January 6, 2026 • 17 mins
Did President Trump’s administration violate international law in its handling of the capture of Nicolás Maduro? Some argue the attack on Maduro serves as a warning from President Trump to other countries that might attempt to threaten the United States with drugs or other criminal activities. Maduro’s next court date is scheduled for March 17, 2026.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fly from Midtown Manhattan. Here comes the Mark Simone Show
on seven w R.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Hey, not bad today. It'll be a near forty. It's
going to be in the fifties this week. That's good news.
We got a lot to get to today. There's a
lot of things going on. We'll get to Maduro and
all the latest. We'll get to Mamdani and all the
bad news. We'll we'll get to Marty Supreme, remind me
to talk about that. We'll get the Frank Sinatra coming up.
We'll get to MS now they're looking more and more
(00:33):
pathetic now that NBC threw them the hell out. We'll
get to Wegmans. We'll get to Jimmy Kimmel. We got
lots to get to today. Hey, this just happened about
an hour ago. It looks like a congressman has died.
I forgot the name. It's not a name you'd even know.
He's a California congressman House of Representatives. But the problem
(00:54):
is he was one of the few Republicans in California.
So he's a Republican congressman. He's he's apparently it's been
confirmed he's dead. Now that means the Democratic governor will
appoint a Democrat to take that seat until they can
have an election. Now, the problem is Republicans in the
House of Representatives I think are right on the border.
(01:15):
I can't because other people have left. You know, there
are a couple of empty seats right now. I think Republicans
are down to two hundred and eighteen in the House.
Would put them right on the border, the absolute borderlines.
If they lose anything, they lose control of the House.
That's why this congressman dying this morning very crucial to
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the Republicans. Would mean Mike Johnson wouldn't be Speaker anymore.
It would mean if Democrats take control, you'd have an
impeachment every month. You remember, in Trump's first term, they
would impeach him every year in the spring. Every spring impeachment.
This would be every month. Obviously they would start with
Maduro and Venezuela. That would be their first impeachment thing,
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and then they would impeach him over Epstein. He would
impeach him over January six Oh, he can't do it.
They already did January sixth. That didn't go anywhere. But
they'll find something every month. Now. Maduro in court pleaded
not guilty. You know, they set the next court date.
He was in court yesterday. When's the next day comes
to court? March seventh, that's two months away. That means
(02:20):
he sits in jail for two months in that Brooklyn
Correctional Center. They don't seem to trust the Manhattan Correctional
Center anymore. That's where they put Jeffrey Epstein and he
got dead in there. I was going to say he
got murdered in there. Well, we'll see, and they ruled
it officially a suicide.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
But.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Who knows. But they don't seem to trust it anymore.
So they now keep the prisoners in the Brooklyn Detention Center,
the US Attorney Southern District. That's where they kept p Diddy,
and that's where they kept Kallay Maxwell, and this is
where they're keeping Maduro. He's got lawyers that have been
appointed for him and he's going to plead, not get
(03:00):
but there's evidence, I mean physical evidence. There's a text
back and forth. They'll prove he was involved hands on
with the narco drug trafficking. The terror. Narco terrorism is
what it was. He'll be charged with that. He will
be convicted now. And if he's claiming that he is
(03:20):
still the leader of Venezuela. That's kind of well. Here's
the legal expert, Jonathan Turley.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
His statement in court was remarkable, that he's still the
president of his country. You would think that the prison
jump suit would disabuse him of that concept. But I
certainly over fifty countries around the world would not accept that,
and I don't think the court will either.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
You See, if you want to sound smart, like a
like a Jonathan Turley, you use words like that. You
don't say he claimed he was still the president, which
makes him sound nuts. You say the jumpsuit would disabuse
him of that. Throw that word in there and then
disabuse him. Here's more of a Turley. Now, remember to
hear all these democrats and all the fake news talking
(04:04):
heads tell you this was an illegal operation. This is
unheard of to go into a country seasonally. It's done
all the time. It's been done many times. We arrested Noriega.
