What Happened to Rich Valdes?, What Venezuela does next, Why family matters

Today Rich discusses exciting news in his career, but first, Trump and Maduro get closer to taking action. Then, immigration is improving but CNN says otherwise. Later, researchers say parents must ask permission to change their baby's diaper.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
This is America with Rich Valdez powered by polidweek dot Com.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
And Rich Valdees is with us former Christian administration officials.
You worked at Chris Christieve and Follis, each on a
lot of public service stuff.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Rich Valdez columnist now with the Washington Times.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
This is America, Richiev. You're on the air with a
nation Nation with America with your host, Rich Valdez.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
What's up, America. I am Rich Valdez Valdez with an
s at Rich Valdez on all of the social media.
Welcome to the Monday night edition of the program. Happy
to be here with you. It's truly a blessing. And
did you miss me? Well, I missed you too. Sometimes
you gotta walk away. Now. I am incredibly blessed to
be with each and every one of you, and I

(00:47):
always appreciate that. And I will address why I left
Westwood one, and I also have some exciting career news.
But the first thing I have to do is tell
you that they show must go on. So President Trump
and Trompito din Aaldus Magnus, the forty fifth and forty
seventh president of these United States. He's called for the

(01:09):
release of the Epstein files yet again. This time he
says that it has to be done by way of legislation.
In fact, he says this is a Democrat problem, and
he'd be willing to sign a bill if the Senate
and the House vote on it. Listen to this by somebody,
if you post on a true social last night you
urged House Republicans to vote in favor of this Epstein

(01:31):
release bill.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
They're going to vote on him tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
I just want to be super clear at your position.

Speaker 4 (01:35):
Do you want to see that past the Senate?

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Would you sign that bill if it gets to your desk?

Speaker 5 (01:39):
I do want to say, here's what I want. We
have nothing to do with Epstein and Democrats too. All
of his friends were Democrats. You look at this redoff
and you look at Larry Summers, Bill Clinton, they went
to his island all the time. Many of this oral Democrats.
All I want is I want for people to wrecks

(02:00):
a great job that I've done on pricing, on affordability,
because we brought prices way down, but they go way
lower on energy, on ending eight wars and another one
coming pretty soon. I believe we've done a great job,
and I hate to see that deflect from the great

(02:20):
job we've done. So I'm all for it. You know,
we've already given fifty thousand pages. You do know that.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
Now President Trump talking about making things more affordable in
addition to this bombshell here on the vote, saying he'll
sign it. And again, this is something he's done before. Right,
he said time and again that he's happy to release
the Epstein files. I think he's reluctant to do it
because there's probably some political fallout. I don't think it's
really protecting himself. I think it's moreover, he's protecting just

(02:51):
you know, secrets, methods, you know, the stuff that they
always do. This is why nobody wanted to release this information.
But nonetheless, President Trump talking about making things more affordable,
and someone want to share with you because there's still
some reasons to be optimistic. In twenty twenty six, the
tax cut that was part of the big beautiful bill
that still hasn't hit American's wallets just yet. There's a

(03:14):
lot of talk about a potential recession. Is always talk
about that because of the affordability crisis. But this isn't
you know, pessimism that we should be buying into, says
my Ooddie Steve Moore. One of the many reasons to
be bullish is that most families haven't felt the savings
from the tax cut that was passed in July. So

(03:36):
here's the numbers, and estimated one hundred and ninety billion
dollars of income tax relief for about zero point five
of our GDP from the big beautiful bill arrives in
twenty twenty six. By the way of tax cuts, this
is the first half of the year, so we still
have that to come. Plus President Trump talking about some

(03:58):
other things that are really interesting. Seeing that this two
thousand dollars dividend check on tariffs, well that might be
coming pretty soon. Not as soon as we'd like, maybe
not in time for Christmas shopping, but soon in time
for you know, within the next twelve months, so in
time for next year's midterm election, which is clever and convenient.

(04:20):
Now I'll get into that a little bit more later.
The President also designated Venezuela and President Nicolas Maludu and
his administration as a foreign terrorist organization because of their
involvement with the cartels and bringing drugs into the United States. Now,
this again is another interesting thing. Because guess what, I

(04:40):
think the President has the authority to blow up these boats.
He's blown up yet another one. This is a good thing,
I think for the United States. Now here's the big question.
Do you ever wonder what America would look like without
fentanyl overdoses, or maybe without the vast humans smuggling and
drug trafficking that plagues our country. Well, apparently so does

(05:01):
El trumpit though, mister President. He says today that another
boat was destroyed and all of the narco terrorists on
board were killed as well. So I think it's important
that we keep our foot on the gas with this
stuff because the last thing we want, right, the last
thing we need, is for our enemies, our adversaries, to

(05:24):
think that they can one up us in this area.
Listen to President Trump talking about the ongoing problem with
Venezuela as well as the ongoing problem that we now
have with Mexico. Listen to this on.

Speaker 5 (05:38):
Launch strikes in Mexico to stop drugs.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
It's okay with me.

Speaker 5 (05:44):
Whatever we have to do to stop drugs Mexico is Look.
I looked at Mexico City over the weekend. This's some
big problems over there. If we had to what we
do there, what we've done to the waterways. You know,
there's almost no drugs coming in through our waters anymore.
Isn't it down like eighty five percent it is. I
don't know who the fifteen percent.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
It wouldn't be you, No, that's for sure.

Speaker 3 (06:07):
No, I should think.

Speaker 6 (06:08):
It's been tons and tons.

Speaker 5 (06:10):
You would say, that's a big signal. Absolutely, we have
almost no drugs coming into our country by the sea.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
But that's a good thing.

Speaker 5 (06:18):
Go ahead, you know the waterways and you know why, Okay,
I mean it's pretty obvious. Would I do that on
the land cars? I would absolutely, Look every boat we
knock out, we saved twenty five thousand American lives. Not
to mention the destruction of families. These families are decimated forever.

