Subpoena, Shah of Iran, Secret Service

On Tuesday, Rich reacts to President Clinton evading a Congressional subpoena. Then, thousands are dead in Iran; will the Shah's son topple the Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah, and the Mullahs and prevent any more killing of protesters seeking freedom? Later, the Secret Service fails to protect Veep JD Vance again; this time, one Agent sold him out to a woman with a hidden camera. Plus, the SCOTUS heard oral arguments on State laws regarding men competing in women's sports and how that's defined under the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution, and the food pyramid has been updated by the Secretary. RFK Jr. and the FDA.

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
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D E. S. And the number one.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
And I want to get into a lot of things
happening today, right President Trump making a few very very
strong remarks today.

Speaker 5 (00:53):
We're going to get to that.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
The Supreme Court hearing oral arguments on yet another case
of men playing in girls' sports.

Speaker 5 (01:00):
We'll talk about that as well.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
And we've got the newest candidate for governor in Florida,
saying that he's going to create an OnlyFans tax. We'll
get to that a little bit later on. There's also Iran,
and I want to start with Iran because there's a
revolution of foot in Iran. Just yesterday, the death toll
in Iran was five hundred and forty four people that
were killed. There's not a war going on. It's the

(01:24):
Malla's at war with the people. There's an uprising. They
said they don't want this anymore. They were inspired by
what happened in Venezuela, and now there's a full on
war between the people and the government. There's an internet
and media blackout on this. Why there's no internet. President
Trump yesterday saying, Hey, I'm going to talk to Elon
Musk and maybe get some internet over there, because it's

(01:46):
difficult for them to get anything out of the country
in terms of you know, they're doing whatever they feel
like it because nobody can pull out their cell phone
and show the government killing people. Well, anyway, yesterday five
hundred and forty four people killed. Today the numbers up
to two thousand, and that was a couple hours ago
when I checked. So things are very very rough in Iran.

(02:07):
And President Trump weighing in on this, making it clear
to hold on. Help is on the way.

Speaker 6 (02:14):
By the way, to all Iranian patriots, keep protesting, take
over your institutions if possible, and save the name of
the killers and the abusers that are abusing you. You're
being very badly abused. If the numbers are right. Now,
I hear five different sets of numbers. I hear numbers. Look,
one death is too much, but I hear much lower numbers.

(02:37):
And then I hear much higher numbers. But I say
save their names because they'll pay a very big price.
Then I've canceled all meetings with the Iranian officials until
the senseless killing of protesters stops. And all I say
to them is help is on its way. You saw
that I put tariffs on anybody doing business with Iran,

(02:57):
just went into effect today, and I say, make a
Ran great again. You know, I was a great country
until these monsters came in and took it over. And
it's all very fragile. Who would have happened to us,
I'm telling you, if I didn't win this election, would
have happened to us.

Speaker 5 (03:14):
He's one hundred percent right.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
If he didn't win this election, this country could be
in the similar situation right, in a similar situation. Now,
I want you to hear a report from one of
the Washington excuse me, New York Post staffers that wrote
this a little while ago, right a couple hours ago.
It's Tuesday night. This is an eyewitness account from unnamed

(03:37):
New York Post reporter because I guess a staff piece.
But it's put this way. As I write this, I've
just heard the news of another death, the fifth in
just a few days, within my close circle. This time
it was my close friend's cousin. He was at a
protest with his wife and wife and he saw green
light presumably from a gun laser that landed on her face.

(03:59):
He thought of only protecting his wife. He stood in
front of her, and he was shot in the face
and killed immediately.

Speaker 5 (04:06):
God bless him. He's a hero.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
Like so many of the dead, the regime is now
charging families bullet fees before they will return the bodies.
His family had to pay five hundred million tomens that's
roughly five thousand US dollars to get his body back
so they could bury him today.

Speaker 5 (04:23):
That's crazy.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
The final awfulness here is that in the official cause
of death. It says impact of a sharp object to
the face. They didn't write that he was shot by
the government, even after charging them the bullet fee. But
even amidst all this horror, there's a belief that this
time is different than other times when there's been uprisings.

(04:45):
Everyone believes that this time the regime will actually come
to an end. You can see it, you can feel it.
The streets in tarant are filled with people shouting for
their rights and protesting against the regime. Thursday and Friday
of last week were unbelievable. We were protesting a lot.
The crowd was beyond comprehension. It was so crowded it
shocked the police and the IRGC, the Revolutionary Guard. On

(05:12):
those days they fired tear gas and pepper spray and
sound bombs, so it looks like they're using sound bombs
too to scare people and break up the crowd. It
was frightening. But I also want to mention something that
was very meaningful to me. Despite the police and the
tear gas and pepper spray, people came out to protest
with their children. I saw pregnant women in the middle

(05:34):
of protesters who were shouting for their rights. Old men
and women who stood in the crowd too shouldered to
shoulder with the younger generation. People are suffering from the
situation no matter how old they are, and they all
want to say the same thing, regime change.

Speaker 5 (05:47):
But on Saturday everything changed.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
They brought anti terrorist police forces into the operation to
start suppressing them very forcefully and shooting protesters. This regime
is so ruthless and bloodthirsty that it's ready to kill
every want innocent people who are just walking and chanting.
They shoot them with live ammunition and bullets. It's terrible,
and they're completely unwilling to back down. I've heard that

(06:10):
the number of people they've killed is more than ten thousand.
And then, of course, the ultimate cruelty, the families of
the people killed must pay bullet fees to the government
to receive their loved ones bodies. Five people around me
are now dead. It's heartbreaking. Three of them are my
cousin's friends, and two of them are the sons of
my mother's friends. They were killed on the streets of Tehran,

(06:32):
all for protesting their inalienable right to freedom. Since this
repression has intensified on Saturday, a lot of the protests
aren't as crowded as they were before, but still we
Iranians are taking to the streets, even if it's terrifying.

Speaker 5 (06:49):
We've also been cut off from the world.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
I can only see the news via a satellite when
it works. Otherwise there's a full blackout here. The ridiculous
thing as the police have started to enter people's homes
without permission to find out who's using satellite and they
collect the satellites from the roof. On Sunday, a message
came to my husband's phone saying that he'd been identified

(07:13):
as present at illegal protests in Satar Khan, which is
one of the neighborhoods there that was being monitored. The
message said that he should leave the protest side immediately
otherwise that you would be identified as a rioter. They
were out at the protest that it was very scary.
Being in the crowd makes you feel stronger and braver.
Then last night on Monday, in a neighborhood called Punak,

(07:36):
they were using drones to identify people so they could
attack them. In general, the atmosphere of the city is
very strange. Almost all the shops are closed after five pm.
For a city like Tehran, where most shops are open
until midnight. It's very unnerving, it's even scary. The city
is very unsafe, especially in the afternoon. My friend's brother

(07:56):
was returning home from work on Saturday. A group of
thugs wearing our military uniforms broke the windows of cars
that were sitting in traffic and attacked the drivers with machetes.
His face and arms were injured while he was in
the operating room for hours after that.

Speaker 5 (08:11):
And this goes on and on. I'll leave you at
this thought here.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
The people of Iran have remained silent for years, despite
the severe harm that's been done to them, trying to
cope with the worst conditions and the most severe oppression.
And I deeply hope that President Trump follows through on
his promise to support the people of Iran and help
dismantle this regime so that the Iranian people can once
again reach the position they truly deserve in this world.

(08:39):
And this position that they're talking about is liberty. They're
just looking for liberty. And it's amazing to me, it
really is. You know, I'm somebody that's never had to
fight to run my mouth. I've fought because I've run
my mouth. But I don't have to fight just to
run my mouth, right. We have liberty in order to
do the thing things that we want to do, that

(09:01):
we want to say.

