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Comey Charged again, CIA-Corruption, Castro's Cronies · Rich Valdés: This is America!

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  Speaker 1: This is America with Rich Valdez, powered by politiweek.com.
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  Speaker 2: And Rich Valdez is with us, former Christie administration official.
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  Speaker 3: You work for Chris Christie, you've been in politics, a
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  Speaker 3: lot of public service stuff. Rich Valdez, columnist now with
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  Speaker 3: the Washington Times.
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  Speaker 4: This is America.
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  Speaker 3: Richie V, you're on the air with the nation.
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  Speaker 5: This is America.
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  Speaker 4: With your host, Rich Valdez.
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  Speaker 3: What's up, America? I am Rich Valdez, Valdez with an S,
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  Speaker 3: at Rich Valdez on all of the social media. I'm
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  Speaker 3: your liberty-loving Latino amigo, 17 blocks away from Madison Square Garden,
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  Speaker 3: right here at Times Square, New York City. Blessed and
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  Speaker 3: honored to be with you guys, my wonderful audience. It's
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  Speaker 3: Tuesday night edition of This Is America, our late-night national
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  Speaker 3: town hall conversation. And if you want to share your opinion,
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  Speaker 3: and we'll air it during the Open Phone America segment
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  Speaker 3: of the show. And I want to start with the
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  Speaker 3: baseline right now because as of the closing bell today,
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  Speaker 3: we're officially seven days away from the midterm election of 2026.
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  Speaker 3: And next Tuesday, the American people head over to the
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  Speaker 3: ballot box and the tension out there is so thick
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  Speaker 3: you can cut it with one of those big cucharas
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  Speaker 3: that my abuela used to use to stir the rice. No,
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  Speaker 3: no lie. Now, in Israel... You've got Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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  Speaker 3: He's locked in a dead heat neck and neck race
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  Speaker 3: that's keeping the entire Middle East on a razor's edge. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 3: you've got it, pobrecito, Jair Bolsonaro. That is the father.
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  Speaker 3: He's still in jail. His son trapped on the tarmac,
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  Speaker 3: Flavio Bolsonaro. And he lost the election just a couple
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  Speaker 3: of days ago in Brazil for president. And They started
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  Speaker 3: hitting him with charges to put him in jail just
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  Speaker 3: like they put his dad in jail for political persecution.
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  Speaker 3: They're saying he's corrupt, he's money laundering, he's this and
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  Speaker 3: he's that. It's amazing how quickly they conducted that investigation
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  Speaker 3: from Election Day. The very next day, this guy was
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  Speaker 3: with the crosshairs on him. So he has made a
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  Speaker 3: petition to see if he can enter the United States.
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  Speaker 3: They're trying to not let his plane leave the tarmac.
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  Speaker 3: We will keep you posted on that. Hopefully he can
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  Speaker 3: make his way through one of the neighboring countries and
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  Speaker 3: make his way to the United States. But crazy stuff, right?
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  Speaker 3: And he's likely going to be playing hopscotch a little
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  Speaker 3: bit in the terminal, trying to dodge a political persecution.
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  Speaker 3: At this rate, Bolsonaro is going to end up racking
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  Speaker 3: up so many frequent flyer miles, more than any one
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  Speaker 3: of us do. So, and I'm trying to make light
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  Speaker 3: of a bad situation, I know. Let's look at what
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  Speaker 3: else is going on. What else we got? Oh, we
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  Speaker 3: got some headlines here. First up, James Comey. James Comey,
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  Speaker 3: the Triple Crown. Third time is the charm, is what
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  Speaker 3: they say. New indictment unsealed against him yesterday. Third set
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  Speaker 3: of charges against him. The Department of Justice smacking former
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  Speaker 3: director James Comey with federal charges for the third time.
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  Speaker 3: This time, it's for allegedly leaking national defense information, classified information,
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  Speaker 3: to the New York Times back in 2016 to correct
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  Speaker 3: a Reuters piece. They say Jim Comey's been sharing this
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  Speaker 3: with his professor friend who was in the media to
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  Speaker 3: leak things. And that that might be a violation of
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  Speaker 3: classified information standards. So we'll see what happens. This is, again,
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  Speaker 3: the third time, separate time, that he's been charged in
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  Speaker 3: 13 months. The first time he got away with it.
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  Speaker 3: The second time, we're still waiting to see what happens.
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  Speaker 3: And now the jury's out. We'll see what happens. We'll
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  Speaker 3: see if Jim Comey's going to see the feds, you know,
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  Speaker 3: getting tough with him or not. I tend to think
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  Speaker 3: Not is the answer. But again, I'm not rooting for
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  Speaker 3: the guy. I'm rooting for America. I just don't see
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  Speaker 3: where it's happening. And guess what? He's gotten so many indictments.
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  Speaker 3: These three, the first three, the fourth one's free. The
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  Speaker 3: fourth one's on me, Jim. You got it, brother. Anyway,
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  Speaker 3: who else we got getting indicted? Another Democrat getting indicted,
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  Speaker 3: Eric Swalwell. Not indicted. He's being investigated by... The authorities there, FBI,
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  Speaker 3: raided a massive Beverly Hills mansion belonging to the billionaire
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  Speaker 3: Stephen Klubeck. Why'd they do that? Well, because the disgraced
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  Speaker 3: former congressman, Eric Swalwell, who resigned after a huge sexual
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  Speaker 3: misconduct allegation, he was living there. Yes, he was living
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  Speaker 3: with his billionaire friend. The feds are tossing Swalwell's donor's mansion,
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  Speaker 3: looking for all sorts of evidence. The first thing was
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  Speaker 3: Fang Fang, the Chinese spy. Now it's federal raids in
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  Speaker 3: the 90210. Listen, Eric, my friend, when people said you
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  Speaker 3: should try to be a household name, they didn't mean
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  Speaker 3: you should have your name on the FBI's 10 most
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  Speaker 3: wanted list. Come on, brother. Now there's a search warrant
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  Speaker 3: in every house that you've slept in. And we've seen
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  Speaker 3: those videos. You're not always sleeping alone, brother. You're making
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  Speaker 3: it hot. You're making it hot for you. You're making
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  Speaker 3: it hot for shorty. Or should I say Fang Fang?
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  Speaker 2: Anyway.
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  Speaker 3: Then we've got Kathy Hochul, the governor of New York,
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  Speaker 3: finishing dead last. The Cato Institute dropping their annual Freedom
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  Speaker 3: in the 50 States report. It's like a report card
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  Speaker 3: for states based on how much liberty people have. And
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  Speaker 3: Kathy Hochul ranked 50th out of 50 governors. Absolute dead last.
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  Speaker 3: An F grade she was given. She literally is making
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  Speaker 3: Gavin Newsom look like George Washington in a list like this. Actually,
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  Speaker 3: that's something that I said on on the news this
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  Speaker 3: morning I was on Newsmax commenting on this very story
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  Speaker 3: and if we could find it I'll use that in
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  Speaker 3: an upcoming segment when we get into this Kathy Hochul
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  Speaker 3: New York stuff because honestly to score less than a
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  Speaker 3: dismal 18% on freedom New York is now officially less
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  Speaker 3: free than California and Rhode Island that's brutal right literally
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  Speaker 3: that's Kathy Hochul saying Gavin Newsom you think you're a
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  Speaker 3: commie sympathizer hold my beer absolutely atrocious anyway As if
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  Speaker 3: things in New York weren't bad enough. People leaving, people
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  Speaker 3: moving out. The only thing that's going up is U-Haul
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  Speaker 3: rental sales. People trying to get the heck out of
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  Speaker 3: there and almost always Texas, Tennessee, Florida. All the good
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  Speaker 3: weather places that have no income tax. Anyway, we continue.
