January 7, 2026 • 17 mins
BEST OF - Governor DeSantis says Florida prosecutors are looking at charges against Maduro, National Correspondent Rory O’Neill reports on concerns over prediction markets growing following Polymarket bet on Venezuela; also, the DOJ delays the release of more Epstein Files. White House Correspondent Jon Decker reports what President Trump told Republicans at a House GOP policy retreat. AI deepfakes of Nicolás Maduro flood social media — depict Venezuelan dictator in jail with Sean 'Diddy' Combs.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Governor DeSantis says Florida prosecutors are looking very seriously at
possible state charges against Venezuela and President Nicholas Maduro.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Through the Attorney General's office that is able to bring
these things, to be able to bring potentially a state
case against Nicholas Maduro. You know, he was obviously very
involved with drugs, but you know what he would also do,
and this is not in the federal indictment in New York.
He would empty his prisons and send them to America
across the border, and we'd end up with some of
(00:30):
these people in Florida. So the narcotics, the gang, but
also the immigration and what was done to do that
is to put people at risk, and we've had people
in Florida that have been victimized by trend de Aragua
gang members.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
DeSantis made those comments yesterday during a news conference here
in Clearwater. And now Attorney General James Utmeier's office is
reviewing state laws tied to narcotics and the importing of criminals.
I don't know if there's something that they would be
able to get Maduro on tied to him letting people
(01:04):
out of prison.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
So what law does that break? I just bet there
isn't one on the books.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
And there's a reason why there's been so much focus
on narco trafficking and those kinds of things when it
comes to Maduro, even though the reasons that he was
captured extend far beyond all of that. It's because of
the legal justification for conducting that operation and for charging
him and winning in courts.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yeah, you've got to have charges that you can bring
against him.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
We're going to have more on the governor's reaction to
the situation in Venezuela coming up at eight thirty five
when we check in with the publisher of Florida Politics,
Peter Shorshe also I want to mention Senator Rick Scott.
He made some interesting comments during an appearance on News Nation.
He said the Cuban government could be overthrown as soon
as this year or next year.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
It's going to be the end of the Dais Canal regime.
The Cashal regime is going to have. But if we're
in the processes that happen now, I mean, I was just.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Think like within a week or within weeks or months.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Everything takes longer than you think, right, Look, i'd like
everything that happened today, for the kids of Venezuela, for
the kids of Cuba. I think it's going to happen,
you know, I think it will probably happen, maybe this year,
maybe next year.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
It's going to happen.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
I thought Maduro will be out by Christmas. He took
a little bit longer. So who knows when it's going
to happen. But we're going to get democracy. This is
not other parts of the world. In the Southern Hemisphere,
people have fought for democracy. They have a background of
fighting for freedom. The people in Cuba are fighters for
freedom right. So this is going to happen. I don't
know when it's going to happen. Today, it'll be a
(02:40):
great day, but it will happen.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Typical politician can't answer the question. We wanted a date
August fourteenth of twenty twenty six. The Cuban regime is falling.
I think if there's a way for us to ramp
up pressure on Qube even more than what we're currently doing,
now is definitely the time to do it. Now, let's
bring in our national correspondent, Rory O'Neill, who supports brought
to you by Mark Spain real Estate. So Rory you know,
(03:02):
eyes had been on these prediction markets for a while
now boughts with what happened in Venezuela and one wager
in particular, there's some real concern about people using inside information.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
To make a lot of money.
Speaker 7 (03:19):
Yeah, because there are real national security concerns too. So first,
just to back up a couple of quick steps, these
prediction markets essentially let you bet against one another. So
unlike betting on your sports betting app and you're betting
against the casino in the house. Instead, you put up
a bet that says, how does you know where is
Ryan flying?
