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Speaker 1: This is episode one hundred and thirteen of Native Lampid,
Speaker 1: where we give you our breakdown of all things politics
Speaker 1: and culture. We are your hosts, Angela Right, Andrew Gillim
Speaker 1: and Bacari Sellers. Y'all, we hope you had an amazing
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Speaker 4: How long do y'all say Happy New Year?
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Speaker 1: But if you're like us, everybody, you're back at work.
Speaker 1: And I'm curious if AI videos had your family and
Speaker 1: friends in a choke hold over the break mine, certainly
Speaker 1: we will discuss that and so much more on this show.
Speaker 1: The Trump Administration's unlawful capture of Venezuelan leader Nicholas Maduro,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump's clumsy appearance at a Republican retreat at the
Speaker 1: Kennedy Center, and on the fifth anniversary of the January
Speaker 1: sixth Insurrection, what happened on this anchor's debut on CBS
Speaker 1: World News. Tim Walls deciding not to run for a
Speaker 1: third term as Minnesota governor, and why are folks still
Speaker 1: talking about Reverend doctor carry Bryant's dress and from the pulpit, Bishop, Okay,
Speaker 1: we have heard you loud and clear about giving our
Speaker 1: takes on more topics and maybe a little more quickly.
Speaker 1: So going forward, our shows will begin with highlights, low lights,
Speaker 1: or just plain fact lights.
Speaker 2: We will call this segment for.
Speaker 1: Your Situational Awareness FYSA, because these days, keeping your head
Speaker 1: on a constant swivel is an act of self care.
Speaker 2: Let's get it, FYSA. What's really going on in the world.
Speaker 1: Well, let's start with the church, because I'm really confused
Speaker 1: about why a bishop and in my denomination had this
Speaker 1: to say about the right Reverend doctor Carrie Turner Bryant's dress.
Speaker 7: A preacher presented his wife the other day, and I
Speaker 7: guess you call that a a flesh colored dress. I
Speaker 7: don't know.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 7: It's black dress and flesh color. It gives illusion that
Speaker 7: she's not wearing anything underneath. And I heard the preacher
Speaker 7: when he defended her dress by saying, first of all,
Speaker 7: he bought the dress, and then he said, I wanted
Speaker 7: to address people who don't know anything, who ever been anywhere,
Speaker 7: who don't know nothing. So I guess our objection to
Speaker 7: a man of the cloth presenting his wife in public
Speaker 7: looking like a two dollar hord two at least two.
Speaker 1: So I want to play what he was responding to,
Speaker 1: and then let's definitely talk about the two.
Speaker 6: I needed to get this joint.
Speaker 8: I needed to deal with it head on, because the
Speaker 8: other day the internet went crazy.
Speaker 6: About address my wife had on.
Speaker 8: Now, they didn't say anything about the four million dollars
Speaker 8: that was raised for the United Negro College Front. They
Speaker 8: never mentioned that she prayed until Heaven came down.
Speaker 6: They never said.
Speaker 8: Anything about this was the largest fundraiser for United for
Speaker 8: HBCUs in the country.
Speaker 6: But insecure, jealous, petty, small winded.
Speaker 8: People got in their feelings and set up a false
Speaker 8: baron unholiness based off of a dress. Now, you got
Speaker 8: to help some people, because some people have embraced the
Speaker 8: full knowledge of ignorance without any assistance for understanding. The
Speaker 8: dress was not see through. The dress was flesh color.
Speaker 8: But because you ain't never been nowhere and they ain't
Speaker 8: never been exposed to enumer I needed to set the
Speaker 8: record straight. Y'all don't like this. I need to set
Speaker 8: the record straight. I bought the dress.
Speaker 6: And I like it. I don't care whether you like
Speaker 6: it or not.
Speaker 4: She ain't mad to y'all.
Speaker 6: She mad to me.
Speaker 1: Well, this is continuing to be the gift that keeps
Speaker 1: on giving. I think y'all know Jama and Carrie went
Speaker 1: on tammeron Hall Show on Wednesday of this, and so
Speaker 1: I want to know what y'all think first about the
Speaker 1: two dollars horror comment and all the things between nigga.
Speaker 1: We can't let's put the dress up. I can't even
Speaker 1: believe this is a topic of conversation.
Speaker 2: What y'all think?
Speaker 3: So, first of all, you know, I believe that you
Speaker 3: can always tell people that never got into a fight
Speaker 3: and never got beat up as a child, because they're
Speaker 3: just certain things you don't say about people and say
Speaker 3: about people's wives. And so I think the bishop was
Speaker 3: completely out of pocket, and that's just something something culturally
Speaker 3: and something that is beyond the pool pit. I hope
Speaker 3: he's praying for his forgiveness. But I also think I
Speaker 3: love Jamal Brian and I tell him to his face
Speaker 3: if he was here. But you don't always have to
Speaker 3: respond to everything. You know, you roll around with pigs.
Speaker 3: You both get muddy, and a pig likes it right,
Speaker 3: So I don't even think that a response was necessary.
Speaker 3: Your wife knows how much you love her. I just
Speaker 3: find it to be I find both of those to
Speaker 3: be extremely weird and disheartening. I do think that the bishop,
Speaker 3: you know, man, the man, he would have to see
Speaker 3: me about calling my wife a two dollars horror. But
Speaker 3: that's just I didn't like neither one of them, to
Speaker 3: be honest with you.
Speaker 1: M to be clear, Jamal, just one point of correction.
Speaker 1: A g to be very clear.
Speaker 2: And I know we're going so close to our time
Speaker 2: on the highlights.
Speaker 1: We're supposed to do this in ninety seconds, but really quick.
Speaker 1: Jamal said this.
Speaker 2: First.
Speaker 1: The bishop responded to Jamal, and it was after people
Speaker 1: were dragging his wife, and I was just.
Speaker 3: Saying, yeah, no, I was just saying, like I know
Speaker 3: he was responding to the people, but I mean that's
Speaker 3: like responding to comments like you don't have to respond, Andrew,
Speaker 3: I don't know. You tell me if I'm wrong, but
Speaker 3: you don't have to respond to every coming. You know what.
Speaker 4: There's a lot I mean the sexism in the church,
Speaker 4: which Revend Bryant went on in his initial statement to
Speaker 4: say more about just how in the traditions of the
Speaker 4: Black Church, we go out of our way to moderate
Speaker 4: and dictate how women are to appear, what they are
Speaker 4: to do. I always call Reverend Bryant bishop because I
Speaker 4: think he's bishop of some church, if not new Birth itself.
Speaker 4: Just just I appreciated the educational opportunity that he let
Speaker 4: people in on in his comment. Basically given some of
Speaker 4: the history of why it is that female ushers when
Speaker 4: walking down the I would have to put their hands
Speaker 4: behind their back to cover you know, their their butts
Speaker 4: so not to trigger men, and and and and and
Speaker 4: and sexualize men to sexualize those same women how you
Speaker 4: know he didn't talk about this, but women would have
Speaker 4: to wear cloths over you know, their prayer cloths over
Speaker 4: their front of their you know, their dress dresses. Should
Speaker 4: they wear dresses that were you know, that extended below
Speaker 4: the knee, but when they sat down rows up to
Speaker 4: the knee or maybe above the knee, would have to
Speaker 4: cloth themselves so not to saytiate uh the pastor or
Speaker 4: whoever might be in the poolpit looking down. I mean,
Speaker 4: there's a lot of those traditions that we don't even
Speaker 4: stop to interrogate why that is. But when we put
Speaker 4: it into context, it really, you know, it's us to bob.
Speaker 4: It certainly eats at me just thinking about some of
Speaker 4: the sexism that exists there and why it is that
Speaker 4: women always have to curate their lived experiences so not
Speaker 4: to offend men. And that doesn't just happen in the
Speaker 4: Black Church. It happens throughout our society period. So I
Speaker 4: appreciated the opportunity to levitate, to.
Speaker 3: Come above the moment.
Speaker 4: I think he's not generally the type to I think,
Speaker 4: go and do videos and respond to each and everything.
