WEBVTT - Mike Allen Saturday Mid-Day --1/3/26 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:06.720 News Radio seven hundred WLW Mike Allen and Saturday Midday 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:08.840 and a cold Saturday morning. 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:10.120 Yeah. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:13.399 I tell you what, you never know what you're gonna 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:16.040 get when you wake up in the morning. I mean, 0:00:16.400 --> 0:00:21.640 it's always something, sometimes good, sometimes not so good. Well, 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:24.960 this morning was a good one. Woke up to the 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:31.240 news that none other than Venezuelan dictators strong man is 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:36.360 picked up. He's Gonzo, no more, no more fooling around. 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:38.000 With that guy. He's gone. 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:41.880 Nicholas Maduro, president strongman, whatever you want to call him. 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:47.000 He claimed to be I guess president of Venezuela, but 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:51.040 he was not elected in any kind of election that 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:55.800 was sanctioned. Strong evidence that he cheated to get there. 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:57.840 So we got him. 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:00.920 We got him not only with military force, but law 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:02.080 enforcement personnel. 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:04.000 We're involved in it as well. 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:07.280 And at eleven o'clock President Trump is going to have 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:10.240 a news conference and make a statement. We will be 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:13.400 covering that as I understand it. But the thing is 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:17.520 almost never never starts on time, so my guess be 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:20.919 probably somewhere closer to eleven thirty. 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:22.560 But he's captured. 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:25.960 He and his wife, they will both be guests tonight 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:30.520 at the Federal Crowbar Hotel somewhere in the United States 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:35.600 courtesy of the United States government, and President Trump made 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:41.040 a statement on X I guess yeah, X no true 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:46.280 social I think, And what he said basically was that, look, 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:48.800 you know, we warned this guy. We told him, we 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:51.240 told him we're going to come and get him, told 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:54.360 him to stop doing what he was doing, and he didn't. 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:58.640 Captured and flown out of the country. It was a 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:03.520 large scale strike carried out by the military. Explosions reported 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:08.000 in Caracas and elsewhere. It was a US military's Delta Force, 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:09.639 and of course I'm sure you know about them. 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:11.640 They're an elite special forces unit. 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:15.680 They carried out the operation to capture at Maduro, and 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:18.080 in the coming days we will find. 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:19.680 Out more and more and more about it. 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:24.080 The strikes follow months of US military built up. We 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:26.880 had a aircraft carry down there, the Gerald R. 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:28.680 Ford So and. 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:32.480 In recent weeks we have seized two oil tankers off 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:36.040 the Venezuelan coach coast and as you know, launched a 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:39.280 number of strikes I think it's about thirty on the 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:43.280 drug boats carrying drugs and what President Trump called the 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:44.600 dock area. 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:46.839 Where they load the boats up with drugs. They hit 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:47.359 that too. 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:50.640 So you know, if you're a mother, father, whatever, a 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:55.840 family member that has lost someone to drug abuse, I 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:58.720 think you're probably happy this morning. But you got the 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:02.560 people that are whining and already, and we will talk 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:04.679 about them in a little bit. 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:05.600 But I'll tell you. 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:08.640 When I woke up this morning, it gives me a 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:11.920 sense of pride in my country. I mean not because 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:16.520 people died or anything like that, but because when we 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:20.720 say something in the form of President Trump being the 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:24.680 United States president, we mean it. And I'll tell you what, 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:27.200 you got to hand it to that guy, even if 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:29.079 you don't like him, of course they never will. 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:34.160 If he says he's gonna do something, he does it. Anyway. 