1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:05,960 Speaker 1: Good morning, Cooner country. I want to wish all of 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,080 Speaker 1: you a very happy, healthy New Year, and if the 3 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 1: last couple days have been anything to judge to go by, 4 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:19,799 Speaker 1: we are going to have a rollicking new year. So 5 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:26,080 Speaker 1: President Trump wasted no time in now setting the pace, 6 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:31,800 Speaker 1: the tempo, the agenda for twenty twenty six, and on 7 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:37,080 Speaker 1: Saturday he announced to the country that in a shock 8 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:44,480 Speaker 1: and awe military operation that was absolutely brilliantly conducted. There's 9 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:47,879 Speaker 1: no question about it, whether you're for or against what 10 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 1: Trump did the military. The surgical precision, the accuracy, the 11 00:00:56,200 --> 00:01:02,800 Speaker 1: overwhelming use of power, how decisive, how precise, how clinical 12 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 1: it was, was really a military masterpiece. There's no other 13 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:11,680 Speaker 1: way to put it. About one hundred and fifty bombers, 14 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:18,000 Speaker 1: fighter jets, helicopters were involved in a high stakes, high 15 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:26,760 Speaker 1: risk military operation that was backed up by apparently CIA 16 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 1: and US intelligence who had penetrated Venezuela. They took out 17 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:36,480 Speaker 1: the electrical grid, then they bombed key air defense systems, 18 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 1: and then they sent in a helicopter with Delta Force 19 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:46,080 Speaker 1: special forces in which they got Maduro in his hunkered 20 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 1: down compound as he and his wife desperately tried to 21 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:54,880 Speaker 1: get to a steel enforced safe room. They didn't make it. 22 00:01:55,680 --> 00:02:01,440 Speaker 1: Maduro and his drug trafficking fellow wife were captured. They 23 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:06,000 Speaker 1: were then extracted, put on a warship, and now as 24 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 1: you and I speak, they have been processed and they 25 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:13,720 Speaker 1: are being detained in the Southern District of New York 26 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:19,120 Speaker 1: in Brooklyn, where today they will face indictments for narco 27 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:25,520 Speaker 1: terrorism and cocaine trafficking. It is a military operation that 28 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:31,680 Speaker 1: shocked Caracas, Washington, and the world. And let me just 29 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:36,160 Speaker 1: say this right out of the gate. The Democrats, from 30 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:40,400 Speaker 1: the moment it was announced that Maduro had now been 31 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:46,400 Speaker 1: ousted and deposed, started with a ridiculous, pathetic line of 32 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:53,520 Speaker 1: argument that the operation was illegal, that the operation was unconstitutional, 33 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:59,000 Speaker 1: that President Trump is a dictator. They're not letting up, 34 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 1: and so they have condemned the operation from start to finish. 35 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:10,359 Speaker 1: Let me just say this, It was one thousand percent legal. 36 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 1: It was one thousand percent constitutional. This has been done 37 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 1: for the last forty years President George H. W. Bush 38 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:26,799 Speaker 1: Bush forty one. Notice the Democrats didn't complain then when 39 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:29,799 Speaker 1: it was Bush forty one, when we sent in the 40 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:37,320 Speaker 1: US Marines, invaded Panama and overthrew that dictator, slash drug trafficker, 41 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:43,040 Speaker 1: narco terrorist General Manuel nor Diega, no congressional approval whatsoever. 42 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:47,680 Speaker 1: Nobody talked about impeaching the president. Nobody said it was 43 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 1: a war crime, Nobody said it was illegal. Okay, you 44 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:54,840 Speaker 1: don't like that one. How about when the dear litter 45 00:03:56,160 --> 00:04:05,000 Speaker 1: Barack Hussein Obama attacked Libya and destroyed that entire country 46 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:09,920 Speaker 1: and by the way, unleashed American forces, American air power, 47 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:17,000 Speaker 1: American missiles, American boots on the ground, with no congressional authorization, 48 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 1: zero none. We overthrew Kadafi, We shattered the country, We 49 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:27,479 Speaker 1: gave half of it to al Kada, and Kadaffi was 50 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:32,159 Speaker 1: literally dismembered on the streets of Tripoli, the capital of Libya. 51 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:37,159 Speaker 1: And yet the very same Democrats, the very same media hacks, 52 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 1: who are yelling and screaming is illegal just as unconstitutional. 53 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:47,160 Speaker 1: Where's your legal authority to do this? What did they 54 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 1: say about Libya when it was Obama and the Democrats? 55 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:58,400 Speaker 1: They supported it, they applauded it. You phonies, you frauds. 56 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:04,000 Speaker 1: You So to me, there is no question, no question 57 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 1: that this was legal, that this was constitutional, that this 58 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:14,839 Speaker 1: was from a military point of view, this is the 59 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:22,200 Speaker 1: Trump doctrine to come in with massive, overwhelming, decisive force. 60 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:27,040 Speaker 1: The more we find out about the operation itself, how 61 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:31,720 Speaker 1: it was months in planning, how many fighter jets were involved, 62 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:36,479 Speaker 1: how many warships it was a naval flotilla, how many 63 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 1: US special forces, how many CIA operatives penetrated. Not just Venezuela, 64 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:47,760 Speaker 1: but apparently we had a mole within Maduro's inner circle 65 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:52,159 Speaker 1: who was feeding us information for months on what he ate, 66 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:57,240 Speaker 1: when he slept, what he wore, his schedule, his routine, 67 00:05:57,640 --> 00:06:00,400 Speaker 1: his travel, when he went to the toilet, when he 68 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:04,039 Speaker 1: didn't go to the toilet. We knew everything about him. 69 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:11,800 Speaker 1: And so for months the our military constructed a sort 70 00:06:11,839 --> 00:06:17,400 Speaker 1: of makeshift compound very similar to Maduro, and they trained 71 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:21,480 Speaker 1: again and again and again in order to pull off 72 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:26,120 Speaker 1: this flawless extraction. And the most remarkable thing about this 73 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:32,800 Speaker 1: is that not a single American soldier or a service 74 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:40,119 Speaker 1: member died. Maduro was toppled without the loss of a 75 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 1: single American life. That to me is absolutely incredible. It's 76 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:52,479 Speaker 1: almost unheard of. Several service members were injured, but these 77 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:57,719 Speaker 1: were minor injuries. One of our helicopters was damaged but 78 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:02,360 Speaker 1: managed to get out of venezeul and it's in safe hands. 79 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:08,040 Speaker 1: So other than a damaged helicopter and several wounded service 80 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 1: members who will all make a full recovery, no one 81 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:19,280 Speaker 1: was killed. So from a military standpoint, from an operational standpoint, 82 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:25,720 Speaker 1: this is incredible. This was basically a flawless, flawless raid 83 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:31,480 Speaker 1: and execution of American power. Let me also say this 84 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 1: because I think this is also undeniable for the people 85 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:40,800 Speaker 1: of Venezuela. They are dancing on the streets of Caracas. 