March 17, 2026 • 60 mins
On Tuesday night, Rich reacts to the breaking News that the US just dropped bunker-buster bombs on a secret missile silo near the Strait of Hormuz. Then, on St. Patrick's Day straight from Dublin, Ireland, the Taoiseach, Prime Minister Micheál Martin joined President Trump in the Oval Office, where he discussed, among many topics, the resignation of Joe Kent as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center. Some are questioning whether or not Kent mishandled sensitive information. Plus, an 18-year-old woman with an ICE detainer in Memphis shot and killed a man—accused of molesting a 5-year-old—14 times, and now she is under arrest.
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We got some breaking news that I want to get
into right now. Just a little while ago, the United
States has dropped bunker buster bombs on a missile facility
that was secretly located near the Strait of Horror Moves.
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This happened at ten I don't know, ten forty six
pm or nine to forty six pm Eastern time is
when this broke. So this is again brand new breaking
news that happened this evening. This is being reported by
the New York Post and it's one of the only
publications I see reporting this right now. But again, UK
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dropping five thousand pounds bunker buster bombs on the Straight
of Horror Mooze and this is again breaking news. I'll
give you a little bit on this article here. The
massive attack was announced by US Central Command. That came
as the war with Iran has pretty much slowed down
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the all shipping through the Persian Gulf Waterway because of
the lockdown, a gridlock that we're having in the Strait
of Horm Moves. Again, that announcement coming on Twitter again
just a couple hours ago, saying US Force has successfully
employed multiple five thousand pounds deep penetrator munitions on hardened
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the Iranian missile sites along with the Rants coastline near
the Strait of Horm Mooz. And again that's according to
the US Central Command. They went on to say that
the Iranian anti ship cruise missiles in these sites posed
a risk to international shipping in the strait. So that's
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the latest on that. Now, these again from the New
York Post, these massive bombs were developed to overcome these hardened,
deeply buried targets and overcome the challenges and designs were
specifically for a fighter and bomber aircraft. That's according to
the US Air Force press release from a couple of
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years ago. Just give you some stats on how they're
doing it, what they're doing with and this is what's
causing the twenty seven percent increase that we've seen in
barrels of crude oil. So again, yesterday I said, or
even last week, I might have said, another two weeks
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to five weeks or another fourteen to sixty some odd
days before the Strait of Hormuse is open for business.
I think we're well on our way to securing that. Apparently,
these bombs that were taken out in this facility that
they dropped the bunker buster on, there was two hundred
missiles inside this facility. They were hiding them inside a
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bunker inside like on the side of a mountain. So
the last quote on this article here, the US will
continue to rapidly deplete Iron's ability to threaten freedom of
navigation in and around the Strait of Hormuz. That's Admiral
Brad Cooper, commander of US Central Command, and that was
released in a video statement. Our progress remained steady and
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we remain vigilant against the enemy. Thank you, Admiral Cooper,
Thank you El Trompito, Thank you the United States military
and all of our partners from the Middle East that
are joining this effort. This is I think a necessary
thing to have a good forty or fifty years of prosperity. Right,
I'm looking at the next Industrial Revolution. We're going to
call it AI. Right, all sorts of things are going
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to happen. I'm very bullish. I'm very optimistic on what happens,
not just AI, lots of things I think are are
going to happen, because when you have money, things will happen.
When you are able to eradicate a lot of the
nonsense right right now, some of the nonsense we deal
with domestically, is we've been dealing with domestically, have been
high interest rates, artificially inflated home values, things like that,
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where people are they're they're not looking to make a deal.
Make it twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, when El Trompito and
his roaring economy had household incomes up almost seven grand
people were saying, you know, yeah, let's hire that new person.
Why everybody felt bullish on the economy. It felt great.
Interest rates were two percent, one and a half percent,
two and a half percent. People were getting four and
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a half and five percent, three and a half percent,
and they were doing cartwheels. Those people are locked in
on their homes. They're like, hell, no, I'm not going
to sell my house ever where am I going to go?
Good for them? That's how you make the economy roar.
Not what we're doing now. Right now, we're dealing with
some hiccups. Right my buddy, uh when oh shout out
to my boy who he works in supply chain distribution
for a large hospital and explained that there was a
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cyber attack on one of the large surgical supply companies
that his hospital in particular has a contract with, and
they have certain specialty products that they can only get
from this particular company that was compromised by a cyber
attack from Iran. Right, so Iran is fighting back. I
don't want to say they're week. These guys specialize in propaganda,
which is, you know, lying on TV and on the internet,
in the media and cyber this is what they do,
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cyber warfare, and Wall Street journals reporting that they're getting
support material support from Russia. I know that Marco Rubio
is meeting with Sergei Lavrov and the guy who's been
with the Ayatola from day one, the Foreign Minister, although
I think he might have been killed. But all that aside,
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this report from the Wall Street Journal is very interesting.
I'm going to see if I can get one of
my military people to come on and kind of walk
me through it. But Wall Street Journal here says March seventeenth,
four o'clock in the afternoon, Russia has been expanding its
intelligence sharing and military cooperation with Iran, providing satellite imagery
and improved drone technology to aid Tehran's targeting of US
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forces in the region. Russia is trying to keep its
closest Middle Eastern partner in the fight against the US
and Israel military might, and they want to prolong this
war because it benefits Russia militarily and economically. The technology
provided includes components of modified Shaheed drones, which are meant
in proof, communications, navigation, and targeting as well as you know,
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everything else they're wreaking havoc on. Russia has also been
drawing on its experience using drones in Ukraine, offering tactical
guidance on how many drones should be used in operations
and what altitudes they should strike from, which included a
senior European intelligence officer. So how about that. Russia has
also been providing iron with the locations of US military
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forces in the Middle East, as well of those of
the regional allies you know, the once from Middle East.
This is all being reported by the Wall Street Journal. Now,
by the way, this information here is coming from two people,
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an officer within the military there and a Middle Eastern diplomat,
at least according to the Wall Street Journal, and they're
saying that this is similar to the intel legence that
and the assistance that the United States and the European
Union are giving to Ukraine in recent years, whether it's
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satellite imagery, etc. Etc. Now, part of what they targeted,
according to this article, is that the Russians gave Iran
information on how and where to strike US radar systems
in the region, which is why they're striking places in
other countries. For example, we have something called what are
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these things called here, They're called pad THAAD stands for
Thermal high Altitude Area Defense, and we have these systems
in Jordan as well as Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman, and
Iran has been targeting those with the information provided to
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them by the Russians. According to the Wall Street Journal,
the Kremlin did not respond to request for comment on this.
Looks like they haven't confirmed it. And I don't know
the outcome of the conversation between Secretary Rubio and Secretary
Minister Lavrov from Russia and his counterpart from Iran, but
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suffice it to say, I think that everybody's a double
agent here, right. I'm sure Russia is there saying we
have very interested in seeing a very quick, expeditious end
to this conflict. We don't like it. And at the
same time, you know, he's wink wink non non to
his friends in Iran.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
He's like, by the way, the Americans over here, do
you hang a left, you go down the block, you
go over here they have bunk or buster or bom.
Be careful, don't be you know, don't get in their face,
don't let them know that type of thing. Of course,
I'm oversimplifying here with my Dracula accent. It's the best
Russian I could come up with. But point is, does
this bring us to a new level of escalation? Does
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this bring us to a.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Place where, I don't know where we say, hey, Russia,
we're gonna do this too. I don't think so. I
think Russia's got too much other stuff going on for
us to really get in their face. And quite frankly,
why pick another fight? Right? And I think that's the point.
But of course the media will skewer Trump saying, oh,
of course he's gonna go. He's not gonna do whatever.
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He's Putent's puppet, he's this, that and the other, because
that's what they do. Everybody's always making up stories. Now
there's another story here I want to get to that
I saw in the post. Not a story. There was
a commentary that I thought was very very interesting, which
was let me just see here. Okay, this is a
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commentary by I don't want to miss up the name here. No,
that's not the one. I guess I screwed this up. Well,
it was a really good editorial that I saw here
by Martin Gurry and very very very well put. I'm
not going to read all of it to you, but
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it was I think well said. He says. At the
start of his second term, President Trump surveyed slowly the
rotting swamp that was the post Cold War landscape, and
he did not like what he saw. He's determined to
scour clean of dangerous attachments, conditions, and as we do regimes,
the President considers to be a legacy of past American weakness.
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His ultimate objective a world open for business that realistically
reflects the preponderance of American economic military power. That's I
think quite true. The economic power in the military power
of the United States wields is considerable. And I think
he's reminding everyone, and that is the big stick that
he's carrying. In this case, he had to use the
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big stick on her own. Hopefully we don't have to
use it again. I think that's you've got to be
willing to use it, right, And that's that's why I
admire President Trump. He is truly a pacifist, never wants
to get the conflict unless they really force his hand.
And when I say they, I don't meant in Yahoo,
in these rallies, I mean the bad guys right in
this case Iran not relenting, saying yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
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yeah yeah. Obviously, if they have the ability to take
a shot, they're gonna take it. You can't wait till
they have The weapon is up there. The threat is imminent.
It's too late at that point. Anyway, towards the goal,
he stormed the world with disruptive force, the force of
a Category five hurricane. This war with Iron is only
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a moment in Trump's geopolitical pilgrims process. It was preceded
by aggressive moves against China, Panama, Greenland, Gaza, Mexico, and Venezuela.
It will be followed by a setting of the family
business with Cuba settling excuse me. America's global priorities have
been radically rebalanced. NATO allies have been told to pick
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up their burden if they wish to see the US
stick around. Meanwhile, Latin America, long treated like a poor
looms large in the administration's thinking. The world will not
be the same. The recent Shield of the America's Summit,
held in Ralph, Florida, brought together a dozen elected leaders
from this hemisphere who have defied history by openly proclaiming
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themselves as pro American. Some like Argentina's Xavier Malay or
El Salvadors Nay Bukeli sound decidedly pro Trump, and mister
Gury says he has no idea whether the President's hard
charging strategy will succeed, but he says this with confidence.
The world will never be the same. An avalanche of
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events has been set loose and it cannot easily be stopped.
Relations that were based on the pretense of order have
been swept away and replaced by chaotic scrambles for security.
I think I disagree with that statement. I think these
pretenses that once existed, or dare I say, pretexts of security,
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we're nothing more than the honor amongst thieves, a gentleman's
agreement amongst those that were in the elite that were corrupt. Right,
the wink wink and the nod nod of Joe Biden
to his friends in Ukraine to do business as usual,
the same thing Obama. Obama saying we're going to be refunding.
Let me be clear, We're gonna be refunding the Iranians.
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There the money we've sanctioned them right by giving them
literally the money back in cash. Number one, why sanction
them if you're gonna give the money back, that's a question.
