Trump Reclaims Panama Canal - February 3rd, Hour 1

Sean covers the news that Panama is dropping partnerships with China and realigning to Washington DC, in no small part because of President Trump's assertive push over the Panama Canal. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, thank you Scott Shannon, and thanks to all
of you for being one of us. I'm just sitting
here chuckling to myself, you know, angry Chucky Schumer. Donald
Trump has aroused the American people. They've never been this aroused.
I'm like, what is he talking about? He's just angry, bitter,
just like the state run legacy media mob they have.

(00:22):
It is. It is spectacularly ignorant, studying and beyond incomprehensible
and even stupid that Donald Trump has been on the
on the national political scene as long as he has,
and that they have no understanding of Donald Trump. They
don't understand that when Donald Trump says tariffs that Donald

(00:46):
Trump has that is the beginning of negotiations, as evidenced
as what happened with Mexico today, as they have caved,
and what we saw over the weekend, Secretary of State
Mark or Rubio meeting with the leader of Panama and
Panama caving. They're kicking China out and they're bringing America

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back in. Just like Colombia was gonna fight us on
on not taking back their illegals. They caved, just like
Venezuela released hostages. This weekend, and they caved, and they
agreed to send the airplanes to pick up their illegal
immigrants in our country, including members of the violent trend

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de Aragua gang. Canada is panicking, but you know, it's
only a matter of time. I predict they will cave too.
And and we you know, look at this weekend, we
had hostages released, We had we we have Mexico, Mexico caving,
Panama caving, we have you know, Greenland now is in

(01:53):
play for the US. Oh yeah, we'd love more US involvement.
Danish leaders are saying, I'm like laughing at that. There
came hostages are home. Donald Trump got no credit for that.
How many people know that Donald Trump took out ISIS
terrorists in Somalia this weekend. It's getting next to no

(02:15):
coverage and just wiped them out. And the media is
trying to ignore that the FBI, the deep state is
getting cleaned out. Why is that important? Because what I've
been saying forever is that what used to be the
world's premiere law enforcement agency needs to be cleaned out.
The weaponization needs to end, the you know, politicizing the FBI,

(02:38):
our intelligence community needs to end. And the same as
the DOJ That also happening, people being walked to the door,
say given their papers and saying goodbye, you're done, and
it's it's it's just fun to watch the president, you know,
going full steam ahead on doge and cutting back on government.

(03:02):
I mean, we have about what fifty three you know,
billion dollars they've identified to save already. The FBI, you know,
Purge is underway, and that is people that have been
loyal to the likes of Comy and Director Ray that
will be there to sabotage Donald Trump. He can't have
them in the FBI. He can't have them in the

(03:24):
Department of Justice, you know, the president of bureaucracies being slashed.
DEI programs are ending. US AID funding has been canceled.
WHO funding has been canceled, and it's funny to see
the head of the Who's or any way you think
we'll be able to change Donald Trump's mind, I don't
think so. You can waste all the time, effort, and

(03:45):
energy you want, but I don't think it's going to
work out. Well. You know, just like we left the
Paris Accords, i'd like to see us leave the WEF
and frankly, the United nations. But that's just me. You
have gender ideologies been eliminated. You have these former Intel
officials like Brennan and Clapper and others that knew nothing

(04:06):
about Hunter Biden's laptop except in the weeks leading up
to the twenty twenty election, wanted to give Joe Biden
a talking point before their final debate. They've all lost
their security clearance. Is HE border crossings have dropped by
a whopping ninety three percent. Is HE water from northern
California now all of a sudden making their way down

(04:26):
to southern California. Reservoirs are filling up. And I'm only
beginning to touch the surface of what's happened. What has
become the biggest challenge on this radio program and on
my TV show is getting out all of the news
to everybody. But you know, it's a big deal. You know,
as President Trump has been saying, Panama violated their agreement.

