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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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to fifteen. If you fell asleep and I, well, I
don't know. I didn't. I might have watched a little bit,
and I known that the Patriots are going to wear
their old helmets. Why don't they just go back to
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those uniforms? How greats? But the Patriots, the Titans old
coach rabel now eleven and two thirty three fifteen over
the Giants last night. Well, what's next in Venezuela's on
everyone's mind? Has President Trump given it an ultimatum? An
actual ultimatum? What is Congress planning in light of attacks
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on the boat off the Venezuelan coast. Roy O'Neil is
following these two Venezuelan stories and joins us now Good
morning Rory and good morning Michael.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
So there was the meeting in the White House last
night President Trump and the military advisors strategizing about what
to do next. It seems that President Maduro so far
resisting call to step aside. Even a phone call with
the White House apparently last week didn't really get any
progress there. So it's interesting to see what the next
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steps will be. Is I think there's a lot of
reluctance at least to have a military strike into Venezuela
at this point, But we've built up the largest military
deployment in the Caribbean in more than fifty years, So
it'll be interesting to see how things will unfold in
the next few weeks.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Well, someone's not blinking. They're certainly not intimidated. Well, here's
what we know. We know he was given an ultimatum
and he's not leaving. We know they had a conversation
and the President said it didn't go well. My assumption
is he told Trump he's not leaving. So if this
is about regime change, they're not leaving without force. That
means there's a cabinet meeting today. Is force being discussed?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Well, right, and that's going to be obviously the big
topic for that meeting today. And I'm not sure what
the American appetite is for it either. And this narco
terrorist description is it enough to justify these attacks? And
when does Congress get involved in signing off on some
of this? Yes, obviously the president would consult his cabinet,
but when does Congress get their.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Say, yeah, and you brought up something so profound yesterday,
how can.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
I can't even compliment you? No, I'm afraid of what
I said.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
All right, No, what you said was, Look, if this
is about war on drugs, this isn't the biggest provider
of drugs, just quick pro quote. I mean, do you
remember who is? And by the way, it's kind of
a complicated subject because like fentanyl is the biggest problem.
But fentanyl is coming from China, but it's being produced
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and delivered through Mexico. So but if you were, if
you were serious about the war on drugs, you might
be bombing China, you might be bombing Mexico, you might
be bombing I don't even know Venezuela is even on
the list.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Columbia would be that Combia's cocaine and heroin, right, and
especially not for fentanyl from Venezuela, which is essentially non existent.
So yeah, we're trying to find the justification here, and
I'm not sure that enough Americans a can find Venezuela
on the map. And b you sort of get in
the caught up in this and saying that they support
this kind of action.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Well, you don't like an anti American, adversarial socialist nation
in your hemisphere. But that doesn't mean you just you know,
wage war. The other thing is, you know the president's
done so much for peace. We're onto phase two in
the Middle East. Hey, there is some genius with the
Abraham Accords and getting these reasonable Arab and Muslim nations
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to oversee this territory within Israel. It's kind of if
nothing else, it's revealing the Palestinians in a powerful way
that could lead to maybe lasting peace in the future.
And then you've got Whitcoff headed to Moscow today. You're
ending wars and starting one simultaneously. I don't know what
that messaging is heading into the hu.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Well, right, and then how much of this is all
about oil at the end of the day as well?
There's the other X factor in here, or is this
more strategy about take out Venezuela. See regime change there,
watch it impact Cuba next, and then really clean up
the hemisphere.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
I mean that could be pretty remarkable as well. Time
will tell. Weight loss drugs are changing more than waistlines.
How apparel, restaurants, groceries, gyms, and travel are all upended
by America getting thin Rory has that story coming up
in our third hour. Great reporting, Rory, as always, all right, Um,
(05:38):
this story is so much bigger than the story. I
used to use an old expression. Behind every headline is
a story, behind every story. There's so much to talk about.
Now some may cut to the chase and say, oh, yeah,
because the devil's in the details. Well, we've also become
a very lazy culture. And so at a time when
journalism was dead in America, didn't know it, and they
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were controlling us through narratives. We didn't read much deeper
than a headline. And often I would prove the headlines
not only weren't even represented or proven in the story,
sometimes they completely misrepresented the story. The headline was the
opposite of what the story concluded, which tells me they're
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counting on you not reading very much. So the headline
is female mom Donnie running to replace DC's longtime Mari.
Well don't we have a female mom Donnie running for
mayor in Seattle? But all right, here's the female mom Donnie.
What is that? Well, that's this whole runaway train, this
(06:43):
whole momentumum movement as America embraces socialism and then there's
the reality. Another liberal, dark blue progressive city, another socialist
mayor candidate pandering telling everybody they can get something for
(07:04):
free that is impossible to get for free. And even
if you bankrupt yourself and make other taxpayers pick up
the tab, you didn't really give anybody anything. You stole
from somebody to temporarily give to somebody. And by technicality,
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do you know how long the Democrat Party platform has
been identical to the Socialist Party platform of nineteen twenty one?
So do we really think there's any difference between a
quote unquote new and improved Kellogg's socialist versus what all
these inner city mayors have been anyway, meet the females
(07:48):
or on Mom Donnie as we continue to sell the
Mom Donnie wave brand extension from a victory of one
city's mistake that seven out of eight voters didn't show
up to vote it. Democratic Mayor Riel Bowser cooperated with
Trump in the National Guard in DC, she was never
running again. And now here comes DC council Member Deanie
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Lewis George, a self avowed Democrat socialist, announcing Monday that
she will run to lead the nation's capital in twenty
twenty six. Lewis George thirty seven is a lifelong Washingtonian
who has represented the district's fourth ward since twenty twenty one.
According to an announcement video that she posted on x Monday morning,
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her campaign is set to focus on cost of living
strengthening public services, a platform bearing remarkable resemblance to that
of Mom Donnie, and can we just end this whole
charade right now and expect this in every large blue
city moving forward until the first Mom Donnie becomes an
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enormous failure. So they will build in one order and
then they will implode in the opposite order. But the
bigger story here is what we've lived for twenty years.
