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Squad-Secrets, Shipwrecked-Stunts, Serious-Stakes · Rich Valdés: This is America!

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  Speaker 1: This is America with Rich Valdez, powered by politiweek.com.
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  Speaker 2: And Rich Valdez is with us, former Christie administration official.
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  Speaker 3: You work for Chris Christie, you've been in politics, a
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  Speaker 3: lot of public service stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Rich Valdez, columnist now with the Washington Times.
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  Speaker 5: This is America.
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  Speaker 4: Rich TV, you're on the air with the nation.
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  Speaker 1: This is America with your host, Rich Valdez.
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  Speaker 4: What's up, America? I am Rich Valdez. Valdez with an S.
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  Speaker 4: At Rich Valdez on all of the social media. Your
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  Speaker 4: liberty-loving Latino amigo 17 blocks away from Madison Square Garden
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  Speaker 4: right here at Times Square in New York City. Blessed
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  Speaker 4: and honored to be with you guys. If you want
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  Speaker 4: to join us and share your opinion, you know, I
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  Speaker 4: love that. Feel free to give me a call. I'm
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  Speaker 4: happy to hear what you have to say about things.
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  Speaker 4: I like to call it Open Phone America. I want
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  Speaker 4: to hear from you. Now, the first thing I want
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  Speaker 4: to say is, will the real Ilhan Omar please stand up? Now,
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  Speaker 4: I'm making fun of the song by Eminem, and that's
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  Speaker 4: a play on the old TV show, To Tell the Truth.
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  Speaker 4: But Ilhan Omar, as you've been hearing, is that her name?
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  Speaker 4: Is it not her name? I don't know. We're going
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  Speaker 4: to get into that in a little bit. For those
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  Speaker 4: of you who don't know me, my name is Rich Valdez.
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  Speaker 4: I just told you that, but I used to work
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  Speaker 4: on this show with the great one Mark Levin. He's
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  Speaker 4: been a mentor of mine for a number of years.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going into my ninth year of broadcasting. Started my
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  Speaker 4: career on WABC Radio. Shout out to the great WABC.
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  Speaker 4: And went into syndication doing a global thing right now
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  Speaker 4: with a program on Roku TV. If you ever want
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  Speaker 4: to check it out, it's Rich Valdez. This is America.
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  Speaker 4: I urge you to subscribe to my show and listen
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  Speaker 4: to it. And we're going to talk about Ilhan Omar
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  Speaker 4: and the reality of her name momentarily. But I want
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  Speaker 4: to just remind you something. Something that I think is urgent.
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  Speaker 4: Something that I think is dire. Something that I mentioned
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  Speaker 4: the last time I was with you. And I'll mention
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  Speaker 4: it again. When the Great One calls and says, hey.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to be back on Monday, Richie, but I
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  Speaker 4: need you to just hold down the fort. Well, guess what?
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  Speaker 4: I'm here. I'm holding on the fort. I'm going to
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  Speaker 4: tell you this. We're 11 days from the midterm elections.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. Louder for the people in the back.
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  Speaker 4: We're 11 days from the midterm elections. 11 days. That's it. Now,
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  Speaker 4: last year, last November, New York City, where I was
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  Speaker 4: born and where I work, I live across the water
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  Speaker 4: now in the pretty side, the Jersey side. They made
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  Speaker 4: a mistake. They were forced with the same exact decision
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  Speaker 4: that every American is going to face in the voting
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  Speaker 4: booth on November 3rd. How do we vote? And despite
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  Speaker 4: every intervention, every warning, every last ditch effort, New York
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  Speaker 4: City ended up with Zoran Mamdani, who won decisively. There
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  Speaker 4: was no I'm blaming this guy or that guy or
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  Speaker 4: blaming the other one. None of it. He won with
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  Speaker 4: enough votes. Now, I know there was somebody who did
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  Speaker 4: an audit and they said that, you know, the Votes
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  Speaker 4: may not have counted this time the third, but there
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  Speaker 4: was no officiality to that.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 4: And you can't really do anything if you don't have
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  Speaker 4: it being an official thing. So let that sink in.
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  Speaker 4: Excuse me. New York City, the city that never sleeps,
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  Speaker 4: just handed the keys last November to a guy who
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  Speaker 4: makes the progressive squad look like moderates. So I got
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  Speaker 4: to ask you straight up. What are you willing to do? today, tonight, tomorrow,
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  Speaker 4: for the next 11 days to make sure that many
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  Speaker 4: Zoran Mamdani's like El-Sayed and the likes of his people,
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  Speaker 4: his ilk, other progressive Democrat socialists of America that are
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  Speaker 4: running all across the place, Tallarico and the rest, Kathy Hochul,
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  Speaker 4: what are you prepared to do to stop them from
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  Speaker 4: winning in this election? Now, I'm not saying they're guaranteed
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  Speaker 4: to win either. That's not my shtick. But just imagine
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  Speaker 4: what it looks like. And I do this every time
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  Speaker 4: because I hope it's effective. Election Day comes and goes.
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  Speaker 4: It's time for them to get sworn in. They place
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  Speaker 4: their hands on Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto to take their
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  Speaker 4: oath from their favorite communist grandpa, Bernie Sanders, Bernard Sanders.
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  Speaker 4: And he's like, raise your hand. Do you solemnly swear?
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  Speaker 4: And they're following lockstep. And I say this as a joke,
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  Speaker 4: and I've said it for years. And who actually did
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  Speaker 4: get sworn in by Bernie Sanders? Zoram Mamdani. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: you know, when I said it, I meant it as
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  Speaker 4: a joke that I didn't think to be true. And
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  Speaker 4: now it's a reality. It's probably a goal. I wonder
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  Speaker 4: who else Syed is thinking of bringing in. Maybe he
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  Speaker 4: wants to bring in his buddy, Piker. This stuff really
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  Speaker 4: surprises me. And I guess I shouldn't be surprised. We
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  Speaker 4: should have seen it a long time coming, right? You've
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  Speaker 4: got campaign ads that are entirely in a different language.
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  Speaker 4: And not, you know, your usual English, Spanish, Korean, Chinese.
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  Speaker 4: Languages I haven't seen, right? Whatever area that is. Hamtramck, Dearborn.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what language they speak there. I don't
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  Speaker 4: know if it's Arabic or Farsi or what. But my
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  Speaker 4: point is, we're seeing things we've never seen before. And
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  Speaker 4: they want to be your next representative, your next senator,
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  Speaker 4: your next mayor, your next governor. So I want to know,
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  Speaker 4: have you called your employer? Have you called your job
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  Speaker 4: and taken the day off? Are you going to call
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  Speaker 4: in a sick day that Tuesday? Are you going to
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  Speaker 4: dedicate a full tank of gas to driving around like
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  Speaker 4: a madman, making sure every last person that you can
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  Speaker 4: think of gets to the polls on time? Did you
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  Speaker 4: make any effort to get somebody registered to vote? Or
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  Speaker 4: are you just leaving it for the next guy to do?