86 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:44,400 Speaker 1: The media is not showing you the images that are 87 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:50,320 Speaker 1: being broadcast all over Latin America, how Venezuelans are ripping 88 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 1: down all the posters, all of the portraits of Maduro 89 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 1: across the city, and how they are dancing on the 90 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:05,800 Speaker 1: streets that the Venezuelan diaspora in Miami, in Las Vegas 91 00:08:06,440 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 1: and Buenos Aires in Chile, all over the world are celebrating, 92 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:19,720 Speaker 1: chanting Venezuela, Libra, Venezuela, Libra. Venezuela is now free. Venezuela 93 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 1: is now free. Maduro was a communist, He was a 94 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:28,920 Speaker 1: mass murderer, He was a drug trafficker, he was a 95 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 1: narco terrorist who starved his people, eight million of them. 96 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:39,960 Speaker 1: It's a country of twenty eight million people, eight million 97 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:47,800 Speaker 1: of them were starved into leaving their homeland. Venezuela's biggest 98 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:52,760 Speaker 1: export wasn't oil under Maduro, it was migrants. It was people, 99 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:59,720 Speaker 1: because that's how badly his criminal narco trafficking regime ran 100 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:03,800 Speaker 1: that country into the ground. So to me, there is 101 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:10,560 Speaker 1: no question that for Venezuela and the Venezuelan people, this 102 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:15,840 Speaker 1: is going to be a huge, huge improvement in their lives, 103 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:20,200 Speaker 1: at least in the short term. Because there is now 104 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:26,080 Speaker 1: a big if behind this entire operation, and that is 105 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:32,079 Speaker 1: what now comes next. If there's a civil war, if 106 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:36,600 Speaker 1: the remnants of the Maduro regime, if Marxist guerrillas who 107 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:39,520 Speaker 1: are coming in from Colombia and other parts of Latin 108 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 1: America decide to wage a terrorist insurgency, then maybe it 109 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 1: may not be so good for the Venezuelan people. And 110 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:52,600 Speaker 1: a year or two or three we shall see. But 111 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:56,040 Speaker 1: in the short term, there's no question this is benefiting 112 00:09:56,080 --> 00:10:02,920 Speaker 1: the Venezuelan people. To me, as an America first conservative, 113 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:08,479 Speaker 1: and you know my position, I'm generally a non military interventionist. 114 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:13,720 Speaker 1: I don't like military interventions. I don't like regime change. 115 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:17,600 Speaker 1: I rarely support them. I think they lead to eventually 116 00:10:17,679 --> 00:10:22,920 Speaker 1: to nation building and ultimately a quagmire and disaster. My 117 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:29,360 Speaker 1: question is was it legal yes? Was it constitutional yes? 118 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:35,680 Speaker 1: Was it militarily brilliant yes. Will this benefit Venezuela and 119 00:10:35,679 --> 00:10:42,280 Speaker 1: the Venezuelans Yes? But is it in America's national interest? 120 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:46,920 Speaker 1: Six one seven two six, six sixty eight sixty eight 121 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:55,000 Speaker 1: is the number? Okay? Trump orders Operation Absolute Resolve, a 122 00:10:55,080 --> 00:11:00,560 Speaker 1: stunning nighttime raid in which the Venezuelans socialists wrong man 123 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:03,880 Speaker 1: Nicholas Maduro and his wife, she, by the way, was 124 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:07,720 Speaker 1: involved in all of his narco terrorism. Both of them 125 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 1: were seized in the middle of the night. They were captured, 126 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:17,040 Speaker 1: and now they were deposed, obviously ousted from power. And 127 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:20,840 Speaker 1: now they are sitting in a prison cell in the 128 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:24,520 Speaker 1: Southern District of New York in Brooklyn, where today they 129 00:11:24,559 --> 00:11:28,360 Speaker 1: will be officially indicted in court in the United States 130 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:33,360 Speaker 1: in New York on narco terrorism and cocaine trafficking charges. 131 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:38,080 Speaker 1: Now I laid out all the reasons which is obvious. 132 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:44,960 Speaker 1: This was a spectacular military operation. That this was vintage Trump. 133 00:11:45,559 --> 00:11:49,240 Speaker 1: When he does something, he does it extremely well. When 134 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:53,440 Speaker 1: he warned Maduro repeatedly, he gave him off ramp after 135 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:59,520 Speaker 1: off ramp, exit after exit, get stepped down. Your days 136 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:03,839 Speaker 1: are numbers, step down. He refused to take the off ramp, 137 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:08,400 Speaker 1: and Trump now is shown again. He means what he says, 138 00:12:09,320 --> 00:12:13,960 Speaker 1: and he says what he means, and now Maduro is 139 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,400 Speaker 1: probably looking at the rest of his life behind bars 140 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:22,000 Speaker 1: al a Panamanian dictator, Manuel nor Diega. It clearly was legal, 141 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:26,240 Speaker 1: It clearly was constitutional, It clearly had forty years of 142 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:31,160 Speaker 1: precedent behind it. So everything the Democrats are barking about 143 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:35,520 Speaker 1: and the media is crying about as usual, is a 144 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:39,520 Speaker 1: pack of lies in propaganda. Now for the coooner Man 145 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:45,280 Speaker 1: as a committed America First conservative, as an anti war conservative, 146 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:49,480 Speaker 1: as someone who that does not like regime change, I 147 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:54,400 Speaker 1: oppose regime change, I oppose nation building, and in particular 148 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:58,520 Speaker 1: the question that, to me, determines every foreign policy action 149 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:04,400 Speaker 1: as it advanced the national interests of the United States, 150 00:13:05,280 --> 00:13:08,920 Speaker 1: it advances the interests of Venezuela. There's no question, and 151 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:12,920 Speaker 1: the people of Venezuela, there's no question. Maduro was a thug, 152 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:18,120 Speaker 1: a mass murderer, a communist, a narco trafficker a terrorist. 153 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:21,800 Speaker 1: The people are dancing in the streets of Caracas for 154 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:28,320 Speaker 1: a reason because the butcher of Caracas is gone. But 155 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:30,920 Speaker 1: I'm not thinking about the people of Venezuela, with all 156 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:34,040 Speaker 1: due respect to them. I'm thinking about what's good for 157 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:38,440 Speaker 1: the United States of America and to me. When Trump 158 00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:42,640 Speaker 1: addressed the country and then did a press conference back 159 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:47,400 Speaker 1: and forth taking questions on Saturday, hours after the successful 160 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:52,160 Speaker 1: military operation, this is what changed it for the cooner 161 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:56,440 Speaker 1: man Roll cut three, Mike. 162 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:02,600 Speaker 2: We're going to run the country until such time as 163 00:14:02,640 --> 00:14:08,200 Speaker 2: we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition. So 164 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:11,840 Speaker 2: we don't want to be involved with having somebody else 165 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:14,599 Speaker 2: get in and we have the same situation that we 166 00:14:14,679 --> 00:14:18,000 Speaker 2: had for the last long period of years. So we 167 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:21,200 Speaker 2: are going to run the country until such time as 168 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:26,040 Speaker 2: we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition. And 169 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:31,120 Speaker 2: it has to be judicious because that's what we're all about. 170 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:35,200 Speaker 2: We want peace, liberty, and justice for the great people 171 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:40,280 Speaker 2: of Venezuela, and that includes many from Venezuela that are 172 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:43,280 Speaker 2: now living in the United States and want to go 173 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:45,480 Speaker 2: back to their country. 