Maduro in court, MN Gov. Walz quits, Mamdani sworn-in

On Monday, Rich updates us on Narco-trafficker Nicolas Maduro's arraignment in court and the media fallout. Then, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has quit his re-election campaign, likely because of all the fraud that has occurred on his watch. Plus, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani was sworn in last week, and Curtis Sliwa joins us to react.

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Your host, Rich Valdez.

Speaker 5 (00:27):
What's up America.

Speaker 4 (00:28):
I am Rich Valdes Valdez with an ask that Rich
Valdez on all of the social media. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome,
Monday night edition of the program. Happy to be back
with you guys. It's truly a blessing. And I want
to get into a bunch of stuff tonight because there's
so much going on right over the weekend. I tapped
in real quick to do a little quick addendum on
the Friday show so that you could be up to

(00:49):
speed on the Maluru arrest.

Speaker 5 (00:51):
Right. But there's more now.

Speaker 4 (00:53):
Nicholas Madudo has been brought to court right here in
New York City, and that's interesting. Plus we're gonna we
almost like sidestepped this whole thing of Zoram Mamdani getting
sworn in.

Speaker 5 (01:04):
Right, I'm going to get to that.

Speaker 4 (01:06):
We're going to talk about that with none other than
Curtis Sleeway's going to join us a little bit to
break that down for us. I had a good talk
with him on Friday, and I want you to hear
some of that. But I want to talk about everybody
that's up in arms, right, because the Venezuelan is large
and large part all over the country, in Miami and
New York, even in other parts of the world, dancing

(01:26):
in the streets.

Speaker 5 (01:26):
Everybody's thrilled.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
However, many on the political left in our country not
so happy, right, covering their faces, grabbing their cafia and
taking to the streets to complain that Nicholas Maludo has
been kidnapped.

Speaker 5 (01:40):
It was Joe Biden and.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
Kim Malaids, the Vice President of the United States, right,
Kamala Harris that put a twenty five million dollar bounty
on Nicholas Malulu. Right, it was not President Trump. Let's
not forget who did that. And yet it was Kamala
Harris that was taking shots President Trump for doing this,
saying that this was unlawful, and Secretary Rubio on the

(02:04):
Sunday Shows. I think this one's with Margaret Brennan on CBS,
setting the record straight, check this out.

Speaker 7 (02:10):
I think what the president's saying is very simple, and
that is, as president of United States, he is not
going to go around telling people what he's not going
to do.

Speaker 6 (02:16):
He's going to do. He's not going to go around
saying I won't do this, I won't do that.

Speaker 7 (02:20):
Yes, I care about this issue, but I'll only go
so far he retains all this optionality. In the particular
case you're citing, this was an essence at its core,
a law enforcement function. Okay, the Department of Justice, dating
back in the Biden administration that had a twenty five
million dollar reward for his capture. So we have a
reward for his capture, but we're not going to enforce it.
That's the difference between President and Trump and everybody out.

Speaker 4 (02:41):
Then Secretary Rubio made his way over to NBC with
Kristen Welker and she started grilling him, saying, well, it
was a complete failure in essence, right like many on
the left a saying the critics of the president are
now saying, you only took out Madudo, but you left
all the other bad guys there.

Speaker 5 (02:57):
What gives check this out.

Speaker 8 (02:59):
I need to take over the Venezuelan oil industry.

Speaker 7 (03:02):
Well, we don't need to the first let me go
back up. We don't need Venezuela's oil. We have plenty
of oil in the United States. What we're not going
to allow is for the oil industry in Venezuela to
be controlled by adversaries.

Speaker 6 (03:13):
Of the United States.

Speaker 7 (03:14):
You have to understand, why does China need their oil,
Why does Russia need their oil, Why does Iron need
their oil? They're not even in this continent. This is
the Western Hemisphere. This is where we live, and we're
not going to allow the Western Hemisphere to be a
base of operation for adversaries, competitors and rivals of the
United States.

Speaker 9 (03:29):
That specific oil cos we also.

Speaker 7 (03:31):
Want to see that oil and the proceeds from it
hold on. We want to see the oil proceeds of
that country benefit the people of Venezuela. Why have eight
million people left Venezuela. Eight million, the single largest mass
migration probably in modern history, left Venezuela's in twenty fourteen
because all the wealth of that country was stolen to
the benefit of Maduro and his cronies in the regime.
But not to the benefit of people of Venezuela. You

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know how destabilizing eight million migrants is.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
So again setting the records straight Mark or Rubio and
in another exchange, I think this is the one I
was talking about with Margaret Brennan. Can we get that
one cued up?

Speaker 5 (04:04):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (04:05):
Of course, she's curious as to why not everybody was
arrested to check this out.

Speaker 8 (04:09):
Curious because you just described the regime as still in place, essentially,
I mean, I'm curious why the Trump administration decided to
leave it intact and only arrest Nicholas Maduro and his wife.
The person who controls the police, the chief thug, dis
di Cabello. He's the Interior minister. He's been indicted by

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the United States. He was in that indictment the administration released.
He's a narco terrorist. There's a twenty five million dollar
price on his head. He's still in place. The Defense minister,
who is deep ties to Russia, fifteen million dollar price
on his head, he is still in place. I'm confused.
Are they still wanted by the United States? Why didn't

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you arrest them? If you are taking out the narco
terrorist regime.

Speaker 6 (04:56):
You're confused. I don't know why that's confusing. There's still
very simple. We're not going to go in and then
wrap up.

Speaker 7 (05:02):
You're gonna but yeah, but you can't go You're going
to go in and suck up five people. They're already
complaining about this one operation. Imagine the howls we would
have from everybody else if we actually had to go
and stay there four days to capture four other people.

Speaker 6 (05:15):
We got the top priority.

Speaker 7 (05:17):
The number one person on the list was the guy
who claimed to be the president of the country that
he was not, and he was arrested along with his wife,
who was also indicted. And that was a pretty sophisticated
and frankly complicated operation.

Speaker 6 (05:29):
It is not.

Speaker 7 (05:29):
Easy to land helicopters in the middle of the largest
military base in the country. The guy lived on a
military base, land within three minutes, kick down his door,
grab him, put him in handcuffs, read him his rights,
put him in a helicopter, and leave the country without
losing any American or any American assets. That's not an
easy mission. And you're asking me why didn't we do
that in five other places at the same time. I mean,

(05:50):
that's absurd. I do think this is one of the
most you know, daring, you know, complicated, sophisticated missions this
country has carried out in a very long time. Tremendous
credit to the US military personnel did it. It was
unbelievable and tremendous success. And today, an indicted drug trafficker
who was not the legitimate president of Venezuela, we don't recognize.

(06:13):
The Biden administration didn't recognize. Sixty something countries don't recognize,
the European Union doesn't recognize, and many countries in Latin
America don't recognize. He was a convicted He was an
indicted drug trafficker. He was arrested, his wife was arrested.

Speaker 8 (06:26):
Right, But the others, the others who are also indicted,
are still system of course, the others who are also
indicted are still in place. So that's the point of
my questioning there. But you talked about not being the
legitimate you wanted us to.

Speaker 6 (06:39):
Land on five other military bases.

Speaker 8 (06:41):
No, I'm asking why you chose that this was the
limit of the military operation. But to your point that
you just made that because Maduro was not the legitimate president.

Speaker 7 (06:50):
He was the guy was claiming to be the president, right, Well,
I'm cute.

