1 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:11,119 Speaker 1: It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So 2 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:15,680 Speaker 1: Michael Verie Show is on the air. Come and get me. 3 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 1: Nicholas Maduro will wait right here in Mira Flores. Don't 4 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:21,759 Speaker 1: take too long, coward. 5 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:24,200 Speaker 2: The Biden administration made a deal with Maduro. No one 6 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 2: talks about this. Maduro asked that his nephews, convicted drug traffickers, 7 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:30,320 Speaker 2: be released from US prisons. He asked that his chief 8 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:33,040 Speaker 2: money launderer, his money man, his bagman, be released from 9 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:34,280 Speaker 2: US custody. 10 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 1: Before he stood trial. 11 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:37,720 Speaker 2: In exchange, he promised to hold free and fair elections. 12 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:40,800 Speaker 2: He got the nephews back, the drug dealers, he got 13 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:42,720 Speaker 2: the bagman back, and he never did the free and 14 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 2: he stole all the elections. 15 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:44,680 Speaker 1: He stole the elections. 16 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:49,200 Speaker 2: President Trump just announced on social media that venzueanam president 17 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:52,159 Speaker 2: for Nicholas Madora, has been captured and flown out of 18 00:00:52,159 --> 00:00:54,680 Speaker 2: the country. The forty seventh president the United States is 19 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:56,680 Speaker 2: not a game player. When he tells you that he's 20 00:00:56,680 --> 00:00:58,480 Speaker 2: going to do something, When God tells you he's going 21 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:01,600 Speaker 2: to address a problem means this is a president of action. 22 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:04,560 Speaker 2: Like I don't understand yet how they haven't figured this out. 23 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:05,679 Speaker 1: And now if you don't know. 24 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:06,319 Speaker 3: Now you know. 25 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 4: The Venezuelan people made our support to recover their democracy 26 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:25,720 Speaker 4: and rebuild their country. I'll use sanctions is one of 27 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:29,479 Speaker 4: the tools for a comprehensive strategy. It includes humanitarian assistance, 28 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 4: international pressure and support for democratic actors in Venezuela to 29 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:36,240 Speaker 4: force the regime to embark on the road to a 30 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:37,200 Speaker 4: free and fair election. 31 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:39,319 Speaker 2: This is not any president that just talks and does 32 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 2: letters and press conferences. And you know, if he says 33 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:44,880 Speaker 2: he's serious about something, he means it. The message here 34 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:45,759 Speaker 2: should be. 35 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:46,119 Speaker 1: For the world. 36 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:48,280 Speaker 2: Look, the president doesn't go out looking for people to 37 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 2: pick fights with. He's not generally wants to get along 38 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:54,040 Speaker 2: with everybody. We'll talk and meet with anybody, but don't 39 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 2: play games. 40 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 1: Don't play games with. 41 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 2: This president's in office, because it's not going. 42 00:01:58,120 --> 00:01:58,760 Speaker 3: To turn out well. 43 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:15,640 Speaker 5: Tell me how this news is being received in Iran, 44 00:02:15,720 --> 00:02:18,680 Speaker 5: How's it being received in Russia, How's it being received 45 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:22,640 Speaker 5: in China? All three, predictably will deplore this kind of 46 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:29,600 Speaker 5: activity publicly. Privately, they will be impressed with the military 47 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:33,679 Speaker 5: capability here. I would argue none of those three militaries 48 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:37,400 Speaker 5: could have executed an operation like this and again, we 49 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:40,240 Speaker 5: just we tend to just breeze by this. But the 50 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 5: idea of finding Fixing, kidnapping, taking him. 51 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:46,280 Speaker 1: Out alive with his wife. 52 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 5: No casualties on the side of the US, that's an 53 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:51,120 Speaker 5: extraordinary military operation. 54 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:53,600 Speaker 2: The US has something of a mixed track record of 55 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 2: ousting dictators without necessarily a plan for what comes afterwards. 56 00:02:57,639 --> 00:03:01,080 Speaker 3: That's where we have different presidents. With me, that's not true. 57 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 3: With me, We've had a perfect track record of winning. 58 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:28,480 Speaker 3: We win a lot. 59 00:03:32,639 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 6: You will hear occasional reference to the Monroe Doctrine, And 60 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:40,560 Speaker 6: in case you weren't paying attention in school, but have 61 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 6: a rough estimation of what that means, let me explain. 