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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Well, take a look at that at four o'clock down
a little bit in the dial. Looks like we're about
eighty ninety points, a little lower Nasdaq. Nothing really across
the board that's in ped Nassak, not much at all.
A little interesting. Oil was up the buck fifty yesterdays
up another dollar this morning backed off gold market. We
didn't have the opening because Trump took the beginning of
the show. But yesterday gold slid two hundred dollars announced
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we're forty five sixty bouncing back just to touch sixteen
dollars a little bit. Crypto kind of holding its own.
Bitcoin is kind of in a holding pattern. In eighty
seven eight up a little bit. It's finding a real
comfortable spot between eighty six and eighty nine, eighty six
and eighty six. My gut feeling on crypto, I think
bitcoin one of these days towards the end of year.
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Remember gold and silver have taken off, just gone apoplectic,
straight up parabolic we call it, and then crypto kind
of tailed off. So golden silver up seventy and one
hundred percent the two of them, Cryptos even for the
year for the year, so I think crypto's going to
catch up at some point when no one's expecting it.
All right, our next guest, first guest, Sheriff of Riverside County, California,
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was also running for governor. Happy to have Sheriff Chad
Bianco with us. Sheriff, let's just jump right in. You
we last time you're here, you had just bubbled out it.
So what happened was Swallow. Last time we're here, Swallow
had announced he wanted to run for governor on the
Democrat side. And what that did was it took a
little bit of the support for Katie Porter at the time,
who was having a hard time of her own because
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she's an absolutely miserable person, and then people are realizing.
But it also split that vote a little bit, and
you bubbled up to the top of poles. Here we
are a couple of weeks later. Tell us where the
polls stand recently with you in California governor.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, they're the same. I think there was one poll
that came out maybe a week after when I was on,
and I think it was I had Steve and I
at the top and two Republicans at the top, and
I think Swallowa was number three. So it's really the
polling here in California is showing that we're kind of
done here. We're tired of the direction the way things
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have been going, and things are looking good for us.
We're right where we want it to be. We know
we're in the lead, we know we're on both parties.
We're the camp to beat. So we're doing well going
into the new year.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
In full disclosure, folks, I used to work with Steve Hilton.
I know him, who's a friend. I do support a
man who's law enforcement number one number two. You're thirty
five years. Tell us a little bit more about your
background with people. Should hear this?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah, I've been with the Riverside County Sheriff's Department, has
been thirty two years, and I've been the sheriff since
twenty eighteen November twenty eighteen. Reelected in twenty twenty two.
My next election is not until twenty twenty eight here,
so I will be running as the sheriff. It's a
large county here, two and a half million people. I've
got forty five hundred little less than forty five hundred
employees and a one point three billion dollar budget. I'll
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be the only current elected official running so far in
this election and one reelection, and really, when you look
back on my history, I'm exactly what California has been wanting,
I think for a long time, an actual leader with
integrity that they can trust that's going to do right
by them instead of right by a party or right
by a personal ambition or political ambition. So things are
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going really well here and we're very happy. We're just
going to keep plugging along until we take this victory.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
And again, support you. I think you're the right man
for the job. Help me figure this out, California people, voters,
mentality politics. Kevin Newson wants to run for president right now,
he's probably pulling at the top of the Democrats for
a twenty twenty eight presidential candidate. How with the same
failures that he's brought to California, whether it's mayor of
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San Francisco or governor of California recently, with all those failures, homelessness, whatever,
how is he bubbling up to the top of the
Democrats list for candadates for president. Yeah, you say, the
people of California have had enough of it and it's
time for a change, being a time for a conservative.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
So it's a very unique dynamic that we have here
with him running for president, because in California, we all
absolutely know he's a failure. We're suffering, we're victims of
his absolute political failure and in him really carrying on
that Democrat far left agenda that's been going on for
really twenty years. But the thing that's different, and it's
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really really annoying here, is you have him going on
social media, and you have him doing his podcast, and
he talks about how great things are, and whoever's in
his podcast, or ever whoever's doing the interview with him,
they just let him say it, even though it's a
blatant lie. And here in California, even the media, the
media won't report on the negative things about Gavin Newsom.
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For instance, our own state government came out, our auditor's department,
our auditor, California Auditor, came out with a scathing, scathing
report listing nine California agencies, including the Governor's office, as
high risk. And high risk means that you are ripe
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with fraud, waste, abuse, and serious lack of management and oversight.
And that's our own government saying that our own government
is absolutely failing so what's going on in Minnesota. It
pails in comparison to what we have here in California
and what we actually know, But the media won't report that,
I think because Newsom is running for president and they
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want to do everything they can to prop him up
a little bit.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
So I've lived in Florida for about five years now.
