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I think it's fantastic anyway, Buckle up because Tuesday, February third,
twenty twenty six, it's like a pignana at a Puerto
Rican that's full of surprises. When you whack it all
sorts of crazy things come flying out, and I'm talking
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about the headlines from the news of the day. It's
been a crazy day. It's like a little bit of
a liberal kafeko nchee. But who doesn't like that? You know?
I know I do. And let me tell you, I'm
interested in what's happening right now because there's a lot
going on culturally. I love it when the culture starts
to shift right, and to me, that's when you know
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you're making changes, right when people don't care about politics
as much as they care about culture. Right. Remember, moms
and dads they got all out of sorts, as they
should when they found out they were losing their kids
to the transsexual movement. That's when a lot of people
got involved, right. And now you're seeing a lot of
things happening with super Bowl, and super Bowl's never been
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a conservative bastion right of America first loving thing. But
somehow bad Buddy has hit the nerve. So we're gonna
talk a little bit about that as well, because it
seems to not go away. Yeah, if it's in the news,
I'm talking about it anyway, amigos. I want to get
into a bunch of things, now, can you believe it?
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This is the first thing we're talking about Columbian President
Gustavo Petro, the far left socialist who's been CosIng up
to drug cartels faster than you know, like like the
bad guys in the tella Noelas he's waltzing right into
the White House for a chit chat with drum Pito
Denaldos Magnus, the forty fifth president of these United States,
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now the forty seventh. And some say Petro, who had
his visa yank last year for you know, creating little
chaos and calling Trump a barbarian all that stuff, then
he was going to be a problem. But boom, Trump
invites him over. They talk little drugs, extraditions. Petro even
ships a drug lord our way hours before landing. How
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about that? So from my perspective, this is Trump being
the boss. You want to play nice, fine, but stop
flooding our streets with the poison from your backyard. And
I think that's how it is. And Trump said, Gustavo,
you're great, Now fix your mess or I'll tell if
you're back to the Stone age. It's Hilarry's and the
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lefty media, of course, they spin it as tensions easing.
And why because this guy goes back and he comes
here and he puts his best foot forward, but he
goes back home and he talks a lot of smack, right,
similar to what Madua was speaking when he was like,
come and get me. This guy's was singing that song
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until they went and scooped up Nicolas Maduro and then
he changed his tune real quick changed it. He decided
to go in a different direction and said, hey, Trump
wants to meet with me. He's requested the honor of
my presence in the White House, So how about the apples?
And it looks like he wants to play ball. And again,
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it's always going to look like he wants to play
ball because he's a politician and he is the middleman
between the drug cartels and now the United States trying
to eradicate him. So what has he got to do.
He's got to dance. It's that simple. I think a
lot of these people if you can show them away, right,
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And that's how Trump is effective. I believe he comes
in like a salesman. Right, you go in, you go
how much is this car? How much is that house?
You know, Trump is the salesman that comes in and says,
if I can show you away where you can make
the money that you need to make without having to
sell drugs and be a douchebag, are you willing to
do it? And I think they're all saying yes. Now,
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sometimes he has to sweeten the deal, like he did
with Delsi Rodriguez and her brother and Thestaddo, the other guy,
the Venezuelan crew. I think sometimes he has to go
in there and show them. All right, So Nicolas and
his wife are sitting in a prison cell. They're embarrassed
and they're broke. They have no more power, and maybe
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we'll give him a better sell if he cooperates, but
he's not going anywhere. El Chapel. Just ask him, Gilian
Masquell Maxwell, ask her, So I think you know Delsa
Rodriguez and these people. They say, Look, maybe we make
the same money as we did on oil, as we
did with drugs, or maybe we make even a little
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less and we don't have as much power, but we
have the safety of knowing that Trump is not going
to kill us and put us in jail. Let me
tell you, not a bad deal. So I think Gustavo
Petro is dealing with the same thing right now. Instead
of saying Trump is a barbarian, he likely needs to,
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you know, switch gears a little bit. Anyway, he shows
up with his tail between his legs in the White House.
I think in his mind he's thinking the Omeo. This
guy's for real, right, Ed Trompito is the real deal.
If only Biden had that spine, our borders would likely
not be a free for all. Anyway, speaking of spines,
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Thank goodness. The government shut down is over after four
days of drama, and I think a lot of people
missed it because the Democrats couldn't stomach much of the
ICE reforms, the real ones. President Trump signed the bill
reopening most agencies through the end of fiscal year twenty six,
but hold the Convetti because DHS's funding is on a
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two week cliffhanger. Fox is calling it a GOP win,
with Speaker Johnson corralling the votes despite twenty one rebels
trying to tank it. News Max nails it. They say
the Dems broke ranks too, but only because they're scared
of Trump's tariff hammer. Good. It's good. Gotta be scared
of something. Imagine the chaos if this dragged on just
a little bit longer. Right, More federal workers twiddling their
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thumbs while illegals are waltzing in, and more folks in
Minnesota are opening more daycare centers and buying more cars
and buying more homes. I mean, it's just it's kind
of wild. Now on to Bill Clinton, right, the so
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called change of heart. Oh man, this one's got me
laughing because, according to Blaze and Newsmax, good old slick
Willie right bj Clinton, Bill Jefferson Clinton is the great
one calls him. He finally agreed to testify in the
House investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's Island escapades. After years of dodging.
It's like, you know, he was in a dodgeball tournament
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with the truth. Headlines were all over the place. Clinton
flips agrees to spill on Epstein. Blah blah blah. Now
many conservatives are roasting him. Of course, Why the change
of heart. I'd say it's more like a change of
lawyers realizing the walls were closing in. Remember this is
the guy who said he did not have relations or
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did not have relations with that woman. I mean, he's
used to this stuff. So now he's got a date
with Congress, and this is interesting, right when when this
goes down, if it goes down, right, I'm still not
convinced it's actually gonna happen. I guess that's my question
to you guys, do you think it'll happen? Will Bill
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Jefferson Clinton show up? Will he show up and actually
deliver his testimony, or will he just walk in with
his lawyer and say, well, you know, I don't want
to perjure myself a presidential immunity and thank you, thank
you for having me here, smile his way out of it,
you know, very mandani esque, right, because really Mamdannie is Clinton.
