January 7, 2026 • 36 mins
A $30,000 bet on the future of the Venezuelan President is raising questions about insider trading in prediction markets as uncertainty grows over what’s next for Venezuela and what other nations may be involved. National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL has the story.
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Speaker 3 (00:38):
Good morning and welcome one and all to Wednesday, January
the seventh, al LOLd to twenty twenty six. One chance
to understand this day because we're all in this together,
right if you're just waking up. Newly released transcript show
the gunman and the deadly Brown University shooting confessed on
video to the attacks no real clear motive, though pre
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planning was admitted. There are reports of him yelling a
lah acbar and a lot of the kind of untold
story seems to point towards that President Trump says, Venezuela's
turning over thirty to fifty million barrels of oil to
the US. What's the President going to do? Sell it,
reimburse the American people, and hold a bunch of it
(01:22):
to rebuild Venezuela if regime change takes place. Minnesota Governor
Tim Wall says he has no plans to end his
term prematurely. He will not seek reelection, but he will
not leave early, not over his dead body and a
thirty thousand dollars bet on the future of Venezuelan. President
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is raising questions about insider trading in prediction markets as
uncertainty grows over what's next for Venezuela or Cuba or
anybody else after that. Royal Nili is our national correspondent
here to join us with the very latest done this story.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Well, this one got by me, so fill me into Yeah,
these are the prediction markets that are out there, growing
online phenomenon almost essentially that lets you bet on anything,
but you're not betting against a house, so it's not
gambling in that way. Instead, you're putting out this proposal
and saying, what are the odds of this or that?
And then other users then can place bets against or
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for your position. So it's not like that sports betting
app you have on your phone. You're not betting against
the house.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Instead, this is a different setup, and through a polymarket
bet that's one of these prediction markets.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Somebody put thirty thousand.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Dollars down on the Maduro being ousted and an invasion
of Venezuela. They're getting a four hundred and thirty six
thousand dollars payout. However, polymarket taking the GOP line here
saying this was not an invasion.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Oh he gets it on technical Well, I was gonna say,
it doesn't surprise me that such a prop if you'll
allow me without having to do the whole that's such
a prop bet exists. There's a prop bet on everything.
Big job, by the way, lost one last hour. I
never said the word matrix in forty minutes. But thirty
thousand dollars is a significant amount of money on that.
(03:15):
But oh my, you're telling me on the technicality of invasion, Well,
there's a thirty there's a thirty thousand dollars reason to
stop the Democrat narrative, that's for sure.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Right, So we'll see how that works and because there
a lot of users are not so happy with that definition.
But that's outstanding. But there are also security questions. Right
if someone suddenly puts up this bet that says, hey,
thirty grand and at two am on Saturday, Maduro gets
taken out?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Was that inside information at one? Yeah? Right?
Speaker 5 (03:45):
From the delta force from a marine on a ship?
Was from whoever? And then could that have been a
security concern with something in Veneveezuela saying Gee, it looks
like someone's going to come here at two am. We
better move this guy or put him in that steel
door behind the steel door. Yeah, so real concerns. Now,
there is legislation that would ban federal employees from taking
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part in this. It's called the Public Integrity in Financial
Prediction Markets Act. Might not get anywhere either, So that's
a bit of a weight and say that the laws
are clearly playing ketchup.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Have we confirmed it's not Maduro who plays the bet? Yes?
Justice Department says it's still reviewing two million Epstein related documents.
Roy's gonna be back next hour to talk about that. Roy.
There are they all released? Now? Did they meet the deadlines? No?
Speaker 5 (04:33):
It's the two million documents that have yet to be released.
That's what we're waiting on, all right.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
So, but the way past their way past deadline, and
so I mean, how has this not been I was
talking about how the story just kind of disappeared as
we entered the new year, and you would think, I
guess they Venezuela.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
It's not like it's been quiet and we've been using
filler material.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
No. Roy will be back with the latest done in
the Epstein Files coming up in our third hour. Can't
have your morning show without your voice. Never would. The
show is named after you, it stars you. Let's go
to Joey and Pa. My computer just crashed. Oh really, yeah,
sorry about that. So Joey crashed with it? Yeah he did,
(05:16):
he did. Oh thanks, Wait a minute, a minute. You
don't have to I got plenty to talk about.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Here you go more, Mikey have fun with John Harball.
As Ravens fans, we've always wanted put ray Lewis in
there and let him coach the team because we missed
the days of ray Lewisterrell Suggs and Tony Sarah Gusa.
So enjoyed John.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I have a great tab. We'll talk to you later.
Why is that on John you don't have it. You
need Tony Sarah Gusa sugs on the line, you need
ray Lewis and linebacker. You don't need him as a coach. Well, yes,
we'll take him, if only you were the Lord we
prayed in the first hour. Won't take them, but I
was just interested if that's And again, don't forget the
priest douse the field with holy water before the game.
(06:00):
And then the Maloich he was on the kicker for
the Ravens. Oh, he's retired, But I mean if he
makes that field goal, is John Harbaugh not fired? And
then we get Tomlin. I mean I'll take either one. Well, yeah,
you're jumping to that, but think about that because I
don't get some of these. Some of these firings, I
get some of them. I don't get at all. It's like,
(06:23):
you know, when there's certain teams I look at and
I go, you're firing the coach. You should be looking
at the GM. This team has poorly drafted, This team
has poorly taken advantage of free agency. They have not invested.
This is a personnel issue. I don't you know Lamar
Jackson's off year and that missfield goal shows me more
(06:47):
reasons why the Ravens aren't in the postseason than John Harbor.
I'll take a Harball every day. I'll take Jim or John.
Dear Lord, you know, you just don't remember what it's
like to suck to your Ravens, because, let me tell you,
when I live in the city that's terrible. Two years
in Nassfield, we would take Cliff Harbaugh. Was there a
(07:10):
cliff we'll have to go get We'll have to go
get an egg and a Petri dish. We'll do whatever
we can to get a Harball right here, all right?
Favorite story of the day. I know what reds is,
although Red and I have a disagreement because in this
particular case, first of all, I thought her sound and
yesterday Sounds of the Day was the best. I mean,
(07:31):
one of these young girls. Everything ends on a higher note.
