January 8, 2026 • 62 mins
On episode 113 of Native Land Pod, hosts Angela Rye, Andrew Gillum, and Bakari Sellers try out a new rapid fire format. We heard y’all want us to get to more topics, well, here we go:
For Your Situational Awareness
Pastor Jamal Bryant catches heat for his wife’s dress? MAGA-coded CBS news anchor Tony Dokoupil bombs on his first day. Incumbent Tim Walz Drops Out of the Minnesota governor race. Trump accidentally gives Democrats their best ad for the midterms. War in Venezuela? What’s it really about?
What the heck is happening with Venezuela?? Trump has declared that the United States is going to control the country. Whose interests does this supposed occupation serve, how did we reach this point, and where could we be headed? Random as they may seem, there is a throughline through all the global conflicts the US gets involved in…
Is it AI-generated? Our hosts play a game to see if they can detect which video is AI. AI content and devices in general had our families in a chokehold this holiday season, especially our elders. How about you? Let us know in the comments!
Read more about Venezuela:
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/06/venezuelan-immigrants-tps-maduro-deportations
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/03/senate-war-powers-maduro-ouster-00709715
Read more about Tim Walz dropping out:
https://www.startribune.com/tim-walz-announcement-governor-mn/601557990
Read more about Trump’s midterm speech:
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Reason Choice Media.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Welcome home, y'all.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
This is episode one hundred and thirteen of Native Lampid,
where we give you our breakdown of all things politics
and culture. We are your hosts, Angela Right, Andrew Gillim
and Bacari Sellers. Y'all, we hope you had an amazing
holiday season with your them.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Yes, Happy New Year, Happy New.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Year, Happy New Year.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
How long do y'all say Happy New Year?
Speaker 5 (00:27):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I usually go at least to a King Day because
then it switches holidays and I'm like, Happy King Day,
So you know.
Speaker 6 (00:35):
Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Are your trees two weeks?
Speaker 4 (00:38):
About two weeks for me too?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Are your trees down?
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Took them all down? All the lights, everything, everything.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Down, just up all year. So we'll see if I
get it down this year.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
But if you're like us, everybody, you're back at work.
And I'm curious if AI videos had your family and
friends in a choke hold over the break mine, certainly
we will discuss that and so much more on this show.
The Trump Administration's unlawful capture of Venezuelan leader Nicholas Maduro,
(01:08):
Donald Trump's clumsy appearance at a Republican retreat at the
Kennedy Center, and on the fifth anniversary of the January
sixth Insurrection, what happened on this anchor's debut on CBS
World News. Tim Walls deciding not to run for a
third term as Minnesota governor, and why are folks still
talking about Reverend doctor carry Bryant's dress and from the pulpit, Bishop, Okay,
(01:31):
we have heard you loud and clear about giving our
takes on more topics and maybe a little more quickly.
So going forward, our shows will begin with highlights, low lights,
or just plain fact lights.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
We will call this segment for.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Your Situational Awareness FYSA, because these days, keeping your head
on a constant swivel is an act of self care.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Let's get it, FYSA. What's really going on in the world.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Well, let's start with the church, because I'm really confused
about why a bishop and in my denomination had this
to say about the right Reverend doctor Carrie Turner Bryant's dress.
Speaker 7 (02:07):
A preacher presented his wife the other day, and I
guess you call that a a flesh colored dress. I
don't know.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (02:19):
It's black dress and flesh color. It gives illusion that
she's not wearing anything underneath. And I heard the preacher
when he defended her dress by saying, first of all,
he bought the dress, and then he said, I wanted
to address people who don't know anything, who ever been anywhere,
(02:45):
who don't know nothing. So I guess our objection to
a man of the cloth presenting his wife in public
looking like a two dollar hord two at least two.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
So I want to play what he was responding to,
and then let's definitely talk about the two.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
I needed to get this joint.
Speaker 8 (03:19):
I needed to deal with it head on, because the
other day the internet went crazy.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
About address my wife had on.
Speaker 8 (03:30):
Now, they didn't say anything about the four million dollars
that was raised for the United Negro College Front. They
never mentioned that she prayed until Heaven came down.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
They never said.
Speaker 8 (03:43):
Anything about this was the largest fundraiser for United for
HBCUs in the country.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
But insecure, jealous, petty, small winded.
Speaker 8 (03:56):
People got in their feelings and set up a false
baron unholiness based off of a dress. Now, you got
to help some people, because some people have embraced the
full knowledge of ignorance without any assistance for understanding. The
dress was not see through. The dress was flesh color.
(04:19):
But because you ain't never been nowhere and they ain't
never been exposed to enumer I needed to set the
record straight. Y'all don't like this. I need to set
the record straight. I bought the dress.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
And I like it. I don't care whether you like
it or not.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
She ain't mad to y'all.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
She mad to me.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Well, this is continuing to be the gift that keeps
on giving. I think y'all know Jama and Carrie went
on tammeron Hall Show on Wednesday of this, and so
I want to know what y'all think first about the
two dollars horror comment and all the things between nigga.
We can't let's put the dress up. I can't even
(05:09):
believe this is a topic of conversation.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
What y'all think?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
So, first of all, you know, I believe that you
can always tell people that never got into a fight
and never got beat up as a child, because they're
just certain things you don't say about people and say
about people's wives. And so I think the bishop was
completely out of pocket, and that's just something something culturally
and something that is beyond the pool pit. I hope
(05:35):
he's praying for his forgiveness. But I also think I
love Jamal Brian and I tell him to his face
if he was here. But you don't always have to
respond to everything. You know, you roll around with pigs.
You both get muddy, and a pig likes it right,
So I don't even think that a response was necessary.
Your wife knows how much you love her. I just
(05:57):
find it to be I find both of those to
be extremely weird and disheartening. I do think that the bishop,
you know, man, the man, he would have to see
me about calling my wife a two dollars horror. But
that's just I didn't like neither one of them, to
be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
M to be clear, Jamal, just one point of correction.
A g to be very clear.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
And I know we're going so close to our time
on the highlights.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
We're supposed to do this in ninety seconds, but really quick.
Jamal said this.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
First.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
The bishop responded to Jamal, and it was after people
were dragging his wife, and I was just.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Saying, yeah, no, I was just saying, like I know
he was responding to the people, but I mean that's
like responding to comments like you don't have to respond, Andrew,
I don't know. You tell me if I'm wrong, but
you don't have to respond to every coming. You know what.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
There's a lot I mean the sexism in the church,
which Revend Bryant went on in his initial statement to
say more about just how in the traditions of the
Black Church, we go out of our way to moderate
and dictate how women are to appear, what they are
to do. I always call Reverend Bryant bishop because I
(07:07):
think he's bishop of some church, if not new Birth itself.
Just just I appreciated the educational opportunity that he let
people in on in his comment. Basically given some of
the history of why it is that female ushers when
walking down the I would have to put their hands
behind their back to cover you know, their their butts
so not to trigger men, and and and and and
(07:31):
and sexualize men to sexualize those same women how you
know he didn't talk about this, but women would have
to wear cloths over you know, their prayer cloths over
their front of their you know, their dress dresses. Should
they wear dresses that were you know, that extended below
the knee, but when they sat down rows up to
the knee or maybe above the knee, would have to
(07:53):
cloth themselves so not to saytiate uh the pastor or
whoever might be in the poolpit looking down. I mean,
there's a lot of those traditions that we don't even
stop to interrogate why that is. But when we put
it into context, it really, you know, it's us to bob.
It certainly eats at me just thinking about some of
the sexism that exists there and why it is that
(08:15):
women always have to curate their lived experiences so not
to offend men. And that doesn't just happen in the
Black Church. It happens throughout our society period. So I
appreciated the opportunity to levitate, to.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Come above the moment.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
I think he's not generally the type to I think,
go and do videos and respond to each and everything.
But this thing got so explosive it appears that they
had to say something. And I'll just say, what is
also missing for the bishop of who gave a second
response and all these other haters out there, is just
(08:51):
the incredible woman of God that carries Bryant. I've known
this woman since college when we were back in student government,
and when he said, how she you know, brought down
Heaven through her prayers? I believe that I have been
in the midst of her praying and felt the Spirit
of God just come all over the place. So so
(09:13):
so so people are confused. They're always gonna be haters.
What we're discounting is the fact that there are haters
within the ministry. There are people who don't like that
his church is so big. There are people who don't
like that he inherited, you know, the former Bishop Long's church.
There are people who gonna hate on her. There's you know,
there's reality television that's also surrounding you know, certain parts
(09:34):
of the sort of thing. So it's just as I
hate it for them, But at the same time, to
the extent that they're able to use this as a
catapult to teach people some stuff that they don't know
where that they need to know, or call us to
interrogate some systems that we all generally accept without asking questions,
then maybe let that be the teachable moment that exists here.
The only beauty that I find in it is that
(09:55):
if there were the right ones to come after. I
do believe that these two, this amazing are the right ones.
You found the right ones because they're educated, they are
to the task, They're not going to trifle and pettiness,
and they're gonna use it as an opportunity to lift
the conversation higher. And I hope they continue to do
that despite the haters.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Well, here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
The most important thing here is Carrie has given address
to me when it's all said and done, so I
would just take the right reverence for sharing address.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
The Cardner's Internet is back on AOL. What'd you say?
Speaker 3 (10:30):
No, I was saying, the dress is tough. I love
the dress. But I also wanted to thank Andrew for
his brief remarks.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Yeah, getting the New Year's off right, Okay, Because it
is a highlight.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Reel to that point, we moved right along. This one
is really rough, y'all.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
It shows Tony or Bari or the whole of production
at CBS was not ready for prime time. Punt intended
watch what happened on CBS World News on his first
day in the anchor chair.
Speaker 9 (10:58):
It'sphair with madurow out that base of power and influence
could be out too all right, to other news, as
you just heard from Jill to other news. Now to
Governor Walls, No, we're gonna do Mark Kelly. First day,
first day, big problems. Here are we going to Kelly?
Here are we going to go into jonah kaplan? We're
(11:24):
doing Mark Kelly, possibly demoted from his retired rank of
captain in the Navy, Hegstath issued what's known as a
letter of censure for the Arizona Democrat over his participation
in a video that called on service members to defy
illegal orders, without specifying which orders he had in mind.
Hegseth called what the former combat pilot an astronaut did
(11:45):
an act of sedition. Now we go to Minnesota, a
surprise announcement from the Great Lake State there today, Tim.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Walls, Well, he got there, he got there, but that
was rough. And I don't know if what's going on
in the background, if it's the Ellison, if it's Barri Wise,
if it's Donald Trumpet his ear, what happened, y'all?
Speaker 2 (12:04):
That's embarrassing?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
S did did you see his next day? The next day?
That night, So then he ended up saying, Marco Rubio,
we salute you. What's his salutation is closed? They going
crazy over it. At CBS. Barri Weiss is terrible at
her job. She's having a revote. They're leaking more than
you know, a sief And it is fascinating to watch
(12:28):
CBS News, which once was a standard bearer for quality news,
become a propaganda tool and an arm of the right wing.
I mean, that's what it's. That's what it is. Shot everybody.
I mean, they don't run off all the good people
over there, and they trying to run off the rest
of the good folk over there. And barr is just
not good at her job. This is a big job
and she ain't good at it.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Well, it's hard to be good at something that you're
not qualified for. Remember when they said didn't earn it anyway.
So I appreciate Tony because he actually does take us
into our next clip, which is about Tim Laws.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Tim's time is up.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
He's saying he won't resign, but he will not seek
a third term and miss the fallout with the childcare
fraud scandal in Minnesota. And Andrew, I want to run
this clip, but I know you have some thoughts about
that bench in Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
So let's run this.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
To in your.
Speaker 10 (13:18):
Campaign by yourself or did you receive pressure from Democratic allies.
This is a decision that I make and make with
my family, and certainly I think, as I said, it's
the right decision.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
We all note.
Speaker 10 (13:30):
I think it's appropriate. We're here today, the war that's
being waged against Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
You're seeing it.
Speaker 10 (13:35):
We have a ridiculous surge of apparently two thousand people
not coordinating with us, that are for a show of
the cameras. I'm going to note to all of you
today is January sixth. There's no debate what happened. The
President of the United States led an insurrection against a
fair election to try and overturn that. And you know,
report both sides of this. Well he you know, he
(13:56):
said he really didn't. In courts convicted four hundred of
them and he pardoned them. No, he did that. He
did that, and that's today. And it's clear that we
also saw today he implemented. Five states are being punished
with a freezing of federal funds illegally that were appropriated
by Congress our tax dollars. And I find it interesting
that Minnesota, California, Illinois.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
And in New York. We're taking that.
