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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Tell us.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
You'll love it when a story completely turns around and
embarrasses the Democratic Party. That's how I'm starting off the
Big Three. Good morning, and it is a great morning. Well, well, well,
well well, after all of the huffing and puffing in
the talk of court martials and scandals, a source, actually
(00:23):
several sources tell ABC's Martha Raddits that the strike on
the Venezuelan narco terrorist boats were legal.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
According to a source familiar with the incident, the two
survivors climbed back onto the boat after the initial strike.
They were believed to be potentially in communication with others
and salvaging some of the drugs. Because of that, it
was determined they were still in the fight and valid targets.
A JAG officer was also giving legal advice.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
The JAG officer being right there is a hugely important detail.
That means the legal department was there and they signed
off on a strike because the people that were out
of the boat were now back in the boat communicating
and trying to save the drugs. I love when stories
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turn out like this. It happened so much, doesn't it.
Amelia lewis a NYU student who was assaulted while walking
down the street in broad daylight in Manhattan in Lower Manhattan,
gets justice and becomes an anti crime advocate after getting
a very bad man off the streets.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah, like, just be aware when you're walking like anywhere
right now in New York, because like, are you Like
I never thought this was gonna happen to me, just
because I was like, I've seen the stories and I
was like, oh, that's so scary, but like having it
actually happen now, it's like, oh my god, Like you
need to be aware at all times.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
That was her.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
She ran to social media right afterwards, and it was
the power of social media, was the power of friends,
and it was girl power that brought down this guy
and finally put him in jail. We'll have more details
on that in just a couple of minutes. It was
another young NYU student, by the way, who was also
assaulted who helped her the smalion. You'll hear from her too,
(02:18):
coming up in a couple of minutes. The Somalian fraud
scandal in Minnesota will now be investigated by the Justice
Department and may end up now being a two billion
dollar scandal.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
What we know is the state employees in Minnesota rang
the bell, they blew the whistle that there was massive fraud,
and yet Tim Waltz and Keith Ellison, the Attorney General,
apparently turned a blind aye to that for fear of
political retaliation from the large voting block of Somali's.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yeah, and isn't it amazing? The media was all over
the Narco terrorist boat story because they thought they had
Donald Trump this story. They I they're finally covering it now,
but completely ignored it for days. The House of Terror
in Samford, Connecticut, when police showed up to take possession
(03:11):
because no one paid the mortgage, a man inside opened fire.
After an hour long standoff, police sent a drone inside
the home for the residents out there, you know that
we serve you first. We have no political books. And
what they found was explosives in there, explosives all over
(03:31):
the house. When they finally entered the home because nobody
was shooting. After a while, they found two bodies. The
gunman shot himself and there was a body hidden that
had been decomposing for some time. Well. The new mayor
of Jersey City, James Solomon, apparently as good friends with
the new mayor of Hoboke and Emily Jabour, both progressive
(03:53):
Democrats who were not part of the party establishment. For
the residents out there, you know that we serve you first.
We have no political boss that we answer to.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
For me, I got.
Speaker 7 (04:04):
Involved in local politics as a mom who cared about
her community.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
James is a dad.
Speaker 8 (04:09):
You know.
Speaker 7 (04:09):
I think we just are average, you know, residents who
want to do more and give back.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
A ninety million dollar Mega Million's ticket was sold in
Union City, New Jersey. What is it about New Jersey?
They seem to have an inordinate amount of lottery winners.
Speaker 9 (04:27):
Every time I meet lottery directors from other states, they
say the biggest complaint that they hear is.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
How come only people in California.
Speaker 9 (04:36):
And New Jersey win Powerball are Mega millions. There's an
awful lot of people in California buying power Ball at
Mega millions tickets, and there's an awful lot of lucky
people in the state of New Jersey that are buying
Powerball and Mega millions tickets.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Well, it's now officially the Christmas season. The Rockefeller Center
Christmas Tree has been lit.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Wow, man, that was it? Come on, it was beautiful.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
I love all the more of the crowd. Did you
hear the crowd?
Speaker 7 (05:17):
They're like, it's ten o'clock and I'm exhausted.
Speaker 10 (05:21):
I want to go home.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
That was the funniest thing, just the yelling and then
all of a sudden, that's it.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Right, It was beautiful.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
I can't wait to go walk by it today because
it really looks gorgeous.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
It is gorgeous, but you know you have to be
there to sit there, oh yeah, day and have to
wait through all of this acts and all this stuff
and stand in the cold, and then it's like ten seconds,
not even five seconds. They did a five second home
and then you get to go home. Hey, this story
about Amelia Lewis is just heartwarming. It's scary, but it's
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also heartwarm. Amelia Lewis, if you haven't seen the video,
and we should definitely post that video is it is incredible.
She's just walking down the street Lower Manhattan by NYU.
She's an NYU student, and a homeless guy that we
find out has been arrested several times and for sexual
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assault runs up behind her. You see her on the
surveillance video running up behind her, smacks her across the
back very hard, then grabs her hair and throws her
down on the ground and then runs off, And so
she of course ran right away to social media, and
you heard her a second ago in the Big Three crying,
(06:42):
you know, just telling everybody else be careful.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yeah, like just be aware when you're walking, like anywhere
right now in New York because, like you, like, I
never thought this was gonna happen to me, just because
I was like, I've seen the stories and I was like, oh,
that's so scary, but like having it actually happen now,
it's like, like you need to be aware at all times.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
She was really upset. And the amazing thing is the
social media post that she made, and apparently she's very
big on x and on TikTok and on Instagram and
all of these women, all these young girls, then wrote
and said the same thing happened to me, and apparently
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this isn't that unusual. This type of stuff happens throughout
the city all of the time. And by the way,
after it happened, she also texted her friend. The last
name was Armstrong. I don't have a first name right now,
I'll get it in a second, but texted her friend
and the same exact thing happened to her friend and
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now they never caught the guy, but she remembers how
important surveillan's video was, so she went and got her
friend and they went to all the stores in the
area and got the surveillan's video to tell the police.
Speaker 11 (08:02):
Right when I got Amelia's text, I was in class
and I got a horrible sinking up feeling because this
has also happened to me, and I was lucky enough
to have footage in my case. Unfortunately, my assailant was
not caught. But I knew that footage is key in
this and I knew that it was in front of stores,
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and so my first thought was, we need to get
this footage and we need to catch this guy.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
No, it's it's just incredible. So her name is Summer Armstrong.