I went to college here, I'm back here now. So
California the highest tax state in the nation, maybe Hawaii,
California certainly is the top two. Florida has no personal
income tax. Here, we're running a positive budget surplus about
three billion dollars, California running about an eighteen billion dollar deficit.
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How shere's my question. You're proposing eliminitting income tax. Is
that right? And how are you going to do that
with a state that's already running an eighteen billion dollar
deficit with an income tax in place?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah, it's super, super easy, and this is the thing
everybody wants to know, how are you going to do it?
And then so everybody's so pessimistic, pessimistic because they think
that government should be doing it if it was that easy.
But the problem is they don't want to do it.
So the reality of our government that we already know.
Our own auditor controller is telling us the waste, fraud
and abuse is we are the worst in the possible country.
(06:33):
They don't know where twenty five billion dollars worth of
homeless money went. They can't account for eighteen billion dollars
of COVID money. They can't account for twenty billion dollars
in each area of our state. How do you miss billions?
I mean, if they said one hundred thousand dollars was
missing and we don't know, that's okay, But how about billions?
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Where is that coming from? So that's number one. The
waste of fraud in the abuse gets stopped. And it's
easy because I'm the governor control the budget. It's not
as hard as you're going to think. But here's the key.
California is the biggest oil user in the country, and
rightfully so, we're the biggest populated. We have the most planes, trains, automobiles,
all of that good stuff. So we import eighty percent
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of our oil that we buy from other countries. If
we were oil independent in our state, which we have
more oil than any other state, that's a little unknown
fact that anybody else doesn't. Most people don't know Alaska
has more, but we're second to Alaska. And if we
were oil independent in our state, that would completely fund
state government. So it truly shows you that the environmental
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activists that really run our state. This progressive agenda of
getting rid of oil, going to renewables and all of
that garbage is seriously destroying our state and it's going
to be very easy to get it back. And as
much as I do like Florida, I'm telling you we'll
be taking all of your residents once i'm governor, because
we will be not only the greatest and you know,
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we have the greatest beaches, we have the greatest weather.
It's seventy degrees here today, perfect little bit, it's even
a little overcast. And we're now going to fix our
government and have the best run government that we can
possibly have in our country. So we're going to be
attracting businesses and residents from all other states instead of
what we have now, which is a mass exodus out
of California.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
You know, it's another reason why I just I love
what you're bringing. I love this idea of drilling more, drill,
maybe drill, because it's really the oil is the lifeblood
of an economy, and it certainly will fix a lot
of budget deficits if you were allowed to, if the
environmentalist lobby, you weren't in bed or I guess devoted
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to the environmentalist lobby, which democrats are, and if you
can break that handcuff, so to speak, no pun intended, sheriff, Yeah,
you could actually be probably run a budget surplus. We
certainly would in America if we stopped buying foreign oil,
We absolutely would. We buy half of our twenty million
barrels a day oil from outside vendors, outside countries that
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frankly hate us. Very quickly, NGO, as you say, the
homeless NGO situation, tell us about that very quickly, if
you don't mind.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Yeah, absolutely so. Twenty five billion dollars over the last
couple of years is completely gone. They have absolutely no
idea where it went, any way of to track it.
We know that there are hundreds, if not thousands and
thousands of people that are making millions and millions of
dollars off this homeless industrial complex. Where the government will
give an NGO or a nonprofit five million dollars to
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help the homeless. They may help one, they may help
five they may help none, and yet that money is gone.
That money is spent off of administrative costs, off of salaries,
all of those types of things. But then what we
know now from our federal government investigation and what we're
learning here in California, is that a little portion of
that money gets siphoned off from the recipient and gets
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recycled back into the political campaigns of the demo prats
who are putting it in the It's basically a big
money laundering cycle, this homeless industrial complex that takes our
taxpayer money. The lawmakers give it to the nonprofits, the
nonprofits use it for themselves, and then take a portion
back into the political campaigns to make sure that that
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money train keeps flowing. And that ends with me as
the governor. There will not be another NGO or a
nonprofit getting money for homeless until we actually verify that
they're helping. And they absolutely must do one of three things.
Three would be better. You have to have drug treatment,
you have to have alcohol treatment, mental health treatment. And
here's the kicker, you have to have both. We have
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to have live in facilities that treat not only drug
and alcohol addiction, but mental health issues. Because right now
there is absolutely nothing for those people, and the majority
of them are experiencing mental health conditions because of their
drug and alcohol addiction, and there is no treatment for them.
There's no facility that will treat those people. So we
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will fix that. We will. There are the facilities out there,
they just can't operate. They actually want to do a
good job. And the reality what we have to get
to is our government doesn't want to solve our homeless
issue here or make it better because when they do that,
money stops flowing. If you cut off the money because
you fix the problem, then people aren't getting rich and
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people aren't getting elected again with money into their campaign coffers.
