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Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Constance New Radio.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Al Grippin working on a Friday night, Good for you, Well,

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Speaker 2: thanks very much. We're all working here on a Friday night,

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Speaker 2: except those of you who are home listening. All right,

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Speaker 2: So I wanted for the first time tonight at ten

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Speaker 2: o'clock talk about what's going on in Venezuela, or what

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Speaker 2: is going on towards Venezuela. It is clear to me

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Speaker 2: that the Trump administration has its eyes on Venezuela. They

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Speaker 2: have now I believe, eliminated five speed boats that the

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Speaker 2: Trump Administration says we're carrying drugs from Venezuela headed toward

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Speaker 2: the United States. I think most of you have seen

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Speaker 2: these boats literally blown out of the water. It's as simple.

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Speaker 2: There they are one second and two seconds later there's

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Speaker 2: wanted to have been on any of those boats. I

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Speaker 2: don't know that the people or on those boats were

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Speaker 2: given any warning, but they were disposed of pretty quickly.

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Speaker 2: Now the Trump administration is saying, hey, look, these boats

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Speaker 2: are bringing killer drugs into the United States, which are

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Speaker 2: killing US citizens. The fact of the matter is that

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Speaker 2: no US citizen is forced to take these drugs, but

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Speaker 2: they like the drugs, or they DrAk they take drugs

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Speaker 2: which are somehow laced with or intermixed with these. But

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Speaker 2: this is a problem. I think. I read this week

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Speaker 2: that the death rate of people between the ages of

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Speaker 2: twenty and forty the highest, which is understandable. I guess

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Speaker 2: it's not cancer, it's not heart disease, not kidney disease

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Speaker 2: or whatever diseases take people's lives, but it's drug drug use,

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Speaker 2: drug drug abuse. So here we have Venezuela, Uh, relatively close.

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Speaker 2: Cuba is between us if you're looking at a map,

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Speaker 2: as is Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico's pretty close to Venezuela.

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Speaker 2: And all of a sudden, the Trump administration has decided

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Speaker 2: to step up the pressure on Maduro. Now, the Trump

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Speaker 2: administration believes that Meduro has been re elected fraudulently and

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Speaker 2: that he's claiming that he won the election and did

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Speaker 2: not give up power.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 2: The woman who is leading the opposition to Meduro won

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Speaker 2: the Nobel Peace Prize this year, and she gave all

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Speaker 2: the credit in the world, or gave all the credit

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Speaker 2: to Donald Trump. However, if you've been following the news,

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Speaker 2: and I'm doing nothing more than following the news. We

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Speaker 2: have about ten thousand troops according to the New York Times,

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Speaker 2: and dozens of military aircraft and ships in the region.

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Speaker 2: As the Trump administration increases pressure on Venezuela. Now this

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Speaker 2: might be a show of power. They have placed a

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Speaker 2: think it's a fifty million dollar reward on Meduro's head. Now,

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Speaker 2: I don't know how you can get Maduro, get him

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Speaker 2: out of the country and pick up the reward. I

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Speaker 2: think that would be a suicide mission. But nonetheless, that's

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Speaker 2: a significant incentive for someone to perhaps put their own

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Speaker 2: life at risk. But at this point, you have all

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Speaker 2: sorts of military assets in position where we could strike Venezuela.

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Speaker 2: It reminds me of what was going on in Panama

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Speaker 2: in late nineteen eighty nine and early nineteen eighty nine

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Speaker 2: with the Bush administration, the Bush one administration. Now, Panama

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Speaker 2: was never the military power that Venezuela is, although obviously

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Speaker 2: it's not a match for the United States. But President

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Speaker 2: Trump has said, hey, if you're a drug boat, or

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Speaker 2: what we perceive to be a drug boat in open

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Speaker 2: international waters, your fair game. And five of them now

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Speaker 2: have been blown out of the water. Now you have

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Speaker 2: again if you read the New York Times today. Actually,