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:37.560 He was indicted to back in March twenty twenty all 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:43.520 kinds of serious strong fellony, drug charges, narco terrorism, other 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:46.200 kinds of things, and he will now he will now 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:50.680 stand trial on that. And interestingly enough, Gary Jeff pointed 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:55.200 this out. It is six years to the day that 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:59.880 under the leadership of President George H. W. Bush, we 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:04.320 snatched up Manuel Noriega, same kind of deal drug kingpin, 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:08.640 got him back here, tried him, he was convicted, convicted, 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:12.560 locked up here from nineteen ninety to two thousand and seven, 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:15.520 and then I didn't know this. France got him for 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:19.640 a year twenty ten to twenty eleven. He has returned 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:23.039 to Panama to serve his sentences for the crimes he 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:27.360 committed in that country, and he died in prison complications 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:30.800 from brain surgery. So you know, at the bottom line, 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:34.520 you can run, but you can't hide. If we have 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:37.480 strong leadership in the White House, we're gonna get you. 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:40.200 We're gonna get you one way or the other. And 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:43.359 like I said, you know, it's not as if the 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:46.640 guy wasn't warned. So for me, I woke up this 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:50.279 morning heard about that a renewed sense of pride in 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:54.000 being a citizen of the United States of America. We 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:59.159 are no longer seen as a pitiful giant, if you will. 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:01.800 I've seen as a country that when we say we're 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:06.200 going to do something, we do it. Now, compare and 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:13.560 contrast this with the bungled and deadly Afghaan pullout from Afghanistan. 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:14.960 I'm sure we all remember that. 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:18.599 It was August of two thousand and one. 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:22.920 I watched that and my jaw drop just aghast. 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:30.599 It was unbelievable, so chaotic, so bungled, and so deadly. 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:34.280 I think we lost thirteen service members because of that, 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:38.400 and that was a huge embarrassment for the United States 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:41.600 of America, perhaps the biggest, if not one of the biggest, 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:45.359 that we have ever had, all because of the commander 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:47.599 in chief at the time. He was out the lunch, 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:50.840 Joe Biden. And you know, I'm sorry, I mean, the guy. 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:54.240 We are going to be paying for him for years 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:57.960 and years to come. And just ask yourself a question too, 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:00.920 I mean, what if this or carry out Well, it 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:03.479 wouldn't have been under either of those two, but just 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:09.520 say that it was. I mean, Kamala Harris, please spare me. 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:13.000 That wasn't going to happen, and thank goodness it didn't. 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:17.080 But you get back to the Afghanistan thing. Thirteen service 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:21.000 members killed, we left behind. I think the figure was 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:25.719 about seven or eight billion dollars worth of very very 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:30.880 complex and useful military gear that apparently a lot of 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:33.680 it fell into the hands of al Qaeda. So we're 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:38.080 arming our enemies through our negligence. And then to top 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:45.320 it all off, Joe Biden classified it as an extraordinary success. 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:47.760 I mean, you gotta be kidding me. 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:51.280 And already, already the boo birds are out, one of 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:54.560 which is a Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah. 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:56.680 You know he's all wound up that. 0:06:56.960 --> 0:07:01.000 Well, Congress wasn't notified, what's the president's authority? Blah blah 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:04.440 blah blah blah. And there's Democrats saying that now as well. Now, 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:09.040 just let's think about this for a minute. Congress wasn't 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:11.280 not if I will first and foremost, they don't have 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:14.600 to be. And if they did, are you kidding me? 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:17.440 I mean, if the president, I don't know how he 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:19.600 would do it. I guess he'd have to address Congress 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:24.760 or whatever. If he told them, not ask their permission, 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:27.800 but told them what was going to happen. How long 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:31.960 do you think that would take to get transmitted to 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:34.400 Caracas or somewhere else in Venezuela. 