Trump Topples Tehran, Torricelli weighs in

On Monday night, Rich reflects on President Trump's Operation Epic Fury, which annihilated the Ayatollah and liberated Iran. Then, US Sen. Bob Torricelli (D-NJ, Ret.) joins Rich to discuss the military operation and the path forward. Later, a look at the economy and Torricelli's post-government career.

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Your host, Rich Valdez.

Speaker 4 (00:25):
What's up, America. I am Rich Valdez Valdez with an
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New York City. Honored and blessed to be here with you.
Give me a call in our late night national town
hall conversation. Here's the number eight seven seven Valdes one,
eight seven seven VALDESZ one. And obviously by now you

(00:48):
know that Ed Trompito has freed Iran. Tehran is free
today because of Ed Trompito and the United States military.
And many of you went to sleep on Friday just
like I did, thinking, man, this thing is coming soon.
And as you heard on my Friday program, as you
heard on Thursday, even on Wednesday, with General Blaine Holt.
An attack on Iran was imminent. Why just look at

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the way we did it when we took out the
big nuclear mountain in fod Oh, right, same thing. Friday
night into Saturday. It's always Friday night into Saturday. That's
how they roll, I think, to maximize the amount of
time during the weekend so that they can come back
Monday and go, hey, look at what we did. So anyway,
kudos to the American military. God bless America. Fantastic work

(01:35):
being done. As far as I know right now, three
casualties on the American side, God bless them and their families.
But by and large, things continue. Operations continue, not only
in Tehran but throughout Iran. The Iranians hitting back and
hitting back hard. Raising Cain, the general of this operation,
spoke out, I'll give you a clip on that. Of course,

(01:56):
many of us woke up. I want to start from
the beginning with Edro. Now. I happen to be awake
at that time because I do my show late in
the evening, and then of course I don't sleep because
I pound the coffee. Right, it was three o'clock in
the morning or two something when I saw the video
that President Trump put out announcing that military operations in
Iran had commenced. Check this out.

Speaker 6 (02:18):
To the members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, the armed forces,
and all of the police, I say tonight that you
must lay down your weapons and have complete immunity, or,
in the alternative, face certain death. So lay down your arms.
You will be treated fairly with total immunity, or you

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will face certain death. Finally, to the great proud people
of Iran, I say tonight that the hour of your
freedom is at hand. Stay sheltered, don't leave your home.
It's very dangerous outside. Bombs will be dropping everywhere. When
we are finished take over your government, it will be
yours to take. This will be probably your only chance

(03:06):
for generations. For many years you have asked for America's help,
but you never got it. No president was willing to
do what I am willing to do tonight. Now you
have a president who is giving you what you want.
So let's see how you respond. America is backing you
with overwhelming strength and devastating force. Now is the time

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to seize control of your destiny and to unleash the
prosperous and glorious future that is close within your reach.
This is the moment for action.

Speaker 4 (03:40):
Do not let it pass.

Speaker 6 (03:42):
May God bless the brave men and women of America's
Armed forces. May God bless the United States of America.

Speaker 4 (03:50):
May God bless you all. Thank you, all, right, So
we gave you a little bit longer in the video
than I wanted to give you, but you figured out
the gist of it right. It was impactful. He said
you will meet certain death, and again the Iranians are
meeting certain death today, President Trump saying it was their
own arrogance that got them that. They didn't think it

(04:12):
was going to be this easy to get them all
in one place. I think now the leadership structure of
the United States is now keeping tally, saying forty nine
of the top leaders in Iran have been assassinated. At
least that was the number I heard. If that's wrong,
forgive me, sue me. But there's a lot to get

(04:33):
into here. I mean, you've seen most of his stuff
play out on social media. You've seen a lot of
this playoff on the news. What you haven't heard is
what I think of it. So sit back, relax, lock
in with me. We're going to get into a bunch
of different things. I want to give you that clip
from General Kin, General Raisin Kin as they call him.
He made a statement today that was very much a

(04:54):
statement not just for the American people, but I believe
to the enemies of our million terry. Listen to this.

Speaker 7 (05:02):
To those who would test our resolve or threaten the
United States, our allies, or our interests, understand clearly, we
can reach you. We can sustain the fight, and we
can scale the fight, and we will prevail. To the
American people. Your Joint Force remains steady, frosty, calm and focused.

(05:28):
Your service members are trained, disciplined, and determined. We understand
the risks of this mission and the weight of the
responsibility that we carry. We also recognize that our families
also shoulder the burden at home. You are a part
of this too. I am proud today, as I am

(05:52):
every day to stand as a member of America's Joint Force.
There is no mission too complex, no distance to great,
and no adversary too determined. For the men and women
who wear our nation's uniform, we mourn are fallen, we
honor their families, and we continue our mission with focus,

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unity and strength. And now I'm happy to take any questions.

Speaker 4 (06:19):
Again, that's general Raisin Kine, don't mess with the US military.
And Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War coming in hardcore. I'll
give you that right after this segment, right before we
go into our guest segment, and that I want to
tell you. You know, people always criticize me for being
too nice, and I try to be a gentleman. I

(06:40):
try to not scare people off right. Something I mentioned
to you guys the other day that I didn't learn
from Editorum Petle, but when I was interviewing him, he
reiterated that he noticed and he said, you know, this business,
it's tough because if you're too soft, people won't respect you,
and if you're too hardcore, you won't get those guests
to come in. Now, recently I had a guest come

(07:01):
in that was a BBC straight news, mainstream media journalist.
Said a lot of things I didn't agree with, said
some things I do agree with, like the role of
the CIA and how they are many of our enemies
got it. I think a lot of us know that.
But it's always good to hear from the other side,
especially when you can find common ground, and that I

(07:25):
found listen to this. Former United States senator is an
ally of the muja Hadeen in Iran right as advocated
for them for many years to be a free Iran.
He was in Congress before that, Senate, excuse me, a
House Foreign Relations Committee, and before that he served in

(07:46):
the White House in the Carter administration. Been around for
a long time. He's a Democrat. His name is Bob
the Torch Torcelli. He's going to be joining me in
the next segment, so keep it locked right here. Former
US Senator Bob Torricelli joins me, and of course me,
Rich Valdes, don't go anywhere.