(09:23):
This speaks to why I think in twenty twenty eight,
when the DNC does a fourth bait and switch with
their own voters and gives them Rommie Manuel when they
chose AOC in the general election, he'll do well because
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there's a good portion of that party that longs for
the days of Bill Clinton, let alone JFK. And he
will seem like that. He will seem like the exact
same policies as the report publicans, only without all the
mega trouble that goes along with it quote unquote air quotes.
(10:12):
So you'll have everybody but the socialists on board. It'll
appeal greatly to independence. It might even have some Republicans
depending on how this handoff of trumpsm goes, be on
board with it. It's a strong play. In other words,
the more you create this chaos of socialism, the more
you set yourself up to win in twenty twenty eight.
(10:36):
Now there's something else that's in play here, and that
is when Barack Obama came along and just started saying democracy, democracy, democracy.
At first, many people would correct him, We're not a democracy.
We're a republic. I pledge legs to the flag of
the United States of America and to the fill in
the blank democracy for which it stands. No, we're a
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government of law. Is we're a representative republic, a constitutional
republic that's nothing like mob rule democracy. And they just
kept saying it. And he was a constitutional attorney over
the Harvard bar I mean, he knew what he was doing.
(11:21):
But if you just say it enough, then suddenly everybody
starts referring to us as a democracy, even though we're
a republic. Then democracy became the Democrat Party. It's platform
it's candidates and anybody that opposed it was an enemy
of the state and democracy as a soul, and you're
trying to kill it. And now we've gone from republic
to democracy to socialism and what appears to be a
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clear plan to start the civil war from the heavily populated,
very blue inner cities. And remember, it's all built on
a spirit envy, not liberty, not God, not freedom, not
property rights, envy. And I have been saying this for
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the better part of two decades because words matter as
much as there's a big difference between a reaction and
a response. A reaction reacts, sometimes usually poorly. A response
was prepared for that and knew what to do when
it happened. We react too much, we respond too little.
(12:30):
It's a big problem in America. The other is we
don't understand the difference between jealousy and envy, because they're
two different things. Someone jealous just says, man, I wish
my kids behave like yours. Someone jealous says, your boat's
better than mine, wish I had your boat. Your car
is better than a mine. I wish you had your car. Man,
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your house is paid off, mine isn't. That's jealousy. Envy
is you have something and it belongs to me. Don't
miss the second half of envy. And if I can't
have it, you can't have it either. That's a blind
spot for America that only you, the U were morning
show listening audience will get from this moment on because
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they would be content in destroying America for all. Now
they would love to control it. But even that, like
a parasite would die with a host. Nothing gives them
more pleasure. Nothing is more victorious than destroying the country.
So if you had a plan to turn every blue
inner city socialist and bankrupt this country that's already thirty
(13:37):
seven trillion dollars in debt, do it about seven major cities? Well,
why would they do that? That would destroy America? That doesn't
do anything for it, Because that's how envy works. Whether
it's power, whether it's money, whether it's attention, you have
something that belongs to them, and if they can't have it,
(13:59):
you can't have it either. This republic to democracy, Barack Obama,
democracy to a soul of democracy, Joe Biden to the
Democrat Party, and anybody that opposes as a treasonist to
now republic democracy socialism and inner city. Here's the latest, mom, Donnie. Oh,
that's a whole different trajectory and it's looking as mapped
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Speaker 4 (16:33):
So the odds on the US versus Venezuela military engagement
by the end of this year is minus one ten.
By the end of March of next year, it's minus
one forty. I'll take the minus one ten right here.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Book it. When When did we start betting on wars
Welwhen Big John always brings the odds, we outg with them. Yeah,
I like our odds against Venezuela. Sheila wrote in a
great one that Michael Tatiheartmedia dot Com. Good morning. This
is Sheila from Moscow, ten to see. If you have
to have real id to fly or pay an additional
forty five dollars, why not apply that same requirement for voting.
(17:08):
Love you guys. That's not a bad idea. They'll get
around to it in twenty sixty two or whatever year
they finally get around there doing it.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
This is Rebecca in spring Hill, Tennessee, and my morning
show is your morning show with Michael del Jorno.
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Speaker 1 (17:47):
Don't you feel Christmas in the air? Our tree went
up last night. Not the ornaments yet, no, but all.
I don't know what our tree is. I think it's
nine feet. Whatever it is, I can't do the top
of it. I don't do much of it. As you know,
I'm lazy. But the tree of the lights are up.
We're getting close to decorating, and the holidays are just
around the corner. If you're just waking up. Some good news.
(18:08):
The US Special Envoy Steve Whitkoff is meeting with Vlatimir
Putin in Moscow at the Kremlin today as we take
steps towards peace with Russia and Ukraine. Meanwhile, we're taking
giant leaps towards war with Venezuela president holding a cabinet
meeting today. The many believe, well, it's simple. The president
(18:28):
gave an ultimatum to Maduro. He clearly didn't take it
on the phone, and he hasn't taken it physically since.
And with the amount of force amassed near Venezuela and
its coast, what is the cabinet meeting about today? We'll
talk more about that. That second National Guard member who
was shot near the White House last week is improving.
That's an answer to prayer and Cyber Monday's reputation is
(18:50):
one of the biggest online shopping days of the year
remains intact. We spent like crazy and the Patriots won
last night on Monday Night football. If you fell asleep,
and why wouldn't you have thirty three to fifteen over
the Giants? All right? US negotiator in Moscow, big cabinet
meeting in America, potential war with Venezuela, and caught in
(19:11):
the middle of it all wearing a trench coat looking
very secretive, is our White House correspondent John Decker. Good morning, John.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
Yeah, not a good day weatherwise here in the nation's capital.