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  Speaker 4: And I'm not trying to guilt or shame anybody. I'm
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  Speaker 4: just trying to put things in perspective. Because if we're
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  Speaker 4: sitting here thinking, hey, I did my part. I voted.
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  Speaker 4: I paid my taxes. Some of you serve this country
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  Speaker 4: in uniform. Other people can't figure out how to vote.
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  Speaker 4: How is that your problem, right? Then listen to me clearly.
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  Speaker 4: If that's the case, I have to say I think
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  Speaker 4: we're screwed. And I don't want to be the bearer
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  Speaker 4: of bad news. I like to tell jokes. But this
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  Speaker 4: isn't a joke. Michigan, do you think you're safe from
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  Speaker 4: the New York City communist tendencies of Zoran Mamdani? Being
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  Speaker 4: channeled by Abdulrahman El-Sayed? Wrong. You're not. It's coming for you.
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  Speaker 4: Mike Rogers is your only answer there. Look at the map.
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  Speaker 4: Look at Dearborn right now. Look at the races across
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  Speaker 4: the country. Ken Paxton in Texas fighting like hell in
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  Speaker 4: the Senate battlegrounds. You've got House seats that are up
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  Speaker 4: for grabs. The next two years, there's going to be
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  Speaker 4: some gridlock or there's going to be some green lights.
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  Speaker 4: For the agenda that actually works, President Trump's agenda, the
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  Speaker 4: America First agenda, the MAGA agenda, the agenda where we're
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  Speaker 4: bringing in more money. You know, people like to give
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  Speaker 4: Trump a hard time because right now you've got all
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  Speaker 4: sorts of things going on, right? There's a war in Iraq.
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  Speaker 4: You're believing the leftist lie that everything is the fault
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  Speaker 4: of the war in Iraq. All right, gas prices might be,
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  Speaker 4: and that may affect a few other things. But what
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  Speaker 4: about all the damage that had to be undone? President
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  Speaker 4: Trump walked into a world of hurt. And as he
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  Speaker 4: so aptly says every time, right now with gas prices
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  Speaker 4: where they are, we're ahead of where they were with
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  Speaker 4: Biden and we survived just fine. So this is where
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  Speaker 4: we are. And I'm just trying to figure out whichever
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  Speaker 4: way and every way that I can to make sure
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  Speaker 4: that we're able to make a move, that we're able
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  Speaker 4: to make a difference, that we're able to motivate people
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  Speaker 4: to vote. Because I'll tell you, when you tell a
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  Speaker 4: young person, and there happens to be a lot of them,
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  Speaker 4: and every day there's more of them, and you say, hey, look,
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  Speaker 4: this is about affordability. These boomers, these old people, these
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  Speaker 4: straight old white men, they're the ones that put you
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  Speaker 4: in this mess. It's their economy that did this to you.
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  Speaker 4: It's the George Bush's of the world. It's the Ronald Reagan's.
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  Speaker 4: It's the Donald Trump's. They're willing to roll the dice
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  Speaker 4: and go, all right, let me go the other way then.
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  Speaker 4: I've heard that Obama guy was good. I was in
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  Speaker 4: kindergarten when he was in office, but hey, I'll do it.
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  Speaker 4: And that's where we are. So now, what do we do?
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  Speaker 4: We got to fight like hell. Like Mark always says,
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  Speaker 4: you got to fight like hell, right? Play like you're behind.
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  Speaker 4: There's going to be some places where we do well.
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  Speaker 4: There's going to be some places that are really tight.
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  Speaker 4: But that's it. And that's what I'm here for. I'm
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  Speaker 4: here to be your cheerleader tonight, not the Grim Reaper.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to sing a song that's a sad one.
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  Speaker 4: I'm here to try and muster up the troops, make
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  Speaker 4: a rally cry to see who's ready, who's ready to
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  Speaker 4: usher in the next phase of America. This week, I've
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  Speaker 4: had a lot of good conversations. I spoke with Newt
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  Speaker 4: Gingrich yesterday, and he was talking about the golden age
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  Speaker 4: of America. And he's promoting his new book, and that's
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  Speaker 4: what it's called, America's Golden Age. And I couldn't help
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  Speaker 4: but say, man, I was honored and impressed with the
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  Speaker 4: optimism that he had. Even I look at the things
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  Speaker 4: out there sometimes, and I go, man, Am I going
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  Speaker 4: to be able to pull it off the way some
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  Speaker 4: that have gone before me have pulled it off? Is
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  Speaker 4: it the same world? It's not the same world. I
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  Speaker 4: can tell you that. I know people today that are
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  Speaker 4: sitting pretty in 2% and 3% mortgages that they got
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  Speaker 4: thanks to El Trompito, by the way, on properties that
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  Speaker 4: they bought in the late 90s and early 2000s that
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  Speaker 4: they paid $ 200, 000 for. These things are 800 or a
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  Speaker 4: million bucks today. So if you don't have one already,
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  Speaker 4: you missed out on all that equity. Does that mean
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  Speaker 4: The next 20 years are going to give you the
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  Speaker 4: same amount of equity? I don't know. I don't see
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  Speaker 4: it that way. Getting $ 200, 000 when you were making $ 50, 000
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  Speaker 4: a year didn't seem far-fetched. Getting a million dollars to
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  Speaker 4: buy a house in my neighborhood, and I don't live
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  Speaker 4: in the rich part of town, by the way, sounds
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  Speaker 4: like a far-fetched thing when maybe at best people are
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  Speaker 4: making $ 100, 000 and most people are making $ 60, 000. So what gives? Well,
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  Speaker 4: we need more investment. We need more of what Trump
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  Speaker 4: is already doing. We've seen record growth in the S
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  Speaker 4: & P. You've seen record growth in a lot of areas.
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  Speaker 4: $ 21 trillion in investment in artificial intelligence is fantastic. This
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  Speaker 4: is a new frontier. And that's part of what that
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  Speaker 4: discussion was about. And you can check it out if
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  Speaker 4: you want. Free plug for me. But that wasn't really
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  Speaker 4: my goal. It was really because Newt was talking about
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  Speaker 4: he got into politics the year that right after I
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  Speaker 4: was born, 1979. And I'm thinking if he's still out
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  Speaker 4: here hustling like, you know, like hell. pushing books, doing
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  Speaker 4: what he does, making movies because he loves America and
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  Speaker 4: is what he believes in. But he sees the optimism.
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  Speaker 4: And I see the plan. I just don't know if
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  Speaker 4: I always have the optimism. Sometimes I think I can't
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  Speaker 4: see the forest through the trees. And I think many
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  Speaker 4: of you share that. It has nothing to do with Trump.
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  Speaker 4: I believe in Trump. If I had to put my
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  Speaker 4: money on Trump, I'm putting it on Trump all day.
