1 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:11,600 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. Michael 2 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:15,520 Speaker 1: Very Show is on the air. Come and get me. 3 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 1: Nicholas Maduro will wait right here in there. Flores, don't 4 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:21,520 Speaker 1: take too long, coward. 5 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:23,640 Speaker 2: The Biden administration made of de old Maduro. 6 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:24,560 Speaker 3: No one talks about this. 7 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:27,880 Speaker 2: Maduro asked that his nephews, convicted drug traffick was. 8 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:29,120 Speaker 3: Be released from US prisons. 9 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:31,280 Speaker 2: He asked that his chief money launderer, his money man, 10 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:34,640 Speaker 2: his bagman, be released from US custody before he stood trial. 11 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 2: In exchange, he promised to hold free and fair elections. 12 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:40,360 Speaker 2: He got the nephews back, the drug dealers, he got 13 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:41,559 Speaker 2: the bagman back, and he. 14 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:43,440 Speaker 3: Never did the free and they stole the elections. They 15 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:47,320 Speaker 3: stole the elections. President Trump just announced on social. 16 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:50,160 Speaker 4: Media that veslan On President for Nicholas Mandora, has been 17 00:00:50,159 --> 00:00:52,120 Speaker 4: captured and flown out of the country. 18 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:54,960 Speaker 5: The forty seventh President United States is not a game player. 19 00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:56,760 Speaker 5: When he tells you that he's going to do something, 20 00:00:56,760 --> 00:00:58,920 Speaker 5: when he's good tells you he's going to address a problem, 21 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:01,640 Speaker 5: he means it is a president of action, Like I 22 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 5: don't understand. 23 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:04,520 Speaker 3: Yet how they haven't figured this out. And now if 24 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 3: you don't know now you know. 25 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:08,679 Speaker 6: Venezuelan people need our support to recover their democracy and 26 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:11,520 Speaker 6: rebuild their country. A new sanctions is one of the 27 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:16,600 Speaker 6: tools for a comprehensive strategy that includes humanitarian assistants, international pressure, 28 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:19,680 Speaker 6: and support for democratic actors in Venezuela to force the 29 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:21,880 Speaker 6: regime to embark on the road to a. 30 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 3: Free and fair election. 31 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:24,880 Speaker 5: This is not a president that just talks and does 32 00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:27,839 Speaker 5: letters and press conferences. And you know, if he says 33 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:30,360 Speaker 5: he's serious about something, he means that the message here 34 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 5: should be for the world. 35 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 3: But the president doesn't go out looking for people to 36 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:34,319 Speaker 3: pick fights with. 37 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:37,479 Speaker 5: He's not generally wants to get along with everybody. We'll 38 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:40,120 Speaker 5: talk and meet with anybody, but don't play games. 39 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:42,800 Speaker 3: Don't play games with this president's in office. 40 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:45,560 Speaker 4: How this news is being received in Iran, How's it 41 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:46,960 Speaker 4: being received in Russia? 42 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:48,680 Speaker 3: How's it being received in China? 43 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:55,720 Speaker 4: All three, predictably will deplore this kind of activity publicly, privately, 44 00:01:56,080 --> 00:02:00,760 Speaker 4: they will be impressed with the military capability here. I 45 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:04,280 Speaker 4: would argue, none of those three militaries could have executed 46 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:07,440 Speaker 4: in operations like this. And again we just we tend 47 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:12,560 Speaker 4: to just breathe by this. But the idea of finding Fixing, kidnapping, 48 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 4: taking him out alive with his wife, no casualties on 49 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:18,320 Speaker 4: the side of the US, that's. 50 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 3: An extraordinary military operation. 51 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:22,680 Speaker 7: The US has something of a mixed track record of 52 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:26,079 Speaker 7: ousting dictators without necessarily a plan for what comes after 53 00:02:26,639 --> 00:02:27,880 Speaker 7: that way, so that's. 54 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:30,080 Speaker 3: Why we have different presidents. But with me, that's not true. 55 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:33,520 Speaker 3: With me, we've had a perfect track record of winning. 56 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 8: We win a lot on Marco Rubio. And the whole 57 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 8: reason I told you I trashed him before is I 58 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 8: don't want you to ever think I'm hiding anything. I 59 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:46,600 Speaker 8: didn't support Donald Trump in twenty sixteen. I don't say 60 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:50,119 Speaker 8: that to brag. If I had any sense, I would 61 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:54,680 Speaker 8: stop saying it because it doesn't make anybody like me. 62 00:02:56,440 --> 00:02:59,120 Speaker 8: I introduced Ted Cruz in Iowa the night before he 63 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:03,120 Speaker 8: won Iowa. People forget that I believed Cruz was the 64 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:08,000 Speaker 8: true conservative, and I believed Donald Trump was running for 65 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:11,919 Speaker 8: the same reason he wrote books, same reason he put 66 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 8: his name on buildings to make money. He has turned 67 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:18,960 Speaker 8: out to be the greatest president of my lifetime and 68 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 8: may yet be the greatest president of all time. I 69 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:24,920 Speaker 8: will give him credit. I was wrong, and if you 70 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:27,280 Speaker 8: feel the need as many people do, to. 71 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:28,959 Speaker 3: Say, yeah, I was right. I liked it. 72 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 8: I like great, you obviously knew something I didn't know. 73 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:38,000 Speaker 8: I didn't believe that he would govern the way that 74 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 8: he has based on the life he had lived. But 75 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 8: I'm glad I was wrong. I'm happy to be wrong 76 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:50,080 Speaker 8: when I tell my kids, if you do this, this 77 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:51,200 Speaker 8: will be the consequence. 