You're right, Michael, thanks for that weather report.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
But yeah, it's a busy day.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
A busy day in terms of that meeting happening with
President Putin in Moscow that will be led by the
US side, of course, is Steve Wikoff, the President's special
envoy dealing with the war in Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Jared Kushner's will be at that meeting.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
And then here at home, the President at eleven thirty
Eastern time have his ninth cabinet meeting of his second term.
That will be one in which the pool will be
let In, So the President will certainly answer question at
the top of that meeting.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Well, let's do finish this before we move on. It
does appear that the deal was closed from the Ukrainian
side with the Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Florida
over the weekend. They're on board. This is the best
deal Putin could ever expect. If he ever wanted an
off ramp, this is it. I would think optimism is
high for today's meeting.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Well, that's what the White House says. Optimism is high.
Let me repeat something the President often says.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
It takes two to tango.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
So even if you have the Ukrainians on board, you
still have to get the Russians on board. And we
have seen over the course of four years, Vladimir Putin
shows no initiative at all to one to end this
war anytime soon. So we'll be up to him and
perhaps he does see this as an offer. Perhaps he's
had conversations with both President Trump and President she that
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this is his last best chance to have this off
ramp to end this war.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Yeah, one of the things the President did do a
good job is isolating Russia, and I think China has
run out of patients. I don't know that the Russian
people haven't run out of patients. Vladimir Putin seems determined
to fight, but there's no sign he can win, So
why continue to fight? And this may be at least
he gets to keep some things if he takes the
off ramp. Now, time will tell. What do you expect
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in the cabinet meeting today? Will it be about this
anonymous source speaking to the Washington Post, which now makes
eight members of Congress's video at least make a little
more sense in terms of being a ploy anyway. Or
you think this is going to be about Venezuela today. Well,
I think a little bit of both.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
The President had a meeting last night about Venezuela, you know,
as it relates to this strike on that alleged drug
boat that happened on September the second.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
You know, to me, it's.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
One thing coming from President Trump on the flight back
up from Florida on Air Force One, in which he
said that Pete hag Set said he had knew nothing
about it, didn't know about what was reported in the
Washington Post. And then yesterday at the White House Press briefing,
we learned that Pete haig Set essentially gave the thumbs
up for a Navy admiral to go ahead and take
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that second strike against those two survivors from that initial
strike on that alleged shrug vote.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Yeah, And for people that I'm familiar with the story,
there were a few that survived the first strike. They
were hanging on to what was left of the boat,
and the second strike took them out. Was that protocol
and procedure or was that a second fire order? Given?
There were even some reporters asking questions like, well, we've
had other ones since where we've rescued them and taken
(22:33):
them into custody. Have we changed our mind about them again?
This is an incident in the Caribbean from back in
September that now comes through an anonymous source through the
Washington Post. And now we have the eight members of
Congress and their video to disobey illegal orders, and now
we get this leak to make it look like, well,
there's your illegal order. It's all looking rather orchestrated. But
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I don't know if that'll come up today either, Well,
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
You know, the President will certainly be ask questions in
regard to that, Michael, But certainly questions about the economy,
domestic issues, inflation, those are obviously very important issues for
the administration as well.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
You can hear more of John's podcast, The White House
Briefing Room. It's released every morning at nine eastern eighth
Central when he has more for Washington, and he joins
us every morning. We're very grateful for that. I have
a great day, John, you two, Michael, thank you so much.
We will win. We will win.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
We all looks like a bunch of girly men.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
It does not make him chance. I'm not tained always revealing,
often entertaining time for your sounds of the day. We
start with it a big election day, and Tennessee it
take us a big election day to some degree for America.
It's a special election, so it has all of the
attention of the nation, and everybody's going to try to
read into this whatever messaging they want. If somehow this
(24:00):
I guess, mom, Donnie of Tennessee aptain Ben should win
or even come remotely close. Oh, that's a referendum on
Donald Trump and the failed economy. In the end, who's
(24:21):
more fitting to represent the people in a representative republic. Well,
that's for the people to decide our biggest problem hapathy.
People don't vote, so anything can canon does happen from
time to time. She clearly doesn't like the area she represents.
This is a pretty flawed candidate in the things that
(24:44):
she has said about Nashville, the attractions in Nashville, country music.
She basically has a hatred for how most people make
their living here and her her policy and worldview probably
matches Mom Donnie more than even the average Nashvillian, let alone.
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The metropolitan area is very conservative, the inner city is not.
And then there's this last point, just not a very
serious candidate, not a very stable person. I could play
your videos of her screaming and being carried out of
(25:27):
the Governor's office, acting like an activist. I choose to
do this because this is CNN trying to have a
serious interview with her and ask her a softball question
and she can't even answer that. How do you differ?
Can you think of anything you differ with? Kamala Harrison yes,
(25:54):
and stated no, I can't. She couldn't even answer that.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Listen, are there any policies that the party's presidential nominee
Kamala Harris held that you disagree with.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Honestly, I haven't.
Speaker 7 (26:17):
Thought about it.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
For I haven't thought about it.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
I have twenty four hours to win this race, and
all I've been thinking about is talking to every last
By the way.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
The CNN reporter is making a face like, are you
kidding me? It's one of those faces I smell a fart?
Or are you kidding me? Is this woman that she's
running for Congress and she hasn't thought about policies the.
Speaker 7 (26:38):
Vote are possible at the doors and trying to make
my case as to why I am the best candidate.
Once again, this race is closed because not only have
we mobilized lots of Democratic voters, but there are Independents
and Republicans that are upset with the chaos of Washington
and want to see someone who will be part of
the solution, not part of the problem.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
But there's no police you would identify that. Again, the
party's presidential nominee held that you do not agree.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
With Once again, I don't.
Speaker 7 (27:10):
Once again, I just I policy positions are you know,
I'm trying to make life more affordable for Tennessee and
is I really haven't thought about it.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
I know what they did an animal house fat drunk
and stupid was no way to live. How about just
drunken stupid? Can't be much better? All right? In Portland,
you're not allowed to have a Christmas tree, just a
holiday tree, which comes from the word meaning holy day.
