February 4, 2026 • 60 mins
On Wednesday, Rich talks about Iran and what we can expect over the next few days leading up to the Super Bowl. Then, the irresponsible New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani unsurprisingly supports the knife-wielding man who lunged at NYPD cops. Lastly, former Army intelligence officer Lt. Col. Tony Shaeffer joins Rich to weigh in on Iran, President Petro's visit to the White House, and more.
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And the number one. And today I'm going to just
(00:55):
buckle up because we've got a doozy of a show
lined up. We're driving right into headlines and a bunch
of really good audio that's out there on Iran and
a bunch of other topics, and it's got everybody buzzing
from the Persian golf heating up like a bad batch
of Abichuelas. That's like the surprise powwow that we had
with Gustavo Petro I was telling you about.
Speaker 6 (01:17):
That's the President of Columbia.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
And make sure you stick around because we've got a
former Trump campaign national security advisor and retired Army intelligence officer,
Lieutenant colonel Lieutenant colonel Tony Schaeffer. He's going to be
joining us in a little bit, probably about twenty five
thirty minutes or so, and he's going to be weighing
in on Iran and Gustavo Petro. Plus, we've got some
(01:43):
audio from El Trompezo Donalodis Magnus to forty fifth and
forty seventh President of the easy United States, Donald J. Trump,
El Presidente, and he's again discussing Iran. We've got Secretary
of Rubio discussing Iran. Senator John Kennedy and all of
his wit and humored discussing Iran.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
A lot of good audio out there. I'm going to
play it all for you.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Even Hollywood actor Eric Roberts, right, he's the probably the
only lone wolf voice in Hollywood right now talking about
the massacre against the Iranian people. So good on him
for that, even a broken clock, right, folks, And listen
he goes, We're gonna kick this thing off with some
of the big news that's coming out of the Middle East,
because nothing says happy hump Day like dodging drones in
(02:27):
the Arabian Sea. Right headlines are screaming at the USF
thirty five fighter jet that shot down an Iranian drone
that was buzzing a little bit too close to the
USS Abraham Lincoln as if it was trying to photobamber
Carrier Strike Group. Well guess what, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guardcore,
the IRGC decided to play bumper boats with the US
(02:50):
flag tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, coming at at
high speed, and obviously there was another drone in play,
threatening to board, like you know, the way these pirates
have been doing. And Iran Supreme Leader is out there
warning that any US attack would spark a regional war.
And I think to myself, I even think, though these
guys think we're worried. I got some audio from him too,
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The Foreign minister as well. But as if we needed
more drama in that part of the world, right, we
don't need anything else.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
But here's the kicker.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Iran's now demanding changes to the upcoming nuclear talks, wanting
to shift them from Istanbul to Oman. And they want
this bilateral stuff to be, you know, just between them
and the United States. They don't want any Arabs involved,
they don't want any Muslim countries involved. They just want
(03:42):
a direct conversation with the US. And of course the
President and his team are trying to do the exact opposite.
They want to include all the regional partners because they
are the stakeholders here, right, They're the ones that live there,
those are their neighbors. Anyway, they say it's to keep
it nuclear, only no chitch had about missiles or proxies.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
I don't know, but looks like they're like they're trying
to dodge this thing. Anyway. We're gonna see what happens.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
But so far, we keep taking down the drones, we
keep taking down the tankers, the ghost ships, all of it.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Were stopping all of it.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
And this is what happens when you put a boss
like a Trumpeto back in the oval office. He doesn't
apologize for being strong and listen, if anybody thought the
Mullas would we're gonna get aggressive with Trump.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
Nah.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
They're still acting crazy though, right, like that crazy theo
that everybody has at the family reunion.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
But they seem measured.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Now.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
This is the week before we go into this weekend,
this weekend, the super Bowl weekend. So will they try
something funny?
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Well?
Speaker 4 (04:51):
I know I got a couple of text messages from
my brother saying listen, be careful. I've heard that they're
going to use the emergency broadcast system. You know, that's
where the little tone comes out.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
This is a test. If this were a real urgency,
he'd be followed by instructions.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Right, he's saying they're going to use that because there's
a possible missile strike coming from Iran.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
I was like, Bro, you're older than me.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
How is it that you don't remember the last time
Iran blew us up with missiles?
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Ah?
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Me, neither nobody remembers that, right, that never happened, So
I wouldn't get that carried away. But we will talk
about that a little bit more with Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaeffer.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
When we chime in with him.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
And again I keep bringing up a president Petro, right,
the president of Columbia, because I think it's important. We're
talking about these international you know, negotiations, and this was
a good sit down, I think, between President Trump and
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Columbia's president. The guy's been trash talking Trump for months,
calling him an accomplice to genocide over the Gaza, blasting
the Venezuela operation as a kidnapping, even refusing deportation flights
last year. I don't if you remember that. But as Trump,
Beto hit him back, fireing back and pulling Petro's visa,
slapping some sanctions on him, calling him a sick man,
(06:12):
fueling the drug trade, threatening tariffs and military action. You
know what, out Trumpito does. And guess what, after all
the fireworks, they get together, they meet for two hours
behind closed doors. They come out all smiling, just like
he did with Mom Donnie, shaking hands like old come bothers. Hmmm,
ain't got something? This is that don Roe doctrine? He's
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you know, listen, Trump is writing the playbook on this.
We don't always have to be angry, we don't always
have to be enemies. Let's make a deal. Is it
a bad thing to get along. I love it when
he says that, because he's right. Anyway, Petro was even
posting pictures, you know, saying that they bonded over love
of freedom. And get this, he he accepted the red
(07:01):
Maga hat that Trump gifted him, took a pen from
the Oval office, and.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
Voila.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Talk about a plot twist, right, I thought that was
pretty funny. Anyway, no concrete deals announced, but Trump says
they got along very well. And that's what it's about, right,
You get along. You schmooze people, just like I mean,
if you've ever sold anything in your life, you know
you when you get tickets to a game or those
nice lunches. Just to schmooze people is to butter them up.
And Trump, of course, he could threaten everybody, but that's
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not the approach.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
You befriend people. You say, hey, how are you?
Speaker 4 (07:36):
You know, You show them around your nice, big white
house in Washington, wow them a little bit, and you say,
look not so bad. Right, Look we're giving you. They
were treating you like a human. We're no longer treating
you like a narco terrorist. Give up that life, will
treat you like a human some more right. That's the part.
I think people don't realize that Trump is willing to
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extend that olive branch to give people that legitimacy that
the Democrats would never give. They said, no, no, don't
do it with Kim Jong Hill's son, Kim Jong Un. No, no, no,
how dare you step foot? How dare you shake his hand?
Speaker 6 (08:12):
Look at that?
Speaker 4 (08:12):
All Trump did was that he's never had to tweet
at Little Rocketman again. Has anybody heard from Little Rocketman ever?
Speaker 6 (08:19):
Again?
Speaker 7 (08:19):
Nope?
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Now, yeah, they might be colluding with Iran and you know,
those missiles my brother's talking about might very well be
you know, coming from the Koreans or vice versa, working
with the Iranians. But listen, we don't have any intel
that that's happening. I do not believe they're going to
(08:41):
try and interrupt Bad Bunny singing t Pregnudou at the
super Bowl with missiles. At least, I don't think the
Iranians are doing that. Somebody else might do that, right,
the anti Bad Bunny crowd, but don't. I don't think
anybody else is doing that anyway. This is Trump the
diploma se in my opinion that that donro doctrine. It's
(09:02):
out of tartness, turning a foe into a front of
me faster than you can say, I don't let you,
but we got to be real. And he goes because
conservatives are watching very close. And Gustavo Petro is a
leftist who has let cartels flourish on his watch. In fact,
i'd say he's complicit with all that. So is this
(09:24):
just Trump glazing him to keep them where? You know,
keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer. I think
so either way, way better than Joe al Baboso Biden's
open border fiesta. Right, that's the bottom line. Now, if
we shift gears from the home front a little bit overseas,
(09:45):
I want you to take a look at what I'm
looking at here where you're talking about.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
The Save Act. Now, the Save Act is an election
integrity measure. And I believe this is gonna be the
talk of the next ten days. So you're gonna see
a lot of old videos.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Of twenty twenty elections stealing, lots of increased rhetoric around that,
lots of fresh attacks that people that said otherwise, you know,
attacking Obama, attacking Clinton, attacking Biden, right, bringing ripping off
the scab too early. We want that old wound to bleed.
(10:28):
Why so that people have it fresh in their mind,
so that when it's time for the United States Congress
and the Senate to vote on the Save Act, they
feel fresh pressure from the American people. That's the only
way they're gonna respond and react is if they feel
that pressure, if they know people are watching, if they
know that, you know, Trump ha just tweeted ten videos
in a row about this. He must be doing something.
(10:49):
He must be up to something. Exactly what he's up
to is promoting the Save Act and this is a
chance for a good legislation to go through. And I
think think that's part of a President Trump's strategy from
playing the that the Lion sleeps tonight, controversial stuff that
people have been talking about.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
It's a little AI video.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Anything, anything he can throw out there, He's going to
throw it out there so that today, Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
up until super Bowl, people are talking about that. Super
Bowl is gonna switch switch gears of course and bring
a lot of people into the fold with the conversation
on illegal immigration and the bad body conversation. His concert
(11:34):
at his halftime show, at the super Bowl and all
that stuff.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
Right, that's going to.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Dominate Monday and Tuesday, probably maybe even Wednesday. Right, it's
going to be a big deal. All that anti ice
sentiment that's going to be built up there, and whatever
associated protests happened, Trump's reaction to that, all of it. Now,
I wouldn't be surprised if something goes down between the
United States and Iran in that timeframe, because Trump's been
(12:00):
giving lots of warnings and he loves to suck all
the air out of the room, if you know what
I mean. Right, He's just great at it. So they're
like bad Bunny, super Bowl, this and that. Trump I
had to detonate military targets in Iran because we had
actionable intelligence and that's it. Boom, Right, he knows how
to change the narrative, and good for him for knowing
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how to do it.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
Anyway, what else.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Do we got here? We got a couple other stories here.
The Winter Olympics are happening. I don't know if that's
the whole thing that we're going to get into. Louisiana's
teacher of the Year got busted for indecent behavior with
a former student whoa.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
That's crazy. That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
You know.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
I used to have a friend, Austin Wright. He used
to say that.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
I just found out a couple of weeks ago in
a text exchange I had with James O'Keefe. Oh, kisselminers
will shut out to James O'Keefe that our buddy Austin
Right passed away. So my condolences to Austin. That's crazy.
Austin Right, and man, God rest his soul. He was
a lot younger than me, so gone too soon. Godspeed
(13:12):
to him and his family. My thoughts, prayers, and condolences
theyre with everybody, And let me see, I think that's
all I had for now. Oh, there's some beef bruin
in New York City about freezing funds to New York.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
Maybe we'll get into that.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Plus, ma'm Donnie taking sides, going with the guy who
tried to stab the cops but instead ended up getting
shot by the cops. You can't make this stuff up anyway.
You got to keep it locked right here, like I said,
Lieutenant Colonel Tony Shaeffer joining us a little bit. We've
got calls if you want to give us a call.
Eight seven seven Valdez one some audio clips.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
That are queued up.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
I got a lot night. I forgot how to talk today. Anyway,
all that's coming up and more so, keep it locked
right here. There is more to come straight ahead. I'm
Rich Valdez.
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Keep doing that.
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We need to continue sustained growth, especially if we're going
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to make sure our voices are heard in those midterm elections,
which yes, are less than what eleven ten months away.
So man, we've got a lot ahead of us. But
I want to get into some of this audio I've got.
(15:01):
I got plenty of stuff that you want to hear.
And sometimes, you know, I do more talking than clip
playing because well because you know I've got stuff to say,
but this is stuff I think that you absolutely need
to hear, pretty important stuff.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
And let me see where we start.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
I guess we should start with President Trump. All this
magnus was at Mara a Lago on Monday, and he
had a lot to say and a lot of good things.
I mean, we've got him, We've got Lindsey Graham weighing
in on the Ayatola. We also have Secretary of Rubio.
