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Speaker 1 (00:01):
What's up, America. I am Rich Valdes VALDESZ with a
s at Rich Valdes on all of the social media,
seventeen blocks away from Madison Square Garden right here Times
Square Studio, blessed and thrilled to be here with each
and every one of you. You know the phone number
if you want to join us. Eight seven seven Valdes one,
eight seven seven Valdes one. And I want to get
(00:23):
into a bunch of stuff. Man, I got a lot
to cover. I got a little list here. Let's see.
I got some wordplay I wanted to get into. We
got Brian McGinnis. This guy is a marine veteran that
was acting up today in Capitol Hill. I'm going to
give you the scoop on that. Jasmine Crockett and Dan Crenshaw,
one Republican, one Democrat. Actually I got those backwards, but
both of them lost their primaries. They no longer will
(00:45):
be members of the United States Congress. We'll get to
that in a little bit as well. Plus, we've got
an airplane that crashing the Hudson River. I want to
talk to you about that. One. That was not funny,
but it's interesting. And espanyas Spain his cave to El Trompito.
They were afraid that he actually embargoed them because they
were not playing very nice with landing planes, right, Emmanuel Matchron,
(01:10):
Just as an aside, he's the president of France. Trump
makes fun of him all the time. There's memes all
over the place that his wife is a tranny, all
sorts of weird things. And guess what he pulled up
front and center, sending jets and soldiers and whatever needed
to be done and to be provided for this effort
against the run. So we're gonna get into that as well.
(01:33):
But I want to start with the chaos on Capitol
Hill because some people might be trying to lie to
you to tell you, you know what, some marine guy
got his arm broken by a senator in a hearing today.
Fake phony and fraud is all fake. Em mute, that's
not true. But I got the video, I got the receipts.
I'm gonna show you exactly what went down. Let's get
(01:53):
this into a half screen so that everybody could see
what's going on, because I think it would be nice
if we could share this with everybody. And let's play
the video. Watch this. That's Brian McGinnis. Now, Brian McGinnis
(02:18):
is interrupting an Armed Services Committee meeting in the House
of Representatives the United States Senate. He's saying that this
is because of Israel. Israel, We're fighting a war for Israel.
Now that's not even true. But even if it were true,
we fought every war we fought other than the Revolutionary
(02:38):
War in the Civil War were for someone else, right,
the Korean War, the Vietnam War. That's kind of what
America does. It's kind of how it works when you
are the big guy in the block. We talked about
this yesterday. If you missed that, check out the show
on Roku TV, on rumbele, iHeartRadio, Spotify, wherever you check
out your shows. But I want to get into this
a little bit. I want you to It's a five
(02:59):
minute clip. We're gonna we're gonna watch it together because
I want you to know that people are lying to
the fake, phony, fraud news media that's already saying that
this guy went to a hearing and that because he
was at a hearing, they broke his arm, and if
the senator broke his arm, none of it's true. It's
all on tape. Watch this right, So now he's interrupted.
(03:23):
I just want to say he's in full dress blues uniform.
He's a veteran, he's not active duty. This man is
married to a woman that appears to be Muslim. She
wears a hey job. They have children together. I'll show
you some of those photos later. Not that that matters,
That doesn't disqualify him from anything, but it explains maybe
why he's so partial to Palestine. And as you'll see,
(03:44):
he begins to shout free Palestine while he's wearing his
American military uniform, and he says that the United States
is somehow being sissies. Guard head. Now they're getting into
(04:18):
a tussle here. He doesn't want to leave. This is
more than peaceful protest, right. He's fighting the police right there.
So now he holds on to the door so that
(04:41):
he won't be able to be removed from the Senate chamber.
That's Senator Tim Shee from Montana. He's a retired Navy
seal and he starts to help the police remove this
unruly protester. This guy manages this guy, being mister McGinnis,
(05:04):
he manages to get his hand lodged in the door.
So now he's stuck. He's literally stuck. They're screaming his hand.
You'll see the senator who just grabbed him up, tried
to grab him his shoulder. They say, his hand, he
lets go. This is clearly on tape the senator to
(05:25):
do anything to this guy. As a matter of fact,
when the actual arm breaks, you'll see the senator actually
wasn't even hands on in that moment, trying to pull
him out from the door. And then some idiot starts
screaming the senator broke his hand. The senator broke his hand.