Speaker 8 (08:05):
This is America.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
This is America. He's brown, he's bald, and he's breaking
it down.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
Oh he's still had someome what's his day, Rich Veldez,
what's up, America? It's Rich VALDESK. Welcome back. And you
saw the breaking news over the weekend the United States
going into Operation Epic Fury, taking out the Ayatola, and
a couple of ancillary prizes like getting the leader of

(08:42):
the Taliban as well. We'll get to that in a
little bit. But hours ago I got a quote right
here from Secretary Pete Hegseth saying this morning that anyone
threatening Americans will be hunted down and killed.

Speaker 9 (08:55):
It took the forty seventh president, a fighter who always
puts America first, to final draw the line after forty
seven years of Iranian belligerents.

Speaker 4 (09:04):
He reminded the world, as.

Speaker 9 (09:05):
He has time and time again, being an American means
something unbreakable. If you kill Americans, if you threaten Americans
anywhere on Earth, we will hunt you down without apology
and without hesitation, and we will kill you.

Speaker 4 (09:21):
It took the forty seventh president to stop forty seven
years of oppression. Of course, referring to Iran, I'm going
to get some reaction to that, on these strikes, on
everything else that's been ensuing from that. From our guest,
Senator Bob Torricelli, retired senator from New Jersey Senator, it's
a pleasure, welcome, Thank you for having me. You bet so.
I take a look at this, and I say, you know,

(09:42):
the last strike that we saw was very similar. It
seems like Trump is the Saturday strike guy, right wait
for Friday night. He goes in some Monday morning boom
headlines galor and he's usually done by then this seems
to be part of the Donro doctrine, at least I'm
adding it to that. It was pretty certain that it
was going to happen this weekend, just because of all
the red that we were hearing and seeing and Jdvan's
meeting with the folks in Geneva, and then as well

(10:05):
as the just the timing seemed right with taking out
the folks in Mexico. Talk to me about your thoughts
on this Thumbs up, thumbs down, How did it go with.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
I think rich you need to put this in context.
If we had just started negotiating with another government and
we were six months, a year, two years into negotiations,
and we were making progress and they are operating in
good faith, I would call a military strike in the
midst of it outrageous, bad policy and illegal. But that's

(10:39):
not what we have here. This is forty years successive
administrations have negotiated with Iranians again and again and again.
They have violated, they have delayed, they have lied. The
negotiations were not going to succeed. I don't say that lightly.
All evidence is all historic knowledge of the regime. It

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was not going to work. And as the President has
pointed out this is on top of repeated attacks in
different contexts from Iraq to Saudi Arabia and Africa to
the Red Sea where they have murdered American soldiers. Enough
was enough. I think the United States has exhibited more

(11:22):
than enough patients. It was the right thing to.

Speaker 4 (11:26):
Do, Senator, we see people dancing in the streets. We're
seeing you know, I've seen video after video on social
media of women crying, people super thankful to the United States,
thankful to President Trump for taking this action. Some people
are criticizing those videos, saying this is propaganda from the

(11:46):
movement that was in opposition. Others saying, this is a
genuine reaction from we the people. You've been around the
block a few more times than I have.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
What do you think, Well, I think it's divided. I've
been close to the Raian opposition, the International THEOSK for
for years. There is no question there are millions of
Iranians who want regime change. Ten thousand of them may
have died in the last month. Thousands of others have
died in the course of the last twenty and thirty

(12:15):
years in opposition. There have been four major uprisings. All
have been crushed by overwhelming power from the regime against
people on the streets. There's also no question that there
is an entrenched elite in the country that has lived
off the revenue oil revenues and the work and sweat

(12:35):
of the Iranian people for decades. They will not go lightly.
They will fight to the end. They're fighting now, so
it's divided, but I don't have any question in my
mind that the overwhelming majority of Iranians will rejoice as
they have rejoiced at the death of the Ayatola and
the collapse of the regime, if we can bring it
to that point.

Speaker 4 (12:57):
You made a good point in that there's the continue
to fight back, and President Trump outlined us as it
taking some time and that casualties were to be expected
when he made his initial announcement of this action, that
being said, the Strait of Hormuz is under attack. They're
taking tankers. This seems to be the play of the

(13:18):
Iranian play, got it. I look at this as a
as a novice, an observer from our end over here,
and I think this won't last that long. They don't
have the firepower. It's kind of like we're digging our
heels in the sand and we're not going out without
a fight, but they're going to go out. Nonetheless, how
long do you think this goes on? And do you
think that my analysis is ignorant and that this can

(13:42):
be prolonged and protracted?

Speaker 3 (13:46):
First, I think it's very hard to know, and I
don't know whether the United States knows. The Iranians have
an enormous store of ballistic missiles and drones and the
industrial capability to keep making drones. With the ballistic missiles.
It's not simply happening missiles they have, it's how many launchers.
And I've read in the popular press they may have
lost half their launchers already to American and Israeli attacks.

(14:09):
I think that supply is exhausted faster because of the
dependence on the limited number of launchers, and they are
by far the most dangerous. The American and more of
the Israeli defenses seem to be not able to stop
all the ballistic missiles, and I think there are also
questions about how many interceptors the Israelis have left. That

(14:34):
leaves the arranges with the enormous numbers of drones, they
are not as effective, they're not as powerful, but they
are great in numbers, and they can swarm a navy
ship or an air base. There's reason to be concerned
about them. What I don't know is on our navy
ships the depth of supply of intercepting munitions as well.

(15:00):
No American supplies have been strained. We've given a lot
to the Ukraine, We've used a lot ourselves in the
Middle East, and we've given a lot to the Israelis.
That does concern me.

Speaker 4 (15:12):
From what you're hearing right now on the ground, Senator,
would you say that this seems to be going as
planned or are we experiencing operational hiccups that weren't expected.

Speaker 3 (15:26):
My guess is it's going better than planned. Every time
the American military is engaged, whether you support the operation
or not, you have to be in awe the level
of planning, the execution, the quality of the personnel, the
quality of the munitions. I don't say this lightly. The
United States clearly has no peer anywhere in the world

(15:48):
in any of these endeavors. So my guess is it's
probably going better than expected. Having said that, some lives
are lost, America is in the incredible position that we
expect to fight these engagements without loss of life. That's unrealistic.
It's impossible. Everything will not go like the Venezuela operation.