(04:51):
We didn't give the Panama Canal to China to have
control with and they went into deals with China, and
now they're about to get out of those deals. And
now America deserves after all of its contributions. We should
never have given up the Panama Canal to begin with,
you know, airstrikes on Isis. How many of you even
know that Isis leaders were attacked and killed this weekend

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without any civilian casualties in Somalia. I bet you zero.
We have elon Musk. I'll get into this in some detail.
Ripping the fraugile and Treasury handouts as they got a
chance to look at the federal payment system. When you
find out that not a single payment was ever stopped,

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I mean, that's like an open checkbook for fraud, waste, fraud,
and abuse. This is insane anyway, So Panama pledged to
end a key canal deal with China and instead they
will now work with the United States. They had seated
control over their critical shipping canal to Beijing, and by
the way, they were charging us more than other countries

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on top of everything else. Secretary of State Mark or
Rubio you know, embarked on that mission, did a phenomenal job.
Good for him. Panama pledging to end this deal, and
the State Department estimate has it around seventy two percent
of all vessels that travel through Panama and the Panama
Canal are coming, you know, from or going to a

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US port. We need to be in control of that.
That matters. Now. It may not sound like a lot,
but how many people even knowed knew that six Americans
were freed from captivity in Venezuela. The government of Nicholas
Maduro freed these people after receiving pressure from the Trump administration.

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Donald Trump spent sent a special envoy our friend Rick
Renelt to negotiate their release. Earlier this week, Renell posted
a video on social media of him greeting the Americans
after their release. Hello, I'm an American diplomat sent by
President Trump, but I'm here to bring you home. And
then having Maduro, Why do you think Maduro is all

(07:04):
of a sudden agreeing to take back all the illegal
Venezuelan trend de Arragua and everyone else, illegal immigrants that
have come in the country. And Trump got very strong
as the negotiations with Panama were moving forward. He said,
he warned, we're going to take the back the Panama
Canal or something very powerful is going to happen. So

(07:25):
it was either take the deal or they will be
held to pay. That's pretty much what it was. Because
we're not letting China have control of it. And China
didn't build it kinda. It took American ingenuity, American you know,
American genius to help build this. And China didn't lift

(07:46):
a finger. They have no, we didn't make a deal
with China. They shouldn't have anything to say with it anyway.
The airstrikes in Somalia destroyed the caves that the terrorists
were living in, did not in any way harm civilians.
Are you military has targeted this ISIS attack, But Biden
and his cronies, you know, this plan has been in

(08:07):
place for years. They wouldn't act quickly enough to get
the job done. I did. The message to ISIS and
all the others who would attack America is we will
find you and we will kill you. That's a pretty
strong message. And ISIS under Harris and Biden have been
able to, you know, begin to re establish some power

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and control in areas around the world. Let me go
back to the issue of Denmark. They're prime ministers welcoming
the US role in Greenland after Donald Trump basically has
said invited Greenland to be part of the United States.
The US is absolutely our closest ally said Denmarket, and
they're open to more collaboration in the North Atlantic region.

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We have a clear interest that it's the US that
plays a large role in that region and not, for example, Russia.
But he did reiterating that Greenland is not for sale. Well,
we could have a joint partnership. This is a negotiation.
Also on top of you know, we better start paying

(09:11):
attention to China. I'm talking to people that I know
that are in the national security arena this year and
the hell out of me about China. China is constructing
a doomsday command centered ten times larger than the Pentagon.
They've got nearly a three hundred ship navy. They continue
to build out their hypersonic missile technology now with maneuverability,

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and America has a gap of vulnerability and it's going
to take America ingenuity, brilliance, dominance in the AI sector
if we're going to build out that next generation of weaponry.
I think the most interesting analysis I have from the
weekend is, you know, presidents from digging in his heels

(09:56):
after imposing these these duties on goods from Mexico, Canada
and China, and the reaction of the Democratic Party and
the media mob was predictable. Well, the tariffs that were
went into place. Today ended very quickly after a phone
call with President Trump and the Mexican President, Claudia China Baum.

(10:21):
And anyway, it was simple the US what I say, Shinebaum. Sorry, Anyway,
we're asking Mexico to end the flow of fentanyl and
other drugs that are killing Americans from streaming into the
US from the southern border. We're demanding Mexico live up
to their promises to stop illegal immigration. We're demanding that
Mexico stopped providing safe haven for cartels to manufacture and

(10:45):
transport fentanyl and other dangerous narcotics that are killing Americans
into this country. The Mexican government must end their alliance
with drug trafficking cartels in the country. And by the way,
Donald Trump in no way is wrong on any of this.
As far as Canada, he's demanding more of the same,

(11:08):
that they must end the flow of fentanol and other
drugs from streaming into the country, live up to their
promises to stop illegal immigration, stop providing safe haven for
cartels to manufacture transport dangerous narcotics as they have been doing.
And President Trump was very clear, Canada has been very
abusive of the United States for many years. They don't

(11:29):
allow our banks. You know, Canada doesn't allow American banks
to go in and do business. Pretty amazing. Canada has
been tough for oil and energy. They don't allow our
farm products in. Essentially, they don't allow a lot of
things in. They basically have had tariffs on us, and
we have done nothing to fight back. And I noticed