So if the holy thing that happened is Christmas, why
not just call it Christmas tree? Well, once you take
the Christ out of the tree and then you put
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a Palestinian with a flag, really it's beginning to look
a lot like wokeness, isn't it? Here? Together?
Speaker 8 (27:51):
And so I felt like this is a perfect time
to put them up there and for your guys' prayers,
for every single one of the Palestinians, all their press
people's around the globe. And so if I could get
a free, free Palestine, free free Palestine, thank.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
You, you abandon God. It becomes just a tree until
a different In the strikes that we were talking about,
there was response from the White House press room yesterday.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
And.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
You know, I thought Caroline Levitt handled it. Well, here's
how it goes. I will point out.
Speaker 9 (28:38):
One fake news story over the weekend before I let
you all go, from the New York Times that took
about one third of the President's daily calendar in his
daily schedule and said that he's doing less than he
did in his first term, or he might not be
fit for the job. That is unequivocally false, and it's
deeply unfortunate that this story was written by the same
(28:59):
outlet and the same reporter who wrote this Biden is
doing one hundred percent fine after tripping while boarding Air
Force one. Oh, same outlet, same reporter who wrote that
President Trump is not fit for the job. Are you
kidding me? You all see him almost every single day.
He is the most accessible president in history. He is
taking meetings around the cloth. Another one. Biden declared quote
(29:23):
healthy and vigorous after his first presidential physical Hmm. I
don't see headlines like that too often about this president. Again,
same reporter, same outlet who wrote falsely over the week
and that President Trump.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Better to address the death of journalism than the White
House Press secretary inside what drove the Trump administration's follow
up strike on a drug vote that was the topic
on Fox News.
Speaker 10 (29:49):
Type of story that I think really obsesses the Beltway.
You have leaks to the Washington Post, you have the
White House issuing very carefully calibrated statements. You have people
accusing the White House and Secretary Hegseth of passing the buck.
But I think John, the larger story here beyond the
belt Wagh is that Americans look and they see the
President taking action against these narco traffickers, actually putting the
(30:13):
truth to the phrase war on drugs. And among Republican
voters in particular, they're not interested in the minutia. They're
more interested in the bold strikeing.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
I don't know that people, I mean, to his point,
I don't know that people remember all the particulars. It's
more of their feeling than understanding. But that's a narrative too.
I mean, just be honest, this is not about a
war on drugs. That's what's becoming increasingly obvious, or at
(30:49):
least say it's about both, because this is about regime change.
You know, everything is just so polarized and matrix in America.
Of course, the Democrat Party and the media in their
back pocket are going to be anti anything Trump. Is
so natural. They're on the side of the drug lords.
(31:13):
But if you were serious in the war on drugs,
you'd be bombing in Mexico, you'd be bombing in Colombia,
you'd be bombing China if you have the guts to
do it. That's where it's all being produced. On the
fentanyl side, the heroin and cocaine is all coming from
Colombia and it's all delivered into America through Mexico. So
you can do both. But if you were really serious
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about the war and stopping drugs, you'd be bombing other boats.
And when it all came to an ultimatum, Maduro, you
leave and then close your airspace or else, well he
didn't blink. Now what we'll find out today the biggest
(31:55):
story of the day is this whole ridiculous notion that
eight members of Congress put out a video encouraging the
military to not follow through with any illegal orders given,
even though none of them in the sixty second commercial
stay a single accusation of an illegal order, when on
(32:18):
talking headshows afterwards couldn't come up with one. Now, from
an anonymous source by way of the Washington Post, you
have this two strike story. The boat was bombed, there
were children on board, Two were clinging to their life
after the first bomb, and a second bomb took them out.
(32:40):
Was this all coordinated by the Left? Is this the
latest Russia? Russia Russia. After a short cough, Caroline Levit
addressed it this way.
Speaker 11 (32:48):
Caroline, just to follow back up on the Washington Post reporting,
so much of the concern from the Democrats and Republicans
is focused on the survivors. Why won't the administration either
confirm or deny or reveal whether or not there were
survivors after that initial first strike and what imminent threat
would two survivors pose who were clinging presumably to.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
The wreckage of that vote.
Speaker 9 (33:11):
Again, as I've said, I think you guys are sort
of not listening fully to the statement I've provided. Admiral
Bradley worked well within his authority and the law directing
the engagement to ensure the vote was totally destroyed and
the threat to the narco terrorists to the United States
was eliminated. And for any further questions about his thinking,
I would defer you to the Department of War.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
I obviously wasn't in the room work.
Speaker 11 (33:34):
Just to follow up, Caroline, just on the administration's policy
when it comes to survivors. Was there a change in
policy after this strike? On September second, the Washington Post
is reporting that these two survivors were killed after a
second strike, but then in October two people were rescued
and returned to Columbia and Acuador. So was there a
(33:54):
decision that was made to handle survivors differently after these strikes,
Not to my knowledge, No.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
So now you have this double narrative and both sides
are guilty of not being transparent and honest. I guess
the Democrats and the meeting in their back pocket are
against the drug dealer or for the drug dealer, the dealers,
and against the president. Now they suddenly think the drug
dealers were double striked. Meanwhile, the President in the White
(34:25):
House is making it all about the drugs, but only
focusing on Venezuela when they're really calling for a regime change.
Both could improve their messaging and maybe arrive at honest truth.
That just sounds the way. The consequence, It is the.
Speaker 9 (34:41):
Best way to get back on your faders, to get
up off your arm.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
I've been living rent free in that guy's head for years,
and that's just a bot.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Do you call that chicken a d They're just blowing off, Steve.
We're all in this together.
Speaker 5 (34:53):
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also have Cyber Monday reputation. Intact, we spent like crazy.