Speaker 10 (14:22):
The interesting thing is the biggest fraud trial in the
country is taking place in Mississippi today with one hundred
million dollars of welfare fraud, and I don't believe Mississippi
was on that list. So look, this is a concerted
effort to try and destroy the president's opponents, to destroy
the rule of law. And it became apparent to me
(14:43):
that he was going to do that with me being there,
and I just feel, along with my family that it's
the best decision for Minnesota. And I feel very confident in that.
I think it's going to be clear that Minnesotans agree with.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
That crazy that he said, y'all gonna catch these strays though,
Mississippi and your welfare SCRIDI fraud scandal. Why are you
coming it as so? Andrew, you talked about the.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Bench to get you this quick, quick, quippy thing, which
is just to say that there's a you know, I
hate to see him go. I know he feels like
he's got to stand up and take some responsibility for
what's happened around the fraud and whatnot. But he was
right to point out that there's greater, bigger fraud and
much more of it happening all around the country to
include Republican states, and no attention whatsoever. I hate that
(15:34):
he's leaving the under the affront from a Republican trumping up.
You know, a bunch of mess that quite frankly happens,
you know, twenty times over in Republican states, and nobody's
got anything to say about it. The only other thing
I'll say is that this state has some really great
Democratic talent Downpike lieutenant governor, Governor Lieutenant governor Peggy Flanagan
(15:58):
would make a great governor of that state. I know,
some moves are happening, power moves are happening. Now you've
got the former Saint Paul, Minnesota mayor Melvin Carter, another
great leader later I'm sorry, Minneapolis mayor, another solid Democratic leader.
And I just think that they're right with a lot
of potential, and I hope some of that potential rises
(16:20):
to the top as they seek to replace the city governor.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Yeah yeah, no, I yeah, no. I was gonna be
real quick on my mine as well. I mean, I
think Amy Klobachar is probably the next governor or the
great State of Minnesota. But that doesn't mean that you
don't have a race. She gets an opportunity to appoint somebody.
Hopefully she appoints one of the names that you just mentioned,
and then hopefully we all sign up for her to
hear her to run for a full term after that.
(16:46):
I just think that Amy Klobachar is dynamic. She'll be
a great governor. She's She's won her last three elections
by over thirty points in Minnesota, so I mean, she'll
be formidable in that and she gets to pick her replacement.
So in a game of politics, that's important. Shout out
of the Somali community, though, who's been getting just unfairly
bashed throughout this entire process. The President of the United
States called them garbage, and you know, I just think
(17:10):
that while they're I mean, let's be clear. I there
was a great deal of fraud, that was rampant fraud
within Minnesota, but it wasn't one community. Don't you don't
bastardize an entire community because of the behavior by a
white women, because I you know what I said on
TV the other night, it was let by white women.
I was like, so if a group of people just
show up and begin to tear your house down and
(17:31):
riot and do all this other stuff and beat up police.
Are you going to blame the entire group? And if so,
then what we do about all in white folks on
January sixth? I mean, where were their fathers? Right? So
I just think that it's it's unfair treatment of the
Smili community. So my prayers go out to them. Minnesota's
gonna be just found in some walls. As a dynamic leader.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
I will tell y'all that in response to this, your
president is violating another law of funds that are already
appropriated to state governments across the country are now being frozen.
And surprise, surprise, they are all democratic states. But I
will say this, this is about to be a rarity
breaking news on NLP and the last time you'll probably
ever hear me say this. But I agree and actually
(18:12):
hope that Trump is right about his impeachment. Let's roll
this clip.
Speaker 11 (18:16):
You gotta win the midterms, because if we don't win
the midterms, it's just gonna be I mean, they'll find
a reason to impeach me. I'll get him pitched. We
don't impeach them, you know why, because they're meaner than
we are. We should have impeached Joe Biden for a
hundred different things. They are mean and smart.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
It says Sarre Pink.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
He doesn't blend either, does that bother? Does that not
bother anybody else?
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Pink is bothering his blends like it's.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
It's his makeup. He doesn't. He doesn't blend well, and
I don't know who does it.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Let me find out that the highlight reel is going
to be a makeup assessment from Bakari.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
But car you want to but the mat counter well,
first of all, on Hugh's mac, let's not be offensive, okay,
but he needs to blend something like his neck and
right around his hairline. Somebody's doing him a.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Disne when he comes off the golf course. List either
sweated out or it hadn't be applied yet.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
It's just probably running too boy, Donald Trump, hate to
see a pillow coming down and pink. Somebody investigated it
looked like your shirt Andrew.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
You guys are the whole point.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
It was about his impeachment, hopefully, And I will just
say this right before the break. Democratic leadership encourage the
caucus to vote alongside them to table al Green's articles
of impeachment that's not the singer, that's Congressman Algreen.
Speaker 11 (19:50):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
The failure uh and and I'm curious to know if
the failure to seek congressional approval to invade Venezuela to
capture a is sufficient for impeachment or naw. The same
people who just said they they voted on the motion
of the table the impeachment articles, now they're like, well, now
he's lost his mind, his mine.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Being gone, y'all.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
But y'all are through our FYSA. But we are going
to get into Venezuela and so much more right after
this break. So the felonious president is busy racking up
(20:31):
more crimes because we just talked about the dollars that
are already appropriated he's withholding from states. He of course,
is violating international law, according to many experts, with their
decision to go capture Nicholas Maduro in his Nike Tech
sweats man.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
That man change. That man changed more outfits than Andre
you with FAMU homecoming.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
So in your Department of Justice, Bacari is saying that
it's all about the drugs. But Trump pardon former President
of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernandez for jug chappicking hundreds of
tons of cocaine into the United States.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
So could it be something else? Roll the clip.
Speaker 12 (21:10):
They say, you have seized Venezuela for the oil. Yes,
this is true, that there is that which has been
brought to the forefront of this earthly battle.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
If he talk about Jamal Brian wife, I'm as so and.
Speaker 13 (21:31):
Was seeking to bring war and to bring conflict through
Venezuela and to control the oil of the earth and.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
The oil he's here to stirtual oil.
Speaker 13 (21:45):
And the nutural oil does not belong to the forces
of darkness or to those who thought that they could
bring a one world order. This is my reset, and
the oil of the nuturl and the oil of the
spirit is mine.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Says the Lord.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
I ain't never seen no shirt like that in my life.
I ain't never seen a button down. Now, you guys
got me doing this matt counter thing. I'm not doing this.
The point is I wanted to play this because you
were talking about oil.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Venezuela got more oil than we.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Do, so I'm curious to know, guys, is it all
about the oil? Since a second oil tanker that was
from Venezuela's Venezuela oil not a Venezuelan taker.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Andrew corrected me on the car earlier about that.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
So with a Russian flag, it has been captured by
the United States. This is all since this past weekend.
So it's about the oil of the drugs, y'all.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
So quickly, we know it's not about drugs because to
your point, he pardoned the former president of Honduras who
got convicted, President Hernandez, who got convicted by US jury
for moving over four hundred tons tons. Okkay, that's a
lot of dope, y'all. So we know it's not about drugs, right.
We know it's not about freeing the Venezuelan people because
(23:04):
that we didn't even effectuate regime change. So we have
to be cautious about the language that we're using because
he left their military, Maduro's military in place, and chose
his vice president. If he would have chosen opposition leadership,
remove military leadership, then maybe you have regime change. Maybe
you can say it's bout freedom. So yeah, if you
deduce what's left, it's about the oil. It's always been
about the oil. The problem that Donald Trump has is
(23:25):
he doesn't understand that oil companies, American oil companies. It
would cost them upwards of three hundred billion dollars to
go into Venezuela and put the infrastructure in place to
actually refine and distribute that oil. So it's about the oil.
Prices have excuse me, oil stocks have drastically increased. They've
made hundreds of millions of dollars since this occurred. Some
(23:46):
of Donald Trump's friends are gonna get rich as they
are doing around the world. But it's basically big bank
tate little bank. I don't know if y'all ever played
that in school, and we played it in public schools.
But big bank tate little bank and.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Got to be colonizes.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Yep, about to get Greenland. And then what's gonna happen
next is don't be surprised as Zelenski gets kidnapped, and
then don't be surprised that China looks in his backyard
and puts Taiwan in his pocket.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Well, here's Andrew we as you know, this is our
deep dive clip. So let's go ahead and transition into
the meat of the thing. Is it all about the oil?
Let's roll this clip from the White House to me.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
And now if you don't know, then you have twist tickets.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Do they have a cool from Biggie's estate.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
I hope that's what I was just about to say, Andrew,
hope that they come with them for using this and
they didn't even bleep out the N word on this clip.
I'm so irritated, Like Mark, now, if you don't know,
now you know. So they have a Biggie line for
one song using Biggie as the track for going to
get Maduro out Ofnezuela without even seeking congressional approval.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
I want to roll this question because we did get
a question from the audience.
Speaker 14 (25:08):
I'm Jordan from Atlanta, Georgia, and not just have a
quick question. Could you break down to me in layman's terms,
what the hell is going on between Venezuela and the US.
Can a president just go into another country and just
like snatch up the president and then dist them on charges?
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Like is that legal?
Speaker 14 (25:28):
What should the process be? How can we even do this?
And then also like what does that mean? What does
that mean for US? What does that mean for Venezuela?
What could it mean? I just need help because I'm
on the Googles, I'm on the TikTok, and the math
is a mathing.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
It's not making sense, So could.
Speaker 14 (25:45):
Y'all break it down for me.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Let's first hear from the President, and then we shall
do exactly that. Jordan, thank you for the question.
Speaker 15 (25:51):
We're going to run the country until such time as
we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition. So
we don't want to be involved with having somebody else
get in. And we have the same situation that we
had for the last long period of years. So we
are going to run the country until such time as
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we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition. Then
it has to be judicious because that's what we're all about.
We want peace, liberty, and justice for the great people
of Venezuela, and that includes many from Venezuela that are
now living in the United States and want to go
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back to their country.
Speaker 6 (26:38):
It's their homeland.
Speaker 15 (26:40):
We can't take a chance that somebody else takes over
Venezuela that doesn't have the good of the Venezuelan people
in mind. We've decades of that. We're not going to
let that happen. We're there now, and what people don't understand,
but they understand as as I say this, we're there now,
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but we're going to stay until such time as the
proper transition can take place. So we're going to stay
until such time as we're going to run it, essentially
until such time as a proper transition can take place.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
He can't even run it here, So what is he running, y'all? Like,
what is happening? There's a you know, there's a vote
coming up. Tim Kaine is trying to get forced a
vote on ensuring that they have to get Congressional approval
for any further action. But I'm just like, I don't
know when this stops. They don't have any boundaries. They
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don't respect the rule of law. We know that, whether
it's federal or international law. So what are we really
talking about here, y'all?
Speaker 4 (27:45):
You know it sucks is that it's hard to go
in hard on the Republican who attempts this when we
know we've had Democrats who also use the US military
without authorization from Congress under the banner of national security
or US national security interests. We took Gaddafi out of
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Libya under under such vain. The international law on this
is very it's dice in the sense that really the
only the only real power constricting power there appears to
be is is uh sort of the international bodies that
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that Trump has flouted up to this point. He seems
to have no faith in the United Nations. He seems
to have zero faith in the G seven or the
G twenty Uh. He seems to have, you know, no
faith in international law whatsoever, and there is not a
Congress to hold him to account for any of it.
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So ordinarily, even if there is an arrest warrant for
a president of another country, those wars are not usually
or typically executed by a nation until that president is
out of office. So they're usually former presidents that have
been gone back and been either held accountable before international
courts or tribunals or before a domestic court such as
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ours here in the United States. This has never been
about anything that they have told us. These folks have
sat down and for weeks they have lied to our face.
They've lied to every single time. This wasn't about regime change,
This is about drug interdiction. And then it wasn't really
about drug interdiction because they then flouted international laws as
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it relates to what you do to combatants who can
no longer combat. And we then go and drop suicide
bombs on them when we like, so I can understand
the questioners question that what laws apply here?
Speaker 5 (29:52):
What makes sense?