(11:50):
that there was a Canadian American hockey game and Canadian
hockey fans booed the national anthem. I'm fine with that.
I don't have any problem with that because as soon
as they realize that this is going to hurt them. Now,
if you look at the amount of money that the
US spends, you know, on and what we do for Canada,

(12:11):
Canada is the better beneficiary of so much from the
United States. If you remember back in twenty fourteen in Crimea.
Donald Trump becomes president twenty seventeen and he demands that
every NATO country pay two percent of GDP on defense.
There's a report October twenty twenty four NATO has a
Canada problem. The Canadian government is one of the few

(12:33):
NATO allies that fails to meet that two percent defense
expenditure threshold. Canada is more than capable of meeting their obligations.
You know, Canada, according to Reuters, would have would have
to double defense spending by twenty thirty two to twenty
thirty three to meet a NATO target. On top of that,

(12:55):
we import fifty three billion dollars more in goods and
services from Canada every year we export to them. We
have a massive trade deficit. Canada, before Donald Trump lifted
a finger, charges tariffs on imports of US dairy poultry products.
Canadian regulations prevent US seeds from being imported. The US
provides seven point four million dollars per year in foreign

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assistance to Canada. Why are we giving them a penny?
We contributed in twenty twenty two thirty two million dollars
in foreign assistance I mean their contributions to NATO. They
represent six point seven percent of NATO's budget. We pay
sixteen percent of NATO's budget. Canada has not secured their border.

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If you look at the border sector in the northern
part of our country, they they apprehended twenty thousand the
illegals from ninety seven different countries last year alone. That's
higher than the prior seventeen years combined, which is unheard of.
And if they want to fight with the US, then
let's have a fight, because they're going to lose in
the end. It's like Columbia it came to that realization.

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Mexico came to that realization, and now the Danish coming
to that realization. And I have Panama's coming to that realization.
And I imagine that the same thing will happen. You know,
look at USAID for example, why are we spending twenty
two point five eight billion for fiscal year twenty five

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and twenty four. Biden spent forty four point two billion
for USA. Why are we giving money to USA? The WHO,
the Paris Accords, the WEF, Why are we spending so
much money on the UN. Let's let China be in
charge of all of it. Who is nothing but a
propaganda wing for China anyway, I you know, it's very

(14:43):
interesting to just watch how people react, you know, when
Donald Trump speaks and the lack of understanding. I watched
whole weekend. You know, you watch these you know politicians,
the Chuck Schumers of the world. We'll play him later.
You know this is going to cost you, you know,
it's going to cost more for avocados and it's it's

(15:03):
gonna cost more for this. And I'm listening to him
and I'm like, are you really that stupid? Are you
really you know? Have you have you just been so
focused on your hatred or Donald Trump that you can't
see the first through the trees? Have you not learned
a thing? That's what I was thinking the most as

(15:24):
I was watching. I'm like, have you not learned anything?
Watching Donald Trump? I've known this man for thirty years.
Everything is a negotiation in Canada. If they don't want
to follow, if Canada wants to continue to have the
benefits of not having free and fair trade with the US,

(15:45):
and if they were, I'm sure they want their fifty
three billion dollar trade you know, surplus that they have
and we have a trade deficit. I'm sure they have
no prob They're the ones charging tariffs on US imports
are dairy and poultry. Their regulations prevent US seeds from
being imported. The other ones that get foreign millions and

(16:06):
foreign assistance from US. You know, in twenty twenty two,
the US contributed thirty two million in foreign assistance. The
other ones that are not controlling their borders, you know,
as we pointed out twenty thousand illegals from ninety seven
different countries in fiscal year twenty twenty four. It's not
good for their country that these people are there illegally,

(16:28):
and it's not good for our country. That number is
hot higher than the prior seventeen years combined. It's unheard
of and until these terarifts are removed, we don't know
what happened in the conversation yet with Little Justin, but
the President did put on truth social earlier today that
he did speak with the President of Mexico. It was

(16:50):
a friendly conversation. She agreed to immediately supply ten thousand
Mexican soldiers on the border separating Mexico in the US.
These soldiers will be specifically desertignated it to stop the
flow of fent and all any illegal immigrants into our country.
Be further agreed to immediately pause the anticipated tariffs for
a one month period, during which we will have negotiations

(17:13):
headed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of the
Treasury Scott the Cent and also Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnik,
and high level representatives from Mexico. I look forward to
participating in those, you know, so we can attempt to
achieve a deal between our two countries. Okay, and then
the president also you know, said no to us AID spending.

