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May 25, 2025 • 18 mins
Brian Fitzherbert of Liberty and Prosperity joins Anne Baker on her WOND radio show, "Talking w/Anne" for 'Fitzherbert Friday,' and the topics include: Greenland, National Security, DOGE, and illegal immigration.
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You're talking with Anne on News Talk 1,492.3,

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w o n d. Good morning, everyone. This
is Anne Baker on talking with Anne, and
I'm here with my cohost, Brian Fitzherbert, on
Fitzherbert Friday.
And, you know, one of the things that,
Donald Trump
brought up in his first hundred days had
to do with Greenland.
Are they as really as strategically
important

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to us
and our safety, the safety of our country
as Donald Trump made it out to be?
I believe so. That's I think that's why
he keeps bringing attention to it because, again,
there are some issues that go over
the North Arctic
and having a more strategic position than where
The United States lands on the globe or

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even Alaska for that matter,
could be very
advantageous dealing with current geopolitical foes, which happen
to be Russia and China. God forbid something
happens.
And, you know, Trump is you know, if
he's able to do this,
which would be unprecedented. Again, it's it's no
different than having Puerto Rico or another territory

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for The United States. And then who knows,
even maybe possibly being
being a state, that's another thing down the
road. But to have a military presence increase
than what we already have, because we do
have a military presence in Greenland, is a
strategic advantage
to The United States for a multitude of
reasons,
that could be used for,
military applications that are not nuclear,

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that could get you closer, that don't have
some of the capabilities that would be done
from satellite and or
air and or naval,
and the time that goes with it. I
mean, think about any kind of analogy when
you're just shipping goods in the supply lines,
using the Panama Canal or not using the
Panama Canal and how long that takes and
how to position,

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god forbid, military if we ever get to
a point of escalation.
We have war games, but, again,
there's still a concern
should this ever escalate to a point of
I don't wanna say no return, but a
point that no one living has ever seen
before.
Yeah. Well, I I let me tell you
something. I can remember the fears,

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with the Cuba missile crisis.
So I can't imagine what would happen if
we were to find out something. And with
news traveling as quickly as it does today,
how we would respond to something that would,
take us to the edge,
that's something that,
I don't know.
I I I thought,

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sometimes I think having a really weak president,
wasn't so bad. We had Biden,
and we had a,
a, intelligence
balloon going over our country,
going, I guess, from Alaska
all the way down,
past all of these

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installations,
military installations. I don't know. In fact, you
you probably can answer this. Could they pick
up enough
of the information that these installations
actually had
to make a difference
in being able to
maybe make weapons
that would destroy

(03:17):
all of these installations that this balloon went
over?
It's possible because the choice of a of
a balloon that's, you know,
last century's technology,
that isn't picked up unless you see it
from line of sight because of all the
capabilities that we have on satellite and detection
systems today,
radar, etcetera,

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are
we have computers for that. And the fact
that China chose to do this
and chose to do this while Joe Biden
was president is very telling.
And I'm sure
that the amount of pictures that I was
able to take that,
you know, satellite imagery either again, we go
back to the idea of
of space war, I guess you can call

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it, or space theater with regard to jamming
satellite imagery capabilities so that you can't see
what things are or get close enough, etcetera,
etcetera,
that if you have an air balloon that
has a has
a high capability
camera,
that can,
you know,
transmit

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what they see before the thing gets shot
down over South Carolina,
they could conceivably come up with, oh, cool.
This is where everything is.
And is it conspiratorial to think, oh, this
is where China is buying land next to
that we've seen in New York and New
Jersey and other places, California, where
Chinese nationals are coming in and buying land

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that happened to be near military installations in
The United States?
It's possible. I mean, this is where it
gets really, really concerning.
And why
again,
strategic
China, they think about things in hundred years,
and they found a nice little window during
Joe Biden's administration
to get
a distinct advantage that wasn't I mean, this

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was two weeks. This was two weeks that
that air balloon circumnavigated
the the, basically, the contents of 48 states
before it shot down
and probably transmitted whatever it needed to.
Yeah.
Yeah. And, the old man will not face
any repercussions
probably because he really didn't have much to
do with deciding whether or not to shoot

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it down or not,
which which also, you know, leads us into
the conspiracy theories about whoever it was that
was,
signing off on all the legislation that was
supposedly signed by mister Biden,
that that person behind the throne,
who is in fact the puppet master, that
maybe the nefarious,
reasoning

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behind what was done
had to do with they're trying to destroy
us from within,
that maybe these are the traitorous people, the
Obamas, the Susan Reices,
the people who were living in the West
End Of the White House because
they were the ones actually pulling the strings

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and telling mister Biden
what to mumble when he went on camera,
putting the words down on the teleprompters.
So
I still don't know whether or not we
have gotten beyond the damage
done over the last four years. Let me
ask you something. Kash Patel is now in
in there. He he's, you know, he is

