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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Six one seven two six sixty eight sixty eight is
the number Linda in Medford. Thanks for holding Linda, and welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Oh. I tell you, I agree with a little bit
with just about everybody that's called. I think the visual
of Laduro and his wife being walked in New York
is phenomenal. I'm very pleased to see something like that.
(00:34):
But the other thing is that if we're talking about
the economy and money, get out of the UN. I'm
tired of supporting the world. I don't see this as
really being an economical type of misstep.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Well, I mean, that's one of the things I also
wanted Trump to do. Now, he can't do everything, and
he's done a lot in his first year. In fact,
to be honest, that's one of the reasons why I'm
such a big supporter of his. He's done more in
one year twenty twenty five than most presidents have done
in eight years. So he's got I mean a record
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amount of achievements and accomplishments, and I think his second
year is going to even be stronger than his first year.
But one of the things, Linda, that I've wanted Trump
to do is to cut foreign aid because I agree.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
With you a.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
We should be out of the UN. The UN is
a big waste of money. We bankroll much of it,
and it's a club for dictators and tyrants who hate
the United States. It's an anti American club for dictators.
So I would be very happy to get out of
the UN. But I also I'm tired of taking care
of the entire world. And you know, let's just leave
(02:00):
Andezuela off the table just for a second. You know,
we're going to be sending even more money now to
Ukraine because you know, Zelensky is, you know, asking for
more money. He's afraid that his forces are now on
the ropes, that the Russians are winning the war, and
that if he doesn't get help, that Putin may just
(02:21):
roll into Odessa and Kharkiv and eventually Kiev itself will fall.
And so there he is, hot in hand, begging for
more money from Us, from the Europeans and from NATO.
Well maybe you shouldn't have stolen so much money him
and his regime of kleptocrats. All they did was steel
and steel and steel, and now they come crying to us.
(02:44):
So I can give you country after country after country
where all we do is, you know, economically, take care
of the world. Much of the money is siphoned off,
embezzled or stolen, and what do we get for We
get hardly nothing for it. So I'm with you. I
would cut almost all foreign aid and it's time to
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invest on for America here at home and you know,
America for Americans. That's been my slogan now for many years.
And you know that's why I look at Venezuela and
I'm like, I get it.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I'm not saying there aren't good reasons for it. There are.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I'm not saying the operation wasn't brilliant because it was.
I'm not saying it was illegal because it was it
It was perfectly legal. I'm just saying, as an America first,
MAGA supporter and conservative, what's in it for us? I
mean substantially in the long run, what's in it for us?
(03:47):
And if we're there for a couple of years, ay
ya yaii, this could become very expensive, very fast. So
to me, we got enough problems. We don't need to
look for more problems. But that's me, Linda.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Thank you for that call.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Russ in Boston. Russ, you've been holding patiently thank you,
and I want to wish you a happy, healthy New year.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
All the bed go this time?
Speaker 4 (04:14):
All right, anyways, let me start from the beginning of
what I wanted to start with.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
This.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Okay, glory, glory, hallelujah, glory, glory, hallelujah. Thanks to President Trump,
the free world is matching on again. The people of
Venezuela will be free again. Venezuela will return to its
glory days. This is personal with me. My wife is
family in Venezuela. This is getting Russia and China out
(04:42):
of our backyard. This is in our best interest for
many reasons. To me, the message is clear to friend
and fall alike. Don't f what the United States of America.
Are you going to pay a price for it? Jeff,
I loved as in Trump. He's a great leader and
(05:03):
I voted for this full package. I'm in a total
agreement with him. And believe me, if we had an
honest meet in this country, he would have an eighty
percent of proble writing. But Jeff, I want to add
one other thing. You said you're not rich, But Jeff,
you are rich. You have a loving wife and two
(05:24):
healthy children. You're a rich man.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Oh I don't no question. I meant no. I just
meant materially, that's what I No. No, you're right.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
My wife and my children are blessings my God. I
thank God. I thank the Lord for them every day.
Uh so, you're completely right, Russ. If I listen, if
I can just ask you this, because I know you
have found your wife has family in Venezuela.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Are you at all.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Concerned that the remnants of the regime or these revolutionary
guerrillas who are in the cocaine business from Colombia. They're
literally trafficking cocaine, that's the business they're in. Are you
worried that they can go into the jungles of Venezuela
or the mountains of Venezuela and wage an insurgency against
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US troops and US forces. Does that concern you as
a military man?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Russ?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Jeff Remember Donald Bush? Yeah, Donald Trump, there's no Bush.
