Misdemeanor Límon, More Epstein, Minaj

On Friday, Rich reacts to Don Lemon's federal arrest for violating the FACE Act during the church attack in Minnesota. Then, the DOJ drops more Epstein files, which closes the door on any further speculation - maybe. Plus, Hip Hop recording Artist Nikki inaj joins PPresident Trump at the White House "Trump Accounts" summit. 

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And I want to get into some of the headlines

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that are going on because the biggest headline of the
day don Leye Moong, right, Don Leimon Don Lemon arrested. Listen.
I was totally taken by surprise here. I didn't think
Don Lei Mounh was going to be arrested, but they
have pressed charges that he violated the Face Act and
prevented people from their god given right to worship and

(01:11):
journalists or not. You're not allowed to get in people's way,
and good for them, right. I think it's you know,
it's going to be tough. The media is going to
sell this like Trumps a fascist. He's going after journalists.
He's trying to jail the free press. But all you
got to do is watch a few videos, learn how
to read, and you'll ultimately understand. Nobody gets to exercise

(01:37):
their right, and in their exercising and their right prevent
you from your exercising of yours. Doesn't work that way, right,
You don't have a right to free speech so much
that I don't get a right to mind. We all
have our rights together, So happy to hear about that.
Don Ley mong As I like to call him on
this program, Don Leimung making a statement that he gave

(02:01):
after his quote unquote arrest. Listened to this.

Speaker 5 (02:07):
Some breaking news to bring you. Confirmation from the US
Justice Department that the former CNN anchor Don Lemon has
been arrested by federal agents. Is understood from a statement
from his attorney that he was arrested last night in
Los Angeles. He was there to cover the Grammy Awards.

(02:30):
He has been a journalist for thirty years, and his
constitutionally protected work in Minneapolis was no different than what
he's always done. Now, he had appeared to be taking
part in some of the protests that were taking place
in Minnesota against some I'm.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Just going to jump in here and say no, what
he did in Minnesota was very different than sitting behind
the anchor's desk at CNN. In Minnesota, he actually joined
a mob of people and went inside a church and
was asked to leave by the pastor. I don't remember
that when he said I'd like for you to leave,
and he said, oh, you want me to leave? And
if you play that tape again, when he's in the church,

(03:07):
he's holding on to the pastor's sleeve like trying to
get his attention during the interview, and the pastor pushes
him off, and then he tells the pastor, hey, hey,
don't push me man. I mean, it was just such
a crazy thing to watch. But let's go back to
this clip from Sky News some.

Speaker 5 (03:21):
Of the tactics being used by the Ice agents there
in which two protesters lost their lives. Well, it has
been confirmed by the US Justice Department that Don Lemon,
the former CNN anchor has been arrested.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
All right, that is Don lee Mong, Don le Mong
arrested now, Don le Mong after he was locked up,
and he made a statement listen to this one.

Speaker 6 (03:48):
Last night, the DOJ sent a team of federal agents
to arrest me in the middle of the night for
something that I've been doing for the last thirty years,
and that is covering the news. The First Amendment of
the Constitution protects that work from me and for countless
of other journalists who do.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
What I do.

Speaker 6 (04:09):
I stand with all of them, and I will not
be silenced. I look forward to my day in court.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
So Don Lemong was locked up, listen, and we've got
a bunch that we're going to get into here with
Don Leimung. I want to talk about this a little bit.
Of course, we're going to get into some Epstein files.
There's new stuff on that, as well as a few
other things I want to get into. But Don Leemong,
So what's interesting about this, at least from my perspective,
is that he says, Look, the government is saying I

(04:40):
did the following right. The government's position is this, let
me scroll to it here, right, the Face Act, Freedom
of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. Now, this is not
an act that was created by Republicans. This is an
act that was created by Democrats to go after people
praying outside abortion clinics. And quite frankly, there are some
people outside abortion clinics that are so going to use

(05:01):
the word over zealous that they can really make a
situation difficult for a person that made that decision to
go and you murder their child. So I understand the
defense and saying, look, we want to make it unpleasant
for you, but I don't know that that's allowed. The
last thing, I think some girl that is going through
a very difficult time in her life where she's like

(05:22):
should I do or should I not do it? I
don't know what to do, and then have somebody you know,
so you're going to hell? You know, I don't know
if that's helpful, right, That might push her over to
the other side, is what I mean. I'm not saying
that we shouldn't be honest. I'm saying that we should
be loving while we're being honest. All that to the side.
This is the Face Act. So that's the story with
the Face Act. Now what's interesting here is the government
is alleging the following things, that there was physical obstruction.

(05:45):
This is what the Department of Justice is arguing that
Don Lemon and I like to call him Don Lemon,
saying what he did went well beyond journalism, his intent
to interfere. Under the Face Act, it's a crime to
use force, threats, or physical obstruction to intentionally interfere someone
exercising their religious freedom. Conspiracy. Lemon faces a conspiracy against
rights charge which is eighteen Usc. Two forty one, carries

(06:08):
a potential sentence of ten years. He is clearly saying, look,
I'm using my freedom of speech and freedom of the
press as a defense. Don li Monk is going to
say that he was there, he was present strictly as
a journalist to document a protest a public concern. It's
going to say that arresting him is going to have
a chilling effect on such freedom of the press, arguing

(06:29):
that charging a reporter for being present at a site
where others are breaking the lass, that's a dangerous precedent
for freedom of the press, and that there's a lack
of force. Some people that are opining on this from
Cato Institute in other places are saying that the Face
Act typically requires a forceful disruption, which they argue Lemon's

(06:49):
conduct did not meet. Now, I would say, I don't
have the proof one way or the other that Lemon
went in with those people, But if I had to
take a look at what I've seen, like they went
in and he was right there with him, because he
had a whole live stream that he conducted when he
was in their staging area, and he even said, look,
they're planning on doing things. They do kind of gotcha

(07:10):
type of things, they get in people's faces, so he
knew what was going on. He seemed to be privy
to the planning. Now, I don't know if he's going
to be able to make the case and say, look,
if I am a journalist embedded in a tank battalion
and I'm riding in a tank and this tank is
going to go and shoot some bad guys, does that
make me complicit with shooting the bad guys because I'm
on the tank, embedded with this crew. And I guess

(07:31):
that's a good question. I don't know if that's the
argument he's making. I know, if they did this to me,
that would be the argument I'm making, right because you
know me I'm a free speech absolutist, but ultimately Lemon
was asked to leave by the pastor, and nobody has
a freedom of press in a moment like that. If
you know you're not asked to come in, you're not
asked to come in. A couple of months ago I interviewed.