Speaker 4: But this thing got so explosive it appears that they
Speaker 4: had to say something. And I'll just say, what is
Speaker 4: also missing for the bishop of who gave a second
Speaker 4: response and all these other haters out there, is just
Speaker 4: the incredible woman of God that carries Bryant. I've known
Speaker 4: this woman since college when we were back in student government,
Speaker 4: and when he said, how she you know, brought down
Speaker 4: Heaven through her prayers? I believe that I have been
Speaker 4: in the midst of her praying and felt the Spirit
Speaker 4: of God just come all over the place. So so
Speaker 4: so so people are confused. They're always gonna be haters.
Speaker 4: What we're discounting is the fact that there are haters
Speaker 4: within the ministry. There are people who don't like that
Speaker 4: his church is so big. There are people who don't
Speaker 4: like that he inherited, you know, the former Bishop Long's church.
Speaker 4: There are people who gonna hate on her. There's you know,
Speaker 4: there's reality television that's also surrounding you know, certain parts
Speaker 4: of the sort of thing. So it's just as I
Speaker 4: hate it for them, But at the same time, to
Speaker 4: the extent that they're able to use this as a
Speaker 4: catapult to teach people some stuff that they don't know
Speaker 4: where that they need to know, or call us to
Speaker 4: interrogate some systems that we all generally accept without asking questions,
Speaker 4: then maybe let that be the teachable moment that exists here.
Speaker 4: The only beauty that I find in it is that
Speaker 4: if there were the right ones to come after. I
Speaker 4: do believe that these two, this amazing are the right ones.
Speaker 4: You found the right ones because they're educated, they are
Speaker 4: to the task, They're not going to trifle and pettiness,
Speaker 4: and they're gonna use it as an opportunity to lift
Speaker 4: the conversation higher. And I hope they continue to do
Speaker 4: that despite the haters.
Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing.
Speaker 1: The most important thing here is Carrie has given address
Speaker 1: to me when it's all said and done, so I
Speaker 1: would just take the right reverence for sharing address.
Speaker 2: The Cardner's Internet is back on AOL. What'd you say?
Speaker 3: No, I was saying, the dress is tough. I love
Speaker 3: the dress. But I also wanted to thank Andrew for
Speaker 3: his brief remarks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, getting the New Year's off right, Okay, Because it
Speaker 1: is a highlight.
Speaker 2: Reel to that point, we moved right along. This one
Speaker 2: is really rough, y'all.
Speaker 1: It shows Tony or Bari or the whole of production
Speaker 1: at CBS was not ready for prime time. Punt intended
Speaker 1: watch what happened on CBS World News on his first
Speaker 1: day in the anchor chair.
Speaker 9: It'sphair with madurow out that base of power and influence
Speaker 9: could be out too all right, to other news, as
Speaker 9: you just heard from Jill to other news. Now to
Speaker 9: Governor Walls, No, we're gonna do Mark Kelly. First day,
Speaker 9: first day, big problems. Here are we going to Kelly?
Speaker 9: Here are we going to go into jonah kaplan? We're
Speaker 9: doing Mark Kelly, possibly demoted from his retired rank of
Speaker 9: captain in the Navy, Hegstath issued what's known as a
Speaker 9: letter of censure for the Arizona Democrat over his participation
Speaker 9: in a video that called on service members to defy
Speaker 9: illegal orders, without specifying which orders he had in mind.
Speaker 9: Hegseth called what the former combat pilot an astronaut did
Speaker 9: an act of sedition. Now we go to Minnesota, a
Speaker 9: surprise announcement from the Great Lake State there today, Tim.
Speaker 1: Walls, Well, he got there, he got there, but that
Speaker 1: was rough. And I don't know if what's going on
Speaker 1: in the background, if it's the Ellison, if it's Barri Wise,
Speaker 1: if it's Donald Trumpet his ear, what happened, y'all?
Speaker 2: That's embarrassing?
Speaker 3: S did did you see his next day? The next day?
Speaker 3: That night, So then he ended up saying, Marco Rubio,
Speaker 3: we salute you. What's his salutation is closed? They going
Speaker 3: crazy over it. At CBS. Barri Weiss is terrible at
Speaker 3: her job. She's having a revote. They're leaking more than
Speaker 3: you know, a sief And it is fascinating to watch
Speaker 3: CBS News, which once was a standard bearer for quality news,
Speaker 3: become a propaganda tool and an arm of the right wing.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's what it's. That's what it is. Shot everybody.
Speaker 3: I mean, they don't run off all the good people
Speaker 3: over there, and they trying to run off the rest
Speaker 3: of the good folk over there. And barr is just
Speaker 3: not good at her job. This is a big job
Speaker 3: and she ain't good at it.
Speaker 1: Well, it's hard to be good at something that you're
Speaker 1: not qualified for. Remember when they said didn't earn it anyway.
Speaker 1: So I appreciate Tony because he actually does take us
Speaker 1: into our next clip, which is about Tim Laws.
Speaker 2: Tim's time is up.
Speaker 1: He's saying he won't resign, but he will not seek
Speaker 1: a third term and miss the fallout with the childcare
Speaker 1: fraud scandal in Minnesota. And Andrew, I want to run
Speaker 1: this clip, but I know you have some thoughts about
Speaker 1: that bench in Minnesota.
Speaker 2: So let's run this.
Speaker 6: To in your.
Speaker 10: Campaign by yourself or did you receive pressure from Democratic allies.
Speaker 10: This is a decision that I make and make with
Speaker 10: my family, and certainly I think, as I said, it's
Speaker 10: the right decision.
Speaker 3: We all note.
Speaker 10: I think it's appropriate. We're here today, the war that's
Speaker 10: being waged against Minnesota.
Speaker 3: You're seeing it.
Speaker 10: We have a ridiculous surge of apparently two thousand people
Speaker 10: not coordinating with us, that are for a show of
Speaker 10: the cameras. I'm going to note to all of you
Speaker 10: today is January sixth. There's no debate what happened. The
Speaker 10: President of the United States led an insurrection against a
Speaker 10: fair election to try and overturn that. And you know,
Speaker 10: report both sides of this. Well he you know, he
Speaker 10: said he really didn't. In courts convicted four hundred of
Speaker 10: them and he pardoned them. No, he did that. He
Speaker 10: did that, and that's today. And it's clear that we
Speaker 10: also saw today he implemented. Five states are being punished
Speaker 10: with a freezing of federal funds illegally that were appropriated
Speaker 10: by Congress our tax dollars. And I find it interesting
Speaker 10: that Minnesota, California, Illinois.
Speaker 3: And in New York. We're taking that.
Speaker 10: The interesting thing is the biggest fraud trial in the
Speaker 10: country is taking place in Mississippi today with one hundred
Speaker 10: million dollars of welfare fraud, and I don't believe Mississippi
Speaker 10: was on that list. So look, this is a concerted
Speaker 10: effort to try and destroy the president's opponents, to destroy
Speaker 10: the rule of law. And it became apparent to me
Speaker 10: that he was going to do that with me being there,
Speaker 10: and I just feel, along with my family that it's
Speaker 10: the best decision for Minnesota. And I feel very confident in that.
Speaker 10: I think it's going to be clear that Minnesotans agree with.
Speaker 1: That crazy that he said, y'all gonna catch these strays though,
Speaker 1: Mississippi and your welfare SCRIDI fraud scandal. Why are you
Speaker 1: coming it as so? Andrew, you talked about the.
Speaker 4: Bench to get you this quick, quick, quippy thing, which
Speaker 4: is just to say that there's a you know, I
Speaker 4: hate to see him go. I know he feels like
Speaker 4: he's got to stand up and take some responsibility for
Speaker 4: what's happened around the fraud and whatnot. But he was
Speaker 4: right to point out that there's greater, bigger fraud and
Speaker 4: much more of it happening all around the country to
Speaker 4: include Republican states, and no attention whatsoever. I hate that
Speaker 4: he's leaving the under the affront from a Republican trumping up.