Number two, why do it in actual cash paper that
you had to put on an airplane, an airplane so
large that you couldn't fit any more money on this thing.
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It's bizarre, right, it's bizarre. We're talking about the United
States government. They could have easily just sent the money
back in a transfer, but no, they didn't do that.
They decided to do it with palettes of cash. This
sounds like a drug deal. I'm not saying it was
a drug deal. I'm just saying it sounds like a
drug deal. Called it a prisoner exchange. They called it
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a refund on sanctions. To me, this was Obama saying, hey,
here you go, Poal, get that nuke, do whatever it
is you gotta do, right, I'm not getting in your way.
They tried to call it the JCPOA. Trump put an
end to that, Thank goodness. But let me tell you
just so many bad decisions from Obama to Biden and
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now here we are so President Trump. But by the way,
I never wished everybody a happy saint Patrick's Day. I
was supposed to start with that. Forgive me, forgive me,
Happy Saint Patty's Day to everybody. I will do that.
We'll talk about the Prime Minister of Ireland who goes
by the title of t Shuck. The t Shuck of
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Ireland is what they call the Prime Minister. He was
in the oval office of President Trump. We will get
into that erin go brag top of the morning to
you all of that fun stuff. Will do that in
the next segment, my friends. But to finish off and
try to continue it with my lucky charms accent here
talking about trumpes. Trump is changing the world order of things.
He's changing the way you do everything you see because
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President Trump, he's like a hurricane category five, like this
gentleman from the New York Post is. But he's doing
it for the good. He's doing it to put the
United States in a position of strength. He's doing it
to make sure. I don't know why I'm talking in
this accident. It doesn't add any value, but it's kind
of fun. But in reality, this whole international situation that
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we find our citizen, this reevaluation of the United States
global currency. And I don't mean the currency we spend,
I mean, the currency we have as Americans is being reevaluated,
our positioning of strength. This is where we need to be.
This is where we should shout erin go Bragg because
at the end of this rainbow there certainly is a
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pot of old, even if it's in bitcoin. Don't go anywhere.
I'm Rich Valdez.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
This is America, this is America.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
President vanalche Trump, mister President, welcome to the program.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Sir well, thank you, Rich, and thank you for everything.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
I know you very well, and I have I listen,
but I have a lot of people that listen and
they love your show, and I appreciate it very much.
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All right, amigo's welcome back. It's Rich Valdes. I went
a little long there and I got stuck in my
in my Irish accent, which occasionally can become like a
Scottish accent, like a missus doubt fire. But anyway, I digress.
The reason I'm just so scatterbrained it's called adhd, so
forgive me. But I want to talk about the Prime
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Minister's visit because there's so many things that President Trump
spoke about in that visit that have to do with
what's happening right now. There's two things I want to
share with you. Number one is another big breaking news
item from today that I will get you. Let me see.
Let me see here there it is Boom. I'm trying
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to these names, they all blend in together. Ali Larijani,
secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, has been killed.
That's according to the Fars News agency, sixty seven years old.
Widely seen as the Islamic Republic of Iran's second in command,
with the official serving as the de facto ruler after
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I had totally come in. He was killed on the
twenty eighth. He was killed today. He's also the tyrant
in charge of killing people who decided to go to
the streets and say we don't like what Iran is doing.
The government of Ironda Malla's he's that guy. Those thirty
thousand people that were killed for protesting, this is him.
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The Israeli Ministry Defense confirmed that one of their strikes
hit Larajani early today Tuesday morning, with an overnight strike
in Tehran that also killed General golam Reza Solemani, the
head of the Revolutionary Guards all Volunteer Bassiege Force Bassiege
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is the name of their elite fighters. Larijani and the
Bassige commander were eliminated last night. Again, that's a separate
General Solomoni, not the General Solomoni from before. Defense Minister
Israel Katz said in a statement that was released the
head of the annihilation program along with those eliminated from
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the Axis of Evil and the depths of Hell was
what he said in his quote. You gotta love those guys.
Iranian state media did not immediately confirm the death and
had published a handwritten note by Larijani commemorating sailors that
were killed in the US at whose funeral was expected
today as well. The latest statement from Iranian media confirms
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the latest killing of the top leaders of war with
the US and Israel. Along with Khamani and Larijani, the
war has also claimed the life of Ali Shamkhani, he's
the head of Iran's National Defense Council, and Mohammed Pakpour,
he's the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. That's
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a big deal. Lara Jhani's death came after he threatened
President Trump last week, telling the president watch out for
yourself lest you be eliminated. Lara Jhani was among the
ten Islamic Republic officials who had a ten million dollar
mounty placed on his head Friday by Secretary Marco Rubio.
So again, another one bites the dust, One more dead terrorist.
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All I could say is great job by the US
dropping that five thousand pound bunker buster bomb today on
their secret missile facility near the Strait of Hormuz. It
sounds like we have a good strategy going on there,
and it's a little bit of door to door clean
up in Aisle twelve, and we'll be out of there
soon enough. I don't mean to trivialize this. I realize
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this costs lives and blood and money, but I realize
that this is going to last, in my opinion, for
a generation, for a generation where we will have peace
and economic prosperity. Of course, things can go south. We
can have Vietnam, we can have Iraq, we can have Afghanistan.
But I think nobody's looking for the twenty Year War
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and the way President Trump has been conducting his warfare,
which has largely been with the idea of winning in mind.
We've done just that. Remember previous foreign policy and previous
military intervention wasn't done with the goal of winning. It
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was done with the goal of prolonged military action. Let's
expend more bombs, spend more money, create more things, more rules,
take away more freedom. Trump's never been about those things.
He's using this military action because it's necessary, and kudos
to him for doing it. So rip Sir, mister Lara,
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Johnny and General Solomoni Part two. They're both dead. Now
I want to get into some other interesting news, not
only from the t shuck the Prime Minister of Ireland
sitting with President Trump in the Oval Office today, but
also some of the topics they discussed were related to
a guy named Joe Kent. Now, Joe Kent is a
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Green Beret who served this country, and I have no
reason to believe that his military service was anything other
than honorable. Joe Kent is someone that was nominated to
this administration by the Resident to serve in the National
Office of Counter Terrorism as its director, and yesterday he
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said he'd resigned because he will not fight Israel's war. Now,
I don't know if his friendship with those in what
Mangino calls the black Pillars or Levin calls the woke
reich r eih or I just call them malcontent populists
because that's in effect what they are. And listen, the
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propaganda's real. If it wasn't for the fact that I've
always believed the stuff I believed, I think had I
not had conviction, some of this propaganda would have gotten
me the way it's gotten a lot of other people.
You've got some people that are totally convinced that the
United States is running some sort of undercover sting operation
being run by the military, and that all the bad
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guys are being brought to justice by way of death.
And none of us know what's going on unless you're
part of a secret society of researchers called Digital Soldiers.
And then a guy named Q and another guy named
Q plus these guys are the guys that give the
cryptic messaging on Twitter and used to be on four Chan,
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and they are the enlightened ones. And the fact that
we see Hillary Clinton or anybody else out there, they
say these are clones, body doubles. These are not the
real people because those people were quote put down end
quote because of their crimes against humanity. Yeah, I know,
so I don't believe a word of that, but I
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do know that a lot of people believe that, and
the same way people believe that, people believe now that
somehow every bad thing that occurs in the world is
because of its rue. Now I'm gonna say something controversial.
I think there might be bad Israelis. I think there
might be bad Jews. I think there might be bad Americans,
and I think there might be bad Christians. I believe
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there might be bad Muslims that might think there might
be good Muslim Evil knows no nationality. Evil is evil.
But I will say this, when you look at what's
going on in life, right we talked about these attacks
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last week in New York City. Every single last one
of those attacks that happened last week, whether it was
Old Dominion, the bomb number one outside Gracy Mansion in
New York City, bomb number two outside Gracy Mansion, two
different guys on a plane, all of that happened in
the last seven days. All of that stuff that happened,
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every single one of those instances, somebody shouted a la
u akbar. I am not here to discredit or begrudge
any Muslim. It's not my purpose. I respect you do
your thing because I do believe that there are people
many that are of the Muslim faith that are respectable,
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good kind people. I've known them in my life. I
also believe that you have people that are like the
Blind Shake from Jersey City. You have lots of people
that are co opting the faith their faith that have
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taken a more radical, extremist view of scriptures. Right there
are Christian scriptures that say that the violent taketh by force. Now,
is this a command from Christ that we go out
there and all become crusaders? I certainly don't believe that.
I believe that's what the grand differentiator in the Christian
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faith versus any other is that Christ is love is
that he says turn the other cheek. He doesn't call
us to be Peter and go cut the guy's ear off.
In fact, he chastises Peter for that. He calls on
us to do what he did, to live like he did,
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to let the dead bury the dead, let tomorrow worry
about itself, to take up your cross and follow him.
So I realize that it's our human nature that doesn't
want to be that level of enlightened where we can
say I will not take vengeance on you, I'll let
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the Lord take vengeance on you. That takes a lot
out of it, takes the fun out of it. Right,
you don't get to get angry. You have to forgive.
But before we get onto my spiritual soapbox, my point
here is that there are people out there, bad people
that are looking to do very, very bad things in
this world. Right. That's a quote from Kamala Harris. I
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think I'm kidding, I'm oversimplifying for the purpose of making
this point that with the good comes to bad. But
by and large, we've been fighting the same kind the bad,
and that's why it's important to take that bad out.
And I think we're doing that, right. I think we're
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going after the most radical elements, with Iran being the
funder of those things, through Hamas, through Hesbo Lah and
through the Houthis. Now. Interestingly, these same people here, the
Houthis Hamas and whatever. Some people gathered in New York
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City over the weekend. And who were they praising, who
were they cheering on? None other than those people. I mean,
this is some of that stuff that you just you
really can't make this stuff up. Now, it's kind of
a lengthy clip. I don't want to play too much
of it. But I want you to hear a little
bit of this where people start, you know, supporting hezbolah,
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we support hesbe Lah here, we support Hamas here. It's
what they're saying. Listen to this, glare. I think you've
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heard enough, right. These people are masked, not all of them,
just the ones doing the shouting, masked with a kafia
wrapped around their face and their head. They don't look
Middle Eastern. They look white. And again, you can be
as white as you want. I'm just saying, this is
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not somebody that I'm going to believe. If they tell
me that that their grandmother and that their lineage has
been chased off of their land in in the Gaza strip,
I'm not going to believe them. Not that I would
you say that white people can't have that type of lineage,
But it doesn't seem like it makes sense. I'm looking
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at this crowd here. It's a bunch of Middle Eastern
looking people at this rally. None of them have their
face covered. One woman's holding a picture of Ayatola comny
ah many excuse me. But the ones doing the shouting
in the middle, inciting the rest of them holding the flags,
they're the ones that are masked, and it makes you wonder,
why why are they masked? What is going on here?