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Speaker 2: this might actually be in the Times tomorrow now that

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Speaker 2: I think about it. There's a really interesting map which

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Speaker 2: shows where our military assets are located. The Trump administration

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Speaker 2: is not hiding anything. We're talking about stealth fighters, we're

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Speaker 2: talking about surveillance aircraft. We're talking about reaper drones, replenishment ships,

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Speaker 2: three guided missile destroyers, an Ebojima amphibious ready group. I

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Speaker 2: don't know that you move everybody down there unless you

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Speaker 2: guided missile cruise has seen earlier yesterday, I guess October sixteenth. Now,

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Speaker 2: if I'm Miduro from my perch, I'm thinking to myself, oh,

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Speaker 2: this could be a problem if we landed Special Forces

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Speaker 2: in Pennsylvany, in Venezuela. I think that it would not

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Speaker 2: take us long if we wanted to capture Meduro as

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Speaker 2: we did with Noriega. I don't think it would take

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Speaker 2: a lot. It might. I don't know that how strong

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Speaker 2: is this what Donald Trump should be doing? Is this

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Speaker 2: It's almost as if President Trump has decided to reinstitute

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Speaker 2: the Monroe doctrine, not that the Monroe doctrine ever left.

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Speaker 2: There's Chinese military personnel who are in Venezuela. So this

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Speaker 2: is not the same risk as in terms of the

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Speaker 2: seriousness of the decision as giving Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine,

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Speaker 2: which would be used against Russia. But this is a

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Speaker 2: pretty serious step to consider. Now. I'm sure that, knowing

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump's pattern in behavior, that he is hoping that

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Speaker 2: something will occur internally which will not necessitate US military involvement. However,

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Speaker 2: Mindoro is that is an iron fisted He's more than

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Speaker 2: an authoritarian. He's a Fidel Castro, wanna be. I don't

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Speaker 2: think that he's going to go quietly into that good night,

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Speaker 2: which then leaves open the question of what if some

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Speaker 2: morning you woke up and you found out that US

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Speaker 2: special forces had landed in Venezuela with the intent or

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Speaker 2: had already achieved the capture of Nicholas Maduro. I think

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Speaker 2: the country, that certainly the Trump base, would love it,

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Speaker 2: and I think that those who will be marching tomorrow

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Speaker 2: in the No King's rallies around the country would be

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Speaker 2: appalled by it. But it appears to me that Donald

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Speaker 2: Trump is going to try to make the most of

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Speaker 2: his second term. I would say his final four years

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Speaker 2: in office, because it will be his final four years

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Speaker 2: in office, despite what some one the left might tell you.

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Speaker 2: So I'm going to open up phone lines. What advice

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Speaker 2: would you give President Trump right now? Stay where he

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Speaker 2: is and let how long do you wait? You can't

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Speaker 2: leave the military out there forever, no doubt. Six one

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Speaker 2: seven ten thirty, six one seven, nine three one ten thirty.

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Speaker 2: We've never talked about this before your first impression. I

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Speaker 2: would like you to make a call join the conversation

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Speaker 2: six one seven, two five four ten thirty or six

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Speaker 2: you give President Donald Trump regarding Venezuela? Have we gone

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Speaker 2: too far already or do you need to encourage him

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Speaker 2: to finish the job and take Madura out because they

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Speaker 2: think ultimately that's where we're headed. In My opinion is

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Speaker 2: this is this, uh, the Noriega situation number two, That's

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Speaker 2: kind of what I'm thinking. I'm looking at it as

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Speaker 2: a tougher, tougher capture, but one that is eminently achievable.

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Speaker 2: We'll be back on night Side.

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Speaker 1: You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's

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Speaker 1: news radio.

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Speaker 2: All right, I think I think it's an interesting question.

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Speaker 2: I hope you do as well. The other thought that

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Speaker 2: I had on this is how if let us say,

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Speaker 2: President Trump decided to go into Venezuela and take Maduro

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Speaker 2: out as Bush forty one went in and took Noriega out.