You can talk lots of cases where this has happened,
and plenty of presidents have done things like this.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
This is Norjega two point zero. I mean, he is
going to be arguing that he is still the head
of state and titled to immunity. I just had very
few people believe that's true. And he's in a worse
position than Noriega. So I expect that they're going to
stick the landing on this. They're gonna this is going
to go to trial, and he stands an excellent chance
(04:41):
of being convicted.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yeah, it'll just repeat the whole Noriega thing. They hear
the Democrats. If you watch Rachel Maddow or any of
those shows, you know, Jake Tapper, you know, if you're
just watching, they look like very serious, very knowledgeable people,
but they're like crazy partisans. And though if you watch
these shows, they'll tell you things like, well, I've don't
Claire violation of international law, international law. What the hell
(05:05):
is in nobody's ever heard of this international law. There
is no international law that we have to follow. He's
more of Turly.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
They have not only these these recordings that they say
show him taking an active role in the criminal enterprise,
but this wasn't just simply criminal enterprise.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
This was a family enterprise.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
And so you've got his son, his wife with facing
very strong evidence, but you also have high ranking former
associates who have pled guilty, and they very well could
be cooperating witnesses, including the former head of military intelligence
in his country.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Yeah, so he's gotten no shot at beating this charge. Now,
normally you get in the right judge. You know, you're
left wing kook of a judge in Manhattan. But looks
like they got a good judge. I think he's ninety
five years old, this judge, but still on the bench.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
You have to go through these documents and one of
the defense counsel maybe two will be designated as clear council,
and they will sit in a metal room called a skiff,
and they will look through all of these documents and
they will file challenges. That's why this isn't going to
go anywhere for over a year as they work through
this stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Now, that's why the next court date is March seventh,
and why they're waiting two months. There's a ton of evidence,
a ton of documents. They have to give his attorneys
plenty of time to go through all this stuff. And
as Turley says, it's probably going to be a year
long trial. This guy will spend the next year in
the Brooklyn Detention Center. Not good for him. Now, again,
if you're reading the New York Times, or you watch
(06:35):
that MSNBCMS NOW whatever the hell they call it c
and then you don't know what the hell's going on.
They give you a little it's like the jigsaw puzzle.
To give you two pieces. That's it, that's all you get.
Leave out all the other three hundred pieces, so you
never get the whole picture. They never point out to
you that every Democrat, every major Democrat, Biden, Schumer, Elizabeth
(07:00):
the War and anybody can name, have been screaming and
screaming for years to get rid of Maduro. That he's
a war criminal, he's a narco terrorist, he must be eliminated.
You have to get rid of him. They've all been
calling for getting rid of Maduro. When the Biden administration
was in power or the Obama administration all talked about
getting this guy, getting rid of him. Of course it's Democrats.
(07:22):
They just talk. They don't actually do anything. Hey, here's
Biden has been doing this for longer than anyway. This
is forty years ago. Listen to Biden. Way back then,
for the first time, we were fighting and losing the
war on our own soil.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Let's go after the drug lords where they live with.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
An international strike force.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
There must be no safe haven for these narco terrorists,
and they must know it.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Now here's an interesting question. Why would you become a
drug lord? Why would you get involved in drugs? You
ever watched that show Breaking Bad? Better call Saul gus Fring,
who's when the Salamancas. When you look at that, do
you say, ye, I'd like to be like I'd like
to live like them. They're living out in the middle
of the desert. Looks like the dirtiest business. Why would
(08:09):
you want to get involved in that? Well, money, if
you're in the middle of Mexico. How else are you
going to make hundreds of millions of dollars except in
the drug business. It's money that leads into him. But
now here's the thing about Maduro. He's running Venezuela. Venezuela
has twenty percent of the world's oil it has. It's
(08:30):
sitting right now on three hundred billion barrels of oil.
There's seventeen trillion dollars in oil in Venezuela. Why didn't
he just use that? He let the whole oil industry crumble,
dry up, the infrastructure to pump the oil all decay.
All he had to do was bring that back, fix
(08:52):
the infrastructure and start pumping oil. He could have been
the biggest oil baron in the world. You see those
Saudis with the palaces in the garage with five million
rolls royces that he could be bigger than these guys.
Why did he become a narco terrorist when he could
have been the biggest oil bearing around. Now we'll go
in there and fix the infrastructure, get the oil pumping
(09:14):
again again. Seventeen trillion trillion in oil is sitting there.
Venezuela could be one of the wealthiest, most successful countries
in the world. Now we got to get the American
oil companies to go in there. They're not going to
be too crazy about doing this because it looks like
it could be some kind of dangerous war zone. But
once they get it stabilized. Now you're also going to
(09:37):
watch all these democrats ye all about Trump campaigned about
the endless wars, no boots on the ground, none of it. Well,
there's no hit that he's ever going to do anything
like that. This was just a quick three hour operation
in out seize the leader. And one reason this was
done is Grenada. You remember when Ronald Reagan took office
(09:58):
in his first year. It's the end of his first year.