Speaker 4: You know, a bunch of mess that quite frankly happens,
Speaker 4: you know, twenty times over in Republican states, and nobody's
Speaker 4: got anything to say about it. The only other thing
Speaker 4: I'll say is that this state has some really great
Speaker 4: Democratic talent Downpike lieutenant governor, Governor Lieutenant governor Peggy Flanagan
Speaker 4: would make a great governor of that state. I know,
Speaker 4: some moves are happening, power moves are happening. Now you've
Speaker 4: got the former Saint Paul, Minnesota mayor Melvin Carter, another
Speaker 4: great leader later I'm sorry, Minneapolis mayor, another solid Democratic leader.
Speaker 4: And I just think that they're right with a lot
Speaker 4: of potential, and I hope some of that potential rises
Speaker 4: to the top as they seek to replace the city governor.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, no, I yeah, no. I was gonna be
Speaker 3: real quick on my mine as well. I mean, I
Speaker 3: think Amy Klobachar is probably the next governor or the
Speaker 3: great State of Minnesota. But that doesn't mean that you
Speaker 3: don't have a race. She gets an opportunity to appoint somebody.
Speaker 3: Hopefully she appoints one of the names that you just mentioned,
Speaker 3: and then hopefully we all sign up for her to
Speaker 3: hear her to run for a full term after that.
Speaker 3: I just think that Amy Klobachar is dynamic. She'll be
Speaker 3: a great governor. She's She's won her last three elections
Speaker 3: by over thirty points in Minnesota, so I mean, she'll
Speaker 3: be formidable in that and she gets to pick her replacement.
Speaker 3: So in a game of politics, that's important. Shout out
Speaker 3: of the Somali community, though, who's been getting just unfairly
Speaker 3: bashed throughout this entire process. The President of the United
Speaker 3: States called them garbage, and you know, I just think
Speaker 3: that while they're I mean, let's be clear. I there
Speaker 3: was a great deal of fraud, that was rampant fraud
Speaker 3: within Minnesota, but it wasn't one community. Don't you don't
Speaker 3: bastardize an entire community because of the behavior by a
Speaker 3: white women, because I you know what I said on
Speaker 3: TV the other night, it was let by white women.
Speaker 3: I was like, so if a group of people just
Speaker 3: show up and begin to tear your house down and
Speaker 3: riot and do all this other stuff and beat up police.
Speaker 3: Are you going to blame the entire group? And if so,
Speaker 3: then what we do about all in white folks on
Speaker 3: January sixth? I mean, where were their fathers? Right? So
Speaker 3: I just think that it's it's unfair treatment of the
Speaker 3: Smili community. So my prayers go out to them. Minnesota's
Speaker 3: gonna be just found in some walls. As a dynamic leader.
Speaker 1: I will tell y'all that in response to this, your
Speaker 1: president is violating another law of funds that are already
Speaker 1: appropriated to state governments across the country are now being frozen.
Speaker 1: And surprise, surprise, they are all democratic states. But I
Speaker 1: will say this, this is about to be a rarity
Speaker 1: breaking news on NLP and the last time you'll probably
Speaker 1: ever hear me say this. But I agree and actually
Speaker 1: hope that Trump is right about his impeachment. Let's roll
Speaker 1: this clip.
Speaker 11: You gotta win the midterms, because if we don't win
Speaker 11: the midterms, it's just gonna be I mean, they'll find
Speaker 11: a reason to impeach me. I'll get him pitched. We
Speaker 11: don't impeach them, you know why, because they're meaner than
Speaker 11: we are. We should have impeached Joe Biden for a
Speaker 11: hundred different things. They are mean and smart.
Speaker 5: It says Sarre Pink.
Speaker 3: He doesn't blend either, does that bother? Does that not
Speaker 3: bother anybody else?
Speaker 4: Pink is bothering his blends like it's.
Speaker 3: It's his makeup. He doesn't. He doesn't blend well, and
Speaker 3: I don't know who does it.
Speaker 1: Let me find out that the highlight reel is going
Speaker 1: to be a makeup assessment from Bakari.
Speaker 3: But car you want to but the mat counter well,
Speaker 3: first of all, on Hugh's mac, let's not be offensive, okay,
Speaker 3: but he needs to blend something like his neck and
Speaker 3: right around his hairline. Somebody's doing him a.
Speaker 4: Disne when he comes off the golf course. List either
Speaker 4: sweated out or it hadn't be applied yet.
Speaker 3: It's just probably running too boy, Donald Trump, hate to
Speaker 3: see a pillow coming down and pink. Somebody investigated it
Speaker 3: looked like your shirt Andrew.
Speaker 2: You guys are the whole point.
Speaker 1: It was about his impeachment, hopefully, And I will just
Speaker 1: say this right before the break. Democratic leadership encourage the
Speaker 1: caucus to vote alongside them to table al Green's articles
Speaker 1: of impeachment that's not the singer, that's Congressman Algreen.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 1: The failure uh and and I'm curious to know if
Speaker 1: the failure to seek congressional approval to invade Venezuela to
Speaker 1: capture a is sufficient for impeachment or naw. The same
Speaker 1: people who just said they they voted on the motion
Speaker 1: of the table the impeachment articles, now they're like, well, now
Speaker 1: he's lost his mind, his mine.
Speaker 2: Being gone, y'all.
Speaker 1: But y'all are through our FYSA. But we are going
Speaker 1: to get into Venezuela and so much more right after
Speaker 1: this break. So the felonious president is busy racking up
Speaker 1: more crimes because we just talked about the dollars that
Speaker 1: are already appropriated he's withholding from states. He of course,
Speaker 1: is violating international law, according to many experts, with their
Speaker 1: decision to go capture Nicholas Maduro in his Nike Tech
Speaker 1: sweats man.
Speaker 3: That man change. That man changed more outfits than Andre
Speaker 3: you with FAMU homecoming.
Speaker 1: So in your Department of Justice, Bacari is saying that
Speaker 1: it's all about the drugs. But Trump pardon former President
Speaker 1: of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernandez for jug chappicking hundreds of
Speaker 1: tons of cocaine into the United States.
Speaker 2: So could it be something else? Roll the clip.
Speaker 12: They say, you have seized Venezuela for the oil. Yes,
Speaker 12: this is true, that there is that which has been
Speaker 12: brought to the forefront of this earthly battle.
Speaker 3: If he talk about Jamal Brian wife, I'm as so and.
Speaker 13: Was seeking to bring war and to bring conflict through
Speaker 13: Venezuela and to control the oil of the earth and.
Speaker 4: The oil he's here to stirtual oil.
Speaker 13: And the nutural oil does not belong to the forces
Speaker 13: of darkness or to those who thought that they could
Speaker 13: bring a one world order. This is my reset, and
Speaker 13: the oil of the nuturl and the oil of the
Speaker 13: spirit is mine.
Speaker 4: Says the Lord.
Speaker 1: I ain't never seen no shirt like that in my life.
Speaker 1: I ain't never seen a button down. Now, you guys
Speaker 1: got me doing this matt counter thing. I'm not doing this.
Speaker 1: The point is I wanted to play this because you
Speaker 1: were talking about oil.
Speaker 2: Venezuela got more oil than we.
Speaker 1: Do, so I'm curious to know, guys, is it all
Speaker 1: about the oil? Since a second oil tanker that was
Speaker 1: from Venezuela's Venezuela oil not a Venezuelan taker.
Speaker 2: Andrew corrected me on the car earlier about that.
Speaker 1: So with a Russian flag, it has been captured by
Speaker 1: the United States. This is all since this past weekend.
Speaker 1: So it's about the oil of the drugs, y'all.
Speaker 3: So quickly, we know it's not about drugs because to
Speaker 3: your point, he pardoned the former president of Honduras who
Speaker 3: got convicted, President Hernandez, who got convicted by US jury
Speaker 3: for moving over four hundred tons tons. Okkay, that's a
Speaker 3: lot of dope, y'all. So we know it's not about drugs, right.