(07:53):
His name was something Melkezedek forgetting his first name, but
he was the minister of finance to an African nation.
I worked for the king of the Ntibelli tribe and
we talked about a number of things. And one of
the things when I met him, he was telling me
that he was here visiting New York in New Jersey

(08:14):
and he visited a synagogue in New Jersey and they
wouldn't let him go in. And I said, really, why,
what's up with that? And he said, well, they you know,
they asked me what I was doing here, if I
had ever come here before. There's a lot of questions
before they would let him, uh, you know, into the building.
And I said, well, I mean, I guess you know,
some of the synagogues in the area have heightened their
security because things have been a little hectic for synagogues,

(08:38):
and I could only imagine in my church, we want
to have an open door policy. But if you, you know,
are the you don't look I guess like you're there
for seeking Jesus, right, and you look like you're there
to make trouble or argue or something like that, then
I'm sure that they can ask you to leave too.
And that's the point here, right, I think that's the

(08:58):
real bottom line here. You're not allowed to just pull
up somewhere, even if it's an open door and stay
beyond your invitation. Right. It's if it's limited to you
participating in the pews and being a active participant in
the service and grade. But if your actions are beyond

(09:21):
what everybody else is doing, and you're in the aisles
and you're obstructing, then I think they have every right
in the world to ask you to leave. That seems
fair to me. Right, So this is going to go
to court, and I'm honestly curious. I don't think this
is a slam dunk for the government at all. I
think this is President Trump doing his best to say, hey, look,
you guys, do what you got to do. With the

(09:41):
Department of Justice, and people at the Department of Justice
wanting to make an example of this hoping to deter
future protest inside of houses of worship. And I think
that's fair, right. Protest is meant for the public square,
not for houses of worship. The allegations against Lemon again
physical obstruction, to interfere in conspiracy. He's saying that in

(10:03):
this fourteen page indictment that he's not guilty of these things.
He wasn't physically obstructing. But again the prosecutors are saying
that Donlimone posted himself at the main door where he
confronted concreens and physically obstructed them as they tried to
exit the building. I can tell you this. I saw
the video of him interviewing the pastor where he was
holding on to the sleeve near the pastor's elbow as

(10:23):
he was putting the microphone in his face, And when
the pastor didn't want him to hold onto his sleeve anymore,
he pushed mister Lemon's arm, and then Lemon goes still
push me. What do you want him to do if
you got your hands all over the guy, right? I mean,
I think it's just a double standard here, refusal to leave,
occupying sacred space, intimidating the leadership of the church and
physically obstructing those seemed like things I saw in the video.

(10:44):
So I'm curious to see if the same kind of
people that gave them the grand jury indictment, if they
will now give him an actual guilty charge in a
jury trial. I don't know. My hope is yes, my
gut says no. We'll see if I'm right or wrong.
I was right about Comy and I was right about
Letitia James. So far, I've been right about the Clintons.
They said we're not coming. We're not coming. Will they

(11:06):
come in maybe, but they're probably gonna have such a
narrow scope, right, Smile a lot, smile, a lot wave smile, smile, smile,
answer no questions. Let their attorneys do all the talking
and leave if they if if that's a big if
capital I capital f if they show up anyway, We'll
get to that a little bit later. What I want
to talk about now again is this face act stuff,

(11:26):
because this is a big deal, right, this is going
to be the media attention around it. Lemon Is obviously,
you know, he's already held a press conference. He's already
talking about I did nothing wrong. They're coming at me
for being a journalist for the thirty years I've been
in this business. He's going to continue doing that, and
he's going to get a lot of people to believe
that Trump is a fascist, coming after journalists for exercising

(11:48):
their First Amendment right and listen, if I were his attorney,
I'd be doing the same thing. I'd be out there saying, unbelievable,
how the maga Republicans are out here. Not only are
they trying to chill freedom of the press, but now
they're all so trying to do it in a house
of worship. I mean, where else can you be free
to speak but a house of worship? Right, This is
how they would position at least how I would position

(12:08):
it if I were a radical leftist, because that's how
they think. That's how they work. They do anything to
try and spark outrage in a common person, in someone
who might otherwise not know better. Right, somebody who's invested
in their work, in their children, in their own livelihood,
in their own life, not somebody who's an armchair quarterback,
and you know, doing a quick google on what the
Face Act is. They realize that most people are not informed,

(12:31):
and they take advantage of this. So I don't know
how this thing ends up. I'm surprised that there was
even an indictment. I figured they would talk tough on
Lemon and let them go. I think at the end
of the day you might satisfy a part of the
base with the federal indictment. But at the end, if
Lemon walks away unscathed, it none of this stuff sticks. Man.
Let me tell you, He'll become emboldened. Right, He'll walk

(12:53):
around saying, Hey, they try to get met I fought
city Hall on one. Right, He's going to feel that
much more powerful, like he can do this every step
of the way, Like, oh, I know how to do it.