(16:11):
When there will be there have been losses of life.
It's tragic and we mourn it, but it's inevitable.

Speaker 4 (16:20):
Yeah, no, I get that, and I think the President
kind of alluded to some of that in his initial
announcement which I have, which i'd never heard before, honestly,
which I thought was, you know, kind of a sobering.
Now switching gears. I want to take a quick pause
right here and then come right back and talk about
what the future looks like for the Iranian people, democracy

(16:42):
and new regime, etc. I mean, it goes. Keep it
locked right here. It's rich Valdez, our guest from the
Garden State, the Great State of New Jersey. That's where
I live. Retired Senator the Torch himself, Bob Towards Elli's
with us. We're coming right back.

Speaker 1 (16:57):
This is America. This is America.

Speaker 4 (17:17):
President Banatik Trump, mister President, welcome to the program sir.

Speaker 8 (17:21):
Well, thank you, Richard, thank you for everything.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
I know you very well and I have.

Speaker 6 (17:25):
I listen, but I have a lot of people that
listen and they love your show and I appreciate it
very much.

Speaker 5 (17:31):
What is your message to President Trump?

Speaker 10 (17:34):
My message to President Trump is that I'm here to
echo and join millions of my compatriots inside and outs
out of Iran to thank him for having done and
having the courage to do what is not easy but intervene,
and he will go down in the annals of Iran
in history as the most celebrated foreign leader that changed

(17:54):
the Bowl game and changed the world as a result.

Speaker 5 (17:58):
In Januaryident Trump said this about you quote. He seems
very nice, but I don't know how he'd play within
his own country. I don't know whether or not his
country would accept his leadership, and certainly if they would,
that would be fine with me. You don't seem to

(18:19):
have President Trump's wholehearted support.

Speaker 10 (18:22):
Well, first of all, I don't think that somebody in
my position will ever expect to have an official endorsement
of a foreign government or a foreign leader. What I
do know now is that millions of Iranians inside Iran,
and that'side of Iran calling my name that recognize in
me the person uniquely taste to play a role of
transitional leadership, not running for office, because that's not what

(18:45):
I'm doing but to be abrieged to that descine, all.

Speaker 4 (18:48):
Right, and he goes, Welcome back, Rich Weald. As we
continue the conversation on Iran with United States Senator Bob
torres Selly, he's retired, but he's still in the Garden State.
He's still plugged in and he's with us right now. Senator,
I want to talk about the future of what happens here.
We saw this clip of Rasia Palavi, the son of

(19:09):
the Shah, in sixty minutes last night. He said that
President Trump made a permanent mark in history. He's defining
history by what he's doing. Then, obviously there are many critics,
of course, one of them being Mariam Rajavi, the People's Movement, Hadeen,
and others that have been in opposition. So I want
to get your thoughts on some of this stuff, because

(19:32):
even President Trump has voiced some concerns, saying, I don't
know if the Iranian people will take Raja Povlavi, but
if they do like him, then I like them.

Speaker 3 (19:40):
Well. The tragedy of all this would be is if
all these lives are lost, all this sacrifice and we
go from the Ayatola back to the Shah. I think
it's instructive that the most common chant you're hearing in
the streets of Iran is no to the ayahtola noe
of the dictator. They don't want to go back, and
who would, I mean, all of this sacrifice, of all

(20:03):
of these years in this struggle to lose a revolution again.
When the people rose up against the Shah forty some
years ago, they were doing it because they wanted a republic,
They wanted a free country, and it was robbed from
them by the clerics. Now they may have a shot again.
This time they can't lose it to another dictator. We need.

(20:26):
The people of Iran deserve and clearly want a democratic republic.
And I this is how anyone can think that the
Shah's son is the right answer here for the people
of Iran or for the United States and others who
want stability in the region. Is fanciful? It just it
would be a tragedy.

Speaker 4 (20:46):
Is it fair? And I don't know the guy, maybe
you do. Is it fair to make the comparison of
the Shah and his son as one and the same,
or is their room to say the Shah is also
interested in democracy? And I don't know the guy, but
all I've heard him say is talking about being an
interim the facto leader. Is that a ruse to get

(21:07):
his foot in the door and never leave or is
that truly just an interest in saying, look, I'm one
of the Well, this is.

Speaker 3 (21:14):
Iran is a nation of over ninety million people, with
one of the largest oil reserves of the world and
apparently considerable military industrial To believe that someone who fled
Iran as a young man, having spent most of his
life in schools in Europe and has now lived in

(21:35):
Los Angeles for forty seven years, is the right answer
to governing Iran, it stretches credibility. He's never run anything,
I don't know if he's ever had a job, and
now for forty seven years to go from Los Angeles
to running the country of Iran. This is how mistakes

(21:55):
are made in history. I don't know who the next
leader of Iran will be, but I assure you that
that leadership should come somewhere between the professional class in Iran,
people in the military who are not loyal to the
current regime, the deos fora like the National Council Resistance
and missus Rajavi who have struggled for years for a

(22:18):
democratic Iran. The answer is among those groups. It is
certainly not from the clerics who've abused the country for
forty seven years, and it's certainly not from anyone who's
ever associated with the Shah. And we don't need someone
who's been on the cocktail rout in Los Angeles forty
seven years. It's in those groups in the diaspora and

(22:39):
from within the country.

Speaker 4 (22:42):
What are your thoughts of people that And again, I
am forty seven years old, so you know, a lot
of this predates me. But I look at old videos,
I remember Reagan's speeches, and I look at this and
I see some people, even in these videos where they're
celebrating in the streets, some of them are holding pictures
of of the Shah's son of Pavlovi, the crown Prince,

(23:03):
you know, with their thank you mister Trump, and holding
pictures of Pavlave. At the same time as Trump is saying,
I don't know, you know, I don't know the guy.
If you liked the guy, I like the guy. Right.
Trump's pretty much hands off on this from what I
could see. He's saying, you know, do what you got
to do what.

Speaker 3 (23:17):
I don't know the videos you've seen, but I do know.
I do know that some of the things you've read
online where people are chanting for the show has actually
gone back if you've actually interpreted them in Farsitie. They
weren't yelling that at all. It was just being over.
And I don't know that the signs weren't putting their
hands either. By video, you have to be careful what

(23:37):
you watch these days, but I don't. I haven't seen
any evidence that there's any interest in anyone in the
in the in returning the shot of power.

