Hour 1: Weight loss drugs

Weight loss drugs.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh, good morning to you. Newsflash, it's still cold out there,
so make sure you put on a jacket today. There's
some chances are ragned, but not till late tonight. Other
than that, it's a really nice week. It's just gonna
be it's gonna be cold, but you know, it's winter
in the Big Three. Zor storing Mom Donnie has reached
out to the White House asking for a meeting with

(00:21):
President Donald Trump. The mayor of New York.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
I will say, would like to meet with us and
we'll work something out. But he would like to come
to Washington to meet and we'll work something out. We
want to see everything work out well for New York.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Yeah, there's gonna be a meeting. They're both still talking
about it. When and where is still up in the air.
In Israel, Mayor Eric Adams met with Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin net and Yahoo. Before the meeting, Mayor Adams was
asked on Israeli TV if Mayor Mom Donnie was an

(00:55):
anti Semite.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
I think that when you talk about not doing business
with Israel, not willing to acknowledge that you're going to
march in Israeli Day Parade, not being willing to state
you're going to come and visit Israel in other countries.
It sends the wrong message and he has to define that.
But I know those who are part of the DSA

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and those who are marched in our streets saying horrific things,
that is a clear sign of anti Semitism to me.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
There are reports that Donald Trump has made up his
mind on either a land or air attack on Venezuela,
and the President of Venezuela now wants to talk to him.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
Is there anything you're ready to rule out at this
point or ruling out US troops on.

Speaker 5 (01:38):
The ground that I don't rule that anything. We just
have to take care of ven as well. They dumped
hundreds of thousands of people into our country from prisons.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
The vote on the Epstein files will come today in
the House, and with President Trump's backing now, it's expected
to pass easily.

Speaker 6 (01:57):
We may get to a unanimous vote. Look, this is
the most horrific, disgusting scandal in American history. You had
Epstein with basically a rape violand thousand plus victims and
rich and powerful men who raped underage girls or covered
it up and haven't had accountability.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
As the Democrats in Congress obsess over Epstein. The Trump
administration is hyper focused on the economy now and bringing
prices down.

Speaker 7 (02:26):
I think twenty twenty six, thanks to President Trump's signature plans,
is going to be a great year for working Americans.
For the markets. I call it parallel prosperity. Main Street
and Wall Street can both do great, but I think
Main Street's going to have a great year in twenty
twenty six.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Speaking of bringing prices down, after pressure from Donald Trump,
the cost of weight loss drugs like ozempic and Wagovi
go down starting today.

Speaker 8 (02:52):
For self paying patients. Starting today, patients can access we
go vi nozempic for one ninety nine a month for
the first few months, and then it moves to three
forty nine a month.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah, it's still expensive, but it's gonna go down. It's
gonna go down, but it's gonna keep going down after that.
The problem with this is that these golp one drugs
are so beneficial in health, not only for losing weight.

(03:24):
You know, that's that's just the advertising for them. You're
gonna lose weight. And I think we all know somebody
now that's been on a golp one drug, and if
they admit it, A lot of people likes to tell
you that they just lost the weight on their own. Yeah, right,
in a month, you drop thirty pounds. I got it, Yes,
I get it. But if they will admit it to you,

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they will tell you how good they feel all around.
Because this is not just an important drug in losing weight,
it's a miracle drug because weight gain causes so many
other problems, and having and carrying a lot of waight
causes so many other problems. The problems you know are
list diabetes, you know, that's number one, heart disease, liver disease,

(04:11):
it might cause Alzheimer's, that's what they're looking out right now.
In dementia because it builds up plaque on the brain.
There's ailment after ailment, serious ailment. Death causing ailments after
ailment after ailment after ailment are now attributed to weight
gain and carrying too much weight. So this is too

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important to outprice it.

Speaker 7 (04:37):
This.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
If there is a life saving drug out there, it's
much too important to Americans to outprice it now. I
know Donald Trump went to them and said, we need
favored nation status. We need the price to come down
all over but the price of it is still too high.
Most Americans can't afford to pay three hundred and forty

(04:59):
nine dollars a month. Most Americans can't afford to pay
even one ninety nine a month. This is way too
high and it's way too important. I don't care how
they do it, because it saves lives. But they need
to bring the price of these drugs down now, even

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now as it is. A study has been out and
one in eight Americans, one in eight adults, i should say,
in the US take a GLP one medication such as
wagovi or ozembic one in eight. This is according to
a poll release November fourteenth by the health health policy

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nonprofit KFF. The survey found about one in four users
had to pay the full cost of the medication. That's
how important this was to them. They're paying one thousand
dollars a month, nine hundred dollars a month to save
their own lives. Can't the government subsidize some of this.

