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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, Maduro is now gone. Trump in an absolutely brilliant, spectacular, decisive,
and very precise, surgical military operation, deposed Maduro and captured
his wife. They are now going to be arraigned in
the Southern District of New York probably today on charges
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of narco terrorism and cocaine trafficking. Right now, everyone is
asking what will come next in Venezuela. So let me
ask all of you two questions. Do you support Trump's
decision to depose Maduro to venezuelan strongman? And b Trump
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now says the United States, at least for a certain
period of time undefined, will be running Venezuela until a
proper transition is done and they could restore the country's
oil infrastructure and start to put that country together again.
And he says perhaps in a couple of years they
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will then hold elections. So my question to all of you,
should the United States be running Venezuela? Is this nation building?
And is this what you voted for? Six one, seven two, six,
six sixty eight sixty eight. Let's go back to Dave
(01:28):
in Raleigh. So far, the audience, the callers unanimously in
support of Trump. You're all in disagreement with the Kooner man.
That's okay. This is a free speech zone after all. Dave, Please,
I want to ask you an all important question. But
before I do, you said you you think Trump did
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the right thing. This will not be Iraq, this will
not be Afghanistan. He's not Obama, he's not George W. Bush.
If he needs to really drop that hammer, he will.
He will assure that the transition is quick, swift, orderly,
and this thing will be over before we know it.
(02:10):
Am I correct? Did I sum up your position accurately?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Dave? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I mean I'm not obviously positive on that, but I
think that, yeah, with Trump in there, it's a much
better chance that they still go smoothly than any of
the last few previous presidents that we had.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
So please go ahead. I want you to finish your point, Dave.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I think, like I said, that we have enough problems
with like socialissists in this country, like you said, like
Mandamie and them like that. If we can straighten out
you know, we don't need We have enough enemies. We
don't need him, you know, in our hemisphere. And this
is that the other thing, and to get rid of,
to get rid of it. I've lost my I used
to have a big problem with drugs. I've lost so
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many friends to drug overdoses. So that alone, to me,
if you can stop a big flow of the it's
coming in, that's a wonderful thing, you know. And I
and I think we need to project more power out
there because it's it's these it's like you said, I
mean a lot of these people getting elected, like Mundomie
and stuff like that, they're getting support from from people
like Maduro, people you know, like Shoeba and stuff like that,
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and we need to take it all back and stop
the you know, the indoctrination and all the drug blow.
And I'm just I'm for it for what he did,
and I want to at least say this, just give
it a chance. It's on even two days. You know,
people get so negative and they keep talking about the economy. Yeah,
I know, but but the inflation is down, okay, and stuff.
It's it's gonna take time. And you know how, you
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know just as well as I do that when prices
go up, they very rarely come down. In May, we
got a new fed Shamman coming in, you know, hopefully
a lower interest rates. You know, maybe the straight things
out a little bit there. But everybody wants right now,
right now, right now, it's only been two days. Give
them a chance.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
You know.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
If it goes into a quagmire, well held, and you
know that's not good, but at least give it a chance.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
And I wish everybody was stopping his so negative.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Because you see it like in Miami and stuff. The
Republicans aren't coming out to vote. It's like he just
handed it to the enemy. I mean, keep it the
faith people. You know, the man knows what he's doing,
and he's smart, and I believe that what he's done
in Venezuela that he has a plan. He's not George
bushing them where it's like, oh, we're gonna go take
him out.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Now?
Speaker 4 (04:24):
What are we doing?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Then?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
What they have in twenty years?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I don't think it's going to be like that. I mean,
I hope it's not, but I.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Just I, okay, from your lips to God's ears, I honestly,
I really hope you're right. I don't want to see
American service members die in Venezuela. I don't want to
see a repeat of Iraq or Afghanistan or all these
other places. So honestly, Dave, fingers crossed, and I'm with you.
I'm hoping for the best. Now, Dave, let me ask
you this, because this is the question. Really you into
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the audience. If you pulled the White House, Okay, if
anybody doesn't matter and looked at their in turn polling,
they would say, Trump on the first five issues is
underwater with the American people. Now, you're right, I think
people are too impatient. But the fact is on inflation,
on cost of living, on the economy, on jobs, the
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cost of healthcare, they don't see the results fast enough
and they're blaming Trump the fact that his first major
act in twenty twenty six is the overthrow of Maduro
again foreign policy? Is there now a danger Dave, that
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this is going to reinforce in the public mind that
we have a foreign policy president who's more preoccupied with
what goes on abroad than what's happening at home. Because
that's the fear now in terms of the public perception.
What say you.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Could, Yeah, I could, But like I said, I just
think people will need to have more patience and regardless
or I mean, if you don't go out and vote.
You have heard that from so many Republicans. You know
I'm not gonna say then you just handed it to
the end.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I agree. No, I mean then you're just kissing your
country goodbye. You're absolutely correct. Okay, listen now to President Trump.
This was one of the most powerful moments of his
press conference, after announcing his decision to launch a military
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campaign and nighttime raid to be active, be precise, to
out depose and capture the Venezuelan dictator, strongman Nicholas Maduro,
and his corrupt narco trafficking wife. By the way, as
I speak to you now, the Maduro and his wife
are being helicoptered to the Federal Federal Justice Building where
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he is going to be indicted officially today. And there
are other hellic opts, news helicopters pursuing the helicopter with Maduro.
I try to get a shot of the strong man.
I guess in handcuffs or blindfolded or whatever. So anyway,
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the reporter asks Trump, you're not going to back the
opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado to be the next president
of Venezuela. You want to work with the current vice president,
the person underneath Maduro, handpicked by Maduro, a hack of
Maduro's who now has been sworn in as president. Listen
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to Trump's response roll cut seven C. Mike, you.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Said earlier today that you weren't going to back Machado
to come back and get the opposition later in your
Fox and Friends interview, and then you also mentioned the
vice president of Venezuela. Are you gonna work with vice
president of Venezuela or how do you foresee the relationship.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I understand she was just sworn in, but she was,
as you know, picked by Maduro.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
So Marco's working in that directly.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
He's just had a conversation with.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Her, and she's essentially willing to do what we think
is necessary to make Venezuela great again.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Very simple. Now, when I heard that, let me just
again be brutally honest with you, like I'm in the confessional.