Speaker 4 (13:02):
Now.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
Let me tell you, when you pull up on a church,
when you pull up on a synagogue, when you pull
up on a master, this is how you do it. Right.
He's going to write the rule book on this thing.
So we're going to see how that goes. Don Ley
moh arrested by the Department of Justice. His attorney is
Abby Lowell. Abby Lowell famously represented Hunter Biden and a
bunch of other people. This is, you know, one of
those attorneys that takes the case in order to get

(13:26):
all the media attention. But Lowell argues that Don lemonhe
was acting as an independent journalist documenting a matter of
public interest, saying that it's a very distinct role, that
the sole purpose of live streaming and reporting is not
to participate in the activist tactical goals, but to report it.
He says there's a separation of actions here. They argue
that Lemon cannot be held liable for the physical actions

(13:47):
or obstructions committed by protesters, as he was holding a
camera and a microphone, not interlocking arms with them or
blocking doors like they did. He's also going to use
something called a lack of force threat defense, so saying
that everything that was happening here was verbal versus physical.
Mister Lowell contends at asking questions, even peppering someone with
questions is protected speech. It's not physical force, it's not

(14:10):
a threat of force. He's also expected to use something
called incidental contact, saying any physical proximity cited by the
Department of Justice, as described in their indictment to an
incident or a crowd or a chaotic scene was a
circumstance as opposed to a deliberate attempt to obstruct. Again,
I don't know if these defenses are going to work.
I think these defenses are weak, but I think the

(14:32):
case is equally as weak. Not because the case is weak,
because I think they're going to have a tough time
finding a jury to say, yeah, you know what, throw
the book at him. He's guilty as sin. I just
don't think that's the case. I might be wrong, and
I won't be shocked either. If he's indicted, he earned it.
Good for him. I'll be pleasantly surprised, and we'll keep
it moving. I do think, though, that there's going to
be a bunch of people saying, I don't want to

(14:53):
be the one to do it to this guy. Years ago,
there was some action against James Rosen that Obama took
back then I thought, this is not how you treat
the press. This is clearly Obama trying to chill his speech.
So I can only imagine there's going to be some
people thinking that here now, even though that's not the
case here, I think people are gonna think that here.
And in real life, you have to take certain political
calculations into consideration, not me per se, just them, right.

(15:17):
This is why you have attorneys general and positions like
that that are appointed by and serve at the pleasure
of the president, because ultimately there's a consideration there is
this a fight we need to have right now, or
is there a better way, a different way? Right You
can take a absolutist perspective and say no, no, absolutely, he
did wrong. We're going after him. That's it. Wind loser, draw, Hey,
good for you. It's probably the approach I would take too.

(15:39):
Let's roll the dice, see what happens. This is what
we believe happen. We're gonna argue our best case. May
the best man win. But I'm just giving you the
political skinny on it from my perspective, So we'll see
what happens. Now, let's see the blah blah blah blah blah.
The defense. Last point here. The defense is particularly aggressive

(15:59):
and challenge the Section two forty one conspiracy against rights charge,
which excuse me, which carries the heaviest prison time no
meeting of the minds criteria. Lowell argues, there's no evidence
that Lemon even agreed to violate anyone's rights. Attending a
briefing to know where the news will happen is standard
journalistic practice, not a criminal conspiracy. Now, I've got to

(16:21):
say on that front, I think that's going to be
where this comes down to again back to my tank analogy.
If there's somebody embedded with a tank battalion and they
shoot the bad guys, is this guy part of the
war or is he a war correspondent that was there
documenting what's going on. I don't know. If that guy
gets out of the tank and goes, you know, to
the other sides as hey puts a microphone in the
face of the people they just blew up. What's it

(16:41):
feel like to get blown up like that? Do you
feel like you're losing the war your reaction? Does that
make him part of the attack or not? And is
their precedent for that? These are all good questions that
I think will be answered as this whole thing evolves.
And then the last part of the Abbey Lowell defense
is the double standard argument. The defense is highlighting that
a fe Federal Magistate judge excuse me, it's Friday, originally

(17:04):
refused to sign a warrant suggesting that the Department of
Justice was lacking enough substantive information in their indictment to
get the approval from the grand jury, and it was
a stretch. Well, now they've gotten it, So is it

(17:24):
a stretch? Is this a constitutional overreach? I don't think
it's a constitutional overreach. I think this is what the
courts are for. Right. Everybody asserts their position and that's it.
And I think, look, I think Lemon is fighting with
his bully pulpit in the public eye, and I think
the rest of these people are gonna have to fight
in the courtroom, right, Because you don't often see Attorneys General, dag's,

(17:49):
deputy Attorney general's assistant, United States Attorneys whatever, typically litigating
on television. Right, they typically do their thing outside of
a press conference or an announcement. They typically do their
thing in the courtroom. So we shall see, right. I
don't have a crystal ball on this one. But again
my gut tells me not all the charges are gonna stick.

(18:11):
Maybe one, maybe zero, who knows, But I don't see
it again. If it happens, God is great. We have
some justice and we move on. But I was having
a discussion with my brother and he was telling me,
you're gonna be so shocked. You're yeah, you're gonna You're
not gonna believe it. I can't wait to see the
look on your face, and I said, brother, I would
it's not gonna be that shocking to me. If Don

(18:32):
Lemon is in trouble, I don't think he's above the law.
I just think that again, he's got a good defense,
I think saying, hey, look, I in my whole career,
all I've ever done is be a journalist. Whether I'm
a fake news journalist or not, that's beside the point.
Are you guys gonna come at me because I'm a
left wing journalist? Does that make me any less of

(18:53):
a journalist? Some might say yes, some might say no.
One thing I can tell you is Don Lemon has
a history of being on the fake news media and
his show and his podcast, his YouTube and stuff like that.
One thing I can't say with any certitude is that
Don Lemon has a history of leading, you know, insurrections
into churches, which I think is disgusting. So I would

(19:15):
put the focus on the woman with the dreadlocks and
the guy with the beard, and they were arrested as well,
so I'm glad they were arrested. But again, of all
the participants here, I don't think Don Lemon is the mastermind.
So I don't see why we're giving it as much
attention as we are. But I just wanted to give
you all of my thoughts on that one. Now, Don
Lemon's not in the clear. He's also being uh, what's

(19:36):
the word I'm looking for? I guess, chastised and argued
with with a number of people, not the least of
which is Nicki Minaj. Nicki Minaj, who's been a fan
favorite on the Maga side of the isle, well, she
was asked a question about Don Lemon, and it was
mainly about his reaction. He threw Nicky under the bus,

(19:58):
saying all sorts of things about her. Listen to what
she had to say for.

Speaker 7 (20:01):
Don Lemon's arrest over his church in Minneapolis. He since
called you racist, unhinge, homophobic, and out of your death
anything you'd like to say to Don Lemon, cocksucker, stop.