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But I want to start here with President Trump. If
I can get this cut, can we get number two
queued up?
Speaker 6 (15:45):
Please?
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Number two says here on my cut sheet. Number two
is Trump at Mara a Lago. Aron's leader threatens predictable
deal and says it's possible, but we'll find out. So
do we have President Trump? So yes, no, maybe, so
let me know, let me know, go on once, let
me know, going twice. Okay, But we can go with
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the leader of Iran as well, or we could go Trump.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
Let's let's give that Trump a shot. Thank you, sir,
go for that.
Speaker 8 (16:18):
Sure. Iran as free leader today said that's part o
regional war. Giving you a compent yer, wouldn't you say that?
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Of course you didn't say that, But we have the
biggest most golf for ships in the world over there,
very close a couple of days.
Speaker 8 (16:33):
And hopefully we'll make a deal.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
We don't make a deal, then we'll find out whether
or not he was right.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
You gotta love as Trump, beto, keeping it real, keeping
the gangster right, just letting them know, Hey, look, yeah,
maybe he's right. Maybe we are starting a war. Hopefully
we're not. Maybe we'll make a deal. I loved Trump,
You gotta I said it before and I'll say it again.
I learned this from him and others that are, you know,
great negotiators. You have to know how to work. You
have to be willing to walk away, all right. You
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can't negotiate with a fear of of of a bluff,
but not actually willing to walk away.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
You've got to be able to walk away.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
There has to be a consequence for for you or
for the other person, or for both, a mutual consequence
if they're not willing to play ball. Now we've got
this other clip here kind of goes hand in hand.
This is Abbas Aragi Orgi A R. A. G. H. C.
(17:31):
Hi Araghi. He's an Iranian foreign minister and this is
him on Monday going into Sunday. Monday, Yeah, yeah, Monday,
I guess Sunday going into Monday saying we're prepared for
negotiations and war. How about that around playing tough, go.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
Right ahead.
Speaker 9 (17:53):
About the United States. We've said this many times before,
and I repeat once again about the Islamic Republic of
your own, just as it is ready for negotiations, is
also ready for war. We are more prepared than before
the Twelve Day War. And just like in that period,
we responded to aggressors with the strengths, they will be
the same this time.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
Does all right?
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Now, my arrogant American self thinks that these guys they
got nothing, they don't have a pot to piss and
who are they kidding? But in reality, they control the
whole country right in the Middle East that they took
from the Persians. They've you know, excommunicated the Christians. So
you can't sell these crazy Mula guys short too quick, right,
(18:36):
You've got to kind of take them at their word
and say, all right, you've got a little something going on,
then you've got a little something going on. But Lindsey Graham,
Lindsey Graham waiting on this as well, and he says, no, no, no,
We've got we have no friend in the Iatoline. We've
got to keep every option on the table. You know,
Senator Graham never met a war.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
He didn't love. Listen to this.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
One thing.
Speaker 10 (18:59):
You can't do as president. Talk like Reagan and act
like Obama. There's no deal to be done here. These
people are not trustworthy. The protesters in the street are
not protesting for a better nuclear deal. They're protesting for
a better life. And if they win the day, we
have a chance to have friends with the people of Iran.
(19:20):
The I Tola will never be our friend. He's a
religious Nazi. President Trump, you said help is on the way.
That has to be real.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
It has to be.
Speaker 10 (19:28):
Real soon, do it, mister president. The people of Iran
are begging you to be on their side. You have
done it so good. You are a Reagan plus. This
is the defining moment in your presidency. Stand by the people.
The Iola falls, the region changes bigger than the fall
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of the Berlin Wall. No more international terrorists. This regime
has American blood on it sins since nineteen seventy nine.
You got the hoodies, You've got Hezblah killing a Americans.
Bring this regime down because the people want it down.
You know, I have to invade the country. But help
on the way means military strikes against the infrastructure that
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is killing the Iranian people. Go after the ones who
are killing the people. Put this regime on notice. We're
never going to let up strangle their economy. It will fall,
the people will take over, and over time we will
have a friend in Iran, not an enemy. Has blajamas,
the hoodies all fall. The biggest thing you could possibly
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ever do to the Mid East is take this regime down, all.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Right, mincing no words right, making it very clear, Senator
Lindsey Graham, We've got to take this regime down. So
does that mean taking out the Supreme Leader, taking out
the Isatola, taken out maybe the Malas?
Speaker 6 (20:52):
Who do we got to take out? How do we
take do we take out anybody? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Something in my gut tells me that we're going to
hit the weekend. We're gonna get into super Bowl mode.
People are gonna want to watch some football and we're
gonna have some sort of strike.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
Not from them, I think from us. I think trum.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Pito's gonna say, all right, I'm here at this stadium,
bad bunny. It's actually not so bad, but it's okay.
He hits me on ice, so we're gonna hit him back,
and we're gonna hit him back like we hit around.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
Oh did I say that out loud?
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Okay, we've just hit around, I guess, and break in
some news here, folks, something to that effect.
Speaker 10 (21:28):
Right.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
I think Trumpita will let him have it. We'll see again.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
I'm not a neocon, but hawkish I am so unlike
Lindsay Grahmm. I won't say I've never met a war
I didn't like, but there's certain people where I think
war is the only way right. Military force is the
only type of response that that works with certain people. Anyway,
I got some audio from Marco Rubio. I've got this
clip from Eric Roberts on IRAN because something that before
(21:56):
we get to the Roberts something Lindsey Graham said, let's
go after the people killing people in the streets. You
turn on Twitter, you go through a scroll through Instagram.
All you're going to see his video after video of
people getting shot. You see these cops, the IRGC guys,
they're on motorcycles, mopeds and whatnot. The guy two officers
on one bike and the guy on the back pulls
(22:18):
out a rifle. Prah, just start shooting people. People walking
down the sidewalk. They weren't even running, right, they weren't
even agitating. They were just walking down the street and
they got shot dead. That's what's going on in Ron.
That's not cool. It's not cool at all. Right, So
I understand the pressure that we're seeing. Come on on
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the White House to take action, right. He said, help
was on the way. Let's go, let's get that help
on the way. And most of Hollywood's been silent on this.
When it was Free Palestine, they weren't silent. They were
making all sorts of noise. But one guy, the brother
of Julia Roberts, Eric Roberts, he is making some noise.
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And I think that's pretty commendable personally. Now I got
the clip right here, is it ready to go?
Speaker 10 (23:11):
All?
Speaker 11 (23:12):
Right?
Speaker 4 (23:13):
This is Eric Roberts, Hollywood actor, weighing in on Iran
and the atrocities that are occurring in the streets.
Speaker 8 (23:20):
The massacre that has taken place in Iran is beyond comprehension,
truly unimaginable. Young beautiful girls and boys, educated and innocent
are being shot in the streets for one simple reason.
They're god given right to freedom. For the past forty
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seven years, the current regime in Iran has destroyed a
beautiful country with one of the world's most ancient and
richest histories. The people of Iran are the.
Speaker 12 (23:54):
Complete opposite of their government. They're loving, polite, educated, and
hospitable two people from all over the world, especially the
American people. You must be their voice as their internet
has been shut down for almost a month.
Speaker 8 (24:14):
Through darkness and silence. The people of Iran are pleading
for help from the international community to stop the continued
killing of innocent civilians, carried out in the most brutal
ways imaginable, reminiscent of humanity's darkest chapters. We strongly support
the Iranian people and are heartbroken by the atrocities committed
(24:37):
by this brutal regime. The killing must stop now. This
brutal dictatorship must be changed at the ballot box through
total freedom and accountability, allowing the people of Iran to
choose the secular government of their own will.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
He's right.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
We have to be able to choose what's best for them.
And again, are we the police of the world. Yeah,
in many ways we are. I mean, if who else
are you gonna call? Right, Russia, China? Do we want
them to call those guys? All right, those guys might
come and help the wrong guys. So I think we're
the only people that they could call for any help.
(25:21):
The question is, is this gonna be like the Kurds
all over again, where people were upset with Trump for
quote unquote abandoning the Kurds. This time he said help
was on the way. This time he said We're gonna
ask Elon Musk to get you internet. I don't know
if either of those things have happened yet, but I
will say it seems like time is of the essence.
It seems like people are dying. And I'm not saying
(25:42):
Trump's dragging his feet, but I am saying He's likely
being met with some obstacles that are slowing him down.
And I don't know that this is a time for
slowing down when you got people dying.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
Let's wrap up this clip.
Speaker 8 (25:55):
I will do anything short of harming another to prevent
one more act of violence in Iran, in the US,
anywhere everywhere. What will you do?
Speaker 6 (26:12):
What will you do?
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Eric Roberts is putting himself out there, one of the
few in the Hollywood left to actually make a statement
against this. I'm all for it. Listen, I'm all in.
I mean, I'm not saying to draft me, I'm gonna
go fighting Iran.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
I'm not saying that.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
What I am saying is I support what's going on,
and I support switching things up. I support keeping the
right people safe and doing what we can because ultimately
the show must go on, including in Iran.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
Keep it locked right here on britchfeldees.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
This is America, This is America. He's got the best
head of hair and podcasting. This is America with rich
valdeis all right.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
I mean he goes, welcome back, Rich Vald's keeping your
company here. And I want to get into a little
bit of what Marco Rubio had to say Secretary of
State Rubio, because I think that the impact of Marco
Rubio's leadership should not be lost on anybody, it shouldn't
be minimized in any way. Marco Rubio's impact across multiple
continents is the type of impact that influence quite frankly,
(27:26):
I can't say I've seen from a secretary of state
in my lifetime, and that's just you know, again, I'm
forty seven, so I thought there were a lot of
effective secretaries of state, but none that were really firing
on all cylinders. In tandem with the Trump agenda, where
you know, Trump's running a million miles an hour and
(27:48):
so is Rubio, and they're bringing about the change we've seen.
You know, nobody's shouting free Palestine, because I contend Trump
freed Palestine in large part, and they're headed towards a
peaceful resolution. Hostages have been freed. We're talking about Iran
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that's on the table, not to mention the other eight
or nine wars that he's ended in places like Congo
and others. So I'm not hating. I'm on board. And
we got this clip here, Secretary of Rubio, are you
ready for it?
Speaker 6 (28:28):
All right?
Speaker 11 (28:28):
I hit It provided revenues to some corrupt regime officials,
but in the long term has created real destabilization, not
for just them, by the way, but also for Columbia.
Speaker 6 (28:37):
Just understand something.
Speaker 11 (28:38):
The fark dissidents and the ELN operate with impunity from
Venezuelan territory they control Venezuelan territory, and some of that
was through deals with individuals aligned with the regime because
they made money off of that. But we don't think
that that's in the long term interest. And what's been
expressed to us by leaders of the intraim authorities is
that they agree.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
And now we're going to just say to public the devil.
Speaker 11 (28:58):
In the short term, it provided revenues to some corrupt
regime officials.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
So that Secretary of Rubio talking about what's happening with Venezuela,
with Colombia, with Cuba. Really there's a lot of things
in the nexus there of these geopolitical players, but basically
talking about the the remnants of the Chavez regime, right
(29:24):
that Maduro took over, their alignment with cartels, with FARC.
Speaker 6 (29:31):
Right, this is the FARC.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
They actually tried to kill Rudy Giuliani when he was
a United States attorney. So these are bad ombraids, bad ombraids.
Like Trump would say, the Fusas Armas revolucis Colombianos, right,
I think that's what FARK stands for, and he's saying
that they operate with impunity because of Colombia's complicity. So
(29:58):
This kind of goes back to that conversation that I
was posing earlier. And we're going to get some input
on this from Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaeffer, former Trump campaign
national security advisor, as well as a retired lieutenant colonel
in Army intelligence. But very interesting stuff to see how
(30:20):
this is going on. He's basically pointing out their chess game,
how they pull their three card Monty, how they do
exactly what they do. Question is now for everything to
be implemented, and it looks to me like it's happening.
