January 6, 2026 • 28 mins
In Hour 1, Sean Hannity breaks down a rapidly shifting global landscape as mass protests erupt in Iran, Cuba teeters on the edge of collapse, and Nicolás Maduro’s grip on Venezuela finally snaps. Sean examines reports of Iranian security forces standing down, escalating unrest in Tehran, and growing signs the regime may not survive. He also explains why Cuba’s economic model is unraveling and how Venezuela’s liberation could reshape the Western Hemisphere. This hour sets the stage for one of the most consequential geopolitical moments in decades.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thanks to all of you for being with us.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Right down our toll free telephone number if you want
to be a part of the program. We've got so
much in the news today, so much happening today. Also
in the course of this program, Maria Corrino Machado, the
leader of Venezuela's Democratic opposition, will join us. She pulled
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me on on television last night. She's planning to give
her Nobel Peace Prize to President Trump. And she you know,
all these years, even after Maduro took her off the ballot,
after she won the primary with ninety two percent plus
of the vote, that you know, she stayed in her
home country, knowing her life was in jeopardy. And you know,
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with things, you know that there's not the security stability
that you wanted.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
This time.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
You got Maduro loyalists, you got Trende Ragua, you got
Narco terrorists, and and you know it's a precarious situation.
She's planning on going home and going home soon. We'll
talk to her. I hope everyone will keep her in
your prayers, as I think it's extraordinarily you know, brave,
but it is it is, you know, I mean, what
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is the definition of courage, right, I mean, she embodies it.
We have a lot of news out of Iran. There's
a lot of speculation that Cuba is on the brink
of falling. In the case of Iran, you have Iranian
reports of Iranian police that there's these massive protests and
this one in bazig Members, you know, the police and
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other military people climbed onto a police station roof. They
showed the crowd. They were laying down their weapons, raising
their hands in support towards the protesters. That's something that
only occurred in the nineteen seventy nine revolution that brought
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the Ayatola Komeni back into power, who'd been in exile.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
That was the fall of the shot of Iran.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Iranian security forces opened open fire on an anti regime protest.
Inflation is getting way way out of control. There's now
widespread reporting that the Ayatola komanie Is has a full
escape plan to flee to Moscow if in fact, these
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protests get much larger. The Ayatola Ali Kameni, they said,
he has an escape plan, and apparently that plan is
some short of pillage the country with as much money
as possible and stick it on a plane and apply
to Russia. I'm sure that Vladimir will get his cut
and he'll live out the rest of his miserable life
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in Russia before he heads straight and to send straight
into hell. Just guessing in all likelihood. But you have
protesters also clashing with security forces in Tehran's Grand Bizarre
and there's one report saying that the govern veromen cannot
handle this alone, that the security forces are not even
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willing to fight back. At this point, AP reporting security
forces clashing with protesters in Iran's main market. At least
thirty six people killed in demonstrations there, but people are
showing up and even larger numbers by the hour. Iran
is now offering citizens seven dollars a month. Oh, I'm sure, Glinda,
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seven dollars a month. I'm sure that's really gonna appeal
to people. That's really going to inspire people to want
to stay there. We have Lindsay Graham went on record
as predicting that Cuba. Now remember this, Cuba's economy has
been cut off and shut off from American investment for
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a long long time.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
And the one I.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Think one of the biggest if Cuba falls, all of
those old American cars so if you see images that
come out Cuba, it's like America retro nineteen fifties in
terms of like these old chevyes. Remember we used to
make those big, big, you know, Chevy cars, and I
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don't know, I guess they're using you know, tape and
whatever they can get a hold of to keep these
these engines running on these cars.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
But I'm sure that's going to be a big business. Linda.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I'm sure you're going to be in there probably buying
one of those old relics and put it in your driveway.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I'm sure you've been dying.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
On my wish list.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
You want a fifty seven Chevy, you want a convertible?
Which one you want?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Absolutely?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Can't you just picture that you show up to work
my fifty seven Chevy, come right down Fifth Avenue and
make mom Dommy so happy.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I'm sure it probably would. He probably likes, you know,
communist Cuba. My favorite line back going back over the
years is Michael Moore, you know, bragging about how great
the healthcare system was in Cuba, and then we get
images out of you know, hospitals in Cuba that are
filthy dirty with zero equipment, zero supplies, basically empty and
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you're pretty much on your own. But there's no way,
as Senator Graham was saying, that this communist dictatorship will
be able to survive after the takedown of Maduro because
that was their sole energy source.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I mean, Venezuela basically just a hop, skip and a
jump from Cuba. The Cuban president Miguel Diaz Canal, succeeding
Rayel Castro as the country's leader in twenty twenty one.
Months later, the largest anti government demonstrations in nearly three
decades occurred amid food medicine shortages during the pandemic. President
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Trump telling reporters on Air Force One on Sunday that
the Cuban regime is ready to fall. The Secretary of
State Marco Rubio, whose own parents left Cuba. I mean,
if you haven't heard Marco's story, personal life story, it
is really inspiring. I got to see the Secretary of
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State over the holiday and spend a little time.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I met him and his wife. That just lovely people.
I mean.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
And this you know, many are calling Venezuela and Cuba
falling Marco's revenge. But anyways, parents left Cuba during for
the US during the reign of Batista and anyway the
Cuban regime should be concerned in the wake of Maduro's capture.