Speaker 3: We know it's not about freeing the Venezuelan people because
Speaker 3: that we didn't even effectuate regime change. So we have
Speaker 3: to be cautious about the language that we're using because
Speaker 3: he left their military, Maduro's military in place, and chose
Speaker 3: his vice president. If he would have chosen opposition leadership,
Speaker 3: remove military leadership, then maybe you have regime change. Maybe
Speaker 3: you can say it's bout freedom. So yeah, if you
Speaker 3: deduce what's left, it's about the oil. It's always been
Speaker 3: about the oil. The problem that Donald Trump has is
Speaker 3: he doesn't understand that oil companies, American oil companies. It
Speaker 3: would cost them upwards of three hundred billion dollars to
Speaker 3: go into Venezuela and put the infrastructure in place to
Speaker 3: actually refine and distribute that oil. So it's about the oil.
Speaker 3: Prices have excuse me, oil stocks have drastically increased. They've
Speaker 3: made hundreds of millions of dollars since this occurred. Some
Speaker 3: of Donald Trump's friends are gonna get rich as they
Speaker 3: are doing around the world. But it's basically big bank
Speaker 3: tate little bank. I don't know if y'all ever played
Speaker 3: that in school, and we played it in public schools.
Speaker 3: But big bank tate little bank and.
Speaker 2: Got to be colonizes.
Speaker 3: Yep, about to get Greenland. And then what's gonna happen
Speaker 3: next is don't be surprised as Zelenski gets kidnapped, and
Speaker 3: then don't be surprised that China looks in his backyard
Speaker 3: and puts Taiwan in his pocket.
Speaker 1: Well, here's Andrew we as you know, this is our
Speaker 1: deep dive clip. So let's go ahead and transition into
Speaker 1: the meat of the thing. Is it all about the oil?
Speaker 1: Let's roll this clip from the White House to me.
Speaker 6: And now if you don't know, then you have twist tickets.
Speaker 4: Do they have a cool from Biggie's estate.
Speaker 1: I hope that's what I was just about to say, Andrew,
Speaker 1: hope that they come with them for using this and
Speaker 1: they didn't even bleep out the N word on this clip.
Speaker 1: I'm so irritated, Like Mark, now, if you don't know,
Speaker 1: now you know. So they have a Biggie line for
Speaker 1: one song using Biggie as the track for going to
Speaker 1: get Maduro out Ofnezuela without even seeking congressional approval.
Speaker 2: I want to roll this question because we did get
Speaker 2: a question from the audience.
Speaker 14: I'm Jordan from Atlanta, Georgia, and not just have a
Speaker 14: quick question. Could you break down to me in layman's terms,
Speaker 14: what the hell is going on between Venezuela and the US.
Speaker 14: Can a president just go into another country and just
Speaker 14: like snatch up the president and then dist them on charges?
Speaker 3: Like is that legal?
Speaker 14: What should the process be? How can we even do this?
Speaker 14: And then also like what does that mean? What does
Speaker 14: that mean for US? What does that mean for Venezuela?
Speaker 14: What could it mean? I just need help because I'm
Speaker 14: on the Googles, I'm on the TikTok, and the math
Speaker 14: is a mathing.
Speaker 2: It's not making sense, So could.
Speaker 14: Y'all break it down for me.
Speaker 1: Let's first hear from the President, and then we shall
Speaker 1: do exactly that. Jordan, thank you for the question.
Speaker 15: We're going to run the country until such time as
Speaker 15: we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition. So
Speaker 15: we don't want to be involved with having somebody else
Speaker 15: get in. And we have the same situation that we
Speaker 15: had for the last long period of years. So we
Speaker 15: are going to run the country until such time as
Speaker 15: we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition. Then
Speaker 15: it has to be judicious because that's what we're all about.
Speaker 15: We want peace, liberty, and justice for the great people
Speaker 15: of Venezuela, and that includes many from Venezuela that are
Speaker 15: now living in the United States and want to go
Speaker 15: back to their country.
Speaker 6: It's their homeland.
Speaker 15: We can't take a chance that somebody else takes over
Speaker 15: Venezuela that doesn't have the good of the Venezuelan people
Speaker 15: in mind. We've decades of that. We're not going to
Speaker 15: let that happen. We're there now, and what people don't understand,
Speaker 15: but they understand as as I say this, we're there now,
Speaker 15: but we're going to stay until such time as the
Speaker 15: proper transition can take place. So we're going to stay
Speaker 15: until such time as we're going to run it, essentially
Speaker 15: until such time as a proper transition can take place.
Speaker 1: He can't even run it here, So what is he running, y'all? Like,
Speaker 1: what is happening? There's a you know, there's a vote
Speaker 1: coming up. Tim Kaine is trying to get forced a
Speaker 1: vote on ensuring that they have to get Congressional approval
Speaker 1: for any further action. But I'm just like, I don't
Speaker 1: know when this stops. They don't have any boundaries. They
Speaker 1: don't respect the rule of law. We know that, whether
Speaker 1: it's federal or international law. So what are we really
Speaker 1: talking about here, y'all?
Speaker 4: You know it sucks is that it's hard to go
Speaker 4: in hard on the Republican who attempts this when we
Speaker 4: know we've had Democrats who also use the US military
Speaker 4: without authorization from Congress under the banner of national security
Speaker 4: or US national security interests. We took Gaddafi out of
Speaker 4: Libya under under such vain. The international law on this
Speaker 4: is very it's dice in the sense that really the
Speaker 4: only the only real power constricting power there appears to
Speaker 4: be is is uh sort of the international bodies that
Speaker 4: that Trump has flouted up to this point. He seems
Speaker 4: to have no faith in the United Nations. He seems
Speaker 4: to have zero faith in the G seven or the
Speaker 4: G twenty Uh. He seems to have, you know, no
Speaker 4: faith in international law whatsoever, and there is not a
Speaker 4: Congress to hold him to account for any of it.
Speaker 4: So ordinarily, even if there is an arrest warrant for
Speaker 4: a president of another country, those wars are not usually
Speaker 4: or typically executed by a nation until that president is
Speaker 4: out of office. So they're usually former presidents that have
Speaker 4: been gone back and been either held accountable before international
Speaker 4: courts or tribunals or before a domestic court such as
Speaker 4: ours here in the United States. This has never been
Speaker 4: about anything that they have told us. These folks have
Speaker 4: sat down and for weeks they have lied to our face.
Speaker 4: They've lied to every single time. This wasn't about regime change,
Speaker 4: This is about drug interdiction. And then it wasn't really
Speaker 4: about drug interdiction because they then flouted international laws as
Speaker 4: it relates to what you do to combatants who can
Speaker 4: no longer combat. And we then go and drop suicide
Speaker 4: bombs on them when we like, so I can understand
Speaker 4: the questioners question that what laws apply here?
Speaker 5: What makes sense?
Speaker 4: There is not even international then there is not even
Speaker 4: an international outcry and the in of what we've gone
Speaker 4: and done in Venezuela. And I would suggest that largely
Speaker 4: that's because most countries are terrified that and unhinged Donald
Speaker 4: Trump might turn his ire on them. And therefore even
Speaker 4: even friendly governments of ours are muted or silenced because
Speaker 4: they fear what might happen as a as a as
Speaker 4: a as a reaction to what we're you know, to
Speaker 4: what we're doing here. I'll put it this way, y'all.
Speaker 4: This is straight up colonization. This is this is the
Speaker 4: world of one hundred years ago, where the mightiest, most
Speaker 4: powerful countries decided to uh go into how do you say, uh,
Speaker 4: countries that they want to take control of because largely
Speaker 4: they have an asset that they want and you basically
Speaker 4: send your military there to occupy, you get rid of them,
Speaker 4: you depose their leaders, and you colonize them, and you
Speaker 4: make them basically a part of your own country. We
Speaker 4: haven't seen this in modern day because most of the
Speaker 4: world threw this off threw off the yoke of colonization
Speaker 4: a long time ago, believing that it did not serve
Speaker 4: us well, and it led us into more and more
Speaker 4: world wars. And since the conclusion of World War the
Speaker 4: Second World War, we have not seen colonization utilized as
Speaker 4: a form of force and taken over other nations. And
Speaker 4: it seems that Trump wants us to throw back to
Speaker 4: the period of colonization. That's all I can offer as
Speaker 4: it relates to the justification here.