And I'm going to dare and go out on a
limb here briefly, a little political limb, and say that
(30:43):
I see Marco Rubio making all sorts of impact. And again,
these contributions very meaningful. These are not meaningless things like
you know, changing a garage door. This is not you know,
if it ain't broke, don't fix it, right. These are
things that are incredibly broken, and Marco Rubio is bringing
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about that leadership, that surprise, that that remedy that was needed,
and it truly is refreshing. Anyway, I want to hear
from you, guys. I want to hear your thoughts. I
know there's a number of people that have called in
that want to get on. Let me see. I say,
we got a call here from New York. I can't
(31:30):
quite make out the name. Go right ahead, upstate New
York Albany area.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
Go right ahead.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
Now not coming through for some reason. Maybe they're on mute.
All right, well tell them to get off mute. Give
us a call back. Might be our friend Jane. I
know Jane is up in that area of Saratoga, New York,
Albany area. Shout out to mister Vandenberg and company. But anyway, Jane,
if that was you, give us a call back. I
(32:00):
feel somebody else give us a call back. You know
the phone numbers eight seven seven Valdes one, eight seven
seven Valdes one. Let's see who else? Can we go
to my man TONI, my man TONI wants to call.
It's got something to say. Let's put Tony on ahead,
bring him up. What do we have bat in a
(32:29):
thousand here today? What's going on? Let's try that again.
Let's go to Tony. Please thank you.
Speaker 13 (32:37):
Ah right, it's Tony from Montreal. I just want to
bring your attention. A group of activists in Montreal say
that they have robbed a Montreal grocery store in what
they describe as robin Hood inspired political act targeting corporate
grocery interests. In other words, corporation that run foodstores are profiteers,
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and therefore they steal from the corporations, and the SPBM
Montreal police do nothing to arrest them, and then they
go distribute the food to the poor of Montreal in
certain housing projects as if they were robin Hood, and
they call themselves robin Hood of the streets.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Unbelievable, Robinhood of the streets, Thank you, tony. And you
know what's interesting about this is that everybody tries to
be some sort of Robinhood. I mean, that's like the
essence of Marxism, trying to rob from the rich to
give to the poor. This idea that you know, if
we take away from the the bourgeoisie, then the proletariat
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will be better off. And if we you know, we
paint this this color, then that color won't be as jealous.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
Or you know, if I eat this, then you won't
get hungry.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
It doesn't work that way, right, doesn't matter whether you're
dealing with paint or with food or with anything. Doesn't work.
Socialism doesn't work. These are failed policies that have no
place in our society. And the government run grocery stores.
That's like a dream, Tony. This is a dream for
(34:14):
mister Mam Donnie, right, Mam Donnie absolutely loves that. He
loves this idea. And he's that guy, he's the guy
that does press conferences where he he takes on the side,
taken up for the bad guys. I saw the video.
You got some sort of mental breakdown in a home.
(34:37):
I think it's a wife or a daughter with a man,
maybe her father, maybe her husband, I don't know, but
a woman and a man. She clearly is not afraid
of the man because it looks like she knows he
has a mental problem. But the police are in her
house and they're like, sir, just relax, And he grabs
a knife, a kitchen knife, and he's right next to
this woman. What are you supposed to do? Call the
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social workers, call the mayor. This man ended up getting
shot because he came at the police with a knife
in his hand, right next to somebody he could have
taken into the hostage. Now granted from the video, it
didn't look like he wanted to harm her in that
it looked like he wanted to harm the cop, So
we can all play could have, would have, should have?
You know, I talked to somebody the other day that
I feel is above average intelligence. They were telling me
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how the cop and the renee this is just a
separate aside, but along the same lines For the point
I want to make, He says he felt that the
cop and the renee good should have moved aside that,
given their training, should have been more agile and been
able to move. And all I could say was I
think most cops likely would have done the same thing.
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I believe because the man was hit pretty hard, and
I don't think that's even the determination, right. They don't
teach you in the police academy, Hey, if a car
is coming at you and you think it's just gonna
kind of hit your thigh a little bit, then don't
shoot right. Radio for backup or something like let them
run you over, right, or let them hit you your
(36:08):
leg because you're moving out of the way. But if
you know, if they run you over, then it's okay
to shoot them. Obviously, if you're run over, you can't
shoot them. And this guy was gonna wait for this
guy to stab too many people, even if he was
trying to, you know, scare the cop that worked cop
got scared and shot him. And Mamdani, the mayor of
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New York, of course, he decides that it's a good
idea to support not the not the police, who were,
you know, trying to save somebody and enforce the law,
but instead to support the stabber, right, the knife wielding suspect.
Speaker 6 (36:59):
I just thought that was so bizarre.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Chuckerworthy family and I visited Javis in the hospital, and
there is no family should have to endure this kind
of pain.
Speaker 11 (37:18):
The Knight dow, What did night doooo?
Speaker 13 (37:24):
What the Knight down?
Speaker 5 (37:25):
What the Knight do? What the Knight do?
Speaker 2 (37:29):
And as you said, I spoke with the Chuckerworthy family
and I visited Javis in the hospital, and there is
no family should have to endure this kind of pain.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
And listen, I can agree with those words and say
that nobody should have to deal with that. This woman,
I don't know if that was her husband, her dad,
or brother. He looks like a relatively young man, but
he looked crazy. The cops shut the door in front
of him, but it was a glass door. Maybe he
was going to get through. Maybe not again, it was
a glass door, it wasn't a solid wooden door, and
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the guy ended up getting shot.
Speaker 6 (38:05):
What do you expect the cop to do? Run away?
Speaker 4 (38:09):
Is this why we train our cops to run away
from dangerous situations? You know, the whole thing is bad there.
Sometimes these things are not open and shut. They are,
in my opinion, in the term of the officer. The
officer has a split second decision to make, and typically
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they side with how they're training taught them, because this
is what they train for. Guy coming at you with knife,
drop the knife, drop the knife, drop the knife. How
many times do you tell him to drop the knife
when he's clearly coming to kill you? Right, that's the
only logical outcome. Can't say, Well, he just wanted really
to threaten me. He was hoping that we'd.
Speaker 6 (38:50):
Leave his house.
Speaker 4 (38:51):
Okay, Well you're there saying you're the police, and the
guy's got a knife and there's a lady there. Maybe
he goes does the cop in, and then turns back
to the wife and oh, so you called the cops, hon,
then he wants to jig her up. It doesn't work
that way, right, different story here, but same point. Things
only work a certain way anyway. I don't want to
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ramble too much because again there's still plenty more and
I know we have our guest that's coming up right now.
So let's take a pause right here, come right back
with Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaeffer from Project Sentinel, from the
London Center, and from so many other.
Speaker 6 (39:29):
Places, you know, from Newsmax TV. He's always on. He's
a great guy and I always enjoy my conversations with him.
Don't go anywhere. I'm Rich Aldees.
Speaker 5 (39:37):
This is America. This is America.
Speaker 10 (39:44):
The forty fifth President Donald Trump thinks it's an honor
to speak with Rich Valdez.
Speaker 5 (39:50):
Oh, very good, Rich.
Speaker 6 (39:54):
The honor is all yours. Conservative talk with a dad HIV.
Now here's Rich Valdez.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
Now here's what I see around the world. This is
based on unclassified information but also classified information that I
have that access to. President She and China Putin and Russia,
the Altole in Iran have formed a partnership uh President
She and China is the managing partner. Their Their objective
(40:29):
is to have Russia dominate Central and Eastern Europe, to
have the Eyetoa in Iran dominate the Middle East, to
have Russia dominate the Indo Pacific with freedom to Rome
in Sub Saharan Africa and South America, and both Russia
and China want to want to control the Arctic in space.
(40:50):
Now that's not a world say for America. I don't
want America to be the world's policeman. But I don't
want sijiing King or our Putin or the Iya told
one to be.
Speaker 4 (41:04):
That Senator John Kennedy from Louisiana, and I want to
bring in our guests because this guy knows what's going
on and he knows where all the bodies are buried.
He's a former spy, he's the head of a Project Sentinel,
and he's I mean, he's all over the place. Tony Schaeffer,
Lieutenant Colonel, Welcome back, sir.
Speaker 7 (41:22):
Hey Rich. Always great to join you.
Speaker 4 (41:23):
Thanks for having me, Yes, sir, talk to me, sir
about your thoughts here on what Senator John Kennedy is saying.
Speaker 6 (41:29):
I think I agree with what he's saying. Your thoughts.
Speaker 7 (41:33):
Well, I think that there's a lot of things that
have to be taken care of regarding national security, and
many of those things are a bit complicated. So I
think that, you know, we're seeing at president who actually
understands how to use the multiple assets the US government
has to focus on achieving specific outcomes. So you know,
(41:56):
some of this stuff is going to be a bit
dicey at times, but for the most part, I think
we're making really good progress and bringing you know, an
American flavor that you know, the donro doctor into the
to the things we have to get done. And I
think I think it's good.
Speaker 4 (42:10):
Yeah, listen, I agree with you, and I think that
what Senator Kennedy is saying is, you know, very basic,
rudimentary stuff. But this deal or this pact that these uh,
this access of evil has you know, the Ayatola and
and chijin Ping and and putin this is not I
hadn't heard of them divvying up the territory as such before.
(42:30):
But it makes a lot of sense. And it makes
all the more sense why the President's making the moves
he's making on Greenland.
Speaker 6 (42:36):
How much of a player is Iran these days?
Speaker 4 (42:40):
Where in my estimate, and again I'm gonna put some
stuff out there. You you shut down what you can,
but it looks to me like the people of Iran
are fed up, and we're doing as much as we
can covertly, clandestinely to help them to become free so
they can choose their fate.
Speaker 6 (42:56):
Uh does that sound right?
Speaker 7 (42:58):
Yeah. So part of the problem with the Obama and
Biden years was that they were rewarding the bad behavior
of Iran. They were doing things to be complacent as
well as fund them. I mean, you know, rich, when
you're sending them literally aircraft full of palettes of dollar bills,
that's not really helping counter terrorize the region, just saying so.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
That.
Speaker 7 (43:20):
Plus, we're never not enforcing sanctions. There was a series
of international sanctions that Iran was able to basically ignore
and sell their oil. And one of the things President
Trump right now is doing is putting pressure on Iran
to stop selling oil to certain countries, which you know,
like China, so we're not allowing the bad behavior to continue.
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We've used a combination of economic methods such as seizing
oil tankers, the shadow tankers, as well as military forces.
We've seen we won that to the nukeletive facilities directly.
And the one thing about President Trump they do know
is he's not bluffing when he talks about the potentially
he smeltery force. It's kind of like, if you don't
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actually deal with us, you know, through commerce and diplomacy,
you're going to have to suffer a consequence. So it's
kind of the to use a Latino term, the option
is the lead or the silver, and I think obviously
we're trying to give them the silver if they're willing
to take it. And one of the quick notes on Iran. Yeah,
(44:27):
one of the quick note on Iran is that the
Iranian people are not Arabs, They're Persians. Persians are traditionally
more aligned in culture with Europe, and so the population,
the ninety two million population of Iran are fed up
with having to live in this Sharia rich mola run environment.
(44:48):
So and when you combine that with no goods for
the merchant classes, and that's what resulted in the last uprising.
No water to drink because of bad choices regarding crop
crop a focus, and then your economy having the low
you know, your your money being virtually worthless. These conditions
still exist and they will continue to exist and I
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think will result in the end of the current the
current government of Iran.
Speaker 4 (45:17):
He goes, We're on with Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaeffertny Tony
Schirfer is not only retired from the military with a
focus on intelligence, but he also served as President Trump's
national security advisor on his twenty twenty campaign. And I
want to get your take, sir on on.
Speaker 6 (45:36):
I guess how much longer?
Speaker 2 (45:37):
You know?
Speaker 4 (45:37):
This is really speculative, but I'm just interested in seeing it.
Seems like, you know, the United States is saying, you know,
take it easy, because we're coming after you.
Speaker 6 (45:45):
We're going to put sanctions on you, We're putting pressure.
Speaker 4 (45:47):
And then they're turning around and they turned to Al
Jazeera in their network saying, ah, the Americans are full
of it. We're not killing anybody. But then ten videos
come out showing them running people over and grabbing people
off the streets. So obviously you know they're they're lie
through their teeth. But how much longer can that go on?