62 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 6: James Monroe was the fifth President of the United States. 63 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 6: On December second, eighteen twenty three, during his seventh annual 64 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 6: State of the Union address to Congress, he would lay 65 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:01,720 Speaker 6: out what came to be known as Monroe Doctrine. He 66 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 6: didn't call it the Monroe doctrine. In fact, no one 67 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 6: at the time did. That was eighteen twenty three. It 68 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 6: was not until eighteen fifty twenty seven years later that 69 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:15,880 Speaker 6: this doctrine, and we'll get into what this means, would 70 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:19,160 Speaker 6: be named after the Man who first articulated it at 71 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 6: that time. Spanish colonies in the Americas, some of which 72 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:30,840 Speaker 6: you've been on vacation to. We're all either independent or 73 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:35,800 Speaker 6: in the process of becoming independent. We interchangeably use the 74 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:40,640 Speaker 6: word Spanish and Latin America, but here I mean in 75 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:46,960 Speaker 6: the literal sense Spain, which represented Europe. Spain, of course, 76 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:49,960 Speaker 6: one of the at that point on the back end 77 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 6: of their world powers, although they were still an economic empire. 78 00:04:55,240 --> 00:05:00,599 Speaker 6: Spain represented the Old World and America represented the New World, 79 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:04,440 Speaker 6: and the Old World was the real power in the 80 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:07,120 Speaker 6: world at the time in eighteen twenty three and to 81 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:14,600 Speaker 6: that point in eighteen fifty and Monroe argued, Look, America 82 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:17,279 Speaker 6: will stay out of the Old World. America will stay 83 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:21,679 Speaker 6: out of Europe because at this time you have the French, 84 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:30,479 Speaker 6: the English, the Spanish, the Portuguese, the Germans, although it's 85 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 6: not so simple as the Germans, because what later came 86 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:36,400 Speaker 6: to be known as the German Empire was not the 87 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:41,279 Speaker 6: German Empire for many decades later. You had the Austrians, 88 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:46,799 Speaker 6: you had the Habsburgs, you had these regions. 89 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:47,640 Speaker 1: You had the. 90 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 6: Poles, who, while not on the same level, were a 91 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:54,760 Speaker 6: powerful force and of course, you had the Russians throw 92 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 6: in there that Italy was much stronger vis a vis 93 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 6: their peers than they would be in World War II 94 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:06,560 Speaker 6: when they would embarrass themselves. So Monroe says, look, Europe 95 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:09,000 Speaker 6: will have its sphere of influence and you boys can 96 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:12,680 Speaker 6: fight that out on your own. We won't involve ourselves 97 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:15,440 Speaker 6: and we will have our sphere of influence. 98 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:19,720 Speaker 1: It was sort of an America first approach, he said. 99 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:24,359 Speaker 6: It is in America's interest to protect the Americas, to 100 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:28,120 Speaker 6: protect the nations. Now, the map didn't look at that 101 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:32,800 Speaker 6: time the way it does today. Well, North America did, 102 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:37,200 Speaker 6: Central and South America and the many islands of the 103 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 6: Caribbean did not. But when that was laid out, it 104 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 6: was laid out to give an overarching theory of the 105 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:49,480 Speaker 6: isolationist America position with regard to the world around us, 106 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:52,720 Speaker 6: and that was the fact that we are a standalone 107 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:59,440 Speaker 6: nation that does not busy ourselves in foreign entanglements. Of course, 108 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:03,800 Speaker 6: to our peril, we have violated our own such rule. 109 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:08,400 Speaker 6: It is also the case that we will defend our 110 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:12,600 Speaker 6: interest beyond our shores, as it relates to our interests 111 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:18,480 Speaker 6: being in Ukraine and involving ourselves in the war between 112 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 6: former Soviet Republic Ukraine in modern day Russia. Not part 113 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:29,040 Speaker 6: of the Monroe doctrine. Frankly, not something we should have 114 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:32,880 Speaker 6: been funding. But I think most everybody by now understands 115 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:35,960 Speaker 6: that that wasn't about the security of the world or 116 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:39,520 Speaker 6: the bread basket to the West. That was about enriching 117 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:43,120 Speaker 6: Zelenski and the kickback commissions that were to be given 118 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:46,880 Speaker 6: to the Biden's, Clinton's and yes, some of the other 119 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:48,840 Speaker 6: names we all know. 120 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:51,600 Speaker 1: So when Monroe. 