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  Speaker 4: The issue becomes I don't believe in everybody else. I
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  Speaker 4: don't believe in Congress. I like Mike Johnson, but I
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  Speaker 4: don't believe in everybody else. So we've got to fight
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  Speaker 4: like hell. We've got to use the big three words
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  Speaker 4: at the top of that constitution that we love. We
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  Speaker 4: the people. We have to use we the people. That
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  Speaker 4: is our number one source of influence. Our ability to
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  Speaker 4: elect people to the cash cow that is Congress. Our
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  Speaker 4: ability to let them get into a place where they
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  Speaker 4: can develop a leadership fund and a PAC and this, that,
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  Speaker 4: and the third. Or you can come from Kenya, from
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  Speaker 4: another country. become a citizen, run for Congress, and then
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  Speaker 4: poo-poo this country, Ilhan Omar, and have those same rights
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  Speaker 4: and privileges now as a citizen. These things happen here
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  Speaker 4: in America, the America that we all love, the America
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  Speaker 4: that many of you that are listening have fought for
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  Speaker 4: in uniform. So keep that in mind. Keep that in perspective.
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  Speaker 4: And I want to just switch gears a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: We'll talk about this more later, but I thought it
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  Speaker 4: was fantastic that president Trump mentioned a couple of days
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  Speaker 4: ago that he would give a kickback, right? Everybody gets
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  Speaker 4: to wet their beak. If you catch some fraud, right?
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  Speaker 4: I thought that was phenomenal because there's fraud all over.
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  Speaker 4: Who's the first one that took advantage? Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Oz.
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  Speaker 4: The next day I saw Dr. Oz in Queens, New
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  Speaker 4: York doing some interviews talking about, I went to this
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  Speaker 4: place and we found out there was Medicaid and Medicare
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  Speaker 4: for it. I thought that was great. Cause you know what?
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  Speaker 4: These are the things that nobody likes. Nobody like if
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  Speaker 4: you've ever paid a dollar in taxes, the only people
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  Speaker 4: that like fraud are the people that benefit from fraud.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody else is financing that fraud. So kudos to President
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  Speaker 4: Trump for doing that. And the joke that was going
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  Speaker 4: around about Nick Shirley becoming, you know, billionaire off of
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  Speaker 4: fraud the right way.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Because of the kickbacks. Because this guy, Nick Shirley, is
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  Speaker 4: a very intrepid journalist. And he's he's gotten more. He's
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  Speaker 4: at least he's uncovered more fraud than anybody I've seen.
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  Speaker 4: Kudos to him. By the way, Nick Shirley, I'm going
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  Speaker 4: to be with Nick Shirley and James O'Keefe at Mar-a-Lago
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  Speaker 4: in a couple of weeks. Looking forward to that. So
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  Speaker 4: big thanks to James for that, for the Citizens Journalist Gala.
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  Speaker 4: But these are the types of innovations that we need.
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  Speaker 4: This is that outside-of-the-box New York City builder mentality that
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  Speaker 4: we need in Washington. It's the only way, and that's
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  Speaker 4: the same mentality that I think we have to adopt
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  Speaker 4: and adapt to In order to get through these midterms
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  Speaker 4: and to make sure we maximize every opportunity that's before us.
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  Speaker 4: So I got a lot more to say, but I
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  Speaker 4: know there's a clock in front of me and it
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  Speaker 4: tells me I got to take a pause right here.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm going to do that. And we're going to
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  Speaker 4: get into a lot more about what's going on in
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  Speaker 4: these Senate states, what's going on in these governor's races.
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  Speaker 4: And so much more to come. Don't go anywhere. I'm
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  Speaker 4: Rich Valdez.
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  Speaker 5: This is America. This is America. And again, I pose
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  Speaker 5: the same question to you. Will the real Ilhan Omar
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  Speaker 5: please stand up?
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  Speaker 4: Big news coming out that yesterday evening, I believe is
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  Speaker 4: when I saw this, that Ilhan Omar, whose real name,
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  Speaker 4: or at least right now, the believed birth name is
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  Speaker 4: Ilhan Nur Saeed Elmi, same as her husband, Ahmed Nur
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  Speaker 4: Saeed Elmi. Now, I get that. When I was married,
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  Speaker 4: my wife had the same last name as me, but
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  Speaker 4: is it that simple or is it Is it more complicated?
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  Speaker 4: Did they start out with the same name? I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. Like Eddie Murphy said, taste the soup,
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  Speaker 4: taste the soup. You got to taste the soup. Anyway,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't know. But I do have
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  Speaker 4: these questions as well, because obviously this, as the story goes,
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  Speaker 4: as legend would have it, Ilhan Omar flees war-torn Somalia.
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  Speaker 4: Her dad is a Marxist-Leninist military leader. They make their
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  Speaker 4: way to Kenya where she's in a refugee camp. And
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  Speaker 4: then she makes her application to come to the United States. Now,
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  Speaker 4: believe it or not, I know this is going to
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  Speaker 4: catch you by surprise, but some people coming across the
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  Speaker 4: border or applying for asylum from different places, they're actually
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  Speaker 4: not always telling the truth. Sometimes they say, hi, this
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  Speaker 4: is me. That's my wife. These are my two children.
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  Speaker 4: And in fact, it's not really their wife or their
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  Speaker 4: two children. And those people don't know anything about each other.
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  Speaker 4: They're not even really family. But they figured, hey, we're
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  Speaker 4: all from the same place. We all met at the
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  Speaker 4: same refugee camp. So let us say this to try
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  Speaker 4: and gain entry to the United States, the land of
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  Speaker 4: milk and honey, the land of opportunity, where the free
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  Speaker 4: markets reign and we can become millionaires. And that's great, right?
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  Speaker 4: Not the fraud part, but I'm just saying it's great
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  Speaker 4: that America is wonderful. And that's a thing that people do.
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  Speaker 4: And that's why we have something called ICE or used
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  Speaker 4: to be called INS and whatnot. So I say all
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  Speaker 4: of that to say, what is the story? Will the
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  Speaker 4: real Ilhan Omar please stand up? Well, when we come back,
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to get into a little bit about what
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  Speaker 4: El Trumpito, Donaldus Magnus, the 45th and 47th president of
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  Speaker 4: these United States, El Presidente Donald J. Trump, what he
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  Speaker 4: had to say about Ilhan Omar earlier today. Plus everything
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  Speaker 4: else that's on my list of things to talk about.
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  Speaker 4: And that's a pretty exhaustive list. For a three-hour show,
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  Speaker 4: you prepare a lot and usually get through half of it.
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  Speaker 4: But anyway, that's all coming up straight ahead again. Rich Valdez,
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  Speaker 4: keep it locked right here. Don't go anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: This is America. This is America.
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  Speaker 4: President Donald J.
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  Speaker 5: Trump, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: President, welcome to the program, sir.
