: they're asking about the United States and telling me about
- 46:37Speaker 5: politics there locally and all sorts of stuff. Very nice,
- 46:41Speaker 5: very very hospitable, very kind people and not very loving
- 46:45Speaker 5: of Trump though. You know, they didn't know why I
- 46:48Speaker 5: was there, they didn't know my political position, none of that.
- 46:50Speaker 5: But the guy just comes on and says, oh, so
- 46:53Speaker 5: you're you're stuck with Trump?
- 46:54Speaker 4: Huh?
- 46:54Speaker 5: And I said, ah, listen, he's not as bad as
- 46:56Speaker 5: the media says. And the guy looks at me like, huh,
- 47:00Speaker 5: how could that be? And I said yeah, I said,
- 47:02Speaker 5: I think the media tries to hype it up a
- 47:03Speaker 5: little bit. And I was like, you know, what's your take?
- 47:06Speaker 5: Why don't you like him? And he's like, what is
- 47:08Speaker 5: there to like? And I said, well, I mean you
- 47:10Speaker 5: talk about how he fixed our immigration problem relatively quickly,
- 47:15Speaker 5: how he's reversed so many of the destructive policies of
- 47:19Speaker 5: the previous administration. These are all wins. Our GDP is
- 47:22Speaker 5: really solid. And I think that what he's doing with
- 47:29Speaker 5: ending crazy regimes like the ones we saw in Venezuela,
- 47:33Speaker 5: like what we're seeing in Iran, and what's about to
- 47:36Speaker 5: happen in Cuba, I think are all pluses for the
- 47:39Speaker 5: Western hemisphere. He looked at me, raised an eyebrow and
- 47:45Speaker 5: said good night, and enjoy your drink. He had paid
- 47:49Speaker 5: for my drink, and because he didn't like my answer,
- 47:52Speaker 5: But I thought to myself, Wow, isn't that interesting how
- 47:56Speaker 5: Trump derangement syndrome is now an international disorder. People that
- 48:01Speaker 5: are not affected by Trump by any means whatsoever. This
- 48:06Speaker 5: guy's not a citizen of the United States, he's not Iranian,
- 48:10Speaker 5: this guy's German living in Switzerland.
- 48:12Speaker 3: What does Trump do to you?
- 48:15Speaker 4: Right?
- 48:15Speaker 5: Maybe besides threatening leaving NATO? Fascinating, just fascinating, nice, nice
- 48:21Speaker 5: guy until all right? And all I said was, Oh,
- 48:24Speaker 5: he's not as bad as the media says. You know,
- 48:26Speaker 5: and I said, oh, I freaking love him. I've met
- 48:28Speaker 5: the guy. He's terrific. Imagine how that would have gone
- 48:32Speaker 5: and he got a chance. But there's another guy working
- 48:37Speaker 5: behind the bar and he comes over and we're talking
- 48:41Speaker 5: and he's like, what are you in town for?
- 48:42Speaker 2: Where?
- 48:42Speaker 3: I was like, oh, I was here for a conference
- 48:44Speaker 3: and in Budapest. And he's like, oh, yeah, you know,
- 48:47Speaker 3: what do you do?
- 48:48Speaker 5: So we're talking about that and I said, hey, you know,
- 48:53Speaker 5: he says he's from Egypt. He actually he said I
- 48:57Speaker 5: am from Egypt and I said, oh, get out. I said,
- 49:00Speaker 5: you know what's interesting is Egypt has a seven mile
- 49:04Speaker 5: border between Gaza. What are your thoughts on that? And
- 49:08Speaker 5: he says, oh, it's very good. He says, Egypt's country,
- 49:12Speaker 5: his border have to protect Egypt and I said, okay,
- 49:15Speaker 5: very good. I agree we should have that in America.
- 49:18Speaker 5: We should protect our border too, and he seemed to
- 49:21Speaker 5: be on board. So we started talking about why. I said,
- 49:25Speaker 5: what do you have against the people in Gaza And
- 49:27Speaker 5: he says, no, no, no, he's not about the people
- 49:29Speaker 5: in Gaza. He's not about and he's explaining that it's
- 49:32Speaker 5: about these people. He says, they say they are a Muslim,
- 49:36Speaker 5: but they are not from this messenger. And he said,
- 49:38Speaker 5: excuse me, and he says, yes, they're enough from the
- 49:40Speaker 5: Messenger Muhammad. And I said, oh, okay, tell me more.