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  Speaker 3: Speaking of New York, over at the U.N., The United
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  Speaker 3: Nations Ambassador Mike Walz, the first congressman to be a
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  Speaker 3: Green Beret special operator who's now the ambassador of the
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  Speaker 3: United States, he gets into back and forth with the
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  Speaker 3: Cuban bureaucracy. Our Ambassador Mike Walz, I've never been prouder
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  Speaker 3: of him. And he got into a massive argument on
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  Speaker 3: the floor with Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parria and
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  Speaker 3: Ambassador Walz, His Excellency. He held up a photo of
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  Speaker 3: Fidel Castro wearing two Rolexes while the Cuban people were
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  Speaker 3: starving in the dark. The Cuban delegation went wild. They
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  Speaker 3: started rushing the stage, banging on their desks. I got
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  Speaker 3: the audio. We're going to play all of it for you.
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  Speaker 3: And if you haven't seen the video already on my
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  Speaker 3: social media, make sure you check that out as well.
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  Speaker 3: I've got a little play-by-play on there. But really, really interesting.
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  Speaker 3: I've never seen things get so contentious. And I've been
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  Speaker 3: in that room with delegations from the United Nations and association, right?
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  Speaker 3: The people that try to make the UN go on.
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  Speaker 3: And early in my career, I was, you know, trying
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  Speaker 3: to give, I guess, the conservative representation inside that body
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  Speaker 3: and was the chairman of the United Nations Association of
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  Speaker 3: New Jersey, advocating with members of Congress in New Jersey.
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  Speaker 3: Since I'd worked for a congressman, I figured I would
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  Speaker 3: do some of that and, you know, went across the
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  Speaker 3: aisle to talk to them. And so I quickly realized
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  Speaker 3: that this A lot of this stuff wasn't as innocuous
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  Speaker 3: as it seemed. In particular, the stuff I was advocating
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  Speaker 3: for was just really for education, for schools, for kids.
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  Speaker 3: I had started a charter school in maybe 2010 with
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  Speaker 3: a couple of colleagues, the brainchild of Brett Schundler, the
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  Speaker 3: former mayor of Jersey City, the former education commissioner for
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  Speaker 3: the state of New Jersey. It's one of the highest
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  Speaker 3: honors I've ever had in my life is to be
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  Speaker 3: part of that founders group. As a founder of a
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  Speaker 3: charter school, I thought this would be a good thing.
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  Speaker 3: So I did it. And I spent a couple of years,
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  Speaker 3: maybe a year and a half or so, maybe closer
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  Speaker 3: to two years, with this United Nations group. And I
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  Speaker 3: realized it's a cesspool of lefties. It's a cesspool of commies.
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  Speaker 3: And this is why the Cuban dictators think they can
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  Speaker 3: do whatever they want. We'll get into that in a
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  Speaker 3: little bit when I get to that segment. But he
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  Speaker 3: held him accountable, right? Ambassador Walz telling the communist thugs,
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  Speaker 3: you can't silence me. He packed, he basically packed their
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  Speaker 3: bags for Havana. I think he canceled their visas, told
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  Speaker 3: them he can't come back. So good for him. We'll
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  Speaker 3: get into that in a little bit. And seven days, America.
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  Speaker 3: Seven days. New York City already showed us what happens
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  Speaker 3: when good people stay home or assume that someone else
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  Speaker 3: will handle it. You know, bystander effect. Despite every intervention,
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  Speaker 3: every warning, New York City got Zoran Mamdani. Do you
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  Speaker 3: want one big Mamdani for America? America has to vote.
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  Speaker 3: That's it. That's all I could say. So I have
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  Speaker 3: to ask you, straight up, what are you willing to
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  Speaker 3: do today, tonight, tomorrow, for the next seven days to
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  Speaker 3: make sure that many Zoran Mamdani's, many El Sayed's, many Tallarico's,
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  Speaker 3: many Kathy Hochul's, and Kathy Hochul is not a many.
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  Speaker 3: She's the real deal. She's on the ballot against Bruce Blakeman.
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  Speaker 3: We got to make sure these people don't get elected.
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  Speaker 3: That's the bottom line. Bottom line. Anyway, I think that's
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  Speaker 3: where I'm going to pause right here. Also, I want
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  Speaker 3: to do a segment. I'll leave it for the end.
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  Speaker 3: The final segment on AI. Because SI, Super Intelligence, AI,
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  Speaker 3: American Innovation, however you want to call it. I was
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  Speaker 3: arguing with AI the other day. And let me tell you.
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  Speaker 3: They are not only programmed to give you the left-wing response,
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  Speaker 3: but they will double down with that response, triple down
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  Speaker 3: with that response, and maybe at that fourth level of pushback,
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  Speaker 3: they might say, you're totally right. That's one of the
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  Speaker 3: problems we realize that all of our silicone, I'll read
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  Speaker 3: you exactly how it went verbatim, because they will try
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  Speaker 3: and railroad you if you're not sharp. So I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to spend some time on that, just sharing with you
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  Speaker 3: a little pushback I had with an AI during some research. Anyway,
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  Speaker 3: keep it locked right here, familia. I am Rich Valdez.
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  Speaker 3: Don't go anywhere.
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  Speaker 4: This is America. This is America. He's brown, he's bald,
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  Speaker 4: and he's breaking it down.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, he's so handsome.
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  Speaker 4: What's his name? Rich Valdez.
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  Speaker 3: All right, welcome back, familia Rich Valdez, keeping you company
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  Speaker 3: this Tuesday night, seven days away from the midterm elections.
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  Speaker 3: Happy to be here with you. And I want to
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  Speaker 3: get into this James Comey stuff, 86-47, good old Jim Comey.
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  Speaker 3: now charged again, another indictment his way. I don't think
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  Speaker 3: they brought him in. They didn't put handcuffs on him.
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  Speaker 3: They didn't do any of that stuff. But of course,
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  Speaker 3: he did take to social media. Of course he did,
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  Speaker 3: to let everybody know how he felt. Listen to this.
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  Speaker 6: Well, they're back again. It would almost be funny if
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  Speaker 6: it weren't such an appalling abuse of the Department of Justice,
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  Speaker 6: one that we cannot become numb to. Nothing's changed with me.
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  Speaker 6: I'm still innocent. I'm still not afraid of these people.
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  Speaker 6: And I still believe in the independent federal judiciary. And
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  Speaker 6: I'm still lucky to have an amazing family and an
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  Speaker 6: incredible group of lawyers. And we'll stand up in court
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  Speaker 6: and fight the latest and whatever comes after this. The
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  Speaker 6: next couple of years are going to be hard for
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  Speaker 6: all of us. It's really important that we stand straight
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  Speaker 6: and keep the faith in America.
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  Speaker 3: That's James Comey. saying, here I am, keep coming after me,
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  Speaker 3: playing that victim card, all seven feet of himself. And look,
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  Speaker 3: I would do the same thing, right? If I were him,
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  Speaker 3: I'd get out in front of this and be like, yep,
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  Speaker 3: here they go again. They're after me again. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: saying that he's right. I'm just saying he knows this stuff.