By the way, she's a hero. Summer Armstrong. The thing
that I liked the most about this story, by the way,
because of them, they caught this guy, James Armstrong, who
was arrested shortly afterwards. Apparently everybody knows about him. Apparently
he was squatting in the housing of NYU. He was
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in there in NYU housing, stealing stuff from other rooms
and then praying on the I mean or assaulting I
should say these girls. But he was arrested and the
reporters were there.
Speaker 12 (09:05):
James, help us understand.
Speaker 13 (09:07):
Why do you keep attacking women?
Speaker 14 (09:10):
What were you doing in a good apartment?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
What's wrong with you?
Speaker 15 (09:12):
James, James, anything you had SETI are victims.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Thirty five years old. He's going to be off the
streets now for a long time. He just got out
of jail for sexual assault. He served two years. But
the reason I'm pushing this story is because what about
these girls, all women, I should say, all getting together,
all joining together to get this guy.
Speaker 13 (09:38):
You know what.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
I was really happy to see, although it's scary. Right
after it happened, there were a lot of other young
women walking to class, you know, so we're looking at
nineteen year old, and they all came to her aid.
Instead of fleeing thinking where because you didn't know where
the guy went, so you know, he could have been
still around trying to attack them. They all came up her.
(10:00):
They got her off the ground, and they didn't run away,
and they didn't turn away.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
And it's a man that's being hailed as a real
hero because he came up to her, lifted her off
the ground and then gave her the cell phone said
you should call nine to one one right now, which
she wouldn't have done, she says. She said, I would
not have done that, but she called nine one one
immediately and they got this time. But have you heard
of this? I mean, please leave a talkback, because I've
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never heard of this before. Apparently it's happening on the
streets of Manhattan all the time and it's incredible and
especially in that area. Just leave us a talk back.
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The story of Abigail Lewis that we started the show
off with is so upsetting, and yet there's a heartwarming
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part of it. At so many people that came to
help her, not only in the streets. As Natalie was saying,
there was a group of women behind her that helped her.
That was a man that gave her cell phone. She
texted a friend and the friend got involved and went
out to find video and social media, came together with
her and said, this has happened to me. This has
happened to me. This has happened to me. And I
(12:57):
think that story touches a lot of people because it
is the community fighting back and that I'm not surprised
that we got so many talkbacks about it, and thanks
a lot. If you want to get involved in the conversation,
go to the iHeartRadio app. Look for seven to ten
wor there's a talkback section. You hit the microphone and
then we air what you have to say.
Speaker 16 (13:18):
Hi, I'm calling to talk about what happened to me
in New York City one time.
Speaker 13 (13:23):
This was like three years ago.
Speaker 16 (13:26):
I was standing there talking to somebody and out of
nowhere I got hit with a BB gun, a BB shot,
whatever you call it. It was so painful and it
came from some building, and to this day we don't
know who did it.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Oh my god. I mean, seriously, people just like to
hurt other people? Is that it? Random?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
People?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
They like to hurt, they get kicks out of that.
And the problem is for an offense like that, you
don't go to jail. You get to do it again.
You get to do it again and again and again
and again in this city because we have these weird
policies that favor the criminals and not the victims.
Speaker 17 (14:10):
Larry, he was arrested sixteen times this NYU assailant, and
he was out on the street again to assault young
girls who are vulnerable, who don't know, you know, what
to do when they're hit from behind. What a horrible situation.
And I hope that he doesn't get out of jail
(14:33):
this time.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Right, Thanks, thanks for putting out the number. I didn't
say that. I just said I said he's been arrested before.
But you're right, sixteen times. But the last one was
the most egregious because he did get jail time and
it was for sexual assault, but he only served two years.
He had a ten year sentence and he served two
years and then he was back on the street. This
is I believe, the biggest story in the nation, certainly
(14:57):
the biggest story in New York Week on crime policies
across the country and the way they hold onto them
because they don't want to admit that it's a mistake,
even though we see every day when you get shot
with a bb gun by somebody that probably was assaulting
other people, or you get hit on the street by
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someone who just got out of jail for sexual assault,
that should be story number one. That should be story
in center number one across the country for everybody running
an office. But extent it's affordability. Well, I'll tell you
here's an interesting story and it comes to us out
of Australia. Australia has been enforcing a social media limit
(15:44):
of sixteen starting next week. Under this law, children younger
than sixteen will be banned banned from holding accounts on
major platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube.
Social media companies must take reasonable steps to prevent underage
(16:06):
users or they will be fined find like millions of dollars.
Speaker 15 (16:11):
In one week, Australia will become the first country in
the world to ban under sixteens from having social media accounts.
With one law, we can protect Generation Alpha from being
sucked into purgatory by predatory algorithms. Described by the man
who created the feature as behavioral cocaine. If a child
(16:33):
has a social media account on ten December, then that
platform is breaking the law.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
So the question for you is, if this law came
to the US, would you support it or do you
think it's up to parents to decide. Leave us a
talk back. Now, let's get the Jaqueline Carral with the
six thirty news. Jacqueline.
Speaker 12 (16:52):
There are US law makers or demanding answers today as
they receive a classified briefing on the American strikes again
suspected Venezuela and Narco. Navy Admiral Frank Mitch Bradley is
expected to face tough questions about why the same boat
was hit multiple times on September two, even after survivors
were spotted, and Instacart issuing New York City over new
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pay and tipping laws set to take effect in January.
Speaker 18 (17:17):
Instacart has gone to court over new laws that will
affect the way it does business in the Big Apple,
the San Francisco based company which pays its grocery delivery
workers thirteen dollars an hour, would be required to pay
them more than twenty one bucks an hour, the same
minimum wage as restaurant delivery workers, Instacart would also have
to offer tipping options of ten percent or more. Instacart
(17:40):
claims New York City's new laws are unconstitutional because they
discriminate against commerce by out of state companies. The city
says instacart workers deserve better. Sara Lee Kessler wor News.
Speaker 12 (17:54):
So what do we think about the combination of vodka
and machetes? According to NDTs, an influencer name Keith Castillo
has drawn widespread criticism for handing out eighteen inch machetes
and alcohol to homeless people in cities across the US.