Yesterday it was the biggest online shopping day of the
year again, and the Patriots beat the Giants thirty three
to fifteen. If you fell asleep and I, well, I
don't know. I didn't. I might have watched a little bit,
and I known that the Patriots are going to wear
their old helmets. Why don't they just go back to
(01:18):
those uniforms? How greats? But the Patriots, the Titans old
coach rabel now eleven and two thirty three fifteen over
the Giants last night. Well, what's next in Venezuela's on
everyone's mind? Has President Trump given it an ultimatum? An
actual ultimatum? What is Congress planning in light of attacks
(01:41):
on the boat off the Venezuelan coast. Roy O'Neil is
following these two Venezuelan stories and joins us now Good
morning Rory and good morning Michael.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
So there was the meeting in the White House last
night President Trump and the military advisors strategizing about what
to do next. It seems that President Maduro so far
resisting call to step aside. Even a phone call with
the White House apparently last week didn't really get any
progress there. So it's interesting to see what the next
(02:10):
steps will be. Is I think there's a lot of
reluctance at least to have a military strike into Venezuela
at this point, But we've built up the largest military
deployment in the Caribbean in more than fifty years, So
it'll be interesting to see how things will unfold in
the next few weeks.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Well, someone's not blinking. They're certainly not intimidated. Well, here's
what we know. We know he was given an ultimatum
and he's not leaving. We know they had a conversation
and the President said it didn't go well. My assumption
is he told Trump he's not leaving. So if this
is about regime change, they're not leaving without force. That
means there's a cabinet meeting today. Is force being discussed?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Well, right, and that's going to be obviously the big
topic for that meeting today. And I'm not sure what
the American appetite is for it either. And this narco
terrorist description is it enough to justify these attacks? And
when does Congress get involved in signing off on some
of this? Yes, obviously the president would consult his cabinet,
but when does Congress get their.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Say, yeah, and you brought up something so profound yesterday,
how can.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
I can't even compliment you? No, I'm afraid of what
I said.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
All right, No, what you said was, Look, if this
is about war on drugs, this isn't the biggest provider
of drugs, just quick pro quote. I mean, do you
remember who is? And by the way, it's kind of
a complicated subject because like fentanyl is the biggest problem.
But fentanyl is coming from China, but it's being produced
(03:42):
and delivered through Mexico. So but if you were, if
you were serious about the war on drugs, you might
be bombing China, you might be bombing Mexico, you might
be bombing I don't even know Venezuela is even on
the list.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Columbia would be that Combia's cocaine and heroin, right, and
especially not for fentanyl from Venezuela, which is essentially non existent.
So yeah, we're trying to find the justification here, and
I'm not sure that enough Americans a can find Venezuela
on the map. And b you sort of get in
the caught up in this and saying that they support
this kind of action.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Well, you don't like an anti American, adversarial socialist nation
in your hemisphere. But that doesn't mean you just you know,
wage war. The other thing is, you know the president's
done so much for peace. We're onto phase two in
the Middle East. Hey, there is some genius with the
Abraham Accords and getting these reasonable Arab and Muslim nations
(04:41):
to oversee this territory within Israel. It's kind of if
nothing else, it's revealing the Palestinians in a powerful way
that could lead to maybe lasting peace in the future.
And then you've got Whitcoff headed to Moscow today. You're
ending wars and starting one simultaneously. I don't know what
that messaging is heading into the hu.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Well, right, and then how much of this is all
about oil at the end of the day as well?
There's the other X factor in here, or is this
more strategy about take out Venezuela. See regime change there,
watch it impact Cuba next, and then really clean up
the hemisphere.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
I mean that could be pretty remarkable as well. Time
will tell. Weight loss drugs are changing more than waistlines.
How apparel, restaurants, groceries, gyms, and travel are all upended
by America getting thin Rory has that story coming up
in our third hour. Great reporting, Rory, as always, all right, Um,
(05:38):
this story is so much bigger than the story. I
used to use an old expression. Behind every headline is
a story, behind every story. There's so much to talk about.
Now some may cut to the chase and say, oh, yeah,
because the devil's in the details. Well, we've also become
a very lazy culture. And so at a time when
journalism was dead in America, didn't know it, and they
(05:59):
were controlling us through narratives. We didn't read much deeper
than a headline. And often I would prove the headlines
not only weren't even represented or proven in the story,
sometimes they completely misrepresented the story. The headline was the
opposite of what the story concluded, which tells me they're
(06:21):
counting on you not reading very much. So the headline
is female mom Donnie running to replace DC's longtime Mari.
Well don't we have a female mom Donnie running for
mayor in Seattle? But all right, here's the female mom Donnie.
What is that? Well, that's this whole runaway train, this
(06:43):
whole momentumum movement as America embraces socialism and then there's
the reality. Another liberal, dark blue progressive city, another socialist
mayor candidate pandering telling everybody they can get something for
(07:04):
free that is impossible to get for free. And even
if you bankrupt yourself and make other taxpayers pick up
the tab, you didn't really give anybody anything. You stole
from somebody to temporarily give to somebody. And by technicality,
(07:25):
do you know how long the Democrat Party platform has
been identical to the Socialist Party platform of nineteen twenty one?
So do we really think there's any difference between a
quote unquote new and improved Kellogg's socialist versus what all
these inner city mayors have been anyway, meet the females
(07:48):
or on Mom Donnie as we continue to sell the
Mom Donnie wave brand extension from a victory of one
city's mistake that seven out of eight voters didn't show
up to vote it. Democratic Mayor Riel Bowser cooperated with
Trump in the National Guard in DC, she was never
running again. And now here comes DC council Member Deanie
(08:11):
Lewis George, a self avowed Democrat socialist, announcing Monday that
she will run to lead the nation's capital in twenty
twenty six. Lewis George thirty seven is a lifelong Washingtonian
who has represented the district's fourth ward since twenty twenty one.
According to an announcement video that she posted on x Monday morning,
(08:33):
her campaign is set to focus on cost of living
strengthening public services, a platform bearing remarkable resemblance to that
of Mom Donnie, and can we just end this whole
charade right now and expect this in every large blue
city moving forward until the first Mom Donnie becomes an
(09:01):
enormous failure. So they will build in one order and
then they will implode in the opposite order. But the
bigger story here is what we've lived for twenty years.