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The mother, the father, the children. They never recover really
from it. You know, when you lose somebody, like the
way they live any if you lose them, but the
way they die is horrible.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
Now, President Trump didn't stop there. He continued, saying that
he believes that he has the continued authority to do
exactly what he's been doing and that there is zero
problems with needing congressional authority. To actually protect the United States.
Listen to this one.

Speaker 7 (07:11):
Beg, Mama, are you discussing options that conference? Are you
going to Congress to discuss potential options?

Speaker 8 (07:19):
We like to keep Congress involved. I mean, we're stopping
drug dealers and drugs come from coming into our country.
And I actually told Marco and some of the people
are Secretary of State is doing a great job. By
the way, I said, go to Congress and let them
know we're not letting drugs come through Mexico, We're not
letting them come through Venezuela. And let Congress know about it.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
We don't have to get their approval, but I think.

Speaker 8 (07:44):
Letting them know is good. The only thing I don't
want them to do is leak information that's very important
and confidential and may put our military at risk or
whoever is doing well, you know, CIA, military, et cetera.
But I did say, I said, go and see see
the representatives that were supposed to be saying and be

(08:04):
open about it. If they say we don't want you
to stop drugs from coming into the country, I don't
think that would be good.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
I don't think it'd be good either. Again, that's Ed
Trumpezo about to board his aircraft there and making it
clear Mexico is a problem, Colombia is a problem. Venezuela
is a problem. Now, speaking of Venezuela, the Venezuelan president,
Nico las Maludu, I wonder does he want to negotiate,

(08:34):
does he want to talk to Ed Trumpezo, Well, it
guess he does. Why do I think that, Well, I'll
tell you I think that. In fact, he actually sang
a song about it. Over the weekend, The socialist dictator
of Venezuela and Nico Lasi Maluro on Sunday sang John
Lennon's imagine to send a new quote unquote peace message
to the United States President Donald Trump. Amid rising tensions,

(08:57):
Maludo delivered his cringe worthy performance during an event of
the ruling class. I guess they call it the United
Socialist Party of Venezuela or the PSUV in the Venezuelan
state of Miranda. This is a mandatory broadcast by the
regime's media apparatus, and that's according to Breitbart News. Now.
President Trump responded to this, saying that a conversation is possible,

(09:21):
and I think that's encouraging news. Right. He didn't say, hey,
we'll blow him.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
Out of the water.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
We'll take out We'll do what we gotta do. I
won't even go to Congress. We could tell him, but
I won't go. Nope, he did say that. He said
last night Sunday night, that the discussions with Venezuela's socialist
dictator are possible and that Maluro wants to talk. Trump's
comments came during a press gaggle with reporters shortly after
Secretary of State Marco Ruby announced the State Department's plans

(09:47):
to designate the Cartel de los Soles as the Cartel
of the Suns, a foreign terrorist organization, adding that officials
believe Maduro is the cartel's leader. WHOA, Now, this is
stuff we've always rumored and suspected, but it hasn't been
made clear by an actual government before. So I think

(10:10):
that's a big deal. Here's a quote from the Breitbart
article with the designation of the cartel associated with Madudo,
Does that mean that the US government can target Maduro's
assets or infrastructure inside Venezuela? A reporter asked, and Trump
prepared to depart to Palm Beach, saying it allows us
to do that, but we haven't said we're going to

(10:31):
do that. We may be having some discussions with Marudo
and we'll see how that turns out, because they would
like to talk. End quote. So pretty good news. A
little while before that, a couple hours earlier, Marco Rubio
announced in a statement that they intended to designate the
Carte de Solis a Foreign Terrorist organization or FTO, beginning

(10:55):
today Monday. So that's what's going on on that front.
And listen, there's plenty plenty moving there because we're slowing
down fentannel. First, we slowed down the flow of traffic,
of human trafficking. That slowed down. Now we're slowing down
the flow of drugs. This is what it's all about, right,
And he's hitting at every source, President Trump. You know

(11:17):
where they grow it, where they put it together, where
they assemble it. The distributors which are the Mexicans, the
traffickers which are the Venezuelans, the muscle, the Colombians, everybody.
He's putting everybody on notice. I think it's fantastic. Now,
later we're going to talk about how some researchers say
that parents should be asking for consent before changing their

(11:41):
kids' diapers. What that's crazy. And speaking of diapers, there's
a new documentary suggesting that Adolf Hitler may have had
micro sized problems as a result of something called Kalman
syndrome that affected him down below. You don't want to
miss that. You might have seen on my social media
this for the New York Post last week, but I

(12:02):
don't think I got into it in depth on the radio.
So I'm going to do it right here on this
podcast with you guys. This is America with Rich Valdez,
and there is more to come. Straight ahead, don't move
a muscle. I'm Rich Valdez.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
This is America.

Speaker 6 (12:30):
This is America, all right, I mean he goes.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
Welcome back, Rich Valdez, keeping your company and keeping you
up to speed on everything that's going on in America
right now. And I want to get into this a
little bit here because Marjorie Taylor Green, she was on
I think it was CNN, and I believe I've got
the clip here and let's line that up. The Marjorie

(13:06):
Taylor Green. I want you to hear this because there's
an ongoing feud. Apparently she used to just get into
beef with AOC and Jasmine Crockett, you know, aoc all
out crazy, my least favorite congresswoman from the Bronx and Queens.
But now it seems like it's getting worse. Now she's
getting into all sorts of things with CNN. She's getting

(13:27):
into whether people should interview Nazis and whatnot.

Speaker 7 (13:31):
I hear what you're saying. I hear what you're saying
about free speech. I mean countly as guilty as a
proponent of free speech. There's free speech and then there
is hate speech. And this is a man invited in
a really prominent conservative show who said even during that
interview he had a problem with quote organized jewelry, and
it wasn't challenged on it. In the past, he has

(13:53):
denied the Holocaust, called Adolf Hitler, fing Coole, talked about
the fact that he thought Jim Crow was just fine,
and on and on.