And she's talking about how we have traditional vvased housing
as people's property. Now we look at it more collectively.
That's called communism.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
You know.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
I still can't get over that. But the New York
Post had the story the mom of Mom Donnie's aid,
who I played for you yesterday, owns a home near
Vanderbilt university worth one point six million dollars. Wouldn't this
be considered individual property? I wonder what her parents think
(08:08):
or does it not matter as long as she's just
living at home with her paws. In white supremacy, it's
their white supremacy and not hers. I mean, you got
to stop. But all these leftists are a bunch of hypocrites.
Look at every member of Congress. They're supposed to be
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serving us, humbly, representing us humbly. They go to office,
we continue in debt, our lives are worsened, and they
leave millionaires with pensions. So why would we pick on
this girl? But you know, if we had found out
she first of all, I'm sure Cia Weaber owns nothing.
(08:51):
She doesn't look like she has many assets. Why didn't
you say stop it? Can you find I wish we
could find that audio for yesterday I miss advice, but
I could hang on. I think I'm gonna turn it.
There's a link in the show prep there Michael in ours? Yep?
Does it tying?
Speaker 8 (09:12):
It?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Certainly does. I don't see the link, but let me try.
Individual good to collective good? Is that the length? That's it?
That's it? Okay? She is that a commercial first?
Speaker 9 (09:23):
There we go is that for centuries we've really treated
property as an individualized good and not a collective good.
And we are going to and transitioning to treating it
as a collective good and towards a model of shared
equity will require that we think about it differently.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Does that mean I can go to Brentwood today, to
a ten million dollar home of a star who has
worked as butt off and heard that money and just
say your home is now my collective good. Here's Nick
and I'll be down in the pool room. It's the
Jerk Part two. I don't need that anything. I need
this stool I'm watching taking the homes over the bulk.
Speaker 9 (10:06):
And it will mean that family is especially white families,
but some UOC families who are homeowners as.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Well, especially my families like my mother, are.
Speaker 9 (10:17):
Going to have a different relationship to property than the
one that we currently have.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
That's your mom. She's smart enough to live in Tennessee
and by Vanderbilt that she must be looking at you thinking, yeah,
shut up, you damn meat hit shat up, shutting up.
You know. No, my favorite is not so much that
story because it's her mom's house. Not hers. She doesn't
(10:45):
even have a house. I think my favorite I'm going
to go with. In Los Angeles a year after was
somewhere between twelve and thirteen thousand homes lost in those wildfires.
How many you think have been rebuilt in a year?
About one out of every thousand. Less than a dozen
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causes may have gotten your insurance money that can cover
the rebuild, but not everything could be zoning and regulations.
We hear a lot of that. Maybe they're not so
anxious to rebuild. And how many will take their rebuild
money and rebuild in a different state. Time will tell
eighteen minutes after the hour, everyone forgets things now and
(11:29):
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Twenty five minutes after the URF, you're just waking up
is what you need to know. It's time for the
top five stories of the day. President Trump says his
(13:18):
party will break records this year in the midterm elections.
More from Mark Mayfield.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
You addressed the annual GOP retreat Tuesday at the newly
renamed Trump Kennedy Center and talked about the challenge of
winning in the midterms.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
But even if it's.
Speaker 10 (13:31):
A successful presidency, there's been nothing like what we're doing.
We had a very good day two days ago two.
But even if it's successful, they don't win.
Speaker 8 (13:41):
Lucier is going to be critical for Republicans in the
House as they look to keep their slim margin. Trump
did question the historical trend of the sitting president's party
losing in the midterms. He said, I wish you could
explain to me what the hell's going on with the
mind of the public. Because we have the right policy,
they don't. I'm Mark Neefield.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
By the way, our first Friday with forty seven is
coming up on Friday for the new year. The Department
of Justice, we just talked about this with Rory. They're
reviewing over two million documents in connection with the convicted
sex offender now dead Jeffrey Epstein legal cases because they've
got to review them before they'll release them. More from
Chris Karagio.
Speaker 11 (14:16):
Attorney General Pam Bondi and her deputy Todd Blanche wrote
a letter to a New York judge explaining that over
twelve thousand documents have been posted to the DOJ Epstein
Library in response to the Epstein Files Transparency Act. However,
Bondi and Blanch said there are more than two million
documents in various phases of review, and the effort will
continue to require substantial department resources. The DOJ was given
(14:38):
additional time to explain any reactions and provide Congress with
a list of all government officials and politically exposed individuals
named in the files, but it has yet to provide
either report.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I'm Chris Karagio. Yeah, the nine to eleven findings were different.
Agencies weren't communicating local law enforcement with the FBI or
with the CIA. But another big thing was who was
coming into our country. The visas would expire and we
didn't track them and they wouldn't leave. We've been addressing
all of that. The President plans to address it some more.
The administration is adding twenty five new nations to a
(15:09):
list requiring any travelers to post bonds before entering the
United States.
Speaker 12 (15:14):
The State Department says there are now thirty eight countries
subject to the requirement. Venezuela, Cuba, and Bangladesh are among
the new countries added to the updated list, which goes
into effect January twenty first. The majority of the countries
are in Africa, including now Nigeria. Travelers from the countries
on the list who are eligible for a visa could
be required to post a bond about two fifteen thousand dollars.
(15:36):
I'm Tammy Trhio.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Not that anybody cares, but Jimmy Kimmel is accusing the
Trump administration of revisionist history after the White House posted
a web page in support of the Capital rioters. Well
as you know, and I can do this safely now.
On the under over in the matrix. One thinks it
went one way, the other thinks it went the other.
The reality is it was both. The President had been
(16:01):
briefed on the potential for trouble and still made some
of the statements he made. The left only chooses to
tell you about one of those statements, not the peaceful one,
but Nancy Pelosi, by way of the Sergeant of Arms
was the first to be briefed, and the Sergeant of
Arms asked for increased security. She denied it because she
was setting the trap and Trump walked into it, and
(16:24):
then they exaggerated it. But, like I said, who cares
what Jimmy Kimmel thinks other than Tammy Trio.
Speaker 12 (16:32):
The late night host was briefly taken off the air
last year after he made statements had angered the administration.
