Willie Colón RIP, Wild Weekend NYC, Will Cuba fall?

On Monday night, Rich pays tribute to the memory of Salsa music legend Willie Colon. Then, Mamdani dodges on terror attack. Plus, Trump and Rubio host Latino Presidents in Miami to combat cartels. Afterward, Rich takes calls from the audience all across the country in the "Open Phone America" segment.

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(00:49):
with you guys. I want to get into a bunch
of things. This is the Monday night edition of This
Is America, and I want to thank you for being
in the audience because you guys, being in the audience
truly is a blessing. It's a blessing to me. It's
a blessing to those that listen. This type of conversation
that we have really makes a difference. And if you're

(01:09):
wondering why am I dressed in black, No, I'm not
applying for a second job as an undertaker. Although I
am thinking of getting into the restaurant business. I don't know.
We'll talk about that a little bit later. But I
want to get into a bunch of things tonight. A
why I'm wearing black and b the wild weekend we
just had in New York City, Right, not one but
two bombs went off, not one but two airplanes having

(01:32):
to make emergency actions, right, take emergency actions, I should say,
because of people yelling a lah ouh akbar. So we're
gonna get to that momentarily. Bear with me on that,
plus El Trompito in Miami with Marco Rubio talking about
the future of Cuba, what's going on with the Iran war,
and so much more. But I want to circle back
to why I'm wearing black, Well, Familia, I'm wearing black

(01:57):
because I was at the funeral earlier today of South
Legend Extraordinaire. He was a trombone player, he was a vocalist.
He's a true legend in the sense of the word.
Willie Cologne Willi Colone passed away recently and his funeral
services were today in Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York City.
And I'd been to Saint Patrick's Cathedral as a kid,

(02:18):
I think on a school trip if I'm not mistaken,
But I'll tell you this, what an immaculate, what a
impressive piece of architecture, right, absolutely gorgeous and beautiful Catholic
liturgy in the ceremony, very just fitting, very fitting for

(02:38):
the type of life that Willie Cologne lived. And a
lot of people are taking exception to Willie Colone right
now because in his older age he'd become a conservative,
he'd gotten into Republican politics, conservative politics, and I'm going
to get into that in the moment. But the moment

(02:59):
that you have likely seen on social media that I
was there for and I took video of, was absolutely
I'll use the Spanish word imprescione. It was absolutely just
a moment, right. You had to be there when so
many of his fellow trombone players joined him in a
trombone salute as the casket was coming out of the

(03:24):
church is absolutely extraordinary. And I got a clip of it.
Checked this out. M absolutely classic, absolutely classy. Again l

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r P too, Willie go along. Now, I want to
get into a little bit of what the controversy is
all about. Right, instead of morning the South sad legend,
some people saying, oh, but he was mag he was this,
Oh but he was that. And the truth is Willi
Colonne Evold evolved over time.

Speaker 6 (05:05):
Right.

Speaker 5 (05:06):
He once wrote a song about you can't correct nature
in reference to a homosexual cousin that inspired of his
that died of AIDS, and it inspired a song about
a transvestite, and all these things can be true, right.

(05:29):
I mean, there's a lot of people that look at
life one way. This guy was involved. I'm going to
use the term sex, drugs, rock and roll, right, and
I'm not saying he did those things, but that's the
industry he was in. He was a musician, he was touring,
He was in that world. And he got out of
that world. He got into law enforcement with the Westchester
County Police, where he was an active member there until

(05:50):
twenty twenty. And guess what his views changed. When you
see crime up close and personal and you understand the
other side of the fence and you say, huh oh, interesting, right.
So I think Willie Colonne had a nuanced approach to
his journey in conservatism, and he himself notes that it
was mainly his disdain, his dislike for Hillary Clinton, who

(06:14):
he had once endorsed, but in twenty sixteen he said,
can't do it. And we got a clip of that.
It's in Spanish, but it's transcribed in English, because I
think he makes a really good point when he says
they became geniuses at doing this stuff. He's talking about
Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton and how they became genius
at getting away with things. In that timeframe, the questions

(06:35):
were surrounding the aid. There was foreign aid that was missing.
They said they were going to build hospitals in Haiti
and millions and millions of dollars and yet no hospitals
were built. So that became an area of concern for
a lot of people. And here he is on Pedo Tura,

(06:55):
which is a show out of Puerto Rico, talking about
that very topic, regarding why he was going to vote
for Trump instead of Hillary.

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Speaker 5 (09:09):
So Willi Cologue was very clear, adamant about his position, saying, yeah,
you know what, I might vote for Trump. And she says, hey, Demonio,
and he says, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna vote for Trump.
And he later on doubled down and became a Trump supporters,
all in on Trump. And like many people, I think
there's some people that see what Trump is up to
and some people that don't. Willi Cologne was one of

(09:29):
those others say I know what Trump is up to,
but it's somehow sinister or evil or nefarious, and it's not.
And I could probably spend a lot of time on that.
Maybe I'll so go back to that, but I wanted
to talk about Willi Colonne specifically and about a couple
of points on Puerto Rico specifically. Right because Puerto Rico,
I think is so important in the in the national conversation,

(09:50):
because right now we talk about Cuba, Cuba's about to
be liberated, uh from a communist regime. Venezuela liberated from
a communist regime. You've got Iran. They are not only
communists like right Marxists, but they're Islamist with a t fundamentalists, radicals,

(10:14):
you know, killing people in the name of Islam and
stuff like that. So this is a pretty radical position
and this is what they're looking at now in Puerto Rico.
We don't face that when you talk about liberating Puerto Rico,
it's liberating it from the United States. And this would
be a mistake in my opinion, and I think in
the opinion of most Puerto Ricans that have voted in one, two,