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He just doesn't do it as well. You know, he
does the little hand on the heart thing a little
too much. And I don't know, I don't know how
this is going to go, but we'll see. Now, Shifting
gears is something that smells a little fishier then you know,
some bad Makalau Chinese biolab. It's a Chinese biolab those
busted in the US. I saw this on Fox News
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and in bright part the headline is an illegal Chinese biolab.
I raided in California febs pro WUHAN ties and I'm
wondering is this even legal or is it legal to
have these labs? Is it illegal to have these labs?
I don't know. The reports detail that it was a
pretty shady setup in Ridley, California that was churning out
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COVID tests, pregnancy, kids, and who knows what else, maybe
the next pandemic on demand. I don't know what's going
on here, but you know, people in the news are
asking what's going on, and it was the laxness during
the Biden era that let all this stuff happen. So
now under Trump, ice FBI, everybody's cracking down on all
the fraud that's been out there. And listen, this is
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like straight out of a spy thriller. Hidden labs, mice
engineered with viruses, ties to the CCP. I mean, wow,
good old, good old Beijing thinking that they can set
up shop in our backyard. I don't know anyway, how
many more are out there? Is what I want to know.
Is it time to deal with this head on? To
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we take China head on? Do we confront them on
this or you know, what's the deal. Why do we
always just like catch them and just never like threaten them.
Right you catch Iran doing something and right away it's like,
we will bomb you. Why are we not saying we
will bomb you? To China? And I understand they have
nukes and they're a bigger country, but I mean, we've
got to take a tougher stand. Other ways we're in
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We're in bad shape anyway, save in the best one
for the last here. This headline was interesting. Turning Point
USA announcing their Super Bowl halftime show to compete with
The Bad Bunny Show, and that's coming up this Sunday,
and they've announced that the headliner is going to be
kid Rock. I've known of kid rock for many, many years.
I've actually again, there's certain artists that you know, you
can know of. They're very popular, huge and popular culture.
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I couldn't place a song right now if you said
give me your favorite kid rock song, I don't have one.
I've likely heard it plenty of times, but I couldn't
place any particular song next to kid Rock. It's not
on my playlist. But that said, many people who I'm
sure enjoy the super are going to enjoy the Turning
Point USA show. And honestly, I'd love to be there.
I'm sure they're gonna have a lot of great acts.
There's a lot of great I wouldn't be surprised if
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if Nicki Minaj makes a surprise appearance, right, given her
closeness with the conservative movement and with the president and
as well as with the widow Erica Kirk all right,
that would be kick butt. And I would love to
see Nicki Minaj perform. I would love to see Bad
Bunny perform. Honestly, I'm that guy. I like music, and
it's a shame. I'm not going to be at either
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of these, right, but I would love to be at both.
But it very interesting and I'm glad they're doing it right.
I'm very glad. This is what to me, what America
is all about. America is all about opportunity. To me,
it's about having the ability to provide options. That's capitalism
the way the left puts it. I call it a
free market. You get to choose, and that's great. That's
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what it's all about. Right now, you could be listening
to somebody else's podcast, and I'm thanking God you're listening
to mine. I'm also thanking God that you're going to
tell two or three people you know, via text message
or however you want to share it with them, say hey,
listen to this download and subscribe right because that stuff matters.
And I don't ever want to be that guy. And
it may happen one day, but I don't want to
be the guy and it says, hey, listen to listen
to the show. It's going to be a dollar ninety
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nine a month, or two dollars in ninety nine cents
or three or four or five bucks or whatever you
know people do these days. I don't want to do that.
I want to continue to give you a free show
where you have to listen to ads. The ads pay me,
so you don't have to always remember that. So the
more people that listen, the better. It is free, free, free,
because we want to get this message out there. This
isn't solely about making a living right. This is my career,
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but it's about getting a message out. We want people
to engage in this late night national town hall conversation.
So anyway, kudo's to turning point USA for doing what
they're doing. I love that, and we're going to see
what that brings in. Again. I think that's just a
tip of the iceberg. Honestly, with a lot of this stuff,
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I think we're going to see more of those options happen.
And that's how you take on the culture, right, if
you really want to win a culture where like that, me,
for example, I don't care so much about that stuff, right.
I look at music, movies, all types of entertainment as
a choice that we all make. And for me, there
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are days where I like things from Angel Studios. Right,
they make very family friendly, conservative content. It's terrific. There
are days where I want to watch you know other things,
you know, rated R movies, action movies, you know, spy thrillers,
things that aren't always mega clean. I live in the
real world, you know, forgive me, maybe I haven't graduated
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to that level of consciousness I did once. You know,
for many years my kids are little, I walked the
straight and narrow. You know, nobody cursed in the house,
nobody watched anything that was PG. Thirteen or you know
above that. I made sure my kids weren't exposed to
that type of thing, and you know, I felt that
was my duty as a dad. But my kids, you know,
one kid's out the house, she graduated college. The other
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one's in the house. She's going to be twenty one
in a few months, so it's it's a different world
that I'm in, right, and I feel like I can
let my hair down a little bit and enjoy what's
out there. You know. I remember telling my kids they
couldn't watch the MTV The Jersey Shore because it was,
you know, too many mature themes. But once they turned eighteen,
they could watch it. And you know, one of them did,
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one of the other one didn't, or maybe they both did,
but one liked it one didn't. I love it. I
think it's the best trash TV that you know. Sometimes
I watch it with her and there are some embarrassing
moments where I'm like, all right, avert your eyes. But
for the most part, it's a funny show. And now
that you know that's the old Ones, the new Ones
Jersey Shore Family Vacation, which I'm a big fan of.
I think there are terrific Anyway, I'm rambling. We're going
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to continue the conversation. Lots to discuss, and in this
episode we got Robert Reich attacking Trump on overtime and taxes.
It's it's funny how the left works. We'll get into
that a little bit. Plus the audio, I promise you
from yesterday. It was an old clip of Jason Whitlock
arguing with the folks at about bed Bunny. We'll talk
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about that a little bit. Plus we've got a couple
of more that I want to talk about, just a
couple of crazy lefties in action, plus everything I already
laid out for you. So keep it locked right here,
don't go anywhere. I'm Rich Valdez.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
This is America. This is America. He's got the best
head of hair and podcasting. This is America with Rich Valdez.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
All right, how's that a little rock music for you? See?