Nos Lendon Ben's Jackass. Okay, He's neither one of those
two people. Trump will not put up with any crap
from anybody, okay. And what Trump tries to do in
his whole life is try to create them.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Russ, do me a favor, please hang on, Okay, let's
go right back to Russ in Boston. Russ, I thought
you made a very interesting point. You're saying, Look, Jeff,
if things go sour in Venezuela, if there is an insurgency,
if the remnants of the regime decide to fight on
or go to the jungles or the mountains of Venezuela,
(07:07):
You're not dealing with an LBJ in the White House,
or an Obama or a George W.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Bush. Trump will drop the hammer and wipe them out.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
So, Russ, are you basically saying you think it's the
character of Trump, the leadership of Trump, that's the difference maker.
That's why you trust him so much in this UH,
in his you know, in his UH, in his decision
to overthrow Maduro.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Yes, okay, but it goes beyond Trump.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
First of all, Jeff, and I have to tell you this.
My wife's uncle and att went to Venezuela after World
War Two. They spent a few years there. They made
enough money that they went back to Italy and they
bought a big commercial building in Pascata, and they bought
other property and everything else. Donzraelo is very prosperous. A
lot of Italians went to Venezuela and did very extremely well.
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One of my wife's nieces they had a big electrical
business there and they did very well. You know, they
came there several times and so forth. So it was
a prosperous country. The majority of people, the average people
like us, remember how it was. They wanted to go
back to that. And there's no way they're going to
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put up with the insurgents. They'll turn on them, they'll
spy on them and everything else. They will not win.
And these people that are in power now, and you know,
Trump plays a good game. Oh yeah, we're going to
help you understand power and all this other stuff, okay,
because he doesn't want them to start taking the military
and start in a civil war there. So he's playing
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that game with them, all right. Remember he's a massive
chess player. Trump is the best there is. There is
no one better than him, asprise me on the professional negotiator. Okay,
But along with that, you've got the Venezuelan people that
want a chance to have freedom again, independence and prosperity.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Interesting, interesting, Russ. Thank you as always very interesting. I
love your calls, Russ, and again, happy New Year and
all the best of you and your family. Russ six
one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight. Let
me throw just quickly another log on the fire. Obviously,
the question is still out there. Do you support Trump's
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decision to topple maduro a b his decision now to
run Venezuela at least for a transition period until he
says the oil infrastructure is rebuilt and order and stability
is returned, and they could have free elections. So we're
looking at maybe a two to three process. We'll see,
(10:02):
but he says there will be a process and that
he will effectively his people and Rubio and others will
be running the country in some kind of a transitional
governing structure. They're still working out the details, but essentially
the US will be administering and running Venezuela. Do you
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support that or does that strike you as nation building?
I'm just curious now the other log, what do you
think now about this new Trump doctrine, the Donroe doctrine,
his corollary to the Monroe doctrine of American dominance in
the Western Hemisphere, that after the overthrow of Maduro, he's
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now putting Columbia on notice he's putting Cuba on notice.
He's now told Denmark we want greenland and it over.
We'll pay for it, obviously, but we need greenland and
we want greenland. Do you support this or does this
strike you as imperialism, as Bushism, as neo conservatism, and
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way as a sense even almost globalism. Are we now
in the regime change imperialist business?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
And is this what you voted for?
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight
lines are jammed. Hugh in Bedford. Thanks for holding, Hugh,
and welcome.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Hello Jeff, Hi, Hugh.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
Hey, listen, I just wanted to tell you about something
that happened this weekend.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
You can you do me a favor. We can barely
hear you because of the radio. Can you turn your
radio down?
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Can you hear me now?
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Yes, loud and clear? Go ahead you.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Anyway.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
In the Beehive Bar, there was a Venezuelan band this weekend.
My daughter is an accomplished singer and she went in
there to see it. And at the middle of the show,
the Venezuelan band stopped and thanked Donald Trump for what
they've done in their country, and no one clapped except
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my daughter and her girlfriend. There were fifty or sixty
people there. So anytime you think that things are American.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
They're not.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
In Boston, it's as bad as it is in New York.
I don't know where these people come from or what
they think. They woke up this morning, there were no
bombs on their doorstep, the water was on, they got
a hot shower, and they drove to work in a
peaceful country and they can't appreciate it. It's very sad.
