War with Venezuela

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Cooner. Contrary, Okay, my friends, very dramatic developments
now are unfolding around Venezuela in the Caribbean as the
United States now is engaged under the Trump administration. This
is clearly now being driven by President Trump, Secretary of

(00:21):
War Pete Hegseth, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. As
I speak to you, now, the United States is engaged
in the greatest military build up in the last three
decades in the Caribbean, and it is aimed specifically at
toppling the communist dictatorship, the anti American, frankly brutal dictatorship

(00:48):
of Nicholas Maduro, that thug who now runs Venezuela with
an iron fist. And so yesterday Trump and bounced again
through Pete heg Seth, another lethal strike by the US
military against a boat, killing six people on board that

(01:11):
they say we're trying to traffic or smuggle drugs, in
particular cocaine into the United States. And over about the
last month or so, there have been six strikes now
six against these boats tied to the Maduro regime. These

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are the drug cartels, terrorists trendor Arragua, who are trying
to smuggle some fentanyl, but mostly cocaine coming in from Colombia.
It's made in Colombia and then from Venezuela as a
transshipment point. They then try to bring it into the
United States. President Trump now says that drugs are a scourge,

(01:58):
that our country now can no longer take all of
these drugs that are pouring in, that it is killing
over one hundred thousand Americans every single year, and that
the Maduro regime has unleashed not just the use of
drug trafficking, but that Maduro now is directly involved with

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drug cartels in an effort to send these poisonous, elicit
drugs into America to kill American citizens. Trump now has
told Congress in private that we are effectively at war
with Venezuela. And what he said is Maduro now is

(02:42):
trying to sow chaos in America. That he is now
deliberately releasing people from prisons, mental institutions. He's been doing
it now for years, first under Biden, but he continues
in order to send them into the United States to
sow chaos, to wreak havoc, to kill Americans, to harm Americans,

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to overdose Americans, and that now we are effectively now
in a covert war against Maduro with the hope of
overthrowing his regime. Now to understand the full context, in August,
Trump delivered a secret directive to Pete Hegseth in which

(03:30):
he gave heg Seth essentially two objectives. Number one, to
have the Pentagon and the Defense Department, working with Marco
Rubio in the State Department, to do everything in their
power to foster the anti Maduro resistance, the pro democracy,

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pro freedom movement opposed to his brutal regime in Venezuela,
with the goal of regime change. So we want to
overthrow Maduro. Trump now has made the calculation that Maduro
is trying to export Marxism communism, he wants to be

(04:13):
now the new Fidel Castro of the Western hemisphere, and
that he's trying to export revolutionary Marxism across Latin America,
South America, Central America, even into Mexico, and that he
poses now a clear national security threat to the United States.

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The other point that he told or the other objective
he laid out for Pete Hegseth, is that he ordered
now a massive military build up with the goal eventually
of being able to launch strikes, missile strikes, airstrikes deep
into Venezuelan territory, to target Maduro himself, to target the

(04:59):
headquarters of the rug cartels, to target these cocaine or
drug labs. In other words, he is now putting the
screws into the Maduro regime. So here is now how
things stand. I'm just going to lay out the facts,
and then i want to hear from you, the great
audience of Kooner Country, whether you think we should pursue

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this policy or not pursue this policy. As I speak
to you now, there are ten thousand military troops US
troops stationed in the Caribbean. It's been a build up
now over the last six weeks. The only other time
we had this many troops was when we invaded Panama,

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if you remember, under the first Bush Bush forty one
in nineteen eighty nine, to overthrow Manuel Norjega. Apparently, now
about another ten or fifteen thousand US troops are going
to be deployed to the southern Caribbean. So we're looking
now now probably by in a couple of weeks, twenty

(06:03):
to twenty five thousand US troops. We have now three
destroyers in the Caribbean off the coast of Venezuela. These
are guided missile destroyers. One of them was just recently
used by US against the Houthis to prevent them from
targeting commercial shipping if you remember in the Red Sea.

