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Speaker 1: I'm Steve Great is Monday, the fifth of January, the

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Speaker 1: Year of Our Lord, twenty twenty six. Now, thank you

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Speaker 1: for joining me here on Real America's Voice. We have

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Speaker 1: a pack show for you to kick off the year.

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Speaker 1: Reporting on the capture of Venezuela dictator and Narco terrorist

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Speaker 1: Nicholas Maduro, as well as Tim Walls, the governor of Minnesota,

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Speaker 1: announcing he's dropping out of the race for re election

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Speaker 1: in Minnesota, made that massive Somali fraud scandal.

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Speaker 2: All that and more coming your way today.

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Speaker 1: But of course, first we start with the biggest story

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Speaker 1: of the new year, President Trump's bold move in Venezuela

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Speaker 1: over the weekend. Venezuela's a narco dictator, Nicholas Muduro just

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Speaker 1: the latest person to find out that President Trump follows

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Speaker 1: through on his promises.

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Speaker 2: When Trump says it, he means it.

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Speaker 1: The US military conducted a stunning operation in Caracas, Venezuela,

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Speaker 1: early Saturday morning that resulted in the capture of Madureau

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Speaker 1: and his wife, who are now being held in New York,

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Speaker 1: where Maduro is facing drug trafficking charges. He was arraigned

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Speaker 1: earlier today. Tensions between the US and Maduro have been

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Speaker 1: building for months, as Trump threatened Madurea to crack down

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Speaker 1: on drug trafficking or outs. Over the weekend, Trump made

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Speaker 1: good on those promises. As Vice President Ja d Vance

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Speaker 1: has pointed out, Maduro was given several off ramps for

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Speaker 1: an escalation like this. He could have cooperated, but Trump

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Speaker 1: has crystal clear throughout the entire process. Vaduro's actions have consequences,

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Speaker 1: real ones, not just the freezing of some assets here

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Speaker 1: and there. Listen to Secretary of Marco Rubio lay it

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Speaker 1: on the line.

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Speaker 6: Nicholas Maduro had multiple opportunities to avoid this. He was

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Speaker 6: provided multiple very very very generous offers and chose instead

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Speaker 6: to act like a wild man, chose instead to play around,

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Speaker 6: and the result is what we saw tonight.

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Speaker 3: The other message here is the following.

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Speaker 6: You have a guy, like many people around the world,

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Speaker 6: they like to play games. You have a guy who

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Speaker 6: decides he's going to invite iron into his country, is

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Speaker 6: going to, you know, do the confiscation of American oil companies,

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Speaker 6: is going to flood our country with gang members, is

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Speaker 6: going to take Americans prisoner and try to hold them

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Speaker 6: for hostage and trade him like he was able to

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Speaker 6: do with a Biden administration. Basically likes to play games

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Speaker 6: all this time and thinks nothing's going to happen. And

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Speaker 6: I hope what people now understand is we have a president,

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Speaker 6: the forty seventh president of the United States, is not

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Speaker 6: a game player. When he tells you that he's going

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Speaker 6: to address a problem, he means it, he actions it.

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Speaker 6: I can tell you I've watched this process now for

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Speaker 6: fourteen fifteen years, been around it.

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Speaker 3: Everybody talks I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna do that

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Speaker 3: take this.

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Speaker 6: Is a president of action, like I don't understand yet

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Speaker 6: how they haven't figured this out.

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Speaker 3: And now if you don't know, now you know.

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Speaker 1: Now. You know simple as that. Not only is Trump

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Speaker 1: a man of action, he's a man of effective action

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Speaker 1: who's remarkable to watch, wasn't it. During the administrations of

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Speaker 1: Presidents Bush and Obama, the US invested trillions of dollars,

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Speaker 1: battles against the Taliban, only the later to discover that

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Speaker 1: among other problems. In contrast, President Trump successfully apraheaded Nicholas

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Speaker 1: Maduro through a targeted operation, avoiding a full skill war

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Speaker 7: Nicholas Vaduro had his chance, just like Iran had their

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Speaker 3: He left Around and he found out.