Speaker 4 (29:53):
There is not even international then there is not even
an international outcry and the in of what we've gone
and done in Venezuela. And I would suggest that largely
that's because most countries are terrified that and unhinged Donald
Trump might turn his ire on them. And therefore even
even friendly governments of ours are muted or silenced because
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they fear what might happen as a as a as
a as a reaction to what we're you know, to
what we're doing here. I'll put it this way, y'all.
This is straight up colonization. This is this is the
world of one hundred years ago, where the mightiest, most
powerful countries decided to uh go into how do you say, uh,
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countries that they want to take control of because largely
they have an asset that they want and you basically
send your military there to occupy, you get rid of them,
you depose their leaders, and you colonize them, and you
make them basically a part of your own country. We
haven't seen this in modern day because most of the
world threw this off threw off the yoke of colonization
a long time ago, believing that it did not serve
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us well, and it led us into more and more
world wars. And since the conclusion of World War the
Second World War, we have not seen colonization utilized as
a form of force and taken over other nations. And
it seems that Trump wants us to throw back to
the period of colonization. That's all I can offer as
it relates to the justification here.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
That's a good point. I will tell you this that
the law is extremely murky. I know people like to
say he's violating this and violating that. The fact is,
Maduro Nicholas Maduro is a horrible human being that deserves
to be in prison. Right, He's a horrible leader. And
I know that. One of the things that Andrew was
talking about was, you know, usually you have warrants and
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it's executed after individuals are out our office. Well, Venezuela
had an election that Madua lost, Right, that Maduro loss,
but he pulled to Donald Trump January sixth, Right, except
he was able to overthrow government, overthrow government, rewrite the constitution.
People have to remember how he came in the office.
You know, he came in on the back of a
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leader who was oppressive, right, He came in on the
back as a military mentor, his mentor who launched who
launched a coup that failed, Chavez, who launched a coup
that failed in ninety two, and then ran for president
and won, got sick with cancer and then installed Maduro.
And so this has been decades of oppression that Venezuelans
have felt. That's why you see Venezuelans dancing in the street.
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And so the law on this is extremely murky because
what they're telling you is that they are executing a
law enforcement operation. That is what they That's what they're
telling you. They're saying that they're going in to arrest
someone who has an outstanding warrant. More so, even he
has a warrant that Joe Biden's White House put a
twenty five million dollar or fifty million dollar bounty on
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his head side. Note, I do believe that Donald Trump's
don't try to collect his own bounty, but that's neither
here nor there. This is not something that's unprecedented, though.
Let's remember that in Panama nineteen eighty nine, H. W.
Bush went in and got Manuel Noriega right. The difference
between Panama and Venezuela, which makes this a lot more complicated.
We had ten thousand troops in Panama and we had
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a we had a military presence in Panama since its inception,
and Panama small as hell. Venezuela is a large company.
We do large country now, I mean, I guess oil company,
A large, a large, a large country. We don't have
that military presence. And that's what scares me. When the
first when the first troop dies in one of these feckless,
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you know, directionless colonial colonialism type endeavors that we're undertaken,
then I think it's going to be felt. My problem
politically speaking, and this is where I kind of transition.
I know it's kind of a little off topic, but
my problem politically speaking is this, we want to talk
about the constitutionality and the legality of it when we
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know that Donald Trump doesn't believe in either, and Democrats
are writing these long papers on Twitter, these long posts
on Instagram, all of these things. I think it's very
simple though. He is choosing Venezuela over the plight of
every day average Americans. He's choosing Caracas over soybean farmers.
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He's choosing oil companies and commodities over individuals who are
dying to get health care, literally, And I think that
is the point that has to be made over and
over and over again, because that young lady's question is
so spot on, and they do that intentionally and nobody
knows what the hell is going on. But what is
being forgotten every day is that every day, hardworking average
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American that is still working to make ends meet, that
we still have inflation, we still have cost of living problems,
we still have real health care centers that are shutting down.
We have all of these issues right at home. And
now they're talking about make Venezuela great again. And so
I think.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
He is frozen for me.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Yeah, same here. I was hoping his voice might might
catch up with the video. But Bakari's making a brilliant
point here, which is I think the point that Democrats
need to go home to every day of the weed
they are to begin the day and end the day
with this. Trump wants the power to run another nation,
yet he cannot seem to run the one that he's
right now in charge of. We have inflation that is
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creeping back up We've got people who are I mean,
I see this every time I go to the grocery
store Angela. People have their cell phones out and they
are costs comparing between this store and that store to
see which this detergent is cheaper to get here or
or the other store up the street. People are concerned
about costs. They're concerned about you know, you college graduates
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who are concerned about whether or they're going to be
able to land a job or if artificial intelligence is
going to wipe their futures.
Speaker 5 (35:52):
Out of the market.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Right there's a lot of crises right here being felt
in this country. And I'm not sure that the every
day of Mayor and the average Americans waking up and
saying what we need to be doing is starting another
conflict in our hemisphere of the world. And Venezuela, for what,
oil prices aren't skyrocketed right now. Fuel is actually pretty
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accessible for most people. That's not where they're that's not
where they're making complaint. So if I can fuel my
car and the largest asset that we're getting right now
out of Venezuela is oil, Yet that isn't the greatest
need that we have right now, but it is the
need of Donald Trump's billionaire friends, then who is he
acting in the interest of That's most frustrating to me
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is to see that we should we continue down this
line and should we become some sort of caretaker quote
unquote to Venezuela, and I don't disagree. A horrible leader.
Maduro also aided by his wife, who is also quite diabolical.
If folks were to turn the page in the look
more deeply into her history and her background. They only
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got married after he became the president elect that country,
and prior to that, she basically lined up the entire
judiciary behind Hugo Chavez and it is essentially run by her.
So diabolical people, no doubt about it. But guess what.
So is the Russian president diabolical. So are many other leaders,
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to include those of North Korea and many other despot
nations around the world. Yet we're not going into those
countries trying to take them over. But car, I just
kind of picked up where you left off because I
think it was the brilliant point that was being made,
and that is not one of us are waking up
this morning, and we didn't wake up before January third,
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on January second, saying what we need to do is
go invade another country. We woke up saying can we
get lower prices? Will my children have a future job
in this country, on this homeland, Will artificial intelligence take
over their future and snuff it out? Or is there
a balance to be reached there? None of us are
hungering for war and our hemisphere or any other hemisphere,
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as far as I'm concerned, we want we want affordability
right here at home. And if the President could fix
his eyes toward that, that'd be one thing. But he's,
as far as I'm concerned, taking his eye off the ball.
And this may be the biggest threat to his presidency
yet as far as I can determine.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Because it undermines America first. So how are you going
to say? America first? And your behind is everywhere but
in America first?
Speaker 3 (38:32):
Nobody knows. This is the explanation they're giving. What they're
saying is that by freeing Venezuela, freeing Venezuela, which that
we already articulated, they're not because we're not really doing
regime change. But by freeing Venezuela, you eliminate the pressure
on the country. You eliminate migration, and all of this
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boils back to one person, Stephen Miller. Stephen Miller wants
to destroy the world order as was situated after World
World War Two. And you know, I was having a
conversation off air talking about, you know the fact that
we allow white South African farmers to come into this country,
but we have a problem with brown Venezuelans come into
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this country, right, and so still.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
Can't get TPS. That's right, even today.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
And not only this is how you know, this is
how you know it's not about Venezuelans because the vice
president of Venezuela, who's now the president of Venezuela, I
forget her name. She was out there hugging on Russia
and China and all the ambassadors at her inauguration. They
installed even more repressive ordinances and laws on Venezuelan people
who want to speak out the day after Murduro was taken.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
And this is the thing they're talking about now, deporting
six hundred thousand Venezuelans. And that's after the raid. So
the people that you talked about celebrating in the streets
Bakari now may very well face deportation. Back to a
country that is, it's still that experienced regime change.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
I also think it's.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Important because you simply talked about Venezuelan celebrating in the streets,
and of course we know we're getting to AI later
on this video.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
There have been some.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Misleading videos of alleged Venezuelan celebrating the capture of Maduro.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
Let's run that clip.
Speaker 16 (40:17):
Since the US launch strikes in Venezuela and sees President Nicholas,
my daughter and his wife. Videos claiming to show people
celebrating inside Venezuela having widely circulating online, but they're misleading,
like this video, for example, shared by right wing conspiracy
theorist Alex Jones. It falsely claims to show large crowds
in the Venezuelan Capsul Caracas celebrating the seizure of Nicholas Maduro,
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and it has over two million views, but it's not new.
It actually shows anti Madouda protests in Venezuela in twenty
twenty four over a highly disputed election. In this a
post viewed by millions on x again falsely claims to
show celebrations erupting all across Venezuela. Now this video is recent,
but this is actually in Florida. We know this because
of details in the background and comparing it with other
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is that it's actually this Petro station in the city
of derral And again, this post claims to be crowds
of people lining the streets in Venezuela, but we verified
it's actually Venezuelans and Panama City by identifying the location
of this bridge. Now, there have been Venezuelans out celebrating
in the streets across the world, but in this case,
we've not seen those crowds in the country itself. Some
Venezuelans have told the BBC that that's because they feel
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scared and they can't freely voice their feelings about what's happened.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
I think that's important, and I do want to draw
the contrast to the fact there are some folks in
Venezuela who actually oppose the intervention, not necessarily because they
support their leader, maybe some of them do, but mostly
because they oppose the United States.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
Let's roll that clip.
Speaker 13 (41:44):
Here.
Speaker 4 (41:47):
Hella Venezuela.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
She's saying, long live Venezuela.
Speaker 1 (41:58):
She's saying that they're coming for our oil, they're coming
for our land, and she's asking the international community where
are they to intervene to ensure that Venezuela and Venezuelan
people are protected?
Speaker 2 (42:09):
Andre and me, can I ask.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
You answer question? Can I ask you a question? Andrew?
Just before your your thoughts? Because I know that this
is Angela's lead, but this has been bothering me. So
how does this play in Florida in particular? Like the
politics here Southern Florida, It's huge, right, and they don't
they are Isn't this a winning issue though? I mean,
it's a winning.
Speaker 4 (42:28):
Issue for for in Florida, for them since the Durau,
which was the images that we saw at the beginning
of that video, was sort of the largest collection of
Venezuelan's in the United States are pretty much situated in Durau, Florida.
It's a city down in Miami. So there's no doubt. Again,
so these are in Many of those folks are like
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political exiles. These are people who left Venezuela under oppression,
similar to many of the Cubans who are situated in
Miami who left Cuba under political oppression. Not surprising. And
guess what, all around the world you have expass you
have these political you have folks who have been politically
driven from their homeland who were very much so excited
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that Maduro is not there. But if you ask them
if they are returning voluntarily today, they are not returning
voluntarily today because the Modua regimes still reign supreme over Venezuela.
There's no doubt about it. But I will tell you this,
I will say forgetting any of those videos as in
regards to who has more sway anti versus pro, no
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doubt about it. If the people want Maduro gone, and
if they could say so in Venezuela themselves, they would
have said so. But what we saw in that last video,
the anger, the rage, the fury wasn't pro Maduro. It
was pro their home land.
Speaker 3 (43:46):
Correct.
Speaker 4 (43:47):
This is the wealth that should be passed to our
children and our children's children. I feel that argument every
single day of the week. These people are standing up
and basically saying this. If we think we have an
oppressive regime right now, let Trump and all of you know,
the rapers of this land get here and take all
of our natural resources, just like we have seen them
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do across the continent of Africa. All of the rich minerals,
all of the rich essays that are natural and indigenous
to that place being ripped from it the future. How
do you say that the benefactors of that richness never
ever benefiting.
Speaker 3 (44:29):
The missing thing and nothing happens in a vacuum. Let
me go back to Elon Musk and usai D. That
the problem that we have with the dismantling of us
ai D and the United States ability to have soft
power in these places is going to be glaring now
because the United States is going in with military force
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to take oil and resources from individuals, and you're going
to have because none of the three of us I
do believe and no one is actually saying that Maduro
is a good person. Nobody's saying he's a good and
nobody's saying he's a good leader.
Speaker 4 (45:01):
It's actually not even about him.
Speaker 3 (45:03):
And that's the point that is that is the larger point.
But when you talk about the absence of when you
talk about this, this this foreign policy that we now
have where we don't have that soft power, where we
don't have those HIV and AIDS programs, where we don't
have those programs to build resources, build communities that George
Bush and Bill Clinton and all those people talked about.
Now it's going to be contrary because we were trying
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to push Iran in China out of Venezuela. But what
happens in places like Africa Andrew, what happens when we with.