Speaker 3: That's a good point. I will tell you this that
Speaker 3: the law is extremely murky. I know people like to
Speaker 3: say he's violating this and violating that. The fact is,
Speaker 3: Maduro Nicholas Maduro is a horrible human being that deserves
Speaker 3: to be in prison. Right, He's a horrible leader. And
Speaker 3: I know that. One of the things that Andrew was
Speaker 3: talking about was, you know, usually you have warrants and
Speaker 3: it's executed after individuals are out our office. Well, Venezuela
Speaker 3: had an election that Madua lost, Right, that Maduro loss,
Speaker 3: but he pulled to Donald Trump January sixth, Right, except
Speaker 3: he was able to overthrow government, overthrow government, rewrite the constitution.
Speaker 3: People have to remember how he came in the office.
Speaker 3: You know, he came in on the back of a
Speaker 3: leader who was oppressive, right, He came in on the
Speaker 3: back as a military mentor, his mentor who launched who
Speaker 3: launched a coup that failed, Chavez, who launched a coup
Speaker 3: that failed in ninety two, and then ran for president
Speaker 3: and won, got sick with cancer and then installed Maduro.
Speaker 3: And so this has been decades of oppression that Venezuelans
Speaker 3: have felt. That's why you see Venezuelans dancing in the street.
Speaker 3: And so the law on this is extremely murky because
Speaker 3: what they're telling you is that they are executing a
Speaker 3: law enforcement operation. That is what they That's what they're
Speaker 3: telling you. They're saying that they're going in to arrest
Speaker 3: someone who has an outstanding warrant. More so, even he
Speaker 3: has a warrant that Joe Biden's White House put a
Speaker 3: twenty five million dollar or fifty million dollar bounty on
Speaker 3: his head side. Note, I do believe that Donald Trump's
Speaker 3: don't try to collect his own bounty, but that's neither
Speaker 3: here nor there. This is not something that's unprecedented, though.
Speaker 3: Let's remember that in Panama nineteen eighty nine, H. W.
Speaker 3: Bush went in and got Manuel Noriega right. The difference
Speaker 3: between Panama and Venezuela, which makes this a lot more complicated.
Speaker 3: We had ten thousand troops in Panama and we had
Speaker 3: a we had a military presence in Panama since its inception,
Speaker 3: and Panama small as hell. Venezuela is a large company.
Speaker 3: We do large country now, I mean, I guess oil company,
Speaker 3: A large, a large, a large country. We don't have
Speaker 3: that military presence. And that's what scares me. When the
Speaker 3: first when the first troop dies in one of these feckless,
Speaker 3: you know, directionless colonial colonialism type endeavors that we're undertaken,
Speaker 3: then I think it's going to be felt. My problem
Speaker 3: politically speaking, and this is where I kind of transition.
Speaker 3: I know it's kind of a little off topic, but
Speaker 3: my problem politically speaking is this, we want to talk
Speaker 3: about the constitutionality and the legality of it when we
Speaker 3: know that Donald Trump doesn't believe in either, and Democrats
Speaker 3: are writing these long papers on Twitter, these long posts
Speaker 3: on Instagram, all of these things. I think it's very
Speaker 3: simple though. He is choosing Venezuela over the plight of
Speaker 3: every day average Americans. He's choosing Caracas over soybean farmers.
Speaker 3: He's choosing oil companies and commodities over individuals who are
Speaker 3: dying to get health care, literally, And I think that
Speaker 3: is the point that has to be made over and
Speaker 3: over and over again, because that young lady's question is
Speaker 3: so spot on, and they do that intentionally and nobody
Speaker 3: knows what the hell is going on. But what is
Speaker 3: being forgotten every day is that every day, hardworking average
Speaker 3: American that is still working to make ends meet, that
Speaker 3: we still have inflation, we still have cost of living problems,
Speaker 3: we still have real health care centers that are shutting down.
Speaker 3: We have all of these issues right at home. And
Speaker 3: now they're talking about make Venezuela great again. And so
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 2: He is frozen for me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, same here. I was hoping his voice might might
Speaker 4: catch up with the video. But Bakari's making a brilliant
Speaker 4: point here, which is I think the point that Democrats
Speaker 4: need to go home to every day of the weed
Speaker 4: they are to begin the day and end the day
Speaker 4: with this. Trump wants the power to run another nation,
Speaker 4: yet he cannot seem to run the one that he's
Speaker 4: right now in charge of. We have inflation that is
Speaker 4: creeping back up We've got people who are I mean,
Speaker 4: I see this every time I go to the grocery
Speaker 4: store Angela. People have their cell phones out and they
Speaker 4: are costs comparing between this store and that store to
Speaker 4: see which this detergent is cheaper to get here or
Speaker 4: or the other store up the street. People are concerned
Speaker 4: about costs. They're concerned about you know, you college graduates
Speaker 4: who are concerned about whether or they're going to be
Speaker 4: able to land a job or if artificial intelligence is
Speaker 4: going to wipe their futures.
Speaker 5: Out of the market.
Speaker 4: Right there's a lot of crises right here being felt
Speaker 4: in this country. And I'm not sure that the every
Speaker 4: day of Mayor and the average Americans waking up and
Speaker 4: saying what we need to be doing is starting another
Speaker 4: conflict in our hemisphere of the world. And Venezuela, for what,
Speaker 4: oil prices aren't skyrocketed right now. Fuel is actually pretty
Speaker 4: accessible for most people. That's not where they're that's not
Speaker 4: where they're making complaint. So if I can fuel my
Speaker 4: car and the largest asset that we're getting right now
Speaker 4: out of Venezuela is oil, Yet that isn't the greatest
Speaker 4: need that we have right now, but it is the
Speaker 4: need of Donald Trump's billionaire friends, then who is he
Speaker 4: acting in the interest of That's most frustrating to me
Speaker 4: is to see that we should we continue down this
Speaker 4: line and should we become some sort of caretaker quote
Speaker 4: unquote to Venezuela, and I don't disagree. A horrible leader.
Speaker 4: Maduro also aided by his wife, who is also quite diabolical.
Speaker 4: If folks were to turn the page in the look
Speaker 4: more deeply into her history and her background. They only
Speaker 4: got married after he became the president elect that country,
Speaker 4: and prior to that, she basically lined up the entire
Speaker 4: judiciary behind Hugo Chavez and it is essentially run by her.
Speaker 4: So diabolical people, no doubt about it. But guess what.
Speaker 4: So is the Russian president diabolical. So are many other leaders,
Speaker 4: to include those of North Korea and many other despot
Speaker 4: nations around the world. Yet we're not going into those
Speaker 4: countries trying to take them over. But car, I just
Speaker 4: kind of picked up where you left off because I
Speaker 4: think it was the brilliant point that was being made,
Speaker 4: and that is not one of us are waking up
Speaker 4: this morning, and we didn't wake up before January third,
Speaker 4: on January second, saying what we need to do is
Speaker 4: go invade another country. We woke up saying can we
Speaker 4: get lower prices? Will my children have a future job
Speaker 4: in this country, on this homeland, Will artificial intelligence take
Speaker 4: over their future and snuff it out? Or is there
Speaker 4: a balance to be reached there? None of us are
Speaker 4: hungering for war and our hemisphere or any other hemisphere,
Speaker 4: as far as I'm concerned, we want we want affordability
Speaker 4: right here at home. And if the President could fix
Speaker 4: his eyes toward that, that'd be one thing. But he's,
Speaker 4: as far as I'm concerned, taking his eye off the ball.
Speaker 4: And this may be the biggest threat to his presidency
Speaker 4: yet as far as I can determine.
Speaker 1: Because it undermines America first. So how are you going
Speaker 1: to say? America first? And your behind is everywhere but
Speaker 1: in America first?