I like all sorts of music. My preference is hip
hop and reggaeton and southside banga, but I like all
sorts of stuff I like. I like some country I like.
I like all sorts of things. Anyway, I want to
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get into this stuff here. I want to get into
these Chinese blabs.
Speaker 6 (16:01):
Right.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
I know people hear that stuff and they freak out,
And I don't know, I guess I'm one of those guys.
I tend I freak out about certain things, but not
about stuff like this. Why likely because I've always believe
these things are always happening, and I think for that reason,
these things rarely surprise me. Right, So my opinion is
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that the United States is operating all sorts of enterprises
in other countries from business entities. And I'm talking about
the United States government right under the guys of the
CIA that will never admit to because that's what the
CIA does. We spy and do things in other countries.
We have people embedded in their infrastructure and their corporate establishment,
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and their government and their police and their whatever. And
we grow these intelligence networks so that we can maintain
our position and control. And they do the same thing
to us, and so does every other country. And some
countries are really good at it, some are are not,
And we tend to be pretty good at it. The
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Israelis are good at it. The Iranians are okay at it.
But they also are really good in cyber and in
creating propaganda. So are the Russians and the Chinese, and
that's their preference, the Marxists. Anyway, I'm looking at this
piece here in Blaze Media, another secret Chinese biolab found
on US soil, and this to me is interesting, to
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say the least surprising, not so much interesting for sure.
Fox News is William Jenness has their report.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
The man who owns that Vegas lab. He's a Chinese
scientist linked to the ccp IS and has been in
jail the last three years. Secondly, the lab is not
an FDA licensed facility, but it's in a house in Vegas.
Rated Saturday morning by the FBI swat pulling out boxes
of what police believe are hazardous biological agents and pathogens
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normally found in a secure university or industrial lab with
air locks designed to prevent an outbreak.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Almost immediately, investigator observed multiple refrigerators, a freezer, and other
laboratory type equipment, along with numerous bottels and jugs containing
unknown liquid substances.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
So the Vegas lab, according to police, belongs to sixty
two year old Juai Jew, a sci Chinese national and
a fugitive who also goes by the alias David He.
He was arrested in twenty twenty three for manufacturing unlicensed
medical devices and lying about unapproved HIV and pregnancy teskets
that he was selling. He also operated this illicit biolab
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in an abandoned warehouse in Readley, California, where investigators found
thousands of vials of blood and tissue a thousand genetically
engineered mice designed to carry the COVID virus, and CDC
tests did show the vials contained HIFA, covid, hepatitis, herpes,
and malaria. Police arrest jew and he's been in jail
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ever since. Congressional investigators link the lab to the Chinese
Communist Party, a tie that also suggests the same people
are behind the Vegas lab.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
All right, so how about them apples? Interesting stuff? Right,
So again, following this discovery that the Chinese Communist agents
were coordinating intimidation, espionage, and coercion campaigns out of illegal
police stations in the United States, right, we talked about that,
I think just about a year ago. Now, US officials
found something potentially more threatening in Reedley, California. What we
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just talked about, this bio lab containing deadly pathogens, including ebola,
and it was in a house. As you heard, SWAT
officers with the Las Vegas Metro Police Department raided a
home in the city's northeast end, discovering a suspected illegal
bio lab, apparently linked to the Chinese national who owned
that Reedley property. The one he just mentioned. I think
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his name was Oujing Chu or wujing Wu. Footage owed
local federal agents together forming a perimeter and raiding this place.
A tactical robot dog explored the interior and conducted air
sampling before members of the Las Vegas Metro PD and
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their Hazardous Regional Multi Agency Operations Response team made entry.
The main house was home to three renters who were
safely removed and are apparently not targets of the investigation.
The locked garage was the home to refrigerators, a freezer,
laboratory type equipment, numerous containers holding unknown liquid substances. Now
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the apparent biological materials, which were carefully collected over the
course of the weekend, along with other evidence, were initially
transported to a Southern Nevada Health District facility for safe storage,
then taken to an FBI lab protesting. Las Vegas Metro
PD Sheriff Kevin mcmayhill indicated that the these items importantly
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were consistent in appearance to the items found and described
in the Reedley, California lab in that investigation. So this
guy has a place in California, He's got a place
in Las Vegas. Now. Mcmayhill also noted that the home
was owned by the same individual connected to a prior
illegal biolab investigation from twenty twenty three, and that individual,
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as I mentioned before, is Gi Bei Ju. Is his name,
Gi Beiju. The House Select Committee on Communist Chinese Party
noted in its report on the Reedley Bio Lab that
the California lab operated under the direction of control of
mister Zu, a Chinese citizen that's associated with the communist regime,
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linking companies as well with Chinese military civil fusion entities.
I don't know what that means, but I thought everything
was civil fusion in China. So who is this jew?
What's his deal, what's his angle? I don't know the
answers to all that, but I do know this is
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not good stuff, right And our buddy Gordon Chang has
warned us about this over and over about how these
guys are coming for our lunch, and he's always said,
we're not being tough enough. We have to be tougher anyway.
I got this one here. It's a quick clip from
the Sheriff's office in Las Vegas. Metro PD listened to this.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Once this residence was cleared. Lbmpd's armor team entered the scene. Armor,
for those of you that don't know, is are all
hazard Regional Multi Agency Operations and Response unit. They do
all of the gamut of the CBR and E, wearing
protective equipment, including respirators. The team drilled a small access
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point into the interior door leading to the garage and
inserted it probe to assess air quality. A pinhole camera
was also deployed, transmitting live video to the command post
and to our Fusion Watch operations center here at headquarters.