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  Speaker 3: When you're FBI director, when you're CIA director, when you
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  Speaker 3: are the head guy in these things that deal with
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  Speaker 3: so much intelligence and do business the way they do,
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  Speaker 3: You make a lot of friends. You probably make a
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  Speaker 3: lot of enemies too, but you make a lot of friends.
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  Speaker 3: And when you need those friends, here they are. So
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  Speaker 3: my prediction is that this is yet another charge that
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  Speaker 3: won't amount to much. I would say that while the
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  Speaker 3: Department of Justice does not allow for indictments to be
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  Speaker 3: handed out right before an election day because of the
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  Speaker 3: Office of Legal Counsel's existing precedent and their established protocol,
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  Speaker 3: Nothing seems to be stopping them from doing these investigations
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  Speaker 3: and raids and for things of that nature. So no
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  Speaker 3: perp walk for Comey, but adding some charges, you betcha.
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  Speaker 3: And President Trump's pulling out all the stops because that's
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  Speaker 3: what they did to him. That's what they do to us.
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  Speaker 3: That's what they're doing, period, to try and take the
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  Speaker 3: power that they want. Democrats are hell-bent on power and Sadly,
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  Speaker 3: they are hell-bent on loving and defending criminals. And that's
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  Speaker 3: just not me saying that. That's just a thing. Right?
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  Speaker 3: We go from James Comey. Before we leave James Comey,
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  Speaker 3: let me tell you what they think he's guilty of doing,
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  Speaker 3: what he's being charged with. So the Department of Justice
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  Speaker 3: has charged former FBI Director James Comey for a third time.
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  Speaker 3: This is according to the Epoch Times. for leaking a
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  Speaker 3: sensitive national security document to the New York times in
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  Speaker 3: October of 2016. Now these allegations are contained in the
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  Speaker 3: court records that were made public on Monday night. The
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  Speaker 3: records show that prosecutors filed a two count criminal information, uh,
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  Speaker 3: claim against Comey on October 5th, exactly 10 years after
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  Speaker 3: the alleged conduct, uh, excuse me, transpired. So, uh, Now,
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  Speaker 3: this information that they have is charging him under the
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  Speaker 3: Espionage Act with transmitting national defense information to a person
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  Speaker 3: who was not entitled to receive it and with conspiring
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  Speaker 3: to do so. So, two charges there. Interesting stuff, right?
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  Speaker 3: There is no grand jury indictment yet. Now, the judge,
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  Speaker 3: District Judge Trevor McFadden, he wrote an opinion. granting Comey's
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  Speaker 3: request to unseal the files in the criminal case against him.
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  Speaker 3: The Department of Justice did not object to unsealing the
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  Speaker 3: court docket. The order did not address Comey's pending motion
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  Speaker 3: to dismiss, which argues that only a grand jury indictment,
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  Speaker 3: not a criminal information referral, can keep the case alive
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  Speaker 3: once the 10-year statute of limitations has run out. So
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  Speaker 3: we'll see what happens. Now, these charges under the Espionage
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  Speaker 3: Act are generally brought within 10 years of the date
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  Speaker 3: of the alleged criminal act. And I think that's where
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  Speaker 3: we are. It's for this reason that I feel like
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  Speaker 3: it's a stretch, right? They did this 10 years ago.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody ever brought this charge. It's going to be difficult
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  Speaker 3: for the government to prove for the DOJ. to make
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  Speaker 3: that case when you are going to likely have many,
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  Speaker 3: many sympathetic judges who probably went to school with him,
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  Speaker 3: who worked with him on a bunch of different cases
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  Speaker 3: in his years in the FBI. This is why it's
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  Speaker 3: so hard to drain the swamp. So the Department of
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  Speaker 3: Justice said that it did file the criminal information to
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  Speaker 3: toll or to extend the statute of limitations on that
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  Speaker 3: particular offense that would otherwise have expired earlier this month.
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  Speaker 3: The DOJ spokesperson told the Epoch Times that the practice
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  Speaker 3: is widely recognized in federal court and has been approved
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  Speaker 3: by multiple circuit courts of appeal. So, pardon me, we'll
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  Speaker 3: see if they accept it or not because it's an
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  Speaker 3: ongoing criminal investigation. The spokesperson said the department won't comment
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  Speaker 3: any further. Now, the DOJ said in an October 23rd
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  Speaker 3: filing that the 2016 article titled Yahoo said to have
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  Speaker 3: aided U.S. email surveillance by adapting spam filter, cited two
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  Speaker 3: unidentified government officials who spoke on condition of anonymity. The
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  Speaker 3: article contained classified information that was not supposed to be
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  Speaker 3: released to the public and was significantly similar to the
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  Speaker 3: information that appeared in an internal government email that had
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  Speaker 3: been circulated just hours before the article was published, according
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  Speaker 3: to this particular filing. It's getting thick here. It's getting... Anyway,
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  Speaker 3: prosecutors say that Comey directed his staff to speak to
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  Speaker 3: the New York Times about accuracy concerns related to a
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  Speaker 3: Reuters article published the day before and that this led
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  Speaker 3: to the unlawful transfer of sensitive information.
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  Speaker 4: Interesting.
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  Speaker 3: So now Comey's reacting with this new charge via the
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  Speaker 3: Instagram video that I just played for you saying they're
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  Speaker 3: back again, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Now Comey's legal
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  Speaker 3: team has asked a judge to throw out the new charges,
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  Speaker 3: arguing that they're legally improper. One of Comey's attorneys, Patrick J. Fitzgerald,
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  Speaker 3: said on Instagram that his client is steadfastly maintaining his innocence. Now,
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  Speaker 3: Fitzgerald did confirm that the charges are related to the
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  Speaker 3: October 5th, 2016 New York Times article that prosecutors are
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  Speaker 3: investigating during the first Trump administration, but did not take
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  Speaker 3: action on. Now, remember, James Comey still has two criminal
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  Speaker 3: investigations to his name that are still before the federal courts.
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  Speaker 3: The false statements case against him was dismissed in Virginia
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  Speaker 3: in November of 25. That was just a year ago.
