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5/26/26 Guest Host Riley Lewis w/ Robert Spencer, Chris Johnson, Mark Lamb, Tony Ortiz, Walter Hudson · Real America with Dan Ball

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Straight ahead on Real America tensions in Tehran, targeted US
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  Speaker 1: strikes destroy Iranian threats in the Persian Gulf, but with
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: both sides vowing to keep high stakes peace talks on track,
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: will this sudden violence shatter what is a very fragile
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  Speaker 1: ceasefire plus a chaotic teenage street takeover. These five police
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: officers in Chicago injured and an eighteen year old facing
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: attempted murder charges, sparking an explosive feud over whether city
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: leaders are letting the anarchy rule the streets. And a
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  Speaker 1: bitter one hundred and twenty million dollar battle in Texas
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  Speaker 1: between Senator John Cornyn and Trump backed Ken Paxton heads
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  Speaker 1: to the ballot box tonight, forcing voters to choose to
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  Speaker 1: sold the Republican Party in a high stakes proxy war
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  Speaker 1: that could decide control of the US Senate going into November.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Readley Lewis in for Dan ball. Real America starts
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the straits have to be open. They're going to
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  Speaker 2: be open. When where the other So they need to
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  Speaker 2: be open. What's happening? There's a law food said legal,
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  Speaker 2: it's some sustainable.
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  Speaker 3: In the world.
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  Speaker 2: It's unacceptable.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know any country in the world, the Russians
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  Speaker 4: that I have a favor of the tolding system, the Chinese.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm in favor of the tolling system.
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  Speaker 5: And there's no country in the world that's a favor
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  Speaker 5: of the tolling system except the regime in Iran, and
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  Speaker 5: that's not acceptable.
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  Speaker 2: That means that cannot happen. The straits need to be open, unimpeded.
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  Speaker 1: Without tools, both folks, Welcome to the show. Riley lewis
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  Speaker 1: once again filling in for Dan Ball our top story.
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  Speaker 1: You just heard it right there from Sex State Rivio.
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  Speaker 1: The US military launching targeted self defense strikes in southern
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  Speaker 1: Iran following a sudden escalation inside the Persian Gulf. US
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  Speaker 1: Central Command confirmed this operation, stating that forces active active
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  Speaker 1: to protect troops from immediate threats posed by Iranian forces
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  Speaker 1: near the strategic port city of Bandar Abbas Now. According
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  Speaker 1: to senior US officials, the situation erupted when two Iranian
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  Speaker 1: Revolutionary Guard Corps IRGC boats were spotted actively laying mines
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  Speaker 1: in the Strait of Hormuz. American forces then moved quickly
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  Speaker 1: to eliminate both vessels. Additionally, a US military aircraft was
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  Speaker 1: targeted by an Iranian surface to air missile site, prompting
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  Speaker 1: a rapid retaliatory strike that destroyed the launch site. But
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  Speaker 1: despite the sudden surge in combat, again, official stress that
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  Speaker 1: the broader, weeks long Pakistani mediated ceasefire somehow remains intact
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  Speaker 1: despite it all, folks, at least, defensive actions come at
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  Speaker 1: a highly sensitive, defining moment in the saga with Iran,
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  Speaker 1: as President Trump announced that peace negotiations with the Iranian
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  Speaker 1: regime are quote proceeding nicely, but wild triump warn that
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  Speaker 1: any failure in diplomatic talks would lead to an even
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  Speaker 1: larger military response. Both sides appear determined for now, at least,
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  Speaker 1: to keep the peace deal on track. For example, Iran's
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  Speaker 1: foreign ministry has fiercely condemned the overnight American operation, labeling
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  Speaker 1: it a grave violation of the ceasefire in a blatant
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  Speaker 1: demonstration of bad faith. Those are their words, folks. At
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  Speaker 1: the same time, officials in Tehran warned that Washington would
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  Speaker 1: bear full responsibility for all consequences, declaring that no act
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  Speaker 1: of aggression, as they said, will go unanswered. The diplomatic
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  Speaker 1: pushback or backlash, I should say, comes to a highly
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  Speaker 1: delicate moment, a very fragile moment, as both countries participate
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  Speaker 1: in high stakes peace talks, again mediated by Pakistan. According
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  Speaker 1: to sources, the framework involves a proposed fourteen point memo
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  Speaker 1: of understanding, which includes the potential surrender or destruction of
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  Speaker 1: Iran's enriched uranium under international supervision. But now back in Washington,
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  Speaker 1: coming back from overseas, the Trump White House remains unphased
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  Speaker 1: by fiery rhetoric. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a future
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  Speaker 1: president in my opinion, made the US position very clear,
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  Speaker 1: stating that a peace deal is still possible, but also
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  Speaker 1: emphasizing at the same time that President Trump is determined
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  Speaker 1: to either secure a good deal or walk away with
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  Speaker 1: no deal at all, and with regional tensions once again
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  Speaker 1: hitting a boiling point, and that is where we are.
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  Speaker 1: International pressure is mounting for both sides to step back
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  Speaker 1: from the brink. People are calling for de escalation. China
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  Speaker 1: even has officially weighed on this crisis, forcefully urging all
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  Speaker 1: parties concerned to immediately de escalate and honor their cease
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  Speaker 1: fire commitments. Speaking from Beijing, China's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman stressed
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  Speaker 1: that disputes must be resolved through peaceful dialogue and negotiation
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  Speaker 1: rather than military action. She stated that Beijing is maintaining
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  Speaker 1: close comms with all relevant nations, including Tehran, to ensure
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  Speaker 1: the early restoration of peace and stability across the Gulf.
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  Speaker 1: But while international partners pressed for calm, Washington is signaling
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  Speaker 1: that its patience has limits. Sex State Marcarubio once again
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  Speaker 1: made it clear that while diplomacy is the top priority,
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  Speaker 1: military options remain firmly on the table.
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  Speaker 5: The desire the President has, his preference is to find
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  Speaker 5: a diplomatic way that these problems can be solved. That's
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  Speaker 5: always the president's preference. He would much rather have me
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  Speaker 5: and the Department of States solved this problem than the
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  Speaker 5: Department of War having to solve this problem. But the
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  Speaker 5: problem is going to be solved one way or the other.
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  Speaker 1: You heard it there, folks, unequivocally. But while administration officials
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  Speaker 1: emphasized that a diplomatic resolution is still the ultimate goal,
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  Speaker 1: the human cost of the conflict itself remains front and center.