121 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:56,440 Speaker 6: Lays out the doctrine, it is a fascinating concept as 122 00:07:56,480 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 6: to how two hundred two years later that still applied. 123 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:01,000 Speaker 1: Because it does. 124 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:05,560 Speaker 6: And yes, it is as America first as anything else 125 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:05,800 Speaker 6: we do. 126 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:11,240 Speaker 1: Libor old tears because I didn't get a single time. 127 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:15,920 Speaker 6: Spot start here that our country is failing you today. 128 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:20,640 Speaker 1: Invest in Kleenex, ladies and gentlemen. And this is the 129 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:30,840 Speaker 1: Michael Berry Show. I want you to know. I mean 130 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:32,520 Speaker 1: spent time with my family. 131 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:39,199 Speaker 6: Over Christmas and New Year's clearing my head and resting 132 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:43,040 Speaker 6: my brain. This is so difficult. I just want you 133 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:45,400 Speaker 6: to know how much I appreciate and we all do. 134 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:50,280 Speaker 6: The Family's on our team. Chad Knock Andishi Jim Mudd 135 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:54,679 Speaker 6: from on Roeblas Deryl Kunda in that order of importance. 136 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:56,800 Speaker 1: Well, Kunda didn't do anything wrong. It's just he's the 137 00:08:56,800 --> 00:08:57,240 Speaker 1: newest guy. 138 00:08:57,280 --> 00:09:01,679 Speaker 6: I can't I can't even move him ahead of you. Yeah, 139 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:05,360 Speaker 6: we do appreciate that you give us the opportunity to 140 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 6: be here, if by nothing else, you being here as well. 141 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:13,600 Speaker 6: So thank you, thank you for everything you do. President 142 00:09:13,679 --> 00:09:20,719 Speaker 6: Trump did offer Maduro the opportunity. He offered him the 143 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:29,240 Speaker 6: opportunity the way when Clint Eastwood walks into the saloon 144 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:34,679 Speaker 6: and he gives the bounty hunters the opportunity to leave 145 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:39,360 Speaker 6: and live, and he spits and has to say, dying 146 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:42,319 Speaker 6: ain't much of a living. Remember, the fella comes back. 147 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:44,959 Speaker 6: He's going to leave because he realizes you're not going 148 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:49,040 Speaker 6: to beat Josie Welles. But then he comes back in 149 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 6: and he said, I had to got to make a living. 150 00:09:51,559 --> 00:09:54,600 Speaker 6: And that's when I love Josie Wells famously says in 151 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:57,360 Speaker 6: a story that's true, you know, dying ain't much of 152 00:09:57,400 --> 00:10:01,120 Speaker 6: a living. Trump offered Maduro that he can go into exile. 153 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:05,600 Speaker 6: My understanding is the most attractive of the offers was 154 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:10,560 Speaker 6: to Turkey. But I think the point is that he 155 00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:16,160 Speaker 6: could have saved face and he chose instead the wrong course. 156 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:20,600 Speaker 6: There is a cartel called the Cartel de la Sols, 157 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:26,040 Speaker 6: the Cartel of the Suns in Venezuela, and the argument 158 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:32,800 Speaker 6: is that Maduro was the de facto head of the cartel, 159 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:35,920 Speaker 6: not just the head of the government that tolerated the cartel, 160 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:40,240 Speaker 6: but actually the active head of a cartel that is 161 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:43,160 Speaker 6: a criminal enterprise in and of itself, which worked in 162 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:46,040 Speaker 6: parallel with human trafficking drug trafficking. 163 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:48,880 Speaker 1: There are some people who are. 164 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:54,400 Speaker 6: Erroneously saying that our fentanyl deaths are traced to Venezuela, 165 00:10:55,480 --> 00:11:00,400 Speaker 6: and I have attempted to run this ground. Means a 166 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:02,760 Speaker 6: lot of people will claim some inside knowledge, or if 167 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:04,720 Speaker 6: you don't know what they know, you're not as smart 168 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:07,880 Speaker 6: as they are. And some of this information is just erroneous. 