- 49:44Speaker 5: And he goes on to tell me that these guys
- 49:46Speaker 5: are basically political people that claim to be Muslim. The
- 49:50Speaker 5: Muslim brotherhood took over a political party in Egypt, caused
- 49:53Speaker 5: all sorts of problems there, and once they were able
- 49:56Speaker 5: to get rid of them, you know, they were exiled
- 49:57Speaker 5: to Gaza and other places. And he said, we want
- 49:59Speaker 5: to make sure we don't get him back. He said,
- 50:01Speaker 5: because these people are not what he say.
- 50:03Speaker 3: I think.
- 50:03Speaker 5: He said, they are not like the others. And I said,
- 50:06Speaker 5: who are the others? And he said Mount Sinai is
- 50:09Speaker 5: in Egypt. And I said okay, and he said Mount Sinai.
- 50:13Speaker 5: He tells me the Jewish brother comes to pray in Sinai,
- 50:16Speaker 5: the Christian brother comes to pray in Sinai. But this brother,
- 50:21Speaker 5: he is not from a messenger. He's not Muslim. And
- 50:23Speaker 5: he kept talking about the Hamas and I thought that
- 50:26Speaker 5: was a fascinating way of explaining it.
- 50:28Speaker 3: He didn't speak the best English.
- 50:30Speaker 5: It was, you know, a fascinating conversation, to say the least,
- 50:33Speaker 5: young man twenty two years old, and I thought it
- 50:36Speaker 5: was very eye opening. He had married a young Swiss
- 50:39Speaker 5: girl and she was the bartender. He was the bar back,
- 50:42Speaker 5: and that's what was going on there. We were talking
- 50:45Speaker 5: and he said he was a Muslim, and I said, yes,
- 50:47Speaker 5: I understand, I am a Christian. Jesus is my thing.
- 50:52Speaker 5: And at that moment, the disco lights hit like real bright,
- 50:55Speaker 5: and we both looked to my left and there is
- 50:58Speaker 5: this I don't know, six foot six Jesus right next
- 51:02Speaker 5: to me. And I said, oh, my gosh, and he laughs,
- 51:06Speaker 5: and I laughed because it was like odd that a
- 51:08Speaker 5: man that could be Jesus's stunt double appeared out of
- 51:12Speaker 5: nowhere while we were talking about it.
- 51:13Speaker 3: So I said Jesus and he said, oh yes. In Spanish.
- 51:16Speaker 5: Nonetheless, he says, oh, see, pasa arato, that happens to
- 51:20Speaker 5: me all the time. He was from Spain, and there
- 51:23Speaker 5: were tons of Spaniards frequenting and visiting in Zurich, in
- 51:29Speaker 5: old town Zurich. So we had an interesting conversation, a
- 51:32Speaker 5: lot of laughs. It was very funny. I also put
- 51:34Speaker 5: some pictures of the tigers suspended from the ceiling, the
- 51:37Speaker 5: palm tree, and the real life Jesus look alike with
- 51:40Speaker 5: the glasses on on my Instagram account if you're interested
- 51:43Speaker 5: in seeing those pictures. But that is just a little
- 51:46Speaker 5: bit of a recap of how my trip went. And
- 51:48Speaker 5: I had a voice back then. Then it was to
- 51:51Speaker 5: land and get home. And then after one day I
- 51:54Speaker 5: get a call from Chairman match Lap says, hey, I
- 51:57Speaker 5: have an opportunity for you to speak at Seapack to
- 52:00Speaker 5: interview Ambassador Mark Wallace and discuss Iran. We want to
- 52:04Speaker 5: do a fireside chat. I said, thanks for the opportunity,
- 52:07Speaker 5: count on me. I'll be there rebels on. I think
- 52:10Speaker 5: that was a Tuesday night or a Wednesday. The very
- 52:13Speaker 5: next day I booked the flight. I was out within hours,
- 52:16Speaker 5: back in the air over to Dallas, Texas.
- 52:20Speaker 3: And what a vibe that was.
- 52:23Speaker 5: And I feel like some people online are not giving
- 52:26Speaker 5: that SEAPAC conference it's due. It's due because it wasn't
- 52:33Speaker 5: that bad. I think the only thing missing was a
- 52:34Speaker 5: speech from Trump, but by and large, it was very
- 52:37Speaker 5: well attended. It was packed, and like I said, I'll
- 52:41Speaker 5: give you the host scoop on that tomorrow because I
- 52:44Speaker 5: have a clip of my fireside chat with Ambassador Wallace
- 52:48Speaker 5: that I wanted to share with you. Guys thought it
- 52:50Speaker 5: was a pretty interesting interview that we did from the
- 52:53Speaker 5: main stage at Seapack. But before I leave you, I
- 52:57Speaker 5: want to talk a little bit about risis Aaron and
- 53:01Speaker 5: what we can expect. I understand President Trump is scheduled
- 53:04Speaker 5: to speak from the Oval Office on April Fool's Day,
- 53:07Speaker 5: and I want to give a little bit of a
- 53:09Speaker 5: preview and some highlights on that before we go. So
- 53:11Speaker 5: thanks for putting up with my raspee dry voice. I
- 53:13Speaker 5: am working on it here, Tea, Lemon, honey, all of
- 53:17Speaker 5: that stuff. I appreciate your thoughts and your prayers, and
- 53:19Speaker 5: I'm coming right back. Don't go anywhere. I'm Richilde's this
- 53:22Speaker 5: is America.