It's very similar to Venezuela in the sense that we
want to help the people in Cuba, but we want
to also help the people who are forced out of
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Cuba and living in this country. And the Cuban government
meanwhile condemn the operation. The only thing that's keeping the
Cuban economy afloat, to be very honest, is the generosity
of the Cuban American community in this country. That is,
you know that that is the lifeblood. You know, people
sending money to their families to keep them afloat and
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to keep food in their stomachs. And supplies are limited,
and now energy will be scarce, if nonexistent, as a
result of the fall of Maduro. So that's the next
shoot have probably dropped is Look, we're living through a
time of very of dramatic change, and I would argue
change for the better. It doesn't mean that all of
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this is going to be smooth. It doesn't mean that
all of this is going to be perfect. I mean,
and we'll get into this in great detail with Maria
coriina maschado because you still have, I mean reports that
you know, for example, fourteen journalists have been arrested. They're
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trying to seek out people that are pro Trump in
Venezuela right now, but those forces will not survive. Eighty
six percent of the people in Venezuela live in poverty,
and they live in poverty because the entire government is
corrupt and has been corrupted first under Hugo Chavez and
now under Nicholas Maduro, and it's just a matter of time.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I think one of the most the.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Untold stories of all of this is Maduro's Chinese and
Russian built air defense systems. He had air defense systems.
Now it's not been widely reported on, but he had them,
and it was given to them by China and by Russia.
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And you know, one of the geopolitical strategic wins in
all of this is Russia, China, Iran, We're all looking
for a foothold in our hemisphere and they look to
Maduro and in exchange, they got cheap energy, cheap oil,
cheap gas. Remember when they nationalized the oil industry in Venezuela.
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What they did is they stole you know, the American
oil companies have been on the ground there since the
nineteen twenties.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
I went through a history of.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
That yesterday, and we built out that infrastructure. They have
what's described by people in the industry as dirty oil,
meaning it needs a lot more refining than cleaner crude oil.
That's basically what it means. And we have the capacity
to do it, and many other people do not. And
as we speak today, the Energy secretaries meeting with the
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heads of energy companies oil companies in America to see
how fast they can get the oil up and running
efficiently enough to produce enough wealth not only to take
care of the people of Venezuela, but also all these
companies that were ripped off all their equipment, all their
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hard work after the nationalization took place. I believe the
year was nineteen seventy six, Jimmy Carter was president, but
all these air defense systems of China and Russia. Turns
out President Trump's description of Venezoila's operation one of the
most stunning and powerful displays of america military mind and competence,
was pretty spot on. Because the US was able to
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paralyze and shut down because of our cyber warfare capabilities,
Venezuela's entire electricity and communications grid. America's defense establishment have
been working on these cyber weapons now for decades. And
then there was the extraordinary ability to suppress Venezuela's air
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defense systems that, according to all my military sources say
is very sophisticated. The country had advanced Russian made long
range S three hundred surface to air missiles, medium range
bug missiles, short range you know, shoulder launch missiles which
could be lethal for slow moving helicopters carrying US special forces,
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and it just you know, it shows the might. The
advancement of American military technology is second to none.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Now.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Venezuela had installed also an estimated seven units of the
Chinese made j WHY twenty seven eight radar systems, touted
as being able to detect even US stealth bombers, and indeed,
only a few weeks ago, the Venezuelan defense minister boasted
that these Chinese installations accurately locked on F thirty five
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fighter jets at a distance of seventy five kilometers from
Venezuela's shores. But neither the Russian nor the Chinese air
defense system appears to have made the slightest bit of difference,
which is a combination of real time US intel, electronic warfare,
and precision weapons knocked them all out. And the single
US aircraft that was hit, and this was a Chinook
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helicopter during the operation, appears only to have been damaged
by scattered bullets. That's where I believe the one or
two injuries took place, but again not life threatening. But
the total dismantling of Venezuela's air defense systems mirrors exactly
what Israel achieved during their twelve day war against Iran
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going back to June, and it's likely to cause a
lot of head scratching among military planners in Moscow and Beijing,
our top geopolitical foes. For it serves as a very
clear indication that the US military superiority in this domain
and many others remains unchallenged, and a handful handful of
other militaries around the world possessed capabilities to mount similar operations,
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none can do it on the scale of the United
States military, and in pure military terms, the US military
continues to reign supreme.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Now this may also there is there is this.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
China, Iran, Russia component to all of this, for example,
China's top diplomat. What was interesting, too, is a Chinese
delegation had arrived the very day that we attacked, just
before the attack. But anyway, you know, they're just them
and the U. The United Nations is useless. I don't
know why we spend billions of dollars a year, Linda,
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don't you love it in the fall of every year
when the UN and all these leaders of all these
corrupt countries show up in New York City. I know you,
I know you're now Pennsylvania, but I would love.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
For the UN to be anywhere but the United States.
I think they should put it over with Ursula from
the wef let her handle it. I think it would
beautiful wherever she wants to put it in the U.
Maybe London, you know, one of her countries. I think
they'd be very good.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
I could tell you for a fact. Europe is done right.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
So let them take the UN and they can die together.
It'll be wonderful.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Okay, that's very warm. It's just like your new New Year.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Knew me right to the point.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Okay, it's a new year, but it's not a new U.
That is quintessential. You that's a secary part of you.
