March 31, 2026 • 60 mins
On Tuesday night, Rich recapped his interview with Ambassador Mark Wallace from the main stage at CPAC 2026 in Dallas, TX, this weekend. Then, is Ilhan Omar complicit in fraudulent activity in Minnesota? Plus, Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, the son of the former Shah of Iran announced his intention to lead Iran in the coming post-Islamist era.
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Welcome to the Tuesday night edition of our program. If
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Eight seven seven Valdest one, eight seven seven Valdest number one,
and again, pleasure to be with you, guys. I'm happy
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to be back. We've been all around the world lately,
right doing interviews overseas, doing interviews in Texas. I attended Seapac, Texas,
where I was one of the speakers on on the
main stage on Friday morning, and that was an honor.
A big shout out to the entire American Conservative Union
Board for creating that opportunity, and I want to give
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you some of the highlights of that because there was
a lot of people that were at Sea Pac Texas.
And let me tell you, I considered, like I said,
not going just because I was coming back from Seapac Hungary.
It was kind of neck and neck. They changed the
date of Seapac Hungary, which is usually at a different
time of the year, you know, about a month out,
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and they did that because there is a big re
election for Prime Minister Victor Orbon so it conflicted with
the later date as well for seapack in Texas. Typically
Sea Pack is around President's Day week and scheduling was
off anyway, Needless to say, I was home for about
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a whole day before heading back out on the road.
And this was a great seapack actually one of the
one of my favorites, and not just because I was
a speaker, but lots of great backstage networking, right, lots
of people there. There was I mean, talking about the
Crown Prince they call him right raised that paulave just
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packed the house with his supporters. I mean, there was
I'm gonna I'm joking, but I'm gonna say there might
have been more Iranian flags with the lion on it
than American flags. That's how much support from the Iranians
there was at this seapack. Just a tremendous amount of people.
I met two young ladies that had their eyes shot
out by the IRGC. Just incredible stories, incredible people that
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I met. I would say half of President Trump's cabinet
was there. Just a lot a lot of people, a
lot of old friends that I bumped into, new friends
that were made. Shout out to my buddy Larry O'Connor
from w M A, L and d C. And Kurt Schlichter,
full Colonel Schlichter. I accidentally at breakfast called h Lieutenant
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colonel and that was my bad, and he was gracious
about it, but I do apologize. And so many great people.
Ambassador Rick Grennell and didn't really get to meet him,
but he was kind enough to let me sit at
his table for one of the meal breaks. So just
a lot of people, a lot of great networking. I'm
really just excited about all of that and some of
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the speeches. Right. Nick Shirley was there. Nick Shirley is
the intrepid young video journalist that always has a hoodie
on and is asking the questions that many in the
mainstream won't ask. Nick Shirley was there and guess what,
he had a lot to say about fraud in Minnesota.
We're gonna get to a clip of his speech. We're
gonna get to a clip of the speech that raised
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a Paulavi gave and brought the house down for sure.
We're also going to get into my panel sit down,
a fireside chat to be precise, with Ambassador Mark Wallace,
who was nominated by President Bush way back when and
served as United States Ambassador to the UN. He's now
the CEO of United Against a Nuclear Iran and he
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was there with his lovely wife and his team from
u A and I and it was really a pleasure
to speak with the guy. And I'll play the entirety
of that interview maybe in the upcoming segment, But what
I want to do now is really just talk about
the theme, right, because the theme of Seapack overall was
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typically is one that embodies the American the American situation
I'm going to go with right, whether it's combating censorship
on free speech or or you know, the crossing the
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lines and boundaries that government did during COVID. Right, seatback
is always at the forefront of that and in this
case it's no different. And the seatback theme this year
action over words and it was important.
Speaker 7 (05:15):
Right.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
They were talking about unity within the Republican Party, within
the Conservative movement, putting a lot of emphasis on inner
party unity ahead of the twenty twenty six midterms, which
is a big deal right now because we have to
kind of come together to defeat the socialists, Marxists and
crazy lefties that are out there. And also talking about
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the foreign policy perspective of the nation and of the
movement with respect to the war in Iran. Right, A
lot of debate occurring and ongoing with this issue. America. First,
some people are divided on whether they support, you know,
the liberation of Iran and America's intervention in that issue
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in that part of the world. And I get it.
Listen it to me. It's a simple idea, right, and
by simple, I mean it both ways a double entendre a,
not complicated and be naive. It's a simple idea to
simply say America shouldn't be involved in other people's business.
I mean it sounds nice, It sounds like you can
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jump on your high horse and walk away. But as
you've heard me time and time again say on this program,
I don't believe in that. I don't believe that you
should walk down the street. If you're somebody that can
best bench press two hundred pounds, you should not look
at an old lady getting robbed and say, look, that's
none of my business. That's not my mother, it's not
my grandmother, it's not my neighbor. I'm not getting involved. No,
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you are able to defend yourself. You need to go
defend that old lady, right, And in many ways that's
how I feel about this. Just imagine a regime, the malas,
the Iyatola. Iatola is in this case forty seven years
tormenting America, shouting death to America, shouting death to Israel.
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And some of you're thinking, I don't care if they
shout death to Israel. The reason they shout death to
Israel is because they say they're the little Satan. They
we're the big Satan. And that really just confirms my
thought that our biggest watchdog in the Middle East, our
biggest ally, our closest friend, is Israel. When we need
something done, some dirty work, we don't have to go
and do it. We've got Israel, They've got the IDF
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and probably one of the best intelligence agencies ever, the
most sad, right, you know, the one that gets blamed
for everybody and everything that happens. So I, for one,
I'm grateful that we have this cooperation, that we have
this ability to harness the strength of the Masad and
the IDF, and that they're willing and ready and able
to carry out tasks that nobody else in that area
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of the world will do. Now, of course, President Trump
is now making strong allies with Saudi Arabia and UAE
and Bahrain and Kuwait and Qatar, and that's great. These
are all great things, but that wasn't always the case.
So I think it's important that we framed the conversation
the right way. And you know, me just giving my
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two cents here. I have volunteered to serve this country
and they didn't want me. To be frank with you,
they didn't. I didn't. I was one hundred and sixty
five pounds and actually I was one hundred and eighty
five pounds and they told me I had to be
one hundred and sixty five pounds and That was the
lightest I'd ever been. What else they told me. The
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first time they told me, I was in my twenties,
and they said, do you have dependents that are under
the age of five? And I did, and they said,
we're not doing that. I never heard that rule, but
that was what the recruiter told me. And that was
the first time. The second time they told me about
you know, I don't think you're going to make weight
and let me see. There was a third time. I
was very close to that thirty nine year old cutoff,
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and I was looking to get it any way I could,
because I wanted to serve. My brother had served in
the Marine Corps. Had always wanted to serve, and the
only route in was to have a not only just
a career and experience in communications, but they wanted a
graduate degree in communications to come in as an officer,
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where you could then work on what they called public affairs,
and I wanted to work in a different area. I
wasn't being picky and choosey. I just didn't meet the grade.
I couldn't provide, you know, a background, a graduate degree
in communication, something I don't have so and something if
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I really wanted it badly. I would have had to
go to school, and by the time I'd finished school,
I would be too old to go. So those are
the challenges that I met in trying to serve. And again,
I don't think I was fat when I applied, but
you know I had been fat before that and borderline diabetic.
And because of that, they said, if you ever had
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issues with that, we're not doing I mean, it was
very strict. It was pretty clear, we don't want your
chubby bud, right I when you use that euphemism, but
people always say, well, well, why don't you serve? Well,
I would have gladly, and I would today. And again,
I'm one hundred and ninety pounds now. I think I'm
in pretty decent shape for a forty seven year old guy.
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But and you throw me in boot camp. I'm pretty
sure I can hang. But that's not an option, right
It's only an option if I want to serve an ice,
and I don't know if I want to do that
right now. The point I'm making is people say, why
don't you serve? Why don't you give your kids? If
my kids told me tomorrow they wanted to serve in
the military, I would give them a big hug and
say God bless you. It's an honor. It's an honor
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and a privilege. I think to serve this country, I
think it's good for you. It's good for the country,
it's good for the people, it's good for the next generation.
Anybody who signs up for the military knows that not
you know, obvious, it's obvious, right, and it goes without
saying that you might lose your own life. But the
fine print is you may lose a limb, you may
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lose your peace, you may lose your sanity, you may
come back unwell, PTSD, all sorts of things. People know
that it's widely published, and people that are courageous enough
to volunteer for that service, I say God bless them,
God speed to them. And I would allow my kids
to do that. It's true that I have two daughters
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and under the current rules they wouldn't be on the
front lines, but that doesn't mean they'd be out of
harms way entirely. My point is, I think you've got
to let people do what they want to do. And
I'm not going to sit here and say not my kid,
not my kid for your war. No, no, no, Now listen,
take my kid, take me, Take whomever wants to voluntarily serve,
because that's what they're doing. They're putting their life on
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the line. They're giving their life for service. It's very
similar to and I'm getting off the deep end here,
but I want to make a point. It's very similar
to people say, oh, you donate a percentage of your
salary to church, Well, how do you know they're not
ripping you off? That's not my concern that I'm being
ripped off. My concern is to give. What what happens
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with the money is God's concern. And I look at
this very similarly. I'm not here to judge the outcome.
If my purpose is to serve, I have served, that's it.
If my purpose is to give, then I have given,
I will give, and that's it. I'm not here to
determine what you do with the money I give. I'm
not here to do to judge what you're doing with
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my service. That's the whole point of being a soldier
and following orders is you don't get to make those calls.
You just are here to do so do and I
salute our military for that reason. Anyway, I just wanted
to make that point anyway, Seapac was a vibe in Texas.
I will periodically go back in and out of some
of those speeches, and I'll give you my sit down
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with the ambassador regarding what it looks like if Iron
does get a nuke, and what the off ramp for
this war looks like. That's coming up in a moment.
Excuse me, and thank you again for putting up in
my voice. It's getting a little bit better, right, We're
almost back, but I'm not quite back to doing my trump.
It's still a little bit horse. I don't have oh
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my vocal range, right, I don't know that I could
do my eringobrag if I could do my top. See,
it's not coming out right. I kind of sound more
like I'm a Scottish man from Bangladesh than I le Bracon.
So I'll keep working on that with the tea and
the honey. But a couple of things that are going
on this week. Big Supreme Court stuff coming out every
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single day, different oral arguments on several cases. One of
the biggest cases out there is the case regarding the
outcome of the dread Scott decision right the birthright citizenship
Fourteenth Amendment case, and that is before the court. And again,
this isn't a question of right versus wrong. This is
a question of constitutionality, and it's going to be interesting.
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I always believe that the Court will punt whenever they
can on big issues like this, just like they did
with Dhaka. They decided to go in there because they
don't want to hurt anybody's feelings. That's just the truth.
And they know that if they say this is unlawful,
then it was unlawful before. And certain things you can't
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change the past, right, Like let's say you say Roe
versus Wade was bad law. Therefore every last abortion conducted
over the last fifty years is null and void. You
can't do that because they're done already. But if you
do that with citizenship in effect, you likely could do that,
and they won't do that. They're not going to sit
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here and say, yeah, so for the last you know,
X amount of years that we've allowed this to go on,
we are going to rescind that citizenship. It's not gonna that.