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  Speaker 3: But Comey had been charged with making a false statement
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  Speaker 3: and obstructing a congressional proceeding. He provided testimony to the
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  Speaker 3: Senate Judiciary Committee on September 30th of 2020. And the
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  Speaker 3: indictment alleges that Comey misled Congress by claiming he had
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  Speaker 3: not authorized anyone else to be an anonymous source in
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  Speaker 3: news reports about a particular FBI investigation. A district judge
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  Speaker 3: also dismissed the case, finding the prosecutor overseeing it had
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  Speaker 3: not properly been appointed. I remember when that happened. The
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  Speaker 3: government appealed, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
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  Speaker 3: 4th District I heard those arguments last month, and the
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  Speaker 3: appeals court has still not issued a ruling on it.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: So Comey's asked the court now in North Carolina to
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: dismiss this indictment brought against him. that alleges that he
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: threatened President Trump with the infamous 86-47. That was his
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: Instagram post in May of 2025, showing the seashells to
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: read 86-47, which, of course, 86 is a.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: A nod to remove or get rid of somebody, a
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: term that the mob has used that, you know, is
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: synonymous with killing somebody, restaurants used with throwing out a
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: bad dish, that type of thing, at 86, the turkey,
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: that type of thing. So 47, of course, being interpreted
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: to refer to President Trump, who's the 47th president. Now,
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: Comey says that he found the seashells arranged on a
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: beach and took a photograph of them. I'm like thinking, oh,
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: I'm not the only one thinking like that, trying to
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: be a little cute. Get it? And listen, At the time,
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: you can play back my tapes. I told you, seems
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: like a stretch. I think he's wrong for saying those things,
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: but doesn't mean that he's a criminal. And that's, you know,
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: I'm glad they're taking action because, look, Trump has to
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: stand up for himself. There were actual attempts on Trump's life.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: But when you're a guy like me that makes a
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: living of talking smack, I can't sit here and throw
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: stones at Comey for talking smack. Now, I don't call
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: for the death of anybody. But I get it. Free speech.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: I'm willing to have that fight every day. Let's have
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: the free speech fight. Now, the other stuff, leaking classified documents, interfering,
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: lying to Congress, whatever it is. Listen, I hope they
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: get him if he did something wrong, which I'm sure
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: he did. I'm sure. Listen, I think he should have
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: been charged and tried and jailed or removed or whatever
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: the consequence was back when he interfered in the 2016 election.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: saying we're looking into Hillary Clinton. What she did is really,
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: really bad. But I decided as FBI director that I'm
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: not even going to talk to the prosecutors about this.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: And we're just going to kind of wink, wink, nod, nod,
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: let it go, but publicly embarrass her. Talk about trying
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: to tilt an election. And by the way, that's what the, uh,
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: former CIA director had to say, John Brennan, John Brennan, who, um,
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: I don't know, he's like a modern day Frankenstein, right?
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: He kind of looks like a modern day Frankenstein. Looks
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: like he was put together by a lot of different parts.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: And like every morning they jumpstart the guy. And look,
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: I don't want to be mean. I'm not trying to
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: be mean. I am being mean, but I'm not trying
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: to be. It's just part of the joke. But he's
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: a national security analyst on MSNOW, formerly MSNBC. And He
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: made some comments a couple of days ago that, again,
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: right in line with what Democrats do, right? Embracing the chaos,
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: embracing all of the craziness. He followed some comments from
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: Obama's lawyer, Eric Holder, who was on. And then he
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: gets brought on by the daughter of Senator Bob Menendez. Now,
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: the daughter of Senator Menendez, Alicia Menendez, is the host
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: of a show called On the Line, which is the.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: The show where he made these comments. Listen to this.
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: What concerns you most? Well, the Office of the Presidency
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: has tremendous authorities that it can use the executive branch,
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: as we've seen, whether it be the Department of Justice
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: or ICE or other elements of the Department of Homeland Security,
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: to disrupt the day of the election or to actually
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: challenge the certifications afterwards. So again, I think Donald Trump
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: is going to do whatever he can get away with.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: And unfortunately, we have people like Todd.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Blanche, who I think is just showing how devious a
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: lawyer he is by trying to defend the individual.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: Devious a lawyer? The guy's a brilliant lawyer. Why would
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: we call him devious? What did he do that's wrong?
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: It's your buddies that are in the legal business, right?
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: You're Andrew McCabe and the rest of these guys, James Comey,
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: your buddy Clapper. These are the people. that are nefarious,
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: in my opinion, right? Doing things behind closed doors, trying
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: to set people up and overthrow the United States government.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: But hey, who am I? Go ahead, play the tape.
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: Defensible.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Because the things that he's been saying on the talk
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: shows this weekend, you know, I think certainly show that
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: he has an unprincipled view and and attitude toward his
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: job as attorney general. These elections are so critically important.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: And it's rather curious as to why all the elections
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: that go Donald Trump's way, he has no problem with
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: in terms of saying that they were fraudulently achieved. Anytime
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: it goes against his way or his preferred outcome, he
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: claims fraud. He claims a re-election. He claims some type
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: of interference. So, again, it just shows that Donald Trump
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: has no interest in a fair outcome of the election.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: What he's looking for is any way that he can
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: tilt it.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: He's looking to tilt the election. That's John Brennan, a.k.a.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: Gus Hall's biggest cheerleader. Gus Hall, of course, is a
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: Communist Party USA candidate, ran for president a million years ago.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: And who was his campaign guy? That's right, John Brennan.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: Voting for a commie back in his younger days. I've
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: never voted for a commie in my life. I've never
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: thought about voting for a commie in my life since
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: I was 18 and old enough to vote. I have
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: voted for pretty much, I guess, every Republican that I've
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: ever that's been in an election that I've been involved in.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: But I don't say that as a badge of honor.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: I just say that to say I knew exactly what
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: I was doing, even though I didn't know much when
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: I was 18. I knew what I stood for. I
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: knew what I thought was right. And it was never
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: voting for a Communist Party candidate, unlike the good director here.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: Who wants to say that Trump is trying to tilt
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: an election? I am indeed, though. Go ahead, play the tape.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: That the Republicans who continue to bow and genuflect to
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: him remain in control of the House as well as
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: the Senate.
• 25:50
  Speaker 8: You referenced the attorney general's round on the morning shows
• 25:53
  Speaker 8: this weekend.
• 25:54
  Speaker 9: I want you to take a listen.
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: He was.
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: All right, that's the end of that clip. But what's
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: interesting here is, again, this is Monday night. So yesterday.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: on MSNOW's On The Line, former CIA director John Brennan,
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: said that President Trump and Attorney General Todd Blanch are
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: attempting to, quote, tilt the 2026 midterm elections. And you
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: just heard him say it. He said, well, the office
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: of the presidency has tremendous authorities it can use. The
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: executive branch, as we've seen, whether it be the Department
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: of Justice or ICE or other elements of the Department
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: of Homeland Security, to disrupt the day of the election
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: or to actually challenge the certifications afterward. So again, I
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: think Donald Trump is going to do whatever he can
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: do to get away with. And unfortunately, we have people
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: like Todd Blanche, who I think is just showing how
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: devious a lawyer he is, trying to defend the indefensible
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: because of the things that he's been saying on the
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: talk shows. And that's where they left off. This is, obviously,
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: this is how rhetoric works, right? I say it's potato.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: You say it's potato. We disagree. I say you're a
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: baby killer. You say that you're defending a woman's right
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: to choose. Who's the bad guy here? Got it. I
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: understand all of it. But I'm going to tell you
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: that we've never seen the country look the way it's
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: looking right now. On many fronts, right? Economically, I don't
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: care what the indicators say. People are hurting. I talk
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: to a lot of people. I have my hands into
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: a retail business that sells jewelry. I hear the sob stories.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: I talk to friends in the car business. Matter of fact,
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: I spend a lot of time at different car dealerships
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: doing promotions and meeting with advertisers and whatnot. And I
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: can tell you, they're in a different boat too. The
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: other day, I've shared this before and I'm sharing it again.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: I've recently spoken with a restaurateur, 24 years in the business,
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: and told me this year is his toughest year, way
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: tougher than COVID was. Hold on to that for a second.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: My jewelry partners in affluent Bergen County, New Jersey, telling me,
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: been in business for 27 years, going into 28. Never
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: seen a year this challenging, this lean. Now, I understand
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: the price of gold is up.
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: Why?