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  Speaker 7: Well, thank you, Rich, and thank you for everything. I
• 19:29
  Speaker 7: know you very well, and I listen, but I have
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: a lot of people that listen, and they love your show,
• 19:34
  Speaker 7: and I appreciate it very much.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: All right, America, welcome back. It's Rich Valdez, Valdez with
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: an S, at Rich Valdez on all of the social medias,
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: and I want to continue where I left off with
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: talking about Ilhan Omar, oftentimes referred to on my show as...
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: some people did something. Her name now is Ilhan Noor
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: Saeed Elmi, same as her husband Ahmed Noor Saeed Elmi.
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: And everybody's trying to figure out what's going on there now. Okay,
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: got it. President Trump weighed in on this today. He's
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: in Florida. on the campaign trail. Byron Donalds is a
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: fantastic lead, but I know we don't say that too
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: loud because we don't want people to get lazy, but
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: he's doing a bang-up job in Florida. And President Trump
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: asking the same question as me. Will the real Ilhan
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: Omar please stand up? Listen to this.
• 20:25
  Speaker 7: And I was saddened to hear that Ilhan Omar is
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: not her name.
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: It's not.
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: It's not Ilhan Omar. The one she used to get
• 20:34
  Speaker 7: elected and sworn into Congress, that's the one that she
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: used for everything, Ilhan Omar, but rather it's an entirely
• 20:41
  Speaker 7: different name named Ilhan Nur Sayyed Elmi.
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  Speaker 5: It's close.
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  Speaker 4: It's close, Byron.
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  Speaker 7: It's very close.
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  Speaker 5: Not too far away.
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: You got one that's four names, one that's one, and
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: every name is extremely different.
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: And the last name.
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: Is incredibly, and this is going to be a shock
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: to everybody in this room, but the last name is also,
• 21:10
  Speaker 7: I hate to tell you because you wouldn't even believe this,
• 21:12
  Speaker 7: because it's the exact name of her brother, Ahmed Noor
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  Speaker 7: Saeed Elmi. The person they said she married to come
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: into our country and the person she had some lovely
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: children with, thank you very much. So when asked whether
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: or not she married her brother, she said, not to
• 21:35
  Speaker 7: my knowledge.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: That was her.
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: No, she didn't know.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: She didn't know.
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  Speaker 7: She wasn't sure.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: She wasn't sure. Listen, I'm not here to defend Ilhan Omar.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: I am not an Ilhan Omar or Ilhan Nur Saeed
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: Elmi apologist. But I will say, if someone were to
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: ask me, Rich Valdez, did you marry your brother or
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: your sister for that matter? I would either probably say
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: with a resounding hell no, or I would probably say
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: something similar, like not that I know of. I mean,
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: that's cray cray. So how does that really happen? You know,
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: and is it a calculated response or was it really
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: just massive incredulity of her being just like, say what?
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: I give the benefit of the doubt.
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: Why?
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: I don't know, because in my lifetime, and I'm by
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: no means the exhaustive authority on on political uh i
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: don't know trivia if you will but in the years
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: i've been doing this stuff and i'm i got into
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: politics around 2002 ish three ish a little more actively
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: in 2004 with the bush campaign and i've never seen
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: anything like this of somebody allegedly marrying their brother this
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: that and the other the only thing i've ever seen
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: that was even remotely close to this that caught on
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: this way that was it was just like a became
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: an instant cult classic, was Barack Obama was born in Kenya.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: That was another one that everybody was just very excited.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: I can't believe he's not even American. And listen, who
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: was beating the drums on that one back then? El Trumpito.
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: He's good at this. He has such a keen sense
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: for what incenses the everyday person, the working man. I'm
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: envisioning this as a guy that Joe Biden claimed he was,
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: Lunch Bucket Joe. But Donald Trump has made a lifetime
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: of befriending the real Lunch Bucket Joes of the world,
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: the real Joe the Plumbers of the world, people building
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: his properties in these buildings that he's had in New
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: York where he's talking to these guys that are in
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: the unions, steamfitters, pipefitters, builders, tradespeople. And guess what? He
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: knows what he's doing. And good for him because he understands.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: He has the ear of the people. People say Donald
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: Trump's a marketing genius and I'm not going to take
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: anything away from him. But it's because he listens to
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: his customers. He listens to the people around him. And
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: he knows what is on their mind. So he knows
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: exactly what to campaign about. And that is political brilliance
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: if I've ever seen it. Kudos to El Trumpito. But
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: Ilhan Omar, she digs, not even ditches, it's like a
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: grave she's digging for herself with this one. So now
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: you don't know To your knowledge, you don't know. And listen,
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: who am I to argue against that?
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: I mean, I could see myself maybe getting nervous and
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: saying something silly like that at a crazy question. But
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: at the same time, you got to think of these
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: things and you got to think, I don't know. I'm
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: not sure. Not to the best of my knowledge.
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: What?
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: That is crazy. Listen to Congressman Mike Lawler right here
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: in New York talking about this.
• 24:47
  Speaker 8: Well, obviously, this is a very serious matter. And if
• 24:52
  Speaker 8: she lied to get into this country, made false claims
• 24:57
  Speaker 8: on her immigration forms as she applied to become a citizen,
• 25:04
  Speaker 8: the public has a right to know. And the American
• 25:07
  Speaker 8: people deserve a very clear and unambiguous answer. I mean,
• 25:12
  Speaker 8: saying not to my knowledge, even if you're joking about it,
• 25:18
  Speaker 8: seems bizarre in response to a question about whether or
• 25:22
  Speaker 8: not you married your own brother. That should be a
• 25:25
  Speaker 8: definitive no. And so I thought her response was bizarre
• 25:32
  Speaker 8: at best. But the fact that she seemingly has been
• 25:40
  Speaker 8: operating under an alias as a sitting member of Congress,
• 25:44
  Speaker 8: she needs to answer these questions directly to the public
• 25:48
  Speaker 8: and quickly. And I think she certainly owes that to
• 25:52
  Speaker 8: the American people as a sitting elected official. And obviously,
• 25:58
  Speaker 8: this is a serious matter that the Department of Justice
• 26:01
  Speaker 8: and the Department of Homeland Security are pursuing.
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: Now, listen, I love Mike Lawler and he's right. I
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: think he's he's right on here with respect to this
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: is a serious matter. Now, has she addressed this publicly?
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: I think so. I played a clip of it last
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: week right here on this show. Or she said, that's
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: crazy and it's disgusting. Of course not. I did not
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: marry my brother. She said that. Then she goes on
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: with Chris Hayes and she says, this is not to
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: my knowledge. Now, are these the best answers?
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: No.
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: Do many of us believe her? Probably not. Does that
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: mean she didn't answer? No, she answered. And this is
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: the problem we run into when we have been duped
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: by certain people. And by certain people, I mean the
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: people that hate this country, that embrace the The enemies
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: of this country that are adherents of Islamism. Write that
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: one down because I'm being very careful to say what
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: I'm exactly saying. It's not Muslims in general. These are
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: Islamist apologists. And those people, that's when I say those people,
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: that's who I'm talking about. They're known for lying. Forget
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: about all the canonical stuff, the Takiyah and all that.