On Tuesday, Kimmel opened his show by acknowledging the fifth
anniversary of the twenty twenty one Capitol Riot and said,
on that day, Donald Trump tried to quote overthrow our
government in a pathetic and illegal attempt to stay in
the White House. A White House website on the instant
claims the media lied and that former House Speaker Nancy
(16:55):
Pelosi admitted responsibility. I'm Tammy Trio, yeah, right on tap,
all right.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
In sports to the Hardwoods, we go the Caves one
twenty one to sixteen over the Facers, grizz by one,
huge win over the Spurs, Lakers one eleven, one oh
three over the Pells Kings lost by two to the
MAVs on the ice Lightning four to two over the Abs.
Sabers beat the Canucks five to three. Ducks lost five
two to the Flyers and the Preds lost big and
Edmonton six to two. Don't forget. The Fiesta Bowl is
(17:22):
tomorrow ten Miami versus six Old miss That'll be at
six thirty Friday. The Beach Bowl five Oregon versus Number
one Indiana. That's your top five stories. This is Steam
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And my morning show is your morning show with Michael
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del Joino.
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If you're just waiting as system, if you're just waking
(20:04):
up thirty seven minutes after the hour in the Eastern time,
soon twenty three minutes to be to work on time,
President says Venezuela's turning over thirty to fifty million barrels
of oil, not what he plans to do with it.
Time shall tell. He also made the comment that if
the Democrats get control of Congress in this midterm election,
you can bet your life they're going to impeach him,
and Governor Walltz says he is leaving, not seeking reelection,
(20:28):
but he will not over his dead body leave office early.
Time will tell. Is Decker here? Well, he is. My
White House correspondent John Decker's here. President Trump tells supporters,
if the Republicans lose the House, he most assuredly will
be impeached. Well, I don't even think that's a prop bet,
is it. That's almost a guarantee.
Speaker 7 (20:47):
Oh, I agree with you. I agree with you one
hundred percent. It's just a matter of on what grounds
are they going to site for launching impeachment proceedings against
President Trump. But the President laid down the lawn into
Republicans to the House yesterday they had their January retreat,
and that's what he said is at stake in the
(21:07):
midterm elections. You know, Michael, they're just ten months away.
They'll be here before you know it.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Well, strategically, this is the president, of course, putting himself
clearly on the ballot. I think he's going to need
to physically go all these places and campaign you've covered.
I don't know how many presidents in thirty years, eight
or nine now. Presidents are different from each other, nuanced, different,
Some have success, some have failures, most have both. But
(21:34):
America's changed a lot since you started covering this. Since
when do we always root against the opposition party president.
And now, since when has it become a foregone conclusion
that we just impeach people for anything because it's not
our party in office.
Speaker 7 (21:49):
Yeah, it's the new normal, so to speak. Although, as
you know, in the four years that Joe Biden was
President of the United States, there was no impeachment effort
against him. The President said that was a mistake on
the part of Republicans. But President Trump during his four
years in office, in his first term, impeached twice, and
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he is expecting to be the subject of an impeachment
proceeding once again in his second.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Term in office. So here we go with thirty to
fifty million barrels of oil. I don't know, and you
follow this every day. That's why I'm asking you. I
hear the president's wording, and his wording is this will
be sold and the revenue will be used to reimburse
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the American people. And it sounds like some put aside
for if we ever get regime changed to help rebuild
a nation that's been destroyed by socialism. But we don't
know what percentage of which or both, or that seems
to be the plan for the money though, right I
have that much straight.
Speaker 7 (22:55):
Well, that's the top line plan. That's the headline plan.
But you're right, not many detas tales about what that
looks like, how that would be processed, and how the
money would be derived. All of those questions are yet
to be answered. There's going to be a briefing today
involving administration officials. I would certainly expect some of those
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senior Trump administration officials who help carry out this military
operation against Venezuela will be in the briefing room this morning,
including Secretary of Saint Mark or Rubio, and Pete hag Seth,
and perhaps JD. Vance and maybe the President himself. And
that's the question maybe at maybe asked during the course
of that briefing.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Well, I think this is kind of a broadcast judgment
question more than a Supreme Court bar attorney or a
White House correspondent question. But it just seems like America
has really quickly moved on from a lot of things
that it was obsessed with, one of which is the
Epstein files. Because they haven't all been released. There's about
two million more that have to be perused before they're released.
(24:00):
Nobody seems to mind, because I think we've just moved on.
Maybe this wasn't the issue we thought it was.
Speaker 7 (24:06):
Uh maybe, but my gut tells me that we're going
to return to that issue. I don't know when it's
going to be. I don't know if it's going to
be next week. But as you know, the news cycles,
they move so quickly, Michael, and although we're talking about
Venezuela this week, we could be returning to talking about
Epstein next week, Ukraine, Russia the following.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
That's how quickly this news cycle moves. And that's why
you do a podcast every day. So about eight this morning,
Central nine Eastern, the White House Briefing Girlal John Decker
will be released. It's a daily podcast from the White
House on all these issues and more in depth. We
encourage everyone to go and listen to it, and when
you find it, by the way, put it on your
preset button. So it's waiting for you every morning. And John,
we'll talk again tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (24:50):
I look forward to it. Thanks to Mike Love Greig
Day about.
Speaker 10 (24:55):
I really don't know what he says at the end
of this, and I don't think he knows what he
said either.
Speaker 13 (25:02):
It's got to be a big misunderstanding.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Why do you like my garbage. Trump, It wasn't tight,
it was a landslide, and you're vice presidential candidate. He
just announced he's not running for me.
Speaker 7 (25:17):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Minnesota Governor Tim Wall says he will not seek reelection.
But as for those of you that want him or
think he'll ever leave early, over.
Speaker 14 (25:25):
His dead body not going anywhere, and you can make
all your requests for me to resign, over my dead body,
will that happen. I will fight this thing till the
very end to make this state better. And the question
that I think they need to decide is is when
does the guy in the White House resign? When does
he take accountabuilding for what he did? Because it isn't
going to happen here.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
What did Donald Trump have to do with billions being
funneled to Bocoharem terrorist organization in a state where the
attorney general was covering that's been revealed, And you, boy,
I wish you were this tough at protecting taxpayers money.