Speaker 5 (09:01):
It's America.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
It is really really something to see this going on,
to hear these social media accounts. That was an account
again in the New York Post from an eyewitness. But
I've got stuff that I'm looking at all day. All day,
I've been looking at this stuff just blows me away.
And these are just a couple of the videos that
I saw scrolling across social media in the last couple
of hours.

Speaker 5 (09:23):
Because things are crazy.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
We went from five hundred and some dead people yesterday
to two thousand earlier this afternoon, to reports right now
as I'm doing this show of twelve thousand dead.

Speaker 5 (09:33):
I don't know if this is reliable.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
And President Trump even spoke about the unreliability of some
of these numbers a little bit earlier.

Speaker 5 (09:40):
Either way, we got to.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
Get a handle on the numbers, and we've got to
figure out a way to stop this.

Speaker 6 (09:45):
Iran is on my mind when I see the kind
of death that is happening over there. We think, so
we're going to get some accurate numbers I'll have over
about twenty minutes, we'll get some accurate numbers as to
what's happening with regard to the killing. The killing looks
like it's significant, but we don't know yet for certain.
I'll know within twenty minutes and relact accordingly.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
So President Trump again reiterating that we don't know how
many people have been killed, but the numbers that are
out there right now are something like twelve thousand. And
I'm looking at every outlet here, Fox, CNN. I've got
some audio of some of the protests.

Speaker 5 (10:25):
Listen to this.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
Yard, yo.

Speaker 7 (10:41):
See First, let me just ask you on a personal note.
I still know you have family that is in Iran,
loved ones as well. With the communications blackout, have you
been able to connect with them? What are you hearing?
What are they telling you?

Speaker 8 (10:56):
It's best weel Thank you for having me. It's been
a horrific few weeks for any Iranian anywhere in the world,
but particularly of course for the people inside the country
who are being met with war bullets simply for demanding
freedom and their most fundamental human rights. I have lost content.

Speaker 5 (11:18):
FYI.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
This is actress and activist Nazangnin Beyondi and she's on CNNs.

Speaker 5 (11:27):
I'm on Poor with Brianna Goladraga, go ahead.

Speaker 8 (11:33):
Tact with loved ones and the distance. I've been in
touch with for several years now, and the last thing
I heard before losing contact about four days ago, before
the nationwide communications crackdown, which includes of course into internet
and phones, was we want any We basically are urging

(11:56):
the international community to use any powerful route approach necessary
to allow our voices to prevail for freedom and for
this regime to fall.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
A government that.

Speaker 8 (12:15):
Thinks of itself as legitimate doesn't take away its citizens'
rights to communicate with each other in the outside world.
And so this blackout is very telling. They know they're
not a legitimate representation of the people, and yes they
are in their final days. It's unlike anything I've ever
seen in the two decades I've been doing this work.

(12:35):
It is millions of Iranians rising up across the country
and thousands being met with war.

Speaker 9 (12:44):
And in a new piece for the New statesment you
right that this revolt right now poses the greatest existential
threat to the Iranian regime since the nineteen seventy nine revolution.
I've spoken to many experts as to the maker that
created this perfect storm for the regime, be it to

(13:06):
the twelve Day War with Israel, everything that transpired after
October seventh, the degradation of Iran's proxies, and of course
the Trump factor of it all.

Speaker 8 (13:17):
There is no doubt that the president's words emboldened protesters
to take to the streets. I mean, when you think
that helps on its way, you more vocal about your
wants and your demands under a brutal dictatorship. That help
hasn't come yet. We're hoping that some form of international

(13:39):
assistance happened. What's important to note is an excellent piece
for The Atlantic, Cream Sajapur and Jack Goldstone highlighted that
the five conditions necessary for revolution are almost all met
at this point. In another piece, and fantastic piece by

(14:02):
Suzanne Maloney for The New York Times, she stresses that
what needs to happen at the very least is cyber
operation that targets Iran's critical military.

Speaker 3 (14:14):
And I'm going to stop it right there because she
said something really interesting, right, she said that helps, not
on the way. I think she doesn't realize that the
president has put those sanctions in place with the tariffs,
excuse me, twenty five percent, which likely will begin to
hurt the regime way harder than the sanctions happen.

Speaker 5 (14:31):
Number one.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
Number two, you also have this request that she just
put in. She said, what we need is a cyber
attack on Iran's military infrastructure. That sounds like something that
could be ordered up pretty quickly, right, kind of like
one of those sonic booms. It's even easier than Venezuela.
I presume. Will it happen, I don't know, but I'll

(14:51):
keep you posted on everything that's going on. I want
to get into the Supreme Court. I want to get
into a bunch of things. But before I do, one
more clip on the bravery of these women in Iran.
They're running around taking off their had jobs, they're taken off.
In some cases, they're taking off their clothes to get
attention and to kind of fight back and say, hey,
you said I got to cover up, Well I'm going
to go buck naked.

Speaker 6 (15:10):
Now.

Speaker 3 (15:10):
I haven't seen anybody butt naked, but I have seen
some women in tank tops wearing signs saying f Kamani
and death to Kahmane. Wild stuff going on and exciting
at the same time.

Speaker 5 (15:22):
Listen to this book.

Speaker 10 (15:23):
About not only how brave Iranian women are, but how
funny they are in this process. And there is nothing
funny about what's happening right now in Iran. But to
still under oppression have comedic timing is incredible and it
reminds me that Iran hasn't been deprived of the world.
It's the rest of the world that has been deprived
of Iran. And I'll give you two examples. This young

(15:45):
woman here not wearing a hijab in front of a sign.
Now we've seen images like this before of protest before.
But what makes this one different and funny In the
example I'm giving is that is her pose showing off
her leg The regime already like and that's putting it lightly.
The regime doesn't like when you show your hair. Okay,
your hair now, obviously they want women covered. So the

(16:06):
fact that she's in this pose with a smirk, she
knows what she's doing and showing her skin vibe la,
oh my god. The regime is probably hyperventilating. This is
probably someone who is the funny one in her friend group,
the crazy one, outspoken one, and I want to be
friends with her. Now the second image here, This was
a video. It's of a woman, young lady, lighting up
a picture of Hamenae and then lighting up her cigarette afterwards.

(16:31):
I mean, that's hysterical. That's when resistance turns into art.
That's precision, and that's when sarcasm turns into survival and
humor used like this becomes power. And I'll say it again,
it's not Iranians that have been deprived of the rest
of the world. It's the rest of the world that
has been deprived of Iranians. The rest of the world
hasn't had a chance to truly understand the heart the

(16:54):
nature of Iranians. In Iran their hospitality, their warmth, their humor, food,
their music, they're poetry, their joy. When I talk about
their humor, it's like when my father is around other
Iranian men, it's like it's instant laughing right away. It's
like they're comedic timing. They're quick weighted, they're sharp raizor humor.
And when you see Iranian women protesting like this in

(17:15):
the face of fear with humor underneath, that is freedom,
refusing to wait for permission.

Speaker 3 (17:22):
These are a people after my own heart. The Iranian
women should I listen. I say that jokingly. I mean,
many of them are pretty attractive, but I will say this,
I wish them God speat all of them.

Speaker 5 (17:33):
Everybody deserves the liberty that we have in the United States.