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Why do we have in New York City? This stuff
literally happened right outside of our studio forty seventh Street
in Broadway, started on thirty fourth in Broadway, and they
walked their way up in the Alcudes March. This happened
just this weekend. This is wild to me because this is,
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in my opinion, beyond freedom of speech. During the Civil War,
Right America was at war with itself against General Lee
Right and the pseudo president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis,
and under the law, President Lincoln got those that were
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colluding with the enemy, people that were publishing pamphlets, people
that were running newspapers to spread the message of the enemy.
They were imprisoned and they were shut down. That was
legal during the time of war. Now some people say, wow, Rich,
you're a real authoritarian. You want Trump to put everybody
into No, I'm just saying we are at war right now,
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whether or on, whether it's been declared or not. Right
there's a military operation and hopefully we'll be out of
there soon. These people are killing American soldiers. They've been
killing us for years. Right, Let's never forget what happened
in Beirut. Was that two hundred and eighteen soldiers And
forgive me if I messed up that number in their sleep,
slaughtered by his bilot at the hands and the funding
of the Iranians twa airline hygiene. I forget how many
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hosage is there, but plenty for more than four hundred
days in captivity all Iran So these people actively kill
Americans and they shout death to America. So you have
these people and now they're claiming free speech rights. I
would argue, this to me seems like some sort of
involvement with the enemy. This shouldn't be allowed. You can
want to talk about your Bible, talk about your Quran,
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talk about whatever you want. But to sit here and
say we support Hasbola here, we support Hamas here, that
to me, I believe is material support for terrorism. It
should be questioned at the very least right that to
me doesn't fall in the realm of free speech. Now
if I'm wrong, and the courts can decide that, but
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to just turn a blind eye. Now somebody's saying rich,
this is I mean, this is really rich coming from you,
because you're the same guy that gets mad when they're
harassing people for praying in the UK. These people aren't praying,
they're saying they support people that we're at war with.
We all know there are limitations on things. Don Lemon
tried to say the same thing. And guess what we
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found out yesterday that all thirty nine of those guys
in that attack that I should say that protest if
you will on that church in Minneapolis, they were all arrested.
So anyway, I just wanted you to hear this because
I thought this was really really rich and interesting to
see what's happening in my part of the world right
with the Muslim mayor that's got guys in there that
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are these same people supportive of what's going on. Does
that mean that I don't like Muslims? Does that mean
that we are anti Muslim? No, that means we are
anti terrorists, and they're not one and the same. But
people that are terrorist sympathizers whatever you're listen, I'm an
equal opportunity hater here right. The people that sympathize with
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the Puerto Rican terrorists, I don't like them either. And
you've heard me talk about that dozens of times over
the years. Right, the people that support Lolita Lebron as
a hero, No senyor I don't believe that to be
the case at all. Anyway, I mean goes. I'm gonna
pause right here. We're gonna come right back. We're gonna
continue our conversation. I've got a bunch of stuff that
(34:10):
i want to get through, and I'm really gonna try
and get through it. We've got my trip to overseas.
I mentioned that yesterday. I'll give you a little bit
more info on that when we come back as well.
We also have, oh this Utah mom, a bunch of
a couple of legal cases. I guess we'll call it
our true crime segment. By the way, I haven't heard
from anybody on a dear Richie topic. If you guys
don't send me one, I'm gonna have to pick one.
Hopefully it's as funny as what you guys come up with. Anyway,
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keep it locked right here. I am Rich Valdez. More
to come straight at.
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Thanks, Rich.
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The honor is all yours, Conservative talk with a dash
of sofrito. Now here's Rich Valdez. All right, he goes,
Welcome back, Rich Valdez, here with you keeping your company
this evening, Tuesday night, eight seven seven. Valdez one is
the phone number. And I want to get into President
Trump's conversation in the Oval Office with Michael Martin. Michael
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Martin is the t shuck the Prime Minister of or
is it mkill mkill Martin, Prime Minister of Ireland and
President Trump weighing in on this guy Joe Kent. Now,
I have a clip on Joe Kent, and I want
to play before I get into that stuff. I went
off on a tangent there right, I was talking of
all sorts of things, and I went into all sorts
of things, but I started with Joe Kent in the
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last segment then, and I'm gonna continue with Joe Kent
right here now. Joe Kent. Sean Ryan, my former colleague
from Westwood One who has an amazing podcast. He was
on a show when I don't know last year, the
year before. He does an amazing job. He had mister
Kent on his show back in two thousand and four,
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and here's what mister Kent had to say back then
about Iran. Right, so it seems like his position has
changed a little bit. But listen to this.
Speaker 7 (36:21):
They're still registering for the draft, aren't they. Like that's
that's the logical conclusion to the direction that we're heading
in right now, unless we make some serious changes.
Speaker 8 (36:28):
I mean, it's already I've already heard rumors that Fifth
Group is going to be sending guys to Iraq because
of the escalated situation with Iran.
Speaker 7 (36:40):
Now, yeah, I mean most Americans aren'tren't aware of it.
We've our troops in Iraq and Syria have been attacked
one hundred and fifty plus times by Iranian proxies. And
when we say Iranian proxies, we've got to be clear
on what that is. That's the Iraqi government that we pay.
Because after the Iraqi military we spent two trillion on
surrendered to ISIS, we had to go back in there
in very short order stand a military back up again.
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And guess who filled the breach. The Shia militious controlled
by Iran did. And the Iraqi government's controlled by Iran.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
So these are so there, he is giving you his
geopolitical analysis, which I don't necessarily disagree with. What I
disagree with is his decision to resign, saying that we're
fighting Israel's war and that he's not, you know, in
effect saying he doesn't want to take he's bought into
this kool aid. Right, And all of a sudden, now
everybody is a geopolitical expert. APAC is in charge, and
(37:29):
Yahoo's in charge, and I just find it laughable, right,
because I notice things. Right. One of the things I
notice is I meet people from the Dominican Republic, I
meet people from Ireland, from UK, from everywhere, right, and
many of them will talk about, oh, you know, because
I have dual citizenship, I can I can go here,
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or you know, my kids can go to college for whatever.
And most people typically just say, oh, cool, good for you.
It's nice that you're into your culture. Yeah, that's nice. Honestly,
that's what most people say most, maybe not you, but most.
If you are a Jew and you say, oh, yeah,
I have a dual citizenship, right away the flags go
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up and think, oh, so you must have dual loyalties.
I've never heard somebody question anybody's loyalty for being a
European citizen. For some Italian person saying I want to
be a citizen of Italy. I've never heard this in
my life. Only when you are a dual citizen with
israel Is your dual loyalties question, ask yourself, why is
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it because somehow the Israelis have done something bad to
the United States. I asked somebody that the other day
and he looked at me and he said, yes, Epstein.
Epstein was bad for the entire world, not just the
United States. And I don't know that it's conclusive that
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this is an Israeli intelligence thing. I think he was
kind of a broker for multiple intelligence agencies. As by
the way, many people in prostitution and trafficking are. They
get information. As they get the information, they use it
as leverage and blackmail. Everybody wants this information anyway. Not
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justifying Evestein in anyway, I'm just saying that's a thing,
that's how do you think you have places like New
York City, for example, There's this whole place in Queens
where the entire time I've been alive, everybody's known that
on Roosevelt Avenue. They call it Chicas they literally stand
outside the way the men stand outside in Vegas giving
out flyers, they stand out on the streets giving out
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flyers there. And I've heard that ever since AOC took
over in the last six seven years, they don't even
give out the flyers anymore. They just bring the whores,
the excuse me, the prostitutes, these sex workers outside the
illegal brothels, and they just hang out in the streets
advertising their services, kind of like Hunt's point in the Bronx, which,
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if I'm not mistaken, is another part of AOC's district.
But anyway, she's not the point of this. The point
of this is what was the point of this? I
got so much going on here anyway, Joe Kent is
really where I'm at, and Iran and all of this stuff,
and to circle it all back, this is just a
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remarkable pivot because he's sipped the kool aid that somehow
the Jews are bad and this is the Jews War.
And this has been a hardcore drum beat just they
keep hitting it, they keep hitting it, and some prominent
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conservatives have bought into this. Many some not prominent conservatives
have bought into this, and this is a real rift right,
and it typically. I mean, I wish I could say
that I knew somebody who said this and meant it.
I don't have a problem with chows. I just have
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a problem with Israel influencing so much of our foreign policy.
I really wish that were a legitimate argument that someone
would make. However, it's never followed up with any serious
question about people having foreign policy concerns or lobbying concerns.
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It's always followed up with they control Hollywood, they control banking.
Who cares? Who controls what?
Speaker 2 (41:41):
Is?
Speaker 1 (41:41):
Really?
Speaker 3 (41:41):
That's my question? Who cares? If you want to control it,
make an effort to control it. And to me, this
is how it works, right if somebody's working hard to
gain influence in a certain area. China, for example, China
has worked extraordinarily hard to have influence in the United
States government and on our culture. They went out of
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their way to create this thing called TikTok so that
our American youth could be corrupted by it. If you
don't like it, then you should try and stop it.
I believe that you're gonna blame that on the Mosad.
You're gonna blame that on dual citizenship. This is what
I mean. People they pick these fights, but they're not
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really fighting because really what they want to say is
I don't like Jews, and they want to couch that
in some sort of political babble. And now it's all
coming home. You've got a lot of people that are
just saying a lot of things to the point where
they're because of their doubling down, they're now defending the Iyahtolah, right,
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they're defending They're like, no, no, listen, listen Iran. This guy
just told you how bad Iran was. Joe Kent. He
just said that we were attacked one hundred and fifty
times by them in their proxies. And guess what, he's
quitting the Green Beret with the honorable discharge a patriot.
So what I'd like to believe he is is giving
up on this war. He's giving up on defending his
country as the director of the Office of Counter Terrorism.
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Why because he says this is not his fight. So
his disdain for the Jews, his disdain for Apak, his
disdain for IDF, for Israel, or whatever he chooses to
have disdain over or with, is greater than defending the
Americans that were attacked one hundred and fifty times as
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of that recording, which was in twenty twenty four. Let
that sink in for a second. So President Trump weighed
in on this guy not being around anymore on his resignation,
and I think he was pretty spot on on this.
He Let me just find the right clip here, somebody knows,
(43:52):
tell me in my ear. Here we go, we at
Trump with the Prime Minister of Ireland, Michael Martin saying
it and yeah, there's one two. Let me see, I
think I got three of these. So let's start with
cut number three if we can, and work our way
through here. Because President Trump is the saint here. He's
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very clear on this, and I think it's a good thing.
Check this out.