Speaker 3 (20:16):
Mincing no words. The Queen of Rap said it right
right there, Nicki Minaj. Stop and you already heard what
she called him. I thought it was pretty funny. I
heard it three or four times, and I laughed every
single time. Forgive me anyway, we're gonna continue with that.
Nicki Minaj is the queen. She joined El trumpitos and
all this magnus to forty fifth and forty seventh President

(20:38):
of these United States to talk about the Trump accounts
joined by Michael Dell and others investing in America. We'll
get to a little bit of that a little bit later.
I can't do that right now. I would love to
do it right now, but right now I got to
get into this Epstein stuff because there's new Epstein stuff. Yes,
and you know me, you know how much I don't
like the Epstein stuff. But it's because it's always the

(21:00):
same thing. I think Todd blanche the Deputy Attorney General,
he made it very very clear, it doesn't matter how
much information we put out, what you're looking for will
never be satisfied, right. And that's my belief too, the
people that they want something that just isn't gonna happen.
And I blame the Iranians, I blame the Russians, I
blame the Chinese and anybody on the Trump team that

(21:23):
was pushing the orange jumpsuit theory that the answer to
everything was orange jumpsuits. While that may be a very
solid answer, it really isn't one because it's not happening, right.
And I don't believe it was ever going to happen. Instead,
people went in, they started working. And I think Dan
Bongino talks about that all the time, right when he

(21:44):
talks about the black pillars, that's what he's talking about.
People that took the black pill They want to their malcontents.
They want to say, you know, here's what's wrong with this,
and here's what's wrong with that, instead of saying, hey,
you know, the FBI has arrested a truckload of pedophiles,
a truckload of people that were bringing drugs into this country,
a truckload of you know, criminal conspiracies. They went after

(22:05):
these church people, not the church people per se, but
these violent leftists that obstructed the church. And these are
all good things, right, I think they're all good things.
But you know, perhaps I'm biased, Perhaps I favor this administration.
But I'd rather see work getting done than us driving
with our foot on the gas at one hundred miles

(22:25):
an hour focused on the rearview mirror. That's a good
way to crash. Keep it locked right here. I'm Rich Fildes.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
This is America six, This is America.

Speaker 3 (24:18):
President boakes you up, mister President, welcome to the program sir.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
Well, thank you, Rich, and thank you for everything.

Speaker 3 (24:24):
I know you very well and I have I listen,
but I have a lot of people that listen and
they love your show and I appreciate it very much.
All right, amigos, welcome back Rich Valdez, keeping your company
here this Friday, heading into the weekend. And the Epstein files. Right,
there's a new update on the Epstein files. This time

(24:45):
Todd Blanche breaks it all down, just a little bit lengthy,
it's about a full minute, but I want you to
hear what the Attorney General Deputy Attorney General had to say,
because I think he put it really well. Check this out.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
The categories of documents withheld include those permitted under the
Act to be withheld, files that contain personal personally identifi
information of victims or victims, personal and medical files, and
similar files the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly
unwarded invasion of personal privacy.

Speaker 3 (25:16):
So they've released these files. They are not releasing things
that will violate personal privacy or things that will you know,
jeopardize sources, methods and things of that nature. And like usual,
I feel most of the cases that you see don't
typically list. For example, when somebody is arrested for selling drugs,

(25:41):
you typically don't always see the person that's buying the drugs, right,
Sometimes it's undercover agents and whatever and whatnot. Now, sometimes
you might have one that flips and they'll become a
witness and you will see that. And sometimes those witnesses
are protected, so you won't see that. Right, It's as
far as I know, it's not a a common thing.
Maybe I'm wrong, right, I'm not a criminal defense lawyer,

(26:05):
but there's a fascination with we want to know who
the client list is, as if this is information that's available.
And I think that the Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche
answered this pretty well. Listen to this.

Speaker 8 (26:20):
You said, this is the end of the Epstein of
your review of the Epstein files. So just to clarify,
or is the public going to learn the identities of
the men who abuse the girls with the information that
you're releasing and if not, why not?

Speaker 4 (26:36):
And then I have a quick follow up.

Speaker 2 (26:38):
I mean, you just baked in an assumption into your
question that I have never said and I don't know
to be true. Is the public going to learn about
men that abuse these girls? Like what does that mean
I understand what that means.

Speaker 8 (26:51):
Well, I mean they're the men who abuse the young
women through Epstein's.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
We said in July, and it remains as true today
as it was in July. If we had information we
meeting the Department of Justice about men who abused women,
we would we would, we would prosecute them.

Speaker 3 (27:14):
Right.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
We talked about the work that we're doing.

Speaker 3 (27:15):
That's why I said that.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
There's I said this earlier, there's this built in assumption
that somehow there's this hidden tranche of information of men
that we know about that we're covering up, or that
we're not we're choosing not to prosecute.

Speaker 3 (27:28):
That is not the case.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
I don't know whether there are men out there that
abuse these women. If if we learn about information and
evidence that that allows us to prosecute them, you better
believe we will. But but I don't think that that
that the public or you all are going to uncover
men within the Epstein files that abuse women.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
Unfortunately. Mm hmm, Well there you have that again. I
think that's as clear as it gets, right, letting people
know you're looking for something that isn't there. And and
he didn't stop there, right, He doubled down. He said,
excuse me, I'm trying to play a different one. Let's
go with the next one, and then the next one.

(28:09):
I think he kind of makes it very clear.

Speaker 9 (28:14):
Can you assure the American public the President Trump, like
every other prominent person whose name came up in relation
to the Epstein fives that all documents, photos, and anything
relevant to him connected to the case are being released.

Speaker 3 (28:29):
Now again, this is the attorney channel Todd Blanche, Deputy
Attorney General, who's overseeing this, and he's about to clarify
on whether we can assure the American people that President
Trump had nothing to do with this stuff. Check this out.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
I mean, yes, I can assure that we complied with
the statute, we complied with the Act, and there is
no that we did not protect President Trump, but didn't
protect or not protect anybody. I mean, I think that
that there's a hunger or ad for information that I
do not think will be satisfied by the review of
these documents, and there's there's nothing I can do about that.