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Too? That got him so mad at the ara, and
then you can sort of bet that baby.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
But it's but you bet against one another, you're not
necessarily betting against the house. And that's how these sites
like polymarket have sort of been skirting around state gambling
laws in particular.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
But so a guy on Friday place.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
Is a thirty thousand dollars bet it says that there
will be an invasion and Maduro is about to be
removed thirty thousand dollars. A couple hours later pays off
to the tune of four hundred and thirty six thousand,
seven hundred and sixty dollars. A nice retrections was that
was that inside information? Was this person one of the
journalists at the Washington Boast of the New York.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Times that got the leading Yeah, I was thinking it
must have been somebody, you know, on the inside of
the operation. But that's another good possibility running.
Speaker 7 (04:27):
Was it someone who trained for this in Kentucky that
they had, you know, the Delta Force had been training
in Kentucky for months. Was it someone on a ship
in the Caribbean, you know, who was taking part of
this operation.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
If it was a member of the military, I'd be
a little less pissed off. If it was a journalist
or somebody in the administration, then.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
I'd be more angry. Or a member of Congress or
something like that.
Speaker 7 (04:45):
Someone who works at the Pentagon or Yeah, it could
have been anybody and we won't know. And all this stuff,
by the way, is typically paid out in crypto, so
good luck tracing it, right.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
That's the other issue.
Speaker 7 (04:54):
By the way, did you see this polymarket's not going
to pay off the bet?
Speaker 5 (04:58):
Really?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
There?
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Well, this is for now.
Speaker 7 (05:02):
They're they're holding back because it was not They're taking
the GOP line it wasn't an invasion, It was a
law enforcement on this.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
If you learns out on four hundred thousand dollars over
that technicality, man, geezes, that's what.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
You get for trying to, you know, make money off
of your insider information. Yeah, but so can anybody just
go on there and make a bet and then you
just eat Yeah again, And all.
Speaker 7 (05:31):
Kinds of bets are on there, you know, where will
Taylor Swift get married?
Speaker 5 (05:35):
When will she get married? And typically they're.
Speaker 7 (05:37):
They're, they're, they're yes and no questions and then yeah,
what's happened is as they people place bets, it sort
of shows you the percentage likelihood of things happening, and
it actually has become a very accurate predictor of current events.
But there are questions, as we laid out about national
security because imagine someone in Maduro's guard team.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Saw the bets of geez somebody just put thirty grand
down the bet.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
We better put him behind the steel door.
Speaker 8 (06:05):
Right.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
So that's a good point, that's a real concern American
we get on there.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
We should.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Well, there's one will Trump acquire Greenland before twenty twenty seven?
And it's got a thirteen percent chance that you could
bet yes or no, and there's a lot of people.
It's like, I think it's two million dollars worth of
volume being bet on that. Oh my god, right now,
and the answer is yes, absolutely, he's gonna acquire it.
Speaker 7 (06:33):
There was ten point five million bet on the quote
unquote invasion of Venezuela that it would happen between now
in March thirty first.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
And then will the iotola be out a supreme leader
of Iran by June thirtieth. There's a thirty five percent
chance that'll happen. You got a lot of people.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Bet on that.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
And right next to you know, these foreign policy issues,
when will the new Stranger Things episode be released by you.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
All over the place and laws haven't caught up with it?
And yeah, it's it's it's it's frightening out there.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
It's fascinating, that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
But you know, I didn't even think of the other
types of people that could, like a journalist who win
the event who it yeah, yeah, that maybe that was
the person who put thirty thousand, although I don't know
the journalist that's thirty yeah, or a member of our
special force. I don't know the day of that either,
All right, let's get to the Epstein files. Were joined
(07:29):
by our national correspondent Rory O'Neill. This thing keeps playing out,
and one of the questions that I'm starting to have,
why are there so many records? Why are there so
many things to review? And and why are we just
now learning that there are millions of records? Wasn't this
supposed to be figured out back when Attorney General Pam
(07:50):
Bondi said she was sending people to the Southern District
of New York to round up the files and bring
them back to DC.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
Right, so the slope, okay, but they had a just
nineteenth deadline to release all the files. The Justice Department
provided the judge an update this week, saying, well, we're
still going through the documents to make sure no victims'
names are included.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
We've got about two million more documents to go through. Now.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
A lot of them are duplicative, because, don't forget, you
had multiple investigations of the same thing happening. Epstein getting
investigated in New York and in Florida Eley.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Maxwell getting investigated. So a lot of this.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
Stuff is all just duplicative, and that's what they're trying
to go through telling the court. They've got four hundred
lawyers and one hundred other documents specialists working through this.