(10:37):
I think four plebiscite referendum elections. They've asked the people
of Puerto Rico, do you want to be a state?
And each and every time more than seventy percent of
them have said yes. I think the first time is
something closer than ninety percent than above eighty percent. I
think the lowest one has been in the seventy in
the seventieth percentile. So that tells me Puerto Rico see

(11:00):
the value. And again, let's talk about some of the
reasons why we should do this, right. Forget about what
aoc all out crazy my least favorite congresswoman from the
Bronx and Queens says. Because Alexandria O court this as
I call her all out crazy, she has an all
out crazy position on statehood for Puerto Rico. And I
bring it up only because I see so many parallels
to what's happening across the world. Right check this out

(11:25):
right now. For example, if you live on the island
of Puerto Rico, you're just as as American as me
living in the New York metropolitan area in New Jersey.
But guess what I get to vote for president? You don't.
Is it because I'm somehow better than you, have a
better head of hair or a nicer beard. Maybe, but no,
that's not why. The real reason is because they don't

(11:47):
get the political representation on the island for a very
simple reason. It's a territory, not a state. States have
those rights. Territories don't. The citizen has the right, but
where the citizen is based matters. So Puerto Ricans oftentimes
moving to Orlando, Florida, right, the biggest suburb of Puerto
rican besides the Bronx, they end up going and voting

(12:10):
in Orlando, so they can have a say in US elections.
So I think it's important if you're an American that
you actually have full representation where you live. Not a
bad idea. Equal federal funding, right, So currently Puerto Rico
receives a fraction of federal funding because they don't pay
in to federal funding. They're not part of the federal
income tax agenda. So what happens, right, they get a

(12:34):
little bit of medicare, a little bit of SSI for
the people that are disability and incapacitated and whatnot. This
is not ideal for the people on the island, especially
when because you don't have a you can't only Texas, right,
I think the Texas Constitution is the only state that

(12:56):
says we can stop being part of the United States,
but every other can't stop being a state. So if
you're investing in a state, if you're investing in a
business that's somewhere you can say, well, yeah, I'm going
to make this investment, but there's always this uncertainty that
goes with that because it may no longer be the
United States. That's something that I think that would bother

(13:18):
a lot of businesses, right. It would bother me if
I were making an investment somewhere where I say, right now,
they're connected with this country, but you know, you never
know what could happened politically as a state. Puerto Rico's
as American as apple pie, and you can put your
money there, and a lot of people are doing that
right now, and that's a good thing, but it's not enough.
It's not reciprocal, right because they're not paying into federal

(13:41):
income tax. So we're paying people in Puerto Rico a fraction,
but albeit a fraction, but we're still we're pushing money
out from the federal government, our tax dollars, and we're
not getting them back. So financially, it makes all the
sense in the world for every America to want Puerto
Rico to be a date, to have permanent status, to

(14:02):
have what I'm just mentioned here the right to be
represented in Congress. Right, currently, they have one person called
a resident commissioner, which is a non voting member of Congress.
The last non voting member of Congress is the current governor,
Jennifer Benziallees Cologne. Now, she is a Trump supporting Republican,

(14:24):
but she's got her hands tied when she had her
hands tied when she was in Congress because she was
one person representing an island that probably has about as
many people as New Jersey. New Jersey has a whole
mess of congress people. I think we have thirteen or
fourteen congressional districts. Right, you get typically for every seven

(14:45):
hundred thousand people or so, you get a congressman or congresswoman. Well,
guess what. Puerto Rico has won and they can't vote
outside of their committee votes. What does that tell you?
They're underrepresented in the government. Now, if you want to
change that, all you got to do is stick with
the plan. Now, why hasn't changed. The reason that hasn't
changed is real simple. The main Republican for so long

(15:07):
in the United States Senate agreed with AOC no, thank you.
He was afraid, he was afraid that even though you
have Republicans that get elected as Resident Commissioner of Puerto
Rico and then go on to become the governor of
Puerto Rico, and even the Democrats or opposing party candidates
like Juan Dalascas right, who replaced Ricardo Ro said, Joe

(15:31):
the former governor, she endorsed Trump and she wasn't She
wasn't a conservative by any means. So there are Puerto
Ricans that support Trump, and it makes all the sense
in the world. Everybody wins Why Mitch McConnell, and he's
convinced some of his colleagues in the Senate and some

(15:53):
of my colleagues to believe that if Puerto Rico were
to become a state, that it would automatically have two
Democrats serving as United States Senators and four or five
who knows how many congress people. This is a I
think it's a fallacy. I mean, I think it's a
toss up based on the districts, right, depending on which

(16:15):
neighborhood these congressional lines are drawn. But call me crazy,
but wouldn't you want to do it while you have
a Republican president, while you have a Republican Senate and
a Republican House, and a Republican in La Portalisa in
the governor's mansion in Puerto Rico. Wouldn't it be a
good idea to say, hey, let's draw these lines right
now and make sure that we maintain as much power

(16:37):
as we can. Isn't that the name of the game
in politics, especially when the people have voted four times
in favor of becoming a state. So it's the United
States Senate that is stopping this from happening with a
cheap excuse that if Puerto Rico becomes a state, it
will guaranteed be become a blue state. There's no proof
for that. Literally, isn't proof for that. So I could

(16:59):
argue the other way, and I think Marco Rubio, Secretary
of State, he's argued the other way for decades, or
at least for the last decade. He's been on the record,
writing op eds, giving speeches. He shares the same position
as I do. So anyway, speaking of Mark and Rubio,
Marco Rubio, I want to get into a couple of
clips on him. I want to talk about the wild
weekend that we had in New York City. Man, it

(17:20):
was crazy, not one but two bombs outside Gracie Mansion
thrown by the same guy, these young guys out of Pennsylvania.
We're going to get it to that in the moment.
Plus what else do we have? Oh Trump in Miami.
Trump was at his Dural golf course in Miami inviting
the presidents of a bunch of different countries in Central
South America for the Shield of America's right. So the

(17:43):
Central America, North America, South America Consortium of leaders converged
on Miami to discuss how they get together to fight
narco terrorism. And it was interesting. We got some clips
from Trump's and clips from Marco Rubio had a couple
other people that I think we have lined up and
we have time. We'll get to all of them. I
got that. But us, I've got Mom, Donny, Mom, Donny.

