January 10, 2026 • 43 mins
Things may seem hectic and crazy, but there's a lot of good out there right now. That doesn't mean the challenges or bad stuff doesn't exist. But there's a good feeling for optimism in many areas. Jesse Kelly breaks it down.I'm Right with Jesse Kelly on The First TV
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Mean.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Last night, on the order of the President of the
United States and in support of a request from the
Department of Justice, the United States Military conducted an apprehension
mission in Caracas, Venezuela, to bring to justice two indicted persons,
Nicholas and Cecilia Maduro.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Nicholas Maduro had his chance until he didn't.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
He left around and he found out.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
This was one of the most stunning, effective and powerful
displays of American military might and competence in American history.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
Like, I don't understand yet how they haven't figured this out.
And now if you don't know, now you know, because
this is the way it's going to play out. And
I think people need to understand that this is not
any president that just talks and does letters and press conferences,
and you know, if he says he's serious about something,
he means it.
Speaker 6 (01:02):
Don't play games.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Don't play games with his president's in office, because it's
not going to turn out.
Speaker 7 (01:07):
Well, that was awesome, And I'll tell you what. We're
going to get to the cautionary part of this whole
Venezuelan experiment we're going into right now. I will get
to that here in a couple moments. But let's just
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acknowledge and accept something here as red blooded Americans. If
you are an American or just lovers of freedom, that's
an amazing military accomplishment to leave way, way way far
from your home in fil trade a foreign country that
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knows you're there, and snatch not just some nobody off
the street corner, snatch the guarded president and his wife
who are surrounded by private secure from their compound, and
leave without a single death of ours. And the we,
(02:08):
you and I we get to see the highlights, don't
we We get to see but football. It's football season
on Sunday. We tune in. If you watch NFL, which
actually I don't anymore of it. You tune in and
you see the passes in the blocking and the tackling
and the running. That's what you and I get to see.
But the truth is that everything you see on the
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field on Sunday took so much preparation behind the scenes,
hours in the weight room and practice and feel. But
that's stuff that you won't ever see, and then I
won't ever see. We got to celebrate and cheer. Maybe
you're still celebrating and cheering the snatching up of that
comedyball Maduro, but rest assured this was extremely complicated. It
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took a very long time to prepare. He was raising kine.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
This operation, known as Operation Apps Resolve, was discreete precise,
and conducted during the darkest hours of January second, and
was in the culmination of months of planning and rehearsal.
An extraction so precise it involved more than one hundred
and fifty aircraft launching across the Western Hemisphere in close coordination,
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all coming together in time and place to layer effects
for a single purpose to get an interdiction force into
downtown Caraclus while maintaining the element of tactical surprise. Let
me talk a little bit about the preparation. After months
of work by our intelligence teammates to find Maduro and
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understand how he moved, where he lived, where he traveled,
what he ate, what he wore, what were his pets?
In early December, our force was set pending a series
of aligned events. The force included twenty two F thirty, fives,
F eighteen's, EA eighteens, E twos, B one bombers and
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other support aircraft, as well as numerous remotely piloted drones.
As the force began to approach Caracas. The Joint Air
Component began dismantling and disabling the air defense systems in Venezuela,
employing weapons to ensure the safe passage of the helicopters
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into the target area. We arrived at Maduro's compound at
one one am Eastern Standard time or two to one
am Caracas local time, and the apprehension force descended into
Maduro's compound and moved with speed, precision, and discipline towards
their objective and isolated the area to ensure the safety
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and security of the ground force while apprehending the indicted persons.
On arrival into the target area, the helicopters came under
fire and and they replied with that fire with overwhelming
force and self defense. One of our aircraft was hit
but remained fliable, and as the President said earlier today,
all of our aircraft came home. Maduro and his wife,
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both indicted, gave up and were taken into custody by
the Department of Justice, assisted by our incredible US military
with professionalism and precision, which with no loss of US life.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
That's awesome. That's awesome. If you are a red blooded American,
you have to admit. That's awesome. Now let's get beyond
the geek out action movie stuff. So impressive. All the
credit in the world to all the people who were
involved in pulling this off. Why, what's the why? I
know we hear a lot about drugs. It's about fentanyl.
(05:50):
It's about fentanil. Definitely, drugs and drugs and drug boats
and stuff like that. But I'm sure that's part of it.
But President Trump touched on something. He touched on a
bit of the why. It's way beyond drugs. Here he was.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
And the Monroe doctrine is a big deal, but we've
superseded it by a lot, by a real lot. They
now call it the donro document. I don't know, it's
Monroe doctrine. We sort of forgot about it. It was
very important, but we forgot about it. We don't forget
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about it anymore. Under our new national security strategy, American
dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again.
Won't happen?
Speaker 7 (06:39):
Monroe doctrine, Western Hemisphere? What is all this stuff? Let's
just do a little Monroe doctrine. One oh one. James
Monroe to be president in the eighteen hundreds, don't worry
about the details of it. But remember, remember the founders
of this country were emphatic that we stay out of
Europe's business. And they even said, why always in some war,
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they're always fighting with each other. We don't need to
get involved. Well, trade with everybody, we don't want to
get involved. That is what the founders wanted. They did
not want to get involved. However, they understood that proximity matters,
and Europe can do what it's doing, that's fine, but
we're not going to allow hostile nations right by us.
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We're not going to allow hostile nations. They were worried
about Europe at the time, but any hostile nations to
set up shop right next to us to harass us.
You want to do that in your part of the world,
you have a good time, you don't get to do
it next door to us. That is the most basic,
one oh one version of what the Monroe doctrine is,
and that if let's say you're running Cuba, let's say
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you're running Columbia, that whole Monroe doctrine thing should probably
worry you.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
Cuba is ready to Yeah, Cuban looks like it's.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Ready to fall.
Speaker 8 (08:03):
I don't know how if.
Speaker 9 (08:04):
They're can hold out.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
By the way, you.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Have to do something with Mexico.
Speaker 10 (08:07):
Mexico has to get there act together because they're pouring
through Mexico and we're gonna.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Have to do something. We love Mexico to do it.
They're capable of doing it, but unfortunately the cartels are
very strong in Mexico.
Speaker 10 (08:21):
Very simple.
Speaker 7 (08:23):
As a president.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
So Colombian President Gustavo Petro, you know, a couple of weeks
ago you said he's got to watch his ass, and
today he said he's not concerned about anything happening to
him in the aftermath of this operation.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
So just what your messages.
Speaker 10 (08:35):
He has cocaine mills, he has a factories where he
makes cocaine, and yeah, I think I stick by my
first statement. He's making cocaine, they're sending it into the
United States. So he does have to watch his ass.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
Now those leaders of those countries know what that means.
The United States of America is realigning its forum back
to being closer to what it was at the founding
of our country. That foreign policy is your business elsewhere,
thousands and thousands of miles away is your business. If
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you think you're going to bring your bad business and
park it right next to us. There's going to be
a prob So we shall see what the next three
years bring. Now, for the cautionary part of it, Donald
Trump said, remember, Venezuela's leadership has gone, their vps in Russia.
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Their president is in federal custody in New York City.
So who's running Venezuela. We are.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
We're going to run the country until such time as
we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition. S
We don't want to be involved with having somebody else
get in, and we have the same situation that we
had for the last long period of years. So we
are going to run the country until such time as
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we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition. And
it has to be judicious, because that's what we're all about.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
Right, that's fine, sounds good. I'm not yelling or screaming.
But now it's the hard part. It's not that the
military part was easy, don't get me wrong. Obviously, all
the bravery, all the planning, all the everything. Now, though,
taking a country that has completely lost its way and
establishing some form of government there that the a the
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people will accept and b as friendly with us. This
is going to be a difficult part, and this part
might get ugly. There are going to be some bumps
in the road. I guarantee you. Let's pray for a
good outcome. My personal belief is that we should simply
colonize Venezuela and make it an American car. I know
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that that's not going to land well with the rest
of the world or really anybody in the political establishment,
but I'm a huge fan of colonization and Venezuela should
simply be ours. That won't happen. We'll see where we
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yesterday about Hilton Hotels. In case you didn't know, let
me catch you up on it. DHS the DHS official
account on social media showed an email from Hilton Hotels
in emails saying that DHS ICE had essentially booked a
bunch of rooms at a hotel in Minnesota. And there
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was a Hilton Hotel's email saying sorry, Ice is an
welcome here. And that, of course prompted some people on
our side to get angry, myself included. It prompted journalists
like Nick Sorder, who does outstanding work, to go dig
into the truth of all that. And Nick did and
here he.