174 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:50,360 Speaker 1: It's their homeland now. Look, the people of Venezuela are 175 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:54,280 Speaker 1: a great people, the Venezuelans who live in the United States. 176 00:14:54,680 --> 00:15:00,320 Speaker 1: I understand they lost everything. The Maduro regime expropriated everything 177 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:04,080 Speaker 1: they had, so I understand they're happy that Maduro's gone 178 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:06,840 Speaker 1: and they want to hopefully go back to their homeland 179 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:12,560 Speaker 1: and rebuild their country. But I'm sorry I didn't vote 180 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:15,400 Speaker 1: for this. Let me be very honest with you, like 181 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:20,520 Speaker 1: I'm in the confessional. If I asked you the day 182 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:25,080 Speaker 1: before President Trump was elected, Okay, November twenty twenty four, 183 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:29,600 Speaker 1: the day before the election, do you want President Trump 184 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:34,920 Speaker 1: to send in the Special Forces, the US military, And 185 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:37,880 Speaker 1: do you think it is of our vital national interest 186 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:41,920 Speaker 1: that we depose and overthrow the Maduro regime or are 187 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:45,560 Speaker 1: you voting for that. I think most of you would 188 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:49,240 Speaker 1: have said no. I know I would have said no, 189 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:57,920 Speaker 1: this is regime change, this is nation building. And Trump 190 00:15:57,960 --> 00:16:00,680 Speaker 1: went on to say later I'll play the cut, but 191 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 1: just to sum it up quickly, he said no, He's 192 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:07,360 Speaker 1: already appointed a quote unquote transition team. It's going to 193 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:12,520 Speaker 1: be led by Marco Rubio Pete hag Seth, General Dan Kane, 194 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:16,320 Speaker 1: the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and basically, now we're 195 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:20,720 Speaker 1: going to be running Venezuela. Now, we're not talking for 196 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:23,160 Speaker 1: a couple of weeks or maybe even a couple months, 197 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:27,320 Speaker 1: as President Trump and his team are telling the media, 198 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:31,320 Speaker 1: we're looking at at least a year, if not several 199 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:36,360 Speaker 1: years for a proper transition to take place, because their 200 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:43,440 Speaker 1: goal is to rebuild Venezuela's oil infrastructure, which is now 201 00:16:43,520 --> 00:16:48,840 Speaker 1: decrepit thanks to Maduro and Chavez is predecessor. And so 202 00:16:48,880 --> 00:16:51,320 Speaker 1: they say to make Venezuela. And this is actually the 203 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:55,880 Speaker 1: term that Trump used to make Venezuela quote unquote great again. 204 00:16:56,960 --> 00:17:01,240 Speaker 1: We have to get the oil flowing from the ground. Now, 205 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:09,359 Speaker 1: I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Is this Donald 206 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:15,639 Speaker 1: Trump or is this George W. Bush. I voted for MAGA. 207 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:22,160 Speaker 1: I voted for America First. I voted for minding our 208 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:27,520 Speaker 1: own business and ending forever Wars. I didn't vote for 209 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:33,920 Speaker 1: the Trump Bush doctrine, the Trump Bush neo conservative agenda. 210 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:37,400 Speaker 2: We can't take a chance and somebody else takes over 211 00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:40,800 Speaker 2: Venezuela that doesn't have the good of the Venezuela and 212 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:45,040 Speaker 2: people in mind, we've had decades of that. 213 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:50,560 Speaker 1: We're not going to let that happen. We're there now. 214 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:54,680 Speaker 2: And what people don't understand, but they understand as I 215 00:17:54,760 --> 00:18:00,440 Speaker 2: say this, we're there now. But we're going just say 216 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:05,200 Speaker 2: until such time as the proper transition can take place. 217 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:07,360 Speaker 2: So we're going to say until such time as we're 218 00:18:07,359 --> 00:18:09,719 Speaker 2: going to run it, essentially until such time as a 219 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:12,200 Speaker 2: proper transition can take place. 220 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:18,640 Speaker 1: That's where we lost me, to be honest, that's exactly 221 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:21,720 Speaker 1: where we lost me. Okay, six thirty two on the 222 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:26,440 Speaker 1: Great WRKAO Jeff Kooner Boston's Bulldozer Again. I want to 223 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:30,959 Speaker 1: wish everyone a very happy and healthy new year. So look, 224 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:33,480 Speaker 1: this is and I want to have a nice open 225 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:38,400 Speaker 1: debate about this, hopefully can be civil. To me, this 226 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:40,360 Speaker 1: is where I think Trump has made a big mistake 227 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:44,359 Speaker 1: from an America first point of view. Forget the Democrats, 228 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:48,040 Speaker 1: forget the media. I'm talking now about what's in the 229 00:18:48,119 --> 00:18:52,000 Speaker 1: national interest of the United States and what I voted for, 230 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:54,920 Speaker 1: and I think millions and millions of his supporters voted for. 231 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:58,879 Speaker 1: We didn't vote for regime change. We didn't vote this 232 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:02,160 Speaker 1: is nation building. This is nation building. Let's be honest 233 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:07,800 Speaker 1: about it. We're now in the business of reconstructing Venezuela. 234 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:12,200 Speaker 1: We're now in the business of running a third world country, 235 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:17,040 Speaker 1: and it's going to take tens, if not hundreds of 236 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:21,280 Speaker 1: billions of dollars. Trump says the oil companies will put 237 00:19:21,359 --> 00:19:23,480 Speaker 1: up most of the money. The oil companies are now 238 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:25,760 Speaker 1: saying we're not interested in putting up most of the money. 239 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:29,679 Speaker 1: So there's already a problem there. We're going to have 240 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:32,720 Speaker 1: to put more boots on the ground just to protect 241 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:38,359 Speaker 1: the oil infrastructure as we try to modernize the pipelines 242 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:43,720 Speaker 1: extracting oil from the ground. Their entire ooral oil infrastructure 243 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:49,480 Speaker 1: that Maduro and Chavz justlaid waste to, I mean just destroyed. 244 00:19:50,359 --> 00:19:53,639 Speaker 1: So we're going to be there for many years to come. 245 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:57,639 Speaker 1: There's no let's not delute ourselves. This is not a 246 00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:00,640 Speaker 1: two week, three week, four week, two months, three month 247 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:05,160 Speaker 1: operation in and out. And I didn't vote for this. 248 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:09,600 Speaker 1: And let me ask all of you leave Trump out 249 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:15,480 Speaker 1: of the equation. If I said to you Obama or 250 00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:21,600 Speaker 1: Joe Biden or George W. Bush or Jeb Bush or 251 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:27,040 Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham or Bill Clinton or Hillary Clinton would put 252 00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:32,200 Speaker 1: in an operation to overthrow the Maduro regime and then 253 00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:34,560 Speaker 1: say We're going to be running that country for at 254 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:37,560 Speaker 1: least a couple of years until we can assure a 255 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:44,399 Speaker 1: quote unquote proper transition. Would you be for it or 256 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:48,520 Speaker 1: would you be saying, we got problems at home, we 257 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:51,760 Speaker 1: need to be running another country like we need a 258 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:58,000 Speaker 1: hole in the head. Has Afghanistan taught us nothing? Iraq 259 00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:03,880 Speaker 1: taught us nothing? Has Libya taught us nothing? Has nation 260 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:08,040 Speaker 1: building after nation building after nation building taught us nothing. 