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:37.440 You got to be kidne me. There's no way, there's 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:37.960 no way. 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:41.640 And with respect to his authority to do this, President Trump, 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:44.680 Article two, Section two clause one, I mean, he's the 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:49.080 commander in chief, he commands the military, and he is 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:52.920 well within his power to deploy them for short term, 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:55.560 limited action. Now, of course, if there's going to be 0:07:55.680 --> 0:08:01.440 a a prolonged situation, then Congress can say, probably justifiably so, 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:04.200 that they should have been notified. 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:07.160 That ain't the case here. So I'm not worried about it. 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:10.480 Although you know, somebody will probably file suit in some 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:14.920 federal court because of judge shopping. They may very well 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:20.720 find an Obama or Biden appointee that will kind of 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:24.520 substitute their judgment for that of the commander in chief. 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:26.280 I look for that to happen. 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:29.520 I don't think it'll be successful if it's fair, but 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:33.079 you know, they'll probably do a deal where well, you know, sorry, 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:38.360 you're going to have to return him to Venezuela. And 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:42.080 I say that kind of tongue in cheek, but not really. 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:44.480 I mean, you just don't know anymore. And you have 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:49.479 so many federal judges, well, so many people that are 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:54.040 parading around are impersonating. I guess it's the word. Federal 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:57.640 judges who are nothing more than activist, My goodness. In 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:02.680 this administration, how often have we seen that? Well, here's 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:08.400 an example of the after action report, so to speak. 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:12.520 From the Democrats. You got Senator Reuben Diego. I don't 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:15.680 know what state he's from, but he's a Democrat. Quote, 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:20.880 this war is illegal. Close quote. Shortly after we launched 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:24.480 these strikes against Venezuela, he comes out, he wrote on 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:30.240 x this war is illegal. The senator he isn't. I 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:33.400 admire him for this. US Marine Corps veteran who was 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:37.760 deployed in Iraq called it the second unjustified war in 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:43.160 my lifetime. Again, why can't you just sit back and 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:48.680 take pride in your country? You know, for those that 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:52.240 really don't follow it that closely red China was making 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:58.200 a lot of headway into Venezuela, as was Russia. You know, 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:03.200 I think Trump recognizes the Monroe doctrine. We have to 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:05.679 be pre eminent in South America. 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:07.000 We have to. 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:11.160 But no, let's start picking on him and backbiting and 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:14.920 everything else. And one of the good things about this too, 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:18.800 is that the opposition leader you probably have heard her report, 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:23.199 Maria Corrina Machado. She's the one I believe that won 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:28.480 the one the Nobel Peace Prize, and she praised President 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:31.959 Trump when she accepted it and said that he should 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:33.400 probably should have gotten it. 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:35.600 She's already on the air. I've seen her a couple 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:36.520 times this morning. 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:38.560 Well, I'll tell you there are a lot of people 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:41.000 on one of my I know, the president is another 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:45.880 who would love to see her installed as the president 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:49.160 or the leader whatever they want to call him in Venezuela, 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:54.040 because that country, which is so rich in oil and 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:58.600 natural resources and was really an economy in a country 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:02.040 to be envied not too long ago. It would be 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:06.040 great if she can be installed somehow as a leader 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:08.480 of that country. However, I did here this morning coming 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:13.600 in the vice president of Venezuela, obviously someone that would 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:19.400 have supported the ousted guy that got out of there. 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:24.080 He says now that he is the commander in chief. 