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: Just look at their actions. Look at what happened in Beirut. Oh,
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: they did it. No, we didn't do it. Oh, we
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: did it. No, we didn't do it. Every last thing is, oh,
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: they didn't do it. Oh, yes, they did. Oh, no,
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: we didn't. No, we weren't hiding behind human shields. No,
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: they were bombing the hospital and we just showed up.
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's endless. Endless. Truly endless. They got caught
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: with the With the UNRWA scandal, they've been caught in
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: the act so many times. The water scandal, do you
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: remember that one? Where they took the pipes that the
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: UN sent them to build underground water to get it
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: from Israel into the Gaza Strip. And they used these
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: pipes instead to launch missiles or to use them as
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: casings for missiles. I mean, you just, at what point
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: do you say, look, this is not good. I was
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: in Switzerland. Listen to this. This is a good one
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: before we take a quick pause. I was in Switzerland.
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: You know what? Mr. Producer, should I pause here and
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: then come back? Okay. I was in Switzerland. I took
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: a layover, but I ended up spending a couple of
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: days there in Zurich, Switzerland, a couple of months ago.
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: I think it was March. And I go to a bar,
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: and the bartender is very nice to me. She speaks English.
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: She's from there, from Switzerland. And, you know, any European
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: city you go to, a lot of people that are European,
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: but they're not from that city because everybody's all over
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: the place with the train system. But anyway. She introduces
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: me to her boyfriend. He comes out. He's like, hey,
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: you're from America. How are you? I was like, yeah.
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: And he's a very thick Middle Eastern accent. And he's like, yeah,
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: I'm not making fun of him. I'm trying to make
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: the story come alive. He says to me, yes, yes,
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: I am from Egypt. I am from Egypt. And he
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: starts telling me yes. And he's the nicest guy in
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: the world. And he tells me, look, the Christian, the Jewish,
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: the Muslim, we are the brother. We are the brother.
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: And I said, okay, cool. And he says, we have
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: Mount Sinai is in Egypt. It is in Egypt. And
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: he was so proud that Mount Sinai, where Moses held
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: up these stone tablets that the Lord had given in
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: the Ten Commandments, that the burning bush and all of
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: this happened in Sinai in Egypt, modern day Egypt. So
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: we're talking about things and I'm playing completely coy here.
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: And I'm like, tell me a little bit about your
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: political system, because I know that there is a very
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: big wall. Matter of fact, there are seven walls. I
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: think they're about a mile apart from each other. Their
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: border between Gaza and Egypt is really big. And it's
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: very well guarded. And he said, oh, yes, you have to.
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: And I said, why? And he explained the whole thing.
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: He said, the Muslim in the Gaza is a political Muslim.
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: He's not the real Muslim. He's not the real Muslim.
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: And I said, excuse me. And he's explaining to me
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: how real Muslims are, they don't like this Islamist agitator.
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: And I know you've heard this before, but it's a
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: different thing when you're talking to a kid that's 23
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: years old and he's giving you the real deal. So
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: even back there, in, in their place, they know that
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: these people are lying. I said, well, they say they're Muslims.
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: I watched the news and he says, they're light. They
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: are light. I said, oh, they're lying. So everybody knows
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: that this Islamist with a T political movement is based
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: on mayhem and lies. And this is why anyone that
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: is even remotely trying to say, well, I'll give them
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: the benefit of the doubt on, on, on anything, whether
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: it's Mamdani, El-Sayed, or anybody else. It's a hard pass
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: for me. It's no thank you. Olbidate, forget about it.
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: Because why? Because we've seen them lie time and again.
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: So forgive me if Ilhan says I didn't do it
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: and I don't believe her. Forgive me if El-Sayed says
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: I have nothing to do with the Muslim Brotherhood and
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: I don't believe him. He tries to make people out
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: to be the bad guy for asking those questions. I
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: would say, I think these are the questions that have
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: to be asked. Don't move a muscle. It's Rich Valdez.
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: This is America. This is America. He's brown, he's bald,
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: and he's breaking it down. Oh, he's so handsome.
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: What's his name? Rich Valdez. All right, familia, welcome back.
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: Rich Valdez keeping you company tonight. Your liberty-loving Latino amigo.
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: Happy to be here. I've got a lot more to discuss.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: AOC was on the campaign trail today. You've got uh,
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: Brad Lander. He's a Democrat from New York. You have
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: to hear some of the things he's talking about. We'll
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: do that in the next hour. Of course, I got
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: something big for the third hour. So make sure you
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: keep it locked right here. And, uh, I do want
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: to be fair. Uh, do we have a caller? Mike
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: is gone. Okay. I was going to go to Mike
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: cause he was holding on for a while, but that's fine.
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: We will continue with, uh, the line of thinking that
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: I was on because president Trump was in Florida and
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: he was talking about Ilhan Omar. And then I went
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: on my tirade against, uh, the Islamist terrorists that hate America.
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: And guess who they've recruited to help them? None other
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: than Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton.
• 33:20
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: When you need help to win an election, that's who
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: you bring in. Now they're bringing them into Florida to
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: help win the election. So you've got Bill Clinton on
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: Florida earlier this week. I think it was a Tuesday.
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: And he's very, very tired of people being denigrated for
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: being Muslims. And let me tell you, so am I.
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: I've been around Muslims my entire life. I've never had
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: a problem. Never had a problem with a Muslim. I've
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: not been around radical Islamist terrorist people or even terrorist sympathizers.
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: I can't tell you. I grew up with guys like Mamdani.
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: That I can't say. I can't tell you that I
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: grew up with guys like, I was going to say Mohammed.
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: His name is Abdul. Abdul El-Sayed. These guys are Marxist
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: Islamist sympathizers. And I did not grow up with people
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: like that. So I share that with President Clinton here.
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: But interesting to say the least. Listen to this.
• 34:16
  Speaker 6: I'm tired of people denigrating Muslims for being Muslims. The
• 34:23
  Speaker 6: Koran says, and I first heard this from my daughter
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: who read the Koran from first start to finish when
• 34:31
  Speaker 6: she was 15 years old. And she said, read this.
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: Allah put the different people on the earth, not that
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: they might despise one another, but that they might come
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: to know one another and learn from one another. There
• 34:48
  Speaker 6: are bad actors in every faith because we're all flawed
• 34:52
  Speaker 6: human beings. But the religious wars, the cultural wars, I'm
• 35:00
  Speaker 6: just tired. I, too, am tired, President Clinton.