He claims the machetes are to keep homeless people safe,
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but critics say he's making vulnerable people dangerous. When asked
about giving alcohol to potential substance of users, Castillo says
he doesn't care because it's quote good for.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
The clicks and views. What do you think is he
of visionary or biscuit head?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
What horrible timing for him that he follows the story
where a homeless person runs after a woman and smacks
her in the butt as hard as they could and
he wants to hand them machetes.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
I can't believe someone would do that for social media clicks.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
I mean that person.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
That's exactly what it is. You're right, You're right, that's
the motivation.
Speaker 7 (18:48):
That's insane, I know.
Speaker 12 (18:52):
And that particular combination. And where's he getting these machetes?
Like do we go on eBay for these?
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Amazon?
Speaker 12 (18:58):
I don't know, but I mean to like think like
I'm going to help the homeless. I'm going to give
them huge machetes to like to protect themselves, and just
so they're pretty alert and ready for anything.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
I'm going to make sure they have some LACA with that.
That person really should be in jail.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
That's the first time something happens. They should go after him.
If something happens, they should go after and arrest him
as an accomplice.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Absolutely, no question. We have to remember this story another way.
Social media has let us down.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Thanks a lot, Jacqueline. The admiral who signed off on
the second air strike on a crippled Venezuela and drug
running boat is testifying to Congress today behind closed doors,
and there is brand new information out that completely clears
the admiral. All that's next, Well, Donald Trump, you know
the one that the New York Times says is so
(19:51):
tired all the time was out and about yesterday he
had about four different press conferences and apparently it was
up all night tweeting and writing on truth social as well.
And of course one of the big topics is still
these Venezuelan boats. And this is going to be embarrassing
for the Democrats, well except that the media just moves
on to the next thing they can attack Donald Trump on.
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But each one of them fails. And I don't know
why we don't go back and look at each one
of them and say, Okay, you were wrong about this,
you were wrong about this, you were wrong about this,
you were wrong about this. So the latest is the
strike on the boats, war crimes investigations. People should resign.
That's what the Democrats were saying. And the media was
in tow in all of that. And Donald Trump was
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asked about the strikes.
Speaker 19 (20:37):
I think you're going to see it very soon on
land also, yeah, plase.
Speaker 15 (20:40):
So to be clear, do you support the decision to
kill survivors after the n No.
Speaker 19 (20:44):
I support the decision to knock out the boats. And
whoever is piloting those boats, most of them are gone.
But whoever piloting those boats, they're guilty of trying to
kill people in our country.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
That was a little bit of a tease. That was
a little bit of a tease that he was giving
because he's seen it obviously, and they're going to put
it up online for everybody to see. And I love
the fact that they held it for so long so
that all of this could stare up and stare up,
and so they could make the other side look sillier
and sillier. A couple of people have talked to sources
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that talked about what was really on that tape and
what really happened when they took the boat out of
the water.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
According to a source familiar with the incident, the two
survivors climbed back onto the boat after the initial strike.
They were believed to be potentially in communication with others
and salvaging some of the drugs. Because of that, it
was determined they were still in the fight and valid targets.
A JAG officer was also giving legal advice.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
A lawyer signed off on the whole thing. A legal
attorney that is very capable and learned in military law
much more than these idiot congressman said yes, go ahead,
now you're allowed to strike. And Michael Moulroy, former secret
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under Secretary of Defense says the same thing, and he
heard the same thing.
Speaker 20 (22:14):
They would have determined that if this event happens, then
they would have been back in the boat and potentially
moving again, which would make them, under the original order,
free to fire upon legally.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
But from the very beginning, the Democratic Party finds themselves
always because it's so knee jerk, they don't wait to
get the information. It's so knee jerk. It's Donald Trump.
We hate Donald Trump. So he did something evil, he
did something wrong, And his name hasn't even really come
up in all of this. It's mostly been Pete Hegsath,
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who wasn't even in the room and one of the
most esteemed admirals in the US Defense Mitch Bradley, he
was in question, he was the But everybody was saying,
Gud's against Trump. It's Trump and Trump. We had talkbacks,
people saying, oh, Donald Trump, he knew Well, nobody ever
said that, and yet that's what this was all about.
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But even from the beginning, that knee jerk reaction puts
you on the wrong side of the issue with the
American people.
Speaker 21 (23:21):
I Don'm not going to get upset with Pete Hegseth
because he was too mean to the narco terrorists. This
threat has to be eliminated. These people are killing American citizens.
That's what the President's focused on.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
It exacerbated under the Biden administration when they left the
borders wide open. One hundred and twenty thousand people a
year were dying from fentanyl, over four hundred thousand. That's
a big city, all wiped out in four years with
fentanyl coming over. And that was okay. Apparently that was fine.
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Now when you try to stop it, Oh, you're you're
a bad man. You're a bad man. Listen. All of this.
The strikes are also to keep the fentanyl out of
the country and to keep the drugs out of the country,
but it's also to put pressure on Meduro to step down.
And you know about the phone call with Donald Trump.
We don't know all the specifics, but what has gotten
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out so far is they were talking about him going
into exile. That Donald Trump was clear with him, you're
not going to save your presidency. You can't stay in
you got to go, and he was asking for protection.
So it really got to a negotiations there for a while.
But it's clear that the people around him, the people
that have profited off Maduro. The rich and the powerful
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in Venezuela are getting tired of him, and right now
they're having to sell off assets. This is a Victoria
Coats so you just heard a second ago. She's the
former deputy National Security Advisor and she's been noticing something
really fascinating. These geysers ellenoff assets so the country doesn't
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go bankrupt.
Speaker 21 (25:03):
Their refinery cit Goo in Houston is being auctioned off
essentially as sheriff's sale to satisfy their debtors.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
They're going to run out of money.
Speaker 21 (25:13):
So on top of everything else he faces, you know,
the country is really circling the drain.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Yeah, it's circling the drain right now because they can't
sell any drugs anymore. We cut off their money source.
And you don't think Machado is going to give up
some of his money or the rich people are going
to give up some of them in their money. They're
selling assets, they're selling government assets to try to pay
So there is turmoil in that country right now because
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of the pressure that Donald Trump's being put on. And oh,
by the way, they have an aircraft carrier and a
fleet of army ships off their coast.
Speaker 8 (25:49):
We had asked the show of force. This military there
is not there to kill speedboats. It's there to demonstrate
to Manduro that it is in your best entry to
voluntary lead. The president has already made up his mind.