(18:06):
Despite all the crazy that's going on, the guy throwing
the bomb, shouting allah bar, people in planes screaming that
they have bombs, shouting allah a bar. You mustn't like
the bomb.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
That all hell. But I love.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
Sit down, Just be careful to Camel, sit down.

Speaker 5 (18:45):
But Mike, my your.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
Is that your phone?

Speaker 9 (19:04):
Have you got anything on you?

Speaker 6 (19:07):
Have you got anything on you?

Speaker 5 (19:10):
Why you why are you doing that?

Speaker 6 (19:13):
Check you check this.

Speaker 5 (19:14):
Populars do surely.

Speaker 3 (19:24):
I'm down.

Speaker 5 (19:28):
Table? Where are you sitting? Where is your seat?

Speaker 2 (19:32):
Is there anything in.

Speaker 3 (19:33):
Your Is there anything in your back?

Speaker 7 (19:34):
Is there anything on your back?

Speaker 2 (19:37):
Is there anything in your back?

Speaker 5 (19:40):
Is there anything in your back?

Speaker 3 (19:43):
Have you got? Have you got you.

Speaker 6 (19:48):
Nothing? Have you done?

Speaker 7 (19:50):
Move you got you got?

Speaker 3 (19:52):
Have you got a bob?

Speaker 2 (19:54):
Why do you have you got anything on you?

Speaker 5 (19:56):
Despite all that you've got mom Danny out there saying
this is because as you're being an islamophobe. What Hold
on a second, it's walking like a duck, and that
is talking like a duck. Hold on a second. Anyway,
we're gonna talk about that.

Speaker 8 (20:08):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (20:08):
Plus, some reports are saying that Iran is activating these
sleeper cells and that's why we're seeing all of this
chaotic behavior. More on that straight ahead, Plus your calls
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Speaker 1 (20:25):
This is America, This is America. He's brown, he's bald,
and he's breaking it down.

Speaker 5 (20:42):
Oh he's so handsome. What's his dad?

Speaker 3 (20:44):
Rich Valdez?

Speaker 5 (20:47):
All right, I mean goes. Welcome back, Rich Valdes, keeping
your company tonight. Happy to be here with you. Eight
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Give me a call on the duck phone. Yes, this
is an ode to the Jersey Show. I love that
show and the Jersey Shore Family VAK all that stuff.
This is what I do to unwind. But give me

(21:08):
a call. I want to talk to you on the duck.
Holler at me. Plus, we're going to get into the
wild weekend in New York City. That's right. Two bombs
are thrown outside Gracie Match and that's where Zorin Mambani lives.
Plus we've got two guys shouting alach Bar on airline flights.
I'm going to get into all of that and more
straight ahead. But first I want to talk about Ed Trumpito.

(21:29):
Donaldis Magnus, the forty fifth and forty seventh President of
the United States, Ed Trumpito and Presidente. He says lots
of things. Actually, he was in drylh, Florida at his
Trump Miami golf course, and he invited all these presidents
from Central and South America, North America. Lots of people
that were there discussing the coalition against cartels, and this

(21:53):
is pretty interesting stuff because he talked about having a
missile defense system. He's talking big about going after what's
going on with the Narco terrorists. Plus Marco Rubio chiming
in on what's going on with all the millions of
things that he's doing, and a great job that, in
my opinion, that he's doing as Secretary of State. Literally,
him and Trump seem to be fixing so many global

(22:14):
problems through military action, through tariffs, through different types of
strategic foreign policy that I think the sum may not
be very welcome, but to others is likely the only
way we're going to fix these problems. So we'll hear
from Marco Rubio. We're also going to hear from Let
me see who else do I got here? I have
a little list here, shall we? We shall? All right,

(22:36):
let's take a look here.

Speaker 10 (22:37):
This is.

Speaker 5 (22:40):
We've got bomb bomb bomb. Those are for the next one.
Speaking of bombs and Iran, we've got the United States
military not only getting into new military action with the
Ecuadorian military. I'll get into that maybe later, maybe tomorrow,
but I'll also talk about what's going on with the

(23:03):
United States taking the small island outside of Iran, which
is where they store their oil, which is another strategic move.
But I want to talk about what happened with Trump,
what he said about Cuba, and what he said about
the cartels, because I think it's very important watch this.

Speaker 10 (23:18):
We're calling this military partnership the America's Counter Cartel Coalition,
and that's what you need.

Speaker 3 (23:26):
You have cartels. They seem to.

Speaker 10 (23:28):
Grow in this region unbelievably rapidly. Has to do with drugs, largely.
Earlier this week here in Miami, Secretary of War Pete Hexa,
who's right here. You are fantastic, doing a great job.
We're proud of you, and representatives of seventeen different nations
formally entered this new alliance. The heart of our agreement

(23:50):
is a commitment to using lethal military force to destroy
the senters to cartels and terrorists networks once and for
we'll get rid of them. We need your help. You
have to just tell us where they are. We have
amazing we have amazing weaponry, as you probably noticed over
the last short period of time.

Speaker 5 (24:11):
All right, Marco, letting him know how it goes. I
think Marco Ruby is doing a fantastic job. I can't
say that enough because I think think of the last
Secretary of State that was really John blazing the trail. Yep.
Oh wait, was it the one that served under Obama?
Was it the one that served under Biden? Who even

(24:32):
was the one that served under Biden? Exactly my point.
Marco Rubio is actually getting the job done. He's all
over the world, He's actually making things happen. This is
a good thing. Now, kudos to him. President Trump weighing
in on Cuba at that same event, the Shield of
Shields of America event in Trump Terrall in Miami, saying this,

(24:52):
check this out and doubling down, right, doubling down on
exactly what's going on with Cuba today. President Trump asked
by the meat by the White House Press Corps about
what's going on with Cuba? Is there a deal on
the table? He had made a comment over the weekend saying, look,

(25:13):
a deal we made, whether we make one for them
or whether they choose to make one on their own,
and he doubled down on it and elaborated, here, watch
this one.

