WEBVTT - Is Iran Next? 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.840 Thanks to all of you for being with us, and 0:00:03.000 --> 0:00:06.360 Happy New Year to all. Write down our toll free 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:08.600 telephone number if you want to be a part of 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:12.319 this extravaganza. It's a one hundred and ninety four to 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:14.680 one Sean if you want to join us. Linda, did 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:18.360 you miss me at all? Just be honest? Why? I 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:21.520 mean the audio you didn't you? Of course audio the 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:24.360 audience miss the audience that I want to say thank 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:28.760 you to the audience for missing me. There's nothing in 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:33.720 the news. Is nothing happening. London Times reporting a rand 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:38.159 Supreme leader plans to flee to Russia if the anti 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:41.760 regime riots get any worse. So, I mean, we're now 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:45.199 at a moment of history where you could see the 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:53.800 Iranian Mulla's fleeing to Russia in days or weeks. Cuba 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:57.920 is on the precipice of falling. Maduro was in court 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:02.320 in New York today. You know, it looks like Nicholas 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:05.960 Maduro is not the only American enemy leader whose reign 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:09.600 is about to come to an end. And there's really 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:11.480 only one person you can thank for all of this, 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:13.759 and that would be Donald J. Trump. As we now 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:17.920 head into what I believe is the single most important 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:21.360 midterm election in our lifetime. And I'm going to say 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:23.480 that a lot in the coming year. And when I 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:26.959 say it, some of you say, Hannady, you're repeating yourself. 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:29.840 I'm telling you ahead of time. I will tell you 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:34.080 and remind you daily at what is at stake here, 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:38.360 all of the progress that you are going to now 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:44.360 see the impact of a year's worth of economic policies 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:50.720 driven by Donald J. Trump now literally heading into your 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:54.360 pocket book and your wallet and your family. You're going 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:56.520 to see lower interest rates. You're going to see the 0:01:56.520 --> 0:02:00.720 benefit of trillions of dollars in committed moneys from manufacturing 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:03.720 make its way and fuse its way into the bloodstream 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:08.000 of our economy. You're going to see energy prices drop, 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:11.280 probably to all time lows, especially in light of what 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:13.720 has just happened in Venezuela and what's going to happen 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:18.400 in Iran or could possibly happen in Iran. For the 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:22.680 London Times to report that Iran's Hyatola Kamanie, you know, 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:26.040 as a backup plan to flee the country with a 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:28.840 close circle of twenty aids and family, and of course 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:32.520 they'll pillage and take every penny that they possibly can 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:35.600 out of the country, but that Plan B is very 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:39.360 real according to the London Times. We'll get into that 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:43.079 as the program unfolds today. I mean, we have got 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:47.360 Tim Walls making his announcement he's ended his re election 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:51.320 bid bid because of all of the corruption. I love 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:54.000 the New York Post headline from last week the Walls 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:59.680 w w Alz close in and six days later with 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:02.560 you know the sheriff hot on his trail. Governor Walls 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:05.760 has pulled the plug on his reelection bid and New 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:09.400 York Post reporting the governor Wall said Monday at zero sadness, 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:14.480 zero regret in ending his reelection campaign, before denouncing political actors, 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:17.639 I don't know who the citizen journalist is. A lot 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:21.079 of these people, you know that get a microphone, they 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:23.760 don't really do a lot of good work. They just don't. 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:26.760 And a lot of them are you know, just too busy, 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:30.040 you know, looking for clicks and figuring it out, figuring 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:34.840 out algorithms that they can monetize, and you know, spewing 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:41.120 you know, bizarre strange conspiracy theories and virulent anti semitism 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:46.440 and and just division. I would argue that those people 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:51.320 that are anti Semitic that are spewing division at a 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:54.320 time when the Democrats are cracking up right before our eyes. 