I believe that regime change is what is called for.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Here, right. I think that's been the case from the
very beginning. All of this is pressure on Maduro to
finally leave, and that would make the whole Western hemisphere
a lot safer. And you know who would get back
into office, Well, she never got an office in the
first place, even though she won the election. Maria Coriina Machado,
the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, has been in
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exile and she talks every once in a while to
the media and she would come back as a hero
and all she wants to do is bring democracy back
to that country.
Speaker 13 (26:42):
We have asked for years international community to cut these
sources that come from drug trafficking and other criminal Here
is finally this is happening, and he has been worn
what not to do. These debts are the responsibility of
Nicolas Madudo exactly.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
And listen, she hails Donald Trump as a hero. In Israel.
They hail Donald Trump as a hero around the world.
They love his efforts to bring peace and to bring
down dictators and to get rid of terrorists. Only in
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this wacky country, because we're so infected by politics, do
we have one side that doesn't want those things only
because Donald Trump wants them? That put them side on
that side of the issue. Now, look, I know many Democrats.
They're pretty good people. They're just being forced into a
corner that they shouldn't allow themselves to be forced into.
(27:44):
There's some things we can all agree on. Maduro's a
bad man. Maduro's gotta go. Drugs are bad. We should
cut them off. And every time you scream and yell
about it, you end up looking silly. The next thing, though,
I'll tell you what Maduro doesn't come is strikes on
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drug facilities inside Venezuela. And that's a whole new topic.
And we'll talk about that another day when we come back.
We'll update you on the peace talks in Russia. Oh yeah,
that's going on too, face to face with Putin when
we come back.
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top stories. Good morning Ray.
Speaker 12 (29:47):
The latest on the Venezuela and boat strikes. More on
the homeless man arrested in a random attack on an
NYU student and the MTA is swapping M and F
service routes permanently. Details coming up on seven to ten WR.
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Speaker 2 (30:33):
So Hey, have you heard Donald Trump's trying to bring
peace to Ukraine? The reason I say it that way
is because again we just talked about the story of
the Venezuelan story that once again it's turned on the
Democrats and they didn't have all the facts, and their
outrage started before they got all the facts. So and
they again once again they look silly. But then in
(30:54):
this in the piece in Ukraine story, you have a
president who now is trying to end this war, and
having to end this war, you have to treat the
other sides, both sides that are fighting, with some respect.
You can't do what Biden did if you want to
bring peace. Of course he never wanted to. My belief
(31:18):
with Joe Biden is that he was making as many
of these politicians are, by the way, case in point
Mikey Cheryl, they're getting a lot of money from the
industrial defense complex. A lot of these defense companies have
bought off many of these politicians. And Joe Biden was
(31:39):
in the Senate for a long time as a warhawk,
and so in my book, he suspect all along. So
the fact that he was buying all these arms, the
USA government was buying all these arms and just pouring
them into Ukraine as people died, is suspect to me.
At the very least. Donald Trump is not that way
at all. Donald Trump is allergic to the word. Donald
(32:00):
Trump does not want to be involved in wars if
he can help it. And that's why I think this
thing in Venezuela, he's just showing a show of force.
He wants Medua to leave. He does not want to
have any strikes in Venezuela. And if there are strikes,
they're going to be limited and it's just going to
be some drug operations. But so far so these talks
(32:22):
are going on to end the war in Ukraine, which
is what should have happened all along. We shouldn't have
just kept fueling the war so more people died and
more buildings were ruined, so that we could help rebuild
them and we could make more money, money, money, No,
he gets in, he's got enough money. He gets in
and he says, this is stupid, this is ridiculous. We
(32:45):
have to end this war. And he said something yesterday
that really struck home. He said, we shouldn't have waited
this long to try to bring peace. We allowed Russia
to take territory and now they don't want to give
that territory back. And so Ukraine's saying, well, no, no,
we can't give up all that land. Russia saying we
(33:06):
took it. And what they're saying is you give us
another year, we're gonna take this. We want that too,
And that's where the rub is right now. The thing
that they can't get over is Vladimir Putin having to
(33:27):
always be the strong man, having to always talk about
how he can conquer any country, and he can't. Their
defenses have been weakened, which is why they're even talking
right now. But this thing that he said about Europe,
because all Europe was saying, all the European countries were saying,
and the head of the European Union was saying all
(33:49):
along was we need to be able to defend ourselves
and we have to watch out about Ukraine because they'd
be right on our front doorstep, and now Putin took
that as a threat.
Speaker 23 (34:03):
We are not cleaning to go to war with Europe.
I have already spoken about this one hundred times. But
if Europe suddenly wants to go to war with US
and starts, we are ready right now.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Most people just laugh that off because it was so ridiculous,
But Europe is a big player in this, a big
player in peace, and what they say does matter. Here's
mark Root from the EU.
Speaker 6 (34:31):
How do we make sure that Ukraine states the strong
as possible. The peace talks are ongoing, that's good, but
at the same time we have to make sure that
whilst they take place, and we are not sure when
they will end, that Ukraine is in the strongest possible
position to keep the fight going, to fight back against Russians,
but also in strongest possible position when Pea stocks.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
What he said was really important, You've got to read
between the lines and a lot of that. So what's
happened is that Vladimir Putin made his demands twenty eight points.
He was brought back nineteen points. Some of them were
cut out completely, others were moderated he won, dumb beast.
He wants the entire thing. He hasn't conquered all of that,
and Ukraine's saying it doesn't want to give it up.
(35:14):
But the biggest battle is that can be negotiated. I
think we're on the way to negotiating that. But the
biggest thing is that Ukraine would have to cut half
of its defenses and that's a non starter, and that's
where Europe gets involved. We'll talk more about it a
little bit later, but we can talk more about it
with John Decker, who's coming up. The admiral who signed
(35:36):
off on the second air strike on a crippled Venezuela
drug running boat, is testifying to Congress today behind closed doors,
and wor White House correspondent John Dekker is covering that
he's here with all of the details. We're going to
have that. We'll also talk to him about what the
peace talks, and of course what is happening in Venezuela.
Tell us.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
You'll love it when a story completely turns around and
embarrasses the Democratic Party. That's how I'm starting off the
Big Three. Good morning, and it is a great morning. Well, well, well,
well well, after all of the huffing and puffing in
the talk of court martials and scandals, a source, actually
(00:23):
several sources tell ABC's Martha Raddits that the strike on
the Venezuelan narco terrorist boats were legal.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
According to a source familiar with the incident, the two
survivors climbed back onto the boat after the initial strike.