Speaker 10 (25:20):
I've been hearing as a little boy, I'd be hearing
about Cuba. You know, Cuba is a disaster. But I've
been hearing so much about Cuba. But Cuba is in
its last moments of life as it was. It'll have
a great new life, but it's in its last moments
of life the way it is.

Speaker 3 (25:39):
But our focus right now is on Iran and we'll
do that. I would say, what would you do?

Speaker 10 (25:45):
Take about two days off Marco now will maybe an hour.
He'll take one hour off and then he'll finish up
a deal on Cuba. That'll be an easy one, but
it'll be the entire region that we're doing that. Many
of you have come today and they said, I hope
you can take care of Cuba because you've had problems
with Cuba, right you mentioned.

Speaker 5 (26:06):
Man. I gotta tell you Ed Trompito sounds like he
really means business here, and it's just amount of time.
He's just waiting for Cuba to what they've been doing
to us right just waiting for us to kind of
just hm, lean over and play dead. It's not gonna happen.
I don't think Cuba it wasn't gonna happen before. Right
now that he's actually put a real embargo, he's actually

(26:27):
there's a real stranglehold on this regime, and that's what's
important here. In the past, they were the ones playing
the waiting games with us. We were saying, well, you know,
we'll do this and we'll do that, and they said,
you know what, as long as this guy keeps talking tough,
we just keep doing what we do and wait. Because
we've been here for five decades and that's how these
regimes work. They will play a waiting game any day

(26:48):
as soon as there's a new sheriff in town. They
don't care. They don't care. What they care about is
to continue to live good and to continue to maintain power.
It's rule number one in politics, maintain and gain power.
So Ed Trompito talking, not tough, talking seriously, right, He's
not saying we're gonna go in there, we're gonna bomb them,
We're gonna it's gonna be your believe me, Believe me.

(27:10):
He's not doing any of that. Fact, he's saying, their
days are numbered, right, moments left in the life of
Cuba as we know it. This is music to so
many people's ears, even those detractors of mine. Right, I
have some very close friends that don't agree with me
on my position on Cuba. Most of my Cuban friends
do agree, but I have a couple. Right about four

(27:32):
years ago, twenty twenty two, I threw a party, a
private party and Trump Tower to celebrate my national syndication deal.
And I invited, you know, some close friends, had a
sprinter full, a van ful of my closest friends with
a great time, uh, some supporters, some colleagues. I invited

(27:53):
Mark Levan and Rudy Giuliani and Councilwoman Vicki Palladino. And
it was around Thanksgiving time, so not everybody was able
to be there, but everybody that did show up did
so with a degree of sacrifice because again it was
during the holidays. And one of the people that showed
up was my good friend, Ruben the Cuban. Ruben the

(28:15):
Cuban a good friend of mine, his whole family, they're
wonderful people. And he's the guy that if you've ever
heard me talk about my Cuban friend that came from Havana,
Cuba to Key West, Florida on a jet ski in
order to get to America, That's who I'm talking about.

(28:36):
And after Councilwoman Vicki Palladino gave a toast and congratulated
me on the new show and whatnot. In my remarks,
which are very limited, believe it or not, I shouted
him out and the people that were active listeners of
the show were so happy that my liberal Democrat friend,

(28:57):
Ruben the Cuban was there. And I bring him up
because Ruben the Cuban and I have this constant back
and forth and the one area we agree is that
the regime in Cuba must fall. I argue that the
Democrats are too communistic, and he says they're not communists
at all. In his opinion, they are following the Constitution

(29:18):
to a t because this country has something Cuba's never had.
And I say, what's that? And he says, separation of powers,
and then we go on to talk. The other day
he called me and he said, man, I got to
tell you the document that you guys call the Constitution.
This is probably one of the most perfect documents I've
ever written. And he went out and said, no, no, no, no,

(29:39):
but but seriously, it's like they knew what the future
would be. They thought about everything ahead of time. Now
again we don't agree. So while I agree with that
statement too, I mean, maybe the Bible might be more perfect,
but constitution is a close second. Right, But he says,
what happens here is that the fourteenth member is clearest day.
I don't even know why going to the Supreme Court.

(30:02):
If you're born in this country, you're a citizen. So
of course I say, well, you know, during the debate
way back when, and we talked about this on the
on the radio and whatnot. If you are the pregnant
wife of an ambassador who's stationed in the United States
representing another country, right, so ambassador to wherever you fill

(30:22):
in the blank, wife has baby because I am the
ambassador to another country working at the embassy in the
United States, they have baby. The baby's a citizen of
where all right. Remember I'm now a proud patriot. I
represent Oman, I represent Nigeria, I represent the Dominican Republic

(30:43):
you fill in the blank. The ambassador doesn't want his
kid to be an American. The ambassador wants his kid
to be the country he represents. Right, they're patriotic, proud people.
He says, Oh, coman, you know what I mean. So no,
I don't know what you mean. But the fourteenth Amendment
isn't clear enough. This is the problem that's why it's
going to court. But on this issue, we haven't agreed.

(31:05):
And I said, listen, I believe that on Trump's watch,
you're going to see a change in Cuba. And that
was a while back. Now he's saying, I think it's
gonna happen. He's like, but I won't believe until I
see it. And that's all Cubans, And that's okay. None
of us believe anything till we see it. Right, none
of us thought the Ayatota was going to be killed
in the first ten minutes of an attack on Iran.