Speaker 4 (45:30):
This This is imperialism correct at its best. There's no,
there's no. Hillary Clinton tried to return that phrase of
soft power to smart power, and I actually think she
was right about it. It is the smartest power, brilliant
that the United States had was the use of those
kinds of techniques to bring people to our side, to
show that we see their humanity and we're not here
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to rape them up their resources. Well, Donald Trump says,
this is survival of the fittest. This is the strongest.
If you are big and bad enough to take over
a country, then you use that big in badness to
go and take over a country if you can keep it,
if you can hold it. And he's given the same
signal right now to Asia and to Russia, because if
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you want to reinstitute the former Soviet Republic, if you've
got the power and the willingness to do what, you
go do it, and you hold it. If you can
keep it. Asia, if you want to go, I'm sorry China.
If you want to go and take over all of
Asia and what is known as your Asia, do it.
Speaker 3 (46:28):
They're taking as you can. The problem is that China's
taken all of Africa. If you go to the if
you go to the if you go to the east
coast of Africa, and we're going to see the same
thing that's happening to the to the raping and pillaging
of the resources of Venezuela is now going to happen
to the raping and pillaging of the resources of black
folk in Africa by China. It's going to be a
colonizer with a different accent and has a different skin tone,
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but still yet a colonizer.
Speaker 4 (46:51):
Well, Bakari and Angela. The problem is under this regime,
in this regime I'm referring to Donald Trump, is that
the benefactors are not going to be the greater United
States of America and its people. The benefactors are the
billionaire friends that he can count on these two hands.
And that's it. So no longer. I mean, the imperialism
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used to exist to the benefit to the largest of
the nation. That largest is not going to be. The
benefit of the nation is going to be to the
benefit of a few selected individuals. Remember now, these were
the billionaire owners of oil who were briefed about what
was happening in Venezuela on the third of January this
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year before members of Congress have been briefed.
Speaker 2 (47:37):
Andrew, I want to I got to.
Speaker 1 (47:39):
I gotta say this because I completely forgot to bring
this up. Some of you all have heard of a
billionaire investor who is a Trump supporter by the name
of Paul Singer. He has a net worth of six
point seven billion dollars donated more than five million dollars
to make America Great Again INK, which is Donald Trumps
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super pack. He is the one who has a interest
in Sitko. In fact, he recently purchased Sitgo through his
hedge fund. I believe Elliott Management at what they're saying
is a bargain price. There's a whole piece about this
in Mother Jones, as well as several other pieces. But
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I want us to be very clear about the fact
that Donald Trump does not make a move that's not
a business move, that's not a money move, and we
have to be clear about that when we're having this conversation.
So I'm meant to mention that earlier about Paul Singer
and completely forgot to.
Speaker 3 (48:36):
To the points, right, And it's not the benefits. I mean,
we see we see Jared Kushner's incursions into Gaza. Right,
that's not a that's not a made up thing. Right.
We see the fundamental steps to reform and change and
displace Palestinians. Right, we see that that is not a
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far stretch of what we're going to see with Donald
Trum Junior and Jerry kushn are going into Venezuela to
do the same thing for resources. I mean nothing. I
think that people when they look at politics, and I
hope that if you don't listen to anything else I
say on this show, just remember this. When they look
at politics, they look at politics and specific pockets, right,
and they think that Venezuela happens, and then Gaza happens,
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and then Greenland happens, and you know, tariffs happen, and
production of cars, I mean the market, nothing happens. We
are in this nexus, right and of continuity, and nothing
happens in a vacuum in this country. Nothing happens in
a vacuum. With Donald Trump, he may be somewhat of
a of a kind of useful idiot to these folk.
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But there is a plan in place to capture as
much of this kind of this world's resources as possible
and build as much wealth as they possibly can for.
Speaker 4 (49:53):
A selective few. Your point is is that these these
incidents are not isolated and not happening separate and apart
from each other. They are happening in coordination with each other.
And again, the huge difference I would again insert from
maybe one hundred years ago, is that it is no
longer to the benefit of a nation or nation trade.
It is to the benefit of billionaires coming billionaires and
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let me individuals, the friends and family of Donald Trump.
He's not just a useful tool. His family are useful beneficiary.
That's true of exactly what he's doing in this office.
Speaker 3 (50:26):
But there are two other points there, one other point
with two kinds of sub points. We also have to
remember that some of this is economics, right, Some of
this is for the economic benefit of those individuals. Some
of this is also all of it no, no, no, some
of it's also cultural too, because there are individuals in
this White House, there are Stephen Miller's in this White
House who really fear the United States becoming browner. They
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fear the participation of black and brown folk, and so
they are trying to do everything they can to reverse
the tide of immigration, migration, and reverse the tide of
diversity that we've seen in this country. And you see
that efforts like South Africa, you see that with efforts
like Venezuela. You're going to see more and more of
those things. So, yeah, the overwhelming impetus probably is the dollar.
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But there are true beliefs. Stephen Miller is a true believer.
You best believe that he believes white folks are superior, right,
and he wants to ensure that this country stays as
white as possible. You see the tweets by Elon Musk.
Speaker 4 (51:20):
For as long as possible, for as long as possible,
There's no doubt about it. And and by the way,
those interests aren't diversion. They happen to be complementary to
one another. He wants to repatriot the United States with whiteness.
Thus the re you know, the the re entry of
South African whites into the United States under the guys
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that they are being in some way, you know, targeted
for their race. So again they can make America whiter.
They want to again pursue policies that get more white
women pregnant so they have more babies, because the birth
rate for white babies is declining and below that of
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a black and brown I.
Speaker 3 (52:02):
Mean, look at your look at your own more. I
told you nothing happens in a vacuum.
Speaker 6 (52:06):
God.
Speaker 2 (52:10):
So okay.
Speaker 1 (52:11):
And with that, from faux street celebrations in Venezuela to
other AI videos that may have had your family in
a choke hold, I know they had mined in CHOCLD.
Speaker 2 (52:22):
We're gonna talk about that right after this bread.
Speaker 17 (52:30):
Who cares about truth for the last morning seen it?
Speaker 1 (52:35):
Let's look at AI. We saw the AI's impact earlier
in the show. We're gonna go ahead and play a
little game with y'all before we getting the cause to action.
We're gonna see if you can name that AI fake.
You gotta decide which one of these videos is not real?
Speaker 5 (52:54):
Cat runs from Mouse Okay.
Speaker 2 (53:11):
Okay, So two of those videos at least are not real.
Which two which, y'all, guy? Or what tell me which
one is the real one?
Speaker 6 (53:18):
Y'all?
Speaker 3 (53:18):
I don't think any of them real.
Speaker 2 (53:19):
The second one, the second one is real that's.
Speaker 4 (53:22):
The one with the with the masked mask, cat or
dog or animal whatever.
Speaker 1 (53:27):
I know the answer, so I won't say anything. Nick,
do you want to tell us or you are need
to tell him? Oh, he can't appear, So the answer is,
Butkari was right. All of them are fakes. And over
the break y'all. My dad, Sorry, daddy, I'm about to
ear you out. My dad was running around the room
during Christmas Christmas holiday laughing, showing people this phone, and
(53:49):
my godson Ryan goes.
Speaker 2 (53:50):
Should we tell him.
Speaker 1 (53:52):
That that is AI and none of that is real?
And we decided we were gonna let him live his
Star Wars dreams. But the reality of it is these
AI videos got us in a choke hold guys, yeah.
Speaker 3 (54:04):
Holiday, Yeah, because you see this hair. You see this
hair right here? You see that how that looks? It
is fake? Here it's Rocker roots.
Speaker 1 (54:14):
Unfortunately we can't because you're blurry. Your videos to blurry,
so we can't see.
Speaker 3 (54:19):
My video is great, it's your camera's I got new
technology over here again. Do you see do you see this?
Look at it?
Speaker 6 (54:28):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (54:28):
All artificial guys.
Speaker 2 (54:32):
The Seahawks are the NFC West Division champs.
Speaker 4 (54:36):
Congratulations whatever I will say overbreak, the number of our
seniors who were in their technology as much as, if
not more than our younger kids was pretty extraordinary. In fact,
there was a lot of writing done on this. I
think one of the articles was like titled the the
(54:59):
the the Technology Retirement or something along those lines. That
are basically going after the intensity by which our parents
and their retirement are being very drawn into and taken
by technology and their cell phones and doom scrolling and
all that stuff, to the point of concern that many
of us express about our kids. And I will I
share this was angela earlier Bakari. My kids were They
(55:23):
had some playdates over the course of the holiday break,
and I was just amazed at how quick they were
willing to throw off their technology and to leave it
in places outdoors. One of my kids lost it. It
was under the tree, and I could not have been happier.
As much money as we spent for them, you thought
I would have been the other way, but I was
excited to see that it didn't take long for them
(55:47):
to be disconnected and distracted and away from their technology
and back to making up games, spending time with each other,
you know, creating stuff and fighting with each other over
something that didn't have anything to do with technology. I
wish we could embrace that more.
Speaker 3 (56:05):
I'm gonna do the flip side of it. I am
surprised by how quickly and this I don't I don't know,
but how quickly young people are adapting to new tech.
My son got a VR headset for his PS five
and he was up there over Christmas and he put
me on it. It was a Jurassic Park roller coaster
(56:27):
like this, but but.
Speaker 4 (56:32):
Yeah, definitely two different sizes of the coin.
Speaker 3 (56:34):
But he was a he was teaching me stuff like
I'm like, he's he they God bless my twins. They
just turned seven on the recording of this. But they
they they grasped technology so quickly that they're teaching it
to us. And my my prayer is that we have
as a community embraced technology, at least from the perspective
(56:56):
of monetizing it and not allowing a new enemy to
leave us behind again.
Speaker 6 (57:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (57:03):
Yeah, Well, for my I don't know, if we're at our.
Speaker 2 (57:09):
Let's do it.
Speaker 4 (57:09):
Yeah, well, I mean mine would be simply that we
find more intentional ways and occasions to help our kids
and our families disconnect from technology, not to the loss
of whatever the economic profit may be. I think we
ought to explore that. But but it feels so good
to see kids acting like kids and not obsessed with
(57:31):
their technology. And so to the extent that we can
create those moments for just authentic connection again, parents, it's possible.
We can do it. We can manage it. You know,
there are helpful distractions, but then there are moments where
you really got to get our kids reconnected to each
other again, so they know how to look each other
in the eye and talk to each other and makeup games.
(57:53):
When there ain't no resources to be had to buy
no game, they can make them up and create them
all by themselves.
Speaker 3 (58:00):
Action is quite a parallel, because you were talking about
I would I would kind of put that under mental
health right as a mental health f ast. Mine is
more of a physical health I just, uh, just at
the beginning of the week went on a sixty hour
water fast. Just broke it recently. That's why my skin
looked good. My eyes are popping. That water weight is dissipating,
(58:23):
my abs are coming. I'm looking like di'angelo and the
Nicked video untitled.
Speaker 2 (58:29):
We just talked about AI.
Speaker 3 (58:31):
Right, but also, man, I know knew. The funny part
is what I was saying is I hope people are
taking care of themselves. I'm doing the the what is it?
Sixteen sixteen hour fat inter minute fast, sixteen hours fasting,
eight hours eating from eleven to seven. I'm eating. But
one of the things I noticed is I've been running
a lot in the gym, a lot doing some hot yoga.
By the way, shout out to everybody, all the women
(58:53):
doing hot yoga, because it's pre show. I was there
trying to do a flamingo and a stand in what
elver man, I'm in.
Speaker 1 (59:02):
Let me find out the reason you missed the call
was because you was in hot yoga today.
Speaker 18 (59:05):
Of course you know I was this morning, baby, this morning.
Anyway you talk about you said before the show, Yeah,
but way before the show, way before the show. I
mean this morning of it.
Speaker 4 (59:17):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (59:18):
Anyway, take care, take care of yourself, is what I'm saying.
Start out, and the gyms are empty because people on
these peptides. I don't I'm not knocking you for it,
but make sure that you're also walking, make sure you're running,
make sure you're outside stretching your legs. Make sure you're
doing those things that make you emotionally sound physically.
Speaker 1 (59:38):
Please be careful with them drugs, y'all, be especially if
you don't need it. Those are for diabetics, and I
know they're saying it is helpful for losing weight, and
I will run the risk of us losing a potential advertiser.