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Speaker 7: President Trump is deadly serious about stopping the flow of

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Speaker 1: And this is just the latest example of resolve from

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Speaker 1: this White House. Obliterating Around's nuclear program last year was

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Speaker 1: another effective operation that everyone said couldn't be done, and

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Speaker 1: then when it was, they clutched their pearls and predicted

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Speaker 1: a war that of course never came. The operation in

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Speaker 1: Venezuela is much bigger than just Venezuela.

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Speaker 2: Vadurea had turned.

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Speaker 1: His country into a hellhole and a partner in crime

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Speaker 1: with China, Russia, Iran, and Cuba, to name a few.

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Speaker 1: Knocking Maduro off his throne is a blow to all

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Speaker 1: leaders cannot run and hide now in Venezuela that's gone.

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Speaker 1: China and Russia have lost their main intelligence operations in

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Speaker 1: the Western Hemisphere. Cuba and the rest also just lost

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Speaker 1: access to cheap Venezuelan oil, plus all of the Islamic

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Speaker 1: regime's assets they're drone factories, military bases, and now in

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Speaker 1: the hands the United States military. The party is over.

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Speaker 1: Just hours before we Navaduro he was meeting with get this,

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Speaker 1: the heads of Communists China, and hours later he was

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Speaker 1: blindfolded and handcuffed and aboard the usse with GiMA. This

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Speaker 1: sends a resounding message to the rest of the world.

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Speaker 1: It's clear it does not matter who you're in bed with,

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Speaker 1: will still hold you accountable if you commit crimes against

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Speaker 1: our people. Got it. Of course, that's not the message

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Speaker 1: that the Democrats and their friends in the media are broadcast,

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Speaker 1: not at all. No, it's pearl clutching all over again,

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Speaker 1: an embarrassing defense of atalitarian regime and a ruthless dictator

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Speaker 1: that has committed crimes against humanity. Here's Democrat Representative Becca

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Speaker 1: Blind who presents herself as a champion for human rights,

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Speaker 1: but is standing up for the murderous dictator Maduroll, who

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Speaker 1: consistently violated those rights for millions, murdered children, imprisoned teenagers,

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Speaker 1: among other atrocities.

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Speaker 2: Listen to this look.

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Speaker 8: I'm angry on behalf of Americans, on behalf of Congress,

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Speaker 8: and most importantly, on behalf of our service members who

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Speaker 8: were put in harm's way, and this was not necessary,

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Speaker 8: This was not legal, and we saw this coming. This

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Speaker 8: has been the plan the entire time. It was never

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Speaker 8: about narco drug trafficking. This was about oil, This was

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Speaker 8: about minerals, this was about regime change. There is no

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Speaker 8: legal justification for what has happened. I'm outraged that nobody

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Speaker 9: And this is dangerous, not just.

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Speaker 8: Because of what this will mean for Venezuela in the region,

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Speaker 8: it matters for our moral standing in the world.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, beca blind and all of her colleagues who are

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Speaker 1: spewing the same talking points are dead wrong, and either

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Speaker 1: the time to look into the legality of this operation.

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Speaker 1: Legal from every standpoint, This operation follows the president sent

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Speaker 1: by the US extradition of Panama's u lawful leader thirty

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Speaker 1: seven years ago, Manuel Noriega, an extradition which was upheld

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Speaker 1: by the way by the United States Supreme Court. Noriego

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Speaker 1: five years ago for similar crimes. This operation of Venezuela,

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Speaker 1: much like the one against Noriega, was the lawful execution

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Speaker 1: never been recognized as the lawful leader of Venezuela by

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Speaker 1: Republicans or Democrats or the EU. Multiple US presidents, Democrats included,

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Speaker 1: have routinely authorized deadly strikes against specific countries and individuals.

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Speaker 2: Only five times five times has.