So it's a huge deal here. We know exactly how
to fix it, and we're going to hit the ground
running when I take office and make sure we get
these people the help that they need, because I'm telling
you it is absolutely it should be embarrassing that the
government is letting these people rotten their own skins, die
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in the sidewalk and we do nothing about it.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Yeah, Yehm promised to fix the homeless population issue twenty
years ago in San Francisco. Never did. So I got
to do this because I had a call or call
and ask about this. They love you, they love a conservative.
They did point out something I didn't know, and I
just would Yeah, I think you have to answer this.
Maybe if it's not for me, it's gonna be from
someone else. Twenty twenty, they said you during the George
(12:08):
Floyd issue moment summer of whatever, that was love that
you stood with Black Lives Matter, and actually Nelts, can
you tell us what happened there?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Yeah? Absolutely, So everybody has to realize that there is
absolutely nothing in my life, in my past that I've
said or done that would indicate anything of this. I've
evolved over the last probably seven years as one of
the nation's leading law enforcement leaders in the nation. Definitely
in our state and my county one hundred percent. I
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am the law enforcement leader of this county. That could
never happen if I knelt to a domestic terrorist organization
that hate cops.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
So what we're.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Seeing now is political theater. We're seeing the political nonsense
that always happens when other candidates want to bring down
someone else because of truly what they have to offer everyone.
The reality of that time in our country was I
was the first law enforcement leader that actually stood up
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to BLM and we eliminated from our city. We eliminated
ten thousand of them from our city within an hour,
and no one reported any injuries. We suffered no injuries
from law enforcement. It was an overwhelming show of force
that we removed them from our city. And here's the thing.
They have never come back. But just to address your
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question now, with all of that said, because there are
certain some of my opponents in this race want you
to see a either very short clipping of a video
or a snapshot picture that they're sending around that truly
takes everything out of context of what exactly it was
we had ordered them. I gave them the order, personally,
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gave them the order that they had twenty minutes to
vacate the street or we would forcibly remove them. When
that happened, one of the leaders of that organization, that's
who I was talking to, He asked me if he
could pray for my deputies, and he asked me if
I would pray with him. I said yes. He asked
other people around him to pray. He asked if deputies
could pray. Some of them did, some of them didn't.
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And that's what happened. He actually prayed for the safety
of my deputies and then they dispersed. But all you
see is a picture, a snapshot picture of a camera,
and you see it. You see selected edited version, not
maybe not edited, but very cut versions of that video.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
And it's a typical liberal or an opponent, lack of context.
Take a clip, don't show the context. Listen. I accept that,
I accept that. I wish it didn't happen, to be
honest with you, but I think I still believe you
are the right person for that job. And look, you know,
whatever is a mistake or not what people have a
right to fix some mistakes, so to speak. And I'm
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going to leave that at you. But a guy with
thirty two years experience as a sheriff doing all the
right things, with the right answers about the things that
matter the economy, etc. Oil taxes, Sheriff, We wish you
very much luck and we will continue to talk to
you as things go down the road. Thank you, sir,
very good.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
You have a happy med yea.
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next guest, Ali, Residents of ours to day. Ali is
an Iranian expert. He knows all things around. I want
to talk to him about what's going on. Ali, here's
an issue, right, So, I just saw Tokyo, Paris, Sydney,
Australia canceling their New Year celebrations that are coming up
tomorrow night because they're fearful of terrorist at acts. Also
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this statement that not even the Supreme Molla, the president
of Iran, put out that he's there in a war,
all out war with the United States, Europe and Israel.
That seems very very disturbing something. It seems like an
elevated dog whistle to these terrorists that maybe wanting to
perpetrate a terrorist attack in the United States. Break it
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down for us.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
First of all, it's great to be on the show, Eric,
and a happy New Year. I know we've got a
couple more days, but the.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Happy New Year.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
I'm very confident that the new year twenty twenty six,
we'll have a much brighter future and hopefully we willn't
be talking about terrorism and the hostage taking and all
the threats that actually actually emanates from Tehran. Keep in
mind that the Iran regime has been the war's leading
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state sponsor of terrorism because they have a history of
over forty decades of engaging in terrorism, and now they
don't just do terrorism for the heck of it. This
is part and parcel of their strategy for survival. This
is a regime that has been rejected by its own population,
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and the only way that they can cling into power
is to repression inside the country, but also terrorism, develop
a nuclear weapons outside of Iran for the you know,
threatening outside of Iran, their missile program, their drone program,
and now they're not doing any of those out of strength.