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  Speaker 1: In Washington, d C. Speaking at Arlington National Cemetery, President
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  Speaker 1: Trump paused to reflect on the ultimate sacrifice made by
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  Speaker 1: American service members during the intense weeks of combat.
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  Speaker 6: Watch this in Operation Epic Fury, we lost thirteen wonderful souls,
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  Speaker 6: wonderful special people. These incredible men and women gave their
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  Speaker 6: lives to ensure that the world's number one stage sponsor
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  Speaker 6: of terror will never have a nuclear weapon.
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  Speaker 1: Oh and they won't. They will never have a nuclear weapon.
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  Speaker 7: I'm sure.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure you know that.
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  Speaker 1: And here now with his thoughts on the program is
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  Speaker 1: Robert Spencer, author, scholar of the Region, and director of
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  Speaker 1: Jihad Watch. Robert, my friend, Thank you for being here.
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  Speaker 8: Always good to talk to you. Riley, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: So your reaction. And I think it's important that we
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  Speaker 1: emphasize how everything is changing almost by the second. But
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  Speaker 1: what do you make of it? I mean, really really
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  Speaker 1: fragile ceasefire between Iran and the US. We'll say technically holding,
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  Speaker 1: but tensions are skyrocketing quickly. What do you think is
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  Speaker 1: going to happen here?
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  Speaker 8: Understand the pressure that both sides are under, and certainly
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  Speaker 8: I understand how the president wants to have a negotiated settlement,
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  Speaker 8: But the fact is that the longer the cease fire
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  Speaker 8: remains in place, and the longer the Islamic Republic has
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  Speaker 8: to be able to regroup without having to deal with
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  Speaker 8: particular attacks. The stronger the Islamic Republic will grow, and
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  Speaker 8: ultimately the conflict will be prolonged. It will not end.
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  Speaker 8: The Islamic regime in Tehran will never actually honor any
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  Speaker 8: settlement it agrees to. It is based on the ideology.
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  Speaker 8: It's based on has a developed doctrine of deception in
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  Speaker 8: order to lull your enemies into complacency and gather strength
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  Speaker 8: at gain time, thereby to gather strength to fight again
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  Speaker 8: more effectively. The regime itself is unshakably hostile to the
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  Speaker 8: United States. It is only going to use use time
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  Speaker 8: without attacks to build up its strength, and it's never
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  Speaker 8: going to come to a point where we can say
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  Speaker 8: now there will be lasting peace between the United States
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  Speaker 8: and Iran. The only way there will ever be lasting
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  Speaker 8: peace between the United States in Iran is that the
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  Speaker 8: Islamic Republic falls and the new regime is in place
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  Speaker 8: in Tehran.
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  Speaker 1: Understood, So as far as tomorrow goes, then Robert is there.
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  Speaker 1: Because everybody's talking about a potential deal. I know that
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  Speaker 1: negotiations are happening, that's being reported, but it leaves me
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  Speaker 1: wondering genuinely. Is there even really a deal to be had,
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  Speaker 1: one that both sides would agree to, And if so,
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  Speaker 1: what does that look like?
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  Speaker 8: Well, the President wants the Iranians to turn over their
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  Speaker 8: nuclear material. Yes, the Iranians have already refused. But see
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  Speaker 8: even this shows the duplicity of the Islamic regime in
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  Speaker 8: Tehran because they have enriched uranium to just below weapons
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  Speaker 8: grade level. There is no peaceful means. There's no peaceful
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  Speaker 8: reason why they would have enriched uranium to that point.
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  Speaker 8: The only reason why uranium is ever enriched to that
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  Speaker 8: point is to make nuclear weapons. So either they plan
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  Speaker 8: to make nuclear weapons in the future or they don't
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  Speaker 8: really have any idea what they're doing. I think it's
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  Speaker 8: much more likely that they plan to make nuclear weapons
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  Speaker 8: in the future. They have repeatedly denied any intention of
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  Speaker 8: ever turning over this nuclear material to the United States
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  Speaker 8: or anyone else. This shows that they are both dishonest
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  Speaker 8: and a menaced to the rest of the world.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I couldn't agree with you more there, Robert, thank
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  Speaker 1: you for shedding a light on that, because a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people are wondering. I'll leave you with this. President
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  Speaker 1: Trump has his work cutout for him. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what you do here. I don't envy that
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  Speaker 1: position at all, but I am praying for him. I
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  Speaker 1: wish him godspeed, and I want to thank you for
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  Speaker 1: your time today very much.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Coming up on the show, Whiless, situation between the US
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  Speaker 1: and Iran heats up, as we just discussed with Robert Spencer.
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  Speaker 1: So does the situation between Israel and pezbal Law, a
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  Speaker 1: terror proxy of the Iranian regime. We'll tell you all
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  Speaker 1: about it, Plus pulls for the Senate runoff between John
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  Speaker 1: Cornyn and Ken Paxton, who's backed by President Trump in
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: Texas close to night. Tonight is the night, folks. We'll
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  Speaker 1: share our predictions and all the latest news on that front.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, Vice President jd. Vance holds a historic meeting
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  Speaker 1: with state ags at the White House. Will dive right
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  Speaker 1: into it. All that is coming up on Real America.
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  Speaker 10: What this requires of us now is to increase the blows,
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  Speaker 10: to increase intensity.
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  Speaker 1: We will smite them with overwhelming force. And that escalation
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  Speaker 1: is already underway as we speak, happening right now. Following
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  Speaker 1: the Prime Minister's video address, something we all just saw
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  Speaker 1: Israelly Defense Force has launched a fresh wave of heavy
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  Speaker 1: air strikes targeting more than seventy Hesbolah infrastructure sites all
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  Speaker 1: over southern Lebanon and the Eastern Border region as well,
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  Speaker 1: in order to press the accelerator. Comes despite a very
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  Speaker 1: very tender, fragile US broker truce that took effect back
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  Speaker 1: in mid April. He may remember that, folks now IS
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  Speaker 1: officials say this ceasefire, we'll call it, has been severely
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  Speaker 1: tested by what they call a surge in hes BiLaw
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  Speaker 1: drone strikes. The group has reportedly fired more than one
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  Speaker 1: thousand unmanned aerial vehicles and on top of that, seven
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  Speaker 1: hundred rockets at Israeli positions in just over a week.