(31:29):
Guess what he's dead now, Moshtaba. His son has taken over.
But who's he right? The Iatota was like eight hundred
years old and had all this experience, and he was
the guy. This new guy's walking into a war with
the biggest superpower. The America's Air force is the largest
air force in the world, and I think we have

(31:52):
the second third and fourth largest or the second third
and fifth largest air forces in the world. The Navy,
the Marines, the Coast Guard. I mean, we have serious
aerial fleets that rival in our other branches of the military,
that rival countries all across the world. There's reports that
we don't have enough bombs, we're using too many missiles,

(32:13):
or fighting fronts, we're fighting wars on too many fronts,
or military conflict on too many fronts. Whatever. As a
biased observer, I'll ask myself and you this question. In
a hypothetical matchup, Iran has the ability to manufacture drones
fast enough for us to blow them up, and for
them to blow up while they're attacking stuff and keep

(32:34):
producing more, take one hundred a day or some crazy
number like that. Do we believe that Iran is somehow
more capable of manufacturing drones than the United States is?
And if so, brought in the question, do we believe
that the United States or Iran or any country? Honestly,
maybe Russia might be the closest rival. Let me praise

(32:57):
it this way. Which country do you think can make
more bombs then the United States? And faster? He is
a big country. We specialize in this. Anybody who doesn't
know about that the United States. There's a reason we
have the top four or five air forces on the planet.
There's a reason why we have the amount of nukes
that we do. There's a reason why we typically win

(33:20):
military activity that we get involved in. We're better at
it than they are. We build better weapons than they do,
we have better bombs than they do. Doesn't mean that
they're incapable and that they can't fight. Just means we're
better at it, That's all I'm saying. So when you
hear reports that the United States doesn't have enough missiles

(33:40):
and they might use a tactical nuke, and listen whatever,
that's me hearing the cop taste the guy three times
and he's gonna go for his gun if the guy
keeps coming back. Okay, get I get it. Yes, and
thank you very much. Next, I don't see a loss
in sight. I see doing it right and taking the

(34:00):
amount of time that it takes to do it right. Yes,
and I have volunteered, and yes, you can have my
children too. I don't know if they want to go,
but I'm not opposed to them saying, you know what,
I want to fight this war for the six sided star. Right,
that's the going the going rhetoric. Right, we're fighting Israel's war.
And I'm getting off the deep end here a little bit.
But my point is, were we fighting to for America

(34:27):
when World War One or World War II? Happened. Maybe, yes,
when we were hit by the Kamakazi pilots in Pearl Harbor.
But outside of that, we have fought many in many
conflicts in Korea and Vietnam, in you name it, I
mean plenty of places where we weren't attacked. It's part
of the job. And I've always supported that, and I've

(34:51):
always supported a strong military, and I support us getting
involved militarily and something else I support that you can
criticize me for, and I'll take the criticism. I support
regime change, maybe not the nation building part and not
the twenty year war, right, but whatever it takes, I

(35:11):
do support. I support putting in the right people, and
sometimes that changes, right, Biden's version of the right people
may be different from Trump's version of the right people,
and Trump's version of the right people might change six
months from them, especially when you have, like we say
in Spanish, guatema ia order. Right, That's always the question,

(35:32):
what's happening in Cuba is very bad?

Speaker 3 (35:34):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (35:36):
Am I really gonna believe that we don't We don't
put pressure on the Cuban regime. Why because who comes
in after might be worse. That's a risk. You've got
to be willing to take. If you're a woman and
your husband is beating on you daily, you can't sit
here and rationalize with yourself and say I'm gonna keep
my husband, because you know what, if I try, I

(35:58):
leave them, I find another and he beats me too,
and he beats me even worse. Is that any way
to live? Of course not. We don't live that way.
We don't do things that way. We try to do
things the right way. So all of this rhetoric about
oh what happens, listen, it's a roll of the dice.
People were here to help, right. You see an old

(36:19):
lady walking down the street. You can sit there and go,
well this, if I get involved, that guy instead of
killing Harry, might kill me too. You could think that
way if you want, Or you could say, you know what,
I'm gonna get involved. She's got a better chance at living, surviving,
holding onto her pocketbook. If I get involved, you get involved,
you know what could happen. Maybe no, maybe you don't
get killed. Maybe you knock the guy out, cops come

(36:40):
to handcuff him, and you get a bad guy off
the street. Maybe you don't knock the guy out. He
sees you coming, and he says, forget it. This old
lady's too tough to rob. Let me move on to
a different old lady. Do we do things because we're
fortune tellers. Do we do things because of the outcome
that we know is going to happen? Or do we
do things based on what's right and wrong? Do we

(37:01):
have an internal locus of control? What guides us, what
moves us right? That's the question we have to ask ourselves.
Number two, what does it take to stay number one?
I'll tell you what it takes. It takes not being
number two. You can figure out what it takes to
stay number one by looking at a lot of different

(37:23):
number ones. Now, some people are going to try and
take me out of context and say, ol, come on,
or are you saying anything? Do anything, absolutely anything, break
as many rules as you want. No, I'm not saying that.
Why would I say that. I'm just saying we're going
to do what we have to do within the confines
of the law. A lot of people are trying to
beat me up or beat up beat them because of
my support of him, because I say, yeah, the United

(37:47):
States has every right to defend themselves, and the United
States has every right to use the military. We can't
sit here and adopt with new Gingrich called I think
on Monday night a little while ago. He said, we
cannot adopt a doctrine of imminency and I thought that's interesting.

(38:13):
Imminency and he's arguing that are we going to say
that unless we are in imminent danger? And arguing over
what imminent means. So again back to the cop and
bad guy scenario. You're the cop, they're the bad guy
this foreign country. You think they have a gun in
their waistband, do you just because you think you go

(38:34):
and shoot? Probably not, But if they start reaching for
their waistband, do you shoot?