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saying the FBI is going to to do
everything it can to clean up the mess
that was left behind. And he's getting, of
course,
all kinds of of feedback from Democrats who
don't want him to go there.
Do you think that the officers who were
part of the Mar A Lago event,
the,
Steele dossier

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putting that
out, going and getting, into the FISA courts.
Do you think that will ever come to
fruition?
Because
mister Comer from the, from Congress,
he keeps telling us what he's doing, what
he's planning on doing, and nothing
ever
happens.
Is this the same old, same old, do

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you think?
I have to believe that with Cash Patel
at FBI director and Dan Bongino as deputy
director, that at a minimum,
the information is gonna come out. And they've
only been on the job for whatever it's
been, sixty, seventy days.
And
I have no doubt with those two guys,
they're gonna find the individuals responsible, and either

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those individuals responsible are gonna resign or they're
gonna be fired.
And that information needs to be,
revealed. And, again, this is this is where
the concern is, and cash has even talked
about this. It's ironic that the,
statute of limitations for a lot of these
are have already expired. So the best thing
you can do

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is publicly shame or reveal the information
and at best have these people lose their
jobs and their potential,
for a pension,
but they're gonna be hired up or scooped
up
on media
and probably make and probably write a book
and make a few million dollars that way,
and they'll be set anyway. And it and
this is the frustration that a lot of

(08:13):
people probably listening go through is because why
isn't anything done? Why is there no accountability?
And this is the problem with having a
big bad bureaucracy as big as the United
States government and how many employees there are,
which is why Elon Musk and all his
Doge efforts
were so effective at revealing and identifying. And,
again, side note on Elon Musk. I love

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how he left to say that he's finally
out. He was forced out. He wasn't forced
out. He was a hundred and twenty day
appointment that since now expired,
as a special government employee. So all these
efforts,
again, to shrink the size of government. And,
obviously, with with the house passing the
the big beautiful bill, I guess, they're actually
calling it one big beautiful bill act, for

(08:54):
the Trump tax cuts extension.
All this stuff, you have to shrink the
size of government. You have to shrink spending.
You have to shrink all of this because,
otherwise, how do you have accountability?
I mean, think about this at the smallest
level to your to your own home, your
family, to the place that you work if
you work in a small business. There is
accountability when decisions are made, good, bad, or
indifferent, malicious or not, that have long lasting
impacts, and there should be accountability.

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And if you're not up to the job,
then you should be fired. And if you
did something that was malicious, you should be
criminally prosecuted if you committed a crime. And
the fact is that there's things that are
taking so long. And, again, this was probably
the conspiratorial
thought process with getting 10 to 20,000,000 illegal
aliens in just the last four years, notwithstanding
the probably 40 to 60 that are already

(09:38):
here. That's very hard to get these people
out
and have accountability.
I mean, this this is what it comes
down to. If you just secure the border,
you enforce existing laws, and you audit the
crap out of the federal government, those three
tasks can solve a lot of the problems,
and you have to get to the accountability
portion of it. Yeah. And that is exactly

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what Elon Musk and Dosch were required to
do and continue to do, and people are
fighting against it. I I watched
a senator, a White House from, Connecticut,
who is probably
one of the dumbest people I have ever
heard
on TV or on talking with the media.
And I heard him, questioning Kash Patel, trying

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to get him to say there's a, you
know, there's
a a list of people that he's he's
planning on getting and this, that, and the
other, and really wanting to try to shut
down whatever the FBI is capable of doing.
And
I think he's more afraid of the NGO
possibility, which is something that,
our senators and our congressmen

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have, have done over time. They've had their
family members set up nongovernmental
organizations
about certain things that they can give information
to whoever is setting it up that makes
them look like they know what they're talking
about. But in they get
millions of dollars in grants from the government
that go from

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the government's hands into the hands of the
NGO run by the wife or the or
the brother or the son of a sitting
senator or congressman,
which goes, of course,
then to the congressman. And you wonder why
is it they go in as paupers, and
why then when you look to see what
the value
of their monies is then,

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it's in the tens of millions of dollars.
And what Kash Patel is planning on doing
is actually going going through this, doing the
dozing
that's necessary
to find out where our tax dollars are
going and which politicians
and their families have gained by it because
they've been led by the best of the

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best with Joe Biden and his family and
their China connections.
So do you think anything's ever come going
to come of that?
I hope so.
Because, again, when you're a candidate or an
elected official, you have to file disclosure forms,
and that only applies to you and your
spouse.
And, again, it's ironic that

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AOC is still not married after being engaged
for I don't know how many years. It's
almost like that is an intentional avoidance
because who she's
involved with romantically,
doesn't have to file any disclosure form because
he's not legally married to her. And it's
the same thing with family members,
and you can have family members that you
don't even talk to

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that, could be doing things off your name,
etcetera. And that's where things get really dicey.
And, you know, I'm not big on regulation,
but I am big on rooting out corruption.
And why, to your point, why do peasant
poor dumb people get elected to federal office
and then somehow
all of a sudden have millions and millions
of dollars to their name because they're preview

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to having access
and information that the rest of,
you know, your normal Americans don't have, and
that's a real concern. You know? It's not
the one thing I agree with some of
the Democrats
on is
banning
elected officials
from trading stocks.
Look at Nancy Pelosi, the Pelosi Act. Right?