It's not gonna happen. I don't see the mechanism for it.
I don't see anybody approving the cost associated with that
I don't see it, not in h not in the faintest. However,
I would love to be proven wrong. I would have
loved for you guys to fill up my inbox and
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call the show a seven to seven vollowed this one
and let me know rich you were so hopelessly wrong.
They sided with President Trump on this, and they said
that every last person that came here by way of
the fourteenth Amendment, that quote unquote loophole exception, is now
going to be deported. Hey, do you want to live
in that utopia? Go right ahead, Please bring me with
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you if it becomes a reality. But it's not that
I don't want it to happen, is that I don't
believe it can happen. So I think that's kind of
where we are. I think if those things were to happen,
it would likely be moving forward. Right, Oh yeah, take
a look at this. That was wrong, all right, so
moving forward, we're not going to do that anymore. But again,
just using the DACA example, which is probably the closest
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one I could think of, I think they're going to say, nope,
this is likely going to have to go back to Congress,
make a law, make a law. If you don't like
the way this law looks, make a law fixed the
law again. My thoughts, I don't see John Roberts having
the leadership to tackle this. I hope I am wrong,
and I hope that John Sour who's got a raspier
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voice than I do. Right now, the Solicitor General, I
hope that he's able to make a convincing argument. And
we'll have our legal analyst for this program on the
show tomorrow to discuss that. Doug Burns, one of my favorites,
former chief of the Criminal Division, will be joining us.
So anyway, that being said, we've got this divide right
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with Americans who believe that we should not have a military. Right.
In fact, they think we should be Switzerland. Right, we
should only have a military if we are attacked, but
there should never be any attacking. Right. If that were
the case, maybe we don't need so many airplanes. There's
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probably a whole lot of things we don't need, like
military bases abroad, right, because the purpose of the military
is not to, you know, to run America's foreign policy
and be the military for it, but just to protect
us when we're attacked. Come on, how would we ever,
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who leads like that by reacting, nobody Nobody leads. By reacting.
By definition, you're following somebody else is leading, and you're
responding to their lead. They throw a punch at you,
you block it or throw a CounterPunch. You're always always
going to be defending yourself if you're not playing offense.
That's just a given. So clearly that's flawed way of thinking. Right. Well,
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the United States can't solely have a military for defense,
right And I'm glad they changed it from the Department
of Defense to the Department of War because I think
it's appropriate. There are things that had to be done
here and they're being done. So kudos to el Trumpito
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on this. Now, nothing else I wanted to get into
was fraud. Right. We got fraud all over the place,
and I think Elon Musk did an amazing job explaining
and exposing how much fraud was out there. And this
fraud truly is remarkable. I think people have been defrauding
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the United States government in so many ways from so
many angles, whether it's the welfare queens that Reagan talked
about to now modern day corporations and people coming from
other countries to exploit certain loopholes where they are now
creating entire networks of defrauding people. And that was something
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that Nick Shirley spoke about in his speech at seat back.
So I'm going to take a pause right here. We're
going to come right back here that Nick Shirley talk
a little bit about fraud. Or maybe we'll go to
my clip with the ambassador and then we'll go to
the Nick Shirley piece on fraud in the third segment.
Either way, keeping on your toes right and keep it
locked right here, because I am Rich val Des and
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we're coming right back. Don't go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
This is America. This is America. He's brown, he's bald,
and he's breaking it down.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
Oh he's still hadsome.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
What's his name, Rich Veldez.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Good morning and welcome to sea Pack two thy twenty
six actions over words, Ladies and gentlemen, This is no
Nukes for Jihad of fireside chat with CEO of United
Against Nuclear Iran Ambassador Mark Wallace and host of This
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America with Rich Rich Valdez.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
I'm basingor.
Speaker 7 (20:16):
Good morning, seapack man. So we were in the green room.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
We were talking about a lot of things about nuclear Iran,
ending the nuclear threat in Iran, and it came up
a battle of bad dad jokes.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
I'm scared.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
He's good and if there's time at the end, we
might get into it. But I'm going to start this
by saying in shout out to match Lap. I was
talking to match Lap at Sea Pac Hungary just a
few days ago, and we were talking with some of
the folks that were attending from different parts of Europe,
and there was a disparate opinion on how big the
threat is of a nuclear Iran. So I'm saying, oh,
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they had no threats. That's the United States. They want
to get into forever wars. Others saying no, no, no,
you have to go after this. This is a radical
threat and it must be ended. Ambassador Mark Wallace, talk
to me. You not only served as an ambassador, but
your current role with UA and I talk to us
on where you come down on this issue.
Speaker 8 (21:11):
Look, I think we had to put the issue squarely
on the table. The forever war that has dominated the world,
dominated the American economy, caused countless casualties of Americans, caused
a risk premium in your wallet and pocketbook because of
controlling the straits of for news. All loads roads lead
to Tehran. So there has been a forever war in
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the Middle East because the Iranians their mantra is death
to America, death to Israel, death to Saudi Arabia. President
Trump said and did something different every president, and I've
worked with every one of them, and I've had to
work with some of the democratic ones that I've not
agreed with. Every president has kicked the can of this
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problem down the road as has gotten more and more
dangerous and costly to Americans.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Forty seven years.
Speaker 8 (22:01):
Americans have been dying, and our allies have been dying
at the hand of Iran and its proxies. And for
forty seven years, you all have been paying countless more
dollars when you fill up your tank of gas because
of the major terror state in the world controls the
strait up for moves. The president saw two things. He
saw Iran developing advanced bailistic missiles, intercontinental ballistic missiles, building
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a massive blistic missile program, still pursuing a nuclear program
with a thousand pounds of enriched missile material, and an
already weakened leadership. And he matched that threat with opportunity
and he said, I'm going to end this forever war.
He said, no more, I'm not going to kick a
can down the road. And our incredible military, frankly, that
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has gotten so strong.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
That's right. Our incredible military.
Speaker 8 (22:51):
Are that military that has been honed over twenty five years,
has performed so brave in an admirable manner, an admirable manner,
and they are our heroes.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
And he is ending that forever war. So I talk
to a lot of you.
Speaker 8 (23:09):
I've been attending setbacks, I think when I first started
twenty years ago, twenty five years ago. Do not believe
the headlines that we are somehow losing this war. Iran
is getting the best of us, or that we are
in a forever war. That was not who President Trump is.
I've worked for presidents like that that have engaged in
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decisions that have ended in wars that have gone on
for too long. That's not what this president's doing. That's
not what this conflict is. Do not believe the headlines. Please,
let's cheer our troops and celebrate the successes, and celebrate
Uranian women and men and who are here in this
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audience that want to be free of the greatest terrorst
state in the world. This is an incredible moment where
the president says, I'm not going to be conventional. I'm
going to do it different. I won't kick the can
down the road. And remember kick the can down the
road was the official policy of multiple presidents stated on
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North Korea, and look at where North Korea is now
a nuclear weapon he said, we will not allow around
to get there.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
And basstor Mark Wallace, you mentioned something about disinformation and
how disinformation is permeating the airwaves, and as President President
Trump would say.
Speaker 7 (24:30):
Because of the fake news, the fake news in the back.
But I think it's more than the fake news.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
I think they're actively trying to disinform and using propaganda
to make this a cultural divide in America, to try
and divide those that were against the nuclearon to get
them in different disparate factions. Talk to us about the
role that disinformation is playing at this current time.
Speaker 8 (24:54):
I did a television show, a big one, the other day,
and the host is a friend of mine. He pulls
me into the green, pulls up his computer, and you go,
look at these headlines. World war breaking across the world,
America facing defeat in Iran, and he goes mark, I've
never seen the fake news, and this was a friendly
place mostly, and I said, it's also a little bit
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in this network where he goes, I know, it's as
if we can't get past the real news because we
do things in secret. Our military doesn't broadcast necessarily. It's
ongoing efforts and it's ongoing actions. But the fake news
that is somehow trying to drive a wedge in the
Republican Party and in this crowd, I think is dishonest
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and dishonorable. Look, it's just dishonorable. Americans aren't Harm's way.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Now.
Speaker 8 (25:47):
I won't say to any person in this crowd or
any speaker that doesn't agree with it, that's our right.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
We're a big party, we're a big tent, and that's fine.
Speaker 8 (25:56):
But it is dishonorable when the conventional news meet puts
out news, and I'm friends with a lot of them,
I see it, and he goes markets ratings. I hear
this from all of them, and we don't have anybody
else will say it. In Criticizing President Trump is the
thing to do, but let's be serious.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
He is ending the Middle East forever war.
Speaker 8 (26:17):
Right now, and you will be paying less at the
gas pump, which is important because our economy matters and
what our home life matters. But more importantly, the terror state,
the head of the octopus, the tentacles of these terror groups,
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is being decimated when no president, no president, had the
courage to do it previously.
Speaker 7 (26:48):
Amen to that.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
Now, Ambassador, this is an interesting place that I think
we're in, right, you know, I'm scrolling the other day
on Twitter and I see first video come out, it's
President Trump.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
The war run is fantastic.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
Then next I see who is it, Baby Nenyahu and
he says, we are here. Nobody's forcing my hands, the
presidents in charge. Third video, some new general from the
IRGC I'd never seen in my years of following the
news saying, don't believe the fake news.
Speaker 7 (27:19):
We've got this. We're ready to take things on.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
And I'm thinking, hey, doesn't look that good from my perspective.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
What's going on here?
Speaker 8 (27:26):
First of all, propaganda war is almost is viable right now.
Is real war except people. It causes people to kill
and die, but a lot of that is propaganda. Look,
no one is forcing America to do and protect its
interest in itself. If you think anybody can direct and
convince or manipulate Donald Trump into some sort of action.
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Maybe you guys haven't seen what I've seen over the
last decade into American politics. And more importantly, he sees
the threat and he sees the opportunity. But the news media,
when you go out, every one of you as a
cell phone, mobile phone, cell phone, I'm showing my age.
Go out and google Iran news, and I promise you
the top ten hits will be war going badly, blah
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blah blah. You have to understand we have decimated Iran's leadership,
largely decimated its ballistic missile programs. It's shahead drone program.
I was the guy with a shahead here last year.
I owned two of them. I'm the only guy in
private hands. Shows you I truly am an Iran geek.
First dad joke that I have a shahead drone.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
We had it here.
Speaker 8 (28:32):
But what it shows is we've decimated that leadership. We're
decimating their abilities. Just yesterday, a guy, the i ERGC
Naval Commander Alireza Tenz Gary.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
You again have to be a true Iran geek to
know who he is. But he was the man that
controlled the Strait of four News. He died two days ago.
Speaker 8 (28:55):
We had called, We had called for his designation and
is killing. Years ago, even President Biden had sent the
USS Baton Group because of the threats from the ier
GC Navy. President Trump has eliminated that navy no longer.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Should the strait of our MOUs be the tax.
Speaker 8 (29:11):
And premium on the global economy to the two new
trillions of dollars?
Speaker 7 (29:15):
I want to ask two questions here.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
One is a lot of people think that the Iranians
are some sort of primitive rock throwing army. I think
it's a mistake to underestimate them your thoughts.