Speaker 3 (14:03):
Now, hold on this. I just want to remind you.
This is Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green on CNN with Dana
Bash and they're discussing the free speech debate over the
Tucker Carlson interview with Nick Fuenes that has been the
subject of much higher you know, just quick assign many

(14:24):
years ago somebody asked me, would you speak with or
have an interview with Lewis Farakhon And my answer at
the time was no, right, I said, you know what,
probably not the guy. You know, I've heard enough of
him to know what's going to come out of his mouth,
and it's you know, I think he's a little bit
off his rocker. But I'll tell you that was probably
six seven years ago. My position has changed and I

(14:47):
would definitely, if I had the opportunity and it made sense,
I would interview h Lewis Farakhon and really try to
get in his head to understand a little bit better
why he thinks the way he does, because I think,
you know something, if we've learned nothing from Charlie Kirk's assassination,
is that we have to keep talking because when the
talking stops, the violence starts. A good pleay to take.

Speaker 7 (15:10):
So again there's free speech and then there's just hateful
language and sentiments.

Speaker 9 (15:17):
Well, Dana, again, I told you on this interview that
I'm committed to ending the toxic politics, and I think
I don't want to have anything to do with it.
You should have Nick Finis on your show and you
could ask him questions about that. I myself am not
anti Semitic. I have never criticized the Jewish people or

(15:39):
said anything about them in particular. I am critical of
the government of Israel, and I can criticize any government
I want to in the entire world, as well as
our own, and a lot of the times I am
criticizing our own government for failing the American people, and
I think that needs to be the focus, and that's
the most important thing people care about is being able

(16:02):
to afford groceries, housing, health insurance, and having a good
quality of life.

Speaker 3 (16:08):
Oh amen to that. I agree with affordability. I think
if I also support free speech, I had criticized whoever
you want. Let's have the conversation. I criticize people all
the time. Sound the alarm that means we're in trouble now.
But speaking of Marjorie Taylor Green and you know, the
criticism over these Nazi comments made by mister Fuentis and whatnot,

(16:31):
it brings me to thinking about Nazis. And a couple
of days ago, I was asked by the New York
Post to host their daily podcast. It's called the New
York Postcast. So I was doing a news report there
and I was really taken Aback. I'm going to share
with you a little bit of what the report sounded like,
because honestly, it was a first for me. Right, it

(16:54):
really was a first for me. I had not seen
this documentary and and I'd really never voiced these sentiments before.
It was a sentence I never thought I would say
out loud, But Adolf Hitler likely had what they call
a micro penis and one testicle. That's actually a term.

(17:17):
By the way, this new documentary, combined with some DNA analysis,
has revealed that the Nazi dictator likely suffered from something
called Calman syndrome. That's a genetic disorder that can impact
the development of one's sexual organs. And having Callman syndrome

(17:37):
that's Calman with a K, it gives him or anybody
else that has it a one to ten chance of
having what they call a micro penis. That's an actual
scientific term for exactly what it sounds like. Now, the
DNA that they used came from, they say, the fabric
of a couch where it suspected that Hitler killed him

(18:00):
in nineteen forty five. Now there's a lot of debate,
you know, the people that like Hitler say that he
didn't kill himself or that he was killed in Argentina.
I think the official account remains that he was killed
in Berlin by himself and he was there with Ava Braun,
his girlfriend. So again, I can't you know, I wasn't there.
Can't tell you one way or the other. This is
what the documentary says. But this woman, she's pretty well known.

(18:24):
She's conducting this study on the DNA. She's confirmed these remains,
and she also did this for some DNA that she
found that belonged to King Richard the third, So this
is kind of her her thing, and her latest discovery
adds to previously reported sexual issues that Hitler suffered from.
So apparently this guy has a lot of sexual issues

(18:47):
like dysfunction, like you know, medical problems. And what I
wonder is is this something that pertains solely to Hitler
or does this pertain to all Nazis right, I'm curious
to know. Anyway, there's this story that I mentioned before
and I want to get into because this one's interesting.

(19:08):
And then, you know, I guess the segue here is
we're talking about what Hitler, you know, had below the belt,
and this one is this crazy story about researchers saying
that parents should ask their babies for consent before changing
their diapers. I know that's kind of wild. Again, when
they're a little older, you should, you know, they should
be out of diapers. But when they're babies, I mean,

(19:29):
they cry so that you will change their diaper. I
wonder if these researchers even had kids. Anyway. Some people
say this whole thing stinks. It's a new age way of,
you know, dealing with your newborn because I mean, come on,
these things are messy and you know, what are you

(19:49):
going to sit there if they say, no, hey, can
I change your diaper? And I think a lot of
parents do talk to their kids, but the experts are
encouraging moms and dads to request your infants con And
I think that's nuts personally, you know. And this is
a quote here from their study. Here it says, at
the start of a nappy change, ensure your child knows

(20:11):
what's happening. Researchers from the Deacon University wrote in a
November twenty five god get down to their level and
say you need a nappy change, and then pause so
they can take it in. Well that I think is
just good communication when you're dealing with humans. But because
I don't know they're going to give you consent per se,
you can also say do you want to walk or

(20:31):
crawl to me to get to the changing table? Or
would you like me to carry you? The specialists are
seemingly ignoring that newborns can't actually talk, and this is
you know, all observation of the baby's facial expressions and
body language to see you know what's going on now,
These quote unquote experts further noted this is a piece

(20:53):
in the new or post. This can be a time
to help children learn about consent and their bodies. Now listen,
I get that's where they're going, and you should. And
I'm just gonna deviate from this for a moment of seriousness.
I was a caregiver to my dad. My dad had
fallen down and gotten a brain injury, a subdural hematoma
that the pressure had caused some damage in his brain,

(21:16):
affecting his memory, his recallability, and causing him to have
a dementia type called TBI related dementia or traumatic brain
injury related dementia. And oftentimes anytime I had to do
anything with him, just out of respect and out of
dealing with somebody who's older, I'd have to, you know,
use my old person voice. And I was like, Dad,

(21:38):
you know, kind of yelling your shoe's untied, I'm going
to tie your shoe for you, you know, or do
you want me to tie it? And you know, stuff
like that. And yeah, of course you do that with somebody,
especially like an old machista Puerto Rican guy like my dad,
because guess what if you didn't get that type of consent,
he might, you know, turn around and you know, give
you the old one. Two you know, you'd be seeing stars.