(06:10):
I'll tell you what Donald Trump wants to wants to
win the midterms. Take care of this. Don't just bring
the prices down a couple of hundred hours. So it's
where it's still unaffordable. It's almost worse that it gets
to the point where you can almost reach it, where
you can almost get it, but you can't. You can't,

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and so you have to suffer through all the ailments
you have and what could possibly happen to you. It
really is just not fair. But you know, let me
go through the prices. How about this, we'll go through
what they're at today.

Speaker 9 (06:46):
The daily pill will be available in multiple doses like
the weekly injections, and effectiveness is anticipated to be very
close to the injections for now. Competitor Eli Lae I waning.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
To stop this and explain what terror nrula is talking about.
Who is a doctor who works with ABC News. She's
talking about the pills coming out and a lot of
people are waiting this for this it's going to come
out soon. I think it's going to be put out
by Nova, and so the pill form is going to
cost a little bit less, but the pill form of

(07:20):
many many people I know of in my life. Look,
i'd like to I will fully admit I'd love to
take this. I would love to, but I got two
kids in college. You know, I have other expenses. I
can't afford this, right now, I can't put this into
my life. My wife would like to take it too,
and if anybody, I'll let her go first. And so

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I'm not going to be able to take it for
a while because I'm just like you or a lot
of people out there. I can't afford this right now,
and I just I think that's inherently unfair. Maybe when
the pill comes out, because they say it's going to
be a little bit cheaper now here, the.

Speaker 9 (07:58):
Daily pill will be a voul in multiple doses like
the weekly injections, and effectiveness is anticipated to be very
close to the injections for now. Competitor Eli Lilly has
not made an announcement about reducing costs this year, and
they too have a GLP one pill seeking FDA approval
that they hope is available by next summer, starting at
one hundred and forty nine dollars a month.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
See now, that would be pretty good. So if you
can wait till next year. The pill form seem to
be a little bit less, but still over one hundred
hours a month. Still you're going to be paying, you know,
fifteen hundred hours a year to lose weight. Is it
worth it? Yes? Yes, only because it deals with so

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many other things, including heart problems, things that can kill you,
things that can make you die younger. So even if
you're even if you're a little overweight, I'm not talking
about a couple of pounds, I'm talking about a couple
dozen pounds overweight. It's worth taking. And that's why I

(09:08):
just wish they would bring it to market a lot sooner.
Here's the price drop that we're gonna get.

Speaker 9 (09:12):
Right now and on the horizon, non injectable weight loss
medications in the form of a daily pill.

Speaker 8 (09:19):
For self paying patients. Starting today, patients can access we
Go vianozembic for one ninety nine a month for the
first few months, and then it moves to three forty
nine a month.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
Right, So you get it for one ninety nine for
two months, and then the third month that drops up
the three forty nine. And by the way, the first
two months really do nothing. I mean, you'll have weight loss,
but if you go off off and after two months,
you're gonna go right back up. So the whole thing
is a big scam. Here here, here's what I would

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say just to end this. What I would say to
end this, and I'd love to hear from you about
this by leaving leaving us a talk back on seven
to ten wor on the iHeartRadio app. To see this
is something you want, something you've been trying to get,
something you can't afford, something you'd love to have. And
if you agree with me that this is such an

(10:14):
important drug right now that it should be subsidized, not
the companies. They don't get the money. We should get
the money. We should get money off on this, go
to the iHeartRadio App. I just think it's that important.
If there's a life saving drug, we should be able
to get it.

Speaker 5 (10:35):
Well.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
A wedding turned into a trip to the er after
a bride'smaid's dance floor stunt went horribly wrong. Hear her
shocking story next, plus tickets to see air supply at
A twenty five. All right, let's get right to your talkbacks.
What we've been talking about is the GLP one drugs
like ozempic and wigo V. The prices come down. It's

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still expensive, but the prices come down because American we're
paying more than all the rest of the world. And
Donald Trump put an end to that. And it's not
gonna be able to go to generic until years from
now until about five years from now. So I was
saying that it's such an important drug that we need
to get it out to more people and maybe even

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subsidized that some more people can afford it. And man,
did that get a reaction. Let's start with a wonderful story.