He did the same exact sort of thing. We invaded
this little tiny island of Grenada. A bunch of American
medical students had been captured and were being held hostage.
Reagan did the same thing. It was a quick just
a few hours on the ground. American military went in
(10:19):
there and just attacked the building where they were being held,
extracted these medical students, got them out of there real fast.
It was an incredible military operation. The reason that Reagan
did that is he took over from a president who
was just horrible with the military. Jimmy Carter had turned
(10:40):
our military into a worldwide embarrassment. They were out of parts,
the weapons weren't working, everything was old, outdated number. Carter
even tried to rescue our hostages in Iran and the
helicopters couldn't even land right. They crashed. Everybody got killed.
It was a disaster. And the same thing with Biden.
He let the military decay, the equipment decay. He tried
(11:01):
to the Afghanistan withdrawal, and it was like a Jimmy
Carter operation, total disaster. People got killed, just humiliating, embarrassing.
So we had to get our reputation back and go
back to being impressive militarily to the world. So this
was Grenada, That's what this was for. It was a
demonstration for China, Russia, Iran, because China Russia didn't claim
(11:26):
to have an incredible military, but they don't. We've seen
Russia in Ukraine and all Russia's got us a little
ragtag army with drunken kids that can't fight. They don't
have the proper equipment, they don't even have night vision.
Where pretty sure that China is the same thing. It
looks like a big, big military, but they've never been
(11:47):
battle tested and they'll probably be as bad as Russia.
So it's a demonstration to the other countries that we
have incredible military capability. We're back. This operation in the
middle of the night to go into the palace there
and seize Maduro was incredibly detailed. Do you know. They
built an exact replica of his residence, which means they
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knew exactly what his residents looked like in every detail.
They had people on the inside. So they built a replica,
a complete replica of his residence, and they trained in
that for months. They also went in there, I mean
the skill of these guys. You know, they used to
say Pete Hegsath is the most unqualified, the least qualified
a defense secretary. The guy has run flawlessly, run the
(12:34):
most incredible military operations for the last year, from the
taking out of Iran's nuclear reactors to the going after
the oil tankers. I mean this one. To run this,
you got to give this guy credit as one of
the most successful defense secretaries ever. But to get to
that residence, they had to take out all the military bases,
knock out all the electricity, They shut down all the
(12:56):
lights in the city. The stuff that went on was unbelievable,
the whole operation, from the moment they went in. Three
hours later they got Maduro on the deck of an
American warship out at sea and they're taking them away.
So it was an incredible operation. It's a big demonstration
too Russia, China and Iran. And don't think the message
(13:20):
was received loud and clear. So uh, Mom, Donnie, oh oh, Mom, Donnie.
Now he uh. There was a terrible rumor yesterday that
he had demoted the police Commissioner Jessica Tish everybody likes her,
that she would now report to the first deputy mayor,
not to him. He corrected that, he said, it's not true.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
My police commissioner will continue to report directly to me.
My police commissioner, just like my school's chancellor will report
directly to me. The executive order is in terms of
the question of coordination, this is reporting continues to be directly.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
To the mayor. Yeah, I don't know how that's good.
You're a reporting to this guy. This guy's got they've
never had a job in his life. He's twelve years old.
You're reporting that at least that first deputy mayor might
be another left wing cook. But he'd been a deputy
mayor before under Deblasio. But so, mom, Donnie, you know,
the other thing was just weird. He talks about affordability.
(14:16):
He wants to have free buses, he wants to live,
freeze the rent. Everything's bringing the prices down, affordability. Yet
when it comes to this congestion pricing, the guy loves it. Hochel, mom, Donnie,
yesterday celebrating the one year anniversary of congestion pricing. It's
a tax on people. Everybody has to pay it. Everybody
you're paying. Even though you're saying, well, I don't have
(14:38):
a car, You're still paying the congestion pricing because every
form of transportation from a cab to an uber has
a price increase as a result. And everything you buy
in every store in Midtown Manhattan there's a price increase
because the trucks pay enormous congestion pricing fees and that's
added into the price. But here he was celebrating.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Congestion price is a program that has been successful, no
matter how you measure it. We all understood the imperatives
of dreaming of a different kind of streetscape in this city.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
The hell's he talking about? What is a streetscape? Were
you dreaming of a different street scape? You know? I
was kind of dreaming of the old one where it's
just cars. Now you can't cross the street without looking
six ways. You gotta wait, Is there a scooter? An
electric bike? Is there one of those pettycat You're gonna
get hit by anything and everything in every direction. Hokel
(15:31):
loves this congestion pricing, And yes, the cameras are staying on.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
But now, my friends, the results are extraordinary.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
They convinced themselves of this nonsense. Now she did say
there is a price increase coming, But it's twenty twenty eight.