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Speaker 2: Remember back in the day they had to play music

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Speaker 2: or to get him out. Forget what group they were playing,

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Speaker 2: but it was something that reportally Noriega didn't like. It

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Speaker 2: could cut both ways in terms of Ukraine. Putin could

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Speaker 2: say to Trump, well, you know you're messing with Venezuela

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Speaker 2: because that's in your sphere of influence, and we're dealing

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Speaker 2: with Ukraine, which is next to us, so you have

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Speaker 2: no right to tell us what to do or what

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Speaker 2: to do. Or conversely, Putin could look at it and say, hey,

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Speaker 2: if this guy is brave enough was thinking of another

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Speaker 2: word that began with the letter B, but brave enough

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Speaker 2: to send US military to Venezuela. Oh, maybe we have

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Speaker 2: to take his threat about Tomahawk missiles more seriously. I

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Speaker 2: don't know. I want to know what you have to

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Speaker 2: say on this one. Six one. Let me see what

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Speaker 2: Dott says. She likes Trump, but she's she I'm not

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Speaker 2: sure I know what you're going to say in this one. Hey, Dot,

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Nightside.

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Speaker 4: Hi Dan, Dan. You know I voted for Trump for

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Speaker 4: the last three elections because I couldn't vote for the opposition.

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Speaker 4: But I am appalled. I'm appalled that we're blowing boats

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Speaker 4: out of the water. We don't know that they're carrying drugs.

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Speaker 4: How do we know that?

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Speaker 2: Well, let me tell you what they say. I can

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Speaker 2: only tell you what they say, Okay. What they say

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Speaker 2: is these are high powered speedboats and that that is

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Speaker 2: the craft that the drug cartels would prefer to use.

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Speaker 2: And the reason is, apparently, when they get close to

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Speaker 2: the US, according to what I heard from the Trump administration,

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Speaker 2: that their speedboats are faster than our coastguard cutters. And therefore,

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Speaker 2: once they see a speedboat leaving Venezuela heading towards the US,

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Speaker 2: that's that is enough probable cause for them to do this.

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Speaker 4: But do you think it's right.

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Speaker 2: I don't have the information that they have. Okay, if

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Speaker 2: I was convinced, Okay, I will tell you, if I

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Speaker 2: was convinced, as the president of the United States, that

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Speaker 2: that speedboat that had left Venezuela, they might they obviously,

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Speaker 2: I assume have some sources on the ground here. They

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Speaker 2: must have people inside Venezuela who they can rely upon, so.

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Speaker 4: If they live, the CIA is there.

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Speaker 2: But but they also may have sources within the cartels.

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Speaker 2: I mean, money buys information. So let's assume that they

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Speaker 2: have information that that boat that left Caracas uh and

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Speaker 2: of fentanyl or whatever other killer drug Americans would would

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Speaker 2: use and in effect would kill themselves. Would I order

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Speaker 2: the destruction of that boat? Yes, I would, if you knew, Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I would have it to have. I don't know that.

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Speaker 2: I don't know the answer to just well, let me

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Speaker 2: ask let me ask you this question. The principle. Here's

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Speaker 2: the principle. Does Venezuela have the right to export deadly drugs?

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Speaker 2: I mean, this fentanyl stuff is nothing to mess around

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Speaker 2: with at all. Okay, none of it is stuff you

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Speaker 2: should mess around with even marijuana, because marijuana today is

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Speaker 2: much more powerful than it was thirty or forty years ago.

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Speaker 2: And marijuana today to make it more powerful, I'm told,

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Speaker 2: and I'm not an expert in marijuana, they lace it

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Speaker 4: I've heard that too.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So if you knew that the car that the cartels,

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Speaker 2: the drug cartels or whomever, or worse yet, the government

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Speaker 2: of Venezuela was deciding that they were going to make

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Speaker 2: money on the backs of dead American kids, what wouldn't

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Speaker 2: you do?