Speaker 6 (44:17):
Good well, I read it say, but I always thought
he was a nice guy, but I always thought he
was weak on security, very weak on security. I didn't
know him well, but I thought he seemed like a
pretty nice guy. But when I read a statement, I
realized that it's a good thing that he's out. Because
he said that Iran was not a threat. Iran was
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a threat every country. He realized what a threat Iran was.
Speaker 2 (44:44):
The question is whether or not they wanted to do
something about it, and many people, many of the greatest
military scholars, are saying for years that presidents should have
taken out Iran because they wanted a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 3 (44:56):
He wasn't the only one to say that. Mike Johnson,
the Speaker of the House, also waited on this, saying,
I don't even know where this guy Kent is getting
his information from, because Iran not being a threat. I mean,
how do you come up with that one? Check this out.
I'm on the Gang of Eight. I got all the briefings.
Speaker 9 (45:12):
We all understood there was clearly an imminent threat, that
Iran was very close to the enrichment of nuclear capability,
and they were building missiles at a pace that no
one in the region could keep up with.
Speaker 3 (45:24):
They were far outpacing.
Speaker 9 (45:27):
Our allies and friends in US in our defense capability
because we had personnel installations, members of the armed services
and civilians in the region. Iran was building up ballistic
missiles at such a rapid pace, and we knew that
their plan was to fire them upon Americans. The Commander
in Chief and his administration had a very difficult decision
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to make. I don't know where Joe Kent is getting
his information, but he wasn't in those briefings, clearly because
the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, and everyone,
the Joint chiefs of Staff, General Cain, they had exquisite
intelligence and we understood that this was a serious moment
for us. Had the President waited, I am personally convinced
that we would have mass casualties of Americans, service members
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and others, and our installations would have been dramatically damaged.
And so we had to The President felt that he
had to strike first to prevent those mass casualties.
Speaker 3 (46:23):
Listen, I get it. I realize people don't like war.
It's not a popular thing unless you're me, right, I
tend to favor the quicker road to getting things resolved,
and I realized that sometimes saying hey, let's sit down
and talk about this, that's never worked for me in
my whole life. Maybe it's my lack of I don't know,
(46:46):
long term vision or something, but I rarely when you
have people that disagree on things, it's not like if
you sit down and talk for some extended period of time,
all of a sudden you're going to agree on those things. Now,
it's true that there might be misunderstand in life. But
this is not a misunderstanding. Iraq wants I mean Iran
wants to kill Americans. They shouted from the tops of
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their lungs. They have put an active hit on the
president of the United States. What else do we need.
We blew up a mountain where they were making their
uranium and Richmond stuff, and they keep going and they
said it, we will be back for more. We will
not be deterred. Now I get it. What would I say?
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I'd probably say the same thing if I was the Ayatola.
I'm not gonna take it lying down. I'm gonna tell
Trump the way it is, all right, So, hey, you
chose that route. He had the option of saying, look,
Iran just wants to exist peaceably with everyone else. And
we know they could have tried that, but they didn't.
(47:56):
They pretended to start negotiating. They pretended to let's talk
about a potential piece plan. Let's see if let's go,
let's go to the table. Right. They did all that,
and in the midst of all that, they got the
intelligence saying, the longer you wait and play nice with
these guys, they're gonna come right back and build this
stuff up. So what are you supposed to do sit
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there and be a Bendel and be like, all right, well,
let me give them the benefit of the debt you have.
There's no more benefit of doubt. They want to kill you,
they want to kill me, they want to kill my children.
I think I'm gonna feel bad about killing you first. Sorry,
So Joe can't. I think he's a victim of too
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much of a certain program and not this one. I
think he's somebody that just sipped that that. Like I said,
like Glivid calls it the woke Reich kool aid. He
took the black pill. He's now a malcontent populist. And
these populists are going to be our undoing because ultimately
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that isolationist mentality that is America only, not just America first,
but America only. Let the Chinese figure out their stuff,
let the Russians do what they want, Let the Ukraine,
and that's when it really this is the height of
this started. Then That's why I blame the Russians oftentimes
for this, and their friends in Iran and China, because
they all have the same mission here. But it really
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started with oh, just just let the Ukrainians fight with
the Russians. They're like, this is like sibling rivalry. It's
like two brothers. Let him fight it out. The United
States shouldn't get involved. Now. When Trump said, you know,
if I were president, this never would happen, he's right.
And had it happened, he would have been able to
contain this very quickly. But most importantly, it would not
have happened. Even Putin said that this wouldn't have happened
(49:40):
if Trump was around. Why Because Trump brought a sense
of order and seriousness to the Oval office. Biden and
his weakness, they took us as a joke. So here
we are, and now we have Americans that, in my opinion,
erroneously believe that we just have to sit back and
let everybody else kill each other. And somehow they're not
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all going to gang up and come kill us. As
long as you know, you know, we just give our
guns away, right, it's like a gun buy back program.
Of course they won't say that. They'll say no, no, no,
As long as I got my guns in my house
and we got our nukes, we're good. But that's not true.
You just heard this guy say in twenty twenty four,
we were attacked one hundred and fifty times. I know
(50:23):
that we have more than two hundred soldiers that have
traumatic brain injuries because of those attacks. You're gonna tell
me they took it easy, that they didn't advance on us,
that every last cyber attack doesn't have something to do
with it. Ron I would suggest that it does. I'm
not buying it. So Joe Kent not away though, right.
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I don't know you, and I appreciate your service, but
I think you're wrong on this one, my friend. I
really do. And it's a shame to see you go.
And there's all these questions about leaking information, maybe even
to mister Carlson. Again, these are questions people are asking
on the internet. These are not allegations that I'm making
or that others have made. But I've seen plenty of
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people asking a lot of questions as of late, saying
did he resign because he knew he was going to
get called to the carpet for sharing information with some
of his friends in the woke Reich. I don't know,
but I think we're gonna find out soon enough. Anyway.
I mean, he goes morning comes straight ahead and went
long on this segment as well. I got lots to
say before I take off a couple of days to
(51:30):
head overseas. So bear with me, coming right back, don't
go anywhere. I'm Rich Valdez.
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This is America. This is America. He's making podcasting great again.
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All right, Ibi gooes, Welcome back, Rich Valdez, keeping your
company here. I am Valdez with an S. And let's see.
We've got another six seven minutes together, probably enough time
to get through one of these crazy legal stories I
wanted to get through, because man, let me tell you,
(52:24):
this was a wild story. Let me see if I
could find this one here. Let me see, bear with
me here, because this is I mean, there's so many
of them that I wanted to do them all together
in like one good, chunky segment that had to do
with crazy legal stories. But I'll give you this and
(52:44):
we'll end on a positive note, and we will we
will kind of regroup on this tomorrow. But this one here,
if we can get this right, this is a story
about a woman who shot someone. And I gotta say,
(53:09):
you listened to this, and you tell me what you
think of.
Speaker 10 (53:11):
An admitted killer. Police say, eighteen year old ala Chan
Torres confessed to shooting a man at least ten times,
but investigators says she told them that she did it
because the man had inappropriately touched a five year oldttle girl.
Fox routeen Choice Grant joins a cyb in Memphis tonight.
Troys she had a chance to read through the police
Affidavid about exactly what happened.
Speaker 11 (53:34):
Police say a preliminary examination of the body found about
fourteen shots. Now, I went back to the area where
Rncoon's body was found. It spoke to neighbors. Many of
them told us they don't fault Taurus for what she did.
If Ronconn actually did touch a child.
Speaker 3 (53:51):
Why do you say that I would just shine him
a couple more times.
Speaker 7 (53:58):
Now.
Speaker 11 (53:58):
Taurus is currently in jail and been charged with first
degree murder. Now, coming up at Fox thirteen News at ten,
I'll be back with more details about what tourists did
after she shot Rencon.
Speaker 3 (54:08):
Please so again, that's a report from Fox thirteen. In Memphis,
a woman was arrested after police say she admitted to
shooting and killing a man accused of inappropriately touching a
child just before two am on February twenty sixth An
officer on patrol discovered a man's body lying on the roadway.
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Record state that a medical examiner determined the man had
been shot fourteen times. The victim was later identified as
no Noe like Noel without an L Santigan Frinkon. And
this woman has been arrested for his murder, they're saying,
(54:51):
And my hope is that she gets away with it.
I'm just being frank again, you know, p for me,
call my pastor, wrapped me out. I don't know what
to say, but uh, you know, hey, there's certain things
I think. You just you've got to make it a
very bad consequence. You've got You've got a Al Salvador
(55:15):
today just passed a law for the death penalty or
was it life in prison one or the other for this,
for this exact crime. You touch a little kid, you're
going to jail for life or you could be put
to death. If I'm not mistaken, and if I'm wrong,
I'll fact check myself tomorrow. I just read this story earlier,
and I just I forgot. I knew it was a
(55:36):
severe penalty, and I thought to myself, man, you know what,
sometimes you need that. And when I was a kid,
I remember I think it might have been Governor Cuomo,
not Andrew, but Mario. And maybe it was a different governor,
but I think it was Governor Cuomo that created uh,
that implemented a statewide syntax. And I remember people were
(56:00):
freaking out about it, saying, oh my god, they're going
to raise the cost of booze and cigarettes, you know,
something like twenty five cent or fifty cents on cigarettes
and alcohol something that back then again this was the
nineteen eighties, that was a lot. And I thought to myself, Hey,
(56:22):
why not, right, that's not something you need to live.
If you want to engage in drinking booze and smoking cigarettes,
why not. And they were saying at the time, they
were like, it goes to kids programs and to you know,
to fund the lottery and this and that. And as
a kid, I just thought I liked the idea of
punishing people so they wouldn't engage in their sinful activity,
(56:46):
and not that it's sinful per se to do those things.
But again, as a kid growing up, I saw these
things and they were directly related. The people that smoked,
the people that drank. They weren't the doctors and lawyers
in my neighborhood right, they were just weren't so. I
in my mind as a six seven eight years old,
I associated those things with I'm gonna describe it as
(57:11):
with Loserville right at not being successful in life. Today,
I realized the best whiskey I ever had was my
white uncle. I have a white uncle. My Puerto ricanot
married a white guy, and he introduced me to McAllen
that McAllen eighteen is that it man, stuff is good.
And I realized, hey, you know, everybody can enjoy a
(57:33):
good cigar and a good whiskey or a good bourbon
or whatever you like. Melboock wine is my favorite from Argentina.
Point is, it's not about those things. It's about, you know,
curtailing bad behavior, and that ultimately is not something I
think the government can do on its own. You can
implement all the syntax you want, people are going to
(57:55):
figure out a way to get around those things, whether
getting around the tax or getting around paying for them things.
In general, that's what criminals do, truly mastering oneself and
having self control and doing what's right for the sake
of doing what's right, whether it's because of your belief
in God or your belief in doing good for people
(58:16):
is what will bring us forward as a society, and
doing the exact opposite is what will continue to bring
us down. This is why I always say you got
to stamp for something, because if you stand for nothing,
you'll fall for absolutely anything. And like Sir Edmund Burke said,
the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for
good people like you to sit there and do nothing.