Here's the good news. Bruce Blakeman will be the governor
and he'll take office in janu twenty twenty seven, and
I'm sure the first thing he'll work on is getting
rid of congestion pricing. It's absolutely ridiculous. You want to
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ease congestion. Put the street back the way it was
with four lanes. Now it's like one lane, one lanes,
a parking lane, one's lanes, a bike lane, one lanes,
a petty cab lane, one lanes a scooter. Put the
street back the way it was. There's congestion because you
took two thirds of the street away on every street.
They we'll get to Tim Waltz. Why did he drop out?
(16:28):
His daughter is saying the family was getting attacked left
and right, and his political career is over. He announced
yesterday he's not running.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
I'm passing on this race with zero sadness and zero regret.
I did not run for this job to have the job.
I ran for the job to do the job. The
hell is he talking about?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Now? You got to give him credit for a guy
with an IQ of ninety, maybe I name eighty. Maybe
eighty goofy, silly guy, not very intelligent. Look where he got.
You got to give him credit. Now, they've got to
be governor of a state. You got to be the
vice presidential nominee. You know, a guy with no brains
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and no talent. You got to give him credit for that.
Now what happens, who's going to run for governor of Minnesota? Well,
our old buddy, Mike Lindell, my pillow is as announced
he's running for governor. He's one of the biggest, biggest
businessmen in Minnesota. So now here's the bad news. There
looks like they're going to try to throw somebody strong
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against him, a big Democrat like Amy Klobucher, the Senator
is now talking about entering the race, so they'll put
up a big candidate. They actually think Lindell has a
great shot. Remember, Minnesota goes for those kind of non
political types like a Jesse Ventura. So this will get interesting. Hey,
we'll take some calls. Next eight hundred three to two
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one zero seven ten is the number eight hundred three
to two one zero seven ten,
Fly from Midtown Manhattan. Here comes the Mark Simone Show
on seven w R.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Hey, not bad today. It'll be a near forty. It's
going to be in the fifties this week. That's good news.
We got a lot to get to today. There's a
lot of things going on. We'll get to Maduro and
all the latest. We'll get to Mamdani and all the
bad news. We'll we'll get to Marty Supreme, remind me
to talk about that. We'll get the Frank Sinatra coming up.
We'll get to MS now they're looking more and more
(00:33):
pathetic now that NBC threw them the hell out. We'll
get to Wegmans. We'll get to Jimmy Kimmel. We got
lots to get to today. Hey, this just happened about
an hour ago. It looks like a congressman has died.
I forgot the name. It's not a name you'd even know.
He's a California congressman House of Representatives. But the problem
(00:54):
is he was one of the few Republicans in California.
So he's a Republican congressman. He's he's apparently it's been
confirmed he's dead. Now that means the Democratic governor will
appoint a Democrat to take that seat until they can
have an election. Now, the problem is Republicans in the
House of Representatives I think are right on the border.
(01:15):
I can't because other people have left. You know, there
are a couple of empty seats right now. I think Republicans
are down to two hundred and eighteen in the House.
Would put them right on the border, the absolute borderlines.
If they lose anything, they lose control of the House.
That's why this congressman dying this morning very crucial to
(01:35):
the Republicans. Would mean Mike Johnson wouldn't be Speaker anymore.
It would mean if Democrats take control, you'd have an
impeachment every month. You remember, in Trump's first term, they
would impeach him every year in the spring. Every spring impeachment.
This would be every month. Obviously they would start with
Maduro and Venezuela. That would be their first impeachment thing,
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and then they would impeach him over Epstein. He would
impeach him over January six Oh, he can't do it.
They already did January sixth. That didn't go anywhere. But
they'll find something every month. Now. Maduro in court pleaded
not guilty. You know, they set the next court date.