Speaker 3 (17:37):
If they can get it, they can get their hands
on it, and God bless them anyway. Like I said,
more to come straight ahead, We're going to continue our
conversation Supreme Court oral arguments today on whether men can
play in women's sports yet again on a particular case
coming out of West Virginia that made its way to
the Supreme Court. Plus we've got Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton says,

(18:00):
f you to Congress. I'm not showing up. I don't
care what kind of subpoena you have on me. He
didn't show up on Tuesday today. And will his wife,
Hillary Clinton show up tomorrow. Well, we're gonna find out
that's coming up as well. Plus we've got a lot
more to discuss. Eight seven seven Valdez one. If you
want to chime in, I'm Rich Valdez.

Speaker 1 (18:20):
This is America, This is America. He's got the best
head of hair and podcasting. This is America with Rich Valdez.

Speaker 3 (18:48):
All right, every he goes welcome back and the chairman
of the House Overside Committee who subpoena former President Bill
Clinton to come in to talk about his involvement with
Epstein and how they could shed some light on that. Well,
he gave a press conference to it because Bill Clinton said,
I am obfuscating the Oversight hearing. I am not showing up,
I am flipping you the bird, I am dissing you.

(19:09):
I'm not showing up, and he just straight ghosted the committee.
Listen to Chairman James Comer as he weighed in on this.

Speaker 11 (19:17):
Well, I think everyone knows by now Bill Clinton did
not show up. And I think it's important to note
that this subpoena was voted on in a bipartisan manner
by this committee. This wasn't something that I just issued
as chairman of the committee. This was voted on by
the entire committee in a unanimous vote of the House

(19:38):
Oversight Committee to subpoena former President Clinton and former six
A State Hillary Clinton. Now, Hillary Clinton supposed to show
up tomorrow. We'll see what happens there. But with respect
to the former president, he did not show up today.

Speaker 3 (19:53):
Do you think, mister chairman, And he's not here with
me obviously, I've had a chance. Do you think Hillary
Clinton's going to show up? If Bill Clinton didn't show up,
if his lawyers said, yeah, these things are unenforceable, we're
not going That's pretty much what his legal team said,
Why on earth do you think he'd show up.

Speaker 5 (20:09):
I don't think he's going to show up.

Speaker 3 (20:10):
I think the only time you've ever seen a president
show up at a congressional hearing is when Kevin Spacey,
who was the president and then I think became the
vice president, some crazy act on the TV show House
of Cards, showed up in a congressional hearing. That's the
only time that's ever happened that I can imagine. Right,
you think Trump's ever showing up? Maybe he will because
he wants the headlines and he likes to troll him.
But he's not going anywhere any former president. They're not

(20:33):
doing anything they don't want to do. In my opinion,
go ahead.

Speaker 11 (20:36):
One reason I think most Americans won't President Clinton to
answer some questions who are is because he visited the
White House. Jeffrey Epstein visited the White House seventeen times
while Bill Clinton was president. I've been in Congress nine years.
I think i've been to the White House nine times,
and nine years Epstein was in the White House, double

(20:57):
the amount of time than I was under one resident.
And then we know that Bill Clinton flew on Epstein's
playing somewhere around twenty seven times after the presidency. So
no one's accusing Bill Clinton of any wrongdoing. We just
have questions. And that's why the Democrats voted along with
Republicans to subpoena Bill Clinton. Not a single Democrats showed

(21:20):
up today. Not a single Democrat, the ones that have
press conferences on the Capitol staffs and talk about how
they're trying to get justice for the victims and all that,
it just seems like they only care about questioning Republicans.
And we've had We've had a former Trump Cabinet Secretary
of Costa in for a grilling. We had Bill Barr,

(21:43):
former Attorney General, in for a grilling. But for whatever reason,
President Clinton didn't show up, and the Democrats on the
committee don't seem to have a problem. This is the
amount of preparation that went into this deposition.

Speaker 5 (21:57):
He's binderies were the.

Speaker 11 (21:58):
Questions that we were to ask. We've communicated with President
Clinton's legal team for months now, given them opportunity after
opportunity to come in to give us a day, and
they continue to delay, delay, delay, to the point where
we had no idea whether they're going to show up
today or not. I think it's very disappointing. As a

(22:21):
result of Bill Clinton not showing up for his lawful subpoena,
which again was voted on it unanimously by the committee
in a bipartisan matter, we will move next week in
the House Oversight Committee mark up to hold former President
Clinton in contempt of Congress.

Speaker 5 (22:37):
So, yeah, is that going to happen? Will he be
treated like Peter Navarro?

Speaker 3 (22:41):
Will he be treated like Bannon, like these others that
went to jail for their contempt of Congress.

Speaker 5 (22:47):
Because they said they had presidential immunity.

Speaker 3 (22:49):
He's going to say the same thing, right, He's going
to say, well, well I was the president.

Speaker 5 (22:54):
Does it make a difference. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (22:55):
I think in real life we ought to know better
than to subpoena former president, right. I think we have
to take these things to consideration. Clinton was an extraordinarily
popular president too, So I'm sure he's going to release
a statement there something and just say, yeah, didn't know nothing, well,

(23:16):
he actually basically already did that, right, He said he
didn't know nothing, and now his legal team said, this
thing's unenforceable.

Speaker 5 (23:22):
So pretty much, go pound salt if you that's what's
going on there.

Speaker 3 (23:26):
But in other news, we've got some news coming out
of the Supreme Court. Yeah, that's interesting. The battle over
men in women's sports continues. And this is a doozy.
This is I feel like the gift that keeps on giving, right,
It kind of doesn't end no matter what you do,
where you go, there's always going to be a case

(23:48):
somewhere making its way to the Supreme Court.

Speaker 5 (23:51):
Fascinating stuff. Listen to this.

Speaker 3 (23:53):
This is Justice Alito exercising his extraordinary legal prowess over
an ACLU lawyer.

Speaker 12 (24:02):
Check this out, Yes, your honor, If it does that,
then is it not necessary for there to be for
equal protection purposes? If that is challenged under the equal
protection clause, an understanding of what it means to be
a boy or a girl, or a man or a woman? Yes,
your honor, And what is that definition for equal protection purposes?

(24:24):
What does what does it mean to be a boy
or a girl, or a man or a woman?

Speaker 13 (24:29):
Sorry, im a centers to your question, I think that
the underlying enactment, whatever it was, the policy, the law,
the would have to we'd have to have an understanding
of how the state or the government was just understanding
that term to figure out whether or not someone was excluded.
We do not have a definition for the court, and
we don't take issue with the We're not disputing the
definition here. What we're saying is that the way it
applies in practice is to exclude birth sex males categorically

(24:52):
from women's teams, and that there's a subset of those
birth sex males where it doesn't make sense to do
so according to the state's own interest.

Speaker 12 (25:01):
If it does that, then well, how can a court
determine whether there's a discrimination on the basis of sex
without knowing what sex means for equal protection purposes?

Speaker 13 (25:14):
I think here we just know that we basically know
that the that they've identified, pursuing to their own statue, Lindsay,
qualifies as a birth sex male, and she's being excluded
categorically from the women's teams as the statute. So we're
taking the statues's definitions as we find them, and we
don't dispute them.

Speaker 14 (25:30):
We're just.

Speaker 5 (25:32):
How's that for logic? Right, logic? Always biting them in
the butt.

Speaker 3 (25:36):
She got so nervous, she was stuttering and everything, stammering.
I should say, man, interesting stuff.

Speaker 5 (25:41):
Again.

Speaker 3 (25:42):
This is the Supreme Court oral arguments today Tuesday, that
were earlier today ten o'clock in the morning Eastern time.
You had two cases going on Little versus Haycocks and
West Virginia versus BPJ that could, in essence determine the
fate of these state bands in those states and likely
all others because it's a Supreme Court on transgender athletes

(26:05):
in women's sports across the country. Now, the arguments in
the West Virginia versus VPJ were scheduled from eleven to noon.
Those centered on whether laws limiting women's sports participation based
on biological sex violate equal protection.