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These are all acts of desperation. This is regime that's
been rejected by its own people. So so long as
the molas are in power, you are going to see
these threats emanating from them. Now, some of them may
not be directly tied to them, but keep in mind
that so long as you have the epicenter of the
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of terror operating as a date, that creates a lot
of room to maneuver, a lot of opportunity for proxic groups,
for terror groups, both in terms of training supplies. You
know all of that, and that's the story that you're
seeing now, and hopefully we will see a totally different
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region and the world once the molas are overthrown. And
I hope that twenty twenty six we'll have the news
of a free, democratic, non nuclear republic Iran.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
That would be amazing. I'm not sure you're going to
see it that quickly, but as the people again, the
only way this is going to happen is if the
people actually rise up and eliminate the MOLA structure. The
president Massoud, right, he says in response to Trump meeting
with bb Net Yahou yesterday, he said, if there's any
any sort of aggression, any sort of aggressiont all and
(19:56):
I'm telling you, he said, we'll be met with severe
and great inducing action against the United States. What's he talking.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
About, Well, I see a lot of hotther, I see
a lot of desperation. Keep in mind that this is
the regime created a perception that they have authority, they
have power not just over their own people, but they
have all these proxy groups in the region. They have
an advanced nuclear weapons program, missile program, and the world
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has seen over the past one year the weakness of
the Irano regime, their vulnerability that you know, much of
the proxy groups that they had in Hesbalai in Lebanon
and the shared militias in Iraq, the whoth is in
Yemen have been either shattered or significantly weakened. The biggest
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ally in the region, Assad in Syria is gone and
their nuclear weapons program that the regime really spent a
lot of money and resource it.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
It costs the.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Regime what two trillion dollars. That's a lot of money
for a country like Iran. That's bigger than all the
oil revenue that Iran generated when the Mollas since the
time the Molars came to power. All of that or
a good portion of that is gone. So you know,
you mentioned that the prospect for change, who thought that
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Asset who seemed to be invincible in Syria in eleven days,
he was gone. And the reason Asset was gone because
the big brother who was helping him him and strengthening
him and supporting him, backing him, was significantly wicked and
he didn't really have the backing of the Molos in Tehran.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
He's gone.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
And now the situation applies to the Irano regime and
we as we talk, there protests going on inside the
country by the people who are entirely head up, both
because of economic hardship and the visity they're facing. There's
no water or electricity, the inflation is so high, there's corruption,
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and the value of currency is depreciated so significantly. People feel, like,
you know, they have no choice but to come and
protest against the regime and end the.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Rule of form. Maybe you get it, Maybe you get
the wish twenty twenty six. We talked about twenty six
being a year of accountability. Maybe around leadership may face
some accountability from the people. Ali resiad thank you so
much for your time. Appreciate you, Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
All is a pleasure to be on the show.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
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next guest is a former CIA Covert operations officer now
CEO of Portman Square Group. He also has a daily
podcast called The President's Daily Brief. Happy to have Mike
Baker back on the show, Mike, always good to have
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you on. Congratulations on the success of the show, doing great,
Thank you very much. Man. We're talking to Ali Resident
about this, and we talked to a couple of folks
and le Tokyo, Sydney, Paris, maybe others canceling their New
Year's Eve celebrations because they're fearful of terrorism. And just
answer me this that that statement that the President of
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AROUND put out a couple of days ago, not the
one today where he said there'll be any US aggression
will be met with Margris. I'm talking about the one
a couple of days ago where he said they're in
an all out war, all out war. That all out
part seems like a dog whistle to terrast cells around
the world step up your activities, your thoughts.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
Yeah, it is essentially, I mean, it's probably the best
way to put it. It's a dog whistle, right for those
that are so inclined, whether they're lone wolfs and they're
just looking for some reason to get fired up, or
whether they're part of a more established support cell or organization, yeah,
they've they've got reason to be.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
And look, there's always a.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
Problem around major events, public events, you know, historic days
or dates tradition, Radical Islamists, terrorists have looked to those
events to stage something because what are they looking for
where they're looking for publicity, right, they're looking for for
you know, the biggest bang for the bucks, so to speak.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
So you've always got.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
Heightened security regardless, and New Year's Eve events are certainly
in that category. But a statement from the head of
Iran saying they're declaring war or they're in a state
of war against the West, yeah, you're right that that
just creates another layer of concern. So it's not a
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surprise to see some countries start worrying about whether they
should even hold major events this time of year.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
You know, it destabilizes, right, because a lot of people
don't go out much of the year. They'll go out
on New Year's Eve, they're going Fourth of July, and
they'll be in groups in those moments. So because of
those folks who are not used to looking all over
the place before you enter a room or a crowd,
you kill a few of those as a terror, you've
really destabilized people's comfort and security and feeling of I
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don't know, safety, safety within your own country. And that
is what they're really going for. By definition, that's what
terrorism is.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
No absolutely, and again it doesn't it doesn't have to
be a major event like in New Year's Eve activity
or you know, pick another one inaugurations, super Bowls, whatever
it might be. But that's what they look for, and
that's sort of their holy grail of coordinated attack planning.