261 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:17,280 Speaker 1: Venezuela is not our problem. We have enough problems here 262 00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:22,320 Speaker 1: at home, and I just want to play one more 263 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:24,920 Speaker 1: cut because I think to me it sums up everything 264 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:29,600 Speaker 1: that's now gone wrong in the strategic thinking of this administration, 265 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:35,240 Speaker 1: which has gone This is a Bush administration. Now, this 266 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:39,320 Speaker 1: is very similar to George W. Bush, Jeb Bush, the 267 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:44,679 Speaker 1: so called freedom Agenda, spread democracy around the world, taupel governments, 268 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:49,239 Speaker 1: tappel regimes. To me, this is not us minding our 269 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:54,200 Speaker 1: own business and taking care of America for Americans. We're 270 00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:59,640 Speaker 1: now becoming the global cop. We are turning Venezuela into 271 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:07,119 Speaker 1: a p tectorate. Listen now to President Trump, because I 272 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:12,320 Speaker 1: think this pretty much lays out exactly now where we're 273 00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:20,520 Speaker 1: heading with this in terms of the future and how 274 00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:24,439 Speaker 1: long we're going to be there. So listen now to 275 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:32,400 Speaker 1: the reporter asked the president, this partnership with Venezuela, how 276 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:36,320 Speaker 1: long is this thing going to last? Roll cut five, Mike. 277 00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:41,720 Speaker 2: This partnership of Venezuela with the United States of America, 278 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:45,879 Speaker 2: a country that everybody wants to be involved with because 279 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:49,680 Speaker 2: of what we were able to do and accomplish, will 280 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:54,639 Speaker 2: make the people of Venezuela rich, independent, and safe. And 281 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:59,520 Speaker 2: it will also make the many many people from Venezuela 282 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:03,280 Speaker 2: that are living in the United States extremely happy. They suffered, 283 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:07,040 Speaker 2: they suffered, so much was taken from them. They're not 284 00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:08,160 Speaker 2: going to suffer anymore. 285 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:14,000 Speaker 1: Okay, But I didn't elect you to make Venezuela and 286 00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:20,480 Speaker 1: these are his words, rich, independent, and safe. We're not 287 00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:26,679 Speaker 1: rich yet. We're not really independent yet. We're not really 288 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:32,399 Speaker 1: safe yet. We have twenty five thirty million illegals in 289 00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:35,280 Speaker 1: our country. It is so bad we have to have 290 00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:38,000 Speaker 1: the National Guard in many of our major cities. We're 291 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:42,280 Speaker 1: not safe in terms of us being independent. We're still 292 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:46,480 Speaker 1: struggling with China. We're still struggling with the globalists. We're 293 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:49,560 Speaker 1: still trying to reassert our sovereignty in the face of 294 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:54,840 Speaker 1: massive international opposition. And as for us being rich, I 295 00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:57,199 Speaker 1: don't know about you. I don't feel rich. Do you 296 00:23:57,280 --> 00:24:03,920 Speaker 1: feel rich? What I'm saying is the President's own internal polling. 297 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:07,840 Speaker 1: Forget the polls out there in the White House. They 298 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:12,359 Speaker 1: did internal polls, and they said that the American people 299 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:18,000 Speaker 1: are turning on President Trump and his agenda. Why because 300 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:23,600 Speaker 1: they believe he is too preoccupied with foreign affairs. All 301 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:26,200 Speaker 1: he's been doing the first year, for the most part, 302 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:30,080 Speaker 1: is trying to make peace deal after peace deal after 303 00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:34,000 Speaker 1: peace deal after peace deal. And so they said that 304 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:37,600 Speaker 1: the number one the five top priorities for the American 305 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:41,000 Speaker 1: voter heading into these historic midterm elections. This is a 306 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:49,720 Speaker 1: midterm election year. Inflation, the cost of living, the economy, jobs, 307 00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:54,639 Speaker 1: and the cost of health care. That's literally the top five. 308 00:24:56,240 --> 00:25:01,520 Speaker 1: It's not running Venezuela, it's not running god Zah, it's 309 00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:06,240 Speaker 1: not making peace between Russia and Ukraine. It's not I 310 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:09,320 Speaker 1: could go on and on bombing Syria as we recently did, 311 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:13,080 Speaker 1: like this is not, by the way. Now, the big 312 00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:17,400 Speaker 1: story just broke overnight. Trump and his national security team 313 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:21,040 Speaker 1: now say they want to make an aggressive play for Greenland, 314 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:24,960 Speaker 1: that they're not gonna put maximum pressure to try to 315 00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:29,120 Speaker 1: come in and take over Greenland. So what is this 316 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:32,040 Speaker 1: Now We're gonna be embroiled in what a conflict now 317 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:36,200 Speaker 1: with the European Union, a diplomatic conflict anyway, a political 318 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:42,360 Speaker 1: conflict over Greenland they're now talking about potentially Now Rubio 319 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:45,840 Speaker 1: and Trump are saying Cuba better watch out, Columbia better 320 00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:51,080 Speaker 1: watch out. This is Bush's them on steroids. We're just 321 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:54,520 Speaker 1: gonna be with topping, you know, toppling regime after regime 322 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:59,680 Speaker 1: after regime. So this is not what I voted for. 323 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:04,320 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I didn't vote for this. I wanted you 324 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:07,840 Speaker 1: to bring down inflation. I wanted you to take care 325 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:10,840 Speaker 1: of the cost of living. I wanted you to secure 326 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:14,480 Speaker 1: the border. I wanted you to deport every single illegal 327 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:18,159 Speaker 1: alien out of the United States. I wanted you to 328 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:24,040 Speaker 1: renegotiate these trade deals. I wanted you to put America 329 00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:27,960 Speaker 1: and Americans first, and to stop getting US involved in 330 00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:38,320 Speaker 1: regime change, nation building, and endless protracted involvements. They're now 331 00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:44,639 Speaker 1: talking about at least a two to three year transition process, 332 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:50,520 Speaker 1: and that's assuming that everything goes well. We don't know 333 00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:53,720 Speaker 1: what's going to happen. We don't know what the reaction 334 00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:58,760 Speaker 1: from the remnants of the Maduro regime will be. Will 335 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:04,200 Speaker 1: they wage a gorilla insurgency against American troops or against 336 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:06,760 Speaker 1: American oil companies that are going to be invited to 337 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:10,280 Speaker 1: come in. Are we going to have a potential civil war? 338 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:16,160 Speaker 1: Are our troops going to get sucked in more and 339 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:20,080 Speaker 1: more as we're responsible to restore order and stability in 340 00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:26,600 Speaker 1: that broken, shattered country. No one again, It's what we've 341 00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:31,440 Speaker 1: been doing for the last forty years. We tapple a government, 342 00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:36,960 Speaker 1: we topple a regime. The military execution is spectacular and brilliant, 343 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:43,040 Speaker 1: But what comes after? No one thought about this in Afghanistan? 344 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:48,320 Speaker 1: What comes next? In Iraq? What comes next? In Libya? 345 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:54,720 Speaker 1: What comes next? In Syria? What comes next? Now it's Venezuela. 