(05:48):
You can't make this stuff up. Now he's there with
a woman. This woman, she's his friend. She's there to
help agitate. There's also a bunch of people there from
an organization called Code Pink, wearing some of their attire.
You'll see usual suspects, the same people that like to
(06:08):
do professional protesting. And this woman's there, she's screaming at
the people that are there for a purpose. Right, you
have elected members of the United States Senate. They're all
there doing what you're supposed to do as an elected
member of the United States Senate, right, which is to
debate laws, create laws. They're doing what they're supposed to do.
(06:30):
But guess what not in this case, they have to
stop what they're doing to look at this man being ejected.
And she's so offended that they don't go ahead, your robots.
(06:55):
She's mad that he's not commanding their attention. They're all
supposed to be distracted by this four star generals. Shame, shame,
(07:23):
good idea. Yeah are you okayses, No, how's your arm?
It's not okay. So they make it to the hallway.
(07:49):
He uses the Marine Corps song to say that Palestine
will be free. It's fighting for you, not for him.
(08:18):
That may be his wife, I don't know. She said
she was his friend. Cops are extraordinarily nice, even the
man bun coup. So he sits down and he calms
(08:44):
down for a second. Right, They didn't get his arm
(09:16):
trapped in a door. He trapped his own arm in
the door, and when he was in his fight mode,
he broke his own arm. Song Goanna, somebody didn't tell
her you're not allowed to go into the Senate Armed
Services Committee and just starts shouting. Couldn't control himself, That's
(10:05):
why he did it. She said. His name is Brian McGinnis,
and he's actually running for Senate in North Carolina. That's
why he did this. He did this to make a stink.
He wanted me to talk about him. He wanted everybody
to talk about him. He wanted to create this narrative.
I don't think about the arm broken. I don't think
any that I saw happen I should have gotten. Can
(10:25):
we get the better clip. I don't know if we
can get it right now, But there's a close up
clip from a different person cell phone camera where you
can see his arm is stuck and he's shouting. He's shouting,
and then this you could see, this is just because
oh and like this part of the elbow just comes
out through his suit jacket. It just bulges out and
he's like, my arm is broken and it's dangling. It's
(10:46):
really really rough to watch. But again, nobody did that
to him. He did that to himself. And I'm not
saying that to be mean. I'm saying that because I
watched it happen. He did it to himself. There's only
a couple of seconds left here, and she's still upset.
(11:15):
They all kept their eyes forward Free Palestine, f the
war and Iran. I don't know they were interrelated because
I believe Palestine was bombed by Iran just yesterday the
day before. So that's what we've got going on there.
(11:45):
America doesn't want to fight the war. The soldiers don't
want to fight it. Meanwhile, I see the generals, I
see the Sentcom Commander Pete Hegseth. I've yet to hear
an actual soldier that's serving say that they don't want
to fight the war against Iran, against their nuclear capabilities
and whatnot. There's always going to be people that are
(12:06):
anti war. I get that, and this is what they
try to do, right. They try to make it into
a scenario where they're gonna try and shame you, right right,
They want you to feel bad. Well, I'm here to
tell you if I were young enough, i'd sign up
to go fight in this war. And I have two
kids in their twenties and i'd sign them up too
if it was my child. But it's not. I own them.
(12:27):
I can't do that bust their girls, and I don't
think they want to do that, but that's on them.
If they do, I encourage it. I'm not telling them
to not go because you know what, I think it's
an honor to serve this country. My brother Bobby, he
wore that same uniform. God rest his soul. He's not
around anymore, but he was a United States Marine, and
(12:48):
we ought to take that stuff seriously. We ought to
take the oath seriously. We ought to take our country seriously.
We ought to take our patriotism seriously, because at the
end of the day, what else do we have? Right?
We have our friends, we have our family. We've got
God and country. God, country and family. To me is
what it always comes down to. What do you actually
(13:09):
believe in? Who are you willing to defend? That's the
question I'll leave you with. And straight ahead, we're gonna
come back. We're going to talk about everything I just mentioned.
On that list. We've got Jasmine Crockett Dan Crenshaw both
losing their seats in Congress. Plus you've got she was
trying to get into the Senate because she got redistricted out.
Then you've got where she'll end up. I think she'll
(13:32):
end up on TV personally, a little bit of word
play I'm going to leave for the end. And if Banya,
if Bagnya caving into El Trampito, plus this wild training
flight that went sour and ends up in the Hudson River.