Speaker 8 (13:16):
Was, Hello, how are you good? Do you have any
rooms for tonight?
Speaker 11 (13:23):
You should?
Speaker 7 (13:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (13:24):
Okay? Like how many can we get ten Yeah, it
could be what agency is it for us the moment?
Speaker 9 (13:34):
The department?
Speaker 12 (13:36):
Uh so we're not accepting people from immigration.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
I've agents DHS.
Speaker 10 (13:44):
Into a property.
Speaker 12 (13:45):
It's just the management ownership.
Speaker 8 (13:48):
Okay, I thought that changed today.
Speaker 12 (13:50):
I just talked him to my the owner of the building,
and he didn't say there hasn't been any changes.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
So okay, yeah, it's just policy, you know.
Speaker 8 (14:04):
Yeah, I mean that's not your fault. Totally totally get that.
So they they actually said that was it's like, I mean, honestly,
this is the most convenient location, right, So they they
told you no that there's no no immigration.
Speaker 7 (14:24):
Now what should have happened from there? And what was happening?
Very proud of you, by the way, is Hilton Hotels
should get the bud light treatment, should feel the fire
of a thousand suns. And I don't know if you noticed.
While the stock market did very well yesterday, Hilton Hotels
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did not immediately the right no longer content to do that.
Speaker 12 (14:50):
Wow, we can't be like them.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
Thing the right said no, no, no, no no no, I'm
canceling my reservations. I myself, I had to book three
rooms for three or four nights next month, we have
to travel for work, me and the whole team. And
I was about to book a Hilton, of one of
the Hilton subsidiaries because it was right across the street
from where we're going. Booked it somewhere else. I think
we booked the Best Western or something like that. So
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me too to say I did the exact same thing. However,
I need to throw a little addendum on here, an
important little addendum. Hilton Hotels came out today and did
the right thing. Hilton Hotels came out today and said,
this is not our policy. This is an independent hotel.
They have violated our policy, they violated our trust, and
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we have removed this hotel from the Hilton Hotels family.
So an independent hotel under the Hilton umbrella did something
sick and demonic because they're communists. Hilton Hotels, after feeling
your heat, did the right thing, put out a statement,
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this is not us. They are gone. That's a scalp,
and we did good. It was going to be an
outrage story until this morning when Hilton Hotels came out
and did the right thing. But really, this is a
wonderful story. This is a wonderful story that the right.
It's changing its mentality. No more this live and let
live filth. We have to be aggressive. Good work to you,
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we're about to take something that's extremely sad and make
it political for a second, and I feel gross doing that.
First of all, prayers for Congressman Doug la Malfa. He
died unexpectedly this week and it's extremely sad. Prayers for
his family. We also have Congressman Jim Baird gotten a
really bad car wreck. Now, obviously, beyond the prayers for
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the families of these two gentlemen, we do have to
discuss something that's uncomfortable, and their lives are more important
than what we're about to discuss. But we have a
GOP majority that is thin. We're talking supermodel in the
eighties thin. That's a problem. Joining me now, Katie Zachariah,
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legal and political strategist. All right, Katie, Obviously we don't
want to make untimely desks in car accidents political things,
of course, but it is getting slimmer there in the House,
and that's not good.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
It's something that President Trump absolutely crushed yesterday in his speech.
He said, if we lose the twenty six mid terms,
I will be impeached, or they will at least do
everything they can to attempt an impeachment, a full impeachment.
And the passing of La Malfa out here in California
is tragic. He's been a very faithful Republican, one of
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the few we've had out of California.
Speaker 12 (18:51):
Truly, but his district, California one, was.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Already in cahoots with Prop fifty, so because they they
this was ahead of the filing deadline in California, there
will have to be a special election before the Prop
fifty map is instituted.
Speaker 12 (19:13):
And so this is.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Gallagher's district, This is a long time another longtime Republican.
It's a safe Republican seat right now, So in a
special election it'll likely get picked up by a Republican,
but only temporarily. As long as Prop fifty goes through,
this will then be a very solid blue district out
here in California, which will then give the Democrats yet
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another seat in our razor thin majority, and we'll start
taking away from that majority.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
Katie, can you give those of us who aren't California
people heads up on this Prop fifty? I know it's
something we've discussed before, but is this kind of a
done deal it's going to go through, we're basically screwed
and lose a bunch of seats or is it still
a coin flip thing.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Well, if if we look at so, I'm going to
go back to Texas for a second, because this was
all Gavin Newsome reacting to what happened in Texas and
the redrawing of the maps. However, Texas redrew those maps
because the Biden DOJ sued them on their census, so
they actually had to redraw these maps, and the Supreme
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Court sided with Texas and they're able to use those
new new maps in the twenty six midterm elections. And
there is now a lawsuit on Prop fifty through the
DOJ because it's a racial because of racial gerrymandering, and
that's a delineation and a difference from the Texas map.
So what happened with Prop fifty is Gavin Newsom essentially
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said we're going to retaliate Texas redraw, banking on the
uninformed electorate here in California because they didn't know or
weren't aware or didn't do the research that that map
redraw had.
Speaker 12 (20:56):
To be done based on the DOJ suing as I said.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Earlier, and the Californians just went in voted in Prop fifty,
which was actually unconstitutional in violation of three sections of
our state constitution. It was mid cycle redistricting and up
ended the Independent Redistricting Commission that we had voted in earlier. However,
we did it anyway, not we I but Californians did
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it anyway. And now it stands with us a DOJ
challenge because there is clear evidence that said they racial
gerrymandering to at least one district, basically saying that we
are doing this to benefit you know, Latino voters in
this one district. And so they've challenged the entirety of
Prop fifty. Whether or not just that district alone is
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challenged or the Supreme Court wipes out all of Prop fifty,
I'm not sure, but it does have we do have
a challenge to it.
Speaker 12 (21:52):
What happens to it, I'm not.
Speaker 7 (21:54):
Sure, Katie. Donald Trump was as you mentioned, he gave
a speech as it was outstanding, but he talked about
things like healthcare. He talked about things like voter ID,
we have to pass this, we have to pass that.
And he's of course correct about all these things. But
having to do something and having the power to do
something with two different things. We have a bunch of
loser Republicans in the House and the Senate, not all
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of them, but a bunch of them. Enough of them
to screw these things up. Can we even pass something
as basic as voter ID with weapons grade dorks in
the Senate?
Speaker 12 (22:28):
Jesse, you nail on the head.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
I was reading a report that said, we've passed less
legislation the Republicans, our slim majority of Republicans have passed
less since nineteen eighty nine than any other administration. While
we have this narrow window with the President just you know,
basically obliterating everyone in his path by getting stuff done
on behalf of the American people, we have this House
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that is laxadaisically just barely passing basic I mean, yes,
they passed the one big, beautiful bill, but what else
have they done? So President Trump said, and I sound
like a broken record, but it's the only thing that
needs to be done in the Senate, the only thing
if they don't do anything else. This is what needs
to be done he talked about. He said it should
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be renamed the Save America Act. But what sits right
now in the Senate is the Save Act, which was
sponsored by Mike Lee as Senator Mike Lee, and it
is requires voter ID proof of citizenship in order to
vote in federal elections. Now this is an up ending
statewide elections. This is strictly for presidential and congressional races.
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And President Trump is correct. As we turn the corner
into this two hundred and fifty year mark in the
anniversary of our country, if since seventeen seventy six, if
we do not pass, if that Senate does not pass
Voter ID, we lose the Republic.
Speaker 12 (23:52):
We might not.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Lose it overnight, but if we are not regulating the
fact that it has to be citizens that go vote
in our electe actions, we will not be able to
keep control of the Republic. There is no greater piece
of legislation. So what does Senator Thune have to do, Jesse,
he has to get rid of the filibuster. And I
know there is the back and forth of Okay, if
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we get rid of the filibuster, then they'll get rid
of it on us, and we don't want to do that.
If the Democrats do not want to side with the
Republicans and they cannot gain enough votes to pass that
Save Act, then you have to knuke the filibuster.