Oh well, I will tell y'all be careful because they
don't know the impact on the thyrad yet and it
could cause thyrae cancer. I am going to join y'all
(59:58):
on the mental health support, make sure you are connecting
with a therapist in this new year. And on the
physical health piece. I gained five pounds over Christmas. I
ate like I have no business eating. So I was
in hot Yoga right before church on Sunday and they
had a hit hot Yoga class infrared.
Speaker 2 (01:00:16):
It was awesome.
Speaker 1 (01:00:16):
Shout out to Damien who was the leader. Also trained
at the gym on Monday. I took a break yesterday,
but I'm back on it today after this show. Looking
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
Welcome home, y'all.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
This is episode one hundred and thirteen of Native Lampid,
where we give you our breakdown of all things politics
and culture. We are your hosts, Angela Right, Andrew Gillim
and Bacari Sellers. Y'all, we hope you had an amazing
holiday season with your them.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Yes, Happy New Year, Happy New.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Year, Happy New Year.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
How long do y'all say Happy New Year?
Speaker 5 (00:27):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I usually go at least to a King Day because
then it switches holidays and I'm like, Happy King Day,
So you know.
Speaker 6 (00:35):
Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Are your trees two weeks?
Speaker 4 (00:38):
About two weeks for me too?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Are your trees down?
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Took them all down? All the lights, everything, everything.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Down, just up all year. So we'll see if I
get it down this year.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
But if you're like us, everybody, you're back at work.
And I'm curious if AI videos had your family and
friends in a choke hold over the break mine, certainly
we will discuss that and so much more on this show.
The Trump Administration's unlawful capture of Venezuelan leader Nicholas Maduro,
(01:08):
Donald Trump's clumsy appearance at a Republican retreat at the
Kennedy Center, and on the fifth anniversary of the January
sixth Insurrection, what happened on this anchor's debut on CBS
World News. Tim Walls deciding not to run for a
third term as Minnesota governor, and why are folks still
talking about Reverend doctor carry Bryant's dress and from the pulpit, Bishop, Okay,
(01:31):
we have heard you loud and clear about giving our
takes on more topics and maybe a little more quickly.
So going forward, our shows will begin with highlights, low lights,
or just plain fact lights.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
We will call this segment for.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Your Situational Awareness FYSA, because these days, keeping your head
on a constant swivel is an act of self care.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Let's get it, FYSA. What's really going on in the world.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Well, let's start with the church, because I'm really confused
about why a bishop and in my denomination had this
to say about the right Reverend doctor Carrie Turner Bryant's dress.
Speaker 7 (02:07):
A preacher presented his wife the other day, and I
guess you call that a a flesh colored dress. I
don't know.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (02:19):
It's black dress and flesh color. It gives illusion that
she's not wearing anything underneath. And I heard the preacher
when he defended her dress by saying, first of all,
he bought the dress, and then he said, I wanted
to address people who don't know anything, who ever been anywhere,
(02:45):
who don't know nothing. So I guess our objection to
a man of the cloth presenting his wife in public
looking like a two dollar hord two at least two.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
So I want to play what he was responding to,
and then let's definitely talk about the two.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
I needed to get this joint.
Speaker 8 (03:19):
I needed to deal with it head on, because the
other day the internet went crazy.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
About address my wife had on.
Speaker 8 (03:30):
Now, they didn't say anything about the four million dollars
that was raised for the United Negro College Front. They
never mentioned that she prayed until Heaven came down.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
They never said.
Speaker 8 (03:43):
Anything about this was the largest fundraiser for United for
HBCUs in the country.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
But insecure, jealous, petty, small winded.
Speaker 8 (03:56):
People got in their feelings and set up a false
baron unholiness based off of a dress. Now, you got
to help some people, because some people have embraced the
full knowledge of ignorance without any assistance for understanding. The
dress was not see through. The dress was flesh color.
(04:19):
But because you ain't never been nowhere and they ain't
never been exposed to enumer I needed to set the
record straight. Y'all don't like this. I need to set
the record straight. I bought the dress.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
And I like it. I don't care whether you like
it or not.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
She ain't mad to y'all.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
She mad to me.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Well, this is continuing to be the gift that keeps
on giving. I think y'all know Jama and Carrie went
on tammeron Hall Show on Wednesday of this, and so
I want to know what y'all think first about the
two dollars horror comment and all the things between nigga.
We can't let's put the dress up. I can't even
(05:09):
believe this is a topic of conversation.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
What y'all think?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
So, first of all, you know, I believe that you
can always tell people that never got into a fight
and never got beat up as a child, because they're
just certain things you don't say about people and say
about people's wives. And so I think the bishop was
completely out of pocket, and that's just something something culturally
and something that is beyond the pool pit. I hope
(05:35):
he's praying for his forgiveness. But I also think I
love Jamal Brian and I tell him to his face
if he was here. But you don't always have to
respond to everything. You know, you roll around with pigs.
You both get muddy, and a pig likes it right,
So I don't even think that a response was necessary.
Your wife knows how much you love her. I just
(05:57):
find it to be I find both of those to
be extremely weird and disheartening. I do think that the bishop,
you know, man, the man, he would have to see
me about calling my wife a two dollars horror. But
that's just I didn't like neither one of them, to
be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
M to be clear, Jamal, just one point of correction.
A g to be very clear.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
And I know we're going so close to our time
on the highlights.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
We're supposed to do this in ninety seconds, but really quick.
Jamal said this.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
First.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
The bishop responded to Jamal, and it was after people
were dragging his wife, and I was just.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Saying, yeah, no, I was just saying, like I know
he was responding to the people, but I mean that's
like responding to comments like you don't have to respond, Andrew,
I don't know. You tell me if I'm wrong, but
you don't have to respond to every coming. You know what.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
There's a lot I mean the sexism in the church,
which Revend Bryant went on in his initial statement to
say more about just how in the traditions of the
Black Church, we go out of our way to moderate
and dictate how women are to appear, what they are
to do. I always call Reverend Bryant bishop because I
(07:07):
think he's bishop of some church, if not new Birth itself.
Just just I appreciated the educational opportunity that he let
people in on in his comment. Basically given some of
the history of why it is that female ushers when
walking down the I would have to put their hands
behind their back to cover you know, their their butts
so not to trigger men, and and and and and
(07:31):
and sexualize men to sexualize those same women how you
know he didn't talk about this, but women would have
to wear cloths over you know, their prayer cloths over
their front of their you know, their dress dresses. Should
they wear dresses that were you know, that extended below
the knee, but when they sat down rows up to
the knee or maybe above the knee, would have to
(07:53):
cloth themselves so not to saytiate uh the pastor or
whoever might be in the poolpit looking down. I mean,
there's a lot of those traditions that we don't even
stop to interrogate why that is. But when we put
it into context, it really, you know, it's us to bob.
It certainly eats at me just thinking about some of
the sexism that exists there and why it is that
(08:15):
women always have to curate their lived experiences so not
to offend men. And that doesn't just happen in the
Black Church. It happens throughout our society period. So I
appreciated the opportunity to levitate, to.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Come above the moment.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
I think he's not generally the type to I think,
go and do videos and respond to each and everything.
But this thing got so explosive it appears that they
had to say something. And I'll just say, what is
also missing for the bishop of who gave a second
response and all these other haters out there, is just
(08:51):
the incredible woman of God that carries Bryant. I've known
this woman since college when we were back in student government,
and when he said, how she you know, brought down
Heaven through her prayers? I believe that I have been
in the midst of her praying and felt the Spirit
of God just come all over the place. So so
(09:13):
so so people are confused. They're always gonna be haters.
What we're discounting is the fact that there are haters
within the ministry. There are people who don't like that
his church is so big. There are people who don't
like that he inherited, you know, the former Bishop Long's church.
There are people who gonna hate on her. There's you know,
there's reality television that's also surrounding you know, certain parts
(09:34):
of the sort of thing. So it's just as I
hate it for them, But at the same time, to
the extent that they're able to use this as a
catapult to teach people some stuff that they don't know
where that they need to know, or call us to
interrogate some systems that we all generally accept without asking questions,
then maybe let that be the teachable moment that exists here.
The only beauty that I find in it is that
(09:55):
if there were the right ones to come after. I
do believe that these two, this amazing are the right ones.
You found the right ones because they're educated, they are
to the task, They're not going to trifle and pettiness,
and they're gonna use it as an opportunity to lift
the conversation higher. And I hope they continue to do
that despite the haters.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Well, here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
The most important thing here is Carrie has given address
to me when it's all said and done, so I
would just take the right reverence for sharing address.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
The Cardner's Internet is back on AOL. What'd you say?
Speaker 3 (10:30):
No, I was saying, the dress is tough. I love
the dress. But I also wanted to thank Andrew for
his brief remarks.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Yeah, getting the New Year's off right, Okay, Because it
is a highlight.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Reel to that point, we moved right along. This one
is really rough, y'all.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
It shows Tony or Bari or the whole of production
at CBS was not ready for prime time. Punt intended
watch what happened on CBS World News on his first
day in the anchor chair.
Speaker 9 (10:58):
It'sphair with madurow out that base of power and influence
could be out too all right, to other news, as
you just heard from Jill to other news. Now to
Governor Walls, No, we're gonna do Mark Kelly. First day,
first day, big problems. Here are we going to Kelly?
Here are we going to go into jonah kaplan? We're
(11:24):
doing Mark Kelly, possibly demoted from his retired rank of
captain in the Navy, Hegstath issued what's known as a
letter of censure for the Arizona Democrat over his participation
in a video that called on service members to defy
illegal orders, without specifying which orders he had in mind.
Hegseth called what the former combat pilot an astronaut did
(11:45):
an act of sedition. Now we go to Minnesota, a
surprise announcement from the Great Lake State there today, Tim.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Walls, Well, he got there, he got there, but that
was rough. And I don't know if what's going on
in the background, if it's the Ellison, if it's Barri Wise,
if it's Donald Trumpet his ear, what happened, y'all?
Speaker 2 (12:04):
That's embarrassing?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
S did did you see his next day? The next day?
That night, So then he ended up saying, Marco Rubio,
we salute you. What's his salutation is closed? They going
crazy over it. At CBS. Barri Weiss is terrible at
her job. She's having a revote. They're leaking more than
you know, a sief And it is fascinating to watch
(12:28):
CBS News, which once was a standard bearer for quality news,
become a propaganda tool and an arm of the right wing.
I mean, that's what it's. That's what it is. Shot everybody.
I mean, they don't run off all the good people
over there, and they trying to run off the rest
of the good folk over there. And barr is just
not good at her job. This is a big job
and she ain't good at it.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Well, it's hard to be good at something that you're
not qualified for. Remember when they said didn't earn it anyway.
So I appreciate Tony because he actually does take us
into our next clip, which is about Tim Laws.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Tim's time is up.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
He's saying he won't resign, but he will not seek
a third term and miss the fallout with the childcare
fraud scandal in Minnesota. And Andrew, I want to run
this clip, but I know you have some thoughts about
that bench in Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
So let's run this.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
To in your.
Speaker 10 (13:18):
Campaign by yourself or did you receive pressure from Democratic allies.
This is a decision that I make and make with
my family, and certainly I think, as I said, it's
the right decision.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
We all note.
Speaker 10 (13:30):
I think it's appropriate. We're here today, the war that's
being waged against Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
You're seeing it.
Speaker 10 (13:35):
We have a ridiculous surge of apparently two thousand people
not coordinating with us, that are for a show of
the cameras. I'm going to note to all of you
today is January sixth. There's no debate what happened. The
President of the United States led an insurrection against a
fair election to try and overturn that. And you know,
report both sides of this. Well he you know, he
(13:56):
said he really didn't. In courts convicted four hundred of
them and he pardoned them. No, he did that. He
did that, and that's today. And it's clear that we
also saw today he implemented. Five states are being punished
with a freezing of federal funds illegally that were appropriated
by Congress our tax dollars. And I find it interesting
that Minnesota, California, Illinois.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
And in New York. We're taking that.
Speaker 10 (14:22):
The interesting thing is the biggest fraud trial in the
country is taking place in Mississippi today with one hundred
million dollars of welfare fraud, and I don't believe Mississippi
was on that list. So look, this is a concerted
effort to try and destroy the president's opponents, to destroy
the rule of law. And it became apparent to me
(14:43):
that he was going to do that with me being there,
and I just feel, along with my family that it's
the best decision for Minnesota. And I feel very confident in that.
