May 22, 2025 • 29 mins
Liberty and Prosperity's Brian Fitzherbert joins WOND radio's Anne Baker for Fitzherbert Friday.
Brian and Anne discuss everything from Trump the peacemaker and deal maker, to the stock market rebound, lower prices, and rogue judges, and the unhinged, anti-Trump media.
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We have Brian.
And we've got my Brian on. How about
that? Good morning, Brian Fitzherbert. Welcome.
And,
how are you, my friend?
Good morning, Anne. I'm doing well. Thanks for
having me. Hey. It's always our pleasure. People
look forward to hearing from someone who is,
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you know?
How many years have you been in the
weapons industry?
We're almost at fifteen years. We're getting close.
Getting close. And,
you are there from the nuts and bolts,
from the beginning to the end.
And you know,
perhaps better well, you do know better than
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anyone else I know,
the kinds of weapons that The United States
has. There was a question I wanted to
ask that I've I've read several articles. Many
of the articles,
say that China has has weapons
that far exceed the
stealth capacity as well as the damage,
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than The United States does. And
frankly, I
you know, it could very well be propaganda,
or it could be,
that they are, trying to get The United
States to then come out with, well, this
is what we've got.
And
do we, the citizens,
actually know,
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which weapons have been made out there that
are most lethal? Do we hear about that?
Are we allowed access to that kind of
knowledge?
No.
No. Anyone that's anyone that's writing anything
comparing Chinese
to The United States,
military capabilities is woefully uninformed or an imbecile.
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And, again, most of the stuff that we
have capability wise,
we don't use unless we have to. And
there are plenty of instances
of potential military theater that haven't required
some of the capabilities that the United States
military has. So I would I would surmise
that wherever these articles are coming from, even
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if they're quote, unquote sourced,
they're not in the know because most people
don't know every aspect of every avenue,
when it comes to weapons. And with regard
to China,
they're probably
quite a few decades behind The United States
in terms of capabilities.
They'll talk a big game, but when it
comes down to anything that happens in military
theater, I have no doubt The United States
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will will come out as a victor in
any sort of, battlefield, especially from a naval
aspect.
Yeah. Well, you
know, you probably been watching
TV, and what Donald Trump is doing,
into his,
Southeast Asia and
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into the territory
of the Islamic Republics.
What is your take on it? Because
I
I know
I know you must have an awful lot
to say about all the things that Donald
Trump appears to be accomplishing
with all of these countries,
you know, from UAE
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to Saudi Arabia to Qatar, which in fact
was the one who, protected,
Hamas.
What is your take on it? Yeah. So
lots to unfold. We can start with the
fact that Cutter gave,
The United States and DOD a $400,000,000
aircraft because Boeing
is woefully behind schedule in providing
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refurbishment, not even brand new, but refurbishment of
presidential,
airplanes, I e Air Force One. And I
I all I have to say is to
anyone listening
We we can't take this.
Brian?
You're just Yes. Okay. Now now you're with
us. You went far away.
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Oh, okay. So,
I would I would start with Qatar and
the $400,000,000
aircraft
that,
they've now offered to The United States
as a country, as DOD, to be able
to utilize because Boeing is willfully behind in
their own refurbishment,
schedule with regard to Air Force One, etcetera.
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And I would just caution.
We
give millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions,
even billions of dollars to all these other
countries. Why wouldn't The United States
and Donald Trump on behalf of The United
States take
this
offer and or gift. Now granted, you have
to do a a thorough investigation, make sure
that there's no explosive or any kind of
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listening or any other kind of cybersecurity,
related threading,
within that aircraft,
and then maybe use it. I've it's highly
unlikely that president Donald Trump will use it,
but I'm sure a lot of people in
the cabinet might.
And
all these things, making a deal with Saudi
Arabia, making another deal with Qatar, buying an
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exorbitant
amount of Boeing aircraft, which I I think
to my knowledge is probably the largest,
airliner
order ever because I don't think anyone's ever
had the the money nor the capacity to
buy 210
airliners Wow. As well as what he's doing
in The UAE.
This is all an attempt. Look. Donald Trump
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hates war. I hate war. You have weapons
so that you never have to use them.
But if you have to, you you know
what you need to do. And what he's
creating in terms of an environment is let's
do some business. Let's let's grow economically
allies
where we
We lost
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you. Brian, we don't have you anymore. Hundreds
of minutes. Follow through on. Now you're on.
You know, keep that thought because we're gonna
have to take a quick break. Ann Baker
together with Brian Fitzherbert on talking with Ann
and Fitzherbert Friday.
And,
Brian, we're we're we're talking about what's going
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on, with Donald Trump and all of the
countries that he's now involved in.
And it's
at one time,
I thought maybe we would get the,
the Abraham Accords,
going again. But he's gonna do that plus
get trillions of dollars in,
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new,
new business for The United States.
How how do you think
he did that?
I think he's Donald Trump. He's someone that
understands
deal making and finding ways to find common
ground. Look. You always at least in the
real world, most people have to work with
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people they don't like, they may even hate,
and that they don't even trust.
But you have to be able to work
towards a common goal,
whatever that may be. In my world, like,
we have a supplier that does not perform
and that they're only they're the only game
in town to provide a piece of equipment
or a part or so you gotta work
with them even though they fouled up. And
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Donald Trump understands this from a business standpoint,
from a real estate development standpoint, and he's
just applying those same principles and application
to Saudi,
to,
to Qatar, to UAE,
etcetera,
to be able to say, hey. We wanna
help you. We don't want war. We don't
wanna bomb people, but you know we can.
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And let's just build
an economic
relationship.
What can we what can we export? What
can we import? And he understands that, and
he's just wheeling and dealing. And the biggest
aspect is he's got respect from the people
he's dealing with.
Barack Obama, Joe Biden would never have the
capability to do any of this because
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they're life losers that accomplished nothing in any
sort of real life situation.