Speaker 12 (24:27):
Because there is no other piece of legislation.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
That is more important for the for the United States
than voter idea and proof of citizenship.
Speaker 12 (24:35):
As President Trump said yesterday.
Speaker 7 (24:39):
Katie Donald Trump said, among other things, that the Democrats
are going to impeach him if they take the House
in the midterms. I think everybody with an IQ above
a frog knows that that is true. But explain this
to me. Why should that concern me. It's not that
I want him impeached, but he's been impeached twice. The
Senate's not going to remove him. The House, as you
already mentioned several times, isn't passing legislation anyway. I know
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it's a pain, it's not ideal, But is this something
I should lay awake at nights staring at the ceiling
in mortal fear?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
About the Senate is much safer as we've talked about,
the House has that razor thin majority, its high likelihood
that if we do not aggressively go after it, we
lose the House. And then Hakeem Jeffries become Speaker, and yes,
they impeach him, or they try to impeach him to.
Speaker 12 (25:26):
The best of their abilities. Do you lay awake at night?
Speaker 1 (25:29):
What is problematic to me is it takes away from
President Trump being able to get stuff done and I
use that word very liberally. He is going to be
tied up by the House because they would rather and
we know this, We know that Hikeem Jeffries and the
radical Dems in the House would rather tie President Trump's
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hands and feet and try to impeach him than allow
him to be successful for the American people, because then
that will give them the chance at getting power again
in twenty eight. So it will essentially stonewall him from
getting anything done and then allow the Democrats to gain
this momentum for the twenty eight presidential. And so I
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look at the twenty six mid terms, and people, we
can debate on this, but I look at the twenty
six mid terms as an on ramp or off ramp
for the twenty eight presidential if we are able to
keep the House and continue delivering for the American people.
Speaker 12 (26:25):
Look at what President Trump just did today.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
He's banning corporations, large corporations from being able.
Speaker 12 (26:31):
To do home purchases.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
This is basic tenet of American prosperity for Americans to
then now be able to buy homes again because they're
not competing with corporations. If the Democrats have him tied
up in impeachment inquiries and impeachment processes. He's going to
be distracted and they know this with having to fight
them off and battle them off. So we want to
keep the house so he can deliver us an entire
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four years of prosperity and not try to be get
him stonewalled by the Democrats.
Speaker 7 (27:02):
Jesse Kadie Gavin Newsom, that slimy lizard person is obviously
running for president. He's been running for president for years
and he's still possibly hopefully catching heat about all this
Palisades fire stuff where the money just seemed to disappear
like a fart in the wind. Is this going to haunt.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Him if we do a good job of reminding the
American people of the failure of leadership. This isn't just incompetence.
President Trump has been kind of generous to Gavin Newsom.
This is criminal negligence. Our one hundred and seventeen million
gallon reservoir and the Pacific Palisades sat empty, and the
mayor of la was in Ghana ahead of a five
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day warning of one of the biggest windstorms in California's history.
And that happens almost you know, we get these Santa
Ana wins every year.
Speaker 12 (27:54):
There was enough warning to get.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
All of the right people and resources in place, and
yet they sat idle, and so Gavin Newsom, and not
only ahead of time. President Trump warned Gavin Newsom during
the Paradise Valley Paradise California, So I Paradise California fires.
If you don't fill your reservoirs, if you don't DeForest,
if you don't do brush clearance, you're going to have
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massive fires on you know, as your track record as
California governor.
Speaker 12 (28:21):
And he didn't heat that warning.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
In twenty eighteen and then and then now we had
the two hundred and fifty billion dollars worth of damage,
the largest wildfire damage in US history. And to date,
not one single home Jesse, not one single home has
been rebuilt.
Speaker 12 (28:38):
This is a year ago to day.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
They have done almost almost nothing.
Speaker 12 (28:43):
And he likes to say, he just said.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
In an interview either yesterday or the day before, Oh,
we really did all of the debris clearance. Okay, we
had the the FEMA clearing, we had the Guard clearing everything. No,
that is all federal government that cleared it. What he's
responsible for and what Karen bass is responsible for are
issuing these permits, cutting the red tape and ensuring that
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homeowners can get back to their homes. But eighty percent
of the people that have been displaced don't even have
approval to begin rebuilding.
Speaker 12 (29:16):
And it is just it's criminal.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
And these and these homes all sit with for sale
signs Jesse in the Palisades, all along Malibu, because the
people cannot sit on a lot, pay their mortgage, pay
their insurance and not live there and also pay rent
in a home. And the insurance is such as scandal
and scam that they are not covering a lot of this.
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So we that is just one area. I mean the
fraud that's being uncovered, the homelessness, the welfare. You know,
Rokanna alluded to seventy two billion worth of fraud.
Speaker 12 (29:51):
I mean, I think it.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Has to be at least double back once they start
blowing this open, Jesse. And so Gavin Newsom should not accelerate.
He should, he should I'd be wiped out like.
Speaker 12 (30:01):
Tim Wolves.
Speaker 7 (30:03):
Seventy two billion in a frog. Katie, appreciate you come
back soon, Yeah, Lee, I love Chips. Everyone who knows
me would describe me as not just being a rogue guy,
but a chip guy. I just have a chip freak.
But that's a problem, you see, because I'm also forty
(30:25):
four and I'm not twenty four anymore, and chips generally
are terrible for you. I've always been that guy gas
station grabbing some chips, grocery store grabbing some chips. Can't
do that anymore. Have you read the ingredients? Have you
read the ingredients on the back of your chip bag? Horrifying?
So what to do? What to do? I'm not giving
up chips. I don't have to give up chips. I
(30:46):
have massive chips now, massive chips, chips I can eat
guilt free. Look at the back of a bag of
massa chips, no seed oil, FIL's tallow's corn, and they're
fantastic to crunch. They're so crunching.
Speaker 9 (31:00):
Hmmm.
Speaker 7 (31:01):
You want you want a perfect snap bag of massive chips,
little thing of hot sauce, little dab on there all
you need? Go try them Massive chips dot com slash
Jesse TV.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Today begins a new era. We will draw this city
closer together. We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism
with the warmth of collectivism. I was elected as a
democratic socialist and I will govern as a democratic socialist.
I will not abandon my principles for fear of being
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deemed radical.
Speaker 7 (31:48):
That's not good. I just got back from New York
City like a week ago, and I'll be honest with you,
when we got back with out to ourselves. Well that
that might be it. That friggin dirtball just got sworn
in on the Kuran. That's a great place to be
joining me now. Is somebody who's probably about to suffer.
Is Lydia moynihan, New York Post correspondent. Lydia, I hope
(32:09):
you've already got some plans to move or something, because
that city's about to go to crap.
Speaker 13 (32:14):
I'm joining you live from the People's Republic of New
York City. No, I'm here to stay.
Speaker 9 (32:21):
You know. I'm a little better armed.
Speaker 13 (32:23):
I have about five canisters of pepper spray, one on
each coat, so it's baby steps. But for now I
think I have to be live on the ground doing
some shoe leather reporting. So you can see how horrible
it is.
Speaker 7 (32:38):
Lydia, when I say things like that, or when you
say things like that, people were attempted to say, well,
build a Blasio was a radical right, he was a Sandinista,
I mean his parents were, But they say, what we've
New York's gone through this stuff before. I don't think
people fully grasp that this guy is a true believer
who's going to be so much worse than build a Blasio.
Speaker 9 (33:00):
Yeah, and it's alarming.
Speaker 13 (33:01):
And there's actually a new poll that came out recently
that said as many as sixty percent of New Yorkers
now support socialism. So I also think we're looking at
a demographic change that didn't exist under Dblasio. So we
have way more people from third world countries, way more
socialists here than ever before, who I think will be
much more supportive.
Speaker 9 (33:20):
Of these policies.
Speaker 13 (33:21):
The other thing, too, is when Deblasio came in, there
was so much impressive governance for so long. And I
love this Adam Swift quote, there's a lot of ruin
in a nation. So it felt like New York was
in a really good place. And there was a lot
of ruin in this city because you'd had Juliani, you'd
had Bloomberg, people who were super efficient technocrats, who understood
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how to govern, how to keep people safe, how to
keep business leaders happy. And so when Deblasio came in,
things were already pretty good, and so he, you know,
obviously took us down many notches.