(29:08):
But President Trump, of all the people in Washington, d C.
And around this country that have said for years the
same consistent message about Jeffrey Epstein. It's President Trump, and
so there's not been a change of course or anything.
And certainly his direction to the American people in the
Department of Sorry, his direction to the Department of Justice

(29:29):
was to be as transparent, release the files, be as
transparent as we can.

Speaker 3 (29:34):
And that's exactly what we did outstanding. I think that's
as clear as it gets. I do not share this
fascination in the Epstein's files as others do. I know that.
I think for many people what happens is they have
connected these two things inextricably. And the two things are
this child trafficking and the Epstein files. Well, I think

(29:59):
that there was child t involved. I don't know that
we can get more blood out of this stone. I
don't think we're going to get anything else out of it.
And I think people just love to be malcontent. People
love to be again to reference my buddy Vongenom again
black Pillars, right, they like to be malcontents. As the
great one Mark Lebnoi says, there are some people that

(30:20):
nothing is ever enough for them, And I get that
because I've got a good streak of that in me, right,
I really do. This is my response typically to politics.
People tell me, oh, but this and that, and they
get all emotional, and I think, why is it that
I'm not as emotional? Why Because I stopped caring about
a lot of this stuff. And I don't mean that

(30:41):
I don't care about the fate of our country or
the future that my children have. No, but I mean
a lot of these things. Right. I've been around this business,
around politics, around the media long enough to know that
there's a lot of people that get away with a
lot of things. There's a lot of people that have
power and can pull off a lot of things. And

(31:04):
that is the way the world works. The big fish
always eats the little fish. I mean at least ninety
nine percent of the time. There may be on some
rare occasions a few little fish get together and eat
the big fish. Okay, but it's it's against the law
of nature in my opinion. I'm not saying it's a
good thing. I'm just saying it's a thing you can't

(31:24):
necessarily change. You can try. It's like saying we're going
to eradicate evil. How do you eradicate evil. No, you
can be a cop, you can become a preacher, you
can become a doctor, and you can try to heal
the sick, you can try and jail the bad people,
you can try and arrest the other people, the you know,

(31:47):
people making offenses against their neighbors. But ultimately, you can't
stop evil from existing. We're not God. And that's the
point that I take that. Sometimes I think we overshoot
for things. You got to take the win that you've
got and move on, fight again tomorrow. Tomorrow's another day.
My philosophy, Maybe I'm wrong, right, Maybe I need to

(32:07):
be more aggressive, but I doubt I will be because
I don't think you get anything out of it. I
don't think you know, your blood pressure goes up, you
get all freaked out about things, and then what you
become The people that I make fun of on a
daily basis, right, these people that are just so hyper
emotional about things that they're like these people that you
see on the on the videos, these women that are

(32:29):
shouting into their camera and their car as soon as
you see the car, right, you know, they're freaking out.
I'm not one of those people, and I hope you're
not one either. Anyway. A little bit of a detail
here from Fox News on the Justice Department releasing more
than three million Jeffrey Epstein records, including his personal emails,

(32:50):
with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, telling Fox News that
in none of these communications, even when doing his best
to disparage President Trump, did Epstein suggests President Trump had
done anything criminal or had any inappropriate contact with any
of his victims. Not even Epstein is accusing Trump. Moreover,

(33:10):
he went on, during the course of our investigation, we
seized years and year's worth of Epstein's personal emails. Blanche
told Fox News there are communications with hundreds and hundreds
of individuals discussing the intimate details of Epstein's and others' lives.
In none of these communications, even when doing his best,

(33:31):
I think they just read that. Yeah, they repeated it
here in the article his best to disparage President Trump,
he never mentioned any criminal wrongdoing, inappropriate contact with any
of the victims. Fox News Digital first obtained newly released
information declassified emails on Friday. The Justice Department is expected

(33:53):
to release more than three million pages of records in
addition to this or as part of it. The new
records also mentioned the President's largely showing that Epstein was
resentful right he had a lot of disdain for President
Trump criticized him a lot during his first administration. One

(34:13):
email reviewed by Fox News Digital was from March twenty
sixteen between Epstein and author and reporter Michael Wolfe. You
know he's no Trump fan. In the email, Wolf is
encouraging Epstein to come up with an immediate counter narrative
to James Patterson's book about him filthy Rich, a powerful billionaire,
the sex scandal that undid him and all the justice

(34:36):
that money can buy. Excuse me, and he says, you
need an immediate counter narrative to the book. Wolf writes,
I believe Trump offers an ideal opportunity. It's a chance
to make the story about something other than you, while
at the same time letting you frame your own story. Also,
becoming anti Trump gives you certain political cover which you

(34:59):
decidedly don't have right now. In another email three years later,
in twenty nineteen, Epstein writes to wolf of course he
knew about the girls. He asked Glaane as he asked
Elaine to stop. So apparently they're talking about when Trump
found out about the Shenanigans that Epstein was up too

(35:20):
and told him to stop and to you know eventually
to move out of mar Alago back in two thousand
and three. In another email in February twenty nineteen, Epstein
writes a long email to Wolf noting that blah blah
blah who worked they redacted the name of the person
worked at Mar a Lago, and that Trump knew of
it and came to my house many times during that period.

(35:44):
He never got a massage, Epstein writes. Epstein then goes
on to discuss a business arrangement involving Trump relating to
a friend who was having a financial difficulty with assisted
living homes. In another email to Wolf in January twenty eighteen,
Epstein is complaining about the President, saying he doesn't take
advice and that his children have little experience and poor judgment.