Speaker 7 (46:03):
Not much, so, Reuters were reported, and Ruters are not
conservative that the Mullas are very worried about the potential
use of military force. Now at the time we're speaking,
there's a mixed a series of reports coming out regarding
the meetings between the Trump administration that Iran apparently didn't
go very well because basically, the Iranians were told these
(46:26):
are the things we expect, and the didn't like it.
What that said, the Mullas are very worried the moment
we go after. What I've been told is about eighty targets,
the military targets that we're looking at hitting, primarily the
IRGC and the ability of the Mullas to maintain control.
The concern is we hit those targets and that may
be the green light for the opposition to move forward
(46:48):
and take control. So that's where we're at, and I
think the Mullas understand that the theocracy understands that they're
on very shaky territory. And that's why I think President
Trump's kind of trying to give them some time. He
did this last time too, He gave you some time
to think about it before we acted, and he's doing
the same thing again. Now.
Speaker 4 (47:06):
Now do you think this happens before or after the
Super Bowl or during, like right during the middle of
Bad Bunnies halftime?
Speaker 7 (47:13):
How do think it happens during the soap super Bowl?
Right now, We've got about four hundred Tomahawk missiles. That's
a that's that's from open press, not secret. And we've
got the military means to deliver a number of very
uh uh effective blows to their military infrastructure. So if
I if I read President Trump correctly, you may announce
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it during the halftime show during the Super Bowl.
Speaker 6 (47:38):
Interesting.
Speaker 4 (47:39):
Huh oh wow, all right, cool, well, interesting to see
what happens.
Speaker 6 (47:43):
Now.
Speaker 4 (47:44):
What are some of the you know, if we've wor
gained this just a little bit, uh, Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaeffer,
if they decide to retaliate, I've been hearing you know,
some unconfirmed, very unconfirmed, like you know, rumors, rumblings, Twitter
reports and rants at they're thinking of striking something in
the Pacific as a you know, don't mess around, because
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we will do this. Do you think there's a real possibility,
and I guess there's always a possibility, But do you
think there's a likelihood of something like that happening?
Speaker 7 (48:15):
No? I don't.
Speaker 2 (48:16):
So.
Speaker 7 (48:17):
One of the things we noted from January twenty twenty
when we took out Solamani, who was the leader of
the IRGC, there was two months of unmitigated whaling and
national teeth by our own neacons and left saying oh,
my god, they're going to a hack us. They never did. Yeah, yeah,
it never happened. So I think the same thing applies
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again now, because you know, once Rich, Once, once you
realize if you're a Mola, and once you realize that
your amount of time left on earth is directly related
to how much you misbehave regarding the Americans, you tend
to rethink what you may do.
Speaker 6 (48:56):
Just saying you know, yeah makes sense.
Speaker 4 (48:58):
All right, I mean he goes coming right back with
Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaeffer. We're going to talk about the
visit of Gustavo Petro to the White House, what that
means for Columbia, what that means for South America, and
what the future of Venezuela looks like.
Speaker 6 (49:13):
All of that and more. Don't go anywhere. I'm Rich Valdez.
Speaker 1 (49:18):
This is America, this is America. He's brown, he's bald,
and he's breaking it down. Oh he's so has some
what's his day, Rich Valdez?
Speaker 6 (49:32):
All right for me?
Speaker 4 (49:33):
Now, welcome back, Rich Valdez, keeping your company and I
want to find out what's going on.
Speaker 6 (49:38):
To scoop the skinny.
Speaker 4 (49:39):
What's the real intel on what happened at that White
House visit with Gustavo Petro from the President of Columbia,
excuse me and President Trump and what we could expect
as a result of that, and how that's going to
shake things up in the region.
Speaker 10 (49:54):
Now.
Speaker 4 (49:54):
Of course, just as a preface here, this is the
same Gustavo Petro was singing the same song as Nicol Maduro, saying.
Speaker 6 (50:00):
Come and get me. You know where I'm at. I'm
right here.
Speaker 4 (50:03):
And you know that quickly changed after Madluda was in custody,
and then he changed to saying, you know what the
President has said, He requested the honor of my presence
at the White House. He was just so so kind
all of a sudden. So I want to get some
take on that, some analysis from the former national security
advisor to the Trump campaign from a retired lieutenant colonel
(50:24):
in the United States military. He knows more about intelligence
than I do about radio, that's for sure, Lieutenant Colonel
Tony Shaffer, Welcome back, sir.
Speaker 7 (50:32):
Hey, Richard's always enjoy our conversations.
Speaker 6 (50:34):
Yes, sir, me too.
Speaker 4 (50:35):
And let's dig into this here, because I don't know,
I mean, to me, it looks like there's a lot
of interrelated pieces geopolitically, with Venezuela, Colombia, the Mexican cartels,
as well as even China a little bit and with Cuba,
and a lot of this seems to be hanging in
the balance. All of it seems to be on Marco
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Rubio's plate, and I think he's doing a pretty solid
job of managing this. Honestly, there's a lot of impact
from the United States, the Trump administration, and Marco Rubio
specifically in multiple continents. But as that results in this
meeting with President Petro of Columbia and President Trump, do
you rate it as significant as perfunctory?
Speaker 6 (51:18):
What are your thoughts?
Speaker 7 (51:19):
No, It's very significant. I think the President Columbia is
an aclade or at least was an achlyide of Maduro.
I mean, they were very closely aligned in their thinking
and politics, and he was taking talking big until Maduro
was taken out. So I think he's had to rethink
his own philosophy because he has seen that the United
States is using, like I mentioned earlier, the Donro doctrine,
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a very muscular foreign policy and if you actually study
the history of the region, as you know, there was
Operation Just Cause in eighty nine when he went in
and took out Manuel Norjega of Panama as well as
one of the things which I think people tend to
forget but I actually remind people all the time is
my good friend Mark Bowden wrote a book called Killing Pablo.
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He also wrote a book called a black Hawk Down,
so he's been very effective in documenting US military activities
and Killing Pablo is all about are going into Colombia
and assassinating Pablo Escobar, one of the drug BLIEUS. So
we have returned to being very you know, I don't
want to use the term militaristic, but it kind of
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fits of dealing with individuals who are out to cause
harm to the United States. And so I think he's
he's seen the light, so to speak. Will that stick,
I don't know, but I think he does understand that
if Columbia kind of continues to function as a producer
of drugs that go into the United States, that works
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to move them through Mexico. And by the way, we
do have a campaign plan right now to eliminate threats
in Mexico as well, which has not been I think
well documented yet, but it is ongoing. So I think
the President of Columbia recognizes that he had the changes
to and if he wants to survive and if this
country continued, wants to continue to be a favored trade
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partner with the United States.
Speaker 4 (53:08):
Yeah, and now, Lieutenant Colonel Tony Shaffer, let me ask
you this because I think this is to me a
pivotal time in history.
Speaker 5 (53:15):
Right.
Speaker 4 (53:15):
I can't remember I was a little kid when the
Noriega stuff happened and all that stuff. I haven't seen
anything shaking up like that since. So if I look
at this, and you know, I am not an old
spy like you are, but I look at this, and
I think Trump picks up the phone and he's just
like you know, and you know, and he basically tells him, Hey,
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you can make money with us selling oil, you can
make money with us on trade. You can make money
with us doing this, or we can go to war
if you want to go to war with.
Speaker 6 (53:44):
The United States.
Speaker 4 (53:45):
And I think in the past, you know, if that
came from a Biden or an Obama, the diplomacy was
too flowery, too soft, and they didn't believe it. I
feel like now they're like, man, I did this guy's nuts.
We should probably listen to him. What do you think, So.
Speaker 7 (54:00):
A certain degree of being crazy and unpredictable as a
specific effect on foreign policy, you are correct in your assessment.
And I think it's a good thing because you know,
Trump's just crazy enough to maybe go off and use
our military to accomplish a specific policy objective. And yeah,
it's and it's refreshing. And look just for you know,
you know, you and I are friends, and you Audis
(54:21):
should know that I'm not a neocon. I do not
believe in the use of imperial force for purposes of
up ending regimes. With that said, if regimes are doing
things that are detrimental to our interests or our people,
then I think we have a strong military for a
reason and we should use it. So I'm not saying
we should replace the president of Columbia. I'm just saying
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Columbia should not be misbehaving in such a way that
causes you know, our citizens to die from drug overdoses
or for them to you know, flood our economy with
things which we don't believe are helpful to our citizens.
So it's a pretty clear choice, and President Trump is
choosing to use our military and diplomatic tools effectively to
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achieve change which benefits the American people. America first doesn't
mean America only. It means we want to set up
conditions for us to benefit as well as our allies
to benefit.
Speaker 6 (55:15):
Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 4 (55:16):
Now, how does a lot of this stuff, if at all,
affect some of the other international crises that we're seeing.
Speaker 6 (55:24):
Do you think that Cuba?
Speaker 4 (55:26):
You know, I see reports they've got less than a
month of fuel left before they go dark completely. Do
you think that's an accurate assessment? And do you think
they're going to play ball DSKNW just on Monday set.
I'm willing to talk to the president, but not under
threat of pressure or anything like that.
Speaker 7 (55:41):
Well, the pressure is already there. Rich, So, before Maduro
was taken, Venezuela was providing about thirty thousand barrels of
oil to Cuba a month, of Mexico is giving about
forty thousand, a total of seventy and that's all been
cut off. Mexico dropped off too, So it's only a
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matter of time. Any economy, even one is depleted and
backwards as Cuba only it can only goes along without energy,
just saying so, uh, yeah, I think the chances are
pretty good. You're going to see a collapse of that regime.
And I think Marco Rubio and company are planning for
contingencies to actually help Cuba come out of the economic
dark hole that communism put them in.
Speaker 4 (56:22):
Yeah, good thing. It's a beautiful place of great weather
and they have a lot of upside.
Speaker 6 (56:26):
Right, oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 7 (56:28):
So look the book Key West is about to benefit
from a big you know, economic boom of being probably
the jump off point of Anna just saying.
Speaker 4 (56:37):
Yeah, now if we look at what's going on in
Tony shaper world, talk to me about the London Center,
Project Center and all everything else you're involved in.
Speaker 6 (56:47):
What's new, what's cooking, What's what do we what do
we need to know?
Speaker 7 (56:52):
Well, project centing, we always have, you know, creative thought
pieces regarding what we ought to be doing to restore
our nation, from energy to commerce to military to constitutional
guidance that I think the founding fathers were thought of
and otherwise, you know, my job is to kind of
support the ideas of common sense and people can check
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me out, follow me on exit tea spooky and then
obviously you know I've worked for newsbacks and we're always
trying to put out new information and break over there
as well. So we're we are just working to support
the basic direction of the Trump policies, which I do
believe will make America great as well as our allies.
Speaker 4 (57:31):
Outstanding folks, give him a follow. He's terrific and he's
very pithy. I love his sarcastic tweets. You should definitely
give him a follow. At tea spooky Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaeffer.
I appreciate you, thanks for your service, thanks for being
here today.
Speaker 7 (57:44):
Sure, thank you, Rich always, great being on.
Speaker 4 (57:45):
With you, you bet, godspeed, Thank you all right, outstanding, sir,
thank you so much.
Speaker 7 (57:50):
Yeah, thank you Rich always. And I really do into
our conversation. So thanks for having.
Speaker 4 (57:53):
Me too, Me too. We'll do it again soon. I
want you to check out our brand new studios here
in Times Square. I mean those that's Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaeffer.
Thank you, sir, gentlemen, scholar and a patriot and amgos.
Keep it locked right here, coming right back. Final thoughts.
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And the number one. And today I'm going to just
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buckle up because we've got a doozy of a show
lined up. We're driving right into headlines and a bunch
of really good audio that's out there on Iran and
a bunch of other topics, and it's got everybody buzzing
from the Persian golf heating up like a bad batch
of Abichuelas. That's like the surprise powwow that we had
with Gustavo Petro I was telling you about.