Speaker 9 (33:53):
But we were already doing so well.
Speaker 13 (33:55):
Zora Mumdani is coming in in a moment where New
York is already struggling.
Speaker 9 (33:59):
Obviously league the pandemic. People have fled.
Speaker 13 (34:02):
It feels very unsafe. A lot of people, you know,
just anecdotally, young women I speak with don't want to
take the subway. It's more expensive. It's He's coming in
in a time where I think his leadership could be perilous.
And I guess there's there's two things that I have
in my takeaways in his very short reign thus far.
(34:22):
The first is alarming. Personnel is policy. And so the
big question obviously when he won was who is he
going to put in place? You know, who's going to
run schools, who's going to run the police force. We
have Jessica Tish, who actually is a really smart and
capable police commissioner. But the other people that he's appointing
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the tenant Czar essentially to advocate for tenants' rights. She
socialist and communist doesn't even describe her. She thinks owning
property is basically white privilege, and she wants to abolish that.
The gentleman who he's appointed as school Commissioner is all
about equity. He wants to get rid of all of
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the gifted and talented school programs. So I'm looking at
people that he's putting in place, and they are just
as if not more radical than mum Donnie is. And
so the more people that he puts who are aligned
with him, the worse it is for the city. One
thing that I actually this was a hilarious viral moment
over the weekend where mum Donnie basically said that he'd
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called President Trump to register his opposition to bringing Maduro
to New York.
Speaker 9 (35:33):
And it's just hilarious to.
Speaker 13 (35:36):
Think that anybody would care, would he think, least of
all President Trump. And of course you had Jim Hines,
who's the House ranking member on the Intelligence Committee, Wo's
talking about how he hasn't talked to President Trump, he
hasn't talked.
Speaker 9 (35:47):
To anyone in the administration.
Speaker 13 (35:48):
But mum Donnie is claiming that actually he has spoken
to Trump and people in the administration.
Speaker 9 (35:53):
I'm skeptical.
Speaker 13 (35:54):
The reason I bring this up, though, is because what
we've seen from Mumdanni over the last year is an
obsession with relevance and an obsession with being on the
national stage. And so my theory, this is the best
case scenario, is that Momdannie just likes making headlines, he
likes being in the news, and that he just wants
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to basically stay as a national figure, make sure that
he's sort of part of the zeitgeist, and that that's
his motivation. So that's the best case scenario, is that
he just really wants to be relevant and he's going
to post all these crazy things on Twitter and not
actually govern.
Speaker 9 (36:30):
And of course the reality is he's never had a job.
Speaker 13 (36:32):
He didn't show up to the majority of votes when
he was in the council in New York State, so
he is very feckless, and there is still a hope
that maybe he just isn't going to be that good
at actually implementing the radical policies that he has.
Speaker 9 (36:47):
That's the best case scenario.
Speaker 13 (36:48):
The worst case scenario is he has appointed some pretty
terrifying people and the city will go to hell and
hand basket.
Speaker 7 (36:56):
What do you know, a communist leader who never had
a job now going to destroy everything. And speaking of
those feckless leaders. Let's meet really quickly the new head
of the New York Fire Department and also I'm assuming
softball team.
Speaker 6 (37:11):
Lillian Bond Signor is a career first responder. In just
nine days, she'll be running the world's busiest fire department,
one of the most important appointments of the incoming administration.
Although she never served as a firefighter, she's confident that
won't matter.
Speaker 11 (37:27):
I know the job, I know what the firefighters need,
and I can translate that to this administration who's willing
to listen. I know what EMS needs. I have been
EMS for thirty plus years.
Speaker 6 (37:40):
Bond Signor is a trailblazer for the LGBTQ community who
will serve as the fdny's first openly gay commissioner. She's
a highly respected, detail oriented manager whose style has been
compared to NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tish, who will remain in
her post in the new administration.
Speaker 7 (38:01):
Lydia, I just handed to you.
Speaker 13 (38:03):
It's your Commissioner, d I is alive and well in
New York. Look, we saw what happened in California when
you prioritize identity politics over competence, and it was just
a year ago that the Palisades were completely destroyed. People's
lives have been completely decimated as a result of that,
(38:25):
and I think my concern is that, again it's not
just that she is ill equipped and unqualified.
Speaker 9 (38:33):
It's the ripple down effect.
Speaker 13 (38:34):
And so we in New York have and as we know,
from nine to eleven, we have the bravest, the best,
the smartest police officers and firemen. And the concern is
when you have somebody who's running those organizations. I think
Jessica Tish is excellent what she does. When you have
an FDNY commissioner who's all about identity politics, that's going
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to have a massive triple down effect where people who
otherwise would be motivated to work really hard are going
to be like, this is the most poorly run organization.
Why am I here? And so we're already seeing members
of the police force, members of environment leaving, and there's
kind of I think the force is going to get
a bit hollowed out because if you're a young person,
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you're going to just flee, go to Florida, go to Texas.
There are actually a lot of other states that are
actively recruiting NYPG people who are firemen in New York
because they know they're really smart and talented people and
are probably looking for an exit opportunity. So people who
are younger and still able to sort of flee are.
Speaker 12 (39:38):
Going to leave.
Speaker 13 (39:39):
And then you're gonna see people on this sort of
upper end, people who've served for quite some time. Maybe
they'll finish out their their tenure, get their pension, and
then they're gonna leave. They're going to do private security
for billionaires. This is sort of the trajectory for a
lot of really great and YPD people is they get
their pension and then they also work full time for
a billionaire as a driver and secure because obviously there's
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gonna be a lot more billionaires wanting to hire their
own private security because it doesn't seem like Mum Donnie
is going to be supportive of the NYPD. And then
you're going to see in the middle there's going to
be a lot of people who are stuck and can't leave.
But this is the big concern is that it doesn't
even matter that sort of Mumdannie has backtracked and said,
actually he doesn't want to defund the police. This is
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about in practice, people are going even if he doesn't
defund them. Even if he keeps funding exactly the same
people are not going to want to serve under a
man and under a mayor who has just called them
racist and horrible things, who is not going to be
supportive of the work that they need to do. And
I mean, you look what Alvin Bragg did to Daniel Penny.
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That's that's going to be happening tenfold. And as a
police officer, I can't imagine wanting to ever get involved.
They're just going to be sitting on the sidelines. And
you know, even if they're still there, they're just gonna
be on their phone. They're not going to want to
step in because they're not going to have a mayor
or a police commissioner, if just leads who support them
and who are their advocates.
Speaker 7 (41:06):
Well, this is all pretty much terrible, Lydia, protect yourself,
all right, Hopefully we talk to you again soon. All right,
it's time to lighten the mood. And I know we
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all get frustrated with politics from time to time. Obviously
I do as well, and we get frustrated with the
Republican Party, especially when we have control. Why aren't you
doing this and why aren't you doing that? All that
stuff is legit. So I've found it to be healthy
for me to at least take a moment every now
and then and smell the roses and realize how bad
it could have been. And the top of every ticket
(41:49):
gets all the attention, right, the presidential nominee is going
to get all the attention. The VP just gets a little.
The VP's spouse gets almost none at all. But I
want to look back really quickly now that Tim Wallas
is in the news is not running for governor. I
just want to remind you that this woman right here,
this woman was about to be in the White House
(42:12):
a lot.
Speaker 12 (42:14):
I kind of like it. And this turn the page.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
Yeah, you're like, okay, so I he should be with
me and practically me.
Speaker 12 (42:24):
Why are we gonna do turn a bay, turn away
and we're turn bay?
Speaker 13 (42:34):
Why why are.
Speaker 12 (42:35):
You watching you? Because I see it was awesome and
I want I'm watching because it's in pretty form place in.
Speaker 1 (42:43):
Total help to practice in this You shown this your
page right at looks like come on, come on.
Speaker 4 (43:01):
The bay.
Speaker 3 (43:07):
Days we are tay.
Speaker 12 (43:12):
Oh bye, don the shop.
Speaker 7 (43:19):
Seeable. M hm m h
Mean.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Last night, on the order of the President of the
United States and in support of a request from the
Department of Justice, the United States Military conducted an apprehension
mission in Caracas, Venezuela, to bring to justice two indicted persons,
Nicholas and Cecilia Maduro.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Nicholas Maduro had his chance until he didn't.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
He left around and he found out.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
This was one of the most stunning, effective and powerful
displays of American military might and competence in American history.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
Like, I don't understand yet how they haven't figured this out.