(36:05):
There are huge discrepancies with his real net worth, Epstein
writes to Wolf, full disclosure would make it clear. Epstein,
also in twenty eighteen, continues mocking Trump, calling him dopey
Donald or demented Donald, and complains about his finances and
acquisitions and relationship with Deutsche Bank. Meanwhile, in emails between
Epstein and Thomas Landon of The New York Times in

(36:28):
January of twenty eighteen. Landon asks if Epstein is still
in touch with Wolf, who had published his book Fire
and Fury, which is about Trump. Yep Epstein replies, Landon,
wrights have to say he is looking sounding increasingly unhinged.
Are you tempted to take any money off the table
in the markets? No, but no question Donald's statement is

(36:51):
goofy Epstein replies, it's unclear which Trump's statement he's referring
to quote early dementia. Landon replies, you be the judge.
Wasn't there a time when he was at least at
least completed his sentences. Epstein writes back, No, he was
always stupid. So this is a little bit of the
back and forth. Epstein couldn't stand El Trompito. So to

(37:14):
assert that they were running in the same circle and
somehow we're friends, or that they, you know, Trump was
one of his clients or was visiting the island, Nope,
seems pretty clear they didn't like El Trompito. So anyway,
that's the scoop on that. Straight ahead, I still want
to talk about what's happening with Don Lemon, no, not Donimon,
with Nicki Minaj, as well as with what's the other

(37:36):
story I want to talk about. Well, I guess we'll
get to some of that on Monday Grammys, right, because
that's why they arrested Don Lemon, because the Grammys are
coming up. Grammys will be on Sunday.

Speaker 5 (37:45):
Now.

Speaker 3 (37:45):
I know most people don't care about the Grammys. I
personally am a big fan of music, all different types
of genres of music and film. And just like I
like film and I like music, I don't necessarily discriminate
on the basis of my pouls or my faith. To
be frank with you, I know some people you know,
in accordance with their faith and their politics, will will

(38:09):
only consume entertainment and media that matches up with what
they believe. I tend to think that's for me. It's
not very honest, right, it's not. It's disingenuous for me.
And the reason for that is if I say, oh,
I can't stand that gangst the rap, that stuff is horrible,
or reggaet Dong and how they treat women in these
songs an absolutely disgusting filth. It's demonic. I could say

(38:31):
that and there would be truth in some of that, right,
but the truth would also be there if I say,
you know, over the weekend, I watched The Equalizer with
Denzel Washington, and there was so much killing, and it
was the killing was just evil and demonic, and of
course some of it was self defense. But I mean,
this is a contract killer for hire going mad, and
I could paint the same picture about evil. Rappers are entertainers,

(38:52):
just like actors are entertainers. Robert de Niro is largely
disliked by the conservative movement, but he's a fan favorite
in Holly when he makes good films. So just because
I don't like his politics doesn't mean I'm not going
to watch his movies. The Godfather didn't stop being a
good movie just because. And you know that's where the
guys get a massage or whatever in the spawn, they
shoot him in the face, right in the eyeball, you know,

(39:13):
right through his glasses. These are classics, classic gangster movies.
I see no difference between watching The Godfather or a
Pacino film, or a De Niro film, or any you know,
even Dwayne the Rock Johnson or Bruce Willis film and
listening to a rap song right now. I mean, some
might be raunchier than others, some might be more hardcore

(39:34):
than others. Some might talk more about guns while others
talk about making money. I get it. But that's the
art and the interpretation of the art. That's people sharing
their experience and their interpretation of life, you know. I mean,
if we use that standard, you can turn around to
me and say, you know, rich when you bring up
those crazy stories. You know where they're using AI sex
bots in brothels in Brussels, Belgium. You know, I think

(39:55):
that's demonic in this, that and the third. And I'm
just talking about things that are happening in the world world.
So I think take everything with a grain of salt.
You know, protect yourself, protect your spirit, You protect your mind,
your body, your soul, and you enjoy what you want
to enjoy within moderation that you feel is appropriate. You know,
and you seek the counsel and guidance of your God
and your life, your wife, your husband, whomever. You know,

(40:18):
you use as a sounding board. But let's not sit
here and judge everybody else. If you want to listen
to Bad Bunny, listen to Bad Bunny. You want to
listen to Nicki Minaj, listen to Nicki Minaj. Some people
are big fans of Nicki Minaj now because she is
on the Maga bad wagon. I like Nicki Minaj since
at least twenty twelve when she put out super Bass.
I thought that was a great song. I thought it

(40:38):
was funny, right, because I just I enjoy certain things,
and that's I think that's okay. At least that's the
America I believe in, where you can like whatever you like.
You can like Hall and Oates, you can like Bad Bunny,
you can like jay Z, and you could like kid Rock.
Don't go anywhere. I'm Rich Voltees.

Speaker 4 (40:57):
This is America. This is America.

Speaker 3 (41:20):
The forty fifth President Donald Trump thinks it's an honor
to speak with Rich Valdez.

Speaker 1 (41:26):
Oh, very good.

Speaker 3 (41:30):
The honor is all yours. Conservative talk with a dash
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(41:51):
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(42:14):
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Speaker 8 (42:18):
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(43:04):
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(43:25):
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circle back to a story I left off on before,
which was Nicki Minaj and and Trumpito with the Trump accounts. Right.

(43:48):
She joined the gang to discuss the launch of the
Trump accounts, and I thought it was really, really nice.
She had a lot of nice things to say. Listen
to hip hop artists, recording artists, rapper nick Beanaj.

Speaker 7 (44:01):
I am probably the President's number one fan and that's
not going to change. And the hate or what people
have to say, it does not affect me at all.
It actually motivates me to support him more. And it's

(44:25):
going to motivate all of us to support him more.
We're not going to let them get away with bullying
him and you know, the smear campaigns, it's not going
to work. Okay. He has a lot of force behind
him and God is protecting him. Amen.

Speaker 3 (44:46):
Amen, look at that. I thought that was a great
message between President Trump Nicki Minaj really genuinely seem to
have a very nice relationship. I saw her in the
Oval Office and he you have it. Got play the
clip in the Oval Office. It's almost like President Trump
gets overshadowed. I often say, I think Donald J. Trump,

(45:08):
the President of the United States, El Trumpito is I
like to call him. I believe that he is the
most famous person on the planet. I could be wrong,
but I think they know who Donald Trump is in
just about every part of the country. I mean in
every country, in every part of the world. Maybe I'm wrong,
Maybe it's bad, buddy, but I have a feeling it's
l Trumpito. But listen to Donald Trump and Nicki Minaj
in the Oval Office. She's saying hello to some.

Speaker 9 (45:36):
People range see they forgot I was here.

Speaker 10 (45:40):
Now we still allow you.

Speaker 3 (45:47):
He says, boy, did that go fast?