So I think, what can people do?
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Well?
Speaker 5 (27:33):
You know, people make that decision. You know, you can't.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
You can't sit in a foxhoil, right, you got to
stay busy living. If your decision is to go to
a major event, then than find but be smart about it.
You can't live in sort of this heightened state of
alert all your time, but you can learn when to
raise your awareness right when you go into something like this,
and that's when you start thinking, Okay, I have to
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pay more attention to what's happening around me. I have
to look for exits. What would I do if there's
play that game? What am I going to do if
there's a problem? You know, how do I react? How
do I stay in touch with others that I'm with?
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Right?
Speaker 5 (28:09):
What's my communications plan? How do I get out of here?
Speaker 6 (28:12):
And so again, you can't do that all the time,
but you can certainly do that when you go into
a public event, and frankly, you know there's a lot
of us that do that when we just simply are
traveling and we go down into a subway system or
whatever it may be.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
So switch you over to Venezuela. Trump used a drone
strikes what he said was a facility they believe was
a facility to house a lot of drugs. Trend to
was was storing a bunch of drugs that were going
to load on boats and send them over this way. Maduro,
what is the Maduro mentality? Right now? He's been bombed
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on his own country, inside his own borders, his own
landke CIA, How how how much intel do we have
on this guy and what is what he may do?
Speaker 6 (28:59):
Well, he's clearly worried about you know, first and foremost
those immediately around him, Right, He's called on Cuban intelligence
and their security apparatus to provide him with the close
in support. So his immediate ring of security, those are
those are Cubans, right, And and you know Cuba has
done this in the past, you know, not just for Madureau,
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for Hugo Chavez and for other nations.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
That's kind of what they do in order.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
To you know, keep some some revenue coming in because
they don't have much else on on the island in Cuba.
So that's that's an indication that Maduro is is paranoid, right,
and he should be.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Right.
Speaker 6 (29:34):
There's a fifty million dollar reward for you know, information
leading to his arrest. But you know, it's interesting because
this this attack that you just mentioned, this drone attack,
uh inside Venezuela. It's been a while since President Trump
announced that he had authorized the covert action by the CIA,
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without stating that they would actually do it. He had
just authorized that as a pat Henschel capability, and then
he came out right with very little warning the other
day and said that they've done it right. This past week,
they reportedly hit a dock facility that they're saying is
used by TDA. Now it's not clear because there's very
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few details about this.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
You know, what was there?
Speaker 6 (30:21):
Was there a major warehouse, Was it a storage facility
or was it just a loading site where they would
you know, load up the boats send them off. And
up to this point we had been attacking those boats.
We've done about thirty of those sea attacks so far.
Some one hundred and seven or more Narco traffickers have
been killed.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
In those incidents.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
But there's very few details about this attack inside Venezuela.
It is a significant development.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
You know, they claim it was just the fire, that
they put it out right away. We know how those
of course they were going to say that just came
this out for us. Is Maduro Well a year from now,
one of the New Year's Day, before New Year's Eve
twenty twenty six into twenty seven, will will Nicholas Maduro
still be the president of Venezuela.
Speaker 6 (31:07):
Well, I think reasonable people can say for the benefit
and the betterment of Venezuelan people.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
We hope not right, right?
Speaker 1 (31:14):
I mean that ye give me, give me this CIA,
give me this CIA guy telling me what what where
we are in that in terms of removing and replacing Maduro?
Speaker 5 (31:26):
Yeah, well yeah, yeah, You've hit on a major issue.
Here is the replacing, right?
Speaker 6 (31:31):
If I had to put money down, do I think
a year from now Maduro still in office?
Speaker 5 (31:35):
I don't think he will be.
Speaker 6 (31:36):
I think what will happen is he will either make
the move himself because he wants to save his own
skin and you know, some ability to say where he
goes and what he does, or his his closed circle
will will move him out. But the question is what
happens after that, And it's not it's not clear cut, right,
It's not. There has been an opposition. He stole the
last election. You have an opposition technically in waiting. But
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you know what happens in the meantime. Does the military
agree to that?
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Right?
Speaker 5 (32:03):
They still play a role in Venezuela.
Speaker 6 (32:05):
So you know, it's always the aftermath of moving somebody
out of a position of power that can get really messy.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Yeah, Mike Baker, always good to have you on President's
Daily Brief. Great podcast. Good to talk to you, my friend.