78 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:54,440 Speaker 3: But it's your decision. You do it. 79 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:59,680 Speaker 8: If you take that extra class in college that is 80 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:02,520 Speaker 8: more hours than I think you can handle in your 81 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:06,480 Speaker 8: first year of college, it's going to affect your grades. 82 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 3: Don't do it. 83 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:12,160 Speaker 8: Take fewer hours and load up later when you have 84 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:16,159 Speaker 8: better control over living away from home and getting to 85 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:21,320 Speaker 8: school and studying in the college environment. Dad, I appreciate it, 86 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 8: but I'm going to take the extra hours because I 87 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:27,400 Speaker 8: got to stay on pace. I told you it's going 88 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:31,159 Speaker 8: to hurt your grades. I was wrong, and as I 89 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:37,160 Speaker 8: told Michael T, I'm happy I was wrong. You don't 90 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:41,120 Speaker 8: have to agree with anything I ever say, but I 91 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 8: hope the reason you will keep coming back is you 92 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:47,479 Speaker 8: will say that guy may not be the smartest, he 93 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:50,359 Speaker 8: may not have the best boys, he may not have 94 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:55,240 Speaker 8: the best arguments, but he is at least consistent and 95 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 8: honest about what he says. He takes ownership. I don't 96 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 8: think it's about being right round. And I've said this 97 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:03,000 Speaker 8: all along. It doesn't matter to me if you agree 98 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 8: with me on anything. What matters to me is that 99 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:10,480 Speaker 8: you think that you don't buy the narrative that they 100 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:13,920 Speaker 8: give you. That's what I think Rush introduced the nation 101 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:19,479 Speaker 8: to the idea to question everything. All right, here's Secretary 102 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:22,680 Speaker 8: of State Marco Rubio making the rounds. He's on with 103 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:26,120 Speaker 8: that evil what a Trump called an ugly woman Kristen Welker, 104 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:30,679 Speaker 8: and she asked why the United States needed the Venezuelan oil. 105 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 5: Well, we don't need to First, I mean to go 106 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:35,200 Speaker 5: back up, we don't need Venezuela's oil. We have plenty 107 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:36,960 Speaker 5: of oil in the United States. What we're not going 108 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:40,039 Speaker 5: to allow is for the oil industry in Venezuela to 109 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:42,800 Speaker 5: be controlled by adversaries of the United States. You have 110 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:45,200 Speaker 5: to understand why does China need their oil, Why does 111 00:05:45,279 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 5: Russia need their oil, Why does it Ron need their oil. 112 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:50,520 Speaker 5: They're not even in this continent. This is the Western hemisphere, 113 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:52,160 Speaker 5: this is where we live, and we're not going to 114 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:54,480 Speaker 5: allow the Western hemisphere to be a base of operation 115 00:05:54,760 --> 00:05:58,120 Speaker 5: for adversaries, competitors and rivals of the United States specific 116 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:00,920 Speaker 5: we also want to see that stopped there. 117 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:04,520 Speaker 8: What he just articulated is what is known as the 118 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 8: Monroe doctrine. The fifth President of the United States in 119 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:15,600 Speaker 8: eighteen twenty three, in his seventh inaugural address. 120 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:16,599 Speaker 3: Articulated a vision. 121 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:23,640 Speaker 8: It was targeted at Spain, which represented the old world Europe, 122 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:26,880 Speaker 8: and he basically said, look, there's the old world, new world. 123 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:32,280 Speaker 8: We're the new world. We America will not poke our 124 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:36,680 Speaker 8: nose in the European business. You will not poke your 125 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:42,400 Speaker 8: nose into the Americas, and if you do, there's going 126 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 8: to be a problem. 127 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:46,080 Speaker 3: Now. It wasn't until eighteen fifty twenty seven years. 128 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:49,919 Speaker 8: Later that that doctrine laid out by James Monroe came 129 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:54,920 Speaker 8: to be known as the Monroe doctrine. But that has 130 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:59,880 Speaker 8: been an overarching principle of America's involvement in the Caribbean, 131 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:05,760 Speaker 8: Central America, Latin America, sorry, Central America, South America, and 132 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:12,160 Speaker 8: North America ever since Maduro represented a threat to the 133 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:18,160 Speaker 8: United States. They were giving diplomatic credentials to cartel traffickers 134 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 8: and leaders to go to Mexico as if they were 135 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:25,680 Speaker 8: part of the government given immunity and operate the cartels. 