And now if you don't know, now you know, because
this is the way it's going to play out. And
I think people need to understand that this is not
any president that just talks and does letters and press conferences,
and you know, if he says he's serious about something,
he means it.
Speaker 6 (01:02):
Don't play games.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Don't play games with his president's in office, because it's
not going to turn out.
Speaker 7 (01:07):
Well, that was awesome, And I'll tell you what. We're
going to get to the cautionary part of this whole
Venezuelan experiment we're going into right now. I will get
to that here in a couple moments. But let's just
(01:27):
acknowledge and accept something here as red blooded Americans. If
you are an American or just lovers of freedom, that's
an amazing military accomplishment to leave way, way way far
from your home in fil trade a foreign country that
(01:47):
knows you're there, and snatch not just some nobody off
the street corner, snatch the guarded president and his wife
who are surrounded by private secure from their compound, and
leave without a single death of ours. And the we,
(02:08):
you and I we get to see the highlights, don't
we We get to see but football. It's football season
on Sunday. We tune in. If you watch NFL, which
actually I don't anymore of it. You tune in and
you see the passes in the blocking and the tackling
and the running. That's what you and I get to see.
But the truth is that everything you see on the
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field on Sunday took so much preparation behind the scenes,
hours in the weight room and practice and feel. But
that's stuff that you won't ever see, and then I
won't ever see. We got to celebrate and cheer. Maybe
you're still celebrating and cheering the snatching up of that
comedyball Maduro, but rest assured this was extremely complicated. It
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took a very long time to prepare. He was raising kine.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
This operation, known as Operation Apps Resolve, was discreete precise,
and conducted during the darkest hours of January second, and
was in the culmination of months of planning and rehearsal.
An extraction so precise it involved more than one hundred
and fifty aircraft launching across the Western Hemisphere in close coordination,
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all coming together in time and place to layer effects
for a single purpose to get an interdiction force into
downtown Caraclus while maintaining the element of tactical surprise. Let
me talk a little bit about the preparation. After months
of work by our intelligence teammates to find Maduro and
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understand how he moved, where he lived, where he traveled,
what he ate, what he wore, what were his pets?
In early December, our force was set pending a series
of aligned events. The force included twenty two F thirty, fives,
F eighteen's, EA eighteens, E twos, B one bombers and
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other support aircraft, as well as numerous remotely piloted drones.
As the force began to approach Caracas. The Joint Air
Component began dismantling and disabling the air defense systems in Venezuela,
employing weapons to ensure the safe passage of the helicopters
(04:27):
into the target area. We arrived at Maduro's compound at
one one am Eastern Standard time or two to one
am Caracas local time, and the apprehension force descended into
Maduro's compound and moved with speed, precision, and discipline towards
their objective and isolated the area to ensure the safety
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and security of the ground force while apprehending the indicted persons.
On arrival into the target area, the helicopters came under
fire and and they replied with that fire with overwhelming
force and self defense. One of our aircraft was hit
but remained fliable, and as the President said earlier today,
all of our aircraft came home. Maduro and his wife,
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both indicted, gave up and were taken into custody by
the Department of Justice, assisted by our incredible US military
with professionalism and precision, which with no loss of US life.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
That's awesome. That's awesome. If you are a red blooded American,
you have to admit. That's awesome. Now let's get beyond
the geek out action movie stuff. So impressive. All the
credit in the world to all the people who were
involved in pulling this off. Why, what's the why? I
know we hear a lot about drugs. It's about fentanyl.
(05:50):
It's about fentanil. Definitely, drugs and drugs and drug boats
and stuff like that. But I'm sure that's part of it.
But President Trump touched on something. He touched on a
bit of the why. It's way beyond drugs. Here he was.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
And the Monroe doctrine is a big deal, but we've
superseded it by a lot, by a real lot. They
now call it the donro document. I don't know, it's
Monroe doctrine. We sort of forgot about it. It was
very important, but we forgot about it. We don't forget
(06:27):
about it anymore. Under our new national security strategy, American
dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again.
Won't happen?
Speaker 7 (06:39):
Monroe doctrine, Western Hemisphere? What is all this stuff? Let's
just do a little Monroe doctrine. One oh one. James
Monroe to be president in the eighteen hundreds, don't worry
about the details of it. But remember, remember the founders
of this country were emphatic that we stay out of
Europe's business. And they even said, why always in some war,
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they're always fighting with each other. We don't need to
get involved. Well, trade with everybody, we don't want to
get involved. That is what the founders wanted. They did
not want to get involved. However, they understood that proximity matters,
and Europe can do what it's doing, that's fine, but
we're not going to allow hostile nations right by us.
(07:26):
We're not going to allow hostile nations. They were worried
about Europe at the time, but any hostile nations to
set up shop right next to us to harass us.
You want to do that in your part of the world,
you have a good time, you don't get to do
it next door to us. That is the most basic,
one oh one version of what the Monroe doctrine is,
and that if let's say you're running Cuba, let's say
(07:51):
you're running Columbia, that whole Monroe doctrine thing should probably
worry you.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
Cuba is ready to Yeah, Cuban looks like it's.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Ready to fall.
Speaker 8 (08:03):
I don't know how if.
Speaker 9 (08:04):
They're can hold out.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
By the way, you.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Have to do something with Mexico.
Speaker 10 (08:07):
Mexico has to get there act together because they're pouring
through Mexico and we're gonna.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Have to do something. We love Mexico to do it.
They're capable of doing it, but unfortunately the cartels are
very strong in Mexico.
Speaker 10 (08:21):
Very simple.
Speaker 7 (08:23):
As a president.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
So Colombian President Gustavo Petro, you know, a couple of weeks
ago you said he's got to watch his ass, and
today he said he's not concerned about anything happening to
him in the aftermath of this operation.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
So just what your messages.
Speaker 10 (08:35):
He has cocaine mills, he has a factories where he
makes cocaine, and yeah, I think I stick by my
first statement. He's making cocaine, they're sending it into the
United States. So he does have to watch his ass.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
Now those leaders of those countries know what that means.
The United States of America is realigning its forum back
to being closer to what it was at the founding
of our country. That foreign policy is your business elsewhere,
thousands and thousands of miles away is your business. If
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you think you're going to bring your bad business and
park it right next to us. There's going to be
a prob So we shall see what the next three
years bring. Now, for the cautionary part of it, Donald
Trump said, remember, Venezuela's leadership has gone, their vps in Russia.
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Their president is in federal custody in New York City.
So who's running Venezuela. We are.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
We're going to run the country until such time as
we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition. S
We don't want to be involved with having somebody else
get in, and we have the same situation that we
had for the last long period of years. So we
are going to run the country until such time as
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we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition. And
it has to be judicious, because that's what we're all about.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
Right, that's fine, sounds good. I'm not yelling or screaming.
But now it's the hard part. It's not that the
military part was easy, don't get me wrong. Obviously, all
the bravery, all the planning, all the everything. Now, though,
taking a country that has completely lost its way and
establishing some form of government there that the a the
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people will accept and b as friendly with us. This
is going to be a difficult part, and this part
might get ugly. There are going to be some bumps
in the road. I guarantee you. Let's pray for a
good outcome. My personal belief is that we should simply
colonize Venezuela and make it an American car. I know
(11:00):
that that's not going to land well with the rest
of the world or really anybody in the political establishment,
but I'm a huge fan of colonization and Venezuela should
simply be ours. That won't happen. We'll see where we
go from here. All that may have made you uncomfortable,
but I am right. I love my cell phone company.
I am so big on hiring Americans. As we wake
(11:23):
up every single day and we look at the news
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jobs for Americans. That's what pure talk does. When you
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(12:07):
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slash jessetv. All right, So there was a news story
(12:33):
yesterday about Hilton Hotels. In case you didn't know, let
me catch you up on it. DHS the DHS official
account on social media showed an email from Hilton Hotels
in emails saying that DHS ICE had essentially booked a
bunch of rooms at a hotel in Minnesota. And there
(12:56):
was a Hilton Hotel's email saying sorry, Ice is an
welcome here. And that, of course prompted some people on
our side to get angry, myself included. It prompted journalists
like Nick Sorder, who does outstanding work, to go dig
into the truth of all that. And Nick did and
here he.