He was in court yesterday. When's the next day comes
to court? March seventh, that's two months away. That means
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he sits in jail for two months in that Brooklyn
Correctional Center. They don't seem to trust the Manhattan Correctional
Center anymore. That's where they put Jeffrey Epstein and he
got dead in there. I was going to say he
got murdered in there. Well, we'll see, and they ruled
it officially a suicide.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
But.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Who knows. But they don't seem to trust it anymore.
So they now keep the prisoners in the Brooklyn Detention Center,
the US Attorney Southern District. That's where they kept p Diddy,
and that's where they kept Kallay Maxwell, and this is
where they're keeping Maduro. He's got lawyers that have been
appointed for him and he's going to plead, not get
(03:00):
but there's evidence, I mean physical evidence. There's a text
back and forth. They'll prove he was involved hands on
with the narco drug trafficking. The terror. Narco terrorism is
what it was. He'll be charged with that. He will
be convicted now. And if he's claiming that he is
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still the leader of Venezuela. That's kind of well. Here's
the legal expert, Jonathan Turley.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
His statement in court was remarkable, that he's still the
president of his country. You would think that the prison
jump suit would disabuse him of that concept. But I
certainly over fifty countries around the world would not accept that,
and I don't think the court will either.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
You See, if you want to sound smart, like a
like a Jonathan Turley, you use words like that. You
don't say he claimed he was still the president, which
makes him sound nuts. You say the jumpsuit would disabuse
him of that. Throw that word in there and then
disabuse him. Here's more of a Turley. Now, remember to
hear all these democrats and all the fake news talking
(04:04):
heads tell you this was an illegal operation. This is
unheard of to go into a country seasonally. It's done
all the time. It's been done many times. We arrested Noriega.
You can talk lots of cases where this has happened,
and plenty of presidents have done things like this.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
This is Norjega two point zero. I mean, he is
going to be arguing that he is still the head
of state and titled to immunity. I just had very
few people believe that's true. And he's in a worse
position than Noriega. So I expect that they're going to
stick the landing on this. They're gonna this is going
to go to trial, and he stands an excellent chance
(04:41):
of being convicted.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yeah, it'll just repeat the whole Noriega thing. They hear
the Democrats. If you watch Rachel Maddow or any of
those shows, you know, Jake Tapper, you know, if you're
just watching, they look like very serious, very knowledgeable people,
but they're like crazy partisans. And though if you watch
these shows, they'll tell you things like, well, I've don't
Claire violation of international law, international law. What the hell
(05:05):
is in nobody's ever heard of this international law. There
is no international law that we have to follow. He's
more of Turly.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
They have not only these these recordings that they say
show him taking an active role in the criminal enterprise,
but this wasn't just simply criminal enterprise.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
This was a family enterprise.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
And so you've got his son, his wife with facing
very strong evidence, but you also have high ranking former
associates who have pled guilty, and they very well could
be cooperating witnesses, including the former head of military intelligence
in his country.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Yeah, so he's gotten no shot at beating this charge. Now,
normally you get in the right judge. You know, you're
left wing kook of a judge in Manhattan. But looks
like they got a good judge. I think he's ninety
five years old, this judge, but still on the bench.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
You have to go through these documents and one of
the defense counsel maybe two will be designated as clear council,
and they will sit in a metal room called a skiff,
and they will look through all of these documents and
they will file challenges. That's why this isn't going to
go anywhere for over a year as they work through
this stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Now, that's why the next court date is March seventh,
and why they're waiting two months. There's a ton of evidence,
a ton of documents. They have to give his attorneys
plenty of time to go through all this stuff. And
as Turley says, it's probably going to be a year
long trial. This guy will spend the next year in
the Brooklyn Detention Center. Not good for him. Now, again,
if you're reading the New York Times, or you watch
(06:35):
that MSNBCMS NOW whatever the hell they call it c
and then you don't know what the hell's going on.
They give you a little it's like the jigsaw puzzle.
To give you two pieces. That's it, that's all you get.
Leave out all the other three hundred pieces, so you
never get the whole picture. They never point out to
you that every Democrat, every major Democrat, Biden, Schumer, Elizabeth
(07:00):
the War and anybody can name, have been screaming and
screaming for years to get rid of Maduro. That he's
a war criminal, he's a narco terrorist, he must be eliminated.
You have to get rid of him. They've all been
calling for getting rid of Maduro. When the Biden administration
was in power or the Obama administration all talked about
getting this guy, getting rid of him. Of course it's Democrats.