Speaker 4 (06:55):
Right, yeah, listen, those are facts, right, this is a
real thing. It's easy to say that we should have
done this and we should have done that. The reality
is it is hard enough to pull these things off.
I understand that one hundred and fifty people were killed
in order to get to Maduru. One hundred and fifty people.
And they're not kidding when they say he lived on

(07:17):
a military base. He did, so they had to take
out their air capabilities. That's what all that bombing was.
There's a big deal. I'm going to bring in one
of our military people maybe tomorrow for tomorrow's show, just
to give us a walkthrough of what an operation like
this entails, because it is rather complicated, and I get it.
I would love to have seen all these people arrested.

(07:38):
I saw a Navy seal making some commentary and he said, look,
easy would have been to go in there and kill
them all in and out. Nobody sees you coming, nobody
sees you leave. But to go in there and take
them out unharmed is a way different operation. There's plenty
more I want to get into because I think that
this is the latest talking point that it was not
worth doing because it was you know, these other people
are also indicted at co conspirators and blah blah, while

(08:00):
they're still there. I think this lends itself really, really
well to the idea of everybody that's saying, oh, because
Trump wants regime change. No, clearly he doesn't want regime change.
The regime is still there bon right period the end.

Speaker 5 (08:10):
Now, a lot of people are upset about this, right Woopi.
Goldberg says it's illegal.

Speaker 4 (08:14):
Her colleague Anna Navarro from Nicaragua, who lives in South
Florida amongst the Venezuelans. She weighed in, also saying that
this is a very important thing. And this woman, you know,
she hates Trump.

Speaker 5 (08:27):
Listen to this.

Speaker 10 (08:28):
Oh, today for me is a good day because Maduro
is out. He is a son of a bitch. I
hope this sends a message to the other sons of
bitches in the region. You may disagree with the way
Trump did it, but it's done. There was no way
that there was going to end any other way because

(08:50):
once he started bombing votes, and we have we've we've
bombed boats and alleged drug boats and killed over one
hundred and fifteen people. I think Trump thought getting rid
of Madua was going to be easy and my door
was going to scare easily. He didn't. It took him
doing this, So yeah, he did it without congressional authorization.

(09:12):
This was an act of war, all of these things.
But it's now done. I think it doesn't escalate from
here because the objective of this was to get Maduro out.
So and certainly there's an oil component. Certainly there's a
lot of Trump ego in this about you know, being
able to do it.

Speaker 11 (09:31):
But it's done.

Speaker 10 (09:32):
And I told one, I am.

Speaker 4 (09:35):
Very happy that she's very happy. That's Anna Navarro. Now
her colleague from the view would be Goldworg.

Speaker 5 (09:45):
Can I say that again? Wood be Goldberg.

Speaker 4 (09:47):
She waited on this and said, listen, who actually voted
for this? Because apparently she's unhappy that this is going
on and she gets schooled yet again, well.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
Perhaps no one is going to miss a tyrant like Madruro.
Is this an illegal thing? I mean, who voted for this,
who said, hey, yeah, go on in there and.

Speaker 5 (10:08):
Do this, because originally wasn't it.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
We was concerned about the drugs coming in and out,
and yet he pardoned like a giant kingpin. And so
is what is this all about a question?

Speaker 9 (10:21):
Who voted for this?

Speaker 11 (10:22):
The people in South Florida, the Venezuelan community, the Cuban
American community, then koraj when American community voted for this,
and for us, this is a very, very happy day.
When we see a dictator who has been part of
oppressing and abusing the Venezuelan people for twenty five years,
when we see him in handcuffs and held to some

(10:43):
sort of accountability. It brought me into two tears. It
brought me great joy. And you know, I live in
South Florida.

Speaker 5 (10:50):
Are you okay with the way that it was done?

Speaker 12 (10:52):
But you can?

Speaker 5 (10:53):
I think both things can be true.

Speaker 11 (10:54):
I think you can criticize and ask questions and have
concerns about the way it was done.

Speaker 5 (10:59):
And what the means in the future. Right, And I
think you can.

Speaker 11 (11:02):
Still celebrate that this murderous, corrupt, satistic son of a
bitch is out of Venezuela.

Speaker 5 (11:08):
Yeah he has so.

Speaker 11 (11:10):
I think for eight million Venezuelan exiles all over the
world people have fled from this man's tyrannical rule.

Speaker 4 (11:19):
There you go. Even a broken clock is right twice
the day. Right to me, It's interesting. I didn't think
I'd see the day where this woman would have to
swallow her pride to give Trump credit. Even while you know,
throwing some shade, she still had to spit some facts here, right.
The bottom line is Maduro is a bad guy. Trump
just did the world of favor. He has been the middleman,

(11:41):
the oil man for China, for Russia, for Iran. When
was the last time any of those countries and their
governments did us a favor?

Speaker 5 (11:49):
My point exactly.

Speaker 4 (11:50):
Now, speaking of Maduru, I want to get into what
happened in court, because he was paraded into court to
make sure everybody knew he was in there. The cops
had the doors open so you could see that he
was in the back of the van that he was
being transported. Now it might have also been so they
can have a clear shot. If there were any threats,
I'm going to go with the first one. They want
everybody to see. They really want to embarrass this guy.

(12:10):
This was the purp walk of all purp walks. When
I worked at WABC, one of my colleagues, Lauren Conlin,
she was an entertainment reporter, still is and she does
true crime. She's terrific, and she was at the courthouse
today and I want to get an update from her,
Lauren Conlin, what's going on outside the Manhattan Federal Courthouse.

Speaker 13 (12:27):
I just wrapped the arraignment for Nicholas Maduro and Celia Flores,
and it was actually very interesting for an arrangement, I
should say. But starting from the beginning, there was about
five ausa's sitting and behind them was the defense table.
So normally, in my experience, usually the defense table and
the prosecutor table is adjacent, but the defense was behind them,

(12:50):
and both Flores and Maduro walked in in navy blue
MDC VNX with the tan ants and Maduro had orange
shoes on and he also was shackled. Flora's was shackled
as well, if they didn't have handcuffs. He kind of
sat down, he shook his hands or shook the hands

(13:12):
of his lawyers, kind of adjusted his shirt, and they
both put headphones on because they used translators.

Speaker 9 (13:18):
So I did.

Speaker 13 (13:19):
Not see Flores and Maduro look at each other really
at all. I definitely did not see Madurero look at
his wife. He was very busy throughout the hearing or
the arrangement taking notes. And I'll get to some of
the stuff that he said, because it was again it
was just really interesting. So the judge, Judge Hellerstein, he

(13:39):
kind of goes through his spiel saying, you know, he
introduces himself.

Speaker 9 (13:43):
He says, I'm here to make sure you receive a
fair trial.

Speaker 13 (13:45):
YadA, YadA, and he then says something like, you know,
are you Nicholas Maduro. And Maduro stands up and instead
of just saying yes, I am, he says, I am
Nichola and this is in Spanish. I am Nicholas Maduro.
I am here, kidnapped. I was captured in my home
on January third. I am a prisoner of war. The

(14:08):
judge is kind of like, okay, okay, we just you know,
we just wanted to know if your name was Nicholas Maduro.
And he says yes.

Speaker 9 (14:15):
So he waived a reading to the indictment.

Speaker 13 (14:18):
He basically said he had the indictment in his hands
for the very first time, but his lawyers, you know,
they briefed him on it and he said I would
like to read it personally. I noticed he did stand
very strong, like he had you know, he was he
had conviction. When he was standing and speaking to the judge,
he was given his rights. You know, anything that he

(14:39):
says can be held against him, and the judge said,
you know, are you aware of this? And he actually said,
I was not aware of any of these rights until
until you told me.