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That woman is
arguably the most gifted stock trader in the
history of the world based on how much
money she's made. That's absurd,
and it's because she probably has information
that she has pillow talk with her husband,
and then he goes and does
actions with.
Yeah. We'd all like to see that end.

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When I when when I see some of
these these blowhards,
on TV
who are, trying to,
crucify,
the Republicans, and then I look them up,
and I see what they're worth,
and I see what their families are involved
with. And all of a sudden, the light
bulb goes off. Yeah. They don't want the

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Republicans
to win in any in any way, shape,
or form with with,
shrinking,
the monies,
that are given out with our tax dollars
to NGOs in particular who, of course, were
constantly at the border,
allowing people to be so called processed into

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our country
with the spurring on by by,
by Biden
to surge the border.
What do you think
alright. What do you think is going to
happen with these 20,000,000 or so people that
were allowed in over the last four years?
Do you think we're ever going to be
able to scoop them up and send them

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back?
I I do. I think there's gonna it's
gonna be two pronged. It's gonna be incentivized
to get them to go on their own
because you create an environment that's so impossible
for them to stay here, which Trump is
currently creating,
as well as
going through the legal wickets. He's gonna be
successful probably by the fall when all these
court cases have been,

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made decision on just like remain in Mexico
or the the travel ban,
etcetera that he did in his first term.
It's gonna take some time to go through
the judicial wickets, but it'll reinforce his capability.
Because, again, the left keeps crying about due
process. That doesn't mean
that you have to have a jury of
your peers and a whole trial that takes
two weeks for every individual. No. You basically

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could do it in thirty seconds to a
minute. Cool. We're charging you with illegal entry.
Are you an American citizen? Can you prove
documentation or anything else that you're here lawfully?
No? Okay. Cool. You're being deported. Done. Gone.
And he's using the Alien Enemies Act,
to do the same thing and speed up
the process. He has to homeland security and
omen have to get to a a point

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of 8,800
deportations
a day to get those 20,000,000 people out
in
Trump's term. And then that's where the extension
goes with whether it's JD Vance or Marco
Rubio,
as the heir apparent for the next president,
that can carry on the same process,
to get these people out. So, yes, it

(16:00):
can be done. You gotta go through, unfortunately,
probably
reality is probably nine months of judicial wickets
to determine this. But once they get on
autopilot, they're gonna push through, and they can
they can withstand the political blowback that CNN,
MSNBC, ABC, NBC,
CBS, all are gonna put videos of all
these crying mothers, etcetera,

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out which they're doing
now, and it's not effective because guess what?
The vast majority and a super majority of
people for the first time in my lifetime
of American citizens want these illegal immigrants out
of this country. So it's gonna be two
pronged. It's gonna be creating the environment, which
Trump is already doing, that these people leave
and self deport on their own because of
fear that they're gonna be scooped up and
put into a Venezuelan prison,

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or anywhere else where Trump, again, got very
creative. If we can't keep them here, why
not contract to other countries
for a one year, two year period to
go house them? It's cheap for us. It's
a lot of money for that country, and
it's a win win situation. So there's that
too. And then obviously processing actual deportations and
doing these these ICE raids,
and, ultimately and then you have to do

(17:04):
the next thing, which is you have to
make E
Verify nationwide for every single company
and job to make it impossible for anyone
to get a job here. And those those
employers should be held accountable as well. Absolutely.
I think that's probably why we have so
so large of a problem with, the immigrant
population that we get, which is usually,
very

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not well educated at all,
who, in fact, when they're here, send their
money back to their own country.
I I you know, that's that's one of
the one of the huge problems. If they
settle here,
you hope and you pray
that they then go through the legal process
because there are tens of thousands of people
waiting in line
who have done it legally.

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And when I see, Kristi Noem saying go
home
and come back and do it legally,
I think to myself,
every single person who has come here illegally
and now knows the language, has been working
hard, even has a family here,
they should listen to that
and and go to a lawyer and try

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to get through,
however they can because
they've ended up being good American citizens
from another country.
Yeah. So here here's the thing about that,
and this is this is my
my issue with,
well, someone's been here for ten, fifteen, twenty
years. Good morning, everyone. This is Anne Baker
on Talking with Anne. And, Brian, I wanna

(18:27):
thank you for being on and wish you
and Catherine and Luke and your family a
wonderful memorial weekend where we think about those
lost,
but who certainly are our heroes. So thank
you, Brian.
Thanks for having me. Yeah. Have a good
one.
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