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So do something. Asta labroksima, take care, good night, and
God bless you America. I'm Rich Valdez and this is America.
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This happened at ten I don't know, ten forty six
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when this broke. So this is again brand new breaking
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publications I see reporting this right now. But again, UK
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dropping five thousand pounds bunker buster bombs on the Straight
of Horror Mooze and this is again breaking news. I'll
give you a little bit on this article here. The
massive attack was announced by US Central Command. That came
as the war with Iran has pretty much slowed down
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the all shipping through the Persian Gulf Waterway because of
the lockdown, a gridlock that we're having in the Strait
of Horm Moves. Again, that announcement coming on Twitter again
just a couple hours ago, saying US Force has successfully
employed multiple five thousand pounds deep penetrator munitions on hardened
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the Iranian missile sites along with the Rants coastline near
the Strait of Horm Mooz. And again that's according to
the US Central Command. They went on to say that
the Iranian anti ship cruise missiles in these sites posed
a risk to international shipping in the strait. So that's
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the latest on that. Now, these again from the New
York Post, these massive bombs were developed to overcome these hardened,
deeply buried targets and overcome the challenges and designs were
specifically for a fighter and bomber aircraft. That's according to
the US Air Force press release from a couple of
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years ago. Just give you some stats on how they're
doing it, what they're doing with and this is what's
causing the twenty seven percent increase that we've seen in
barrels of crude oil. So again, yesterday I said, or
even last week, I might have said, another two weeks
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to five weeks or another fourteen to sixty some odd
days before the Strait of Hormuse is open for business.
I think we're well on our way to securing that. Apparently,
these bombs that were taken out in this facility that
they dropped the bunker buster on, there was two hundred
missiles inside this facility. They were hiding them inside a
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bunker inside like on the side of a mountain. So
the last quote on this article here, the US will
continue to rapidly deplete Iron's ability to threaten freedom of
navigation in and around the Strait of Hormuz. That's Admiral
Brad Cooper, commander of US Central Command, and that was
released in a video statement. Our progress remained steady and
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we remain vigilant against the enemy. Thank you, Admiral Cooper,
Thank you El Trompito, Thank you the United States military
and all of our partners from the Middle East that
are joining this effort. This is I think a necessary
thing to have a good forty or fifty years of prosperity. Right,
I'm looking at the next Industrial Revolution. We're going to
call it AI. Right, all sorts of things are going
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to happen. I'm very bullish. I'm very optimistic on what happens,
not just AI, lots of things I think are are
going to happen, because when you have money, things will happen.
When you are able to eradicate a lot of the
nonsense right right now, some of the nonsense we deal
with domestically, is we've been dealing with domestically, have been
high interest rates, artificially inflated home values, things like that,
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where people are they're they're not looking to make a deal.
Make it twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, when El Trompito and
his roaring economy had household incomes up almost seven grand
people were saying, you know, yeah, let's hire that new person.
Why everybody felt bullish on the economy. It felt great.
Interest rates were two percent, one and a half percent,
two and a half percent. People were getting four and
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a half and five percent, three and a half percent,
and they were doing cartwheels. Those people are locked in
on their homes. They're like, hell, no, I'm not going
to sell my house ever where am I going to go?
Good for them? That's how you make the economy roar.
Not what we're doing now. Right now, we're dealing with
some hiccups. Right my buddy, uh when oh shout out
to my boy who he works in supply chain distribution
for a large hospital and explained that there was a
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cyber attack on one of the large surgical supply companies
that his hospital in particular has a contract with, and
they have certain specialty products that they can only get
from this particular company that was compromised by a cyber
attack from Iran. Right, so Iran is fighting back. I
don't want to say they're week. These guys specialize in propaganda,
which is, you know, lying on TV and on the internet,
in the media and cyber this is what they do,
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cyber warfare, and Wall Street journals reporting that they're getting
support material support from Russia. I know that Marco Rubio
is meeting with Sergei Lavrov and the guy who's been
with the Ayatola from day one, the Foreign Minister, although
I think he might have been killed. But all that aside,
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this report from the Wall Street Journal is very interesting.
I'm going to see if I can get one of
my military people to come on and kind of walk
me through it. But Wall Street Journal here says March seventeenth,
four o'clock in the afternoon, Russia has been expanding its
intelligence sharing and military cooperation with Iran, providing satellite imagery
and improved drone technology to aid Tehran's targeting of US
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forces in the region. Russia is trying to keep its
closest Middle Eastern partner in the fight against the US
and Israel military might, and they want to prolong this
war because it benefits Russia militarily and economically. The technology
provided includes components of modified Shaheed drones, which are meant
in proof, communications, navigation, and targeting as well as you know,
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everything else they're wreaking havoc on. Russia has also been
drawing on its experience using drones in Ukraine, offering tactical
guidance on how many drones should be used in operations
and what altitudes they should strike from, which included a
senior European intelligence officer. So how about that. Russia has
also been providing iron with the locations of US military
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forces in the Middle East, as well of those of
the regional allies you know, the once from Middle East.
This is all being reported by the Wall Street Journal. Now,
by the way, this information here is coming from two people,
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an officer within the military there and a Middle Eastern diplomat,
at least according to the Wall Street Journal, and they're
saying that this is similar to the intel legence that
and the assistance that the United States and the European
Union are giving to Ukraine in recent years, whether it's
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satellite imagery, etc. Etc. Now, part of what they targeted,
according to this article, is that the Russians gave Iran
information on how and where to strike US radar systems
in the region, which is why they're striking places in
other countries. For example, we have something called what are
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these things called here, They're called pad THAAD stands for
Thermal high Altitude Area Defense, and we have these systems
in Jordan as well as Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman, and
Iran has been targeting those with the information provided to
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them by the Russians. According to the Wall Street Journal,
the Kremlin did not respond to request for comment on this.
Looks like they haven't confirmed it. And I don't know
the outcome of the conversation between Secretary Rubio and Secretary
Minister Lavrov from Russia and his counterpart from Iran, but
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suffice it to say, I think that everybody's a double
agent here, right. I'm sure Russia is there saying we
have very interested in seeing a very quick, expeditious end
to this conflict. We don't like it. And at the
same time, you know, he's wink wink non non to
his friends in Iran.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
He's like, by the way, the Americans over here, do
you hang a left, you go down the block, you
go over here they have bunk or buster or bom.
Be careful, don't be you know, don't get in their face,
don't let them know that type of thing. Of course,
I'm oversimplifying here with my Dracula accent. It's the best
Russian I could come up with. But point is, does
this bring us to a new level of escalation? Does
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this bring us to a.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Place where, I don't know where we say, hey, Russia,
we're gonna do this too. I don't think so. I
think Russia's got too much other stuff going on for
us to really get in their face. And quite frankly,
why pick another fight? Right? And I think that's the point.
But of course the media will skewer Trump saying, oh,
of course he's gonna go. He's not gonna do whatever.
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He's Putent's puppet, he's this, that and the other, because
that's what they do. Everybody's always making up stories. Now
there's another story here I want to get to that
I saw in the post. Not a story. There was
a commentary that I thought was very very interesting, which
was let me just see here. Okay, this is a
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commentary by I don't want to miss up the name here. No,
that's not the one. I guess I screwed this up. Well,
it was a really good editorial that I saw here
by Martin Gurry and very very very well put. I'm
not going to read all of it to you, but
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it was I think well said. He says. At the
start of his second term, President Trump surveyed slowly the
rotting swamp that was the post Cold War landscape, and
he did not like what he saw. He's determined to
scour clean of dangerous attachments, conditions, and as we do regimes,
the President considers to be a legacy of past American weakness.
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His ultimate objective a world open for business that realistically
reflects the preponderance of American economic military power. That's I
think quite true. The economic power in the military power
of the United States wields is considerable. And I think
he's reminding everyone, and that is the big stick that
he's carrying. In this case, he had to use the
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big stick on her own. Hopefully we don't have to
use it again. I think that's you've got to be
willing to use it, right, And that's that's why I
admire President Trump. He is truly a pacifist, never wants
to get the conflict unless they really force his hand.
And when I say they, I don't meant in Yahoo,
in these rallies, I mean the bad guys right in
this case Iran not relenting, saying yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
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yeah yeah. Obviously, if they have the ability to take
a shot, they're gonna take it. You can't wait till
they have The weapon is up there. The threat is imminent.
It's too late at that point. Anyway, towards the goal,
he stormed the world with disruptive force, the force of
a Category five hurricane. This war with Iron is only
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a moment in Trump's geopolitical pilgrims process. It was preceded
by aggressive moves against China, Panama, Greenland, Gaza, Mexico, and Venezuela.
It will be followed by a setting of the family
business with Cuba settling excuse me. America's global priorities have
been radically rebalanced. NATO allies have been told to pick
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up their burden if they wish to see the US
stick around. Meanwhile, Latin America, long treated like a poor
looms large in the administration's thinking. The world will not
be the same. The recent Shield of the America's Summit,
held in Ralph, Florida, brought together a dozen elected leaders
from this hemisphere who have defied history by openly proclaiming
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themselves as pro American. Some like Argentina's Xavier Malay or
El Salvadors Nay Bukeli sound decidedly pro Trump, and mister
Gury says he has no idea whether the President's hard
charging strategy will succeed, but he says this with confidence.
The world will never be the same. An avalanche of
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events has been set loose and it cannot easily be stopped.
Relations that were based on the pretense of order have
been swept away and replaced by chaotic scrambles for security.
I think I disagree with that statement. I think these
pretenses that once existed, or dare I say, pretexts of security,
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we're nothing more than the honor amongst thieves, a gentleman's
agreement amongst those that were in the elite that were corrupt. Right,
the wink wink and the nod nod of Joe Biden
to his friends in Ukraine to do business as usual,
the same thing Obama. Obama saying we're going to be refunding.
Let me be clear, We're gonna be refunding the Iranians.
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There the money we've sanctioned them right by giving them
literally the money back in cash. Number one, why sanction
them if you're gonna give the money back, that's a question.
Number two, why do it in actual cash paper that
you had to put on an airplane, an airplane so
large that you couldn't fit any more money on this thing.
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It's bizarre, right, it's bizarre. We're talking about the United
States government. They could have easily just sent the money
back in a transfer, but no, they didn't do that.
They decided to do it with palettes of cash. This
sounds like a drug deal. I'm not saying it was
a drug deal. I'm just saying it sounds like a
drug deal. Called it a prisoner exchange. They called it
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a refund on sanctions. To me, this was Obama saying, hey,
here you go, Poal, get that nuke, do whatever it
is you gotta do, right, I'm not getting in your way.