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:57.680 Those people, if you look at the history of their 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:00.000 support for the mag of movement, it's not very concerns. 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:04.320 It seems to be, you know, a matter of convenience 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:08.880 for a lot of them. Watching them implode is actually 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:12.240 something that's that's fairly fascinating to me in some ways. 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:14.720 But we'll get to all that in the course of 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:18.400 this this day, this week, this month, this year. We've 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:21.320 got a lot to talk about. Uh, do we have 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:25.560 to not start with how amazing, just like Operation Midnight 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:29.120 Hammer was taking out a RAN's nuclear sites. Do we 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:32.680 not have to pause and thank God for the greatest 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:37.120 military on the face of God's green Earth. And you 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:40.440 might think, well, this, this is We've done this before. 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:45.480 There is no such thing as a risk free military operation, 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:51.160 this sophisticated where they captured Maduro. And you know, I'm 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:54.320 already listening to the naysayers out there, and the you know, 0:04:54.480 --> 0:05:01.159 predictable naysayers, most of them. You're dealing with an illegitimate dictator. 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:04.839 He was not elected. He stole the last two elections, 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:09.520 just like his predecessor, Hugo Chavez before him and indicted 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:14.680 here in the United States six years ago, and a 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:18.520 narco terrorist. It is not something that we've not seen 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:20.719 in the history of this country before. We've seen it 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:24.960 with Noriega and Saddam and Grenada and where was the 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:29.400 other one? I think it was Columbia. We've seen this 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:34.400 movie before and you know it was It's really remarkable. 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:39.599 You know that the corrupt state run legacy media mob 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:43.040 and fake news CNN and MSDNC, they don't look happy 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:48.840 about the successful military operation and developments and the end 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:54.520 of the Maduro regime. If you look at natural resources, 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:59.000 just the sheer volume of resources that Venezuela has in 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:02.599 terms of oil. Now, it's not the best oil, it's 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:06.760 not the cleanest oil. What does that mean. It's considered 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:10.839 dirtier oil. That means that it needs far more refiner 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:15.680 refining than does say the oil that we're extracting here 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:19.960 in the United States. But you have Venezuelans dancing in 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:24.000 the streets. You have Venezuelans all over the country dancing 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:27.040 in the streets. You have Venezuelans, you know, in my 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:30.920 free state of Florida. They are cheering Donald Trump's decision 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:35.280 to remove Maduro. One of the consequences of this is 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:38.599 we now are living in a moment where Cuba is 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:41.520 on the brink as a result of the President's actions here. 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:46.520 And that's fascinating to watch when you get the operational 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:48.880 details as they become more available, and I've talked to 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:51.920 a lot of people, very good sources. This was a 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:58.760 very very well thought out, sophisticated military operation that was 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:04.680 extraordinarily dangerous. Apparently we did have CIA sources inside the 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:08.520 Venezuelan government, which is why we were able to map 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:14.400 out and duplicate and actually make a model of Maduro's 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:19.040 home as we had Delta Force troops and others invade 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:21.560 and they got to him. From the moment they got 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:23.920 to that palace or of that home he was living in, 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:26.680 it took them less than three minutes to get to him. 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:29.840 That's it. That's how quick it was, and how amazing 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:33.480 they are, And all hats off to all of them 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:36.320 for the great work that they've done here. Now the 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:41.880 you know, I love the fact that the President is 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:46.080 calling it the Donroe doctrine. We have had the Monroe 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:48.880 doctrine and effect for a long time, and that is 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:51.320 that we are not going to allow for an influence 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:57.920 in our hemisphere, obviously for national security reasons. And as 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:00.400 you go back in time and you look and you 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:06.400 see exile Venezuelans around