Speaker 14 (26:04):
In terms of us shying away from making a state better,
so you'll get to see me more. The good news
is on this is is that I got no election
to look forward to. I've been in front of you,
I'll call on who I want to call on, and
I'll watch what the press gets written, and we'll make
sure that in this state there's full accountability for everybody.
Because I buck stops with me. I'm accountable for this,
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and because of that accountability, I'm not running for office again,
but I have a year to continue to improve on
a record that I think will stand up against anybody's,
a record that has made Minnesota better, a record that
makes people want to come here, and a record that
has respected not only the dignity of people, but the
idea of rule of law and camaraderie.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
I mean, seriously, I feel like just being quiet for
about thirty seconds and let you play talk show hosts.
You were right in the first half. The buck stops
with you. You're wrong. You don't take accountability, because if you
did take accountability, you'd understand You're going to be accountable,
(27:10):
and that will be your legacy fraud failure. If it
was no big deal, you'd be running again. It is
a big deal. I want to feature Dana Perino. Everybody
knows I'm not that huge fan of Fox like most
people are. But with the leaked audio of the Minnesota
(27:33):
attorney general Keith Ellison alone, the story's not going anywhere,
and I don't think it'll take his dead body. Watch
Dana eviscerate that news conference in about twenty five seconds.
Speaker 15 (27:45):
I think he's got a real problem because he might
have been the first shoot of fall. But there's more
coming because Keith Ellison, who is the attorney general of Minnesota,
former congressman, who is a member of Democratic leadership, he
is on audio, leaked audio, talking to these people tell
him that he will cover up the investigations so that
they'll tell the investigators to back off. So this resignation
(28:09):
or decision not to run, not a resignation, but the
decision not to run. It's not the end of the story.
The fraud story doesn't end there. To me, is really
just beginning. And thankfully there's a very good prosecutor in
the state that is relentless, so hopefully they'll get.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
It cleaned up.
Speaker 15 (28:25):
So I think he's got a real problem.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Keith Keith Elison, what was his what was his real name?
Everybody forgets that. I think they've wiped everything clean. Let
me see if I can born in Detroit. I don't
(28:53):
think Keith Ellison was his birth name. Uh this, this
is a I cannot find it. It was raised Catholic,
or maybe he just later took on an Islamic name
and then dropped it and went back to his original.
I can't remember what the story was. I should have
(29:14):
done that before I brought it up. But long before
the squad and some of these more outspoken Islamist members
of the US Congress, was Keith Ellison first, and now
he's the Attorney General, and he was clearly aware that
this was happening, and as Attorney General, ran cover for it. Well,
(29:35):
there's a lot more to this story. But if he's
dug in and Timmy wants to hang in there, I
think it's going to have the opposite effect. It's going
to even make it more his legacy. Time will tell.
I think I'm right. Here's the President offering some strategic
(29:57):
advice to House Republicans. Yesterday we did.
Speaker 10 (29:59):
The greatest job ever on borders, and you know, I
think they forgot it. My guy said to me today,
I have a great guy Ross. He's the greatest speechwriter.
He said, sir, let's not mention the border. Nobody cares
about the border anymore.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Can you believe it.
Speaker 10 (30:13):
This was the biggest Hello, this was the biggest thing
there was just to me, nobody cares about the border
because it has.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
A shelf life. I fixed the border.
Speaker 10 (30:24):
I fixed it in my first term, but now I
really had to fix it.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
It was much worse. You know.
Speaker 10 (30:29):
When I came into office, millions and millions of people
were pouring into our country, and I fixed it. On
my guy, who's incredible, says, people don't want to hear it. Sir,
you've done that. The problem is people forget that I
did it. They totally forget. They were talking about the
other day, we don't like Donald Trump on this, We
don't like Donald Trump on that, and somebody just out
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of the blue wall, he did an unbelievable job, and
who cares about that? They're saying, like, you know, that's
been done.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
What do we do about that? Mike? Everything you'd do.
Speaker 10 (31:00):
It's almost like, what have you done lately? Is the
way you have to run your life? In other words,
I could have the most unbelievable four years, and I
guess they're not. I'm not allowed to run. I'm not
sure is there a little something out there that I'm
not allowed to run? But let's assume I was allowed
to run. I could have it's going to be a
(31:24):
constitutional movement. No, I could have the most unbelievable four years.
Everything was great, but in the last week I made
a little slip up in something and you lose the election.
It's like, so we have we can't let them forget
that we did such a great job on the border.
By the way, Venezuela. Everyone there marching in the streets.
(31:47):
I love it, except in New York. I mean, where
they find these people?
Speaker 3 (31:52):
These people? What about the Democrats? On the fifth anniversary
of the January sixth attack, which is certainly a matrix
matrix tissue, they're out singing.
Speaker 10 (32:07):
And I.
Speaker 16 (32:10):
Bened with the life to the fairies? Do the omrck?
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Well, have you seen the polling numbers on where the
Democrats stand right now? Ou should be very.
Speaker 13 (32:32):
Clear there is no rift in the Republican Party. Yes,
there are some folks like Marjorie Taylor Green and Thomas
Massey are quite skeptical of this. They are very much
in the minority. What are we talking about here? Well,
why don't we just talk to GOP on the US military?
Alston Maduro hipsos sixty five percent support six percent of pose.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
How about the Washington post war.
Speaker 13 (32:54):
Seventy four percent support, just ten percent of post. If
you look among twenty twenty four Trump's supporters, we're talking
about eighty percent support.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
The vast, vast.
Speaker 13 (33:05):
Majority of Republicans are with Donald Trump on this issue.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
So that's important first and foremost for party unity because remember,
in a midterm election, it's probably twelve races in particular
that are really going to decide which way the House goes.
Much of it can be driven locally, but in this
case they're going to need the president all they can
get to help sway these elections and hang on to control.
(33:32):
And the border is a foregone conclusion. As the President
was saying, most people have forgotten it. I don't believe that.
And I think this is Venezuela foreign policy, the Abraham Accord,
and holding around accountable what this does to Russia and China,
the foreign policy achievements. I think that's all on the table,
and the party is energized and unified behind Trump. We
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don't see the divisions like we did with Israel happening
with Venezuela. For the Republicans and the Democrats could not
be polling worse than they are right now. But if
they should win, oh there's no question they'll impeach again.