(22:00):
So I think it's a good thing to do, and
it's probably a good practice to try it with your kids.
But it's not necessarily about consent. But I do see
where they're going with it with you know, if you're
explaining to your kids in that gentle voice, it's mommy,
it's daddy, it's whatever. Eventually when they're old enough, they
could say, hell, hold on, I don't like that, or hey,
you're not one of the people that does this to
me on a regular basis, and that makes all the

(22:21):
sense in the world. But you know, consent, come on,
I think these researchers are a little bit off their rocker.
So anyway, that's that's that story. And maybe I'll put
this out on social media. If not, you could find
it in the in the post. But a very interesting story. Anyway.
There is still more to come. Straight ahead, we're going
to talk about when Trump's tariff dividend checks are suspected

(22:44):
to arrive. Have a little bit more information on that.
And there might be a Hispanic problem. No, I don't
mean the legal immigration. I mean Trump is losing support
with Hispanics, at least according to CNN data analyst Harry Ent.
And we're gonna look at those numbers and more. Don't
go anywhere.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
This is America. This is America. He's brown, he's bald,
and he's breaking it down.

Speaker 3 (23:22):
Oh he's still has some what's his dad, Rich Valdez?
All right, I mean he goes Welcome back Rich Valdez
at Rich Valdez on all of the social media. Make
sure you check out the website, by the way, Rich
Valdez dot com. We're always streaming there. And I want
to get into this because El Trumpito is now facing

(23:42):
the gauntlet. Right they're saying that Hispanics are jumping ship. Now,
I can tell you that there is some truth to this.
Not me. I am not a jumping ship on ed Trumpito,
because I was never really on board because of Hispanic
issues per se. However, I will say that over the weekend,

(24:03):
I went to a friend of mine. I went to church.
He got We go to the same church, but he
was like, hey, do you want to you want me
to pick you up for church? I was like, yeah,
you know what, I'll ride with you. So we went
and he was like, hey, my my dad was asking
about you. And I was like, oh, tell him. I said, Hi,
this is a kid I grew up with and I'm
known for probably close to thirty two thirty three years.
And and he said, well, I'm going there if you want,

(24:26):
you want to take the ride. His dad lives in
the Bronx, So I said all right. You know, we
went over the bridge and we went to go visit
his dad. It was great to see him, you know,
we really enjoyed ourselves. His dad, his dad's wife et cetera,
and his brother called while we were there and they
put him on speaker to say hi to everybody. And
they're like, oh, yeah, it's just this one, this one,
this one. We're here with Richie and he says, oh,

(24:47):
you know, tell him, tell him that I'm done with
his man, I'm done with his guy ed trompto, forget
about it. I'm done. And I said, oh, come on,
while you mad. And he's like, bro, I'm trying. You know,
the prices and cars are going up. He's a car dealer,
and he's just you know, he's crying, he's whining, he's complaining.
And and I said, look, I get it. Listen, nobody
wants to pay more for anything, So I understand, but

(25:08):
you got to look at the bigger picture here. You know,
would you have been in better position, in a better position,
in a better situation with km Malatis Kamala Harris, the
vice president, And he said no, no, of course, somebody
said come on, this is just too much. He's like, man,
I got you know, I got people asking me all
the time, bro, how do you support all of this?

(25:28):
These these Ice people?

Speaker 5 (25:29):
This?

Speaker 3 (25:30):
And I think this has a lot to do with
the media. Now, I can't say with any certitude that
that there is a you know, a one hundred percent
guarantee that there are no ICE agents that are heavy
hand that are getting out of hand. I can't say that.
I can say that I think by and large they're
following the rules, and that the media by and large

(25:54):
is trying to paint them as horrible. Right now, you've
heard me say before that, you know, we've had federal
law enforcement for a long time and local law enforcement,
and these things are very old, right, it's not anything new.
I have a brother who was a cop, and you
talk about fear of docs, and these bad guys came

(26:16):
and tried to kill my brother and he had to
kill them. So I understand the retribution that happens to
law enforcement firsthand. Happened to my family. But at the
same time, we have not always seen police wearing masks. Now,
I'm not personally against the mask per se. I understand
why they're doing it. I can say I do have

(26:37):
a concern. I think it shouldn't be something we do forever,
because if that becomes the norm when the Democrats are
in office, I'm going to be deathly afraid of federal
law enforcement when Democrats are in office.

Speaker 5 (26:51):
Right.