Everyone knows what Donald Trump has done for
decades,
so they respect him. He's independently wealthy. He's
been able to do all these things. His
name is on buildings all across the world.
When you have,
former
or let's let's call them massive adversaries and
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enemies
saying flat out that, hey, Trump. Go put
your name on a building. We're good to
go.
That
is very thought provoking. And the fact that
he made the monumental decision to lift sanctions
on Syria,
given that,
Bashir has been ousted. They've got a new
guy in there. There's still some, you know,
there's still some stuff you gotta worry about,
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but he's willing to give it a chance
because, again, everyone knows that he's willing to
give them a chance. But if they blow
it, he's gonna blow them back to kingdom
come anyway.
And I think the the
environment of fear and respect,
knowing he will do what he says he's
going to do, he's unpredictable, and that he's
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willing to have
a bridge,
conversation that could lead to more and focus
on the things that are agreeable,
I think, is very positive. And the fact
that he took a hit,
on even in The United States, he wasn't
apologizing. He was just calling out the nonsense
of these non profit liberal organizations
that believe in this soft power nonsense that
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doesn't work or even, dare I say, the
neocons in the mentality of trying to push,
you know, American or Western
principles and force it on a people that
don't want it. You gotta they've gotta come
come up with their own scenario of that
where we can have common ground. Is there
gonna be issues? Of course, there's going to
be. And you could build up all of
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this that Donald Trump does over a decade,
and they themselves may blow it, and we
blow it to smithereens. But, hopefully, that isn't
the case, and Donald Trump's willing to take
the political,
leap to do that, and I think that's
very telling.
Yeah.
I I think it's especially telling when it
appears that the other countries that he has
dealt with now in the past week,
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all believe that, his his,
his plans for Iran
are indeed plans that should go forward and
that Iran is never ever to have
any kind of nuclear weaponry available to them.
No. I think that's a %
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right. And, ultimately,
again,
he's doing things that we haven't seen before
because the all elected officials in the past
have been told you can't do it this
way. You can't do it this way. And
Donald Trump's mentality is, I'm gonna do it
anyway. Let's see what happens.
And, ultimately, I think that's gonna be very
telling to see how how the rest of
the world reacts to that.
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I'd like to see how Israel
reacts to that. I mean, these are countries
that would, at one time, wanted to see
Israel
removed from the face of the earth and
forgotten in a heap of ashes.
And now these countries appear to
be, very willing to listen to, Donald j
Trump when he talks about Iran. And,
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I just wonder what Benjamin Netanyahu,
whether he is getting any of this information
through the lines that he has with, the
diplomats in our country and with the those
in the know,
and what he makes of all of this
going on.
Good morning, everyone. This is Ann Baker together
with Brian Fitzherbert on Fitzherbert Friday and talking
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with Ann.
Brian, do we have the connections?
We do. Apologies.
No. No. No. No. Believe me. We have
all been there
and done that and, in some cases, not
been able to fix it nearly as quickly
as you did.
When when we're talking about the weapon, we
when we're talking about all the respect given
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to Donald j Trump,
when he went,
to the Middle East.
What do you think
is
going to happen because of this this huge
spillover of, trillions of dollars that we're going
to get?
What do you think
mister Putin is thinking
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and what Volodymyr
Zelensky is thinking as well? It's like they
have been pushed to the side because for
the past week and week and a half
or so, it has been focused on all
of the good things and the respect given
to Donald j Trump.
What are they thinking? Do you think?
I think that they're no longer reali or
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they're realizing that they're no longer a priority,
and Trump and secretary of state Rubio have
said as much. If you guys don't come
to the table and you wanna do something,
economically,
then end this war, the and we're just
gonna move on to other things because we're
not gonna wait forever. And remember when Donald
Trump,
talked about doing the rare earth,
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materials
deal with,
Zelensky,
and he he killed it because he is
completely out of his depth. And then it
came back, and then it became something. Putin
came out and said, I'll do a rare
earth,
metals deal with you, mister Trump. And so,
again, remember, Russia is heavily dependent on a
few
industries for economics.
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And a lot of that has to do
with oil,
obviously, and how much Donald Trump wants to
basically say, cool. If anyone buys any oil
from Russia,
we're not gonna do business, and we're not
gonna do trade with you, etcetera, which is,
again, that's totally possible. That's exactly why remember
when the tariffs came out, everyone on the
last it was so stupid, and they're like,
oh, there's 0% tariffs on,
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Russia. It's because we don't trade with Russia.
So, ultimately,
I think they're realizing, wow. Donald Trump moves
fast. He doesn't mess around.
And the negative aspect is, okay. If it's
not The United States, then we're gonna cozy
up closer to China. That's what Putin's probably
thinking, talking to Xi Jinping,
further and try to figure out what he
can do because he's got limited options. And
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so once he may be stupid enough to
do the same thing with regards to talking
to China
and and getting something
support or help from China, but what they
would imagine, they have the force of it
as, quote, unquote, leaders of their countries, that
ultimately China's gonna be cornered
and will either bend the knee or collapse,
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over the an amount of time that whatever
Donald Trump decides to do because he knows
he has to he he has to fix
the economy that Biden destroyed. He's securing the
border, which also is an economic indicator and
an impact. And he's gotta get the economy
back rolling with the extension of tax cuts
and renegotiate all these trade deals to make
us an economic powerhouse so that we can
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crush China,
in a lot of avenues that we couldn't
before. And, ultimately,
Russia and Zelensky
Russia and Putin and Zelensky and Ukraine are
gonna have to make a decision that, oh,
cool. Continue a stalemate war where you're gonna
continue to have death and destruction and no
real outcome because it's just gonna go to
an asymptote level, or do you wanna call
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quits cut your losses, save what's left of
your culture in in the stands of Zelensky
with Ukraine and the people and have a
country and deal with the fact that, look,
this is the reality. You don't have the
capability to take out Russia. It's been three
years plus. And, again, do you want to
continue to kill your own people
having them come into the ranks and and
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fight a losing war? And that's that's a
sad reality because, again, the rest of
Europe and even The United States doesn't see
this as a positive development one way or
the other. So I think that's a long
winded answer. Yeah. But you know what? It
it segues right into the European Union.