But I think a lot of Americans feel the way. Well,
come into two camps. It's the release everything, Release it now.
Let's get Prince Andrew and everybody else and Bill Clinton,
(08:44):
or it's the oh god, I'm so sick of this,
let's move on.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Well, based on what's been released up to this point,
there were some concerning things that we saw obviously, but
there hasn't been that bombshell. I think a lot of
people thought it was going to be in there well.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
And one of the things that seemed to be a
bombshell was that letter from Epstein to Larry Nasser saying
that you know, Trump is like one of us, and
he likes young girls. And that turned out to be fake.
So there's also a lot of fake stuff in there.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
There was also a fake video of Epstein in his
cell looking like he was trying to kill himself, and
that turned out to be fake. So I think there
was so many things, like think about all the crazy
conspiracy theorists out there who are going to take some
little piece of information that they find and submit it
as evidence. I think all that stuff is getting released too,
like just everything they have on Epstein, and so they
(09:32):
probably have to sort through a bunch of junk.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah, they're flooding the zone, it sounds like with this
big document dumps and then ain't got to sift through
it all. But my thing is, look, the Attorney General Pamboni,
she promised us this. I mean it was months ago.
I just don't understand how you're still finding documents and
having to go through all of it. I thought she
said she had everything well, and then fourth of July weekend,
(09:56):
right is when they announced there's nothing here, nothing to prosecute. Wait,
you've got two million documents you haven't seen yet and
you're already deciding, right, yeah, to prosecute bungle this thing.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
Man from the game, I've done a really bad job.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
And that big fourth thing, that that big note that
came out that said what was it? Ten suspected co
conspirators were identified in one of those email chains, And
you're like, wait, ten all right, Prince Andrew Andrew von
mount Batton windsor that guy that guy now the man
formerly noticed Prince Yeah, and the and who would the
(10:30):
other nine like, what's the deal?
Speaker 6 (10:31):
Why have they be charged? That's exactly right. There'still more questions.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I do want answers, but I just think the whole
thing and maybe that's part of.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
The reason is so much brought out. People lose attention,
their attention span. All right.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Rory O'Neil our national correspondent with us this morning. Rory,
thanks so much.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Hey, thanks Ryan.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
I'm bringing our.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
White House correspondent John Decker. Now, John, it's great to
talk to you this morning. And President Trump spoke to
Republicans and House GOP policy retreat, had some very interesting
things to say.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
What were some of the highlights.
Speaker 8 (11:06):
Well, to me, I watched and covered this speech that
the President delivered yesterday. It was ninety minutes long, and
the President really didn't make any news in all honesty
until the eighty fourth minute of that ninety minute long speech.
And that's what he said to those House Republicans at
their January retreat. If I don't win, if you don't
(11:27):
win and keep control of the House of Representatives in
the midterm elections, I will most certainly be impeached by
House Democrats. So that to me is some major news.
If indeed that happens, A lot needs to take place
for that to happen. But first and foremost, the President
would like to keep control of the House of Representatives
in November.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
Well, Trump knows out of playthings.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
You don't give away the big reveal, you know, within
the first couple of minutes, So you got to keep
people sticking through the entire speech. And look, when it
comes to House Republicans holding on to control of that chamber,
I mean, it's getting more difficult just to have a
majority right now because you had a Republican from California
(12:10):
die suddenly at the age of sixty five. That seat's
going to be vacant until a special election is held.