Speaker 5 (26:21):
And that's what we just heard.

Speaker 3 (26:22):
And that was again the Justice Alito asking the lawyer
from the ACLU, how do you do that? How do
you define that if you can't define sex? And she said, well,
we just take it at the state's definition. But I
think that premise negates itself. I think he raised a
very interesting point. So I'll keep you up to speed

(26:44):
on this stuff that's going on, and maybe we'll call
Sarah Parshal Perry from Parents Defending Education, whose former civil
rights attorney for the United States Department of Education and
VP at the Heritage Foundation. She always has her finger
on the pulse of the things. I just double duty today.
I had a show in Philly from three to six

(27:05):
pm that you know, took a lot of my prep time.
So not that I didn't want to do it. I
love doing radio, but you know, twice as nice. So anyway,
that's the story with that. Now, will this pass? Will
it not pass? I don't know what to tell you there. Honestly,
I don't have the answer to that one. My prediction

(27:26):
is that hopefully it won't, you know, it won't continue
these these state laws, and it will ban these state laws,
and that we can once again return to a normal
sea where boys are boys and girls are girls, and
should they choose once they're eighteen, once they're adults to

(27:47):
make these changes. Then that's fine, these arguments over boys
in girls' sports, and again at the adult level as well. Right,
if you're an adult and you want to identify as
a woman, that's on you. But then you have to
go to the appropriate place. You can't have testosterone A
fifteen hundred and try to compete against girls. It's not

(28:08):
fair and honestly for the women, it's just not safe.
And we've seen that time and again. Another thing that's
probably going to face legal scrutiny. President Trump making an
announcement there will be no payments. All payments to sanctuary
cities will be halted immediately.

Speaker 5 (28:25):
Listen to this.

Speaker 6 (28:27):
Additionally, starting February first, we're not making any payments to
sanctuary cities or states having sanctuary cities because they do
everything possible to protect criminals at the expense of American
citizens and it breeds fraud and crime.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
And all of the other problems that come.

Speaker 6 (28:43):
So we're not making any payment to anybody that supports
sanctuary series.

Speaker 5 (28:51):
Well, I say kudos to President Trump.

Speaker 3 (28:53):
Now, I know they're going to sue them, and they're
gonna say, look, you can't do that because that has
to go through Congress, this, that, and the other.

Speaker 5 (28:58):
And maybe they'll win on that. Honestly, who knows.

Speaker 3 (29:01):
He's probably going to say no, I'm talking about the
federal funds that we've allocated, and we're going to do
it through the executive branch, etc.

Speaker 5 (29:07):
Etc.

Speaker 3 (29:08):
Or he'll go ahead sue me and you know, write
it out. Bottom line here is he's playing tough and
you gotta play tough. And you know where I stand
with this. I say we need to sue every single
one of these states. We need a class action or
a Supreme Court action where we bring the question of

(29:31):
can a state just claim they're a sanctuary city in
state under the law. Can they say that they are
a sanctuary from the federal law?

Speaker 5 (29:40):
Right?

Speaker 3 (29:40):
Mark levin Is for years made the case that we
should all become sanctuaries from the Second Amendment bands that
are all over the place and everybody's just walk around
constitutional carry.

Speaker 5 (29:52):
Right.

Speaker 3 (29:52):
You can't say that we can't have guns in this state. Right,
some states are where you're not allowed to have guns.
To say, hey, no, we're a sanctuary state. It from
the laws of the state, same way they say they're
shielded from the laws of the federal government. So far
as it's fake, it's phony, it's fraud. We need to
push back. We need to push back hard anyway. That's
my thought on that. And speaking of sanctuary cities, this

(30:15):
is a good one. There's a new nick Shirley video
that blows the lid off even more fraud. I uh,
I'm not surprised, but it is uh, it is a
juicy Listen to this.

Speaker 15 (30:29):
Hello, we'd like to ask where the money's going? What
do you guys think about the fraud that's taking place
here in Minnesota.

Speaker 14 (30:36):
I don't think anybody is enabling FAD to.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
Have a hold.

Speaker 5 (30:38):
Governor Rolls accountable for this.

Speaker 14 (30:40):
What was this money spent out? One point six million?
What was that money sprad without during any kids?

Speaker 1 (30:46):
Answer the question?

Speaker 13 (30:47):
Are their children?

Speaker 1 (30:49):
There's no children inside this building.

Speaker 15 (30:51):
Potentially the largest fraud scandal in US history is taking
place in Minnesota, as literally billions of dollars have been
funneled through Somali ray and fraudulent businesses. So much fraud
it could actually almost replace the entire GDP of Somalia.
These fraudsters have worked hand in hand with the Minnesota
government as they enabled billions of dollars to be given

(31:13):
to fraudulent businesses underneath welfare purposes. Some of this money
eventually landed in the hands of terrorist groups in Somalia
like the Al Shabab and others, enrich themselves all at
the US taxpayers expense, and in this video, we will
break down all of the fraud from start to finish,
from going to the fraudulent businesses and confronting the people

(31:33):
who are making millions of dollars from the government, and
we will also be confronting the incoonfident government leaders who
let this fraud happen. And to make this happen, I
met up with a man who's been doing his own
investigation for years now as he has seen the fraud firsthand.
His name is David. Let's get into this and be
prepared to be shocked.

Speaker 14 (31:53):
So I've been researching this issue of fraud, and most
specifically Somali fraud because it is so gargantuan, for the
past seven years. Many of you are familiar with the
video that Nick Shirley and I made. We have a
second video that's coming out Monday that is ten times

(32:13):
worse than the original video. It's going to be pretty
shocking and it's pretty graphic. So what I have here
is a five year recap of all of the sea
CAP money that's childcare assistance payments for the last five years.
The top one hundred and two recipients of that eighty

(32:36):
four of them are Somali owned. You know how many
children I've seen at those childcare centers over the last
seven years. Zero, not one. There's another pile of money
and it's called Great Start, and that money is given
to the facility to train their staff. Well, if you
don't have any kids, you don't need any staff. Then

(32:56):
what I believe is the core of all this, Excuse me,
the core of all this is this non emergency medical transportation.
So a search show that Minnesota recognizes oneenty twenty NMT companies,
almost nine hundred of them are smallly owned. So in
the second video, Nick Suerlan, I went to sixteen of them.

(33:18):
I've actually been about seventy of them. They don't exist.
They're in an apartment building. One of them's a liquor store,
another one's a wire transfer, another one is something totally
it's a grocery store. There are no vehicles, and the
average NEMT company in the United States has twenty vehicles,

(33:39):
and each vehicle generates about seventy thousand dollars a year.
So you take you run those numbers. Eight hundred companies,
twenty vehicles, seventy thousand dollars a year, and it's an
enormous sum of money that's going out. So my feeling
is that chasing the money transfers and the wires and
the stars is great, but you got to like Batman

(34:01):
on Minnesota DHS because they're the ones who are writing
the checks. They're the ones allowing the fraud to happen. Look,
you can blame the Somali's, but if you stick your
hand out someone puts one hundred dollars in it, you're
gonna stick your hand out again and keep The people
who are putting one hundred dollars in have got to
stop doing it. They've got to get out of their
office and go out and look at these facilities and say,

(34:22):
this is an apartment building. You can't have a transportation
company to purpley and the vast majority of these companies
exist on paper only they're not real. They have no assets,
no office, and no vehicles.