The President's right about that too. And that's your sounds
of the day. We will win, we will win.
Speaker 10 (34:19):
They all look like a bunch of girly men.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
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the seventh, al LOLd to twenty twenty six. One chance
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right if you're just waking up. Newly released transcript show
the gunman and the deadly Brown University shooting confessed on
video to the attacks no real clear motive, though pre
(01:01):
planning was admitted. There are reports of him yelling a
lah acbar and a lot of the kind of untold
story seems to point towards that President Trump says, Venezuela's
turning over thirty to fifty million barrels of oil to
the US. What's the President going to do? Sell it,
reimburse the American people, and hold a bunch of it
(01:22):
to rebuild Venezuela if regime change takes place. Minnesota Governor
Tim Wall says he has no plans to end his
term prematurely. He will not seek reelection, but he will
not leave early, not over his dead body and a
thirty thousand dollars bet on the future of Venezuelan. President
(01:42):
is raising questions about insider trading in prediction markets as
uncertainty grows over what's next for Venezuela or Cuba or
anybody else after that. Royal Nili is our national correspondent
here to join us with the very latest done this story.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Well, this one got by me, so fill me into Yeah,
these are the prediction markets that are out there, growing
online phenomenon almost essentially that lets you bet on anything,
but you're not betting against a house, so it's not
gambling in that way. Instead, you're putting out this proposal
and saying, what are the odds of this or that?
And then other users then can place bets against or
(02:23):
for your position. So it's not like that sports betting
app you have on your phone. You're not betting against
the house.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Instead, this is a different setup, and through a polymarket
bet that's one of these prediction markets.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Somebody put thirty thousand.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Dollars down on the Maduro being ousted and an invasion
of Venezuela. They're getting a four hundred and thirty six
thousand dollars payout. However, polymarket taking the GOP line here
saying this was not an invasion.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Oh he gets it on technical Well, I was gonna say,
it doesn't surprise me that such a prop if you'll
allow me without having to do the whole that's such
a prop bet exists. There's a prop bet on everything.
Big job, by the way, lost one last hour. I
never said the word matrix in forty minutes. But thirty
thousand dollars is a significant amount of money on that.
(03:15):
But oh my, you're telling me on the technicality of invasion, Well,
there's a thirty there's a thirty thousand dollars reason to
stop the Democrat narrative, that's for sure.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Right, So we'll see how that works and because there
a lot of users are not so happy with that definition.
But that's outstanding. But there are also security questions. Right
if someone suddenly puts up this bet that says, hey,
thirty grand and at two am on Saturday, Maduro gets
taken out?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Was that inside information at one? Yeah? Right?
Speaker 5 (03:45):
From the delta force from a marine on a ship?
Was from whoever? And then could that have been a
security concern with something in Veneveezuela saying Gee, it looks
like someone's going to come here at two am. We
better move this guy or put him in that steel
door behind the steel door. Yeah, so real concerns. Now,
there is legislation that would ban federal employees from taking
(04:08):
part in this. It's called the Public Integrity in Financial
Prediction Markets Act. Might not get anywhere either, So that's
a bit of a weight and say that the laws
are clearly playing ketchup.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Have we confirmed it's not Maduro who plays the bet? Yes?
Justice Department says it's still reviewing two million Epstein related documents.
Roy's gonna be back next hour to talk about that. Roy.
There are they all released? Now? Did they meet the deadlines? No?
Speaker 5 (04:33):
It's the two million documents that have yet to be released.
That's what we're waiting on, all right.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
So, but the way past their way past deadline, and
so I mean, how has this not been I was
talking about how the story just kind of disappeared as
we entered the new year, and you would think, I
guess they Venezuela.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
It's not like it's been quiet and we've been using
filler material.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
No. Roy will be back with the latest done in
the Epstein Files coming up in our third hour. Can't
have your morning show without your voice. Never would. The
show is named after you, it stars you. Let's go
to Joey and Pa. My computer just crashed. Oh really, yeah,
sorry about that. So Joey crashed with it? Yeah he did,
(05:16):
he did. Oh thanks, Wait a minute, a minute. You
don't have to I got plenty to talk about.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Here you go more, Mikey have fun with John Harball.
As Ravens fans, we've always wanted put ray Lewis in
there and let him coach the team because we missed
the days of ray Lewisterrell Suggs and Tony Sarah Gusa.
So enjoyed John.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I have a great tab. We'll talk to you later.
Why is that on John you don't have it. You
need Tony Sarah Gusa sugs on the line, you need
ray Lewis and linebacker. You don't need him as a coach. Well, yes,
we'll take him, if only you were the Lord we
prayed in the first hour. Won't take them, but I
was just interested if that's And again, don't forget the
priest douse the field with holy water before the game.
(06:00):
And then the Maloich he was on the kicker for
the Ravens. Oh, he's retired, But I mean if he
makes that field goal, is John Harbaugh not fired? And
then we get Tomlin. I mean I'll take either one. Well, yeah,
you're jumping to that, but think about that because I
don't get some of these. Some of these firings, I
get some of them. I don't get at all. It's like,
(06:23):
you know, when there's certain teams I look at and
I go, you're firing the coach. You should be looking
at the GM. This team has poorly drafted, This team
has poorly taken advantage of free agency. They have not invested.
This is a personnel issue. I don't you know Lamar
Jackson's off year and that missfield goal shows me more
(06:47):
reasons why the Ravens aren't in the postseason than John Harbor.
I'll take a Harball every day. I'll take Jim or John.
Dear Lord, you know, you just don't remember what it's
like to suck to your Ravens, because, let me tell you,
when I live in the city that's terrible. Two years
in Nassfield, we would take Cliff Harbaugh. Was there a
(07:10):
cliff we'll have to go get We'll have to go
get an egg and a Petri dish. We'll do whatever
we can to get a Harball right here, all right?
Favorite story of the day. I know what reds is,
although Red and I have a disagreement because in this
particular case, first of all, I thought her sound and
yesterday Sounds of the Day was the best. I mean,
(07:31):
one of these young girls. Everything ends on a higher note.
And she's talking about how we have traditional vvased housing
as people's property. Now we look at it more collectively.