346 00:27:55,320 --> 00:28:02,320 Speaker 1: What comes next? And so this is not to me 347 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:10,080 Speaker 1: America first. This is Venezuela first. So my advice to 348 00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:17,640 Speaker 1: the president get out, get out, don't get involved in Venezuela. 349 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:19,280 Speaker 1: It's not our business. 350 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,639 Speaker 3: The US is going to run Venezuela. So who's in 351 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:23,520 Speaker 3: power right now? 352 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:25,679 Speaker 2: Well, we're going to be running it with a group 353 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:28,040 Speaker 2: and we're going to make sure it's run properly. We're 354 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:31,360 Speaker 2: going to rebuild the oil infrastructure, which of course billions 355 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:34,280 Speaker 2: of dollars. It'll be paid for by the oil companies directly. 356 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:39,760 Speaker 2: They will be reimbursed for what they're doing. But it's 357 00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:42,120 Speaker 2: going to be paid and we're going to get the 358 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:44,000 Speaker 2: oil flowing the way it should be. As you know, 359 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:45,840 Speaker 2: it was just a minor flow. It is actually a 360 00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:48,120 Speaker 2: minor flow for what they are, But we're going to 361 00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:49,800 Speaker 2: run it properly, and we're going to make sure the 362 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,400 Speaker 2: people of Venezuela are taken care of. We're going to 363 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:54,640 Speaker 2: make sure the people that were forced out of Venezuela 364 00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:58,040 Speaker 2: by this thug are also taken care of. 365 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:03,760 Speaker 1: Look, how is this our business again? 366 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:04,000 Speaker 4: Look? 367 00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:06,480 Speaker 1: I love the guy, you know me. I love the guy. 368 00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:09,280 Speaker 1: Voted for him three times, with vote for him three 369 00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:12,360 Speaker 1: more times. But we got to take care of the 370 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:15,680 Speaker 1: people of Venezuela. Why we got to take care of 371 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:20,440 Speaker 1: the people who fled Venezuela. Why, like, did you vote 372 00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:24,880 Speaker 1: for this? I didn't vote for this. So my question 373 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,360 Speaker 1: to you, uh six point fifty now on the grey 374 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:32,880 Speaker 1: WRKO Jeff Cooner Boston's Bulldozer six one seven two six 375 00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:38,000 Speaker 1: six sixty eight sixty eight. A, do you support Trump's 376 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:45,480 Speaker 1: decision to overthrow Nicholas Maduro the Venezuelan socialist dictator? And 377 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:49,040 Speaker 1: B And this is now the one that's really causing 378 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:51,440 Speaker 1: a lot of controversy or at least debate and discussion. 379 00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:57,040 Speaker 1: Trump now says, for a quote unquote undefined transition period, 380 00:29:57,440 --> 00:29:59,040 Speaker 1: which now looks like it's going to be at least 381 00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:05,680 Speaker 1: several years, the United States will be running and governing Venezuela. 382 00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:12,280 Speaker 1: Should we be running Venezuela? Six one seven two six 383 00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:17,080 Speaker 1: six sixty eight sixty eight line. You know my position? No, 384 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:23,280 Speaker 1: call quick elections and get out, get out, because this 385 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:26,640 Speaker 1: thing could be another quagmire. But that's me I want 386 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:30,000 Speaker 1: to hear from you. Six one seven two six six 387 00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:36,800 Speaker 1: sixty eight sixty eight lines are loaded. Tommy in West Virginia, 388 00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:42,560 Speaker 1: You're gonna kick us off. First caller of twenty twenty six, Tommy, Welcome. 389 00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:47,880 Speaker 4: And happy new year to Cooner Country, and happy new 390 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:49,640 Speaker 4: year to you and your family, Jess. 391 00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:51,800 Speaker 1: Thank you, Tommy, Happy new year, all the best to 392 00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:53,040 Speaker 1: you and your whole family. 393 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:59,040 Speaker 4: Thank you. You left a one very important factor in 394 00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:08,040 Speaker 4: this military raid in regime change. China, Russia, Iran and 395 00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:14,760 Speaker 4: Hamas or possibly Hesbala has their feet in the ground 396 00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:20,160 Speaker 4: in Venezuela. And I'm not a scholar on the Monroe 397 00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:24,760 Speaker 4: doctrine by any chance, by any stretch the imagination, but 398 00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:28,320 Speaker 4: I do support what Trump is doing in this case. 399 00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:32,440 Speaker 4: And yes, he went back on a political campaign promise, 400 00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:35,600 Speaker 4: and he needs to make it clear to the American 401 00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:41,840 Speaker 4: people why this is necessary, why they need to install 402 00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:45,360 Speaker 4: and he needs to come out and say it. We 403 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:51,560 Speaker 4: need to install a constitutional republic for the people of 404 00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:55,479 Speaker 4: Venezuela so we won't have to go through this again. 405 00:31:56,800 --> 00:32:01,120 Speaker 4: And China has been going into all these third world 406 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:05,800 Speaker 4: countries with a lot of cash building up their infrastructure. 407 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:10,200 Speaker 4: We don't have the money to do that the Chinese 408 00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:16,680 Speaker 4: do for now in the foreseeable future. They are not 409 00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:21,000 Speaker 4: our friends. And what happens if the Chinese start putting 410 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:29,240 Speaker 4: naval ships in that country? So this is basically we're 411 00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:32,600 Speaker 4: heading them off at the past and the other thing. 412 00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:36,040 Speaker 4: What's in it for me as an American on a 413 00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:43,960 Speaker 4: fixed income. If Venezuela with American oil companies start producing oil, 414 00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:49,840 Speaker 4: the prices will continue to go down. Yes, the United 415 00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:53,480 Speaker 4: States is the world's largest producer of oil in natural 416 00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:58,160 Speaker 4: gas as of now. But the more the merrier when 417 00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:02,360 Speaker 4: it comes to this and this, the hand ringing that's 418 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:05,560 Speaker 4: going to go on on national public radio is going 419 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:10,120 Speaker 4: to be incredible today. And all I can say is 420 00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:15,560 Speaker 4: that Trump needs to make it clear what our intentions are, 421 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:21,240 Speaker 4: and it would really be nice that within say two years, 422 00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:26,880 Speaker 4: and it's not going to take years to redo their infrastructure. 