Speaker 9 (14:49):
Oh.

Speaker 13 (14:49):
And then when it was sorry, I'm not laughing, it
was just again, it was interesting. When it was time
to enter his plea, they he basically said I am innocent.
I am a decent man, and his lawyer, Barry Pollock,
was like, uh, he just on the record, he means
not guilty.

Speaker 9 (15:07):
There is a lot of talking.

Speaker 13 (15:08):
Again, if you sit through arraignments, you know there's really
not necessarily this much talking from the defendants.

Speaker 9 (15:15):
So after he.

Speaker 13 (15:19):
Gave his plea, he sat down and they did the
same thing with Celia Flores and her attorney. I believe
Donnelly was the last name I have to just get.
The first time I didn't quite catch that, but she
they said, you know, are you Celia Flores and she says, yes,
I am Celia Flores. I am the first lady of Venezuela.
And again the judge is like, okay, cool, we just

(15:40):
you know, we just want to know your name.

Speaker 9 (15:42):
And then she said about the indictment.

Speaker 13 (15:45):
She says, I am innocent, I am not guilty of
anything that was mentioned here, or I'm completely innocent. And
then we went through the date and the time of
the arrest from the prosecutors and they said it was
January third, at eleven thirty am they were captured, and
then they arrived in New York City by plane at
four point thirty one pm. They gave them the right

(16:08):
to consult with the consulate offices of Venezuela, to which
Flores and Maduro vote said they would like to speak
with the consulate office.

Speaker 9 (16:18):
Let me see. Oh.

Speaker 13 (16:20):
And then when they were discussing the interpreter, they wanted
to make sure the court wanted to make sure that
Flora's and Maduro could understand everything. And Flora says, yes,
I understood, and I am taking notes, and he.

Speaker 9 (16:33):
Said, and I would like to make a request.

Speaker 13 (16:35):
I am requesting that my notes be respected and I
am allowed to keep them. And they said, yeah, well
that should be fine, We'll make sure that that's okay.

Speaker 6 (16:46):
Oh.

Speaker 13 (16:46):
And then Barry Pollock, who is Maduro's attorney, brought something
up about the procedure about the fees with the prosecutors
so I don't think he was a court appointed attorney. Again,
I just walked out of court and got my phone back,
so I haven't looked anything up. But when I write
something later, I will make sure I have all this information.

(17:07):
Oh and they also they waved bail both Maduro and Flores.
They said at this time they waved their bail application.
I did notice pre trial services they were there, and
I'm like, I don't think they're going to get bail,
but yeah, basically there's going to be a lot of discovery.
The word used was voluminous, of course, and so they

(17:29):
weren't The defense wasn't really comfortable with setting emotions deadline
schedule at this time, but they did schedule the next
hearing for March seventeenth at eleven am.

Speaker 9 (17:40):
So oh oh.

Speaker 13 (17:42):
And then it was brought up that Pollock wanted to
get a health and medical form at MDC on behalf
of Maduro to get some of his health issues taken
care of. And then also Celia Flora's attorney said that
she is in desperate need of an X ray because
she sustained serious injuries quote during her abduction. She maybe

(18:06):
has bruising or fractures on a fracture rip or something
like that. So and she I did notice she was
kind of standing up very slowly. But all right, that's
that's pretty much that for now. I will have a
written article with all the details up later on lamag
dot com. So yeah, thanks for following our coverage.

Speaker 4 (18:27):
Lauren Conlin outside the courthouse covering the Maduro arraignment. Check
her out at La Magazine la mag dot com.

Speaker 5 (18:37):
And I have more.

Speaker 4 (18:38):
I've got some more Maduro stuff that I want to
share with you, but I don't want to give it
to you.

Speaker 5 (18:43):
All. Well, I kind of have to write.

Speaker 4 (18:44):
I mean, you got John Fetterman weighing in on the
twenty five million dollar bounty. You've got the Venezuela and
ambassador whining at the United Nations saying that his boss,
Nicholas Maduro was kidnapped. You've got the United States Attorney
for the District of New York on CNBC saying this
was a completely legal operation.

Speaker 5 (19:05):
So much more.

Speaker 4 (19:06):
I mean, there's really just so many things here. And
of course Tim and Tim and Tim Walls has dropped
out of the race for governor. We're going to get
into that, and some Nick Shirley and a little bit
of Minnesota before we chat with Curtis Sliwa.

Speaker 5 (19:18):
Don't go anywhere. I'm Rich Valdez.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
This is America. This is America. He's brown, he's bald,

(19:45):
and he's breaking it down.

Speaker 9 (19:47):
Oh he still has some what's his dad, Rich Valdez?

Speaker 5 (19:53):
All right, America, Welcome back.

Speaker 4 (19:54):
It's rich Valdes Valdesz with ans at Rich Valdez on
all of the social media.

Speaker 5 (19:59):
Welcome back.

Speaker 4 (20:00):
And I want to talk about Nick Shirley and everything
that he exposed in Minnesota. But the first thing I
want to do is talk about ten men. Tim Walls.

Speaker 5 (20:08):
That's right.

Speaker 4 (20:08):
Some of you may know him more affectionately as tampon
Tim right, Governor Tim Walls.

Speaker 5 (20:13):
He was the vice presidential candidate with.

Speaker 4 (20:17):
Kim madiadis right, how bad you are the vice president
of the United States, Kamala Harris and Tim Walls. And
they didn't do too good in that last election. But
he was ripping and rearing ready to go to run
for governor of Minnesota until they started to discover billions
of dollars in front.

Speaker 5 (20:34):
That's right.

Speaker 4 (20:35):
You've heard all about it, and we're bringing you all
the receipts on that but today he made a big announcement.

Speaker 5 (20:40):
Check this out age.

Speaker 14 (20:41):
You're breaking political news out of Saint Paul, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Speaker 5 (20:47):
Tim Walls will.

Speaker 14 (20:49):
Not seek reelection as governor. And what a fall from
grace this has been for him. You might recall in
the spring of twenty twenty three, he pushed through several
progressive ideas to the state legislature, caught the attention of
Barack Obama, who went to Twitter to give his endorsement

(21:09):
for the programs, which eventually caught the attention of people
like Kamala Harris, who chose en to be his Her
running mate is the vice president introduced in Chicago at
the convention in August of last year, a debate that
was an absolute disaster, with Jade Vance at one point
called himself a knucklehead. But after reportedly billions of dollars

(21:34):
have been stolen from taxpayers by way of the state
of Minnesota, Tim Wall says he will not seek a
third term. What a remarkable two years in the national
spotlight has been for him.

Speaker 4 (21:47):
Dana, and well, check this out. I say that's called
taking the money and running right. Whatever fraud they pulled off,
whatever money he promised to the Somali community, to this community,
to that community. He did what he had to do
and now he's out. I'm not applauding it. I'm not
saying it's right. I'm just saying this is how politicians work,
especially on the left side of our political spectrum. They

(22:09):
tend to always figure out a way to give away
more tax dollars and then disappear and nobody gets in
trouble for it. And I want to get into this
Nick Shirley stuff, right, Nick Shirley's this enterprising young journalist
video journalist. If you don't want to use the word
journalist because he didn't go to journalism school, that's okay,
you don't have to. I don't like the term journalist myself.

(22:30):
I don't like to be called a journalist. So we
can call him whatever you want to call him. You
can call him a content creator, which is a term
I hate. You can call him a YouTuber, which is
another kind of diminutive term. You can call him whatever
you want. But the reality is the guy is doing
his thing, and he's a young man.