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Well now they've and they was inactively involved in killing
Houthi rebels and Houthy terrorists. Now that's off the coast
of Venezuela. There are now about a dozen F thirty
five B fighter jets US fighter jets that are ready
to strike at will. There are Reaper drones that are

(06:50):
now patrolling the sguise off of the Venezuelan coast. Furthermore,
we have a special operations unit been confirmed that is
now operating on the border of Venezuela that could be
sent in immediately, say for a quick strike, or for

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maybe to arrest Maduro or to assassinate Meduro as well.
We are conducting now surveillance flights over Venezuela. We are
actively now spying on the regime and the military movements
of the Maduro regime. So clearly now there's no question

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we have deployed navy assets, military assets. We are building
up our forces in the region. Trump would like to
see Maduro go. Most Republicans in Congress would love to
see Maduro go. Meduro himself has now come out and
said that we are effectively at war with the United States,

(07:58):
a covert war, and he is now warning the United
States that if they should launch strikes within Venezuela, that
this will be an official declaration of war. He will
mobilize his army about one hundred and twenty five thousand
men and listen to this. The indigenous peoples, the Native

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American Indian populations, I swear to you of Venezuela, many
of them who live in the jungles of Venezuela. He
is going to turn them into his brigades, in which
he says he will use them almost like kamikaze fighters
to go after American forces that are stationed right near

(08:43):
the border of Venezuela. As he told a rally just
last week in Caracas, the capital quote, if the gringos strike,
we will respond with everything that we have. And so
mad now is gearing up for a potential war. He

(09:03):
apparently now is also working with Marxist rebels and groups
gorilla groups in Colombia. They're also helping to traffic drugs
into the United States, but militarily now they are going
to be working with these Marxist gorilla groups in Colombia
who are now being allowed to set up bases within

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Venezuela to help the Maduro regime survive and strike back
should we decide to try to topple the Venezuelan strongmn.
So this is now where things stand. I want you
to listen now to President Trump saying, in fact, let
me play the clip on the other side. I don't

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want to rush it. But essentially now he has publicly
said Maduro has to go. He has to go for
two reasons. He is trying to deliberately destablize the entire
Western hemisphere by working with these drug cartels. And he
is killing Americans by sending in drugs, by sending in

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trendur Aragua, and by working with other cartels to kill
Americans or as many Americans as possible. And so, as
far as Donald Trump is concerned, you want to win
the war on drugs. You want to stop the cocaine
and the fentanyl that is poisoning our people and killing
about one hundred thousand a year. He says, you have

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to cut off the head of the snake. And the
head of the snake, according to Donald Trump, is Nicholas Maduro,
this strong man of Venezuela, who now is working, according
to multiple media reports, with nine nine of the largest
narco terrorist organizations. Six one, seven two, six, six sixty

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eight is the number. Okay, Venezuelan. Now it's back in
the news. There was another big strike yesterday against a
boat carrying a drug smugglers. This was a lethal military
strike launched by the US military. Pete hag Seth under
orders from President Trump gave the order the command to

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take it out. It is now the sixth boat that
has now been hit with an American either they dropped
a drone, drop the bomb on a boat, or direct
missile strike. It's the sixth boat that has now been obliterated.
Twenty seven people have been killed. These are all drug smugglers.

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So far, thank the Lord, no American forces or soldiers
have been hurt. Maduro now has called this extra judicial killings,
saying that these are Venezuelan citizens that are being targeted.
Of course, they deny that theug that they're smuggling drug
or that these are drug traffickers, and so as far
as Maduro is concerned, the Venezuelan regime now says they

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are effectively at war with the United States. He is
telling his people to get ready for a potential US
invasion or for US missile and airstrikes deep within Venezuelan
territory to take out the headquarters of these big, large
cartel organizations and some of their massive labs where a

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lot of the drugs are produced or upgraded, and then
they are shipped from Venezuela into the United States. Now
there's also talk about Argentina. Malay, the leader of Argentina,
is in trouble. The economy of Argentina is not doing well,