Speaker 6 (01:17):
That's the President of Columbia.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
And make sure you stick around because we've got a
former Trump campaign national security advisor and retired Army intelligence officer,
Lieutenant colonel Lieutenant colonel Tony Schaeffer. He's going to be
joining us in a little bit, probably about twenty five
thirty minutes or so, and he's going to be weighing
in on Iran and Gustavo Petro. Plus, we've got some
(01:43):
audio from El Trompezo Donalodis Magnus to forty fifth and
forty seventh President of the easy United States, Donald J. Trump,
El Presidente, and he's again discussing Iran. We've got Secretary
of Rubio discussing Iran. Senator John Kennedy and all of
his wit and humored discussing Iran.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
A lot of good audio out there. I'm going to
play it all for you.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Even Hollywood actor Eric Roberts, right, he's the probably the
only lone wolf voice in Hollywood right now talking about
the massacre against the Iranian people. So good on him
for that, even a broken clock, right, folks, And listen
he goes, We're gonna kick this thing off with some
of the big news that's coming out of the Middle East,
because nothing says happy hump Day like dodging drones in
(02:27):
the Arabian Sea. Right headlines are screaming at the USF
thirty five fighter jet that shot down an Iranian drone
that was buzzing a little bit too close to the
USS Abraham Lincoln as if it was trying to photobamber
Carrier Strike Group. Well guess what, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guardcore,
the IRGC decided to play bumper boats with the US
(02:50):
flag tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, coming at at
high speed, and obviously there was another drone in play,
threatening to board, like you know, the way these pirates
have been doing. And Iran Supreme Leader is out there
warning that any US attack would spark a regional war.
And I think to myself, I even think, though these
guys think we're worried. I got some audio from him too,
(03:12):
The Foreign minister as well. But as if we needed
more drama in that part of the world, right, we
don't need anything else.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
But here's the kicker.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Iran's now demanding changes to the upcoming nuclear talks, wanting
to shift them from Istanbul to Oman. And they want
this bilateral stuff to be, you know, just between them
and the United States. They don't want any Arabs involved,
they don't want any Muslim countries involved. They just want
(03:42):
a direct conversation with the US. And of course the
President and his team are trying to do the exact opposite.
They want to include all the regional partners because they
are the stakeholders here, right, They're the ones that live there,
those are their neighbors. Anyway, they say it's to keep
it nuclear, only no chitch had about missiles or proxies.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
I don't know, but looks like they're like they're trying
to dodge this thing. Anyway. We're gonna see what happens.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
But so far, we keep taking down the drones, we
keep taking down the tankers, the ghost ships, all of it.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Were stopping all of it.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
And this is what happens when you put a boss
like a Trumpeto back in the oval office. He doesn't
apologize for being strong and listen, if anybody thought the
Mullas would we're gonna get aggressive with Trump.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
Nah.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
They're still acting crazy though, right, like that crazy theo
that everybody has at the family reunion.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
But they seem measured.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Now.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
This is the week before we go into this weekend,
this weekend, the super Bowl weekend. So will they try
something funny?
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Well?
Speaker 4 (04:51):
I know I got a couple of text messages from
my brother saying listen, be careful. I've heard that they're
going to use the emergency broadcast system. You know, that's
where the little tone comes out.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
This is a test. If this were a real urgency,
he'd be followed by instructions.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Right, he's saying they're going to use that because there's
a possible missile strike coming from Iran.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
I was like, Bro, you're older than me.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
How is it that you don't remember the last time
Iran blew us up with missiles?
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Ah?
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Me, neither nobody remembers that, right, that never happened, So
I wouldn't get that carried away. But we will talk
about that a little bit more with Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaeffer.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
When we chime in with him.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
And again I keep bringing up a president Petro, right,
the president of Columbia, because I think it's important. We're
talking about these international you know, negotiations, and this was
a good sit down, I think, between President Trump and
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Columbia's president. The guy's been trash talking Trump for months,
calling him an accomplice to genocide over the Gaza, blasting
the Venezuela operation as a kidnapping, even refusing deportation flights
last year. I don't if you remember that. But as Trump,
Beto hit him back, fireing back and pulling Petro's visa,
slapping some sanctions on him, calling him a sick man,
(06:12):
fueling the drug trade, threatening tariffs and military action. You
know what, out Trumpito does. And guess what, after all
the fireworks, they get together, they meet for two hours
behind closed doors. They come out all smiling, just like
he did with Mom Donnie, shaking hands like old come bothers. Hmmm,
ain't got something? This is that don Roe doctrine? He's
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you know, listen, Trump is writing the playbook on this.
We don't always have to be angry, we don't always
have to be enemies. Let's make a deal. Is it
a bad thing to get along. I love it when
he says that, because he's right. Anyway, Petro was even
posting pictures, you know, saying that they bonded over love
of freedom. And get this, he he accepted the red
(07:01):
Maga hat that Trump gifted him, took a pen from
the Oval office, and.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
Voila.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Talk about a plot twist, right, I thought that was
pretty funny. Anyway, no concrete deals announced, but Trump says
they got along very well. And that's what it's about, right,
You get along. You schmooze people, just like I mean,
if you've ever sold anything in your life, you know
you when you get tickets to a game or those
nice lunches. Just to schmooze people is to butter them up.
And Trump, of course, he could threaten everybody, but that's
(07:31):
not the approach.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
You befriend people. You say, hey, how are you?
Speaker 4 (07:36):
You know, You show them around your nice, big white
house in Washington, wow them a little bit, and you say,
look not so bad. Right, Look we're giving you. They
were treating you like a human. We're no longer treating
you like a narco terrorist. Give up that life, will
treat you like a human some more right. That's the part.
I think people don't realize that Trump is willing to
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extend that olive branch to give people that legitimacy that
the Democrats would never give. They said, no, no, don't
do it with Kim Jong Hill's son, Kim Jong Un. No, no, no,
how dare you step foot? How dare you shake his hand?
Speaker 6 (08:12):
Look at that?
Speaker 4 (08:12):
All Trump did was that he's never had to tweet
at Little Rocketman again. Has anybody heard from Little Rocketman ever?
Speaker 6 (08:19):
Again?
Speaker 7 (08:19):
Nope?
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Now, yeah, they might be colluding with Iran and you know,
those missiles my brother's talking about might very well be
you know, coming from the Koreans or vice versa, working
with the Iranians. But listen, we don't have any intel
that that's happening. I do not believe they're going to
(08:41):
try and interrupt Bad Bunny singing t Pregnudou at the
super Bowl with missiles. At least, I don't think the
Iranians are doing that. Somebody else might do that, right,
the anti Bad Bunny crowd, but don't. I don't think
anybody else is doing that anyway. This is Trump the
diploma se in my opinion that that donro doctrine. It's
(09:02):
out of tartness, turning a foe into a front of
me faster than you can say, I don't let you,
but we got to be real. And he goes because
conservatives are watching very close. And Gustavo Petro is a
leftist who has let cartels flourish on his watch. In fact,
i'd say he's complicit with all that. So is this
(09:24):
just Trump glazing him to keep them where? You know,
keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer. I think
so either way, way better than Joe al Baboso Biden's
open border fiesta. Right, that's the bottom line. Now, if
we shift gears from the home front a little bit overseas,
(09:45):
I want you to take a look at what I'm
looking at here where you're talking about.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
The Save Act. Now, the Save Act is an election
integrity measure. And I believe this is gonna be the
talk of the next ten days. So you're gonna see
a lot of old videos.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Of twenty twenty elections stealing, lots of increased rhetoric around that,
lots of fresh attacks that people that said otherwise, you know,
attacking Obama, attacking Clinton, attacking Biden, right, bringing ripping off
the scab too early. We want that old wound to bleed.
(10:28):
Why so that people have it fresh in their mind,
so that when it's time for the United States Congress
and the Senate to vote on the Save Act, they
feel fresh pressure from the American people. That's the only
way they're gonna respond and react is if they feel
that pressure, if they know people are watching, if they
know that, you know, Trump ha just tweeted ten videos
in a row about this. He must be doing something.
(10:49):
He must be up to something. Exactly what he's up
to is promoting the Save Act and this is a
chance for a good legislation to go through. And I
think think that's part of a President Trump's strategy from
playing the that the Lion sleeps tonight, controversial stuff that
people have been talking about.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
It's a little AI video.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Anything, anything he can throw out there, He's going to
throw it out there so that today, Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
up until super Bowl, people are talking about that. Super
Bowl is gonna switch switch gears of course and bring
a lot of people into the fold with the conversation
on illegal immigration and the bad body conversation. His concert
(11:34):
at his halftime show, at the super Bowl and all
that stuff.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
Right, that's going to.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Dominate Monday and Tuesday, probably maybe even Wednesday. Right, it's
going to be a big deal. All that anti ice
sentiment that's going to be built up there, and whatever
associated protests happened, Trump's reaction to that, all of it. Now,
I wouldn't be surprised if something goes down between the
United States and Iran in that timeframe, because Trump's been
(12:00):
giving lots of warnings and he loves to suck all
the air out of the room, if you know what
I mean. Right, He's just great at it. So they're
like bad Bunny, super Bowl, this and that. Trump I
had to detonate military targets in Iran because we had
actionable intelligence and that's it. Boom, Right, he knows how
to change the narrative, and good for him for knowing
(12:23):
how to do it.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
Anyway, what else.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Do we got here? We got a couple other stories here.
The Winter Olympics are happening. I don't know if that's
the whole thing that we're going to get into. Louisiana's
teacher of the Year got busted for indecent behavior with
a former student whoa.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
That's crazy. That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
You know.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
I used to have a friend, Austin Wright. He used
to say that.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
I just found out a couple of weeks ago in
a text exchange I had with James O'Keefe. Oh, kisselminers
will shut out to James O'Keefe that our buddy Austin
Right passed away. So my condolences to Austin. That's crazy.
Austin Right, and man, God rest his soul. He was
a lot younger than me, so gone too soon. Godspeed
(13:12):
to him and his family. My thoughts, prayers, and condolences
theyre with everybody, And let me see, I think that's
all I had for now. Oh, there's some beef bruin
in New York City about freezing funds to New York.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
Maybe we'll get into that.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Plus, ma'm Donnie taking sides, going with the guy who
tried to stab the cops but instead ended up getting
shot by the cops. You can't make this stuff up anyway.
You got to keep it locked right here, like I said,
Lieutenant Colonel Tony Shaeffer joining us a little bit. We've
got calls if you want to give us a call.
Eight seven seven Valdez one some audio clips.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
That are queued up.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
I got a lot night. I forgot how to talk today. Anyway,
all that's coming up and more so, keep it locked
right here. There is more to come straight ahead. I'm
Rich Valdez.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
This is America.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
This is a Marion, all right, he goes, Welcome back,
It's Rich Valdez, Valdess.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
I'm Rich Valdez.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
On all of the social media, Welcome, and again, thank
you for your reviews of the program. I've seen a
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you for sharing the show. I see our numbers are
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Speaker 6 (14:39):
Keep doing that.
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We need to continue sustained growth, especially if we're going
to inform enough people to win these midterms, right and
to make sure our voices are heard in those midterm elections,
which yes, are less than what eleven ten months away.
So man, we've got a lot ahead of us. But
I want to get into some of this audio I've got.
(15:01):
I got plenty of stuff that you want to hear.
And sometimes, you know, I do more talking than clip
playing because well because you know I've got stuff to say,
but this is stuff I think that you absolutely need
to hear, pretty important stuff.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
And let me see where we start.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
I guess we should start with President Trump. All this
magnus was at Mara a Lago on Monday, and he
had a lot to say and a lot of good things.
I mean, we've got him, We've got Lindsey Graham weighing
in on the Ayatola. We also have Secretary of Rubio.
(15:39):
But I want to start here with President Trump. If
I can get this cut, can we get number two
queued up?
Speaker 6 (15:45):
Please?
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Number two says here on my cut sheet. Number two
is Trump at Mara a Lago. Aron's leader threatens predictable
deal and says it's possible, but we'll find out. So
do we have President Trump? So yes, no, maybe, so
let me know, let me know, go on once, let
me know, going twice. Okay, But we can go with
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the leader of Iran as well, or we could go Trump.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
Let's let's give that Trump a shot. Thank you, sir,
go for that.
Speaker 8 (16:18):
Sure. Iran as free leader today said that's part o
regional war. Giving you a compent yer, wouldn't you say that?
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Of course you didn't say that, But we have the
biggest most golf for ships in the world over there,
very close a couple of days.