the world celebrating, you know, the 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:09.400 the removal of Maduro. Do you know nearly ten million 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:12.840 Venezuelans had had to flee the country as a result 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:15.080 of all of this. And do you know that Donald 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:19.240 Trump offered this guy multiple off ramps in keeping with 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:22.320 the Trump doctrine, give them an opportunity for peace, give 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:26.480 them an opportunity. But it was obvious that that Meduro 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:31.320 was just arrogant and and I guess felt that, you know, 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:36.040 he it was impt impenetrable, and it's not. And you 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:38.200 know a lot of people are down there, well, President 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:41.560 Trump is taking over the country temporarily, because why would 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:45.120 we expend all this political effort and military effort and 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:49.880 allow somebody to take over and and just replace Maduro 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:54.160 and keep in place the policies that have impoverished the 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:57.560 people of Venezuela. That would be pretty stupid. That would 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:00.680 mean that was a waste of time, energy, effort, and 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:03.360 a risk for our military. No the President said, until 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:06.480 a permanent leader can be found the US government. Yes, 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:10.200 we'll run Venezuela until such time as we can do 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:15.480 a safe, proper, judicious transition. One of the people, obviously 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:18.439 that we've had on this program many times before, Maria 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:20.960 Marshadow she's actually gonna be on TV with us tonight, 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:26.319 would be one of the leading candidates. But Maria Marschado, 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:28.960 she was the one if your recall, won the Nobel 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:32.160 Peace Prize and said I don't deserve this, it really 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:36.400 belongs to President Trump. It will be interesting to see 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:38.520 if she addresses that tonight when she's on with me, 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:41.720 and I want to see what happens. But they've not 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:45.000 had honest elections in Venezuela for a long time. Now 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:52.120 for the short term here, the presumed successor, the Vice President, 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:56.800 Dels Rodriguez, is a hard cored and there are rumors 0:09:56.800 --> 0:10:00.800 that she may be in Russia even now now in 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:06.480 exile herself. But we don't know. We do know that 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:09.320 she is a radical socialist. We do know she's a 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:14.080 hardline socialist who kept Maduro in power for years. And 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:17.160 you know she's been trying to sound like she's lecturing 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:21.520 Donald Trump and demanding the return of Maduro. She also 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:24.480 serves as the Minister of Finance and Oil, slamming this 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:28.320 as an atrocity that violates international law, none of which 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:33.280 is true. It is constitutional, it is with plenty of precedents, 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:35.840 and will have Greg Jared address the legal aspect of 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:39.520 all this. But if you look at her, you know 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:44.080 she will either comply with what President Trump demands is 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:48.280 going to happen there in the interim, or she will 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:51.319 herself be out of power, and that'll happen very quickly. 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:55.319 It's not going to be a long protracted negotiation with her. 0:10:57.120 --> 0:11:01.319 The Department of Justice under Pambona, the Attorney General, is 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:04.400 vowed Madura and his wife will faith faced the full 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:07.560 wrath of American justice. As I said he was in 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:11.920 court earlier today, we're hearing that the evidence against Maduro 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:16.400 will be overwhelming, according to one federal prosecutor, Jonathan Fahi, 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:21.360 telling Fox News that US forces captured Maduro, flew him 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:24.320 to New York City and he's expected. He faced the 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:28.400 arrangement earlier today and there will be a criminal trial. 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:30.880 My guess is it would be I'd be hard pressed 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:33.520 to see a scenario in which he's not convicted. Although 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:36.400 there's so many lunatics in New York now run by 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:39.760 Marxist Kami Mamdani. I guess anything could possibly happen here. 