We'll talk to you again soon. Happy New Year and
be safe brother.
Speaker 5 (32:21):
Yeah you too, man. Happy New Year to you all.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Right, folks, We'll be back two and a half over here.
(32:43):
Mara Gay. Mar Gay a journalist I'm using air quotes here,
who's among the many leftists and biased members of a
profession who insist that what's happening well, for example, in
Minnesota may or may not be actually happening. Another what
you see is not what you see really moment, which
is par for the liberal especially media course.
Speaker 7 (33:03):
Watch First of all, if there is fraud there, that
should be fully investigated, no matter where it is, whether
it's in a democratic led state a republican led state.
I mean, let's pull back. So absolutely it should be investigated.
The question is, you know, why is this a priority
in a different kind of way if there.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Is fraud there? If have you seen the Nick Shirley video.
If you haven't, it's got about two hundred million views,
and it really exposes just how widespread it was, how
blatantly obvious. It was. Also just a little reminder of
what that New York Times writer is made of mar
Gay once said this about former New York City Mayor
Michael Bloomberg.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
But you see it as a possibility. If he wants
to spend a billion bucks beating this guy, he could
do it.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Absolutely.
Speaker 7 (33:53):
Somebody tweeted recently that actually, with the money he spent,
he could have given every American a million dollars.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Got it, Let's fot the screen. When I read it
tonight on social media, it kind of all became clear.
Bloomberg spent five hundred million on ads. Us population three
hundred twenty seven million. Don't tell us if you're ahead
of us on the math. He could have given each
American one million dollars and I've had lunch money left over.
(34:19):
It's an incredible way of putting it.
Speaker 7 (34:21):
It's an incredible way of putting it. It's true, it's disturbing.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
It does.
Speaker 7 (34:26):
It does suggest you know what we're talking about here,
which is there's too much money in politics, and it
makes it difficult because what we want.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
I hate to break the news you, Margay, and by
the way, Brian Williams to dumbasses, because there are three
hundred and twenty million people in America. You couldn't give
every American a million. You can give him a dollar,
not a million, a dollar, justlaw by nine hundred ninety nine,
nine hundred and ninety nine dollars. But you're close. Brian
Williams and Margay also really entertaining to hear the left
(34:58):
make comments like politicized DOJ when talking about the Trump
White House, pretending like they really don't understand anything about
the irony of that statement.
Speaker 7 (35:09):
The question is, you know, why is this a priority?
In a different kind of way, the politicization of the
DOJ and the FBI is undeniable, So whether they are
reliable narrators is the big question. And this is what
happens when you weaponize and politicize federal agencies that are
not meant to be, you.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Know, politicized.
Speaker 7 (35:31):
And I think the American people are right to ask
the question, well, can we trust you? And that's a
sad thing to say as an American.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Politicized deal You've spent four years trying to throw Trump
in jail, or to break him, to put him out
of business, to make him broke, and then you claim
that he's incredible, incredible. Another day, another freak out by
a Democrat who just hates to have their feet held
to the fire for actual crimes committed somehow in their minds.
Being held account for corruption or fraud shouldn't be looked
(36:02):
into or punished.
Speaker 8 (36:05):
I want you to hear from me first. I'm going
on offense against Donald Trump, and I just put senior
Trump officials on notice. Donald Trump once again is trying
to weaponize the Department of Justice to go after his
enemy's list. That's me, Adam Schiff, Tiss James, and Lisa Cook.
But I'm not having it. Why is he doing this
because we had the nerve to stand up to his corruption.
(36:26):
Susie Wilds just admitted this in Vanity Fair. She said
that when Donald Trump sees an opportunity for retribution.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
He quote goes for it.
Speaker 8 (36:34):
So, yes, the allegations that Bill Poulti has launched against
me and others are nonsense. My lawsuit against Donald Trump
and his team is not. So we just sent a
letter to Susie Wiles telling her, saved your emails, your
text messages, everything that records or documents Donald Trump going
after his potical enemies. Save it because we're coming forward
(36:54):
because we want the truth. What did Trump know? What
t DoD he order what did others do on his behalf?
We're not going away and the American people are always
going to choose the truth over Trump.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Let's see Leticia James lawsuit dropped, Alvin Bragg lawsuit dropped,
no basis, no grounds. Oh, Fannie Willison Georgia dropped. Oh
Jack Smith, Federal investigat draw You jerks Democrats through every
bs thing at Trump with your lawfair and now you
(37:27):
don't want to be held the same way accountable. I
think your lawsuit Eric s wallwell, he should turn around
and countersue you for frivolous lawsuits. I hope he does.