Speaker 8 (29:29):
Look, there's no doubt this might upset my Iranian friends
and family in this audience here, but this is our
country and they're an established military and bureaucracy. They can't
hold a candle to the United States of America, but
they have deep levels of support. We're probably on the
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third or fourth level of that leadership. And the Iatola,
before his timely demise, made sure he purified and made
sure that these guys were true believers. But we are
getting to the point where one of them is gonna
say no longer.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Am I gonna shoot women? In the eye.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
No longer. Are we gonna kill innocence in the street?
I have family no more and will hopefully make a deal.
There are only two options the regime's gonna fall period.
The question is the regime's gonna fall? And again this
may upset my Iranian brothers and sisters in the audience.
(30:30):
Either we are able to remove the regime in our
efforts right now, and or we have a much weakened
regime that does some sort of deal with the United
States and the West, that is so decimated. The Iranian
people will still rise up and defeat this regime. Because
ultimately I support the Iranian people. I don't take sides
on the Iranian people. It is not for us to
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say to the Iranian peace people how they will have
their next government. It's up to the Iranian people, and
they are brave, and they are courageous, and they are
willing to go into the streets.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
This regime killed.
Speaker 8 (31:15):
Imagine protesting in the streets and killing thirty to forty
thousand of your own people and having the.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Courage to turn into the streets and.
Speaker 8 (31:25):
Charge into gunfire because of what you believe.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
You all know.
Speaker 8 (31:29):
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams. But there were great
American patriots that died on Bunker Hill, some names you
probably don't know. There are many brave Iranian men and
women that are dying on the Bunker Hill against the
Iatolas regime. Now it's our job to do everything we
can to support them for our own national security, for
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our allies national security, and because it's right. The Iranian
people are brave and courageous.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
Ambassador Mark Wallace, We've got a couple of minutes left,
and I want to cover two things if we can't,
the first one being you said, we've gone through a
couple of layers of IRGC, one of them being the
Ayatola Ali comedy right out next Moshtaba. Nobody's seen this
guy the Sun. Who knows if he's alike? How far
deep do we have to go to eliminate the radicalized
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element that exists within the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Speaker 8 (32:24):
It's a very good question, and I don't know the
answer because I know, and I'm happy to talk to
you all about it. I know the names of all
the leadership, multiple layers. I do this for a living.
I've been doing this longer than almost anybody in the world,
and I know them by name, I know who they are,
and most of them are dead. The likely next interim
leader it's probably somebody I don't know and our intelligence
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services don't know, and that they will rise up and
say they're no longer going to attack the brave men
and women of Iran, and they no longer want to
die from a drone strike or a missile strike, and
they want to move on. And that will be complicated
for the Ranian people because it will be could be
a regime person, you know, and we have to be
honest about that. But the reality is the next one,
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if it's internal, it's somebody that we likely don't know,
or if the Iranian people rise up when it's safe
to go on this reets, which we've seen the willingness
to do in the past, it could be one of
the brave organizers of that opposition.
Speaker 5 (33:22):
Ambassador Mark Wallace, I want to thank you and I
want to ask you a question. Right I'm walking down
the street. The honorific for a guy like me, and
like most of the people here is mister sir, I'm
a talk show host, But the honorific for a guy
like you is your excellency.
Speaker 7 (33:36):
Talk to me about how often do people.
Speaker 5 (33:38):
Call you your excellency, and do you do you when
they say sir, no, no, no, it's your excellency.
Speaker 8 (33:43):
I agreed to do this with you, but I didn't
know that you turned her back on me in the
green room, and I was a little upset that you
didn't show me the respect of not walking out backwards.
I will do this again, but I expect Excellency, the
honorific and the ambassador the best dad joke being like
having that title ambassador in the United States. It's a
big deal everywhere else. But like you know, we're Americans.
(34:05):
We don't go by titles. That's not who we are,
right But no turning your back on me, that's it.
No turning your back on me.
Speaker 5 (34:14):
Ambassador Mark Wallace. I want to thank you. See Pack,
I want to thank you too. This is such an
interesting issue, an issue that I think is going to
continue to affect both Americans and Persians alike and everybody
in the region. And it's my hope that we come
up with a solution that will secure the straight and
allow the Iranian people to move forward.
Speaker 7 (34:34):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 8 (34:34):
Have confidence in President Trump It's okay to have different opinions,
but don't believe that news media. We are ending a
forever war right now.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Thank you all.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
This is Amara, this is America.
Speaker 5 (35:08):
President Donald take Trump, mister President, welcome to the program.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Sir well, thank you, Rich, and thank you for everything.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
I know you very well and I have I listened,
but I have a lot of people that.
Speaker 8 (35:18):
Listen and they love your show and I appreciate it
very much.
Speaker 6 (35:21):
All right, amigos, welcome back, Rich Valdez, keeping your company
and getting a little bit of my voice back, Getting
a little bit of that voice back. Man. It's a
slow moving process. But anyway, I want to continue with
some of the seapack highlights from Texas Plus, keeping you
up to speed on what's going on in the news today.
President Trump threatening to use ground troops if necessary to
(35:43):
extract uranium. And this is one of those things that
people are like, oh my gosh, there it is. This
is the quagmire, this is Vietnam, and quite frankly has
the ability to become one. Right. The idea here is
for President Trump to do what he does best to
leverage people's needs and get the people that need the
(36:03):
strait of hor Mooz and the people that need a
freer run to do this work. Right, We've done the
heavy part. We've taken out the top layer of leadership.
Now if they want to go door to door trying
to kill the rest of the tentacles of the octopus,
go right ahead. But that's not something I think we
need to sign up for. Right It's kind of like
you see the old lady getting robbed. You grab the
(36:25):
guy and now you wait for the cops to lock
him up. Right, you can't be the judge, the jury,
and the executioner. Right, you do your part is good samaritan.
So I think that being said, we've done our part.
We have been the good Samaritan. Now what is before
us is our exit strategy. We'll continue with that a
little bit, and the next segment I want to talk
about iron. I want to talk about Raza Polavi.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
You.
Speaker 6 (36:45):
We're going to talk about some of the grumblings from hearing,
grumblings from the Department of Justice, grumblings from the Department
of Energy, all sorts of rumors flying about Washington, d C.
Maybe we'll crystallize those in the next segment or tomorrow.
Plus we're going to talk about the Supreme Court decision
tomorrow as well, but right now I want to direct
your attention to Nick Shirley. That's right. He is the
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hoodie wearing intrepid journalist on YouTube that is constantly bringing
the receipts on the leering centers and the Somali pirates fraudsters.
So he spoke at Seapack and was a really big
hit because you know who doesn't love it a little
Nick Shirley. And it was eye opening, to say the least,
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because people oftentimes, you know, we assume that there's fraud.
We know that there is fraud, but we never really
think that it's largely coming from one area. You know,
for example, in Minnesota. If someone today were to ask you, hey,
(37:51):
do you think that it's one particular group of people
that are conducting the fraud in Minnesota. If they were
to ask you that today, you'd probably say yes. If
they would ask you that, I don't know, four or
five years ago, you'd likely say no. You'd probably say no.
People who commit fraud all over the place. Now we
know that they own this fraud ring and it's you know,
you want to get out on the fraud. You got
to go to them, listen to it. There's a quick clip,
(38:13):
but eye opening them the less.
Speaker 9 (38:16):
However, it seems to be that most of the fraud
is in a lot of these blue cities, and when
you go out and expose the fraud, I mean, I
think Gavin Newsom, he posted a photo of me the
other day and had ten cameras on me and AI
generated image saying, where are the kids trying to depict
me as a pervert for exposing fraud? How sick does
(38:37):
the governor have to be to say that the kid
exposing the fraud is the bad person versus the fraudsters
are stealing the money.
Speaker 6 (38:53):
And he's one hundred percent right right, Nick Shirley is
not doing something bad, He's doing something good. He's a
modern day Nelly Bly and Paul Revere are all wrapped
up into one. This is the type of thing that
we need, right. It's like James O'Keeffe Project, Veritas o
Keith Media Group, same thing. Look at the impact he's
(39:14):
had and he's paid quite a price for it. This
work isn't easy. So I tipped my hat to mister Shirley.
And by the way, he was not wearing a hood.
He was wearing a really nice suit and a fancy
red tie. But the bottom line here is these are
Somalis in particular. Right, I'm not making a case against
them as a people. I'm making a case against them
as a people in Minnesota that are now becoming synonymous
(39:38):
with fraud. Listen, all we can do is say it
is what it is. Now in other news in that
I'm gonna talk about fraud more in a moment. There's
a lot more fraud going on. There's hospice fraud. We're
going to talk about that. That's been going all over California.
Every area kind of has their own fraud. But in
Somalia in particular, since we're on that fraud, there was
a high degree of immigration fraud being reported there and
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JD Vance, the Vice President of the United States, recently
making some claims about that, about ilhan Omar and about
what might happen. Listen to this.
Speaker 10 (40:13):
The Trump administration ramps up as crackdown on fraud, Vice
President JD Vance is now targeting Minnesota Congresswoman il Han Omar.
Speaker 6 (40:21):
Now.
Speaker 10 (40:21):
Vance is leading the new Anti Fraud Task Force, which
met for the first time on Friday. Now we have
learned that Omar's immigration history is now under review. Omar
came to the US as a refugee from Somalia in
nineteen ninety five. She's been dogged with questions about her
marriages for a while now. Officials note immigration fraud can
carry serious penalties, including losing citizenship.
Speaker 11 (40:44):
We actually think that Ililomore definitely committed immigration fraud against
the United States of America, and I talked to Steven
Miller about this actually recently. We're trying to look at
what the remedies are. That's the thing that we're trying
to figure out, is what are the legal remedies now
that we know that she's committed immigration fraud? How do
you go after her or how do you investigate her?
Speaker 6 (41:02):
How do you actually do the thing?
Speaker 11 (41:03):
How do you build a case necessary to get some
justice for the American people. There's a related issue, Benny,
which is she has been at the center of a
lot of the worst fraudsters in the Somalian community.
Speaker 10 (41:16):
Well, a spokesperson for the Minnesota Democratic congresswoman cause the
allegations a ridiculous lie. But the Republic of Somalia look
at this, a functioning democracy that Somalia claims as a
territory posted on exit it would like to see her
right there extra diect.
Speaker 6 (41:35):
So yes, the Kingdom of Somaliland or the Republic of
Somali Land says we will take her back gladly. Now
a lot of debate over that. Some are saying, if
is this tongue in cheek, is this the people that
suffered under her dad, who led a coup against that
current government, or is that them admitting that she is
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a fraudster, or is that saying we her she truly
is our princess and let her come back home. I
don't know the answer to that, but as we get
more information on it, I'll keep you posted. But I
think this is fascinating. Now. I'm up two minds on this.
I'll share both of you. One is, while I know
this is good red meat for the base, I don't
think most Americans. I truly don't. And if I'm wrong,
(42:19):
please let me know. Eight seven seven Valdes one. I
don't believe most Americans wake up every day, and you know,
thank you Lord for waking me up again, for giving
me sight, for giving me health, or being merciful to
my children, and for locking up ill han Omar I
don't think most people are that hell bent on her
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being deported or going to jail or anything like that.