169 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:12,800 Speaker 6: As best I can tell from people I respect, Venezuela 170 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:17,000 Speaker 6: is responsible for cocaine, not the fentanyl. The fentanyl comes 171 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:21,319 Speaker 6: from the triads of China, also through Mexico, and there 172 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:24,720 Speaker 6: is a number there is a certain amount of cooperation 173 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:29,080 Speaker 6: or at a minimum of detent between those organizations, but 174 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:34,160 Speaker 6: that would make Maduro, through the cocaine trafficking the head 175 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:38,400 Speaker 6: of the criminal enterprise, and not just someone who was 176 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:43,600 Speaker 6: enabling it to happen, but someone who was captaining the ship. 177 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:47,920 Speaker 6: United States assets are still in place, including some pretty 178 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:52,800 Speaker 6: amazing warships, and the President has made clear himself and 179 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:56,560 Speaker 6: through his surrogates, the Secretary of State Defense, Raising Kine, 180 00:11:56,760 --> 00:12:00,920 Speaker 6: and others, that the capability and willing to strike at 181 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:05,559 Speaker 6: a moment's notice remains. The attempt is to get the 182 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:10,840 Speaker 6: elections in Venezuela and to get a leader who has 183 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:15,760 Speaker 6: popular support, which Maduro did not, by any measure did not. 184 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:22,480 Speaker 6: The Venezuelan constitution calls for an election within thirty days 185 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:28,240 Speaker 6: under the incapacitation of the Venezuelan leader. And while we 186 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:32,320 Speaker 6: did not recognize him as the leader, he was, for 187 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:36,400 Speaker 6: all intents and purposes internally the person with the keys 188 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:42,000 Speaker 6: to the kingdom. His incapacitation occurred the moment they put 189 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:47,160 Speaker 6: him on a helicopter and took him to Iwajima. That 190 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:50,920 Speaker 6: is the moment he was no longer in any way 191 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:55,880 Speaker 6: the effective leader of Venezuela. So within thirty days there 192 00:12:55,960 --> 00:13:01,320 Speaker 6: must be elections. But the Supreme Court immediately made the 193 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:05,559 Speaker 6: acting Vice President the leader of the nation. How long 194 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:07,640 Speaker 6: will this continue, Will there be elections? Those are going 195 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:10,480 Speaker 6: to be key questions over the next few days, and 196 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:14,000 Speaker 6: there will be a quagmar of questions in an attempt 197 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:18,960 Speaker 6: to confuse Trump because the Democrats understand that this is 198 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:22,800 Speaker 6: a big victory for Trump. You'll have Thomas Massey, You'll 199 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:27,480 Speaker 6: have Ran Paul, You'll have a number of individuals with 200 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:29,800 Speaker 6: whom I am a fellow traveler on the number of issues. 201 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:33,800 Speaker 6: I'll be honest, But those individuals will say this was 202 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:39,560 Speaker 6: not an authorized action. President operated outside the jurisdiction the 203 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:42,040 Speaker 6: rightful constitutional authority. And you can think what you want 204 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:43,840 Speaker 6: about whether that's true or not. It really doesn't matter. 205 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:46,920 Speaker 6: But in the court of public opinion, we will see 206 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:51,240 Speaker 6: a bump by Trump because every red blooded American, myself included, 207 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:54,440 Speaker 6: loves a good show of force and an ass kicking 208 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:57,760 Speaker 6: of another country, especially when that fellow is dancing and 209 00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:01,160 Speaker 6: taunting the United States. And there you'll see some of 210 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 6: the internal split in American politics of the left who 211 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:08,920 Speaker 6: want us to be citizens of the world, and every 212 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:12,040 Speaker 6: red blooded American who says, I'm tired of getting kicked 213 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:16,160 Speaker 6: around if we're not exerting our supremacy, lest at least 214 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:18,560 Speaker 6: stop genuflecting to the rest of the world and worrying 215 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:23,840 Speaker 6: more about their people than ours. This regime was a 216 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:27,840 Speaker 6: criminal enterprise. I don't think there's really much doubt there. 217 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:33,160 Speaker 6: And we'll get into some audio clips of Chuck Schumer, 218 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:40,280 Speaker 6: Nancy Pelosi, and a number of others claiming that if 219 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:42,840 Speaker 6: Trump was serious about what he claims, he would have 220 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:47,120 Speaker 6: taken Maduro out. They said this during his first administration. Well, 221 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:50,680 Speaker 6: do you remember that in January of twenty twenty five, 222 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:57,920 Speaker 6: a year ago before they left office, the Biden Harris 223 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:02,480 Speaker 6: administration put a twin D five million dollar bounty on 224 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:05,080 Speaker 6: information leading to the arrest of Maduro. 225 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 1: Now, why did they do that? 226 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:13,560 Speaker 6: Arguably to make themselves more popular with the Venezuelan American community. 