Make Venezuela great again. A. I don't think she's interested
in making Venezuela great again. She's been with Maduro now
for the last thirteen years. She was with Chavez before him.
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She is a die hard revolutionary Marxist. She's held senior
positions in the Maduro regime, and by the way, she
oversaw their oil that's literally the woman. Now that's the
new sworn in president, oversaw the oil infrastructure in Venezuela.
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She's the one that helped destroy Venezuela. So she's gonna
make Venezuela great again. Yeah, I don't think so. Okay
to be with all due respect mister president. So I
think if you want to make this work, you gotta
clean house. She's gotta go, The Interior minister's gotta go,
the Defense minister's gotta go, the whole corrupt gang has
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got to go. Okay, that's point number one. But to me,
forget that that's their business. To me is when he
said we're gonna make Venezuela great again, a no one's
ever made Venezuela great again. With all due respect to Venezuela,
they were doing much better before Chavez and Maduro, no question,
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but they've never been great. In Latin America, it's very
hard to get a stable, prosperous regime. It's plagued that
region for centuries. We're not God, We're not gonna yeah,
snap our fingers, and suddenly within two three years turned
Venezuela into the Switzerland of the Western Hemisphere. So I
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think to be honest again. The objectives, the aims, the
goals are too quicksodic. There I think a bit messianic.
I think that I'm like everybody, let's just calm down.
We're getting involved in nation building, and nation building never
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ends well. It never ends well because no country has
the power to transform another country if the people don't
want to make themselves great. Now, to me, the bigger
issue is this. I elected Trump. I voted for Trump
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to make America great, not to make Venezuela great, or
to make Gaza great, or to make Ukraine great, or
pick your country. The President of the United States should
focus on the primary interests of America and the American people.
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His job is to make us great. The rest of
the world they have leaders to take care of them.
And so I want to ask all of you, did
you vote for this? Did you vote to make Venezuela great?
Because honestly I didn't. But that's me. Six one seven
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two six, six sixty eight sixty eight is the number. Okay,
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U h N E R and d in Wed Thanks
for holding Andy and welcome.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
Good morning Jeff.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Andy, Happy new year, all the best to you and
your family. Andy.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Oh hey, Happy New Year to you, Jeff and doctor
Grace and the kids and your family as well.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Thank you, Thank you Andy, well, Jeff.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
I'm I am in support of toppling Maduro, and I'll
tell you why. First big thing, this is within our
own hemisphere. This is not thousands of miles away somewhere
in the Middle East. This is our own backyard. One
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very important difference is, unlike the Middle East, we're not
attempting to reverse thousands of years of history in this situation,
and we're not dealing with the multi millennial issue in
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the Middle East, where I mean Islam has had an
influence in the Middle East for a multiple millennial, right
millennia just about right now. We don't have that situation
in Latin America, so that that alone is a lot
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more favorable. The one of the one of the one
aspect of this, Jeff, that I see that is in
our national interest is if they can get Maduro to
give up on a silver platter, every r US politician
(15:03):
are corrupt American ceo that wound up on his payroll, that,
my friend, is very much within our national interest.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Well, that's an excellent point, and I have to say
that's a very good point. Look, you can tell the Democrats,
you know, there's no look, they don't care about the
national interest or what's America first or not America first.
They're reflexively against Trump because whatever Trump does they oppose.
But the way they're going to bat for Maduro, I've
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never seen anything like this, And I'm starting to ask
myself were they taking money from the Maduro regime? Was
he hiring lobbying firms in Washington who were paying off
these Democrats to stand there and support and prop up
his regime. Because Andy, you're dead on. Chris Murphy is
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losing his mind. That senator from Connecticut, this guy's running
around on TV. He's more pro Maduro than people in
Maduro's regime. You can't make this up, So I think, clearly,
if they can, if they can show a financial link
or connection between Maduro and the Democrats and Maduro and
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many in the corrupt, crooked, corporate media, then you know what, Mandy,
You know what, maybe the cooner man will rethink what
he's been saying. But no, that's a very good point. No, look, Andy,
this is my fear in a nutshell. My fear is
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this thing goes south in Venezuela quickly, our boys start
coming home in body bags, the American public turns on Trump,
and we lose the midterms. That's my fear. Okay, President
Trump pulls the trigger. He wasn't playing around. He kept
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warning Maduro, you play around, you're gonna find out. Well,
Saturday morning he found out. Trump ordered Operation Absolute Resolve.
Meduro was captured in a stunning, surgical, precision, decisive nighttime raid.
And as I speak to you, now he's being flown
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in a helicopter in a New York courtroom where he
will be indicted officially on narco terrorism and cocaine trafficking charges.
My question to all of you, do you support Trump's
decision to topple Maduro? And Trump says we will now
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have to run Venezuela for a transition period so the
country can get back on its feet, the oil can
start flowing again, and then eventually elections will be held.
Should we be running Venezuela? Are we now involved in
nation building? And as some are now saying, is this
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American imperialism? Are we, as essentially now Venezuela an American protectorate?
And should we be in the nation building imperialist game?
Six one seven, two sixty six, sixty eight sixty eight
lines are loaded. Mark in Medford. Thanks for holding Mark,
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and welcome.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Good morning, Jeff.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
I hope you had a very merry Christmas and a
happy New Year.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
I did. I did, Happy New Year, All the best
to you and your family.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Mark, Thank you very much, my friend. So in a way, Jeff,
I think we all voted for this in one way
or another, And I'll tell you why I did vote
so Sentinel and other drugs be important to this country.
I did vote for prisons and in sale asylums to
be emptied into the United States, and I did vote
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for not regime change, Jeff. But I did vote for
Trump making this world a better place. I know it's
make America great again. And I know he said make
Venezuela great again. But I think what he meant by that, Jeff,
is let's just make Venezuela what he used to be.
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And that's whatever it was again. He likes to work great,
let him use it. Give the guy the benefit of
the doubt. And I think your pole question, Jeff, I
think is unfair. I think you should add c all
of the above, because that's what I think he's doing.