What about all of those countries that fear
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Russia, that look upon what's happening in Ukraine
as something that is just the beginning
of Vladimir Putin wanting to
take over and and,
reinvent
the USSR.
How do you think they're feeling, and what
do you think they're going to be doing?
Because we know Great Britain has become a
totally socialist country with open borders.
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They have become more of a Muslim country
with their leadership than they are the, you
know,
born and raised in England.
What do you think they're thinking?
Look. I think there's two things. I think
they're scared, and they're gonna have to make
some type of choices that Europeans are not
used to making, which means spending more on
defense and less on
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social,
contract programs,
pensions, ridiculous vacations,
etcetera.
And The United States, as Donald Trump has
pointed out, is not gonna subsidize Europe anymore,
and they're going to have to pay more
for their defense. They're gonna have to pay
more for their defense with their NATO country,
and we're not we as The United States
are not gonna subsidize their lifestyle anymore. We're
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not gonna subsidize anything anymore.
And at least for the foreseeable future, Donald
Trump is the president and any accolades that
follow him that continue the MAGA agenda.
Because,
again, Europe has
the the abundance of security knowing that their
friends and allies with The United States. But
they're closer,
geographically speaking, and from a logistics and a
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supply line standpoint
to this conflict. They should be lead Germany
should be leading
this,
negotiation,
and they're they're they're just not apt to
do it.
And so, ultimately,
the decision that they're going to have to
make is they're gonna have to make austerity
measures. They're gonna have to reallocate budgets away
from these social programs
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and more to defense because,
god forbid, something does,
happen
that gets expanded with Putin's aspirations, obviously, as
you indicated, to bring back the USSR.
They're gonna have to deal with it. And
US will be there if if it's a
national interest to us
as long as Donald Trump is the president.
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Yeah. Because he's the only leader that I
can see in the world today that every
other leader is looking to,
for good things to happen in their own
country if they make friends with Donald j
Trump
and The United States.
It it's it's mind blowing.
That has to do with things outside of
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our own country,
and the respect that we see our our
president getting from all, you know, from the
Middle East.
What do you make of the people still
left in our country that have committed crimes
over the last ten years to persecute, prosecute,
illegally,
Donald J. Trump. And what do you make
of this Jim Comey?
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When you I mean, anyone knows if you're
writing 8647,
you're calling for the murder of the forty
seventh president of The United States. And the
fact that James Comey has since deleted
that social media post, he knows he made
a faux pas. And I have no doubt
that Pam Bondi will do everything she can
and direct Secret Service, direct the FBI, and
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direct the justice department to investigate.
And if
whatever comes of that, if Comey
knew exactly what he was saying, he's literally
calling for somebody who follows him on social
media
to murder the sitting president of The United
States. So I have no doubt that Pam
Bondi and Kash Patel will have this under
control,
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in the in the coming days or weeks
because, obviously, that was that was ridiculous. And
where's the left? Where's the Democrats
and all these people that claim same thing,
whenever it's the other foot with the other
shoe, but ultimately, you're gonna see
look. There's accountability in a perfect world. A
lot of these people would not only lose
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their jobs, their pensions,
be tried and be found guilty by, you
know, a jury of their peers and go
to prison for the rest of their life.
But I think the best we can do
is, at a minimum, they lose their jobs,
and maybe at a maximum, they lose their
pensions,
because it's it's it's too much to process.
And as we're seeing
from a deportation standpoint,
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again, Donald Trump keeps racking up the wins
when it comes to illegal immigration. And now
a Supreme Court is hearing the birthright citizenship
question, I e, the fourteenth amendment, which you've
heard me say before. It's gonna ultimately favor
Donald Trump's Supreme Court is going to reinforce
that it's only those that are subject to
the jurisdiction thereof, meaning their parents have to
be,
either green card holders or legal citizens to
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pass and confer citizenship, not just to be
here in the country and be born here
as a United States citizen.
So, ultimately, all this stuff
is going to have a huge factor
on how Donald Trump's opponents react. And, obviously,
with James Comey
reacting the way he is,
obviously, he's nervous, and he's doing stupid things.
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I know. But isn't it wonderful? Because if
they squeeze Comey enough
and threaten him with a lifetime imprisonment, he
may very well be willing to give up
names of all of those ten years ago
who committed
literally serious criminal acts against the leading candidate
for the Republicans
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in the crimes they committed trying to get
rid of him.
And
it's
why should we allow this?
Why
why?
Tell me. Yeah. Yeah. Again, this we have
to get back to accountability,
and the only time there's accountability
is when behavior changes. What does that mean?
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Behavior changes when there's material losses.
Typically, most people can translate that to as
financial ruin or loss of job or loss
of reputation, shaming, whatever, or your skill set
no longer the ability to get a job
blah blah blah. And someone like Comey who
clearly
is a theatrical
guy who who lives in an alternate reality
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where he thinks he's the hero,
you have to have accountability and you have
to make examples of people. And ultimately, we're
seeing this now, not to dip back into
illegal immigration, but you're seeing all these raids
happen as they should that Homan is driving
along with Kristi Noem, and you're having a
lot of illegal immigrants leave on their own
because the the fear that they will be
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the next example that gets caught up in
one of these raids. They know they're here
illegally. They know they committed a crime, and
they know they're not supposed to be here.
They need to leave, and that
example that has to continue
will will have a massive effect on our
border, which, again,
operational control of the southern border within a
hundred days. You didn't need legislation. You needed
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a new president, and Donald Trump showed that's
exactly what you do when you have actual
leadership
and accountability.