Speaker 3 (38:39):
Yes, you do?

Speaker 7 (38:41):
You do?

Speaker 5 (38:42):
And if they don't have a gun, you go, I'm sorry.
You shouldn't have been doing that when you know I'm
pointing a loaded gun at you. There have to be
rules to engagement. What you don't do is wait till
he pulls the gun out, and then you have a
stare down right, and it's like, hey, put it down?
Who does that? Why would you want to do that?
I don't want to do that. I'm not interested in

(39:04):
letting you point a gun at me. And you shouldn't
be either, so this idea that we've got to wait
till Aron's about to get us. When we've heard the
reports that the sleeper cells are being activated and.

Speaker 6 (39:14):
The US intercepted encrypted messages coming out of Iran in
the wake of the death of the Supreme Leader. ABC
News reporting an alert went out to law enforcement about
these encrypted messages, warning about the possibility of a sleeper
cell attack inside the US. President Trump addressed those potential concerns.

Speaker 5 (39:34):
One activated any sleeper cells inside the US.

Speaker 10 (39:38):
They've been trying for a long time.

Speaker 5 (39:39):
We've been very much on top of it.

Speaker 4 (39:41):
We're watching every single one of them. Yeah, we know
a lot about them. The biggest problem we have is
the Democrat shutdown. We know a lot about them, but
the shutdown doesn't allow us to do what we have
to do.

Speaker 5 (39:55):
And we're seeing the stuff happening on the plane, and
we're seeing all sorts of crazy going on. Listen, no
bwen more on that. Straight ahead, don't go anywhere. I'm
Rich Valdez.

Speaker 3 (40:05):
This is America. This is America.

Speaker 5 (40:20):
The forty fifth President Donald Trump thinks it's an honor
to speak with rich Valdez.

Speaker 10 (40:25):
Oh, very good.

Speaker 3 (40:30):
The honor is all yours.

Speaker 5 (40:34):
Conservative talk with a dash of Sofrito.

Speaker 3 (40:37):
Now here's rich Valdez.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
This was a vile protest rooted in white supremacy, entitled
stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City. I'm the
first Muslim mayor of our city. Anti Muslim bigotry is
nothing new to me, nor is it anything new for
the one million or so Muslim New Yorkers who know
this city as our home. While I found this protest appalling,

(41:01):
I will not waver in my belief that it should
be allowed to happen. Ours is a free society where
the right to peaceful protest is sacred. It does not
belong only to those we agree with. It belongs to everyone.
I will defend that right every day that I am mayor,
even when those protesting say things that I abhor. Let
me also be clear about something else. New York City

(41:24):
will never tolerate violence, whether from protests or counter protests.
Many of the counter protesters met this display of bigotry
peacefully with a vision of a city that is welcoming
to all, but a few did not. Two men, Amir
Blat and Ibrahim Kayumi, traveled from Pennsylvania and attempted to

(41:44):
bring violence to New York City. They are suspected of
coming here to commit an act of terrorism. There is
video of these two individuals throwing two devices towards the protest.
The police department has determined that these were improvised explosive
devices made to injure maime or worse. Thanks to the
swift and decisive actions of NYPD officers at the scene,

(42:07):
both men were immediately taken into custody and the devices
they brought taken off of our streets. I want to
commend the officers who were on site.

Speaker 5 (42:17):
All right, imicoers, welcome back, Rich valdesk keeping your company.
Remember the phone number eight seven to seven valdesz one.
If you want to join in, we're going to be
doing that right after this. But I want to talk
about this because I find this to be interesting. Now
what's interesting here is Dora Mombini. Right, you just saw
that clip coming in. That was him giving his press
conference this morning, Monday morning, and he says thank you

(42:38):
to the police, which amen, Praise God, hallelujah. Right, we
love the police. He says violence will not be tolerated
in New York City, very very harsh words. When ISIS
terrorists are throwing bombs, right, isn't it amazing?

Speaker 4 (42:56):
How?

Speaker 5 (42:57):
And again we criticized President Obama for not using the
term radical Islamist terrorism, right, and some people said that's
rooted in bigotry. I don't think so. If this were
the KKK, we wouldn't. I wouldn't. I certainly wouldn't say

(43:17):
two men came to perpetrate violence on people exercising their
right to free speech. I wouldn't say that. I would
say two white supremacists. I would say two Nazis. I
would say two guys from the KKK came and did X,
Y and Z. Now why why would I say that?
Because that's actually what happened. You got to tell the story, right.

(43:37):
But the mayor comes in. Two men were arrested. He
calls them out by name. Let me see if I
have their names right in front of me. Mister Ballat
and mister Kyumi. These are ISIS bombers.

Speaker 6 (43:47):
Right.

Speaker 5 (43:48):
The bomb didn't go off, thank God. But to sit
here and pretend like this is somehow normal, this isn't normal, right.
This is a legit active terrorism. And it amazes me
that he spent the first part of that talking about
what white supremacy anti Muslim baffles the mind. You have

(44:14):
to be special. I think you really have to be
special to realize the people protesting may in fact be bigots.
They may they may or not be.

Speaker 9 (44:26):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (44:26):
The only person I know that was there was Jake Lang,
who I've interviewed on this program. And everybody else that
was there, I don't know their purpose. I saw a
bunch of people wearing kafias, the Middle Eastern scarf. What
I know is this, there were two guys that had
a bomb and through two bombs. That is a fact, right,

(44:49):
and screamed a la u akbar as it was happening
as he was running away. That's a thing, right. These
are called Islamist terrorists. That's who they are.

Speaker 9 (44:58):
Now.