They were believed to be potentially in communication with others
and salvaging some of the drugs. Because of that, it
was determined they were still in the fight and valid targets.
A JAG officer was also giving legal advice.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
The JAG officer being right there is a hugely important detail.
That means the legal department was there and they signed
off on a strike because the people that were out
of the boat were now back in the boat communicating
and trying to save the drugs. I love when stories
(01:15):
turn out like this. It happened so much, doesn't it.
Amelia lewis a NYU student who was assaulted while walking
down the street in broad daylight in Manhattan in Lower Manhattan,
gets justice and becomes an anti crime advocate after getting
a very bad man off the streets.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah, like, just be aware when you're walking like anywhere
right now in New York, because like, are you Like
I never thought this was gonna happen to me, just
because I was like, I've seen the stories and I
was like, oh, that's so scary, but like having it
actually happen now, it's like, oh my god, Like you
need to be aware at all times.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
That was her.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
She ran to social media right afterwards, and it was
the power of social media, was the power of friends,
and it was girl power that brought down this guy
and finally put him in jail. We'll have more details
on that in just a couple of minutes. It was
another young NYU student, by the way, who was also
assaulted who helped her the smalion. You'll hear from her too,
(02:18):
coming up in a couple of minutes. The Somalian fraud
scandal in Minnesota will now be investigated by the Justice
Department and may end up now being a two billion
dollar scandal.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
What we know is the state employees in Minnesota rang
the bell, they blew the whistle that there was massive fraud,
and yet Tim Waltz and Keith Ellison, the Attorney General,
apparently turned a blind aye to that for fear of
political retaliation from the large voting block of Somali's.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yeah, and isn't it amazing? The media was all over
the Narco terrorist boat story because they thought they had
Donald Trump this story. They I they're finally covering it now,
but completely ignored it for days. The House of Terror
in Samford, Connecticut, when police showed up to take possession
(03:11):
because no one paid the mortgage, a man inside opened fire.
After an hour long standoff, police sent a drone inside
the home for the residents out there, you know that
we serve you first. We have no political books. And
what they found was explosives in there, explosives all over
(03:31):
the house. When they finally entered the home because nobody
was shooting. After a while, they found two bodies. The
gunman shot himself and there was a body hidden that
had been decomposing for some time. Well. The new mayor
of Jersey City, James Solomon, apparently as good friends with
the new mayor of Hoboke and Emily Jabour, both progressive
(03:53):
Democrats who were not part of the party establishment. For
the residents out there, you know that we serve you first.
We have no political boss that we answer to.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
For me, I got.
Speaker 7 (04:04):
Involved in local politics as a mom who cared about
her community.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
James is a dad.
Speaker 8 (04:09):
You know.
Speaker 7 (04:09):
I think we just are average, you know, residents who
want to do more and give back.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
A ninety million dollar Mega Million's ticket was sold in
Union City, New Jersey. What is it about New Jersey?
They seem to have an inordinate amount of lottery winners.
Speaker 9 (04:27):
Every time I meet lottery directors from other states, they
say the biggest complaint that they hear is.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
How come only people in California.
Speaker 9 (04:36):
And New Jersey win Powerball are Mega millions. There's an
awful lot of people in California buying power Ball at
Mega millions tickets, and there's an awful lot of lucky
people in the state of New Jersey that are buying
Powerball and Mega millions tickets.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Well, it's now officially the Christmas season. The Rockefeller Center
Christmas Tree has been lit.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Wow, man, that was it? Come on, it was beautiful.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
I love all the more of the crowd. Did you
hear the crowd?
Speaker 7 (05:17):
They're like, it's ten o'clock and I'm exhausted.
Speaker 10 (05:21):
I want to go home.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
That was the funniest thing, just the yelling and then
all of a sudden, that's it.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Right, It was beautiful.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
I can't wait to go walk by it today because
it really looks gorgeous.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
It is gorgeous, but you know you have to be
there to sit there, oh yeah, day and have to
wait through all of this acts and all this stuff
and stand in the cold, and then it's like ten seconds,
not even five seconds. They did a five second home
and then you get to go home. Hey, this story
about Amelia Lewis is just heartwarming. It's scary, but it's
(05:59):
also heartwarm. Amelia Lewis, if you haven't seen the video,
and we should definitely post that video is it is incredible.
She's just walking down the street Lower Manhattan by NYU.
She's an NYU student, and a homeless guy that we
find out has been arrested several times and for sexual
(06:19):
assault runs up behind her. You see her on the
surveillance video running up behind her, smacks her across the
back very hard, then grabs her hair and throws her
down on the ground and then runs off, And so
she of course ran right away to social media, and
you heard her a second ago in the Big Three crying,
(06:42):
you know, just telling everybody else be careful.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yeah, like just be aware when you're walking, like anywhere
right now in New York because, like you, like, I
never thought this was gonna happen to me, just because
I was like, I've seen the stories and I was like, oh,
that's so scary, but like having it actually happen now,
it's like, like you need to be aware at all times.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
She was really upset. And the amazing thing is the
social media post that she made, and apparently she's very
big on x and on TikTok and on Instagram and
all of these women, all these young girls, then wrote
and said the same thing happened to me, and apparently
(07:25):
this isn't that unusual. This type of stuff happens throughout
the city all of the time. And by the way,
after it happened, she also texted her friend. The last
name was Armstrong. I don't have a first name right now,
I'll get it in a second, but texted her friend
and the same exact thing happened to her friend and
(07:48):
now they never caught the guy, but she remembers how
important surveillan's video was, so she went and got her
friend and they went to all the stores in the
area and got the surveillan's video to tell the police.
Speaker 11 (08:02):
Right when I got Amelia's text, I was in class
and I got a horrible sinking up feeling because this
has also happened to me, and I was lucky enough
to have footage in my case. Unfortunately, my assailant was
not caught. But I knew that footage is key in
this and I knew that it was in front of stores,
(08:23):
and so my first thought was, we need to get
this footage and we need to catch this guy.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
No, it's it's just incredible. So her name is Summer Armstrong.