And I got my first uh huh on air for I.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Know you already got the one off air, and I
get the one on air. Look at you.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
That usually means that's Linda's way of expressing disagreement without
using the F bomb. That's right, let's be honest. I'm
just being blunt with the audience.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Yeah, they love uh.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Now, we had two illegal truck drivers now accused of
smuggling three hundred pounds of cocaine across Indiana.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
You see what this is, and you know what.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
The problem is with all of these drugs, THEUD they
you have no idea. These dealers for ten dollars, twenty dollars,
fifty dollars, one hundred bucks, they don't care what they
put in it. They're not chemists. They didn't in most
cases go to MIT. They didn't go to medical or
study chemistry in college. They didn't got to have it.
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They didn't go to any of these elite institutions. They
don't care who they kill for for ten bucks. I mean,
if you ever watched that GEO and the traffickers and
the drug dealers that are under I mean, it's horrible.
They know they're putting ventanol that could kill people in it.
They just don't care. If you look at the Maduro indictment,
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it accuses the Venezuelan dictator of direct involvement in trafficking
thousands of tons of cocaine to the US. We lose
about two hundred Americans a day because of drug overdoses
in this country anyway. The indictment accuses the Maduro of
partnering with some of the worst, the most violent, prolific
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drug traffickers narco terrorists in the world to allow for
the shipment of thousands of tons of cocaine into the US.
They allege powerful and violent drug trafficking organizations, the Sonola Cartel,
the Trende Aragua gang worked directly with the Venezuelan government,
then sent profits to high ranking officials who helped protect
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them in exchange. I mean it's a criminal you know,
it's a crime family. By the way, the indictment accused
Maduro and his wife of ordering kidnappings, beatings, murders against
those who owed drug money or otherwise undermine their drug
trafficking operation includes the killing of local drug boss. A
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local drug boss in Caracas. According to the indictment, nephews
of Meduro's wife were heard during recorded messages with confidential
US government sources in twenty fifteen agreeing to send multi
hundred kilogram cocaine shipments from Aduro's presidential hangar out of
Venezuelan Airport. The nephews recorded the meetings and explained that
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they were at war with the United States, according to
the indictment, resulting in as much as two hundred and
fifty tons of cocaine traffic through Venezuela annually by twenty twenty,
Meduro's thugs in Venezuela trying to go door to door
hunting for any supporter of Donald Trump. And you know
there's going to be a lot of cleanup. The key
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to success long term here and this is not going
to be with complications. I want to just give everybody
fair warning. Is going to be how quickly American energy
companies can innovate and get and extract the oil and
refine it and get money into the economy because eighty
six percent of the Venezuelan people live in poverty. And
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we'll talk to Maria Corino Machado, the opposition leader, coming
up later in the program about this very issue. Today,
about ten million Venezuelans have fled that country because of
the conditions being so awful. I mentioned yesterday, remember Jorge
Ramos went to Venezuela. You know, should be one of
the if they they are the most energy rich, oil
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rich country on Earth, they should be the richest country
on the face of the earth, and they're not. They're
one of the poorest because of all of this this
corruption that has existed there. So you know, we've got
they've got a lot of work ahead, and you know,
we'll talk about what this transition, how long it's going
to take, and so on and so forth, what it
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means for the people in Venezuela, and I hope it
means a lot of good for them.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Linda, are you there.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
I'm always here.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Did you hear the story? Department of Homeland Security. Hilton
Hotels released the statement, now they're one of their properties
denied entry to Department of Homeland Security agents either way
shouldn't shock you. In Tim Walls, Minnesota. Hours earlier, the
Department of Homeland Security accused Hilton of launching a coordinated
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campaign to refuse services to DHS law enforcement, including in
the tweet or screenshots of emails that agents receive. The
emails specifically cited the immigration work connected to your name
is the reason the reservations were suddenly canceled. Another screenshot,
the hotel representative explicitly said that the property will not
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house anyone associated with immigration enforcement.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Word for that.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Isn't that called discrimination? I think that's called discrimination, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:05):
And Nick Sorder, who we love another citizen journalists went
in there and filmed them because they came out like
press release, and they were like, no, no, no, there's
a misunderstanding. So he goes in and says, well, what's
going on and the guy's like, no, my manager just
came in told me I'm not lead to let anybody
in here. He's like, I don't know what's going on
with the pr He's like, but we are not giving
reservations to ICE agents or law enforcement that's here for
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anything to do with this operation. So I'll tell you what.
I got a thousand Hilton points. I'm never using them.
I'll never go back.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
I don't know if i'd give up the free points.
I mean, that's free stage. I'm kidding. Problem.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
So, so Hilton the company put out a statement saying
that their hotels were welcoming places for all. After one
of their properties canceled the reservations for ice, it says
Hilton will have to do more. You know, I'm looking
at this and I'm saying because they they push back
that they're siding with murderers and rapists. According to the
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statement attained by our friend Bill Malusion, my colleague at
Fox Hilton Hotels is a is as welcoming places for all.
This hotel is independently owned and operated, and the actions
referenced are not reflective of Hilton values. We are investigating
this matter with this individual hotel and can confirm that
Hilton works with government's, law enforcement and community leaders around
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the world to ensure our properties are open and inviting
to everyone. I'm not sure, and Bridge Hume made this point,
Hilton's going to have to do a lot more than
this to keep this episode from becoming a public relations disasternaut.