(12:52):
and now Malay is asking for essentially a twenty billion
dollar bailout. Trump has now come back and said I
probably will give them a bailout, but it is contingent
upon Malay winning reelection. In other words, if the socialists
are going to come back to power, if the hard
radical Marxist left that drove Venezuela into the ground after

(13:16):
decades of misrule, if they come back, I'm not going
to give him twenty billion dollars because that's just money
down a rat hole. So they were talking a little
bit about Argentina and whether Argentina will be getting a
twenty billion dollar bailout from the United States, and then
of course it pivots from Argentina to Venezuela because the

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Maduro regime is trying to destabilize the Malay government in Argentina.
That's one of the things Maduro now is actively doing.
He's taking the place of Fidel Fidel Castro, and so
he's trying to export Communist Marxist revolution across the West

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in hemisphere, and he's partnering with the largest, most powerful
drug cartels to do it. Listen now to Trump when
asked by a reporter, what is your plan for Venezuela
and for Maduro its dictator in particular? Roll cut six, Mike,

(14:22):
you talk about the.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
Argentina and important in the Latin American What is your
plan for Venezuela? But is the new the terrorism and
narco trism in the president Maduro?

Speaker 1 (14:33):
What is your plan? Venezuela has done a couple of
things very barely. Number one, we get drugs and all
of that, but we get something in a way worse
because they're a big purveyor of drugs. But we have worse.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
What they do very well is they send their criminals
into the United States.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
And they send trend de Ragua that you know very well,
you're from Venezuela, I say, And they send them in
by the thousands, literally, and these are the worst of all.
And they emptied their prison into the United States. They
empty their mental institutions into the United States. Now, he
then went on saying that this occurred under the Biden regime,

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that this was an absolute disaster, that Biden has blood
on his hands. And then he said something has to
be done to stop trender Aragua and to stop Maduro
from sending all of these drugs and all of these
criminals and all of these gangs and all of these
transnational organized criminal organizations from killing our citizens here at home.

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And he just left it at that. Now, as he's
talking with once, you know, as he's talking about getting tough, he's,
as I said, engage now in the biggest military build
up that we have seen in the Southern Caribbean, which
is all aimed at Venezuela. In the last thirty years.

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We are really now starting to load up on destroyers,
on drones on F thirty five fighter jets. There's now
a marine expeditionary force that has now been sent very
close to the Venezuelan border. There's a special operations unit
that I said is now as I said in my
opening monologue, is now operating right on the border of Venezuela.

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We are conducting spying plant there's spy planes, Espionage surveillance
from the air is twenty four to seven around the clock.
Meduro is clearly feeling the pressure, there's no question, and
he is mobilizing his country, anticipating either missile air strikes

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within his country or in an attempt to eventually destabilize and
overthrow his regime, or maybe even a full scale invasion.
Now two points, and then I want to open it
up to the great audience of kuner country. The Trump
administration and the lawyers at the Pentagon are arguing that

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if Trump wants to overthrow the Meduro regime or launch
missile and airstrikes, I'm not just talking about targeting the
boats that are trafficking drugs and these drug smugglers, but
to actually hit deep within Venezuelan territory, to go after
these cartel headquarters. Or these generals that are close to Maduro,

(17:32):
that they have the legal rationale and the legal basis
to do so. Six one seven two six six sixty
eight sixty eight is the number. Okay, President Trump now
beating the drums of war against Venezuela. And the question
now is should the United States engage in regime change

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in Caracas? Six one seven two six six sixty eight
sixty eight. So, as I was saying just before the break,
Trump's people are convinced the Pentagon, in particular, their legal
team has said, no Venezuela now by bringing in Trendor
Aragua and these transnational criminal gangs who have now been

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designated as foreign terrorists or foreign terrorist organizations killing Americans here,
that we have a right to defend ourselves, and that
Trump has the entire legal basis, both domestically and internationally
to launch missile strikes, to launch air strikes, to conduct

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more lethal strikes on these boats that are smuggling drugs.
As I said yesterday, they showed the release the satellite
imagery of another strike on one of these boats, killing
apparently six narco terrorists on board who were smuggling or
trying to smuggle cocaine into the United States through the

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Southern Caribbean. We are now in a massive military build up.
Trump clearly now doesn't want to just target boats. He
wants to hit the Maduro regime. He wants to hit
the Maduro regime very hard. Now, before we get into
the should we shouldn't we, there is also one very

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important element to this story. Meduro and his top generals
literally not figuratively, literally sit atop one of the biggest, wealthiest,
most powerful drug cartels in the entire Latin American world.