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:30.160 So anyway, Nicholas Maduro's VP says, I'm the man. Well, 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:33.200 and again getting back to the lady who were just 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:39.040 talking about Maria Corona Machado, here's what she said. And 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:40.959 I don't think this was yesterday. I think this might 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:43.120 have been a couple of weeks ago. We the Venezuela 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:45.840 and people are very grateful to him, meaning the president 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:49.640 and his administration, because I believe he is a champion 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:53.600 of freedom in this hemisphere. See that's what I'm saying. 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:57.360 The hemisphere is important to us. Biden just kind of 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:00.160 let it go by the wayside, but President Trump is 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:05.959 re establishing the American presence in that area. I guess 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:09.959 they hit him pretty hard. According to CBS, they able 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:14.680 to Grain of Salt, Caracas military bases, and Major Venezuela 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:18.800 in port A, Major Venezuelan port was hit by the 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:23.079 US air strikes. That's what the political opposition says, some 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:28.440 guy named David Smolonsky. He's a spokesman for opposition leader 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:33.160 Oh the good One. Maria Karina Machado told CBS News 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:38.439 the following locations were among those that were hit. Fueraday 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:44.280 Tijuana main artillery base in Caracas, La Carlata main air 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:50.520 base in Caracas, El Vulcan Signal antenna post, and Laguira Port, 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:54.280 which is a seaport on the Caribbean coast. So they 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:57.199 hit him pretty hard. And you know, if it hasn't 0:12:57.240 --> 0:13:01.080 started already, what you're going to be hearing is, well, okay, 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:05.280 you know they got the dictator out, but why did 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:06.959 you have to hit all those ports? 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:09.880 And you know, I don't know what. 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:12.360 The President's response to that will be, but I am 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:15.440 certain whatever it is, it will be justified. I guess 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:18.560 it all boils down to this you know, I'm an attorney, 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:21.560 and obviously I care about the law and the proper 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:25.079 application of the law. But why should I or any 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:31.600 other American citizen really care if we hit all of 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:35.600 these places and there was a military or other reason 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:39.319 for it, which at eleven o'clock, I suppose the President's going. 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:40.120 To lay that out. 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:44.720 You know, immediately you got the ones that are saying, oh, 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:47.760 you know, he can't do this, he's violating the Constitution. 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:49.080 Well, I'll tell you what. 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:52.160 I woke up this morning, I turned on the TV, 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:56.320 I watched it, and it made me more proud than 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:59.280 there already am to be an American. So I'm just 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:02.240 I'm not worried about what these other people say. But 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:06.199 you know, you can bet your bottom dollar probably by 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:08.760 the end of the day or within a couple of days, 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:12.600 somebody's gonna file suits saying he doesn't have the authority 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:16.680 to do this. Let's send Ma Duro back, you know, 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:19.320 because of it. I guess we'll see. I have to 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:22.880 see what happens on that. But again, the way I 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:25.680 look at it, and I think probably the way a 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:28.280 lot of you look at it, is it's pride in 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:29.040 our country. 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:30.840 You know, we are important. 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:35.240 Again, We're not a laughing stock after Afghanistan, we were. 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:40.040 That was an absolute disaster. To watch that. It made 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:43.880 me sick and there was no reason whatsoever for it. 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:46.360 And Biden at the time said, well, you know, Trump 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:49.240 wanted to get out, and he did. Trump was upfront 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:52.840 about that during the campaign, but not like that. There 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:57.480 is no way under President Trump that that would have happened. 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:00.440 It wouldn't have They would have pulled out. They would 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:04.120 have done it in a responsible way where American service 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:07.240 members would not have been killed, and where we wouldn't 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:12.680 have left behind seven eight billion dollars of military equipment. 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:15.960 It's all a matter of how you do it. But 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:18.840 you know, poor Joe, he was out of it and 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:20.200 he probably didn't know what the. 