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Speaker 1: Congress ever authorized military action five times in two hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty years. So please stop embarrassing yourselves. Under President

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Speaker 1: Barack Obama, and American citizen was killed by way the

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Speaker 1: administration's targeted killing program, Obama dropped tens of thousands of

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Speaker 2: Did he have Congressional approval? No?

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Speaker 1: If Obama was permitted to order the death of a

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Speaker 1: US citizen without any formal charges, then President Trump clearly

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Speaker 1: has the legal authority to apprehend a non US citizen

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Speaker 1: facing an active federal indictment, all without needing advance approval

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Speaker 1: from Congress, period. Full stop. Rubio and Drop both hit

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Speaker 1: the nail on the head when they explained why Congress

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Speaker 1: wasn't notified because they cannot be trusted here it is

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Speaker 1: did you notify any members of Congress in advance?

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Speaker 10: MARKA, Do you want to talk.

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Speaker 6: About that because you were involved with Sure, we call

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Speaker 6: members of Congress immediately after. This was not the kind

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Speaker 3: It was a trigger based mission in which conditions had

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Speaker 3: to be met night after night. We watched and monitor

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Speaker 6: So it's just simply not the kind of mission you

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Speaker 3: But it's largely a law enforcement function.

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Speaker 6: Remember at the end of the day, at its core,

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Speaker 6: this was an arrest of two indicted fugitives of American justice,

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Speaker 6: and the Department of War supported the.

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Speaker 6: Now there are broader policy implications here, but it's just

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Speaker 10: That Congress tendency to leak. This would not because if

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Speaker 10: a very different result. But I have to say they

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Speaker 10: knew we were coming at some point. You know, a

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Speaker 1: He's exactly right, and as an American citizen, that is

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Speaker 1: exactly what I voted for. How about you. Not only

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Speaker 1: is the operation legal, it's also completely justified.

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Speaker 2: Hey, look at this. This is Maduro's men mowing.

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Speaker 1: Down peaceful protesters in cold blood with military vehicles. That

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Speaker 1: This is the kind of government that people like Congressman

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Speaker 1: other Democrats. They called Trump a dictator while excusing the

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Speaker 1: actions of an actual murderous dictator. It's reprehensible. Maduro is

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Speaker 1: a narco terrorist who's following the footsteps of Hugo Chavez,

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Speaker 1: erasing the lives of millions of families. More people have

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Speaker 1: fled Venezuela than any other country aside from Syria in

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Speaker 1: the last several decades. One third of its population has fled,

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Speaker 1: one third many to our country. Hundreds of political opponents

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Speaker 1: have been arrested, thousands have been killed. For those left

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Speaker 1: who haven't lost their actual lives, they've lost jobs, retirement savings, pensions.

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Speaker 2: It's all gone stolen by their government.

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Speaker 1: Like I said earlier, Iranian militias, Chinese corporations, and Russian

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Speaker 1: intelligence operations freely operate inside that country.

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Speaker 2: At least they did. And Maduro has made sure.

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Speaker 1: That Venezuela has become an operating base for all kinds

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Speaker 1: of crimes throughout our region, the very kind of regimes

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Speaker 1: funding and supporting. These foreign powers have loved in Venezuela's land, oil, gold,

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Speaker 1: and its institutions. It's been a haven for criminal activity

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Speaker 1: Because when you ask Venezuelans if this operation was a

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Speaker 1: It might be the single most impressive military operation of

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Speaker 2: They went inside. He lived on a military base.

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Speaker 5: Yes, It's great to be with you, Steve, and happy

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Speaker 2: You know who has a lack of competence today, Colonel

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Speaker 1: Too many of them saved once again John Fetterman, who

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Speaker 5: No, you're market right, and I think that we don't

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Speaker 5: This is unconstable. And he was absolutely right and that

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Speaker 1: Absolutely not. I mean absolutely. They can't be trusted period.

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Speaker 1: He's currently in New York at the courthouse where Maduro

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Speaker 11: It's where Luigi Manngio and Sean Puffy Combs was there.