Speaker 4 (23:46):
Got it? And now let me ask you this. You said,
you know, you've spent many years very close to the
diaspora of Iran and the Persian people. You're elected as
the United States Senator from New Jersey. In my career,
I got to take over the radio show of a
great guy named Larry King, and he had a great

(24:07):
question that he asked his guests, and I'm going to
ask you, And he would say, how's a nice kid
from Jersey get involved in all of this? How's all
this that for you?

Speaker 3 (24:17):
Well, you know, but long before I was at the center,
I was in the House Representatives for many years, representing
Bergen and Hudson Counties, and I was on the Forearm
Relations Committee. And this is this is the just only
two three years after the Iranian Revolution, and Iranians from
around the country would come by the office and try
to get all of us into Congress who are intersted

(24:38):
in foreign policy, to pay attention to Iran, because in
those years, the United States had largely walked away from
Iran after the revolution and the hostage crisis, and they
were unusually dedicated and very focused, and they had formed
this organization of the National Council of Resistance with the
idea of bringing democratic change to Iran. And I was

(25:00):
sympathetic with them. And I in those years used to
listen to people who were fighting for democratic governments in
the Philippines and Korea, and of course against the Soviet Union,
and tried to pay attention to all of them. And
this was one and I was very sympathetic with their ambitions,
knowing how the country had suffered all these years, and

(25:21):
of course how Iran had been hostile to the United States,
in my mind made it even more important.

Speaker 4 (25:30):
And you know, I get from a lot of statesmen
like yourself that spend a career, you know, serving the people,
that it's difficult to walk away from those things. When
people quote unquote retire, how's retirement for you? Are you
really retired or are you working harder now than you
ever have?

Speaker 3 (25:48):
Well, you know I did. I'm doing much less now,
just as I've gotten older. But I when I left
the government, I very much wanted to develop a private
life and private career. I didn't want to stay in
Washington and hang on the government. So I returned to
New Jersey and started a real estate development firm here

(26:08):
in building houses and stores and offices, and did it
for more than twenty years and now started selling it off.
But it's been great, and I've been blessed. I had
a twenty if include the years I was in the
White House and the Carter Mond administration, twenty five years
in the federal government. Enjoyed it, Learned an enormous amount.

(26:28):
Proud of the contributions I was able to make, but
equally glad that I had a second career in private life,
which was a lot more rewarding and at least financially.

Speaker 4 (26:39):
I think, amen, I think that my goal in life
is to be retired, so I always ask, you know,
I always want to know what it's like. I want
to spend the rest of my days vacationing once I
get to that magic dot.

Speaker 3 (26:50):
Well, it's just great that these days, I think the
right career for people who want to be in Politan
government is to do it, but don't do it your
whole life. I'm glad that I getting out was a
hard and painful decision because I put so much into it,
but looking back, it was the right decision and it
allowed me to have two careers.

Speaker 4 (27:12):
Now, let's talk about this real estate stuff, because a
lot of people have been crying about real estate, especially
I know the neck of the Woods that you know,
you used to represent them from that area, and I'm
hoping that we're going to see a real estate boom
where we'll see commercial properties, retail properties. Is that pie
in the sky thinking for me? Or do you think

(27:32):
we're going to see? You know this, I guess midway
through the year some economic boom, now that interest rates
are beginning to trickle down.

Speaker 3 (27:42):
You know, I've developed property in Florida and in New Jersey,
and I think the principal problem we have is it's
hard to do anything in New Jersey. Taxes are high,
utilities are high, regulations are high. Even getting inspections sometimes
in local government for construction is difficult. It's a hard

(28:04):
place to do business. And I regret that. But at
some point someone's got to deal with some of the
structural issues of New Jersey and not manage the problems,
but solve the problems. And that goes to the level
of local taxation and organization, and to date I haven't
seen anybody try, and it's regrettable.

Speaker 4 (28:26):
Yeah, do you think we get some of that? Do
you think we get a candidate that gets enough gravitas
and the grassroots to get elected.

Speaker 3 (28:32):
Well, But here's the question. So if someone ran for
governor of New Jersey today and said that we have
too many municipalities five hundred and sixty seven, too much
duplication of police forces and fire departments, and schools, some
schools are too small and to be consolidated, all the
things that we know would drive down taxes, would they
get elected. I'm not sure they would. People complain about taxes,

(28:56):
but everybody wants their local school, even if there's only
thirty students in it. Everybody wants their own police department,
even if, like in the town where I live in
hundred County, you have six officers. It's incredibly inefficient, it's
not financially sustainable, it's driving up taxes. But I just
I'm not convinced that even though people are upset about it,

(29:17):
they're willing to vote like they mean it.

Speaker 4 (29:20):
Yeah, I don't know. I'm with you there, I'm with
you one hundred percent. That's always been my litmus as well.
I said, you know, the day you vote against the
school budget that comes in your local election, because that's
always been the issue. Right when the schools can't afford something,
they take it to the people, they say, we want
to raise taxes for this, and people go, oh, it's
for the kids, it's for the schools, it's for whatever.

Speaker 1 (29:36):
You know.

Speaker 4 (29:37):
I don't know. Same thing with new fire trucks and whatnot,
and you need new fire trucks, but there's got to
be a balance somewhere where you know there's.

Speaker 3 (29:43):
There has to be a balance, and there's got to
be a balance, and part of it is now too.
One thing in going to development is I think pride
in we never cut down a tree, is that we
need growth, but we also desperately need open space, and
we need to preserve a little open we have left,
because you lose it, it's not coming back. And I

(30:06):
believe that people in New Jersey feel that way, but
I don't see that in their elected officials either, and
that that concerns me. I. You know, I love growing
up in Bergen County, but I also saw a lot
of it destroyed and sprawl and what little open space
we've got left in the state. I hope that doesn't happen. There.

Speaker 4 (30:24):
Have things been better for you real estate wise, business
wise in Florida, the Free State of Florida, it seems
like they're experiencing.

Speaker 3 (30:30):
Well, it's just much. It's just it's just much easier
to do business, much cheaper to build the kind of
housing that we've done in Florida. You couldn't begin to
construct in New Jersey on the same timeline and the
same cost. They've made it easier to do business. And
it's the taxes too.