I can accept that this is probably independently owned and operated. However,
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if they have the rights to the Hilton name, you
can't convince me easily, if at all, that Hilton does
not have the ability and the right, and frankly, the
responsibility to go in and put an end to that practice,
or fight them in court and take back their name,
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because I would that was my good name, and it
was Hannity Hotels.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I would fight back.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
I mean, I will be curious to see what happens.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
I will be curious to see if they're going to
stand by the hotel or if they're going to stand
by their patrons.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Their patrons are speaking very loudly.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
It is viral on every single social media platform, and
people are they're on the boycott. They've got every single
type of Hilton hotel out there. They've got all the numbers,
the locations. They either need to take that franchise over
and figure out who that manager is, fire them, and
like do like a press conference from there, welcoming the
ICE agents in. I mean, they have to do something
otherwise it's going down. It's going to burn flames.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
No, definitely, all right, let me move on. By the way.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
The deranged hammer wielding alleged Van Dolacus the busting windows
at vice president of Vance's home in Cincinnati, reportedly the
son of a prominent millionaire family, appears to have been
going by the name Julia. According to the New York Post.
William four twenty six arrested after allegedly shattering four windows
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of Vance's Cincinnati home. Police said De four was attempting
to break into the home around midnight. The Vance's obviously
weren't there, thank goodness. It is unclear whether to Four,
according to The New York Post, identifies as transgender or
non binary, and he recently appeared to be posting under
the name Julia de four. Hops did list the suspects
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named as William and his gender as male. Probably will
anger some anyway, The family donated a lot of money
to Kamala.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Harris, etcetera.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
All right, let me tell you something. There's a lot
going on, and I don't have time to really do
a deep dive. We'll do some of this on Hannah tonight.
Remember during the campaign for Marxist Kami Mumdani and he
said this about white people.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
We went on your website and realized there's a policy
proposal that says your plan, and I'm going to quote
it for folks, is to shift the tax burden from
overtaxed homeowners and the outer boroughs to more expensive homes
in richer and wider neighborhoods. Explain why you are bringing
race into your tax proposal.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
That is just a description of what we see right now.
It's not driven by race.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
It's more of an assessment of what neighborhoods are being
under tax versus overtext we've.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Seen just stop again stop.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
If it's not driven by race, why would you mention it.
He's just a liar. Anyway, we will transition from treating
now by the way, one of the core tenants of
capitalism is ownership of private property. Now not in New
York City, they have a tenant director. The tenant director's
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name is Cia. It's Cea Weaver. Do I say that right?
I don't know how to say it. This is a
quote from the tenants director of Mamdani Well transition from
treating property as an individual good to a collective good.
Whites especially will be impacted.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
Lissa, I think the reality is is that for centuries
we've really treated property as an individualized good and not
a collective good. And we are going to and transitioning
to treating it as a collective good and towards a
model of shared equity will require that we think about
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it differently, and it will mean that family is especially
white families, but some POC families who are homeowners as
well are going to have a different relationship to property
though than the one that we currently have.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Yeah, I couldn't have well, Uh, Linda, what is the
word that we would use if we were talking about
Hispanic Americans or Asian Americans or African Americans or any
other you know, uh.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Basically anybody but white people. Yeah, it's called racism racial discrimination.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Will we think horrible? Check your text? By the way,
I just sent you something.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
By the way, our Meie Dillon, Assistant Attorney General for
Civil Rights at the DOJ, said that the FEDS were
ready to quote swoop in to protect Big Apple residents
in response to the shocking view. They shall be put
on notice that they're on high scrutiny.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Yeah, that's what the Civil Rights Division would do. That's
that's their job, all right. What am I looking at here?
Speaker 3 (25:51):
We got an update while we were talking about It's
good news.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Hilton dropped Minneapolis Hotel that lied about the immigration agents.
So what they took away their name good for them.
Hilton is booting and independently franchised Minneapolis Hotel from operating
under its name after it. Oh good, okay, they did
the right thing, all right, Good for the Hiltons.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
I like that.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Finally somebody does the right thing.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
I'm glad you didn't give away your Hilton rewards.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Now I know. It's a close cool.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
It's a close call. It's a close call. By the way,
bus fairs are on the rise of New York City.
They didn't call me Marxist. Mumdani promised to make bus
rides free. Apparently they're not, you know. On September thirtieth,
the MTA approved changes to fairs that took effect on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Well, he was mayor.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
On Sunday, the base fair for buses, subways, and access
a ride increased by ten cents to two dollars and
ninety cents to three bucks. By the way, Mamdanni lieutenants,
they're serious about this, sees private property thing. Is elected
a democratic socialist. I will govern as a democratic socialist.
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We will replace the rigidity of rugged individualism with the
warmth of collectivism. He said during his big inauguration speech.
He's you know, and then he goes on to talk
about public housing. As he was sworn in on January first,
by the way, you know he was coming on TV
tonight to talk about all this this this stuff is uh,
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Comrade Deblasia. He loves he loves Commie Mamdani. I think
Mamdanni's doing everything that I think he wished he could do.
But anyway, he's showing his true colors, behaving like the
socialist that he is. Oh and he's going forward with
his tax on unwealthy people in New York.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Guess what's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Free State of Florida is going to see a major
influx of people. By the way, we are going to
update you throughout the show today. The president, you know this.