Speaker 3: Nobody knows. This is the explanation they're giving. What they're
Speaker 3: saying is that by freeing Venezuela, freeing Venezuela, which that
Speaker 3: we already articulated, they're not because we're not really doing
Speaker 3: regime change. But by freeing Venezuela, you eliminate the pressure
Speaker 3: on the country. You eliminate migration, and all of this
Speaker 3: boils back to one person, Stephen Miller. Stephen Miller wants
Speaker 3: to destroy the world order as was situated after World
Speaker 3: World War Two. And you know, I was having a
Speaker 3: conversation off air talking about, you know the fact that
Speaker 3: we allow white South African farmers to come into this country,
Speaker 3: but we have a problem with brown Venezuelans come into
Speaker 3: this country, right, and so still.
Speaker 4: Can't get TPS. That's right, even today.
Speaker 3: And not only this is how you know, this is
Speaker 3: how you know it's not about Venezuelans because the vice
Speaker 3: president of Venezuela, who's now the president of Venezuela, I
Speaker 3: forget her name. She was out there hugging on Russia
Speaker 3: and China and all the ambassadors at her inauguration. They
Speaker 3: installed even more repressive ordinances and laws on Venezuelan people
Speaker 3: who want to speak out the day after Murduro was taken.
Speaker 1: And this is the thing they're talking about now, deporting
Speaker 1: six hundred thousand Venezuelans. And that's after the raid. So
Speaker 1: the people that you talked about celebrating in the streets
Speaker 1: Bakari now may very well face deportation. Back to a
Speaker 1: country that is, it's still that experienced regime change.
Speaker 2: I also think it's.
Speaker 1: Important because you simply talked about Venezuelan celebrating in the streets,
Speaker 1: and of course we know we're getting to AI later
Speaker 1: on this video.
Speaker 2: There have been some.
Speaker 1: Misleading videos of alleged Venezuelan celebrating the capture of Maduro.
Speaker 2: Let's run that clip.
Speaker 16: Since the US launch strikes in Venezuela and sees President Nicholas,
Speaker 16: my daughter and his wife. Videos claiming to show people
Speaker 16: celebrating inside Venezuela having widely circulating online, but they're misleading,
Speaker 16: like this video, for example, shared by right wing conspiracy
Speaker 16: theorist Alex Jones. It falsely claims to show large crowds
Speaker 16: in the Venezuelan Capsul Caracas celebrating the seizure of Nicholas Maduro,
Speaker 16: and it has over two million views, but it's not new.
Speaker 16: It actually shows anti Madouda protests in Venezuela in twenty
Speaker 16: twenty four over a highly disputed election. In this a
Speaker 16: post viewed by millions on x again falsely claims to
Speaker 16: show celebrations erupting all across Venezuela. Now this video is recent,
Speaker 16: but this is actually in Florida. We know this because
Speaker 16: of details in the background and comparing it with other
Speaker 16: is that it's actually this Petro station in the city
Speaker 16: of derral And again, this post claims to be crowds
Speaker 16: of people lining the streets in Venezuela, but we verified
Speaker 16: it's actually Venezuelans and Panama City by identifying the location
Speaker 16: of this bridge. Now, there have been Venezuelans out celebrating
Speaker 16: in the streets across the world, but in this case,
Speaker 16: we've not seen those crowds in the country itself. Some
Speaker 16: Venezuelans have told the BBC that that's because they feel
Speaker 16: scared and they can't freely voice their feelings about what's happened.
Speaker 1: I think that's important, and I do want to draw
Speaker 1: the contrast to the fact there are some folks in
Speaker 1: Venezuela who actually oppose the intervention, not necessarily because they
Speaker 1: support their leader, maybe some of them do, but mostly
Speaker 1: because they oppose the United States.
Speaker 2: Let's roll that clip.
Speaker 13: Here.
Speaker 4: Hella Venezuela.
Speaker 2: She's saying, long live Venezuela.
Speaker 1: She's saying that they're coming for our oil, they're coming
Speaker 1: for our land, and she's asking the international community where
Speaker 1: are they to intervene to ensure that Venezuela and Venezuelan
Speaker 1: people are protected?
Speaker 2: Andre and me, can I ask.
Speaker 3: You answer question? Can I ask you a question? Andrew?
Speaker 3: Just before your your thoughts? Because I know that this
Speaker 3: is Angela's lead, but this has been bothering me. So
Speaker 3: how does this play in Florida in particular? Like the
Speaker 3: politics here Southern Florida, It's huge, right, and they don't
Speaker 3: they are Isn't this a winning issue though? I mean,
Speaker 3: it's a winning.
Speaker 4: Issue for for in Florida, for them since the Durau,
Speaker 4: which was the images that we saw at the beginning
Speaker 4: of that video, was sort of the largest collection of
Speaker 4: Venezuelan's in the United States are pretty much situated in Durau, Florida.
Speaker 4: It's a city down in Miami. So there's no doubt. Again,
Speaker 4: so these are in Many of those folks are like
Speaker 4: political exiles. These are people who left Venezuela under oppression,
Speaker 4: similar to many of the Cubans who are situated in
Speaker 4: Miami who left Cuba under political oppression. Not surprising. And
Speaker 4: guess what, all around the world you have expass you
Speaker 4: have these political you have folks who have been politically
Speaker 4: driven from their homeland who were very much so excited
Speaker 4: that Maduro is not there. But if you ask them
Speaker 4: if they are returning voluntarily today, they are not returning
Speaker 4: voluntarily today because the Modua regimes still reign supreme over Venezuela.
Speaker 4: There's no doubt about it. But I will tell you this,
Speaker 4: I will say forgetting any of those videos as in
Speaker 4: regards to who has more sway anti versus pro, no
Speaker 4: doubt about it. If the people want Maduro gone, and
Speaker 4: if they could say so in Venezuela themselves, they would
Speaker 4: have said so. But what we saw in that last video,
Speaker 4: the anger, the rage, the fury wasn't pro Maduro. It
Speaker 4: was pro their home land.
Speaker 3: Correct.
Speaker 4: This is the wealth that should be passed to our
Speaker 4: children and our children's children. I feel that argument every
Speaker 4: single day of the week. These people are standing up
Speaker 4: and basically saying this. If we think we have an
Speaker 4: oppressive regime right now, let Trump and all of you know,
Speaker 4: the rapers of this land get here and take all
Speaker 4: of our natural resources, just like we have seen them
Speaker 4: do across the continent of Africa. All of the rich minerals,
Speaker 4: all of the rich essays that are natural and indigenous
Speaker 4: to that place being ripped from it the future. How
Speaker 4: do you say that the benefactors of that richness never
Speaker 4: ever benefiting.
Speaker 3: The missing thing and nothing happens in a vacuum. Let
Speaker 3: me go back to Elon Musk and usai D. That
Speaker 3: the problem that we have with the dismantling of us
Speaker 3: ai D and the United States ability to have soft
Speaker 3: power in these places is going to be glaring now
Speaker 3: because the United States is going in with military force
Speaker 3: to take oil and resources from individuals, and you're going
Speaker 3: to have because none of the three of us I
Speaker 3: do believe and no one is actually saying that Maduro
Speaker 3: is a good person. Nobody's saying he's a good and
Speaker 3: nobody's saying he's a good leader.
Speaker 4: It's actually not even about him.
Speaker 3: And that's the point that is that is the larger point.
Speaker 3: But when you talk about the absence of when you
Speaker 3: talk about this, this this foreign policy that we now
Speaker 3: have where we don't have that soft power, where we
Speaker 3: don't have those HIV and AIDS programs, where we don't
Speaker 3: have those programs to build resources, build communities that George
Speaker 3: Bush and Bill Clinton and all those people talked about.
Speaker 3: Now it's going to be contrary because we were trying
Speaker 3: to push Iran in China out of Venezuela. But what
Speaker 3: happens in places like Africa Andrew, what happens when we with.