(09:23):
This speaks to why I think in twenty twenty eight,
when the DNC does a fourth bait and switch with
their own voters and gives them Rommie Manuel when they
chose AOC in the general election, he'll do well because
(09:44):
there's a good portion of that party that longs for
the days of Bill Clinton, let alone JFK. And he
will seem like that. He will seem like the exact
same policies as the report publicans, only without all the
mega trouble that goes along with it quote unquote air quotes.
(10:12):
So you'll have everybody but the socialists on board. It'll
appeal greatly to independence. It might even have some Republicans
depending on how this handoff of trumpsm goes, be on
board with it. It's a strong play. In other words,
the more you create this chaos of socialism, the more
you set yourself up to win in twenty twenty eight.
(10:36):
Now there's something else that's in play here, and that
is when Barack Obama came along and just started saying democracy, democracy, democracy.
At first, many people would correct him, We're not a democracy.
We're a republic. I pledge legs to the flag of
the United States of America and to the fill in
the blank democracy for which it stands. No, we're a
(10:59):
government of law. Is we're a representative republic, a constitutional
republic that's nothing like mob rule democracy. And they just
kept saying it. And he was a constitutional attorney over
the Harvard bar I mean, he knew what he was doing.
(11:21):
But if you just say it enough, then suddenly everybody
starts referring to us as a democracy, even though we're
a republic. Then democracy became the Democrat Party. It's platform
it's candidates and anybody that opposed it was an enemy
of the state and democracy as a soul, and you're
trying to kill it. And now we've gone from republic
to democracy to socialism and what appears to be a
(11:45):
clear plan to start the civil war from the heavily populated,
very blue inner cities. And remember, it's all built on
a spirit envy, not liberty, not God, not freedom, not
property rights, envy. And I have been saying this for
(12:09):
the better part of two decades because words matter as
much as there's a big difference between a reaction and
a response. A reaction reacts, sometimes usually poorly. A response
was prepared for that and knew what to do when
it happened. We react too much, we respond too little.
(12:30):
It's a big problem in America. The other is we
don't understand the difference between jealousy and envy, because they're
two different things. Someone jealous just says, man, I wish
my kids behave like yours. Someone jealous says, your boat's
better than mine, wish I had your boat. Your car
is better than a mine. I wish you had your car. Man,
(12:53):
your house is paid off, mine isn't. That's jealousy. Envy
is you have something and it belongs to me. Don't
miss the second half of envy. And if I can't
have it, you can't have it either. That's a blind
spot for America that only you, the U were morning
show listening audience will get from this moment on because
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they would be content in destroying America for all. Now
they would love to control it. But even that, like
a parasite would die with a host. Nothing gives them
more pleasure. Nothing is more victorious than destroying the country.
So if you had a plan to turn every blue
inner city socialist and bankrupt this country that's already thirty
(13:37):
seven trillion dollars in debt, do it about seven major cities? Well,
why would they do that? That would destroy America? That doesn't
do anything for it, Because that's how envy works. Whether
it's power, whether it's money, whether it's attention, you have
something that belongs to them, and if they can't have it,
(13:59):
you can't have it either. This republic to democracy, Barack Obama,
democracy to a soul of democracy, Joe Biden to the
Democrat Party, and anybody that opposes as a treasonist to
now republic democracy socialism and inner city. Here's the latest, mom, Donnie. Oh,
that's a whole different trajectory and it's looking as mapped
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Speaker 4 (16:33):
So the odds on the US versus Venezuela military engagement
by the end of this year is minus one ten.
By the end of March of next year, it's minus
one forty. I'll take the minus one ten right here.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Book it. When When did we start betting on wars
Welwhen Big John always brings the odds, we outg with them. Yeah,
I like our odds against Venezuela. Sheila wrote in a
great one that Michael Tatiheartmedia dot Com. Good morning. This
is Sheila from Moscow, ten to see. If you have
to have real id to fly or pay an additional
forty five dollars, why not apply that same requirement for voting.
(17:08):
Love you guys. That's not a bad idea. They'll get
around to it in twenty sixty two or whatever year
they finally get around there doing it.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
This is Rebecca in spring Hill, Tennessee, and my morning
show is your morning show with Michael del Jorno.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Hey, it's Michael reminding you that your morning show can
be heard live each weekday morning five to eighth Central,
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a part of your morning routine and take the drive
to work with you, but better late than never. We're
grateful you're here now. Enjoy the podcast.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Don't you feel Christmas in the air? Our tree went
up last night. Not the ornaments yet, no, but all.
I don't know what our tree is. I think it's
nine feet. Whatever it is, I can't do the top
of it. I don't do much of it. As you know,
I'm lazy. But the tree of the lights are up.
We're getting close to decorating, and the holidays are just
around the corner. If you're just waking up. Some good news.
(18:08):
The US Special Envoy Steve Whitkoff is meeting with Vlatimir
Putin in Moscow at the Kremlin today as we take
steps towards peace with Russia and Ukraine. Meanwhile, we're taking
giant leaps towards war with Venezuela president holding a cabinet
meeting today. The many believe, well, it's simple. The president
(18:28):
gave an ultimatum to Maduro. He clearly didn't take it
on the phone, and he hasn't taken it physically since.
And with the amount of force amassed near Venezuela and
its coast, what is the cabinet meeting about today? We'll
talk more about that. That second National Guard member who
was shot near the White House last week is improving.
That's an answer to prayer and Cyber Monday's reputation is
(18:50):
one of the biggest online shopping days of the year
remains intact. We spent like crazy and the Patriots won
last night on Monday Night football. If you fell asleep,
and why wouldn't you have thirty three to fifteen over
the Giants? All right? US negotiator in Moscow, big cabinet
meeting in America, potential war with Venezuela, and caught in
(19:11):
the middle of it all wearing a trench coat looking
very secretive, is our White House correspondent John Decker. Good morning, John.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
Yeah, not a good day weatherwise here in the nation's capital.