We know about Tim Walls dropping out leaving he lost
his mind, by the way when he dropped out. We'll
talk about this coming up in the next half hour
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of the show. You know, he's not seeking reelection. Talks
about I could kick most of their asses, he said,
Trump in his allies want to poison the people against
each other. Everything except the fact that whistleblowers warned him
about this corruption that was institutionalized robbing taxpayer dollars
Thanks to all of you for being with us.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Right down our toll free telephone number if you want
to be a part of the program. We've got so
much in the news today, so much happening today. Also
in the course of this program, Maria Corrino Machado, the
leader of Venezuela's Democratic opposition, will join us. She pulled
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me on on television last night. She's planning to give
her Nobel Peace Prize to President Trump. And she you know,
all these years, even after Maduro took her off the ballot,
after she won the primary with ninety two percent plus
of the vote, that you know, she stayed in her
home country, knowing her life was in jeopardy. And you know,
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with things, you know that there's not the security stability
that you wanted.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
This time.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
You got Maduro loyalists, you got Trende Ragua, you got
Narco terrorists, and and you know it's a precarious situation.
She's planning on going home and going home soon. We'll
talk to her. I hope everyone will keep her in
your prayers, as I think it's extraordinarily you know, brave,
but it is it is, you know, I mean, what
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is the definition of courage, right, I mean, she embodies it.
We have a lot of news out of Iran. There's
a lot of speculation that Cuba is on the brink
of falling. In the case of Iran, you have Iranian
reports of Iranian police that there's these massive protests and
this one in bazig Members, you know, the police and
(01:33):
other military people climbed onto a police station roof. They
showed the crowd. They were laying down their weapons, raising
their hands in support towards the protesters. That's something that
only occurred in the nineteen seventy nine revolution that brought
(01:54):
the Ayatola Komeni back into power, who'd been in exile.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
That was the fall of the shot of Iran.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Iranian security forces opened open fire on an anti regime protest.
Inflation is getting way way out of control. There's now
widespread reporting that the Ayatola komanie Is has a full
escape plan to flee to Moscow if in fact, these
(02:22):
protests get much larger. The Ayatola Ali Kameni, they said,
he has an escape plan, and apparently that plan is
some short of pillage the country with as much money
as possible and stick it on a plane and apply
to Russia. I'm sure that Vladimir will get his cut
and he'll live out the rest of his miserable life
(02:43):
in Russia before he heads straight and to send straight
into hell. Just guessing in all likelihood. But you have
protesters also clashing with security forces in Tehran's Grand Bizarre
and there's one report saying that the govern veromen cannot
handle this alone, that the security forces are not even
(03:04):
willing to fight back. At this point, AP reporting security
forces clashing with protesters in Iran's main market. At least
thirty six people killed in demonstrations there, but people are
showing up and even larger numbers by the hour. Iran
is now offering citizens seven dollars a month. Oh, I'm sure, Glinda,
(03:25):
seven dollars a month. I'm sure that's really gonna appeal
to people. That's really going to inspire people to want
to stay there. We have Lindsay Graham went on record
as predicting that Cuba. Now remember this, Cuba's economy has
been cut off and shut off from American investment for
(03:47):
a long long time.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
And the one I.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Think one of the biggest if Cuba falls, all of
those old American cars so if you see images that
come out Cuba, it's like America retro nineteen fifties in
terms of like these old chevyes. Remember we used to
make those big, big, you know, Chevy cars, and I
(04:13):
don't know, I guess they're using you know, tape and
whatever they can get a hold of to keep these
these engines running on these cars.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
But I'm sure that's going to be a big business. Linda.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I'm sure you're going to be in there probably buying
one of those old relics and put it in your driveway.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I'm sure you've been dying.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
On my wish list.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
You want a fifty seven Chevy, you want a convertible?
Which one you want?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Absolutely?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Can't you just picture that you show up to work
my fifty seven Chevy, come right down Fifth Avenue and
make mom Dommy so happy.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I'm sure it probably would. He probably likes, you know,
communist Cuba. My favorite line back going back over the
years is Michael Moore, you know, bragging about how great
the healthcare system was in Cuba, and then we get
images out of you know, hospitals in Cuba that are
filthy dirty with zero equipment, zero supplies, basically empty and
(05:06):
you're pretty much on your own. But there's no way,
as Senator Graham was saying, that this communist dictatorship will
be able to survive after the takedown of Maduro because
that was their sole energy source.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I mean, Venezuela basically just a hop, skip and a
jump from Cuba. The Cuban president Miguel Diaz Canal, succeeding
Rayel Castro as the country's leader in twenty twenty one.
Months later, the largest anti government demonstrations in nearly three
decades occurred amid food medicine shortages during the pandemic. President
(05:42):
Trump telling reporters on Air Force One on Sunday that
the Cuban regime is ready to fall. The Secretary of
State Marco Rubio, whose own parents left Cuba. I mean,
if you haven't heard Marco's story, personal life story, it
is really inspiring. I got to see the Secretary of
(06:02):
State over the holiday and spend a little time.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I met him and his wife. That just lovely people.
I mean.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
And this you know, many are calling Venezuela and Cuba
falling Marco's revenge. But anyways, parents left Cuba during for
the US during the reign of Batista and anyway the
Cuban regime should be concerned in the wake of Maduro's capture.