Speaker 3 (34:35):
Now, just the other day we heard Governor Tim Wallas saying,
we've got to meet these people where they are. We've
got to make it easier for them to get this
type of access to care and let them get paid
in doing it.

Speaker 5 (34:46):
Right.

Speaker 3 (34:47):
So, people who are taking care of their parents living
with their parents. The Sandwich generation, if you will. I,
for example, was part of the Sandwich generation and never
got a dollar from the government to take care of
my dad. And it was happening in New York, and
I used to get jelly. I used to say, Oh,
my goodness, how is it that people who are staying
home taking care of their parents or a sick loved,

(35:08):
one elderly parent, whatever it.

Speaker 5 (35:11):
Is, one sick parent.

Speaker 3 (35:13):
In New York, they were had commercials on TV saying, hey,
if you're a home taking care of your parents. Because
I was in Jersey, I was like, hey, what's going
on here?

Speaker 7 (35:21):
No.

Speaker 3 (35:21):
I didn't necessarily want to be paid by the government,
but I did have to quit my job in order
to be there for my dad. Now, is that the
government's problem? No, that was my own family problem. But
the bottom line was, if there is a social safety
net for moments such as these, right, I was trying
to prevent my dad from going into a home and

(35:43):
from him becoming part of the dependence crowd on the
government dole. It's just fascinating to see how this whole
system works. It reminds me of what happened during COVID
During COVID. There were people buying, purchasing, selling, transporting PPE

(36:09):
that didn't exist. There was one company from China, I
think it was called Happy Face LLC or Happy Time LLC.
And they got something to the tune of nine million
dollars for PPE that they never got. They were just
given money by the government for this PPE that they
never distributed and never transported and never owned and never

(36:32):
did anything.

Speaker 5 (36:32):
Just kept the money. What a happy time.

Speaker 3 (36:37):
These people are doing the same thing with these non
emergency medical transport businesses.

Speaker 5 (36:43):
Really, this is really something.

Speaker 3 (36:46):
And according to this one article I'm looking at here
PG Media by Rick Moran, this is just a tip
of the iceberg.

Speaker 5 (36:55):
They're saying, you're not going to.

Speaker 3 (36:56):
Believe the amount of fraud and waste that's coming out
of these social safety.

Speaker 5 (36:59):
And progress wild stuff.

Speaker 3 (37:03):
Right, And we all thought there was fraud and government,
But imagine that maybe we can pay off our deficit
by just stopping fraud. Maybe we wouldn't have such a
deficit if we didn't spend so much on the fraud.

Speaker 5 (37:19):
Unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (37:22):
Veronique Derugi, she's a senior research fellow at the Mercatas
Center at the George Mason University and a contributing editor
at Reason dot Com. Spent her entire career as a
voice crying in the wilderness, trying to get Congress and
opinion makers, as well as citizens, to pay attention to
the extraordinary lax oversight of most of the government spending

(37:42):
that we see. Well, now you got this Minnesota Medicaid
fraud scandal, the daycare scandal, all sorts of scandals coming
out of Minnesota, and this might be it. This might
be the tipping point that we'll convince that the important
parties involved here to get serious about protecting taxpayer dollars.

Speaker 5 (38:04):
Yeah. I think that's really well put. Here's a quote.

Speaker 3 (38:07):
The outrage is justified because Americans are finally getting a
concrete look at what happens when pushing public money out
the door matters more than verifying the eligibility of the recipients,
confirming the services were delivered, or ultimately being a good
steward of taxpayer dollars, writes Deruji. Now, federal prosecutors of
Minnesota are suggesting that up to half of the eighteen

(38:29):
billion dollars spent on fourteen Medicaid funded Minnesota programs since
twenty eighteen have been tied to fraud nine billion dollars
of government money, which is really your money, right, it's
tax money.

Speaker 5 (38:44):
That's crazy. A billion dollars here, a billion dollars there.

Speaker 3 (38:48):
Pretty soon you're talking about a serious, a serious, serious
problem that is in an accident.

Speaker 5 (38:58):
This is real money.

Speaker 3 (39:00):
And the article asserts, and they're right, goes on and say,
we've been so injured, so numb by the gargantuan amount
of government spending that goes out the door in Washington,
that these figures just don't seem real. It's criminally negligent.

(39:22):
This is very interesting stuff, all right. I think President
Trump should say.

Speaker 5 (39:27):
Elon, how are you elon? Happy New Year? Could you
come and do some auditing, a.

Speaker 3 (39:32):
Little doge, a little doge action in Minnesota, right, that
would be great. And maybe they can have the candidate
for governor, Mike Lindell, you know, be like an honorary
chair of this thing, because he was great at tracking
things down as well.

Speaker 5 (39:53):
In twenty twenty.

Speaker 3 (39:55):
Anyway, this stuff is just fascinating to me, fascinating that
we have all these interesting things going on, and another
video that's going to be coming out, and I, for one,
I think This is great. I think this is good stuff.
The more the merrier, It's important that we focus on this.

(40:16):
And who cares what il han Omar has to say?
Who cares what Jacob fry Fray has to say? Who
cares what Tim Wallas has to say? These guys are
all going to cry foul, They're all going to keep crying.
And what is going on in Minnesota? What is up
with the people there?

Speaker 5 (40:30):
You know?

Speaker 3 (40:30):
I always thought that it was like New York City,
Greenwich Village, the crazy lefties that are in New York
City and California, and then of course you got a
handful of crazies in Chicago, right. But I didn't know
there were these crazy lefties absolutely everywhere. I didn't think
Minnesota was filled to the brim with crazy lefties. I
didn't how did that happen? Are there any Are there

(40:54):
any normal people in Minnesota? I know, obviously there are,
but I had no idea that there their leftism problem
was as severe as it is.

Speaker 5 (41:04):
This is crazy.

Speaker 3 (41:08):
I was watching a video a little while ago, yet
another woman taunting the police with her car. This time
they're able to successfully pull her out of the car.
She does try to get away he says, hey, get out,
grabs the door, Her friends and everybody go, go, go go,
And she starts to go, but there's like another police
car in front her.

Speaker 5 (41:27):
She can't go anywhere.

Speaker 3 (41:28):
And if she keeps going, she's going to pin the
cup between her car and the car that is wedged
in front of her to prevent her from going any further.
What does she think this guy is going to do
with her open window even if it wasn't open, but
her window's open and he's right next to her. If
she keeps hitting the gas, she's going to crush this guy.
You think he's gonna tickle her? You think he's going

(41:50):
to say could you please stop? Or do you think
he's gonna fill her up with lead? I would opt
for he's going to defend himself and fill her up with.

Speaker 5 (42:01):
Thankfully, they were able to get in.

Speaker 3 (42:03):
Three four different cops from every door of that vehicle
got in. We were able to put her car in park,
grab the key, grab her and get her out. And
then she says, I'm disabled. Now I'm not laughing because
she's disabled. I'm laughing because you've got to be kidding me.
After you do all of that, and you attack the police,

(42:26):
nearly pinning them with your car, and now you're gonna
be like, oh, hold on, I'm disabled. There's a lot
of bleeps in this, but I'm gonna play a little
bit of it. Maybe you can decipher what's going on.
If not, I'll stop it, because sometimes it's hard to
keep up with all of the craziness in these videos
when you can only hear them, not see them. Check
this out, Minnesota. That's the police blowing whistles. Now got

(43:06):
her out of the car. She's on the floor. They
pick her.

Speaker 5 (43:12):
Up there it is.