Speaker 8 (45:49):
Right?

Speaker 3 (45:49):
He's got a good sense of humor, right, because he's
literally in the Oval office. He's literally the president. He's
literally El Trompido, who's always been famous, by the way,
and she walks into the Oval. We're in the cud. Know,
white fur coat, this white flowy gown or off white,
a crew whatever color it might be, and a white
maga hat with gold letters. And that's it. Show stopper, right,

(46:11):
very attractive woman, Nicki Minaj. Anyway, I thought that was great,
So President Trump doing that now. Earlier in the week,
President Trump also chimed in on the on the what
did he say? He talked about the criticism that he'd
gotten from the media when he was resting his eyes

(46:34):
during a cabinet meeting last month, and listened to his response,
I thought it was terrific.

Speaker 10 (46:40):
So the One Big Beautiful Bill that was passed on
July fourth last year, we're starting to see the effects
kick in. You mentioned the great Economy, one of the
things in the One Big Beautiful Bill, mister President, was
an honor to host you, and as you said, the
best rapper in the world, Nicki Minaj and yesterday's trim
held Summit Usgame No had a million people sign up

(47:02):
for Trump accounts just this week.

Speaker 5 (47:04):
The the.

Speaker 10 (47:11):
I think there will be twenty five million families who
are eligible. The segment that you and she did has
a billion hits, a billion hits on the internet. So
we're telling everyone go fell out form forty five forty
seven Trump account out of gov. So thanks to you,
the Trump accounts and next generations America will benefit from

(47:34):
today's record breaking economy. Record breaking.

Speaker 3 (47:36):
So Okay, that wasn't the clip I thought it was,
but it was even better, right. I think it was
perfectly fitting and flowing. So thank you, senor productor. And
what I think is really cool about this is these
Trump accounts. Again, I didn't know that there was a
million of them that were opened up in the last
week since they were announced or whatnot. I think that's fantastic.
These Trump accounts could grow to fifty thousand dollars even

(48:00):
substantively more according to the President than his advisors. And
again this information is coming from CNBC. A couple of
quick points. Families can start the process to open Trump accounts,
which is an investing account for kids when the twenty
twenty five filing returns begin. So that's now right today,
the thirtieth of January. The interest in early wealth building

(48:23):
was prompted by varying estimates of how much these accounts
could grow. At the Trump account Summit in Washington, DC.
And that's the one where you heard him speak with
Nicki Minaj and whatnot. So very very good stuff here
that happened yesterday, honestly. The Trump administrations also framed its
new investment account, the Trump Accounts, as an early wealth
building tool for little kids, one that officials have said

(48:45):
can make your kid a millionaire by their late twenties,
but financial advisors and policy experts say the numbers depend
on annual contributions and investment performance. Here's a quote. As parents,
if we make maximum contributions to our child's Trump account,
the projected value will be nearly one point one million
by the time they are twenty eight years old. White
House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt said on Wednesday, the twenty

(49:09):
eighth of January, at the Trump Accounts Summit in Washington, DC.
Later that day, President Trump told the summit attendees that
with everybody's contribution, Trump accounts should reach at least fifty
thousand in value by age eighteen, and could be very
substantially more than that. I got to work on my trumpito,
but you get the point. Now, with slightly greater contributions,

(49:32):
the typical account will grow to one hundred thousand or
two hundred thousand dollars and can even grow up past
three hundred thousand dollars per child, he said. Other politicians
and speakers tossed out additional projections. According to the CNBC People,
they say that Trump tax deferred accounts, also known as
five thirty A accounts, include a one thousand dollars contribution

(49:52):
from the United States Department of the Treasury for kids
born between twenty twenty five and twenty twenty eight. A
growing number of companies have pledged to match the Treasury's
one thousand dollars seed money for children of employers and
philanthropists in multiple states, as well as others that have
committed to additional gifts for certain qualifying families. Now the

(50:14):
Trump Accounts dot Gov is the website. The projection is
right now that these accounts could grow to six thousand
dollars by age eighteen fifteen thousand dollars by age twenty
seven or two hundred and forty three thousand dollars by
age fifty five, assuming that initial thousand bucks in the
treasury deposit with no further contributions. This estimates based on

(50:38):
the S and P five hundred historical annual average return
of over ten percent. However, these are quote unduly optimistic
assumptions about future stock market returns without adjusting for inflation
or taxes, says Alan Viard. He's a Senior Fellow emeritus
at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, and
he wrote that back on the twenty third of January

(50:59):
in a report saying the administration's projections greatly overstate the
account's likely payoff. He doesn't know that, but I guess
his job is to draw contrasts. So all right, contrast
is drawn. I think both points are worth looking at.
You want to say, a right, they're projecting this. He's
saying it's overstated. You maybe cut it down the middle
to figure out your odds. It doesn't sound like a

(51:20):
bad deal to me at all. Now. The administration's projections,
According to the White House spokesman on this cushed de Sigh.
He told CNBC in an email that many economists inaccurately
predicted economic catastrophe under Trump's administration, saying economists who couldn't
see one year into the future need to have the
humility to admit they probably can't predict twenty eight plus

(51:44):
years of compound growth that a generation of American children
will enjoy thanks to President Trump and the Trump accounts. Well,
said mister desigh, I think that's probably very accurate. Now,
let's talk about how much a Trump account could grow.
No math here underpins the account balanced projections. So advisors
and others are saying that compound growth calculations, but there's

(52:08):
some uncertainty that remains with assumptions about future returns and contributions.
Investors should understand that projections like these reflect best case outcomes,
not expectations. And that's according to Kathy Curtis. She's a
certified financial planner that can contributed to the CNBC article.
The administration estimates of Trump account growth might be realistic,

(52:31):
and some say they may not be realistic for many families,
depending on many factors. So got it. It's an investment tool,
and it's like a bond or like so many other
things that you buy and you put money in and
you wait and you don't know.

Speaker 4 (52:46):
Right.

Speaker 3 (52:46):
I've seen people do this with five twenty nine accounts
for college. As college becomes more of a thing, that's
I going to use the word pass a right. I
think college has become pass in many circles, so this
might be about way to go. I mean, let's talk
about this for a second. And I'd really love for
you to call me on this or at least leave
me a social media message or something. But I'm curious.