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Speaker 4: Well, the thing is that we don't as sorry as

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Speaker 4: I'm concerned. We don't know. How can we blow six

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Speaker 5: I mean, they couldn't have.

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't know. Let me ask you this, how

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Speaker 2: many people in Venezuela, which is a poor country. I

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Speaker 2: don't know what these boats cost, but these are high

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Speaker 2: powered speed boats. Okay, how many people in Venezuela do

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Speaker 2: you think are taking their speedboats out like on a

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Speaker 2: Wednesday morning for a little cruise. I mean I gotta assume.

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Speaker 2: I mean I think you can. I think information can

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Speaker 2: be gathered. I'm willing to believe the administration. I don't

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Speaker 2: think you're going to be able to have a trial.

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Speaker 2: You're not going to be able to arrest these guys

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Speaker 2: and bring them here.

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Speaker 4: In the meantime, they're talking about sending our boys into Venezuela.

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Speaker 2: I don't think they would be sent into Venezuela. I

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Speaker 2: don't think there's a need for that. You might have

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Speaker 2: some special forces that are utilized than in Venezuela, but.

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Speaker 4: I meant, as of course they are.

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Speaker 2: No, No, I got you down. It's just too okay.

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Speaker 3: I don't know. I think it's a make believe armed conflict.

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Speaker 3: I'll make believe armed conflicts? Some you know, I've heard

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Speaker 3: Well, how do we know that they are carrying drugs?

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Speaker 2: Well, there's a number of ways we can know they're

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Speaker 3: So, yeah, and Dan just recently they I guess they caught.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, that was me. That wasn't the TV. That

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Speaker 3: Yeah. No, I'd go to town on them, for sure, Okay

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Speaker 3: percent sure. What about what about you know Mexico? Uh,

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Speaker 3: Right. Are we getting spread too? Thing? Dan? Do you

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Speaker 2: But I don't I don't think that. I don't think

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Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, I guess Trump. Trump had said that, you know,

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Speaker 2: Right, But if you have people from Venezuela with cigarette boats,

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Speaker 3: I think, oh yeah, true, I agree with that.

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Speaker 2: So you get a balance. Alex. Love your calls, man,

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Speaker 2: I love you making me think, which is what we

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Speaker 3: All right, guy, thanks San, have a great weekend.

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Speaker 2: Let us keep rolling here. We're going to go to

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Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray, Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 2: Let's keep rolling here. We're talking about the possibility that

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Speaker 7: Hi Dan, how are you?

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Speaker 7: Well, thank you. First of all, I appreciate the way

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Speaker 7: Well, you've done it for years. That's why I try

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Speaker 7: Well, the point I'm making is, well, whether you of

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Speaker 7: ashamed of ourselves. So what Donald Trump is doing. And

432
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Speaker 7: in spite of the woman who called before and didn't know,

433
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Speaker 7: you know, do we know that that the drugs are

434
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Speaker 7: on those boats? Well, this last one was a submarine.

435
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Speaker 7: I mean, for God's sakes, come on, Yeah, you know,

436
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Speaker 7: I grew up and I grew up in Metrid and

437
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:35,480
Speaker 7: we were able to think a little bit beyond the

438
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Speaker 7: outside the box.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Not too many average Venza Whelans taking their family

440
00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:44,560
Speaker 2: out for a submarine ride on their family submarine on

441
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Speaker 2: this Saturday afternoon, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, And then that's that point. So I commend the

443
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Speaker 7: President for what he's doing and to do anything to

444
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Speaker 7: stop this, because I think too many young Americans have

445
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Speaker 7: died because of all the fentan al coming in and

446
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:03,639
Speaker 7: some of the other things going on, and it's a

447
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:06,320
Speaker 7: shame that has taken this long for a president to

448
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 7: actually do something about it, so I commend him to

449
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:09,960
Speaker 7: do And by the.