I think he's doing both of those.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
But Jeff, I.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Want to talk about right now, right here. Not twenty
four hours went by when the operation took place in
New York. Yok City had hundreds of protesters on the street,
were professionally made signs, handwritten signs that you could tell
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were written by the same person because the penmanship was
exactly a common copy of the next one. Okay, but
not too long ago, Jeff, it was what maybe a
couple of months that they were protesting no dictators, no kings.
Oh wait a minute, but now the dictating flaw a
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king and a self made king, i should say, and
a protester. Jeff, help me make this make sense, please,
because these people all they are doing is answering the
phone when they're called it's time to punch the protest
clock again. How much do you want me to write
the check out for?
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Well, you nailed it. Look, this is what I thought
was really despicable over the weekend, and I'm so happy
you brought it up.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Mark.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
You had all of these left wing activists, by the way,
many of them tied to the Democratic Socialists of America.
That's Bernie Sanders, that's a Mum Dannie, that's AOC, that's
elan Omar. Those are their people. And so they're the
ones who were funding George Sorows is the ultimate sugar daddy.
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But they were the ones who were supporting this, funding this,
And you're right. They're out in New York City, they're
out in Philadelphia, they're out in Boston. Hundreds of them
showed up in Boston. They're out in Chicago, they're out
in California, the exact same signs with the exact same writing.
You could tell it's written by the same person. And
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they're openly championing Maduro, who is a brutal dictator, a
strong man, a king, but he happens to be a
red king, a communist king. And you see, if you're
a communist king, or to be more accurate, a communist
despot and a authoritarian butcher, then the Left loves you
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just like they used to love the castros, just like
they used to love Lenin and Stalin and Mao and
at Chavez before Maduro. So that to me is what
I find so utterly despicable. And the thing about Mamdonni
in New York City, he refers to Maduro as quote,
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Comrade Maduro. He's this fellow comrade because he's part of
the revolution. So you see, they look at the fall
of Maduro as a blow against this world Marxist revolution
that they believe they're all part of. And that's why
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Mark I keep warning everybody that this strain of socialism,
of communism, and Madonnie's case, he's an Islamo communists because
he swore on the Quran. He was sworn in on
the Koran, where he explicitly now says that's Sharia law.
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We're swearing on the Qoran. I want Sharia law. And
the first act that he did as mayor after sworn in,
his very first act was to repudiate the definition of
antisemitism in the City of New York, to give Jews
more That gave Jews more protection in the wake of
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October seventh and all the antisemitic out upsurge and hatred
that came out on campuses for the last year and
a half two years. That's literally his first act. Now
it just came out. This is maybe fifteen minutes ago.
His housing advisor for Housing has now been caught in
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an interview saying, listen to this. You don't own your home.
That's a bad way of looking at home ownership. We
don't believe in individual homeownership. We believe in quote collective
home ownership. And especially for white people, they're gonna have
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to learn that they're gonna have to lose their homes
or allow illegals to come into their homes because the
state has a claim on your home. That's fifteen minutes ago.
Fifteen minutes ago, that's Chevismo that's Castro, that's Lenin, that's Stalin,
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that's Maduro. That's what they did in Venezuela and in Cuba,
and in China and in Russia, and they want to
do it right here in the United States of America.
And those are literally the same people that are protesting
now on behalf of Maduro. So what I'm trying to
tell everybody is we've got a social virus, a movement
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here that is building, and they now have the city
of New York. They have captured New York. And when
I saw him swear on the Qur'an when he was
inaugurated and sworn in as the new mayor, the signal
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that was sent to the entire world was that Islam
has now captured New York City and to reinforce it,
to celebrate Muslim Heritage Month, Kathy Hokel now is ordering
that all the big buildings in New York at night
be lit up in green because green is the color
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of Islam. So this is what we're facing, and they're
not playing around, So honestly, Mark, we have to wake
up because now they're openly coming people's homes. And I
warned everybody in New York. This is exactly now what
you're gonna get. And this clown, in his inaugural address
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openly says we have to learn to embrace the warmth
of collectivism. In other words, you don't own your home,
you don't own your property, you don't own your bank account,
you don't own anything. The collective is everything, the individual
is nothing. Communism one oh one. And that's the mayor
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of New York, the capitalist you know center, the financial
epicenter of the United States. New York City is finished.
I'm telling you it's finished. And if we're not careful,
the left may be back in power in twenty twenty eight.
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So that's why I keep saying over and over again,
we've got to turn this economy around, because if we
lose the midterms, we're going to be in deep trouble
in twenty twenty eight. And that's why I'm urging Trump,
You've got to focus on domestic issues and the economy
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like a laser beam, because the radical left is rising.
Mark agree, disagree.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
As far as Mandani goes, he needs to be careful
what he says, because as fast as they voted him
in is as fast as they'll take him out because
New Yorkers will turn on you in a second. Okay,
but I want to get get back to what we're
talking about. Let me ask you a question, Jeff. The media,
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they're dropping the ball on this old thing, not asking
the questions they should be asking, Like, I don't know,
if Kamala had Harris was the president, Oh, if Joe
Biden was still the president, they could have did this
what Trump did. Now instead they put a bounty on
his head hoping someone else would do it. They could
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have did it, Jeff. They chose not to for their
own reasons God only knows. But if they did, Jeff,
won't you think that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Harris
would be labeled as a freaking arrow or they'd be.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Held as liberators this they would say, let's just say,
just for the sake of argument, let's just do like
a mind experiment, Okay, just for just play along the
exact same operation, exact same precision, exact same success, exact,
same professionalism. But it's not President Trump. It's Joey or Kamala.
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That's it. That's the only thing that changes. Oh my god,
they would be twenty four to seven greatest military operation
in the history of the world. Maduro was taken without
a single American service member dying. Oh my god, I
mean literally this, you know, this is one of the
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greatest masterpieces in master strokes in American military history. I mean,
this would go on and on and on. They wouldn't stop.