Speaker 10 (11:26):
I'm fifty seven years old.

Speaker 5 (11:28):
I have high blood Russia, high cholesterol pot disease.

Speaker 11 (11:32):
I'm diabetic, and I tooked to my doctor.

Speaker 7 (11:36):
He put me on the GLP one medication.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
I went from eighty five two hundred.

Speaker 12 (11:43):
And I am all that other medication.

Speaker 13 (11:47):
I feel amazing.

Speaker 4 (11:48):
I feel like I'm in my twenties again.

Speaker 11 (11:51):
It's a new lease.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
That's amazing. Congratulations and I'll tell you what, You're going
to live longer now too. I mean, obviously you're going
to live longer because you got rid of all those
other ailments, and so God bless you. I'm glad you
took it. Yes, there are certain people that they can
go to the doctor and get prescribed this and they
pay pennies on the dollar because health insurance pays the

(12:18):
rest of it.

Speaker 14 (12:19):
Walked, walked fasted for lunch, didn't have lunch, and I'm
down to one ninety nine. I was two thirty. For
people who are You're right. For people who are overly overweight,
I would say, yes, take it. But people who like me,
we just had like maybe thirty pounds or something like that,

(12:40):
I don't. I think you're just gonna have to, you know,
discipline yourself.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
You're right, You're unbelievably right. I mean, if everybody had
the time for that, and I know what you're gonna
say is find the time. But some people can't, Like
I can't. I can't find the time for that. I
used to exercise all the time, and I can't right now.
Just the schedule that I'm on right now, and especially
having you know, kids and grandkids and all that stuff,

(13:06):
It's hard to find time. It really is in a
given day. And so I understand. And there's other people
out there that are working two jobs and doing shift
work that don't have the time for that. So yes,
you're right, You're right. If you do have the time
and you can fit an hour into your schedule somewhere,
then absolutely, diet and exercise is the way to go.

Speaker 4 (13:29):
Mari, you sound like a socialist democrat. Doesn't anybody believe
in free market economics anymore? Why should the taxpayer have
to subsidize people losing weight, when in fact there's a
very simple answer, just stop eating.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
Yeah, it's not that easy for a whole lot of people.
I agree with you, and on almost everything else I
would agree with you. But this is obscenely priced. It
is obscenely priced because they knew they could get it.
And what do you see the profits they take in
on this. So you're talking about free market, Well, this
is above the pale. And in the past the government

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subjects during COVID we subsidize a whole lot of stuff, Polio,
they subsidize a whole lot of stuff. I would argue
that this kills as many people, and so at least
they can bring down the price a little bit. But
I look it for most things, I absolutely agree with you.
I just know it's something we do all the time,
so why not do it here? Now, let's talk about
this story. And by the way, I've seen people that

(14:31):
do this exact move where somebody lifts the guy lifts
a woman up in the air and they try to
do the dirty dancing move, and every time they do it,
you just go oh no, oh god, oh no, this
could turn bad. Well, in this case it did turn bad.
Bride's made Hanna Burish. This hale went viral, by the way,

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because the whole thing was on video. It was a
freak accident at a best friend's wedding in Texas. They
were trying the dirty dancing move and her husband lifted
her up and then she went backwards and well, she
ended up in the hospital. She hurt her hands, her head,

(15:14):
her neck, her collarbone, wrist, she broke her clavicle. Here
she is in the hospital.

Speaker 15 (15:20):
The bride can't was too and she was like, hey,
you got to get the dance floor going. And I
did the worm so many times and my knees were sore,
and I was like, I'm doing the most dance for
is going as best I can. And then my husband
and I did a little line dancing and two stepping,
and we learned this really cool trick because we think
we're dancing at the stars and we're like, should we
do it? And we were a little tipsy and he
threw me up in the air and didn't catch me,

(15:41):
and I landed on my head and my neck and
I broke my clavicle. And now I'm getting an urgent
orthopedic surgery the next day.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yeah, she just had a child. She's breastfeeding. The thing is,
how about that she's an MMA fighter, so she's not
in horrible for.

Speaker 16 (15:55):
Yeah, and she'd admits she was extremely lucky she was
not paralyzed. And she's joking about it in the hospital bed,
which is you know, it's kind of crazy.

Speaker 1 (16:03):
But this is the big lesson here. What she said,
I was.