Speaker 3 (26:51):
I think Trump is operating within the lines. I think
he's playing fair, but the Democrats won't, and we know
they won't we know they took suburban moms and put
them on on lists because they were speaking up with
school board events. So you know, you look at all
that it's man, man, this is kind of concerning. So anyway,
those are my thoughts on the mask stuff. But a

(27:14):
lot of people are taking exception to this because they're
making it seem through a lot of AI artificial, like
deep fake videos that are showing women with babies in
their arms getting yanked into cars and the baby being
yanked out of their arms. Again, not real, but this
is the sentiment that's coming from the left, from foreign enemies,

(27:34):
from people that are dumping this type of AI into
the internet world. So now on Monday you see this
piece in the New York Posts. It is massive drop
in Latinos support for Trump. And this is coming from
CNN analyst Harry Anton who says that he is thirty

(27:58):
eight points underwater and I'm thinking, man, thirty eight points underwater.
This is not a good place to be. And it's
because of the media, in my opinion, that there's so
many cases out there where they're reporting all sorts of
different stories. Even you know, you got this guy, what's

(28:21):
his name, David French from The New York Times. I
got a clip of him. I want you to listen
to this, and then you're going to see this is
the direction that the Left is going in.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
A controlled flow of immigration is an important reality. However,
if somebody is here suspected to be here illegally or
here illegally, they're still entitled to be treated with decency
and humanity. I mean, they still have human rights, and
this is the thing.

Speaker 3 (28:46):
That is Excuse me, mister French, I just have to
interrupt because I can't say that I've seen videos where
people are being treated without humanity. It's not like they're
being beaten and shot dead for being in this country.
It's not like we're digging ditches and lining them up.
That's not happening. They're being arrested, the laws being followed.
And again I'm trying to be objective here. You know,

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sometimes it's ugly, right. I used to watch cops as
a little kid growing up, when they went after the
bad guys. It's not always nice when they have to
get the dogs to bite you in the arm or
bite you in the ankle to bring you down to
the ground. But they got their bad guy right, And
I didn't hear David French complaining about human rights.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
Then so frustrating to people as they understand that, yes,
we need border enforcement, we absolutely need to control our border,
but at the same time, controlling our border does not
mean brutalizing people and depriving them of their human rights.

Speaker 3 (29:40):
We're living through an era.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
Honestly, we're going to look back on with national shame.
The way people are treating and the reports of conditions
and detention facilities are continuing to come out.

Speaker 3 (29:51):
There have been reports from.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
The Seacott facility where people were deported to without due process,
that outright torture took place there.

Speaker 3 (29:58):
It's just extraordinary.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
You can have a controlled border without dehumanizing people.

Speaker 3 (30:05):
Oh stop, sir, listen. You can have a controlled border.
And I don't think they're dehumanizing people. I think that
the masks personally are something that are lending to the
narrative of the left. They're making it seem as if
it's somehow inhumane, and it's so inhumane that they're willing
to hide themselves and obscure their identities. I think it

(30:28):
would they would do themselves a favor. You know. My
advice to the president and to the borders are Tom
Holm and I've interviewed many times. I would say, listen,
I'm on board with you. I think most Americans are
on board with you. We want to see people. Most
Hispanics are on board with you, that this is what
they voted for, but they didn't vote for ugly images. Right.

(30:50):
Real life is real life, and in real life people
get sensitive about these things. So anyway, back to my
story here, Harry Harry Enton says that there's a dramatic
dip in the same group that helped propel him to
victory over Vice President k Malaidis in the twenty twenty

(31:12):
four election, but that this support is eroding fast amongst Hispanics.
Harry Enton demonstrated through his little screen there blaming immigration policies, saying, quote,
he's thirty eight points underwater, showing a poll on how
Latinos view the president's immigration policies currently. Now, he went

(31:33):
on talking about a poll from October that gave October
of last year to do a juxtaposition, saying that Harris
only had a two percent edge over Trump on immigration.
Now it's thirty eight points the difference. So again, I

(31:54):
don't think this is the end of the world for anybody,
And I don't think it means that everybody's jumping ship.
Wasn't just my friend's brother that told me that, right.
I also had a couple other people that were really
on the Trump train in twenty twenty four, and they've
been you know, they just they send me stuff. One
of them sent me something on WhatsApp the other day saying,
you know what's going on. It was a video of

(32:15):
Congresswoman Salazar from Florida saying he's I agree with her.
This is we've we gotta shore things up here. And
you know, people want the president to be nice to Hispanics,
and I think everybody wants them to be nice to everybody.
I think the issue here is this is not something

(32:37):
that's antagonistic towards Hispanics. This is something where he's fulfilling
a campaign promise and the media is doing what they do,
poisoning the well today. Just a little while ago, before
I was doing my show prep for this, there was
a video put out by a New York Post, no link,
no anything. They put it out on x and it

(32:58):
said Border patrol scoops up now grabs or NABS team
from grocery store something like that, making it seem like,
you know, they didn't use the word kidnapping, but it
kind of alluded to that. And I get that there's

(33:19):
click bait, and you know, you want to make a
you know, if it leads, it leads, right, you want
a good headline. And I'm not blaming the New York
Post per se. I mean, they're just putting a video
out and that might have been the caption of the
video of the person to share that video. I don't
think it was an original video of theirs. But I
can blame everybody on CNN. I can blame David French,

(33:41):
I can blame all these people that are out here
saying that, you know, this is the end of the world,
that people are being disappeared, people are being kidnapped. This
type of language doesn't help. It's that type of rhetoric
that causes problems, and we're starting to see those problems
in these poll numbers moving. So I think Trompito may
want to say, hey, look, let's ease up on that.
Let's you know, we keep the numbers up, but let's

(34:04):
do a little pr clean up an Aisle twelve, clean
up an Aisle twelve. Let's make this look better so
that you know they can't use every last thing against
them and we can continue again. That's my advice. Politically speaking.
I understand when you're in the Oval office, you can't
sit here and Taylor make things because you know somebody
is criticizing you over the tactics being used when you're

(34:24):
doing the right thing. So I get that too. But anyway,
we're going to continue our discussion. Michelle Obama's throwing her
voice back into the ring, talking about there's a reason
a woman cannot get elected, and she gets into that.
All that's coming up straight ahead. Don't go anywhere.

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All right?