That's called communism.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
You know.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
I still can't get over that. But the New York
Post had the story the mom of Mom Donnie's aid,
who I played for you yesterday, owns a home near
Vanderbilt university worth one point six million dollars. Wouldn't this
be considered individual property? I wonder what her parents think
(08:08):
or does it not matter as long as she's just
living at home with her paws. In white supremacy, it's
their white supremacy and not hers. I mean, you got
to stop. But all these leftists are a bunch of hypocrites.
Look at every member of Congress. They're supposed to be
(08:29):
serving us, humbly, representing us humbly. They go to office,
we continue in debt, our lives are worsened, and they
leave millionaires with pensions. So why would we pick on
this girl? But you know, if we had found out
she first of all, I'm sure Cia Weaber owns nothing.
(08:51):
She doesn't look like she has many assets. Why didn't
you say stop it? Can you find I wish we
could find that audio for yesterday I miss advice, but
I could hang on. I think I'm gonna turn it.
There's a link in the show prep there Michael in ours? Yep?
Does it tying?
Speaker 8 (09:12):
It?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Certainly does. I don't see the link, but let me try.
Individual good to collective good? Is that the length? That's it?
That's it? Okay? She is that a commercial first?
Speaker 9 (09:23):
There we go is that for centuries we've really treated
property as an individualized good and not a collective good.
And we are going to and transitioning to treating it
as a collective good and towards a model of shared
equity will require that we think about it differently.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Does that mean I can go to Brentwood today, to
a ten million dollar home of a star who has
worked as butt off and heard that money and just
say your home is now my collective good. Here's Nick
and I'll be down in the pool room. It's the
Jerk Part two. I don't need that anything. I need
this stool I'm watching taking the homes over the bulk.
Speaker 9 (10:06):
And it will mean that family is especially white families,
but some UOC families who are homeowners as.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Well, especially my families like my mother, are.
Speaker 9 (10:17):
Going to have a different relationship to property than the
one that we currently have.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
That's your mom. She's smart enough to live in Tennessee
and by Vanderbilt that she must be looking at you thinking, yeah,
shut up, you damn meat hit shat up, shutting up.
You know. No, my favorite is not so much that
story because it's her mom's house. Not hers. She doesn't
(10:45):
even have a house. I think my favorite I'm going
to go with. In Los Angeles a year after was
somewhere between twelve and thirteen thousand homes lost in those wildfires.
How many you think have been rebuilt in a year?
About one out of every thousand. Less than a dozen
(11:06):
causes may have gotten your insurance money that can cover
the rebuild, but not everything could be zoning and regulations.
We hear a lot of that. Maybe they're not so
anxious to rebuild. And how many will take their rebuild
money and rebuild in a different state. Time will tell
eighteen minutes after the hour, everyone forgets things now and
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Twenty five minutes after the URF, you're just waking up
is what you need to know. It's time for the
top five stories of the day. President Trump says his
(13:18):
party will break records this year in the midterm elections.
More from Mark Mayfield.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
You addressed the annual GOP retreat Tuesday at the newly
renamed Trump Kennedy Center and talked about the challenge of
winning in the midterms.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
But even if it's.
Speaker 10 (13:31):
A successful presidency, there's been nothing like what we're doing.
We had a very good day two days ago two.
But even if it's successful, they don't win.
Speaker 8 (13:41):
Lucier is going to be critical for Republicans in the
House as they look to keep their slim margin. Trump
did question the historical trend of the sitting president's party
losing in the midterms. He said, I wish you could
explain to me what the hell's going on with the
mind of the public. Because we have the right policy,
they don't. I'm Mark Neefield.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
By the way, our first Friday with forty seven is
coming up on Friday for the new year. The Department
of Justice, we just talked about this with Rory. They're
reviewing over two million documents in connection with the convicted
sex offender now dead Jeffrey Epstein legal cases because they've
got to review them before they'll release them. More from
Chris Karagio.
Speaker 11 (14:16):
Attorney General Pam Bondi and her deputy Todd Blanche wrote
a letter to a New York judge explaining that over
twelve thousand documents have been posted to the DOJ Epstein
Library in response to the Epstein Files Transparency Act. However,
Bondi and Blanch said there are more than two million
documents in various phases of review, and the effort will
continue to require substantial department resources. The DOJ was given
(14:38):
additional time to explain any reactions and provide Congress with
a list of all government officials and politically exposed individuals
named in the files, but it has yet to provide
either report.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I'm Chris Karagio. Yeah, the nine to eleven findings were different.
Agencies weren't communicating local law enforcement with the FBI or
with the CIA. But another big thing was who was
coming into our country. The visas would expire and we
didn't track them and they wouldn't leave. We've been addressing
all of that. The President plans to address it some more.
The administration is adding twenty five new nations to a
(15:09):
list requiring any travelers to post bonds before entering the
United States.
Speaker 12 (15:14):
The State Department says there are now thirty eight countries
subject to the requirement. Venezuela, Cuba, and Bangladesh are among
the new countries added to the updated list, which goes
into effect January twenty first. The majority of the countries
are in Africa, including now Nigeria. Travelers from the countries
on the list who are eligible for a visa could
be required to post a bond about two fifteen thousand dollars.
(15:36):
I'm Tammy Trhio.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Not that anybody cares, but Jimmy Kimmel is accusing the
Trump administration of revisionist history after the White House posted
a web page in support of the Capital rioters. Well
as you know, and I can do this safely now.
On the under over in the matrix. One thinks it
went one way, the other thinks it went the other.
The reality is it was both. The President had been
(16:01):
briefed on the potential for trouble and still made some
of the statements he made. The left only chooses to
tell you about one of those statements, not the peaceful one,
but Nancy Pelosi, by way of the Sergeant of Arms
was the first to be briefed, and the Sergeant of
Arms asked for increased security. She denied it because she
was setting the trap and Trump walked into it, and
(16:24):
then they exaggerated it. But, like I said, who cares
what Jimmy Kimmel thinks other than Tammy Trio.
Speaker 12 (16:32):
The late night host was briefly taken off the air
last year after he made statements had angered the administration.