And those two girls were modified that no one clapped
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for that Venezuelan band.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Well, you know, Hugh, that's the most disgusting thing of
all because when you look at they're eating out of
trash cans in Venezuela. Right, And I'm not saying you know,
one person here, one person there. I'm talking you go
to Caracas or some of the other cities. It is
a common sight to see ordinary people who used to
have jobs, who used to have a home or an
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apartment or car or you know whatever. They were working
middle class, but they had a life. You know, Okay,
it's Venezuela. It's not the United States.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I get it. But they had a life.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
And then Chavez and Maduro came to power and they're
eating out of trash cans and garbage bins. Eight million
of them fled the country because of massive poverty and starvation.
And these moonbats can't even say, yeah, good for the
Venezuelan people, you know, bravo, bravo. They don't have to
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live under this misery and oppression. And Hugh, I gotta
tell you, and I'm gonna talk about it on tomorrow's show.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Believe me.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
What's scaring me is what we're seeing here in places
like New York with Mamdannie. Now there's even more. I
got stuff for all of you tomorrow regarding now what
they're planning to do here in Boston and in Massachusetts.
They admire, they admire Maduro. He's comrade Maduro, he's victim Maduro,
(14:28):
he's martyr Maduro. The left is saying free Maduro, like
I don't know what, Like he's Nelson Mandela or something,
this butcher, this mass murderer.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
So this is what I mean.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
There's a Marxist Communist revolutionary sickness. You can see it
in the air, and it's infecting city after city. And Hugh,
my big worry is that we're going to have our
own Madula take over the White House one day, and
when that happens, we're in big trouble. To me, that's
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the thing we have to stop. But no, I wish
I could say I'm surprised, but I'm not surprised. No,
they're They're acting like really, they're directing. It's not just
Massachusetts or Boston, It's Chicago, it's la Did you see Hollywood?
Hollywood's they got to impeach Trump? Impeach him for what?
Speaker 6 (15:28):
For?
Speaker 7 (15:29):
What?
Speaker 1 (15:30):
You have all these idiot democrats and pitch and pitch
say illegal? What law did he break? What was illegal
about what Trump did? Now, whether it's in the national
interest or not, that's a different discussion. But what was
so illegal about it?
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Not literally nothing if if this is trumps arrangement syndrome.
And I'm telling you, Hewitt's sick. It's sick when you
have people from a third world country telling you, thank you,
our people are no longer going to live in squalor,
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poverty and misery, and you can't even muster a little.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
A little clap of the hand. Uh, that's pretty sick.
I mean, that's sick. Hugh Am, I wrong, did we
lose you and registered nurse. Go ahead. I'm sorry, Hugh,
go ahead.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
My daughter is a very accomplished singer and registered nurse.
And she came home and she said, Dad, I was
mortified that no one in that room could clap for
that Venezuelan band that was pouring their heart out on
the stage to say to the American people, thank you,
thank you. And there were only two patriots in the room,
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thirty year old nurses. It's very sad. And I don't
know where these people come from, or who educated them,
or who they work for, but in the words of
Hillary Clinton, the US government will be the.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Hugh, thank you very very much for that call. I
appreciated you.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Okay, let's go to Dave, our Western PA constitutionalist correspondent
near the Pittsburgh area in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Dave, Happy New Year, my friend.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
How are you?
Speaker 7 (17:35):
Good morning, Jeff? How you doing, buddy? How is your holidays?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Very nice, very RESTful?
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Recharge my batteries and honestly looking forward to twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
How are you, my friend?
Speaker 7 (17:46):
Good, good, good, Hey, Jeff, I'm going to tell you
something right now. I'm gonna I'm gonna use I'm gonna
start to hear off of a phrase from you. I'm
gonna pop some yummy popcorn and drink some diapepsia. I
know you like dia cook, but I'll drink diapepsi and
watch New York burn to the ground. Buddy's that's where
they're headed.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Has certainly lit the match, that's for sure. Dave, as
a veteran, as a marine, as someone who served in
war yourself, what do you make of Trump's decision to
oust Maduro and then his announcement that we're going to
be running Venezuela at least for a transition phase and
that this could go on, maybe even for a couple
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of years.
Speaker 7 (18:28):
What say you, two thousand percent?
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Chef?
Speaker 7 (18:31):
To quote you again, because had there's been the bushdocrine,
we would be in there forever, Jeff, unlike in Iraq
and Afghanistan. But here's the thing, to Jeff, we needed
to stop because, as I told you before, I lost
the nephew to fentanel up in Butler, pennsylvania're not too
far from where the President was shot in the air.