Speaker 5 (22:48):
He's a young man. He's doing his thing.

Speaker 4 (22:50):
He's asking the questions that many in the media are
not asking, and not because they're not worth asking, but
because they're just afraid to ask. Right, Apparently Nick Shirley
is as young as he is, He's figured out what
people want to know. And I think that's so important.
You need to ask the questions that people want the

(23:12):
answers to. You need to ask, you know. I guess
like the old saying, you have to scratch where it itches,
bottom line. And he blew the lid off of this
daycare fraud coming out of Minnesota, and of course there's
been a lot of pushback on that. Right now, Nick Shirley,
he did this report, this initial report. I wonder did

(23:34):
I send that to you, mister o'tero, the initial report
from Nick Shirley, and may or may not have.

Speaker 5 (23:39):
I got the one clip of him being confronted.

Speaker 4 (23:42):
I don't know if you've Oh yeah, that's kind of
like a follow up. So in the initial clip he
does this report, he goes out and he starts knocking
on doors and he's like hi, with its camera in hand,
microphone in hand, and he's like, hey, look, I'm here
and I'd like to enroll my son, Nick Junior in
your daycare. The thing is these care facilities and you've
probably seen this, But for anybody who's been checked out

(24:03):
or been on vacation, I know a lot of you have,
you may have missed this. So he's going door to
door at this list of daycare centers in Minnesota. One
by one, he's finding that there's nobody there during what
we would consider to be work hours. Nobody, nobody to
be found. So it's very interesting, right. So he's there
now he's talking with another guy who'd helped him with

(24:25):
the research, and the guy's telling him this has been
going on for quite a while. Interestingly, it seems like
it's a scam, right. The whole thing is a scam
that honestly has been going on for quite a while.
So he got a lot of national attention in the
time that he put this thing out, which I think
was right around Christmas time, So just a week ago
he puts this video out where he goes to multiple

(24:47):
facilities and everybody's up in arms. Now they're saying they
don't like what he's doing and this and that. But
I got this clip here and I can't wait to
find it. Let me just find it real quick, because
this is some thing that I think you're gonna find interesting.
This is not a new problem, right, Nick Shirley is
pulling on a thread, the latest thread. But this thing's

(25:11):
been going on since twenty eighteen. As far back as
twenty thirteen, Fox nine did a report on this. I
want you to listen to this report. It's a little
bit more than a minute.

Speaker 5 (25:21):
It is eye opening. Do we have that on, mister Roseerro?
All right, check this out.

Speaker 15 (25:25):
It's the morning of March fifteenth. We're chasing a tip
about a man who's leaving the country. Our sources tell
us he just took a carry on bag through security
that was packed with a million dollars cash. You can
do that as long as you fill out one of
these government forms. We're told these cloak and daggerlike scenarios

(25:46):
now happen almost weekly at MSP International. The money is
usually headed to the Middle East, Dubai and points beyond.
Our sources say last year alone, more than a one
hundred million cash left MSP in carry on luggage. What
we were interested in is where it was going. The

(26:08):
national go to expert on what's behind these mysterious money
transfers is Glenn Kerns. He's a former Seattle police detective
who spent fifteen years on the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task
Force until his retirement, s.

Speaker 16 (26:22):
It's an outright grime. It's unbelievable.

Speaker 15 (26:24):
Kerns tracked millions of dollars in cash that was leaving
on flights from Seattle. It was coming from howalas. Businesses
used to curry your money to countries that have no
official banking system. Some immigrant communities rely on houalas to
send funds to help impoverished relatives back home. Kerns discovered
some of the money was being funneled to a hawala

(26:47):
in a region of Somalia that's controlled by the Al
Shabab terrorist group. How could they possibly come up with
such big bucks to transfer back home.

Speaker 14 (26:56):
We had sources that told us it's all about the
it's welfare fraud, it's all about the daycare.

Speaker 15 (27:03):
To better understand the connection between daycare fraud and the
surge and carry on cash, you have to look at
the history of this crime. Five years ago, the Fox
nine investigators were first to report that daycare fraud was
on the rise here in Minnesota. We exposed how some
businesses were gaming the system to steal millions in government

(27:24):
subsidies meant to help low income families with their childcare expenses.

Speaker 9 (27:29):
It's a great way to make some money.

Speaker 5 (27:31):
I think it's kind of that informal word of mouth.

Speaker 15 (27:34):
In order for the scheme to work, the daycare centers
need to sign up low income families that qualify for
childcare assistance funding. These surveillance videos are from a case
prosecuted by Hennepin County. They show parents checking their kids
into a center, only to leave with them a few
minutes later. Sometimes no children would show up, but either way,

(27:57):
the center would bill the state for a full day childcare.

Speaker 5 (28:01):
So you've got these people. Forgive me. I had hit
the mute button.

Speaker 4 (28:05):
So this is eye opening, and I wanted you to
hear the whole thing because to me, this is mind blowing.
The fact that that news isn't from today. That news
is from twenty thirteen, flashing back to twenty eighteen, or
twenty eighteen flashing back to twenty thirteen, and we're in
twenty twenty six. This has long been a problem in
that same neck of the woods. With cash, literal cash.

(28:26):
They pretend to have a business. They extort the government
for this money. Obviously, someone in the government is allowing
this to happen. The money goes right back into the
hands of these couriers. They get on planes and they
bring cash to the al Shabab terrorists that work with
ISIS and ISIS related groups all over Somalia.

Speaker 5 (28:47):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (28:49):
Right, So now Nick Shirley's now pulling on this thread
and he's getting further than anybody.

Speaker 5 (28:53):
Had it not been for.

Speaker 4 (28:54):
Him, we wouldn't even found this old file tape, right
because back then when it was unearthed, they figured out
at that time all we have to do is say
that this person is being a racist, homophobe, misogynist, islamophobe,
and you're a bad person.

Speaker 5 (29:10):
You can't say that.

Speaker 4 (29:11):
And while a things go away, right, the media is
afraid to talk about it, and so on and so forth.
But now the story's changed. And what's interesting is and
this is something I spoke about a little while ago,
if you were tuned in earlier, I was talking about
it with dom Jiordano.

Speaker 5 (29:27):
And it remains true.

Speaker 4 (29:31):
We have a whole thing going on now, a shift
towards how people get information. People used to watch the news,
and when I say people, I'm using it in the
broadest sense. Obviously, you listening to talk radio are part
of the smartest Americans in the world.

Speaker 5 (29:49):
Right.

Speaker 4 (29:49):
I interviewed a guy once, many times actually, but his
name is Jim Agresti's the president of Just Facts, and
he actually did a study and the study concluded that
listeners have talk radio, and in particular conservative talk radio,
are literally smarter by way of their test scores and
IQ and all that. He had all the facts and
figures and he's got all the receipts. So count yourself

(30:12):
as one of the smartest people ever, not because of
anything I'm doing, but because of you and how much
the news you consume, how much analysis you consume, and
the frequency in which you do it. But many people
don't do that, and now more and more people are.
But their source isn't just radio. They go to YouTube,
they go to Spotiffy, excuse me, Spotify, they go to
Apple Music, they listen to podcasts, they listen to Rogan,

(30:34):
and they listen to lots of things. It's not just
TV and radio like it was for a very long time.
So this stuff matters. And that's where Nick Shirley comes in.
Where he's dominating on social media. He's dominating on YouTube,
right because that is the fastest growing medium.

Speaker 5 (30:50):
Right.