Speaker 3 (43:18):
She's like, I've been beat up by the police before.
I'm disabled. That's why I got in the car and
I had to move the car door. The car window
was open the entire time. When he's yelling you've got
she could have yelled when she just yelled right now
when she was sitting in the car and he was
like get over here to stop or don't go here,
or whatever whatever command he gave her, and she didn't

(43:39):
say anything.

Speaker 5 (43:39):
She was just like whatever, honking her horn.

Speaker 3 (43:42):
She could have just sad, excuse me, I have a
disability and I have to be able to go, and
they could have worked something out right probably would have
directed her traffic to get her out of there safely.
But instead she's lying. Right, she's lying. And if she
was withholding her disability and using it as an ace
in the hole to say, I'm gonna go do what

(44:03):
I want and when they get me, I'm going to say,
oh no, I'm disabled, because I really am.

Speaker 5 (44:06):
Because she really has a disability.

Speaker 3 (44:07):
ID card, or maybe in fact she does have disability.
She's playing with her life, She's playing with her health.
Not a good idea, very very stupid thing to do.
This is the type of stupid that's coming out of Minnesota.

Speaker 5 (44:21):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (44:22):
I gotta tell you what is going on in the
Twin cities. Who man anyway, shout out to all the
faithful and intelligent and loyal patriots out of Minnesota.

Speaker 5 (44:36):
I'm just messing with you, guys. I know that there's.

Speaker 3 (44:39):
Normal people there too, but these people really seem to
be off their rocker and they're all in the same place.

Speaker 5 (44:45):
Anyway. There is more to come. Straight ahead.

Speaker 3 (44:47):
We're going to talk about something happened a few days
ago that I just didn't get a chance to get
to yet, about the new food pyramid.

Speaker 5 (44:53):
Believe it or not.

Speaker 3 (44:54):
This pretty interesting stuff. And there was one more thing
that was on my list for today. It was a
big story. I felt it was a big story. Bear
with me, let me see here. Oh Pete hegseth saying
no more dudes and dresses.

Speaker 5 (45:08):
But I don't think there was another one.

Speaker 3 (45:09):
Oh yes, there wasn't a ton of information on it.
But my buddy James O'Keeffe, James O'Keeffe, investigative journalist, has
gotten a United States Secret Service member from the Vice
President's protective detailed President Vice President Jade Vance on an
undercover sting operation. This guy fell into a honey trap

(45:33):
and literally was showing the girl pictures of him and
the Vice President that had the GEO targeting on so
she could know exactly what the metadata was on these photos.
All sorts of crazy stuff. I'll get into that in
a little bit, but keep it locked right here. I
am Rich Valdez. Don't go anywhere.

Speaker 1 (45:48):
This is America. This is America.

Speaker 11 (45:58):
The forty fifth president Old Trump thinks it's an honor
to speak with Rich Valdez.

Speaker 16 (46:03):
Oh, very good, Rich, The honor is all yours.

Speaker 3 (46:12):
Conservative time with a dash of sofrito, Now here's Rich Valdez,
all right, I mean he goes, welcome back, Rich Valdez,
keeping the company this Tuesday night, and I want to
get into this breaking story.

Speaker 5 (46:25):
Probably should have led with this at the top. Forgive
me for not having my ducks in a row.

Speaker 3 (46:29):
A couple of weeks back. You may remember I said,
I think that the break in or attempted break in
or prevented break in at jd Vance's home, even though
he wasn't there and neither was his family.

Speaker 5 (46:44):
Was a security breach.

Speaker 3 (46:47):
Right, it was a lapse in security that happened I
don't know, two and a half weeks ago, about Christmas time,
something like that. Well, apparently they didn't learn from that.
This guy is surrounded by ops. Here's the latest on
what's going on with Jade Vance. One of his his
secret service detail guys was all too happy, all too
happy to talk about this stuff. And I gotta tell
you this is not.

Speaker 5 (47:07):
A not a good look, not a good look at
all from Fox.

Speaker 13 (47:11):
And I see you that you can.

Speaker 1 (47:15):
Be so key.

Speaker 16 (47:17):
A current secret service agent on Vice President JD Vance's
security detail.

Speaker 17 (47:22):
When he's like walking Mike where he am.

Speaker 16 (47:29):
So it gives away vital high level security information to
our undercover journalists, tells her about detailed future travel plans
for the Vice president, and even sends her pictures with
location metadata revealing where the president's convoy was located, potentially

(47:50):
violating both the Secret Service NDA and United States federal law.
Tomas is fully aware of this quote. I signed paperwork,
so if I don't have to get about information, I
never do. Otherwise I get in trouble. You really have
to stand in awe on the lack of self awareness.
Thomas Escato also reveals that he voted for Biden and

(48:13):
that he hates Trump and Vance's immigration policies.

Speaker 5 (48:17):
Did you vote for Biden?

Speaker 11 (48:20):
What do you think about?

Speaker 14 (48:21):
Like all the ice stuff going on?

Speaker 16 (48:27):
You may have seen reports last week that someone attempted
to break into Vice President JD. Vance's home in Ohio.
That incident prompted us to take a closer look.

Speaker 1 (48:36):
What we found in.

Speaker 16 (48:38):
Our investigation was an agent inside the Vice President's detail
who is actually revealing to a total stranger that the
Vice President will be visiting his home in Ohio days
ahead of time. And while what you're about to see
is an important story, the security of the Vice President
and his family is our top priority now. Under normal circumstances,

(48:58):
our editorial policy is to reques us to comment a
day or two before a report airs, But in this case,
we contacted the Secret Service a full week in advance
of this report to ensure that nothing we report here
would compromise the Vice president's safety in any way. But
even with those precautions, what we uncovered is troubling, and
we felt this is important for you all to see.

(49:20):
We hope that bringing this to light strengthened security and
helps prevent future vulnerabilities in our government.

Speaker 5 (49:27):
So that's the story.

Speaker 3 (49:29):
Tomas Escoto voted for Biden, hates Trump advance's immigration policy.
And again, I guess you don't get to choose right
who's on your Secret Service detail, because the presumption is
that they're going to do everything they can to make
sure that you stay alive and jump in front of
a bullet and do what they've got to do and
never tell the secrets of your whereabouts. But apparently here

(49:55):
it all happened. Now, doesn't surprise me that this. I
voted for Biden, It doesn't surprise me that he's against
their policies, because it's those are the type of people
that just don't take their jobs serious.

Speaker 5 (50:09):
They take everything seriously but their job.

Speaker 3 (50:12):
They don't take the United States as national security seriously.
They don't take the importance of their job seriously. Me me, me, me,
me me.

Speaker 5 (50:23):
Right.

Speaker 3 (50:24):
And this is why I'm an issues guy, because if
I voted on me every time, there may not be
enough of me to go around, right. There may not
be I may not end up voting that often because
there may not be enough things that make a difference
to me personally. But I have children, I have family.