It's very similar to Venezuela in the sense that we
want to help the people in Cuba, but we want
to also help the people who are forced out of
(06:33):
Cuba and living in this country. And the Cuban government
meanwhile condemn the operation. The only thing that's keeping the
Cuban economy afloat, to be very honest, is the generosity
of the Cuban American community in this country. That is,
you know that that is the lifeblood. You know, people
sending money to their families to keep them afloat and
(06:56):
to keep food in their stomachs. And supplies are limited,
and now energy will be scarce, if nonexistent, as a
result of the fall of Maduro. So that's the next
shoot have probably dropped is Look, we're living through a
time of very of dramatic change, and I would argue
change for the better. It doesn't mean that all of
(07:17):
this is going to be smooth. It doesn't mean that
all of this is going to be perfect. I mean,
and we'll get into this in great detail with Maria
coriina maschado because you still have, I mean reports that
you know, for example, fourteen journalists have been arrested. They're
(07:40):
trying to seek out people that are pro Trump in
Venezuela right now, but those forces will not survive. Eighty
six percent of the people in Venezuela live in poverty,
and they live in poverty because the entire government is
corrupt and has been corrupted first under Hugo Chavez and
now under Nicholas Maduro, and it's just a matter of time.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I think one of the most the.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Untold stories of all of this is Maduro's Chinese and
Russian built air defense systems. He had air defense systems.
Now it's not been widely reported on, but he had them,
and it was given to them by China and by Russia.
(08:26):
And you know, one of the geopolitical strategic wins in
all of this is Russia, China, Iran, We're all looking
for a foothold in our hemisphere and they look to
Maduro and in exchange, they got cheap energy, cheap oil,
cheap gas. Remember when they nationalized the oil industry in Venezuela.
(08:52):
What they did is they stole you know, the American
oil companies have been on the ground there since the
nineteen twenties.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
I went through a history of.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
That yesterday, and we built out that infrastructure. They have
what's described by people in the industry as dirty oil,
meaning it needs a lot more refining than cleaner crude oil.
That's basically what it means. And we have the capacity
to do it, and many other people do not. And
as we speak today, the Energy secretaries meeting with the
(09:22):
heads of energy companies oil companies in America to see
how fast they can get the oil up and running
efficiently enough to produce enough wealth not only to take
care of the people of Venezuela, but also all these
companies that were ripped off all their equipment, all their
(09:43):
hard work after the nationalization took place. I believe the
year was nineteen seventy six, Jimmy Carter was president, but
all these air defense systems of China and Russia. Turns
out President Trump's description of Venezoila's operation one of the
most stunning and powerful displays of america military mind and competence,
was pretty spot on. Because the US was able to
(10:04):
paralyze and shut down because of our cyber warfare capabilities,
Venezuela's entire electricity and communications grid. America's defense establishment have
been working on these cyber weapons now for decades. And
then there was the extraordinary ability to suppress Venezuela's air
(10:25):
defense systems that, according to all my military sources say
is very sophisticated. The country had advanced Russian made long
range S three hundred surface to air missiles, medium range
bug missiles, short range you know, shoulder launch missiles which
could be lethal for slow moving helicopters carrying US special forces,
(10:47):
and it just you know, it shows the might. The
advancement of American military technology is second to none.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Now.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Venezuela had installed also an estimated seven units of the
Chinese made j WHY twenty seven eight radar systems, touted
as being able to detect even US stealth bombers, and indeed,
only a few weeks ago, the Venezuelan defense minister boasted
that these Chinese installations accurately locked on F thirty five
(11:16):
fighter jets at a distance of seventy five kilometers from
Venezuela's shores. But neither the Russian nor the Chinese air
defense system appears to have made the slightest bit of difference,
which is a combination of real time US intel, electronic warfare,
and precision weapons knocked them all out. And the single
US aircraft that was hit, and this was a Chinook
(11:40):
helicopter during the operation, appears only to have been damaged
by scattered bullets. That's where I believe the one or
two injuries took place, but again not life threatening. But
the total dismantling of Venezuela's air defense systems mirrors exactly
what Israel achieved during their twelve day war against Iran
(12:01):
going back to June, and it's likely to cause a
lot of head scratching among military planners in Moscow and Beijing,
our top geopolitical foes. For it serves as a very
clear indication that the US military superiority in this domain
and many others remains unchallenged, and a handful handful of
other militaries around the world possessed capabilities to mount similar operations,
(12:25):
none can do it on the scale of the United
States military, and in pure military terms, the US military
continues to reign supreme.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Now this may also there is there is this.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
China, Iran, Russia component to all of this, for example,
China's top diplomat. What was interesting, too, is a Chinese
delegation had arrived the very day that we attacked, just
before the attack. But anyway, you know, they're just them
and the U. The United Nations is useless. I don't
know why we spend billions of dollars a year, Linda,
(13:01):
don't you love it in the fall of every year
when the UN and all these leaders of all these
corrupt countries show up in New York City. I know you,
I know you're now Pennsylvania, but I would love.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
For the UN to be anywhere but the United States.
I think they should put it over with Ursula from
the wef let her handle it. I think it would
beautiful wherever she wants to put it in the U.
Maybe London, you know, one of her countries. I think
they'd be very good.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
I could tell you for a fact. Europe is done right.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
So let them take the UN and they can die together.
It'll be wonderful.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Okay, that's very warm. It's just like your new New Year.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Knew me right to the point.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Okay, it's a new year, but it's not a new U.
That is quintessential. You that's a secary part of you.
And I got my first uh huh on air for I.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Know you already got the one off air, and I
get the one on air. Look at you.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
That usually means that's Linda's way of expressing disagreement without
using the F bomb. That's right, let's be honest. I'm
just being blunt with the audience.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Yeah, they love uh.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Now, we had two illegal truck drivers now accused of
smuggling three hundred pounds of cocaine across Indiana.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
You see what this is, and you know what.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
The problem is with all of these drugs, THEUD they
you have no idea. These dealers for ten dollars, twenty dollars,
fifty dollars, one hundred bucks, they don't care what they
put in it. They're not chemists. They didn't in most
cases go to MIT. They didn't go to medical or
study chemistry in college. They didn't got to have it.