I hope he takes every last penny of your California
governor's bankroll. You know, you know Nancy Pelosi thought she
was some sort of gangster after ripping up the president's speech,
(37:49):
remember that State of Union first time. But of course
the Democrat state media wouldn't miss an opportunity to have
Nancy talk about that moment yet again.
Speaker 9 (37:57):
I intend to go to speech to cheer it up.
But I just the first pick part of it a
chour page because he was lying, and then the next
phage and then the next page. I thought it was
a manifesto of lies all throughout, So I better just
tear up the whole stage. Now, the speeches are on
a strong paper there, so you have to do it
(38:21):
a few times to get it done. But I had
no intention of My staff is going to die really disrespectful.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
You're sitting behind the President of the United States, you're
the Speaker of the House, and you disrespect the man
behind him. Do it to his face. Nance you see
what that would if he had seen that and face it. Oh,
I would love to see what Trump would have done.
Remember how he dismantled Hillary Clinton. Yeah, because you'd be
in jail, drops the mic. He would crush you, Nancy.
I don't mean physically, he would just do something just
(38:49):
to show what a ridiculous, comical person you are. It'll
be nice. Francis Collins, former director of the NIH and
Anthony Fauci's boss at the time. I'm who's also linked
to torturing and killing beagles for medical research. Killing dogs.
He was confronted and it was, I don't know, kind
of interesting to watch.
Speaker 10 (39:10):
I'd say, doctor Collins, you and Ralph Barrick and Tony
Fauci deserve to be imprisoned for the rest of your lives.
You have so much blood on your hands. I hope
you sleep all at night.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
Any I remember the.
Speaker 10 (39:21):
Name Brian Dressing because you left her stranded after she
was severely injured by the COVID vaccine in your study.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Yeah, you do know.
Speaker 10 (39:30):
Her name is Brian Dressing.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
Have a good note, Pretty cool. I'm good with that.
No violence, no harm, just confronting a guy for some
of the crap he did. They were responsible, they were
greatly responsible. They were funding the Wuhan lab that leaked
the COVID virus around the world, killed seven million people worldwide,
a million Americans, and somehow this guy's enjoying a nice dinner.
(39:53):
Anthony Fauci. Anthony Fauci's got a preemptive pardon for the
rest of his life, earning four hundred thousand dollars a
year every year until he dies. Can't happen soon enough, fouch.
Jasmine Crockett, Oh, my girlfriend. Jasmin Crockett has some very
interesting news on views on what police are supposed to
be doing, which explains a lot about why blue cities
(40:15):
tend to be so plagued with so much crime and
why criminals have no fear of continuing their crime waves
as they please without consequence.
Speaker 11 (40:25):
I want to be clear that like law enforcement isn't
to prevent crime. Law enforcement solves crime. Okay, that is
what they are supposed to do. They are supposed to
solve crimes, not necessarily prevent them from happening, per se.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
What No, no, no, You prevent crime so it doesn't happen again.
You catch criminals, you incarcerate them, and you show the
world so, hey, you want to end up like that guy,
go do it again. You're gonna end up just like
that is that is you. You don't solve a disease.
After you get the disease, you try and do things
(41:05):
to avoid the disease. If you don't want hard trouble,
if you don't want cancer, don't smoke easy as that
period done. But law enforcement is there to prevent crime. Yes,
solve the crime for the purpose of preventing more crime. Duh,
jazz jazzi. The Left still can't seem to wrap their
(41:25):
brains around the fact that investigating and uncovering corruption and
fraud is not and should not be political. Should be
both sides, right. I guess that's just what you get
after four years of the politicized lawfare Democrats waged against
all things Mega.
Speaker 12 (41:42):
Because this is about politics. I get that politics is politics,
but you know, honestly, you knock on the door of
a daycare center and you're like, let me in, let
me in. What do you expect people to do? You
know in some of those cases there were children in there.
What do you want people to do in that situation
open the door and say come on in. When they
(42:04):
know that the Somali community is under attack, is being
threatened every single day. What is going on here?
Speaker 1 (42:12):
Except if you watch again, do your homework, Lady Abby Phillip,
do your freaking homework. Watch it's about forty two minutes.
Watch the video. You'll see them knock on door after
door after door. Windows are all taped out black. Why
would you want your kid in a place where windows
are taped out black? There's no kids anywhere, any of them.
He goes from one to the other. In some you
(42:33):
could see one, two, three, all three of them that
they were being paid for, up to eighty kids with none.
I think he saw one kid on all of these.