136 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:29,480 Speaker 8: That was one of many things they were doing that 137 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:34,840 Speaker 8: were harming our national interests and our national interest America 138 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 8: first has. 139 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:40,440 Speaker 3: To be protected. The Michael Berry Show. 140 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:43,840 Speaker 8: And the other day this would have been the entirety 141 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 8: of our topic today, because it is very important. The 142 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:52,560 Speaker 8: fraud in Minnesota is not relegated to Mogdeshio Minnesota. There 143 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:56,880 Speaker 8: are pockets of Somalis alone and where did I see 144 00:07:56,880 --> 00:07:59,440 Speaker 8: in New Hampshire, Ohio? 145 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:00,120 Speaker 3: A big one. 146 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:05,240 Speaker 8: But it's not just Somalis. You've got other groups who've 147 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:09,160 Speaker 8: been brought here. And nobody wants to call this out 148 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:13,920 Speaker 8: because nobody wants to be racist, nobody wants to criticize. 149 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:16,960 Speaker 8: Nobody wants to be accused of saying that every Somali 150 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:20,080 Speaker 8: is a bad person. Well, I don't know if it's 151 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:24,440 Speaker 8: one percent or five or ten. Maybe it's ninety percent 152 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:28,360 Speaker 8: of Somalis or great contributors to America, but they're damn 153 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:30,080 Speaker 8: sure are a whole lot of them that have come 154 00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:33,439 Speaker 8: here and schemed and defrauded and committed crimes and raped 155 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:36,760 Speaker 8: children and lived off the welfare state, and I've had enough. 156 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:39,040 Speaker 8: America first means Americans. 157 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:39,400 Speaker 3: First. 158 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:43,760 Speaker 8: I live in a house with three immigrants, two children 159 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:46,199 Speaker 8: who came here from Ethiopia, one wife who came here 160 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:49,120 Speaker 8: from India, and they are the proudest Americans you can 161 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:52,959 Speaker 8: possibly find. And that's how we approach this. No fraud, 162 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:59,920 Speaker 8: no crime, civic duty, love of country. These Somalis criminal 163 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:04,400 Speaker 8: enterprise period. All right, let's get through the Tim Walt's 164 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:05,800 Speaker 8: press conference today. 165 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:06,640 Speaker 3: This is big news. 166 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 8: This is Timmy wats We're going to go in order 167 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:12,360 Speaker 8: ramon saying that Donald Trump is mean. 168 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:15,040 Speaker 3: Donald Trump is mean is a big thing. 169 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:19,360 Speaker 7: Like many Minnesotans, I have to tell you, I was 170 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:21,360 Speaker 7: glad to turn the page on twenty twenty five. 171 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:24,320 Speaker 3: It was an extraordinarily difficult. 172 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:27,040 Speaker 7: Year for our state, and it ended on a particularly 173 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:30,440 Speaker 7: sour note. For the last several years, an organized group 174 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:33,439 Speaker 7: of criminals have sought to take advantage of this state's generosity, 175 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:36,200 Speaker 7: and even as we make progress in the fight against 176 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:38,960 Speaker 7: the fraudsters, we now see an organized group of political 177 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:41,360 Speaker 7: actors seeking to take advantage of a crisis. 178 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:43,560 Speaker 3: I don't want to mince words here. 179 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:46,400 Speaker 7: Donald Trump and his allies in Washington and in Saint 180 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:50,160 Speaker 7: Paul and online want to make our state a colder, 181 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 7: meaner place. 182 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 3: They want to poison our people against each other. There 183 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:54,720 Speaker 3: it is there at an attack. 184 00:09:55,520 --> 00:09:59,080 Speaker 8: You know, I read that Donald Trump's policies are ten 185 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:02,880 Speaker 8: percent more popular than Donald Trump individually. You know why, 186 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:06,520 Speaker 8: because that kind of talk works. That was scripted by 187 00:10:06,520 --> 00:10:08,480 Speaker 8: a strategist. They sat in a room and said, we 188 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:12,480 Speaker 8: got a real problem. The whole country sees that Mogadishu, 189 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:16,319 Speaker 8: Minnesota is full fraud, that taxpayers are paying for this, 190 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:19,000 Speaker 8: that it's so bad. The state was supposed to be 191 00:10:19,040 --> 00:10:22,920 Speaker 8: doing audits. They did an audit and it passed. That 192 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:26,960 Speaker 8: tells you that this is a criminal enterprise. This makes 193 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:29,640 Speaker 8: the mafia look small. 194 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:30,559 Speaker 3: This has been. 195 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:35,600 Speaker 8: Hiding in plain sight. And Donald Trump is just mean, right, 196 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:39,439 Speaker 8: this is what I voted for. And then okay, all right, 197 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:40,920 Speaker 8: so the first thing we need to do is Donald 198 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:45,120 Speaker 8: Trump's a bad guy. So the second thing is pretend 199 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:48,360 Speaker 8: to take accountability. All right, Well, write that line here 200 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:51,960 Speaker 8: we go. Make no mistake. 