On Tuesday, Kimmel opened his show by acknowledging the fifth
anniversary of the twenty twenty one Capitol Riot and said,
on that day, Donald Trump tried to quote overthrow our
government in a pathetic and illegal attempt to stay in
the White House. A White House website on the instant
claims the media lied and that former House Speaker Nancy
(16:55):
Pelosi admitted responsibility. I'm Tammy Trio, yeah, right on tap,
all right.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
In sports to the Hardwoods, we go the Caves one
twenty one to sixteen over the Facers, grizz by one,
huge win over the Spurs, Lakers one eleven, one oh
three over the Pells Kings lost by two to the
MAVs on the ice Lightning four to two over the Abs.
Sabers beat the Canucks five to three. Ducks lost five
two to the Flyers and the Preds lost big and
Edmonton six to two. Don't forget. The Fiesta Bowl is
(17:22):
tomorrow ten Miami versus six Old miss That'll be at
six thirty Friday. The Beach Bowl five Oregon versus Number
one Indiana. That's your top five stories. This is Steam
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soon twenty three minutes to be to work on time,
President says Venezuela's turning over thirty to fifty million barrels
of oil, not what he plans to do with it.
Time shall tell. He also made the comment that if
the Democrats get control of Congress in this midterm election,
you can bet your life they're going to impeach him,
and Governor Walltz says he is leaving, not seeking reelection,
(20:28):
but he will not over his dead body leave office early.
Time will tell. Is Decker here? Well, he is. My
White House correspondent John Decker's here. President Trump tells supporters,
if the Republicans lose the House, he most assuredly will
be impeached. Well, I don't even think that's a prop bet,
is it. That's almost a guarantee.
Speaker 7 (20:47):
Oh, I agree with you. I agree with you one
hundred percent. It's just a matter of on what grounds
are they going to site for launching impeachment proceedings against
President Trump. But the President laid down the lawn into
Republicans to the House yesterday they had their January retreat,
and that's what he said is at stake in the
(21:07):
midterm elections. You know, Michael, they're just ten months away.
They'll be here before you know it.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Well, strategically, this is the president, of course, putting himself
clearly on the ballot. I think he's going to need
to physically go all these places and campaign you've covered.
I don't know how many presidents in thirty years, eight
or nine now. Presidents are different from each other, nuanced, different,
Some have success, some have failures, most have both. But
(21:34):
America's changed a lot since you started covering this. Since
when do we always root against the opposition party president.
And now, since when has it become a foregone conclusion
that we just impeach people for anything because it's not
our party in office.
Speaker 7 (21:49):
Yeah, it's the new normal, so to speak. Although, as
you know, in the four years that Joe Biden was
President of the United States, there was no impeachment effort
against him. The President said that was a mistake on
the part of Republicans. But President Trump during his four
years in office, in his first term, impeached twice, and
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he is expecting to be the subject of an impeachment
proceeding once again in his second.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Term in office. So here we go with thirty to
fifty million barrels of oil. I don't know, and you
follow this every day. That's why I'm asking you. I
hear the president's wording, and his wording is this will
be sold and the revenue will be used to reimburse
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the American people. And it sounds like some put aside
for if we ever get regime changed to help rebuild
a nation that's been destroyed by socialism. But we don't
know what percentage of which or both, or that seems
to be the plan for the money though, right I
have that much straight.
Speaker 7 (22:55):
Well, that's the top line plan. That's the headline plan.
But you're right, not many detas tales about what that
looks like, how that would be processed, and how the
money would be derived. All of those questions are yet
to be answered. There's going to be a briefing today
involving administration officials. I would certainly expect some of those
(23:16):
senior Trump administration officials who help carry out this military
operation against Venezuela will be in the briefing room this morning,
including Secretary of Saint Mark or Rubio, and Pete hag Seth,
and perhaps JD. Vance and maybe the President himself. And
that's the question maybe at maybe asked during the course
of that briefing.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Well, I think this is kind of a broadcast judgment
question more than a Supreme Court bar attorney or a
White House correspondent question. But it just seems like America
has really quickly moved on from a lot of things
that it was obsessed with, one of which is the
Epstein files. Because they haven't all been released. There's about
two million more that have to be perused before they're released.
(24:00):
Nobody seems to mind, because I think we've just moved on.
Maybe this wasn't the issue we thought it was.
Speaker 7 (24:06):
Uh maybe, but my gut tells me that we're going
to return to that issue. I don't know when it's
going to be. I don't know if it's going to
be next week. But as you know, the news cycles,
they move so quickly, Michael, and although we're talking about
Venezuela this week, we could be returning to talking about
Epstein next week, Ukraine, Russia the following.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
That's how quickly this news cycle moves. And that's why
you do a podcast every day. So about eight this morning,
Central nine Eastern, the White House Briefing Girlal John Decker
will be released. It's a daily podcast from the White
House on all these issues and more in depth. We
encourage everyone to go and listen to it, and when
you find it, by the way, put it on your
preset button. So it's waiting for you every morning. And John,
we'll talk again tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (24:50):
I look forward to it. Thanks to Mike Love Greig
Day about.
Speaker 10 (24:55):
I really don't know what he says at the end
of this, and I don't think he knows what he
said either.
Speaker 13 (25:02):
It's got to be a big misunderstanding.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Why do you like my garbage. Trump, It wasn't tight,
it was a landslide, and you're vice presidential candidate. He
just announced he's not running for me.
Speaker 7 (25:17):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Minnesota Governor Tim Wall says he will not seek reelection.
But as for those of you that want him or
think he'll ever leave early, over.
Speaker 14 (25:25):
His dead body not going anywhere, and you can make
all your requests for me to resign, over my dead body,
will that happen. I will fight this thing till the
very end to make this state better. And the question
that I think they need to decide is is when
does the guy in the White House resign? When does
he take accountabuilding for what he did? Because it isn't
going to happen here.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
What did Donald Trump have to do with billions being
funneled to Bocoharem terrorist organization in a state where the
attorney general was covering that's been revealed, And you, boy,
I wish you were this tough at protecting taxpayers money.
Speaker 14 (26:04):
In terms of us shying away from making a state better,
so you'll get to see me more. The good news
is on this is is that I got no election
to look forward to. I've been in front of you,
I'll call on who I want to call on, and
I'll watch what the press gets written, and we'll make
sure that in this state there's full accountability for everybody.