Speaker 5 (44:58):
I'm not getting upset that you're not using the right term.
I'm getting upset that, like he said, he's the first
Muslim mayor, and I believe he's leaving some money on
the table here. Right. If I'm Puerto Rican, which I
happened to be an American of Puerto Rican heritage, and
let us presume that something happened that I was mayor
of New York City and it was the fa l

(45:19):
N type of terrorists, the the uh Oscar Ribera Lopez,
right is that his name anyway? The people from you know,
Labanda de Lolita Leronde, the people that believe that we're
gonna speak truth to power by bombing buildings. She went
to Congress and shot people in the name of Puerto

(45:41):
Rican liberation. This is no longer a freedom issue, right,
This is a terrorism issue. But in an instance like that,
if I'm mayor and some you know, God forbids something
like that were to happen on my watch, what do
I do. Do I say two men or four men
and a woman answered the Capitol building and shots went off?

(46:04):
Or do I say the truth and again the other
one's not untrue, it's just whitewashing the scenario here, Do
I start my speech by saying hatred against Puerto Ricans
will not be tolerated and neither will violence. And thank
you to the police. No, you gotta come out here
and say, Puerto Rican terrorists they came and they shot
people in the Capitol because that's what happened. And in

(46:25):
this case, two Islamist terrorist ISIS sympathizers or ISIS recruits
were lobbing IEDs. More IEDs were found, improvised explosive device
were found on the upper east side. Come on, we
got to stop playing these games. And the mayor, he's
all down for the games. Zora Mumdani opened up and

(46:46):
you saw that clip and he said white supremacy rally
anti Muslim. And I'm listen. If there may have been
people there that were white supremacists, and there may have
been people there that were anti Muslim, but I can
tell you, by and large, what people don't like is
not a faith. What people don't like is the terrorism

(47:07):
within that faith. Right, these radicals amongst them, and I
believe he left money on the table. He missed an
opportunity to say, you know what, as the first Muslim mayor,
I want to be the first one to condemn this,
not to say we're not going to tolerate violence, but
to say I don't support radical Islam, because you know,
this is where people are nervous now. People want to

(47:30):
know on a separate issue. Right, And there was these
two airlines, right, two different airlines got diverted, one from
Nashville to Florida and another one from from Glasgow Scotland.
And again because of what people were saying on these
on these airplanes, now one of them, they tried to

(47:50):
report it as the guy was praying, he made the
call to prayer. No, no, no, don't be misled this individual.
As matter of fact, I think we have the tape.
Let's go to the tape for that. But before we do,
I want to give credit, thank you for the reminder.
I want to give credit to the police chief, Chief

(48:11):
Aaron Edwards, who literally jumped a barricade like a hurdle,
like he was an Olympian to go after the bad guy,
and he got the bad guy him and I think
it was Sergeant Mugno's kudos to them both. Mamdani thanked
them and I think that was appropriate. Of course it was.
And he made some remarks outside of one police plaza

(48:34):
and we're going to get those for you as well.
Kudos to you, chief. You are a gentleman, a scholar
and a patriot. We need guys like you to become mayor. Right.
I'm sure he wouldn't have tolerated that stuff. He was
just doing the job with humility. God bless him now.
Jessica Tish Jessica tish Is, the police commissioner. She gave
some remarks about this too at the press conference earlier today.

(48:57):
I'm going to play them for you just for the
sake of having them on the record so that you
could hear what she said, because I think she's taking
this a little bit more seriously than the mayor might be.
And if you look at the body language, the mechanics here,
he said what he had to say. He got right
out when it was condemning everything else right, condemning Israel,
condemning Trump, condemning anything he wants to condemn. He's front

(49:18):
and center here, repeats it, repeats it, repeats it. He
talks about it all the time. But when it comes
to condemning these terrorists that he has sympathized with in
the past, like the Hamas ones, like the Holy Land five,
this is the issue. When you have a track record
of being sympathetic towards people like this and then they
come and they do it right outside your house, it's

(49:39):
gonna make people distrust what the mayors bring into the table.
And instead of shutting that down in good faith and saying,
hold on a second, we don't support this. I don't
support ISIS. We're gonna do everything we can. We're gonna
work with the FBI. We're gonna shut this thing down,
he said. He said, We're not gonna two men, two men.
It's almost like when Ill hand Omar said some people
did something. So I don't always agree with commission at Tish,

(50:02):
but I am going to say here, I think she
did a better job than the mayor did in calling
this what it was and saying this was an ISIS
inspired terrorist attack. Check this out.

Speaker 11 (50:13):
This is being investigated as an act of ISIS inspired terrorism.
I can also provide some additional information, building on my
remarks from Saturday evening. At that time, we were beginning
to conduct preliminary analysis of two devices that were ignited
and deployed earlier that day, one in a crossroad walk

(50:33):
on East End Avenue and East eighty seventh Street, in
the other on the west side of East End Avenue
between East eighty six and East eighty seventh Streets. That
testing was performed by the NYPDS Bomb Squad and FBI
Special Agent bomb technicians in consultation with an FBI chemist.

(50:53):
Preliminary test results determined that these were not hoax devices
nor smoke bombs. They were improvise explosive devices that could
have caused serious injury or death.

Speaker 3 (51:05):
Very good.

Speaker 5 (51:06):
Now, before we move on to your calls, your thoughts,
your opinions, and all those fun things, I want to
make sure you have a chance to hear from. Is
there anything else that I have to play here? Let
me see I have a list here. Bear with me,
my friends, Bear with me, my friends. I think we
got that. You saw the two different shots of the bomb.
I got another one where he throws it over the

(51:29):
lib The Lib guy. There's a liberal man, and he's
talking about nobody should be prevented from coming here, immigration
should be allowed for all, Come one, come all, everybody's welcome.
And while he's given his sobs story, the terrorist comes
and dunks right over him and throws the bomb right
over his shoulder. I mean this stuff you can't make up.
Watch this one.

Speaker 3 (51:47):
We were pulling and raised.

Speaker 9 (51:48):
In New York and we want everyone here to stay
in New York.