But that aside, Jeff, you know, my nephew didn't have
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to do drugs so there's some responsibility he has to
take to. Unfortunately he's where regard the lord received. But
you know, Jeff, this is going to put a dent
into the drug trade. And this is also, as the
news report, are going to hurt the ty coons, the Russians,
and the Cubans because they get the oil mainly from Madero.
If I'm not wrong, right well, Cuba.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
In particular is in big trouble because the Venezuelan oil
subsidizes that regime. In fact, I don't know if you
saw the latest comments, but Trump came out and said
that the Cuban government quote is about to fall. Now
we've been seeing what's going on in Iran the last
couple of weeks, or the protests on the streets every
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major city. The economies in a tailspind their currency is
it's disintegrating, it's gone. So Iran, I'm thinking, yeah, the
regime is tottering, but teetering. Forgive me Cuba. I mean
it's very poor, it's been mismanaged, but I didn't think
it was teetering. But Trump now is saying it's teetering now.
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To be fair, I don't know if that's our Cia.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
You know what you know. In other words, doing to Cuba.
We've been doing to Maduro, which is laying the groundwork
for the Cuban regime to fall. So we'll see.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
But I think this could be the first of many dominoes.
I think you may see Venezuela, Cuba, and then Columbia fall,
and if that happens, massive blow to the left. The
Marxist left will have been dealt one of the greatest
blows in the Western hemisphere in the last hundred years.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
On one point, and I'm going to be honest, I'm
not a big fan of the CIA. Neither are you,
because most of them is deep sea. You know, you
got good ones and bad ones. They'd be FBI. But Jeff,
here's the point too. I feel a lot more comfortable
with the CIA where they're at now under Trump than
where they were in previous administrations. Absolutely, because other administrations
up till Reagan were always deep state, you know what
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I'm saying, Tess. So I feel I don't totally trust
the CIA, but I'm glad that they're in under Trump
and that we have a good leadership in the CIA
that's going to cut this each state crap out. How
do you feel, Jeff, I hope so.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
I hope so.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Look, the CIA was pivotal in the overthrow of Maduro.
Apparently they were operating inside the country now for several months.
We suspected it, obviously, but they confirmed it, and apparently
they were able to get a couple of moles. They
had people within Maduro's inner circle. I don't know if
they bribed them. I don't know if they promised them something.
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I don't know if they use some people who may
have felt insulted or mistreated by Maduro, whatever it is.
But we had people within Maduro's inner circle who had
turned on Meruro. They were basically our moles, and they
were feeding us information down to when he ate, what
he had for dinner, I'm not kidding, when he went
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to bed, when he went to the bathroom, his travel schedule,
his entire routine, his wife him, I mean everything. They
knew the details of his compound, they knew the details
of his bedroom, they knew the details of that steel
reinforced a safe room that he had in case, you know,
we launched a raid, and so they recreated it here
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in the United States and Delta Special Operations Forces kept
you in you know, test Ron after test RN, after
test run. That's why the operation was so smooth, because
there had been so much planning ahead of time, and
we had so many details. Because the CIA penetrated Maduro's
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inner circle. So at the bare minimum, Dave, he's made
the CIA competent again. You know, our CIA was an
international laughing stock, you know, under Obama, under Biden, frankly,
even under Bush under Clinton. No, we're involved in operations
and you know they're they're toppling governments and they're clean, precise, effective,
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decisive operations. So look, from a military point of view,
this was brilliant. This was brilliant. I think what everybody's
nervous about is what comes next, what happens next, and
let's just keep our fingers crossed. Dave, as always, thank
you very much for that call.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Bruce in Florida. I hate to do this to you.
I've only got one minute left.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
The floor is yours?
Speaker 7 (23:28):
Go?
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Okay, Jeff, you mentioned I turned on late. You mentioned
the Trump's corollary to the Monroe douction. Yes, there was
another corollary of one Theodore Roosevelt. And in that corollary,
Theodore said that the United States can operate as an
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international police power in Latin America. And one of the
things that were supposed to prevent is debt collection from
foreign power. Now China is very active
Speaker 3 (24:02):
In Mike, you couldn't give the guy another twenty seconds
Six one seven two six sixty eight sixty eight is
the number Linda in Medford. Thanks for holding Linda, and welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Oh. I tell you, I agree with a little bit
with just about everybody that's called. I think the visual
of Laduro and his wife being walked in New York
is phenomenal. I'm very pleased to see something like that.