423 00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:33,160 Speaker 4: Look at what happened with Iraq after nineteen ninety one, 424 00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:38,200 Speaker 4: or excuse me, Kuwait after what happened in nineteen ninety one. 425 00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:44,280 Speaker 4: I remember the famed scientist Carl Sagan going billions and 426 00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:47,560 Speaker 4: billions of years it'll take before we're able to get 427 00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:50,560 Speaker 4: those oil wells out, And they got them out within 428 00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:53,920 Speaker 4: a few months. Some guy named Rehdadare from Texas figured 429 00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:58,920 Speaker 4: out a way to put those burning oil feels out 430 00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:01,840 Speaker 4: and then within a few years Kuwait was back to 431 00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:06,920 Speaker 4: doing what it does producing oil. And the kuwaitis it's 432 00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:09,759 Speaker 4: a small Arab country, but they have an incredibly high 433 00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:14,160 Speaker 4: standard of living and the same thing could happen for 434 00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:17,480 Speaker 4: the people in Venezuela. And the good news is if 435 00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:20,200 Speaker 4: they can bring some stability in a big country like 436 00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:24,160 Speaker 4: that South America, and let the rest of the South 437 00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:28,920 Speaker 4: American countries know. Look, the days of having fascist dictators 438 00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:32,000 Speaker 4: and socialist dictators are over with. And all I have 439 00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:34,880 Speaker 4: to do is point out what happened with El Salvador, 440 00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:39,880 Speaker 4: with the supposed authoritarian president. I watch a lot of 441 00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:43,719 Speaker 4: YouTube videos in my retirement, and there's people that go 442 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:46,760 Speaker 4: to El Salvador now where they talk to the local 443 00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:51,799 Speaker 4: street vendors and they say, no, his plan, the crack 444 00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:55,600 Speaker 4: dawn on corruption and crime has worked. It's a very 445 00:34:55,640 --> 00:35:01,200 Speaker 4: safe country to go to now. And unfortunately, the limp 446 00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:07,080 Speaker 4: risted men of National Public Radio and especially the Associated Press, 447 00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:11,840 Speaker 4: and I stress that point, limp risted men will never 448 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:16,800 Speaker 4: tell you that side of the so called authoritarian president. 449 00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:21,360 Speaker 4: So anyway, no, I support what Trump's doing, but he 450 00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:25,200 Speaker 4: needs to be clear and make it perfectly clear that yes, 451 00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:28,600 Speaker 4: and he also needs to warn the people that whether 452 00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:34,360 Speaker 4: they be rebels from Columbia or communists, insurgeons or whatever, 453 00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:39,440 Speaker 4: that no, it's not going to happen. Those are my thoughts. Jeff, 454 00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:40,360 Speaker 4: Thank you. 455 00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:43,560 Speaker 1: Interesting Tommy, as always, thank you very very much for 456 00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:46,440 Speaker 1: that call. Look, I can just tell you this is 457 00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:51,719 Speaker 1: what's happening almost as we speak. The vice president, though 458 00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:54,719 Speaker 1: she was the vice president under Maduro, who, by the way, 459 00:35:54,840 --> 00:36:00,520 Speaker 1: is a hardcore socialist, communist believer. I mean she's she's 460 00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:05,160 Speaker 1: a fanatic. She came out yesterday and delivered a scathing 461 00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:08,960 Speaker 1: speech saying that she's now the de facto president. She 462 00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:12,200 Speaker 1: was sworn in. Rubio apparently has been talking to her, 463 00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:15,120 Speaker 1: and she came out and said that, by the way, 464 00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:19,759 Speaker 1: flanked by her interior minister, her defense minister, both of 465 00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:23,360 Speaker 1: whom are involved in narco terrorism. I don't mean like 466 00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:27,520 Speaker 1: as an opinion indicted. They have been indicted in the 467 00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:31,200 Speaker 1: Southern District of New York along with Maduro. So the 468 00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:35,440 Speaker 1: two guys also wanted by the Americans, by the US government, 469 00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:38,960 Speaker 1: by US and in part of the indictment in the 470 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:42,200 Speaker 1: New York the Southern District of New York, were right 471 00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:45,120 Speaker 1: beside her, one on the left, the other one on 472 00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:49,560 Speaker 1: the right, and by the way, flanked by every of 473 00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:54,760 Speaker 1: Venezuelan military general under the Maduro regime. And she said 474 00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:58,200 Speaker 1: that austing Maduro was illegal. Look, I don't care what 475 00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:00,839 Speaker 1: she says. I'm just explaining to you. She says it 476 00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:04,839 Speaker 1: was illegal. She condemned it. She then said that Venezuela 477 00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:07,520 Speaker 1: will fight to the death and that we will no 478 00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:10,319 Speaker 1: longer be slaves and that we will not be the 479 00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:14,160 Speaker 1: colony of any empire. And so she's trying to rally 480 00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:18,520 Speaker 1: the pro Maduro military and the remnants of the pro 481 00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:22,319 Speaker 1: Maduro regime who are still running the country. I mean, 482 00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:25,279 Speaker 1: Trump says we're running the country. But in terms of 483 00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:29,880 Speaker 1: who the actual leader is, it's Maduro's vice president and 484 00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:32,719 Speaker 1: the rest of his cabin his corrupt cabinet. These are 485 00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:36,040 Speaker 1: all people who've been stealing, plundering that country, i mean, 486 00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:41,000 Speaker 1: bleeding it white, and running their massive cocaine trafficking operation. 487 00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:46,399 Speaker 1: They're still in power. So this is a dilemma now 488 00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:50,440 Speaker 1: that Trump has either you deal with the remnants of 489 00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:55,000 Speaker 1: the regime, so how much can you really clean up Venezuela, 490 00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:58,680 Speaker 1: or you've got to completely purge the regime. But the 491 00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:02,440 Speaker 1: more you purge the regime, and Rubio admitted this, the 492 00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:06,560 Speaker 1: more troops American troops you have to send in. Now, 493 00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:10,560 Speaker 1: the other wild card in this, just very quickly is 494 00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:16,279 Speaker 1: Maria Corrina Machado. She led the opposition, by the way, 495 00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:18,880 Speaker 1: she's very pro Trump. She's the one who won the 496 00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:23,760 Speaker 1: Nobel Peace Prize. Trump, in his press conference on Saturday, 497 00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:27,280 Speaker 1: I remember I found it very striking. Others did as well. 498 00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:31,000 Speaker 1: He was asked about Machado and said, well, you would 499 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:33,839 Speaker 1: obviously want Machado to eventually take over. I mean, her 500 00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:38,680 Speaker 1: party won the election against Maduro. Maduro stole the last election. 501 00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:43,040 Speaker 1: Maduro was an illegitimate president. It was a legitimate It 502 00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:47,080 Speaker 1: was a sham stolen election. It wasn't even close. Her 503 00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:51,719 Speaker 1: party destroyed Maduro in the elections in twenty twenty four. 504 00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:55,480 Speaker 1: So are you now looking to pave the way to 505 00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:58,440 Speaker 1: eventually get rid of the Meduro regime and have the 506 00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:04,520 Speaker 1: opposition led by Machado takeover. Trump's response was no, he 507 00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:08,759 Speaker 1: would prefer to work with this vice president, Maduro's number two, 508 00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:13,000 Speaker 1: and that Machado, according to Trump, I'm gonna use practically 509 00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:17,839 Speaker 1: a verbatim quote, doesn't have the support or the respect 510 00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:24,840 Speaker 1: necessary in Venezuela to successfully run the country. So in 511 00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:30,240 Speaker 1: the short term, at a minimum, he's now sidelined. Machado. 