Speaker 8 (16:33):
And hopefully we'll make a deal.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
We don't make a deal, then we'll find out whether
or not he was right.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
You gotta love as Trump, beto, keeping it real, keeping
the gangster right, just letting them know, Hey, look, yeah,
maybe he's right. Maybe we are starting a war. Hopefully
we're not. Maybe we'll make a deal. I loved Trump,
You gotta I said it before and I'll say it again.
I learned this from him and others that are, you know,
great negotiators. You have to know how to work. You
have to be willing to walk away, all right. You
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can't negotiate with a fear of of of a bluff,
but not actually willing to walk away.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
You've got to be able to walk away.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
There has to be a consequence for for you or
for the other person, or for both, a mutual consequence
if they're not willing to play ball. Now we've got
this other clip here kind of goes hand in hand.
This is Abbas Aragi Orgi A R. A. G. H. C.
(17:31):
Hi Araghi. He's an Iranian foreign minister and this is
him on Monday going into Sunday. Monday, Yeah, yeah, Monday,
I guess Sunday going into Monday saying we're prepared for
negotiations and war. How about that around playing tough, go.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
Right ahead.
Speaker 9 (17:53):
About the United States. We've said this many times before,
and I repeat once again about the Islamic Republic of
your own, just as it is ready for negotiations, is
also ready for war. We are more prepared than before
the Twelve Day War. And just like in that period,
we responded to aggressors with the strengths, they will be
the same this time.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
Does all right?
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Now, my arrogant American self thinks that these guys they
got nothing, they don't have a pot to piss and
who are they kidding? But in reality, they control the
whole country right in the Middle East that they took
from the Persians. They've you know, excommunicated the Christians. So
you can't sell these crazy Mula guys short too quick, right,
(18:36):
You've got to kind of take them at their word
and say, all right, you've got a little something going on,
then you've got a little something going on. But Lindsey Graham,
Lindsey Graham waiting on this as well, and he says, no, no, no,
We've got we have no friend in the Iatoline. We've
got to keep every option on the table. You know,
Senator Graham never met a war.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
He didn't love. Listen to this.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
One thing.
Speaker 10 (18:59):
You can't do as president. Talk like Reagan and act
like Obama. There's no deal to be done here. These
people are not trustworthy. The protesters in the street are
not protesting for a better nuclear deal. They're protesting for
a better life. And if they win the day, we
have a chance to have friends with the people of Iran.
(19:20):
The I Tola will never be our friend. He's a
religious Nazi. President Trump, you said help is on the way.
That has to be real.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
It has to be.
Speaker 10 (19:28):
Real soon, do it, mister president. The people of Iran
are begging you to be on their side. You have
done it so good. You are a Reagan plus. This
is the defining moment in your presidency. Stand by the people.
The Iola falls, the region changes bigger than the fall
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of the Berlin Wall. No more international terrorists. This regime
has American blood on it sins since nineteen seventy nine.
You got the hoodies, You've got Hezblah killing a Americans.
Bring this regime down because the people want it down.
You know, I have to invade the country. But help
on the way means military strikes against the infrastructure that
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is killing the Iranian people. Go after the ones who
are killing the people. Put this regime on notice. We're
never going to let up strangle their economy. It will fall,
the people will take over, and over time we will
have a friend in Iran, not an enemy. Has blajamas,
the hoodies all fall. The biggest thing you could possibly
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ever do to the Mid East is take this regime down, all.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Right, mincing no words right, making it very clear, Senator
Lindsey Graham, We've got to take this regime down. So
does that mean taking out the Supreme Leader, taking out
the Isatola, taken out maybe the Malas?
Speaker 6 (20:52):
Who do we got to take out? How do we
take do we take out anybody? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Something in my gut tells me that we're going to
hit the weekend. We're gonna get into super Bowl mode.
People are gonna want to watch some football and we're
gonna have some sort of strike.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
Not from them, I think from us. I think trum.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Pito's gonna say, all right, I'm here at this stadium,
bad bunny. It's actually not so bad, but it's okay.
He hits me on ice, so we're gonna hit him back,
and we're gonna hit him back like we hit around.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
Oh did I say that out loud?
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Okay, we've just hit around, I guess, and break in
some news here, folks, something to that effect.
Speaker 10 (21:28):
Right.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
I think Trumpita will let him have it. We'll see again.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
I'm not a neocon, but hawkish I am so unlike
Lindsay Grahmm. I won't say I've never met a war
I didn't like, but there's certain people where I think
war is the only way right. Military force is the
only type of response that that works with certain people. Anyway,
I got some audio from Marco Rubio. I've got this
clip from Eric Roberts on IRAN because something that before
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we get to the Roberts something Lindsey Graham said, let's
go after the people killing people in the streets. You
turn on Twitter, you go through a scroll through Instagram.
All you're going to see his video after video of
people getting shot. You see these cops, the IRGC guys,
they're on motorcycles, mopeds and whatnot. The guy two officers
on one bike and the guy on the back pulls
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out a rifle. Prah, just start shooting people. People walking
down the sidewalk. They weren't even running, right, they weren't
even agitating. They were just walking down the street and
they got shot dead. That's what's going on in Ron.
That's not cool. It's not cool at all. Right, So
I understand the pressure that we're seeing. Come on on
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the White House to take action, right. He said, help
was on the way. Let's go, let's get that help
on the way. And most of Hollywood's been silent on this.
When it was Free Palestine, they weren't silent. They were
making all sorts of noise. But one guy, the brother
of Julia Roberts, Eric Roberts, he is making some noise.
(23:03):
And I think that's pretty commendable personally. Now I got
the clip right here, is it ready to go?
Speaker 10 (23:11):
All?
Speaker 11 (23:12):
Right?
Speaker 4 (23:13):
This is Eric Roberts, Hollywood actor, weighing in on Iran
and the atrocities that are occurring in the streets.
Speaker 8 (23:20):
The massacre that has taken place in Iran is beyond comprehension,
truly unimaginable. Young beautiful girls and boys, educated and innocent
are being shot in the streets for one simple reason.
They're god given right to freedom. For the past forty
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seven years, the current regime in Iran has destroyed a
beautiful country with one of the world's most ancient and
richest histories. The people of Iran are the.
Speaker 12 (23:54):
Complete opposite of their government. They're loving, polite, educated, and
hospitable two people from all over the world, especially the
American people. You must be their voice as their internet
has been shut down for almost a month.
Speaker 8 (24:14):
Through darkness and silence. The people of Iran are pleading
for help from the international community to stop the continued
killing of innocent civilians, carried out in the most brutal
ways imaginable, reminiscent of humanity's darkest chapters. We strongly support
the Iranian people and are heartbroken by the atrocities committed
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by this brutal regime. The killing must stop now. This
brutal dictatorship must be changed at the ballot box through
total freedom and accountability, allowing the people of Iran to
choose the secular government of their own will.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
He's right.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
We have to be able to choose what's best for them.
And again, are we the police of the world. Yeah,
in many ways we are. I mean, if who else
are you gonna call? Right, Russia, China? Do we want
them to call those guys? All right, those guys might
come and help the wrong guys. So I think we're
the only people that they could call for any help.
(25:21):
The question is, is this gonna be like the Kurds
all over again, where people were upset with Trump for
quote unquote abandoning the Kurds. This time he said help
was on the way. This time he said We're gonna
ask Elon Musk to get you internet. I don't know
if either of those things have happened yet, but I
will say it seems like time is of the essence.
It seems like people are dying. And I'm not saying
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Trump's dragging his feet, but I am saying He's likely
being met with some obstacles that are slowing him down.
And I don't know that this is a time for
slowing down when you got people dying.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
Let's wrap up this clip.
Speaker 8 (25:55):
I will do anything short of harming another to prevent
one more act of violence in Iran, in the US,
anywhere everywhere. What will you do?
Speaker 6 (26:12):
What will you do?
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Eric Roberts is putting himself out there, one of the
few in the Hollywood left to actually make a statement
against this. I'm all for it. Listen, I'm all in.
I mean, I'm not saying to draft me, I'm gonna
go fighting Iran.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
I'm not saying that.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
What I am saying is I support what's going on,
and I support switching things up. I support keeping the
right people safe and doing what we can because ultimately
the show must go on, including in Iran.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
Keep it locked right here on britchfeldees.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
This is America, This is America. He's got the best
head of hair and podcasting. This is America with rich
valdeis all right.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
I mean he goes, welcome back, Rich Vald's keeping your
company here. And I want to get into a little
bit of what Marco Rubio had to say Secretary of
State Rubio, because I think that the impact of Marco
Rubio's leadership should not be lost on anybody, it shouldn't
be minimized in any way. Marco Rubio's impact across multiple
continents is the type of impact that influence quite frankly,
(27:26):
I can't say I've seen from a secretary of state
in my lifetime, and that's just you know, again, I'm
forty seven, so I thought there were a lot of
effective secretaries of state, but none that were really firing
on all cylinders. In tandem with the Trump agenda, where
you know, Trump's running a million miles an hour and
(27:48):
so is Rubio, and they're bringing about the change we've seen.
You know, nobody's shouting free Palestine, because I contend Trump
freed Palestine in large part, and they're headed towards a
peaceful resolution. Hostages have been freed. We're talking about Iran
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that's on the table, not to mention the other eight
or nine wars that he's ended in places like Congo
and others. So I'm not hating. I'm on board. And
we got this clip here, Secretary of Rubio, are you
ready for it?
Speaker 6 (28:28):
All right?
Speaker 11 (28:28):
I hit It provided revenues to some corrupt regime officials,
but in the long term has created real destabilization, not
for just them, by the way, but also for Columbia.
Speaker 6 (28:37):
Just understand something.
Speaker 11 (28:38):
The fark dissidents and the ELN operate with impunity from
Venezuelan territory they control Venezuelan territory, and some of that
was through deals with individuals aligned with the regime because
they made money off of that. But we don't think
that that's in the long term interest. And what's been
expressed to us by leaders of the intraim authorities is
that they agree.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
And now we're going to just say to public the devil.
Speaker 11 (28:58):
In the short term, it provided revenues to some corrupt
regime officials.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
So that Secretary of Rubio talking about what's happening with Venezuela,
with Colombia, with Cuba. Really there's a lot of things
in the nexus there of these geopolitical players, but basically
talking about the the remnants of the Chavez regime, right
(29:24):
that Maduro took over, their alignment with cartels, with FARC.
Speaker 6 (29:31):
Right, this is the FARC.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
They actually tried to kill Rudy Giuliani when he was
a United States attorney. So these are bad ombraids, bad ombraids.
Like Trump would say, the Fusas Armas revolucis Colombianos, right,
I think that's what FARK stands for, and he's saying
that they operate with impunity because of Colombia's complicity. So
(29:58):
This kind of goes back to that conversation that I
was posing earlier. And we're going to get some input
on this from Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaeffer, former Trump campaign
national security advisor, as well as a retired lieutenant colonel
in Army intelligence. But very interesting stuff to see how
(30:20):
this is going on. He's basically pointing out their chess game,
how they pull their three card Monty, how they do
exactly what they do. Question is now for everything to
be implemented, and it looks to me like it's happening.
And I'm going to dare and go out on a
limb here briefly, a little political limb, and say that
(30:43):
I see Marco Rubio making all sorts of impact. And again,
these contributions very meaningful. These are not meaningless things like
you know, changing a garage door. This is not you know,
if it ain't broke, don't fix it, right. These are
things that are incredibly broken, and Marco Rubio is bringing
(31:09):
about that leadership, that surprise, that that remedy that was needed,
and it truly is refreshing. Anyway, I want to hear
from you, guys. I want to hear your thoughts. I
know there's a number of people that have called in
that want to get on. Let me see. I say,
we got a call here from New York. I can't
(31:30):
quite make out the name. Go right ahead, upstate New
York Albany area.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
Go right ahead.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
Now not coming through for some reason. Maybe they're on mute.