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  Speaker 1: Many of the weapons are advanced as well, fiber optic
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  Speaker 1: drones designed to evade any sort of electronic jamming, a
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  Speaker 1: common defense for drone attacks. Now, the escalation also comes
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  Speaker 1: at a very critical moment. Actually, I would say it's
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  Speaker 1: not just critical, but a pivotal moment, even a defining
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  Speaker 1: moment for regional diplomacy. See the US State Department announced
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  Speaker 1: that Israel and Lebanon have agreed to a forty five
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  Speaker 1: day extension of that truce we just mentioned. The extension
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  Speaker 1: was hammered out following two days of what officials called
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  Speaker 1: productive talks in Washington. However, the path to peace remains
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  Speaker 1: difficult and extremely muddy at best. After all, his Blah
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  Speaker 1: is not a party to the ceasefire agreement and has
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  Speaker 1: rejected the accord, meaning high stakes military talks set for
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  Speaker 1: this Friday at the end of this week folks at
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  Speaker 1: the Pentagon will take place amid continuing and violent clashes
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  Speaker 1: on the ground. Now, joining me next here to discuss
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  Speaker 1: a very interesting guest. He's an energy specialist, a geopolitical analyst,
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  Speaker 1: a good friend of mine, Mister Chris Johnson, Chris, thank
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  Speaker 1: you for your time. Great to see you, brother. Every
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  Speaker 1: single day something new, hundreds of rockets and drones going
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  Speaker 1: off all the time, huge escalation happening in Lebanon, all
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  Speaker 1: while the US and Iran have their own very fragile
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  Speaker 1: ceasefire as well, that arguably being broken recently. What do
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  Speaker 1: you make of it? I mean, what are you seeing
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  Speaker 1: here on the ground and what do you think this
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  Speaker 1: is all good?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, these ceasefires need to be We need to be
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  Speaker 11: sure that these are not opportunities to recover and reload
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  Speaker 11: for the folks that want to fight against US and
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  Speaker 11: our allies. And we're seeing the pinch point of the
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  Speaker 11: straight UPFOM moves being a real limiting factor for Iran.
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  Speaker 11: A lot of folks are obviously correctly worried about increasing
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  Speaker 11: US at the pump, but ultimately the way that they
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  Speaker 11: are able to rebuild their economy and reload their military
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  Speaker 11: is by selling energy abroad. And so the more that
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  Speaker 11: we can create that pinch point for them and make
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  Speaker 11: this hurt and make it so that these ceasefires are
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  Speaker 11: leading to negotiations and not just an opportunity to reload,
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  Speaker 11: the better that the outcomes are going to be for everyone,
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  Speaker 11: not just those in the region, but for us as well,
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  Speaker 11: who need to see this straight opened up.
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  Speaker 1: Well, And one thing to your point here about the
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  Speaker 1: whole region wide conflict, because the Middle East is this
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  Speaker 1: is the precarious position. We haven't seen this kind of
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  Speaker 1: ongoing combat in a long time in terms of the
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  Speaker 1: scale and the severity and the toll it's taking on
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  Speaker 1: the civilians who get caught in the crossfire. But there's
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  Speaker 1: a problem, right, We have negotiations going on, we have talks,
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  Speaker 1: diplomacy is being pushed, but there's a cloud that hangs
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  Speaker 1: over it, right because to your point, Israel and America,
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  Speaker 1: we know what Hasblah's goal is to wipe Israel in America,
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  Speaker 1: clean off the map. That's not a secret. And for Israel,
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  Speaker 1: the goal obviously is to take away Iron's ability to
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  Speaker 1: fund its proxies like Hasbelah and to wage war and
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  Speaker 1: support terrorism. So this is I don't know how you
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  Speaker 1: try to find any kind of compromise or I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how you proceed with a negotiation, Chris, when you
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  Speaker 1: have such radically different goals, and those aren't secrets either. So,
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  Speaker 1: with talks lined up for later this week, and presumably
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  Speaker 1: past that, what are you expecting to see. Do you
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  Speaker 1: think we might see some kind of headway toward peace
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  Speaker 1: or is peace even really possible?
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  Speaker 11: Gonna be really tough, But hopefully this is not where
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  Speaker 11: we see the administration and the President go wobbly, as
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  Speaker 11: they say, And so making sure that we are going
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  Speaker 11: to do the goals that we set out to achieve,
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  Speaker 11: which is making sure that Iron is not funding proxies
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  Speaker 11: in the region that are creating chaos. And the best
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  Speaker 11: way to do that is limits limit Iron's ability to
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  Speaker 11: obviously get a nuclear weapon, but also limit their ability
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  Speaker 11: to export energy. And so if we are not just
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  Speaker 11: sanctioning them, but making it so, we are producing so
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  Speaker 11: much energy for the rest of the world, oil, natural gas,
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  Speaker 11: all forms of energy. We are now manufacturing gigawatts of
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  Speaker 11: solar panels every year. The more that we are building
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  Speaker 11: that here and exporting it here drives prices down so
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  Speaker 11: that they are not able to enrich themselves and continue
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  Speaker 11: to fight. And as long as they are feeling that
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  Speaker 11: and seeing it more and more, obviously they're willing to
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  Speaker 11: take on a lot of actual damage. We know they
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  Speaker 11: don't care about the civilian toll because it was just
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  Speaker 11: months ago that they were shooting thousands of their own
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  Speaker 11: citizens in the streets. So where we have to make
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  Speaker 11: it hurt is on the energy front by out competing them,
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  Speaker 11: by out producing them, out building them, and making sure
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  Speaker 11: our allies are on the same pace US and ensuring
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  Speaker 11: that countries like China that are buying oil from Iran
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  Speaker 11: are feeling a hurt for.
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  Speaker 2: That as well.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, so, final sort of thought here the energy question
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  Speaker 1: that you're alluding to. Everybody knows that prices of the
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  Speaker 1: pump are increasing, right. It doesn't matter, Chris, what side
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  Speaker 1: of the asle you're on. It doesn't matter if your
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  Speaker 1: pro Israel engaging has the law and the US military
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  Speaker 1: engaging Iran, doesn't matter if you're radically opposed to it.
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  Speaker 1: And I think there's people in both camps and both parties.