You're right, Michael, thanks for that weather report.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
But yeah, it's a busy day.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
A busy day in terms of that meeting happening with
President Putin in Moscow that will be led by the
US side, of course, is Steve Wikoff, the President's special
envoy dealing with the war in Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Jared Kushner's will be at that meeting.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
And then here at home, the President at eleven thirty
Eastern time have his ninth cabinet meeting of his second term.
That will be one in which the pool will be
let In, So the President will certainly answer question at
the top of that meeting.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Well, let's do finish this before we move on. It
does appear that the deal was closed from the Ukrainian
side with the Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Florida
over the weekend. They're on board. This is the best
deal Putin could ever expect. If he ever wanted an
off ramp, this is it. I would think optimism is
high for today's meeting.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Well, that's what the White House says. Optimism is high.
Let me repeat something the President often says.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
It takes two to tango.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
So even if you have the Ukrainians on board, you
still have to get the Russians on board. And we
have seen over the course of four years, Vladimir Putin
shows no initiative at all to one to end this
war anytime soon. So we'll be up to him and
perhaps he does see this as an offer. Perhaps he's
had conversations with both President Trump and President she that
(20:45):
this is his last best chance to have this off
ramp to end this war.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Yeah, one of the things the President did do a
good job is isolating Russia, and I think China has
run out of patients. I don't know that the Russian
people haven't run out of patients. Vladimir Putin seems determined
to fight, but there's no sign he can win, So
why continue to fight? And this may be at least
he gets to keep some things if he takes the
off ramp. Now, time will tell. What do you expect
(21:10):
in the cabinet meeting today? Will it be about this
anonymous source speaking to the Washington Post, which now makes
eight members of Congress's video at least make a little
more sense in terms of being a ploy anyway. Or
you think this is going to be about Venezuela today. Well,
I think a little bit of both.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
The President had a meeting last night about Venezuela, you know,
as it relates to this strike on that alleged drug
boat that happened on September the second.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
You know, to me, it's.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
One thing coming from President Trump on the flight back
up from Florida on Air Force One, in which he
said that Pete hag Set said he had knew nothing
about it, didn't know about what was reported in the
Washington Post. And then yesterday at the White House Press briefing,
we learned that Pete haig Set essentially gave the thumbs
up for a Navy admiral to go ahead and take
(22:05):
that second strike against those two survivors from that initial
strike on that alleged shrug vote.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Yeah, And for people that I'm familiar with the story,
there were a few that survived the first strike. They
were hanging on to what was left of the boat,
and the second strike took them out. Was that protocol
and procedure or was that a second fire order? Given?
There were even some reporters asking questions like, well, we've
had other ones since where we've rescued them and taken
(22:33):
them into custody. Have we changed our mind about them again?
This is an incident in the Caribbean from back in
September that now comes through an anonymous source through the
Washington Post. And now we have the eight members of
Congress and their video to disobey illegal orders, and now
we get this leak to make it look like, well,
there's your illegal order. It's all looking rather orchestrated. But
(22:55):
I don't know if that'll come up today either, Well,
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
You know, the President will certainly be ask questions in
regard to that, Michael, But certainly questions about the economy,
domestic issues, inflation, those are obviously very important issues for
the administration as well.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
You can hear more of John's podcast, The White House
Briefing Room. It's released every morning at nine eastern eighth
Central when he has more for Washington, and he joins
us every morning. We're very grateful for that. I have
a great day, John, you two, Michael, thank you so much.
We will win. We will win.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
We all looks like a bunch of girly men.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
It does not make him chance. I'm not tained always revealing,
often entertaining time for your sounds of the day. We
start with it a big election day, and Tennessee it
take us a big election day to some degree for America.
It's a special election, so it has all of the
attention of the nation, and everybody's going to try to
read into this whatever messaging they want. If somehow this
(24:00):
I guess, mom, Donnie of Tennessee aptain Ben should win
or even come remotely close. Oh, that's a referendum on
Donald Trump and the failed economy. In the end, who's
(24:21):
more fitting to represent the people in a representative republic. Well,
that's for the people to decide our biggest problem hapathy.
People don't vote, so anything can canon does happen from
time to time. She clearly doesn't like the area she represents.
This is a pretty flawed candidate in the things that
(24:44):
she has said about Nashville, the attractions in Nashville, country music.
She basically has a hatred for how most people make
their living here and her her policy and worldview probably
matches Mom Donnie more than even the average Nashvillian, let alone.
(25:07):
The metropolitan area is very conservative, the inner city is not.
And then there's this last point, just not a very
serious candidate, not a very stable person. I could play
your videos of her screaming and being carried out of
(25:27):
the Governor's office, acting like an activist. I choose to
do this because this is CNN trying to have a
serious interview with her and ask her a softball question
and she can't even answer that. How do you differ?
Can you think of anything you differ with? Kamala Harrison yes,
(25:54):
and stated no, I can't. She couldn't even answer that.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Listen, are there any policies that the party's presidential nominee
Kamala Harris held that you disagree with.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Honestly, I haven't.
Speaker 7 (26:17):
Thought about it.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
For I haven't thought about it.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
I have twenty four hours to win this race, and
all I've been thinking about is talking to every last
By the way.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
The CNN reporter is making a face like, are you
kidding me? It's one of those faces I smell a fart?
Or are you kidding me? Is this woman that she's
running for Congress and she hasn't thought about policies the.
Speaker 7 (26:38):
Vote are possible at the doors and trying to make
my case as to why I am the best candidate.
Once again, this race is closed because not only have
we mobilized lots of Democratic voters, but there are Independents
and Republicans that are upset with the chaos of Washington
and want to see someone who will be part of
the solution, not part of the problem.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
But there's no police you would identify that. Again, the
party's presidential nominee held that you do not agree.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
With Once again, I don't.