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:44.760 Former Attorney General Bill Barr predicting the Venezuelan President Maduro 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:49.000 could face a sentence rivaling that a former Panamanian Dictatorman 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:53.520 Manuel nor Jega. And by the way, he was charged 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:57.040 with multiple crimes by several countries, including a forty year 0:11:57.080 --> 0:12:01.040 sentence for drug trafficking in the US or seventeen years 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:04.079 of that sentence before being expedited to France, where he 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:06.880 served a seven year sentence for money laundering. Finally, extra 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:09.920 dieded back to Panama for a sixty year sentence on 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:13.360 murder and corruption charges, where he died in prison in 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:16.640 twenty seventeen. I would imagine that will be the fate. 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:20.240 He's not having stake in his palace right now as 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:26.360 we speak. That's not going to happen. Look, you have 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:30.560 predictable reaction, and then there was some unpredictable reaction, which 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:39.000 I'll get to. And obviously the anybody that believes in 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:41.360 liberty and freedom now a lot of people saying, well, well, 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:45.240 how is this not nation building, Hannity, How is this 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:47.559 not a forever war. It's not going to be a 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:52.280 forever war. There's no conflict going on right now. There's 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:56.679 nothing happening. The only thing that is happening is this 0:12:56.800 --> 0:13:01.760 president is making sure that all these American companies. Remember 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:07.000 they nationalized all of the oil industry in Venezuela. When 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:12.640 they did that, they stole all of the equipment from 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:16.480 American companies that had built out. And I'll go through 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:23.040 the details of this. Their economy, their energy industry, and 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:28.120 they did it with great skill and precision, and that's 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:30.240 why it should be one of the richest countries on Earth. 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:33.840 And I'll never forget the scene when Jorge Ramos and 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:36.880 I've debated Hoge Ramos. I actually like him a lot personally. 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:39.960 He's a nice guy, and he went to Venezuela, a 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:42.160 country that should be so rich. They have the second 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:45.000 largest oil reserves in the entire world. End not the 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:47.240 best oil, but oil that can be refined. But it 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:50.920 would take US companies to do it and US refineries 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:53.439 to do it. And I'm sure they can build them 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:56.480 in Venezuela. They can bring the oil here and that 0:13:56.520 --> 0:14:00.000 will help make the people of Venezuela rich. Also, those 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:03.280 companies can recoup the money that was stolen from them 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:08.040 when these oil industry was nationalized. And I would imagine, 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:11.000 knowing Donald Trump, that probably will be a financial windfall 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:14.160 for this country as well. But it was the right 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:17.160 thing to do, as this guy is pure evil. And 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:20.920 that's the thing I mean. I've heard commentary by some well, 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:25.360 if things in Venezuela are just wonderful and there's no rape, 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:29.680 and there's no crime, and there's okay, it's when you 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:34.120 kill American citizens by being a part of a narco 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:39.640 terrorist organization that profits off the death of American citizens. 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:44.120 Why is that not a moral imperative to every human 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:48.160 being to make sure that comes to a swift end. Anyway, 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:52.200 those people are barely worth discussing. Look, there are some 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:55.960 of you still suffering under the Biden Harris economic disaster. 0:14:56.440 --> 0:15:00.120 Although taxes are lower as of four days ago, well 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:04.760 five days ago, and that means that you'll be paying less. 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:07.320 Interest rates now down a full point. We have a 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:10.960 new FED share coming in May. That means interest rates 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:14.160 will go down further. That means sales or pre existing 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:17.280 homes will go up. That means new home construction. We're 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:20.520 down some six million homes that are needed in this country. 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:23.240 They will be built. And if you're a homeowner and 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:26.920 maybe you're living paycheck to paycheck, or maybe you're putting 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:29.640 bare necessities on credit cards with twenty one twenty five 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:32.320 percent interest rates, but you still want to hang on 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:34.800 to your home. You know your low interest rate that 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:36.840 you currently have. 