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Speaker 5: Want to talk about right now, right here. Not twenty

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Speaker 1: Well, you nailed it. Look, this is what I thought

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Speaker 5: As far as Mandani goes, he needs to be careful

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Speaker 1: losing his mind on the air. There's this lawlessness. Get lost.

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Speaker 1: That's the problem with the media. Now. They have lost

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Speaker 1: all credibility because they're paid hacks and liars, and and

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Speaker 1: and and the Democrats, as I said on X last night,

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Speaker 1: to the biggest dippocrits on the planet. If a Democrat

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Speaker 1: overthrows a regime, it's great. If a Republican does it,

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Speaker 1: it's the end of the world. Literally, I've just given

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Speaker 1: you liberals in ten seconds. Mark, thank you very much

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Speaker 1: as always for that call, my friend. Six one seven

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Speaker 1: two six six sixty eight sixty eight. I don't am

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Speaker 1: I wrong. Now let me tell you another angle that

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of people are missing in this.

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Speaker 1: This is going to be tried. It appears there's maybe Miami.

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Speaker 1: I know Miami is trying to get trying to get

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Speaker 1: in on this. I hope they do, But it looks

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Speaker 1: like it's going to be tried. The Maduro trial is

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Speaker 1: going to take place in the Southern District of New York.

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Speaker 1: The Southern District of New York is New York City,

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Speaker 1: New York City. That means the overwhelming majority majority of

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Speaker 1: the potential jurors are diehard anti Trumpers. This is gonna

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Speaker 1: be you know, this is the same venue that you

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Speaker 1: know supports Letitia James and you know did everything in

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Speaker 1: their power to try to send Trump to jail. I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure Maduro is going to be convicted. I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying because there isn't a lack of evidence. The evidence

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Speaker 1: is overwhelming. Was he involved in drug trafficking, no question.

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Speaker 1: In cocaine trafficking, no question, And narco terrorism no question,

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Speaker 1: no question. But there's no longer a question about the

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Speaker 1: evidence and the facts. He's a communist, He's a mass murderer.

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Speaker 1: By the way. He's starved children, literally, he starved children.

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Speaker 4: They don't care.

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Speaker 1: If Trump was the one who lolsted him, and Trump

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Speaker 1: is the one who deposed them, and now Maduro is

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Speaker 1: becoming this hero on the left, this martyr on the left.

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Speaker 1: You could easily say them just to stick it to Trump.

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Speaker 1: They acquit so to be honest, if if you know,

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Speaker 1: if I'm the Department of Justice, I'd get this move

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Speaker 1: to Miami or another district or jurisdiction because I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: trust that jury pool not in the Southern District of

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Speaker 1: New York six two six six sixty eight sixty eight.

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Speaker 1: ED in Maryland, thanks for holding ed and welcome.

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Speaker 4: And Jeff hi Ed. I'll spoke to you a few times.

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Speaker 4: I think you know I'm not a leftist. Look, this

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Speaker 4: is kind of like, I guess in video games, completing

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Speaker 4: the side quest or doing the bonus round before you

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Speaker 4: compete the level, complete the level. I guess we should

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Speaker 4: all sit around and count the number of deep state

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Speaker 4: arrests and indictments. So I guess I'll wait, I'll wait

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Speaker 4: while we count this up. Do you got any of

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Speaker 4: those yet?

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Speaker 1: Well? No, no arrests.

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Speaker 6: No.

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Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, So as a human being, I mean, of course,

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Speaker 4: I mean, great for Venezuela and for the Venezuelan people,

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Speaker 4: but quite honestly, I don't really care, Like, like, who

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Speaker 4: really cares. It doesn't impact my life whatsoever in any regard,

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Speaker 4: not with the economy, not with anything. It doesn't mean anything.

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Speaker 4: This is slop, This is ai slop whatever. This is

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Speaker 4: garbage that they're feeding us. And if people want to

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Speaker 4: ingest it, then great, have a great time. But this

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Speaker 4: is stupid. This is not America first, and I mean

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Speaker 4: this is just a joke. I mean honestly, so Trump

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Speaker 4: somehow has this massive control over this and the military,

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Speaker 4: but he has no control over the justice system. Okay,

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Speaker 4: let me let me let me take that in. Okay,

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Speaker 4: somehow that makes sense. Whatever. This is a fricking joke. Man.

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Speaker 4: We are being spoon fed slot.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, ed just to piggyback off of what

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Speaker 1: you're saying.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 1: And that was part of what I was trying to

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Speaker 1: say in my two part opening monologue, where I said, look, militarily,

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Speaker 1: I think it's been a stunning operation, very successful, no question,

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Speaker 1: But what's in it for US rights as America? First?

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Speaker 1: What's in it? And as I said, I I don't

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Speaker 1: to me, this doesn't you know. I understand, respectfully, there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of arguments out there about why they you know,

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Speaker 1: people believe it's in the national interest. I don't believe

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Speaker 1: it's in the national interest. I believe deporting tens of

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Speaker 1: millions of illegals that's in the national interest. I believe

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Speaker 1: in arresting all these deep state criminals, that's in the

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Speaker 1: national interest. I believe in driving inflation down and reducing

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Speaker 1: the cost of living, that's in the national interest. I

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Speaker 1: believe in getting our out of controlled debt and deficit

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Speaker 1: under control is in the national interest. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to see us enmeshed and embroiled in the internal affairs

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Speaker 1: of Venezuela. And I think this could go south very fast,

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Speaker 1: and even on the drug issue, and you know me,

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Speaker 1: I'm against drugs. I hate fentanyl that's coming in, killing

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Speaker 1: one hundred thousand Americans every year. But the bulk of

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Speaker 1: the fentanyl that comes in is through the Mexican drug cartels.

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Speaker 1: It's not Venezuela. I'm not saying Maduro wasn't in the

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Speaker 1: drug business, of course he was. But the number one

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Speaker 1: producer and distributor of fentanyl by far are the Mexican

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Speaker 1: drug cartels. Well, this doesn't do anything for the Mexican

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Speaker 1: drug cartels. The biggest producer of cocaine is not Venezuela,

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Speaker 1: it's Colombia. Now, the Venezuelan's helping the trafficking of it.

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Speaker 1: But you know, you want to deal with cocaine, it's Colombia.

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Speaker 1: You want to deal with fentanyl, it's Mexico. Maduro sent

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Speaker 1: a lot of cocaine, yes, to the United States, but

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Speaker 1: also to Europe, to the region, to the world. So

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Speaker 1: in terms of dealing with the drug epidemic that's killing

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Speaker 1: our country, if Trump said We're declaring war on the

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Speaker 1: Mexican drug cartels, I'd say, amen, that's America first, that

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Speaker 1: affects you It affects me because that's what's killing our people.

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Speaker 1: But Maduro is you know, look, he's a despicable man,

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Speaker 1: but he's a failed third world Latin American socialist despot.

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Speaker 1: There's dozens and dozens and dozens of them. We lived

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Speaker 1: with the guy for thirteen years. This guy didn't fall.

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Speaker 1: So the question I have is what was so what

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Speaker 1: was the imperative? What was so overriding that we had

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Speaker 1: to take him out? Now? Like, what what's changed in

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Speaker 1: the last two months that all of a sudden we

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Speaker 1: had to conduct this operation. And then the part that

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Speaker 1: blew my mind is when then Trump said, well, We're

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Speaker 1: gonna run Venezuela and I'm like, what