By the way, she's a hero. Summer Armstrong. The thing
that I liked the most about this story, by the way,
because of them, they caught this guy, James Armstrong, who
was arrested shortly afterwards. Apparently everybody knows about him. Apparently
he was squatting in the housing of NYU. He was
(08:52):
in there in NYU housing, stealing stuff from other rooms
and then praying on the I mean or assaulting I
should say these girls. But he was arrested and the
reporters were there.
Speaker 12 (09:05):
James, help us understand.
Speaker 13 (09:07):
Why do you keep attacking women?
Speaker 14 (09:10):
What were you doing in a good apartment?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
What's wrong with you?
Speaker 15 (09:12):
James, James, anything you had SETI are victims.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Thirty five years old. He's going to be off the
streets now for a long time. He just got out
of jail for sexual assault. He served two years. But
the reason I'm pushing this story is because what about
these girls, all women, I should say, all getting together,
all joining together to get this guy.
Speaker 13 (09:38):
You know what.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
I was really happy to see, although it's scary. Right
after it happened, there were a lot of other young
women walking to class, you know, so we're looking at
nineteen year old, and they all came to her aid.
Instead of fleeing thinking where because you didn't know where
the guy went, so you know, he could have been
still around trying to attack them. They all came up her.
(10:00):
They got her off the ground, and they didn't run away,
and they didn't turn away.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
And it's a man that's being hailed as a real
hero because he came up to her, lifted her off
the ground and then gave her the cell phone said
you should call nine to one one right now, which
she wouldn't have done, she says. She said, I would
not have done that, but she called nine one one
immediately and they got this time. But have you heard
of this? I mean, please leave a talkback, because I've
(10:25):
never heard of this before. Apparently it's happening on the
streets of Manhattan all the time and it's incredible and
especially in that area. Just leave us a talk back.
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The story of Abigail Lewis that we started the show
off with is so upsetting, and yet there's a heartwarming
(12:35):
part of it. At so many people that came to
help her, not only in the streets. As Natalie was saying,
there was a group of women behind her that helped her.
That was a man that gave her cell phone. She
texted a friend and the friend got involved and went
out to find video and social media, came together with
her and said, this has happened to me. This has
happened to me. This has happened to me. And I
(12:57):
think that story touches a lot of people because it
is the community fighting back and that I'm not surprised
that we got so many talkbacks about it, and thanks
a lot. If you want to get involved in the conversation,
go to the iHeartRadio app. Look for seven to ten
wor there's a talkback section. You hit the microphone and
then we air what you have to say.
Speaker 16 (13:18):
Hi, I'm calling to talk about what happened to me
in New York City one time.
Speaker 13 (13:23):
This was like three years ago.
Speaker 16 (13:26):
I was standing there talking to somebody and out of
nowhere I got hit with a BB gun, a BB shot,
whatever you call it. It was so painful and it
came from some building, and to this day we don't
know who did it.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Oh my god. I mean, seriously, people just like to
hurt other people? Is that it? Random?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
People?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
They like to hurt, they get kicks out of that.
And the problem is for an offense like that, you
don't go to jail. You get to do it again.
You get to do it again and again and again
and again in this city because we have these weird
policies that favor the criminals and not the victims.
Speaker 17 (14:10):
Larry, he was arrested sixteen times this NYU assailant, and
he was out on the street again to assault young
girls who are vulnerable, who don't know, you know, what
to do when they're hit from behind. What a horrible situation.
And I hope that he doesn't get out of jail
(14:33):
this time.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Right, Thanks, thanks for putting out the number. I didn't
say that. I just said I said he's been arrested before.
But you're right, sixteen times. But the last one was
the most egregious because he did get jail time and
it was for sexual assault, but he only served two years.
He had a ten year sentence and he served two
years and then he was back on the street. This
is I believe, the biggest story in the nation, certainly
(14:57):
the biggest story in New York Week on crime policies
across the country and the way they hold onto them
because they don't want to admit that it's a mistake,
even though we see every day when you get shot
with a bb gun by somebody that probably was assaulting
other people, or you get hit on the street by
(15:19):
someone who just got out of jail for sexual assault,
that should be story number one. That should be story
in center number one across the country for everybody running
an office. But extent it's affordability. Well, I'll tell you
here's an interesting story and it comes to us out
of Australia. Australia has been enforcing a social media limit
(15:44):
of sixteen starting next week. Under this law, children younger
than sixteen will be banned banned from holding accounts on
major platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube.
Social media companies must take reasonable steps to prevent underage
(16:06):
users or they will be fined find like millions of dollars.
Speaker 15 (16:11):
In one week, Australia will become the first country in
the world to ban under sixteens from having social media accounts.
With one law, we can protect Generation Alpha from being
sucked into purgatory by predatory algorithms. Described by the man
who created the feature as behavioral cocaine. If a child
(16:33):
has a social media account on ten December, then that
platform is breaking the law.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
So the question for you is, if this law came
to the US, would you support it or do you
think it's up to parents to decide. Leave us a
talk back. Now, let's get the Jaqueline Carral with the
six thirty news. Jacqueline.
Speaker 12 (16:52):
There are US law makers or demanding answers today as
they receive a classified briefing on the American strikes again
suspected Venezuela and Narco. Navy Admiral Frank Mitch Bradley is
expected to face tough questions about why the same boat
was hit multiple times on September two, even after survivors
were spotted, and Instacart issuing New York City over new
(17:14):
pay and tipping laws set to take effect in January.
Speaker 18 (17:17):
Instacart has gone to court over new laws that will
affect the way it does business in the Big Apple,
the San Francisco based company which pays its grocery delivery
workers thirteen dollars an hour, would be required to pay
them more than twenty one bucks an hour, the same
minimum wage as restaurant delivery workers, Instacart would also have
to offer tipping options of ten percent or more. Instacart
(17:40):
claims New York City's new laws are unconstitutional because they
discriminate against commerce by out of state companies. The city
says instacart workers deserve better. Sara Lee Kessler wor News.
Speaker 12 (17:54):
So what do we think about the combination of vodka
and machetes? According to NDTs, an influencer name Keith Castillo
has drawn widespread criticism for handing out eighteen inch machetes
and alcohol to homeless people in cities across the US.
He claims the machetes are to keep homeless people safe,
(18:15):
but critics say he's making vulnerable people dangerous. When asked
about giving alcohol to potential substance of users, Castillo says
he doesn't care because it's quote good for.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
The clicks and views. What do you think is he
of visionary or biscuit head?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
What horrible timing for him that he follows the story
where a homeless person runs after a woman and smacks
her in the butt as hard as they could and
he wants to hand them machetes.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
I can't believe someone would do that for social media clicks.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
I mean that person.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
That's exactly what it is. You're right, You're right, that's
the motivation.