(07:22):
They just talk. They don't actually do anything. Hey, here's
Biden has been doing this for longer than anyway. This
is forty years ago. Listen to Biden. Way back then,
for the first time, we were fighting and losing the
war on our own soil.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Let's go after the drug lords where they live with.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
An international strike force.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
There must be no safe haven for these narco terrorists,
and they must know it.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Now here's an interesting question. Why would you become a
drug lord? Why would you get involved in drugs? You
ever watched that show Breaking Bad? Better call Saul gus Fring,
who's when the Salamancas. When you look at that, do
you say, ye, I'd like to be like I'd like
to live like them. They're living out in the middle
of the desert. Looks like the dirtiest business. Why would
(08:09):
you want to get involved in that? Well, money, if
you're in the middle of Mexico. How else are you
going to make hundreds of millions of dollars except in
the drug business. It's money that leads into him. But
now here's the thing about Maduro. He's running Venezuela. Venezuela
has twenty percent of the world's oil it has. It's
(08:30):
sitting right now on three hundred billion barrels of oil.
There's seventeen trillion dollars in oil in Venezuela. Why didn't
he just use that? He let the whole oil industry crumble,
dry up, the infrastructure to pump the oil all decay.
All he had to do was bring that back, fix
(08:52):
the infrastructure and start pumping oil. He could have been
the biggest oil baron in the world. You see those
Saudis with the palaces in the garage with five million
rolls royces that he could be bigger than these guys.
Why did he become a narco terrorist when he could
have been the biggest oil bearing around. Now we'll go
in there and fix the infrastructure, get the oil pumping
(09:14):
again again. Seventeen trillion trillion in oil is sitting there.
Venezuela could be one of the wealthiest, most successful countries
in the world. Now we got to get the American
oil companies to go in there. They're not going to
be too crazy about doing this because it looks like
it could be some kind of dangerous war zone. But
once they get it stabilized. Now you're also going to
(09:37):
watch all these democrats ye all about Trump campaigned about
the endless wars, no boots on the ground, none of it. Well,
there's no hit that he's ever going to do anything
like that. This was just a quick three hour operation
in out seize the leader. And one reason this was
done is Grenada. You remember when Ronald Reagan took office
(09:58):
in his first year. It's the end of his first year.
He did the same exact sort of thing. We invaded
this little tiny island of Grenada. A bunch of American
medical students had been captured and were being held hostage.
Reagan did the same thing. It was a quick just
a few hours on the ground. American military went in
(10:19):
there and just attacked the building where they were being held,
extracted these medical students, got them out of there real fast.
It was an incredible military operation. The reason that Reagan
did that is he took over from a president who
was just horrible with the military. Jimmy Carter had turned
(10:40):
our military into a worldwide embarrassment. They were out of parts,
the weapons weren't working, everything was old, outdated number. Carter
even tried to rescue our hostages in Iran and the
helicopters couldn't even land right. They crashed. Everybody got killed.
It was a disaster. And the same thing with Biden.
He let the military decay, the equipment decay. He tried
(11:01):
to the Afghanistan withdrawal, and it was like a Jimmy
Carter operation, total disaster. People got killed, just humiliating, embarrassing.
So we had to get our reputation back and go
back to being impressive militarily to the world. So this
was Grenada, That's what this was for. It was a
demonstration for China, Russia, Iran, because China Russia didn't claim
(11:26):
to have an incredible military, but they don't. We've seen
Russia in Ukraine and all Russia's got us a little
ragtag army with drunken kids that can't fight. They don't
have the proper equipment, they don't even have night vision.
Where pretty sure that China is the same thing. It
looks like a big, big military, but they've never been
(11:47):
battle tested and they'll probably be as bad as Russia.
So it's a demonstration to the other countries that we
have incredible military capability. We're back. This operation in the
middle of the night to go into the palace there
and seize Maduro was incredibly detailed. Do you know. They
built an exact replica of his residence, which means they
(12:11):
knew exactly what his residents looked like in every detail.
They had people on the inside. So they built a replica,
a complete replica of his residence, and they trained in
that for months. They also went in there, I mean
the skill of these guys. You know, they used to
say Pete Hegsath is the most unqualified, the least qualified
a defense secretary. The guy has run flawlessly, run the
(12:34):
most incredible military operations for the last year, from the
taking out of Iran's nuclear reactors to the going after
the oil tankers. I mean this one. To run this,
you got to give this guy credit as one of
the most successful defense secretaries ever. But to get to
that residence, they had to take out all the military bases,
knock out all the electricity, They shut down all the
(12:56):
lights in the city. The stuff that went on was unbelievable,
the whole operation, from the moment they went in. Three
hours later they got Maduro on the deck of an
American warship out at sea and they're taking them away.