227 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,280 Speaker 6: But they put twenty five million down on the head 228 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:19,720 Speaker 6: of Maduro. And now Kamala Harris says that grabbing him 229 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:21,160 Speaker 6: doesn't make us safe. 230 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:24,200 Speaker 1: Do you think no? But the internet is forever, lady, 231 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:30,040 Speaker 1: don't mess around with old And this is the Michael 232 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:30,680 Speaker 1: Barry Show. 233 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:38,960 Speaker 6: Reports now circulating, credible reports that before the. 234 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:40,360 Speaker 1: Tim Waltz would resign. 235 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:48,080 Speaker 6: Late morning Today news emerged Klobachar Forgovernor dot com had 236 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:55,560 Speaker 6: already been registered, suggesting, of course that somebody, whether authorized 237 00:15:55,680 --> 00:16:01,120 Speaker 6: or not, I suspect authorized, is prepared Amy Klobuchar to 238 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:08,720 Speaker 6: take control of the governor's office in Mogadishu. Partly because 239 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:12,840 Speaker 6: it's a coup. The senator has real, no real power, 240 00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:18,760 Speaker 6: but a governor does. And partly because we've got to 241 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:19,880 Speaker 6: make sure. 242 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:26,040 Speaker 1: That the that the powers of that state. 243 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:32,680 Speaker 6: Are in place to protect against federal investigations and whistleblowers 244 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:38,040 Speaker 6: and leaks about the corruption that has occurred, which was 245 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:41,560 Speaker 6: not just Somali warlord frauds. Let's be clear on that 246 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:45,600 Speaker 6: they could not have done this. In fact, the one 247 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:50,080 Speaker 6: daycare where they rolled the guy out and he said, 248 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:54,640 Speaker 6: you know, they came for our documents to show that 249 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:59,400 Speaker 6: this daycare, this getting millions of dollars is actually a daycare, and. 250 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:01,600 Speaker 1: We would have glad provided those documents. 251 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:09,600 Speaker 6: However, there was a break in at our daycare and 252 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:18,280 Speaker 6: they stole all the documents. Wait what, okay, show us 253 00:17:18,320 --> 00:17:23,600 Speaker 6: the camera. Somehow we don't have camera footage of the 254 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:30,000 Speaker 6: break in. You know, those levels of lies might work 255 00:17:30,359 --> 00:17:34,480 Speaker 6: in Somalia, and they might have normally worked in Minnesota, 256 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:38,720 Speaker 6: but you have the entire nation's eyes upon. 257 00:17:38,560 --> 00:17:39,399 Speaker 1: You for a moment. 258 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:45,240 Speaker 6: It would appear, however, that the Senator from Minnesota, Amy Klobachar, 259 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:48,240 Speaker 6: who you'll recall, was a presidential candidate with a very 260 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:53,639 Speaker 6: very annoying, very very annoying demeanor. The thing I remember 261 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:58,240 Speaker 6: most about her campaign from that year twenty twenty were 262 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:01,560 Speaker 6: the revelations that she thought rose things at her staff, 263 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:05,400 Speaker 6: sort of a white Sheila Jackson Lee if you want, 264 00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:09,840 Speaker 6: I hope a Bretdon's most bad. My god, y'all think 265 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:13,360 Speaker 6: I'm kidding, But in political circles from people who knew 266 00:18:13,359 --> 00:18:18,080 Speaker 6: Sheila Jackson Lee, it was widely discussed and we would 267 00:18:18,119 --> 00:18:23,760 Speaker 6: all laugh. And how bad her breath smelled, I mean, 268 00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:32,480 Speaker 6: just horrible. Venezuela has seventeen percent of the world's oil reserves. 269 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:38,280 Speaker 6: That's reserves, but it is only exporting one percent. 270 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:41,120 Speaker 1: The US. 271 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:53,240 Speaker 6: Blockade of Venezuelan oil, the the pushing out of American 272 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:59,160 Speaker 6: interests in Venezuela, the lack of infrastructure, so basically they've 273 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:02,080 Speaker 6: been doing what they could but not investing any of 274 00:19:02,119 --> 00:19:06,639 Speaker 6: it back into their assets have left them a shell 275 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:10,800 Speaker 6: of what they were. But it's still the largest proven 276 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:13,080 Speaker 6: reserves in the world. 277 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:17,480 Speaker 1: That's real. It's heavy crude that. 278 00:19:17,560 --> 00:19:25,720 Speaker 6: Our country desperately wants and needs. I read early this 279 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:31,120 Speaker 6: morning that there are six refineries in the United States 280 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:37,480 Speaker 6: best placed to refine this heavy crude, and those six 281 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:44,840 Speaker 6: refineries are located in the Great States of Texas and Louisiana. 282 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:52,560 Speaker 6: Heavy crude, as I understand it, is far more expensive 283 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:57,280 Speaker 6: to extract than like crude, which of course makes sense. 284 00:19:57,320 --> 00:19:59,200 Speaker 1: It's a gooier. 