Speaker 7 (18:48):
That's insane, I know.
Speaker 12 (18:52):
And that particular combination. And where's he getting these machetes?
Like do we go on eBay for these?
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Amazon?
Speaker 12 (18:58):
I don't know, but I mean to like think like
I'm going to help the homeless. I'm going to give
them huge machetes to like to protect themselves, and just
so they're pretty alert and ready for anything.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
I'm going to make sure they have some LACA with that.
That person really should be in jail.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
That's the first time something happens. They should go after him.
If something happens, they should go after and arrest him
as an accomplice.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Absolutely, no question. We have to remember this story another way.
Social media has let us down.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Thanks a lot, Jacqueline. The admiral who signed off on
the second air strike on a crippled Venezuela and drug
running boat is testifying to Congress today behind closed doors,
and there is brand new information out that completely clears
the admiral. All that's next, Well, Donald Trump, you know
the one that the New York Times says is so
(19:51):
tired all the time was out and about yesterday he
had about four different press conferences and apparently it was
up all night tweeting and writing on truth social as well.
And of course one of the big topics is still
these Venezuelan boats. And this is going to be embarrassing
for the Democrats, well except that the media just moves
on to the next thing they can attack Donald Trump on.
(20:12):
But each one of them fails. And I don't know
why we don't go back and look at each one
of them and say, Okay, you were wrong about this,
you were wrong about this, you were wrong about this,
you were wrong about this. So the latest is the
strike on the boats, war crimes investigations. People should resign.
That's what the Democrats were saying. And the media was
in tow in all of that. And Donald Trump was
(20:34):
asked about the strikes.
Speaker 19 (20:37):
I think you're going to see it very soon on
land also, yeah, plase.
Speaker 15 (20:40):
So to be clear, do you support the decision to
kill survivors after the n No.
Speaker 19 (20:44):
I support the decision to knock out the boats. And
whoever is piloting those boats, most of them are gone.
But whoever piloting those boats, they're guilty of trying to
kill people in our country.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
That was a little bit of a tease. That was
a little bit of a tease that he was giving
because he's seen it obviously, and they're going to put
it up online for everybody to see. And I love
the fact that they held it for so long so
that all of this could stare up and stare up,
and so they could make the other side look sillier
and sillier. A couple of people have talked to sources
(21:18):
that talked about what was really on that tape and
what really happened when they took the boat out of
the water.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
According to a source familiar with the incident, the two
survivors climbed back onto the boat after the initial strike.
They were believed to be potentially in communication with others
and salvaging some of the drugs. Because of that, it
was determined they were still in the fight and valid targets.
A JAG officer was also giving legal advice.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
A lawyer signed off on the whole thing. A legal
attorney that is very capable and learned in military law
much more than these idiot congressman said yes, go ahead,
now you're allowed to strike. And Michael Moulroy, former secret
(22:09):
under Secretary of Defense says the same thing, and he
heard the same thing.
Speaker 20 (22:14):
They would have determined that if this event happens, then
they would have been back in the boat and potentially
moving again, which would make them, under the original order,
free to fire upon legally.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
But from the very beginning, the Democratic Party finds themselves
always because it's so knee jerk, they don't wait to
get the information. It's so knee jerk. It's Donald Trump.
We hate Donald Trump. So he did something evil, he
did something wrong, And his name hasn't even really come
up in all of this. It's mostly been Pete Hegsath,
(22:48):
who wasn't even in the room and one of the
most esteemed admirals in the US Defense Mitch Bradley, he
was in question, he was the But everybody was saying,
Gud's against Trump. It's Trump and Trump. We had talkbacks,
people saying, oh, Donald Trump, he knew Well, nobody ever
said that, and yet that's what this was all about.
(23:10):
But even from the beginning, that knee jerk reaction puts
you on the wrong side of the issue with the
American people.
Speaker 21 (23:21):
I Don'm not going to get upset with Pete Hegseth
because he was too mean to the narco terrorists. This
threat has to be eliminated. These people are killing American citizens.
That's what the President's focused on.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
It exacerbated under the Biden administration when they left the
borders wide open. One hundred and twenty thousand people a
year were dying from fentanyl, over four hundred thousand. That's
a big city, all wiped out in four years with
fentanyl coming over. And that was okay. Apparently that was fine.
(23:57):
Now when you try to stop it, Oh, you're you're
a bad man. You're a bad man. Listen. All of this.
The strikes are also to keep the fentanyl out of
the country and to keep the drugs out of the country,
but it's also to put pressure on Meduro to step down.
And you know about the phone call with Donald Trump.
We don't know all the specifics, but what has gotten
(24:18):
out so far is they were talking about him going
into exile. That Donald Trump was clear with him, you're
not going to save your presidency. You can't stay in
you got to go, and he was asking for protection.
So it really got to a negotiations there for a while.
But it's clear that the people around him, the people
that have profited off Maduro. The rich and the powerful
(24:41):
in Venezuela are getting tired of him, and right now
they're having to sell off assets. This is a Victoria
Coats so you just heard a second ago. She's the
former deputy National Security Advisor and she's been noticing something
really fascinating. These geysers ellenoff assets so the country doesn't
(25:02):
go bankrupt.
Speaker 21 (25:03):
Their refinery cit Goo in Houston is being auctioned off
essentially as sheriff's sale to satisfy their debtors.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
They're going to run out of money.
Speaker 21 (25:13):
So on top of everything else he faces, you know,
the country is really circling the drain.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Yeah, it's circling the drain right now because they can't
sell any drugs anymore. We cut off their money source.
And you don't think Machado is going to give up
some of his money or the rich people are going
to give up some of them in their money. They're
selling assets, they're selling government assets to try to pay
So there is turmoil in that country right now because
(25:40):
of the pressure that Donald Trump's being put on. And oh,
by the way, they have an aircraft carrier and a
fleet of army ships off their coast.
Speaker 8 (25:49):
We had asked the show of force. This military there
is not there to kill speedboats. It's there to demonstrate
to Manduro that it is in your best entry to
voluntary lead. The president has already made up his mind.