All right, well tell them to get off mute. Give
us a call back. Might be our friend Jane. I
know Jane is up in that area of Saratoga, New York,
Albany area. Shout out to mister Vandenberg and company. But anyway, Jane,
if that was you, give us a call back. I
(32:00):
feel somebody else give us a call back. You know
the phone numbers eight seven seven Valdes one, eight seven
seven Valdes one. Let's see who else? Can we go
to my man TONI, my man TONI wants to call.
It's got something to say. Let's put Tony on ahead,
bring him up. What do we have bat in a
(32:29):
thousand here today? What's going on? Let's try that again.
Let's go to Tony. Please thank you.
Speaker 13 (32:37):
Ah right, it's Tony from Montreal. I just want to
bring your attention. A group of activists in Montreal say
that they have robbed a Montreal grocery store in what
they describe as robin Hood inspired political act targeting corporate
grocery interests. In other words, corporation that run foodstores are profiteers,
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and therefore they steal from the corporations, and the SPBM
Montreal police do nothing to arrest them, and then they
go distribute the food to the poor of Montreal in
certain housing projects as if they were robin Hood, and
they call themselves robin Hood of the streets.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Unbelievable, Robinhood of the streets, Thank you, tony. And you
know what's interesting about this is that everybody tries to
be some sort of Robinhood. I mean, that's like the
essence of Marxism, trying to rob from the rich to
give to the poor. This idea that you know, if
we take away from the the bourgeoisie, then the proletariat
(33:43):
will be better off. And if we you know, we
paint this this color, then that color won't be as jealous.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
Or you know, if I eat this, then you won't
get hungry.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
It doesn't work that way, right, doesn't matter whether you're
dealing with paint or with food or with anything. Doesn't work.
Socialism doesn't work. These are failed policies that have no
place in our society. And the government run grocery stores.
That's like a dream, Tony. This is a dream for
(34:14):
mister Mam Donnie, right, Mam Donnie absolutely loves that. He
loves this idea. And he's that guy, he's the guy
that does press conferences where he he takes on the side,
taken up for the bad guys. I saw the video.
You got some sort of mental breakdown in a home.
(34:37):
I think it's a wife or a daughter with a man,
maybe her father, maybe her husband, I don't know, but
a woman and a man. She clearly is not afraid
of the man because it looks like she knows he
has a mental problem. But the police are in her
house and they're like, sir, just relax, And he grabs
a knife, a kitchen knife, and he's right next to
this woman. What are you supposed to do? Call the
(35:00):
social workers, call the mayor. This man ended up getting
shot because he came at the police with a knife
in his hand, right next to somebody he could have
taken into the hostage. Now granted from the video, it
didn't look like he wanted to harm her in that
it looked like he wanted to harm the cop, So
we can all play could have, would have, should have?
You know, I talked to somebody the other day that
I feel is above average intelligence. They were telling me
(35:24):
how the cop and the renee this is just a
separate aside, but along the same lines For the point
I want to make, He says he felt that the
cop and the renee good should have moved aside that,
given their training, should have been more agile and been
able to move. And all I could say was I
think most cops likely would have done the same thing.
(35:48):
I believe because the man was hit pretty hard, and
I don't think that's even the determination, right. They don't
teach you in the police academy, Hey, if a car
is coming at you and you think it's just gonna
kind of hit your thigh a little bit, then don't
shoot right. Radio for backup or something like let them
run you over, right, or let them hit you your
(36:08):
leg because you're moving out of the way. But if
you know, if they run you over, then it's okay
to shoot them. Obviously, if you're run over, you can't
shoot them. And this guy was gonna wait for this
guy to stab too many people, even if he was
trying to, you know, scare the cop that worked cop
got scared and shot him. And Mamdani, the mayor of
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New York, of course, he decides that it's a good
idea to support not the not the police, who were,
you know, trying to save somebody and enforce the law,
but instead to support the stabber, right, the knife wielding suspect.
Speaker 6 (36:59):
I just thought that was so bizarre.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Chuckerworthy family and I visited Javis in the hospital, and
there is no family should have to endure this kind
of pain.
Speaker 11 (37:18):
The Knight dow, What did night doooo?
Speaker 13 (37:24):
What the Knight down?
Speaker 5 (37:25):
What the Knight do? What the Knight do?
Speaker 2 (37:29):
And as you said, I spoke with the Chuckerworthy family
and I visited Javis in the hospital, and there is
no family should have to endure this kind of pain.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
And listen, I can agree with those words and say
that nobody should have to deal with that. This woman,
I don't know if that was her husband, her dad,
or brother. He looks like a relatively young man, but
he looked crazy. The cops shut the door in front
of him, but it was a glass door. Maybe he
was going to get through. Maybe not again, it was
a glass door, it wasn't a solid wooden door, and
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the guy ended up getting shot.
Speaker 6 (38:05):
What do you expect the cop to do? Run away?
Speaker 4 (38:09):
Is this why we train our cops to run away
from dangerous situations? You know, the whole thing is bad there.
Sometimes these things are not open and shut. They are,
in my opinion, in the term of the officer. The
officer has a split second decision to make, and typically
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they side with how they're training taught them, because this
is what they train for. Guy coming at you with knife,
drop the knife, drop the knife, drop the knife. How
many times do you tell him to drop the knife
when he's clearly coming to kill you? Right, that's the
only logical outcome. Can't say, Well, he just wanted really
to threaten me. He was hoping that we'd.
Speaker 6 (38:50):
Leave his house.
Speaker 4 (38:51):
Okay, Well you're there saying you're the police, and the
guy's got a knife and there's a lady there. Maybe
he goes does the cop in, and then turns back
to the wife and oh, so you called the cops, hon,
then he wants to jig her up. It doesn't work
that way, right, different story here, but same point. Things
only work a certain way anyway. I don't want to
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ramble too much because again there's still plenty more and
I know we have our guest that's coming up right now.
So let's take a pause right here, come right back
with Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaeffer from Project Sentinel, from the
London Center, and from so many other.
Speaker 6 (39:29):
Places, you know, from Newsmax TV. He's always on. He's
a great guy and I always enjoy my conversations with him.
Don't go anywhere. I'm Rich Aldees.
Speaker 5 (39:37):
This is America. This is America.
Speaker 10 (39:44):
The forty fifth President Donald Trump thinks it's an honor
to speak with Rich Valdez.
Speaker 5 (39:50):
Oh, very good, Rich.
Speaker 6 (39:54):
The honor is all yours. Conservative talk with a dad HIV.
Now here's Rich Valdez.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
Now here's what I see around the world. This is
based on unclassified information but also classified information that I
have that access to. President She and China Putin and Russia,
the Altole in Iran have formed a partnership uh President
She and China is the managing partner. Their Their objective
(40:29):
is to have Russia dominate Central and Eastern Europe, to
have the Eyetoa in Iran dominate the Middle East, to
have Russia dominate the Indo Pacific with freedom to Rome
in Sub Saharan Africa and South America, and both Russia
and China want to want to control the Arctic in space.
(40:50):
Now that's not a world say for America. I don't
want America to be the world's policeman. But I don't
want sijiing King or our Putin or the Iya told
one to be.
Speaker 4 (41:04):
That Senator John Kennedy from Louisiana, and I want to
bring in our guests because this guy knows what's going
on and he knows where all the bodies are buried.
He's a former spy, he's the head of a Project Sentinel,
and he's I mean, he's all over the place. Tony Schaeffer,
Lieutenant Colonel, Welcome back, sir.
Speaker 7 (41:22):
Hey Rich. Always great to join you.
Speaker 4 (41:23):
Thanks for having me, Yes, sir, talk to me, sir
about your thoughts here on what Senator John Kennedy is saying.
Speaker 6 (41:29):
I think I agree with what he's saying. Your thoughts.
Speaker 7 (41:33):
Well, I think that there's a lot of things that
have to be taken care of regarding national security, and
many of those things are a bit complicated. So I
think that, you know, we're seeing at president who actually
understands how to use the multiple assets the US government
has to focus on achieving specific outcomes. So you know,
(41:56):
some of this stuff is going to be a bit
dicey at times, but for the most part, I think
we're making really good progress and bringing you know, an
American flavor that you know, the donro doctor into the
to the things we have to get done. And I
think I think it's good.
Speaker 4 (42:10):
Yeah, listen, I agree with you, and I think that
what Senator Kennedy is saying is, you know, very basic,
rudimentary stuff. But this deal or this pact that these uh,
this access of evil has you know, the Ayatola and
and chijin Ping and and putin this is not I
hadn't heard of them divvying up the territory as such before.
(42:30):
But it makes a lot of sense. And it makes
all the more sense why the President's making the moves
he's making on Greenland.
Speaker 6 (42:36):
How much of a player is Iran these days?
Speaker 4 (42:40):
Where in my estimate, and again I'm gonna put some
stuff out there. You you shut down what you can,
but it looks to me like the people of Iran
are fed up, and we're doing as much as we
can covertly, clandestinely to help them to become free so
they can choose their fate.
Speaker 6 (42:56):
Uh does that sound right?
Speaker 7 (42:58):
Yeah. So part of the problem with the Obama and
Biden years was that they were rewarding the bad behavior
of Iran. They were doing things to be complacent as
well as fund them. I mean, you know, rich, when
you're sending them literally aircraft full of palettes of dollar bills,
that's not really helping counter terrorize the region, just saying so.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
That.
Speaker 7 (43:20):
Plus, we're never not enforcing sanctions. There was a series
of international sanctions that Iran was able to basically ignore
and sell their oil. And one of the things President
Trump right now is doing is putting pressure on Iran
to stop selling oil to certain countries, which you know,
like China, so we're not allowing the bad behavior to continue.
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We've used a combination of economic methods such as seizing
oil tankers, the shadow tankers, as well as military forces.
We've seen we won that to the nukeletive facilities directly.
And the one thing about President Trump they do know
is he's not bluffing when he talks about the potentially
he smeltery force. It's kind of like, if you don't
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actually deal with us, you know, through commerce and diplomacy,
you're going to have to suffer a consequence. So it's
kind of the to use a Latino term, the option
is the lead or the silver, and I think obviously
we're trying to give them the silver if they're willing
to take it. And one of the quick notes on Iran. Yeah,
(44:27):
one of the quick note on Iran is that the
Iranian people are not Arabs, They're Persians. Persians are traditionally
more aligned in culture with Europe, and so the population,
the ninety two million population of Iran are fed up
with having to live in this Sharia rich mola run environment.
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So and when you combine that with no goods for
the merchant classes, and that's what resulted in the last uprising.
No water to drink because of bad choices regarding crop
crop a focus, and then your economy having the low
you know, your your money being virtually worthless. These conditions
still exist and they will continue to exist and I
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think will result in the end of the current the
current government of Iran.
Speaker 4 (45:17):
He goes, We're on with Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaeffertny Tony
Schirfer is not only retired from the military with a
focus on intelligence, but he also served as President Trump's
national security advisor on his twenty twenty campaign. And I
want to get your take, sir on on.
Speaker 6 (45:36):
I guess how much longer?
Speaker 2 (45:37):
You know?
Speaker 4 (45:37):
This is really speculative, but I'm just interested in seeing it.
Seems like, you know, the United States is saying, you know,
take it easy, because we're coming after you.
Speaker 6 (45:45):
We're going to put sanctions on you, We're putting pressure.
Speaker 4 (45:47):
And then they're turning around and they turned to Al
Jazeera in their network saying, ah, the Americans are full
of it. We're not killing anybody. But then ten videos
come out showing them running people over and grabbing people
off the streets. So obviously you know they're they're lie
through their teeth. But how much longer can that go on?
Speaker 7 (46:03):
Not much, so, Reuters were reported, and Ruters are not
conservative that the Mullas are very worried about the potential
use of military force. Now at the time we're speaking,
there's a mixed a series of reports coming out regarding
the meetings between the Trump administration that Iran apparently didn't
go very well because basically, the Iranians were told these
(46:26):
are the things we expect, and the didn't like it.
What that said, the Mullas are very worried the moment
we go after. What I've been told is about eighty targets,
the military targets that we're looking at hitting, primarily the
IRGC and the ability of the Mullas to maintain control.
The concern is we hit those targets and that may
be the green light for the opposition to move forward
(46:48):
and take control. So that's where we're at, and I
think the Mullas understand that the theocracy understands that they're
on very shaky territory. And that's why I think President
Trump's kind of trying to give them some time. He
did this last time too, He gave you some time
to think about it before we acted, and he's doing
the same thing again. Now.