But you see, if it's a Republican, especially Trump, then
it's a disaster. Then it's it's it's illegal, it's immoral,
it's unconstitutional. They're already talking impeachment. Well, what are you
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going to impeach them on? Well, well we'll find something.
You see, when Obama destroys Libya and overthrows Kadafi with
no congressional approval, they loved it. No problem. When they
bomb Syria and shatter that country, no problem. When George H. W.
Bush overthrew Nordjega and Panama no congressional authorization, no problem.
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But when Trump takes out this socialist strong man, suddenly,
oh my god, it's it's a constitutional crisis. Chuck Schumer's
losing his mind on the air. There's this lawlessness. Get lost.
That's the problem with the media. Now. They have lost
all credibility because they're paid hacks and liars, and and
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and and the Democrats, as I said on X last night,
to the biggest dippocrits on the planet. If a Democrat
overthrows a regime, it's great. If a Republican does it,
it's the end of the world. Literally, I've just given
you liberals in ten seconds. Mark, thank you very much
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as always for that call, my friend. Six one seven
two six six sixty eight sixty eight. I don't am
I wrong. Now let me tell you another angle that
I think a lot of people are missing in this.
This is going to be tried. It appears there's maybe Miami.
I know Miami is trying to get trying to get
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in on this. I hope they do, But it looks
like it's going to be tried. The Maduro trial is
going to take place in the Southern District of New York.
The Southern District of New York is New York City,
New York City. That means the overwhelming majority majority of
the potential jurors are diehard anti Trumpers. This is gonna
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be you know, this is the same venue that you
know supports Letitia James and you know did everything in
their power to try to send Trump to jail. I'm
not sure Maduro is going to be convicted. I'm not
saying because there isn't a lack of evidence. The evidence
is overwhelming. Was he involved in drug trafficking, no question.
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In cocaine trafficking, no question, And narco terrorism no question,
no question. But there's no longer a question about the
evidence and the facts. He's a communist, He's a mass murderer.
By the way. He's starved children, literally, he starved children.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
They don't care.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
If Trump was the one who lolsted him, and Trump
is the one who deposed them, and now Maduro is
becoming this hero on the left, this martyr on the left.
You could easily say them just to stick it to Trump.
They acquit so to be honest, if if you know,
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if I'm the Department of Justice, I'd get this move
to Miami or another district or jurisdiction because I wouldn't
trust that jury pool not in the Southern District of
New York six two six six sixty eight sixty eight.
ED in Maryland, thanks for holding ed and welcome.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
And Jeff hi Ed. I'll spoke to you a few times.
I think you know I'm not a leftist. Look, this
is kind of like, I guess in video games, completing
the side quest or doing the bonus round before you
compete the level, complete the level. I guess we should
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all sit around and count the number of deep state
arrests and indictments. So I guess I'll wait, I'll wait
while we count this up. Do you got any of
those yet?
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Well? No, no arrests.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
No.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
Okay, yeah, So as a human being, I mean, of course,
I mean, great for Venezuela and for the Venezuelan people,
but quite honestly, I don't really care, Like, like, who
really cares. It doesn't impact my life whatsoever in any regard,
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not with the economy, not with anything. It doesn't mean anything.
This is slop, This is ai slop whatever. This is
garbage that they're feeding us. And if people want to
ingest it, then great, have a great time. But this
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is stupid. This is not America first, and I mean
this is just a joke. I mean honestly, so Trump
somehow has this massive control over this and the military,
but he has no control over the justice system. Okay,
(35:07):
let me let me let me take that in. Okay,
somehow that makes sense. Whatever. This is a fricking joke. Man.
We are being spoon fed slot.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Well, you know, ed just to piggyback off of what
you're saying.
Speaker 6 (35:30):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
And that was part of what I was trying to
say in my two part opening monologue, where I said, look, militarily,
I think it's been a stunning operation, very successful, no question,
But what's in it for US rights as America? First?
What's in it? And as I said, I I don't
to me, this doesn't you know. I understand, respectfully, there's
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a lot of arguments out there about why they you know,
people believe it's in the national interest. I don't believe
it's in the national interest. I believe deporting tens of
millions of illegals that's in the national interest. I believe
in arresting all these deep state criminals, that's in the
national interest. I believe in driving inflation down and reducing
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the cost of living, that's in the national interest. I
believe in getting our out of controlled debt and deficit
under control is in the national interest. I don't want
to see us enmeshed and embroiled in the internal affairs
of Venezuela. And I think this could go south very fast,
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and even on the drug issue, and you know me,
I'm against drugs. I hate fentanyl that's coming in, killing
one hundred thousand Americans every year. But the bulk of
the fentanyl that comes in is through the Mexican drug cartels.
It's not Venezuela. I'm not saying Maduro wasn't in the
drug business, of course he was. But the number one
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producer and distributor of fentanyl by far are the Mexican
drug cartels. Well, this doesn't do anything for the Mexican
drug cartels. The biggest producer of cocaine is not Venezuela,
it's Colombia. Now, the Venezuelan's helping the trafficking of it.
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But you know, you want to deal with cocaine, it's Colombia.
You want to deal with fentanyl, it's Mexico. Maduro sent
a lot of cocaine, yes, to the United States, but
also to Europe, to the region, to the world. So
in terms of dealing with the drug epidemic that's killing
our country, if Trump said We're declaring war on the
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Mexican drug cartels, I'd say, amen, that's America first, that
affects you It affects me because that's what's killing our people.
But Maduro is you know, look, he's a despicable man,
but he's a failed third world Latin American socialist despot.
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There's dozens and dozens and dozens of them. We lived
with the guy for thirteen years. This guy didn't fall.
So the question I have is what was so what
was the imperative? What was so overriding that we had
to take him out? Now? Like, what what's changed in
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the last two months that all of a sudden we
had to conduct this operation. And then the part that
blew my mind is when then Trump said, well, We're
gonna run Venezuela and I'm like, what
Okay, Maduro is now gone. Trump in an absolutely brilliant, spectacular, decisive,
and very precise, surgical military operation, deposed Maduro and captured
his wife. They are now going to be arraigned in
the Southern District of New York probably today on charges
(00:24):
of narco terrorism and cocaine trafficking. Right now, everyone is
asking what will come next in Venezuela. So let me
ask all of you two questions. Do you support Trump's
decision to depose Maduro to venezuelan strongman? And b Trump
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now says the United States, at least for a certain
period of time undefined, will be running Venezuela until a
proper transition is done and they could restore the country's
oil infrastructure and start to put that country together again.