Do your homework. Just watch the video before you defend
nine billion dollars of fraud, waste and abuse. Abby, I, folks,
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Speaker 5 (44:26):
Back again.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
Oh write about So we've been reading and listening to
your voicemails are amazing, awesome, awesome, great ones, Ben, Can
I see the control. Let's see that control. There's the
team know. Oh wait, what was it you played? Yeah,
(44:49):
so a little background on that. I was taping some
stuff and in between, right before the show, mad Dog
came over to Backstreet Boys. I was like, what batstreet
Boy had no idea, and then they sent me a
video of the Apparently the Backstreet Boys are wearing all
the white now, which I wouldn't know because I'm kind
of like a led Zeppelin aerosmith in the hoof and
(45:09):
but okay, got it. Anyway, Ben, I know that you
love that song, so can we hear some some voicemail?
Speaker 2 (45:18):
Got cha, Matt, viewer is curious about our grain reserve.
Speaker 3 (45:22):
Hello, Hey, you were mentioning the strategic oil reserve.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
Do we have a strategic grain reserve? Just curious? Just
let us know. Thanks by This is a very important question.
So the oil reserve is because we use forty million
barrels of oil a day. Twenty million come from foreign countries,
Mexico Canada being the two biggest, and others Saudi Arabia,
et cetera, not Russia anymore, are grain. We have a
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different situation in grain. So the theory between our strategic
petroleum reserve is that if the outside forces stop feeding
us the the oil we use per day, we be
really in trouble. Oil prices would spike, we would have
you know, shortages lines for everything. We don't have that
situation with grain. We are a net excess producer of grain.
(46:12):
We actually export like metric tons of grain to foreign
countries because we are so we are so blessed with
our climate, the bread basket of America that those Middle States,
the corn of amber, waves of grains, that's part of
the anthem for a reason. We are a mass producer
of grain, so we don't necessarily need a strategic grain
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reserve because we are really set and probably will be
for eternity just based on our climate location, and two
of our fore borders are water.
Speaker 2 (46:43):
Next one, Ben, we have a viewer who's fed up
with people living off our taxpayer dollars.
Speaker 13 (46:49):
Hello, mister Merry Christmas, mister boiling. I watched this show
quite often. I'm the United States Navy veteran honorable discharge.
I want to tell you if you've seen the Somalion
podcast of a black guy from Somalia telling white people
to go to work, He's from Minnesota, telling white people
(47:10):
to go to work so he can have his EVT
cards and play video.
Speaker 2 (47:15):
Games all day when.
Speaker 13 (47:16):
US suckers in America white people pay his bills and taxes.
I hope you've seen what I've seen. If not, it's
got to be on YouTube or something. Honestly, I'm sixty
two and I'm not too good with the computer.
Speaker 10 (47:32):
Or nothing, but I watch the show.
Speaker 13 (47:34):
And I'm calling in and please do something about this
podcast and get rid of the Somalians that are here.
I legally I'm a United States Patriot from Hudson Valley,
New York. Thank you, Union worker.
Speaker 1 (47:50):
Union worker, Thank you, sir, thank you for the comment,
thank you for our freedom, thank you for your service
to the country. I will tell you I haven't seen
that video, but I've seen the Nick Shirley video, and
i will tell you. At one point, he approaches a woman,
a Somalian woman, who was supposed to be running one
of these childcare centers with no kids in it, blacked
out windows, no kids in it, and he asked there
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were the kids, and she answers him by saying, I'm
not answering you. I'm afraid of you because you're white,
and he calls her on it. To his credit, this
kid's going to be he's going to be a great journalist.
He says, what do you mean you're afraid of because
I'm white. He says, you're racist. That's racist, and she said, no,
I'm not racism. But it is. It really is. These
people are so entitled. They're caught red handed. They've been
(48:33):
stealing billions upon billions of dollars and they can't even
step up and be American, be human. It's the problem, sir.
I'll tell you something you're right about. If they came
over legally. There's not a lot you can do. Certainly,
the ones that are stealing you get rid of them
or throw them in jail. But the ones who aren't
here get rid of them. They don't assimilate. We need
(48:54):
to teach people. If you want to come here, great,
We need more people here. We need more people who
were can feed into the system so that everyone can
survive and do better. But you have to do you
have to live by our laws. There's no Sharia law
in Muslim counties. There's no no go zones for cops
in Muslim neighborhoods. No, it's the American way of black
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and it really nice. If you had some sort of test.
Do you know the Constitution? Can you recite I don't know,
the preamble to the Constitution or maybe singing the national anthem,
I don't know. Just assimilate, Just show us you want
to be part of this amazing experiment that America is.
Otherwise we're going to screw it all up. And it's
on its way there. It's really it's scary what's going on,
(49:36):
and we're only about it. Whatever. Thirty six hours away
from Zo ram Mamdani taking over New York City and
boy is that going to be wild to watch? All Right,
folks love that song, Ted Nugent, have a great night.
Band is up next. Always good to talk to Ban
and we'll get him on the horn one of these days.