201 00:10:52,559 --> 00:10:56,320 Speaker 7: We should be concerned about fraud in our state government. 202 00:10:56,760 --> 00:11:00,640 Speaker 7: We cannot effectively deliver programs and services if we can't 203 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:03,760 Speaker 7: earn the public's trust. That's why over the past few years, 204 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:06,600 Speaker 7: we've made systemic changes in the way we do business. 205 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:09,320 Speaker 7: We've gone to the legislature time and time again to 206 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:13,600 Speaker 7: get more tools to combat fraud. We've hired people who 207 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:16,360 Speaker 7: were we fired people who weren't doing their jobs. We've 208 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:18,800 Speaker 7: seen people go to jail for stealing from our state. 209 00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:22,280 Speaker 7: We've cut off whole streams of funding in partnership with 210 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 7: the federal government where we saw widespread criminal activity. We 211 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:28,920 Speaker 7: put new locks on the doors of our remaining programs, 212 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:31,679 Speaker 7: and we've hired a new head of program integrity to 213 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:34,880 Speaker 7: make sure that those locks can't be broken. All across 214 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:40,599 Speaker 7: this state, Minnesotans are hard at work on this problem. Advocates, administrators, 215 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:44,920 Speaker 7: investigators are on the front lines defending the integrity of 216 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:47,360 Speaker 7: our states programs, and I want to give a very 217 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:48,960 Speaker 7: heartfelt thank you to all of them. 218 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:50,400 Speaker 3: There is more to do. 219 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:56,079 Speaker 7: A single taxpayer dollar wasted on fraud should be intolerable. 220 00:11:56,520 --> 00:11:58,920 Speaker 7: And while there's a role to play for everyone from 221 00:11:58,920 --> 00:12:04,199 Speaker 7: the legislature to prosecutors, to insurance companies to local and county. 222 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:09,800 Speaker 8: Government, the buck does stop with me, all right. So first, 223 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:14,000 Speaker 8: Trump is mean and I'm accountable both it wicher lies, 224 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:15,960 Speaker 8: but you got to have a script. Remember they were 225 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:19,400 Speaker 8: in a bad way here. Look, Charlie Manson had to 226 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:21,960 Speaker 8: have a defense. It's sort of like the moment a 227 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:26,240 Speaker 8: criminal defendant pleads insanity. That means, you know, we got 228 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:28,640 Speaker 8: him on film, we got multiple witnesses. He's got blood 229 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:30,800 Speaker 8: all over him, in a track record a mile long, 230 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:34,360 Speaker 8: and four notes said he's going to do it. So 231 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:38,440 Speaker 8: they know they're in a bad position. They're aware they 232 00:12:38,559 --> 00:12:45,160 Speaker 8: got a bad hand. Next, it's the Republican's fault. My 233 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:49,199 Speaker 8: administration has been taking fast, decisive action to solve this crisis. 234 00:12:49,679 --> 00:12:53,199 Speaker 8: We'll win the fight against the fraudsters. But the political 235 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:57,600 Speaker 8: gamesmanship we're seeing from Republicans is only making that fight harder. 236 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:00,199 Speaker 3: We've got Republicans here in. 237 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:04,319 Speaker 7: The state legislature playing hide and seek with potential whistleblowers. 238 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:08,599 Speaker 7: We've got conspiracy theorists, right wing YouTubers break in. 239 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:16,440 Speaker 8: We've got Republicans here who've got whistleblowers. In other words, 240 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:21,960 Speaker 8: they have people from within the government who are leaking 241 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:26,440 Speaker 8: the crimes that are occurring, but they won't tell us 242 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:30,199 Speaker 8: where we are, so they can come up missing, so 243 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:33,280 Speaker 8: they can be threatened, so they can lose their jobs. 244 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:38,240 Speaker 8: They're playing hide and seek with the whistleblowers. That's not right. 245 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:43,200 Speaker 8: Did you notice he said, very matter of factly, meant 246 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:46,280 Speaker 8: to be comforting, we'll win the war on fraud. 247 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:50,439 Speaker 3: The bigger question is are we going to be nice? 248 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:52,760 Speaker 3: But you weren't going to win the war on fraud. 249 00:13:53,679 --> 00:13:56,640 Speaker 3: In fact, you've lost the war on fraud. 250 00:13:57,440 --> 00:14:00,960 Speaker 8: You've been co opted and you're wearing the uniform of 251 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:03,640 Speaker 8: the Barbary Coast Somali pirates. 252 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:08,560 Speaker 3: They're the captain. Now you're not governor. That's why you 253 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:09,640 Speaker 3: had to announce today. 254 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:12,440 Speaker 8: If you were going to win the war on fraud, 255 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:18,200 Speaker 8: if Trump was evil, if the Republicans were the problem. 256 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:20,840 Speaker 3: You wouldn't be stepping down as governor. 