(50:45):
Things that may or may not affect me, might affect
those in my family, might affect my children. So this
is why I think this whole what have you done
for me lately? Thing when it comes to politics is
you got to do what's right for the greater, in
my opinion, for everybody, for your country, for your future,

(51:06):
not just your future, your family's future, your children's future,
the future of your legacy, not just what's good for
you today. Anyway, Let's take a look at this. This
is Fox News. Just a few hours ago. Secret Service
agent assigned to Vice president in advance has been suspended
placed on administrative leave after O'Keefe's undercover video leaked all

(51:28):
this information. He leaked the information and exposed that he
being Tomas Escoto, not James O'Keefe. The United States Secret
Service said it's investigating. The employee's security clearance is currently
suspended and his access to agency facilities and systems has
been revoked while this incident is being investigated. And this
opens the door for broader concerns about operational security and

(51:51):
an agency wide retraining order. Yeah, I mean, yeah, we
should have been doing this agency wide retraining when the
Director of the Secret Service let what happened to President
Trump happen, and then her second and command gets in
there and says, how great she is, the woman that
was from PEPSI. I mean, this is just a crazy
thing now. The Deputy Director of the United States Secret

(52:12):
Service Director Deputy Director Matthew Quinn told Fox News in
a statement that the United States Secret Service has no
tolerance for any behavior that could potentially compromise the safety, privacy,
or trust of their protectees. This incident is under investigation
and the employee is involved. The employee that is involved
has been placed on administrative leave, with his clearance suspended

(52:35):
and access to agency facilities revoked, and it goes on
and on, but I'll probably say this more of the same.
The White House did not immediately respond to the Fox
News thing, but you can rest assured that when the
time is right, he'll likely say something or they won't.
Bottom line here, this guy got caught with his pants down.
He got caught by James o kissel My Nissele. So
it's double bad for him because you know, if it

(52:58):
comes out on Fox News and nobody he sees it, well,
all right, then there you go. Just the people who
are taking a look at the website, ors watching TV
that day see.

Speaker 5 (53:05):
It when it comes out.

Speaker 3 (53:06):
For O'Keefe, you know, he's all over all to social
media and he's going to keep reposting it and oh
Keef never posts one video, right, it's today, here's what
he said today, But we met up with him again,
and here's what he said next time, and that third time.
And then of course is the actual the confrontation video.
Right when O'Keefe comes up to you with his iPad
in hand and says, tell us a Scott, Hi, I'm

(53:26):
James O'Keefe, and then the guy tries to walk away,
no comment. I don't want to talk to you. Get
away from me. Get away from me, I said, get
away from me. You know, there's always the confrontation, and
of course that's where o'keef's intrepid journalism kicks in, and he's,
you know, holding the photos of the video showing him
on the ipop.

Speaker 5 (53:40):
But isn't this you? Isn't this you?

Speaker 3 (53:42):
Why why did you tell this girl all of this
sensitive information about the Secret Service? And then go on
and say, look, I signed something saying I can't say
anything an NDA, a non disclosure agreement, and on top
of that, tell her, so I'm going to be in
Florida with the Vice president for the next five days.
And why would you give out all the information?

Speaker 5 (54:00):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (54:00):
If this girl's a spy, he's lucky that she was
working for O'Keefe. This guy was a whole lot of dumb,
a whole lot of dumb. This is a huge mistake
for him. It's going to be difficult for him to
work after this. I don't think he gets to stick
around if he does. What a disgrace, What an absolute disgrace.
Somebody who can be that sloppy gets to hold on

(54:20):
to their job and by his job, I mean maybe
he'll stay working in the Secret Service if he's lucky,
but he should definitely not be anywhere near the Vice President.
And if he does stay in the Secret Service, how
many of his colleagues are going to be like, Yeah, listen,
mistakes happen, Like that guy who left his gun in
the Capitol bathroom.

Speaker 5 (54:39):
I don't think that's the case.

Speaker 3 (54:40):
Most cops want to know that they're safe with you,
with their life in your hands when you watch their six.
This doesn't seem to be very safe for these people,
for that guy, you know, because he's a loose cannon.
So anyways, more information breaks on that, I'll get you
more information about that. Keep it locked right here and
gonna come right back. We're gonna wrap this bad boy. Yeah,
I want to give you a little bit of the

(55:02):
food Triangle, not the triangle food pyramid. This happened a
few days ago, but I thought it was interesting because
I had a guest on the show, the radio show,
a long time ago, and this is what we talked about.
He talked about how in the early nineteen eighties and
late seventies they changed the food pyramid to include a
ton of carbs, and he said it was like a

(55:22):
conspiracy theory against America. And here we are, you know,
fifteen sixteen years later, twenty five, thirty forty years later
in some cases, from the updates that the various updates
to the food pyramid.

Speaker 5 (55:35):
And yeah, oatmeal is not really that good for you.

Speaker 3 (55:38):
Tastes really good, but it's just not that good for
you anyway, keep it locked right here.

Speaker 5 (55:42):
It's Valdez. I'm coming right back.

Speaker 1 (55:44):
This is America. This is America. He's making podcasting great again.
This is America with Rich Valdez.

Speaker 3 (56:01):
All right, he goes, welcome back, and again, if you
want to join us, you know the number eight seven
seven valdest one.

Speaker 1 (56:08):
I did have a.

Speaker 3 (56:09):
Call that I was going to get to, but I'm
not going to be able to get to it now
for the sake of time, forgive me on that, but
I will get the calls on min Ya. And I
wanted to get into this story here about the food pyramid, because.

Speaker 5 (56:21):
I think this is important.

Speaker 3 (56:23):
Right, So many of us thought we learned how to
eat the four food groups, this, that, and the other.

Speaker 5 (56:28):
And if you grew up anything like.

Speaker 3 (56:30):
Me, you ate a crap ton of rice all sorts
of your sandwich has never had less than three slices
of bread, right, I mean we were just carb people,
which explains my weight at such an early age.

Speaker 5 (56:42):
So what gives Well?

Speaker 3 (56:45):
I got some audio from a few days back when
Secretary Kennedy blew the lid off this thing, along with
doctor Marty mcleary and who else and the United States
Surgeon General.

Speaker 5 (56:56):
Listen to this.

Speaker 2 (56:57):
Yeah, if a foreign adversary saw it to destroy the
health of our children, to cripple our economy, to weaken
our national security, there would be no better strategy than
to addict us to ultra process foods. It's shocking that
our own government helps to drive these cataclysmic changes in

(57:18):
our diet. The damage is real, it is preventable, and
President Trump has ordered him to end that.

Speaker 3 (57:25):
Secretary RFK Junior Bobby Kennedy, the Secretary of the Department
of Health and Human Services and against strong words, right,
if a foreign adversary was trying to do us in,
they probably couldn't have done any worse than what our
own government did to us by way of allowing all
of this sugar into our body, sugar that fuels cancer,

(57:45):
sugar that fuels diabetes, cardiovascular disease, endless amount of amputations,
and now a huge market for drugs for people who
have been addicted to sugar and now have diabetes. Me
absolutely stark stuff. This is what people during COVID were saying,
that these people are all profiting between the government and

(58:08):
big pharma. They're just profiting off of making us sick
and trying to make us well again. Well doctor Marty mcleary,
he weighed in on this as well.

Speaker 4 (58:15):
The data for sixteen years, two other large studies failed
to show an association. Finally, the study trickled out in
the medical literature. Nobody noticed it. Those on the low
fat group had higher rates of heart attacks. Why maybe,
because when you avoid fat, you have to pound food
with carbohydrates, and often ultra processed carbohydrates, stripped a fiber

(58:40):
and chopped up at functions like sugar. We created a
generation of children with low protein, high carbohydrates, sugar addiction
and on burdened with ultraprocessed foods. And what did we
do as a medical field drugged them at scale. Those
days are over. We are telling people that truth about food.

Speaker 5 (59:02):
Look at that.

Speaker 3 (59:02):
Yeah, that's the doctor Marty McLaury, the FDA commissioner. He's
keeping a real he's keeping a gangster. He's making sure
that people are doing the right thing. And I can
tell you the first hand I've experienced this.

Speaker 6 (59:12):
Right.