Speaker 16 (16:07):
A little tipsy.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
He was probably too.

Speaker 16 (16:10):
Yeah, do not ever attempt and lift when you're a
little tipsy. Thank god, she's okay.

Speaker 1 (16:17):
Here's the thing. She wins every argument the rest of
our lives. She has this to hold over his head
no matter what happens from now on out.

Speaker 16 (16:25):
Jacqueline, no dirty dancing moves.

Speaker 10 (16:27):
Now, I'm gonna try. I'm gonna try. I can't make
any promises. Let's get the Jacqueline with the six thirty naws, Jaqueline.
The House is prepping for a vote to release all
of the Jeffrey Epstein files. The Chamber is expected to
take up procedural measures today which could start to pay
the way to force the Department of Justice to release
all of the Epstein investigation files. It comes as newly

(16:50):
released document show President Trump mentioned in Epstein emails dating
back to twenty eleven, and Governor Cathy Hogel says she's
considering alternatives to free buses in New York City.

Speaker 12 (17:01):
It was one of New York City mayoral like zoron
Mom Donnie's campaign promises, and Governor Hochel is asking the questions.

Speaker 17 (17:09):
Who are we really trying to help with some of
that proposal? And I am not shut throwing cold water
on any plans because I just met with the mayor
elect and we're having really important, you know, collegial conversations
about his agenda.

Speaker 12 (17:23):
The governor says, despite the fairfaars and discounts for students
and seniors, she wants to understand what other groups are
impacted by the cost of paying a bus fare. She
says she's looking at all the numbers and what the
real cost of everything is, adding she doesn't have the
answer now.

Speaker 1 (17:37):
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Speaker 10 (17:40):
There are some who think there's a potential hostile alien threat.
According to lad Bible, the mysterious three i at Liss
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of Elon Musk. This is the same object that Harvard
professor Avi Lobe has claimed there's a thirty to forty
percent chance of not being naturally formed.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
It could even be an alien.

Speaker 10 (18:02):
Mothership according to that theory Musk who has said that
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is do for a flyby on Earth on December nineteenth?
Earth Wings?

Speaker 8 (18:22):
What do you think of that?

Speaker 10 (18:23):
You woken up yet? Everybody got their coffee ready.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
Waiting for the mothership?

Speaker 17 (18:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (18:28):
Yeah, I mean according to this, we've got like about
a month boy, or.

Speaker 16 (18:32):
I haven't even done my Christmas shopping yet.

Speaker 10 (18:34):
Come on, well, well you have to worry about Christmas,
I don't think yeah nineteenth.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
Oh, so just don't do it.

Speaker 10 (18:41):
I'm gonna bother this year into the dirty dancing move.

Speaker 16 (18:46):
And then if it happened. If it doesn't happen on
Christmas morning, I'll be like I thought the mothership was coming.

Speaker 10 (18:52):
God, perfectly acceptable explanation, Thanks.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
So much, jack Lin. Carlo Zurimandani reaches out to the
White House and it sounds like the President will meet
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Speaker 10 (19:36):
W O R traffic slow going on the inbound side
of the guanas?

Speaker 1 (19:40):
Your brother zurin, Mom Danni and Donald Trump? Did they
make up? Because they were saying horrendous things about each other?
But the two of them apparently now are going to
meet the mayor of New York.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
I will say, you would like to meet with us
and we'll work something out. But he would to come
to Washington and meet and we'll work something out. We
want to see everything work out well for New York.

Speaker 1 (20:06):
How did that happen? How did he change like that?
On Mom? Donnie? You know, I guess it's pre election
talk and then post election talk. And now he understands
that he has to work with this guy because not
only does money go to New York, which he threatens,
but money from New York goes to Washington DC. Much

(20:30):
more money goes to Washington d C. I think the
whole state sends back almost three hundred and fifty billion dollars,
and much of that comes from New York. So it's
an important meeting for the two of them to have.

Speaker 18 (20:45):
I look forward to having a conversation with President Trump
because it's one where I'll make clear if he wants
to work together to deliver on his campaign promises of
cheaper groceries or a lower cost of living, I am
there and I am ready to go. But if he
wants to talk about pursuing a campaign agenda that comes
to the extents of New Yorkers, that is something that
I will find.