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: I am tired of the likes of Ayatollah Khomeini. I
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: am tired of the likes of Ayatollah Khamenei. I am
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: tired of the likes of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, of Aragshi. These
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: are the leaders of Iran that have been there for
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: decades upon decades. I'm tired of those people. Every day
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: I wake up and I'm hoping that President Trump does
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: one of those announcements where he, you know, It's comical
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: because he's comical in his delivery in many ways. I'm
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: here to announce the combat operations in Iran have ended.
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: We've been able to kill them. They died like dogs,
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: all of them.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: I would love something like that, not because I want
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: to see people die, because this is a radical extremist
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: element that is suppressing and oppressing the Persian people. I'm
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: tired of that, too. So, look, I agree with President
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: Clinton on something. And and he's somebody I would love
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: to interview. I'd love to have a conversation with him
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: because I think when pressed, he realizes that he plays
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: fast and loose with his rhetoric for moments like this.
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: You know, I wouldn't doubt at all that President Clinton
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: goes home and he goes, you know, I wish I mean,
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: if Trump wasn't just such a bombastic character, I would
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: I would I'd be on his team. I think I
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: think Bill Clinton would love to be on the MAGA team.
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: It's the winning team. And honestly, when you're the president
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: that was in office during Contract with America and the
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: balancing of the federal budget, listen, better being on the
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: MAGA team than the team you're on now. I mean,
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: if the team you're on now, they want to get
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: rid of the Senate. They want to get rid of
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: the police. Back then, your wife was calling people super predators.
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: How do you get rid of that? Come on now. Anyway,
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: that's what's going on now. I got a clip from Hillary,
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: but not enough time to share it with you. So
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: we're going to bring that into the next hour. We're
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: also going to talk about AOC. She's on the campaign
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: trail looking to elect every last radical leftist crazy that
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: she can find. AOC all out crazy. My least favorite
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: congresswoman from the Bronx and Queens, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. So we
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: will hear from all out crazy in the next hour.
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: Of course, keep it locked right here. I'm here for
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: another two hours. So don't go anywhere. I am Rich Valdez.
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: This is America. This is America.
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: What a treat to hear those kind words from the
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: great one, Mark Levin. Thank you so much, sir.
• 38:01
  Speaker 7: Always a pleasure to fill in on your show.
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: And I wanted to, before we get into the AOC stuff,
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: we're going to do that in the next hour, the
• 38:25
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• 38:30
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  Speaker 4: and find her. But anyway, I say all that to
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  Speaker 4: say that It's an exciting time, and that's through SI, right?
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  Speaker 4: Not Sports Illustrated, Super Intelligence, as El Trompito has called it,
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  Speaker 4: or as I like to call it, AI, American Innovation.
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: But before we get into that stuff, I wanted to
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  Speaker 4: share a funny clip with you, and then I promise
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: you we'll get to the AOC stuff and back to
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: Ilhan Omar and all that stuff. But something happened the
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: other day that I thought was really interesting. A woman
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: in Milwaukee... Wisconsin was charged with criminal charges after she
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: pretended to do something. You've probably seen this on social media,
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: but I thought this was incredibly bizarre. What did she
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: pretend to do? Listen to this.
• 40:59
  Speaker 9: Accusing a woman of faking her way into an MPS
• 41:01
  Speaker 9: classroom as a substitute teacher.
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  Speaker 10: Prosecutors say Amy Jones made her way into Rufus King
• 41:06
  Speaker 10: High School and, according to students, made a series of
• 41:09
  Speaker 10: crude comments to those students. 12 News' Nick Bohr leading
• 41:12
  Speaker 10: us off here at 6 o'clock, live from Rufus King.
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: And Nick, police say she was in the classroom for
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: three full periods before students reported those comments. It is
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: certainly alarming, Derek, the woman able to talk her way
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: not only into the school but into... A classroom here
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: seemingly unchecked, and get in front of a group of
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: students for three periods. Some students so disturbed by it,
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: they started recording her with their phones, eventually going to
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: the principal. They say the lessons, though, were hardly by
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: the book. Milwaukee Public Schools' Rufus King High School is
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: routinely ranked as one of the top high schools in
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: the state. But according to Milwaukee County prosecutors, a security
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: lapse allowed a wildly unqualified woman into the classroom September 24th.
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: According to the criminal complaint, 23-year-old Amy Jones, a former
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: student at the school, told office staff she was there
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: as a substitute and was placed in a classroom for
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: the first three periods. Students quickly reporting to a school
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: resource officer, Jones was, quote, using profane language, racial slurs,
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: sexually derogative statements, and organizing students by race and gender
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: in class. At least one student shared a recorded video.
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: A 16-year-old boy told police, quote, The teacher was cursing
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: and screaming at the students and that she called a student, quote,
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: fat boy and, quote, asked a student if she wanted
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: to be a stripper or a hooker and told two
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: white boys in the class, quote, they were the type
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: of people to start school shootings. The principal told police
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: eight teachers had called in sick that day and only
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: seven of those positions had been filled, adding, quote, she
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: believed Jones got lucky because there happened to be an
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: unfilled position. Students told police the topics really veered off
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: course when Jones, quote, asked kids if they were gay
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: and if they were virgins. According to the complaint, the
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: principal caught wind of the unauthorized sub and had her
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: escorted from the building at the start of the third period.
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: When questioned by a detective, Jones said she, quote, had
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: a birds and the bees talk and admitted, quote, it
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: was not appropriate. She said she went to the school, quote,
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: because she was bored, adding she, quote, hates kids and
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: just wanted to mess around. 12 News asked MPS for
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: an interview about how this could happen. They declined to
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: go on camera, instead referring us to a statement they
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: sent to parents reading in part, quote, in addition to
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: any police actions resulting from this situation, the district is
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: continuing with its own investigation. Really just have to shake
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: your head at these allegations, Nick, and these.
• 43:49
  Speaker 5: Are serious charges.
• 43:50
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: It is a felony to represent yourself as a teacher,
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: to pose as a teacher. It is called representing self
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: as a public employee. Five other felony charges are for
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: exposing a child to harmful descriptions. If convicted on the
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: six felony counts, Jones could face up to 21 years
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: in prison.
• 44:15
  Speaker 4: So 21 years in prison is what this woman faces
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: for sneaking into a school to make fun of kids
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: for three periods. I'm not saying that's too much time,
• 44:25
  Speaker 4: not enough time. I guess you want to make it
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: a strict penalty because you don't want people sneaking into
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: a school. But bizarre, I'm looking at her mugshot. She's
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: got a huge Kool-Aid smile from ear to ear, big grin.
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: And she was a student at that school, former student,
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: walked into her old Milwaukee high school, signed in as
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: a substitute teacher, ended up running the classroom. I mean,
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: it's just so bizarre. And again, that criminal complaint says
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: that 23-year-old Amy Jones was doing this just, you know,
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: less than a month ago, asking about their sex lives
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: and whatnot. Then the complaint, Ms. Jones tells the police
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: that she was bored. She hates kids and wanted to
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: mess around. So now she's facing the aforementioned felony charges
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: that you just heard about for impersonating a public employee. Again,
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: this is from Fox 6 in Milwaukee, News 12 on
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: Fox 6. Let me tell you, this is bizarre. All
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: I can tell you is that that is some crazy stuff.