(00:34):
But the other thing is that if we're talking about
the economy and money, get out of the UN. I'm
tired of supporting the world. I don't see this as
really being an economical type of misstep.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Well, I mean, that's one of the things I also
wanted Trump to do. Now, he can't do everything, and
he's done a lot in his first year. In fact,
to be honest, that's one of the reasons why I'm
such a big supporter of his. He's done more in
one year twenty twenty five than most presidents have done
in eight years. So he's got I mean a record
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amount of achievements and accomplishments, and I think his second
year is going to even be stronger than his first year.
But one of the things, Linda, that I've wanted Trump
to do is to cut foreign aid because I agree.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
With you a.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
We should be out of the UN. The UN is
a big waste of money. We bankroll much of it,
and it's a club for dictators and tyrants who hate
the United States. It's an anti American club for dictators.
So I would be very happy to get out of
the UN. But I also I'm tired of taking care
of the entire world. And you know, let's just leave
(02:00):
Andezuela off the table just for a second. You know,
we're going to be sending even more money now to
Ukraine because you know, Zelensky is, you know, asking for
more money. He's afraid that his forces are now on
the ropes, that the Russians are winning the war, and
that if he doesn't get help, that Putin may just
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roll into Odessa and Kharkiv and eventually Kiev itself will fall.
And so there he is, hot in hand, begging for
more money from Us, from the Europeans and from NATO.
Well maybe you shouldn't have stolen so much money him
and his regime of kleptocrats. All they did was steel
and steel and steel, and now they come crying to us.
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So I can give you country after country after country
where all we do is, you know, economically, take care
of the world. Much of the money is siphoned off,
embezzled or stolen, and what do we get for We
get hardly nothing for it. So I'm with you. I
would cut almost all foreign aid and it's time to
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invest on for America here at home and you know,
America for Americans. That's been my slogan now for many years.
And you know that's why I look at Venezuela and
I'm like, I get it.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I'm not saying there aren't good reasons for it. There are.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I'm not saying the operation wasn't brilliant because it was.
I'm not saying it was illegal because it was it
It was perfectly legal. I'm just saying, as an America first,
MAGA supporter and conservative, what's in it for us? I
mean substantially in the long run, what's in it for us?
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And if we're there for a couple of years, ay
ya yaii, this could become very expensive, very fast. So
to me, we got enough problems. We don't need to
look for more problems. But that's me, Linda.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Thank you for that call.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Russ in Boston. Russ, you've been holding patiently thank you,
and I want to wish you a happy, healthy New year.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
All the bed go this time?
Speaker 4 (04:14):
All right, anyways, let me start from the beginning of
what I wanted to start with.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
This.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Okay, glory, glory, hallelujah, glory, glory, hallelujah. Thanks to President Trump,
the free world is matching on again. The people of
Venezuela will be free again. Venezuela will return to its
glory days. This is personal with me. My wife is
family in Venezuela. This is getting Russia and China out
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of our backyard. This is in our best interest for
many reasons. To me, the message is clear to friend
and fall alike. Don't f what the United States of America.
Are you going to pay a price for it? Jeff,
I loved as in Trump. He's a great leader and
(05:03):
I voted for this full package. I'm in a total
agreement with him. And believe me, if we had an
honest meet in this country, he would have an eighty
percent of proble writing. But Jeff, I want to add
one other thing. You said you're not rich, But Jeff,
you are rich. You have a loving wife and two
(05:24):
healthy children. You're a rich man.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Oh I don't no question. I meant no. I just
meant materially, that's what I No. No, you're right.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
My wife and my children are blessings my God. I
thank God. I thank the Lord for them every day.
Uh so, you're completely right, Russ. If I listen, if
I can just ask you this, because I know you
have found your wife has family in Venezuela.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Are you at all.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Concerned that the remnants of the regime or these revolutionary
guerrillas who are in the cocaine business from Colombia. They're
literally trafficking cocaine, that's the business they're in. Are you
worried that they can go into the jungles of Venezuela
or the mountains of Venezuela and wage an insurgency against
(06:14):
US troops and US forces. Does that concern you as
a military man?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Russ?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Jeff Remember Donald Bush? Yeah, Donald Trump, there's no Bush.