So it was an incredible operation. It's a big demonstration
too Russia, China and Iran. And don't think the message
(13:20):
was received loud and clear. So uh, Mom, Donnie, oh oh, Mom, Donnie.
Now he uh. There was a terrible rumor yesterday that
he had demoted the police Commissioner Jessica Tish everybody likes her,
that she would now report to the first deputy mayor,
not to him. He corrected that, he said, it's not true.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
My police commissioner will continue to report directly to me.
My police commissioner, just like my school's chancellor will report
directly to me. The executive order is in terms of
the question of coordination, this is reporting continues to be directly.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
To the mayor. Yeah, I don't know how that's good.
You're a reporting to this guy. This guy's got they've
never had a job in his life. He's twelve years old.
You're reporting that at least that first deputy mayor might
be another left wing cook. But he'd been a deputy
mayor before under Deblasio. But so, mom, Donnie, you know,
the other thing was just weird. He talks about affordability.
(14:16):
He wants to have free buses, he wants to live,
freeze the rent. Everything's bringing the prices down, affordability. Yet
when it comes to this congestion pricing, the guy loves it. Hochel, mom, Donnie,
yesterday celebrating the one year anniversary of congestion pricing. It's
a tax on people. Everybody has to pay it. Everybody
you're paying. Even though you're saying, well, I don't have
(14:38):
a car, You're still paying the congestion pricing because every
form of transportation from a cab to an uber has
a price increase as a result. And everything you buy
in every store in Midtown Manhattan there's a price increase
because the trucks pay enormous congestion pricing fees and that's
added into the price. But here he was celebrating.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Congestion price is a program that has been successful, no
matter how you measure it. We all understood the imperatives
of dreaming of a different kind of streetscape in this city.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
The hell's he talking about? What is a streetscape? Were
you dreaming of a different street scape? You know? I
was kind of dreaming of the old one where it's
just cars. Now you can't cross the street without looking
six ways. You gotta wait, Is there a scooter? An
electric bike? Is there one of those pettycat You're gonna
get hit by anything and everything in every direction. Hokel
(15:31):
loves this congestion pricing, And yes, the cameras are staying on.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
But now, my friends, the results are extraordinary.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
They convinced themselves of this nonsense. Now she did say
there is a price increase coming, But it's twenty twenty eight.
Here's the good news. Bruce Blakeman will be the governor
and he'll take office in janu twenty twenty seven, and
I'm sure the first thing he'll work on is getting
rid of congestion pricing. It's absolutely ridiculous. You want to
(16:07):
ease congestion. Put the street back the way it was
with four lanes. Now it's like one lane, one lanes,
a parking lane, one's lanes, a bike lane, one lanes,
a petty cab lane, one lanes a scooter. Put the
street back the way it was. There's congestion because you
took two thirds of the street away on every street.
They we'll get to Tim Waltz. Why did he drop out?
(16:28):
His daughter is saying the family was getting attacked left
and right, and his political career is over. He announced
yesterday he's not running.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
I'm passing on this race with zero sadness and zero regret.
I did not run for this job to have the job.
I ran for the job to do the job. The
hell is he talking about?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Now? You got to give him credit for a guy
with an IQ of ninety, maybe I name eighty. Maybe
eighty goofy, silly guy, not very intelligent. Look where he got.
You got to give him credit. Now, they've got to
be governor of a state. You got to be the
vice presidential nominee. You know, a guy with no brains
(17:10):
and no talent. You got to give him credit for that.
Now what happens, who's going to run for governor of Minnesota? Well,
our old buddy, Mike Lindell, my pillow is as announced
he's running for governor. He's one of the biggest, biggest
businessmen in Minnesota. So now here's the bad news. There
looks like they're going to try to throw somebody strong
(17:32):
against him, a big Democrat like Amy Klobucher, the Senator
is now talking about entering the race, so they'll put
up a big candidate. They actually think Lindell has a
great shot. Remember, Minnesota goes for those kind of non
political types like a Jesse Ventura. So this will get interesting. Hey,
we'll take some calls. Next eight hundred three to two
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