I think it's going to be clear that Minnesotans agree with.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
That crazy that he said, y'all gonna catch these strays though,
Mississippi and your welfare SCRIDI fraud scandal. Why are you
coming it as so? Andrew, you talked about the.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Bench to get you this quick, quick, quippy thing, which
is just to say that there's a you know, I
hate to see him go. I know he feels like
he's got to stand up and take some responsibility for
what's happened around the fraud and whatnot. But he was
right to point out that there's greater, bigger fraud and
much more of it happening all around the country to
include Republican states, and no attention whatsoever. I hate that
(15:34):
he's leaving the under the affront from a Republican trumping up.
You know, a bunch of mess that quite frankly happens,
you know, twenty times over in Republican states, and nobody's
got anything to say about it. The only other thing
I'll say is that this state has some really great
Democratic talent Downpike lieutenant governor, Governor Lieutenant governor Peggy Flanagan
(15:58):
would make a great governor of that state. I know,
some moves are happening, power moves are happening. Now you've
got the former Saint Paul, Minnesota mayor Melvin Carter, another
great leader later I'm sorry, Minneapolis mayor, another solid Democratic leader.
And I just think that they're right with a lot
of potential, and I hope some of that potential rises
(16:20):
to the top as they seek to replace the city governor.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Yeah yeah, no, I yeah, no. I was gonna be
real quick on my mine as well. I mean, I
think Amy Klobachar is probably the next governor or the
great State of Minnesota. But that doesn't mean that you
don't have a race. She gets an opportunity to appoint somebody.
Hopefully she appoints one of the names that you just mentioned,
and then hopefully we all sign up for her to
hear her to run for a full term after that.
(16:46):
I just think that Amy Klobachar is dynamic. She'll be
a great governor. She's She's won her last three elections
by over thirty points in Minnesota, so I mean, she'll
be formidable in that and she gets to pick her replacement.
So in a game of politics, that's important. Shout out
of the Somali community, though, who's been getting just unfairly
bashed throughout this entire process. The President of the United
States called them garbage, and you know, I just think
(17:10):
that while they're I mean, let's be clear. I there
was a great deal of fraud, that was rampant fraud
within Minnesota, but it wasn't one community. Don't you don't
bastardize an entire community because of the behavior by a
white women, because I you know what I said on
TV the other night, it was let by white women.
I was like, so if a group of people just
show up and begin to tear your house down and
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riot and do all this other stuff and beat up police.
Are you going to blame the entire group? And if so,
then what we do about all in white folks on
January sixth? I mean, where were their fathers? Right? So
I just think that it's it's unfair treatment of the
Smili community. So my prayers go out to them. Minnesota's
gonna be just found in some walls. As a dynamic leader.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
I will tell y'all that in response to this, your
president is violating another law of funds that are already
appropriated to state governments across the country are now being frozen.
And surprise, surprise, they are all democratic states. But I
will say this, this is about to be a rarity
breaking news on NLP and the last time you'll probably
ever hear me say this. But I agree and actually
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hope that Trump is right about his impeachment. Let's roll
this clip.
Speaker 11 (18:16):
You gotta win the midterms, because if we don't win
the midterms, it's just gonna be I mean, they'll find
a reason to impeach me. I'll get him pitched. We
don't impeach them, you know why, because they're meaner than
we are. We should have impeached Joe Biden for a
hundred different things. They are mean and smart.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
It says Sarre Pink.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
He doesn't blend either, does that bother? Does that not
bother anybody else?
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Pink is bothering his blends like it's.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
It's his makeup. He doesn't. He doesn't blend well, and
I don't know who does it.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Let me find out that the highlight reel is going
to be a makeup assessment from Bakari.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
But car you want to but the mat counter well,
first of all, on Hugh's mac, let's not be offensive, okay,
but he needs to blend something like his neck and
right around his hairline. Somebody's doing him a.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Disne when he comes off the golf course. List either
sweated out or it hadn't be applied yet.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
It's just probably running too boy, Donald Trump, hate to
see a pillow coming down and pink. Somebody investigated it
looked like your shirt Andrew.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
You guys are the whole point.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
It was about his impeachment, hopefully, And I will just
say this right before the break. Democratic leadership encourage the
caucus to vote alongside them to table al Green's articles
of impeachment that's not the singer, that's Congressman Algreen.
Speaker 11 (19:50):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
The failure uh and and I'm curious to know if
the failure to seek congressional approval to invade Venezuela to
capture a is sufficient for impeachment or naw. The same
people who just said they they voted on the motion
of the table the impeachment articles, now they're like, well, now
he's lost his mind, his mine.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Being gone, y'all.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
But y'all are through our FYSA. But we are going
to get into Venezuela and so much more right after
this break. So the felonious president is busy racking up
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more crimes because we just talked about the dollars that
are already appropriated he's withholding from states. He of course,
is violating international law, according to many experts, with their
decision to go capture Nicholas Maduro in his Nike Tech
sweats man.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
That man change. That man changed more outfits than Andre
you with FAMU homecoming.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
So in your Department of Justice, Bacari is saying that
it's all about the drugs. But Trump pardon former President
of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernandez for jug chappicking hundreds of
tons of cocaine into the United States.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
So could it be something else? Roll the clip.
Speaker 12 (21:10):
They say, you have seized Venezuela for the oil. Yes,
this is true, that there is that which has been
brought to the forefront of this earthly battle.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
If he talk about Jamal Brian wife, I'm as so and.
Speaker 13 (21:31):
Was seeking to bring war and to bring conflict through
Venezuela and to control the oil of the earth and.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
The oil he's here to stirtual oil.
Speaker 13 (21:45):
And the nutural oil does not belong to the forces
of darkness or to those who thought that they could
bring a one world order. This is my reset, and
the oil of the nuturl and the oil of the
spirit is mine.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Says the Lord.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
I ain't never seen no shirt like that in my life.
I ain't never seen a button down. Now, you guys
got me doing this matt counter thing. I'm not doing this.
The point is I wanted to play this because you
were talking about oil.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Venezuela got more oil than we.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Do, so I'm curious to know, guys, is it all
about the oil? Since a second oil tanker that was
from Venezuela's Venezuela oil not a Venezuelan taker.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Andrew corrected me on the car earlier about that.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
So with a Russian flag, it has been captured by
the United States. This is all since this past weekend.
So it's about the oil of the drugs, y'all.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
So quickly, we know it's not about drugs because to
your point, he pardoned the former president of Honduras who
got convicted, President Hernandez, who got convicted by US jury
for moving over four hundred tons tons. Okkay, that's a
lot of dope, y'all. So we know it's not about drugs, right.
We know it's not about freeing the Venezuelan people because
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that we didn't even effectuate regime change. So we have
to be cautious about the language that we're using because
he left their military, Maduro's military in place, and chose
his vice president. If he would have chosen opposition leadership,
remove military leadership, then maybe you have regime change. Maybe
you can say it's bout freedom. So yeah, if you
deduce what's left, it's about the oil. It's always been
about the oil. The problem that Donald Trump has is
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he doesn't understand that oil companies, American oil companies. It
would cost them upwards of three hundred billion dollars to
go into Venezuela and put the infrastructure in place to
actually refine and distribute that oil. So it's about the oil.
Prices have excuse me, oil stocks have drastically increased. They've
made hundreds of millions of dollars since this occurred. Some
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of Donald Trump's friends are gonna get rich as they
are doing around the world. But it's basically big bank
tate little bank. I don't know if y'all ever played
that in school, and we played it in public schools.
But big bank tate little bank and.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Got to be colonizes.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Yep, about to get Greenland. And then what's gonna happen
next is don't be surprised as Zelenski gets kidnapped, and
then don't be surprised that China looks in his backyard
and puts Taiwan in his pocket.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Well, here's Andrew we as you know, this is our
deep dive clip. So let's go ahead and transition into
the meat of the thing. Is it all about the oil?
Let's roll this clip from the White House to me.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
And now if you don't know, then you have twist tickets.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Do they have a cool from Biggie's estate.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
I hope that's what I was just about to say, Andrew,
hope that they come with them for using this and
they didn't even bleep out the N word on this clip.
I'm so irritated, Like Mark, now, if you don't know,
now you know. So they have a Biggie line for
one song using Biggie as the track for going to
get Maduro out Ofnezuela without even seeking congressional approval.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
I want to roll this question because we did get
a question from the audience.
Speaker 14 (25:08):
I'm Jordan from Atlanta, Georgia, and not just have a
quick question. Could you break down to me in layman's terms,
what the hell is going on between Venezuela and the US.
Can a president just go into another country and just
like snatch up the president and then dist them on charges?
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Like is that legal?
Speaker 14 (25:28):
What should the process be? How can we even do this?
And then also like what does that mean? What does
that mean for US? What does that mean for Venezuela?
What could it mean? I just need help because I'm
on the Googles, I'm on the TikTok, and the math
is a mathing.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
It's not making sense, So could.
Speaker 14 (25:45):
Y'all break it down for me.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Let's first hear from the President, and then we shall
do exactly that. Jordan, thank you for the question.
Speaker 15 (25:51):
We're going to run the country until such time as
we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition. So
we don't want to be involved with having somebody else
get in. And we have the same situation that we
had for the last long period of years. So we
are going to run the country until such time as
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we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition. Then
it has to be judicious because that's what we're all about.
We want peace, liberty, and justice for the great people
of Venezuela, and that includes many from Venezuela that are
now living in the United States and want to go
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back to their country.
Speaker 6 (26:38):
It's their homeland.
Speaker 15 (26:40):
We can't take a chance that somebody else takes over
Venezuela that doesn't have the good of the Venezuelan people
in mind. We've decades of that. We're not going to
let that happen. We're there now, and what people don't understand,
but they understand as as I say this, we're there now,
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but we're going to stay until such time as the
proper transition can take place. So we're going to stay
until such time as we're going to run it, essentially
until such time as a proper transition can take place.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
He can't even run it here, So what is he running, y'all? Like,
what is happening? There's a you know, there's a vote
coming up. Tim Kaine is trying to get forced a
vote on ensuring that they have to get Congressional approval
for any further action. But I'm just like, I don't
know when this stops. They don't have any boundaries. They
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don't respect the rule of law. We know that, whether
it's federal or international law. So what are we really
talking about here, y'all?
Speaker 4 (27:45):
You know it sucks is that it's hard to go
in hard on the Republican who attempts this when we
know we've had Democrats who also use the US military
without authorization from Congress under the banner of national security
or US national security interests. We took Gaddafi out of
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Libya under under such vain. The international law on this
is very it's dice in the sense that really the
only the only real power constricting power there appears to
be is is uh sort of the international bodies that
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that Trump has flouted up to this point. He seems
to have no faith in the United Nations. He seems
to have zero faith in the G seven or the
G twenty Uh. He seems to have, you know, no
faith in international law whatsoever, and there is not a
Congress to hold him to account for any of it.
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So ordinarily, even if there is an arrest warrant for
a president of another country, those wars are not usually
or typically executed by a nation until that president is
out of office. So they're usually former presidents that have
been gone back and been either held accountable before international
courts or tribunals or before a domestic court such as
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ours here in the United States. This has never been
about anything that they have told us. These folks have
sat down and for weeks they have lied to our face.
They've lied to every single time. This wasn't about regime change,
This is about drug interdiction. And then it wasn't really
about drug interdiction because they then flouted international laws as
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it relates to what you do to combatants who can
no longer combat. And we then go and drop suicide
bombs on them when we like, so I can understand
the questioners question that what laws apply here?
Speaker 5 (29:52):
What makes sense?
Speaker 4 (29:53):
There is not even international then there is not even
an international outcry and the in of what we've gone
and done in Venezuela. And I would suggest that largely
that's because most countries are terrified that and unhinged Donald
Trump might turn his ire on them. And therefore even
even friendly governments of ours are muted or silenced because
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they fear what might happen as a as a as
a as a reaction to what we're you know, to
what we're doing here. I'll put it this way, y'all.