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: I don't mind visiting my old high school, but I'm
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: not going to sneak in just to roast those kids.
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: I mean, maybe I would do that if I was
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: videotaping it and I thought I could score with the
• 45:34
  Speaker 4: video content, but come on. That's crazy. In a time
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: of school shootings and all sorts of crazy stuff, the
• 45:41
  Speaker 4: last thing you want to do is put yourself in
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: a position like that. I would say this woman likely
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: has something going on. Screw loose. I hope she gets
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: the help she needs because... At 23, you should have
• 45:52
  Speaker 4: better things to do. And really, Godspeed to her. I
• 45:55
  Speaker 4: pray for her. Because the whole thing is bizarre. It's funny,
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: but at the same time, it's like, oh, shoot. This
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: girl's right between my kids, right? I have a 21-year-old
• 46:03
  Speaker 4: and a 25-year-old. They're both girls. I couldn't imagine either
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: of my kids doing that. Maybe my little one, right?
• 46:09
  Speaker 4: Thinking it's funny. It's because I would think it's funny. But,
• 46:13
  Speaker 4: you know, still, you got to look at the reality.
• 46:16
  Speaker 4: You're 21 now. You're 18 now. You get charged as
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: an adult for silly things like that.
• 46:21
  Speaker 6: Ah.
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: Boy, anyway, the things that you hear in the world,
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: that's stuff I wanted to share with you. Pardon me.
• 46:29
  Speaker 4: All right. Now, talking about crazy, I want to share
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: this one with you because this, this is nuts. And
• 46:37
  Speaker 4: we had a situation similar to this not that long ago.
• 46:41
  Speaker 4: This is a wild one. And again, this one's coming
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: out of Miami. And this particular court in Miami, this
• 46:46
  Speaker 4: particular judge always has something crazy going on. literally, it's
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: always some crazy nutso stuff. But listen to this. This
• 46:54
  Speaker 4: is a really eye-opener here.
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: It's an accusation that even shocked the judge. It says
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: she went on a cruise and left her children home alone.
• 47:02
  Speaker 9: Police say Natalie Bellazier left her kids alone to board
• 47:05
  Speaker 9: a three-day cruise on the Carnival Conquest.
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: Poor kids, we're home alone.
• 47:11
  Speaker 9: The ship left Port Miami Friday for the Bahamas and
• 47:14
  Speaker 9: returned Monday morning where the 29-year-old was arrested. A police
• 47:18
  Speaker 9: report says, The defendant left all four minor children, including
• 47:22
  Speaker 9: a two-month-old infant and a two-year-old child, inside the residence.
• 47:27
  Speaker 9: There was no sign of anyone at that apartment in
• 47:30
  Speaker 9: North Miami Beach. But over the weekend, detectives say they
• 47:33
  Speaker 9: got a call from the father of the infant, concerned
• 47:36
  Speaker 9: the kids were home alone. That man says he saw
• 47:39
  Speaker 9: a social media post from Bellazier highlighting the cruise.
• 47:43
  Speaker 4: Hold on a second. You heard that right. This woman
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: left her children... in her apartment alone, left on a cruise,
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: on a boat to the Bahamas. She posts pictures, hey,
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: I'm at the cruise. So the dad of these children,
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: who I'm presuming doesn't live with her, sees her social
• 48:06
  Speaker 4: media post and becomes concerned about, well, if she's on
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: a boat in the Bahamas, where are my kids? And
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: he does what he does. This is nuts.
• 48:17
  Speaker 9: But when that dad showed up to the apartment Saturday evening,
• 48:20
  Speaker 9: he only heard a TV and the voices of the
• 48:22
  Speaker 9: children through the door. So he called police.
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: We're just grateful nothing worse happened to these kids.
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: That is wild, right? But there's more.
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: You cannot make this up.
• 48:35
  Speaker 9: It's an accusation that even shocked.
• 48:40
  Speaker 4: Can you get the tape right, please? Play the next section.
• 48:43
  Speaker 9: First responders forced their way inside and the police report
• 48:46
  Speaker 9: says upon entry, all four minor children were discovered inside
• 48:50
  Speaker 9: the residence without adult supervision and were hiding together in
• 48:54
  Speaker 9: the bathroom. That's when officers determined the children were alone.
• 48:59
  Speaker 9: Ensuring Bellazier a one-way ticket to jail.
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: Who leaves the kids, four little kids alone? Judge, it's
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: an allegation at this time.
• 49:06
  Speaker 5: To go on a cruise.
• 49:07
  Speaker 4: Judge, at this time it's only an allegation. You know,
• 49:11
  Speaker 4: Sometimes I get angry with defense attorneys because I think,
• 49:15
  Speaker 4: my goodness, right? Look at this lady here. You can't
• 49:18
  Speaker 4: see the video, but she. she knows that this is
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: dead wrong. But she has an obligation under her oath
• 49:25
  Speaker 4: to defend this woman, to give this woman a defense.
• 49:29
  Speaker 4: And she's saying, judge, at this time, it's an allegation. Right.
• 49:33
  Speaker 4: And I guess the case they're making is going to be, look,
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: I went on the cruise. My sister, cousin, best friend
• 49:40
  Speaker 4: was supposed to come and watch the kids. They never came.
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: I didn't know they didn't come. So I just went
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: on my way with the cruise. And it just happened
• 49:49
  Speaker 4: to be that my ex, my children's father, saw me
• 49:54
  Speaker 4: and became concerned. But do you think I'd be posting
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: pictures on Instagram about my great vacation? If I was
• 50:01
  Speaker 4: leaving my kids home alone. No, of course not. So
• 50:03
  Speaker 4: clearly this is a misunderstanding. What the part she's missing is,
• 50:07
  Speaker 4: and again, I don't know that that's the exact defense,
• 50:09
  Speaker 4: but I would presume that's the defense. The part that
• 50:12
  Speaker 4: she's missing, I'm talking about the mom now. You don't
• 50:16
  Speaker 4: leave your kids alone. You don't hope for the best
• 50:19
  Speaker 4: with the babysitter. What's wrong with you?
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: She denies the allegation. They arrested her disembarking from the
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: cruise ship.
• 50:26
  Speaker 5: I understand.
• 50:28
  Speaker 4: God bless the attorney. I understand they got her there,
• 50:31
  Speaker 4: but at this point it's not. No. She got caught
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: with the smoking gun. She was on a boat that
• 50:35
  Speaker 4: was in the Bahamas and they got her when she
• 50:37
  Speaker 4: got off of it back in Miami. Come on.
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: Isn't that judge?