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  Speaker 1: Prices are rising, and I'd like to take a minute
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  Speaker 1: to just explain more about what you're saying in terms
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  Speaker 1: of how we get out of it. We know that
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  Speaker 1: oil is a global commodity, and we know that twenty
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  Speaker 1: percent of the world's supply is traveling through that critical
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  Speaker 1: maritime bottleneck, the Strait of Hormuz, right through which you
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  Speaker 1: get to carg Island where they're loading these supertankers in
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  Speaker 1: Iran full of millions and millions of barrels of oil
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  Speaker 1: per day. I think they can move like seven or
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  Speaker 1: eight million barls of oil in a single day through
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  Speaker 1: the Strait, maybe even more, got it. Okay, maybe it's
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  Speaker 1: closer to twenty million. But we don't buy oil from Iran.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm worried about this because we're going into the
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  Speaker 1: most critical midterm elections this country may have in November,
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  Speaker 1: and if prices are through the roof, then the party
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  Speaker 1: and power the America First Party will lose control or
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  Speaker 1: at least lose seats. So could you walk us through
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  Speaker 1: why this issue with the straight up four moves is
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  Speaker 1: affecting the energy market here in America, even though we
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  Speaker 1: don't buy oil from Iran, and other things that we
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  Speaker 1: could do practically right now on the ground to lower
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  Speaker 1: prices and give Americans some economic relief going into November. Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: So, obviously, oil is a globally treated commodity, and the
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  Speaker 11: kinds of oil that we can refine into things like
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  Speaker 11: jet fuel are really specific, and so our refineries use
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  Speaker 11: a heavier crude that we often cannot produce here to ourselves,
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  Speaker 11: so we have to get it from abroad, and that's
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  Speaker 11: similar for a lot of other countries. We need to
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  Speaker 11: one make sure that we can use our own oil,
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  Speaker 11: so that's retrofitting and building new refineries that use the
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  Speaker 11: light sweet crew that we produce here in the United States.
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  Speaker 11: The other part of the equation to keep prices down
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  Speaker 11: is just to make more energy of all kinds. And
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  Speaker 11: so the more that we are diversified on this, the
• 19:15
  Speaker 11: more that we are producing as many different forms of
• 19:18
  Speaker 11: energy as possible. I mentioned, you know, building solar manufacturing. Here,
• 19:21
  Speaker 11: we're building new nuclear The President is adamant about building
• 19:25
  Speaker 11: ten new gigawatt reactors, building battery technology, building all of
• 19:29
  Speaker 11: the above energy solutions that's going to produce more energy.
• 19:32
  Speaker 11: Into the midterm question, I think, yes, voters are going
• 19:35
  Speaker 11: to be concerned about higher prices. But when the stated
• 19:37
  Speaker 11: goal of the Democratic Party and much of the environmental
• 19:39
  Speaker 11: left is higher energy prices, it seems hard for me
• 19:43
  Speaker 11: to see the jump logically of I'm mad about energy
• 19:46
  Speaker 11: prices being high, so I'm going to vote for the
• 19:47
  Speaker 11: other guys who like high energy prices. So Luckily, I
• 19:50
  Speaker 11: think the energy issue still works well in Republican favor. Oh.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: I hope you're right about that, Chris. I know where
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: the logical leads right in minds sometimes and the heat
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: of the moment, people don't always vote logically. So we'll
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: see what happens. But I do appreciate that insight. And
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: one last thing, you run the American Energy Leadership Institute.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Could you tell our audience a little bit about what
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: that organization does and how can they learn more.
• 20:16
  Speaker 11: Yeah, we're the arms, hands and feet of the energy
• 20:18
  Speaker 11: dominance agenda from the grassroots to the grasstops, and we
• 20:21
  Speaker 11: want to make sure everybody knows what the administration and
• 20:24
  Speaker 11: members of Congress are doing and need to do to
• 20:26
  Speaker 11: make sure we stay energy dominant and that energy dominance
• 20:29
  Speaker 11: continues to grow. So if you want to work with
• 20:31
  Speaker 11: a bunch of you plucky younger Republicans and Conservatives that
• 20:35
  Speaker 11: are trying to get this new energy economy built with
• 20:38
  Speaker 11: this administration and future Republican administration, check us out at
• 20:41
  Speaker 11: aeliaction dot org.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Fantastic, Chris, thank you for your expertise and thank you
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: for your time.
• 20:47
  Speaker 11: Thanks for having me up next on.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Real America Chaos in the City of Chicago surprise surprise,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: as multiple police officers are allegedly reportedly struck by an
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: eighteen year old driver during the city's latest team takeover.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: By the way, Chicago Mayor and Brandon Johnson doing absolutely
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: nothing about it. We have all the details stick around.
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• 21:52
  Speaker 4: This car just ran through a whole crowd of Chicago
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: police officers while we clear out to the block party.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, or oh my god. This dude right
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: here just ran through a whole crowd of Chicago Police office. Folks.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: It's not Mogadishu. It's the streets of America. It's a
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: scene spreading like a plague all over the country. Teenagers
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: in modified machines, staging reckless, careless, dangerous, and occasionally fatal
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: street takeovers, as they call them. The latest case involving
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: what you all just saw right there, a teenager is
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: now facing multiple accounts of attempted murder murder folks after
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: a chaotic teen takeover on Chicago's West Side left five
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: police officers injured. Now authority say eighteen year old Rashaw
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Johnson was behind the wheel of a blue Sedan early
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Sunday morning near Lewis Street into Roosevelt Road. Officers were
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: trying to disperse a large after prom crowd when Johnson
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: and allegedly reportedly drove into the wrong lane, striking five
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: officers on foot before crashing into a squad car and
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: even offense. Now Fortunately, thank god, all five officers were
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: hospitalized with non life threatening injuries and they are in
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: fair condition. But in the wake of the incident, the spineless,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: soft on crime communist Mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, took
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: to social media to address the violence. And that's what
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: this is, violence against the city's law enforcement, writing this,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: our police officers put their lives on the line every
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: single day to protect our communities and an attack on
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: them is an attack on the entire city of Chicago.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: I am praying for a full and speedy recovery for
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: the five brave officers injured during Sunday's chaotic gathering. We
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: will ensure that those responsible for this reckless and dangerous
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: behavior are held fully accountable under the law. Yeah right. However,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: that milk toast response, and it's really just pathetic more
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: so than anything, is already drawing fierce blowback from within
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: his own party, his own ranks, folks, not just our side.