Speaker 4 (30:46):
Yeah, yeah, I love that. Well, Senator, I want to
thank you for being here. I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
Thanks for having me.

Speaker 4 (30:51):
God bless you.

Speaker 3 (30:52):
Well, bye bye.

Speaker 4 (30:53):
I mean those were coming right back.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
This is America, this is America.

Speaker 4 (31:01):
All right, and he goes, welcome back, Rich Valdez, keeping
your company tonight. I guess if the good centater hadn't
seen these videos, maybe you haven't seen them either. So
I want to play a couple of videos for you.
But I also want to show you the dramatic footage
of a United States pilot getting blown out of the
sky abandoning ship. Parachute makes it to the ground to
meet with an Iranian man who finds her and says,

(31:23):
you can thank you for what you did for us.
Remarkable footag. We're gonna get to that in a couple
of minutes. Right now, I want to go into this
stuff of the people in the streets, men, women, all
sorts of people in the streets of Iran that honestly
quite moving. Let see what you think watch this? Love
you Trump, You can't you can't you imagine a hobby.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
Appreciate our country, our people.

Speaker 4 (31:49):
I'm really appreciated. We love you, can't you miss the
President Trump. God bless you, God bless America. Thank you,
miss the President. Dear mess that President Trump.

Speaker 1 (32:02):
Trump cute comedy.

Speaker 10 (32:03):
I'm so happy, Thanks Trump, Thanks Trump.

Speaker 4 (32:06):
You are the best man in the world. I love
you Trump. I want to have a big thanks to
President Trump for keeping his promise and freeing people of Iran.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
That has nothing to do with this government, with this
terrorist government.

Speaker 4 (32:19):
Free a last, free Lass, Thank God, almighty, free Lass. Right,
that's what comes to mind. I don't know why it
came to mind, right, This wasn't like the civil rights movement,
but that's what came to mind anyway. Happy to see
what's going on with the Iranians. And Iranians are so
thankful for what is going on in Tehran and abroad
that they have been going to embassies throughout to let

(32:42):
their thoughts be known. This one in Toronto. Our buddy
Tony would like this one. They go to the embassy
in Toronto laying flowers in front of the embassy to
give thanks to the United States Army. This one's pretty
moving as well. Watch this.

Speaker 1 (33:01):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (33:18):
I gotta tell you, I'm always I'm a sucker for
moments like this, right, and I think that most people are.
And that's why propaganda works right on both sides. So
if this is propaganda, it's working like a charm. If
it's a genuine moment of the Iranian people showing an
expression of gratitude. Amen, Praise God, Helleljah. I'm glad to
see it as well. Either way, I think it's very effective.
It shows a tremendous amount of gratefulness, and I think

(33:40):
that's important, right, It's important, and the American people want
to see that, you know. I was listening to a
clip of a radio show Spanish radio station Grade Station
by the Way, ninety seven point nine La Mega ninety
seven point nine FM, New York City. It's all Spanish
and they typically do music, but in recent years, like
many radio stations, they have gone a little more political
too much, but you know, during their news segments and

(34:02):
when the topics are warranted, not like another station I
used to listen to Hot ninety seven that really lost
their way, and probably because I didn't agree with most
of what they said, but also because they never They
used to take my calls. They used to call and
you got to be kidding me, and I would argue
with those guys. But after a while they stopped taking
my calls. Their call screening was like, not this guy,
We're not putting him on anymore. So anyway, I think
a lot of people got tired of them, and they
switched their format, they sold the place. It's a history now.

(34:25):
The former show is still doing great on YouTube and whatnot.
Those guys are tremendously talented. Despite my disagreement with them, Rosenberg,
Laura and Nebro, they put on a good show entirely
when it's not political. I know that they feel the
need to get political, and that's their right, but when
it was less political, it was a lot more fun
of a show, at least for me, and I think
for a lot of people that listen to it as well.
But I digress. I really wanted to get into this show.

(34:48):
It's called Edbasilondada Manyana, But this was a news segment
with the reporter there, Nil Da Rosadio, And I'm not
going to play it for you because you may not
understand all of it, and I don't have a translated
version of it, but they're into viewing New York Congressman
Adriano Espayette Congressman Espayet. In the clip I heard, I
didn't hear the whole thing. I don't have a transcript,

(35:08):
so this is not a deep dive. But in the
clip I heard, he's in a back and forth with
one of the hosts there. The co host there named
ex Scarlett Molina, and she's saying, basically questioning why he's
lamenting the fact that the Ayatola was killed. He basically
doubles down and says, well, three American soldiers were killed,
and I think everybody's cognizant to that. Nobody wanted any

(35:29):
Americans to die. And he says that when there is
a death on either side, it's a clear sign that
democracy no, that that diplomacy has failed. And I thought
to myself, diplomacy failed when they bombed two hundred and
seventy four Marines in Beirut. Does anybody remember that. I
remember hearing about that as a kid for years and

(35:51):
years and years. So I let's just say, if for
that alone, President Trump held them accountable, I'd say that's
probably right. But there was so much more that was done.
When I was a kid, I only knew one airline.
You know why I'm gonna go with two. One was
TWA Why because it was always on the news, because
it was hijacked by the Iranians. And number two American Airlines.

(36:12):
Why because they had an amazing jingle, We're American Airlines
of the special in their Remember that I remember that anyway.
So this is the fame la fama at the end
of the Iranians, right, they don't have a good track record,
not at all. So Congressman s Payata is doubling down
on why this is. You know, it's just unfortunate that

(36:35):
we had to go to it. Of course, it's unfortunate.
More unfortunate is what they've done over these years. And
what is fortunate. Let's focus on that. Isn't it fortunate
that you've got these people in the streets enormously grateful,
enormously thankful. I mean, you can't make it all up.
You can't choreograph all of it. The Iranians in Hollywood,
the Iranians in Canada, the Iranians in Iran, the Iranians

(36:57):
in Kuwait, the Coranians and Bahrain, the Koreanians, everywhere you
have exiled Iranians. They're thrilled to pieces. So what gives
with the congressman. I'm gonna have to get partisan here
now and say what gives with the congressman is that
he's a Democrat. He says, you know, Dominicans, we got
free of a dictatorship. We didn't need help from the USA.
I would dispute that fact as well, but let's just
give him that. Let's just okay, I'll concede that point.