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It is called the Cartel of the Suns, and they're
engaged in narco terrorism. They are engaged in producing fentanyl,
in shipping cocaine. Drugs is their business. It's a multi
billion dollar business. Maduro and his generals have enriched themselves

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so while their people are starving, while their people are
emiserated and living in slums and poverty, Meduro and his
generals are getting very rich and very fat off of
the billions of dollars that they're involved in regarding drugs
and narco trafficking. They also use a lot of this

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money to pay for these private militias and gorilla groups
that Meduro now is backing, and that he's created in Venezuela,
in Bolivia, in Colombia to expand his own personal socialist
slash communist empire. So he, in the sense, is not

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just the leader of a country. He's also a narco terrorist.
He's almost like the head kingpin of the biggest drug
cartel in the entire Western hemisphere. So we're not just
dealing with a leader, We're actually dealing with a drug
cartel overlord. So, in other words, Maduro is many things.

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He's not just a thug and a dictator. Now furthermore,
and I want to thank Andy for making this point,
because Andy messaged me maybe about ten minutes ago, and
he said, Jeff, if you remember the last election in Venezuela,
Maduro stole the election, he engaged in rampant voter fraud,

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election theft he lost. The world said he lost, and
so he has very little to no popular legitimacy and
very little popular support in Venezuela. And that's one of
the things Pete Hegseth and Rubio are stressing to Trump
that if we were to make a move for regime change,

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they're convinced that most Venezuelans would welcome it, and that
goes to Maria Machado. Maria Corrina Machado, if you remember,
won the Nobel Peace Prize last week, and she accepted
the award in Trump's honor and dedicated it to Donald Trump,

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and she delivered a speech in which she said, one
of the reasons why Maduro is on the ropes, one
of the reasons why, one of the key reasons why
the Maduro opposition, the Democratic opposition is now surging in Venezuela,
is because of the covert support that they've been given

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by Trump and by the Trump administration. And Machado is
waiting in the wings to replace Maduro should the Maduro
regime fall. Maduro, by the way, went absolutely berserk berserk
when he found out that Chado had won the Nobel

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Peace Prize because that's his arch enemy, that's the leader
of the Democratic opposition against him, and he referred to her,
I kid you not as a quote unquote demonic witch.
And he has put a bounty on her head, calling
for her to be killed and assassinated. Now Trump and

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the administration have put a fifty million dollars bounty on
Maduro's head, saying that anybody who provides information that will
lead to Maduro's arrest will be given fifty million dollars.
And so Maduro now is increasingly paranoid that maybe one

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of his generals or people close to him will turn
him in or give away his location where the Special
Operations Forces American Special Operation Forces can then be sent
in in a surgical amission to arrest Maduro and bring
him to the United States. And so Maduro now is

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worried that someone in his inner circle may betray him,
and so he's becoming now increasingly paranoid. So he's under
tremendous pressure. His regime is buckling. There's no question. He
is now on the air in Venezuela, NonStop urging resistance,

(24:27):
calling up the military, mobilizing the military, and basically waiting
now for Trump to make his next move. Now here
is where I stand on this issue. And then I
want to open up the phone lines six one seven two,
six six, sixty eight sixty eight. I can't stand Maduro.
I want Maduro to fall from power. I think it

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would be a great thing, honestly for the people of Venezuela,
for the people of Latin America, frankly for the United
States and for the entire Western hemisphere. But I have
to tell you I have no appetite whatsoever for another
war pushing regime change. It didn't work out for us
in Afghanistan. It didn't work out for us any Rock.