Speaker 1 (21:02):
Yeah, I wouldn't talk like that when you talk to
Trump because it'll be the quickest meeting ever and then
there'll be repercussions. So he's got to learn, like Donald
Trump just did just is leave out that kind of stuff,
leave out the you know we're gonna do this. I'm
gonna do this. I'm gonna go in and I'm gonna say, hey,
you know you promised affordability. If you if you do

(21:24):
all that stuff. It's not going to go really well
for you and both sides. As I pointed out, both
sides would have something to lose. New York City a
lot more because the funding from the federal government that's
taken out of the New York City budget is more

(21:45):
significant percentage wise than the money from New York that
goes into the federal budget. They can do without it.
At the federal level. It'll hurt, but you know they
can do without it the local level. It means all
of those programs that mom Donnie wants to do would
go away. So it's going to be just fascinating when

(22:08):
you love to be in the room to hear what
they really talk about, because in every one of these
meetings it's different than the public discourse. When they get
down to just brass tax and like what do you
really need do this? Can you do this? It becomes
more of a negotiation. But man, the way they've talked
about each other in the past, you wonder if they

(22:30):
can get buy some of that stuff.

Speaker 18 (22:31):
This is a moment where we have to address the
administration for what it is, which is authoritarian. It's going
to require us to do everything in our power to
fight back, not to coordinate like Andrew Cuomo's don being
on the phone with Donald Trump, or collaborate like Eric
Adams is done by welcoming Ice into the city.

Speaker 1 (22:46):
Yeah, I think in the past a couple of times
he's called him a fascist too, hasn't he.

Speaker 13 (22:51):
And it's where the mayor will use their power to
reject Donald Trump's fascism, to stop mass ICE agents from
deporting our neighbors, and to govern our city as a

(23:12):
model for the Democratic Party.

Speaker 1 (23:15):
Right, So he's called him a fascist, he's called him
an authoritarian. Now Trump has called him what my little communists?
He called him a communist. He's never called him a socialist.
Right from the get go. When Mom Donnie first was running,
he was this is back in the primaries, he was
a communist, and then he started calling him my little communist.

(23:37):
So Donald Trump has said some pretty bad things about
Mom Donnie in the past two They're.

Speaker 5 (23:42):
Worried that somebody that like this communist from New York
someday gets elected. I can't believe that's happening.

Speaker 1 (23:48):
That's a terrible thing for our country. By the way,
he's a communist. We're going to go to a Communist ecceet.

Speaker 5 (23:53):
That's so bad for New York, but the rest of
the country is revolting against it.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
So there's a lot that they have to get pass
for this first meeting. What do you think is going
to happen at this meeting? What do you think good
can happen at this meeting? Because if you play in
to the narrative, and I do. I said it very
early on, as a matter of fact, the very first

(24:18):
time that Donald Trump was attacking Mom Donnie, I said it.
And there were several people that thought that I was
crazy by saying it. Remember very early on when Mom
Donnie started to rise in the polls, and I said
that Donald Trump's playing chess while everybody else is playing checkers,

(24:38):
that he wants Mom Donnie to do well, that he
wants Mom Donnie to win, that this is the best
thing that could happen to the Republican Party. And I
believe that Donald Trump many times came during the campaign,
came out and said, you know, I kind of like
Andrew Cuomo was to hurt Cuomo and not to help

(25:04):
Mom Donnie. Because Donald Trump is poison in New York
his name with an eighty percent Democratic registration far to
the left. I mean, look, he needs no better proof
than mom Donnie becoming mayor, far far to the left.
They hate Donald Trump, and I think he infused himself
many times in the election. So Mom Donnie could win

(25:27):
because all he cares about is his agenda going forward,
and his agenda is threatened in this midterm. This is
the most important thing to him, and the future of
his administration is the midterm. So there's no way at
this meeting, Mom Donnie wins. There's no way at this

(25:49):
meeting that he says, you know what, you seem like
a good guy. I'm going to give you a lot
of money for New York City. It's just not going
to happen. It's not gonna happen because Donald Trump needs
him where he is is. He needs a failing communist
in New York City to win across the country and
to use him as a cautionary talents as an example,

(26:10):
a bad example, seeing what can happen to you, See
what's gonna spread across America. See who the Democrats are.
They're Zorin Mamdani, my little communist. So this is all
a setup too. This is the lure men to use
him for the midterms. And in the meantime, we're going
to get dividend checks from the tariffs. In the meantimes,
he's cut off tariffs on coffee and other goods, so

(26:32):
prices go down. All of this is going to happen
in the next year, you trust me. Next year, after
January first, going all the way up to the midterms.
All these good things are going to happen to America
for the midterms, but Zuri Mamdani is not going to
be one of them. Is America getting close to invading Venezuela,
It sounds that way. We'll talk about it. Next to Maduro.