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: See.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: The mayor is facing severe criticism today, rightfully so from
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: fellow Democrat Alderman Raymond Lopez, who blasted the administration's handling
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: of these ongoing street takeovers. Lopez took to the airwaves
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: to call out what he describes as a lack of
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: preventative leadership, arguing that the city's approach to these massive,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: unauthorized gatherings is putting first responders directly into harm's way.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: They're not putting the first responders or the people first.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: The Alderman pushed back against the Mayor's sentiment, demanding harsher
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: and immediate consequences for these gatherings, so to speak, rather
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: than bold reactionary statements. But rather than face the music,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: the mayor continues to cling to a dangerous progressive fail
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: anty sea land, this idea of some utopia that will
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: never exist. It's exactly this kind of reckless mindset where
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: anarchy has met with an excuse and criminals face zero
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: actual consequences that guarantees these takeovers will only happen again
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: and again. Folks, it's not rocket science. Now that brings
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: us to the mayor. Watch how he defends a system
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: that essentially invites more violence in the city streets. Unbelievable,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: truly unbelievable and unacceptable. By the way, and joining us
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: now to discuss it all is retired Chriff of Pinal County, Arizona,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: and he's running for Congress in Arizona's fifth district, Mark Lamb, Sheriff.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Good sir, thank you for being here. I know you're busy.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: You have a country to say of a campaign to run.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Let me start by asking you this. So Brandon Johnson,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: this communist clown who somehow got elected mayor of one
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: of the biggest cities in all of America, says all
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: the time we can't arrest our way to safety.
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: What are your thoughts, Well, that's what weak leadership says.
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: You don't need to arrest them. What you need to
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: do is hold them accountable when we do arrest them,
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: and then the arrest will matter. They're not wrong in
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: the sense that if you arrest everybody and then the
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: judges and the prosecutors just turn them loose back onto
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: the street, He's right, those arrests will eventually they'll say
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: it doesn't matter.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go to jail for the night. They're going
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: to release me.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: And I got people like Brandon Johnson and Merritt Pritzker
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: who are going to defend these criminals as opposed to
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: defending and protecting the police and the AUS citizens American citizens.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Instead, they want to continue to pret criminals and illegal aliens.
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: By the way, as well, what they've got to start
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: doing is putting pressure on judges and prosecutors to actually
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: uphold the law and hold people accountable, do not release them,
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: make them sit and jail and tell their court date,
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: and then actually have some serious consequences for him. That's
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: how you fix crime. But to say that, oh, you
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: can't rest your weigh out.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Of this problem. That's weak leadership, yes.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: So agreed, It's not leadership of any kind at all,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: which again leads me to a different question about why
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: anybody in the right mind would ever vote for him.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: But just setting that aside for a minute, Jariff, I
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: want to ask you about the why question. It calls
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: for speculation. We're not inside of anyone's mind or heart,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: fair enough, But why do we see this playing out
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: in liberal cities all over America? New Orleans, Baltimore, Portland, Seattle,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, New York City. This seems
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: to be a particularly left wing liberal phenomenon of these
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: team takes. What do you make of that?
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: Well, it's because elected officials, people that have really like
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: you said, people like Brandon Johnson.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: I don't know how they got elected. But in a
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: lot of.
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: These big liberal cities you get these elected officials and
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: what do they do. They paint you know, law enforcement,
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: border patrol ice, They paint us as the enemy.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: You don't think that has a trickle down effect on it.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: And frankly, a lot of this is really bad parenting.
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: As well, where those parents are super disrespectful to law
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: enforcement and authority, and you don't think that that's not
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: going to just transfer.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: Over to the children as well as they grow up.
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: And then when the society says we're not going to
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: hold you accountable because of your upbringing or because you
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: were poor, or the color of your skin or whatever
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: it might be, then all of a sudden, these folks
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: feel very emboldened to go out and commit crimes.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: And this happens more and more in liberal cities. You
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: just don't see this in cities.
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: Where people believe in upholding the rule of law and
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: you have strong law enforcement, you don't see it.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: That's interesting. So, given your long career in public service,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: I think a lot of us are looking at it
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: and wondering where is this going? Because here's what I see.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: At some point, it starts as a one off thing, right,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: it happens every once in a while, these team takeovers
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: or whatever, but it's not regular. Then it becomes regular habitual.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: It starts to escalate. They become more severe, bigger crowds,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: more people getting hurt, more cities in America. So if
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: we don't do more to hold these people accountable and
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: to hold these leaders accountable, well, leaders where does this
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: go from here?
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: Sheriff, Well, it's not good. You know.
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: This is like raising the child where every time they
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: want a juice box or whatever, they cry and throw
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: a fit, and you're like, hello, he's hungry's just leave
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: them alone. The behavior only progressively gets worse because this
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: is what they learn. This is learned behavior of not
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: being held accountable for your actions, for the disrespect of authority.
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: And I don't want to live in a police state,
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: but I also don't want people running around unruly, not
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: following the law. Well, the rest of us are trying
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: to follow the law. You can't have that in a
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: good society. And what we're seeing in these cities is
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: you're seeing more and more people move away from those cities.
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: The same people, the people that are able to that
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: have the resources to be able to move, are saying
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: I'm out, I'm moving to Arizona.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: I'm moving to one of these other states, maybe where
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: they don't have as much problem. But that's the consequences
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: of it. So, yeah, you asked where it's going to go,
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: not anywhere good?
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agreed. I can't think of I can't tell
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: you a shareff how many people I know especially from
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: the West coast, places like Portland, Seattle area, San Francisco.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: They're fleeing in droves, Florida, Arizona, you'r state, Texas and beyond, Tennessee, Kentucky,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: you name it. But I want to set that aside
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: for a minute because we just have a little while
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: left and I want to check in on your campaign.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: You've got a very important primary coming up here in
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: a few weeks. Just tell us about how things are
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: going and what people can expect to see moving forward.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: Well, campaign's going great. We're up by sixty points in
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: the polls.
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: They're shooting at us big time, which tells us we're
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: over the target and we're the threat, and we're going
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: to continue to push for what is right. Look, American
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: people are sick and tired of where we're going in
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: this country in the direction what our politicians, our elected officials,
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: have done, driven us into debt, continuing to not look
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: out for the American people, like you saw with Brandon Johnson,
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: not protecting Americans and.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: Standing up for criminals and illegal aliens. Americans are done
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: with it. We're fed up. We're fed up with the fraud,
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: We're fed up with it.
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: All, and we want people that are going to go
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: back and represent the American people.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: That's what we want.