257 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:26,040 Speaker 8: So one option is the big boys in Minnesota said, 258 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:30,120 Speaker 8: we cannot give up our state government because if this 259 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:35,320 Speaker 8: process continues, if the FBI gets involved, as we're told 260 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:40,360 Speaker 8: they are, if everything proceeds apace, you've got to have 261 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:43,200 Speaker 8: the governor who can hire and fire people who are 262 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:46,280 Speaker 8: going to help cover this up. That's why Amy Klobachar 263 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:51,560 Speaker 8: had Amy Klobachar for Governor. Dot com registered yesterday before 264 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:54,760 Speaker 8: the news broke by the way. Nick Shirley, twenty three 265 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:59,000 Speaker 8: year old kid, independent YouTuber with an iPhone, broke all 266 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:01,440 Speaker 8: this story. This guy there is a Nobel prize, a 267 00:15:01,520 --> 00:15:04,120 Speaker 8: puniture prize. Nick Shirley is his name? 268 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:05,760 Speaker 3: Mike? What an American hero? 269 00:15:08,920 --> 00:15:12,600 Speaker 8: So Venezuela has dominated the headlines. That's why we've been 270 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:17,000 Speaker 8: speaking almostly slicitly about that on the show today. But 271 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:23,640 Speaker 8: the story out of Minnesota, the fraud which is described 272 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:28,200 Speaker 8: as Somali fraud, and it is it is being perpetrated 273 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:36,600 Speaker 8: by Somali immigrants. But this overlooks the most important part 274 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:42,040 Speaker 8: of the story. You can prevent the Somalis from coming 275 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:46,040 Speaker 8: here if you come to the conclusion that many people 276 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:51,880 Speaker 8: have that the Somali culture is one rooted in crime 277 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:54,680 Speaker 8: and fraud. 278 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:57,040 Speaker 3: And why would that mean? 279 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:02,440 Speaker 8: In country trees where there is no respect for the government, 280 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:09,600 Speaker 8: in countries where the treasury is looted, the very concept 281 00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:15,080 Speaker 8: of cheating the government is not frowned upon. You would 282 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:20,000 Speaker 8: be considered a fool. If you didn't, you'd be considered weak. 283 00:16:21,640 --> 00:16:27,120 Speaker 8: The Somali culture has been for hundreds of years one 284 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:34,280 Speaker 8: of piracy. Think about that, the idea that you commandeer 285 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:38,760 Speaker 8: a boat and because someone is on the highway, the 286 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:45,080 Speaker 8: water highway, transporting goods. You just go out and steal them. 287 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:52,480 Speaker 8: That is what most Americans know of Somalis. The Tom 288 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:58,160 Speaker 8: Hanks movie, the famous meme I'm the Captain Now, that 289 00:16:58,320 --> 00:17:02,080 Speaker 8: is what people know of that culture. The other thing, 290 00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:04,600 Speaker 8: if you ask people what else do you know about 291 00:17:04,600 --> 00:17:10,440 Speaker 8: Somalia black hawk down? Think about that, Look at what happened, 292 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:17,160 Speaker 8: Look at a culture, look at them picking apart. 293 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:17,720 Speaker 3: That helo. 294 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:24,400 Speaker 8: So if you come to the conclusion that Somalis are 295 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:27,720 Speaker 8: incompatible with American life, which, by the way, I think 296 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:33,360 Speaker 8: a lot of cultures and religions bear some examination, and 297 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:38,480 Speaker 8: we certainly need to halt all immigration and start over. 298 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:47,840 Speaker 8: We have been overwhelmed by cultures by which I mean people, regions, religions, 299 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:56,359 Speaker 8: politics that are incompatible was what we would consider desirable 300 00:17:56,960 --> 00:18:02,320 Speaker 8: American culture. And you know you're in trouble when Democrats 301 00:18:02,359 --> 00:18:05,879 Speaker 8: will tell you that there is no American culture, that 302 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:10,679 Speaker 8: us trying to have a national fiber, a fabric that 303 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:15,760 Speaker 8: holds us together, is in and of itself evil. The 304 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:18,520 Speaker 8: fact that they do that tells you that they are 305 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:23,119 Speaker 8: trying to undercut what we're doing here. Timmy Waltz today 306 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:25,880 Speaker 8: having to announce that he's not running for reelection means 307 00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:29,440 Speaker 8: he's personally in trouble. The Democrats are afraid of losing 308 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:32,120 Speaker 8: the office and know that he can't when they got 309 00:18:32,119 --> 00:18:35,840 Speaker 8: to get him out of the way. Amy Klobachar would 310 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:40,240 Speaker 8: presumably be the canon who knows, who knows, but they 311 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:43,480 Speaker 8: cannot lose the office, and they're scared that that will happen. 312 00:18:44,119 --> 00:18:48,639 Speaker 8: Keith Ellison is scared, Amy Klobachar is scared, Ilanomour is scared. 313 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:55,280 Speaker 3: George Soros is scared. Jacob Fry is scared. So here 314 00:18:55,359 --> 00:19:00,000 Speaker 3: he is. This is cliped four fifteen. That this is. 315 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:04,919 Speaker 8: You know, they pretend like he's taking accountability. I just 316 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:09,199 Speaker 8: you know, you asked the guy. You ask the pompous, 317 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:12,359 Speaker 8: self righteous guy. You know, is there anything that's not 318 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:19,160 Speaker 8: perfect about him? Anything on him? Well, sometimes I sing 319 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:25,160 Speaker 8: too loud at church. That's Here's Timmy Wallas. Twenty twenty 320 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:26,240 Speaker 8: six is an election year. 321 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:30,040 Speaker 7: Election years have a way of ramping up the politics 322 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:33,480 Speaker 7: at a time when we simply can't afford more of that. Minnesota. 