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: Because as the dollar becomes weak, gold becomes strong. It's
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: an asset class people like. Just because gold is going
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: up and you might have some, doesn't mean that people
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: can afford to buy it on a retail side right
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: so that's something to keep in mind then we have
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: the car dealer got a car dealer he's a full-time
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: cop and owns this as a business endeavor he has
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: maybe as a partner or two it's a pretty sizable
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: lot showroom rather and guess what he tells me the
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: same exact story i've been here for 15 years this
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: has been the toughest year haven't seen a year like
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: this in 15 years Now listen, this is not me
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: on the campaign for anybody. This is me showing you
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: the writing on the wall. This is what I'm observing
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: in real life. Nobody's complaining about the S & P.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: People are complaining about people spending money in their small business.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: That same jewelry store is part of a big jewelry conglomerate,
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: like a mini mall. with like 60 or 70 vendors
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: under one roof, all jewelry. And in the back of
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: that place, there's a little I'm going to call it
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: a deli, but it's not really a deli. It was
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: just a little food place. Guy sold like muffins and chips, coffee,
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: soda and water in a fridge, and then had a
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: small grill in there. And he could make you anything
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: from a bacon, egg and cheese in the morning to
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: a toasted croissant to, you know, um, A good sandwich.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: That type of food, you know, short order grill food.
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: Guy's been there for 26 years. Just closed shop. November 1st,
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: that store will be empty. And that location within there. Again,
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: so you got one of the jewelers there telling me
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: slowest year they've seen in 28 years. The other guy
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: going into his 27th year and he's leaving at the end.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: Right now, at the end of the month. These are
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: all real stories. Restaurant, not far from where I live.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: The guy tells me it's the toughest year. And I've
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: seen it. Hey, where's the waitress? So-and-so. We had lots
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: of people go. I just talked to somebody, a network
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: executive for one of the large television networks, news network.
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: Guy tells me we did a round of layoffs not
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: too long ago. We're doing another round of layoffs. Now,
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: some people can push back on me and say, no, Rich,
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: this is the AI. And it could be a number
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: of things. I'm not sitting here blaming Trump for this.
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: If anything, I'm blaming Biden. I think it was really
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: Biden that took things south and quickly, inheriting a decent
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: situation from Trump and taking it sideways. Now, some people
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: are trying to blame Trump for this saying, look, when
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: we got here, you know, things weren't this bad. No,
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: things were this bad. They're just now they're catching up.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: They're becoming institutionalized.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: You've got people that are scaling back all sorts of expenses.
• 31:27
  Speaker 10: Why?
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: Because they're fearful. They see the price of gas going up.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: And this is not an economic segment. It's because of
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: what we were talking about. It kind of spun into this.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: And all of that said, all of the nature of
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: the beast that we have right now, the precarious situation
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: that we're in economically, I would not think twice about
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: voting against Donald Trump. I would not think of it
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: at all. The worst thing we could do right now
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: is vote against El Trumpito. There's been a massive investment
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: in AI infrastructure. Whatever issues are being caused by the war,
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: it seems like the United States is preparing to put
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: an end to this war. But the proper end, finishing
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: the job, eliminating the threat, making good and seeking restitution
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: for the soldiers that were killed in Beirut, doing the
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: right thing by everybody who suffered at the hands of
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: this genocidal Islamist regime. I wouldn't consider voting against Trump
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: at all. And neither should you. And people are saying, Rich,
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: Trump's not on the ballots, not being such a sycophant. No,
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: but the rest of his team is. And we want
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: to see the country move forward in the right direction.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: If we want to see the country in a position
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: where we can do what's right and implement the changes
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: that have been talked about. Think about the record that
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: he has so far. Talking about the, I was going
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: to call it the Green New Deal. The big, beautiful bill.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: Come on, right? People being able to write off auto
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: insurance interests on cars that are made in the USA.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: All sorts of things, right? All the Airbnb tax credits
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: that have been put in there. This is designed to
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: create wealth. It's a new economy and Trump is on
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: the cutting edge. He's on the front end of it.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: The rest of us are trying to catch up. That's
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: why people are complaining because it's true. You might have
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: another rough year in your restaurant. You might have another
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: rough year in the jewelry place. I get that. But
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: you know where we can make money? In Airbnb. We
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: can make some money in everything that seems to be
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: growing right now. Skilled trades, data centers, etc., etc., etc.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: So it's not that the opportunity doesn't exist. It's that
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: our ability to pivot is tainted. Don't go anywhere. I'm
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: Rich Valdez.
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: This is America. This is America.
• 34:09
  Speaker 10: The 45th president, Donald Trump, thinks it's an honor to
• 34:13
  Speaker 10: speak with Rich Valdez.
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: Oh, very good, Mr. Call Screener. It's an honor. Thanks, Rich.
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: The honor is all yours.
• 34:22
  Speaker 10: Conservative talk with a dash of sofrito now here's rich valdez.
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: All right familia welcome back rich valdez keeping you company
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: this tuesday night and i've said it before and i'll
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: say it again democrats never met a criminal they didn't
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: love this time we're looking at eric swalwell being investigated
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: because of prostitution related charges you also got a state
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: senator in uh California, as well as one in Virginia,
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: being charged with, the one in Virginia being charged with
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: drug trafficking and money laundering. I got a clip from
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: Kash Patel talking about everything else that's happening here with
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: this woman from Virginia, Senator Louise Lucas. Listen to this.
• 35:13
  Speaker 11: As alleged by the Attorney General.
• 35:15
  Speaker 7: Ms.
• 35:15
  Speaker 11: Lucas, for the last nearly five years, accumulated nearly $ 5
• 35:19
  Speaker 11: million in ill-gotten gains through her criminal enterprise.
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: Ms.
• 35:23
  Speaker 11: Lucas served in a position of trust for nearly four
• 35:26
  Speaker 11: decades and served as the President Pro Tempore of the
• 35:29
  Speaker 11: Senate for the Virginia State Senate for these last five,
• 35:31
  Speaker 11: six years. During that time, as alleged in the indictment,
• 35:35
  Speaker 11: her and her six co-conspirators, instead of serving the public,
• 35:39
  Speaker 11: as was her job, manufactured and created a criminal enterprise
• 35:43
  Speaker 11: to illicitly enriched themselves by procuring sales and stores and
• 35:49
  Speaker 11: divisions through the marijuana and CBD enterprise.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: Ms.
• 35:54
  Speaker 11: Lucas has many things to answer for on the allegation.
• 36:00
  Speaker 11: The purpose of her enterprise included trafficking large quantities of
• 36:04
  Speaker 11: illegal marijuana, creating generational wealth for members and associates of
• 36:08
  Speaker 11: her criminal enterprise, recycling drug proceeds to expand the operation
• 36:13
  Speaker 11: that she launched and created, and steering marijuana licenses to
• 36:16
  Speaker 11: entities in which members held financial interest. During her time
• 36:20
  Speaker 11: as Virginia State Senator, instead of enforcing the law, she
• 36:23
  Speaker 11: was actually breaking the law, as alleged in the indictment,
• 36:26
  Speaker 11: and then using her position of power in public trust
• 36:29
  Speaker 11: to deflect and defend against her own criminal enterprise.
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: Ain't that something?
• 36:37
  Speaker 10: Right?