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I mean he goes, welcome back, Rich Valdez, Valdez with
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keeping your company here and I want to get into
this this clip that I've got from Michelle Obama. Now,
Michelle Obama interestingly right, she hasn't said a lot, but
she has weighed in. She's back and in the news,

(35:39):
and I'm always interested when she says something because she
has quite frankly speaking, she still has a lot of
sway over a lot of people. But I think she's
smart enough to know that she doesn't have enough, and
I think she kind of admits it here. Listen to this.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
Do you think that that impacts the room that we've
made for a woman to be president?

Speaker 4 (36:02):
Well, as we saw in this past election, sadly, we
ain't ready. That's why I'm like, don't even look at
me about running, because you all are lying you're not
ready for a woman. You are not, So don't waste
my time.

Speaker 7 (36:18):
You know, we got a lot.

Speaker 4 (36:20):
Of growing up to do. And there's still, I'm sadly
a lot of men who do not feel like they
can be led by a woman. And we saw it.

Speaker 3 (36:29):
So are Americans ready for a woman president? Well, listen,
I think the issue with Kamala Harris had nothing to
do with her being a woman per se. It had
to do with her being a very incompetent candidate. She
just did not get the job done well. And again,
the odds were in her favor, right, she didn't have

(36:51):
to campaign as much as Trump did. She was able
to hide. They were trying to do the Biden strategy
with her, just keep her under wrap and hopefully people
will just vote for the person with the longer hair.
And thank god that wasn't the case. But this is
what they do. So it really does beg the question

(37:13):
is America ready for a woman president? I think they are.
I think is there a woman that is well positioned
and willing to run? And I think there's plenty. The
question is will they put themselves out there for president?
I don't know the answer to that, but I do
know that if you keep putting up candidates like this

(37:35):
Vice President kem Alaidis, you're gonna get those kinds of results.
Because she wasn't She wasn't it right, She wasn't the
right candidate. So anyway, that's Michelle Obama now Bill Maher.
He also weighed in on this. I don't know if
I have that audio, but saying I think it's kind

(37:57):
of something I've said in the past, AOC, please run
now lit'sten. I don't say that to say that I
don't take AOC seriously. I do. I mean you have to.
You can ridicule someone, just like I ridiculed Joe Biden, right,
I called him Joe el Baboso Biden. And you can

(38:17):
call Joe Biden el baboso and still make fun of
him and not take him seriously and take him seriously
at the same time, right, I mean, the reality was
he was the sitting president of the United States. He
was somebody who'd served in the Senate for all, you know,
fifty years or whatever. So all that stuff was true,

(38:39):
and you really can't downplay those things, right, you have
to at some point say, okay, no, that's all fact.
But let's look at who he is and what he's
talking about now. And that's what I think with AOC.
AOC really does have people that are behind her, that
are behind her like the people that are behind Trump.
Right that people say, I love God, I love my family,
I love this country. Trump stands for those things. I'm

(39:00):
with him, and they're solidly behind Trump. And you've got
people that are solidly invested in collectivism, leftism, atheism, and
they're solidly behind AOC. They believe that climate change and
capitalism are destroying the world. This is why they are
not having children, and they see her as some sort

(39:21):
of savior, a modern day che Guevara in female form.
Now I'll say this, AOC is an attractive person that
gets people excited politically. That's why she does these rallies
with Mamdani, and she does them with Bernie Sanders. And
you know, we'd be foolish to think Bernie Sanders ran
for president. He almost became the nominee. He is an insurgent.

(39:46):
He's not a Democrat. He's literally a registered independent that
caucuses with the Democrats. And he almost became the Democrat
nominee if it could happen at the fe level, but
for the deal they had when they pushed him out.
Of course, it could happen in New York City. Of
course it could happen anywhere else. But the Democrats continue

(40:09):
to take the uh, the left wing kind of unseriously.
And they shouldn't because now Hakeem Jeffries is facing a
potential primary challenge from one of Mom Donnie's boys. Isn't
that something? Now I'm pretty sure Chuck Schumer also is

(40:32):
going to receive a primary challenge, and I'm thinking it's
gonna be AOC. I don't know if I'm right or
wrong here, but this is an interesting thing. Let me
give you the little scoop on this.

Speaker 5 (40:46):
Now.

Speaker 3 (40:46):
This guy's he's out there with the with the with
the left wing movement. His name is I don't know
how to say this, right, I think it's either chi
osay or chai osa c h I O SS. And
he filed to challenge the congressman Jeffries, Democratic leader. And

(41:11):
this is interesting, right. This guy is a councilman out
of Brooklyn and he wants to take out how came Jeffries.
He's an insurgent, just like Bernie Sanders, just like Mamdanni,
just like AOC, just like the one that pulled the
fire alarm, Jamal Bowman. But we were able to oust him,

(41:33):
and that was because a pack. And that's who he
took on. He said, he said, I'm running against Apak
and good for a pack. They stepped up and put
their money where their mouth was and they ran a
great campaign against him and they were able to, you know,
beat him, and he's out. What I'm saying, where was
a pack? In the NYC election, Where were they? What

(41:54):
was going on?

Speaker 1 (41:56):
You know?

Speaker 3 (41:56):
And if you were there, you picked the wrong candidate.
You needed to get behind the candidate they provided contrast,
not the candidate that was not Mamdani but had the
same policies as him. And I think that was the
issue in New York. But either way, largely popular these guys. Now.
Jeffries was an assemblyman before getting elected to the House
in twenty thirteen, and you know he's ready to become

(42:20):
a speaker if he can get power again. But this
guy osay he's coming for his lunch. So you tell me,
is Jeffreys gonna win? Maybe? Is Jeffrey's gonna lose? Maybe?
But one thing remains for sure. He's got a fight
on his hands. Right. We just saw what the Mamdani

(42:42):
people can do, and this guy is the Mamdani people.
So I'm just saying, look, this is politics. Sometimes they
try to get you to spend money from your war chest.
If they can beat you, they will, And sometimes they're
just really coming because they're ready. And when you've got

(43:03):
Alexander Soros and those types of deep pockets backing you up,
what choice do you have but to give it all
you got, so stay tuned for that one. Anyway, straight ahead,
I got a few more things that I want to
run by, and you don't go anywhere. I'm Rich Valdez.