Speaker 4 (30:50):
We're not building radio stations left and right, but we
are cranking out more digital content like it's going out
of style. So clearly this message is now reaching wider,
bigger audiences, and people are asking the questions, how did
this happen?

Speaker 5 (31:08):
What is going on?

Speaker 4 (31:10):
And to the surprise of many, you've got governors like
Tim Walls who think that it's important for this to happen.

Speaker 5 (31:18):
Right.

Speaker 4 (31:18):
Tim Walls is on the record saying that we need
to make childcare easier, and obviously that's what led to
this fraud to begin with. Mister Otra, if you have
the Tim Walls, go right ahead.

Speaker 12 (31:30):
As far as childcare on this, you have to take
it at both the supply and the demands side. You
can't expect the most important people in our lives to
take either our children or our parents to get paid
the least amount of money. And we have to make
it easier for folks to be able to get into
that business and then to make sure that folks are
able to pay for that. We were able to do
it in Minnesota, and I'm still telling you this. We

(31:52):
were listed as the best state. We're still in crisis
on this A federal program of paid family medical leave
and help with this will enhance our workforce, enhance our families,
and make it easier to have the children that you want.

Speaker 5 (32:04):
Make it easier. So somehow the government.

Speaker 4 (32:07):
I don't know about you, but I never said, you
know what, honey, let's have a baby. Hold on, let
me call my governor. Let me call the governor of Minnesota.
Make sure you know he's going to enable me to
have the kids that I want.

Speaker 5 (32:19):
What a sin?

Speaker 6 (32:19):
I mean?

Speaker 5 (32:20):
This is a real true blue.

Speaker 4 (32:23):
Comie collectivist, just like Mom, Donnie, just like Sanders, just
like the rest of them. The point of this is
here he is telling you exactly how the sausage is
being made. He's saying, we've got to make childcare easier
and more accessible. And they've done the same thing with
health care home healthcare. So for elderly people. I can
share my own experience with this, right. My dad and

(32:44):
my mom both were ill before they passed away, and
I for my mom, she was able to get through
her insurance, she was able to get several very minimal
like four hours per day. At first, it was like
four hours a week of someone to help her around
the house because she was oxygen dependent. And then with

(33:05):
my dad's turn, he couldn't because of assets and whatever.
He never qualified. The insurance didn't cover it for more
than you know, like four hours per week if he
was recently hospitalized. But he clearly couldn't be a home alone,
and so I paid somebody out of pocket to take
care of my dad, and ultimately I ended up after

(33:27):
my job in the state government, I stayed home full
time with my dad until he passed away, for two
straight years and living off of savings. And I say
that to say that was a very difficult time for
me and for my family. There are these programs in
places like New York and Minnesota and other states now
have adopted this where you can just call the state

(33:49):
and say, hey, look, I take care of my elderly
loved one. Can you pay me to take care of them?
And you now become, I guess, an employee of the state.
I don't know where they get this money, but obviously
from you and me, and they they funnel it however
they funnel it, whether it's through a health plan or
whether it's right through the government or through some county agency,
or however they want to wash this money. But they
take tax dollars and they put them into the hands

(34:11):
of these people. Now, on its face, it sounds like
a wonderful thing. Wow, you don't have to go into
poverty and live off savings or what if you don't
have savings, then you know you're done. You can't feed
your kids because you've got to take care of your parents, right.
They call it the Sandwich generation. Interesting here is that
these people now are saying, oh, I take care of

(34:32):
my mom, Oh I take care of my dad, and
they're getting this money. Meanwhile, they're not taking them care
of anybody, and they're just defrauding the government. And I'm
not saying all of them are doing it, but it's
another part of this same fraud scheme that they're doing
what they do with the money.

Speaker 5 (34:45):
Maybe they go shopping, or maybe.

Speaker 4 (34:47):
They're turning it into cash, you know, cashing these checks
and saying, let's stack these dollars up, put them in
a suitcase and send them to Somalia, to al Shabab.
If somebody were to tell me that, prior to hearing
everything I just heard and seeing the paper trail, I
would have said that that's a stretch.

Speaker 5 (35:02):
I don't know if it's exactly like that, but.

Speaker 4 (35:05):
Now hearing Tim Wallas talk about we've got to make
it easier for them to do this, it seems to
be not the only place in America doing it, but
definitely one of the most obvious cases of fraud and
corruption that we've seen in a long time. So what gives. Well,
now everybody's mad. They're mad at Nick Shirley on CNN.
People are coming at Nick Shirley saying that he's just
a YouTuber, he's not good for anything. You know, how

(35:28):
could we give such credence to someone that is just not,
you know, a bona fide journalist. Why are we elevating
him and giving him this platform. There's other people that
are approaching him on the street, confronting him saying, hey, look,
you know you're doing this because you hate Muslims.

Speaker 5 (35:49):
And I think we have one.

Speaker 4 (35:50):
Of those clips of Nick Shirley being confronted and it's
very eye opening.

Speaker 5 (35:55):
Listen to this.

Speaker 6 (35:56):
How are you doing man?

Speaker 17 (35:56):
I want to ask you you, sir, why are you
sensational as in the propaganda?

Speaker 5 (36:02):
What are we sizing attack our community? What's your final objective?
We're not attacking your community by any means? Are you
making good money from this? We're looking for fraud. Can
you answer a question? Where's the far you transportation company
six or ue? It's not there? How much? How much money?

Speaker 16 (36:19):
Are you answer?

Speaker 5 (36:20):
How much money are you? Are you able to pause it?

Speaker 6 (36:23):
All?

Speaker 5 (36:23):
Right? Good?

Speaker 6 (36:24):
Now?

Speaker 5 (36:24):
Quick question here.

Speaker 4 (36:25):
You tell me a scenario where this guy's line of
questioning makes any sense?

Speaker 5 (36:29):
Right?

Speaker 4 (36:29):
And I get the argument he's trying to make. He's
trying to paint Nick Shirley as you are sensationalizing this
stuff just to make money on it because you are
a greedy, mean, Islamophobic capitalist.

Speaker 5 (36:43):
I get the argument.

Speaker 4 (36:44):
But what I'm saying is if it were me sitting
here on this radio station saying, hey listen, uh, these
guys in in in little Mogadishu are go ahead, going
ahead and robbing the government blind. And if he approach me,
do you think he's gonna ask me? Are you making
good money from this?

Speaker 6 (37:02):
Ah?

Speaker 4 (37:02):
He might, but I would say he probably isn't. Why
Because it's radio. And if you're in radio, or you're
in TV like terrestrial radio or broadcaster cable TV, then
you're good. But if you're in some other form of
media communication. Somehow you lack legitimacy, which maybe was a

(37:23):
thing when I got into this business, you know, eight
years ago, but I don't think it's a thing today.
Nobody's gonna stand here and tell me that guys like
Nick Shirley and others like him that are very successful
with their YouTube businesses aren't killing the game. And I
don't just mean financially. The only way you make money
is by producing stuff that people want to watch. If

(37:45):
you are some sort of one hit wonder, clickbait type
of person, you might get a million views today, but
it doesn't mean you're gonna get him tomorrow. You have
to consistently produce a show that people want to watch.
And the proof is in the putt with a guy
like Nick Shirley. He's been doing this for a while.
I've seen him on social media for quite a while,

(38:05):
and and now here he is being approached by this
man from the community who's out here trying to make
him look like he's doing the wrong thing by exposing
the fraud.

Speaker 5 (38:14):
Go ahead, nine security, How much money are you making money?

Speaker 17 (38:18):
That's how I make my money up, so you're making
money off of my job and attacking the community.