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Speaker 11: Now he's in Jersey, and Al Chappo was there as well,

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Speaker 11: but he flew here, probably for logistical reasons, for traffic reasons.

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Speaker 11: But then took a convoy of trucks about an hour

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Speaker 11: and a half ago leaving the courthouse. And they both

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Speaker 11: pled not guilty, Celia Flores his wife, Nicholas Medoro pleading

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Speaker 11: not guilty, saying he's still the president of Venezuela and

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Speaker 11: that he's an innocent man and that he's a good man.

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Speaker 11: And it was very interesting, historic day here in Lower Manhattan.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think it's an important point you made there, David,

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Speaker 1: A very important point. The original in Diamond was twenty

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Speaker 1: eleven under the Brock Obama administration. Interceding intervening endeament placed

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty during the Trump administration. During all the

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Speaker 1: Biden years, nothing happened, although people like Chuck Schumer went

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Speaker 1: after Donald Trump for not taking care Maduro, so did

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Speaker 1: many other Democrats, Democrats that are today saying well, you

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Speaker 1: can't do that, that's illegal, talking about talking out both

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Speaker 1: sides your mouth. Last word to you, David.

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Speaker 11: Well, they finally got convictions out of that twenty eleven indictment.

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Speaker 11: Top General Hugo Romando Caraval Barrios, known as El Poyo,

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Speaker 11: the Chicken Cartos, Dila Sali Soles got a life you know,

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Speaker 11: probably will get a life.

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Speaker 4: Sentence and is sentencing. I think that takes place next week.

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Speaker 11: But he got convicted here, and I think that Meduros

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Speaker 11: is going to be brought up on the same charges here.

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Speaker 4: So they're finally making progress on these.

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Speaker 11: Old indictments and maybe even expanding on the superseding indictments

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Speaker 11: in the Southern District of New York, with the prosecutors

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Speaker 11: probably lighting up additional ties for kidnapping, human rights violations.

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Speaker 11: Even the International Criminal Court is going after Maduro on that.

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Speaker 11: So maybe there's some commonality in this case, will get

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Speaker 11: some traction. Prosecution has a lot of work to do though,

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Speaker 11: to prove that conclusive link that he colluded and killed

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Speaker 11: and ordered, you know, with Trendy on Agua in concert

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Speaker 11: with them and Sineloa Cartels, because that's I think is

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Speaker 11: at the crux of this case.

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Speaker 4: To get the conviction for the prosecution.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, El Chapo might finally get a neighbor a friend

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Speaker 1: there in Colorado with the Supermax. We'll see what happens.

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Speaker 1: David Zyr Live in the Big Apple today. David, thank

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Speaker 1: you for that all right. Coming up after the break,

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Speaker 1: I'll discussed that charges Nicholas Medua and his wife are facing, specifically,

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Speaker 1: along with the legality of holding the proceedings right here

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Speaker 1: on US soil. We'll get a legal expert in the

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Speaker 1: program here in just a moment. This is America's Voice Live.

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Speaker 1: We continue now the extensive coverage of the US capture

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Speaker 1: of Venezuelan dictator Nicholas Madull and his wife see the Flores,

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Speaker 1: And to draw your attention to the charges President Madure

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Speaker 1: and his wife face in New York and the legality

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Speaker 1: of holding such proceedings right here in the United States,

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Speaker 1: and Maduro's case. The biggest charge brought forward has to

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Speaker 1: do with using his position as president to run and

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Speaker 1: operate in a narco terrorist organization. Collectively, it was the

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Speaker 1: biggest crime hub in the Western hemisphere potentially, which effectively

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Speaker 1: saw him leverage the position to manufacture and transport drugs

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Speaker 1: along with firearms into other nations, so Flores being charged

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Speaker 1: with orchestrating violence in the form of kidnappings and murders,

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Speaker 1: protect the Maduro drug regime and its profits, the facilitation

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Speaker 1: of bribery and money laundering, which if true, implicates her

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Speaker 1: as being an active asset of Maduro's alleged crime ring.