Most the word is most most people listening to the show,
probably one hundred percent. Most people in the Republican Party,
same thing. Yes, most people in the conservative movement, most
people at SEAPAC, but most people across our country. Now,
I don't believe that. So I don't know that this
is a top issue for America. This is a top
(43:07):
issue for the base, which is important to move the
needle on, you know, popularity and support the words escaping
me approval ratings in that category. But again, that's part
of the game. The other part of this is the
backfire right, the Democrats turning around saying, wow, this is
(43:30):
what the Vice President of the United States is going
to waste his time doing, going after a sitting US
congresswoman who came here fleeing persecution by her government, only
to come here and be persecuted by a new government. Right,
because you know how the left is. All they do
is cry victimhood. So I think you always got to
just look at both sides of the coin before you
make a political play, because you never know the outcome.
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In this case, I would do it too. I would
also beat the same drum of deport ill, hand deport ill.
We've seen it play well, right, Lock her up with
Hillary Clinton played very very well. In fact, if you
look at the entire q Andon movement and idea, it's
all about accountability, it's all about justice, and that is
(44:13):
the live action role play that it gets people hooked on.
You know, first it gives them this juicy hook of
they are trafficking children, and then it goes into their
eating children, their satanic pedophiles, they're harming the children. There's
not a human being on this planet that if they
give you the time of day to listen to that story,
(44:34):
isn't going to feel sympathy and say, well hold on,
we all want to protect the children. So you immediately
have a commonality with the person next to you who's
telling you about the eating of the children or the
kidnapping of the children, this evil, nefarious stuff. So now
there's a kinship there, and now we are birds of
a feather. I get it. This is you know, how
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movements are made, how propaganda is advanced, all of that.
I look at this stuff every day. Is this that no,
I don't think so. I think this is truly Trump
trying to move the needle on introducing an idea to
correct the record. I think President Trump really wants people
to understand that while they would if they were on
their lunch break from work and a reporter were to
(45:18):
put a microphone in their face and say, excuse me, sir,
excuse me, ma'am. Do you believe that there is massive
fraud going on in America? I think most people say yes,
I do believe that. Of course, people are always ripping
people off, especially if they're from New York. They're going
to say that because they believe that they see that. However,
those same people would tell you, but I don't think
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anything's going to happen. I don't believe that we're going
to see justice. This has been going on since the
beginning of time. The Roman Empire had a name for it.
It was called ambuthus, right, ambi t us. So if
political corruption is as old as civilization itself, then what
makes us think that this would go away? And I
think that is the attitude most people have. And Trump, however,
(46:01):
has never met a challenge that he didn't love, and
he says, well, people would have that idea unless you
truly teach them the genesis of the fraud, what the
fraud looks like, help them to personify the fraud. So
it has a name, of face, a smell, right when
you can feel it and touch it and live it.
And that's what he's doing. He's showing the American people
(46:22):
that the contemptible nature of il han Omar. Some people
did something right when callously speaking about nine to eleven,
the contemptible nature of il han Omar, and how arrogantly
she deals with the press when they say things to her,
and sometimes it's warranted because the questions are kind of sideways.
In my opinion, I would probably give you a slick
(46:43):
remark to But what President Trump does best is truly
help you to see things that you didn't see before,
things that were already there, but now you get it
from a new perspective. And that's what he's doing here.
He's helping us to see that the fraud isn't just
this this intangible, unknown thing that we can't put a
(47:08):
finger on. It's not this nameless, faceless evil that just exists. No,
it has a name, it has a face. It's illan Omar.
It's the Somali land pirates in Little Mogadishu in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Right,
And now when you have this, now that there's that's
a place where we can direct our ere, we can
(47:30):
direct our energy and say, well, that is unacceptable. And
now that we know exactly what's going on, these people
need to pay the price. Before this was a nameless
and faceless crime that we couldn't prosecute. But now we
need to prosecute. And that is something President Trump is
good at that nobody else I've seen nobody else do
(47:51):
what he does. He's amazing at it. He's amazing at
helping people to see the light. And you know guys
like Nick, right, Nick Shirley is seeing this because he
saw President Trump draw attention to these things and he
also has a talent for it, and voila. Hence we
have what we're having. So do I think ill Han
gets deported? Man? I hope. So if she's guilty, why not.
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Do I think it's gonna happen as of today? I don't.
I think something may happen. I think that there may
be a correction of the record. I think it may
go down in history that there was you know, irregularities
that were found, but being that it happened so long ago,
or this and that, and maybe I'm wrong, right, maybe
the Statute of Limitations doesn't pass on this, or maybe
(48:37):
there isn't a preponderance of proof that can get her convicted.
What I don't want to see is another case like
James Comey. We say he's guilty of sin treason, and
then we charge him with like a traffic ticket, and
then he beats it. Same thing with Letitia James. These
desperate attempts to get people when we don't have what
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it takes just for the sake of saying we went
after them is It's not a good look. I think
it's a waste of time. And honestly, people, they lose
interest because I think justice as a whole loses credibility
in those situations. So it makes it look like the
bad guys are winning. I think it's a good thing
(49:20):
to put her on blast. Don't come after her unless
you have, you know, rock solid proof. That's my thinking
on this. Anyway, there was an article I wanted to
share with you here with same topic. Because President Trump
he's not only going after real hann Omar, but saying
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that this is something that's happening widespread in the Somali
community of Minnesota. Immigrants from Somalier coming to the country
with very little money and very quickly able to afford
luxury cars like Mercedes benz And why they do it
because they're committing fraud on programs that are paid for
by the United States taxpayers. Yeah, and that makes sense.
(50:02):
There was a clip shared by the White House being
reported here in the Kenya Times, and it's the Trump
forty seven account the Rapid Response team and saying they
come here with no money, and they go out and
they buy Mercedes Benzes and l hann Omar who married
her brother, is a stone cold crook, and everybody knows it. Right,
these things they helped to galvanize the base. And I'm
(50:26):
not saying they're false. I'm just saying it's good that
he's calling attention to it because I think prior to this,
you know, the going the going statement was, well, there's
no proof that she actually married her brother. I think
now we have some pretty good information that leads to
she married a guy with the same last name as
her before she got married. Doesn't mean it's her brother
(50:47):
per se, but these seem to be things that are
oftentimes done in many communities that are committing immigration fraud,
not solely the Somalis, but including the Somalis. So I
think this is an interesting thing for federal prosecutors to
look at it, and I think they're going to find
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that not only is it happening with childcare and the
autism services, but doctor Oz is out there swashbuckling through
California and other places with Medicaid related services and other
programs talking about billions and billions of dollars that are
being built out of our system. So what do we do.
We keep our finger on the pulse and we keep
(51:30):
going excuse me, pardon me, Thank God for the cough button.
So anyway, that means I need to sip water, and
I'm probably going to take a break right here, but
we will come back and we will continue our discussion.
I want to talk about Iran a little bit more
because one of the people besides Prime Minister is Trusts
and Ambassador Mark Wallace and the women that I met
(51:52):
that were shot in the face by the IRGC, and
Ambassador Rick Rennell and Larry O'Connor and who else. Colonel
Kirk Schlichter and Matt Schlapp and Mercedes schlap and Chris
Salcedo and so many. There were so many people that
I got a chance to catch up with at the sea.
(52:13):
Pack was raised up Alave, the crown Prince. There were
people chanting all over the place, these rhyming chants. They
sounded like the leftoes quite frankly, but they were a
lot more peaceful and waving Iranian flags and American flags
and thanking mister Trump, Thank you USA, thank you President Trump,
all hail. And they weren't calling him prince, they were
calling him King, King Polave. And I thought that was
(52:37):
really interesting. I tried to get a clip of it,
but I wasn't able to They were too fast for
me and my thick thumbs to hit the record button
on my cell phone. But needless to say, you're going
to hear a couple of clips from him on the
way back. Pretty remarkable speech. He says, he's raised up Alave,
reporting for duty. Keep it locked right here. I am
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and I want to continue with this speech by Raza Polavi.
Raza Polavi again giving many, many remarks in his speech
at Seapac and the Crown Princess. He's known people chanting
for days on end. We're chanting about Raza Polavi. And
(56:26):
there's a lot that he said, and he started off strong,
he ended strong, standing ovation packed house, thousands of people.
It really was quite remarkable. And let's start it right here.
Speaker 12 (56:40):
Republicans and monarchists, left and right, men and women of
all ages, religious and ethnicities, even people who are former
political opponents have joined the movement to free Iran under
my leadership. Equally important, Iran's armed for seas and bureaucracy
(57:04):
will follow me. Thousands of the regime's military officials, some
very senior, have signed their readiness to join me through
a digital defection platform my team established several months ago.
Many of these officials have refused to obey the orders
to kill civilians during the January uprising. That's why the
(57:26):
IRGC had to import thugs from Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon
to do the dirty work. With my leadership, They and
others who don't have blood on their hands will play
a role in stabilizing the country during the transition.
Speaker 6 (57:49):
So that has raised up a lobby saying that he
is in touch with folks in the IRGC and that
he's going to use them if given the opportunity, need
to be the interim leader in Iran to stabilize things. Now.
This is the clearest part of his plan, and he
laid out lots of parts in the full speech was
about a half hour long. I'm not going to use
all of my show to give you all of his speech,
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but I will say it seemed a little bit more
than surface level. This is not my endorsement of him.
I know that there is him and his faction. You
also have the supporters of the m K, the People's
muja Hadeen, the group that is led by Mari m Rajavi,
and we've had many of their representatives on, like Ambassador
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super View, Senator Robert Torceli, Ali Reza Jafarzade and others
that have represented the MK. These are people that know
what's going on. So who am I to get involved
in an Iranian squabble? Right, I'm just here to tell
you what each of them is saying. There was no
representation from the m e K at Seapac. It was
a clear win by team Paalavi. Now, President Trump has
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signaled that he's a nice guy, that he's not sure
if the Iranian people want him, but he seems like
a nice guy. That's President Trump remaining polite and impartial.
You've got others that are critics of his saying, this
man has not been in Iran forever. He's been exiled
from Iran because of his father, the Shah. He's between
living in Europe and living in California. What does he
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know about Iran. That's a valid point. I'm not saying
it's an accurate point. I'm saying it's a valid point.
It's valid question to ask. Seems to me that if
he has this digital connection to the IRGC, then he's
obviously more plugged in than some might imagine. I don't know.
I don't have all the questions. I'd love to interview him,
and I did not get a chance to. Hopefully and
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things move forward, maybe I will, but I will say this,
he seemed to truly have the hearts and minds of
so many people, people that truly align with our movement,
people that truly are grateful for America, people that truly
stand up for what they believe in, standing up for liberty,
standing there for what they believe is is right. And
that's something I can respect. And as I always tell you,
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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 sit there and do nothing. Well,
these good Iranian Americans, they're not doing nothing. They're taking
to the streets. They're going to these conferences, and they're
out there making their voices heard a start. Approxima, take care,
good night, and God bless you America. I'm Rich Faldez.