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Speaker 2: Way, I would agree with you that what he's doing here, uh,

451
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:17,440
Speaker 2: he's not dealing with a sledgehammer. It's not like he's

452
00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:20,480
Speaker 2: saying we're going to drop a nuclear bomb on Caracas,

453
00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:26,240
Speaker 2: you know, where he's dealing with a scalpel. He's being deliberative.

454
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Speaker 2: I hope that they have developed, uh, the adequate information

455
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Speaker 2: and that now if there are people who are who

456
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:40,119
Speaker 2: are being hired at the at the dock in Pennsylvania

457
00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:45,280
Speaker 2: or rather I keep saying Pennsylvania, Venezuela in Venezuela. Uh,

458
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:48,639
Speaker 2: and and they don't and they're innocent, I feel badly

459
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Speaker 2: for them. But but again, there aren't a lot of speedboats.

460
00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:55,240
Speaker 2: These are these cigarette speedboats that can go so fast.

461
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you take a chance and you pay a price.

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Speaker 7: The only reason they have those boats, I mean they

463
00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:07,400
Speaker 7: have three or four engines that have three or four

464
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Speaker 7: hundred horsepower each. They're made to and if you know

465
00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:14,440
Speaker 7: anything about you know, the southern pot of Florida, this

466
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:16,800
Speaker 7: is where they come in fast. They do it and

467
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Speaker 7: they get out and you're right. The coast Guard can't

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Speaker 7: catch them through the boats, but they've been able to

469
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Speaker 7: do it with drones or whatever or stuff from the air,

470
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Speaker 7: and more power to them. We should be doing more

471
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Speaker 7: of this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, the cigarette boat may be able to

473
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Speaker 2: outrun a Coast Guard cutter, but it's not going to

474
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Speaker 2: be able to outrun a missile that's fired from a

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Speaker 2: simple as All right, Hey Ron, thanks very much, appreciate

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Speaker 2: your call. Thank you for joining us, and please call

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Speaker 2: more often. Have a great night. Let me go to

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Speaker 2: Dave in New Hampshire. I'm not sure if this is

479
00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 2: the Dave I know, but if it is, I know

480
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:53,280
Speaker 2: where he's going to be coming from. Hey, Dave, how

481
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:55,400
Speaker 2: are you well?

482
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Speaker 8: Thank you Dan a long time listen to first time caller.

483
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Speaker 2: This is not the date I know that. Welcome Dave,

484
00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 2: just a different day. Go right ahead, Thank you.

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Speaker 8: You're welcome. I was a police officer for twenty five

486
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Speaker 8: years and ten of it, if not more, I was

487
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Speaker 8: in a drug task force and I was assigned fortunately

488
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Speaker 8: to dea as in the Ocean Unit of the United

489
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Speaker 8: States Attorney's Office. Thank you, And I'm going to say

490
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Speaker 8: I'm not doing a John Bolton here talking out of

491
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:44,520
Speaker 8: classified information. But that is all real. The speedboats, the submarines, everything,

492
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:48,560
Speaker 8: they have real good intelligence. It wouldn't surprise me. The

493
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:52,600
Speaker 8: CIA is already in there, working with the DEA and

494
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Speaker 8: other government agencies, and they have information. Some of them

495
00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:02,440
Speaker 8: may be undercover agents themselves that are passing this information on.

496
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Speaker 2: Oh sure, I'm sure, And Dave, I don't mean to

497
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Speaker 2: interrupt you, but I'm sure that when our CIA agents

498
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:11,160
Speaker 2: go in there, they go in there with a bag

499
00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:16,720
Speaker 2: full of American cash, and you can you can loosen

500
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Speaker 2: up a lot of lips in a country like Venezuela,

501
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:23,680
Speaker 2: even higher up than anybody could imagine, by giving him

502
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Speaker 2: some pictures of dead American presidents.