And he says perhaps in a couple of years they
(01:08):
will then hold elections. So my question to all of you,
should the United States be running Venezuela? Is this nation building?
And is this what you voted for? Six one, seven two, six,
six sixty eight sixty eight. Let's go back to Dave
(01:28):
in Raleigh. So far, the audience, the callers unanimously in
support of Trump. You're all in disagreement with the Kooner man.
That's okay. This is a free speech zone after all. Dave, Please,
I want to ask you an all important question. But
before I do, you said you you think Trump did
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the right thing. This will not be Iraq, this will
not be Afghanistan. He's not Obama, he's not George W. Bush.
If he needs to really drop that hammer, he will.
He will assure that the transition is quick, swift, orderly,
and this thing will be over before we know it.
(02:10):
Am I correct? Did I sum up your position accurately?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Dave? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I mean I'm not obviously positive on that, but I
think that, yeah, with Trump in there, it's a much
better chance that they still go smoothly than any of
the last few previous presidents that we had.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
So please go ahead. I want you to finish your point, Dave.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I think, like I said, that we have enough problems
with like socialissists in this country, like you said, like
Mandamie and them like that. If we can straighten out
you know, we don't need We have enough enemies. We
don't need him, you know, in our hemisphere. And this
is that the other thing, and to get rid of,
to get rid of it. I've lost my I used
to have a big problem with drugs. I've lost so
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many friends to drug overdoses. So that alone, to me,
if you can stop a big flow of the it's
coming in, that's a wonderful thing, you know. And I
and I think we need to project more power out
there because it's it's these it's like you said, I
mean a lot of these people getting elected, like Mundomie
and stuff like that, they're getting support from from people
like Maduro, people you know, like Shoeba and stuff like that,
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and we need to take it all back and stop
the you know, the indoctrination and all the drug blow.
And I'm just I'm for it for what he did,
and I want to at least say this, just give
it a chance. It's on even two days. You know,
people get so negative and they keep talking about the economy. Yeah,
I know, but but the inflation is down, okay, and stuff.
It's it's gonna take time. And you know how, you
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know just as well as I do that when prices
go up, they very rarely come down. In May, we
got a new fed Shamman coming in, you know, hopefully
a lower interest rates. You know, maybe the straight things
out a little bit there. But everybody wants right now,
right now, right now, it's only been two days. Give
them a chance.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
You know.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
If it goes into a quagmire, well held, and you
know that's not good, but at least give it a chance.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
And I wish everybody was stopping his so negative.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Because you see it like in Miami and stuff. The
Republicans aren't coming out to vote. It's like he just
handed it to the enemy. I mean, keep it the
faith people. You know, the man knows what he's doing,
and he's smart, and I believe that what he's done
in Venezuela that he has a plan. He's not George
bushing them where it's like, oh, we're gonna go take
him out.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Now?
Speaker 4 (04:24):
What are we doing?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Then?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
What they have in twenty years?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I don't think it's going to be like that. I mean,
I hope it's not, but I.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Just I, okay, from your lips to God's ears, I honestly,
I really hope you're right. I don't want to see
American service members die in Venezuela. I don't want to
see a repeat of Iraq or Afghanistan or all these
other places. So honestly, Dave, fingers crossed, and I'm with you.
I'm hoping for the best. Now, Dave, let me ask
you this, because this is the question. Really you into
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the audience. If you pulled the White House, Okay, if
anybody doesn't matter and looked at their in turn polling,
they would say, Trump on the first five issues is
underwater with the American people. Now, you're right, I think
people are too impatient. But the fact is on inflation,
on cost of living, on the economy, on jobs, the
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cost of healthcare, they don't see the results fast enough
and they're blaming Trump the fact that his first major
act in twenty twenty six is the overthrow of Maduro
again foreign policy? Is there now a danger Dave, that
(05:34):
this is going to reinforce in the public mind that
we have a foreign policy president who's more preoccupied with
what goes on abroad than what's happening at home. Because
that's the fear now in terms of the public perception.
What say you.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Could, Yeah, I could, But like I said, I just
think people will need to have more patience and regardless
or I mean, if you don't go out and vote.
You have heard that from so many Republicans. You know
I'm not gonna say then you just handed it to
the end.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I agree. No, I mean then you're just kissing your
country goodbye. You're absolutely correct. Okay, listen now to President Trump.
This was one of the most powerful moments of his
press conference, after announcing his decision to launch a military
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campaign and nighttime raid to be active, be precise, to
out depose and capture the Venezuelan dictator, strongman Nicholas Maduro,
and his corrupt narco trafficking wife. By the way, as
I speak to you now, the Maduro and his wife
are being helicoptered to the Federal Federal Justice Building where
(06:55):
he is going to be indicted officially today. And there
are other hellic opts, news helicopters pursuing the helicopter with Maduro.
I try to get a shot of the strong man.
I guess in handcuffs or blindfolded or whatever. So anyway,
(07:16):
the reporter asks Trump, you're not going to back the
opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado to be the next president
of Venezuela. You want to work with the current vice president,
the person underneath Maduro, handpicked by Maduro, a hack of
Maduro's who now has been sworn in as president. Listen
(07:40):
to Trump's response roll cut seven C. Mike, you.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Said earlier today that you weren't going to back Machado
to come back and get the opposition later in your
Fox and Friends interview, and then you also mentioned the
vice president of Venezuela. Are you gonna work with vice
president of Venezuela or how do you foresee the relationship.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I understand she was just sworn in, but she was,
as you know, picked by Maduro.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
So Marco's working in that directly.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
He's just had a conversation with.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Her, and she's essentially willing to do what we think
is necessary to make Venezuela great again.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Very simple. Now, when I heard that, let me just
again be brutally honest with you, like I'm in the confessional.