(26:56):
Has the president of Venezuela, the illegal is there of Venezuela,
kind of one of the biggest cartels in the world,
has called Donald Trump and wants to talk.

Speaker 5 (27:11):
We have lost hundreds of thousands of people, your dead.
And that's not talking about family destruction and talking about that.
And much of it comes through.

Speaker 1 (27:22):
Mexico, that is true. Much of it does come through Mexico.
It starts in Colombia and then comes through Mexico. So
Mick Mulroy, who is the Assistant Defensive Secretary under the
Obama administration says that he thinks an attack now is

(27:46):
imminent in Venezuela. So many other people believe the same thing.
That's because we sent our biggest aircraft carrier into the area,
and we have many other naval ships in the area,
and it seems as if that is all getting ready

(28:07):
for some type of invasion.

Speaker 19 (28:09):
This level of force. So about twenty over twenty percent
of our naval forces are now in the Caribbean. That
is going to put a lot of pressure on Mordurerol
ahead of these conversations that the President just talked about having.
If that doesn't work or it's not sufficient for the
United States, these could easily turn into direct action airstrikes

(28:29):
against the production facilities and transport hubs in Venezuela.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
Right, So you're hearing already talk in the defense world
about a possible invasion because they've been here before, they
see how it starts. Now is it a threat. I
don't know that's a threat or not, but it sure
doesn't seem like it. And Maduro is scared. I don't
know if you've seen video of him. Now, he's out

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in the streets saying, you know, pray for Pe and
reaching out to the American people, and Donald Trump's not
that way. Donald Trump's talking about how many is Maduro's
reached out to Donald Trump to have a conversation. Donald
Trump says that final have the conversation if you need to.
But it doesn't look good at this point.

Speaker 5 (29:19):
He's done tremendous damage to our country, primarily because of drugs,
but really because we have that problem with other countries too,
but more than any of the country. The release of
prisoners into our country has been a disaster. He's empty
his sails. Others have done that. Also, he has not

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been good to the United States. So we'll see what happens.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
Right, So, I don't think the conversation is going to
go anywhere. The gating is going to change this at
this point. There's a lot of military right now in
the region. There's a lot of ships in the region.
They're getting ready for something. And this was a little
bit startling.

Speaker 4 (29:56):
Is there anything you're.

Speaker 18 (29:57):
Ready to rule out at this point?

Speaker 5 (29:59):
Are ruling out that? I don't rule at anything. We
just have to take care of Venezuela. They dumped hundreds
of thousands of people into our country from prisons.

Speaker 1 (30:11):
Yeah, that's what he's more upset about than anything else.
It's the fentanyl that's a big deal too. But he
did empty his prisons. We know that our intelligence knows
that he emptied his prisons and sent them all across
the border. So trend de arragua started in Venezuela in
a prison, So trendy arragua that we now have on
the streets of New York. Trendy arragua, responsible for countless

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crimes and murders on the streets of New York, came
from Venezuela. And that's what Donald Trump is upset about. Also,
the fentanyl that comes from Mexico and Venezuela he's upset about.
But I don't think, no matter what Maduro says at
this point in the conversation, there's any getting out of this.

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He's been labeled a terrorist and all of the cartel
sites are considered terrorist sites.

Speaker 11 (31:03):
What the Trump administration is attempting to do is demonstrate
to the elites that are surrounding Moduro that is not
worth keeping this guy in as our lita. As an
army guy, I can tell you full out the number
one symbol of American military superiority is that aircraft carry
to sit now off the coast of Venezuela.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
So it seems to me at this point, and it
seems as you've heard from a lot of high security
of people, very people that know the military operations, that
this is the beginning of a military operation. Is there
a way out? Yes, of course there is if Maduro
resigns or if Venezuela revolts and takes Maduro out. But

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if not, something's going to happen. But because the close
alliance of Venezuela to China and Russia, I doubt they're
going to take out Maduro, and I doubt they're going
to be significant strikes, just the strikes against the cartel sites.
We'll talk more about that possible attack inside Venezuela and
also the Epstein files with White House correspondent John Decker

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after the seven o'clock news