- 53:32Speaker 6: This is America. He's making podcasting great again. This is
- 53:40Speaker 6: America with Rich Valdez.
- 53:45Speaker 5: All right, amigos, welcome back Rich Valdez, keeping your company
- 53:49Speaker 5: live this evening and happy to be able to do
- 53:53Speaker 5: truly a pleasure. And for those of you that are
- 53:55Speaker 5: not listening line because you aren't able to, that's okay.
- 54:00Speaker 4: Stand that.
- 54:02Speaker 5: I love you just the same eight seven seven. While
- 54:05Speaker 5: that's one is the phone number. I'm not going to
- 54:06Speaker 5: get to the calls today. I just don't have the
- 54:08Speaker 5: voice for it. And I do appreciate your willingness to
- 54:13Speaker 5: stick with me despite my raspiness. I know that sometimes
- 54:17Speaker 5: a raspy voice kind of grates on the ears, and
- 54:20Speaker 5: then people say, you know what, should have taken the
- 54:22Speaker 5: day off. But I've had too many of days off lately,
- 54:24Speaker 5: so I can't do any more of that. But what
- 54:26Speaker 5: I am going to do is tell you a little
- 54:27Speaker 5: bit about my thoughts on what's going on with Iran
- 54:31Speaker 5: and the different conversations I've had with a bunch of
- 54:33Speaker 5: different people from all over the place. And there's a
- 54:36Speaker 5: clip of President Trump here Monday in the Oval Office,
- 54:41Speaker 5: and I think it's very fitting. They're asking him about
- 54:44Speaker 5: gas prices and whatnot.
- 54:46Speaker 3: Check this out.
- 54:46Speaker 4: I says today they hit four dollars, were four dollars?
- 54:51Speaker 7: Yeah, And we have a country that's not going to
- 54:52Speaker 7: be throwing a nuclear weapon edicine.
- 54:55Speaker 12: But Americans are feeling the effects in the interim as.
- 54:58Speaker 4: They're also feeling a lot safer. What is the plan
- 55:01Speaker 4: to bring them back down?
- 55:02Speaker 7: All I have to do is leave around and we'll
- 55:04Speaker 7: be doing that very soon and they'll become tumbling down.
- 55:07Speaker 7: And stock prices were up today almost to a record
- 55:12Speaker 7: because they know two things.
- 55:15Speaker 4: Number One, we have a safe country.
- 55:17Speaker 7: We had to take a little detour because we had
- 55:19Speaker 7: a madman named Kamani, who sadly is no longer with us.
- 55:24Speaker 7: And we had regime change already. We've knocked out one
- 55:27Speaker 7: regime that we knocked out the second regime. Now we
- 55:30Speaker 7: have a group of people that's very that are very different.
- 55:33Speaker 7: They're much more reasonable, I think, much more, much less radicalized.
- 55:36Speaker 4: It's a we've had regime change.
- 55:39Speaker 7: I see CNN did a poll and they talked about
- 55:41Speaker 7: voters or MAGA voters, and my poll came out at
- 55:44Speaker 7: one hundred percent. Nobody covers that pole they had another
- 55:48Speaker 7: poll whereas at ninety two percent approval.
- 55:51Speaker 4: I think that the people understand it.
- 55:54Speaker 7: We'll be leaving very soon, and if France or some
- 55:57Speaker 7: other country wants to get or or gas, you'll go
- 56:03Speaker 7: up through the straight and Hormoes straight. They'll go right
- 56:07Speaker 7: up there and they'll be able to fend for themselves.
- 56:10Speaker 7: I think it'll be very safe, actually, but we have
- 56:12Speaker 7: nothing to do with that. What happens of the Strait.
- 56:14Speaker 7: We're not gonna have anything to do with part.
- 56:17Speaker 4: The US will be gone or done with the words.
- 56:19Speaker 7: I think we two of three wigs. We'll leave because
- 56:23Speaker 7: there's no reason for us to do this. Look probably
- 56:25Speaker 7: the straight. A guy can take a mind, drop it
- 56:28Speaker 7: in the water and say, oh it's unsafe. It's not
- 56:31Speaker 7: like you're taking out an army or you're taking out
- 56:33Speaker 7: a country.