Almost immediately, investigators observed multiple refrigerators, a freezer, and other
laboratory type equipment, along with numerous bottles and jugs containing
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unknown liquid substances. These items, importantly were consistent in apparent
to the items found and described in a Reley, California
lab investigation.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
So again that's the sheriff there. Just mentioned mcmayhill giving
his comments. Earlier, we heard from William Genness from Fox
News giving a report. What I've been reading to you
here is from The Blaze, and again just interesting. This
guy's you wanted in Canada. He's wanted. He's a fugitive, right,
He's the subject of a three hundred and thirty million
dollar judgment for stealing American IP intellectual property. He illegally
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entered the United States under the false signe identity of
David he. According to the report, While he was in
the US unlawfully, mister ju set up a network of
companies that scumulated a vast supply of potential pathogenes, including ebola, COVID,
nineteen HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, which he's accused of keeping and
poorly storing at one or more of these unlicensed, unregistered labs.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
Now.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
In addition to thousands of samples of potentially dangerous diseases
and hundreds of boxes of medical devices that are subject
to the US FDA and BARGO, the lab in California
was home to roughly one thousand mice that were genetically
engineered to mimic the human immune system. Is this crazy? Yet?
This sounds wild to me? And again, I know these
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people are doing bad things here, but I didn't know
we were genetically engineering mice. Do you know? It's not shocking,
but definitely like whoa eyebrow raising? For sure. One lab
worker reportedly told local officials that the transgenic mice were
altered to carry and catch COVID nineteen virus. Dead mice
were apparently disposed of without the use of licensed medical
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waste haulers. According to the congressional report, the Readley Biolab
received millions of dollars in unexplained payments from Chinese communist banks. Wow,
what a surprise there. Shocker Xu was arrested by federal
agents on October nineteenth of twenty twenty three and indicted
the following month for allegedly distributing adulterated and misbranded COVID
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nineteen test kits, making false statements to authorities about his identity,
and he was slapped with additional charges in twenty twenty
four for alleged conspiracy and wire fraud. Now Xiao Yan
Wang is mister Ju's supposed lover and business partner, was
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charged with helping facilitate the alleged fraud through Universal Meditech Inc.
And Prestige Biotech Inc. The biolabs that she operated in
California and in Fresno. Wang is also a Chinese national Sheriff.
Mcmayhill also said that Xu has a trial hearing scheduled
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for February twenty third, and remains in federal custody. The
Las Vegas Metro PD also arrested the property manager of
the Vegas Residents, a fifty five year old named Ari Solomon,
on a charge of disposing and discharging hazardous waste. Solomon
was booked into Clark County detention and on Saturday, the
FBI searched a second Vegas home on Temple View Drive,
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but found no threat at that location, So the FBI
revisited the California lab on Sunday, reporting that they were
there on site conducting a secondary investigation. Excuse me, so
obviously this can't keep happening. Republicans in Congress are calling
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for that to not happen anymore. Of course, you and me,
I'm think you're calling for the same thing. We have
to do more, we have to do better. I mean
this is there's an expectation from we the people that
our government's going to protect us, and I'm going to
say catching these labs meets that expectation for me. You
can't eradicate evil. All you can do is try to
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catch it, learn from it, and try to stay ahead
of it. Do the work. Doesn't mean you can prevent everything.
Bad things are always going to happen. Thankfully here Hopefully
you know, they didn't release any of these pathogens to
get a bunch of people sick, but clearly their plan, right,
Why else would you make mice that can get sick
and then keep you know, doing all this here. Do
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it in Wuhan, and they're doing it here, so they
could let it out here. We can have a lab
leak here where they could weaponize it here. Because those
days of going to war with soldiers and stuff like that,
and people say the Chinese are going to come in
through California, I think that stuff is long gone. The
Chinese are here, The Iranians are here, all of them
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are here, and they're doing whatever bad things they're doing,
they're going to do them right here. They're renting the
garage next door like that happened here. They're the guy working,
you know, the people that you think are the non
suspecting people that are just here work and trying to
take care of their kids. They're all here. This is
why so many people are up in arms and they're
saying to port them all, get it out of here,
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And I get it. We have a very unique problem
on our hands. It's going to be. I'm not going
to say impossible, but very challenging to solve. And kudos
to our President, the forty fifth and forty seventh President
of these United States, El Trompito's and all this magnus,
for really tackling it from every angle, staying within the
confines of the law every single time, upholding the Constitution,
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upholding his oath to the protect and defend the United States.
God bless America, God bless El Trampito, and keep her
locked right here. I'm coming right back. I'm Rich Valdez.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
This is Amria. This is a Maria.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
President. Ronald takes your us. Mister President, Welcome to the program.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
Sir, well, thank you, Rich, and thank you for everything.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
I know you very well and I have I listen,
but I have a lot of people that listen then
they love you show and I appreciate it very much.
Speaker 7 (29:17):
Good morning everyone. My name is Matthew Galliotti and I'm
the head of the Justice Department's Criminal Division. Thank you
all for joining us today as we announce the largest
coordinated health care fraud takedown in the history of the
Department of Justice. Today marks a decisive moment in our
fight to protect American taxpayers from fraudsters and to defend
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the integrity of America's healthcare system. We are announcing today
charges against three hundred and twenty four defendants for their
alleged participation in health care fraud schemes involving approximately fourteen
point six billion dollars in false claims submitted to Medicare, Medicaid,
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and other healthcare programs. In a takedown this large, I
can't possibly describe all of the work that went into
dismantling each scheme, but there are four key points that
bear emphasizing. First, let me be clear about what these
healthcare fraud schemes mean for every hardworking American family. These
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criminals didn't just steal someone else's money. They stole from you.
Every fraudulent claim, every fake billing, every kickback scheme represents
money taken directly from the pockets of American taxpayers who
fund these essential programs through their hard work and sacrifice.
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And when criminals defraud these programs, they're not just committing theft,
they're driving up our national deficit and threatening the long
term viability of healthcare for seeing disabled Americans and our
most vulnerable citizens. This enforcement action involves the seizure of
cash as well as luxury vehicles and properties, returning real
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money to American taxpayers and to our government healthcare programs. Second,
we are seeing a disturbing trend of transnational criminal organizations
engaging in increasingly sophisticated and complex criminal schemes that defraud
the American healthcare system. As part of this takedown, we've
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identified in charge defendants operating from Russia, Eastern Europe, Pakistan,
and other foreign countries. These individuals have infiltrated our healthcare
system to steal American taxpayer dollars.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
As just one.