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:20.960 Heck he was doing. 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:24.560 And again, you know, I don't say that lightly, I 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:28.000 really don't. I have been for years very critical of 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:33.120 Jimmy Carter. His presidency was pretty much a disaster. But 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:35.680 he was a moral man and he was a man 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:39.640 who had his wits about him. And if you know 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:43.760 what hit the fan in any kind of real jam 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:46.720 that the United States got in militarily, I think he 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:50.680 would have wrote Risen to the occasion, I do. Thankfully 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:52.920 that didn't happen so we didn't have to see. But 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:57.360 what Joe Biden or even worse, Kamala Harris. I mean, 0:15:57.400 --> 0:16:02.600 can you imagine that, Kamala Harris Commander in chief of 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:06.200 the United States Military. It just it scares you to 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:09.640 even think about it. And you know, we didn't really 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:12.800 come close to having that, but we could have. 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:14.240 We could have. 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:18.480 So as the day unfolds and as the President has 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:22.360 his news conference at eleven o'clock at least scheduled, we're 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:24.360 going to get a lot of particulars on this. But 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:27.080 at the end of the day, I think it's great. 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:32.680 I think we are re establishing ourselves in that hemisphere again. 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:35.400 If you if you don't know anything about it, just 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:39.360 read up on it. Red China, Communists, China and Russia 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:43.400 and others have really tried to exert influence down there 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:46.960 and we can't have it. It sounds like that's over 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:50.000 as far as Venezuela goes, but of course we'll keep 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:52.120 an eye on it. Hey, as always, I want to 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:54.240 hear what you have to think about this. I really do. 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:58.040 Today seven for nine, seven, one, eight hundred, the big 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:10.000 one are the numbers Mike Allen Saturday. Hey, we're back 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:14.960 my call on Saturday midday. Just watching some coverage on 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:19.600 Fox about this. Uh, actually trying to get it turned 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:23.080 down a little bit so I can speak with you. Yeah. 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:26.760 President Trump called Fox and Friends this morning, just a 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:29.199 little bit ago. I got to hear the tail end 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:32.119 of it, but they're talking about what he said. I 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:34.280 just kind of want to give you an update. Still 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:36.240 having that press conference, and we'll get to the phones 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:38.159 here writer if I do this. Still going to have 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:41.880 the press conference at at eleven, but again it's always late. 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:47.280 He did confirm that one helicopter did get hit. There 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:51.680 were injuries, no deaths. He came back, he said, a 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:55.359 couple of guys were hit, but they're gonna make it 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:58.679 so don't know the extent of that yet. Again, no 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:04.359 one passed away, but at least one, presumably soldier Army 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:09.480 member Trow who's flying a helicopter, got hit, he confirmed. 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:15.960 The President confirmed no retaliatory firepower whatsoever from Venezuela. They 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:18.320 didn't respond either they didn't think it was a good 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:21.720 idea or they just didn't know how to, but no 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:28.400 retaliatory firepower. President said that Maduro and his wife were 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:32.840 taken from a safe house in Caracas where they were 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:35.840 in this safe house apparently, and the President said it's 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:39.520 like a fortress, all kinds of metal doors and everything 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:43.840 like that, but he said that he got bum rushed. 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:47.600 Maduro did buy these soldiers so fast that he got him. 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:52.280 He also said to that the military members in doing this, 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:55.240 they had a blow torch, but they didn't need They 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:58.000 didn't need it because they were able to get to him. 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:02.200 He also said that he watched it live. 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:04.600 The President watched it live, and I'll tell you what, 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:08.920 with technology the way it is today, I mean, it's 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:09.840 just amazing. 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:12.280 And it's not even close. 