(17:36):
I'm like, good, why are we spend what? Why did
Joe Biden spend last year forty four point two billion dollars?
You know? The purpose they say is the deliver of
civilian foreign aid and development assistance. You know, why why
we have a forty trillion dollar deficit? Why are we
spending forty four billion point two billion dollars last year?

(17:58):
In fiscal year twenty three was fifty point zero nine billion.
You know. The agency us AID has had numerous and
at numerous time has been accused of allowing their bidding
process to be influenced by political and financial interest. They've
been accused of trying to influence politics around the world.

(18:19):
Brazil's largest newspaper accused us AID of trying to influence
some political reform in Brazil to benefit quote right wing parties.
The Bush administration was accused of using USAID to fund
efforts in Bolivia to undermine Morales's government and co opt
the country's dynamic social movements. You know, you go back

(18:40):
over the years Venezuela, Cuba, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua, you know,
and so many other countries called for USAID to be
expelled from their countries. That was back in twenty twelve.
You know, in the nineteen nineties, USAID is a group
that implicated the force sterilization. I'm approximately three hundred thousand

(19:03):
indigenous women in Peru as part of money's launched there.
The New York Post reported USAID gave nearly a million
dollars to Gaza, a charity there tied to Hamas. Six
days before the October seventh attack, The Biden administration repeatedly
used USA to push a push abortion. According to Foxnews

(19:25):
dot Com on on Africa, why are we spending billions
of dollars like this. We've got to re We got
to rethink all that we do. And that's what Donald
Trump is doing. That's why you keep hearing me use
the word transformational. Look at the Panama Canal. You know,

(19:47):
it took American ingenuity, It took American you know, engineering
and planners to make this happen. We lost thousands of
people in the effort, and and laborers from other countries,
tens of thousands of people anyway it opens up to traffic,
the US begins administering the Panama Canal Zone. And this

(20:09):
is nineteen fourteen. And if you want the history of it,
which is part of the US run by a governor
appointed by the US. By the way, John McCain, you
may not know, this was born in the Panama Canal Zone.
And the reason that he was a naturalized citizen because
he was born on what was then US soil. We
owned it, we built it, we owned it, we designed it.

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It was ours, and it changed the world for the better.
And Jimmy Cardiff, for whatever insane reason, negotiated this ridiculous
treaty to return the canal to Panama. Over the course
of twenty years. And by the way, Panama, we gave
Panama seventy four million dollars in foreign aid. And now

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Panama is involved in allowing China to have all this
fear of influence over it. It's insane. It was interesting
the FBI agents. Now, how could Donald Trump return the
FBI to the world's premier law enforcement agency if the

(21:15):
same people that weaponized it and politicized it against him
are still there. Because the people that went after Donald
Trump were all part of it. The people that never
enforced our border laws of the FBI were all part
of it. The people that were going after, you know,
moms and dads like Linda to show up at school

(21:37):
board meetings because they don't like Vogue policies or have
disagreements with the educational curriculum shouldn't have been targeted. While
Joe Biden was allowing known terrorists, burderers, rapists, cartel members,
gang members into our country, they should have been enforcing
the law. They failed. And anyway, so so many of

(21:59):
these people, the leaders were escorted out of their office,
and apparently there was one senior FBI official forcefully resisting
the Trump administration firings. Okay, well then that your job
is going to end. Miranda Divine had a good column today.
You know, if you listen to the likes of Jamie
Raskin and all these other bureaucrats whine about due process,

(22:22):
well did they give Donald Trump due process? Did they
give anyone around Donald Trump due process? The FBI was
warned not to use the Hillary Clinton bought and paid
for dirty Russian disinformation dossier to spy on Trump and
Carter Page, but they used it anyway. The same FBI
that gave Hillary Clinton a pass no reasonable prosecutor would

(22:44):
prosecute top secret classified information. But then that same FBI
rated mar A Lago and and goes, you know through
Malania Trump's you know, personal items and Baron Trump's personal items.
I mean, this is insane. They rummaging through what his

(23:05):
wife's underwear drawer? Are you? Are you kidding me? And
Joe Biden as top secret classified information and four separate locations,
no raid there either, and John Brennan, you know, hyperventilating. Well,
not one of the fifty one former Intel officials knew
a thing about Hunter Biden's laptop. Not one of them.