But we have to find all these individuals,
I e, these deep state individual bureaucrats that
have tried to prevent this as well as
make an example of this Wisconsin judge
who's now been indicted and will probably lose,
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her bench seat and probably go to prison
because she literally
interfered
in an illegal immigrant and and snuck him
out of her courtroom
to get him out of there when ICE
was there to collect on a retainer. You
need to make examples of these people, and
there needs to be material losses. Yeah. Alright.
Well, this is a a topic not with
illegal immigration, but possibly
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because it has to do with this Muslim,
city that they want to build in, and
around Plano, Texas.
What do you make of that? What do
you think the government should do about that,
and how is it that we allowed all
the Somalis to go up where Ilhan Omar
is
and settle there and literally become a Democrat
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Somali state?
Yeah. And unfortunately, this has been going on
for quite some time. It's not just Minnesota
with the Somalis. There's there's issues up in
Maine. There's issues in other states where, again,
Obama and Joe Biden have in their their
acolytes, their nonprofit,
their NGOs, all these organizations nations that got
these millions and and potentially billions of dollars
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in taxpayer money to process and resettle these
people in
red states, red districts intentionally trying to change
the electoral makeup.
You gotta investigate
all of this. And if you can get
people on process crimes, then you do it
because this cannot continue
where, again, it's nefarious
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desires and outcomes that these people want. It's
not because of refugees and because they're,
they're fleeing
horrible circumstances,
I e the Afrikanas in South Africa.
You're talking about 49 or 50 people that
are literally fleeing from South Africa because their
land is being taken and they're being threatened
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with death if they stay. And yet the
left and the Democrats and the people that
continue
to push for mass amnesty and mass refugees
and mass immigration
have no have no qualms about saying, well,
we gotta vet these 50 people from South
Africa and make sure that they're that they're
you know, how do we know they're gonna
assimilate? And yet they're they're on the tarmac
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waving American flags and wearing America,
branded t shirts to show that, yes, I
hear. I'm I'm ready to assimilate. Thank you
so much for getting us out of there.
And,
again, this is why elections are so important,
not just on the federal level, but on
the state, on the county, on local level.
Because if these people do not have a
spine to stand up for American values and
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American citizens
beyond anything else, then they all need to
be primary if it's within a party or
or challenged from a general election standpoint. Enough
is enough, and I think Trump is giving
a lot of people that leadership and that
that push because he's shining a light on
all these things. Yeah. Well, we've seen the
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damage done, under mister Biden,
who really wasn't president. It was
Barack, Susan Rice, and, the rest of the
socialist communist
who, were there during mister o mister Obama's
time.
We know that Joe Biden,
was unable to actually,
do the duties of a president.
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Last last issue.
What would you do to the media
and to the,
political
sycophants
who lied about
Joe Biden and his ability
to actually be president.
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Yeah. Obviously, Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson are
the are the leads in this because they're
trying to get to print this first book,
I think Tuesday
about everything that was a cover up when
they were part of the cover up. They
keep saying and even Alex Thompson has taken
an award saying, you know, we missed it.
No. We didn't miss it. Only the left
wing liberal media
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quote, unquote, missed it because they're actively covering
it up. And same thing with with, Tapper.
So,
ultimately,
you want this stuff to come out? I
mean, better late than never? Because we're gonna
get details that look, we all knew that
Joe Biden was a rotting bag of oatmeal.
He's senile.
He's on death's door. It's very unfortunate. And
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yet and the most evil person in all
this is Joe Biden because she knew, and
she kept it up and everything in between.
At the end of the day, yes, this
information's coming out. You want the nuances. You
want the details
that we all knew in the generic sense
that this was going on. But in terms
of them actually learning from anything, I don't
think they will, unfortunately.
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And for right now, we're gonna have you
know, the Democrats have a Joe Biden problem
at least for the next few months while
a lot of these books come out. So
at least that gives us a year while
the Democrats continue to do their infighting.
But it's I I saw the analogy last
night that, someone in the media said it's
like
a guy who's married and has a girlfriend
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and gets caught cheating on them both. He
knows one of them is gonna come back
to him, and that's what the media is.
The media knows the Democrats and the left
will come back to them. They've lost the
right no matter what, and maybe the Independents,
they'll lose
it doesn't matter. It's not a material loss
to them because they still have viewership.
They still have listeners.
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That's why you have to shine a light
on this and why all this conservative media,
the podcast sphere,
all this talk radio, and and everything that
Donald Trump and his team are putting a
light limelight on. You need to make it
so that people
see this because we all knew anyone with
a pulse or
literally room temperature IQ could see that Joe
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Biden was deteriorating
and that the left and the media covered
this up. Yeah.
I'll tell you. We can't never let this
happen again. And and now
seeing the differences between
a Biden,
presidency and a Trump presidency,
I mean,
it's it's like zero to a hundred.
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And,
fortunately, we've got someone who is out there
speaking up for America,
not taking any prisoners when it comes
to this is what we want, this is
what the world needs, and this is we're
gonna make sure happens.
Move move fast and break things. And you're
seeing all these Biden and even Obama people
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that served in both administrations. They're like, wow.
I wish I worked for an administration that
did x, y, or z that Donald Trump
was doing.
Because,
again, he's doing what is necessary.
And instead of worry, oh, this donor says
this, this donor says that, or, you know,
we haven't really done it this way, and
we can't do it that way.
Yeah. Well, Donald Trump is gonna make sure
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that it's done his way, whatever that is.
And, and in the meantime, you and I
are gonna be watching carefully.
Brian, I'm gonna be seeing you and beautiful
Catherine and that gorgeous son, Luke, soon. But
in the meantime, have an absolutely wonderful weekend.
It's great having you on air.