I believe that regime change is what is called for.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Here, right. I think that's been the case from the
very beginning. All of this is pressure on Maduro to
finally leave, and that would make the whole Western hemisphere
a lot safer. And you know who would get back
into office, Well, she never got an office in the
first place, even though she won the election. Maria Coriina Machado,
the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, has been in
(26:30):
exile and she talks every once in a while to
the media and she would come back as a hero
and all she wants to do is bring democracy back
to that country.
Speaker 13 (26:42):
We have asked for years international community to cut these
sources that come from drug trafficking and other criminal Here
is finally this is happening, and he has been worn
what not to do. These debts are the responsibility of
Nicolas Madudo exactly.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
And listen, she hails Donald Trump as a hero. In Israel.
They hail Donald Trump as a hero around the world.
They love his efforts to bring peace and to bring
down dictators and to get rid of terrorists. Only in
(27:21):
this wacky country, because we're so infected by politics, do
we have one side that doesn't want those things only
because Donald Trump wants them? That put them side on
that side of the issue. Now, look, I know many Democrats.
They're pretty good people. They're just being forced into a
corner that they shouldn't allow themselves to be forced into.
(27:44):
There's some things we can all agree on. Maduro's a
bad man. Maduro's gotta go. Drugs are bad. We should
cut them off. And every time you scream and yell
about it, you end up looking silly. The next thing, though,
I'll tell you what Maduro doesn't come is strikes on
(28:07):
drug facilities inside Venezuela. And that's a whole new topic.
And we'll talk about that another day when we come back.
We'll update you on the peace talks in Russia. Oh yeah,
that's going on too, face to face with Putin when
we come back.
Speaker 22 (28:25):
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Speaker 14 (29:19):
Big cold front to the west of US coming through today,
We'll only get up to about forty degrees with clouds
fixing with sunshine. Think most of that sun this morning, Larry.
Snowshowers can find mainly west day and north today at
a cold night at quite breezy, a windy at times
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right now thirty four wor I mean you're all just
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top stories. Good morning Ray.
Speaker 12 (29:47):
The latest on the Venezuela and boat strikes. More on
the homeless man arrested in a random attack on an
NYU student and the MTA is swapping M and F
service routes permanently. Details coming up on seven to ten WR.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
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Speaker 2 (30:33):
So Hey, have you heard Donald Trump's trying to bring
peace to Ukraine? The reason I say it that way
is because again we just talked about the story of
the Venezuelan story that once again it's turned on the
Democrats and they didn't have all the facts, and their
outrage started before they got all the facts. So and
they again once again they look silly. But then in
(30:54):
this in the piece in Ukraine story, you have a
president who now is trying to end this war, and
having to end this war, you have to treat the
other sides, both sides that are fighting, with some respect.
You can't do what Biden did if you want to
bring peace. Of course he never wanted to. My belief
(31:18):
with Joe Biden is that he was making as many
of these politicians are, by the way, case in point
Mikey Cheryl, they're getting a lot of money from the
industrial defense complex. A lot of these defense companies have
bought off many of these politicians. And Joe Biden was
(31:39):
in the Senate for a long time as a warhawk,
and so in my book, he suspect all along. So
the fact that he was buying all these arms, the
USA government was buying all these arms and just pouring
them into Ukraine as people died, is suspect to me.
At the very least. Donald Trump is not that way
at all. Donald Trump is allergic to the word. Donald
(32:00):
Trump does not want to be involved in wars if
he can help it. And that's why I think this
thing in Venezuela, he's just showing a show of force.
He wants Medua to leave. He does not want to
have any strikes in Venezuela. And if there are strikes,
they're going to be limited and it's just going to
be some drug operations. But so far so these talks
(32:22):
are going on to end the war in Ukraine, which
is what should have happened all along. We shouldn't have
just kept fueling the war so more people died and
more buildings were ruined, so that we could help rebuild
them and we could make more money, money, money, No,
he gets in, he's got enough money. He gets in
and he says, this is stupid, this is ridiculous. We
(32:45):
have to end this war. And he said something yesterday
that really struck home. He said, we shouldn't have waited
this long to try to bring peace. We allowed Russia
to take territory and now they don't want to give
that territory back. And so Ukraine's saying, well, no, no,
we can't give up all that land. Russia saying we
(33:06):
took it. And what they're saying is you give us
another year, we're gonna take this. We want that too,
And that's where the rub is right now. The thing
that they can't get over is Vladimir Putin having to
(33:27):
always be the strong man, having to always talk about
how he can conquer any country, and he can't. Their
defenses have been weakened, which is why they're even talking
right now. But this thing that he said about Europe,
because all Europe was saying, all the European countries were saying,
and the head of the European Union was saying all
(33:49):
along was we need to be able to defend ourselves
and we have to watch out about Ukraine because they'd
be right on our front doorstep, and now Putin took
that as a threat.
Speaker 23 (34:03):
We are not cleaning to go to war with Europe.
I have already spoken about this one hundred times. But
if Europe suddenly wants to go to war with US
and starts, we are ready right now.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Most people just laugh that off because it was so ridiculous,
But Europe is a big player in this, a big
player in peace, and what they say does matter. Here's
mark Root from the EU.
Speaker 6 (34:31):
How do we make sure that Ukraine states the strong
as possible. The peace talks are ongoing, that's good, but
at the same time we have to make sure that
whilst they take place, and we are not sure when
they will end, that Ukraine is in the strongest possible
position to keep the fight going, to fight back against Russians,
but also in strongest possible position when Pea stocks.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
What he said was really important, You've got to read
between the lines and a lot of that. So what's
happened is that Vladimir Putin made his demands twenty eight points.
He was brought back nineteen points. Some of them were
cut out completely, others were moderated he won, dumb beast.
He wants the entire thing. He hasn't conquered all of that,
and Ukraine's saying it doesn't want to give it up.
(35:14):
But the biggest battle is that can be negotiated. I
think we're on the way to negotiating that. But the
biggest thing is that Ukraine would have to cut half
of its defenses and that's a non starter, and that's
where Europe gets involved. We'll talk more about it a
little bit later, but we can talk more about it
with John Decker, who's coming up. The admiral who signed
(35:36):
off on the second air strike on a crippled Venezuela
drug running boat, is testifying to Congress today behind closed doors,
and wor White House correspondent John Dekker is covering that
he's here with all of the details. We're going to
have that. We'll also talk to him about what the
peace talks, and of course what is happening in Venezuela.
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