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Eight hundred and 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:13.720 nine to four one Sean is our number, and happy 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:16.520 New Year to all of you and your families. I 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:18.720 think is going to be the most important midterm election 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:22.400 in our lifetime. We will lay out the case of 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:25.800 what is at stake in the days, weeks, months ahead, 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:29.280 and I'm just urging all of you to make a 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:35.080 resolution this new year to be ready for a battle 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:40.680 and be prepared and prepare yourself that you are not 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:44.880 going to let this country be set on the wrong 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:49.920 path again. Too many times we get too complacent. And 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:53.320 if people are complacent in this midterm, you know you 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:57.480 run the risk at all the progress in the last year, 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:00.000 all the benefits that we're going to reap this year 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:03.040 year from the progress of last year, both around the 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:07.760 world and domestically and economically. And I have been predicting 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:12.000 by the third quarter of this year, probably way before it, 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:15.159 but I want to give enough runway for the economy 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:18.639 to make a full recovery. All the pieces are in place, 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:21.840 urgest tax cut in history, no tax on tips, overtime 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:26.119 social security, energy prices now the lowest they've been in 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:31.800 five years, and they're probably going to get lower interest 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:34.840 rates now coming down. That's going to spur economic activity, 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:38.080 sal of pre existing homes, new home construction, all of that, 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:43.399 trillions of dollars in manufacturing dollar moneies that are now 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:46.760 dedicated to the country. We've never had all of this combined. 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:53.159 And it's going to benefit every single American. And just watch. 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:56.359 We got the first indication of this with the last 0:17:56.359 --> 0:18:00.399 GDP report, which came out just after I've got on vacation, 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:04.080 was a four point three percent GDP growth. We've not 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:08.880 seen that in forever. Remember we had Biden inflation nine percent. 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:13.240 It was insane. Let me first deal with the oil issue. 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:18.520 And if you look at the the countries with the 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:24.560 largest oil reserves by far, it's Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:29.840 Venezuela topping Saudi Arabia. I mean, it is a massive 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:33.760 amount of energy, oil reserves that they have in this 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:37.480 little country. It should be one of the wealthiest countries 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:42.439 on earth. But yet the people have suffered. They've suffered needlessly, 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:46.960 and they had suffered greatly, you know, with you know reserves, 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:50.280 if you look at all the political and economic turmoil. 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:56.600 According to the the Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy, 0:18:57.400 --> 0:19:03.200 I mean oil reserves, I mean, is it is over 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:06.040 twice what we have in the US and we have 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:09.520 healthy oil reserve. They have about four times actually about 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:13.800 four times what we have, and Saudi Arabia a far 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:16.639 behind them, and that's why the Saudis are an oil 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:21.440 rich nation. But they have the world's largest oil reserves. 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:26.440 We built, meaning the United States of America built up 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:30.439 their oil industry. We bought it, we paid for it, 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:36.879 we built it, and they prospered When America was partnering 0:19:37.320 --> 0:19:41.080 with Venezuela. The people of Venezuela partnered, but we built 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:46.919 up their entire oil industry. US oil companies spent untold 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:52.960 billions of dollars building up their oil industry and then 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:57.040 they nationalized it and stole it, and then by doing so, 0:19:57.200 --> 0:20:02.280 they were stealing from oil companies in this country. Now 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:05.800 this is going to be rectified. It's going to take 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:08.399 some time to rectify it, and it's going to be 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:13.000 American companies that are investing billions more. And that's why 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:18.320 the President said, yes, they will until there is a transition. 