All of that and more coming up straight ahead. Don't
go anywhere. I'm Rich Faldees
What's up, America. I am Rich Valdes VALDESZ with a
s at Rich Valdes on all of the social media,
seventeen blocks away from Madison Square Garden right here Times
Square Studio, blessed and thrilled to be here with each
and every one of you. You know the phone number
if you want to join us. Eight seven seven Valdes one,
eight seven seven Valdes one. And I want to get
(00:23):
into a bunch of stuff. Man, I got a lot
to cover. I got a little list here. Let's see.
I got some wordplay I wanted to get into. We
got Brian McGinnis. This guy is a marine veteran that
was acting up today in Capitol Hill. I'm going to
give you the scoop on that. Jasmine Crockett and Dan Crenshaw,
one Republican, one Democrat. Actually I got those backwards, but
both of them lost their primaries. They no longer will
(00:45):
be members of the United States Congress. We'll get to
that in a little bit as well. Plus, we've got
an airplane that crashing the Hudson River. I want to
talk to you about that. One. That was not funny,
but it's interesting. And espanyas Spain his cave to El Trompito.
They were afraid that he actually embargoed them because they
were not playing very nice with landing planes, right, Emmanuel Matchron,
(01:10):
Just as an aside, he's the president of France. Trump
makes fun of him all the time. There's memes all
over the place that his wife is a tranny, all
sorts of weird things. And guess what he pulled up
front and center, sending jets and soldiers and whatever needed
to be done and to be provided for this effort
against the run. So we're gonna get into that as well.
(01:33):
But I want to start with the chaos on Capitol
Hill because some people might be trying to lie to
you to tell you, you know what, some marine guy
got his arm broken by a senator in a hearing today.
Fake phony and fraud is all fake. Em mute, that's
not true. But I got the video, I got the receipts.
I'm gonna show you exactly what went down. Let's get
(01:53):
this into a half screen so that everybody could see
what's going on, because I think it would be nice
if we could share this with everybody. And let's play
the video. Watch this. That's Brian McGinnis. Now, Brian McGinnis
(02:18):
is interrupting an Armed Services Committee meeting in the House
of Representatives the United States Senate. He's saying that this
is because of Israel. Israel, We're fighting a war for Israel.
Now that's not even true. But even if it were true,
we fought every war we fought other than the Revolutionary
(02:38):
War in the Civil War were for someone else, right,
the Korean War, the Vietnam War. That's kind of what
America does. It's kind of how it works when you
are the big guy in the block. We talked about
this yesterday. If you missed that, check out the show
on Roku TV, on rumbele, iHeartRadio, Spotify, wherever you check
out your shows. But I want to get into this
a little bit. I want you to It's a five
(02:59):
minute clip. We're gonna we're gonna watch it together because
I want you to know that people are lying to
the fake, phony, fraud news media that's already saying that
this guy went to a hearing and that because he
was at a hearing, they broke his arm, and if
the senator broke his arm, none of it's true. It's
all on tape. Watch this right, So now he's interrupted.
(03:23):
I just want to say he's in full dress blues uniform.
He's a veteran, he's not active duty. This man is
married to a woman that appears to be Muslim. She
wears a hey job. They have children together. I'll show
you some of those photos later. Not that that matters,
That doesn't disqualify him from anything, but it explains maybe
why he's so partial to Palestine. And as you'll see,
(03:44):
he begins to shout free Palestine while he's wearing his
American military uniform, and he says that the United States
is somehow being sissies. Guard head. Now they're getting into
(04:18):
a tussle here. He doesn't want to leave. This is
more than peaceful protest, right. He's fighting the police right there.
So now he holds on to the door so that
(04:41):
he won't be able to be removed from the Senate chamber.
That's Senator Tim Shee from Montana. He's a retired Navy
seal and he starts to help the police remove this
unruly protester. This guy manages this guy, being mister McGinnis,
(05:04):
he manages to get his hand lodged in the door.
So now he's stuck. He's literally stuck. They're screaming his hand.
You'll see the senator who just grabbed him up, tried
to grab him his shoulder. They say, his hand, he
lets go. This is clearly on tape the senator to
(05:25):
do anything to this guy. As a matter of fact,
when the actual arm breaks, you'll see the senator actually
wasn't even hands on in that moment, trying to pull
him out from the door. And then some idiot starts
screaming the senator broke his hand. The senator broke his hand.
(05:48):
You can't make this stuff up. Now he's there with
a woman. This woman, she's his friend. She's there to
help agitate. There's also a bunch of people there from
an organization called Code Pink, wearing some of their attire.