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Speaker 8: Well, you're correct, But also what happened recently, people should

504
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:36,480
Speaker 8: pay attention to Chicago because the Mexican cartel has put

505
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Speaker 8: out hits on ICE agents and given pictures, and they're

506
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Speaker 8: given two thousand dollars rewards for the murder of these

507
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Speaker 8: agents doing their jobs. That's why they wear masks.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I think that the two thousand dollars award

509
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Speaker 2: rewards for like assaulting an agent, it got up to

510
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 2: like fifty thousand, or to murder an agent. I don't

511
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 2: even imagine unless you kidnapped an agent, how you could

512
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 2: how you're going to recover. I mean, first of all,

513
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:12,920
Speaker 2: hopefully no one is going to take that offer seriously.

514
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:16,120
Speaker 2: But even if somebody is that nuts that they're going

515
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,760
Speaker 2: to take that office seriously. And there we have found

516
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:22,959
Speaker 2: out in recent months that there are some really nutty

517
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:25,280
Speaker 2: people out there, whether it's the guy that tried to

518
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 2: light the governor of Pennsylvania's home on fire, the Gubnatrobl mansion,

519
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:33,120
Speaker 2: or the guy who was down there who I still

520
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 2: want to know more about, the guy that was hiding

521
00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:40,600
Speaker 2: along the fairway with a high powered rifle and was

522
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:44,760
Speaker 2: eventually caught, tried, and convicted of an attempted assassination on

523
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 2: Don Trump. That dude traveled the world, travel the world, Ukraine,

524
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:55,080
Speaker 2: Hawaii with no apparent financial position or job or obligation.

525
00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 2: I don't think he wanted in the lottery. But I'm

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Speaker 2: with you. Go ahead, you I'm talking too much, Dave.

527
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 2: I want to hear what you have.

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Speaker 8: No, No, you know, no, you're not Dan. And incidentally,

529
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:08,120
Speaker 8: I agree with the prior call of Warren. You do

530
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:12,600
Speaker 8: have an even handed discussion, which is very nice because

531
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 8: even if you disagree with with a call. It's respectful

532
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 8: and that that makes you show much better than other

533
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:23,920
Speaker 8: shows that you see on TV or you listen to

534
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:26,080
Speaker 8: on the radio podcast.

535
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:29,720
Speaker 2: I have I have, I must admit occasionally I can

536
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:31,960
Speaker 2: lose it with the best of them. I had a

537
00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:36,240
Speaker 2: rough call with a caller last night. Don't have to

538
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 2: mention your name, but she sent me a lovely email today,

539
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 2: a long, long email, and I'm going to respond to that.

540
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:44,880
Speaker 2: So she was kind enough to put her thoughts on

541
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Speaker 2: paper even though we had a pretty.

542
00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:53,920
Speaker 8: Condensed, he constructive, respectful conversation. There's nothing wrong on that,

543
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:56,240
Speaker 8: got it? And I know your brother was on Your

544
00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:57,200
Speaker 8: brother was on the.

545
00:32:57,200 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 2: Job, Yes he was, sir.

546
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Speaker 8: So you come from a police family. But let me

547
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 8: just say this, they're very, very smart. They're crafty. They'll

548
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 8: send the cocktail now with the hits out. This means

549
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:17,480
Speaker 8: that this is all affecting the drug supply. Now. I've

550
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 8: spoken to some friends that are still on the job

551
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:24,200
Speaker 8: and ask them what's the supply like. And the supply

552
00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 8: is tightening up. Something is working, Something is working. Those speedboats. Incidentally,

553
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:37,960
Speaker 8: those speedboats are loaded with cocaine. The homemade submarines are

554
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:39,800
Speaker 8: government submarines.

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Speaker 6: Who knows.

556
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Speaker 8: I'd like to know more about that particular submarine. I

557
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 8: know when they were coming out of our Columbia. They

558
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:50,240
Speaker 8: were homemade, they were small, and they were not effective.