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And if they're afraid of anything, well they shouldn't be
afraid of a thing. What they should want is that
America go back to its original purpose and bring it,
the FBI back to its original purpose. We have real
enemies in this country. Now we have another, you know,
bit of news. Elon Musk, you know, apparently was able to,

(23:51):
with Donald Trump's permission, you know, get into the Treasury
payment information and reports that circulated the Department of Government Efficiency,
gain access to the federal government's payment system, and the
most amazing thing is the Doge team discovered, among other things,
that payment approval officers at our Treasury Department were instructed

(24:12):
to always approve payments even to know fraudulent or terrorist groups.
Apparently they literally never denied a single payment or career,
not even once. Musk posted early Saturday morning. I read this,
I'm like, you got to be kidding me. Nobody there
was no checks and balances at all. Anyway, We're going

(24:34):
to find billions and billions of dollars. You know, we
throw out these billions and trillions and millions and it
kind of gets lost. Forty trillion dollars in debt. That's
we're putting that on our kids and grandkids. You know,
it's time to literally turn over every penny, every nickel
this government spends and spend it efficiently. And that's why

(24:56):
we've got to also bring in more money. And the
way you bring in more money name we'll have Doug
bergermon the Interior secretary, you know, to talk about how
quickly we can actually become energy dominant. And you know,
why are we paying money to all these globalist organizations
that often show nothing but hostility towards our country? You

(25:18):
think you think the Paris Accords was a good deal
for America. It was not a good deal for America.
So there's so much happening at breakneck speed. On top
of there was a twenty eleven GEO Government Accountability Office study.
It found that nearly three million criminal offenses were committed

(25:38):
by illegal aliens in this country. Now, this is the
amazing thing. You watch, Alena Gomes. You watch the media
that they're having a fit that Donald Trump is fulfilling
his campaign promise. He's deporting all of these people that
didn't respect our laws or borders or sovereignty. They never
shed a tear about any of the Americans murdered, raped,

(26:00):
victims of violent crime, not one time. The White House
announced the arrival of the forces deployed to Gitmo to
assist in expanding that prison for the housing of these
illegal immigrants, which is what we should do. I mean
might as well. It is a pretty big big deal

(26:21):
that Venezuela agreed to take back their illegal immigrants, including
members of the Trende Aragua gang. The sanctuary state of
New York, guess what, my old state. Overwhelmingly the people
support comporting criminal illegal immigrants until they were told it
was Trump's ideal. You can't make this up. New York

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Post seventy nine percent of New York voters statewide told
Siana College Posters that they back kicking out undocumented workers
who've been convicted of a crime with the with that
figure including sixty nine percent of Democrats seventy one percent
of his Hispanic Americans. According to the survey release today,
the new numbers come in. But when the SIANNA as

(27:06):
specifically whether New York should support President Trump's deportation initiatives, well,
you know, it plunged to thirty one percent. Well not
if it's Trump's idea. I mean, how funny is that.
Joe Mansion, he said, no, one's talking about one hundred
thousand deaths a year. We've had more deaths from drug abuse,

(27:28):
drug overdoses, drug use than anything else. And he goes
on to say, between Mexico, China and Canada, you know,
defend all they're sending to America. We've got to put
an end. It's hurting every American. And tariffs, So what
the tariffs are for, this is what they're for, to
stop and use it to protect Americans, to use it

(27:49):
to save American lives. Good for him. I was glad anyway,
So the Marines have shown up. Senator Tom Tillis of
North Carolina has filed bill that would allow the victims
of migrant crime illegal immigrant crime to sue the sanctuary
cities that facilitated the crime. I hope Republicans pass that bill.

(28:13):
Immigrants are avoiding food aid amid deportation threats. They're getting
protection from elected officials like the governor in Illinois. Eventually,
the if you're going to aid in the bet in
the law breaking, you're gonna end up like Chicago leaders
encouraging residents to exercise their rights, trying to teach them
how to resist ICE and deportation. You know. Then you

(28:36):
have a group of people literally communicating their setting up
these communication websites to warn people, Oh ICE is in
the city. One sanctuary city under house investigation ignored a
detainer on an illegal immigrant charge with rape. Whose side
are you on here? It's unbelievable anyway, eight hundred and

(28:59):
nine is on number. If you want to be a
part of the program. LA Freeway blocked by anti deportation protesters,
maybe they should have sent ICE agents there. If you
don't respect our laws, borders, and sovereignty. If we don't
get rid of these criminals, this will be our only chance.
We better pay attention. Eight hundred and nine four one

(29:19):
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