- 56:34Speaker 4: Or they can drop it.
- 56:36Speaker 7: Or you can take a machine gun from the shore
- 56:37Speaker 7: and shoot a little fue boga, set a ship, or
- 56:40Speaker 7: maybe an over the shoulder missile, small missiles. That's not
- 56:46Speaker 7: for us, that'll be for France. That'll be for whoever's
- 56:50Speaker 7: using the straight. Again, we have had regime change. Now,
- 56:53Speaker 7: regime change was not one of the things I had
- 56:55Speaker 7: as a goal. I had one gold they will have
- 56:58Speaker 7: no nuclear weapon, and that goal has been attained.
- 57:01Speaker 4: They will not have nuclear weapons.
- 57:04Speaker 7: But we're finishing the job, and I think within maybe
- 57:08Speaker 7: two weeks, maybe a couple.
- 57:09Speaker 4: Of days longer to do the job. But we want
- 57:12Speaker 4: to knock out every single thing they have.
- 57:14Speaker 7: Now it's possible that we'll make a deal before that
- 57:17Speaker 7: because we'll hit bridges, and we've hit some, we'll hit
- 57:20Speaker 7: some bridges, a couple of nice bridges in mind, But
- 57:25Speaker 7: if they come to the table, that'll be good. But
- 57:28Speaker 7: it doesn't matter whether they're coming up. We've set them back.
- 57:31Speaker 7: It'll take fifteen to twenty years for them to rebuild
- 57:34Speaker 7: what we've done to the gas.
- 57:35Speaker 4: Right.
- 57:36Speaker 5: So there you have it, President Trump laying out that
- 57:39Speaker 5: he slowed them down in their nuclear ambitions by about
- 57:41Speaker 5: twenty years. And the conversation started with cast prizes, it
- 57:47Speaker 5: ended up with the security and the strait of our moves.
- 57:49Speaker 5: President Trump, I think is smart enough to avoid the
- 57:53Speaker 5: quagmire of you know, Hoothi rebels and others that are
- 57:56Speaker 5: going to be along the straight doing what they do,
- 58:00Speaker 5: doing what they've done notoriously, and of course they want
- 58:03Speaker 5: to wipe out as much of that as they can.
- 58:04Speaker 5: But President Trump's a realist and he realizes, look, we're
- 58:08Speaker 5: not going to end all malevolent behavior there. We're here
- 58:14Speaker 5: to take out their nuclear capability and their ability to
- 58:19Speaker 5: put that nuclear capability on a rocket and send it
- 58:22Speaker 5: to us, wiping out their navy, wiping out their air force,
- 58:26Speaker 5: wiping out their ability to produce more of these drones.
- 58:30Speaker 5: And by most reports seems to be that they're almost there.
- 58:36Speaker 5: They're still in the fight, largely because Iran has been
- 58:40Speaker 5: getting a little bit of support. And I think I
- 58:43Speaker 5: mentioned this the last time I was with you from
- 58:46Speaker 5: the Russians. All right, Russia sharing some satellite imagery and
- 58:50Speaker 5: drone technology with Iran. This was reported by the Wall
- 58:53Speaker 5: Street Journal on the seventeenth of March. So I get
- 58:59Speaker 5: it they have a little bit of help. But by
- 59:01Speaker 5: and large, it looks like we will likely be out
- 59:04Speaker 5: of there very soon, and the goal remains the same. Now,
- 59:08Speaker 5: there is some talk about removing yellow cake uranium, that
- 59:13Speaker 5: it may be hidden inside of a mountain somewhere, and
- 59:18Speaker 5: that's been a debate.
- 59:22Speaker 3: As of late.
- 59:23Speaker 5: I'm going to talk about this a little bit more
- 59:24Speaker 5: tomorrow because this idea of boots on the ground, I
- 59:28Speaker 5: don't think it's a thing. All of my military friends say,
- 59:31Speaker 5: if there's gonna be any boots on the ground, it's
- 59:32Speaker 5: gonna be the boots of the people who need the
- 59:33Speaker 5: oil there, like President Trump is referred to, and that
- 59:37Speaker 5: there may even be a genuine willingness to leave NATO
- 59:41Speaker 5: after not seeing our NATO partners kind of step up
- 59:44Speaker 5: and help with this effort. So there's plenty for us
- 59:47Speaker 5: to discuss tomorrow. I want to thank you for being
- 59:50Speaker 5: here with me today. I am Rich Valdez. Be sure
- 59:53Speaker 5: to subscribe to the program however you do, whether you
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- 1:00:36Speaker 5: It's a New Year's resolution to make three or four
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