And you've got Marjorie Taylor Green her resignation now in
effect she's out. You've got representative Yeah, you've got a
representative from Indiana hospitalized after a car accident, eighty year old.
(12:31):
I don't know if he's planning on run for reelection not.
Probably at eighty you figure he's got a few more
terms left in him. Luckily he's going to be okay.
But I mean the margin is really thin right now,
It's razor thin.
Speaker 8 (12:42):
You are absolutely right, So right now, on paper, it's
a two eighteen to two thirteen advantage that Republicans have
in the House of Representatives. But what that means is
that Republicans can only afford to lose two House Republicans
if everyone is present, if it's a voter along party lines.
(13:03):
That's a little too close for comfort, certainly for House
Speaker Mike Johnson. And you mentioned the reasons why the
death that happened for that Republican Congressman LaMalfa yesterday that
brings their number down. And then you mentioned Marjorie Taylor
Green who's leaving Congress and it will take some time
to throw phil her seat as it relates to a
(13:24):
special election.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Yeah, and there's a special election to fill a Texas
House seat that's going to happen later this month and
Democrats have a shot there, so again that could have
an impact on the majority. So you know, we're looking
ahead to the midterms, but Republicans have to navigate things
right now until we get there. And some big items
(13:45):
are on the agenda, including things like healthcare and you know,
funding the government by the end of the month.
Speaker 8 (13:52):
Yeah, big items for sure, and otherwise it's going to
be essentially nothing getting done and in Congress in this
very important midterm year for the president. And then you
look ahead and if indeed what the President is projecting
may happen, and that is a democratic takeover of the House,
then you have essentially paralysis in Congress for the president's
(14:16):
final two years in office.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
All right, Our White House correspondent John Decker with us
this morning. John, really appreciate it. We'll talk to you tomorrow. Thanks, Ryan,
Bye bye. Within hours of President Trump announcing Nicholas Maduro's capture,
AI generated images and videos started to flood social media.
Many of the deep fakes showed Maduro in handcuffs in jail.
(14:39):
Some showed him sitting alongside rapper Sewan. Did he combs?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
It really is crazy, And some of them are so elaborate,
like all the videos of him dancing, and then did
you see the one where it kind of morphed him
and Trump together sitting behind the desk.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
Oh really? Oh yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
So some of the images they mixed real details with
fake scenes, so people had no idea what was real
what wasn't. And researchers say this was one of the
first major breaking news events where AI visuals specifically overwhelmed
real time reporting.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
It was just too much. It was flooding social media.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
NewsGuard identified multiple faker misleading images that drew more than
fourteen million views on x in just under two days.
And of course you had some big accounts, public figures.
They share the content and then it eventually gets debunked.
And what you also had, So you had some of
the fake images, like like Maduro with Diddy, but then
(15:40):
you also had clips showing Venezuelan celebrating in the streets
and this was an AI generated but it was footage
that was from earlier events. It wasn't tied to what
just happened, So just misleading.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Those are so.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
And then we did that story earlier in the week
about the guy in Maine who Maduro was wearing his
hoodie and he said he thought it was AI messaging him.
That did turn out to be real, I think, unless
we find out it was fake.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
But and then Trump, he eventually posted a verifying image
of me Durero on custody, but some people didn't think
it was real because of all the fake stuff that.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
Was out there.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
It's crazy with Trump, You've got a story on AI
this is fantastic.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
This might be my favorite story of the morning.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
So some police departments are now using AI software to
generate police reports from the bodycam footage. And recently a
police department had in their report that an officer shapeshifted
into a frog, and so then they had a human
go back through the report like, how did this happen?