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Speaker 2: Now both have pleaded not guilty to.

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Speaker 1: All charges presented, joining me to discuss senior legal fellow

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Speaker 1: at the Heritage Foundation, Zach Smith.

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Speaker 2: Zach, nice to see you today.

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Speaker 9: Good to see you as well.

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Speaker 1: Thanks having me on all right. First of all, when

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Speaker 1: Manuel Noriega was apprehended in a similar fashion thirty seven

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Speaker 1: years ago, the Supreme Court weighed in on that and said, yes,

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Speaker 1: that's legal. There's a US indictment. Uh, it follows US law.

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Speaker 1: There's no violation of international law or anything else. And

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Speaker 1: you have the Democrats in the last forty eight hours

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Speaker 1: have exposed themselves for caring more about a dictator, a

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Speaker 1: murderous dictator who ran a massive drug operation, uh, really

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Speaker 1: an empire. And they're complaining that somehow we should be

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Speaker 1: protecting Maduro and non American citizens and allowing China and

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Speaker 1: Russian and Iran and Cuba to flow freely in and

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Speaker 1: out of Venezuela.

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Speaker 2: Give me the legal found first.

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Speaker 9: Of all, to go back and listen to what many

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Speaker 9: of these same Democrat politicians were saying during Donald Trump's

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Speaker 9: first administration. They were criticizing President Trump for not moving

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Speaker 9: more aggressively, moving more quickly to remove Maduro and other

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Speaker 9: dictators from power. And now that he has done just that,

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Speaker 9: they're finding different grounds to criticize them and take just

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Speaker 9: the opposite position that they previously took. Now to your point,

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Speaker 9: you're exactly right. There's ample president to support the President

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Speaker 9: and the administration's actions in this case. If you listen

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Speaker 9: to what Secretary of State Mark Arrubio, Secretary of War

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Speaker 9: Pete Hexth said in the immediate aftermath of this successful operation,

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Speaker 9: that made clear that this was primarily a law enforcement

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Speaker 9: operation and that federal law enforcement agents were on the

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Speaker 9: ground with US troops to essentially help effectuate a valid

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Speaker 9: US arrest warrant. That's exactly what happened. We saw in

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Speaker 9: Nicholas Murderer arrested. He's been extradited to the United States

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Speaker 9: and today faced his initial appearance an arraignment in federal

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Speaker 9: court in New York and at the time. Manuel Noriega

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Speaker 9: was subjected to similar proceedings in the late nineteen eighties

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Speaker 9: early nineteen nineties. At that time, not only did the

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Speaker 9: court's way in, but the Justice Department itself in a

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Speaker 9: Justice Department lawyer at the time named Bill Barr actually

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Speaker 9: opined that such actions are legal and permissible and well

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Speaker 9: within the pre this article to authority. And so that's

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Speaker 9: exactly who saw happen in this case as well.

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Speaker 1: Now, these charges because they involved drugs, using your presidential

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Speaker 1: power to run this operation, guns are involved. These are

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Speaker 1: all multipliers for what he is facing. I don't think

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Speaker 1: he has any idea. But what he's facing is fighting

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Speaker 1: a sell not too far from Al Chapo in Colorado

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Speaker 1: Supermax prison. This is a lifetime prison sentence potentially, isn't it.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, these are very serious charges. There's a twenty five

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Speaker 9: page indictment that was unselled from the Southern District of

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Speaker 9: New York. That's why he's in federal court in New

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Speaker 9: York today for his arraignment. And essentially, the charges that

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Speaker 9: have been brought against Nicholas Maduro and five other individuals

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Speaker 9: involved charges related to a narco terrorism conspiracy. As you said,

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Speaker 9: essentially alleging he was the head of a cartel operation

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Speaker 9: using illicit drugs and profits from those drugs to commit

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Speaker 9: a host of terrible crimes, that he was trafficking cocaine

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Speaker 9: and other illicit drug rugs into the United States and elsewhere,

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Speaker 9: and that he was also illegally using a number of

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Speaker 9: weapons as well to further his narco terrorism and illegal

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Speaker 9: drug trafficking operations. So if I were Nicholas Maduro, I'd

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Speaker 9: be very concerned right now. These are very serious charges,

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Speaker 9: and as you pointed out, he is facing decades, if

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Speaker 9: not life in prison if convicted by just a few

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Speaker 9: of these charges.