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and again, pleasure to be with you, guys. I'm happy
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to be back. We've been all around the world lately,
right doing interviews overseas, doing interviews in Texas. I attended Seapac, Texas,
where I was one of the speakers on on the
main stage on Friday morning, and that was an honor.
A big shout out to the entire American Conservative Union
Board for creating that opportunity, and I want to give
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you some of the highlights of that because there was
a lot of people that were at Sea Pac Texas.
And let me tell you, I considered, like I said,
not going just because I was coming back from Seapac Hungary.
It was kind of neck and neck. They changed the
date of Seapac Hungary, which is usually at a different
time of the year, you know, about a month out,
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and they did that because there is a big re
election for Prime Minister Victor Orbon so it conflicted with
the later date as well for seapack in Texas. Typically
Sea Pack is around President's Day week and scheduling was
off anyway, Needless to say, I was home for about
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a whole day before heading back out on the road.
And this was a great seapack actually one of the
one of my favorites, and not just because I was
a speaker, but lots of great backstage networking, right, lots
of people there. There was I mean, talking about the
Crown Prince they call him right raised that paulave just
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packed the house with his supporters. I mean, there was
I'm gonna I'm joking, but I'm gonna say there might
have been more Iranian flags with the lion on it
than American flags. That's how much support from the Iranians
there was at this seapack. Just a tremendous amount of people.
I met two young ladies that had their eyes shot
out by the IRGC. Just incredible stories, incredible people that
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I met. I would say half of President Trump's cabinet
was there. Just a lot a lot of people, a
lot of old friends that I bumped into, new friends
that were made. Shout out to my buddy Larry O'Connor
from w M A, L and d C. And Kurt Schlichter,
full Colonel Schlichter. I accidentally at breakfast called h Lieutenant
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colonel and that was my bad, and he was gracious
about it, but I do apologize. And so many great people.
Ambassador Rick Grennell and didn't really get to meet him,
but he was kind enough to let me sit at
his table for one of the meal breaks. So just
a lot of people, a lot of great networking. I'm
really just excited about all of that and some of
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the speeches. Right. Nick Shirley was there. Nick Shirley is
the intrepid young video journalist that always has a hoodie
on and is asking the questions that many in the
mainstream won't ask. Nick Shirley was there and guess what,
he had a lot to say about fraud in Minnesota.
We're gonna get to a clip of his speech. We're
gonna get to a clip of the speech that raised
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a Paulavi gave and brought the house down for sure.
We're also going to get into my panel sit down,
a fireside chat to be precise, with Ambassador Mark Wallace,
who was nominated by President Bush way back when and
served as United States Ambassador to the UN. He's now
the CEO of United Against a Nuclear Iran and he
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was there with his lovely wife and his team from
u A and I and it was really a pleasure
to speak with the guy. And I'll play the entirety
of that interview maybe in the upcoming segment, But what
I want to do now is really just talk about
the theme, right, because the theme of Seapack overall was
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typically is one that embodies the American the American situation
I'm going to go with right, whether it's combating censorship
on free speech or or you know, the crossing the
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lines and boundaries that government did during COVID. Right, seatback
is always at the forefront of that and in this
case it's no different. And the seatback theme this year
action over words and it was important.
Speaker 7 (05:15):
Right.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
They were talking about unity within the Republican Party, within
the Conservative movement, putting a lot of emphasis on inner
party unity ahead of the twenty twenty six midterms, which
is a big deal right now because we have to
kind of come together to defeat the socialists, Marxists and
crazy lefties that are out there. And also talking about
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the foreign policy perspective of the nation and of the
movement with respect to the war in Iran. Right, A
lot of debate occurring and ongoing with this issue. America. First,
some people are divided on whether they support, you know,
the liberation of Iran and America's intervention in that issue
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in that part of the world. And I get it.
Listen it to me. It's a simple idea, right, and
by simple, I mean it both ways a double entendre a,
not complicated and be naive. It's a simple idea to
simply say America shouldn't be involved in other people's business.
I mean it sounds nice, It sounds like you can
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jump on your high horse and walk away. But as
you've heard me time and time again say on this program,
I don't believe in that. I don't believe that you
should walk down the street. If you're somebody that can
best bench press two hundred pounds, you should not look
at an old lady getting robbed and say, look, that's
none of my business. That's not my mother, it's not
my grandmother, it's not my neighbor. I'm not getting involved. No,
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you are able to defend yourself. You need to go
defend that old lady, right, And in many ways that's
how I feel about this. Just imagine a regime, the malas,
the Iyatola. Iatola is in this case forty seven years
tormenting America, shouting death to America, shouting death to Israel.
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And some of you're thinking, I don't care if they
shout death to Israel. The reason they shout death to
Israel is because they say they're the little Satan. They
we're the big Satan. And that really just confirms my
thought that our biggest watchdog in the Middle East, our
biggest ally, our closest friend, is Israel. When we need
something done, some dirty work, we don't have to go
and do it. We've got Israel, They've got the IDF
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and probably one of the best intelligence agencies ever, the
most sad, right, you know, the one that gets blamed
for everybody and everything that happens. So I, for one,
I'm grateful that we have this cooperation, that we have
this ability to harness the strength of the Masad and
the IDF, and that they're willing and ready and able
to carry out tasks that nobody else in that area
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of the world will do. Now, of course, President Trump
is now making strong allies with Saudi Arabia and UAE
and Bahrain and Kuwait and Qatar, and that's great. These
are all great things, but that wasn't always the case.
So I think it's important that we framed the conversation
the right way. And you know, me just giving my
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two cents here. I have volunteered to serve this country
and they didn't want me. To be frank with you,
they didn't. I didn't. I was one hundred and sixty
five pounds and actually I was one hundred and eighty
five pounds and they told me I had to be
one hundred and sixty five pounds and That was the
lightest I'd ever been. What else they told me. The
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first time they told me, I was in my twenties,
and they said, do you have dependents that are under
the age of five? And I did, and they said,
we're not doing that. I never heard that rule, but
that was what the recruiter told me. And that was
the first time. The second time they told me about
you know, I don't think you're going to make weight
and let me see. There was a third time. I
was very close to that thirty nine year old cutoff,
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and I was looking to get it any way I could,
because I wanted to serve. My brother had served in
the Marine Corps. Had always wanted to serve, and the
only route in was to have a not only just
a career and experience in communications, but they wanted a
graduate degree in communications to come in as an officer,
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where you could then work on what they called public affairs,
and I wanted to work in a different area. I
wasn't being picky and choosey. I just didn't meet the grade.
I couldn't provide, you know, a background, a graduate degree
in communication, something I don't have so and something if
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I really wanted it badly. I would have had to
go to school, and by the time I'd finished school,
I would be too old to go. So those are
the challenges that I met in trying to serve. And again,
I don't think I was fat when I applied, but
you know I had been fat before that and borderline diabetic.
And because of that, they said, if you ever had
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issues with that, we're not doing I mean, it was
very strict. It was pretty clear, we don't want your
chubby bud, right I when you use that euphemism, but
people always say, well, well, why don't you serve? Well,
I would have gladly, and I would today. And again,
I'm one hundred and ninety pounds now. I think I'm
in pretty decent shape for a forty seven year old guy.
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But and you throw me in boot camp. I'm pretty
sure I can hang. But that's not an option, right
It's only an option if I want to serve an ice,
and I don't know if I want to do that
right now. The point I'm making is people say, why
don't you serve? Why don't you give your kids? If
my kids told me tomorrow they wanted to serve in
the military, I would give them a big hug and
say God bless you. It's an honor. It's an honor
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and a privilege. I think to serve this country, I
think it's good for you. It's good for the country,
it's good for the people, it's good for the next generation.
Anybody who signs up for the military knows that not
you know, obvious, it's obvious, right, and it goes without
saying that you might lose your own life. But the
fine print is you may lose a limb, you may
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lose your peace, you may lose your sanity, you may
come back unwell, PTSD, all sorts of things. People know
that it's widely published, and people that are courageous enough
to volunteer for that service, I say God bless them,
God speed to them. And I would allow my kids
to do that. It's true that I have two daughters
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and under the current rules they wouldn't be on the
front lines, but that doesn't mean they'd be out of
harms way entirely. My point is, I think you've got
to let people do what they want to do. And
I'm not going to sit here and say not my kid,
not my kid for your war. No, no, no, Now listen,
take my kid, take me, Take whomever wants to voluntarily serve,
because that's what they're doing. They're putting their life on
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the line. They're giving their life for service. It's very
similar to and I'm getting off the deep end here,
but I want to make a point. It's very similar
to people say, oh, you donate a percentage of your
salary to church, Well, how do you know they're not
ripping you off? That's not my concern that I'm being
ripped off. My concern is to give. What what happens
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with the money is God's concern. And I look at
this very similarly. I'm not here to judge the outcome.
If my purpose is to serve, I have served, that's it.
If my purpose is to give, then I have given,
I will give, and that's it. I'm not here to
determine what you do with the money I give. I'm
not here to do to judge what you're doing with
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my service. That's the whole point of being a soldier
and following orders is you don't get to make those calls.
You just are here to do so do and I
salute our military for that reason. Anyway, I just wanted
to make that point anyway, Seapac was a vibe in Texas.
I will periodically go back in and out of some
of those speeches, and I'll give you my sit down
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with the ambassador regarding what it looks like if Iron
does get a nuke, and what the off ramp for
this war looks like. That's coming up in a moment.
Excuse me, and thank you again for putting up in
my voice. It's getting a little bit better, right, We're
almost back, but I'm not quite back to doing my trump.
It's still a little bit horse. I don't have oh
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my vocal range, right, I don't know that I could
do my eringobrag if I could do my top. See,
it's not coming out right. I kind of sound more
like I'm a Scottish man from Bangladesh than I le Bracon.
So I'll keep working on that with the tea and
the honey. But a couple of things that are going
on this week. Big Supreme Court stuff coming out every
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single day, different oral arguments on several cases. One of
the biggest cases out there is the case regarding the
outcome of the dread Scott decision right the birthright citizenship
Fourteenth Amendment case, and that is before the court. And again,
this isn't a question of right versus wrong. This is
a question of constitutionality, and it's going to be interesting.
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I always believe that the Court will punt whenever they
can on big issues like this, just like they did
with Dhaka. They decided to go in there because they
don't want to hurt anybody's feelings. That's just the truth.
And they know that if they say this is unlawful,
then it was unlawful before. And certain things you can't
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change the past, right, Like let's say you say Roe
versus Wade was bad law. Therefore every last abortion conducted
over the last fifty years is null and void. You
can't do that because they're done already. But if you
do that with citizenship in effect, you likely could do that,
and they won't do that. They're not going to sit
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here and say, yeah, so for the last you know,
X amount of years that we've allowed this to go on,
we are going to rescind that citizenship. It's not gonna that.
It's not gonna happen. I don't see the mechanism for it.
I don't see anybody approving the cost associated with that
I don't see it, not in h not in the faintest. However,
I would love to be proven wrong. I would have
loved for you guys to fill up my inbox and
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call the show a seven to seven vollowed this one
and let me know rich you were so hopelessly wrong.