Speaker 4 (47:06):
Now do you think this happens before or after the
Super Bowl or during, like right during the middle of
Bad Bunnies halftime?
Speaker 7 (47:13):
How do think it happens during the soap super Bowl?
Right now, We've got about four hundred Tomahawk missiles. That's
a that's that's from open press, not secret. And we've
got the military means to deliver a number of very
uh uh effective blows to their military infrastructure. So if
I if I read President Trump correctly, you may announce
(47:36):
it during the halftime show during the Super Bowl.
Speaker 6 (47:38):
Interesting.
Speaker 4 (47:39):
Huh oh wow, all right, cool, well, interesting to see
what happens.
Speaker 6 (47:43):
Now.
Speaker 4 (47:44):
What are some of the you know, if we've wor
gained this just a little bit, uh, Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaeffer,
if they decide to retaliate, I've been hearing you know,
some unconfirmed, very unconfirmed, like you know, rumors, rumblings, Twitter
reports and rants at they're thinking of striking something in
the Pacific as a you know, don't mess around, because
(48:06):
we will do this. Do you think there's a real possibility,
and I guess there's always a possibility, But do you
think there's a likelihood of something like that happening?
Speaker 7 (48:15):
No? I don't.
Speaker 2 (48:16):
So.
Speaker 7 (48:17):
One of the things we noted from January twenty twenty
when we took out Solamani, who was the leader of
the IRGC, there was two months of unmitigated whaling and
national teeth by our own neacons and left saying oh,
my god, they're going to a hack us. They never did. Yeah, yeah,
it never happened. So I think the same thing applies
(48:39):
again now, because you know, once Rich, Once, once you
realize if you're a Mola, and once you realize that
your amount of time left on earth is directly related
to how much you misbehave regarding the Americans, you tend
to rethink what you may do.
Speaker 6 (48:56):
Just saying you know, yeah makes sense.
Speaker 4 (48:58):
All right, I mean he goes coming right back with
Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaeffer. We're going to talk about the
visit of Gustavo Petro to the White House, what that
means for Columbia, what that means for South America, and
what the future of Venezuela looks like.
Speaker 6 (49:13):
All of that and more. Don't go anywhere. I'm Rich Valdez.
Speaker 1 (49:18):
This is America, this is America. He's brown, he's bald,
and he's breaking it down. Oh he's so has some
what's his day, Rich Valdez?
Speaker 6 (49:32):
All right for me?
Speaker 4 (49:33):
Now, welcome back, Rich Valdez, keeping your company and I
want to find out what's going on.
Speaker 6 (49:38):
To scoop the skinny.
Speaker 4 (49:39):
What's the real intel on what happened at that White
House visit with Gustavo Petro from the President of Columbia,
excuse me and President Trump and what we could expect
as a result of that, and how that's going to
shake things up in the region.
Speaker 10 (49:54):
Now.
Speaker 4 (49:54):
Of course, just as a preface here, this is the
same Gustavo Petro was singing the same song as Nicol Maduro, saying.
Speaker 6 (50:00):
Come and get me. You know where I'm at. I'm
right here.
Speaker 4 (50:03):
And you know that quickly changed after Madluda was in custody,
and then he changed to saying, you know what the
President has said, He requested the honor of my presence
at the White House. He was just so so kind
all of a sudden. So I want to get some
take on that, some analysis from the former national security
advisor to the Trump campaign from a retired lieutenant colonel
(50:24):
in the United States military. He knows more about intelligence
than I do about radio, that's for sure, Lieutenant Colonel
Tony Shaffer, Welcome back, sir.
Speaker 7 (50:32):
Hey, Richard's always enjoy our conversations.
Speaker 6 (50:34):
Yes, sir, me too.
Speaker 4 (50:35):
And let's dig into this here, because I don't know,
I mean, to me, it looks like there's a lot
of interrelated pieces geopolitically, with Venezuela, Colombia, the Mexican cartels,
as well as even China a little bit and with Cuba,
and a lot of this seems to be hanging in
the balance. All of it seems to be on Marco
(50:57):
Rubio's plate, and I think he's doing a pretty solid
job of managing this. Honestly, there's a lot of impact
from the United States, the Trump administration, and Marco Rubio
specifically in multiple continents. But as that results in this
meeting with President Petro of Columbia and President Trump, do
you rate it as significant as perfunctory?
Speaker 6 (51:18):
What are your thoughts?
Speaker 7 (51:19):
No, It's very significant. I think the President Columbia is
an aclade or at least was an achlyide of Maduro.
I mean, they were very closely aligned in their thinking
and politics, and he was taking talking big until Maduro
was taken out. So I think he's had to rethink
his own philosophy because he has seen that the United
States is using, like I mentioned earlier, the Donro doctrine,
(51:39):
a very muscular foreign policy and if you actually study
the history of the region, as you know, there was
Operation Just Cause in eighty nine when he went in
and took out Manuel Norjega of Panama as well as
one of the things which I think people tend to
forget but I actually remind people all the time is
my good friend Mark Bowden wrote a book called Killing Pablo.
(52:01):
He also wrote a book called a black Hawk Down,
so he's been very effective in documenting US military activities
and Killing Pablo is all about are going into Colombia
and assassinating Pablo Escobar, one of the drug BLIEUS. So
we have returned to being very you know, I don't
want to use the term militaristic, but it kind of
(52:23):
fits of dealing with individuals who are out to cause
harm to the United States. And so I think he's
he's seen the light, so to speak. Will that stick,
I don't know, but I think he does understand that
if Columbia kind of continues to function as a producer
of drugs that go into the United States, that works
(52:44):
to move them through Mexico. And by the way, we
do have a campaign plan right now to eliminate threats
in Mexico as well, which has not been I think
well documented yet, but it is ongoing. So I think
the President of Columbia recognizes that he had the changes
to and if he wants to survive and if this
country continued, wants to continue to be a favored trade
(53:06):
partner with the United States.
Speaker 4 (53:08):
Yeah, and now, Lieutenant Colonel Tony Shaffer, let me ask
you this because I think this is to me a
pivotal time in history.
Speaker 5 (53:15):
Right.
Speaker 4 (53:15):
I can't remember I was a little kid when the
Noriega stuff happened and all that stuff. I haven't seen
anything shaking up like that since. So if I look
at this, and you know, I am not an old
spy like you are, but I look at this, and
I think Trump picks up the phone and he's just
like you know, and you know, and he basically tells him, Hey,
(53:36):
you can make money with us selling oil, you can
make money with us on trade. You can make money
with us doing this, or we can go to war
if you want to go to war with.
Speaker 6 (53:44):
The United States.
Speaker 4 (53:45):
And I think in the past, you know, if that
came from a Biden or an Obama, the diplomacy was
too flowery, too soft, and they didn't believe it. I
feel like now they're like, man, I did this guy's nuts.
We should probably listen to him. What do you think, So.
Speaker 7 (54:00):
A certain degree of being crazy and unpredictable as a
specific effect on foreign policy, you are correct in your assessment.
And I think it's a good thing because you know,
Trump's just crazy enough to maybe go off and use
our military to accomplish a specific policy objective. And yeah,
it's and it's refreshing. And look just for you know,
you know, you and I are friends, and you Audis
(54:21):
should know that I'm not a neocon. I do not
believe in the use of imperial force for purposes of
up ending regimes. With that said, if regimes are doing
things that are detrimental to our interests or our people,
then I think we have a strong military for a
reason and we should use it. So I'm not saying
we should replace the president of Columbia. I'm just saying
(54:43):
Columbia should not be misbehaving in such a way that
causes you know, our citizens to die from drug overdoses
or for them to you know, flood our economy with
things which we don't believe are helpful to our citizens.
So it's a pretty clear choice, and President Trump is
choosing to use our military and diplomatic tools effectively to
(55:04):
achieve change which benefits the American people. America first doesn't
mean America only. It means we want to set up
conditions for us to benefit as well as our allies
to benefit.
Speaker 6 (55:15):
Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 4 (55:16):
Now, how does a lot of this stuff, if at all,
affect some of the other international crises that we're seeing.
Speaker 6 (55:24):
Do you think that Cuba?
Speaker 4 (55:26):
You know, I see reports they've got less than a
month of fuel left before they go dark completely. Do
you think that's an accurate assessment? And do you think
they're going to play ball DSKNW just on Monday set.
I'm willing to talk to the president, but not under
threat of pressure or anything like that.
Speaker 7 (55:41):
Well, the pressure is already there. Rich, So, before Maduro
was taken, Venezuela was providing about thirty thousand barrels of
oil to Cuba a month, of Mexico is giving about
forty thousand, a total of seventy and that's all been
cut off. Mexico dropped off too, So it's only a
(56:01):
matter of time. Any economy, even one is depleted and
backwards as Cuba only it can only goes along without energy,
just saying so, uh, yeah, I think the chances are
pretty good. You're going to see a collapse of that regime.
And I think Marco Rubio and company are planning for
contingencies to actually help Cuba come out of the economic
dark hole that communism put them in.
Speaker 4 (56:22):
Yeah, good thing. It's a beautiful place of great weather
and they have a lot of upside.
Speaker 6 (56:26):
Right, oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 7 (56:28):
So look the book Key West is about to benefit
from a big you know, economic boom of being probably
the jump off point of Anna just saying.
Speaker 4 (56:37):
Yeah, now if we look at what's going on in
Tony shaper world, talk to me about the London Center,
Project Center and all everything else you're involved in.
Speaker 6 (56:47):
What's new, what's cooking, What's what do we what do
we need to know?
Speaker 7 (56:52):
Well, project centing, we always have, you know, creative thought
pieces regarding what we ought to be doing to restore
our nation, from energy to commerce to military to constitutional
guidance that I think the founding fathers were thought of
and otherwise, you know, my job is to kind of
support the ideas of common sense and people can check
(57:13):
me out, follow me on exit tea spooky and then
obviously you know I've worked for newsbacks and we're always
trying to put out new information and break over there
as well. So we're we are just working to support
the basic direction of the Trump policies, which I do
believe will make America great as well as our allies.
Speaker 4 (57:31):
Outstanding folks, give him a follow. He's terrific and he's
very pithy. I love his sarcastic tweets. You should definitely
give him a follow. At tea spooky Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaeffer.
I appreciate you, thanks for your service, thanks for being
here today.
Speaker 7 (57:44):
Sure, thank you, Rich always, great being on.
Speaker 4 (57:45):
With you, you bet, godspeed, Thank you all right, outstanding, sir,
thank you so much.
Speaker 7 (57:50):
Yeah, thank you Rich always. And I really do into
our conversation. So thanks for having.
Speaker 4 (57:53):
Me too, Me too. We'll do it again soon. I
want you to check out our brand new studios here
in Times Square. I mean those that's Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaeffer.
Thank you, sir, gentlemen, scholar and a patriot and amgos.
Keep it locked right here, coming right back. Final thoughts.
Speaker 1 (58:08):
This is America, this is America.
Speaker 5 (58:19):
He's making podcasting great again. This is America with Rich Valdez.
Speaker 4 (58:27):
All right, amigos, we're talking about the National Prayer Breakfast tomorrow.
Make sure you don't miss that, as well as the
Friday Night conversation. That's gonna be a doozy. You're going
to enjoy that one. We're gonna talk about well, just
about everything that's going on this week, plus just lots
of things that are going to be happening, a little
super Bowl preview from the cultural perspective. You know what's
(58:49):
expect at the turning point event, et cetera, et cetera,
et cetera. And I'll leave you hanging on that note,
of course, looking forward to your calls. Make sure you
give me a call eight seven seven vow desks one.
But for now, I bid you adieu, and I say
you've got to stand for something, because if you stand
for nothing, you'll fall for anything. And the only thing
necessary for evil to triumph is for good people like
(59:10):
you to sit there and do nothing. So do something,
because America needs you more now than she's ever needed you.
Before I start approxima, I take care, good night, and
God bless you America.
Speaker 6 (59:20):
I'm Rich Valdes, and this is America.
Speaker 5 (59:24):
This is America.
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