You'll see usual suspects, the same people that like to
(06:08):
do professional protesting. And this woman's there, she's screaming at
the people that are there for a purpose. Right, you
have elected members of the United States Senate. They're all
there doing what you're supposed to do as an elected
member of the United States Senate, right, which is to
debate laws, create laws. They're doing what they're supposed to do.
(06:30):
But guess what not in this case, they have to
stop what they're doing to look at this man being ejected.
And she's so offended that they don't go ahead, your robots.
(06:55):
She's mad that he's not commanding their attention. They're all
supposed to be distracted by this four star generals. Shame, shame,
(07:23):
good idea. Yeah are you okayses, No, how's your arm?
It's not okay. So they make it to the hallway.
(07:49):
He uses the Marine Corps song to say that Palestine
will be free. It's fighting for you, not for him.
(08:18):
That may be his wife, I don't know. She said
she was his friend. Cops are extraordinarily nice, even the
man bun coup. So he sits down and he calms
(08:44):
down for a second. Right, They didn't get his arm
(09:16):
trapped in a door. He trapped his own arm in
the door, and when he was in his fight mode,
he broke his own arm. Song Goanna, somebody didn't tell
her you're not allowed to go into the Senate Armed
Services Committee and just starts shouting. Couldn't control himself, That's
(10:05):
why he did it. She said. His name is Brian McGinnis,
and he's actually running for Senate in North Carolina. That's
why he did this. He did this to make a stink.
He wanted me to talk about him. He wanted everybody
to talk about him. He wanted to create this narrative.
I don't think about the arm broken. I don't think
any that I saw happen I should have gotten. Can
(10:25):
we get the better clip. I don't know if we
can get it right now, But there's a close up
clip from a different person cell phone camera where you
can see his arm is stuck and he's shouting. He's shouting,
and then this you could see, this is just because
oh and like this part of the elbow just comes
out through his suit jacket. It just bulges out and
he's like, my arm is broken and it's dangling. It's
(10:46):
really really rough to watch. But again, nobody did that
to him. He did that to himself. And I'm not
saying that to be mean. I'm saying that because I
watched it happen. He did it to himself. There's only
a couple of seconds left here, and she's still upset.
(11:15):
They all kept their eyes forward Free Palestine, f the
war and Iran. I don't know they were interrelated because
I believe Palestine was bombed by Iran just yesterday the
day before. So that's what we've got going on there.
(11:45):
America doesn't want to fight the war. The soldiers don't
want to fight it. Meanwhile, I see the generals, I
see the Sentcom Commander Pete Hegseth. I've yet to hear
an actual soldier that's serving say that they don't want
to fight the war against Iran, against their nuclear capabilities
and whatnot. There's always going to be people that are
(12:06):
anti war. I get that, and this is what they
try to do, right. They try to make it into
a scenario where they're gonna try and shame you, right right,
They want you to feel bad. Well, I'm here to
tell you if I were young enough, i'd sign up
to go fight in this war. And I have two
kids in their twenties and i'd sign them up too
if it was my child. But it's not. I own them.
(12:27):
I can't do that bust their girls, and I don't
think they want to do that, but that's on them.
If they do, I encourage it. I'm not telling them
to not go because you know what, I think it's
an honor to serve this country. My brother Bobby, he
wore that same uniform. God rest his soul. He's not
around anymore, but he was a United States Marine, and
(12:48):
we ought to take that stuff seriously. We ought to
take the oath seriously. We ought to take our country seriously.
We ought to take our patriotism seriously, because at the
end of the day, what else do we have? Right?
We have our friends, we have our family. We've got
God and country. God, country and family. To me is
what it always comes down to. What do you actually
(13:09):
believe in? Who are you willing to defend? That's the
question I'll leave you with. And straight ahead, we're gonna
come back. We're going to talk about everything I just mentioned.
On that list. We've got Jasmine Crockett Dan Crenshaw both
losing their seats in Congress. Plus you've got she was
trying to get into the Senate because she got redistricted out.
Then you've got where she'll end up. I think she'll
(13:32):
end up on TV personally, a little bit of word
play I'm going to leave for the end. And if Banya,
if Bagnya caving into El Trampito, plus this wild training
flight that went sour and ends up in the Hudson River.
All of that and more coming up straight ahead. Don't
go anywhere. I'm Rich Faldees
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