They sided with President Trump on this, and they said
that every last person that came here by way of
the fourteenth Amendment, that quote unquote loophole exception, is now
going to be deported. Hey, do you want to live
in that utopia? Go right ahead, Please bring me with
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you if it becomes a reality. But it's not that
I don't want it to happen, is that I don't
believe it can happen. So I think that's kind of
where we are. I think if those things were to happen,
it would likely be moving forward. Right, Oh yeah, take
a look at this. That was wrong, all right, so
moving forward, we're not going to do that anymore. But again,
just using the DACA example, which is probably the closest
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one I could think of, I think they're going to say, nope,
this is likely going to have to go back to Congress,
make a law, make a law. If you don't like
the way this law looks, make a law fixed the
law again. My thoughts, I don't see John Roberts having
the leadership to tackle this. I hope I am wrong,
and I hope that John Sour who's got a raspier
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voice than I do. Right now, the Solicitor General, I
hope that he's able to make a convincing argument. And
we'll have our legal analyst for this program on the
show tomorrow to discuss that. Doug Burns, one of my favorites,
former chief of the Criminal Division, will be joining us.
So anyway, that being said, we've got this divide right
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with Americans who believe that we should not have a military. Right.
In fact, they think we should be Switzerland. Right, we
should only have a military if we are attacked, but
there should never be any attacking. Right. If that were
the case, maybe we don't need so many airplanes. There's
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probably a whole lot of things we don't need, like
military bases abroad, right, because the purpose of the military
is not to, you know, to run America's foreign policy
and be the military for it, but just to protect
us when we're attacked. Come on, how would we ever,
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who leads like that by reacting, nobody Nobody leads. By reacting.
By definition, you're following somebody else is leading, and you're
responding to their lead. They throw a punch at you,
you block it or throw a CounterPunch. You're always always
going to be defending yourself if you're not playing offense.
That's just a given. So clearly that's flawed way of thinking. Right. Well,
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the United States can't solely have a military for defense,
right And I'm glad they changed it from the Department
of Defense to the Department of War because I think
it's appropriate. There are things that had to be done
here and they're being done. So kudos to el Trumpito
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on this. Now, nothing else I wanted to get into
was fraud. Right. We got fraud all over the place,
and I think Elon Musk did an amazing job explaining
and exposing how much fraud was out there. And this
fraud truly is remarkable. I think people have been defrauding
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the United States government in so many ways from so
many angles, whether it's the welfare queens that Reagan talked
about to now modern day corporations and people coming from
other countries to exploit certain loopholes where they are now
creating entire networks of defrauding people. And that was something
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that Nick Shirley spoke about in his speech at seat back.
So I'm going to take a pause right here. We're
going to come right back here that Nick Shirley talk
a little bit about fraud. Or maybe we'll go to
my clip with the ambassador and then we'll go to
the Nick Shirley piece on fraud in the third segment.
Either way, keeping on your toes right and keep it
locked right here, because I am Rich val Des and
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we're coming right back. Don't go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
This is America. This is America. He's brown, he's bald,
and he's breaking it down.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
Oh he's still hadsome.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
What's his name, Rich Veldez.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Good morning and welcome to sea Pack two thy twenty
six actions over words, Ladies and gentlemen, This is no
Nukes for Jihad of fireside chat with CEO of United
Against Nuclear Iran Ambassador Mark Wallace and host of This
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America with Rich Rich Valdez.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
I'm basingor.
Speaker 7 (20:16):
Good morning, seapack man. So we were in the green room.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
We were talking about a lot of things about nuclear Iran,
ending the nuclear threat in Iran, and it came up
a battle of bad dad jokes.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
I'm scared.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
He's good and if there's time at the end, we
might get into it. But I'm going to start this
by saying in shout out to match Lap. I was
talking to match Lap at Sea Pac Hungary just a
few days ago, and we were talking with some of
the folks that were attending from different parts of Europe,
and there was a disparate opinion on how big the
threat is of a nuclear Iran. So I'm saying, oh,
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they had no threats. That's the United States. They want
to get into forever wars. Others saying no, no, no,
you have to go after this. This is a radical
threat and it must be ended. Ambassador Mark Wallace, talk
to me. You not only served as an ambassador, but
your current role with UA and I talk to us
on where you come down on this issue.
Speaker 8 (21:11):
Look, I think we had to put the issue squarely
on the table. The forever war that has dominated the world,
dominated the American economy, caused countless casualties of Americans, caused
a risk premium in your wallet and pocketbook because of
controlling the straits of for news. All loads roads lead
to Tehran. So there has been a forever war in
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the Middle East because the Iranians their mantra is death
to America, death to Israel, death to Saudi Arabia. President
Trump said and did something different every president, and I've
worked with every one of them, and I've had to
work with some of the democratic ones that I've not
agreed with. Every president has kicked the can of this
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problem down the road as has gotten more and more
dangerous and costly to Americans.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Forty seven years.
Speaker 8 (22:01):
Americans have been dying, and our allies have been dying
at the hand of Iran and its proxies. And for
forty seven years, you all have been paying countless more
dollars when you fill up your tank of gas because
of the major terror state in the world controls the
strait up for moves. The president saw two things. He
saw Iran developing advanced bailistic missiles, intercontinental ballistic missiles, building
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a massive blistic missile program, still pursuing a nuclear program
with a thousand pounds of enriched missile material, and an
already weakened leadership. And he matched that threat with opportunity
and he said, I'm going to end this forever war.
He said, no more, I'm not going to kick a
can down the road. And our incredible military, frankly, that
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has gotten so strong.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
That's right. Our incredible military.
Speaker 8 (22:51):
Are that military that has been honed over twenty five years,
has performed so brave in an admirable manner, an admirable manner,
and they are our heroes.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
And he is ending that forever war. So I talk
to a lot of you.
Speaker 8 (23:09):
I've been attending setbacks, I think when I first started
twenty years ago, twenty five years ago. Do not believe
the headlines that we are somehow losing this war. Iran
is getting the best of us, or that we are
in a forever war. That was not who President Trump is.
I've worked for presidents like that that have engaged in
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decisions that have ended in wars that have gone on
for too long. That's not what this president's doing. That's
not what this conflict is. Do not believe the headlines. Please,
let's cheer our troops and celebrate the successes, and celebrate
Uranian women and men and who are here in this
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audience that want to be free of the greatest terrorst
state in the world. This is an incredible moment where
the president says, I'm not going to be conventional. I'm
going to do it different. I won't kick the can
down the road. And remember kick the can down the
road was the official policy of multiple presidents stated on
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North Korea, and look at where North Korea is now
a nuclear weapon he said, we will not allow around
to get there.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
And basstor Mark Wallace, you mentioned something about disinformation and
how disinformation is permeating the airwaves, and as President President
Trump would say.
Speaker 7 (24:30):
Because of the fake news, the fake news in the back.
But I think it's more than the fake news.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
I think they're actively trying to disinform and using propaganda
to make this a cultural divide in America, to try
and divide those that were against the nuclearon to get
them in different disparate factions. Talk to us about the
role that disinformation is playing at this current time.
Speaker 8 (24:54):
I did a television show, a big one, the other day,
and the host is a friend of mine. He pulls
me into the green, pulls up his computer, and you go,
look at these headlines. World war breaking across the world,
America facing defeat in Iran, and he goes mark, I've
never seen the fake news, and this was a friendly
place mostly, and I said, it's also a little bit
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in this network where he goes, I know, it's as
if we can't get past the real news because we
do things in secret. Our military doesn't broadcast necessarily. It's
ongoing efforts and it's ongoing actions. But the fake news
that is somehow trying to drive a wedge in the
Republican Party and in this crowd, I think is dishonest
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and dishonorable. Look, it's just dishonorable. Americans aren't Harm's way.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Now.
Speaker 8 (25:47):
I won't say to any person in this crowd or
any speaker that doesn't agree with it, that's our right.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
We're a big party, we're a big tent, and that's fine.
Speaker 8 (25:56):
But it is dishonorable when the conventional news meet puts
out news, and I'm friends with a lot of them,
I see it, and he goes markets ratings. I hear
this from all of them, and we don't have anybody
else will say it. In Criticizing President Trump is the
thing to do, but let's be serious.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
He is ending the Middle East forever war.
Speaker 8 (26:17):
Right now, and you will be paying less at the
gas pump, which is important because our economy matters and
what our home life matters. But more importantly, the terror state,
the head of the octopus, the tentacles of these terror groups,
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is being decimated when no president, no president, had the
courage to do it previously.
Speaker 7 (26:48):
Amen to that.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
Now, Ambassador, this is an interesting place that I think
we're in, right, you know, I'm scrolling the other day
on Twitter and I see first video come out, it's
President Trump.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
The war run is fantastic.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
Then next I see who is it, Baby Nenyahu and
he says, we are here. Nobody's forcing my hands, the
presidents in charge. Third video, some new general from the
IRGC I'd never seen in my years of following the
news saying, don't believe the fake news.
Speaker 7 (27:19):
We've got this. We're ready to take things on.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
And I'm thinking, hey, doesn't look that good from my perspective.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
What's going on here?
Speaker 8 (27:26):
First of all, propaganda war is almost is viable right now.
Is real war except people. It causes people to kill
and die, but a lot of that is propaganda. Look,
no one is forcing America to do and protect its
interest in itself. If you think anybody can direct and
convince or manipulate Donald Trump into some sort of action.
(27:48):
Maybe you guys haven't seen what I've seen over the
last decade into American politics. And more importantly, he sees
the threat and he sees the opportunity. But the news media,
when you go out, every one of you as a
cell phone, mobile phone, cell phone, I'm showing my age.
Go out and google Iran news, and I promise you
the top ten hits will be war going badly, blah
(28:10):
blah blah. You have to understand we have decimated Iran's leadership,
largely decimated its ballistic missile programs. It's shahead drone program.
I was the guy with a shahead here last year.
I owned two of them. I'm the only guy in
private hands. Shows you I truly am an Iran geek.
First dad joke that I have a shahead drone.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
We had it here.
Speaker 8 (28:32):
But what it shows is we've decimated that leadership. We're
decimating their abilities. Just yesterday, a guy, the i ERGC
Naval Commander Alireza Tenz Gary.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
You again have to be a true Iran geek to
know who he is. But he was the man that
controlled the Strait of four News. He died two days ago.
Speaker 8 (28:55):
We had called, We had called for his designation and
is killing. Years ago, even President Biden had sent the
USS Baton Group because of the threats from the ier
GC Navy. President Trump has eliminated that navy no longer.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Should the strait of our MOUs be the tax.
Speaker 8 (29:11):
And premium on the global economy to the two new
trillions of dollars?
Speaker 7 (29:15):
I want to ask two questions here.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
One is a lot of people think that the Iranians
are some sort of primitive rock throwing army. I think
it's a mistake to underestimate them your thoughts.
Speaker 8 (29:29):
Look, there's no doubt this might upset my Iranian friends
and family in this audience here, but this is our
country and they're an established military and bureaucracy. They can't
hold a candle to the United States of America, but
they have deep levels of support. We're probably on the
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third or fourth level of that leadership. And the Iatola,
before his timely demise, made sure he purified and made
sure that these guys were true believers. But we are
getting to the point where one of them is gonna
say no longer.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Am I gonna shoot women? In the eye.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
No longer. Are we gonna kill innocence in the street?