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:18.840 We have the premiere military in the world. I mean, 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:22.040 and it's not even close. The things that they can do, 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:25.680 these men and women, and how they execute it, and 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:30.320 the bravery within which they executed it is probably stronger 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:34.440 than our country has ever had, he confirmed. The president 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:37.359 confirmed that this was supposed to happen four days ago 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:41.080 on New Year's Eve, but the weather wasn't cooperating, so 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:44.919 they postponed it. Apparently, when they launched it yesterday, the 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:47.760 weather was perfect, so they had no problems with that 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:51.439 and made the point too, if you are a drug 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:55.680 trafficker and you are indicted by the United States, We're 0:19:55.720 --> 0:19:59.720 going to get you. And man, well, Noriega is a 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:03.640 per example of that. Actually that was a Senator Tom Cotton, 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:06.640 who's on now, who said that. And another thing Senator 0:20:06.720 --> 0:20:10.879 Cotton said, They asked him, well, Senator, was Congress notified. 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:14.040 He kind of chuckled a little bit, said well no, 0:20:14.160 --> 0:20:16.760 because if they would have been, it would have leaked 0:20:16.760 --> 0:20:20.560 within minutes. So anyway, little bit more info we have 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:24.160 again the press conference scheduled for eleven. Hey, let's get 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:27.280 to the phones, like I promised. Let's talk to Barry 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:29.720 in Miamisburg. Hey, how you doing Barry? 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:34.080 Heang, Apparently the world is a better day to today. Yeah, 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:34.879 because the President. 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:40.919 No kidding, I mean absolutely, I mean just wow, apparently 0:20:41.359 --> 0:20:42.920 that was amazing. 0:20:43.480 --> 0:20:46.119 You know what it'll play out in the coming days. 0:20:46.119 --> 0:20:46.960 But I agree with you. 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:51.159 Let me say something to the critics. Back when I 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:54.840 was in high school, there was a series of movies 0:20:55.000 --> 0:21:01.280 and a book entitled The Godfather. Yeah, do you remember 0:21:01.320 --> 0:21:01.879 this book? 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:02.600 Oh? 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:04.560 Yeah, it was a. 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:05.359 Really good book. 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:10.560 If the Feds had swooped in to arrest the Godfather 0:21:11.400 --> 0:21:15.320 do you think that he would be the only person 0:21:15.359 --> 0:21:18.440 they arrested that day, or do you think they're taking 0:21:18.520 --> 0:21:20.040 the rest of the organization. 0:21:21.600 --> 0:21:24.960 Probably some underlings from the organization. And that's a really 0:21:25.000 --> 0:21:26.320 good point that you're making. 0:21:26.359 --> 0:21:28.960 Berry. Haven't heard anything about any other. 0:21:28.840 --> 0:21:32.919 Co defendants where they may be or you know, whether 0:21:32.920 --> 0:21:35.280 they played it on getting them or not. But they 0:21:35.320 --> 0:21:37.400 got the big fish, and that's the one you want 0:21:37.400 --> 0:21:38.040 to get first. 0:21:39.080 --> 0:21:41.560 They got the big fish. And apparently they hit some 0:21:41.640 --> 0:21:46.320 military targets. We don't know who's ryet, right, but it's 0:21:46.400 --> 0:21:47.200 the same thing. 0:21:49.640 --> 0:21:50.719 Yeah, I got I get it. 0:21:50.760 --> 0:21:52.879 And like I said, I woke up, I watched this 0:21:53.080 --> 0:21:55.600 and once again, I mean, I'm always proud to be 0:21:55.640 --> 0:22:00.560 an American, but sometimes it just gets reinforced and this 0:22:00.720 --> 0:22:02.560 was one of them. And you know what I mean, 0:22:02.680 --> 0:22:05.159 just to get it down to its most basic level, 0:22:05.440 --> 0:22:09.720 what it means is don't screw with the United States 0:22:09.720 --> 0:22:12.919 of America. And when the President of the United States 0:22:12.960 --> 0:22:15.800 of America, no matter who he or she may be, 0:22:16.280 --> 0:22:19.880 says they are going to do something like that, they're 0:22:19.880 --> 0:22:22.800 gonna do it. And you need to You if you're 0:22:22.840 --> 0:22:25.480 on the other end of it, like Maduro, you gotta 0:22:25.560 --> 0:22:26.399 know he's gonna do it. 0:22:26.440 --> 0:22:29.480 And for years, for years, we didn't have that. 0:22:31.840 --> 0:22:32.040 You know. 0:22:33.359 --> 0:22:40.520 My other comment is during COVID, drugs from Venezuela killed 0:22:40.520 --> 0:22:43.240 more people in the United States than COVID did. 0:22:43.840 --> 0:22:45.280 Now, I did not know that. 0:22:47.600 --> 0:22:52.560 At least in this area. Somebody who talks to the 0:22:52.680 --> 0:22:58.840 corner as they're picking up bodies from the hospital, yeah. 0:22:58.040 --> 0:22:59.439 I wouldn't doubt it. I'll tell you what. 0:22:59.560 --> 0:23:03.000 Anyone involved in the criminal justice system in any way, 0:23:03.520 --> 0:23:06.240 or if you're an er, nurse or something like that, 0:23:06.760 --> 0:23:11.200 knows what drugs are doing to our country and specifically 0:23:11.480 --> 0:23:12.520 to our youth. 0:23:12.840 --> 0:23:14.000 I've mentioned this before. 0:23:14.040 --> 0:23:16.600 A couple of years ago, I had three of my 0:23:16.720 --> 0:23:20.400 clients overdose and die that was on fentanyl. 0:23:20.480 --> 0:23:22.960 And you know, these weren't sleazy drug dealers. 0:23:23.000 --> 0:23:26.600 These were people, middle class people, one of them frankly 0:23:26.680 --> 0:23:31.080 upper middle class, that got addicted to this stuff. And 0:23:31.960 --> 0:23:36.480 it's important, It's very important. And Trump recognizes this as 0:23:36.480 --> 0:23:39.160 early as twenty fifteen when he's getting ready to run 0:23:39.200 --> 0:23:42.800 the last time, he said exactly what I just said. 0:23:43.200 --> 0:23:44.320 This is a problem. 0:23:44.520 --> 0:23:48.640 It is incumbent upon us, as the government, military, law 0:23:48.720 --> 0:23:51.360