Speaker 5 (38:23):
I'm not attacking you, guys, we're asking.

Speaker 17 (38:25):
I'll tell you the reason why this is happening, all right,
let me tell you the reason why you're attacking why.

Speaker 5 (38:29):
Correct, This has nothing to do with race.

Speaker 17 (38:32):
This is fraud, and this is absolutely has to do
with us being muslim No, it does not, all right,
and us being from Africa.

Speaker 5 (38:39):
This is a constitutional argument.

Speaker 4 (38:42):
And when you come back, put it up a little
bit just I want to make sure everybody hears this.
He says, this has everything to do with us being
Muslims and us being from Africa. That's the only reason
this guy's reporting on this. Nothing to do with alleged fraud.

Speaker 5 (38:56):
Go ahead, yeah, change the freedom of religion.

Speaker 17 (39:00):
Say listen, you don't want Muslims in this country anymore? No, no, no, no,
because when when I go into your comments, when I
when I go into your comments, what I see is
people that say we do not want Muslims here. Kick
every single Muslim in Minnesota out of Minnesota. You are, listen,
you preparing, You're preparing for the Somali community to me

(39:21):
to maybe be taken to concentration camps. Just a big
Japanese community, all right, you're sensationalizing.

Speaker 5 (39:27):
We're not something that we're asking about. You know, you
are what you're doing fraud. You hate Muslims.

Speaker 9 (39:33):
I'm not saying you hate you.

Speaker 5 (39:34):
Know you hate Muslims. Why are you taking us?

Speaker 16 (39:37):
Are really the only community that.

Speaker 17 (39:38):
Suffers because of fraud? We're talking about really the only
community that there's a fraud.

Speaker 5 (39:44):
Fraud?

Speaker 17 (39:45):
We have what a thousand providers? Yeah, even even as
two thousand provider, do you want to sacrifice the safety
of eighty thousand people because of two thousand?

Speaker 4 (39:56):
That's a little out of hand there, And uh, he's
very very Are you upset this is all because he
Nick Shirley hates Muslims. Now, I have not seen one
video yet in that series where they even talk about
about anything having to do with the Muslim faith. They
literally only talk about Why does it say ABC Learning

(40:18):
Center and you forgot to put the N in there?
It says leering center. Why is it that when I
knock on the door too in the afternoon, nobody's here?
Why is it that you say you have sixty six
kids enrolled, but we've been outside park for an hour
and not a single kid or parent has come in
and out.

Speaker 5 (40:33):
Of here, Can you let us in, can we see
the kids?

Speaker 4 (40:36):
What's going on? And this is time and again, place
after place after place. Yet this guy wants to come out,
and he comes off, you know, initially as if he
wants to have a conversation, as if he wants to,
you know, really have a debate about this, a real
back and forth, a respectful conversation, which quickly changes to
him you drop in the F bomb and this and

(40:58):
that and yelling and yelling. He went there to fight,
he went there to call him an islamophobe, and he
did not have any interest in a discussion. That's the
bottom line.

Speaker 5 (41:08):
Listen.

Speaker 4 (41:08):
I have my views and my beliefs, and they're likely
not going to be changed by anybody I debate with.
But I am willing to listen to what people have
to say, which is why I always invite people to
call the show like I'm going to do right now.
What do you think about this Nick Shirley video and
this attack on him calling him an islamophobe? Is Nick
Shirley an islamophobe? Give me a call. I want to
talk to you on the phone. I mean, you pick

(41:30):
it up on your dial. I am Rich VALDEZI this
is America.

Speaker 12 (41:37):
The forty fifth President Donald Trump thinks it's an honor
to speak with Rich Valdez.

Speaker 16 (41:42):
Oh, very good.

Speaker 5 (41:47):
The honor is all yours. Conservative talk with a dash
of sofrito. Now here's Rich Valdez, all right, and he goes,
welcome back.

Speaker 4 (41:58):
And we were just talking about how you are in
islamophobe if you disagree with what's going on in Minnesota.
There seems to be a lot of talk about Muslims,
not the least of which is my arch nemesis, all
out crazy AOC Alexandria Cacio Cortez. Who a little while ago,
I played this clip, but I want you to hear,
just in case you forgot what it sounded like. Who

(42:18):
is so happy about New York City's first Muslim mayor?

Speaker 5 (42:21):
Check this out, zo.

Speaker 18 (42:25):
Ron, Mom, Donnie will be the first Muslim mayor of
our great city. He will be our first immigrant mayor
in over a century, and he will be the youngest
mayor of New York City in generations. But most importantly,

(42:47):
Zovron will be a mayor for all of us.

Speaker 6 (42:52):
With them.

Speaker 4 (42:52):
Now, let me tell you if I lived in New
York City, I would not feel like he was the
mayor for me after hearing how he talked, doing his
oath on the Quran, which is his right, and having
Bernie Sanders of all people administer this. I mean, it
doesn't get more kookie and crazy than that. Right, Do
you solemnly swear to uphold the Constitution which we don't

(43:13):
believe in, Zoran, we don't believe it.

Speaker 5 (43:15):
Band send us anyway?

Speaker 4 (43:17):
Uh yeah, the whole thing is it's almost like SNL
the sad part. It's real now, Zara Mamdani pledging to
be the absolute best Democrat socialist ever.

Speaker 5 (43:28):
Listen to this.

Speaker 2 (43:29):
Here is what I want you to expect from the
administration that this morning moved into the building behind me.
We will transform the culture of City Hall from one
of no to one of how. We will answer to
all New Yorkers, not to any billionaire or oligarch who
thinks they can buy our democracy. We will govern without

(43:54):
shame and insecurity, making no apology for what we believe.
Was elected as a democratic socialist and I will govern
as a democratic socialist.

Speaker 5 (44:06):
Unbelievable.

Speaker 4 (44:08):
Well, anyway, that's Zoron Mamdani, Mayor. Zoron Mamdani, the one
hundred eleventh mayor of the City of New York. And
as the saying goes, not all heroes wear capes. And
it was a hero that took on Zoron Mamdani, the
Guardian Angel of New York himself wo donning his red beret.
Curtis Sliwa, who is the founder of the Guardian Angels.

(44:28):
They've been doing this almost as long as I've been alive.
And he threw his red beret in the ring to
take on Zoron Mamdani.

Speaker 5 (44:36):
And let me tell you.

Speaker 4 (44:38):
The forces of absolutely everything, the masters of the universes,
he says, came out against him, against the will of
the people, in my opinion, and he gave a valiant
effort nonetheless, And Curtis Sliva joins us.

Speaker 5 (44:52):
Now live, Curtis.

Speaker 16 (44:53):
Welcome, sir, oh Leberty loving Latino, rich bods.

Speaker 5 (44:58):
Curtis.

Speaker 4 (44:58):
Let's let's get into this, because I think that Zoron
is being the person he's always been right, He's always
been very open and honest about his Democrat socialism, his
affinity for Marxism. But I'm I'm even taking aback a
little bit on how.

Speaker 5 (45:16):
Enthusiastic the crowd was.

Speaker 4 (45:18):
It almost seemed like it was the Democrat Socialists of
America convention.

Speaker 5 (45:23):
The crowd at his inauguration, they were so excited.

Speaker 16 (45:25):
Gott I tell you, they were wearing the merch. As
you know, you've seen a lot of maga merch on
behalf of Donald Trump, the president man. Welcome to the
age of zoron Mondami merch. And it's a generational change.
I don't often agree with, as you pointed out AOC
all out crazy Alexandrio Cassio Cortez, but she said it

(45:47):
months ago. This is a generational change. They were exuberant,
they were excited. He said, I was elected as a
Democrat socialist, and I will govern as a Democrat socialist.
He didn't lie. He said that every step of the
way taxed the rich. That's what he wanted to do.
He doesn't believe in billionaires. And New York City elected him.