Speaker 4: This This is imperialism correct at its best. There's no,
Speaker 4: there's no. Hillary Clinton tried to return that phrase of
Speaker 4: soft power to smart power, and I actually think she
Speaker 4: was right about it. It is the smartest power, brilliant
Speaker 4: that the United States had was the use of those
Speaker 4: kinds of techniques to bring people to our side, to
Speaker 4: show that we see their humanity and we're not here
Speaker 4: to rape them up their resources. Well, Donald Trump says,
Speaker 4: this is survival of the fittest. This is the strongest.
Speaker 4: If you are big and bad enough to take over
Speaker 4: a country, then you use that big in badness to
Speaker 4: go and take over a country if you can keep it,
Speaker 4: if you can hold it. And he's given the same
Speaker 4: signal right now to Asia and to Russia, because if
Speaker 4: you want to reinstitute the former Soviet Republic, if you've
Speaker 4: got the power and the willingness to do what, you
Speaker 4: go do it, and you hold it. If you can
Speaker 4: keep it. Asia, if you want to go, I'm sorry China.
Speaker 4: If you want to go and take over all of
Speaker 4: Asia and what is known as your Asia, do it.
Speaker 3: They're taking as you can. The problem is that China's
Speaker 3: taken all of Africa. If you go to the if
Speaker 3: you go to the if you go to the east
Speaker 3: coast of Africa, and we're going to see the same
Speaker 3: thing that's happening to the to the raping and pillaging
Speaker 3: of the resources of Venezuela is now going to happen
Speaker 3: to the raping and pillaging of the resources of black
Speaker 3: folk in Africa by China. It's going to be a
Speaker 3: colonizer with a different accent and has a different skin tone,
Speaker 3: but still yet a colonizer.
Speaker 4: Well, Bakari and Angela. The problem is under this regime,
Speaker 4: in this regime I'm referring to Donald Trump, is that
Speaker 4: the benefactors are not going to be the greater United
Speaker 4: States of America and its people. The benefactors are the
Speaker 4: billionaire friends that he can count on these two hands.
Speaker 4: And that's it. So no longer. I mean, the imperialism
Speaker 4: used to exist to the benefit to the largest of
Speaker 4: the nation. That largest is not going to be. The
Speaker 4: benefit of the nation is going to be to the
Speaker 4: benefit of a few selected individuals. Remember now, these were
Speaker 4: the billionaire owners of oil who were briefed about what
Speaker 4: was happening in Venezuela on the third of January this
Speaker 4: year before members of Congress have been briefed.
Speaker 2: Andrew, I want to I got to.
Speaker 1: I gotta say this because I completely forgot to bring
Speaker 1: this up. Some of you all have heard of a
Speaker 1: billionaire investor who is a Trump supporter by the name
Speaker 1: of Paul Singer. He has a net worth of six
Speaker 1: point seven billion dollars donated more than five million dollars
Speaker 1: to make America Great Again INK, which is Donald Trumps
Speaker 1: super pack. He is the one who has a interest
Speaker 1: in Sitko. In fact, he recently purchased Sitgo through his
Speaker 1: hedge fund. I believe Elliott Management at what they're saying
Speaker 1: is a bargain price. There's a whole piece about this
Speaker 1: in Mother Jones, as well as several other pieces. But
Speaker 1: I want us to be very clear about the fact
Speaker 1: that Donald Trump does not make a move that's not
Speaker 1: a business move, that's not a money move, and we
Speaker 1: have to be clear about that when we're having this conversation.
Speaker 1: So I'm meant to mention that earlier about Paul Singer
Speaker 1: and completely forgot to.
Speaker 3: To the points, right, And it's not the benefits. I mean,
Speaker 3: we see we see Jared Kushner's incursions into Gaza. Right,
Speaker 3: that's not a that's not a made up thing. Right.
Speaker 3: We see the fundamental steps to reform and change and
Speaker 3: displace Palestinians. Right, we see that that is not a
Speaker 3: far stretch of what we're going to see with Donald
Speaker 3: Trum Junior and Jerry kushn are going into Venezuela to
Speaker 3: do the same thing for resources. I mean nothing. I
Speaker 3: think that people when they look at politics, and I
Speaker 3: hope that if you don't listen to anything else I
Speaker 3: say on this show, just remember this. When they look
Speaker 3: at politics, they look at politics and specific pockets, right,
Speaker 3: and they think that Venezuela happens, and then Gaza happens,
Speaker 3: and then Greenland happens, and you know, tariffs happen, and
Speaker 3: production of cars, I mean the market, nothing happens. We
Speaker 3: are in this nexus, right and of continuity, and nothing
Speaker 3: happens in a vacuum in this country. Nothing happens in
Speaker 3: a vacuum. With Donald Trump, he may be somewhat of
Speaker 3: a of a kind of useful idiot to these folk.
Speaker 3: But there is a plan in place to capture as
Speaker 3: much of this kind of this world's resources as possible
Speaker 3: and build as much wealth as they possibly can for.
Speaker 4: A selective few. Your point is is that these these
Speaker 4: incidents are not isolated and not happening separate and apart
Speaker 4: from each other. They are happening in coordination with each other.
Speaker 4: And again, the huge difference I would again insert from
Speaker 4: maybe one hundred years ago, is that it is no
Speaker 4: longer to the benefit of a nation or nation trade.
Speaker 4: It is to the benefit of billionaires coming billionaires and
Speaker 4: let me individuals, the friends and family of Donald Trump.
Speaker 4: He's not just a useful tool. His family are useful beneficiary.
Speaker 4: That's true of exactly what he's doing in this office.
Speaker 3: But there are two other points there, one other point
Speaker 3: with two kinds of sub points. We also have to
Speaker 3: remember that some of this is economics, right, Some of
Speaker 3: this is for the economic benefit of those individuals. Some
Speaker 3: of this is also all of it no, no, no, some
Speaker 3: of it's also cultural too, because there are individuals in
Speaker 3: this White House, there are Stephen Miller's in this White
Speaker 3: House who really fear the United States becoming browner. They
Speaker 3: fear the participation of black and brown folk, and so
Speaker 3: they are trying to do everything they can to reverse
Speaker 3: the tide of immigration, migration, and reverse the tide of
Speaker 3: diversity that we've seen in this country. And you see
Speaker 3: that efforts like South Africa, you see that with efforts
Speaker 3: like Venezuela. You're going to see more and more of
Speaker 3: those things. So, yeah, the overwhelming impetus probably is the dollar.
Speaker 3: But there are true beliefs. Stephen Miller is a true believer.
Speaker 3: You best believe that he believes white folks are superior, right,
Speaker 3: and he wants to ensure that this country stays as
Speaker 3: white as possible. You see the tweets by Elon Musk.
Speaker 4: For as long as possible, for as long as possible,
Speaker 4: There's no doubt about it. And and by the way,
Speaker 4: those interests aren't diversion. They happen to be complementary to
Speaker 4: one another. He wants to repatriot the United States with whiteness.
Speaker 4: Thus the re you know, the the re entry of
Speaker 4: South African whites into the United States under the guys
Speaker 4: that they are being in some way, you know, targeted
Speaker 4: for their race. So again they can make America whiter.
Speaker 4: They want to again pursue policies that get more white
Speaker 4: women pregnant so they have more babies, because the birth
Speaker 4: rate for white babies is declining and below that of
Speaker 4: a black and brown I.
Speaker 3: Mean, look at your look at your own more. I
Speaker 3: told you nothing happens in a vacuum.
Speaker 6: God.
Speaker 2: So okay.
Speaker 1: And with that, from faux street celebrations in Venezuela to
Speaker 1: other AI videos that may have had your family in
Speaker 1: a choke hold, I know they had mined in CHOCLD.
Speaker 2: We're gonna talk about that right after this bread.
Speaker 17: Who cares about truth for the last morning seen it?
Speaker 1: Let's look at AI. We saw the AI's impact earlier
Speaker 1: in the show. We're gonna go ahead and play a
Speaker 1: little game with y'all before we getting the cause to action.