512 00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:35,040 Speaker 1: So the opposition in Venezuela is sort of like, what 513 00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:38,920 Speaker 1: did we do? I thought, if you know, if if 514 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:43,759 Speaker 1: Maduro falls, we get to come to power Trump I 515 00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:48,719 Speaker 1: think I think he wants to minimize disruption. I think 516 00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:52,600 Speaker 1: he wants to minimize our involvement. He can see this 517 00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:57,160 Speaker 1: could be quicksand very fast. The problem now is I 518 00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:59,560 Speaker 1: don't know if the opposition is going to accept this 519 00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:05,200 Speaker 1: new Vie president. So this thing could unravel very quick, 520 00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:09,440 Speaker 1: very very quick. And that's why I think Trump has 521 00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:12,520 Speaker 1: to make a decision. Are you going to stay in 522 00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:15,839 Speaker 1: bed with the old regime as long as they tow 523 00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:19,799 Speaker 1: the line on oil and on not dealing anymore with 524 00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:23,640 Speaker 1: Russia and China and not sending drugs to our country? 525 00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:26,799 Speaker 1: Or are you going to say out with all of them, 526 00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:30,880 Speaker 1: just take out the entire regime and replace them with 527 00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:35,360 Speaker 1: Machado and the opposition. If he goes the second route, 528 00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:40,719 Speaker 1: then the military may turn and wage a gorilla insurgency. 529 00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:44,920 Speaker 1: So Trump doesn't want to see that. That's why he's 530 00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:47,840 Speaker 1: trying to tell them, we'll work with you if you 531 00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:53,640 Speaker 1: work with us, and freezing out the opposition. But my 532 00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:57,520 Speaker 1: overall point, and I get where Tommy's coming from. Look, 533 00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:00,560 Speaker 1: I don't like Russia and China in Venezuela. I don't 534 00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:04,080 Speaker 1: like Iran in Venezuela. I don't like the Maduro regime. 535 00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:08,000 Speaker 1: I never have to me either a satellite of Cuba. 536 00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:11,840 Speaker 1: It's a vile anti American regime. Please don't get me wrong. 537 00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:16,760 Speaker 1: But you know the expression, you break it, you own it. Well, 538 00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:21,839 Speaker 1: we've now broken it and now we own it. And 539 00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:25,200 Speaker 1: I don't think it's as easy as people think. I 540 00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:29,000 Speaker 1: think again, we've gotten ourselves, we've gotten ahead of our skis. 541 00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:33,880 Speaker 1: We did a great brilliant military operation to topple a 542 00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:38,080 Speaker 1: government or a leader. But we don't think and plan 543 00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:42,280 Speaker 1: for what comes next. And I fear what comes next 544 00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:46,360 Speaker 1: may not be in our national interest. But again that's me. 545 00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:50,799 Speaker 1: Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight 546 00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:55,440 Speaker 1: Todd in Cambridge, Thanks for holding Tod. 547 00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:59,000 Speaker 3: And welcome morning, Jeff. Thanks for taking my call and 548 00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:00,680 Speaker 3: having year you and your family. 549 00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:02,560 Speaker 1: All the best to you and your family. 550 00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:05,440 Speaker 3: Talk A quick question before I get to my main point. 551 00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:08,920 Speaker 3: Though Biden offered a twenty five million dollar bounty on 552 00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:12,160 Speaker 3: Maduro's head, Trump got him. I say, pay that man 553 00:42:12,239 --> 00:42:16,040 Speaker 3: his money. Could you imagine if he insisted on that 554 00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:18,960 Speaker 3: twenty five billion, I would be that would be the 555 00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:25,160 Speaker 3: ultimate bag there. But anyways, for decades now it seems 556 00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:28,520 Speaker 3: we have had the new access of evil against us, 557 00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:32,279 Speaker 3: like with Russia, Iran, China, North Korea, and Venezuela, and 558 00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:34,319 Speaker 3: one at a time without going to war with them, 559 00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:38,000 Speaker 3: we've dismantled every single one with them. With China, their 560 00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:41,279 Speaker 3: strength was through manufacturing. We impose the tariffs and brought 561 00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:45,520 Speaker 3: manufacturing back to America. With Russia, we told Europe you 562 00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:48,239 Speaker 3: need to pump up your defense, spending the five percent. 563 00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:48,600 Speaker 4: Of your GDP. 564 00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:52,600 Speaker 3: And with Iran, well, one bad night, I'll cure everything 565 00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:55,319 Speaker 3: over there. And then with North Korea, we had to 566 00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:57,680 Speaker 3: sit down talk with Build the leader over there, and 567 00:42:57,719 --> 00:43:00,279 Speaker 3: told them, you want to be like Taiwan, someday you 568 00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:02,319 Speaker 3: better start acting like us. And we haven't heard a 569 00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:05,200 Speaker 3: peep from him since. And now we went after Venezuela. 570 00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:08,160 Speaker 3: All this without going to war against all five of 571 00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:11,120 Speaker 3: them at once, which would have been another World War three. 572 00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:14,759 Speaker 3: And every single one of our actss of evil are 573 00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:19,920 Speaker 3: enemies against us are falling, And I could not be happier. 574 00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:23,799 Speaker 3: Jeff and I say, go, President Trump, are you. 575 00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:26,680 Speaker 1: Worried at all that this could become a quagmire? 576 00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:31,000 Speaker 5: Todd perhaps, But. 577 00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:32,600 Speaker 3: On the same token, what do we do for the 578 00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:36,160 Speaker 3: last four years complained, Oh, China's getting stronger, I ran 579 00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:39,280 Speaker 3: just a much closer to a nuclear warhead, and Russia's 580 00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:41,239 Speaker 3: on the verge of taking over Europe, and we kept 581 00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:43,840 Speaker 3: worrying about all these other things. But no matter what 582 00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:47,160 Speaker 3: the president does, if he spends time dealing with things abroad, 583 00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:49,319 Speaker 3: we say, he needs me to be spending more time 584 00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:51,759 Speaker 3: worrying about things at home. And when he worries about 585 00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:53,480 Speaker 3: things at home, we say, look at how much stronger 586 00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:54,319 Speaker 3: our enemies. 587 00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:55,920 Speaker 4: Have gotten overseas. We're never happy. 588 00:43:56,280 --> 00:43:58,080 Speaker 3: So I don't want to hear it. I'm just saying 589 00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:01,439 Speaker 3: he's doing the right thing, and it's a long it's 590 00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:03,959 Speaker 3: a long game, and all this without going into World 591 00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:05,799 Speaker 3: War three. I say, go President Trump. 592 00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:09,239 Speaker 1: Todd, thank you very much for that call. I really 593 00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:13,200 Speaker 1: appreciate it. Six one seven two, six, six sixty eight, 594 00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:16,880 Speaker 1: sixty eight is the number. Okay, So both Tommy and 595 00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:20,200 Speaker 1: Todd say, look at the big picture. The big picture 596 00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:24,879 Speaker 1: is Trump is reasserting American dominance in the Western hemisphere. 597 00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:29,200 Speaker 1: This is a blow against China, against Russia, against Iran, 598 00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:33,440 Speaker 1: and against this axis of evil against the United States. 599 00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:40,720 Speaker 1: He's doing it judiciously, smartly, intelligently. He's unraveling and taking 600 00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:45,160 Speaker 1: apart this axel peace by piece, sorry, this axis, peace 601 00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:48,959 Speaker 1: by piece by piece. In other words, this is three 602 00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:53,680 Speaker 1: dimensional chess. Trump is looking at the big picture and 603 00:44:53,719 --> 00:44:57,160 Speaker 1: he's just taken a major piece off the board for Tehran, 604 00:44:57,480 --> 00:45:03,359 Speaker 1: Moscow and Beijing. Two six six sixty eight sixty eight 605 00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:09,200 Speaker 1: is the number Angelo in Rockland. Thanks for holding Angelo, 606 00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:10,560 Speaker 1: and welcome. 