This is straight up colonization. This is this is the
world of one hundred years ago, where the mightiest, most
powerful countries decided to uh go into how do you say, uh,
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countries that they want to take control of because largely
they have an asset that they want and you basically
send your military there to occupy, you get rid of them,
you depose their leaders, and you colonize them, and you
make them basically a part of your own country. We
haven't seen this in modern day because most of the
world threw this off threw off the yoke of colonization
a long time ago, believing that it did not serve
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us well, and it led us into more and more
world wars. And since the conclusion of World War the
Second World War, we have not seen colonization utilized as
a form of force and taken over other nations. And
it seems that Trump wants us to throw back to
the period of colonization. That's all I can offer as
it relates to the justification here.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
That's a good point. I will tell you this that
the law is extremely murky. I know people like to
say he's violating this and violating that. The fact is,
Maduro Nicholas Maduro is a horrible human being that deserves
to be in prison. Right, He's a horrible leader. And
I know that. One of the things that Andrew was
talking about was, you know, usually you have warrants and
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it's executed after individuals are out our office. Well, Venezuela
had an election that Madua lost, Right, that Maduro loss,
but he pulled to Donald Trump January sixth, Right, except
he was able to overthrow government, overthrow government, rewrite the constitution.
People have to remember how he came in the office.
You know, he came in on the back of a
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leader who was oppressive, right, He came in on the
back as a military mentor, his mentor who launched who
launched a coup that failed, Chavez, who launched a coup
that failed in ninety two, and then ran for president
and won, got sick with cancer and then installed Maduro.
And so this has been decades of oppression that Venezuelans
have felt. That's why you see Venezuelans dancing in the street.
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And so the law on this is extremely murky because
what they're telling you is that they are executing a
law enforcement operation. That is what they That's what they're
telling you. They're saying that they're going in to arrest
someone who has an outstanding warrant. More so, even he
has a warrant that Joe Biden's White House put a
twenty five million dollar or fifty million dollar bounty on
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his head side. Note, I do believe that Donald Trump's
don't try to collect his own bounty, but that's neither
here nor there. This is not something that's unprecedented, though.
Let's remember that in Panama nineteen eighty nine, H. W.
Bush went in and got Manuel Noriega right. The difference
between Panama and Venezuela, which makes this a lot more complicated.
We had ten thousand troops in Panama and we had
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a we had a military presence in Panama since its inception,
and Panama small as hell. Venezuela is a large company.
We do large country now, I mean, I guess oil company,
A large, a large, a large country. We don't have
that military presence. And that's what scares me. When the
first when the first troop dies in one of these feckless,
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you know, directionless colonial colonialism type endeavors that we're undertaken,
then I think it's going to be felt. My problem
politically speaking, and this is where I kind of transition.
I know it's kind of a little off topic, but
my problem politically speaking is this, we want to talk
about the constitutionality and the legality of it when we
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know that Donald Trump doesn't believe in either, and Democrats
are writing these long papers on Twitter, these long posts
on Instagram, all of these things. I think it's very
simple though. He is choosing Venezuela over the plight of
every day average Americans. He's choosing Caracas over soybean farmers.
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He's choosing oil companies and commodities over individuals who are
dying to get health care, literally, And I think that
is the point that has to be made over and
over and over again, because that young lady's question is
so spot on, and they do that intentionally and nobody
knows what the hell is going on. But what is
being forgotten every day is that every day, hardworking average
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American that is still working to make ends meet, that
we still have inflation, we still have cost of living problems,
we still have real health care centers that are shutting down.
We have all of these issues right at home. And
now they're talking about make Venezuela great again. And so
I think.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
He is frozen for me.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Yeah, same here. I was hoping his voice might might
catch up with the video. But Bakari's making a brilliant
point here, which is I think the point that Democrats
need to go home to every day of the weed
they are to begin the day and end the day
with this. Trump wants the power to run another nation,
yet he cannot seem to run the one that he's
right now in charge of. We have inflation that is
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creeping back up We've got people who are I mean,
I see this every time I go to the grocery
store Angela. People have their cell phones out and they
are costs comparing between this store and that store to
see which this detergent is cheaper to get here or
or the other store up the street. People are concerned
about costs. They're concerned about you know, you college graduates
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who are concerned about whether or they're going to be
able to land a job or if artificial intelligence is
going to wipe their futures.
Speaker 5 (35:52):
Out of the market.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Right there's a lot of crises right here being felt
in this country. And I'm not sure that the every
day of Mayor and the average Americans waking up and
saying what we need to be doing is starting another
conflict in our hemisphere of the world. And Venezuela, for what,
oil prices aren't skyrocketed right now. Fuel is actually pretty
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accessible for most people. That's not where they're that's not
where they're making complaint. So if I can fuel my
car and the largest asset that we're getting right now
out of Venezuela is oil, Yet that isn't the greatest
need that we have right now, but it is the
need of Donald Trump's billionaire friends, then who is he
acting in the interest of That's most frustrating to me
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is to see that we should we continue down this
line and should we become some sort of caretaker quote
unquote to Venezuela, and I don't disagree. A horrible leader.
Maduro also aided by his wife, who is also quite diabolical.
If folks were to turn the page in the look
more deeply into her history and her background. They only
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got married after he became the president elect that country,
and prior to that, she basically lined up the entire
judiciary behind Hugo Chavez and it is essentially run by her.
So diabolical people, no doubt about it. But guess what.
So is the Russian president diabolical. So are many other leaders,
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to include those of North Korea and many other despot
nations around the world. Yet we're not going into those
countries trying to take them over. But car, I just
kind of picked up where you left off because I
think it was the brilliant point that was being made,
and that is not one of us are waking up
this morning, and we didn't wake up before January third,
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on January second, saying what we need to do is
go invade another country. We woke up saying can we
get lower prices? Will my children have a future job
in this country, on this homeland, Will artificial intelligence take
over their future and snuff it out? Or is there
a balance to be reached there? None of us are
hungering for war and our hemisphere or any other hemisphere,
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as far as I'm concerned, we want we want affordability
right here at home. And if the President could fix
his eyes toward that, that'd be one thing. But he's,
as far as I'm concerned, taking his eye off the ball.
And this may be the biggest threat to his presidency
yet as far as I can determine.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Because it undermines America first. So how are you going
to say? America first? And your behind is everywhere but
in America first?
Speaker 3 (38:32):
Nobody knows. This is the explanation they're giving. What they're
saying is that by freeing Venezuela, freeing Venezuela, which that
we already articulated, they're not because we're not really doing
regime change. But by freeing Venezuela, you eliminate the pressure
on the country. You eliminate migration, and all of this
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boils back to one person, Stephen Miller. Stephen Miller wants
to destroy the world order as was situated after World
World War Two. And you know, I was having a
conversation off air talking about, you know the fact that
we allow white South African farmers to come into this country,
but we have a problem with brown Venezuelans come into
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this country, right, and so still.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
Can't get TPS. That's right, even today.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
And not only this is how you know, this is
how you know it's not about Venezuelans because the vice
president of Venezuela, who's now the president of Venezuela, I
forget her name. She was out there hugging on Russia
and China and all the ambassadors at her inauguration. They
installed even more repressive ordinances and laws on Venezuelan people
who want to speak out the day after Murduro was taken.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
And this is the thing they're talking about now, deporting
six hundred thousand Venezuelans. And that's after the raid. So
the people that you talked about celebrating in the streets
Bakari now may very well face deportation. Back to a
country that is, it's still that experienced regime change.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
I also think it's.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Important because you simply talked about Venezuelan celebrating in the streets,
and of course we know we're getting to AI later
on this video.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
There have been some.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Misleading videos of alleged Venezuelan celebrating the capture of Maduro.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
Let's run that clip.
Speaker 16 (40:17):
Since the US launch strikes in Venezuela and sees President Nicholas,
my daughter and his wife. Videos claiming to show people
celebrating inside Venezuela having widely circulating online, but they're misleading,
like this video, for example, shared by right wing conspiracy
theorist Alex Jones. It falsely claims to show large crowds
in the Venezuelan Capsul Caracas celebrating the seizure of Nicholas Maduro,
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and it has over two million views, but it's not new.
It actually shows anti Madouda protests in Venezuela in twenty
twenty four over a highly disputed election. In this a
post viewed by millions on x again falsely claims to
show celebrations erupting all across Venezuela. Now this video is recent,
but this is actually in Florida. We know this because
of details in the background and comparing it with other
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is that it's actually this Petro station in the city
of derral And again, this post claims to be crowds
of people lining the streets in Venezuela, but we verified
it's actually Venezuelans and Panama City by identifying the location
of this bridge. Now, there have been Venezuelans out celebrating
in the streets across the world, but in this case,
we've not seen those crowds in the country itself. Some
Venezuelans have told the BBC that that's because they feel
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scared and they can't freely voice their feelings about what's happened.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
I think that's important, and I do want to draw
the contrast to the fact there are some folks in
Venezuela who actually oppose the intervention, not necessarily because they
support their leader, maybe some of them do, but mostly
because they oppose the United States.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
Let's roll that clip.
Speaker 13 (41:44):
Here.
Speaker 4 (41:47):
Hella Venezuela.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
She's saying, long live Venezuela.
Speaker 1 (41:58):
She's saying that they're coming for our oil, they're coming
for our land, and she's asking the international community where
are they to intervene to ensure that Venezuela and Venezuelan
people are protected?
Speaker 2 (42:09):
Andre and me, can I ask.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
You answer question? Can I ask you a question? Andrew?
Just before your your thoughts? Because I know that this
is Angela's lead, but this has been bothering me. So
how does this play in Florida in particular? Like the
politics here Southern Florida, It's huge, right, and they don't
they are Isn't this a winning issue though? I mean,
it's a winning.
Speaker 4 (42:28):
Issue for for in Florida, for them since the Durau,
which was the images that we saw at the beginning
of that video, was sort of the largest collection of
Venezuelan's in the United States are pretty much situated in Durau, Florida.
It's a city down in Miami. So there's no doubt. Again,
so these are in Many of those folks are like
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political exiles. These are people who left Venezuela under oppression,
similar to many of the Cubans who are situated in
Miami who left Cuba under political oppression. Not surprising. And
guess what, all around the world you have expass you
have these political you have folks who have been politically
driven from their homeland who were very much so excited
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that Maduro is not there. But if you ask them
if they are returning voluntarily today, they are not returning
voluntarily today because the Modua regimes still reign supreme over Venezuela.
There's no doubt about it. But I will tell you this,
I will say forgetting any of those videos as in
regards to who has more sway anti versus pro, no
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doubt about it. If the people want Maduro gone, and
if they could say so in Venezuela themselves, they would
have said so. But what we saw in that last video,
the anger, the rage, the fury wasn't pro Maduro. It
was pro their home land.
Speaker 3 (43:46):
Correct.
Speaker 4 (43:47):
This is the wealth that should be passed to our
children and our children's children. I feel that argument every
single day of the week. These people are standing up
and basically saying this. If we think we have an
oppressive regime right now, let Trump and all of you know,
the rapers of this land get here and take all
of our natural resources, just like we have seen them
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do across the continent of Africa. All of the rich minerals,
all of the rich essays that are natural and indigenous
to that place being ripped from it the future. How
do you say that the benefactors of that richness never
ever benefiting.
Speaker 3 (44:29):
The missing thing and nothing happens in a vacuum. Let
me go back to Elon Musk and usai D. That
the problem that we have with the dismantling of us
ai D and the United States ability to have soft
power in these places is going to be glaring now
because the United States is going in with military force
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to take oil and resources from individuals, and you're going
to have because none of the three of us I
do believe and no one is actually saying that Maduro
is a good person. Nobody's saying he's a good and
nobody's saying he's a good leader.
Speaker 4 (45:01):
It's actually not even about him.
Speaker 3 (45:03):
And that's the point that is that is the larger point.
But when you talk about the absence of when you
talk about this, this this foreign policy that we now
have where we don't have that soft power, where we
don't have those HIV and AIDS programs, where we don't
have those programs to build resources, build communities that George
Bush and Bill Clinton and all those people talked about.
Now it's going to be contrary because we were trying
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to push Iran in China out of Venezuela. But what
happens in places like Africa Andrew, what happens when we with.
Speaker 4 (45:30):
This This is imperialism correct at its best. There's no,
there's no. Hillary Clinton tried to return that phrase of
soft power to smart power, and I actually think she
was right about it. It is the smartest power, brilliant
that the United States had was the use of those
kinds of techniques to bring people to our side, to
show that we see their humanity and we're not here
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to rape them up their resources. Well, Donald Trump says,
this is survival of the fittest. This is the strongest.
If you are big and bad enough to take over
a country, then you use that big in badness to
go and take over a country if you can keep it,
if you can hold it. And he's given the same
signal right now to Asia and to Russia, because if
(46:13):
you want to reinstitute the former Soviet Republic, if you've
got the power and the willingness to do what, you
go do it, and you hold it. If you can
keep it. Asia, if you want to go, I'm sorry China.