323 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:36,919 Speaker 7: In September, I announced that I would seek a historic 324 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:40,040 Speaker 7: third term as Minnesota's governor, and I have every confidence 325 00:19:40,119 --> 00:19:42,000 Speaker 7: that if I gave it my all, we would win 326 00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:44,879 Speaker 7: the race. But as I reflect on this moment with 327 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:47,480 Speaker 7: my family and my team over the holidays, I came 328 00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:50,960 Speaker 7: to the conclusion that I can't give a political campaign 329 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:54,760 Speaker 7: my all. Every minute that I spend defending my own 330 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:57,960 Speaker 7: political interest would be a minute I can't spend defending 331 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:00,840 Speaker 7: the people of Minnesota against the wominals who pray on 332 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:03,600 Speaker 7: our generosity and the cynics. 333 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:04,720 Speaker 3: Who want to pray on our differences. 334 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:07,520 Speaker 7: So I've decided to step out of this race, and 335 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:10,240 Speaker 7: I'll let others worry about the election while I focus 336 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:11,600 Speaker 7: on the work that's in front of me for the 337 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:15,760 Speaker 7: next year. I'm passing on this race with zero sadness 338 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:19,399 Speaker 7: and zero regret. I did not run for this job 339 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:23,000 Speaker 7: to have the job. I ran for the job to 340 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:27,040 Speaker 7: do the job. Minnesota faces enormous challenges this year, and 341 00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:30,719 Speaker 7: I refuse to spend a single minute doing anything other 342 00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:34,280 Speaker 7: than rising to meet this moment. Minnesota has always come 343 00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:38,320 Speaker 7: first and always will. That's what I believe servant leadership 344 00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:41,359 Speaker 7: demands of me. As an optimist. I'll hold out some 345 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:43,760 Speaker 7: hope that my friends on the other side of the 346 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:47,119 Speaker 7: aisle will consider what servant leadership demands of them in 347 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:51,320 Speaker 7: the moment. We can work together to combat against the criminals. 348 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:54,800 Speaker 7: We can work together to rebuild the public's trust and 349 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:57,880 Speaker 7: make our states stronger. But make no mistake about it, 350 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:00,800 Speaker 7: if Republicans continue down the path of a using power, 351 00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:05,199 Speaker 7: smearing entire communities, and running their own fraudulent game at 352 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:09,000 Speaker 7: the expense of Minnesotans, I will fight back with everything 353 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:12,720 Speaker 7: that I have. I am absolutely confident a Democratic and 354 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:16,360 Speaker 7: a dfler will hold this seat come November. I'm confident 355 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:18,560 Speaker 7: that I'll find ways to contribute to the state that 356 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:20,560 Speaker 7: I love long after next January. 357 00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:22,800 Speaker 3: But there'll be time to worry about all that later. 358 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:24,960 Speaker 3: So he wants to. 359 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:27,480 Speaker 8: Make sure that he says that the FBI agents and 360 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:28,920 Speaker 8: Department of Justice guys, and. 361 00:21:29,119 --> 00:21:30,840 Speaker 3: They're all really, really, really good guys. 362 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:33,520 Speaker 8: Those are the people who have case files open on 363 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:37,119 Speaker 8: him right now. But the leadership, they're all terrible people. 364 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:41,240 Speaker 8: He's appealing to his fellow Democrats because that's what career 365 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:45,399 Speaker 8: FBI agents and Department of Justice lawyers are. This is 366 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:49,640 Speaker 8: a subtle attempt wink blank wank, wank, nod, nod. I'm 367 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:53,760 Speaker 8: being tortured. This is a subtle attempt to affect the 368 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:56,560 Speaker 8: prosecution of his case or the investigation of his case. 369 00:21:57,560 --> 00:22:02,000 Speaker 7: We welcome ideas from anyone in any party, from any 370 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:04,720 Speaker 7: walk of life who wants to help us continue to 371 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:07,760 Speaker 7: stay ahead of these criminals, and we welcome the involvement 372 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:11,840 Speaker 7: of the federal government. I am grateful to the career 373 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:16,000 Speaker 7: professionals at the US Attorney's Office and the FBI who 374 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:18,919 Speaker 7: have been helping us fight this fight for years, but 375 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:22,919 Speaker 7: I cannot abide the actions of the political leadership in Washington. 376 00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:26,800 Speaker 7: These opportunists are willing to hurt our people to score 377 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:30,760 Speaker 7: cheap points. They and their allies have no intention of 378 00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:34,600 Speaker 7: helping us solve this problem and every intention of trying 379 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:45,720 Speaker 7: to profit off of it. 380 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:50,240 Speaker 3: Michael Berry The Michael Berry Show. 381 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:55,360 Speaker 8: I always felt like Rustling Bass Show was not big 382 00:22:55,480 --> 00:23:00,600 Speaker 8: enough to hold all his thoughts. And I got to 383 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:02,639 Speaker 8: tell you, I'm not comparing myself to Rush Lumbad. 384 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:03,639 Speaker 3: There is no comparison. 385 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:07,520 Speaker 8: But I will say this on days like today, there 386 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:09,600 Speaker 8: are so many things I would like to get to 387 00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:12,200 Speaker 8: and we'll get to them tomorrow. 388 00:23:13,119 --> 00:23:16,280 Speaker 3: There's so many things I would like to talk about. 389 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:20,119 Speaker 8: And I bear in mind that everything I say to 390 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:25,080 Speaker 8: you comes in the context of your getting other inputs. 