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: Look at this. What are we doing here with a
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: good senator? Senator Louise Lucas. Now, let's just take a
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: look at the brief here. Virginia Senator Louise Lucas was
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: charged Thursday in connection with an alleged role leading a
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: criminal enterprise, an indictment that was unsealed by Kash Patel
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: and Attorney General Blanch. Charged Lucas and six co-defendants, including
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: her daughters and grandson. A Justice Department spokesperson said that
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: Lucas self-surrendered on Thursday. So this happened just before the weekend. And, again,
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: this is an older woman. I don't know how old
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: she is, but she's got a head full of white hair.
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: Maybe I wasn't allowed to say that. Forgive me if
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: I am. She put a statement online. And here's what
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: she had to say. Statement from Senate President Pro Tempore. L.
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: Louise Lucas. Today, the FBI, the Department of Justice, and
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: the full weight of the federal government have been wielded
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: against an 82-year-old great-grandmother. I grew up under Jim Crow.
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: I have seen what happens when people in power try
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: to silence those who stand up against them. I spent
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: my life... What if I read this like if I
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: was Kamala Harris or AOC? Throw a little Southern twang
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: in there. I grew up under Jim Crow. I've seen
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: what happens when people in power try to silence those
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: who stand up to them. I spent my life fighting
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: back and I'm not stopping now. I'm not new to this.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: I am true to this.
• 38:19
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: I'm not making fun of Ms. Lucas. I'm just doing
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: what AOC or what Kamala Harris would have done. She
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: went on to say, I will not be intimidated. I
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: will not be bullied. I will not back down. She
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: kept saying here. I have read the charging document alleging
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: a series of criminal acts by a member of the
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: Virginia Senate. In our American system of justice, people are
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: presumed innocent until proven guilty. And that is true for
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: Senator Lucas. Oh, I thought that was the governor. Forgive me.
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: I was using my AOC and AOC's newly found southern
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: accent for that one. But that's actually a quote from
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger. So I'll read it again. I
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: don't know if I can do a Spanberger, but if
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: I did, it would go like this. I have read
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: the charging document alleging a series of criminal acts by
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: a member of the Virginia Senate. In our American system
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: of justice, people are presumed innocent until proven guilty. And
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: that is true for Senator L. Louise Lucas. She and
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: her family deserve the opportunity to present their defense and
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: speak to the allegations presented. The timing of this indictment
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: undermines U.S. Department of Justice's previously longstanding policy. of not
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: taking legal actions to include indictments or significant investigative steps
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: close to an election. And sadly, this timing further erodes
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: the trust the American people deserve to have in the
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: Department of Justice. Now, I want to just take that
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: apart for one moment. As you, as part of the
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: American people, Do you look at this and say, man,
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: look at Trump playing politics with the Department of Justice.
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: I no longer have respect for the DOJ. How dare
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: they arrest people a week before Election Day? Or do
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: you see this and say, it's about damn time. It's
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: about damn time we see corrupt politicians getting locked up
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: for doing corrupt politician things. I, for one, I side
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: with the latter. That's me. It is about damn time
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: we see some swamp drainage going on around here. Come
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: on now. And I'm absolutely thrilled. Thrilled, I say.
• 40:24
  Speaker 11: Tickled.
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: Like Chris Matthews with that little thing running up his leg. Listen,
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: this is a good thing. Again, and a little bit
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: of the backstory here, the brazen 82-year-old lawmaker, she spent
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: decades climbing the ranks in Virginia politics and has served
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: since 1992 in the state senate where she is the
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: president tempor. and pro tempore, I should say, overseeing the
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: chamber in the lieutenant governor's absence. She also leads a
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: powerful Senate Financial and Appropriations Committee, through which all legislation
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: with a budget impact must pass, using the position to
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: halt and ultimately kill legislation that she opposes. FBI Director
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: Kash Patel said in a statement that charges alleged that Ms.
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: Lucas and a tight-knit group, excuse me, family members and
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: associates orchestrated a multi-year scheme to enhance their own criminal
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: marijuana enterprise that he designated the Lucas Enterprise. Director Patel
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: says that she, Ms. Lucas, used her position as finance
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: chair to insulate the enterprise from criminal scrutiny and to
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: influence legislation for personal and financial benefit. So meaning they
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: were steering licenses to their family member and friends That
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: we're buying illegal marijuana from them is part of what
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: they believe. Cash Patel continues to say no one is
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: above the law. Adding that the FBI will continue to
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: follow the facts with the Department of Justice to ensure
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: that those responsible for criminal conduct are held accountable. Ain't
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: that something? And again, she's been an advocate of marijuana
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: legalization for a long time. She partnered to open a
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: particular shop called the Cannabis Outlet back in 2021 to
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: sell hemp and CBD products. Take two. While marijuana is
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: illegal to possess in Virginia, recreational retail sales of the
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: drug are not yet underway, although retail shops across the
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: state sell other cannabis-derived products. So that's why she was
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: selling the illegal marijuana, because she couldn't sell it legally.
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: Had this woman been in New Jersey, she'd be A-OK.
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: Instead of having Spanberger there, she'd have Mikey Sherrill having
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: her back. Because one thing we know, the Democrats, they
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: all stick together. That's just the bottom line here. Birds
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: of a feather flock together. Man, where's my head? You
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: know what it is? I haven't had coffee in about
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: 35 days. I'm trying to kick my caffeine habit. And
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: let me tell you, boy, do I feel it. Boy,
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: do I feel it. Right now I could go for
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: a little video of El Trompito talking about Nicki Minaj's ass.
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: But instead, I'm just going to take a pause right here.
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: Keep it locked right here. Don't go anywhere. I'm Rich Valdez.
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: This is America. This is America.
• 43:31
  Speaker 9: All right, familia, welcome back.
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: Rich Valdez keeping you company. And check this out. I
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: find it so interesting that you look at these elections
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: in Texas, in Ohio, great states, by the way. And
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: what do you find in these states? Well, I'll tell
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: you what I see. I see a bench of candidates
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: on the Republican side going out there. I see J.D.
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: Vance going out to Ohio. I see Vivek Ramaswamy, who's
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: in Ohio running for governor. I see Marco Rubio. I
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: see the president, right? These people are all out there
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: supporting John Husted and Vivek Ramaswamy. And then you look
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: at what's happening in Texas, same thing, right? The Republicans
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: are bringing out all the heavy hitters. You got Ted
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: Cruz out there and all the rest of them, right?
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: J.D.
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: Vance, et cetera. And guess what? Who did the Democrats
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: bring out? They don't bring out Beto O'Rourke. You don't
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: see them bringing out Hakeem Jeffries. You don't see Chuck Schumer,
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: even though it's his Senate.
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: No, no, no.
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: They don't have a bench. If they're lucky, they can
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: bring out the likes of AOC. And the only old
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: guard they'll bring out is Barack Obama, and I think
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: he's going to Ohio. But I don't know if he's
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: going to Texas. But they're bringing out throwbacks, right? Meanwhile,
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: the Republican Party's fresh. They've got a bunch of heavy
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: hitters that are actively engaged. And I got to tell you,
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: whatever party you're with, it says a lot. It says
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: a lot about having an active bench. A bunch of
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: guys that hold their own. They really do. Talk about
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: the former National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz. Former Congressman Mike Waltz.
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: Colonel Mike Waltz. United States Army Green Beret Special Forces
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: Operator Mike Waltz, who's now His Excellency, United States Ambassador
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: to the United Nations Mike Waltz. And who decided to
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: start some problems with Ambassador Waltz yesterday? None other than
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: Los Cubano. The Cubans, they didn't like a bit of it.