Speaker 1: We're gonna see if you can name that AI fake.
Speaker 1: You gotta decide which one of these videos is not real?
Speaker 5: Cat runs from Mouse Okay.
Speaker 2: Okay, So two of those videos at least are not real.
Speaker 2: Which two which, y'all, guy? Or what tell me which
Speaker 2: one is the real one?
Speaker 6: Y'all?
Speaker 3: I don't think any of them real.
Speaker 2: The second one, the second one is real that's.
Speaker 4: The one with the with the masked mask, cat or
Speaker 4: dog or animal whatever.
Speaker 1: I know the answer, so I won't say anything. Nick,
Speaker 1: do you want to tell us or you are need
Speaker 1: to tell him? Oh, he can't appear, So the answer is,
Speaker 1: Butkari was right. All of them are fakes. And over
Speaker 1: the break y'all. My dad, Sorry, daddy, I'm about to
Speaker 1: ear you out. My dad was running around the room
Speaker 1: during Christmas Christmas holiday laughing, showing people this phone, and
Speaker 1: my godson Ryan goes.
Speaker 2: Should we tell him.
Speaker 1: That that is AI and none of that is real?
Speaker 1: And we decided we were gonna let him live his
Speaker 1: Star Wars dreams. But the reality of it is these
Speaker 1: AI videos got us in a choke hold guys, yeah.
Speaker 3: Holiday, Yeah, because you see this hair. You see this
Speaker 3: hair right here? You see that how that looks? It
Speaker 3: is fake? Here it's Rocker roots.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately we can't because you're blurry. Your videos to blurry,
Speaker 1: so we can't see.
Speaker 3: My video is great, it's your camera's I got new
Speaker 3: technology over here again. Do you see do you see this?
Speaker 3: Look at it?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 4: All artificial guys.
Speaker 2: The Seahawks are the NFC West Division champs.
Speaker 4: Congratulations whatever I will say overbreak, the number of our
Speaker 4: seniors who were in their technology as much as, if
Speaker 4: not more than our younger kids was pretty extraordinary. In fact,
Speaker 4: there was a lot of writing done on this. I
Speaker 4: think one of the articles was like titled the the
Speaker 4: the the Technology Retirement or something along those lines. That
Speaker 4: are basically going after the intensity by which our parents
Speaker 4: and their retirement are being very drawn into and taken
Speaker 4: by technology and their cell phones and doom scrolling and
Speaker 4: all that stuff, to the point of concern that many
Speaker 4: of us express about our kids. And I will I
Speaker 4: share this was angela earlier Bakari. My kids were They
Speaker 4: had some playdates over the course of the holiday break,
Speaker 4: and I was just amazed at how quick they were
Speaker 4: willing to throw off their technology and to leave it
Speaker 4: in places outdoors. One of my kids lost it. It
Speaker 4: was under the tree, and I could not have been happier.
Speaker 4: As much money as we spent for them, you thought
Speaker 4: I would have been the other way, but I was
Speaker 4: excited to see that it didn't take long for them
Speaker 4: to be disconnected and distracted and away from their technology
Speaker 4: and back to making up games, spending time with each other,
Speaker 4: you know, creating stuff and fighting with each other over
Speaker 4: something that didn't have anything to do with technology. I
Speaker 4: wish we could embrace that more.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do the flip side of it. I am
Speaker 3: surprised by how quickly and this I don't I don't know,
Speaker 3: but how quickly young people are adapting to new tech.
Speaker 3: My son got a VR headset for his PS five
Speaker 3: and he was up there over Christmas and he put
Speaker 3: me on it. It was a Jurassic Park roller coaster
Speaker 3: like this, but but.
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely two different sizes of the coin.
Speaker 3: But he was a he was teaching me stuff like
Speaker 3: I'm like, he's he they God bless my twins. They
Speaker 3: just turned seven on the recording of this. But they
Speaker 3: they they grasped technology so quickly that they're teaching it
Speaker 3: to us. And my my prayer is that we have
Speaker 3: as a community embraced technology, at least from the perspective
Speaker 3: of monetizing it and not allowing a new enemy to
Speaker 3: leave us behind again.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, for my I don't know, if we're at our.
Speaker 2: Let's do it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I mean mine would be simply that we
Speaker 4: find more intentional ways and occasions to help our kids
Speaker 4: and our families disconnect from technology, not to the loss
Speaker 4: of whatever the economic profit may be. I think we
Speaker 4: ought to explore that. But but it feels so good
Speaker 4: to see kids acting like kids and not obsessed with
Speaker 4: their technology. And so to the extent that we can
Speaker 4: create those moments for just authentic connection again, parents, it's possible.
Speaker 4: We can do it. We can manage it. You know,
Speaker 4: there are helpful distractions, but then there are moments where
Speaker 4: you really got to get our kids reconnected to each
Speaker 4: other again, so they know how to look each other
Speaker 4: in the eye and talk to each other and makeup games.
Speaker 4: When there ain't no resources to be had to buy
Speaker 4: no game, they can make them up and create them
Speaker 4: all by themselves.
Speaker 3: Action is quite a parallel, because you were talking about
Speaker 3: I would I would kind of put that under mental
Speaker 3: health right as a mental health f ast. Mine is
Speaker 3: more of a physical health I just, uh, just at
Speaker 3: the beginning of the week went on a sixty hour
Speaker 3: water fast. Just broke it recently. That's why my skin
Speaker 3: looked good. My eyes are popping. That water weight is dissipating,
Speaker 3: my abs are coming. I'm looking like di'angelo and the
Speaker 3: Nicked video untitled.
Speaker 2: We just talked about AI.
Speaker 3: Right, but also, man, I know knew. The funny part
Speaker 3: is what I was saying is I hope people are
Speaker 3: taking care of themselves. I'm doing the the what is it?
Speaker 3: Sixteen sixteen hour fat inter minute fast, sixteen hours fasting,
Speaker 3: eight hours eating from eleven to seven. I'm eating. But
Speaker 3: one of the things I noticed is I've been running
Speaker 3: a lot in the gym, a lot doing some hot yoga.
Speaker 3: By the way, shout out to everybody, all the women
Speaker 3: doing hot yoga, because it's pre show. I was there
Speaker 3: trying to do a flamingo and a stand in what
Speaker 3: elver man, I'm in.
Speaker 1: Let me find out the reason you missed the call
Speaker 1: was because you was in hot yoga today.
Speaker 18: Of course you know I was this morning, baby, this morning.
Speaker 18: Anyway you talk about you said before the show, Yeah,
Speaker 18: but way before the show, way before the show. I
Speaker 18: mean this morning of it.
Speaker 4: Anyway.
Speaker 3: Anyway, take care, take care of yourself, is what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Start out, and the gyms are empty because people on
Speaker 3: these peptides. I don't I'm not knocking you for it,
Speaker 3: but make sure that you're also walking, make sure you're running,
Speaker 3: make sure you're outside stretching your legs. Make sure you're
Speaker 3: doing those things that make you emotionally sound physically.
Speaker 1: Please be careful with them drugs, y'all, be especially if
Speaker 1: you don't need it. Those are for diabetics, and I
Speaker 1: know they're saying it is helpful for losing weight, and
Speaker 1: I will run the risk of us losing a potential advertiser.
Speaker 1: Oh well, I will tell y'all be careful because they
Speaker 1: don't know the impact on the thyrad yet and it
Speaker 1: could cause thyrae cancer. I am going to join y'all
Speaker 1: on the mental health support, make sure you are connecting
Speaker 1: with a therapist in this new year. And on the
Speaker 1: physical health piece. I gained five pounds over Christmas. I
Speaker 1: ate like I have no business eating. So I was
Speaker 1: in hot Yoga right before church on Sunday and they
Speaker 1: had a hit hot Yoga class infrared.
Speaker 2: It was awesome.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Damien who was the leader. Also trained
Speaker 1: at the gym on Monday. I took a break yesterday,
Speaker 1: but I'm back on it today after this show. Looking
Speaker 1: forward to that. And I will just say, as a
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