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: Unbelievable. Unbelievable. And that's Judge Glazer, by the way. Judge Glazer,
• 50:49
  Speaker 4: just quick shout out on her. I don't know her,
• 50:51
  Speaker 4: but she is fantastic when she displays incredulity on some
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: of these cases that she hears. And I think she
• 51:00
  Speaker 4: should have her own show, personally. I think her name
• 51:02
  Speaker 4: is Judge Mindy Glazer. Fantastic judge. But yeah, listen to
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: this again. Florida mom is now facing the child neglect charges.
• 51:13
  Speaker 4: Cops say she left four children. Listen to this. Two
• 51:17
  Speaker 4: months old. Two years old. Seven years old. The oldest
• 51:22
  Speaker 4: being a nine-year-old. Just imagine that. So a seven-year-old and
• 51:27
  Speaker 4: a nine-year-old are, in her mind, taking care of a
• 51:30
  Speaker 4: two-month-old and a two-year-old. A two-month-old baby. That is so
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: bizarre to me. I don't know what other words to use. Crazy, reckless, irresponsible,
• 51:42
  Speaker 4: wild man. Home alone. How many days? Three days. These
• 51:48
  Speaker 4: kids were alone for three days. This lady doesn't deserve
• 51:52
  Speaker 4: to be a mother. Now, according to the North Miami
• 51:55
  Speaker 4: Beach Police, 29 years old, year old, excuse me. I
• 51:59
  Speaker 4: always say that. Must be the Brooklyn in me. Natalie,
• 52:03
  Speaker 4: with an H, Belizer, allegedly told the children's father that
• 52:09
  Speaker 4: their great-grandmother would be caring for the kids. Investigators say
• 52:14
  Speaker 4: the children were never taken to her home. The father
• 52:18
  Speaker 4: reportedly became concerned after seeing a post indicating that Ms.
• 52:21
  Speaker 4: Belizer had boarded a cruise. He went to her apartment
• 52:24
  Speaker 4: where he allegedly saw the television on through the window
• 52:27
  Speaker 4: and heard the children inside before he called 911. So
• 52:31
  Speaker 4: this man was available. This is the part that kills me.
• 52:34
  Speaker 4: This man is available and she leaves his kids in
• 52:37
  Speaker 4: danger to go on a cruise. What? Investigators say Ms.
• 52:42
  Speaker 4: Belzer had purchased a three-day carnival conquest cruise to the
• 52:47
  Speaker 4: Bahamas that departed on September 25th. She was arrested after
• 52:51
  Speaker 4: returning to Port Miami. They should have arrested her on
• 52:53
  Speaker 4: that cruise. They should have had the security team lock
• 52:56
  Speaker 4: her up because I know that they have a little
• 52:58
  Speaker 4: jail on those boats. Belzear faces four counts of child
• 53:02
  Speaker 4: neglect without great bodily harm. A judge set her bond
• 53:06
  Speaker 4: at $ 10, 000 and ordered her to stay away from the children.
• 53:10
  Speaker 4: Her attorney says she denies the allegations. The children were
• 53:12
  Speaker 4: placed in foster care and were reported to be safe.
• 53:15
  Speaker 4: So I guess they don't want to put them with
• 53:17
  Speaker 4: the dad either. So maybe the dad has some history here.
• 53:20
  Speaker 4: I don't know the story here, but this sounds terrible
• 53:23
  Speaker 4: for these kids. And people, this is just a message
• 53:26
  Speaker 4: for you, for your friends, anybody you can share this with.
• 53:29
  Speaker 4: If you are a hot mess in life, and listen,
• 53:32
  Speaker 4: I have been for a good portion of my life
• 53:34
  Speaker 4: a hot mess, and I'm sure I can revert to
• 53:37
  Speaker 4: that on occasion. Don't have any kids. I have two kids.
• 53:41
  Speaker 4: God was gracious to me. I've met women in my
• 53:44
  Speaker 4: pursuit to potentially become remarried. And when I hear that
• 53:49
  Speaker 4: they want kids, I run. And I jog if I
• 53:54
  Speaker 4: hear they even have kids. I don't want any more
• 53:55
  Speaker 4: kids in my life. I have enough time. I had
• 53:58
  Speaker 4: a dog once. You know how hard it is to
• 54:00
  Speaker 4: go on vacation with a dog? Let alone having kids,
• 54:03
  Speaker 4: you never go on vacation again. And you guys who
• 54:05
  Speaker 4: listen to the show often know, I love to be
• 54:08
  Speaker 4: somewhere else. I love me some beach. I love some
• 54:10
  Speaker 4: Miami Beach, some Puerto Rico. A little travel here and there.
• 54:14
  Speaker 4: I definitely enjoy it. So, Listen, call me selfish, call
• 54:18
  Speaker 4: me crazy, you can call me anything, but do not
• 54:20
  Speaker 4: call me the guy that leaves his four kids two
• 54:23
  Speaker 4: months old through nine years old alone to go on
• 54:26
  Speaker 4: a cruise. Absolutely despicable. And that is what is wrong
• 54:30
  Speaker 4: with America today. People seem to find this behavior okay,
• 54:33
  Speaker 4: and some will defend it. Say, you don't know what
• 54:35
  Speaker 4: it's like to have four kids and be a single mother.
• 54:37
  Speaker 4: You don't know what that's like. She needed a break.
• 54:40
  Speaker 4: I'm sure she would need a break. Maybe she should
• 54:42
  Speaker 4: have had a break from having children, right? I took
• 54:45
  Speaker 4: a break. I had two and I had a break.
• 54:47
  Speaker 4: I mean, we have to kind of enforce the idea
• 54:52
  Speaker 4: that we have to be responsible for ourselves and our actions.
• 54:55
  Speaker 4: We have to kind of reinforce the idea that we
• 54:58
  Speaker 4: are accountable under the law and we are accountable under
• 55:01
  Speaker 4: God and we are accountable to these children and we
• 55:04
  Speaker 4: have to do better. Unbelievable. Anyway, I say all of
• 55:10
  Speaker 4: that to say we need to really bring things back
• 55:13
  Speaker 4: to where we are moored to God, right? This is
• 55:17
  Speaker 4: not about a theocracy. This is not about me being
• 55:20
  Speaker 4: a holy roller. This is just about at the end
• 55:22
  Speaker 4: of the day, what do you stand on? What are
• 55:24
  Speaker 4: you doing? Are you going to just feed your flesh
• 55:28
  Speaker 4: and go on a cruise because you're stressed out? Or
• 55:31
  Speaker 4: are you going to take care of the kids that
• 55:32
  Speaker 4: God gave you? You got to stand for something because
• 55:36
  Speaker 4: if you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything. And
• 55:39
  Speaker 4: the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for
• 55:43
  Speaker 4: good people like you to sit there and do nothing.
• 55:45
  Speaker 4: So make sure you do something Take care. Good night.
• 55:49
  Speaker 4: And God bless you, America. Hasta la proxima. I am
• 55:52
  Speaker 4: Rich Valdez. And this is America.
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