(37:20):
So because you were able to do it, does that
mean everybody's able to do it? Was Thrhiel trying to
develop nuclear bombs to point at the United States or
Israel or anybody else in this world? Was through Hel
starting his sessions of Parliament with death to America, death
to Israel. How he could make such a comparison blows
me away. I'm trying to be respectful. I put a

(37:42):
comment on there. I'm saying it was clownish, but it
really was clownish. And the reason I want to be
respectful is because I'd like to have him on this show.
I would love for the congressman to come in and
sit down with me and talk about this our studios
in Times Square. He's a congressman in New York. Hopefully
he can find his way here. I would love to
hear what he has to say. And I don't want
to beat them up. I really just I want to
have that conversation. I want to hear how you are

(38:04):
an American, right, a Dominican that I would suppose understands
the stakes here as a member of Congress, and to
make these comparisons and say that the Dominicans became free. Listen,
this is not just about dictatorship. What happened Operation Epic
Fury was not just about liberating Iran. There's a lot

(38:27):
of countries that could use liberating. This was totally about
the annihilation of the United States from a nuclear weapon
that was being developed and has been in the process
of being developed for a very long time. We went,
we blew up their facilities in fod H and they said, well,
come back, We'll make another. And listen, They're always going
to come back and make another. This is a game

(38:47):
of guacamole, right, Wackamole is the game here. I said
guackam oh, because I'm thinking guacamole in my head. I'm
such a goalito in real life anyway, I'm always thinking
about food. The bottom line here is the congressman, truly, truly,
in my opinion, fails. He fails the American people here,
he fails his constituents, and he fails to understand what's
happening here. Because anybody who can't see that this is

(39:11):
about keeping America safe and ensuring that they don't get
a nuclear weapon. I mean, Trump hasn't been clearer about
anything else. You heard Congressman Mark Harris talk about this
on this show on Thursday. You've heard General Blaine Holt
talk about it last Wednesday. All in the lead up

(39:31):
to this, right, because everybody knew this attack was imminent,
and if you put your finger on the pulse and
really measured the last couple of things and saw what
was going on, this is how Trump likes to do it.
They like to get in and out, Like I mentioned before.
And you know somebody who took exception to that. I

(39:51):
don't want to ever win the name here, but it
was one of the journalists at MS. Now. It might
have been Stephanie Ruhle, might have been Alex Wagner. I
get them confused.

Speaker 1 (39:59):
Forg ME.

Speaker 4 (40:00):
I'm sure somebody's gonna get offended by that. But one
of them did this report, and in this report basically
kind of alludes to the fact, along with the guests
they were interviewing, that somehow there was insider information, insider
information regarding when the strike would happen, because bets were

(40:23):
made seventy one minutes prior. Now, I gotta tell you again.
I know not everybody watches my show, but those that did,
they saw us talk about an attack being eminent on Wednesday.
On Thursday, right on Wednesday, we talked with General Holt.
On Thursday we talked with Or Thursday, we talked with
General Holt. Friday, we talked with the Congressman Harris. Everybody

(40:44):
agreed on We also spoke with Jennifer Kerns. Jennifer Kerns
waiting on this as well and said that she agrees
that attack was eminent. Wasn't the main topic of our conversation,
but it was part of it. So all that being said,
and again, we have the history of how President Trump
has taken military action. It's always been pretty much aerial.
It's very rarely on the ground, not very really. I

(41:08):
don't think we've done anything on the ground other than
the Maduro exercise. And thank god they were in and
out clean sweep. Thanks too. I'm gonna say our inside
man really a woman, Detisie Rodriguez. Right. Thank god for
the Chivato's chivating. If they don't, if the Chukdahs aren't
cho taing, we probably wouldn't have gotten that office as
well as we did. But all that being said, President

(41:30):
Trump thirty forty years ago was talking about how he
didn't want war. Thirty forty months ago has talked about
how he doesn't want war. He was president for four
years and governed that way. He is a pacifist. He
believes in peace, true strength, and he's willing to use
the strength in as much as necessary to get the

(41:51):
job done. He also believes in getting along with people
that may disagree with you. I mean, I've got to
tell you, if love you're in me or turned the
other cheek was an actual, uh political philosophy. I think
Trump would be embodying that right. They criticized them in
the mainstream media when they said, but you drew a

(42:12):
line in the sand. You drew a line in the sand.
You drew a line in the sand. And they crossed
at each and every time on Iran and other issues.
Every man has his point. Trump reached his point. He
did a good job. I think he's a very measured man.
He's definitely a lot slower to pull, you know, to
pull the trigger and push that button than I am.
I always tell you make sure you don't make me

(42:32):
your president. He talked about how this has costed these
exercises Operation Epic Fury. It was costing US hundreds of
millions of dollars. And I'm going back to Congressman's pay
that real quick again. How is that to say, well,
we don't want to we don't want to help the
people of Iran because it cost us hundreds of millions
of dollars. I think President Trump laid it out well

(42:54):
when he did, and he said, this is not going
to come without a loss of life. This is not
going to come is cost and it's a serious toll
that it takes on our country. But this is part
of the job. If you're that dude that's six foot
seven jacked three hundred pounds of muscle, forget a six pack,
you were born with a six pack, You got a
fourteen pack because you work so hard in the gym.

(43:18):
And you see a little girl, little old lady getting
the tar beat out of her, somebody stealing her pocketbook,
trying to rape her. And because you say, oh, look,
that's not my business, I'm not getting involved. You're big
for nothing. That's not how it works in real life.
You gotta do what you gotta do. When it's time
to do it all right, I want to come back
circling back now to Stephanie Rule or to Alex Wagner,

(43:40):
whichever one if it's neither, criticize me in the cummings,
but having this conversation saying that there was insider information.
Insider information why because people were taking bets, including on
calsh and Polymarket, one of which Donald Trump Junior is
affiliated with. And because of that, then for sure there

(44:03):
had to be inside info because these bets were coming
in and money was moving around seventy one minutes prior
to the strikes. And I would say that Friday going
into that Saturday. Anytime when Trump says you have ten
or fifteen days about ten or fifteen days ago, I mean,
he all but telegraphs it. He's not a Wednesday night guy.

(44:26):
He's not a Wednesday morning guy. He's pretty much a
Friday night guy. It seems that way from the track record,
at least with Iron. So anyway, I want you to
hear this clip and then you tell me what you think.