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: We want people that are authentic and unapologetic defenders of God, family, freedom,
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: and the Constitution. And that's why our campaign is going
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: well because people are hungry for that and they see
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: in me somebody that's going to bring that type of
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: authenticity and love of country and love of God and
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: family and freedom to Washington DC and Washington DC.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: Like I always say, these more cowboy hats and belt buckles.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, agreed. Look and by the way, it's people on
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: both sides. We need fresh fighters, we need fresh voices,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: We need patriots like yourself. So I wish you all
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: the best of luck, godspeed, and thank you for your time.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: All right, Thanks Riley, God bless you.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Up next on the show, All Eyes are on Texas
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: tonight as the Senate showdown between John Cornyn and Ken
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Paxton unfolds. Stay with us, folks, will be right back.
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  Speaker 1: Hello, folks, welcome back to the show. All eyes are
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: on the Lone Star State tonight, as Texas voters head
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: to the polls for a high stakes primary runoff that
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: will certainly shape not just the future of the Lone
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Star State itself, but also the future of the US Senate.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Incumbent Senator John Cornyn, a known rhino if there ever
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: was one, is facing a fierce challenge from Texas Attorney
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: General Ken Paxton. Cornyn narrowly led Paxton by a single
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: point in March. Just think about that, folks, one single
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: point in the March primary. But the political landscape shifted
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: dramatically just one week ago. Why here's why. In a
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: late game bombshell, President Trump officially threw his highly coveted
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: and endorsement behind Ken Paxton, supercharging the attorney general's campaign,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: and that endorsement is already paying its dividends as we
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: would come to expect. The latest polling conducted by political
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: forecasting website Race to the White House shows Paxton get
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: this ahead right now as we speak, with fifty three
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: percent support and incumbent John Cornyn again a rhino trailing
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: by fourteen points at just under thirty nine percent. If
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: you can believe it, folks, this race is about a
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: whole lot more than just a single Senate seat, although
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: that's important. It's turned into a brutal one hundred and
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: twenty million dollar proxy war for the soul of the GOP.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Cornyn and his allies are positioning him as a traditional
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: institutionalist someone who can win the general election, warning that
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: Paxton's legal baggage could give Democrats their first statewide win
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: in decades. Meanwhile, Paxton's MAGA populist America First base is
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: firing right back straight on, calling Cornyn too quick to
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: compromise with the radical left anti America Democrat coalition. So
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: it's a bitter choice between the party's establishment guard, the
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: old GOP, the Bush era GOP, and it's populist nationalist
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: MAGA fire brands and Texas voters are making their voices
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: heard as we speak and we'll see what they decide
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: to do. But weighing in now is a good friend
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: of mine, a great journalist based in the state of Texas,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: mister Tony Ortiz. Tony, first of all, thank you for
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: your time. I know you're a very busy guy, especially
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: given all of the election madness. Let's start with this primary,
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: or this runoff I should say, happening between John Cornyn
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: and Ken Paxton. What are you hearing on the ground
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: from your sources, and what do you think is going
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: to happen here tonight.
• 36:00
  Speaker 10: I think Cornyn does not take this. I think it's
• 36:03
  Speaker 10: a huge loss. M I think Paxton runs away with
• 36:06
  Speaker 10: it quite easily. Even the prediction markets are showing that
• 36:10
  Speaker 10: Paxton's up with a ninety six percent chance of victory here.
• 36:14
  Speaker 10: So I don't see I don't see Corner pulling it off.
• 36:18
  Speaker 10: In fact, you know that traditionally runoff elections, runoff races
• 36:21
  Speaker 10: are more attended by the farther right on the spectrum voters,
• 36:28
  Speaker 10: So it would make sense that Paxton would perform.
• 36:30
  Speaker 7: Better in a runoff as well.
• 36:32
  Speaker 10: And you know people have talked to on the ground
• 36:34
  Speaker 10: and fellow reporters are reporting that even voters that are
• 36:37
  Speaker 10: at these these voting election these voting polling places are
• 36:42
  Speaker 10: actually getting violent towards corner voters or corn And supporters.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: In one in one.
• 36:46
  Speaker 10: Situation, Scott Braddock for coren Report reported that a Cornan
• 36:50
  Speaker 10: volunteer got spin on by a Paxton supporter. So things
• 36:54
  Speaker 10: are getting pretty aggressive there and so it just we'll
• 36:57
  Speaker 10: see what happens.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Well, maybe I guess that speaks to the stakes of
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: this election. No one wants to no one can doonees
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: violence here. But that's interesting and it leads me to
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: a question about those stakes and really the critical issues.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: So for what you're hearing, what are some of those
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: top issues that are motivating people at the ballot box
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: in Texas tonight.
• 37:18
  Speaker 10: Yeah, Well, a big one obviously is a Trump endorsement, Right,
• 37:20
  Speaker 10: that's huge, I think for the Republican base. The magabase
• 37:23
  Speaker 10: is really keen on voting with however the President Trump.
• 37:27
  Speaker 10: However President Trump tells them to you know, things like
• 37:30
  Speaker 10: gun rights, a secure border. Those are the big things, right,
• 37:33
  Speaker 10: Those are issues that in this race really really matter.
• 37:36
  Speaker 10: And as we all know, Congress from Senator John Cornyn
• 37:40
  Speaker 10: has been really soft on immigration policies. And gun rights,
• 37:44
  Speaker 10: and so these are issues that people really care about.
• 37:47
  Speaker 10: But you know, as well as the fact that just
• 37:49
  Speaker 10: Ken Paxson is really really well appreciated in Texas. He's
• 37:53
  Speaker 10: been a phenomenal attorney general, personal issues aside and scandals aside.
• 37:57
  Speaker 10: As an attorney general, Ken Paxson has been phenomenal, and
• 38:00
  Speaker 10: I think voters that really resonates with voters.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: So now let me broaden this out for our final
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: question for you, Tony. So, just looking at the landscape
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: right now, we see Thomas Massey being ousted in his primary, right,
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: we see lots of people who are aligned with the president,
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: with Donald Trump, winning their primaries in critical states, in
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: critical seats all over the country. It's not just Kentucky,
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: it's not just Texas precedent. We're seeing this all over
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: the nation.
• 38:26
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: What and I'm assuming, well, I'm guessing based on all
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: available data, right this is an educated guess. I'm guessing
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: that Cornan is going to go pack his back tonight
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: and Paston will win that seat. If that's true, there's
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: clearly a pattern. What does that pattern tell us about
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: the landscape going into November for Republicans but also for Democrats?