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: He got up on stage. I'm going to play you
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: all the clips. So you can hear exactly how it
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: went down. Because you've probably seen some of this online,
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: but you don't know how it unfolded. Because you're only
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: seeing parts of it. I've got a bunch of them.
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: I'm going to put the story together so you can see.
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: He goes up there. He gives a nice speech. And
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: as soon as he starts saying things they don't like,
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: they start heckling. They stand up. They're shaking their heads.
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: They start banging on the desk. I mean, it's insane,
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: the lack of respect. But he hit them back, and
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: he hit them hard. Listen to this. Here's Ambassador Mike
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: Waltz explaining how Castro sent thousands of people, not only
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: to the slaughter, but to the poorhouse.
• 46:28
  Speaker 8: Castro sent thousands of gay people, Christians, Afro-Cubans, and others
• 46:39
  Speaker 8: to concentration camps. It was the regime who stripped them
• 46:43
  Speaker 8: of their property and profited from their forced labor.
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: You hear that stomping in the back? They're stomping their feet.
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: Soon they're going to start pounding on the desk like
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: a bunch of babies, right? Just like these cowbell Antifa
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: people that you see out in the streets when there's
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: a protest. I mean, ridiculous. In my lifetime, I've never
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: seen somebody do that. I've seen the president of Venezuela,
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: a guy named Hugo Chavez. I remember he got on
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: in his allotted time, took a huge breath through his nostrils.
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: He said, shh. What's that I smell? Sulfur. Sulfur. Because
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: he was following President Bush, and he said, because right
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: here stood the devil. That was a classic from back
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: in the days. I've seen some theatrics come out of
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: the UN, but no. I had not seen people banging
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: things like this was some sort of prison house riot.
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: Play the tape of the ambassador.
• 47:42
  Speaker 8: Ever since Havana would have you believe, everything in Cuba
• 47:47
  Speaker 8: has just disappeared. Well, we know we know where it went.
• 47:53
  Speaker 8: And today we are here to share it to the world.
• 47:58
  Speaker 8: I hope everyone, Mr.
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: By the way, now they're standing up doing the timeout sign,
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: screaming order, point of order, point of order. They're interrupting him.
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: They want to demand a point of order right at
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: this moment while he's giving his speech.
• 48:12
  Speaker 12: President is listening to the delegation right now.
• 48:17
  Speaker 8: Imagine what happens when someone asks questions.
• 48:21
  Speaker 12: Imagine what happens when someone asks these questions in Havana.
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: Excellent point. Talk about being on your game. He says, man,
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: these guys are freaking out because I'm here talking at
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: the UN. Imagine when somebody in Havana speaks truth to
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: power to their own government. Imagine what happens to them.
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: At this point, these guys are out of their seats.
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: They're marching down in the middle of his speech. Talk
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: about a lack of decorum.
• 48:46
  Speaker 12: Not in a room full of ambassadors and cameras.
• 48:49
  Speaker 8: Imagine what happens to those people if this is the
• 48:51
  Speaker 8: intimidation and disruption that we see. Your Excellency, I know
• 48:55
  Speaker 8: you don't like to hear this.
• 48:57
  Speaker 12: This is America, my friend.
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: I think we should get that clip and use it
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: as a promo for this show. This is America, my friend.
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: I love that. I am so proud of Ambassador Mike Waltz. Continue.
• 49:08
  Speaker 12: This is the United Nations. This isn't your communist dictatorship.
• 49:12
  Speaker 8: You cannot silence me or you cannot.
• 49:15
  Speaker 12: Silence my colleagues.
• 49:17
  Speaker 5: Mr.
• 49:17
  Speaker 12: President, this individual needs to back away from... this podium.
• 49:20
  Speaker 8: He's not going to intimidate me in the United States
• 49:24
  Speaker 8: of America like he tries to intimidate political prisoners. And
• 49:30
  Speaker 8: I'm the representative of the United States of America.
• 49:33
  Speaker 4: Back up.
• 49:35
  Speaker 12: Back up, Ambassador. Back away. This isn't Havana.
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: I'm suspending the meeting.
• 49:40
  Speaker 12: You're not going to intimidate me. I'm suspending this meeting.
• 49:42
  Speaker 12: Do you understand who you're dealing with? This is America.
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: Nobody's listening to this Indian guy in the back. I
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: am suspending. Gaveling. I am suspending the meeting.
• 49:54
  Speaker 10: Mr.
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: Minister, go back to your chair. Nobody's listening. These Cubans
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: are ready to throw down. Mike Walz is holding that podium,
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: telling them, fall back, son. You don't want none of
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: this Green Beret whoop-ass that's coming your way. This was
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: such an exciting clip to watch.
• 50:09
  Speaker 12: Back up. The rule is clear. This is the substance
• 50:13
  Speaker 12: of the speech. There are no procedural. You can bring
• 50:16
  Speaker 12: as many people as you want. Please sit down. Sit down.
• 50:19
  Speaker 7: I ask you to call the permanent representative of the
• 50:24
  Speaker 7: United States. That is the Cuban president at the beginning
• 50:28
  Speaker 7: of this altercation saying that he wants to call a
• 50:31
  Speaker 7: point of order to indicate that the ambassador from the
• 50:33
  Speaker 7: United States is lying, and not only lying, but lying
• 50:35
  Speaker 7: in a gross manner.
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: Talk about being a baby. What a wuss.
• 50:59
  Speaker 10: Mr.
• 51:00
  Speaker 12: Walsh, you are a.
• 51:01
  Speaker 7: Liar and you are saying things that are beneath the
• 51:07
  Speaker 7: dignity of the Cuban people. I wish you a better
• 51:11
  Speaker 7: performance in your future political positions.
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: He tells them after they calm down, I wish you
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: a better performance in your political career. But these guys,
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: these guys were hot. I want to take that again
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: back to the this is America. I like that part.
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: Let's take it from there.
• 51:41
  Speaker 12: Ambassador, back away. This isn't Havana. I'm suspending the meeting.
• 51:45
  Speaker 12: You're not going to intimidate me. I'm suspending this meeting.
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: He is suspending the meeting. I'm sorry. I don't mean
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: to make fun of him. It was so funny. He's
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: gaveling away. His gaveling was not even as loud as
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: these guys banging their desks. These guys were about it,
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: about it, right? They were ready to rock and roll.
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: And Mike Walls, I think he would have taken all
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: of them. But there's more. I got another clip. Because
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: they were escorted out by security and they got crazy
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: with security too. This might be that same one. Let's see.
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: Go ahead, play the rest of it.
• 52:18
  Speaker 12: Understand who you're dealing with? This is America. Back up.
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: That is the political way for Ambassador Walz to say,
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: you know who I am? Do you know who I am?
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: I love it. I love it. This is as gangster
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: as it gets.
• 52:32
  Speaker 8: The rule is clear. This is the substance of the speech.
• 52:35
  Speaker 8: There are no procedural.
• 52:37
  Speaker 12: The meeting is suspended.
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: The meeting. Okay. Get me the one with the security guard.
• 52:44
  Speaker 3: Don't touch me when he throws the phone out of
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: his hand because that one is very, very good, too. Oh,
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: you don't have it?