This isn't real. Well, while they were in the home,
(16:45):
the Princess in the Frog movie was on the TV
and the body camp picked it up, picked up the
audio of them talking about the man shape shifting into
a frog.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
And it's well, you've got to figure I'm sure that
is one of the more frustrating annoying parts of the gig,
having to go write these reports.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Oh yeah, absolutely, Well, and the guy, the guy who
writes the report says that this new software is saving
him six to eight hours of work a week. But
when something like that pops up and gets flagged and
you're gonna see, what.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
The hell is this? Still a few kings that need
to be worked out.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
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Governor DeSantis says Florida prosecutors are looking very seriously at
possible state charges against Venezuela and President Nicholas Maduro.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Through the Attorney General's office that is able to bring
these things, to be able to bring potentially a state
case against Nicholas Maduro. You know, he was obviously very
involved with drugs, but you know what he would also do,
and this is not in the federal indictment in New York.
He would empty his prisons and send them to America
across the border, and we'd end up with some of
(00:30):
these people in Florida. So the narcotics, the gang, but
also the immigration and what was done to do that
is to put people at risk, and we've had people
in Florida that have been victimized by trend de Aragua
gang members.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
DeSantis made those comments yesterday during a news conference here
in Clearwater. And now Attorney General James Utmeier's office is
reviewing state laws tied to narcotics and the importing of criminals.
I don't know if there's something that they would be
able to get Maduro on tied to him letting people
(01:04):
out of prison.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
So what law does that break? I just bet there
isn't one on the books.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
And there's a reason why there's been so much focus
on narco trafficking and those kinds of things when it
comes to Maduro, even though the reasons that he was
captured extend far beyond all of that. It's because of
the legal justification for conducting that operation and for charging
him and winning in courts.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yeah, you've got to have charges that you can bring
against him.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
We're going to have more on the governor's reaction to
the situation in Venezuela coming up at eight thirty five
when we check in with the publisher of Florida Politics,
Peter Shorshe also I want to mention Senator Rick Scott.
He made some interesting comments during an appearance on News Nation.
He said the Cuban government could be overthrown as soon
as this year or next year.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
It's going to be the end of the Dais Canal regime.
The Cashal regime is going to have. But if we're
in the processes that happen now, I mean, I was just.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Think like within a week or within weeks or months.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Everything takes longer than you think, right, Look, i'd like
everything that happened today, for the kids of Venezuela, for
the kids of Cuba. I think it's going to happen,
you know, I think it will probably happen, maybe this year,
maybe next year.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
It's going to happen.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
I thought Maduro will be out by Christmas. He took
a little bit longer. So who knows when it's going
to happen. But we're going to get democracy. This is
not other parts of the world. In the Southern Hemisphere,
people have fought for democracy. They have a background of
fighting for freedom. The people in Cuba are fighters for
freedom right. So this is going to happen. I don't
know when it's going to happen. Today, it'll be a
(02:40):
great day, but it will happen.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Typical politician can't answer the question. We wanted a date
August fourteenth of twenty twenty six. The Cuban regime is falling.
I think if there's a way for us to ramp
up pressure on Qube even more than what we're currently doing,
now is definitely the time to do it. Now, let's
bring in our national correspondent, Rory O'Neill, who supports brought
to you by Mark Spain real Estate. So Rory you know,
(03:02):
eyes had been on these prediction markets for a while
now boughts with what happened in Venezuela and one wager
in particular, there's some real concern about people using inside information.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
To make a lot of money.
Speaker 7 (03:19):
Yeah, because there are real national security concerns too. So first,
just to back up a couple of quick steps, these
prediction markets essentially let you bet against one another. So
unlike betting on your sports betting app and you're betting
against the casino in the house. Instead, you put up
a bet that says, how does you know where is
Ryan flying?
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Too? That got him so mad at the ara, and
then you can sort of bet that baby.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
But it's but you bet against one another, you're not
necessarily betting against the house. And that's how these sites
like polymarket have sort of been skirting around state gambling
laws in particular.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
But so a guy on Friday place.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
Is a thirty thousand dollars bet it says that there
will be an invasion and Maduro is about to be
removed thirty thousand dollars. A couple hours later pays off
to the tune of four hundred and thirty six thousand,
seven hundred and sixty dollars. A nice retrections was that
was that inside information? Was this person one of the
journalists at the Washington Boast of the New York.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Times that got the leading Yeah, I was thinking it
must have been somebody, you know, on the inside of
the operation. But that's another good possibility running.