Make Venezuela great again. A. I don't think she's interested
in making Venezuela great again. She's been with Maduro now
for the last thirteen years. She was with Chavez before him.
(08:39):
She is a die hard revolutionary Marxist. She's held senior
positions in the Maduro regime, and by the way, she
oversaw their oil that's literally the woman. Now that's the
new sworn in president, oversaw the oil infrastructure in Venezuela.
(09:00):
She's the one that helped destroy Venezuela. So she's gonna
make Venezuela great again. Yeah, I don't think so. Okay
to be with all due respect mister president. So I
think if you want to make this work, you gotta
clean house. She's gotta go, The Interior minister's gotta go,
the Defense minister's gotta go, the whole corrupt gang has
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got to go. Okay, that's point number one. But to me,
forget that that's their business. To me is when he
said we're gonna make Venezuela great again, a no one's
ever made Venezuela great again. With all due respect to Venezuela,
they were doing much better before Chavez and Maduro, no question,
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but they've never been great. In Latin America, it's very
hard to get a stable, prosperous regime. It's plagued that
region for centuries. We're not God, We're not gonna yeah,
snap our fingers, and suddenly within two three years turned
Venezuela into the Switzerland of the Western Hemisphere. So I
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think to be honest again. The objectives, the aims, the
goals are too quicksodic. There I think a bit messianic.
I think that I'm like everybody, let's just calm down.
We're getting involved in nation building, and nation building never
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ends well. It never ends well because no country has
the power to transform another country if the people don't
want to make themselves great. Now, to me, the bigger
issue is this. I elected Trump. I voted for Trump
(10:56):
to make America great, not to make Venezuela great, or
to make Gaza great, or to make Ukraine great, or
pick your country. The President of the United States should
focus on the primary interests of America and the American people.
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His job is to make us great. The rest of
the world they have leaders to take care of them.
And so I want to ask all of you, did
you vote for this? Did you vote to make Venezuela great?
Because honestly I didn't. But that's me. Six one seven
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U h N E R and d in Wed Thanks
for holding Andy and welcome.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
Good morning Jeff.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Andy, Happy new year, all the best to you and
your family. Andy.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Oh hey, Happy New Year to you, Jeff and doctor
Grace and the kids and your family as well.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Thank you, Thank you Andy, well, Jeff.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
I'm I am in support of toppling Maduro, and I'll
tell you why. First big thing, this is within our
own hemisphere. This is not thousands of miles away somewhere
in the Middle East. This is our own backyard. One
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very important difference is, unlike the Middle East, we're not
attempting to reverse thousands of years of history in this situation,
and we're not dealing with the multi millennial issue in
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the Middle East, where I mean Islam has had an
influence in the Middle East for a multiple millennial, right
millennia just about right now. We don't have that situation
in Latin America, so that that alone is a lot
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more favorable. The one of the one of the one
aspect of this, Jeff, that I see that is in
our national interest is if they can get Maduro to
give up on a silver platter, every r US politician
(15:03):
are corrupt American ceo that wound up on his payroll, that,
my friend, is very much within our national interest.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Well, that's an excellent point, and I have to say
that's a very good point. Look, you can tell the Democrats,
you know, there's no look, they don't care about the
national interest or what's America first or not America first.
They're reflexively against Trump because whatever Trump does they oppose.
But the way they're going to bat for Maduro, I've
(15:39):
never seen anything like this, And I'm starting to ask
myself were they taking money from the Maduro regime? Was
he hiring lobbying firms in Washington who were paying off
these Democrats to stand there and support and prop up
his regime. Because Andy, you're dead on. Chris Murphy is
(16:01):
losing his mind. That senator from Connecticut, this guy's running
around on TV. He's more pro Maduro than people in
Maduro's regime. You can't make this up, So I think, clearly,
if they can, if they can show a financial link
or connection between Maduro and the Democrats and Maduro and
(16:25):
many in the corrupt, crooked, corporate media, then you know what, Mandy,
You know what, maybe the cooner man will rethink what
he's been saying. But no, that's a very good point. No, look, Andy,
this is my fear in a nutshell. My fear is
(16:46):
this thing goes south in Venezuela quickly, our boys start
coming home in body bags, the American public turns on Trump,
and we lose the midterms. That's my fear. Okay, President
Trump pulls the trigger. He wasn't playing around. He kept
(17:06):
warning Maduro, you play around, you're gonna find out. Well,
Saturday morning he found out. Trump ordered Operation Absolute Resolve.
Meduro was captured in a stunning, surgical, precision, decisive nighttime raid.
And as I speak to you, now he's being flown
(17:29):
in a helicopter in a New York courtroom where he
will be indicted officially on narco terrorism and cocaine trafficking charges.
My question to all of you, do you support Trump's
decision to topple Maduro? And Trump says we will now
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have to run Venezuela for a transition period so the
country can get back on its feet, the oil can
start flowing again, and then eventually elections will be held.
Should we be running Venezuela? Are we now involved in
nation building? And as some are now saying, is this
(18:12):
American imperialism? Are we, as essentially now Venezuela an American protectorate?
And should we be in the nation building imperialist game?
Six one seven, two sixty six, sixty eight sixty eight
lines are loaded. Mark in Medford. Thanks for holding Mark,
(18:35):
and welcome.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Good morning, Jeff.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
I hope you had a very merry Christmas and a
happy New Year.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
I did. I did, Happy New Year, All the best
to you and your family.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Mark, Thank you very much, my friend. So in a way, Jeff,
I think we all voted for this in one way
or another, And I'll tell you why I did vote
so Sentinel and other drugs be important to this country.
I did vote for prisons and in sale asylums to
be emptied into the United States, and I did vote
(19:09):
for not regime change, Jeff. But I did vote for
Trump making this world a better place. I know it's
make America great again. And I know he said make
Venezuela great again. But I think what he meant by that, Jeff,
is let's just make Venezuela what he used to be.
(19:31):
And that's whatever it was again. He likes to work great,
let him use it. Give the guy the benefit of
the doubt. And I think your pole question, Jeff, I
think is unfair. I think you should add c all
of the above, because that's what I think he's doing.