(25:12):
It didn't work out for us in Libya. It's not
working out for us in Syria. We have been burned
by regime change wars again and again and again. And yes,
it'll be easy, I think, to overthrow the Maduro regime.
But then what then what? Because you know the expression,

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once you break it, you own it. So our troops
are going to be committed to staying in Venezuela to
oversee the transition to a democratic government, to oversee the
transition to elections. And you look at the cities in
Venezuela that are very densely populated, poor slums. It is,

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it is perfect territory, the jungles, the high Andean peaks,
those huge mountains for the Marxist left and these gorillas
to wage gorilla war like was done for example in Iraq,
and just pick off our soldiers one by one by
one by one. If the Venezuelan people want to rise

(26:23):
up and overthrow Maduro, God bless them. But what we
should do is continue to destroy these boats, continue to
launch lethal strikes on anyone trying to transport drugs into
our country. But we should not be in the regime
change business. And finally, let me just say this, if

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there is a decision to start launching military strikes into
Venezuela or to go for a regime change, it needs
to have the full approval and authorization of Congress. On
seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight is the number. Okay,
my friends, let me ask you. It is the Cooner

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Country Poll Question of the Day sponsored by Marios Marios
Quality Roofing, Siding and Windows. Is the United States already
at war with Venezuela? Obviously an undeclared war, probably, you know,

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a covert war. But is the United States already at
war with Venezuela? A? Yes, B no. You can vote
on our web page WRKO dot com slash Cooner Wrko
dot com slash Cooner Kuhn As a national er. You

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can also vote via x and again. Last night I
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at the Kooner Report. At the Cooner Report, kuh And
as a national er, I'm a yes. If I was
to vote in this poll, I would say to me

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without question, we're in a war in everything but name.
It's a covert war, it's a secret war. It's a
deadly war, and I think it's only going to get
deadlier as time goes on. And already now you've got
about another ten to fifteen thousand US troops on their

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way into the Southern Caribbean to bolster the ten thousand
troops that are already there. You have three destroyers, you
have over almost a dozen now f thirty five fighter jets,
You've got drones. I mean, it's just we are loading
up now around the periphery of Venezuela, and I think

(28:53):
it's only a matter of time before missile airstrikes are
launched inside Venezuela to take out these cartel headquarters, to
take out Maduro's generals, to start to go after the
Maduro regime, and maybe even Maduro himself. Six one seven
two six six sixty eight sixty eight. Now I want

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Maduro to go, Please don't get me wrong. I want
us to continue to hammer the these boats that are
trafficking drugs into our country. I think we have the
full right to do that. We need to do that.
But if we're going to do a regime change a,
I don't like it. We've had a bad history with

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regime change. I think right now Trump needs to focus
on Antifa. He needs to focus now on the government shutdown.
He needs to focus on getting the economy back on
its feet completely because the midterms now are going to
be here quicker than people realize. He's got to put
America first completely, and the deportations are critical, and so

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you have the resistance that is growing. In Chicago. Last night,
much more violence was done, great violence. Greater violence was
done against ICE agents. They're trying to tear down a
security fence. More obstructionism, more ICE agents being targeted, more
ICE agents being sent to the hospital. I think right

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now we need a war with Venezuela like we need
a hole in the head. I don't want another war
to derail from our domestic priorities. So if we're going
to have a regime change war, I'm against it. And
if we're going to have one, I'm sorry, but I

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think Congress does. Congress needs to weigh in. That's what
the Constitution says, and we need, at a minimum, a
declaration of war. If not a declaration, at least an authorization,
and the people's representatives should vote. The American people should
have a thorough debate whether we want to go to

(31:08):
war against the Maduro regime and get involved now in
another country and their internal affairs, and god knows how
many troops will die there. So you know, I'm against.
I'm against the war. I'm against the regime change war.
But if we're going to have a war, at least

(31:28):
let Congress authorize and approve the war without congressional authorization.
I'm sorry, it's an illegal war, just my opinion. I
want to hear from you. Six one seven two six
six sixty eight sixty eight lines are loaded, Larry in Arkansas.

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You're going to kick us off. Larry, thanks for holding
and welcome.