Speaker 7 (04:27):
Was it someone who trained for this in Kentucky that
they had, you know, the Delta Force had been training
in Kentucky for months. Was it someone on a ship
in the Caribbean, you know, who was taking part of
this operation.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
If it was a member of the military, I'd be
a little less pissed off. If it was a journalist
or somebody in the administration, then.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
I'd be more angry. Or a member of Congress or
something like that.
Speaker 7 (04:45):
Someone who works at the Pentagon or Yeah, it could
have been anybody and we won't know. And all this stuff,
by the way, is typically paid out in crypto, so
good luck tracing it, right.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
That's the other issue.
Speaker 7 (04:54):
By the way, did you see this polymarket's not going
to pay off the bet?
Speaker 5 (04:58):
Really?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
There?
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Well, this is for now.
Speaker 7 (05:02):
They're they're holding back because it was not They're taking
the GOP line it wasn't an invasion, It was a
law enforcement on this.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
If you learns out on four hundred thousand dollars over
that technicality, man, geezes, that's what.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
You get for trying to, you know, make money off
of your insider information. Yeah, but so can anybody just
go on there and make a bet and then you
just eat Yeah again, And all.
Speaker 7 (05:31):
Kinds of bets are on there, you know, where will
Taylor Swift get married?
Speaker 5 (05:35):
When will she get married? And typically they're.
Speaker 7 (05:37):
They're, they're, they're yes and no questions and then yeah,
what's happened is as they people place bets, it sort
of shows you the percentage likelihood of things happening, and
it actually has become a very accurate predictor of current events.
But there are questions, as we laid out about national
security because imagine someone in Maduro's guard team.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Saw the bets of geez somebody just put thirty grand
down the bet.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
We better put him behind the steel door.
Speaker 8 (06:05):
Right.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
So that's a good point, that's a real concern American
we get on there.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
We should.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Well, there's one will Trump acquire Greenland before twenty twenty seven?
And it's got a thirteen percent chance that you could
bet yes or no, and there's a lot of people.
It's like, I think it's two million dollars worth of
volume being bet on that. Oh my god, right now,
and the answer is yes, absolutely, he's gonna acquire it.
Speaker 7 (06:33):
There was ten point five million bet on the quote
unquote invasion of Venezuela that it would happen between now
in March thirty first.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
And then will the iotola be out a supreme leader
of Iran by June thirtieth. There's a thirty five percent
chance that'll happen. You got a lot of people.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Bet on that.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
And right next to you know, these foreign policy issues,
when will the new Stranger Things episode be released by you.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
All over the place and laws haven't caught up with it?
And yeah, it's it's it's it's frightening out there.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
It's fascinating, that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
But you know, I didn't even think of the other
types of people that could, like a journalist who win
the event who it yeah, yeah, that maybe that was
the person who put thirty thousand, although I don't know
the journalist that's thirty yeah, or a member of our
special force. I don't know the day of that either,
All right, let's get to the Epstein files. Were joined
(07:29):
by our national correspondent Rory O'Neill. This thing keeps playing out,
and one of the questions that I'm starting to have,
why are there so many records? Why are there so
many things to review? And and why are we just
now learning that there are millions of records? Wasn't this
supposed to be figured out back when Attorney General Pam
(07:50):
Bondi said she was sending people to the Southern District
of New York to round up the files and bring
them back to DC.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
Right, so the slope, okay, but they had a just
nineteenth deadline to release all the files. The Justice Department
provided the judge an update this week, saying, well, we're
still going through the documents to make sure no victims'
names are included.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
We've got about two million more documents to go through. Now.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
A lot of them are duplicative, because, don't forget, you
had multiple investigations of the same thing happening. Epstein getting
investigated in New York and in Florida Eley.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Maxwell getting investigated. So a lot of this.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
Stuff is all just duplicative, and that's what they're trying
to go through telling the court. They've got four hundred
lawyers and one hundred other documents specialists working through this.