559
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 8: They had a surface too much. But submarines have were

560
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:56,200
Speaker 8: going on a long time and they what they do

561
00:33:56,320 --> 00:34:01,600
Speaker 8: is they drop they drop a load somewhere with a

562
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 8: GPS marker and they can have it rise up from

563
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:11,439
Speaker 8: wherever it is the depth of the ocean. There's all

564
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:15,880
Speaker 8: sorts of tricks. They won't stop because the demand is there,

565
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:22,759
Speaker 8: the hunger is there. I really think, I really congratulate

566
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 8: President Trump. You have to give him credit. He's going

567
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 8: right after the source of the trouble. We've tried everything,

568
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:33,880
Speaker 8: everything under the sun, and nothing has worked. We have

569
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:37,319
Speaker 8: to admit that to ourselves. So if Venezuela now and

570
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:40,480
Speaker 8: I'm not privy to any new information like I used to,

571
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:44,520
Speaker 8: but if Venezuela is the problem and they won't cooperate,

572
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,920
Speaker 8: well I'm behind the president of one thousand percent to

573
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,200
Speaker 8: do whatever he needs to do. So you can mark

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00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:53,879
Speaker 8: me down totally in fair US one, Dave.

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Speaker 2: I so enjoyed our conversation. Again, thank you for your career,

576
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:03,400
Speaker 2: what you've done, and please please continue to call this program. Okay,

577
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 2: thank you so much.

578
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:06,480
Speaker 8: Dan, I will thank you for having me.

579
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Speaker 2: You bet you? All right, we take a very quick break.

580
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:11,840
Speaker 2: I got Dan and Lester and Norman Worcester will be

581
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:13,040
Speaker 2: right back on Nightside.

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Speaker 1: It's Nightside with Ray on Boston's news radio.

583
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Speaker 2: We've got a lot of calls. We're going to try

584
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:21,640
Speaker 2: to get to everybody. Let me go to Daniel and

585
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:24,799
Speaker 2: Leicester first. Daniel, welcome next on Nightside. Your thoughts on

586
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:28,120
Speaker 2: what Donald Trump has been doing in Venezuela and what

587
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 2: he might do.

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00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,480
Speaker 9: What do you mean, Dan, I just want to say that,

589
00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 9: you know, putting a prize on any anybody's head, uh,

590
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:44,920
Speaker 9: you know, almost bottled it. The idea which is the

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00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:47,400
Speaker 9: great nation of the world, the first one of the

592
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:49,880
Speaker 9: world that says that, you know, even when somebody's arrested

593
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:53,880
Speaker 9: for our suspected for crime, they are innocent until proven duty. Now,

594
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:57,839
Speaker 9: if you have enough power to actually wait for those

595
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:01,160
Speaker 9: boats on you on your court life and see who

596
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:04,239
Speaker 9: they actually who is working with them and giving them

597
00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 9: the who they're giving that looks look poisonous to bring

598
00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 9: into the country, you know you can you can at least,

599
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:15,839
Speaker 9: you know, arrest, arrest those people, then who's working with them,

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00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:18,600
Speaker 9: and try to arrest them, and then if if they

601
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:20,799
Speaker 9: run away, then you can. You can vomb them, but

602
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:23,360
Speaker 9: not vomb them international not international waters.

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00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:26,480
Speaker 2: All right, Daniel, I I wish you had called early.

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00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:28,719
Speaker 2: Would have to would have to have a long conversation.

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00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 2: This is one that I think we would have to

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00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:34,919
Speaker 2: each uh speak a long time about. But I'm glad

607
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:37,400
Speaker 2: you called because you represent a different point of opinion,

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00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 2: which I respect and I hope you can respect mine

609
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:41,240
Speaker 2: as well. Thank you, my friend.

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Speaker 9: I didn't know you were talking differently. I'm sorry, Yeah, okay.

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Speaker 2: Talk to you later. Let me go to Harvey silver Glade. Harvey,

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00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:51,560
Speaker 2: I do. I am in position of that book by

613
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:53,759
Speaker 2: Craig Whitney. I'm looking forward to reading it. Thank you,

614
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:56,040
Speaker 2: thank you, thank you.