Speaker 7 (27:10):
Once again, I just I policy positions are you know,
I'm trying to make life more affordable for Tennessee and
is I really haven't thought about it.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
I know what they did an animal house fat drunk
and stupid was no way to live. How about just
drunken stupid? Can't be much better? All right? In Portland,
you're not allowed to have a Christmas tree, just a
holiday tree, which comes from the word meaning holy day.
So if the holy thing that happened is Christmas, why
not just call it Christmas tree? Well, once you take
the Christ out of the tree and then you put
(27:40):
a Palestinian with a flag, really it's beginning to look
a lot like wokeness, isn't it? Here? Together?
Speaker 8 (27:51):
And so I felt like this is a perfect time
to put them up there and for your guys' prayers,
for every single one of the Palestinians, all their press
people's around the globe. And so if I could get
a free, free Palestine, free free Palestine, thank.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
You, you abandon God. It becomes just a tree until
a different In the strikes that we were talking about,
there was response from the White House press room yesterday.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
And.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
You know, I thought Caroline Levitt handled it. Well, here's
how it goes. I will point out.
Speaker 9 (28:38):
One fake news story over the weekend before I let
you all go, from the New York Times that took
about one third of the President's daily calendar in his
daily schedule and said that he's doing less than he
did in his first term, or he might not be
fit for the job. That is unequivocally false, and it's
deeply unfortunate that this story was written by the same
(28:59):
outlet and the same reporter who wrote this Biden is
doing one hundred percent fine after tripping while boarding Air
Force one. Oh, same outlet, same reporter who wrote that
President Trump is not fit for the job. Are you
kidding me? You all see him almost every single day.
He is the most accessible president in history. He is
taking meetings around the cloth. Another one. Biden declared quote
(29:23):
healthy and vigorous after his first presidential physical Hmm. I
don't see headlines like that too often about this president. Again,
same reporter, same outlet who wrote falsely over the week
and that President Trump.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Better to address the death of journalism than the White
House Press secretary inside what drove the Trump administration's follow
up strike on a drug vote that was the topic
on Fox News.
Speaker 10 (29:49):
Type of story that I think really obsesses the Beltway.
You have leaks to the Washington Post, you have the
White House issuing very carefully calibrated statements. You have people
accusing the White House and Secretary Hegseth of passing the buck.
But I think John, the larger story here beyond the
belt Wagh is that Americans look and they see the
President taking action against these narco traffickers, actually putting the
(30:13):
truth to the phrase war on drugs. And among Republican
voters in particular, they're not interested in the minutia. They're
more interested in the bold strikeing.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
I don't know that people, I mean, to his point,
I don't know that people remember all the particulars. It's
more of their feeling than understanding. But that's a narrative too.
I mean, just be honest, this is not about a
war on drugs. That's what's becoming increasingly obvious, or at
(30:49):
least say it's about both, because this is about regime change.
You know, everything is just so polarized and matrix in America.
Of course, the Democrat Party and the media in their
back pocket are going to be anti anything Trump. Is
so natural. They're on the side of the drug lords.
(31:13):
But if you were serious in the war on drugs,
you'd be bombing in Mexico, you'd be bombing in Colombia,
you'd be bombing China if you have the guts to
do it. That's where it's all being produced. On the
fentanyl side, the heroin and cocaine is all coming from
Colombia and it's all delivered into America through Mexico. So
you can do both. But if you were really serious
(31:34):
about the war and stopping drugs, you'd be bombing other boats.
And when it all came to an ultimatum, Maduro, you
leave and then close your airspace or else, well he
didn't blink. Now what we'll find out today the biggest
(31:55):
story of the day is this whole ridiculous notion that
eight members of Congress put out a video encouraging the
military to not follow through with any illegal orders given,
even though none of them in the sixty second commercial
stay a single accusation of an illegal order, when on
(32:18):
talking headshows afterwards couldn't come up with one. Now, from
an anonymous source by way of the Washington Post, you
have this two strike story. The boat was bombed, there
were children on board, Two were clinging to their life
after the first bomb, and a second bomb took them out.
(32:40):
Was this all coordinated by the Left? Is this the
latest Russia? Russia Russia. After a short cough, Caroline Levit
addressed it this way.
Speaker 11 (32:48):
Caroline, just to follow back up on the Washington Post reporting,
so much of the concern from the Democrats and Republicans
is focused on the survivors. Why won't the administration either
confirm or deny or reveal whether or not there were
survivors after that initial first strike and what imminent threat
would two survivors pose who were clinging presumably to.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
The wreckage of that vote.
Speaker 9 (33:11):
Again, as I've said, I think you guys are sort
of not listening fully to the statement I've provided. Admiral
Bradley worked well within his authority and the law directing
the engagement to ensure the vote was totally destroyed and
the threat to the narco terrorists to the United States
was eliminated. And for any further questions about his thinking,
I would defer you to the Department of War.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
I obviously wasn't in the room work.
Speaker 11 (33:34):
Just to follow up, Caroline, just on the administration's policy
when it comes to survivors. Was there a change in
policy after this strike? On September second, the Washington Post
is reporting that these two survivors were killed after a
second strike, but then in October two people were rescued
and returned to Columbia and Acuador. So was there a
(33:54):
decision that was made to handle survivors differently after these strikes,
Not to my knowledge, No.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
So now you have this double narrative and both sides
are guilty of not being transparent and honest. I guess
the Democrats and the meeting in their back pocket are
against the drug dealer or for the drug dealer, the dealers,
and against the president. Now they suddenly think the drug
dealers were double striked. Meanwhile, the President in the White
(34:25):
House is making it all about the drugs, but only
focusing on Venezuela when they're really calling for a regime change.
Both could improve their messaging and maybe arrive at honest truth.
That just sounds the way. The consequence, It is the.
Speaker 9 (34:41):
Best way to get back on your faders, to get
up off your arm.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
I've been living rent free in that guy's head for years,
and that's just a bot.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Do you call that chicken a d They're just blowing off, Steve.
We're all in this together.
Speaker 5 (34:53):
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