Speaker 1 (43:20):
This is America, This is America. He's got the best
head of hair and podcasting. This is America with Rich Valdez.

Speaker 3 (43:49):
All right it he goes, welcome back. And I wanted
to get into something else with you. This was an
interesting story. This one had to do with let me
see that. This was an interesting story about how a
girl decided to handle getting married. And this is one
of the things where I want you to, you know,
let me know your thoughts on this and what you
would do, because for me, I think it's kind of

(44:12):
crazy that personally that some people you know, do these
type of out of pocket things and they don't really
I feel like they don't. They don't take into account
the damage that you're causing when you make a decision
like this. And here here's what I'm talking about. This
girl's getting married, she's a bride to be and it's

(44:34):
her wedding day. But she makes a decision on her
wedding day and she wrecks her mom and stepfather's feelings.
Why because she decides, like on the wedding day to
tell them. You know what, guys, I don't want my
stepdad to walk me down the aisle. Instead, I want
my dad, her biological dad, who passed away his parents,

(44:58):
so her grandma parents from paternal side, And she didn't
know how to go about this, so she sought advice
from the reddit community. And this was just crazy, right,
She explained in the Reddit post that her father died

(45:18):
when she was just eight years old, and that although
her mom remarried when she was thirteen, she never saw
her stepfather, Steve as a parent, saying quote he wanted
to be a father figure like second dad kind of
presence in my life, she wrote, adding that despite his efforts,
she only ever viewed him as her mom's husband, and

(45:40):
she recounted to her mom repeatedly urging her to embrace
Steve in a parental role, even telling her she needed
a dad and should allow him to take up space
in her life. And I know people that have gone
through this, I mean, with their dads alive or dead,

(46:01):
just because they're like, I have a dad and I
can't replace my dad. And I think stepdads need a
special place, right. I've never had a stepdad, I had
my own dad. But I think if you have a guide,
it's willing to be. There's willing to marry a woman
that has children. I think it's fair and I guess
that's why the mom was saying, you need to do
this and open up. But how do you force somebody

(46:23):
to feel something? So anyway, this bride to be. She
shares that she had these conversations and they were very
constant throughout her teen years, saying that her mom insisted
it was important and that she go to her for everything,
and you know, try to let Steve the stepdad into

(46:45):
that father figur role. But the family grew, she had
some half siblings, her feelings didn't change. She said that
the more her mother and stepfather pushed, the further she
emotionally pulled away. By the time she turned nineteen, the
situation had basically reached a breaking point. She recalled that
Steve was upset he didn't spend Father's Day with them,

(47:06):
leading her to finally tell him very bluntly, that she
didn't see him as a father and never was going to, Like,
why would you do that? So bluntly so mean. Anyway,
Steve and her mother eventually agreed to stop pushing. And
this is again according to her Reddit post and her
story there, Steve never brought up the issue again and

(47:27):
she believed they all had accepted her boundaries, though her
mom made it clear she hated how she felt about
Steve and resented her feelings. Anyway, fast forward, I'm reading
from People magazine here. Because of those years of conversations
and you know, the disagreement that they've had, she figured

(47:48):
that she wouldn't mind, you know, she thought they wouldn't
be bothered if she didn't ask them to walk her
down the aisle when she got married. So instead she
asked her parental grandparents, who said, you know, they wanted
to represent her dad the best way, and she wanted

(48:08):
to have support on both sides of her family. Anyway,
her mom and Steve found out about the news through
social media, and they were blindsided and emotionally crushed. She
wrote that her mom told her she should have actually
asked Steve if he was okay with it, insisting it
was a natural expectation to be the one to walk

(48:29):
her down the aisle. I would say that, you know,
I think that's fair. It's fair communication. The young lady
admitted that she was frustrated by their reaction. She told
them she didn't understand how nearly a decade after their
last conversation about her boundaries there could still be confusion
and how they could hold on to hope that she
would view Steve as a father figure. It almost seems

(48:51):
like she's super antagonistic towards the guy. I don't know.
I wish I could interview these people, but I want
to know your thoughts and you can hit me up
on social media or wherever you want to reach me,
messages or whatever it is. But this is interesting to me, Right,
what would you do? Would you do that? Would you

(49:11):
not do that? I can tell you I don't think
I would, right, I don't think I would. But again,
I always had those clearly defined roles. I never had
a step mom or a stepdad, so I can't say
that you know there would be anything like that, but
I think, you know, people do have some expectations, and
when you're getting married, you know there should have been

(49:32):
a conversation. But again, she is the kid here. So
was this incumbent upond The mom and Steve did they
need to stop presuming that they were just going to
walk her down the aisle and say, hey, who's walking
you down the aisle? Or hey, have you put any
thought into Steve walking you down the aisle? It's been
about ten years since we talked about this. Anyway, I
just I wanted to share that a little bit of
a human interest story, a little bit off the beaten path,

(49:54):
but very interesting to me how some people choose to
do what they do because you know, ultimately people can
be very much hurt if you don't do things the
right way. So anyway, that's all I got there. I
want to hear more from you, more to come straight ahead,
keep it locked right here. I'm Rich Feldees.

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kill the music, thank you, thank you, and I want
to get into a story. I'm looking at here and
thank you. In bright part, Breitbart dot com Brightbart News
reporting that ICE has deported the illegal alien who that
Wisconsin judge was accused of helping to evade arrest. Remember that, yep,

(52:37):
me too. And this is interesting because I remember, you know,
she did everything she could to protect this guy, including
throwing the guys off, like literally like saying, hey, no, no,
he went over here, come follow me, you know, really
physically distracting people ICE agents rather from being there anyway.
Listen to this. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement known as

(53:00):
ICE has deported an illegal alien from Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.
Judge Hannah Dugan is charged with trying to help evade
arrest by federal agents. Over the weekend. ICE agents deported
illegal alien Eduarddoll, Florida's Ruiz Mexicel No, I'm sorry, that's Edwardo,
Florida's Ruiz of Mexico. I thought that was his name.