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00:36:56,040 --> 00:37:01,239
Speaker 10: You're welcome. If drivers who are legalized, the cartels would

616
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 10: go out of business overnight at no cost to the

617
00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:08,719
Speaker 10: government or to the military. I have been saying this

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00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 10: for years. Drug addiction should be a medical problem, not

619
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Speaker 10: a legal problem.

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00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:18,319
Speaker 2: Fair enough. I respect that opinion. I'm not necessarily there

621
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:21,799
Speaker 2: with you on it, but I understand that argument, and

622
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:25,400
Speaker 2: I respect people like you who have held that position,

623
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:30,280
Speaker 2: that that philosophical position through good days and good times

624
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:33,440
Speaker 2: and bad times. To be honest with you, Uh, let's

625
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:35,879
Speaker 2: look at the legality from a legal point of view

626
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 2: of what Trump is doing here, basically taking these cigarette

627
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 2: boats international waters and taking them out, assuming that he

628
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 2: has some information as to what their purpose is. And

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Speaker 2: you're you're his lawyer, do you do you advocate he

630
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:54,719
Speaker 2: does this or you say no, you're you're what you're

631
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:55,759
Speaker 2: stepping in.

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Speaker 10: In it's it's dubious other international law. But who was

633
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 10: going to stop him?

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00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, there's the law, and then there's the

635
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:06,960
Speaker 2: real world. I guess at that point.

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00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 10: Right, that's how that's how he's been operating in this country.

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00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:15,160
Speaker 10: He's so it's easier in international orders.

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00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:17,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean here in this country at least there

639
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:19,839
Speaker 2: are judges and cases can be heard and injunctions can

640
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:23,480
Speaker 2: be issued and restraining orders filed. Yeah, Harvey, thank you.

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Speaker 2: I got one more who would like to get in

642
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:27,960
Speaker 2: just for a few seconds as well? No, thank you,

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Speaker 2: my friend, thank you much. Let me get one more

644
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:32,000
Speaker 2: in here, Rob, give me a bout a minute. Let

645
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:34,759
Speaker 2: me go to Norman Worcester. Norm you've called lately the

646
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Speaker 2: last call of but I got you in under the

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Speaker 2: wire thanks to the generosity of Daniel and Harvey, they've

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Speaker 2: donated a little time for you.

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Speaker 6: Go right ahead, yep, got a couple of minutes left,

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Speaker 6: ten fifty seven. But yeah, raising legal and political concerns.

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Speaker 6: I understand the political part of it, because the Democrats

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Speaker 6: are really peaed off that they're cocaine is going to

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Speaker 6: cost a lot more money.

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't think it's only Democrats who are partaking cocaine. Okay,

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Speaker 2: go ahead, that's kind of a hit, pull on the belt,

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Speaker 2: but go ahead, go ahead.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 5: And then on the on the the legal part two,

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Speaker 5: they're not fishing boats. I fish, and you know my

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Speaker 5: fishing reel would not work at sixty miles an hour. No,

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Speaker 5: I don't think so, they're not fishing boats.

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Speaker 6: And so I was just trying to get it quick.

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Speaker 2: You got it, you got it, you did it, you

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Speaker 2: did it. We are out of time, and I got

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Speaker 2: to get a particularly a caller like you on earlier

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Speaker 2: because we can have some fun. But yeah, right, none

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Speaker 2: of us can wait for the eleven for the eleven

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Speaker 2: o'clock news. Thanks norm have a great weekend. Thank you

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Speaker 2: for thank you what good good points? Thank you? Okay,

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Speaker 2: done for now here comes the eleven. Right after the eleven,

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Speaker 2: we're going to go to a twentieth hour. I want

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Speaker 2: to ask a general question and I think everyone will

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Speaker 2: be able to answer the question. We'll tell you what

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Speaker 2: that question is on the other side of the news