Speaker 5 (51:52):
You don't get to come from outside and then.

Speaker 3 (51:55):
Till everyone else.

Speaker 5 (52:04):
Unbelievable. Wow, all right, he goes. That's my highlight reel
for the wild weekend in New York City. Now, what
I want to get into, and I want to apologize
because I think we had a mic issue before, so
forgive me for that. But what I want to get into,
excuse me, no cough button. When you do video you
see in radio land, you never would have heard that cough.

(52:25):
I would have hit my cough button and that would
have been a rap. Anyway, I want to talk. I
want to take a couple of calls. I know we
have a few people that have dialed in. I also
want to talk about just this issue. I hate to
repeat myself, but I think we got to double down
on this. Mayor Mom. Donnie, in my opinion, is a fake, phony, fraud.
He thinks that he could be polished and do all
these stupid gestures that he does, and he's going to

(52:46):
fool people. And guess what, he's fooling a lot of
people that are inexperienced and people that are just innocent,
people that think the best of people that want to
give the benefit of the doubt. I don't trust him,
And the reason I don't trust him is because I
listened to what he says. And when you listen to
what he says, he's telling you exactly how it is.
He won't call these people out because genuinely he doesn't disagree.
He thinks it's okay. His dad is a Columbia professor,

(53:08):
and his dad wrote a book and said, sometimes the
martyr has to be looked at as a modern day hero.
I'm paraphrasing, but that's what he was talking about. He's
talking about sometimes you got to use violence to get noticed.
Sometimes you gotta do this. They believe this is okay.
That's not okay. So shame on every last liberal that
voted for this guy, every last progressive really is who

(53:29):
did it? And he won big time right landslide victory
that to make no bones about it. It's not that
he just beat my guy Curtis. He beat Curtis, he
beat Cuomo, He beat Adams, who wasn't even on the
ballot but had to write in, and he beat him too.
Not to mention all the other fringe independent candidates. I'm
ninety one. Big affordability, affordability, affordability. Since he's been in office,

(53:54):
nothing's more affordable. He's thinking of charging people to park
on the street, like more meters. He's talking about raising
taxes and a couple of terrorist attacks. Nice job, mayor
mum dining. And again some of you are doubling down, right,
those of you that hate on me, you're thinking, oh,

(54:15):
he's not so bad. All right, just wait, it's gonna
get better. It's only been a few minutes, right those January,
we're in March. Give it a little more time. Meanwhile,
on the other side of things, you could say, ed
Trampito's doing a bad job. But guess what, we're not
doing that bad, right, We're really not. We have a
pretty successful military operation that's going on. It's going to

(54:36):
permanently change the world, permanently eradicate the number one state
sponsor of terror. I think that's a good thing, change
my mind. Give me a call. Eight seven seven Valdes one,
eight seven seven valdesz one. Keep it locked right here
on Rich Valdes more to come straight ahead.

Speaker 3 (54:51):
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Speaker 5 (55:27):
All right, Ethicos, welcome back, Rich Valdez wrapping it up here.
But first I want to get into Oakland Phone America
Open Phones Across America, one of my favorite segments where
you guys get to tune in even if you're not
in America. Right, like my buddy Guil from the Philippines
who calls us from the Philippines Manila, to be exactly
the Guilla from Manila. We got a bunch of regulars

(55:48):
that call here. But I know we have a few
people on hold. We've got Texas, Virginia, Pennsylvania. Let's see
what else all been in New York and one of
my faves, Tony in Montreal. Let's let's go to Tony
in Montreal. Tony, go right ahead, you're on what Richald does.

Speaker 9 (56:05):
Richard's Tony in Montreal. I have a whole bunch of
texts that I sent you.

Speaker 5 (56:11):
Yeah, we got him. Thank you, Tony. Good to hear
from you, brother. What's on your mind?

Speaker 9 (56:14):
Hockey? Women hockey is saying that the US Olympic team
is the racist team because there's only white people and it's.

Speaker 5 (56:22):
The winning team. Huh, sport, white man for you, I
hear you.

Speaker 9 (56:26):
The left is the sickness of the woke people in
the United States. Anybody is available to play on the
US Olympic team if you can put a pair of
blades on and you can skate as fast as anybody else.
You're entitled to be on the ice, no matter what religion,
no matter.

Speaker 5 (56:42):
What creed, no matter what political amen.

Speaker 9 (56:45):
Agenda you have, no matter what color of tone of
skin you have. As long as you can push the
puck into a net, you're welcome on the US Olympic
team or any Olympic team, including in Canada.

Speaker 5 (56:57):
Outstanding thoughts, Tony. I got to leave it right there
because we do have to wrap up. I appreciate it. Brother,
You're a gentleman, a scholar, and a patriot, timber Tony
in Montreal, Canada, and I mean goes. I have to
keep it short today because we're out of time, but
I do want to say this that tomorrow we're going
to get into something called a gay map. That's right,
Members of Congress, we're dealing with this. So maybe we'll
incorporate that into our Dear Richie segment. Plus we're going

(57:19):
to be talking about relationships towards the end of the week,
where there's videos of women that are out there just
saying I'm not going out with a man if he's
not paying for this and this and this and this
and this, and I happen to be a pretty generous guy,
but I'm wondering the one woman said, I'm only going
out with a man if he's paying for dinner. If
I'm paying for dinner, I'm eating alone. I'm thinking you're
probably going to be eating alone a lot, right, because

(57:41):
that's not a realistic expectation. I think forever, right, maybe
first aid stuff like that, but who knows. We'll see.
We're going to get to that, and of course the
rest of your calls eight seven seven Valdez one when
we resume Manyana. But until then, I say, if you
stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything. And the only
thing necessary for evil to try imph is for good
people like you to sit there and do nothing. So

(58:02):
make sure you do something as start approxima. Good night,
and God bless you, America. I'm Rich Valdez, and this
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