(53:23):
And Flora's Ruiz crossed the southern border in twenty thirteen
and was apprehended by border patrol and nogatless Arizona. He
was swiftly deported to Mexico, but illegally crossed back into
the United States, which is a felony. Flora's Ruiz also
faced charges for strangulation and suffocation, battery, and domestic abuse.

(53:45):
Sky's are real men? Sh huh, tremendo diripo, what a
nice guy. In April, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI
arrested Dugan for allegedly helping Flora's Ruiz evade arrest by
ICE agents by purposefully misdirecting agents from him when he
was inside a Wisconsin courthouse. Now you remember that, I
remember when that happened. That was that video where they

(54:07):
where they go and then she does a little switcheroo
and she brings them out the back door and they
have to run. They finally get them. Well, the guy's
finally deported, and I mean, you have to say that
that's a good deal, right, a good deal. I'm glad
he was deported, thank god. But it begs the question,
what now, what do we do? Right? What is the

(54:33):
next step here? What happens to the judge? Right? That's
what I think we all want to know, because this
is This is something you got to make an example of,
I believe, because if you don't, then you run the
risk of more judges going, well, you know what that
lady did that, she took a stand. She was a
judicial activist, and we are we're proud of her. We

(54:56):
think more people should do that. So you know, she
got in trouble for that, judge, Hannah Dugan. These actions
of obstructing this criminal. They led to her being charged
and a month after her arrest, surveillance footage from inside
the courthouse showed the judge seemingly pointing ICE agents in

(55:17):
the wrong direction. So she was indicted earlier this year
by a grand jury, and she subsequently pled not guilty
to the obstruction of justice charge against her. And she's
got a Republican lawyer, a guy named let's see Paul Clement,

(55:39):
and Steve Biscupik, former United States attorney, as well as
a Bush appointee representing her. So let's see what happens
with that. But this is a judge again. I think
you've got to throw the book at the judge here,
in my opinion, because if you take it easy, then
more people will do that. Now the other side is

(56:01):
going to say, come on, you can't start throwing judges
in jail. She's trying to do the right thing. She
pointed the guy through the door. This is a woman
that sits on the bench, is a woman wearing a
black robe. How dare you? You got to pick a
side here, You got to pick a side and figure
out which side of this you're on. Are you on
the side of America doing the right thing, or are

(56:22):
you on the side of America defending people doing the
wrong thing because they think it's the right thing in
their heart, in their opinion. That's not the way things
work right. Ultimately, that's going to bring us down the
road of fascism, down the road of all these emotionally
charged ideologies like Marxism. And let me tell you, Marxism

(56:47):
is a dangerous thing. Alexander Solzhenitsen, the guy who went
to jail in Russia because of the Soviets. He has
so many great quotes, and I mean, really, he described
modern society as quote hypnotized by socialism, and I say, man,

(57:07):
that's brilliant. And he says that prevents them from seeing
the danger that it presents. I agree, and I oftentimes
I guess I paraphrase that by saying, we have a
left wing our movement in our governmental system in our country,
and the left wing movement in our country is truly

(57:27):
romanticizing the revolution. And this is not good, not good
for anybody. I mean, it makes them more bold, and
it's okay to be bold, I guess if you want.
I want us to be bold to but I don't
want us to be crazy, and I don't want us
to be illegal, and I don't want us to endanger

(57:48):
our country. And this is a dangerous thing, right, that
really limits people. It uses coercion. It forces you to
to be a part of the mob rather than to
be a part of an you know, an individual that's
part of something where there's a shared belief. You know,

(58:09):
you don't like MAGA, right, you know, other than MAGA rallies,
you don't really see the Mega people all associating with
one another. But you always see the left associating with
one another and trying to attack the cops, trying to
attack a federal building, trying to take over a street,
trying to do whatever they can. This is not good,
This is bad. Right to put it in the simplest
English I can, this is not good. It's very bad anyway.

(58:34):
So what do we do. I think we have to
make sure we're aware of our surroundings, we know what's
going on. We make sure that we have a firm
grasp on what we're doing and how we're doing it,
because otherwise we're going to be screwed. You know, the
old saying, if you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything.

(58:55):
I mean, that couldn't be more true now than it's
ever been. And I and I always close out the
podcast with that, but it's so true. And I mentioned
earlier I was going to talk about obviously while you're
listening to me on This is America, the flagship show
that started it all, and that's because I was in
hiatus on this show looking to relaunch it and and

(59:19):
we have, so, you know, happy about that. And my
contract has nearing an end with Westwood One. At the
end of the year, it's over, and we just couldn't
reach agreement on me sticking around and the right situation,
the right financial situation, the right support, the right ability

(59:40):
to you know, do other things that made sense for
them and made sense for me, and I've opted to
come in this direction. So I do have some really
exciting news about I'm going to say, I'm going to
call it a video project, a show idea that's in
the works for January. I can't talk about it now

(01:00:02):
because I've really just the legality of things. There's confidentiality
and stuff that I can't discuss. But I do want
to encourage you to stay tuned and locked in on
this show because we're going to figure out the right
length of it. I mean, I used to be thirty
five minutes. Today I went a little longer because I
know you guys are used to being with me for
a couple hours, and I want to make it good

(01:00:22):
for everybody. I'm going to be real responsive on social
media as much as I can be. So again, more
to come straight ahead, keep it locked right here. But
that's it for me today. A style approxima, Take care,
good night, and God bless you America. I'm Rich Valdez.

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