Absolutely. Thanks for having me. Thank you. My
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pleasure.
Anyway,
We have Brian.
And we've got my Brian on. How about
that? Good morning, Brian Fitzherbert. Welcome.
And,
how are you, my friend?
Good morning, Anne. I'm doing well. Thanks for
having me. Hey. It's always our pleasure. People
look forward to hearing from someone who is,
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you know?
How many years have you been in the
weapons industry?
We're almost at fifteen years. We're getting close.
Getting close. And,
you are there from the nuts and bolts,
from the beginning to the end.
And you know,
perhaps better well, you do know better than
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anyone else I know,
the kinds of weapons that The United States
has. There was a question I wanted to
ask that I've I've read several articles. Many
of the articles,
say that China has has weapons
that far exceed the
stealth capacity as well as the damage,
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than The United States does. And
frankly, I
you know, it could very well be propaganda,
or it could be,
that they are, trying to get The United
States to then come out with, well, this
is what we've got.
And
do we, the citizens,
actually know,
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which weapons have been made out there that
are most lethal? Do we hear about that?
Are we allowed access to that kind of
knowledge?
No.
No. Anyone that's anyone that's writing anything
comparing Chinese
to The United States,
military capabilities is woefully uninformed or an imbecile.
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And, again, most of the stuff that we
have capability wise,
we don't use unless we have to. And
there are plenty of instances
of potential military theater that haven't required
some of the capabilities that the United States
military has. So I would I would surmise
that wherever these articles are coming from, even
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if they're quote, unquote sourced,
they're not in the know because most people
don't know every aspect of every avenue,
when it comes to weapons. And with regard
to China,
they're probably
quite a few decades behind The United States
in terms of capabilities.
They'll talk a big game, but when it
comes down to anything that happens in military
theater, I have no doubt The United States
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will will come out as a victor in
any sort of, battlefield, especially from a naval
aspect.
Yeah. Well, you
know, you probably been watching
TV, and what Donald Trump is doing,
into his,
Southeast Asia and
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into the territory
of the Islamic Republics.
What is your take on it? Because
I
I know
I know you must have an awful lot
to say about all the things that Donald
Trump appears to be accomplishing
with all of these countries,
you know, from UAE
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to Saudi Arabia to Qatar, which in fact
was the one who, protected,
Hamas.
What is your take on it? Yeah. So
lots to unfold. We can start with the
fact that Cutter gave,
The United States and DOD a $400,000,000
aircraft because Boeing
is woefully behind schedule in providing
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refurbishment, not even brand new, but refurbishment of
presidential,
airplanes, I e Air Force One. And I
I all I have to say is to
anyone listening
We we can't take this.
Brian?
You're just Yes. Okay. Now now you're with
us. You went far away.
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Oh, okay. So,
I would I would start with Qatar and
the $400,000,000
aircraft
that,
they've now offered to The United States
as a country, as DOD, to be able
to utilize because Boeing is willfully behind in
their own refurbishment,
schedule with regard to Air Force One, etcetera.
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And I would just caution.
We
give millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions,
even billions of dollars to all these other
countries. Why wouldn't The United States
and Donald Trump on behalf of The United
States take
this
offer and or gift. Now granted, you have
to do a a thorough investigation, make sure
that there's no explosive or any kind of
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listening or any other kind of cybersecurity,
related threading,
within that aircraft,
and then maybe use it. I've it's highly
unlikely that president Donald Trump will use it,
but I'm sure a lot of people in
the cabinet might.
And
all these things, making a deal with Saudi
Arabia, making another deal with Qatar, buying an
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exorbitant
amount of Boeing aircraft, which I I think
to my knowledge is probably the largest,
airliner
order ever because I don't think anyone's ever
had the the money nor the capacity to
buy 210
airliners Wow. As well as what he's doing
in The UAE.
This is all an attempt. Look. Donald Trump
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hates war. I hate war. You have weapons
so that you never have to use them.
But if you have to, you you know
what you need to do. And what he's
creating in terms of an environment is let's
do some business. Let's let's grow economically
allies
where we
We lost
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you. Brian, we don't have you anymore. Hundreds
of minutes. Follow through on. Now you're on.
You know, keep that thought because we're gonna
have to take a quick break. Ann Baker
together with Brian Fitzherbert on talking with Ann
and Fitzherbert Friday.
And,
Brian, we're we're we're talking about what's going
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on, with Donald Trump and all of the
countries that he's now involved in.
And it's
at one time,
I thought maybe we would get the,
the Abraham Accords,
going again. But he's gonna do that plus
get trillions of dollars in,
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new,
new business for The United States.
How how do you think
he did that?
I think he's Donald Trump. He's someone that
understands
deal making and finding ways to find common
ground. Look. You always at least in the
real world, most people have to work with
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people they don't like, they may even hate,
and that they don't even trust.
But you have to be able to work
towards a common goal,
whatever that may be. In my world, like,
we have a supplier that does not perform
and that they're only they're the only game
in town to provide a piece of equipment
or a part or so you gotta work
with them even though they fouled up. And
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Donald Trump understands this from a business standpoint,
from a real estate development standpoint, and he's
just applying those same principles and application
to Saudi,
to,
to Qatar, to UAE,
etcetera,
to be able to say, hey. We wanna
help you. We don't want war. We don't
wanna bomb people, but you know we can.
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And let's just build
an economic
relationship.
What can we what can we export? What
can we import? And he understands that, and
he's just wheeling and dealing. And the biggest
aspect is he's got respect from the people
he's dealing with.
Barack Obama, Joe Biden would never have the
capability to do any of this because
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they're life losers that accomplished nothing in any
sort of real life situation.
Everyone knows what Donald Trump has done for
decades,
so they respect him. He's independently wealthy. He's
been able to do all these things. His
name is on buildings all across the world.