(14:47):
They didn't go to any of these elite institutions. They
don't care who they kill for for ten bucks. I mean,
if you ever watched that GEO and the traffickers and
the drug dealers that are under I mean, it's horrible.
They know they're putting ventanol that could kill people in it.
They just don't care. If you look at the Maduro indictment,
(15:08):
it accuses the Venezuelan dictator of direct involvement in trafficking
thousands of tons of cocaine to the US. We lose
about two hundred Americans a day because of drug overdoses
in this country anyway. The indictment accuses the Maduro of
partnering with some of the worst, the most violent, prolific
(15:30):
drug traffickers narco terrorists in the world to allow for
the shipment of thousands of tons of cocaine into the US.
They allege powerful and violent drug trafficking organizations, the Sonola Cartel,
the Trende Aragua gang worked directly with the Venezuelan government,
then sent profits to high ranking officials who helped protect
(15:52):
them in exchange. I mean it's a criminal you know,
it's a crime family. By the way, the indictment accused
Maduro and his wife of ordering kidnappings, beatings, murders against
those who owed drug money or otherwise undermine their drug
trafficking operation includes the killing of local drug boss. A
(16:13):
local drug boss in Caracas. According to the indictment, nephews
of Meduro's wife were heard during recorded messages with confidential
US government sources in twenty fifteen agreeing to send multi
hundred kilogram cocaine shipments from Aduro's presidential hangar out of
Venezuelan Airport. The nephews recorded the meetings and explained that
(16:36):
they were at war with the United States, according to
the indictment, resulting in as much as two hundred and
fifty tons of cocaine traffic through Venezuela annually by twenty twenty,
Meduro's thugs in Venezuela trying to go door to door
hunting for any supporter of Donald Trump. And you know
there's going to be a lot of cleanup. The key
(16:56):
to success long term here and this is not going
to be with complications. I want to just give everybody
fair warning. Is going to be how quickly American energy
companies can innovate and get and extract the oil and
refine it and get money into the economy because eighty
six percent of the Venezuelan people live in poverty. And
(17:19):
we'll talk to Maria Corino Machado, the opposition leader, coming
up later in the program about this very issue. Today,
about ten million Venezuelans have fled that country because of
the conditions being so awful. I mentioned yesterday, remember Jorge
Ramos went to Venezuela. You know, should be one of
the if they they are the most energy rich, oil
(17:40):
rich country on Earth, they should be the richest country
on the face of the earth, and they're not. They're
one of the poorest because of all of this this
corruption that has existed there. So you know, we've got
they've got a lot of work ahead, and you know,
we'll talk about what this transition, how long it's going
to take, and so on and so forth, what it
(18:01):
means for the people in Venezuela, and I hope it
means a lot of good for them.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Linda, are you there.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
I'm always here.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Did you hear the story? Department of Homeland Security. Hilton
Hotels released the statement, now they're one of their properties
denied entry to Department of Homeland Security agents either way
shouldn't shock you. In Tim Walls, Minnesota. Hours earlier, the
Department of Homeland Security accused Hilton of launching a coordinated
(18:32):
campaign to refuse services to DHS law enforcement, including in
the tweet or screenshots of emails that agents receive. The
emails specifically cited the immigration work connected to your name
is the reason the reservations were suddenly canceled. Another screenshot,
the hotel representative explicitly said that the property will not
(18:55):
house anyone associated with immigration enforcement.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Word for that.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Isn't that called discrimination? I think that's called discrimination, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:05):
And Nick Sorder, who we love another citizen journalists went
in there and filmed them because they came out like
press release, and they were like, no, no, no, there's
a misunderstanding. So he goes in and says, well, what's
going on and the guy's like, no, my manager just
came in told me I'm not lead to let anybody
in here. He's like, I don't know what's going on
with the pr He's like, but we are not giving
reservations to ICE agents or law enforcement that's here for
(19:28):
anything to do with this operation. So I'll tell you what.
I got a thousand Hilton points. I'm never using them.
I'll never go back.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
I don't know if i'd give up the free points.
I mean, that's free stage. I'm kidding. Problem.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
So, so Hilton the company put out a statement saying
that their hotels were welcoming places for all. After one
of their properties canceled the reservations for ice, it says
Hilton will have to do more. You know, I'm looking
at this and I'm saying because they they push back
that they're siding with murderers and rapists. According to the
(20:06):
statement attained by our friend Bill Malusion, my colleague at
Fox Hilton Hotels is a is as welcoming places for all.
This hotel is independently owned and operated, and the actions
referenced are not reflective of Hilton values. We are investigating
this matter with this individual hotel and can confirm that
Hilton works with government's, law enforcement and community leaders around
(20:28):
the world to ensure our properties are open and inviting
to everyone. I'm not sure, and Bridge Hume made this point,
Hilton's going to have to do a lot more than
this to keep this episode from becoming a public relations disasternaut.