Speaker 3 (59:12):
I ate like there was no tomorrow to my heart's content,
and I gained weight. And first it was five pounds,
and it was ten, that was fifteen, that was twenty.
Before you knew it was a solid forty. And I
just called myself Gordito, just a little lextra chubby now
because I like to eat. Oh no, because it's funny,
because it was cute, right it. Really, it was no
issue for me. I was not afraid for my life

(59:33):
until I was many years later, after years of abusing
my body with fast food and just thinking, ah, who cares,
one of these days I lose it. I didn't care.
I didn't think I needed to lose weight. I was like,
as long as I'm not six hundred pounds, I'm good.
Who cares that I have a little gut. I'll just
buy bigger pants. At one point, I was wearing a
waist forty two. My shirt size, my neck size was
a seventeen and a half or an eighteen. My jacket

(59:56):
size was a forty eight typically, but it went up
to fifty at one point, and I was looking at
a video. I did a TV show called I Forget
what it was called RFL and it was a live
show out of New York on urn N, the regional
network news and as a regional TV network. Anyway, bottom
line was, I looked at me commenting back then on Obama,

(01:00:20):
I was wearing a gray suit. This is on YouTube
on their channel, by the way, I was wearing a
gray suit and it literally looked like two of me.
And back then I thought I was the most handsome guy.
And I had my wife telling me I was handsome.
Well back then, I was already divorced by then. But
prior to that, you know, I thought I was the
best thing since sliced bread.

Speaker 5 (01:00:42):
Right.

Speaker 3 (01:00:42):
There were other women interested in me after the fact
that I was like, no, I'm just recently divorced, taking
it easy, right. It never dawned on me that I
was that big until I lost all the weight I did.
And now I look it back and I'm like, wow,
how did I function at that size? But at that
stage of the game, I just thought I had a
few extra pounds. I was ah five ten pounds. Fifteen

(01:01:03):
would have been the max. I was eighty pounds overweight.
I weighed two hundred and seventy pounds. Amazing, amazing. Anyway,
the Surgeon General also weighed in, and again these guys really,
you know, they went at it. I mean, I got
a few more clips for you. I don't want to
bore you to death with this, but this is really

(01:01:24):
important stuff and stuff that I think makes a difference.

Speaker 5 (01:01:27):
Listen to this one.

Speaker 17 (01:01:28):
Let me be very clear about what has been accomplished.
We have flipped the script on establishment nutrition and we
have turned the pyramid upside down. And let me be
equally clear. These dietary guidelines will help make America healthy again.
Let me be direct. Let me be very clear about
what has been accomplished.

Speaker 5 (01:01:48):
That is the Surgeon General of the United States.

Speaker 3 (01:01:51):
This is a big deal, right And we don't need
RFK Junior to tell us not to have a cheap meal,
although he did, and I appreciate it, or doctor Marty
mclary to tell us that we should need carbs, but
he did, and I appreciate that as well, because you
know what I needed to hear it. I know it now,
but I didn't know it in two thousand and nine.

(01:02:11):
I didn't know it in twenty ten, right when this
was all for me the height of my I was
having these sugary drinks that were so loaded with sugar.
I thought, it's a nice coffee, right, and I would
go and I would go, you know, can I get that?
At one point I tried to get creative and I
was like, it's coffee with cream and they put sugar in.
So I told him, see it's a little sweet. You

(01:02:33):
mind not putting sugar and I'll put a splenda in there.
And they were like, oh no, it comes pre mixed.
It was the most delicious thing ever, kind of like
that pre mixed chocolate milk that you get at McDonald's
or that pre mixed chocolate milk you can get at
ahuah wah. Absolutely just delicious. It's like the best chocolate
milk ever made. This coffee tasted like that. It was
these Mocha coffee's like that little Starbucks Mocha drink that

(01:02:54):
comes to a little glass jar.

Speaker 5 (01:02:55):
It's phenomenal. It's all sugar. I mean, I hate that.
I liked it. I don't have it anymore. And thankful.

Speaker 3 (01:03:01):
I don't even have a taste for it because it
is too sweet. But back then I needed it, I
craved it, I loved it. Which maybe one of these
days we'll bring in a guest to talk about why.
Because once you have enough sugar, your gut starts to
grow different types of flora and whatnot, and it starts
to crave sweets and sugar.

Speaker 5 (01:03:18):
And things that I didn't even like. I might even
a cake guy.

Speaker 3 (01:03:20):
I'm a food guy, right, you tell me a heaping
plate of rice and beans and some chicken or whatever,
I'm all in. But when you start eating this poorly,
then you're like, hey, can I get a cheese Danish?
And can I wash that down with an ecklayer? Or
can I wash that down with a jelly donut? I mean,
just insane sugar cravings. Doctor Marty mcleary, FDA, We've.

Speaker 4 (01:03:38):
Been fed a corrupt food pyramid that has had a
myopic focus on demonizing natural, healthy saturated fats, telling you
not to eat eggs and steak, and ignoring a giant
blind spot refined carbohydrates, added sugars, ultra processed food. For decades,
we've been FEDA corrupt.

Speaker 3 (01:03:59):
Food for decades. We've been fed this corrupt food pyramid.
And these guys I love that they're harping on this.
I love it. I mean, they're nailing it. This is
the speech I needed. This is ultimately the speech that
my doctor gave me. But I didn't get it until
twenty seventeen, and by then, you know, some significant damage
was done.

Speaker 5 (01:04:18):
I had a lot of weight to lose.

Speaker 3 (01:04:19):
I had already lost some weight on my own, but
he helped me to lose even more weight and really
to understand why I was gaining weight, and to understand
why I was so sluggish, to understand why I was
so tired, and this was it changing my diet, changing
you know, the fact that I was only awake because
I was drinking four cups of coffee throughout the day.
You can't really live your life like that, and I
did it for years thinking it was normal because you
see stuff like that on TV and you're like, yeah,

(01:04:40):
I'm not the only one. Those guys do Red Bull.
The other ones are doing caffeine pills. I'm just drinking coffee.
But this is not ideal. This is not as God
intended and as RFK Junior is about to tell us
the cheap meal is not okay.

Speaker 2 (01:04:52):
Cheap meal made of process food is cheap is an
illusion because you're paying for it on the back end,
say for with diabetes, with obesity, with illness, and if
you internalise that caused the meal, it would be a
tiny fraction of the long term cause of eating bad food.

Speaker 3 (01:05:12):
Now he's talking about cheating on your diet with cheap,
affordable food. Right, like the what used to be known
as the dollar menu at McDonald's. Right, you can go
there and get a bunch of things on that dollar menu.
I don't think that exists anymore thanks to Joe Biden.
If they bring it back, that might be the ultimate indicator.

Speaker 5 (01:05:28):
Right. Economist d J.

Speaker 3 (01:05:29):
Antonio, he says people judge things by the McDonald's economy.
Him and Steve Moore kind of connect with them because
we've seen some shifts in our economy and as a
few people, I got to call bottom line here. Just
because your cheat meal maybe cheap, doesn't mean that it's
good for you. Even if it's bad for you, it's
probably worse for you than you think. And I think
that makes a lot of sense. We need to stop

(01:05:51):
writing things off as that's all right, A little bit
of this little bit.

Speaker 5 (01:05:54):
Won't kill you.

Speaker 3 (01:05:55):
I think it will. And if we look at it
as poison, we'll treat it as poison. Nobody says I'll
have a little bit poison. Nobody does that anyway, amigos.
I want you to be informed. I want you to care,
I want you to be healthy. I want you to
know what's going on, because we have to be informed patriots.
If we stand for nothing, we'll fall for anything. The
only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good
people like you to sit there and do nothing. So

(01:06:16):
make sure you do something for your health, for your family,
for your country. I start up, Broksima, take care, good night,
and God bless you America. I'm Rich Valdes, and this
is America.

Speaker 1 (01:06:26):
This is America.