I think he's doing both of those.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
But Jeff, I.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Want to talk about right now, right here. Not twenty
four hours went by when the operation took place in
New York. Yok City had hundreds of protesters on the street,
were professionally made signs, handwritten signs that you could tell
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were written by the same person because the penmanship was
exactly a common copy of the next one. Okay, but
not too long ago, Jeff, it was what maybe a
couple of months that they were protesting no dictators, no kings.
Oh wait a minute, but now the dictating flaw a
(20:32):
king and a self made king, i should say, and
a protester. Jeff, help me make this make sense, please,
because these people all they are doing is answering the
phone when they're called it's time to punch the protest
clock again. How much do you want me to write
the check out for?
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Well, you nailed it. Look, this is what I thought
was really despicable over the weekend, and I'm so happy
you brought it up.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Mark.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
You had all of these left wing activists, by the way,
many of them tied to the Democratic Socialists of America.
That's Bernie Sanders, that's a Mum Dannie, that's AOC, that's
elan Omar. Those are their people. And so they're the
ones who were funding George Sorows is the ultimate sugar daddy.
(21:21):
But they were the ones who were supporting this, funding this,
And you're right. They're out in New York City, they're
out in Philadelphia, they're out in Boston. Hundreds of them
showed up in Boston. They're out in Chicago, they're out
in California, the exact same signs with the exact same writing.
You could tell it's written by the same person. And
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they're openly championing Maduro, who is a brutal dictator, a
strong man, a king, but he happens to be a
red king, a communist king. And you see, if you're
a communist king, or to be more accurate, a communist
despot and a authoritarian butcher, then the Left loves you
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just like they used to love the castros, just like
they used to love Lenin and Stalin and Mao and
at Chavez before Maduro. So that to me is what
I find so utterly despicable. And the thing about Mamdonni
in New York City, he refers to Maduro as quote,
(22:24):
Comrade Maduro. He's this fellow comrade because he's part of
the revolution. So you see, they look at the fall
of Maduro as a blow against this world Marxist revolution
that they believe they're all part of. And that's why
(22:47):
Mark I keep warning everybody that this strain of socialism,
of communism, and Madonnie's case, he's an Islamo communists because
he swore on the Quran. He was sworn in on
the Koran, where he explicitly now says that's Sharia law.
(23:08):
We're swearing on the Qoran. I want Sharia law. And
the first act that he did as mayor after sworn in,
his very first act was to repudiate the definition of
antisemitism in the City of New York, to give Jews
more That gave Jews more protection in the wake of
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October seventh and all the antisemitic out upsurge and hatred
that came out on campuses for the last year and
a half two years. That's literally his first act. Now
it just came out. This is maybe fifteen minutes ago.
His housing advisor for Housing has now been caught in
(23:53):
an interview saying, listen to this. You don't own your home.
That's a bad way of looking at home ownership. We
don't believe in individual homeownership. We believe in quote collective
home ownership. And especially for white people, they're gonna have
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to learn that they're gonna have to lose their homes
or allow illegals to come into their homes because the
state has a claim on your home. That's fifteen minutes ago.
Fifteen minutes ago, that's Chevismo that's Castro, that's Lenin, that's Stalin,
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that's Maduro. That's what they did in Venezuela and in Cuba,
and in China and in Russia, and they want to
do it right here in the United States of America.
And those are literally the same people that are protesting
now on behalf of Maduro. So what I'm trying to
tell everybody is we've got a social virus, a movement
(25:03):
here that is building, and they now have the city
of New York. They have captured New York. And when
I saw him swear on the Qur'an when he was
inaugurated and sworn in as the new mayor, the signal
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that was sent to the entire world was that Islam
has now captured New York City and to reinforce it,
to celebrate Muslim Heritage Month, Kathy Hokel now is ordering
that all the big buildings in New York at night
be lit up in green because green is the color
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of Islam. So this is what we're facing, and they're
not playing around, So honestly, Mark, we have to wake
up because now they're openly coming people's homes. And I
warned everybody in New York. This is exactly now what
you're gonna get. And this clown, in his inaugural address
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openly says we have to learn to embrace the warmth
of collectivism. In other words, you don't own your home,
you don't own your property, you don't own your bank account,
you don't own anything. The collective is everything, the individual
is nothing. Communism one oh one. And that's the mayor
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of New York, the capitalist you know center, the financial
epicenter of the United States. New York City is finished.
I'm telling you it's finished. And if we're not careful,
the left may be back in power in twenty twenty eight.
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So that's why I keep saying over and over again,
we've got to turn this economy around, because if we
lose the midterms, we're going to be in deep trouble
in twenty twenty eight. And that's why I'm urging Trump,
You've got to focus on domestic issues and the economy
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like a laser beam, because the radical left is rising.
Mark agree, disagree.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
As far as Mandani goes, he needs to be careful
what he says, because as fast as they voted him
in is as fast as they'll take him out because
New Yorkers will turn on you in a second. Okay,
but I want to get get back to what we're
talking about. Let me ask you a question, Jeff. The media,
(27:50):
they're dropping the ball on this old thing, not asking
the questions they should be asking, Like, I don't know,
if Kamala had Harris was the president, Oh, if Joe
Biden was still the president, they could have did this
what Trump did. Now instead they put a bounty on
his head hoping someone else would do it. They could
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have did it, Jeff. They chose not to for their
own reasons God only knows. But if they did, Jeff,
won't you think that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Harris
would be labeled as a freaking arrow or they'd be.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Held as liberators this they would say, let's just say,
just for the sake of argument, let's just do like
a mind experiment, Okay, just for just play along the
exact same operation, exact same precision, exact same success, exact,
same professionalism. But it's not President Trump. It's Joey or Kamala.
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That's it. That's the only thing that changes. Oh my god,
they would be twenty four to seven greatest military operation
in the history of the world. Maduro was taken without
a single American service member dying. Oh my god, I
mean literally this, you know, this is one of the
(29:09):
greatest masterpieces in master strokes in American military history. I mean,
this would go on and on and on. They wouldn't stop.