If you want to go and take over all of
Asia and what is known as your Asia, do it.
Speaker 3 (46:28):
They're taking as you can. The problem is that China's
taken all of Africa. If you go to the if
you go to the if you go to the east
coast of Africa, and we're going to see the same
thing that's happening to the to the raping and pillaging
of the resources of Venezuela is now going to happen
to the raping and pillaging of the resources of black
folk in Africa by China. It's going to be a
colonizer with a different accent and has a different skin tone,
(46:50):
but still yet a colonizer.
Speaker 4 (46:51):
Well, Bakari and Angela. The problem is under this regime,
in this regime I'm referring to Donald Trump, is that
the benefactors are not going to be the greater United
States of America and its people. The benefactors are the
billionaire friends that he can count on these two hands.
And that's it. So no longer. I mean, the imperialism
(47:12):
used to exist to the benefit to the largest of
the nation. That largest is not going to be. The
benefit of the nation is going to be to the
benefit of a few selected individuals. Remember now, these were
the billionaire owners of oil who were briefed about what
was happening in Venezuela on the third of January this
(47:33):
year before members of Congress have been briefed.
Speaker 2 (47:37):
Andrew, I want to I got to.
Speaker 1 (47:39):
I gotta say this because I completely forgot to bring
this up. Some of you all have heard of a
billionaire investor who is a Trump supporter by the name
of Paul Singer. He has a net worth of six
point seven billion dollars donated more than five million dollars
to make America Great Again INK, which is Donald Trumps
(48:00):
super pack. He is the one who has a interest
in Sitko. In fact, he recently purchased Sitgo through his
hedge fund. I believe Elliott Management at what they're saying
is a bargain price. There's a whole piece about this
in Mother Jones, as well as several other pieces. But
(48:20):
I want us to be very clear about the fact
that Donald Trump does not make a move that's not
a business move, that's not a money move, and we
have to be clear about that when we're having this conversation.
So I'm meant to mention that earlier about Paul Singer
and completely forgot to.
Speaker 3 (48:36):
To the points, right, And it's not the benefits. I mean,
we see we see Jared Kushner's incursions into Gaza. Right,
that's not a that's not a made up thing. Right.
We see the fundamental steps to reform and change and
displace Palestinians. Right, we see that that is not a
(48:57):
far stretch of what we're going to see with Donald
Trum Junior and Jerry kushn are going into Venezuela to
do the same thing for resources. I mean nothing. I
think that people when they look at politics, and I
hope that if you don't listen to anything else I
say on this show, just remember this. When they look
at politics, they look at politics and specific pockets, right,
and they think that Venezuela happens, and then Gaza happens,
(49:20):
and then Greenland happens, and you know, tariffs happen, and
production of cars, I mean the market, nothing happens. We
are in this nexus, right and of continuity, and nothing
happens in a vacuum in this country. Nothing happens in
a vacuum. With Donald Trump, he may be somewhat of
a of a kind of useful idiot to these folk.
(49:43):
But there is a plan in place to capture as
much of this kind of this world's resources as possible
and build as much wealth as they possibly can for.
Speaker 4 (49:53):
A selective few. Your point is is that these these
incidents are not isolated and not happening separate and apart
from each other. They are happening in coordination with each other.
And again, the huge difference I would again insert from
maybe one hundred years ago, is that it is no
longer to the benefit of a nation or nation trade.
It is to the benefit of billionaires coming billionaires and
(50:16):
let me individuals, the friends and family of Donald Trump.
He's not just a useful tool. His family are useful beneficiary.
That's true of exactly what he's doing in this office.
Speaker 3 (50:26):
But there are two other points there, one other point
with two kinds of sub points. We also have to
remember that some of this is economics, right, Some of
this is for the economic benefit of those individuals. Some
of this is also all of it no, no, no, some
of it's also cultural too, because there are individuals in
this White House, there are Stephen Miller's in this White
House who really fear the United States becoming browner. They
(50:48):
fear the participation of black and brown folk, and so
they are trying to do everything they can to reverse
the tide of immigration, migration, and reverse the tide of
diversity that we've seen in this country. And you see
that efforts like South Africa, you see that with efforts
like Venezuela. You're going to see more and more of
those things. So, yeah, the overwhelming impetus probably is the dollar.
(51:08):
But there are true beliefs. Stephen Miller is a true believer.
You best believe that he believes white folks are superior, right,
and he wants to ensure that this country stays as
white as possible. You see the tweets by Elon Musk.
Speaker 4 (51:20):
For as long as possible, for as long as possible,
There's no doubt about it. And and by the way,
those interests aren't diversion. They happen to be complementary to
one another. He wants to repatriot the United States with whiteness.
Thus the re you know, the the re entry of
South African whites into the United States under the guys
(51:41):
that they are being in some way, you know, targeted
for their race. So again they can make America whiter.
They want to again pursue policies that get more white
women pregnant so they have more babies, because the birth
rate for white babies is declining and below that of
(52:01):
a black and brown I.
Speaker 3 (52:02):
Mean, look at your look at your own more. I
told you nothing happens in a vacuum.
Speaker 6 (52:06):
God.
Speaker 2 (52:10):
So okay.
Speaker 1 (52:11):
And with that, from faux street celebrations in Venezuela to
other AI videos that may have had your family in
a choke hold, I know they had mined in CHOCLD.
Speaker 2 (52:22):
We're gonna talk about that right after this bread.
Speaker 17 (52:30):
Who cares about truth for the last morning seen it?
Speaker 1 (52:35):
Let's look at AI. We saw the AI's impact earlier
in the show. We're gonna go ahead and play a
little game with y'all before we getting the cause to action.
We're gonna see if you can name that AI fake.
You gotta decide which one of these videos is not real?
Speaker 5 (52:54):
Cat runs from Mouse Okay.
Speaker 2 (53:11):
Okay, So two of those videos at least are not real.
Which two which, y'all, guy? Or what tell me which
one is the real one?
Speaker 6 (53:18):
Y'all?
Speaker 3 (53:18):
I don't think any of them real.
Speaker 2 (53:19):
The second one, the second one is real that's.
Speaker 4 (53:22):
The one with the with the masked mask, cat or
dog or animal whatever.
Speaker 1 (53:27):
I know the answer, so I won't say anything. Nick,
do you want to tell us or you are need
to tell him? Oh, he can't appear, So the answer is,
Butkari was right. All of them are fakes. And over
the break y'all. My dad, Sorry, daddy, I'm about to
ear you out. My dad was running around the room
during Christmas Christmas holiday laughing, showing people this phone, and
(53:49):
my godson Ryan goes.
Speaker 2 (53:50):
Should we tell him.
Speaker 1 (53:52):
That that is AI and none of that is real?
And we decided we were gonna let him live his
Star Wars dreams. But the reality of it is these
AI videos got us in a choke hold guys, yeah.
Speaker 3 (54:04):
Holiday, Yeah, because you see this hair. You see this
hair right here? You see that how that looks? It
is fake? Here it's Rocker roots.
Speaker 1 (54:14):
Unfortunately we can't because you're blurry. Your videos to blurry,
so we can't see.
Speaker 3 (54:19):
My video is great, it's your camera's I got new
technology over here again. Do you see do you see this?
Look at it?
Speaker 6 (54:28):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (54:28):
All artificial guys.
Speaker 2 (54:32):
The Seahawks are the NFC West Division champs.
Speaker 4 (54:36):
Congratulations whatever I will say overbreak, the number of our
seniors who were in their technology as much as, if
not more than our younger kids was pretty extraordinary. In fact,
there was a lot of writing done on this. I
think one of the articles was like titled the the
(54:59):
the the Technology Retirement or something along those lines. That
are basically going after the intensity by which our parents
and their retirement are being very drawn into and taken
by technology and their cell phones and doom scrolling and
all that stuff, to the point of concern that many
of us express about our kids. And I will I
share this was angela earlier Bakari. My kids were They
(55:23):
had some playdates over the course of the holiday break,
and I was just amazed at how quick they were
willing to throw off their technology and to leave it
in places outdoors. One of my kids lost it. It
was under the tree, and I could not have been happier.
As much money as we spent for them, you thought
I would have been the other way, but I was
excited to see that it didn't take long for them
(55:47):
to be disconnected and distracted and away from their technology
and back to making up games, spending time with each other,
you know, creating stuff and fighting with each other over
something that didn't have anything to do with technology. I
wish we could embrace that more.
Speaker 3 (56:05):
I'm gonna do the flip side of it. I am
surprised by how quickly and this I don't I don't know,
but how quickly young people are adapting to new tech.
My son got a VR headset for his PS five
and he was up there over Christmas and he put
me on it. It was a Jurassic Park roller coaster
(56:27):
like this, but but.
Speaker 4 (56:32):
Yeah, definitely two different sizes of the coin.
Speaker 3 (56:34):
But he was a he was teaching me stuff like
I'm like, he's he they God bless my twins. They
just turned seven on the recording of this. But they
they they grasped technology so quickly that they're teaching it
to us. And my my prayer is that we have
as a community embraced technology, at least from the perspective
(56:56):
of monetizing it and not allowing a new enemy to
leave us behind again.
Speaker 6 (57:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (57:03):
Yeah, Well, for my I don't know, if we're at our.
Speaker 2 (57:09):
Let's do it.
Speaker 4 (57:09):
Yeah, well, I mean mine would be simply that we
find more intentional ways and occasions to help our kids
and our families disconnect from technology, not to the loss
of whatever the economic profit may be. I think we
ought to explore that. But but it feels so good
to see kids acting like kids and not obsessed with
(57:31):
their technology. And so to the extent that we can
create those moments for just authentic connection again, parents, it's possible.
We can do it. We can manage it. You know,
there are helpful distractions, but then there are moments where
you really got to get our kids reconnected to each
other again, so they know how to look each other
in the eye and talk to each other and makeup games.
(57:53):
When there ain't no resources to be had to buy
no game, they can make them up and create them
all by themselves.
Speaker 3 (58:00):
Action is quite a parallel, because you were talking about
I would I would kind of put that under mental
health right as a mental health f ast. Mine is
more of a physical health I just, uh, just at
the beginning of the week went on a sixty hour
water fast. Just broke it recently. That's why my skin
looked good. My eyes are popping. That water weight is dissipating,
(58:23):
my abs are coming. I'm looking like di'angelo and the
Nicked video untitled.
Speaker 2 (58:29):
We just talked about AI.
Speaker 3 (58:31):
Right, but also, man, I know knew. The funny part
is what I was saying is I hope people are
taking care of themselves. I'm doing the the what is it?
Sixteen sixteen hour fat inter minute fast, sixteen hours fasting,
eight hours eating from eleven to seven. I'm eating. But
one of the things I noticed is I've been running
a lot in the gym, a lot doing some hot yoga.
By the way, shout out to everybody, all the women
(58:53):
doing hot yoga, because it's pre show. I was there
trying to do a flamingo and a stand in what
elver man, I'm in.
Speaker 1 (59:02):
Let me find out the reason you missed the call
was because you was in hot yoga today.
Speaker 18 (59:05):
Of course you know I was this morning, baby, this morning.
Anyway you talk about you said before the show, Yeah,
but way before the show, way before the show. I
mean this morning of it.
Speaker 4 (59:17):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (59:18):
Anyway, take care, take care of yourself, is what I'm saying.
Start out, and the gyms are empty because people on
these peptides. I don't I'm not knocking you for it,
but make sure that you're also walking, make sure you're running,
make sure you're outside stretching your legs. Make sure you're
doing those things that make you emotionally sound physically.
Speaker 1 (59:38):
Please be careful with them drugs, y'all, be especially if
you don't need it. Those are for diabetics, and I
know they're saying it is helpful for losing weight, and
I will run the risk of us losing a potential advertiser.
Oh well, I will tell y'all be careful because they
don't know the impact on the thyrad yet and it
could cause thyrae cancer. I am going to join y'all
(59:58):
on the mental health support, make sure you are connecting
with a therapist in this new year. And on the
physical health piece. I gained five pounds over Christmas. I
ate like I have no business eating. So I was
in hot Yoga right before church on Sunday and they
had a hit hot Yoga class infrared.
Speaker 2 (01:00:16):
It was awesome.
Speaker 1 (01:00:16):
Shout out to Damien who was the leader. Also trained
at the gym on Monday. I took a break yesterday,
but I'm back on it today after this show. Looking
forward to that. And I will just say, as a
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