But I think a lot of Americans feel the way. Well,
come into two camps. It's the release everything, Release it now.
Let's get Prince Andrew and everybody else and Bill Clinton,
(08:44):
or it's the oh god, I'm so sick of this,
let's move on.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Well, based on what's been released up to this point,
there were some concerning things that we saw obviously, but
there hasn't been that bombshell. I think a lot of
people thought it was going to be in there well.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
And one of the things that seemed to be a
bombshell was that letter from Epstein to Larry Nasser saying
that you know, Trump is like one of us, and
he likes young girls. And that turned out to be fake.
So there's also a lot of fake stuff in there.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
There was also a fake video of Epstein in his
cell looking like he was trying to kill himself, and
that turned out to be fake. So I think there
was so many things, like think about all the crazy
conspiracy theorists out there who are going to take some
little piece of information that they find and submit it
as evidence. I think all that stuff is getting released too,
like just everything they have on Epstein, and so they
(09:32):
probably have to sort through a bunch of junk.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah, they're flooding the zone, it sounds like with this
big document dumps and then ain't got to sift through
it all. But my thing is, look, the Attorney General Pamboni,
she promised us this. I mean it was months ago.
I just don't understand how you're still finding documents and
having to go through all of it. I thought she
said she had everything well, and then fourth of July weekend,
(09:56):
right is when they announced there's nothing here, nothing to prosecute. Wait,
you've got two million documents you haven't seen yet and
you're already deciding, right, yeah, to prosecute bungle this thing.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
Man from the game, I've done a really bad job.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
And that big fourth thing, that that big note that
came out that said what was it? Ten suspected co
conspirators were identified in one of those email chains, And
you're like, wait, ten all right, Prince Andrew Andrew von
mount Batton windsor that guy that guy now the man
formerly noticed Prince Yeah, and the and who would the
(10:30):
other nine like, what's the deal?
Speaker 6 (10:31):
Why have they be charged? That's exactly right. There'still more questions.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I do want answers, but I just think the whole
thing and maybe that's part of.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
The reason is so much brought out. People lose attention,
their attention span. All right.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Rory O'Neil our national correspondent with us this morning. Rory,
thanks so much.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Hey, thanks Ryan.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
I'm bringing our.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
White House correspondent John Decker. Now, John, it's great to
talk to you this morning. And President Trump spoke to
Republicans and House GOP policy retreat, had some very interesting
things to say.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
What were some of the highlights.
Speaker 8 (11:06):
Well, to me, I watched and covered this speech that
the President delivered yesterday. It was ninety minutes long, and
the President really didn't make any news in all honesty
until the eighty fourth minute of that ninety minute long speech.
And that's what he said to those House Republicans at
their January retreat. If I don't win, if you don't
(11:27):
win and keep control of the House of Representatives in
the midterm elections, I will most certainly be impeached by
House Democrats. So that to me is some major news.
If indeed that happens, A lot needs to take place
for that to happen. But first and foremost, the President
would like to keep control of the House of Representatives
in November.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
Well, Trump knows out of playthings.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
You don't give away the big reveal, you know, within
the first couple of minutes, So you got to keep
people sticking through the entire speech. And look, when it
comes to House Republicans holding on to control of that chamber,
I mean, it's getting more difficult just to have a
majority right now because you had a Republican from California
(12:10):
die suddenly at the age of sixty five. That seat's
going to be vacant until a special election is held.
And you've got Marjorie Taylor Green her resignation now in
effect she's out. You've got representative Yeah, you've got a
representative from Indiana hospitalized after a car accident, eighty year old.
(12:31):
I don't know if he's planning on run for reelection not.