Speaker 11 (44:37):
I want to talk about predictions and prediction markets, Okay,
I want to make sure I have it right. Just
before the missiles hit millions and millions of dollars worth
of bets surged on iron related prediction markets. Right, we're
talking Calshchi and poly Market, but at least one of
whom poly Market, Donald Trump Junior, is an advisor to

(44:58):
and he even has a some sort of roll, some
relationship with Calshi. It was Senator Reuben Diego who called
this out in a post and said, this is insider
trading in broad daylight. This should be illegal, no question.
Fricks like this are cashing in on our service members dying.
Disgusting and immoral.

Speaker 2 (45:18):
I know, seventy one minutes before the war begins.

Speaker 11 (45:20):
I know we don't know firsthand, of course, because these
these trades are anonymous, But could we be witnessing our
own government, or people adjacent to our government with information
on our government's inner workings, be cashing in on a war.

Speaker 2 (45:37):
I don't see how you make a bet seventy one
minutes before missiles start flying without having some knowledge that
indeed this was coming. A total, according to Coindesk, of
five hundred and twenty nine million dollars has been bet
on the US around war thus far, and we're only
a day and a half into it. So listen, I mean, yeah,
you can go out and guess that this is going
to happen, you know, over the course of a particular period.

(46:00):
But the volume, the timing of the transactions, the amount
of money that's already been made, would suggest that someone
knew something before they laid those bets or traded those
contracts in advance of military action.

Speaker 4 (46:15):
He goes into it, she goes into it. I like
to let you see what's going on, to see what
they say, because they're having a good time with this.
Notice how there wasn't much talk about the Iranian people
being liberated. People all around the globe are for the
most part talking about what happened here and the Iranians
being happy with the result of what happened. The fake
news media is going to be the fake news media, right.

(46:37):
You can't win them all. I realize that. And this
was a good example of how so many things to
talk about. They want to talk about this, and of
course their supporters are going to say they're doing their job.
They're the watchdog of the American people. They're here to
make sure there's no funny business going on. And if
it was Biden in the White House, you'd be doing

(46:58):
the same thing to him. Maybe there's some truth in that.
Maybe there is. If Biden liberated a people, which man
I would have loved to have seen that. Instead, I
felt like he enslaved the American people. Now stop it, Rich,
you're lying. Why am I lying? I'll tell you why
you're lying. Because he liberated every last illegal immigrant all
over the world and said, come to America, the door

(47:20):
is open. Then Kamala said, don't come. Remember that. Yeah, okay,
I'm not buying that one either. I think Tom Holman
and so many others are made it clear. If you're oppressed,
if you're going through a problem and you want to
seek asylum, you don't have to seek it in the
United States. You can leave Nicaragua and go to Guatemala
so that they don't kill you there. Right, if you're

(47:41):
under threat of being killed, the asylum claim doesn't work because, hey,
in my country, it sucks. In my country, we don't
have a good economic system. Or even further, in my country,
it sucks because of you and Reagan and cocaine in
the nineteen eighties and the Northern Triangle and everything that
you did. You evil American bastard's cap pigs. We hate
you and for that you deserve for us to be

(48:03):
in your country. That's not gonna fly either. I mean,
I've read these asylum laws. It's just not in there right.
Economic hardship is not one of the criteria. So again,
I think we're in the same place. This stuff is fake,
it's phony, and it's fraud at the outrage that they
have for the fake news media to try and zone
in on something that, as they would say, there's no

(48:24):
there there. This is what they do. But I will
give credit. Just like I gave credit to the Democrat
who came on this show, Senator Bob Torchelli, the Torch
shout out to him, Hudson County Democrat, and we got along.
I'm gonna give credit to fake Tapper and today I'm
gonna call him Jake Tapper. Why Because CNN's Jake Tapper

(48:47):
did an interview at President Trump today. It was about
a nine minute interview, and in the report that I saw,
he called it like it was. It was straight journalism.
I didn't hear too much of the jakeness that he
can always add, the fakeness that he can always add.
It wasn't there. It seemed like a pretty straight read.

(49:08):
Why because I believe he also understands.

Speaker 12 (49:11):
I just got off the phone with President Trump. It
was a roughly nine minute phone interview talking about the
war in Iran.

Speaker 4 (49:18):
Just want to give you the quotes he said.

Speaker 1 (49:21):
Quote.

Speaker 12 (49:21):
We're knocking the crap out of them. I think it's
going very well. It's very powerful. We've got the greatest
military in the world, and we're using it. I asked
the President how long he thought this war my last
He said, I don't want to see it go on
too long. I always thought it would be four weeks,
and we're a little ahead of schedule. I asked him
if the US was doing more to help the Iranian
people regain reclaimed their country than the military strikes, if

(49:46):
there was other stuff going on. He said, yes, we are, indeed,
but right now we want everyone staying inside. It's not
safe out there. He also suggested it was about to
get even less safe. We haven't even started hitting them hard.
The big wave hasn't even happened. The big one is
coming soon. I asked the President about the fact that
Iran attacked Arab countries in the region of Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait,

(50:08):
Cutter and the UAE. He said that That was the
biggest surprise so far for him and his team. Quote,
we were surprised, we told them, meaning the Arab countries,
we've got this, and now they want to fight, and
they're aggressively fighting. They were going to be very little involved,
and now they insist on being involved. He said, of
the Arab leaders of those countries, I know these people.
They're tough and smart. The Iranians, he said, quote shot

(50:30):
into a hotel, they shot into an apartment house. It
just made them, meaning the Arab leaders angry. They love us,
but they were watching. There was no reason for them
to be involved. That was probably the biggest surprise. You
have to understand. They were living under the dark cloud
for years, meaning the Iranian nuclear threat. That's why you
could never have peace. I asked, okay, well, who's going
to lead Iran now? The President said, we don't know

(50:52):
who the leadership is. We don't know who they'll pick.
Maybe they'll get lucky and get someone who knows what
they're doing. The Iranians, he said, lost a lot in
terms of leadership because on the initial strikes, not only
was Iatolajameni killed, but also forty nine other Iranian leaders.
He said, it was an amazing strike. They got a
little bit arrogant by meeting all in one place. They
thought they were undetectable. They weren't undetectable. We were shocked

(51:15):
by it. They don't even know who's leading them now.
We went down forty nine, he said, meeting forty nine
leaders on the leadership chart there. We don't know who's
leading the country now. They don't know who's leading. It's
a little like the unemployment line. The President said that
they tried to make a deal with the Iranians, but
we couldn't make a deal with these people. He said,
every offer was met with a walk back of a
previous offer. They had all that enriched stuff, he said,

(51:37):
referring to uranium. They looked at redoing it there. This
is after the strikes last June, but it was in
such bad shape the mountain had basically collapsed. The President said,
this is the way to deal with Iran. We don't
have to worry about agreements. He talked about all of
the years, decades of killing and IEDs, and all the

(51:58):
destruction that Iran has wreaked on the United States and
other countries. He said, people in the military walking around
with no legs, walking around with no arms.