285 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:07,520 Speaker 6: Element, a gooy or concoction, and that requires advanced techniques 286 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:14,360 Speaker 6: like apparently the most prominent something called steam injection. And 287 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:18,439 Speaker 6: as I understand it, America is the best at the 288 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:25,159 Speaker 6: process of extracting and refining heavy crude. I also have 289 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:27,960 Speaker 6: come to understand that the United States is incredibly dependent 290 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:30,240 Speaker 6: on heavy crude. 291 00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:32,320 Speaker 1: We need a lot more than we're able to get. 292 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:37,840 Speaker 6: In nineteen eighty in the United States, between ten and 293 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:42,080 Speaker 6: twenty percent of crude oil imports were. 294 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:43,840 Speaker 1: The heavy crude variety. 295 00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:49,680 Speaker 6: Today, the majority from ten to twenty percent to over 296 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:57,119 Speaker 6: fifty percent are of US Crewe oil imports are heavy 297 00:20:57,320 --> 00:21:03,679 Speaker 6: crude oil at some say as much as seventy percent, 298 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:08,160 Speaker 6: but we're not able to get that from Venezuela presently, 299 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:13,560 Speaker 6: or at least we weren't. We have an appetite for 300 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:19,040 Speaker 6: a lot more heavy crude, and Venezuela has billions of 301 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:23,760 Speaker 6: barrels of it. The president says he's going to effectively 302 00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:29,720 Speaker 6: run the country till we get it stabilized. He's also 303 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:33,359 Speaker 6: said we're not in the business of nation building. A 304 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:37,080 Speaker 6: press release coming out overnight from the Vice President now 305 00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:39,560 Speaker 6: acting President of Venezuela that she looks forward to working 306 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:42,920 Speaker 6: with the president, which is a definite change of tone. 307 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:45,359 Speaker 6: But you have to think if you can keep the 308 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:49,400 Speaker 6: corruption and ineffectiveness and foreign meddling from the Chinese, iranis 309 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:51,480 Speaker 6: the Russians and Cubans. 310 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:54,040 Speaker 1: At Bay, which is not nothing. 311 00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:59,600 Speaker 6: If you could start, you could fire up these plants 312 00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:06,360 Speaker 6: to run at full bandwidth overnight or within reason, and 313 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:10,120 Speaker 6: you put some of that money into that economy, you're 314 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:13,520 Speaker 6: going to get people off of their household dog as 315 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:17,840 Speaker 6: dinner and looking more and more like the Venezuela that 316 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:21,479 Speaker 6: was a richer country than Poland just a few decades 317 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:26,200 Speaker 6: ago before they were plunged into the depths of poverty. 318 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:29,720 Speaker 6: And that's going to make a world of difference. The 319 00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:34,879 Speaker 6: United States wants more heavy crude. Venezuela has billions of 320 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:38,320 Speaker 6: barrels of it. Now, who's the loser out of this 321 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:45,359 Speaker 6: Canada during this time? Their share of exports to this 322 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:50,200 Speaker 6: country or their share of imports for America's heavy crud 323 00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:55,280 Speaker 6: has gone from fifteen percent to sixty percent, which would 324 00:22:55,520 --> 00:23:00,200 Speaker 6: enable us to get off of Canadian heavy crude the 325 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:04,120 Speaker 6: Venezuelan economy, and boy, doesn't that change our negotiation process 326 00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:15,280 Speaker 6: with Henry. It is being reported by some news outlets 327 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:17,760 Speaker 6: that a twenty six year old by the name of 328 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:23,240 Speaker 6: William Defour has been charged after trying to break into 329 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:25,440 Speaker 6: the Ohio home of. 330 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:27,280 Speaker 1: Vice President JD. Vans. 331 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:33,240 Speaker 6: He was using a hammer to break the windows to 332 00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:39,280 Speaker 6: gain access. That's being reported from w XIX. Bringing a 333 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:42,640 Speaker 6: hammer to the home of a politician in their spouse. 334 00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:45,879 Speaker 1: This is where Paul Pelosi lives. 335 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:49,760 Speaker 6: It is just one more reminder of the sacrifices of 336 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:52,359 Speaker 6: serving in public life. If you are a Republican today, 337 00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:56,600 Speaker 6: our president was shot in the head, and but for 338 00:23:56,640 --> 00:24:02,639 Speaker 6: God's favor, President Trump would be a martyr today, just 339 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:06,159 Speaker 6: as Charlie Kirk turned out to be Rand Paul was 340 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:16,200 Speaker 6: hospitalized and almost died Steve Scalise by a gunman who 341 00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:20,240 Speaker 6: was a Bernie Bro gunned down out on the field 342 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:29,520 Speaker 6: during the Congressional softball game practice. Reminder that the Bernie 343 00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:33,560 Speaker 6: bro walked past some Democrats and asked if that was 344 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:37,480 Speaker 6: the Republicans who were practicing over there. That was as 345 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:45,560 Speaker 6: clear as day, a targeted attack, as clear as day. 346 00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:53,399 Speaker 6: Venezuela's experts to the United States. Our importation of Venezuelan 347 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:57,320 Speaker 6: and heavy crude, which as I understand, is a blend 348 00:24:57,520 --> 00:24:58,280 Speaker 6: you use. 349 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:00,880 Speaker 1: With the light crud, not one or the other. 