Speaker 7 (31:47):
Example, we dismantled a scheme involving a sophisticated operation run
from Russia and Eastern Europe that strategically bought dozens of
medical supply companies in the United States and submitted more
than ten billion dollars in fraudulent healthcare claims to Medicare.
To make matters worse, these perpetrators used the stolen identities
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of more than one million Americans spanning all fifty states
to perpetrate this scheme and submit these false claims. But
I'm pleased to report that federal agents intercepted and arrested
key members of that organization at US airports and the
US Mexico border, cutting off their intended escape routes. The
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days of transnational criminal organizations using the American healthcare programs
as their personal piggybank are over.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
Those days are over now again. That's Matthew Galliotti from
the Department of Justice standing there with doctor Oz and
a couple of other officials from the United States Health
Service as well as folks from the Department of Justice,
announcing that they've got one of the biggest, the biggest
healthcare takedown in fraud history, our healthcare fraud takedown in
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US history. Three hundred and twenty four defendants were charged
across this nationwide, involving fourteen point six billion dollars in
alleged fraudulent claims. The targets include doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and executives,
as well as foreign nationals. Major probe into this was
called Operation gold Rush. It dismantled a national transnational fraud network.
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And they, like he said, asset seizures were also reported.
And so far they've only charged these people, they haven't
convicted them. But interestingly, I was reading an article from
hotair dot Com and they always have some great first
person articles here. This one's by David Strom and they
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pointed out that nearly twenty percent of all Medicare home
healthcare spending is happening in one county in the United States.
Isn't that interesting? How you get such a concentrated number
in one county? And one of the reasons why Democrats
and the radical left are upping the anteon impeding ice
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and pushing riots as simple. The Trump administration is starting
to make real progress on rooting out fraud while the
riots are slowing down. More action is being implemented, including
citizen checkpoints that shall we say, vigorously enforced, and that's good.
I mean, there's this one guy. I interviewed him a
couple of years ago. His name Jorge Ventura. He's a journalist.
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He's one of those journalists that hits the ground if
there's a riot, if there's a train derailment, you know,
one of the border crisis. He was at all those
things and I had him on to talk about Yeah,
I forget what, but nice guy, young guy, and he's
a daily caller now and he put a post up
on Twitter asking left wing activists directly about a database
they claim to have of ICE license plates, and they
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were they were too scared to answer any of his questions.
But listen to this video. I mean, it's it's shocking there.
Speaker 8 (35:04):
In South Minneapolis. We just actually spoke to some of
the individuals. If you want to just check out, you're
wearing the kind of black block covering their faces.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
They have this kind of.
Speaker 8 (35:13):
Block gave here where there's stopping some vehicles. Actually, Derek,
you did a good point down there actually stopping this
vehicle and they check the out of state place just
to see if they're ICE. And what's interesting is this
moment to go down there, we have an uber driveries
from somebody's clearly not ICE, and they say that in
their database that that vehicle was popping up as an
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ICE vehicle. So we were questioning them about this database
that they're using. Obviously there's some type of network care communication.
According to them, local LA enforcement hasn't even came in
to stop.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
So Eric just kind of shoot shoot some of this
to check it out.
Speaker 8 (35:46):
They're on the phone, I guess they were checking the
license cliate.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
We're in their walkie talkie.
Speaker 8 (35:49):
That the license plate that they ran is nine ice.
But you see they're on their walkie talking and they're talking.
What they want to point out little bit more about
the database, but they don't.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
They don't want to answer. Of course, they didn't answer
his questions because they're afraid to answer these questions. And again,
this is what they're doing. They're collecting data, they're building
a data. Butay, do you think these people are citizens
patrols like Curtis Sleeve and the Guardian Angels, just regular
people that are volunteering their time for a cause they
believe is good, even if you don't agree with the cause. No,
these people are just like the guy we talked about
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with the Chinese lab. These people are being funded by
foreign interests that are looking to destroy the United States
from within. It's that simple. Those are the people that
have the most to gain. Who really has to gain? Right?
Why are a bunch of white, college educated, socialist leaning
people so adamantly involved in hating federal law enforcement. Federal
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law enforcement's been around forever. We've had immigration and customs
enforcement forever, La Megia. It goes back to way before
I was a kid. Why all of a sudden now
when Trump is deporting less people than the previous presidents.
Simple they're being told to This is orchestrated show. Now,
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it's no secret that Minneapolis has ground zero for these
protests quote unquote, but unsurprisingly, Los Angeles has suddenly emerged
as another hotspot over the last week or so, and
all sorts of things are happening in Los Angeles, very
interesting stuff. There was this horrible video that I saw.
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There was a girl who was wearing like a trench
coat and had like two or three cameras attached to
her and it said press on the back of her jacket,
and she was shoved and pushed and she stumbled by
a gang of these liberal anti ice people. She was
photographing them, and I guess they figured out or imagined
that she was not one of them and they beat her.
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I mean, I've seen another video of a guy getting
beat They knocked them on his butt. He was fighting
for his life and he was like, I'm not one
of them, and somebody was like, bro, I was protesting
with him yesterday, He's one of us. They were beating
up themselves. That's how vicious these people are, you know,
mostly peaceful people. Yeah, then let's see what else we got,
then we got CNN, CNN admitting that the riots in
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Los Angeles outside the federal facility are absolutely out of control.
Listen to this one. This is Veronica miracle On on
CNN giving a live report outside one of these protests,
and this is courtesy of Nick Sorder.
Speaker 9 (38:20):
You can see an officer back there. He's alone and
they're just throwing things at him. I mean, it's just
pretty incredible that these protesters have overtaken this and there's
really there's no police. I don't see anybody here to
kind of manage this crowd. So, like I was saying,
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this is at the tail end of a very long day.
Looks like they're they're cheering because they were able to
push that officer back inside. Okay, and now people, okay,
all right, hold.
Speaker 4 (38:55):
On, do you see the police there? You go? They
shove a cop back in here because his backup is
in there. Yet the backups trying to get to them.