Speaker 8 (13:16):
Was, Hello, how are you good? Do you have any
rooms for tonight?
Speaker 11 (13:23):
You should?
Speaker 7 (13:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (13:24):
Okay? Like how many can we get ten Yeah, it
could be what agency is it for us the moment?
Speaker 9 (13:34):
The department?
Speaker 12 (13:36):
Uh so we're not accepting people from immigration.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
I've agents DHS.
Speaker 10 (13:44):
Into a property.
Speaker 12 (13:45):
It's just the management ownership.
Speaker 8 (13:48):
Okay, I thought that changed today.
Speaker 12 (13:50):
I just talked him to my the owner of the building,
and he didn't say there hasn't been any changes.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
So okay, yeah, it's just policy, you know.
Speaker 8 (14:04):
Yeah, I mean that's not your fault. Totally totally get that.
So they they actually said that was it's like, I mean, honestly,
this is the most convenient location, right, So they they
told you no that there's no no immigration.
Speaker 7 (14:24):
Now what should have happened from there? And what was happening?
Very proud of you, by the way, is Hilton Hotels
should get the bud light treatment, should feel the fire
of a thousand suns. And I don't know if you noticed.
While the stock market did very well yesterday, Hilton Hotels
(14:45):
did not immediately the right no longer content to do that.
Speaker 12 (14:50):
Wow, we can't be like them.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
Thing the right said no, no, no, no no no, I'm
canceling my reservations. I myself, I had to book three
rooms for three or four nights next month, we have
to travel for work, me and the whole team. And
I was about to book a Hilton, of one of
the Hilton subsidiaries because it was right across the street
from where we're going. Booked it somewhere else. I think
we booked the Best Western or something like that. So
(15:14):
me too to say I did the exact same thing. However,
I need to throw a little addendum on here, an
important little addendum. Hilton Hotels came out today and did
the right thing. Hilton Hotels came out today and said,
this is not our policy. This is an independent hotel.
They have violated our policy, they violated our trust, and
(15:37):
we have removed this hotel from the Hilton Hotels family.
So an independent hotel under the Hilton umbrella did something
sick and demonic because they're communists. Hilton Hotels, after feeling
your heat, did the right thing, put out a statement,
(15:57):
this is not us. They are gone. That's a scalp,
and we did good. It was going to be an
outrage story until this morning when Hilton Hotels came out
and did the right thing. But really, this is a
wonderful story. This is a wonderful story that the right.
It's changing its mentality. No more this live and let
live filth. We have to be aggressive. Good work to you,
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(17:30):
we're about to take something that's extremely sad and make
it political for a second, and I feel gross doing that.
First of all, prayers for Congressman Doug la Malfa. He
died unexpectedly this week and it's extremely sad. Prayers for
his family. We also have Congressman Jim Baird gotten a
really bad car wreck. Now, obviously, beyond the prayers for
(17:54):
the families of these two gentlemen, we do have to
discuss something that's uncomfortable, and their lives are more important
than what we're about to discuss. But we have a
GOP majority that is thin. We're talking supermodel in the
eighties thin. That's a problem. Joining me now, Katie Zachariah,
(18:14):
legal and political strategist. All right, Katie, Obviously we don't
want to make untimely desks in car accidents political things,
of course, but it is getting slimmer there in the House,
and that's not good.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
It's something that President Trump absolutely crushed yesterday in his speech.
He said, if we lose the twenty six mid terms,
I will be impeached, or they will at least do
everything they can to attempt an impeachment, a full impeachment.
And the passing of La Malfa out here in California
is tragic. He's been a very faithful Republican, one of
(18:49):
the few we've had out of California.
Speaker 12 (18:51):
Truly, but his district, California one, was.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Already in cahoots with Prop fifty, so because they they
this was ahead of the filing deadline in California, there
will have to be a special election before the Prop
fifty map is instituted.
Speaker 12 (19:13):
And so this is.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Gallagher's district, This is a long time another longtime Republican.
It's a safe Republican seat right now, So in a
special election it'll likely get picked up by a Republican,
but only temporarily. As long as Prop fifty goes through,
this will then be a very solid blue district out
here in California, which will then give the Democrats yet
(19:37):
another seat in our razor thin majority, and we'll start
taking away from that majority.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
Katie, can you give those of us who aren't California
people heads up on this Prop fifty? I know it's
something we've discussed before, but is this kind of a
done deal it's going to go through, we're basically screwed
and lose a bunch of seats or is it still
a coin flip thing.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Well, if if we look at so, I'm going to
go back to Texas for a second, because this was
all Gavin Newsome reacting to what happened in Texas and
the redrawing of the maps. However, Texas redrew those maps
because the Biden DOJ sued them on their census, so
they actually had to redraw these maps, and the Supreme
(20:21):
Court sided with Texas and they're able to use those
new new maps in the twenty six midterm elections. And
there is now a lawsuit on Prop fifty through the
DOJ because it's a racial because of racial gerrymandering, and
that's a delineation and a difference from the Texas map.
So what happened with Prop fifty is Gavin Newsom essentially
(20:43):
said we're going to retaliate Texas redraw, banking on the
uninformed electorate here in California because they didn't know or
weren't aware or didn't do the research that that map
redraw had.
Speaker 12 (20:56):
To be done based on the DOJ suing as I said.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Earlier, and the Californians just went in voted in Prop fifty,
which was actually unconstitutional in violation of three sections of
our state constitution. It was mid cycle redistricting and up
ended the Independent Redistricting Commission that we had voted in earlier. However,
we did it anyway, not we I but Californians did
(21:19):
it anyway. And now it stands with us a DOJ
challenge because there is clear evidence that said they racial
gerrymandering to at least one district, basically saying that we
are doing this to benefit you know, Latino voters in
this one district. And so they've challenged the entirety of
Prop fifty. Whether or not just that district alone is
(21:44):
challenged or the Supreme Court wipes out all of Prop fifty,
I'm not sure, but it does have we do have
a challenge to it.
Speaker 12 (21:52):
What happens to it, I'm not.
Speaker 7 (21:54):
Sure, Katie. Donald Trump was as you mentioned, he gave
a speech as it was outstanding, but he talked about
things like healthcare. He talked about things like voter ID,
we have to pass this, we have to pass that.
And he's of course correct about all these things. But
having to do something and having the power to do
something with two different things. We have a bunch of
loser Republicans in the House and the Senate, not all
(22:16):
of them, but a bunch of them. Enough of them
to screw these things up. Can we even pass something
as basic as voter ID with weapons grade dorks in
the Senate?
Speaker 12 (22:28):
Jesse, you nail on the head.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
I was reading a report that said, we've passed less
legislation the Republicans, our slim majority of Republicans have passed
less since nineteen eighty nine than any other administration. While
we have this narrow window with the President just you know,
basically obliterating everyone in his path by getting stuff done
on behalf of the American people, we have this House
(22:54):
that is laxadaisically just barely passing basic I mean, yes,
they passed the one big, beautiful bill, but what else
have they done? So President Trump said, and I sound
like a broken record, but it's the only thing that
needs to be done in the Senate, the only thing
if they don't do anything else. This is what needs
to be done he talked about. He said it should
(23:14):
be renamed the Save America Act. But what sits right
now in the Senate is the Save Act, which was
sponsored by Mike Lee as Senator Mike Lee, and it
is requires voter ID proof of citizenship in order to
vote in federal elections. Now this is an up ending
statewide elections. This is strictly for presidential and congressional races.
(23:36):
And President Trump is correct. As we turn the corner
into this two hundred and fifty year mark in the
anniversary of our country, if since seventeen seventy six, if
we do not pass, if that Senate does not pass
Voter ID, we lose the Republic.
Speaker 12 (23:52):
We might not.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Lose it overnight, but if we are not regulating the
fact that it has to be citizens that go vote
in our electe actions, we will not be able to
keep control of the Republic. There is no greater piece
of legislation. So what does Senator Thune have to do, Jesse,
he has to get rid of the filibuster. And I
know there is the back and forth of Okay, if
(24:14):
we get rid of the filibuster, then they'll get rid
of it on us, and we don't want to do that.
If the Democrats do not want to side with the
Republicans and they cannot gain enough votes to pass that
Save Act, then you have to knuke the filibuster.