(53:12):
My best advice to my children right now is get
a degree. My daughter finished her degree and she's working
and whatnot. But people change career fields, they go in
different directions, industries change, right, Lots of things happen over
the course of one's career, and you got to be
ready to adapt to those things. So that being said,

(53:34):
I'm saying this, if you're going to become an engineer,
a doctor, a lawyer, anything where you require state licensure,
then you're going to need a degree in that area.
Anything where you don't need and I'm putting the emphasis
on need, the degree by all means go without it
and put that money towards buying a piece of property. Right.

(53:57):
The other day we talked with Steve Moore. He talked
about buying a cop That was my first purchase too.
It was a condo. It's a two bedroom, two bedroom,
one bath. I thought it was a good deal. I
was in my twenties. Still, I would love for my
children in their twenties each to buy one of those.
I'd like, what heck if they bought one together and
rented it out. The point is for the appreciation of

(54:19):
the asset. I know some people who've taken a little
bit of a loss on real estate deals from here
to there, but by and large, like if I know
ten people, nine of them made money. All you got
to do is sit there and wait and just kind
of look at the market, you know. And even sometimes
not even that, Sometimes you can buy a place that's
a dump. Right. There used to be a place in
New Jersey. It was an absolute dump back in the

(54:42):
nineteen seventies and eighties, and then by the nineties and
two thousands this place began to flourish. Today you can't
touch it. It's called Hoboken. Hoboken, New Jersey, was once
a place where there were gangs in the streets, violence
all over the place, housing projects that spilled out into
the streets, but all sorts of drama. Now it's like
a miracle mile of bars and restaurants and an economic engine.

(55:07):
Right with all sorts of housing. They've got these brownstones
where you can't afford to live in them. They've got
these high rises. I mean, it's just amazing what's happened
in Hoboken. And that's the same thing happened in Jersey City.
The same thing happened with the section down under the
Brooklyn Bridge overpast Dumbo. With many areas of New York City,
you see these resurgences, this gentrification, whatever you want to

(55:30):
call it. People start to make money. So I would say,
if you look back at something right, I'll give you
a little tidbit for anybody who might be in this area,
if you can afford to buy anything. I'm talking about
a gutted apartment with no plumbing in Hudson County pretty
much any part of Hudson County, right, and I'm serious.
There's a town in Hudson County, New Jersey called East Newark.

(55:52):
It's right next to Harrison and Newark. Most people think
that's a bad part of town. It's not that bad there.
But my point is he got it even there, which
is not a desirable place, not easily accessible to New
York City. There's not a whole lot of upside. I
think you're gonna make money. You get a place in
Weehawk in West New York North Bergen again, if you
can afford a place there. These places have made people

(56:16):
wealthy and comfortable because of the longevity and the increase
of property values. I remember I had a barbershop back
in nineteen ninety for a few years during the nineties
late nineties, and one of the guys I rented my
first shop from my second shop actually was a guy
named Alfonso caught it up. I doubt he's still around,
but shout out to him if he is older. Cuban

(56:38):
guy worked for the town and it was in West
New York, New Jersey, and I remember him telling me
when I came from Cuba, I worked here. I bought
this building. It was a two family building with a
store in the bottom. The store was the barbershop. He
paid thirty five thousand dollars for that building when he
sold it in nineteen ninety nine or two thousand, probably

(56:58):
nineteen ninety nine, maybe ninety eight. I think he sold
it at the time for like somewhere between three fifty
and four hundred thousand dollars. He paid thirty five thousand
for it, all right, so not a bad deal for him, right,
he went, he took his wife, they went to Florida,
and he lived his retirement days in the beauty of Miami.

(57:20):
God bless him. I think that's fantastic now those days over. No,
not necessarily. I think people that are moving in now
are going to pay higher prices between five hundred and
seven hundred thousand dollars to get into something. And what
they get into, and if it's a condo, maybe less.
It's going to see similar growth in the thirty years

(57:42):
that they're there, I think. So, maybe not the same
high growth like that ten x, but they're going to
see some good growth. It's going to be one of
the safest places to park your money. And not for anything.
It's a multifamily, so if you live in one, you
rent the other one. You got a store rented out
that particular building. It was a mixed use property. I mean,
you're making money now, that's not for everybody, right, I

(58:03):
know it's likely not for me. I got two left
hands when it comes to that. But my point is
these are wealth building things, and my advice to my
kids is that skip a few meals and save money
so you can get into a house in your twenties.
Don't wait till you're in your thirties to then add
that thirty year note on there and get into your
sixties to have it paid off. The quicker you can

(58:25):
pay it off, the better off you'll be. The quicker
you can leverage any equity that you earn and maybe
get another one that's the name of the game. Or
take out a helock, a home equity line of credit
so you can leverage maybe a business and expand that.
So there's I mean again, I'm not a financial guru
and I wouldn't take my own financial advice sometimes, but

(58:48):
in a situation like this, I think the Trump accounts
listen doesn't sound like a bad deal at all. And
the best deal, I think is get your kid to
buy a piece of property. So they do this account
and by the time they're twenty eight, they've got two
or three hundred thousand dollars in there. Take some of
that out buy a piece of property, or buy two

(59:11):
and make more money out of that money. That sounds
like a good deal to me anyway. Keep it locked
right here. There is more to come straight ahead. I'm
Rich Valdez.

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realize I went so long in that first segment beating
up on doneimong and wishing him whatever guilty verdict he gets.
But I will say this, I am grateful to be
here with you. Guys. Have a great weekend. Make sure
you enjoy the whatever you want to enjoy. If you
don't want to watch the Grammys, don't watch the Grammys.

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You're watching football, watch football, whatever does you do, enjoy it.
Enjoy your church service, enjoy your time time with your family,
get recharged. If you're working, thank you for working. God
speed to you, and I will be back with you
guys on Monday. We will do a little recap of
the Grammy Awards and talk about everything that's going on
in the news on Monday. And there's never a shortage

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of that, right, So a start approxima, take care of
good night, and God bless you America. I'm rich Valdez
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