They tried to call it the JCPOA. Trump put an
end to that, Thank goodness. But let me tell you
just so many bad decisions from Obama to Biden and
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now here we are so President Trump. But by the way,
I never wished everybody a happy saint Patrick's Day. I
was supposed to start with that. Forgive me, forgive me,
Happy Saint Patty's Day to everybody. I will do that.
We'll talk about the Prime Minister of Ireland who goes
by the title of t Shuck. The t Shuck of
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Ireland is what they call the Prime Minister. He was
in the oval office of President Trump. We will get
into that erin go brag top of the morning to
you all of that fun stuff. Will do that in
the next segment, my friends. But to finish off and
try to continue it with my lucky charms accent here
talking about trumpes. Trump is changing the world order of things.
He's changing the way you do everything you see because
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President Trump, he's like a hurricane category five, like this
gentleman from the New York Post is. But he's doing
it for the good. He's doing it to put the
United States in a position of strength. He's doing it
to make sure. I don't know why I'm talking in
this accident. It doesn't add any value, but it's kind
of fun. But in reality, this whole international situation that
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we find our citizen, this reevaluation of the United States
global currency. And I don't mean the currency we spend,
I mean, the currency we have as Americans is being reevaluated,
our positioning of strength. This is where we need to be.
This is where we should shout erin go Bragg because
at the end of this rainbow there certainly is a
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pot of old, even if it's in bitcoin. Don't go anywhere.
I'm Rich Valdez.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
This is America, this is America.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
President vanalche Trump, mister President, welcome to the program.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Sir well, thank you, Rich, and thank you for everything.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
I know you very well, and I have I listen,
but I have a lot of people that listen and
they love your show, and I appreciate it very much.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
All right, amigo's welcome back. It's Rich Valdes. I went
a little long there and I got stuck in my
in my Irish accent, which occasionally can become like a
Scottish accent, like a missus doubt fire. But anyway, I digress.
The reason I'm just so scatterbrained it's called adhd, so
forgive me. But I want to talk about the Prime
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Minister's visit because there's so many things that President Trump
spoke about in that visit that have to do with
what's happening right now. There's two things I want to
share with you. Number one is another big breaking news
item from today that I will get you. Let me see.
Let me see here there it is Boom. I'm trying
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to these names, they all blend in together. Ali Larijani,
secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, has been killed.
That's according to the Fars News agency, sixty seven years old.
Widely seen as the Islamic Republic of Iran's second in command,
with the official serving as the de facto ruler after
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I had totally come in. He was killed on the
twenty eighth. He was killed today. He's also the tyrant
in charge of killing people who decided to go to
the streets and say we don't like what Iran is doing.
The government of Ironda Malla's he's that guy. Those thirty
thousand people that were killed for protesting, this is him.
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The Israeli Ministry Defense confirmed that one of their strikes
hit Larajani early today Tuesday morning, with an overnight strike
in Tehran that also killed General golam Reza Solemani, the
head of the Revolutionary Guards all Volunteer Bassiege Force Bassiege
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is the name of their elite fighters. Larijani and the
Bassige commander were eliminated last night. Again, that's a separate
General Solomoni, not the General Solomoni from before. Defense Minister
Israel Katz said in a statement that was released the
head of the annihilation program along with those eliminated from
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the Axis of Evil and the depths of Hell was
what he said in his quote. You gotta love those guys.
Iranian state media did not immediately confirm the death and
had published a handwritten note by Larijani commemorating sailors that
were killed in the US at whose funeral was expected
today as well. The latest statement from Iranian media confirms
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the latest killing of the top leaders of war with
the US and Israel. Along with Khamani and Larijani, the
war has also claimed the life of Ali Shamkhani, he's
the head of Iran's National Defense Council, and Mohammed Pakpour,
he's the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. That's
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a big deal. Lara Jhani's death came after he threatened
President Trump last week, telling the president watch out for
yourself lest you be eliminated. Lara Jhani was among the
ten Islamic Republic officials who had a ten million dollar
mounty placed on his head Friday by Secretary Marco Rubio.
So again, another one bites the dust, One more dead terrorist.
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All I could say is great job by the US
dropping that five thousand pound bunker buster bomb today on
their secret missile facility near the Strait of Hormuz. It
sounds like we have a good strategy going on there,
and it's a little bit of door to door clean
up in Aisle twelve, and we'll be out of there
soon enough. I don't mean to trivialize this. I realize
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this costs lives and blood and money, but I realize
that this is going to last, in my opinion, for
a generation, for a generation where we will have peace
and economic prosperity. Of course, things can go south. We
can have Vietnam, we can have Iraq, we can have Afghanistan.
But I think nobody's looking for the twenty Year War
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and the way President Trump has been conducting his warfare,
which has largely been with the idea of winning in mind.
We've done just that. Remember previous foreign policy and previous
military intervention wasn't done with the goal of winning. It
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was done with the goal of prolonged military action. Let's
expend more bombs, spend more money, create more things, more rules,
take away more freedom. Trump's never been about those things.
He's using this military action because it's necessary, and kudos
to him for doing it. So rip Sir, mister Lara,
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Johnny and General Solomoni Part two. They're both dead. Now
I want to get into some other interesting news, not
only from the t shuck the Prime Minister of Ireland
sitting with President Trump in the Oval Office today, but
also some of the topics they discussed were related to
a guy named Joe Kent. Now, Joe Kent is a
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Green Beret who served this country, and I have no
reason to believe that his military service was anything other
than honorable. Joe Kent is someone that was nominated to
this administration by the Resident to serve in the National
Office of Counter Terrorism as its director, and yesterday he
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said he'd resigned because he will not fight Israel's war. Now,
I don't know if his friendship with those in what
Mangino calls the black Pillars or Levin calls the woke
reich r eih or I just call them malcontent populists
because that's in effect what they are. And listen, the
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propaganda's real. If it wasn't for the fact that I've
always believed the stuff I believed, I think had I
not had conviction, some of this propaganda would have gotten
me the way it's gotten a lot of other people.
You've got some people that are totally convinced that the
United States is running some sort of undercover sting operation
being run by the military, and that all the bad
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guys are being brought to justice by way of death.
And none of us know what's going on unless you're
part of a secret society of researchers called Digital Soldiers.
And then a guy named Q and another guy named
Q plus these guys are the guys that give the
cryptic messaging on Twitter and used to be on four Chan,
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and they are the enlightened ones. And the fact that
we see Hillary Clinton or anybody else out there, they
say these are clones, body doubles. These are not the
real people because those people were quote put down end
quote because of their crimes against humanity. Yeah, I know,
so I don't believe a word of that, but I
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do know that a lot of people believe that, and
the same way people believe that, people believe now that
somehow every bad thing that occurs in the world is
because of its rue. Now I'm gonna say something controversial.
I think there might be bad Israelis. I think there
might be bad Jews. I think there might be bad Americans,
and I think there might be bad Christians. I believe
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there might be bad Muslims that might think there might
be good Muslim Evil knows no nationality. Evil is evil.
But I will say this, when you look at what's
going on in life, right we talked about these attacks
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last week in New York City. Every single last one
of those attacks that happened last week, whether it was
Old Dominion, the bomb number one outside Gracy Mansion in
New York City, bomb number two outside Gracy Mansion, two
different guys on a plane, all of that happened in
the last seven days. All of that stuff that happened,
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every single one of those instances, somebody shouted a la
u akbar. I am not here to discredit or begrudge
any Muslim. It's not my purpose. I respect you do
your thing because I do believe that there are people
many that are of the Muslim faith that are respectable,
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good kind people. I've known them in my life. I
also believe that you have people that are like the
Blind Shake from Jersey City. You have lots of people
that are co opting the faith their faith that have
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taken a more radical, extremist view of scriptures. Right there
are Christian scriptures that say that the violent taketh by force. Now,
is this a command from Christ that we go out
there and all become crusaders? I certainly don't believe that.
I believe that's what the grand differentiator in the Christian
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faith versus any other is that Christ is love is
that he says turn the other cheek. He doesn't call
us to be Peter and go cut the guy's ear off.
In fact, he chastises Peter for that. He calls on
us to do what he did, to live like he did,
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to let the dead bury the dead, let tomorrow worry
about itself, to take up your cross and follow him.
So I realize that it's our human nature that doesn't
want to be that level of enlightened where we can
say I will not take vengeance on you, I'll let
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the Lord take vengeance on you. That takes a lot
out of it, takes the fun out of it. Right,
you don't get to get angry. You have to forgive.
But before we get onto my spiritual soapbox, my point
here is that there are people out there, bad people
that are looking to do very, very bad things in
this world. Right. That's a quote from Kamala Harris. I
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think I'm kidding, I'm oversimplifying for the purpose of making
this point that with the good comes to bad. But
by and large, we've been fighting the same kind the bad,
and that's why it's important to take that bad out.
And I think we're doing that, right. I think we're
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going after the most radical elements, with Iran being the
funder of those things, through Hamas, through Hesbo Lah and
through the Houthis. Now. Interestingly, these same people here, the
Houthis Hamas and whatever. Some people gathered in New York
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City over the weekend. And who were they praising, who
were they cheering on? None other than those people. I mean,
this is some of that stuff that you just you
really can't make this stuff up. Now, it's kind of
a lengthy clip. I don't want to play too much
of it. But I want you to hear a little
bit of this where people start, you know, supporting hezbolah,
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we support hesbe Lah here, we support Hamas here. It's
what they're saying. Listen to this, glare. I think you've
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heard enough, right. These people are masked, not all of them,
just the ones doing the shouting, masked with a kafia
wrapped around their face and their head. They don't look
Middle Eastern. They look white. And again, you can be
as white as you want. I'm just saying, this is
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not somebody that I'm going to believe. If they tell
me that that their grandmother and that their lineage has
been chased off of their land in in the Gaza strip,
I'm not going to believe them. Not that I would
you say that white people can't have that type of lineage,
But it doesn't seem like it makes sense. I'm looking
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at this crowd here. It's a bunch of Middle Eastern
looking people at this rally. None of them have their
face covered. One woman's holding a picture of Ayatola comny
ah many excuse me. But the ones doing the shouting
in the middle, inciting the rest of them holding the flags,
they're the ones that are masked, and it makes you wonder,
why why are they masked? What is going on here?
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Why do we have in New York City? This stuff
literally happened right outside of our studio forty seventh Street
in Broadway, started on thirty fourth in Broadway, and they
walked their way up in the Alcudes March. This happened
just this weekend. This is wild to me because this is,
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in my opinion, beyond freedom of speech. During the Civil War,
Right America was at war with itself against General Lee
Right and the pseudo president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis,
and under the law, President Lincoln got those that were
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colluding with the enemy, people that were publishing pamphlets, people
that were running newspapers to spread the message of the enemy.