When you have,
former
or let's let's call them massive adversaries and
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enemies
saying flat out that, hey, Trump. Go put
your name on a building. We're good to
go.
That
is very thought provoking. And the fact that
he made the monumental decision to lift sanctions
on Syria,
given that,
Bashir has been ousted. They've got a new
guy in there. There's still some, you know,
there's still some stuff you gotta worry about,
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but he's willing to give it a chance
because, again, everyone knows that he's willing to
give them a chance. But if they blow
it, he's gonna blow them back to kingdom
come anyway.
And I think the the
environment of fear and respect,
knowing he will do what he says he's
going to do, he's unpredictable, and that he's
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willing to have
a bridge,
conversation that could lead to more and focus
on the things that are agreeable,
I think, is very positive. And the fact
that he took a hit,
on even in The United States, he wasn't
apologizing. He was just calling out the nonsense
of these non profit liberal organizations
that believe in this soft power nonsense that
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doesn't work or even, dare I say, the
neocons in the mentality of trying to push,
you know, American or Western
principles and force it on a people that
don't want it. You gotta they've gotta come
come up with their own scenario of that
where we can have common ground. Is there
gonna be issues? Of course, there's going to
be. And you could build up all of
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this that Donald Trump does over a decade,
and they themselves may blow it, and we
blow it to smithereens. But, hopefully, that isn't
the case, and Donald Trump's willing to take
the political,
leap to do that, and I think that's
very telling.
Yeah.
I I think it's especially telling when it
appears that the other countries that he has
dealt with now in the past week,
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all believe that, his his,
his plans for Iran
are indeed plans that should go forward and
that Iran is never ever to have
any kind of nuclear weaponry available to them.
No. I think that's a %
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right. And, ultimately,
again,
he's doing things that we haven't seen before
because the all elected officials in the past
have been told you can't do it this
way. You can't do it this way. And
Donald Trump's mentality is, I'm gonna do it
anyway. Let's see what happens.
And, ultimately, I think that's gonna be very
telling to see how how the rest of
the world reacts to that.
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I'd like to see how Israel
reacts to that. I mean, these are countries
that would, at one time, wanted to see
Israel
removed from the face of the earth and
forgotten in a heap of ashes.
And now these countries appear to
be, very willing to listen to, Donald j
Trump when he talks about Iran. And,
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I just wonder what Benjamin Netanyahu,
whether he is getting any of this information
through the lines that he has with, the
diplomats in our country and with the those
in the know,
and what he makes of all of this
going on.
Good morning, everyone. This is Ann Baker together
with Brian Fitzherbert on Fitzherbert Friday and talking
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with Ann.
Brian, do we have the connections?
We do. Apologies.
No. No. No. No. Believe me. We have
all been there
and done that and, in some cases, not
been able to fix it nearly as quickly
as you did.
When when we're talking about the weapon, we
when we're talking about all the respect given
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to Donald j Trump,
when he went,
to the Middle East.
What do you think
is
going to happen because of this this huge
spillover of, trillions of dollars that we're going
to get?
What do you think
mister Putin is thinking
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and what Volodymyr
Zelensky is thinking as well? It's like they
have been pushed to the side because for
the past week and week and a half
or so, it has been focused on all
of the good things and the respect given
to Donald j Trump.
What are they thinking? Do you think?
I think that they're no longer reali or
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they're realizing that they're no longer a priority,
and Trump and secretary of state Rubio have
said as much. If you guys don't come
to the table and you wanna do something,
economically,
then end this war, the and we're just
gonna move on to other things because we're
not gonna wait forever. And remember when Donald
Trump,
talked about doing the rare earth,
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materials
deal with,
Zelensky,
and he he killed it because he is
completely out of his depth. And then it
came back, and then it became something. Putin
came out and said, I'll do a rare
earth,
metals deal with you, mister Trump. And so,
again, remember, Russia is heavily dependent on a
few
industries for economics.
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And a lot of that has to do
with oil,
obviously, and how much Donald Trump wants to
basically say, cool. If anyone buys any oil
from Russia,
we're not gonna do business, and we're not
gonna do trade with you, etcetera, which is,
again, that's totally possible. That's exactly why remember
when the tariffs came out, everyone on the
last it was so stupid, and they're like,
oh, there's 0% tariffs on,
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Russia. It's because we don't trade with Russia.
So, ultimately,
I think they're realizing, wow. Donald Trump moves
fast. He doesn't mess around.
And the negative aspect is, okay. If it's
not The United States, then we're gonna cozy
up closer to China. That's what Putin's probably
thinking, talking to Xi Jinping,
further and try to figure out what he
can do because he's got limited options. And
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so once he may be stupid enough to
do the same thing with regards to talking
to China
and and getting something
support or help from China, but what they
would imagine, they have the force of it
as, quote, unquote, leaders of their countries, that
ultimately China's gonna be cornered
and will either bend the knee or collapse,
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over the an amount of time that whatever
Donald Trump decides to do because he knows
he has to he he has to fix
the economy that Biden destroyed. He's securing the
border, which also is an economic indicator and
an impact. And he's gotta get the economy
back rolling with the extension of tax cuts
and renegotiate all these trade deals to make
us an economic powerhouse so that we can
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crush China,
in a lot of avenues that we couldn't
before. And, ultimately,
Russia and Zelensky
Russia and Putin and Zelensky and Ukraine are
gonna have to make a decision that, oh,
cool. Continue a stalemate war where you're gonna
continue to have death and destruction and no
real outcome because it's just gonna go to
an asymptote level, or do you wanna call
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quits cut your losses, save what's left of
your culture in in the stands of Zelensky
with Ukraine and the people and have a
country and deal with the fact that, look,
this is the reality. You don't have the
capability to take out Russia. It's been three
years plus. And, again, do you want to
continue to kill your own people
having them come into the ranks and and
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fight a losing war? And that's that's a
sad reality because, again, the rest of
Europe and even The United States doesn't see
this as a positive development one way or
the other. So I think that's a long
winded answer. Yeah. But you know what? It
it segues right into the European Union.