Nos Lendon Ben's Jackass. Okay, He's neither one of those
two people. Trump will not put up with any crap
from anybody, okay. And what Trump tries to do in
his whole life is try to create them.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Russ, do me a favor, please hang on, Okay, let's
go right back to Russ in Boston. Russ, I thought
you made a very interesting point. You're saying, Look, Jeff,
if things go sour in Venezuela, if there is an insurgency,
if the remnants of the regime decide to fight on
or go to the jungles or the mountains of Venezuela,
(07:07):
You're not dealing with an LBJ in the White House,
or an Obama or a George W.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Bush. Trump will drop the hammer and wipe them out.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
So, Russ, are you basically saying you think it's the
character of Trump, the leadership of Trump, that's the difference maker.
That's why you trust him so much in this UH,
in his you know, in his UH, in his decision
to overthrow Maduro.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Yes, okay, but it goes beyond Trump.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
First of all, Jeff, and I have to tell you this.
My wife's uncle and att went to Venezuela after World
War Two. They spent a few years there. They made
enough money that they went back to Italy and they
bought a big commercial building in Pascata, and they bought
other property and everything else. Donzraelo is very prosperous. A
lot of Italians went to Venezuela and did very extremely well.
(08:09):
One of my wife's nieces they had a big electrical
business there and they did very well. You know, they
came there several times and so forth. So it was
a prosperous country. The majority of people, the average people
like us, remember how it was. They wanted to go
back to that. And there's no way they're going to
(08:30):
put up with the insurgents. They'll turn on them, they'll
spy on them and everything else. They will not win.
And these people that are in power now, and you know,
Trump plays a good game. Oh yeah, we're going to
help you understand power and all this other stuff, okay,
because he doesn't want them to start taking the military
and start in a civil war there. So he's playing
(08:53):
that game with them, all right. Remember he's a massive
chess player. Trump is the best there is. There is
no one better than him, asprise me on the professional negotiator. Okay,
But along with that, you've got the Venezuelan people that
want a chance to have freedom again, independence and prosperity.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Interesting, interesting, Russ. Thank you as always very interesting. I
love your calls, Russ, and again, happy New Year and
all the best of you and your family. Russ six
one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight. Let
me throw just quickly another log on the fire. Obviously,
the question is still out there. Do you support Trump's
(09:38):
decision to topple maduro a b his decision now to
run Venezuela at least for a transition period until he
says the oil infrastructure is rebuilt and order and stability
is returned, and they could have free elections. So we're
looking at maybe a two to three process. We'll see,
(10:02):
but he says there will be a process and that
he will effectively his people and Rubio and others will
be running the country in some kind of a transitional
governing structure. They're still working out the details, but essentially
the US will be administering and running Venezuela. Do you
(10:23):
support that or does that strike you as nation building?
I'm just curious now the other log, what do you
think now about this new Trump doctrine, the Donroe doctrine,
his corollary to the Monroe doctrine of American dominance in
the Western Hemisphere, that after the overthrow of Maduro, he's
(10:47):
now putting Columbia on notice he's putting Cuba on notice.
He's now told Denmark we want greenland and it over.
We'll pay for it, obviously, but we need greenland and
we want greenland. Do you support this or does this
strike you as imperialism, as Bushism, as neo conservatism, and
(11:15):
way as a sense even almost globalism. Are we now
in the regime change imperialist business?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
And is this what you voted for?
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight
lines are jammed. Hugh in Bedford. Thanks for holding, Hugh,
and welcome.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Hello Jeff, Hi, Hugh.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
Hey, listen, I just wanted to tell you about something
that happened this weekend.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
You can you do me a favor. We can barely
hear you because of the radio. Can you turn your
radio down?
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Can you hear me now?
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Yes, loud and clear? Go ahead you.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Anyway.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
In the Beehive Bar, there was a Venezuelan band this weekend.
My daughter is an accomplished singer and she went in
there to see it. And at the middle of the show,
the Venezuelan band stopped and thanked Donald Trump for what
they've done in their country, and no one clapped except
(12:22):
my daughter and her girlfriend. There were fifty or sixty
people there. So anytime you think that things are American.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
They're not.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
In Boston, it's as bad as it is in New York.
I don't know where these people come from or what
they think. They woke up this morning, there were no
bombs on their doorstep, the water was on, they got
a hot shower, and they drove to work in a
peaceful country and they can't appreciate it. It's very sad.