Probably at eighty you figure he's got a few more
terms left in him. Luckily he's going to be okay.
But I mean the margin is really thin right now,
It's razor thin.
Speaker 8 (12:42):
You are absolutely right, So right now, on paper, it's
a two eighteen to two thirteen advantage that Republicans have
in the House of Representatives. But what that means is
that Republicans can only afford to lose two House Republicans
if everyone is present, if it's a voter along party lines.
(13:03):
That's a little too close for comfort, certainly for House
Speaker Mike Johnson. And you mentioned the reasons why the
death that happened for that Republican Congressman LaMalfa yesterday that
brings their number down. And then you mentioned Marjorie Taylor
Green who's leaving Congress and it will take some time
to throw phil her seat as it relates to a
(13:24):
special election.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Yeah, and there's a special election to fill a Texas
House seat that's going to happen later this month and
Democrats have a shot there, so again that could have
an impact on the majority. So you know, we're looking
ahead to the midterms, but Republicans have to navigate things
right now until we get there. And some big items
(13:45):
are on the agenda, including things like healthcare and you know,
funding the government by the end of the month.
Speaker 8 (13:52):
Yeah, big items for sure, and otherwise it's going to
be essentially nothing getting done and in Congress in this
very important midterm year for the president. And then you
look ahead and if indeed what the President is projecting
may happen, and that is a democratic takeover of the House,
then you have essentially paralysis in Congress for the president's
(14:16):
final two years in office.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
All right, Our White House correspondent John Decker with us
this morning. John, really appreciate it. We'll talk to you tomorrow. Thanks, Ryan,
Bye bye. Within hours of President Trump announcing Nicholas Maduro's capture,
AI generated images and videos started to flood social media.
Many of the deep fakes showed Maduro in handcuffs in jail.
(14:39):
Some showed him sitting alongside rapper Sewan. Did he combs?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
It really is crazy, And some of them are so elaborate,
like all the videos of him dancing, and then did
you see the one where it kind of morphed him
and Trump together sitting behind the desk.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
Oh really? Oh yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
So some of the images they mixed real details with
fake scenes, so people had no idea what was real
what wasn't. And researchers say this was one of the
first major breaking news events where AI visuals specifically overwhelmed
real time reporting.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
It was just too much. It was flooding social media.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
NewsGuard identified multiple faker misleading images that drew more than
fourteen million views on x in just under two days.
And of course you had some big accounts, public figures.
They share the content and then it eventually gets debunked.
And what you also had, So you had some of
the fake images, like like Maduro with Diddy, but then
(15:40):
you also had clips showing Venezuelan celebrating in the streets
and this was an AI generated but it was footage
that was from earlier events. It wasn't tied to what
just happened, So just misleading.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Those are so.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
And then we did that story earlier in the week
about the guy in Maine who Maduro was wearing his
hoodie and he said he thought it was AI messaging him.
That did turn out to be real, I think, unless
we find out it was fake.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
But and then Trump, he eventually posted a verifying image
of me Durero on custody, but some people didn't think
it was real because of all the fake stuff that.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
Was out there.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
It's crazy with Trump, You've got a story on AI
this is fantastic.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
This might be my favorite story of the morning.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
So some police departments are now using AI software to
generate police reports from the bodycam footage. And recently a
police department had in their report that an officer shapeshifted
into a frog, and so then they had a human
go back through the report like, how did this happen?
This isn't real. Well, while they were in the home,
(16:45):
the Princess in the Frog movie was on the TV
and the body camp picked it up, picked up the
audio of them talking about the man shape shifting into
a frog.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
And it's well, you've got to figure I'm sure that
is one of the more frustrating annoying parts of the gig,
having to go write these reports.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Oh yeah, absolutely, Well, and the guy, the guy who
writes the report says that this new software is saving
him six to eight hours of work a week. But
when something like that pops up and gets flagged and
you're gonna see, what.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
The hell is this? Still a few kings that need
to be worked out.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
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