They were imprisoned and they were shut down. That was
legal during the time of war. Now some people say, wow, Rich,
you're a real authoritarian. You want Trump to put everybody
into No, I'm just saying we are at war right now,
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whether or on, whether it's been declared or not. Right
there's a military operation and hopefully we'll be out of
there soon. These people are killing American soldiers. They've been
killing us for years. Right, Let's never forget what happened
in Beirut. Was that two hundred and eighteen soldiers And
forgive me if I messed up that number in their sleep,
slaughtered by his bilot at the hands and the funding
of the Iranians twa airline hygiene. I forget how many
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hosage is there, but plenty for more than four hundred
days in captivity all Iran So these people actively kill
Americans and they shout death to America. So you have
these people and now they're claiming free speech rights. I
would argue, this to me seems like some sort of
involvement with the enemy. This shouldn't be allowed. You can
want to talk about your Bible, talk about your Quran,
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talk about whatever you want. But to sit here and
say we support Hasbola here, we support Hamas here, that
to me, I believe is material support for terrorism. It
should be questioned at the very least right that to
me doesn't fall in the realm of free speech. Now
if I'm wrong, and the courts can decide that, but
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to just turn a blind eye. Now somebody's saying rich,
this is I mean, this is really rich coming from you,
because you're the same guy that gets mad when they're
harassing people for praying in the UK. These people aren't praying,
they're saying they support people that we're at war with.
We all know there are limitations on things. Don Lemon
tried to say the same thing. And guess what we
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found out yesterday that all thirty nine of those guys
in that attack that I should say that protest if
you will on that church in Minneapolis, they were all arrested.
So anyway, I just wanted you to hear this because
I thought this was really really rich and interesting to
see what's happening in my part of the world right
with the Muslim mayor that's got guys in there that
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are these same people supportive of what's going on. Does
that mean that I don't like Muslims? Does that mean
that we are anti Muslim? No, that means we are
anti terrorists, and they're not one and the same. But
people that are terrorist sympathizers whatever you're listen, I'm an
equal opportunity hater here right. The people that sympathize with
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the Puerto Rican terrorists, I don't like them either. And
you've heard me talk about that dozens of times over
the years. Right, the people that support Lolita Lebron as
a hero, No senyor I don't believe that to be
the case at all. Anyway, I mean goes. I'm gonna
pause right here. We're gonna come right back. We're gonna
continue our conversation. I've got a bunch of stuff that
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i want to get through, and I'm really gonna try
and get through it. We've got my trip to overseas.
I mentioned that yesterday. I'll give you a little bit
more info on that when we come back as well.
We also have, oh this Utah mom, a bunch of
a couple of legal cases. I guess we'll call it
our true crime segment. By the way, I haven't heard
from anybody on a dear Richie topic. If you guys
don't send me one, I'm gonna have to pick one.
Hopefully it's as funny as what you guys come up with. Anyway,
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of sofrito. Now here's Rich Valdez. All right, he goes,
Welcome back, Rich Valdez, here with you keeping your company
this evening, Tuesday night, eight seven seven. Valdez one is
the phone number. And I want to get into President
Trump's conversation in the Oval Office with Michael Martin. Michael
(35:26):
Martin is the t shuck the Prime Minister of or
is it mkill mkill Martin, Prime Minister of Ireland and
President Trump weighing in on this guy Joe Kent. Now,
I have a clip on Joe Kent, and I want
to play before I get into that stuff. I went
off on a tangent there right, I was talking of
all sorts of things, and I went into all sorts
of things, but I started with Joe Kent in the
(35:48):
last segment then, and I'm gonna continue with Joe Kent
right here now. Joe Kent. Sean Ryan, my former colleague
from Westwood One who has an amazing podcast. He was
on a show when I don't know last year, the
year before. He does an amazing job. He had mister
Kent on his show back in two thousand and four,
(36:11):
and here's what mister Kent had to say back then
about Iran. Right, so it seems like his position has
changed a little bit. But listen to this.
Speaker 7 (36:21):
They're still registering for the draft, aren't they. Like that's
that's the logical conclusion to the direction that we're heading
in right now, unless we make some serious changes.
Speaker 8 (36:28):
I mean, it's already I've already heard rumors that Fifth
Group is going to be sending guys to Iraq because
of the escalated situation with Iran.
Speaker 7 (36:40):
Now, yeah, I mean most Americans aren'tren't aware of it.
We've our troops in Iraq and Syria have been attacked
one hundred and fifty plus times by Iranian proxies. And
when we say Iranian proxies, we've got to be clear
on what that is. That's the Iraqi government that we pay.
Because after the Iraqi military we spent two trillion on
surrendered to ISIS, we had to go back in there
in very short order stand a military back up again.
(37:01):
And guess who filled the breach. The Shia militious controlled
by Iran did. And the Iraqi government's controlled by Iran.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
So these are so there, he is giving you his
geopolitical analysis, which I don't necessarily disagree with. What I
disagree with is his decision to resign, saying that we're
fighting Israel's war and that he's not, you know, in
effect saying he doesn't want to take he's bought into
this kool aid. Right, And all of a sudden, now
everybody is a geopolitical expert. APAC is in charge, and
(37:29):
Yahoo's in charge, and I just find it laughable, right,
because I notice things. Right. One of the things I
notice is I meet people from the Dominican Republic, I
meet people from Ireland, from UK, from everywhere, right, and
many of them will talk about, oh, you know, because
I have dual citizenship, I can I can go here,
(37:53):
or you know, my kids can go to college for whatever.
And most people typically just say, oh, cool, good for you.
It's nice that you're into your culture. Yeah, that's nice. Honestly,
that's what most people say most, maybe not you, but most.
If you are a Jew and you say, oh, yeah,
I have a dual citizenship, right away the flags go
(38:16):
up and think, oh, so you must have dual loyalties.
I've never heard somebody question anybody's loyalty for being a
European citizen. For some Italian person saying I want to
be a citizen of Italy. I've never heard this in
my life. Only when you are a dual citizen with
israel Is your dual loyalties question, ask yourself, why is
(38:42):
it because somehow the Israelis have done something bad to
the United States. I asked somebody that the other day
and he looked at me and he said, yes, Epstein.
Epstein was bad for the entire world, not just the
United States. And I don't know that it's conclusive that
(39:02):
this is an Israeli intelligence thing. I think he was
kind of a broker for multiple intelligence agencies. As by
the way, many people in prostitution and trafficking are. They
get information. As they get the information, they use it
as leverage and blackmail. Everybody wants this information anyway. Not
(39:25):
justifying Evestein in anyway, I'm just saying that's a thing,
that's how do you think you have places like New
York City, for example, There's this whole place in Queens
where the entire time I've been alive, everybody's known that
on Roosevelt Avenue. They call it Chicas they literally stand
outside the way the men stand outside in Vegas giving
out flyers, they stand out on the streets giving out
(39:46):
flyers there. And I've heard that ever since AOC took
over in the last six seven years, they don't even
give out the flyers anymore. They just bring the whores,
the excuse me, the prostitutes, these sex workers outside the
illegal brothels, and they just hang out in the streets
advertising their services, kind of like Hunt's point in the Bronx, which,
(40:10):
if I'm not mistaken, is another part of AOC's district.
But anyway, she's not the point of this. The point
of this is what was the point of this? I
got so much going on here anyway, Joe Kent is
really where I'm at, and Iran and all of this stuff,
and to circle it all back, this is just a
(40:32):
remarkable pivot because he's sipped the kool aid that somehow
the Jews are bad and this is the Jews War.
And this has been a hardcore drum beat just they
keep hitting it, they keep hitting it, and some prominent
(40:54):
conservatives have bought into this. Many some not prominent conservatives
have bought into this, and this is a real rift right,
and it typically. I mean, I wish I could say
that I knew somebody who said this and meant it.
I don't have a problem with chows. I just have
(41:15):
a problem with Israel influencing so much of our foreign policy.
I really wish that were a legitimate argument that someone
would make. However, it's never followed up with any serious
question about people having foreign policy concerns or lobbying concerns.
(41:35):
It's always followed up with they control Hollywood, they control banking.
Who cares? Who controls what?
Speaker 2 (41:41):
Is?
Speaker 1 (41:41):
Really?
Speaker 3 (41:41):
That's my question? Who cares? If you want to control it,
make an effort to control it. And to me, this
is how it works, right if somebody's working hard to
gain influence in a certain area. China, for example, China
has worked extraordinarily hard to have influence in the United
States government and on our culture. They went out of
(42:02):
their way to create this thing called TikTok so that
our American youth could be corrupted by it. If you
don't like it, then you should try and stop it.
I believe that you're gonna blame that on the Mosad.
You're gonna blame that on dual citizenship. This is what
I mean. People they pick these fights, but they're not
(42:24):
really fighting because really what they want to say is
I don't like Jews, and they want to couch that
in some sort of political babble. And now it's all
coming home. You've got a lot of people that are
just saying a lot of things to the point where
they're because of their doubling down, they're now defending the Iyahtolah, right,
(42:45):
they're defending They're like, no, no, listen, listen Iran. This guy
just told you how bad Iran was. Joe Kent. He
just said that we were attacked one hundred and fifty
times by them in their proxies. And guess what, he's
quitting the Green Beret with the honorable discharge a patriot.
So what I'd like to believe he is is giving
up on this war. He's giving up on defending his
country as the director of the Office of Counter Terrorism.
(43:09):
Why because he says this is not his fight. So
his disdain for the Jews, his disdain for Apak, his
disdain for IDF, for Israel, or whatever he chooses to
have disdain over or with, is greater than defending the
Americans that were attacked one hundred and fifty times as
(43:31):
of that recording, which was in twenty twenty four. Let
that sink in for a second. So President Trump weighed
in on this guy not being around anymore on his resignation,
and I think he was pretty spot on on this.
He Let me just find the right clip here, somebody knows,
(43:52):
tell me in my ear. Here we go, we at
Trump with the Prime Minister of Ireland, Michael Martin saying
it and yeah, there's one two. Let me see, I
think I got three of these. So let's start with
cut number three if we can, and work our way
through here. Because President Trump is the saint here. He's
(44:14):
very clear on this, and I think it's a good thing.
Check this out.
Speaker 6 (44:17):
Good well, I read it say, but I always thought
he was a nice guy, but I always thought he
was weak on security, very weak on security. I didn't
know him well, but I thought he seemed like a
pretty nice guy. But when I read a statement, I
realized that it's a good thing that he's out. Because
he said that Iran was not a threat. Iran was
(44:40):
a threat every country. He realized what a threat Iran was.
Speaker 2 (44:44):
The question is whether or not they wanted to do
something about it, and many people, many of the greatest
military scholars, are saying for years that presidents should have
taken out Iran because they wanted a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 3 (44:56):
He wasn't the only one to say that. Mike Johnson,
the Speaker of the House, also waited on this, saying,
I don't even know where this guy Kent is getting
his information from, because Iran not being a threat. I mean,
how do you come up with that one? Check this out.