Speaker 3 (31:57):
Good morning, Jeff, Larry. How are you my I'm doing great.
It's sunny. It's eighties this week. How's it up there?

Speaker 1 (32:05):
You know what, Larry? I mean, it's not in the eighties,
but I gotta say it's not bad. I mean, it's raining,
which is depressing, but it's you know, for fall, it's
fairly mild.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
Larry.

Speaker 3 (32:17):
That sounds good. So I want to come at this
at a different angle to start with, and I hope
you can give me some levity. I started listening to
conservative talk not talk shows, but yeah, talk shows, but
radio found Sean Hannity Rush, how thirty years ago or so?
Do you your take what was going on in Venezuela

(32:38):
thirty years ago?

Speaker 1 (32:40):
You're talking about nineteen ninety five? Yeah, round, then, Larry,
My understanding is they were they were doing quite well right.
They had a fledgling democracy, they were building up a
middle class. Venezuela was on the move. They're sitting on
a ton of oil. They were starting to extract a

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lot of oil from the ground. And then I think
it about, what is it two thousand ish, two thousand,
two thousand and one, they elected Chavez. And when they
elected a socialist, the communist like Chavez, the way New
York is about to elect mom, Donnie, Venezuela went right
down the toilet. Am I wrong?

Speaker 3 (33:22):
Larry? You are corrector even more important, you brought it
up the oil. Does your audience realize Venezuela was number
two an oil production, right behind Saudi Arabia. Number two
in oil production means billions for a country. That also

(33:49):
tells Bill and Sudberry the Gloucester Boys Bendover who we
haven't heard from an ageist. It only took two generations
thirty years to destroy it, to produce an oil country
in the world. Socialism killed it. That's what they're facing.

(34:12):
Just a few years ago, we're hearing stories about people
robbing the zoos for food. They're eating the zoo animals.
That's how bad Venezuela is. And instead of trying to
use legitimate means oil production, like you said, a growing economy,

(34:32):
this and that the second guy. Majority of my opinion,
it's worse than Chavez is keeping his people starving under
his thumb by using drug cartels to produce drugs, to
sell drugs to make their money instead of the oil industry.

(34:56):
And they're doing that, going to do that to New
York by putting on Mandami. Is that his name? I
can't keep up and so to answer your question, we
have to stop him. I don't know. I'm not like
you said, I'm not a big fan of going in
the ground World war, declaring war, but we need to

(35:17):
tighten the reins and make it miserable for him until
their own people rise up and remove them.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
Well, you know, Larry, I you know, to be brutally
honest with you, this is the thing I find frightening
about the American left.

Speaker 3 (35:35):
Mom.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
Donnie is an admirer of Maduro. You can look it up.
He admires him. Chavez, his predecessor who died in twenty thirteen.
Chavismo is what it's called. He's basically a Venezuelan Castro,
and Maduro picked up from Chavez. He was his anointed
successor after Chavez died. AOC is a big admirer of Maduro. AOC,

(36:02):
by the way, CNN now is going to do a
big event to toite on the shutdown a town hall
with AOC and Bernie Bernie Sanders. Bernie big admirer, not
just of Castro. He's a big admirer of Chavez and
he's a big admirer of Maduro. So the Democrats now

(36:24):
are putting people at the very pinnacle of power that
literally admire not just the Third World Marxist thug and murderer,
but someone who has driven that country into the ground.
And as you rightly point out, Larry, they were at

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one point the number two producer of oil in the
entire planet. The place is swimming in oil. I mean,
forget cocaine or fentanyl or you know, and getting involved
with the drug cartels. All you got to do is
get the oil out of the ground. That's it. That's it,

(37:05):
and the country is going to be flushed with cash.
But these communists are so freaking destructive and so incompetent
and so fanatical that literally now Venezuela imports oil and
this happened. I don't want to get to astray here,
but this is what happened to Ukraine under the Soviet Union.
For centuries before the Soviet Union, before communism, Ukraine was

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the bread basket of Europe. Literally, it fed Europe bread, wheat, grain.
The Communists come in, collectivize everything, destroy everything. They begin
Ukraine had to import grain. The Soviet Union had to
import grain by the time these communists were done. I mean,