What about all of those countries that fear
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Russia, that look upon what's happening in Ukraine
as something that is just the beginning
of Vladimir Putin wanting to
take over and and,
reinvent
the USSR.
How do you think they're feeling, and what
do you think they're going to be doing?
Because we know Great Britain has become a
totally socialist country with open borders.
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They have become more of a Muslim country
with their leadership than they are the, you
know,
born and raised in England.
What do you think they're thinking?
Look. I think there's two things. I think
they're scared, and they're gonna have to make
some type of choices that Europeans are not
used to making, which means spending more on
defense and less on
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social,
contract programs,
pensions, ridiculous vacations,
etcetera.
And The United States, as Donald Trump has
pointed out, is not gonna subsidize Europe anymore,
and they're going to have to pay more
for their defense. They're gonna have to pay
more for their defense with their NATO country,
and we're not we as The United States
are not gonna subsidize their lifestyle anymore. We're
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not gonna subsidize anything anymore.
And at least for the foreseeable future, Donald
Trump is the president and any accolades that
follow him that continue the MAGA agenda.
Because,
again, Europe has
the the abundance of security knowing that their
friends and allies with The United States. But
they're closer,
geographically speaking, and from a logistics and a
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supply line standpoint
to this conflict. They should be lead Germany
should be leading
this,
negotiation,
and they're they're they're just not apt to
do it.
And so, ultimately,
the decision that they're going to have to
make is they're gonna have to make austerity
measures. They're gonna have to reallocate budgets away
from these social programs
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and more to defense because,
god forbid, something does,
happen
that gets expanded with Putin's aspirations, obviously, as
you indicated, to bring back the USSR.
They're gonna have to deal with it. And
US will be there if if it's a
national interest to us
as long as Donald Trump is the president.
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Yeah. Because he's the only leader that I
can see in the world today that every
other leader is looking to,
for good things to happen in their own
country if they make friends with Donald j
Trump
and The United States.
It it's it's mind blowing.
That has to do with things outside of
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our own country,
and the respect that we see our our
president getting from all, you know, from the
Middle East.
What do you make of the people still
left in our country that have committed crimes
over the last ten years to persecute, prosecute,
illegally,
Donald J. Trump. And what do you make
of this Jim Comey?
(18:30):
When you I mean, anyone knows if you're
writing 8647,
you're calling for the murder of the forty
seventh president of The United States. And the
fact that James Comey has since deleted
that social media post, he knows he made
a faux pas. And I have no doubt
that Pam Bondi will do everything she can
and direct Secret Service, direct the FBI, and
(18:54):
direct the justice department to investigate.
And if
whatever comes of that, if Comey
knew exactly what he was saying, he's literally
calling for somebody who follows him on social
media
to murder the sitting president of The United
States. So I have no doubt that Pam
Bondi and Kash Patel will have this under
control,
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in the in the coming days or weeks
because, obviously, that was that was ridiculous. And
where's the left? Where's the Democrats
and all these people that claim same thing,
whenever it's the other foot with the other
shoe, but ultimately, you're gonna see
look. There's accountability in a perfect world. A
lot of these people would not only lose
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their jobs, their pensions,
be tried and be found guilty by, you
know, a jury of their peers and go
to prison for the rest of their life.
But I think the best we can do
is, at a minimum, they lose their jobs,
and maybe at a maximum, they lose their
pensions,
because it's it's it's too much to process.
And as we're seeing
from a deportation standpoint,
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again, Donald Trump keeps racking up the wins
when it comes to illegal immigration. And now
a Supreme Court is hearing the birthright citizenship
question, I e, the fourteenth amendment, which you've
heard me say before. It's gonna ultimately favor
Donald Trump's Supreme Court is going to reinforce
that it's only those that are subject to
the jurisdiction thereof, meaning their parents have to
be,
either green card holders or legal citizens to
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pass and confer citizenship, not just to be
here in the country and be born here
as a United States citizen.
So, ultimately, all this stuff
is going to have a huge factor
on how Donald Trump's opponents react. And, obviously,
with James Comey
reacting the way he is,
obviously, he's nervous, and he's doing stupid things.
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I know. But isn't it wonderful? Because if
they squeeze Comey enough
and threaten him with a lifetime imprisonment, he
may very well be willing to give up
names of all of those ten years ago
who committed
literally serious criminal acts against the leading candidate
for the Republicans
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in the crimes they committed trying to get
rid of him.
And
it's
why should we allow this?
Why
why?
Tell me. Yeah. Yeah. Again, this we have
to get back to accountability,
and the only time there's accountability
is when behavior changes. What does that mean?
(21:22):
Behavior changes when there's material losses.
Typically, most people can translate that to as
financial ruin or loss of job or loss
of reputation, shaming, whatever, or your skill set
no longer the ability to get a job
blah blah blah. And someone like Comey who
clearly
is a theatrical
guy who who lives in an alternate reality
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where he thinks he's the hero,
you have to have accountability and you have
to make examples of people. And ultimately, we're
seeing this now, not to dip back into
illegal immigration, but you're seeing all these raids
happen as they should that Homan is driving
along with Kristi Noem, and you're having a
lot of illegal immigrants leave on their own
because the the fear that they will be
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the next example that gets caught up in
one of these raids. They know they're here
illegally. They know they committed a crime, and
they know they're not supposed to be here.
They need to leave, and that
example that has to continue
will will have a massive effect on our
border, which, again,
operational control of the southern border within a
hundred days. You didn't need legislation. You needed
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a new president, and Donald Trump showed that's
exactly what you do when you have actual
leadership
and accountability.