I have family no more and will hopefully make a deal.
There are only two options the regime's gonna fall period.
The question is the regime's gonna fall? And again this
may upset my Iranian brothers and sisters in the audience.
(30:30):
Either we are able to remove the regime in our
efforts right now, and or we have a much weakened
regime that does some sort of deal with the United
States and the West, that is so decimated. The Iranian
people will still rise up and defeat this regime. Because
ultimately I support the Iranian people. I don't take sides
on the Iranian people. It is not for us to
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say to the Iranian peace people how they will have
their next government. It's up to the Iranian people, and
they are brave, and they are courageous, and they are
willing to go into the streets.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
This regime killed.
Speaker 8 (31:15):
Imagine protesting in the streets and killing thirty to forty
thousand of your own people and having the.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Courage to turn into the streets and.
Speaker 8 (31:25):
Charge into gunfire because of what you believe.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
You all know.
Speaker 8 (31:29):
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams. But there were great
American patriots that died on Bunker Hill, some names you
probably don't know. There are many brave Iranian men and
women that are dying on the Bunker Hill against the
Iatolas regime. Now it's our job to do everything we
can to support them for our own national security, for
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our allies national security, and because it's right. The Iranian
people are brave and courageous.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
Ambassador Mark Wallace, We've got a couple of minutes left,
and I want to cover two things if we can't,
the first one being you said, we've gone through a
couple of layers of IRGC, one of them being the
Ayatola Ali comedy right out next Moshtaba. Nobody's seen this
guy the Sun. Who knows if he's alike? How far
deep do we have to go to eliminate the radicalized
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element that exists within the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Speaker 8 (32:24):
It's a very good question, and I don't know the
answer because I know, and I'm happy to talk to
you all about it. I know the names of all
the leadership, multiple layers. I do this for a living.
I've been doing this longer than almost anybody in the world,
and I know them by name, I know who they are,
and most of them are dead. The likely next interim
leader it's probably somebody I don't know and our intelligence
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services don't know, and that they will rise up and
say they're no longer going to attack the brave men
and women of Iran, and they no longer want to
die from a drone strike or a missile strike, and
they want to move on. And that will be complicated
for the Ranian people because it will be could be
a regime person, you know, and we have to be
honest about that. But the reality is the next one,
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if it's internal, it's somebody that we likely don't know,
or if the Iranian people rise up when it's safe
to go on this reets, which we've seen the willingness
to do in the past, it could be one of
the brave organizers of that opposition.
Speaker 5 (33:22):
Ambassador Mark Wallace, I want to thank you and I
want to ask you a question. Right I'm walking down
the street. The honorific for a guy like me, and
like most of the people here is mister sir, I'm
a talk show host, But the honorific for a guy
like you is your excellency.
Speaker 7 (33:36):
Talk to me about how often do people.
Speaker 5 (33:38):
Call you your excellency, and do you do you when
they say sir, no, no, no, it's your excellency.
Speaker 8 (33:43):
I agreed to do this with you, but I didn't
know that you turned her back on me in the
green room, and I was a little upset that you
didn't show me the respect of not walking out backwards.
I will do this again, but I expect Excellency, the
honorific and the ambassador the best dad joke being like
having that title ambassador in the United States. It's a
big deal everywhere else. But like you know, we're Americans.
(34:05):
We don't go by titles. That's not who we are,
right But no turning your back on me, that's it.
No turning your back on me.
Speaker 5 (34:14):
Ambassador Mark Wallace. I want to thank you. See Pack,
I want to thank you too. This is such an
interesting issue, an issue that I think is going to
continue to affect both Americans and Persians alike and everybody
in the region. And it's my hope that we come
up with a solution that will secure the straight and
allow the Iranian people to move forward.
Speaker 7 (34:34):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 8 (34:34):
Have confidence in President Trump It's okay to have different opinions,
but don't believe that news media. We are ending a
forever war right now.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Thank you all.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
This is Amara, this is America.
Speaker 5 (35:08):
President Donald take Trump, mister President, welcome to the program.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Sir well, thank you, Rich, and thank you for everything.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
I know you very well and I have I listened,
but I have a lot of people that.
Speaker 8 (35:18):
Listen and they love your show and I appreciate it
very much.
Speaker 6 (35:21):
All right, amigos, welcome back, Rich Valdez, keeping your company
and getting a little bit of my voice back, Getting
a little bit of that voice back. Man. It's a
slow moving process. But anyway, I want to continue with
some of the seapack highlights from Texas Plus, keeping you
up to speed on what's going on in the news today.
President Trump threatening to use ground troops if necessary to
(35:43):
extract uranium. And this is one of those things that
people are like, oh my gosh, there it is. This
is the quagmire, this is Vietnam, and quite frankly has
the ability to become one. Right. The idea here is
for President Trump to do what he does best to
leverage people's needs and get the people that need the
(36:03):
strait of hor Mooz and the people that need a
freer run to do this work. Right, We've done the
heavy part. We've taken out the top layer of leadership.
Now if they want to go door to door trying
to kill the rest of the tentacles of the octopus,
go right ahead. But that's not something I think we
need to sign up for. Right It's kind of like
you see the old lady getting robbed. You grab the
(36:25):
guy and now you wait for the cops to lock
him up. Right, you can't be the judge, the jury,
and the executioner. Right, you do your part is good samaritan.
So I think that being said, we've done our part.
We have been the good Samaritan. Now what is before
us is our exit strategy. We'll continue with that a
little bit, and the next segment I want to talk
about iron. I want to talk about Raza Polavi.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
You.
Speaker 6 (36:45):
We're going to talk about some of the grumblings from hearing,
grumblings from the Department of Justice, grumblings from the Department
of Energy, all sorts of rumors flying about Washington, d C.
Maybe we'll crystallize those in the next segment or tomorrow.
Plus we're going to talk about the Supreme Court decision
tomorrow as well, but right now I want to direct
your attention to Nick Shirley. That's right. He is the
(37:07):
hoodie wearing intrepid journalist on YouTube that is constantly bringing
the receipts on the leering centers and the Somali pirates fraudsters.
So he spoke at Seapack and was a really big
hit because you know who doesn't love it a little
Nick Shirley. And it was eye opening, to say the least,
(37:30):
because people oftentimes, you know, we assume that there's fraud.
We know that there is fraud, but we never really
think that it's largely coming from one area. You know,
for example, in Minnesota. If someone today were to ask you, hey,
(37:51):
do you think that it's one particular group of people
that are conducting the fraud in Minnesota. If they were
to ask you that today, you'd probably say yes. If
they would ask you that, I don't know, four or
five years ago, you'd likely say no. You'd probably say no.
People who commit fraud all over the place. Now we
know that they own this fraud ring and it's you know,
you want to get out on the fraud. You got
to go to them, listen to it. There's a quick clip,
(38:13):
but eye opening them the less.
Speaker 9 (38:16):
However, it seems to be that most of the fraud
is in a lot of these blue cities, and when
you go out and expose the fraud, I mean, I
think Gavin Newsom, he posted a photo of me the
other day and had ten cameras on me and AI
generated image saying, where are the kids trying to depict
me as a pervert for exposing fraud? How sick does
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the governor have to be to say that the kid
exposing the fraud is the bad person versus the fraudsters
are stealing the money.
Speaker 6 (38:53):
And he's one hundred percent right right, Nick Shirley is
not doing something bad, He's doing something good. He's a
modern day Nelly Bly and Paul Revere are all wrapped
up into one. This is the type of thing that
we need, right. It's like James O'Keeffe Project, Veritas o
Keith Media Group, same thing. Look at the impact he's
(39:14):
had and he's paid quite a price for it. This
work isn't easy. So I tipped my hat to mister Shirley.
And by the way, he was not wearing a hood.
He was wearing a really nice suit and a fancy
red tie. But the bottom line here is these are
Somalis in particular. Right, I'm not making a case against
them as a people. I'm making a case against them
as a people in Minnesota that are now becoming synonymous
(39:38):
with fraud. Listen, all we can do is say it
is what it is. Now in other news in that
I'm gonna talk about fraud more in a moment. There's
a lot more fraud going on. There's hospice fraud. We're
going to talk about that. That's been going all over California.
Every area kind of has their own fraud. But in
Somalia in particular, since we're on that fraud, there was
a high degree of immigration fraud being reported there and
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JD Vance, the Vice President of the United States, recently
making some claims about that, about ilhan Omar and about
what might happen. Listen to this.
Speaker 10 (40:13):
The Trump administration ramps up as crackdown on fraud, Vice
President JD Vance is now targeting Minnesota Congresswoman il Han Omar.
Speaker 6 (40:21):
Now.
Speaker 10 (40:21):
Vance is leading the new Anti Fraud Task Force, which
met for the first time on Friday. Now we have
learned that Omar's immigration history is now under review. Omar
came to the US as a refugee from Somalia in
nineteen ninety five. She's been dogged with questions about her
marriages for a while now. Officials note immigration fraud can
carry serious penalties, including losing citizenship.
Speaker 11 (40:44):
We actually think that Ililomore definitely committed immigration fraud against
the United States of America, and I talked to Steven
Miller about this actually recently. We're trying to look at
what the remedies are. That's the thing that we're trying
to figure out, is what are the legal remedies now
that we know that she's committed immigration fraud? How do
you go after her or how do you investigate her?
Speaker 6 (41:02):
How do you actually do the thing?
Speaker 11 (41:03):
How do you build a case necessary to get some
justice for the American people. There's a related issue, Benny,
which is she has been at the center of a
lot of the worst fraudsters in the Somalian community.
Speaker 10 (41:16):
Well, a spokesperson for the Minnesota Democratic congresswoman cause the
allegations a ridiculous lie. But the Republic of Somalia look
at this, a functioning democracy that Somalia claims as a
territory posted on exit it would like to see her
right there extra diect.
Speaker 6 (41:35):
So yes, the Kingdom of Somaliland or the Republic of
Somali Land says we will take her back gladly. Now
a lot of debate over that. Some are saying, if
is this tongue in cheek, is this the people that
suffered under her dad, who led a coup against that
current government, or is that them admitting that she is
(41:56):
a fraudster, or is that saying we her she truly
is our princess and let her come back home. I
don't know the answer to that, but as we get
more information on it, I'll keep you posted. But I
think this is fascinating. Now. I'm up two minds on this.
I'll share both of you. One is, while I know
this is good red meat for the base, I don't
think most Americans. I truly don't. And if I'm wrong,
(42:19):
please let me know. Eight seven seven Valdes one. I
don't believe most Americans wake up every day, and you know,
thank you Lord for waking me up again, for giving
me sight, for giving me health, or being merciful to
my children, and for locking up ill han Omar I
don't think most people are that hell bent on her
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being deported or going to jail or anything like that.
Most the word is most most people listening to the show,
probably one hundred percent. Most people in the Republican Party,
same thing. Yes, most people in the conservative movement, most
people at SEAPAC, but most people across our country. Now,
I don't believe that. So I don't know that this
is a top issue for America. This is a top
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issue for the base, which is important to move the
needle on, you know, popularity and support the words escaping
me approval ratings in that category. But again, that's part
of the game. The other part of this is the
backfire right, the Democrats turning around saying, wow, this is
(43:30):
what the Vice President of the United States is going
to waste his time doing, going after a sitting US
congresswoman who came here fleeing persecution by her government, only
to come here and be persecuted by a new government. Right,
because you know how the left is. All they do
is cry victimhood. So I think you always got to
just look at both sides of the coin before you
make a political play, because you never know the outcome.