But you see, if it's a Republican, especially Trump, then
it's a disaster. Then it's it's it's illegal, it's immoral,
it's unconstitutional. They're already talking impeachment. Well, what are you
(29:33):
going to impeach them on? Well, well we'll find something.
You see, when Obama destroys Libya and overthrows Kadafi with
no congressional approval, they loved it. No problem. When they
bomb Syria and shatter that country, no problem. When George H. W.
Bush overthrew Nordjega and Panama no congressional authorization, no problem.
(30:00):
But when Trump takes out this socialist strong man, suddenly,
oh my god, it's it's a constitutional crisis. Chuck Schumer's
losing his mind on the air. There's this lawlessness. Get lost.
That's the problem with the media. Now. They have lost
all credibility because they're paid hacks and liars, and and
(30:27):
and and the Democrats, as I said on X last night,
to the biggest dippocrits on the planet. If a Democrat
overthrows a regime, it's great. If a Republican does it,
it's the end of the world. Literally, I've just given
you liberals in ten seconds. Mark, thank you very much
(30:49):
as always for that call, my friend. Six one seven
two six six sixty eight sixty eight. I don't am
I wrong. Now let me tell you another angle that
I think a lot of people are missing in this.
This is going to be tried. It appears there's maybe Miami.
I know Miami is trying to get trying to get
(31:10):
in on this. I hope they do, But it looks
like it's going to be tried. The Maduro trial is
going to take place in the Southern District of New York.
The Southern District of New York is New York City,
New York City. That means the overwhelming majority majority of
the potential jurors are diehard anti Trumpers. This is gonna
(31:37):
be you know, this is the same venue that you
know supports Letitia James and you know did everything in
their power to try to send Trump to jail. I'm
not sure Maduro is going to be convicted. I'm not
saying because there isn't a lack of evidence. The evidence
is overwhelming. Was he involved in drug trafficking, no question.
(32:00):
In cocaine trafficking, no question, And narco terrorism no question,
no question. But there's no longer a question about the
evidence and the facts. He's a communist, He's a mass murderer.
By the way. He's starved children, literally, he starved children.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
They don't care.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
If Trump was the one who lolsted him, and Trump
is the one who deposed them, and now Maduro is
becoming this hero on the left, this martyr on the left.
You could easily say them just to stick it to Trump.
They acquit so to be honest, if if you know,
(32:47):
if I'm the Department of Justice, I'd get this move
to Miami or another district or jurisdiction because I wouldn't
trust that jury pool not in the Southern District of
New York six two six six sixty eight sixty eight.
ED in Maryland, thanks for holding ed and welcome.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
And Jeff hi Ed. I'll spoke to you a few times.
I think you know I'm not a leftist. Look, this
is kind of like, I guess in video games, completing
the side quest or doing the bonus round before you
compete the level, complete the level. I guess we should
(33:38):
all sit around and count the number of deep state
arrests and indictments. So I guess I'll wait, I'll wait
while we count this up. Do you got any of
those yet?
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Well? No, no arrests.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
No.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
Okay, yeah, So as a human being, I mean, of course,
I mean, great for Venezuela and for the Venezuelan people,
but quite honestly, I don't really care, Like, like, who
really cares. It doesn't impact my life whatsoever in any regard,
(34:19):
not with the economy, not with anything. It doesn't mean anything.
This is slop, This is ai slop whatever. This is
garbage that they're feeding us. And if people want to
ingest it, then great, have a great time. But this
(34:43):
is stupid. This is not America first, and I mean
this is just a joke. I mean honestly, so Trump
somehow has this massive control over this and the military,
but he has no control over the justice system. Okay,
(35:07):
let me let me let me take that in. Okay,
somehow that makes sense. Whatever. This is a fricking joke. Man.
We are being spoon fed slot.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Well, you know, ed just to piggyback off of what
you're saying.
Speaker 6 (35:30):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
And that was part of what I was trying to
say in my two part opening monologue, where I said, look, militarily,
I think it's been a stunning operation, very successful, no question,
But what's in it for US rights as America? First?
What's in it? And as I said, I I don't
to me, this doesn't you know. I understand, respectfully, there's
(35:50):
a lot of arguments out there about why they you know,
people believe it's in the national interest. I don't believe
it's in the national interest. I believe deporting tens of
millions of illegals that's in the national interest. I believe
in arresting all these deep state criminals, that's in the
national interest. I believe in driving inflation down and reducing
(36:12):
the cost of living, that's in the national interest. I
believe in getting our out of controlled debt and deficit
under control is in the national interest. I don't want
to see us enmeshed and embroiled in the internal affairs
of Venezuela. And I think this could go south very fast,
(36:35):
and even on the drug issue, and you know me,
I'm against drugs. I hate fentanyl that's coming in, killing
one hundred thousand Americans every year. But the bulk of
the fentanyl that comes in is through the Mexican drug cartels.
It's not Venezuela. I'm not saying Maduro wasn't in the
drug business, of course he was. But the number one
(36:56):
producer and distributor of fentanyl by far are the Mexican
drug cartels. Well, this doesn't do anything for the Mexican
drug cartels. The biggest producer of cocaine is not Venezuela,
it's Colombia. Now, the Venezuelan's helping the trafficking of it.
(37:16):
But you know, you want to deal with cocaine, it's Colombia.
You want to deal with fentanyl, it's Mexico. Maduro sent
a lot of cocaine, yes, to the United States, but
also to Europe, to the region, to the world. So
in terms of dealing with the drug epidemic that's killing
our country, if Trump said We're declaring war on the
(37:38):
Mexican drug cartels, I'd say, amen, that's America first, that
affects you It affects me because that's what's killing our people.
But Maduro is you know, look, he's a despicable man,
but he's a failed third world Latin American socialist despot.
(38:00):
There's dozens and dozens and dozens of them. We lived
with the guy for thirteen years. This guy didn't fall.
So the question I have is what was so what
was the imperative? What was so overriding that we had
to take him out? Now? Like, what what's changed in
(38:21):
the last two months that all of a sudden we
had to conduct this operation. And then the part that
blew my mind is when then Trump said, well, We're
gonna run Venezuela and I'm like, what
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