Speaker 12 (24:27):
Because there is no other piece of legislation.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
That is more important for the for the United States
than voter idea and proof of citizenship.
Speaker 12 (24:35):
As President Trump said yesterday.
Speaker 7 (24:39):
Katie Donald Trump said, among other things, that the Democrats
are going to impeach him if they take the House
in the midterms. I think everybody with an IQ above
a frog knows that that is true. But explain this
to me. Why should that concern me. It's not that
I want him impeached, but he's been impeached twice. The
Senate's not going to remove him. The House, as you
already mentioned several times, isn't passing legislation anyway. I know
(25:02):
it's a pain, it's not ideal, But is this something
I should lay awake at nights staring at the ceiling
in mortal fear?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
About the Senate is much safer as we've talked about,
the House has that razor thin majority, its high likelihood
that if we do not aggressively go after it, we
lose the House. And then Hakeem Jeffries become Speaker, and yes,
they impeach him, or they try to impeach him to.
Speaker 12 (25:26):
The best of their abilities. Do you lay awake at night?
Speaker 1 (25:29):
What is problematic to me is it takes away from
President Trump being able to get stuff done and I
use that word very liberally. He is going to be
tied up by the House because they would rather and
we know this, We know that Hikeem Jeffries and the
radical Dems in the House would rather tie President Trump's
(25:49):
hands and feet and try to impeach him than allow
him to be successful for the American people, because then
that will give them the chance at getting power again
in twenty eight. So it will essentially stonewall him from
getting anything done and then allow the Democrats to gain
this momentum for the twenty eight presidential. And so I
(26:11):
look at the twenty six mid terms, and people, we
can debate on this, but I look at the twenty
six mid terms as an on ramp or off ramp
for the twenty eight presidential if we are able to
keep the House and continue delivering for the American people.
Speaker 12 (26:25):
Look at what President Trump just did today.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
He's banning corporations, large corporations from being able.
Speaker 12 (26:31):
To do home purchases.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
This is basic tenet of American prosperity for Americans to
then now be able to buy homes again because they're
not competing with corporations. If the Democrats have him tied
up in impeachment inquiries and impeachment processes. He's going to
be distracted and they know this with having to fight
them off and battle them off. So we want to
keep the house so he can deliver us an entire
(26:56):
four years of prosperity and not try to be get
him stonewalled by the Democrats.
Speaker 7 (27:02):
Jesse Kadie Gavin Newsom, that slimy lizard person is obviously
running for president. He's been running for president for years
and he's still possibly hopefully catching heat about all this
Palisades fire stuff where the money just seemed to disappear
like a fart in the wind. Is this going to haunt.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Him if we do a good job of reminding the
American people of the failure of leadership. This isn't just incompetence.
President Trump has been kind of generous to Gavin Newsom.
This is criminal negligence. Our one hundred and seventeen million
gallon reservoir and the Pacific Palisades sat empty, and the
mayor of la was in Ghana ahead of a five
(27:47):
day warning of one of the biggest windstorms in California's history.
And that happens almost you know, we get these Santa
Ana wins every year.
Speaker 12 (27:54):
There was enough warning to get.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
All of the right people and resources in place, and
yet they sat idle, and so Gavin Newsom, and not
only ahead of time. President Trump warned Gavin Newsom during
the Paradise Valley Paradise California, So I Paradise California fires.
If you don't fill your reservoirs, if you don't DeForest,
if you don't do brush clearance, you're going to have
(28:17):
massive fires on you know, as your track record as
California governor.
Speaker 12 (28:21):
And he didn't heat that warning.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
In twenty eighteen and then and then now we had
the two hundred and fifty billion dollars worth of damage,
the largest wildfire damage in US history. And to date,
not one single home Jesse, not one single home has
been rebuilt.
Speaker 12 (28:38):
This is a year ago to day.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
They have done almost almost nothing.
Speaker 12 (28:43):
And he likes to say, he just said.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
In an interview either yesterday or the day before, Oh,
we really did all of the debris clearance. Okay, we
had the the FEMA clearing, we had the Guard clearing everything. No,
that is all federal government that cleared it. What he's
responsible for and what Karen bass is responsible for are
issuing these permits, cutting the red tape and ensuring that
(29:06):
homeowners can get back to their homes. But eighty percent
of the people that have been displaced don't even have
approval to begin rebuilding.
Speaker 12 (29:16):
And it is just it's criminal.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
And these and these homes all sit with for sale
signs Jesse in the Palisades, all along Malibu, because the
people cannot sit on a lot, pay their mortgage, pay
their insurance and not live there and also pay rent
in a home. And the insurance is such as scandal
and scam that they are not covering a lot of this.
(29:39):
So we that is just one area. I mean the
fraud that's being uncovered, the homelessness, the welfare. You know,
Rokanna alluded to seventy two billion worth of fraud.
Speaker 12 (29:51):
I mean, I think it.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Has to be at least double back once they start
blowing this open, Jesse. And so Gavin Newsom should not accelerate.
He should, he should I'd be wiped out like.
Speaker 12 (30:01):
Tim Wolves.
Speaker 7 (30:03):
Seventy two billion in a frog. Katie, appreciate you come
back soon, Yeah, Lee, I love Chips. Everyone who knows
me would describe me as not just being a rogue guy,
but a chip guy. I just have a chip freak.
But that's a problem, you see, because I'm also forty
(30:25):
four and I'm not twenty four anymore, and chips generally
are terrible for you. I've always been that guy gas
station grabbing some chips, grocery store grabbing some chips. Can't
do that anymore. Have you read the ingredients? Have you
read the ingredients on the back of your chip bag? Horrifying?
So what to do? What to do? I'm not giving
up chips. I don't have to give up chips. I
(30:46):
have massive chips now, massive chips, chips I can eat
guilt free. Look at the back of a bag of
massa chips, no seed oil, FIL's tallow's corn, and they're
fantastic to crunch. They're so crunching.
Speaker 9 (31:00):
Hmmm.
Speaker 7 (31:01):
You want you want a perfect snap bag of massive chips,
little thing of hot sauce, little dab on there all
you need? Go try them Massive chips dot com slash
Jesse TV.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Today begins a new era. We will draw this city
closer together. We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism
with the warmth of collectivism. I was elected as a
democratic socialist and I will govern as a democratic socialist.
I will not abandon my principles for fear of being
(31:45):
deemed radical.
Speaker 7 (31:48):
That's not good. I just got back from New York
City like a week ago, and I'll be honest with you,
when we got back with out to ourselves. Well that
that might be it. That friggin dirtball just got sworn
in on the Kuran. That's a great place to be
joining me now. Is somebody who's probably about to suffer.
Is Lydia moynihan, New York Post correspondent. Lydia, I hope
(32:09):
you've already got some plans to move or something, because
that city's about to go to crap.
Speaker 13 (32:14):
I'm joining you live from the People's Republic of New
York City. No, I'm here to stay.
Speaker 9 (32:21):
You know. I'm a little better armed.
Speaker 13 (32:23):
I have about five canisters of pepper spray, one on
each coat, so it's baby steps. But for now I
think I have to be live on the ground doing
some shoe leather reporting. So you can see how horrible
it is.
Speaker 7 (32:38):
Lydia, when I say things like that, or when you
say things like that, people were attempted to say, well,
build a Blasio was a radical right, he was a Sandinista,
I mean his parents were, But they say, what we've
New York's gone through this stuff before. I don't think
people fully grasp that this guy is a true believer
who's going to be so much worse than build a Blasio.
Speaker 9 (33:00):
Yeah, and it's alarming.
Speaker 13 (33:01):
And there's actually a new poll that came out recently
that said as many as sixty percent of New Yorkers
now support socialism. So I also think we're looking at
a demographic change that didn't exist under Dblasio. So we
have way more people from third world countries, way more
socialists here than ever before, who I think will be
much more supportive.
Speaker 9 (33:20):
Of these policies.
Speaker 13 (33:21):
The other thing, too, is when Deblasio came in, there
was so much impressive governance for so long. And I
love this Adam Swift quote, there's a lot of ruin
in a nation. So it felt like New York was
in a really good place. And there was a lot
of ruin in this city because you'd had Juliani, you'd
had Bloomberg, people who were super efficient technocrats, who understood
(33:42):
how to govern, how to keep people safe, how to
keep business leaders happy. And so when Deblasio came in,
things were already pretty good, and so he, you know,
obviously took us down many notches.