There's I don't know, five hundred people blocking the space
between the cop trying to get in and the cop
that's holding down the fort. And they're attacking a federal building, right,
So whatever federal building you've been to, there might be
a cop in the lobby and say, hey, sign in,
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walk through to metal detector. Maybe there's another one that
doesn't walk around the building. Clearly, they don't have enough
security for five hundred people that are wearing you know,
black block face masks and running in there, right, which
is why ICE is wearing their face masks. Look, and
I don't blame them in that front. If you're gonna
put on a mask and attack me, I'm gonna put
on my mask and arrest you. I get it. I understand.
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You know my position that I've taken with saying it's
not a good public relations thing. It creates a challenge.
But listen, I say, let the cops do what they
want right honestly, if it's within the law, I don't
see any law against it. We've seen cops wear masks
in the past for undercover operations. We've seen cops for
historically never wear masks and have always been in a
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dangerous line of work. So you can make arguments either way.
Excuse me, frog in the throat, You can make arguments
either way on this stuff. But bottom line here is
they're outmanned at some of these places, and these people
are it's not just that they're organized and their professional
and they're being paid. That to me is irrelevant. I mean,
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if I had money, I would have protests too. I
would I would go and I would fight for the
causes I believe in, and we wouldn't do it like
they do. Would do it peacefully, nicely, and we get
better attention. Maybe some billboards. Right, it's one of the
best ways to do things as an advertised advertising is
incredibly powerful. But I say all of that to say
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the issue isn't that. It's the issues who's doing the
funding and what their goal is. And if you're a
foreign national it's a foreign government and some communists in
another country saying hey, let's pay for this to destabilize that,
then yeah, that's a crime. That's not free speech. You
don't have free speech rights to destabilize our country. Get
out of here. You're insane anyway. And you've got these
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people are just off their rockers, right, I mean, they're
they're protesting borders, they're protesting ice, they're protesting, they're beating
up the media. Listen to these now, they're going after
the media because they believe they're apparently because they're Jews.
Listen to this.
Speaker 10 (41:25):
Oh God, there you.
Speaker 4 (41:48):
Hear it owned by Jews. Anyway, to continue here with
the hot air piece, there's a very simple reason why
the violence is ratcheting up in Los Angeles. It's exactly
the same one as recent focus on Minneapolis, to cover
things up, to make it difficult to investigate the massive
fraud that's going on. While by percentage of government spending
excuse me, I'm sneezing per capita spending, Minnesota's fraud is
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so far the largest, California will certainly blow right past
it in terms of total dollars. How about them apples? Right,
Doctor Oz has given Gavin k New some some interesting
information about tens of billions of dollars in California fraud.
This is an interesting one. Check this one out so
you can see.
Speaker 6 (42:31):
These are medical buildings. They've got Shrilick writing, Russian Armenian
writing on both sides. There's lots of action. It seems.
Speaker 5 (42:42):
I don't know how many.
Speaker 6 (42:42):
Patients are getting care, but in this four block area
in Los Angeles there are forty two hospices. So either
there are a lot of people dying here, or you've
got a fraudulent activity that is so good that everyone
wants to get in on it. I'm in ben Ni's
in Los Angele and this boarded up area above my
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head here as a big hospice center. There apparently quite
a few hospices around here, forty two within a four
block radius. And these guys stole sixteen million dollars in
this seen carefully. The main guy went to jail for
two years stealing sixteen million dollars. It's a good trade
off for a lot of folks, and if you look
at it, it's pretty in the script. There wasn't anyone
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really in there. They weren't doing any services. They just
got an address they could claim was a hospice and
then they ran the business claiming people were at home
getting services, which they really weren't. What we have learned
there's roughly three and a half billion dollars of fraud
taking place here in Los Angeles in hospice and home
care is run quite a bit of it by the
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Russian Armenia in mafia. You noticed the lettering and language
behind me is of that dialect, and it also highlights
the fact that this is an organized crime mafia deal
where you've got folks who are systematically recruit doctors to
write false prescriptions. You know, hundreds of doctors participating. They've
got one hundred thousand patients who they've tricked or paid
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to give them their beneficiary numbers so they can perpetuate
the fraud. And then the criminals are just running the
whole organization and quickly scurrying away when law enforcement does
get around the prosecuting them. Unfortunately, in California, there has
not been a lot of attention on these problems. That's
going to change. The US Attorney, the FBI, everyone's now
focused on the fact that in this state, which has
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about thirty billion dollars worth of home and community based services,
most of it might be fraudulent.
Speaker 4 (44:35):
Most most of it might be fraudulent. Isn't that crazy.
Let's wrap up here with doctor Oz.
Speaker 6 (44:41):
They're big numbers and we're taking it seriously. President's not
going to tolerate this anymore.
Speaker 4 (44:47):
Outstanding kudos to doctor Oz for giving us that report
that in a four block radius in California and Los
Angeles County, to be exact, there are several Eastern European
hostile This is forty two, to be exact, and they're
getting sixteen million. Right, these people are stealing money left
and right, all sorts of health care fraud going on.
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So kudos to the Trump administration for doing what has
to be done. Happy to hear about that, Absolutely happy
to hear about that, because this is crazy. You got
eighteen to twenty percent of the whole country's fraud is
coming from Los Angeles County. I mean, isn't that wilde
doctor bill?
Speaker 2 (45:26):
The government one hundred and twenty million dollars in a
single year claiming to oversee nineteen hundred patients. With almost
two thousand hospice agencies. LA County has more than thirty
six states combined, and thirty times more than either Florida
or New York.
Speaker 6 (45:42):
Eighteen percent of the whole country's home health care billing
is coming out of Los Angeles County.
Speaker 5 (45:48):
How is that possible?
Speaker 2 (45:49):
And take a look at this map, a cluster of
two hundred and eighty seven hospice providers in a two
mile radius, some in strip malls, unmarked buildings, even a
wrecking yard, and take a lot.
Speaker 5 (46:02):
I could feel that out and.
Speaker 6 (46:05):
I can get a hostice license waiting for me.
Speaker 4 (46:08):
That's great. So hey, who's opening up a hospice with me.
Let's go to Kazakhstan and open up come on the
fact that these countries have been ripping us off. It's
because somebody on the inside is complicit, turning a blind eye.