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In this case, I would do it too. I would
also beat the same drum of deport ill, hand deport ill.
We've seen it play well, right, Lock her up with
Hillary Clinton played very very well. In fact, if you
look at the entire q Andon movement and idea, it's
all about accountability, it's all about justice, and that is
(44:13):
the live action role play that it gets people hooked on.
You know, first it gives them this juicy hook of
they are trafficking children, and then it goes into their
eating children, their satanic pedophiles, they're harming the children. There's
not a human being on this planet that if they
give you the time of day to listen to that story,
(44:34):
isn't going to feel sympathy and say, well hold on,
we all want to protect the children. So you immediately
have a commonality with the person next to you who's
telling you about the eating of the children or the
kidnapping of the children, this evil, nefarious stuff. So now
there's a kinship there, and now we are birds of
a feather. I get it. This is you know, how
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movements are made, how propaganda is advanced, all of that.
I look at this stuff every day. Is this that no,
I don't think so. I think this is truly Trump
trying to move the needle on introducing an idea to
correct the record. I think President Trump really wants people
to understand that while they would if they were on
their lunch break from work and a reporter were to
(45:18):
put a microphone in their face and say, excuse me, sir,
excuse me, ma'am. Do you believe that there is massive
fraud going on in America? I think most people say yes,
I do believe that. Of course, people are always ripping
people off, especially if they're from New York. They're going
to say that because they believe that they see that. However,
those same people would tell you, but I don't think
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anything's going to happen. I don't believe that we're going
to see justice. This has been going on since the
beginning of time. The Roman Empire had a name for it.
It was called ambuthus, right, ambi t us. So if
political corruption is as old as civilization itself, then what
makes us think that this would go away? And I
think that is the attitude most people have. And Trump, however,
(46:01):
has never met a challenge that he didn't love, and
he says, well, people would have that idea unless you
truly teach them the genesis of the fraud, what the
fraud looks like, help them to personify the fraud. So
it has a name, of face, a smell, right when
you can feel it and touch it and live it.
And that's what he's doing. He's showing the American people
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that the contemptible nature of il han Omar. Some people
did something right when callously speaking about nine to eleven,
the contemptible nature of il han Omar, and how arrogantly
she deals with the press when they say things to her,
and sometimes it's warranted because the questions are kind of sideways.
In my opinion, I would probably give you a slick
(46:43):
remark to But what President Trump does best is truly
help you to see things that you didn't see before,
things that were already there, but now you get it
from a new perspective. And that's what he's doing here.
He's helping us to see that the fraud isn't just
this this intangible, unknown thing that we can't put a
(47:08):
finger on. It's not this nameless, faceless evil that just exists. No,
it has a name, it has a face. It's illan Omar.
It's the Somali land pirates in Little Mogadishu in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Right,
And now when you have this, now that there's that's
a place where we can direct our ere, we can
(47:30):
direct our energy and say, well, that is unacceptable. And
now that we know exactly what's going on, these people
need to pay the price. Before this was a nameless
and faceless crime that we couldn't prosecute. But now we
need to prosecute. And that is something President Trump is
good at that nobody else I've seen nobody else do
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what he does. He's amazing at it. He's amazing at
helping people to see the light. And you know guys
like Nick, right, Nick Shirley is seeing this because he
saw President Trump draw attention to these things and he
also has a talent for it, and voila. Hence we
have what we're having. So do I think ill Han
gets deported? Man? I hope. So if she's guilty, why not.
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Do I think it's gonna happen as of today? I don't.
I think something may happen. I think that there may
be a correction of the record. I think it may
go down in history that there was you know, irregularities
that were found, but being that it happened so long ago,
or this and that, and maybe I'm wrong, right, maybe
the Statute of Limitations doesn't pass on this, or maybe
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there isn't a preponderance of proof that can get her convicted.
What I don't want to see is another case like
James Comey. We say he's guilty of sin treason, and
then we charge him with like a traffic ticket, and
then he beats it. Same thing with Letitia James. These
desperate attempts to get people when we don't have what
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it takes just for the sake of saying we went
after them is It's not a good look. I think
it's a waste of time. And honestly, people, they lose
interest because I think justice as a whole loses credibility
in those situations. So it makes it look like the
bad guys are winning. I think it's a good thing
(49:20):
to put her on blast. Don't come after her unless
you have, you know, rock solid proof. That's my thinking
on this. Anyway, there was an article I wanted to
share with you here with same topic. Because President Trump
he's not only going after real hann Omar, but saying
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that this is something that's happening widespread in the Somali
community of Minnesota. Immigrants from Somalier coming to the country
with very little money and very quickly able to afford
luxury cars like Mercedes benz And why they do it
because they're committing fraud on programs that are paid for
by the United States taxpayers. Yeah, and that makes sense.
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There was a clip shared by the White House being
reported here in the Kenya Times, and it's the Trump
forty seven account the Rapid Response team and saying they
come here with no money, and they go out and
they buy Mercedes Benzes and l hann Omar who married
her brother, is a stone cold crook, and everybody knows it. Right,
these things they helped to galvanize the base. And I'm
(50:26):
not saying they're false. I'm just saying it's good that
he's calling attention to it because I think prior to this,
you know, the going the going statement was, well, there's
no proof that she actually married her brother. I think
now we have some pretty good information that leads to
she married a guy with the same last name as
her before she got married. Doesn't mean it's her brother
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per se, but these seem to be things that are
oftentimes done in many communities that are committing immigration fraud,
not solely the Somalis, but including the Somalis. So I
think this is an interesting thing for federal prosecutors to
look at it, and I think they're going to find
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that not only is it happening with childcare and the
autism services, but doctor Oz is out there swashbuckling through
California and other places with Medicaid related services and other
programs talking about billions and billions of dollars that are
being built out of our system. So what do we do.
We keep our finger on the pulse and we keep
(51:30):
going excuse me, pardon me, Thank God for the cough button.
So anyway, that means I need to sip water, and
I'm probably going to take a break right here, but
we will come back and we will continue our discussion.
I want to talk about Iran a little bit more
because one of the people besides Prime Minister is Trusts
and Ambassador Mark Wallace and the women that I met
(51:52):
that were shot in the face by the IRGC, and
Ambassador Rick Rennell and Larry O'Connor and who else. Colonel
Kirk Schlichter and Matt Schlapp and Mercedes schlap and Chris
Salcedo and so many. There were so many people that
I got a chance to catch up with at the sea.
(52:13):
Pack was raised up Alave, the crown Prince. There were
people chanting all over the place, these rhyming chants. They
sounded like the leftoes quite frankly, but they were a
lot more peaceful and waving Iranian flags and American flags
and thanking mister Trump, Thank you USA, thank you President Trump,
all hail. And they weren't calling him prince, they were
calling him King, King Polave. And I thought that was
(52:37):
really interesting. I tried to get a clip of it,
but I wasn't able to They were too fast for
me and my thick thumbs to hit the record button
on my cell phone. But needless to say, you're going
to hear a couple of clips from him on the
way back. Pretty remarkable speech. He says, he's raised up Alave,
reporting for duty. Keep it locked right here. I am
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you know, if we can, maybe we'll do one at
mar A Lago and that might be fun. I'll see
if you know I could put that together. I don't
(55:38):
know if I can or can't, but I will. I'll
keep you posted. But if you have interest in that,
make sure you you know you let us know. Our
producer on the program, Barbara handles all things for me
and you can always reach her. What's the email for Barb.
It is Barb. Sorry, Barbara, Barbara Gibson dot pr at
(56:03):
gmail dot com. So let her know if you have
any ideas or you want to get involved in any
of the stuff that's going on here. I appreciate that,
and I want to continue with this speech by Raza Polavi.
Raza Polavi again giving many, many remarks in his speech
at Seapac and the Crown Princess. He's known people chanting
for days on end. We're chanting about Raza Polavi. And
(56:26):
there's a lot that he said, and he started off strong,
he ended strong, standing ovation packed house, thousands of people.
It really was quite remarkable. And let's start it right here.
Speaker 12 (56:40):
Republicans and monarchists, left and right, men and women of
all ages, religious and ethnicities, even people who are former
political opponents have joined the movement to free Iran under
my leadership. Equally important, Iran's armed for seas and bureaucracy
(57:04):
will follow me. Thousands of the regime's military officials, some
very senior, have signed their readiness to join me through
a digital defection platform my team established several months ago.
Many of these officials have refused to obey the orders
to kill civilians during the January uprising. That's why the
(57:26):
IRGC had to import thugs from Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon
to do the dirty work. With my leadership, They and
others who don't have blood on their hands will play
a role in stabilizing the country during the transition.
Speaker 6 (57:49):
So that has raised up a lobby saying that he
is in touch with folks in the IRGC and that
he's going to use them if given the opportunity, need
to be the interim leader in Iran to stabilize things. Now.
This is the clearest part of his plan, and he
laid out lots of parts in the full speech was
about a half hour long. I'm not going to use
all of my show to give you all of his speech,
(58:11):
but I will say it seemed a little bit more
than surface level. This is not my endorsement of him.
I know that there is him and his faction. You
also have the supporters of the m K, the People's
muja Hadeen, the group that is led by Mari m Rajavi,
and we've had many of their representatives on, like Ambassador
(58:34):
super View, Senator Robert Torceli, Ali Reza Jafarzade and others
that have represented the MK. These are people that know
what's going on. So who am I to get involved
in an Iranian squabble? Right, I'm just here to tell
you what each of them is saying. There was no
representation from the m e K at Seapac. It was
a clear win by team Paalavi. Now, President Trump has
(58:57):
signaled that he's a nice guy, that he's not sure
if the Iranian people want him, but he seems like
a nice guy. That's President Trump remaining polite and impartial.
You've got others that are critics of his saying, this
man has not been in Iran forever. He's been exiled
from Iran because of his father, the Shah. He's between
living in Europe and living in California. What does he
(59:17):
know about Iran. That's a valid point. I'm not saying
it's an accurate point. I'm saying it's a valid point.
It's valid question to ask. Seems to me that if
he has this digital connection to the IRGC, then he's
obviously more plugged in than some might imagine. I don't know.
I don't have all the questions. I'd love to interview him,
and I did not get a chance to. Hopefully and
(59:38):
things move forward, maybe I will, but I will say this,
he seemed to truly have the hearts and minds of
so many people, people that truly align with our movement,
people that truly are grateful for America, people that truly
stand up for what they believe in, standing up for liberty,
standing there for what they believe is is right. And
that's something I can respect. And as I always tell you,
(01:00:00):
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 sit there and do nothing. Well,
these good Iranian Americans, they're not doing nothing. They're taking
to the streets. They're going to these conferences, and they're
out there making their voices heard a start. Approxima, take care,
good night, and God bless you America. I'm Rich Faldez.
Speaker 2 (01:00:23):
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