• 52:52
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 52:53
  Speaker 3: Well, I guess if you get it, you let me know. Oh,
• 52:58
  Speaker 3: you got it?
• 52:58
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 52:58
  Speaker 3: Let's play it.
• 53:04
  Speaker 4: Mr.
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: President, this individual needs to back away from this podium.
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: He's not going to intimidate me in the United States
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: of America like he tries to intimidate political prisoners.
• 53:19
  Speaker 12: And I'm the representative of the United States of America.
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: Back up!
• 53:36
  Speaker 3: That's not the part I wanted to see. They cut
• 53:38
  Speaker 3: it off. It's right after that. They get thrown out
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: by security. And when security throws him out, he knocks
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: the phone out of somebody's hand and security says, you're
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: not allowed to touch him. And he's like, I don't care.
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: And he hits it again. That's the best part. To
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: show you how radical these Cubans are. Let me see
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: if this is it. Go ahead, play it. No, that's
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: not it. You don't got it. They're playing it in
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: the background there. Anyway, listen. Bottom line is, these Cuban
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: guys are acting like thugs. I don't know why. Because, A,
• 54:13
  Speaker 3: Mike Walls just physically looked way tougher than them. I
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: honestly think three on one he would have done well.
• 54:20
  Speaker 3: But on top of that, How do you think this
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: is going to look when Mike Walsh has to go
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: talk to his boss? El Trumpito, Donaldus Magnus, the 45th
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: and 47th president of these United States. Or Marco Rubio.
• 54:34
  Speaker 3: And he says, hey, look, guys, I went there. I
• 54:36
  Speaker 3: tried to give my speech. You saw what they did.
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: They heckled me. They tried to get crazy. Right here
• 54:40
  Speaker 3: in New York City at the United Nations. Yeah, it's
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: sovereign land and whatnot. But I think they're looking for
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: a fight. And shoot, we've got Six days to go.
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: This would be a heck of an October surprise at
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: the hands of the communists. That would be great. El
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: Trompito needs to say, all right, we're going to do
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: a quick before we go to war with Iran and
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: we do all the blackout scenarios and the fortress scenarios.
• 55:06
  Speaker 13: Save your water. Save your electricity. Get your generators. We're
• 55:09
  Speaker 13: going to just do a little lights out. Nighty night
• 55:12
  Speaker 13: for Fidel's brother Raul and a couple of Cuban ministers.
• 55:16
  Speaker 13: We're going to show them how we did Mr.
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: Maduro.
• 55:19
  Speaker 10: Me, right?
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: A little bit of El Trompito action would be nice.
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: I don't know. That's the world I live in, right? Fantasyland.
• 55:25
  Speaker 3: That's what happens when you do this too long. We'll see.
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: We'll see how it works out. Anyway, that's my thought
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: on that. Anyway, I got a couple of minutes left.
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: I want to come right back. I want to talk
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: to you about Bolsonaro and this argument I had with AI.
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: Don't go anywhere.
• 55:41
  Speaker 4: This is America. This is America. He's making podcasting great again.
• 56:01
  Speaker 4: This is America with Rich Valdez.
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: All right, familia, welcome back. Six days to go. Tuesday night,
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: election day, seven days, seven days, excuse me, seven days.
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: We're almost there. It's almost midnight. Seven days from today,
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: six days as of tomorrow. And it's going to be
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: quite Quite an event, this midterm election. And I wanted
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: to get into a couple of things here. We don't
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: have a heck of a lot of time, but I
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: constantly get into these arguments with AI. And, you know,
• 56:39
  Speaker 3: I'll just ask a simple question in Google. It'll go
• 56:42
  Speaker 3: over to Google Gemini, and I'll see that it misinforms me. And,
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: you know, when I have the energy, the time... I
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: take it to task. I call it out.
• 56:53
  Speaker 5: Right?
• 56:53
  Speaker 3: For example, if I could pull it up quick enough,
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you exactly what I asked about the other day.
• 56:57
  Speaker 3: Because I saw this woman wigging out. She was having
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: a serious problem. And it was, you know, she was like,
• 57:07
  Speaker 3: I can't believe that they're deporting American citizens. And, man,
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: if it's not here, then we're screwed. I'm not going
• 57:16
  Speaker 3: to be able to share it with you if it's here,
• 57:18
  Speaker 3: if it's not here. I left it open just for this. Ah,
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: look at that. Would you look at that? Would you
• 57:27
  Speaker 3: look at that? I don't think it's here. Ah, well,
• 57:32
  Speaker 3: that really changes everything because it really was.
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: It really was very good. It was about... Damn. Well,
• 57:43
  Speaker 3: that kills my whole segment. Kills the whole segment and
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: I only had three minutes to do it. Now I'm
• 57:49
  Speaker 3: down to two minutes and 45 seconds. So that means
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: I'm going to be filling for two minutes and 45 seconds. Ah, goodness,
• 57:57
  Speaker 3: I tell you. Well, the good news is that this
• 57:59
  Speaker 3: is a eight or nine minute story. So I'll try
• 58:03
  Speaker 3: and get back what I was trying to find and
• 58:06
  Speaker 3: I will share it with you. But it was so interesting,
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: this debate about, about people being um oh boy deported
• 58:25
  Speaker 3: despite having what some are arguing legal status right and
• 58:30
  Speaker 3: it comes down to this argument about should we consider
• 58:33
  Speaker 3: the initial crime of entering the united states as a
• 58:37
  Speaker 3: crime and the left is convinced this is you know
• 58:42
  Speaker 3: a traffic infraction it's uh pissing in the street it's
• 58:45
  Speaker 3: It's a misdemeanor. Look, it's nothing that you should be
• 58:49
  Speaker 3: deported over, right? When the actual correction to that is,
• 58:54
  Speaker 3: in fact, getting deported, right? Staying over, staying a visa
• 58:58
  Speaker 3: and whatnot. And again, this is not against the immigrant.
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  Speaker 3: I think too many people emotionalize these things where we
• 59:04
  Speaker 3: just have to have a system of rules. And our
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  Speaker 3: rules may not be favorable or beneficial to the immigrant
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  Speaker 3: because they're favorable and beneficial to the citizen of the
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  Speaker 3: United States. And of course, the argument's always the same.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody's going to do that work. And I just say,
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: sit back and watch. You're going to see how many
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: white American old people want to start picking lettuce because
• 59:25
  Speaker 3: the economy's gotten so tight. The economy dictates everything. The
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: market is king. And that's really what it always boils
• 59:33
  Speaker 3: down to. So I will get into that tomorrow. I'll
• 59:36
  Speaker 3: spend some time on that on our Wednesday night program. Plus,
• 59:39
  Speaker 3: I will keep you updated on what's going on with Netanyahu,
• 59:41
  Speaker 3: what's going on with Bolsonaro, does he make it out
• 59:44
  Speaker 3: of Brazil, and everything else that's going on, any pushback
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: from walls and Cuba. See if my predictions are right
• 59:51
  Speaker 3: that we do a little midnight visit over there. Anyway,
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: I always say you got to stand for something because
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  Speaker 3: if you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything. And
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  Speaker 3: the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for
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  Speaker 3: good people like you to sit there and do nothing.
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  Speaker 3: So do something. Hasta la proxima. Take care. Good night.
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  Speaker 3: And God bless you, America. I'm Rich Valdez. And this
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  Speaker 3: is America.
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  Speaker 4: This is America.