I'm on the Gang of Eight. I got all the briefings.
Speaker 9 (45:12):
We all understood there was clearly an imminent threat, that
Iran was very close to the enrichment of nuclear capability,
and they were building missiles at a pace that no
one in the region could keep up with.
Speaker 3 (45:24):
They were far outpacing.
Speaker 9 (45:27):
Our allies and friends in US in our defense capability
because we had personnel installations, members of the armed services
and civilians in the region. Iran was building up ballistic
missiles at such a rapid pace, and we knew that
their plan was to fire them upon Americans. The Commander
in Chief and his administration had a very difficult decision
(45:48):
to make. I don't know where Joe Kent is getting
his information, but he wasn't in those briefings, clearly because
the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, and everyone,
the Joint chiefs of Staff, General Cain, they had exquisite
intelligence and we understood that this was a serious moment
for us. Had the President waited, I am personally convinced
that we would have mass casualties of Americans, service members
(46:11):
and others, and our installations would have been dramatically damaged.
And so we had to The President felt that he
had to strike first to prevent those mass casualties.
Speaker 3 (46:23):
Listen, I get it. I realize people don't like war.
It's not a popular thing unless you're me, right, I
tend to favor the quicker road to getting things resolved,
and I realized that sometimes saying hey, let's sit down
and talk about this, that's never worked for me in
my whole life. Maybe it's my lack of I don't know,
(46:46):
long term vision or something, but I rarely when you
have people that disagree on things, it's not like if
you sit down and talk for some extended period of time,
all of a sudden you're going to agree on those things. Now,
it's true that there might be misunderstand in life. But
this is not a misunderstanding. Iraq wants I mean Iran
wants to kill Americans. They shouted from the tops of
(47:11):
their lungs. They have put an active hit on the
president of the United States. What else do we need.
We blew up a mountain where they were making their
uranium and Richmond stuff, and they keep going and they
said it, we will be back for more. We will
not be deterred. Now I get it. What would I say?
(47:33):
I'd probably say the same thing if I was the Ayatola.
I'm not gonna take it lying down. I'm gonna tell
Trump the way it is, all right, So, hey, you
chose that route. He had the option of saying, look,
Iran just wants to exist peaceably with everyone else. And
we know they could have tried that, but they didn't.
(47:56):
They pretended to start negotiating. They pretended to let's talk
about a potential piece plan. Let's see if let's go,
let's go to the table. Right. They did all that,
and in the midst of all that, they got the
intelligence saying, the longer you wait and play nice with
these guys, they're gonna come right back and build this
stuff up. So what are you supposed to do sit
(48:17):
there and be a Bendel and be like, all right, well,
let me give them the benefit of the debt you have.
There's no more benefit of doubt. They want to kill you,
they want to kill me, they want to kill my children.
I think I'm gonna feel bad about killing you first. Sorry,
So Joe can't. I think he's a victim of too
(48:37):
much of a certain program and not this one. I
think he's somebody that just sipped that that. Like I said,
like Glivid calls it the woke Reich kool aid. He
took the black pill. He's now a malcontent populist. And
these populists are going to be our undoing because ultimately
(48:57):
that isolationist mentality that is America only, not just America first,
but America only. Let the Chinese figure out their stuff,
let the Russians do what they want, Let the Ukraine,
and that's when it really this is the height of
this started. Then That's why I blame the Russians oftentimes
for this, and their friends in Iran and China, because
they all have the same mission here. But it really
(49:19):
started with oh, just just let the Ukrainians fight with
the Russians. They're like, this is like sibling rivalry. It's
like two brothers. Let him fight it out. The United
States shouldn't get involved. Now. When Trump said, you know,
if I were president, this never would happen, he's right.
And had it happened, he would have been able to
contain this very quickly. But most importantly, it would not
have happened. Even Putin said that this wouldn't have happened
(49:40):
if Trump was around. Why Because Trump brought a sense
of order and seriousness to the Oval office. Biden and
his weakness, they took us as a joke. So here
we are, and now we have Americans that, in my opinion,
erroneously believe that we just have to sit back and
let everybody else kill each other. And somehow they're not
(50:02):
all going to gang up and come kill us. As
long as you know, you know, we just give our
guns away, right, it's like a gun buy back program.
Of course they won't say that. They'll say no, no, no,
As long as I got my guns in my house
and we got our nukes, we're good. But that's not true.
You just heard this guy say in twenty twenty four,
we were attacked one hundred and fifty times. I know
(50:23):
that we have more than two hundred soldiers that have
traumatic brain injuries because of those attacks. You're gonna tell
me they took it easy, that they didn't advance on us,
that every last cyber attack doesn't have something to do
with it. Ron I would suggest that it does. I'm
not buying it. So Joe Kent not away though, right.
(50:45):
I don't know you, and I appreciate your service, but
I think you're wrong on this one, my friend. I
really do. And it's a shame to see you go.
And there's all these questions about leaking information, maybe even
to mister Carlson. Again, these are questions people are asking
on the internet. These are not allegations that I'm making
or that others have made. But I've seen plenty of
(51:09):
people asking a lot of questions as of late, saying
did he resign because he knew he was going to
get called to the carpet for sharing information with some
of his friends in the woke Reich. I don't know,
but I think we're gonna find out soon enough. Anyway.
I mean, he goes morning comes straight ahead and went
long on this segment as well. I got lots to
say before I take off a couple of days to
(51:30):
head overseas. So bear with me, coming right back, don't
go anywhere. I'm Rich Valdez.
Speaker 1 (51:34):
This is America. This is America. He's making podcasting great again.
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Speaker 3 (52:04):
All right, Ibi gooes, Welcome back, Rich Valdez, keeping your
company here. I am Valdez with an S. And let's see.
We've got another six seven minutes together, probably enough time
to get through one of these crazy legal stories I
wanted to get through, because man, let me tell you,
(52:24):
this was a wild story. Let me see if I
could find this one here. Let me see, bear with
me here, because this is I mean, there's so many
of them that I wanted to do them all together
in like one good, chunky segment that had to do
with crazy legal stories. But I'll give you this and
(52:44):
we'll end on a positive note, and we will we
will kind of regroup on this tomorrow. But this one here,
if we can get this right, this is a story
about a woman who shot someone. And I gotta say,
(53:09):
you listened to this, and you tell me what you
think of.
Speaker 10 (53:11):
An admitted killer. Police say, eighteen year old ala Chan
Torres confessed to shooting a man at least ten times,
but investigators says she told them that she did it
because the man had inappropriately touched a five year oldttle girl.
Fox routeen Choice Grant joins a cyb in Memphis tonight.
Troys she had a chance to read through the police
Affidavid about exactly what happened.
Speaker 11 (53:34):
Police say a preliminary examination of the body found about
fourteen shots. Now, I went back to the area where
Rncoon's body was found. It spoke to neighbors. Many of
them told us they don't fault Taurus for what she did.
If Ronconn actually did touch a child.
Speaker 3 (53:51):
Why do you say that I would just shine him
a couple more times.
Speaker 7 (53:58):
Now.
Speaker 11 (53:58):
Taurus is currently in jail and been charged with first
degree murder. Now, coming up at Fox thirteen News at ten,
I'll be back with more details about what tourists did
after she shot Rencon.
Speaker 3 (54:08):
Please so again, that's a report from Fox thirteen. In Memphis,
a woman was arrested after police say she admitted to
shooting and killing a man accused of inappropriately touching a
child just before two am on February twenty sixth An
officer on patrol discovered a man's body lying on the roadway.
(54:30):
Record state that a medical examiner determined the man had
been shot fourteen times. The victim was later identified as
no Noe like Noel without an L Santigan Frinkon. And
this woman has been arrested for his murder, they're saying,
(54:51):
And my hope is that she gets away with it.
I'm just being frank again, you know, p for me,
call my pastor, wrapped me out. I don't know what
to say, but uh, you know, hey, there's certain things
I think. You just you've got to make it a
very bad consequence. You've got You've got a Al Salvador
(55:15):
today just passed a law for the death penalty or
was it life in prison one or the other for this,
for this exact crime. You touch a little kid, you're
going to jail for life or you could be put
to death. If I'm not mistaken, and if I'm wrong,
I'll fact check myself tomorrow. I just read this story earlier,
and I just I forgot. I knew it was a
(55:36):
severe penalty, and I thought to myself, man, you know what,
sometimes you need that. And when I was a kid,
I remember I think it might have been Governor Cuomo,
not Andrew, but Mario. And maybe it was a different governor,
but I think it was Governor Cuomo that created uh,
that implemented a statewide syntax. And I remember people were
(56:00):
freaking out about it, saying, oh my god, they're going
to raise the cost of booze and cigarettes, you know,
something like twenty five cent or fifty cents on cigarettes
and alcohol something that back then again this was the
nineteen eighties, that was a lot. And I thought to myself, Hey,
(56:22):
why not, right, that's not something you need to live.
If you want to engage in drinking booze and smoking cigarettes,
why not. And they were saying at the time, they
were like, it goes to kids programs and to you know,
to fund the lottery and this and that. And as
a kid, I just thought I liked the idea of
punishing people so they wouldn't engage in their sinful activity,
(56:46):
and not that it's sinful per se to do those things.
But again, as a kid growing up, I saw these
things and they were directly related. The people that smoked,
the people that drank. They weren't the doctors and lawyers
in my neighborhood right, they were just weren't so. I
in my mind as a six seven eight years old,
I associated those things with I'm gonna describe it as
(57:11):
with Loserville right at not being successful in life. Today,
I realized the best whiskey I ever had was my
white uncle. I have a white uncle. My Puerto ricanot
married a white guy, and he introduced me to McAllen
that McAllen eighteen is that it man, stuff is good.
And I realized, hey, you know, everybody can enjoy a
(57:33):
good cigar and a good whiskey or a good bourbon
or whatever you like. Melboock wine is my favorite from Argentina.
Point is, it's not about those things. It's about, you know,
curtailing bad behavior, and that ultimately is not something I
think the government can do on its own. You can
implement all the syntax you want, people are going to
(57:55):
figure out a way to get around those things, whether
getting around the tax or getting around paying for them things.
In general, that's what criminals do, truly mastering oneself and
having self control and doing what's right for the sake
of doing what's right, whether it's because of your belief
in God or your belief in doing good for people
(58:16):
is what will bring us forward as a society, and
doing the exact opposite is what will continue to bring
us down. This is why I always say you got
to stamp for something, because if you stand for nothing,
you'll fall for absolutely anything. And like Sir Edmund Burke said,
the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for
good people like you to sit there and do nothing.
(58:39):
So do something. Asta labroksima, take care, good night, and
God bless you America. I'm Rich Valdez and this is America.
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