350 00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:04,080 Speaker 6: We just happened to be really good at refining the 351 00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:08,040 Speaker 6: heavy crew, especially the states of Texas and Louisiana. And 352 00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:11,840 Speaker 6: what we need a lot more of for a more 353 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:15,920 Speaker 6: balanced diet is that heavy crew from Venezuela that we're 354 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:18,960 Speaker 6: now having to get a much larger percent, over fifty 355 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:27,119 Speaker 6: percent of from Canada. This would be highly profitable for 356 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:32,480 Speaker 6: a number of folks, but it would also be very 357 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:37,720 Speaker 6: good for the American consumer. Now, a number of people 358 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:39,840 Speaker 6: within the sound of my voice are cringing right now 359 00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:43,760 Speaker 6: because people in the oil and gas industry are not well. 360 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:47,600 Speaker 6: Most people in the oil and gas industry are not 361 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:51,119 Speaker 6: making money under Trump the way they did under Biden. 362 00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:55,280 Speaker 6: And that is because when you open up production and 363 00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:58,280 Speaker 6: you flood to market with more product, gasoline at the pump, 364 00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:02,119 Speaker 6: as you and I see see it. There are other uses, 365 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:05,399 Speaker 6: but that's how we primarily see it. When you drive 366 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:09,760 Speaker 6: gas prices down into the two dollars two to three 367 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:14,680 Speaker 6: dollars range fifty seven dollars a barrel as opposed to 368 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:18,960 Speaker 6: seventy where they'd like to see it, that's really good 369 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:19,520 Speaker 6: for you and me. 370 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:21,440 Speaker 1: That's really good. 371 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:24,640 Speaker 6: If you took a driving trip over the Christmas holidays 372 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:28,440 Speaker 6: to see Grandma, or Niagara Falls, or West Coast or 373 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:32,240 Speaker 6: the East Coast, or wherever you went, you noticed that 374 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:34,280 Speaker 6: you had more money to spend on food and fun 375 00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:38,439 Speaker 6: that would have previously been spent on fuel. And that 376 00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:42,040 Speaker 6: makes a world a difference in an election year. That 377 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:45,000 Speaker 6: is a back pocket issue that is easy for people 378 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:50,359 Speaker 6: to understand, even easier than a carton of eggs ramon. 379 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:55,960 Speaker 6: Everybody feels their tank. Ford just announcing a couple of 380 00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:59,000 Speaker 6: weeks ago that the F one P fifty electric will 381 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:02,959 Speaker 6: no longer be preduce for all intents and purposes. The 382 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:10,159 Speaker 6: major American auto manufacturers, save and except Tesla or exiting 383 00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:14,640 Speaker 6: the electric vehicle experiment. But as we've said all along, 384 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:17,440 Speaker 6: that was never a market based decision to get into 385 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:22,600 Speaker 6: that business. It was always given by government herrot instead. 386 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:28,080 Speaker 6: The market for the electric vehicle was primarily in California, 387 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:31,000 Speaker 6: and you'll remember California announced that by twenty thirty they 388 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:35,440 Speaker 6: would be electric vehicle only. They just drove Valero out 389 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:38,640 Speaker 6: of that state at a cost of over a billion dollars. 390 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:40,480 Speaker 6: We've never seen anything like that in the modern era, 391 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:44,760 Speaker 6: where a company willingly chooses to exit a state in 392 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:49,679 Speaker 6: the Union, relocate to another, shutdown operations there now in 393 00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:52,879 Speaker 6: what they're referring to as the gas desert now or 394 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:56,760 Speaker 6: the energy desert, and that's when to take offline. I 395 00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:58,840 Speaker 6: believe the number, don't quote me. It was five percent 396 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:04,320 Speaker 6: of production in California. There are still people driving gasoline 397 00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:08,159 Speaker 6: powered automobiles there and they have the highest gas prices 398 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:09,800 Speaker 6: in the country, and that's only going to get worse. 