391 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:28,480 Speaker 8: You're hearing from a Democrat media that doesn't call itself 392 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:31,959 Speaker 8: a Democrat media that's saying this is regime change. This 393 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:36,719 Speaker 8: is horrible, this is terrible. Well, listen, I am against 394 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:40,800 Speaker 8: regime change. And let's be very clear. When you hear 395 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:45,159 Speaker 8: the media say this is regime change, much as they 396 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:48,560 Speaker 8: would say this is racist, or this is transpho phobic, 397 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:53,399 Speaker 8: or this is in a phobic, they say that because 398 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:58,440 Speaker 8: that's a term that means something to you. Saying this 399 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:02,440 Speaker 8: is regime change. Trump is engaged in regime change. Let's 400 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:08,480 Speaker 8: be very clear that comment is not targeted at Democrat voters. 401 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:15,200 Speaker 8: Democrat voters love tyranny. What is Mamdani offering in New York? 402 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:18,120 Speaker 8: The government will solve all your problems. The government will 403 00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:20,960 Speaker 8: control everything. The government will decide if you can sell 404 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:23,560 Speaker 8: your property or not, or you have to hand it 405 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:26,480 Speaker 8: over to an NGO. The government will decide if you 406 00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:29,840 Speaker 8: can even own property. They're fine with that. They don't 407 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:35,399 Speaker 8: mind tyrannical governments. They kind of like it. Remember when 408 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:39,280 Speaker 8: Chris Rock said that Barack Obama was like the nation's father. 409 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:43,359 Speaker 8: He and Michelle were like the nation's parents. You don't 410 00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:45,600 Speaker 8: have to worry as an adult. There are a lot 411 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:50,520 Speaker 8: of adults, whether they're furries or Cozy's or goonies or whatever, 412 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:55,399 Speaker 8: all the goofy infantilism or diaper wears, there are a 413 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:58,160 Speaker 8: lot of adults. It's why a lot of adults don't 414 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:00,320 Speaker 8: leave home. They live with their parents. Failure to launch 415 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:05,280 Speaker 8: all those years. They don't want to have freedom. Freedom 416 00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:11,040 Speaker 8: scares them. Freedom might mean failure. Freedom means personal responsibility. 417 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:15,159 Speaker 8: They like a dictator. He makes the decisions for you. 418 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:20,480 Speaker 8: At least you don't have to be bothered because you're already, 419 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:24,879 Speaker 8: you know, so mentally unbalanced to begin with that. A 420 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:30,280 Speaker 8: single extra question, a single extra problem challenge, you can't 421 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:36,040 Speaker 8: provide a solution to it. So when they say regime change, 422 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:40,240 Speaker 8: you got to ask yourself, was this even a regime? 423 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:46,520 Speaker 3: Think about this for a moment. It was a criminal enterprise. 424 00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:49,200 Speaker 8: I heard Jonathan Turley refer to this as a criminal 425 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:53,520 Speaker 8: enterprise in a presidential palace or something to that effect. 426 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:57,200 Speaker 8: If we have a criminal enterprise, whether that's the mafia. 427 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:02,159 Speaker 8: You know, when we put John Gotti away, that was 428 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:04,920 Speaker 8: technically a regime change of the mafia. 429 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:07,640 Speaker 3: This trend day. 430 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:12,440 Speaker 8: Sorry, This Cartel de Soles, the Cartel of the Suns 431 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:17,560 Speaker 8: that Maduro was presumably the head of. That was a 432 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:21,880 Speaker 8: criminal enterprise. That wasn't a government, wasn't a country. Hell, 433 00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:24,040 Speaker 8: if they'd run the country, they wouldn't be having the 434 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:29,320 Speaker 8: problems there are. In the early two thousand, Venezuela was 435 00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:32,400 Speaker 8: a larger oil producer than the United States of America. 436 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:35,480 Speaker 3: I think about that. That's twenty years ago. 437 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:42,000 Speaker 8: At that time, Venezuela was producing three times as much 438 00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:48,720 Speaker 8: oil at nearly three point three million barrels a day 439 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:53,840 Speaker 8: three point three million. By twenty twenty, which means the 440 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:58,680 Speaker 8: end of Chavez and the first seven years of Maduro, 441 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,840 Speaker 8: three point three million barrels a day was down to 442 00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:07,080 Speaker 8: nine hundred thousand a day. In that time, the United 443 00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:10,959 Speaker 8: States hit five million barrels a day. 444 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:16,360 Speaker 3: Oil and energy are national security. 