Speaker 4 (52:07):
Their faces shattered.

Speaker 12 (52:09):
He said that today's military operation was of a piece,
part of a larger campaign. We took out Solomoni last time.
That's referring to the Iranian general Cassam Solmoney. He was
an unbelievably violent, vicious general. Hitting him, he said, was
a big move. If that didn't happen, then you might
not have Israel today. Israel might not exist then. He
referred to Midnight Hammer to strike against the Iranian nuclear

(52:32):
facilities last June. They were a month away from having
a nuclear weapon. He criticized Obama's nuclear deal with Iran.
He said it gave all the power to Iran. They
would have had a nuclear weapon three or four years ago.
They would have used it against Israel. They maybe would
have used it against us. In the latest talks, He said,
the Iranians, quote, weren't willing to give us what we
asked for. They should have done it. So it's going good.

(52:53):
The President said before getting off the phone.

Speaker 4 (52:55):
Malogasea, I right, as bad as you say, Trump is.
This was a good thing. This was an amazing action.
Trump is changing the way of the world, just like
the Shah's Sun said the Crown Prince raised Upavlabi. He
is defining history right now, and he's been doing that
in so many ways. And people can't stomach that because
they don't like Trump. He's a convicted felon thirty four counts,

(53:20):
He's a found guilty of sexual abuse. He's this and that,
he's on Fstein Island.

Speaker 3 (53:25):
Right.

Speaker 4 (53:25):
All the things that they want to say are true
that aren't. But all that being said, Trump liberated the
Iranian people, free Iran. Trump freed Tehran. Trump is, in
my opinion, very soon gonna free Cuba. Trump freed so
many people, not just from these countries, not just what's
happening in the Middle East. This movement of the Bahraini's

(53:48):
kuwaitis those from all the Amoradis together. All these people
are getting together saying they want to join the fight
against Iran. You tell me orange Man, bad ghost in
Middle East. It makes a coalition of Muslim countries against Iran,
the cancer that it's been for the last fifty years,
half a century, forty seven. How could you not right

(54:12):
not to mention the eight conflicts he ended. Nobody wants
to give him credit for those those were too small
because and again you end eight conflicts. Guess what happens.
What'd you do about Ukraine? What about the price of beef? Right?
Because when you are a malcontent fixated on hate, you're
always gonna be a malcontent that's fixated on hate. That's it.

(54:35):
You're a miserable You are a miserable human being. I
can't fix that. I can just call it out and say,
enjoy your misery, my friend. Because the Clarity Act is
right there on the frontier, just right around there. It's
going to make it sway through Congress. If the memes
are successful. The Save Act is going to make it

(54:56):
sway through Congress, hopefully to the President's desk and hopeful
to a signature. And they will stop Trump from stealing
elections by requiring voter ID and saying day results on
elections and paper ballots to prove how people voted. And
the Clarity Act, well, that's just gonna solidify what the

(55:18):
Genius Act started. And that means Crypto is gonna come
into the fold. It's gonna be a new era, a
new gold rush in America. Right that will look greatly
in my opinion, it's gonna affect the price of gold
big time. It's gonna affect the price of silver big time.
It's gonna affect the price of bitcoin big time, as

(55:40):
well as XRP and some other crypto. And that's really
gonna put America in a place where those of us
in the working class, those of us who take two
nickels and save them on the side to buy their
little bit of XRP, to buy their fractions of bitcoin,
to do what they can to make it in the
crypto or who are working to buy a one family,

(56:02):
two family, three family home, to have some investment properties
and have some rental income. Whatever your hustle is, jewelry, business, production, business,
you name it, whatever you do. This is where I
believe America will have an opportunity to sink or swim. Right.
And I don't mean America is going to sink. I
mean bad ideas will sink. The good ideas are going

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to swim. It's that nineteen forty nine or eighteen forty
nine California gold Rush all over again. The digital revolution,
the crypto revolution. I see it coming. I think it's
not tomorrow. I think it starts soon right after Cuba,
right after Cuba becomes liberated. I think we make our
way through the spring into the summer to celebrate our

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two hundred and fiftieth anniversary America. And then right after
we have our America two fifty on July fourth, we
start to see more the economic engine starts churning out more,
and that'll start to just like it did in twenty eighteen,
twenty nineteen, as you might remember, it really started kicking
in and all of a suddenhuah wah, was like, hey,

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we'll pay more, Hey, we'll do this. Everybody was paying more.
People now some will push back rich DU's because of
the pandemic. No, the pandemic came later. The pandemic came
later in twenty twenty. Right there, there was an economic
boom that happened, and coupled with making sure that interest
rates were low, money was cheap, risk was high, lots

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of entrepreneurship out there. When risk is high. Right when
you say, oh, you know what, I'm going to get
a credit card, I'm going to b artist money. I'm
going to take the money i've got. I know I
can make it back. Let's go, let's go, Let's roll
the dice and see what happens. And people did, and
people made a lot of money. And you saw more
Hispanics in America, or Blacks and Asians than ever buy
a home in this country than you'd ever seen before.

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You saw the median household income go up I think
by sixty five hundred bucks at that time. That's music
to my ears. That's the way the American economy should flourish.
And it's currently on its way to flourish like that,
but for a few factors that we still have to overcome.
So those are my parting words for you. Make sure

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you stand for something, because if you stand for nothing,
you'll fall for anything. And the only thing necessary for
evil to triumph is for good people like you to
do nothing. So don't do nothing, do something. I start approxima,
Take care, good night, and God bless you America. I'm
Rich Valdez, and this is America.

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