399 00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:17,439 Speaker 6: You don't overnight replace that. The last standing EV maker 400 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:21,119 Speaker 6: will be Tesla, but you have some others. I think 401 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:23,800 Speaker 6: Rivian makes a pretty vehicle. I think they're styling and 402 00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:28,960 Speaker 6: design is very nice. Lucid, some of the others fisk 403 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:33,480 Speaker 6: that went away or on the verge of going away, 404 00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:39,240 Speaker 6: have fallen to a lack of demand. A lot of 405 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:42,200 Speaker 6: people bought electric vehicles as their second vehicle, not their primary. 406 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:44,760 Speaker 6: It's a fun thing and they are fun there, are 407 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:48,800 Speaker 6: fun to drive. They're far more responsive than an internal 408 00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:52,280 Speaker 6: combustion engine. They're quicker off the line. They got some 409 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:55,080 Speaker 6: neat aspects to them, and no doubt about it, but 410 00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:58,480 Speaker 6: they're simply not practical. They're like a second home if 411 00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:00,800 Speaker 6: you can afford it, a second at home on the beach, 412 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:02,840 Speaker 6: a second home at the lake, a second home in 413 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:05,840 Speaker 6: the mountains. But you can't make a living there. It's 414 00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:09,880 Speaker 6: not sustainable, not practical. And eventually you ran through the 415 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:16,280 Speaker 6: number of people who wanted an electric vehicle as their 416 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:21,080 Speaker 6: primary driver, and that number is very, very small. And 417 00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:25,000 Speaker 6: you call Mike Batches said lone star Chevy. You find 418 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:29,280 Speaker 6: out that chevyes are back. You find out that American vehicles, 419 00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:31,600 Speaker 6: traditional gas powered vehicles are back. 420 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:33,320 Speaker 1: What does that mean? 421 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:40,040 Speaker 6: Lower cost of gas at the at the pump no 422 00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:43,640 Speaker 6: longer a seventy five subsidy as of September of twenty 423 00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:48,000 Speaker 6: twenty four that phased out you're not going to be 424 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,880 Speaker 6: producing all these electrical electric vehicles. You're not going to 425 00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:54,080 Speaker 6: get the tax benefits, you're not getting the regulatory requirements. 426 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,560 Speaker 6: All of that adds up to we need more gasoline, 427 00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:01,960 Speaker 6: and the the more gasoline you flood to market with, 428 00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:06,200 Speaker 6: the cheaper it is for you and me, for the 429 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:12,480 Speaker 6: consumer who is also a voter. Venezuela holds more oil 430 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:17,840 Speaker 6: reserves than any other country in the world. Reportedly I 431 00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:21,600 Speaker 6: read earlier this morning, if they hold more than twenty 432 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:25,720 Speaker 6: percent twenty sorry, they hold twenty percent more oil reserves 433 00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:30,800 Speaker 6: than Saudi Arabia. Now that is amazing. You think about that. 434 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:33,800 Speaker 6: That is a fact that does not get discussed very often. 435 00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:37,800 Speaker 6: President Trump said after the raid quote, We're going to 436 00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:41,400 Speaker 6: have our very large US oil companies go in, spend 437 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:45,280 Speaker 6: billions of dollars, fix the broken oil infrastructure, and start 438 00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:48,760 Speaker 6: making money. He also says the US will sell large 439 00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:52,400 Speaker 6: amounts of oil pumped from Venezuela. He also said that 440 00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:54,880 Speaker 6: some of that will go to China, who is dependent 441 00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:56,680 Speaker 6: on Venezuela and oil. 442 00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:00,400 Speaker 1: People are mad at him for that, but. 443 00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:03,000 Speaker 6: I think this is not the time to be threatening 444 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:05,720 Speaker 6: China til we get a better hold on that country. 445 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:10,120 Speaker 6: I think that was meant to a sage any Chinese concerns. Hey, 446 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:14,880 Speaker 6: look guys, you're gonna get your Venezuelan oil. I will 447 00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:18,040 Speaker 6: make sure of that, So let me do what I'm 448 00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:22,320 Speaker 6: doing Inezuela. In Venezuela, the Chinese envoy was on Venezuelan 449 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:26,120 Speaker 6: and soil when Maduro was taken out. It's supposed to 450 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:29,520 Speaker 6: be over one hundred thousand chinamen in Venezuela today. 451 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:32,240 Speaker 1: That's a lot. They got a lot going on here