But we have to find all these individuals,
I e, these deep state individual bureaucrats that
have tried to prevent this as well as
make an example of this Wisconsin judge
who's now been indicted and will probably lose,
(22:47):
her bench seat and probably go to prison
because she literally
interfered
in an illegal immigrant and and snuck him
out of her courtroom
to get him out of there when ICE
was there to collect on a retainer. You
need to make examples of these people, and
there needs to be material losses. Yeah. Alright.
Well, this is a a topic not with
illegal immigration, but possibly
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because it has to do with this Muslim,
city that they want to build in, and
around Plano, Texas.
What do you make of that? What do
you think the government should do about that,
and how is it that we allowed all
the Somalis to go up where Ilhan Omar
is
and settle there and literally become a Democrat
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Somali state?
Yeah. And unfortunately, this has been going on
for quite some time. It's not just Minnesota
with the Somalis. There's there's issues up in
Maine. There's issues in other states where, again,
Obama and Joe Biden have in their their
acolytes, their nonprofit,
their NGOs, all these organizations nations that got
these millions and and potentially billions of dollars
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in taxpayer money to process and resettle these
people in
red states, red districts intentionally trying to change
the electoral makeup.
You gotta investigate
all of this. And if you can get
people on process crimes, then you do it
because this cannot continue
where, again, it's nefarious
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desires and outcomes that these people want. It's
not because of refugees and because they're,
they're fleeing
horrible circumstances,
I e the Afrikanas in South Africa.
You're talking about 49 or 50 people that
are literally fleeing from South Africa because their
land is being taken and they're being threatened
(24:30):
with death if they stay. And yet the
left and the Democrats and the people that
continue
to push for mass amnesty and mass refugees
and mass immigration
have no have no qualms about saying, well,
we gotta vet these 50 people from South
Africa and make sure that they're that they're
you know, how do we know they're gonna
assimilate? And yet they're they're on the tarmac
(24:50):
waving American flags and wearing America,
branded t shirts to show that, yes, I
hear. I'm I'm ready to assimilate. Thank you
so much for getting us out of there.
And,
again, this is why elections are so important,
not just on the federal level, but on
the state, on the county, on local level.
Because if these people do not have a
spine to stand up for American values and
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American citizens
beyond anything else, then they all need to
be primary if it's within a party or
or challenged from a general election standpoint. Enough
is enough, and I think Trump is giving
a lot of people that leadership and that
that push because he's shining a light on
all these things. Yeah. Well, we've seen the
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damage done, under mister Biden,
who really wasn't president. It was
Barack, Susan Rice, and, the rest of the
socialist communist
who, were there during mister o mister Obama's
time.
We know that Joe Biden,
was unable to actually,
do the duties of a president.
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Last last issue.
What would you do to the media
and to the,
political
sycophants
who lied about
Joe Biden and his ability
to actually be president.
(26:15):
Yeah. Obviously, Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson are
the are the leads in this because they're
trying to get to print this first book,
I think Tuesday
about everything that was a cover up when
they were part of the cover up. They
keep saying and even Alex Thompson has taken
an award saying, you know, we missed it.
No. We didn't miss it. Only the left
wing liberal media
(26:36):
quote, unquote, missed it because they're actively covering
it up. And same thing with with, Tapper.
So,
ultimately,
you want this stuff to come out? I
mean, better late than never? Because we're gonna
get details that look, we all knew that
Joe Biden was a rotting bag of oatmeal.
He's senile.
He's on death's door. It's very unfortunate. And
(26:56):
yet and the most evil person in all
this is Joe Biden because she knew, and
she kept it up and everything in between.
At the end of the day, yes, this
information's coming out. You want the nuances. You
want the details
that we all knew in the generic sense
that this was going on. But in terms
of them actually learning from anything, I don't
think they will, unfortunately.
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And for right now, we're gonna have you
know, the Democrats have a Joe Biden problem
at least for the next few months while
a lot of these books come out. So
at least that gives us a year while
the Democrats continue to do their infighting.
But it's I I saw the analogy last
night that, someone in the media said it's
like
a guy who's married and has a girlfriend
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and gets caught cheating on them both. He
knows one of them is gonna come back
to him, and that's what the media is.
The media knows the Democrats and the left
will come back to them. They've lost the
right no matter what, and maybe the Independents,
they'll lose
it doesn't matter. It's not a material loss
to them because they still have viewership.
They still have listeners.
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That's why you have to shine a light
on this and why all this conservative media,
the podcast sphere,
all this talk radio, and and everything that
Donald Trump and his team are putting a
light limelight on. You need to make it
so that people
see this because we all knew anyone with
a pulse or
literally room temperature IQ could see that Joe
(28:19):
Biden was deteriorating
and that the left and the media covered
this up. Yeah.
I'll tell you. We can't never let this
happen again. And and now
seeing the differences between
a Biden,
presidency and a Trump presidency,
I mean,
it's it's like zero to a hundred.
(28:40):
And,
fortunately, we've got someone who is out there
speaking up for America,
not taking any prisoners when it comes
to this is what we want, this is
what the world needs, and this is we're
gonna make sure happens.
Move move fast and break things. And you're
seeing all these Biden and even Obama people
(29:00):
that served in both administrations. They're like, wow.
I wish I worked for an administration that
did x, y, or z that Donald Trump
was doing.
Because,
again, he's doing what is necessary.
And instead of worry, oh, this donor says
this, this donor says that, or, you know,
we haven't really done it this way, and
we can't do it that way.
Yeah. Well, Donald Trump is gonna make sure
(29:22):
that it's done his way, whatever that is.
And, and in the meantime, you and I
are gonna be watching carefully.
Brian, I'm gonna be seeing you and beautiful
Catherine and that gorgeous son, Luke, soon. But
in the meantime, have an absolutely wonderful weekend.
It's great having you on air.
Absolutely. Thanks for having me. Thank you. My
(29:43):
pleasure.
Anyway,
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