They're gonna say, yep, we're gonna here's the thing. You
fill out. You fill out this form, you do this,
you do that, and then we'll send you the grant.
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You'll get the grant for this much money. Then once
you cash the checks and everything, my cut is half
and you just pay that to me through bitcoin boom.
That's how they do their fraud. This is just like
building superintendents hiring plumbers saying how much is the job?
Five thousand? Are right building ten thousand? I'll build the
owner ten thousand. You keep five for you. I get
five for me. This type of kickback fraud has been
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going on forever. Now they're doing it right in the
federal government. And I guess maybe they were always doing
it in the federal government because nobody was looking. But
it seems to become sport. It seems to become the
way to do things in the federal government. And I
think that is a big part of the problem that
we have anyway more to come straight ahead, I'm gonna
talk about slick Willy Bill Clinton. Is he gonna testify?
Speaker 5 (47:09):
Is he not?
Speaker 4 (47:09):
We're gonna talk about that, and a couple more things.
Don't go anywhere.
Speaker 5 (47:13):
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Speaker 6 (47:24):
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Speaker 5 (47:32):
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Speaker 4 (47:34):
All right, amigos, welcome back. It's rich Valdez Valdez with
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Thank you for listening to the show, thank you for
sharing the show, for checking us out at richvaldesk dot com,
for following us on social media, comments and sharing all
of that fun stuff. I appreciate all of it. And
it's necessary to keep this thing break. Anyway, I want
to get into slick Willy, or as many call him,
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following the great ones lead VJ Clinton, Bill Jefferson Clinton,
who has now agreed to testify in court. And this
all comes after a little bit of pressure. But there's
a clip I want to play for you from the
New York Post. Check this out.
Speaker 11 (48:16):
Former US President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton are set to testify any congressional investigation into
the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. That's according to the
former president's deputy chief of staff on Monday. It comes
after the House Oversight Committee recommended last week that the
couple be held in contempt for refusing to testify about
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their relationship with Epstein. The Clintons offered to cooperate with
the panel, but had refused to appear in person, saying
the investigation was a partisan exercise aimed at protecting Republican
President Donald Trump. Their agreement to testify could avert a
planned vote in the Republican led House of Representatives to
hold the two prominent Democrats in contempt, which could lead
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to criminal charges. House Speaker Mike Johnson welcomed the news.
Asked whether the contempt charges against the Clintons would be dropped,
Johnson said quote, the lawyers are looking into the details.
The US Justice Department's recent release of millions of internal
documents related to Epstein has revealed a late financier and
sex offenders ties to numerous prominent people in politics, finance, academia,
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and business, both before and after he pled guilty to
prostitution charges in two thousand and eight. Bill Clinton flew
on Epstein's plane several times in the early two thousands
after leaving office. He has since expressed regret about the
relationship and said he knew nothing about Epstein's criminal activity.
Speaker 4 (49:44):
So that's the latest on that.
Speaker 6 (49:46):
Now.
Speaker 4 (49:46):
I find it interesting that he's had a change of
heart because I don't trust slick Willie all right. I
think he wants to show face and he figures, hey,
if Bill Clinton, let me just backtrack a little bit.
Bill Clinton ran his president and see in such a
way that he only did things that made sense for
him politically right. And Dick Morris talks about this all
the time, when he would say I would pull things,
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and if the poles look good, the president would do it.
If they didn't look good, he wouldn't do it. And
that's it. He didn't care about right and wrong. He
cared about what looked good. So I think he's figured
out this looks bad. If he doesn't show up with
this Epstein stuff, he's gonna take an l and people
are just gonna say whatever they want and he won't
be able to defend himself. So he's gonna come to court.
And I'm guessing you're going to say a whole lot
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of nothing. I plead the fifth, you know, or or
he's gonna say, you know, this is an exercise in
protecting Donald Trump at coming after me, and he's going
to create a sound bite that the media could play
over and over and over and over and over again
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until the whole world thinks that again, this is Trump's fault,
because that's how this game works. Then Trump will have
to go back and do some soundbites about Clinton. I
was never on the island. This thing is dead to me,
blah blah blah. Right, this is gonna keep going. And honestly,
the reason I don't like covering this is because it
doesn't get anywhere.
Speaker 10 (51:09):
Right.
Speaker 4 (51:10):
The real work here is being done by Cash Patel
and Dan Bongino when he was in the FBI. They're
out there actually breaking up these petal rings, getting the
bad guys who are abusing children. They're out there doing it.
Jeffrey Epstein was in jail when he was killed or
fake killed or disappeared or whatever the word is. He
was in jail. Helen Maxwell is in jail right now.
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So to me, this is very much water under the bridge.
Let's go after the bad guys that are doing it
now and get them. If we know who these people are,
Bill Gates, Ditty this that whatever, whomever they are. And
I'm not saying there, I'm just saying who these people
that are mentioned there, keep an eye on those people,
just like Todd Blanche said yesterday. If we have proof
that they're doing something, we're going after them. We don't
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have any knowledge of that, so we're not and that's it.
Keep it moving. We got bigger things to do here.
It's not a cover up. I don't believe it's a
cover up. I don't think that. I think now I do.
I think that powerful people can get away with things absolutely,
and it looks like they did. So what are we
gonna do? Keep spinning our wheels like a hamster and
a wheel. Come on, we have to win here, not fight, win, win.
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It's about winning. If we're busy fighting, we're losing. We've
got to be fighting to win. And I don't think
this is a fight that we're gonna win. I think
we need to move on. And that doesn't mean give up.
Just move on. Right, Investigations into the other people, figure
out how you get those people. Trump isn't a fool.