Speaker 9 (33:53):
But we were already doing so well.
Speaker 13 (33:55):
Zora Mumdani is coming in in a moment where New
York is already struggling.
Speaker 9 (33:59):
Obviously league the pandemic. People have fled.
Speaker 13 (34:02):
It feels very unsafe. A lot of people, you know,
just anecdotally, young women I speak with don't want to
take the subway. It's more expensive. It's He's coming in
in a time where I think his leadership could be perilous.
And I guess there's there's two things that I have
in my takeaways in his very short reign thus far.
(34:22):
The first is alarming. Personnel is policy. And so the
big question obviously when he won was who is he
going to put in place? You know, who's going to
run schools, who's going to run the police force. We
have Jessica Tish, who actually is a really smart and
capable police commissioner. But the other people that he's appointing
(34:43):
the tenant Czar essentially to advocate for tenants' rights. She
socialist and communist doesn't even describe her. She thinks owning
property is basically white privilege, and she wants to abolish that.
The gentleman who he's appointed as school Commissioner is all
about equity. He wants to get rid of all of
(35:04):
the gifted and talented school programs. So I'm looking at
people that he's putting in place, and they are just
as if not more radical than mum Donnie is. And
so the more people that he puts who are aligned
with him, the worse it is for the city. One
thing that I actually this was a hilarious viral moment
over the weekend where mum Donnie basically said that he'd
(35:27):
called President Trump to register his opposition to bringing Maduro
to New York.
Speaker 9 (35:33):
And it's just hilarious to.
Speaker 13 (35:36):
Think that anybody would care, would he think, least of
all President Trump. And of course you had Jim Hines,
who's the House ranking member on the Intelligence Committee, Wo's
talking about how he hasn't talked to President Trump, he
hasn't talked.
Speaker 9 (35:47):
To anyone in the administration.
Speaker 13 (35:48):
But mum Donnie is claiming that actually he has spoken
to Trump and people in the administration.
Speaker 9 (35:53):
I'm skeptical.
Speaker 13 (35:54):
The reason I bring this up, though, is because what
we've seen from Mumdanni over the last year is an
obsession with relevance and an obsession with being on the
national stage. And so my theory, this is the best
case scenario, is that Momdannie just likes making headlines, he
likes being in the news, and that he just wants
(36:15):
to basically stay as a national figure, make sure that
he's sort of part of the zeitgeist, and that that's
his motivation. So that's the best case scenario, is that
he just really wants to be relevant and he's going
to post all these crazy things on Twitter and not
actually govern.
Speaker 9 (36:30):
And of course the reality is he's never had a job.
Speaker 13 (36:32):
He didn't show up to the majority of votes when
he was in the council in New York State, so
he is very feckless, and there is still a hope
that maybe he just isn't going to be that good
at actually implementing the radical policies that he has.
Speaker 9 (36:47):
That's the best case scenario.
Speaker 13 (36:48):
The worst case scenario is he has appointed some pretty
terrifying people and the city will go to hell and
hand basket.
Speaker 7 (36:56):
What do you know, a communist leader who never had
a job now going to destroy everything. And speaking of
those feckless leaders. Let's meet really quickly the new head
of the New York Fire Department and also I'm assuming
softball team.
Speaker 6 (37:11):
Lillian Bond Signor is a career first responder. In just
nine days, she'll be running the world's busiest fire department,
one of the most important appointments of the incoming administration.
Although she never served as a firefighter, she's confident that
won't matter.
Speaker 11 (37:27):
I know the job, I know what the firefighters need,
and I can translate that to this administration who's willing
to listen. I know what EMS needs. I have been
EMS for thirty plus years.
Speaker 6 (37:40):
Bond Signor is a trailblazer for the LGBTQ community who
will serve as the fdny's first openly gay commissioner. She's
a highly respected, detail oriented manager whose style has been
compared to NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tish, who will remain in
her post in the new administration.
Speaker 7 (38:01):
Lydia, I just handed to you.
Speaker 13 (38:03):
It's your Commissioner, d I is alive and well in
New York. Look, we saw what happened in California when
you prioritize identity politics over competence, and it was just
a year ago that the Palisades were completely destroyed. People's
lives have been completely decimated as a result of that,
(38:25):
and I think my concern is that, again it's not
just that she is ill equipped and unqualified.
Speaker 9 (38:33):
It's the ripple down effect.
Speaker 13 (38:34):
And so we in New York have and as we know,
from nine to eleven, we have the bravest, the best,
the smartest police officers and firemen. And the concern is
when you have somebody who's running those organizations. I think
Jessica Tish is excellent what she does. When you have
an FDNY commissioner who's all about identity politics, that's going
(38:57):
to have a massive triple down effect where people who
otherwise would be motivated to work really hard are going
to be like, this is the most poorly run organization.
Why am I here? And so we're already seeing members
of the police force, members of environment leaving, and there's
kind of I think the force is going to get
a bit hollowed out because if you're a young person,
(39:19):
you're going to just flee, go to Florida, go to Texas.
There are actually a lot of other states that are
actively recruiting NYPG people who are firemen in New York
because they know they're really smart and talented people and
are probably looking for an exit opportunity. So people who
are younger and still able to sort of flee are.
Speaker 12 (39:38):
Going to leave.
Speaker 13 (39:39):
And then you're gonna see people on this sort of
upper end, people who've served for quite some time. Maybe
they'll finish out their their tenure, get their pension, and
then they're gonna leave. They're going to do private security
for billionaires. This is sort of the trajectory for a
lot of really great and YPD people is they get
their pension and then they also work full time for
a billionaire as a driver and secure because obviously there's
(40:01):
gonna be a lot more billionaires wanting to hire their
own private security because it doesn't seem like Mum Donnie
is going to be supportive of the NYPD. And then
you're going to see in the middle there's going to
be a lot of people who are stuck and can't leave.
But this is the big concern is that it doesn't
even matter that sort of Mumdannie has backtracked and said,
actually he doesn't want to defund the police. This is
(40:22):
about in practice, people are going even if he doesn't
defund them. Even if he keeps funding exactly the same
people are not going to want to serve under a
man and under a mayor who has just called them
racist and horrible things, who is not going to be
supportive of the work that they need to do. And
I mean, you look what Alvin Bragg did to Daniel Penny.
(40:43):
That's that's going to be happening tenfold. And as a
police officer, I can't imagine wanting to ever get involved.
They're just going to be sitting on the sidelines. And
you know, even if they're still there, they're just gonna
be on their phone. They're not going to want to
step in because they're not going to have a mayor
or a police commissioner, if just leads who support them
and who are their advocates.
Speaker 7 (41:06):
Well, this is all pretty much terrible, Lydia, protect yourself,
all right, Hopefully we talk to you again soon. All right,
it's time to lighten the mood. And I know we
(41:27):
all get frustrated with politics from time to time. Obviously
I do as well, and we get frustrated with the
Republican Party, especially when we have control. Why aren't you
doing this and why aren't you doing that? All that
stuff is legit. So I've found it to be healthy
for me to at least take a moment every now
and then and smell the roses and realize how bad
it could have been. And the top of every ticket
(41:49):
gets all the attention, right, the presidential nominee is going
to get all the attention. The VP just gets a little.
The VP's spouse gets almost none at all. But I
want to look back really quickly now that Tim Wallas
is in the news is not running for governor. I
just want to remind you that this woman right here,
this woman was about to be in the White House
(42:12):
a lot.
Speaker 12 (42:14):
I kind of like it. And this turn the page.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
Yeah, you're like, okay, so I he should be with
me and practically me.
Speaker 12 (42:24):
Why are we gonna do turn a bay, turn away
and we're turn bay?
Speaker 13 (42:34):
Why why are.
Speaker 12 (42:35):
You watching you? Because I see it was awesome and
I want I'm watching because it's in pretty form place in.
Speaker 1 (42:43):
Total help to practice in this You shown this your
page right at looks like come on, come on.
Speaker 4 (43:01):
The bay.
Speaker 3 (43:07):
Days we are tay.
Speaker 12 (43:12):
Oh bye, don the shop.
Speaker 7 (43:19):
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