607 00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:14,759 Speaker 5: Those first two calls. Jeff, I believe they hit the 608 00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:17,920 Speaker 5: nail on the head. I mean, let's forget what's going on. 609 00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:24,600 Speaker 5: We're being hit from Oh my god, Islam, the big 610 00:45:24,640 --> 00:45:27,600 Speaker 5: just out of control what they're doing all over our country. 611 00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:33,520 Speaker 5: Get the drugs in, weak in our youth, radicalize everybody, 612 00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:38,239 Speaker 5: support Hamas there's a lot going on here. Someone has 613 00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:40,880 Speaker 5: to pick up the ball and do something, and he 614 00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:44,319 Speaker 5: is doing that. Uh, it'll it'll pan out. It's in 615 00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:49,840 Speaker 5: our best interest. It's just terrible that no one else 616 00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:51,760 Speaker 5: sees that. I think a lot of people are getting 617 00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:56,480 Speaker 5: paid off and they're gonna argue the fight in Congress 618 00:45:56,520 --> 00:46:00,239 Speaker 5: because a lot of their money trails is definitely drying up. 619 00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:04,000 Speaker 5: Between doge, between getting all these drugs off the streets, 620 00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:06,640 Speaker 5: everybody has a loved one or a friend that they know, 621 00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:10,920 Speaker 5: or a family member they lost because of fetanol. I'm 622 00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:13,560 Speaker 5: not saying this is revenge for that, but it has 623 00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:18,239 Speaker 5: to stop. And no one's stepping up. Everything's wrong, everything's wrong. 624 00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:20,879 Speaker 5: This is our backyard. We have to clean it up. 625 00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:23,879 Speaker 5: Please him in the year with drones and do your thing, 626 00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:26,640 Speaker 5: and just he's doing the right thing. 627 00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:28,760 Speaker 4: I believe to tie. 628 00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:31,960 Speaker 5: Up all our money to get them out would be 629 00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:34,719 Speaker 5: in our best interest. It's not what we voted for. 630 00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:37,479 Speaker 5: But if we don't do it, it's closing that eye 631 00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:40,600 Speaker 5: and then they creeps up again on us and we're 632 00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:42,560 Speaker 5: in the same boat again. I mean, it has to 633 00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:46,279 Speaker 5: be done. It's like an investment in our future. And 634 00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:49,240 Speaker 5: I saw, you know, just to keep us safe and sound. 635 00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:52,880 Speaker 5: But get that price down, get the food down so 636 00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:54,879 Speaker 5: we don't hear the belly ache. And always not doing 637 00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:57,480 Speaker 5: this and the other thing. Don't lose sight of keeping 638 00:46:57,520 --> 00:47:00,959 Speaker 5: price down for Middle America. That built America to breed 639 00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:04,439 Speaker 5: what it is today. And we got to weed out 640 00:47:04,480 --> 00:47:09,000 Speaker 5: that radical Islam. And because it's got we can't live 641 00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:11,799 Speaker 5: by the laws. This is our law land. You get 642 00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:14,480 Speaker 5: out if you don't like it. I wrap them all 643 00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:16,719 Speaker 5: up like a Christmas gift and send them over to 644 00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:18,440 Speaker 5: the Middle East. Again, I'll see a lada. 645 00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:20,360 Speaker 1: What do you think, Angela? 646 00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:20,560 Speaker 4: Look? 647 00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:23,920 Speaker 1: Just to bounce off of your point, and this is 648 00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:27,440 Speaker 1: a point I made on X last night. You know, 649 00:47:28,520 --> 00:47:31,000 Speaker 1: one of the biggest stories of the last four or 650 00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:35,120 Speaker 1: five days, and it's been lost amidst the capture and 651 00:47:35,239 --> 00:47:38,880 Speaker 1: the ouster of Maduro, is what happened in New York City. 652 00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:43,600 Speaker 1: Here you ad speaking of Islam and communism. You had 653 00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:49,960 Speaker 1: an Islamo communist Zoron Mumdani inaugurated sworn in as the 654 00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:53,759 Speaker 1: new mayor of New York. He was sworn in on 655 00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:59,120 Speaker 1: the Qoran, on the Quran, and then in his inaugural 656 00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:04,759 Speaker 1: address literally said to the United States, we have to 657 00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:11,440 Speaker 1: embrace quote unquote the warmth of collectivism, that we have 658 00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:16,600 Speaker 1: to overthrow what he called the frigidity of rugged individualism, 659 00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:22,080 Speaker 1: in other words, everything that made America great and replace 660 00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:27,920 Speaker 1: it with the warmth of collectivism, which was an open 661 00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:34,640 Speaker 1: call for communist revolution, where he openly said we are 662 00:48:34,719 --> 00:48:38,080 Speaker 1: you know, you may think the Constitution guarantees your individual 663 00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:42,600 Speaker 1: freedoms and your individual rights. No, no, no, no, like Stalin, 664 00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:47,359 Speaker 1: like Lenin, like all these other communists famously said the 665 00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:52,560 Speaker 1: individual is nothing, the collective is everything. And so my 666 00:48:52,680 --> 00:48:56,160 Speaker 1: point is, And by the way, Mamdani huge fan of 667 00:48:56,280 --> 00:49:01,439 Speaker 1: Chavez and Maduro, huge big backer of both of them. 668 00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:05,120 Speaker 1: So Maduro and his predecessor, the man who really created 669 00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:09,600 Speaker 1: the regime, Hugo Chavez. So what I'm saying is, as 670 00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:16,239 Speaker 1: we're toppling socialists strong men abroad in Venezuela and potentially 671 00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:21,719 Speaker 1: getting embroiled now in their internal affairs, we have Islamo 672 00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:29,200 Speaker 1: communism taking root and growing on our domestic soil. You 673 00:49:29,239 --> 00:49:34,600 Speaker 1: want my honest opinion, forget Venezuela. Focus on the socialists 674 00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:39,440 Speaker 1: here because they are rising in our midst and if 675 00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:44,560 Speaker 1: we're not careful, the United States may become Venezuela. Six 676 00:49:44,680 --> 00:49:48,600 Speaker 1: one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight is 677 00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:51,680 Speaker 1: the number. Just my opinion. Take it for what it's worth. 678 00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:57,680 Speaker 1: Dave in Raleigh, Thanks for holding Dave, and welcome. 679 00:49:58,719 --> 00:50:01,279 Speaker 5: Hey, good morning, Jeff, Happy new Happy New year. 680 00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:01,640 Speaker 2: Dave. 681 00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:05,640 Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm with the UH. All. The rest of the 682 00:50:05,680 --> 00:50:07,879 Speaker 6: first call is I'm I'm I'm Paul what he did. 683 00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:10,680 Speaker 6: And it's only been two days, so we don't know 684 00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:14,520 Speaker 6: that it's going to become like Iraq Afghanistan. And remember 685 00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:18,319 Speaker 6: he's not Biden Obama, He's not push and if there is, 686 00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:21,799 Speaker 6: you know, Gorilla Walker said he's gonna hammer him. It's 687 00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:24,840 Speaker 6: not going to be these these uh you know rules 688 00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:27,360 Speaker 6: like the rules of engagement like you know Obama fort and. 689 00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:29,640 Speaker 4: Everything where you can't shoot this, you can't do that. 690 00:50:29,719 --> 00:50:33,120 Speaker 6: Now, it's gonna be much different if Trump, if it's 691 00:50:33,320 --> 00:50:36,080 Speaker 6: under Trump dealing with them in a military way, you know. 692 00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:38,080 Speaker 6: And I agree, Like you said. 693 00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:42,319 Speaker 1: Dave, can you do me a big favor. I'm up 694 00:50:42,360 --> 00:50:45,240 Speaker 1: against the break. I want to come back to you