Because I buck stops with me. I'm accountable for this,
(26:28):
and because of that accountability, I'm not running for office again,
but I have a year to continue to improve on
a record that I think will stand up against anybody's,
a record that has made Minnesota better, a record that
makes people want to come here, and a record that
has respected not only the dignity of people, but the
idea of rule of law and camaraderie.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
I mean, seriously, I feel like just being quiet for
about thirty seconds and let you play talk show hosts.
You were right in the first half. The buck stops
with you. You're wrong. You don't take accountability, because if you
did take accountability, you'd understand You're going to be accountable,
(27:10):
and that will be your legacy fraud failure. If it
was no big deal, you'd be running again. It is
a big deal. I want to feature Dana Perino. Everybody
knows I'm not that huge fan of Fox like most
people are. But with the leaked audio of the Minnesota
(27:33):
attorney general Keith Ellison alone, the story's not going anywhere,
and I don't think it'll take his dead body. Watch
Dana eviscerate that news conference in about twenty five seconds.
Speaker 15 (27:45):
I think he's got a real problem because he might
have been the first shoot of fall. But there's more
coming because Keith Ellison, who is the attorney general of Minnesota,
former congressman, who is a member of Democratic leadership, he
is on audio, leaked audio, talking to these people tell
him that he will cover up the investigations so that
they'll tell the investigators to back off. So this resignation
(28:09):
or decision not to run, not a resignation, but the
decision not to run. It's not the end of the story.
The fraud story doesn't end there. To me, is really
just beginning. And thankfully there's a very good prosecutor in
the state that is relentless, so hopefully they'll get.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
It cleaned up.
Speaker 15 (28:25):
So I think he's got a real problem.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Keith Keith Elison, what was his what was his real name?
Everybody forgets that. I think they've wiped everything clean. Let
me see if I can born in Detroit. I don't
(28:53):
think Keith Ellison was his birth name. Uh this, this
is a I cannot find it. It was raised Catholic,
or maybe he just later took on an Islamic name
and then dropped it and went back to his original.
I can't remember what the story was. I should have
(29:14):
done that before I brought it up. But long before
the squad and some of these more outspoken Islamist members
of the US Congress, was Keith Ellison first, and now
he's the Attorney General, and he was clearly aware that
this was happening, and as Attorney General, ran cover for it. Well,
(29:35):
there's a lot more to this story. But if he's
dug in and Timmy wants to hang in there, I
think it's going to have the opposite effect. It's going
to even make it more his legacy. Time will tell.
I think I'm right. Here's the President offering some strategic
(29:57):
advice to House Republicans. Yesterday we did.
Speaker 10 (29:59):
The greatest job ever on borders, and you know, I
think they forgot it. My guy said to me today,
I have a great guy Ross. He's the greatest speechwriter.
He said, sir, let's not mention the border. Nobody cares
about the border anymore.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Can you believe it.
Speaker 10 (30:13):
This was the biggest Hello, this was the biggest thing
there was just to me, nobody cares about the border
because it has.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
A shelf life. I fixed the border.
Speaker 10 (30:24):
I fixed it in my first term, but now I
really had to fix it.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
It was much worse. You know.
Speaker 10 (30:29):
When I came into office, millions and millions of people
were pouring into our country, and I fixed it. On
my guy, who's incredible, says, people don't want to hear it. Sir,
you've done that. The problem is people forget that I
did it. They totally forget. They were talking about the
other day, we don't like Donald Trump on this, We
don't like Donald Trump on that, and somebody just out
(30:50):
of the blue wall, he did an unbelievable job, and
who cares about that? They're saying, like, you know, that's
been done.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
What do we do about that? Mike? Everything you'd do.
Speaker 10 (31:00):
It's almost like, what have you done lately? Is the
way you have to run your life? In other words,
I could have the most unbelievable four years, and I
guess they're not. I'm not allowed to run. I'm not
sure is there a little something out there that I'm
not allowed to run? But let's assume I was allowed
to run. I could have it's going to be a
(31:24):
constitutional movement. No, I could have the most unbelievable four years.
Everything was great, but in the last week I made
a little slip up in something and you lose the election.
It's like, so we have we can't let them forget
that we did such a great job on the border.
By the way, Venezuela. Everyone there marching in the streets.
(31:47):
I love it, except in New York. I mean, where
they find these people?
Speaker 3 (31:52):
These people? What about the Democrats? On the fifth anniversary
of the January sixth attack, which is certainly a matrix
matrix tissue, they're out singing.
Speaker 10 (32:07):
And I.
Speaker 16 (32:10):
Bened with the life to the fairies? Do the omrck?
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Well, have you seen the polling numbers on where the
Democrats stand right now? Ou should be very.
Speaker 13 (32:32):
Clear there is no rift in the Republican Party. Yes,
there are some folks like Marjorie Taylor Green and Thomas
Massey are quite skeptical of this. They are very much
in the minority. What are we talking about here? Well,
why don't we just talk to GOP on the US military?
Alston Maduro hipsos sixty five percent support six percent of pose.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
How about the Washington post war.
Speaker 13 (32:54):
Seventy four percent support, just ten percent of post. If
you look among twenty twenty four Trump's supporters, we're talking
about eighty percent support.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
The vast, vast.
Speaker 13 (33:05):
Majority of Republicans are with Donald Trump on this issue.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
So that's important first and foremost for party unity because remember,
in a midterm election, it's probably twelve races in particular
that are really going to decide which way the House goes.
Much of it can be driven locally, but in this
case they're going to need the president all they can
get to help sway these elections and hang on to control.
(33:32):
And the border is a foregone conclusion. As the President
was saying, most people have forgotten it. I don't believe that.
And I think this is Venezuela foreign policy, the Abraham Accord,
and holding around accountable what this does to Russia and China,
the foreign policy achievements. I think that's all on the table,
and the party is energized and unified behind Trump. We
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don't see the divisions like we did with Israel happening
with Venezuela. For the Republicans and the Democrats could not
be polling worse than they are right now. But if
they should win, oh there's no question they'll impeach again.
The President's right about that too. And that's your sounds
of the day. We will win, we will win.
Speaker 10 (34:19):
They all look like a bunch of girly men.
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