• 38:48
  Speaker 10: Well, I think it shows that the farther right base
• 38:50
  Speaker 10: is growing and then the more moderate, maybe middle of
• 38:53
  Speaker 10: the road Republican base is either getting completely turned off
• 38:56
  Speaker 10: and not showing up to elections anymore, or they're just
• 38:59
  Speaker 10: getting some One of the two is happening. You know,
• 39:02
  Speaker 10: Cornin and supporters and voters I've talked to are pretty
• 39:05
  Speaker 10: frustrated with, you know, the fact that the President kind
• 39:08
  Speaker 10: of keeps, you know, butting his head in what they
• 39:11
  Speaker 10: call it state wider local politics, right, and you know,
• 39:16
  Speaker 10: people in d C staffers and people I've spoken to
• 39:19
  Speaker 10: aren't really looking forward to a Ken Pax and actually
• 39:22
  Speaker 10: appearing in the Senate. They're not looking forward to his
• 39:25
  Speaker 10: appearance there. So that remains to be seen what happens.
• 39:28
  Speaker 10: Their Democrats are happy about this though. Democrats in the
• 39:32
  Speaker 10: taller Ico versus Republican runoff, Democrats are hoping for a
• 39:37
  Speaker 10: Ken Pax and win, which is very interesting.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: It says a lot about the landscape there too. Yeah. Interesting.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: I call it strange and kind of insane. But Tony,
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: the data is what it is. Thank you for your
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: time today and I appreciate it. Thanks for having me
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: straight ahead on real America. Vice President jd Vance hosts
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: State Ags at the White House earlier today as part
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: of his critical his story never before seen mission to
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: crack down on a waste, fraud and abuse of taxpayer money.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: We'll tell you all about it after the break.
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  Speaker 12: We're protecting two classes of victims here. We're protecting the
• 40:55
  Speaker 12: American taxpayers who shouldn't have their money stolen by fraudsters,
• 40:58
  Speaker 12: and of course we're protecting the people who need these services.
• 41:01
  Speaker 12: Fraud is not a victimless crime. This is not somebody
• 41:04
  Speaker 12: gets to make some money for violating the law and
• 41:07
  Speaker 12: otherwise it's not a big deal. This is people who
• 41:10
  Speaker 12: rely on critical services students who rely on student loan services,
• 41:15
  Speaker 12: sick people who who rely on hospice care, a number
• 41:19
  Speaker 12: of small businesses who rely on the availability of these
• 41:22
  Speaker 12: loans so that they can grow their business and hire people.
• 41:25
  Speaker 12: All of these people, all of our fellow Americans, have
• 41:28
  Speaker 12: been taken advantage by fraudsters. And the task force is
• 41:31
  Speaker 12: here to stop it.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: Well said and spoken like a true leader, folks, You
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: heard it right there. Vice President JD. Vance leading a
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: critical White House task force briefing early recently actually alongside
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: federal health and consumer protection leaders in this country. And
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: for what what is going on here? What is the purpose?
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: What's on the agenda? This cracking down on the skyrocketing
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: tide of fraud targeting federal benefit programs. Flanked by FTC
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: Chairman Andrew Ferguson as well as CMS administrator doctor Oz,
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: the Vice President emphasized an aggressive nationwide frontline against bad
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: actors exploiting the American taxpayer, So you and me, folks,
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: and the vulnerable. Their discussions focused heavily on dismantling what
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: we call systemic abuse, shocking abuse within government assistance programs,
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: highlighted of course, by a nationwide crackdown on not just thousands,
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: not just hundreds of thousands, not even millions or tens
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: of millions, but billions with a B billions of dollars
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: in fraudulent medicaid and home healthcare claims. NOW Chair Ferguson
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: pledged unprecedented interagency data sharing to recover stolen money, all
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: while federal and state partners committed to aggressive compliance rules
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: to ensure folks that law enforcement leaves no stone unturned
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: and bringing fraudsters and criminals to justice.
• 43:08
  Speaker 13: Fifty days ago today, fifty days ago today, Acting Attorney
• 43:12
  Speaker 13: General Todd Blanche announced the creation of the National Fraud
• 43:15
  Speaker 13: Enforcement Division at the Department of Justice, and today, fifty
• 43:19
  Speaker 13: days later, the Fraud Division has announced four hundred and
• 43:23
  Speaker 13: fifty four hundred and fifty major fraud events occurring across
• 43:27
  Speaker 13: the country, from charges to convictions to sentences. This task force,
• 43:33
  Speaker 13: under the Vice President's leadership, we are here to take
• 43:36
  Speaker 13: it personally every time someone decides to rob the United
• 43:41
  Speaker 13: States of their money. We are here to take it
• 43:43
  Speaker 13: personally when someone decides to take money from a program
• 43:48
  Speaker 13: designed to give money, food, health care to the needy,
• 43:52
  Speaker 13: the sick, and the elderly.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: Music to my ears and that brings us to Minnesota,
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: the hotbed of massive medicaid fraud. Federal prosecutors have taken
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: down a whole web and ecosystem of providers that have
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: been accused of treating public healthcare programs like their own
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: personal piggy bank. Authority say, for example, that fraudsters targeted
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: a program designed to help children with autism, something we've
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: discussed on the show, stealing millions by billing for services
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: that were never provided, diagnosing children folks children regardless of
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: their medical necessity, and paying illegal kickbacks to parents. Surprise, surprise.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: Now officials call it the largest autism treatment fraud scheme
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: in all of American history, marking a major federal crackdown
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: to protect our money in America's children. Then over in
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: the formerly golden state California, uh Comifornia, should I say,
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: the federal government is putting a freeze on one point
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: three billion dollars in Medicaid reimbursements, marking the single large
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: deferral of its kind overgrowing suspicions of widespread fraud. It's
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: a massive federal intervention and it comes on the heels
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: of California charging twenty one people in a separate, shocking, breathtaking,
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty seven million dollar hospice care fraud
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: scheme authority say that operation you stolen identities from the
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: dark web to bill for phantom end of life care
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: that was never actually provided in the first place, and
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: joining us now to weigh in on it. Is a
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: House Delegate from the state of Minnesota, Walter Hudson. Thank
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: you for being here. I know you're very busy, so
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: I appreciate your time. I want to start with your
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: reaction to how aggressively the Trump White House is taking
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: this issue of waste, fraud and abuse. Your thoughts.