0:20:18.400 --> 0:20:20.800 I would imagine elections is what's going to take place, 0:20:21.680 --> 0:20:25.080 and a new leadership. They'll be I'm sure they'll be 0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:27.200 very friendly with the United States. But if you go back, 0:20:27.240 --> 0:20:30.080 American oil companies have been operating in Venezuela since the 0:20:30.160 --> 0:20:34.560 nineteen twenties. It wasn't until nineteen seventy six Jimmy Carter 0:20:35.200 --> 0:20:40.919 Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez nationalized the oil industry, taking 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:45.080 control of American and other foreign oil assets in the 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:49.400 country and American companies. Once this got nationalized, they had 0:20:49.400 --> 0:20:51.639 invested all of this money and they lost all of 0:20:51.680 --> 0:20:55.960 this money. The State Department cable at the time from 0:20:56.080 --> 0:21:00.160 the American ambassador to Venezuela said that nationalization is going 0:20:59.920 --> 0:21:02.199 to come in any case, and that it was the 0:21:02.200 --> 0:21:05.399 official position of the US government at the time that 0:21:05.440 --> 0:21:09.720 it was against becoming involved in negotiations of that kind 0:21:09.920 --> 0:21:13.600 that the government is conducting with oil companies. Remember, Hugo 0:21:13.680 --> 0:21:16.320 Chavez two thousand and seven took another bite at the 0:21:16.400 --> 0:21:21.320 apple and nationalized all remaining foreign oil assets in the nation, 0:21:21.920 --> 0:21:27.199 which resulted in Exon Mobile, Conico, Phillips all leaving, you know, 0:21:27.400 --> 0:21:32.320 completely Exon Mobil and Standard Oil predecessor of Standard Oil 0:21:32.359 --> 0:21:36.400 from New Jersey. Exon and Mobile. You know, they operated, 0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:40.000 you know, throughout all of these years, and it helped 0:21:40.040 --> 0:21:43.399 make Venezuela one of the richest countries on Earth. And 0:21:43.440 --> 0:21:46.560 they can be again and probably in a very short 0:21:46.560 --> 0:21:50.040 period of time, which is the upside. Now, Chevron, you know, 0:21:50.160 --> 0:21:54.040 Gulf Oil is one of the original companies operating in Venezuela. 0:21:54.160 --> 0:21:58.840 They acquired at NI. Chevron acquired that in nineteen eighty four, 0:21:59.720 --> 0:22:02.240 and they received a billion dollar payout, which is nothing 0:22:02.280 --> 0:22:05.480 compared to the amount that they had put into it. 0:22:06.200 --> 0:22:09.399 So you know, that's the history of that part, that 0:22:09.560 --> 0:22:12.280 aspect of it. I want to deal a little bit 0:22:12.280 --> 0:22:15.199 with the legal aspect. You're listening to these idiots on 0:22:15.280 --> 0:22:19.320 television and online and social media. You know, the more 0:22:19.320 --> 0:22:23.879 and more I read social media, the less inclined I 0:22:24.080 --> 0:22:27.240 am to pay attention to pretty much anybody. Although there 0:22:27.280 --> 0:22:30.640 was one real good citizen journalist who did a great 0:22:30.720 --> 0:22:33.200 job of going to the quote daycare centers that were 0:22:33.200 --> 0:22:37.359 getting billions of dollars in the Somalia community in Minnesota 0:22:37.400 --> 0:22:39.359 and did a great job exposing it. We'll hit that 0:22:39.440 --> 0:22:42.000 later in the program when we check in with James Comer, 0:22:42.040 --> 0:22:44.840 but you know, and we'll talk to Greg Jarrett in 0:22:44.880 --> 0:22:47.159 the next hour about the legal aspect of all of this. 0:22:47.359 --> 0:22:50.159 Remember it was Joe Biden that offered twenty five million 0:22:50.160 --> 0:22:53.760 dollar reward from Maduro's arrest. I don't know if that 0:22:53.880 --> 0:22:58.359 means that Donald Trump and the US military are going 0:22:58.440 --> 0:23:00.560 to get a twenty five million dollar ward ward, but 0:23:00.960 --> 0:23:06.680 that was Joe Biden's policy. And anyway, in almost in Unison, 0:23:06.760 --> 0:23:10.879 you hear the demer this is illegal, unjustified, and unconstitutional. 0:23:11.560 --> 0:23:16.080 And all these protesters in Mamdani's New York demanding that 0:23:16.200 --> 0:23:19.320 Maduro be set free and sent back to Venezuela. What 0:23:19.440 --> 0:23:22.640 to make the people suffer more and to let him 0:23:22.640 --> 0:23:25.320 produce more drugs and send him into the United States. 0:23:25.320 --> 0:23:30.560 And what was an organized narco terrorist crime organization. Oh 0:23:30.560 --> 0:23:34.359 that's a good idea, that's brilliant. But they have, you know, 0:23:34.520 --> 0:23:39.040 long been poisoning our citizens. You know, roughly to two 0:23:39.080 --> 0:23:41.920 hundred and fifty metric tons of cocaine shipped out of 0:23:42.000 --> 0:23:48.200 Latin America annually, and with it, you know, fentanyl laced 0:23:48.240 --> 0:23:51.040 cocaine is killing Americans every single day. We can't even 0:23:51.080 --> 0:23:53.880 count how many people have died of these drug overdoses. 0:23:54.560 --> 0:23:57.480 And it's it's part of the Maduro regime, which is 0:23:57.520 --> 0:24:02.560 why under Biden's watch he was indicted. But the president, 0:24:02.640 --> 0:24:06.960 under Article two, Section two of our Constitution, vests with 0:24:07.160 --> 0:24:13.600 him inherent powers to unilaterally order armed forces into military action. 0:24:15.040 --> 0:24:18.440 His command authority is supreme. As Greg Jarra pointed out 0:24:18.440 --> 0:24:20.880 in his column, He'll join us later. He may conduct 0:24:20.880 --> 0:24:25.680 campaigns and deploy operations by his own judgment, and short 0:24:25.720 --> 0:24:28.800 of a formal declaration of war, President does not need 0:24:28.920 --> 0:24:32.919 prior authorization from Congress to act. And those people that 0:24:32.960 --> 0:24:35.840 are saying so don't know what the hell that they're saying. 0:24:36.520 --> 0:24:38.600 They just make it up as they go along, and 0:24:38.600 --> 0:24:42.680 they apply it selectively. You know, the US has captured 0:24:42.720 --> 0:24:48.800 criminal suspects in foreign countries, including Momar Kadafi, Libya, but 0:24:48.880 --> 0:24:53.160 it's sought to consent to local authorities, and the administration 0:24:53.240 --> 0:24:58.920 describes Maduro as an illegitimate indicted leader. In nineteen eighty nine, 0:24:59.000 --> 0:25:04.159 the US arrested General Manuel Noriega, the leader of Panama, 0:25:04.240 --> 0:25:09.080 in similar circumstances. Noriega had been indicted on drug related charges. 0:25:09.119 --> 0:25:13.399 If this sounds familiar, and Washington said it was acting 0:25:13.400 --> 0:25:16.720 to protect the US citizens after Panamanian forces had killed 0:25:16.720 --> 0:25:19.720 the US soldier the US. You know, we can't even 0:25:19.760 --> 0:25:22.760 count how many Americans have died because of the importation 0:25:23.320 --> 0:25:28.280 by this organized crime Narco terrorists, you know, syndicate into 0:25:28.359 --> 0:25:32.160 this country. You might recall the former president of Honduras, 0:25:32.600 --> 0:25:36.119 Juan Orlando Hernandez, was extradited to the US in twenty 0:25:36.160 --> 0:25:40.280 twenty two, later convicted drug related charges, sentenced to forty 0:25:40.280 --> 0:25:42.960 five years in prison. It was a good article in 0:25:43.000 --> 0:25:46.440 the Wall Street Journal, and that said, the Noriega precedent 0:25:46.440 --> 0:25:50.440 for Moduro's capture and prosecution. Trying a dictator has already 0:25:50.520 --> 0:25:54.280 been tried, and courts rejected all of his legal defenses. 0:25:55.000 --> 0:25:57.840