(46:09):
He won the primary against Andrew Cuomo, who thought he
was going to have a coronation, whipped him in the
primary and then went on to win the general election.
And I gotta tell you, it was November twenty first,
well after election night, November fourth, and I knew I
had lost. I'm looking at the President of the United

(46:32):
States Donald Trump in the White House, and there was
like a look at the White House between him as
Johan Mandamia. I thought it was Barney talk you love me,
I love you, Ruppins. What was that, Rich Valdez.

Speaker 4 (46:47):
I think that was the president using the art of
the deal, making sure that he keeps his friends close
and his enemies closer.

Speaker 16 (46:55):
Well, I could accept that out of the Godfather, but
as you know, the target of every individual out there
who decided they want to be an influencer, an independent,
you know, inside a millionaire, billionaire, as they targeted me,

(47:15):
the only Republican in the race, and they went with
Andrew evilised Cuomo. Now, if Republicans are going to cross
the line, it's a very simple, rich child Dez. If
you cross the line for a Democrat, what are you
going to get? More Democrats, more democratic socialism, and more
programs that are going to wreak havoc across America. So

(47:38):
let this be a lesson. I was the Republican Kennedy,
I was the law and order Kennedy. And even the
President of the United States, Ellen Mosk, Steve Miller, others, billionaires,
actmen and the rest were tweeting out, a vote for
Slee is a vote for Mondamie, vote for Cuombo, please
Rich Voudez, Let's make sure Republican and so never make

(48:00):
that mistake again.

Speaker 4 (48:02):
Yeah, and that turned out to be inaccurate, right largely
when you look at the numbers.

Speaker 5 (48:06):
If you add both you and Andrew.

Speaker 4 (48:08):
Cuomo and Eric Adams, who got a handful of writing votes,
if you add all three of you together, you weren't
going to take on the Mamdani vote.

Speaker 5 (48:17):
No.

Speaker 16 (48:17):
And again, they worked hard, the Democratic Socialists. They go
out and do good old fashion retail politics, door to
door campaigning. It wasn't just TikTok. I mean, oh TikTok.
You know, I had to have a few belly lass
people coming up to me. Oh, you should be better
in TikTok, I said two years ago, it was a

(48:38):
red Chinese plot to take over America. You've never even
seen TikTok. The only TikTok you know is when the
clock goes, TikTok. TikTok said, you have no idea. TikTok
didn't win the election. Good old fashion retail politics, going
door to door. They worked hard, and then they party
to the break of dawn because their millennials, their gen

(48:58):
z Is, whereas the traditional supporters of the moderate Democrats
and the Republicans, they go out, they campaign one day,
Rich and then they got to take a ben gay
bat and drink jerretol. It's take seventy two hours to
recover before you see them again. That's the difference.

Speaker 5 (49:16):
That's one hundred percent true, folks.

Speaker 4 (49:18):
We're on with Curtis Sliwa, founder of the Guardian Angel
Safety Patrol Group out of New York City radio talk
show host Extraordinariy and Curtis Sleeper and a mentor of mine.
Good Man, let me ask you this now, Curtis, because
a lot of people are wondering, do you put on
the cape again? Do you do? You tag me?

Speaker 5 (49:38):
You're it? Are you going in again to take on
zoron Mamdani?

Speaker 16 (49:43):
Well, look, a lot of people would like to see
me run again. I got a tremendous response from a
lot of millennials and gen z Ers, as you know,
Rich Valdez, which is traditionally what Republicans don't get. Let's see,
I take life day to day. As you know, there
have been many attempts to sort of eliminate me from
this world, starting with John Gotty Senior to John Gotty

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Junior and the Agambo crime family shot five times with
hollow point bullets in the back of a cab when
I was going to WABC to do the morning show
back on June nineteenth to nineteen ninety two. So I
got a lot of enemies out there. I am the
guardian angels both here and around the world animal welfare,
as you know, the President was making fun of me

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and my wife Nancy, because we go out and rescue
cats were scheduled to be euthanized in shelters and then
get them back into good shape, get them their shots,
and get them stayed and uted, and then adopt them
out and force for them out like a lot of
your listeners. Do you know, as Gandhi said, is society
that does not take care of its animals does not

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take care of its people. And just look in the
streets of Philly, whether in New York, whether you go
down to Baltimore, Washington, DC. Look at all the homeless,
look at all the emotionally disturbed, and we're not caring
for them, and we don't care for an There's so
much animal abuse. So I think on our part of
the Ledger, I think Republicans have to get across to
this new generation of millennials and Gen Zs that no,

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we are the party also of compassion, consideration, and concern,
and if we can do more of that, we'll get
more of them. But if we don't, we're going to
be subject to losing elections because you know, Rich Valdas,
I hate to tell my fellow baby boomers say, ah,
I hearing this. We are no longer the majority of
the population. We are no longer the majority of the voters.

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The millennials and Gen Zas are in charge. And if
we just turn a blind eye to them, call them lazy.
They don't know what they're doing. All they do is
they're on their cell phones and smartphones. We're gonna drive
them away. And the Democratic Socialists of America, Bernie the Out,
the Cocas, Sanders AOC and now zar On Mondami, you'd

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be more than happy to welcome them into their tribe.

Speaker 5 (51:56):
You know, Curtis lu You're exactly right.

Speaker 4 (51:58):
Matter of fact, That's what I'm talking about in the
fourth hour of the show, is how that group has
embraced this idea that if you have conflict with a
family member, you just cut them off entirely. There's no
let's talk it out. We just cut people off, including parents.
And they've got families that haven't talked to some of
their kids in three four years. It's really it's shocking stuff.
But you're right, that is what this breeds. It breeds

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this this type of divide. And I guess my question
to you is do you think that we are going
to continue down this road? Is this the beginning of
the socialization of America?

Speaker 16 (52:32):
Now we go from one extreme to another extreme. That's
the lessons you learned from the history of America. Look,
long before you were burst into this world, rich Valdas,
I was a child of the sixties. It was the counterculture.
We were told don't trust anybody over at thirty. They
told us, look, don't grow your hair long.

Speaker 12 (52:51):
We did.

Speaker 16 (52:52):
Don't smoke the rag weed because it was rag weed dead.
We did, don't go to concert we did, don't go
to anti war rallies. We did. My first vote was
for George McGovern the Democrat, the peace Snake, against Richard
Nixon in nineteen seventy two. It was the counter culture
and you're going through that all over again in twenty
twenty five. I think for a lot of parents and

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grandparents they have to desert a lot of tough love
years because they cater a little too much to their
children and grandchildren give them a little too much, and
then when they try to hold them accountable for their actions,
a lot of times they're not willing to deal with
them with tough love. And I'm not talking about beating
them up and hitting them, not talking about, Hey, you

(53:37):
better understand what you're backing if you're backing socialism, because
that's what Zaramandami is. He's not a communi this he's
a socialist. Listen to what he calls himself. He is
what he is. It's an entirely different philosophy than's been
the basis of America. But we also have to be
honest that out of socialism came a lot of things

(53:58):
that we take for granted. Forty hour work week, social security,
unemployment benefits, we can go on and on. So there's
been something good and there's been some bad. So don't
throw the baby out with the bath water. We just
have to go out. We have to battle them for

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the votes in the streets, and we have to try
to recruit the new generation of millennials and Gen Zas
who are the majority no longer the minority.