445 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:20,080 Speaker 8: If you are a white man who's fifty five years old, 446 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:23,960 Speaker 8: that'll be me. You've got an obsession with World War Two. 447 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:29,360 Speaker 8: You've read everything about everything, every battle. My friend Jesse Kelly, 448 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:33,720 Speaker 8: who also does a show on radio, we laugh about 449 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:37,200 Speaker 8: the fact we trade stories about Vietnam and World War Two, 450 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,320 Speaker 8: because that's what dudes do at a certain point, they're 451 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:43,040 Speaker 8: fascinated by World War to do. I don't know why 452 00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:48,360 Speaker 8: it happens, it happens. The German inability to fuel their 453 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:54,359 Speaker 8: panzers and fuel their planes was the reason they made 454 00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:57,639 Speaker 8: the decision to go into Russia when they did, and 455 00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:00,560 Speaker 8: that was the decision that cost them the war. They 456 00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:04,240 Speaker 8: split too far the Eastern Front. If they'd stayed focused, 457 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:07,640 Speaker 8: if they'd taken Dunkirk, they could have won the war, 458 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:11,119 Speaker 8: or they could have won Europe. And that would have 459 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:15,399 Speaker 8: left US America to fight them alone. And that's not 460 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:18,480 Speaker 8: a pretty picture. I don't like that. I still think 461 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:22,000 Speaker 8: we win. But how many of our grandparents wouldn't have 462 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:28,679 Speaker 8: made it home. It's a very, very sobering thought. Venezuela 463 00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:31,560 Speaker 8: holds three hundred and three billion barrels of oil reserves, 464 00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:35,959 Speaker 8: and it is if you know the oil business, then 465 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,000 Speaker 8: I know less than you. If you don't know the 466 00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:42,240 Speaker 8: oil business, I'm going to simplify it. There's heavy crude 467 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:46,840 Speaker 8: and there's light crud. West Texas has a lot of 468 00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:52,520 Speaker 8: light crude. If you've seen Landman, that's what they're extracting. 469 00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:57,920 Speaker 8: Texas and Louisiana have the vast majority of the heavy 470 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:03,320 Speaker 8: crude refineries. Now oil is at what fifty seven dollars 471 00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:07,440 Speaker 8: a gallon today a barrel today, our guys would like 472 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:12,040 Speaker 8: it to be seventy make more money, But that means 473 00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:16,360 Speaker 8: that more oil at cheaper prices is lower gas prices 474 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:18,800 Speaker 8: at the pump. So while my friends in new ow 475 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:21,880 Speaker 8: business aren't making what they would, you and I are 476 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:25,800 Speaker 8: paying less at the pump for a gallon of gas. 477 00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:28,720 Speaker 8: And don't think that doesn't scare the Democrats to death 478 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:36,840 Speaker 8: because gas buyers are voters. A month ago Forward did 479 00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:38,959 Speaker 8: away with They will no longer produce the F one 480 00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:46,080 Speaker 8: fifty electric truck. The major American manufacturers have dumped gotten 481 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:49,400 Speaker 8: out of electric cars as of September. You don't get 482 00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:52,480 Speaker 8: a seventy five hundred dollars rebate from the government. 483 00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:57,200 Speaker 3: They don't fit with people's lifestyle. 484 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:00,520 Speaker 8: Most of the people that I know that have electric vehicles, 485 00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:03,080 Speaker 8: it's a second vehicle, and they're fun. They're a toy, 486 00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:06,080 Speaker 8: but just like a second home at the beach or 487 00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:10,080 Speaker 8: the mountain or the ocean, they're not practical. You don't 488 00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:12,280 Speaker 8: live there, you can't work there. It's something you do 489 00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:18,040 Speaker 8: as a getaway. The gas powered engine for eighteen wheelers 490 00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:23,600 Speaker 8: and for your residential vehicles and for your truck. That 491 00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:27,640 Speaker 8: requires gas. That requires the burning of the dinosaurs who 492 00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:31,440 Speaker 8: walked the earth thousands of years ago. When those dinosaurs died, 493 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:37,240 Speaker 8: their bones seeped into the earth. Layers came up upon it. 494 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:41,680 Speaker 8: That created what's known as a fossil. That fossil can 495 00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:45,640 Speaker 8: be heated to make a fuel that's fossil fuel. It's 496 00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:51,000 Speaker 8: a very efficient form of energy, and we use a 497 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:54,400 Speaker 8: lot of it. Heavy oil, which is what they have, 498 00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:56,960 Speaker 8: has to be what's called lifted in the oil business. 499 00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:57,760 Speaker 3: They call it lifted. 500 00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:01,760 Speaker 8: The oil patch has to be extracted and that requires 501 00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:06,680 Speaker 8: advanced techniques like steam injection. Guess who's good at that. America, 502 00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:09,880 Speaker 8: we need a blend. It's a formula of the heavy 503 00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:13,840 Speaker 8: crude which they have and the light crude which we have. 504 00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:19,040 Speaker 8: The majority of US crude oil imports are heavy crude 505 00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:20,640 Speaker 8: oil because we don't have enough of that at about 506 00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:23,240 Speaker 8: seventy percent of it. Guess who was getting the lion's 507 00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:26,040 Speaker 8: share of that? Canada. That won't be happening anymore. 508 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:27,520 Speaker 3: Oh, we got a lot to talk about it. I'm 509 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:28,000 Speaker 3: glad you're here. 510 00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:30,280 Speaker 8: Send me an email tonight Michael Berryshow dot com. 511 00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:33,040 Speaker 3: I love to hear from you. Sail, thank you, and 512 00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:33,840 Speaker 3: good night.