He's gonna go after these people. Clinton is gonna have
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something to say, right, He might go in there and say,
look behind closed doors, Okay, well what do you want
to know? Who do you want information on? I got
it all, I got all the dirt. Right. Maybe he'll
come in there and say something like that. They'll bring
the law enforcement people into it, and it'll go way
beyond a congressional investigation into an actual criminal investigation where
they set some people up. Who knows, but harping on
(53:04):
this stuff all the time, I don't think does anything
good anyway, That's my thought. Now, Michael Goodwin does have
a good piece, and he says, at first clant the
decision by Bill and Hillary Clinton to drop their long
resistance and agree to testify in front of the Republican
Committee looks like a huge defeat for them. And it
is since the clintons separate appearances excuse me, separate appearances
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scheduled to take place in public later this month, are
certain to turn into a circus. Yet it's worth noting
that it wasn't the goodness of their hearts that led
to the Clintons to give in to the congressional demands
to testify. They did it because the alternative would have
been much more painful had they not agreed to answer
questions in the probe. Guess what happens criminal contempt charges
(53:53):
issued by Congress. Now, they maybe would have gone to jail. Right,
a guilty verdict and a try could have led to
a possible prison sentence, just like it did for former
Trump aide Peter Navarro and for Steve Bannon similar circumstances
after they refused to testify before the Democrat Committee into
the January sixth Capitol riot. So it makes sense both
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were convicted and served four months in prison. So Bill
and Hillary could easily have gone to jail. And I
think they read the tea leaves saying, hey, you know what,
the writing's on the wall here, we're going to go
to jail. Orange jumpsuits for us, and they want to
avoid that at all costs. So imagine the joyful reaction
at the Trump White House if the Clintons tempted fate
by going down the same path, right, they would have
(54:37):
been salivating. I agree Trump would have been ringing his hands. Oh,
we're going to get him. Let's get a nice shade
of orange. The Trump shade of orange, just for Bill
and for Hill. Now, generations of Americans have come of
age believing the Clintons were untouchable and that the usual
rules of the road don't apply to them. Yeah, I'm
one of those generations. I don't believe anything happens here.
I don't believe these guys are going to get in
(54:58):
trouble for anything. They're going to show up, They're gonna
say what they have to say. They're going to use
it to their advantage. Maybe throw somebody under the bus,
try and come out of this looking like heroes. That's
my take. The Clinton's themselves certainly subscribe to that view,
and it's worked for them until now. I think it will.
I think it's true that they might likely have gotten
locked up had this happened, but they figured that out,
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so they're circumventing that.
Speaker 6 (55:25):
Now.
Speaker 4 (55:25):
The piece goes on. He says, they're probably also assumed
that Republicans would grow tired of getting nowhere and give up,
so they just kept, you know, stalling with their lawyers.
The turning point is because a few Democrats now broke
ranks and joined the Republicans in demanding that they testify.
And that's good, good, Good for them, right. I don't
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know what I would do in Congress. I think I
I mean, if that were my job, and that was
the only job I had to be on the Judiciary Committee,
then I guess i'd be focused on this, but I
likely would. I would grow tired of this. They might,
they might win with me. So I always tell you
don't send me to Congress. I'm not the guy you
want in Congress. And I'm always voting for the war,
(56:08):
whichever war. I'm hawkish that way. Now we want to
hear from anyone that has information. Absolutely blah blah blah
blah blah. No, you could read the piece for yourselves,
your post, Michael Goodman, but very very good piece. So
I'll leave off with this. My prediction is that Bill
and Hillary are going to create a smoke screen to
protect themselves. They're going to throw Trump under the bus,
(56:29):
or they're gonna throw someone else under the bus so
that they walk away from this looking like champions. Don't
go anywhere.
Speaker 5 (56:37):
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Speaker 4 (57:05):
All right, and he goes, welcome back. It's me Rich
Falda's here with you. I'm here to thank you again
for tuning in, for keeping a lock right here. I've
got a few guests lined up this week. I tend
to be a little bit of a mike hog. I
like talking to you directly, but there are some people
I want to talk to. I want to talk to
Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaeffer because I want to get some
(57:25):
his thoughts on on what's happening geopolitically. So I'm going
to reach out to him. My buddy e j Antni,
I want to reach out to him. Doctor Carol, I
haven't heard from her in a while. I need to
reach out to her as well as doctor Gilda. I
want to hear from her as well. Doctor Vince Callahan.
Oh man, we got a lot. We got a lot
of people I want to catch up with, and we're
(57:46):
going to be doing that very soon, hopefully this week.
All right, with the rate remainder of this week, early
next week, you know, as the topics are appropriate. I
do enjoy this, right. This is what I was trained
to do in radio, was to be the show to
give you everything I've got and if I don't know
anything about it, then to bring in an expert, and
that's kind of how I do it.
Speaker 1 (58:06):
You know.
Speaker 4 (58:06):
I spent some years in syndication where following the act
of Larry King and Jim O'Hannon, where it was all
about interviews, and I learned a lot about interviewing. I
learned a lot about keeping my mouth shut and letting
other people talk. And I enjoyed that as well, and
it's something that I have benefited from greatly. However, it
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doesn't change the fact that I like to run my
own mouth. So I will be bringing some more interviews
in and we're going to be doing that. Plus we're
launching video very soon, right after Super Bowl. We're doing that,
So that's going to be exciting and nerve wracking, right
because you know, there's days where I don't shave. You know,
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I'm looking great on radio, and you can't really pull
that off on TV. I mean, some people do, maybe
later in their career they just show up not shaving whatever,
But that's not me. You know, if I do TV,
I put a tie on and everything to do TV.
So we're going to see how I handle the new
Roku deal and the Rumble distribution and all that stuff.
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So anyway, wish me luck with that, but I did
want to thank you again because I was looking at
some numbers and this show continues to grow, and I
couldn't be happier about that. We have some really interesting
brand partnerships that are about to kick off as well,
and I'm thankful for those as well, both previous sponsors
and new ones that are coming on board. And that's humbling, right,
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It's really humbling to know that people trust us, they
trust you, they know that you guys are a loyal
audience that actually patronizes the people that we do brand
partnerships with. And I don't mean just the regular commercials
you hear in between the breaks or that get injected
into the show. Those I don't really have control over,
so if they sound kind of crazy, it's not because
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I approve that or anything. But the ones where I'm
talking about them right where it's my voice, my name,
and I'm telling you to call this number and do that,
those types of endorsements. Take those seriously, because I don't
want you to end up with something that isn't worth
your while, and I don't want to do the wrong thing.
So I start up Rosima, take care, good night, and
God bless you America. Remember you got to stand for something,
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because if you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything.
And the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is
for good people like you to do nothing. So do something.
I'm Rich Valdez, and this is America.
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This is America.