Speaker 4 (54:28):
Wise words from Curtis Sliwer. Now, Curtis Leeve, I know
that you were just on seven to ten WR doing
a great little stint there and you sounded terrific. By
the way, if people want to learn more about you
and see if they can maybe you know, back you
up for future projects, where do they go?

Speaker 5 (54:44):
How do they find you?

Speaker 16 (54:46):
Everything at Curtis Sliwa, whether it's Facebook, Twitter, whether it's TikTok, Yeah,
I'm on TikTok too, whether it's Instagram, everything at kurt Sliwa,
Rich Valdez, and understand this. I'm expecting you, Rich Valdez,
liberty loving Latino to get out there and do a
lot of outreach to Latino community because they are moving

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away from supporting the Republican agenda. The polls, if you
believe the polls are starting and going into these midterm elections,
the biggest loss that we've had is on the Latino
side of the Ledger because we take them for granted.
In many of the cities, including Philadelphia, the growing minority

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will soon be the majority, and we can't just go
up to them, you know, a few days before election
day and expect them to vote for us no, or
vote for our agenda, or vote for our platform. We
got to be out there every day letting them know
that their culture, their way of life, their belief system
is what is exemplified in our Republican platform. And we

(55:54):
haven't been doing a very good job of late. In fact,
we almost stopped doing it after the election of Donald
Trump back into the presidency against Harris Well.

Speaker 4 (56:03):
You know, Curtis, I think a lot of that has
to do with people buying the propaganda, right, and not
all of it is propaganda. It's clear that the tough
immigration enforcement is unsettling for some people, that's clear. But
it gets worse when there are these YouTube and TikTok
accounts that are out there showing videos of apparent videos

(56:27):
of ICE officers kidnapping children. A friend of mine that
I went to high school yesterday with years ago. Yesterday
I saw a post that he put and it is
a simple post, black and white, and it's a GP
and the O was the face of a child with
an adult hand over its mouth as if it was
getting snatched. And this is the belief of many people

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that Republicans and that ICE is somehow snatching kids off
the street.

Speaker 5 (56:53):
Now this is not true.

Speaker 4 (56:54):
This is fake, phony, fraud, but it's what people are
starting to believe. So I would say that I feel
like we're losing the PR war on that front, and
that's part of why people are, you know, less enthusiastic
about the conservative policies. But I think we're going to
see a change in that as as they've DHS has

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made some adjustments in policy an article and said that
they're going to, you know, ease up on some of
the enforcement tactics. I don't know if that's true or not,
but it might have been just good PR. But I
think that's what we need right now, is some good
PR to counter some of the fake AI stuff that's
out there.

Speaker 16 (57:33):
Rich When you impose quotas as Steve Miller did in
the White House, three thousand arrests to day, the ICE
agents will tell you that's too much pressure we should
be going after as they were initially when they were
revived with the election of President Donald Trump. The bad
ombrace the drug deal is the gang bangers, the Narco terrorists,

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the sex traffickers. Everybody was applauding DHS and lamigre and
then all of a sudden, Stephen Miller imposed this quota.
Now you have Ice agents saying, well, to make our quota,
we got to go to the home depot in the morning,
pick up people who are there for day labor, go
to the backs of restaurants, and magic. How you gonna

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run some of these restaurants without these migrants. It's impossible.
I have three sons, but it's none of my three
sons are going to be doing that kind of work.
They're not going to be in the fields picking the crops.
They're not going to be in the packing houses. They're
not going to be in the slaughter houses. Some Americans
will work their jobs, most won't. So we have to
accommodate that, because if we can't meet the growing demands

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of the American population, our own population will refuse to
do some of that work. We've got to figure out
a way. But these people can stay, and whether it's
to stay for a brief period of time, acquire some
wealth and then go back to their country of origin,
but not always have to look over their shoulders to
see if ice is there to round them up and

(58:57):
deport them. It's got to be a balance to this.
And if it's not, I'm telling you I can feel
it right now in a lot of the neighborhoods that
swung for Trump in twenty twenty five, heavily Latino, that's
beginning to wane because people are beginning to say, oh,
we being targeted. Now you know that's not true, and
I know that's not true, right, That's what happens when

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you impose quotas.

Speaker 5 (59:20):
Yeah, well, I don't think these quotas are going to maintain.

Speaker 4 (59:23):
I think that was something that you just saw an
uptick in the final quarter of last year to kind of,
you know, get what's out there.

Speaker 5 (59:29):
But yeah, I agree with you.

Speaker 4 (59:30):
If the pressure is there and you start to run
out of these criminal felons, then yeah, you're gonna go
to the next one.

Speaker 16 (59:37):
See it is much you know, I've been a center
city many times in Philly. If you keep deporting people
that work in these in these industries, these service industries,
we'll have to go back into the kitchen make our
own food. And I have a black belt from Betty Crocker.
I can cook to kill. We'll have to serve it
to ourselves. We'll have to eat it, and then we'll

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have to go back wash the dishes. And I don't
think any of of us in America are prepared to
do that.

Speaker 4 (01:00:05):
Rich Yeah, well, I also don't think that every last
dishwasher and cook is the one are the ones getting arrested.

Speaker 5 (01:00:12):
That's part of what I was saying about this propaganda push.

Speaker 4 (01:00:15):
I think that you know, listen, Curtis, I make a
joke on the show, and I'm running out of time,
but I want to share this, and I open up
the segment, I say it's Rich Veld does that I'm safe.
I'm marketing myself safe from getting deported today because of
the amount of stories I hear about American citizens or
Puerto Ricans being deported because it's just not real.

Speaker 5 (01:00:33):
And I think that's the same case.

Speaker 4 (01:00:34):
Now, there might be some of these instances where what
you know, what you're describing happens, but by and large
that's that's not the majority of what's happening.

Speaker 5 (01:00:43):
But I think the media and popular.

Speaker 16 (01:00:46):
Cultures take about that, you and I and everybody who
do what we do and talk radio and everywhere else.
It's artificial intelligence. They're gonna wipe us out, but don't
worry on. Musk is gonna give us a universe, so
basic come, we won't have to work. We're gonna expect
him to deliver to us. Oofa, Rich Oofa.

Speaker 5 (01:01:06):
I don't like it.

Speaker 4 (01:01:07):
Curtis Sliwa I'm gonna wrap here because we're almost done
with the segment. Everybody goes to Curtis Sliwa at Curtisliwa
on on X and curtisliwa dot com for everything else
and Curtis Leeva any final parting word.

Speaker 16 (01:01:20):
The hawk is coking. It's cold out there, Rich, I
love you. Curtis. Put on those three pairs of long
winter underwear.

Speaker 4 (01:01:31):
Yeah, I'll put on my uh my long John's with
my wife, Peter, Curtis Leewa, everybody, thank you, sir.

Speaker 16 (01:01:36):
You got it Rich all right.

Speaker 5 (01:01:37):
Let me know your.

Speaker 4 (01:01:38):
Thoughts eight seven seven Valides one eight seven seven Valdez one.
Of course, you can check out everything that's going on
with the show at Rich Valdez dot com. We're gonna
wrap it up. You gotta stand for something. If you
don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything. And the
only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good
people like you to sit there and do nothing. So
stand up and do something. The time has come. I'll

(01:01:59):
start up Foxy Might take care. Good night, and God
bless you America. I'm Rich fald Ass, and this is America.

Speaker 1 (01:02:06):
This is America.