And those two girls were modified that no one clapped
(12:54):
for that Venezuelan band.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Well, you know, Hugh, that's the most disgusting thing of
all because when you look at they're eating out of
trash cans in Venezuela. Right, And I'm not saying you know,
one person here, one person there. I'm talking you go
to Caracas or some of the other cities. It is
a common sight to see ordinary people who used to
have jobs, who used to have a home or an
(13:19):
apartment or car or you know whatever. They were working
middle class, but they had a life. You know, Okay,
it's Venezuela. It's not the United States.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I get it. But they had a life.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
And then Chavez and Maduro came to power and they're
eating out of trash cans and garbage bins. Eight million
of them fled the country because of massive poverty and starvation.
And these moonbats can't even say, yeah, good for the
Venezuelan people, you know, bravo, bravo. They don't have to
(13:55):
live under this misery and oppression. And Hugh, I gotta
tell you, and I'm gonna talk about it on tomorrow's show.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Believe me.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
What's scaring me is what we're seeing here in places
like New York with Mamdannie. Now there's even more. I
got stuff for all of you tomorrow regarding now what
they're planning to do here in Boston and in Massachusetts.
They admire, they admire Maduro. He's comrade Maduro, he's victim Maduro,
(14:28):
he's martyr Maduro. The left is saying free Maduro, like
I don't know what, Like he's Nelson Mandela or something,
this butcher, this mass murderer.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
So this is what I mean.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
There's a Marxist Communist revolutionary sickness. You can see it
in the air, and it's infecting city after city. And Hugh,
my big worry is that we're going to have our
own Madula take over the White House one day, and
when that happens, we're in big trouble. To me, that's
(15:08):
the thing we have to stop. But no, I wish
I could say I'm surprised, but I'm not surprised. No,
they're They're acting like really, they're directing. It's not just
Massachusetts or Boston, It's Chicago, it's la Did you see Hollywood?
Hollywood's they got to impeach Trump? Impeach him for what?
Speaker 6 (15:28):
For?
Speaker 7 (15:29):
What?
Speaker 1 (15:30):
You have all these idiot democrats and pitch and pitch
say illegal? What law did he break? What was illegal
about what Trump did? Now, whether it's in the national
interest or not, that's a different discussion. But what was
so illegal about it?
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Not literally nothing if if this is trumps arrangement syndrome.
And I'm telling you, Hewitt's sick. It's sick when you
have people from a third world country telling you, thank you,
our people are no longer going to live in squalor,
(16:10):
poverty and misery, and you can't even muster a little.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
A little clap of the hand. Uh, that's pretty sick.
I mean, that's sick. Hugh Am, I wrong, did we
lose you and registered nurse. Go ahead. I'm sorry, Hugh,
go ahead.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
My daughter is a very accomplished singer and registered nurse.
And she came home and she said, Dad, I was
mortified that no one in that room could clap for
that Venezuelan band that was pouring their heart out on
the stage to say to the American people, thank you,
thank you. And there were only two patriots in the room,
(16:56):
thirty year old nurses. It's very sad. And I don't
know where these people come from, or who educated them,
or who they work for, but in the words of
Hillary Clinton, the US government will be the.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Hugh, thank you very very much for that call. I
appreciated you.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Okay, let's go to Dave, our Western PA constitutionalist correspondent
near the Pittsburgh area in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Dave, Happy New Year, my friend.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
How are you?
Speaker 7 (17:35):
Good morning, Jeff? How you doing, buddy? How is your holidays?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Very nice, very RESTful?
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Recharge my batteries and honestly looking forward to twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
How are you, my friend?
Speaker 7 (17:46):
Good, good, good, Hey, Jeff, I'm going to tell you
something right now. I'm gonna I'm gonna use I'm gonna
start to hear off of a phrase from you. I'm
gonna pop some yummy popcorn and drink some diapepsia. I
know you like dia cook, but I'll drink diapepsi and
watch New York burn to the ground. Buddy's that's where
they're headed.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Has certainly lit the match, that's for sure. Dave, as
a veteran, as a marine, as someone who served in
war yourself, what do you make of Trump's decision to
oust Maduro and then his announcement that we're going to
be running Venezuela at least for a transition phase and
that this could go on, maybe even for a couple
(18:27):
of years.
Speaker 7 (18:28):
What say you, two thousand percent?
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Chef?