(37:52):
I'm not trying to exaggerate, but most of Ukraine is
a giant wheat field. It's very fertile land. It's why
they have so much wheat, or at least they did
before the Communists came in. Venezuela is essentially ground on
top of oil. That's what Venezuela is. I mean, this

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could go on for hundreds of years, that the kind
of prosperity Venezuela should be one of the most prosperous
countries in the entire Western hemisphere, and instead they're one
of the poorest countries in the world. Their people are starving.
You're right, they're raiding zoos, eating giraffes. The elephants are

(38:36):
all gone, that was the first to go. But they're
eating giraffes just to feed themselves. They're going around in karrakes,
they go through garbage cans and get, you know, the
scraps of food from the garbage cans. So that's what
happens when you elect these kinds of people to power,
and these idiots in New York, the financial capital not

(39:00):
just of the United States but arguably the world. And
you guys are gonna put in a guy like mom
Donnie thirty three years old, a punk, a punk who
has never held a job in his entire life. The
guy has never held an honest job in his entire life,

(39:22):
and you're gonna put him in charge of New York City.
We we so, look, Larry, Fentanyl is killing us. The
cocaine is killing us. These drugs are killing us. I
know exactly where Trump is coming from, these Mexican drug cartels.

(39:45):
I've been saying this for a long time. We have
to declare war on the cartels. And Trump is now
doing that, and he's executing a lot of their leaders.
We're conducting covert operations taking them out. He's disrupting their traffic,
their supply routes, he's blowing up their boats. In fact,
now it's becoming so dangerous. Trump is right, he's saying,

(40:06):
watch now, they're going to try to come in through land.
We're gonna have to interdict them now through land, and
the only way they can come in is through the
Mexican border or through the Canadian border. And so we
got to be ready. But if we get involved in
internal Venezuelan politics and we overthrow the Maduro regime. With

(40:28):
the topography, the terrain of Venezuela, you've got these jungles,
you've got these Andean peaks, these mountains, you've got these
densely populated slums in city after city. These Marxist guerrillas
can hold up there and they can fight for decades

(40:48):
and decades and decades and they can just pick us
off one by one by one. Look, if we have
to fight a war, we'll beat Venezuela. We'll beat them
in twenty four to forty eight hours. But honestly, we
got so many problems here at home. When I read this,
and I'm like, please, don't tell me we're going for

(41:09):
another war. Like I am worried out, I am sick
of war. We've got to start focusing on problems here
at home. And I know drugs is a big issue,
but we can interdict the drugs and not get involved. Now,
if the Venezuelans want to rise up, and they have
a wonderful leader in Machado, she's honest, she's a patriot,

(41:33):
she's brave, she's smart, she's competent, she's tough, that's a
different story. But it's going to be up to the Venezuelans.
We can't be the policeman of the world. I mean,
we just we can't. We can't. And plus we're going bankrupt,
so worry. What is it thirty seven now, thirty eight
trillion dollars in debt. We invade Venezuela or we get

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involved in a regime change war. This is going to
cost potentiallyllions of dollars. So I'm like, no, please, no
more wars. And if we're going to have a war,
for God's sake, let there be a debate. Let the
country have a debate. Let there be a debate in Congress,
because if things go south, Congress will turn on President Trump.

(42:22):
And honestly, Trump now has so many enemies. The last
thing he needs now is a war. And remember he
ran on getting us out of these endless wars. Hell,
he just won the you know, he just ended the
war in Gaza, and everybody says he should have won
the Nobel Peace Prize. He's going to start potentially a

(42:43):
war now when we've got massive problems in deporting illegal
aliens from our own country and the resistance is rising
and getting more violent. We've got to focus on problems
at home. Let the Venezuelans liberate Venezuela. Larry, thank you

(43:05):
so much for that call. Just my opinion. You can
agree disagree obviously. Let's go to George in New Hampshire.
Thanks for holding George, and welcome.