• 45:46
  Speaker 7: It's a long time in coming, and we've really appreciated
• 45:49
  Speaker 7: here in the state of Minnesota. We've felt like we
• 45:52
  Speaker 7: have been alone, like nobody was hearing us. And finally
• 45:56
  Speaker 7: we have the full attention of the Trump administration and
• 45:59
  Speaker 7: we're so grateful for it. We need everything that they're
• 46:02
  Speaker 7: bringing to bear, and frankly, we could use every resource
• 46:05
  Speaker 7: that they have and can conjure in order to take
• 46:09
  Speaker 7: on this massive scheme to defraud the taxpair under the
• 46:13
  Speaker 7: guise of helping children and the disabled and folks who
• 46:18
  Speaker 7: are in need. This is a scheme that has been
• 46:21
  Speaker 7: going on within the Democrat Party for quite some time,
• 46:25
  Speaker 7: and I think we're only hitting the tip of the iceberg.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: Well, to your point, this goes back at least to
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. And when I think about it, Representative, I
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: don't know what kind of sick, deranged person would lie
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: about feeding hungry children during COVID. So there's that issue.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: It's just it's sickening. However, we know that the state
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: of Minnesota, your home state, has received billions of dollars
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: in federal assistance. So my tax money not just the
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: people in Minnesota being robbed, but I a Californian being
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: robbed in Minnesota, going all the way back to twenty nineteen,
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: and federal investigators believe the total amount could be anywhere
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: from nine to maybe twelve billion dollars or more in
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: stolen money. So in your estimation, based on what we're
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: saying now, where is all that money going? Is it
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: more housing programs, is it rehab programs? And where do
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: we even start in terms of uncovering it.
• 47:24
  Speaker 7: Well, listen, I think the focus right now is on
• 47:27
  Speaker 7: the providers who have engaged in the most egregious and
• 47:30
  Speaker 7: almost cartoonish version of fraud where it's like so egregious
• 47:35
  Speaker 7: that you wouldn't believe it unless you saw it. Feeding
• 47:38
  Speaker 7: our Future was a great example, two hundred and fifty
• 47:40
  Speaker 7: million dollars where people were buying mansions and going on
• 47:43
  Speaker 7: vacations and driving around in luxury vehicles, just completely shamelessly,
• 47:48
  Speaker 7: as if they had all under their own name, by
• 47:51
  Speaker 7: the way, like everything bought under their own names, as
• 47:54
  Speaker 7: if they never had any concern that this might be
• 47:56
  Speaker 7: something that would come back on them criminally. I think
• 47:59
  Speaker 7: the spur beneath the surface of the water is much
• 48:02
  Speaker 7: broader than that, and it goes to all these NGOs
• 48:06
  Speaker 7: and these left leaning for profits who have benefited from
• 48:11
  Speaker 7: the programs, the refugee programs, all these things that are
• 48:16
  Speaker 7: sold to the American people and the taxpayers in Minnesota
• 48:19
  Speaker 7: as benevolent and caring and being on the right side
• 48:23
  Speaker 7: of history. That actually just provided a pretext for people
• 48:26
  Speaker 7: to make their friends wealthy and fund Democrat political organizations.
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: So let me ask you this with Tim Walls, I
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: can't believe he's still in politics. Money is we know
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: that hundreds well, the reports are that hundreds of people
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: state employees went to him or his office, right, and
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: they sounded the alarm belt. They said, Governor, we see
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: evidence or what appears to be evidence of theft or
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: fraud or waste of some kind, and we want it
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: to be addressed. These are a good, heart working folks
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: in the state who genuinely care about Minnesota's and they
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: either faced retaliation, a threat of losing their job being fired,
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: which seems illegal in my mind. So I do wonder
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: about your position here. Has anyone come to you directly
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: or anybody in your office or in the state you know, legislature,
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: and said, we're seeing evidence of fraud to here or here,
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: and we need somebody with some kind of institutional power
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: to do something. Because Tim Wallas is not.
• 49:32
  Speaker 7: I'm a couple degrees of separation from those whistleblower reports.
• 49:36
  Speaker 7: So I was on the House Fraud Prevention and State
• 49:38
  Speaker 7: Agency Oversight Committee here in Minnesota, and one of our
• 49:42
  Speaker 7: Republican members was kind of taking point on engaging with
• 49:45
  Speaker 7: those whistleblowers state agency employees who experienced things like being
• 49:50
  Speaker 7: questioned as to where their children go to school and
• 49:52
  Speaker 7: where their bus stops are. I mean, just absolutely absurd,
• 49:55
  Speaker 7: mafia style intimidation that they were getting for having their
• 49:58
  Speaker 7: audacity to raise questions about whether or not these red
• 50:01
  Speaker 7: flags ought to be paid attention to. And listen, a
• 50:04
  Speaker 7: culture like that doesn't develop on its own. The buck
• 50:08
  Speaker 7: stops at the top. And Tim Wallas has been in
• 50:11
  Speaker 7: charge for a good long time. You know, he's entering
• 50:13
  Speaker 7: into his final potentially his finally you're here, and this
• 50:18
  Speaker 7: is something that there's no excuse for it. And it's
• 50:24
  Speaker 7: been so prolific in terms of not just those individual
• 50:26
  Speaker 7: anecdotes from the state agency employees, but documented avoidance of
• 50:31
  Speaker 7: recommendations from the Office of Legislative Auditor here in this
• 50:34
  Speaker 7: state avoidance and the public comments from Democrats downplaying and
• 50:40
  Speaker 7: even ridiculing media reports and whistleblowers. Clearly, there's something they
• 50:45
  Speaker 7: don't want us to see here, and it's not that
• 50:47
  Speaker 7: difficult to actually discern what it is that they're actually up.
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: To when they go after you to your point like that,
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: and you know you're right over the target. So I'll
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: just end by saying my message, my mindset, but my
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: message to my fellow Americans, be patient. We've seen indictments,
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: we've seen convictions at this point. Early we showed the
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: imagery of Amy Bach, who was leading feeding our future
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: who defrauded the government the taxpayer of a quarter billion dollars, right,
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: So the White House is taking this seriously. I suspect
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: more arrests in indictments will be following soon and in
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: the meantime, I just appreciate you talking about it with
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: us on the show today. Please keep up the good work,
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: please keep fighting, and thank you for your time. Thanks
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: for paying attention, and folks, we are all out of
• 51:33
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