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Speaker 1: That's right, just like El Chapel, the last major drug

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Speaker 1: kingpin we brought in, and he wasn't even running a country.

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Speaker 1: Zack Smith, thank you for being here today.

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Speaker 9: Of course, thanks for having me on the show.

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Speaker 1: and Army veteran Miller Meeks to discuss the logistics of

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Speaker 1: Operation Absolute Resolve and just how the US military was

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Speaker 1: able to conduct this mission with such surgical precision. Details ahead.

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Speaker 1: If we round out today's coverage of Operation Absolute Resolve.

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Speaker 1: We'd be remiss if we didn't point out again the

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Speaker 1: surgical efficiency and the effectiveness of this operation as oh,

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Speaker 1: this is complicated. Reports note that the operation took a

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Speaker 1: total of two and a half hours, and the operation

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Speaker 1: was also kept air tight. No one even had the

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Speaker 1: slightest idea or foresight in regard to the intended goal,

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Speaker 1: further highlighting the precise coordination and secrecy. Jemmy To discuss

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Speaker 1: this as congresswoman for Iowa's first congressional district and a

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Speaker 1: retired lieutenant colonel from the United States Army, Marionette Miller Meeks, Colonel,

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Speaker 1: thank you for being here.

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Speaker 12: I'm happy to be with you. Steve, thank you for

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Speaker 12: having me on.

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Speaker 1: You woke up, probably like the rest of us, and

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Speaker 1: said what happened, and then you watched it, and you

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Speaker 1: look at what was pulled off. Look when we went

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Speaker 1: and arrested Saddam Hussein took one hundred and seventy five

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Speaker 1: thousand soldiers, several years lost American lives, No American lives lost.

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Speaker 1: Same result. The posed dictator is let out in handcuffs,

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Speaker 1: put on the uss EWA GiMA, and then flown back

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Speaker 1: to New York City and appeared for arraiment today. Tell

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Speaker 1: me about your take as a veteran, as an Army veteran,

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Speaker 1: you're well feelings as you saw this story unfold.

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Speaker 12: You know, I think most of us knew that President

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Speaker 12: Trump was going to take some action. He had been

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Speaker 12: telegraphing it. He had been working through diplomatic channels and

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Speaker 12: negotiations to have Madurea come in. As you know, almost

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Speaker 12: every nation considered Maduro to be an illegitimate president and

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Speaker 12: to have an illegitimate government, as did President Biden and

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Speaker 12: President Trump, and there was you know, indictment and charges

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Speaker 12: leveled against him from twenty twenty one, and even President

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Speaker 12: Biden had a bounty on his head. So this to

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Speaker 12: me reminds me of what President Reagan did when he

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Speaker 12: brought the hostages out of Iran. So there was a

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Speaker 12: you know, really command of President Trump, our military, our

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Speaker 12: law enforcement, our and our intelligence. All of those were

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Speaker 12: necessary forces to be able to have the intelligence to

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Speaker 12: go in to make this strike with such precision. It

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Speaker 12: was brilliantly executed with no casualties, And I think it

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Speaker 12: just telegraphs to the world how good our military is,

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Speaker 12: how good our communications and collaboration is and that when

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Speaker 12: President Trump says he's going to do something, he means

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Speaker 12: he's going to do it. And so really commendation to

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Speaker 12: our military law enforcement in a law enforcement exercise, and

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Speaker 12: also our intelligence agencies. They all had to work together,

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Speaker 12: and you know it had to be done with secrecy

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Speaker 12: because if you telegraph had they would not have been

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Speaker 12: able to conduct this operation in the manner that they

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Speaker 12: did with no casualties.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and to bring up an important point because those

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Speaker 1: on the other side of the aisle are screaming like

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Speaker 1: smashed cats for the last forty eight hours because they

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Speaker 1: weren't told in advance. But the truth is they can't

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Speaker 1: be trusted with secrets. They would have linked it, they

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Speaker 1: would have compromised the mission, they would have put American

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Speaker 1: lives in danger, and they would.