Speaker 2 (43:16):
Hey Jeff, thanks for taking the call to Yes, sir,
so my big thing I agree with you one hundred percent.

Speaker 3 (43:24):
I love this.

Speaker 2 (43:25):
I love how Trump's addressing the this drum thing. It's
it's it's late to believe we're so late to the
party on this issue. It blows my mind, and I
I dorse what he's doing in terms of these isolated
attacks on the poison coming into our country. But I

(43:46):
guess the only thing that I wanted to make you
aware of, and I'm sure you're aware of, is this
al Qaeda ISIS attack that, like Sarah Adams is really
basically highlighting. I'm sure you're aware of it, but that's
an intimate that that's a huge threat to our country.

(44:06):
So there's so many pieces on the chessboard that are
happening at one time. It's it's kind of mind blowing.
And I would love it if you could highlight maybe
do your homework or please weigh in on that issue,
because it's a three times the attack that nine to
eleven experience supposedly, and it's it's it's pretty scary what

(44:31):
she's the least laying out, you know what I mean.
So I think a lot of this resistance that Trump
is getting would be put down if, if God forbid,
anything did happen to the homeland, and because it's a
black and white issue, no one wants the war brought.

Speaker 3 (44:54):
To our to our states.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
You know, do you have any real opinion on that,
because I mean, Antipa's in Tifa, and I think in
Tifa to be he's handling it as the best he
can right now, and I don't see how he could
really do anything different on that issue, you know.

Speaker 1 (45:14):
Well, to be honest, George, look, I love Trump. I
agree with him ninety nine point nine percent of the time.
I think he's one of the greatest presidents, maybe now
the greatest president we've ever had. If he's not the greatest,
he's on his way to becoming the greatest. I think.
To be honest, I think Pam Bondi is screwing him.
I think he's made a couple of personnel mistakes. I

(45:37):
don't want to beat a dead horse, but I'm just
calling it the way I see it. I think he
needs a different attorney general. And the reason why I'm
saying this, I think he's got a he's not sending
in enough troops into Portland, or into Chicago, or into
Los Angeles. Look, Chicago is a city of many, many millions,

(45:58):
of people. It's one of the biggest cities in the world,
and Trump is sending in five hundred National Guard troops.
That's nowhere near enough. Now they're already going crazy in
Chicago over five hundred. Brandon Johnson's losing his mind. Pritzker
Golden Corral is losing his mind. But it doesn't matter.
You need at least five thousand troops minimum minimum. Look,

(46:23):
yesterday there was another violent attack against ICE agents. Several
of them were sent to the hospital. They're now literally
trying to tear down the security fence that they erected
around that Ice building that is being now relentlessly attacked
almost every day. They're throwing gas accelerants, They're trying to

(46:43):
burn the building down. They're throwing rocks, bottles, bricks. Gunshots
now are being fired at that Ice building Ice agents.
Now again another ICE vehicles were rammed by another convoy.
This happened just yesterday, where these were illegal aliens who

(47:04):
went into their cars and smashed their vehicles into ice,
into ice cars into ice vehicles. So ICE is saying,
they're making it very difficult, almost impossible for us to
do our job. You got to come in much heavier
than five hundred National Guard troops. And I don't blame Trump.

(47:26):
I blame Pam Bondi because ultimately it's the attorney general,
and you know, and and hegseth to a bit of
a lesser degree. And my concern is and I'm very
happy the hostages are home. I'm very happy that Trump
signed that piece deal and that there is that peace
summit in Egypt. But okay, it's great, I love it.

(47:50):
But now we need your single minded focus and attention
on the domestic enemy within, because George, as I speak you, now,
we're basically a year away now from the midterms. The
Democrats capture the House, they're gonna defund Ice, They're gonna
defund the Trump administration. They're going to impeach him all day,

(48:13):
all night. They've already said it. He's going to be
playing defense for the next to the last two years
of his term. So the deportations will stop, the border
security will stop. I mean, I could just go on.
His ability to fix the problems of the country are

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going to be severely undermined. So he's got to move,
and he's got to move now. And to me, Venezuela, look,
go after these boats.