Speaker 7 (18:31):
To quote you again, because had there's been the bushdocrine,
we would be in there forever, Jeff, unlike in Iraq
and Afghanistan. But here's the thing, to Jeff, we needed
to stop because, as I told you before, I lost
the nephew to fentanel up in Butler, pennsylvania're not too
far from where the President was shot in the air.
But that aside, Jeff, you know, my nephew didn't have
(18:53):
to do drugs so there's some responsibility he has to
take to. Unfortunately he's where regard the lord received. But
you know, Jeff, this is going to put a dent
into the drug trade. And this is also, as the
news report, are going to hurt the ty coons, the Russians,
and the Cubans because they get the oil mainly from Madero.
If I'm not wrong, right well, Cuba.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
In particular is in big trouble because the Venezuelan oil
subsidizes that regime. In fact, I don't know if you
saw the latest comments, but Trump came out and said
that the Cuban government quote is about to fall. Now
we've been seeing what's going on in Iran the last
couple of weeks, or the protests on the streets every
(19:34):
major city. The economies in a tailspind their currency is
it's disintegrating, it's gone. So Iran, I'm thinking, yeah, the
regime is tottering, but teetering. Forgive me Cuba. I mean
it's very poor, it's been mismanaged, but I didn't think
it was teetering. But Trump now is saying it's teetering now.
(19:55):
To be fair, I don't know if that's our Cia.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
You know what you know. In other words, doing to Cuba.
We've been doing to Maduro, which is laying the groundwork
for the Cuban regime to fall. So we'll see.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
But I think this could be the first of many dominoes.
I think you may see Venezuela, Cuba, and then Columbia fall,
and if that happens, massive blow to the left. The
Marxist left will have been dealt one of the greatest
blows in the Western hemisphere in the last hundred years.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
On one point, and I'm going to be honest, I'm
not a big fan of the CIA. Neither are you,
because most of them is deep sea. You know, you
got good ones and bad ones. They'd be FBI. But Jeff,
here's the point too. I feel a lot more comfortable
with the CIA where they're at now under Trump than
where they were in previous administrations. Absolutely, because other administrations
up till Reagan were always deep state, you know what
(20:55):
I'm saying, Tess. So I feel I don't totally trust
the CIA, but I'm glad that they're in under Trump
and that we have a good leadership in the CIA
that's going to cut this each state crap out. How
do you feel, Jeff, I hope so.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
I hope so.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Look, the CIA was pivotal in the overthrow of Maduro.
Apparently they were operating inside the country now for several months.
We suspected it, obviously, but they confirmed it, and apparently
they were able to get a couple of moles. They
had people within Maduro's inner circle. I don't know if
they bribed them. I don't know if they promised them something.
(21:30):
I don't know if they use some people who may
have felt insulted or mistreated by Maduro, whatever it is.
But we had people within Maduro's inner circle who had
turned on Meruro. They were basically our moles, and they
were feeding us information down to when he ate, what
he had for dinner, I'm not kidding, when he went
(21:52):
to bed, when he went to the bathroom, his travel schedule,
his entire routine, his wife him, I mean everything. They
knew the details of his compound, they knew the details
of his bedroom, they knew the details of that steel
reinforced a safe room that he had in case, you know,
we launched a raid, and so they recreated it here
(22:15):
in the United States and Delta Special Operations Forces kept
you in you know, test Ron after test RN, after
test run. That's why the operation was so smooth, because
there had been so much planning ahead of time, and
we had so many details. Because the CIA penetrated Maduro's
(22:36):
inner circle. So at the bare minimum, Dave, he's made
the CIA competent again. You know, our CIA was an
international laughing stock, you know, under Obama, under Biden, frankly,
even under Bush under Clinton. No, we're involved in operations
and you know they're they're toppling governments and they're clean, precise, effective,
(23:01):
decisive operations. So look, from a military point of view,
this was brilliant. This was brilliant. I think what everybody's
nervous about is what comes next, what happens next, and
let's just keep our fingers crossed. Dave, as always, thank
you very much for that call.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Bruce in Florida. I hate to do this to you.
I've only got one minute left.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
The floor is yours?
Speaker 7 (23:28):
Go?
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Okay, Jeff, you mentioned I turned on late. You mentioned
the Trump's corollary to the Monroe douction. Yes, there was
another corollary of one Theodore Roosevelt. And in that corollary,
Theodore said that the United States can operate as an
(23:51):
international police power in Latin America. And one of the
things that were supposed to prevent is debt collection from
foreign power. Now China is very active
Speaker 3 (24:02):
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