I can accept that this is probably independently owned and operated. However,
(20:49):
if they have the rights to the Hilton name, you
can't convince me easily, if at all, that Hilton does
not have the ability and the right, and frankly, the
responsibility to go in and put an end to that practice,
or fight them in court and take back their name,
(21:09):
because I would that was my good name, and it
was Hannity Hotels.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I would fight back.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
I mean, I will be curious to see what happens.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
I will be curious to see if they're going to
stand by the hotel or if they're going to stand
by their patrons.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Their patrons are speaking very loudly.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
It is viral on every single social media platform, and
people are they're on the boycott. They've got every single
type of Hilton hotel out there. They've got all the numbers,
the locations. They either need to take that franchise over
and figure out who that manager is, fire them, and
like do like a press conference from there, welcoming the
ICE agents in. I mean, they have to do something
otherwise it's going down. It's going to burn flames.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
No, definitely, all right, let me move on. By the way.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
The deranged hammer wielding alleged Van Dolacus the busting windows
at vice president of Vance's home in Cincinnati, reportedly the
son of a prominent millionaire family, appears to have been
going by the name Julia. According to the New York Post.
William four twenty six arrested after allegedly shattering four windows
(22:18):
of Vance's Cincinnati home. Police said De four was attempting
to break into the home around midnight. The Vance's obviously
weren't there, thank goodness. It is unclear whether to Four,
according to The New York Post, identifies as transgender or
non binary, and he recently appeared to be posting under
the name Julia de four. Hops did list the suspects
(22:42):
named as William and his gender as male. Probably will
anger some anyway, The family donated a lot of money
to Kamala.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Harris, etcetera.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
All right, let me tell you something. There's a lot
going on, and I don't have time to really do
a deep dive. We'll do some of this on Hannah tonight.
Remember during the campaign for Marxist Kami Mumdani and he
said this about white people.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
We went on your website and realized there's a policy
proposal that says your plan, and I'm going to quote
it for folks, is to shift the tax burden from
overtaxed homeowners and the outer boroughs to more expensive homes
in richer and wider neighborhoods. Explain why you are bringing
race into your tax proposal.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
That is just a description of what we see right now.
It's not driven by race.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
It's more of an assessment of what neighborhoods are being
under tax versus overtext we've.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Seen just stop again stop.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
If it's not driven by race, why would you mention it.
He's just a liar. Anyway, we will transition from treating
now by the way, one of the core tenants of
capitalism is ownership of private property. Now not in New
York City, they have a tenant director. The tenant director's
(24:05):
name is Cia. It's Cea Weaver. Do I say that right?
I don't know how to say it. This is a
quote from the tenants director of Mamdani Well transition from
treating property as an individual good to a collective good.
Whites especially will be impacted.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
Lissa, I think the reality is is that for centuries
we've really treated property as an individualized good and not
a collective good. And we are going to and transitioning
to treating it as a collective good and towards a
model of shared equity will require that we think about
(24:47):
it differently, and it will mean that family is especially
white families, but some POC families who are homeowners as
well are going to have a different relationship to property
though than the one that we currently have.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Yeah, I couldn't have well, Uh, Linda, what is the
word that we would use if we were talking about
Hispanic Americans or Asian Americans or African Americans or any
other you know, uh.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Basically anybody but white people. Yeah, it's called racism racial discrimination.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Will we think horrible? Check your text? By the way,
I just sent you something.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
By the way, our Meie Dillon, Assistant Attorney General for
Civil Rights at the DOJ, said that the FEDS were
ready to quote swoop in to protect Big Apple residents
in response to the shocking view. They shall be put
on notice that they're on high scrutiny.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Yeah, that's what the Civil Rights Division would do. That's
that's their job, all right. What am I looking at here?
Speaker 3 (25:51):
We got an update while we were talking about It's
good news.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Hilton dropped Minneapolis Hotel that lied about the immigration agents.
So what they took away their name good for them.
Hilton is booting and independently franchised Minneapolis Hotel from operating
under its name after it. Oh good, okay, they did
the right thing, all right, Good for the Hiltons.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
I like that.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Finally somebody does the right thing.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
I'm glad you didn't give away your Hilton rewards.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Now I know. It's a close cool.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
It's a close call. It's a close call. By the way,
bus fairs are on the rise of New York City.
They didn't call me Marxist. Mumdani promised to make bus
rides free. Apparently they're not, you know. On September thirtieth,
the MTA approved changes to fairs that took effect on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Well, he was mayor.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
On Sunday, the base fair for buses, subways, and access
a ride increased by ten cents to two dollars and
ninety cents to three bucks. By the way, Mamdanni lieutenants,
they're serious about this, sees private property thing. Is elected
a democratic socialist. I will govern as a democratic socialist.
(27:05):
We will replace the rigidity of rugged individualism with the
warmth of collectivism. He said during his big inauguration speech.
He's you know, and then he goes on to talk
about public housing. As he was sworn in on January first,
by the way, you know he was coming on TV
tonight to talk about all this this this stuff is uh,
(27:27):
Comrade Deblasia. He loves he loves Commie Mamdani. I think
Mamdanni's doing everything that I think he wished he could do.
But anyway, he's showing his true colors, behaving like the
socialist that he is. Oh and he's going forward with
his tax on unwealthy people in New York.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Guess what's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Free State of Florida is going to see a major
influx of people. By the way, we are going to
update you throughout the show today. The president, you know this.
We know about Tim Walls dropping out leaving he lost
his mind, by the way when he dropped out. We'll
talk about this coming up in the next half hour
(28:10):
of the show. You know, he's not seeking reelection. Talks
about I could kick most of their asses, he said,
Trump in his allies want to poison the people against
each other. Everything except the fact that whistleblowers warned him
about this corruption that was institutionalized robbing taxpayer dollars
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