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Speaker 2: Have been okay with it. That's what's so unsettling to me.

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Speaker 12: Your thoughts would have put American lives in danger. They

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Speaker 12: would have put Venezuela's civilian lives in danger. And there

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Speaker 12: is not a requirement that we have a briefing before

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Speaker 12: Congress to do this type of action. I'm not sure

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Speaker 12: why my colleagues on the other side of the aisle.

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Speaker 12: Do not see that President Biden, President Obama, President Clinton

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Speaker 12: all did the same thing. Your earlier guest had brought

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Speaker 12: up operation just cause when Nori Diego was extradited, he

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Speaker 12: was indicted, he had grand jury indictments, he was extradided

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Speaker 12: out of Panama, he was found guilty. The Supreme Court

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Speaker 12: ruled on this. So the president number one had the

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Speaker 12: constitutional authority to do what he did. This was a

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Speaker 12: law enforcement exercise supported by our intelligence and our military.

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Speaker 12: Number two, he had the legal authority to do what

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Speaker 12: he did, and he did it. And number three, you

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Speaker 12: needed to have that collaboration of multiple different agencies within

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Speaker 12: the US government to carry this out in a way

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Speaker 12: where no one was harmed. There were not civilian casualties

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Speaker 12: in Venezuela. We got our person and we were bringing

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Speaker 12: him back to justice. We were serving justice for the

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Speaker 12: American people, for mothers who have lost their children to

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Speaker 12: illegal drugs, families that have been torn apart. And don't

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Speaker 12: forget that this Maduro also had American hostages, American military

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Speaker 12: hostages as well as he was supporting terrorism in the

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Speaker 12: Middle East. So not only was there American safety at risk,

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Speaker 12: but there was also national security implications as well, and

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Speaker 12: I commend the President and our military, law enforcement and

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Speaker 12: intelligence on a brilliantly conducted maneuver which brought people brought

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Speaker 12: Maduro to justice to go to trial in the United

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Speaker 12: States with no civilian military casualties. It's amazing that they

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Speaker 12: were able to do the.

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Speaker 2: Conversation with such precision.

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Speaker 1: I agree with you, here's part of the conversation that's

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Speaker 1: not getting as much coverage as it should. It's also

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Speaker 1: a big loss for China, Russia, Iran, Cuba.

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Speaker 2: They've been taking.

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Speaker 1: Illicit oil out of Venezuela for years at next to

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Speaker 1: nothing or flat out free in the case of the Chinese.

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Speaker 1: So when you see American critics single we we're just

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Speaker 1: there for the oil. First of all, we don't need

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Speaker 1: the oil. We've got plenty of well in the United States.

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Speaker 1: But what we do need is to protect the Western

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Speaker 1: Hemisphere from encroachment from our biggest enemies, that being China

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Speaker 1: and Russia and Iran and Cuba. Without that oil, it's

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Speaker 1: a big setback for those countries, isn't it.

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Speaker 12: They have robbed Venezuela of its assets, They've impoverished the nation.

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Speaker 12: Maduro was right in concert with them, and it's why

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Speaker 12: President Trump said that we will quote unquote run the country.

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Speaker 12: We're not going to run the country. But he's sending

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Speaker 12: a signal to the cartels, to other South American countries,

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Speaker 12: to Russia and Iran and China that they better not

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Speaker 12: try to take advantage of this situation because the United

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Speaker 12: States means business. Since I've been in Congress, I have

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Speaker 12: talked extensively about the Monroe Doctrine and the incrosion of

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Speaker 12: communism in Latin America and how serious that is with

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Speaker 12: the inroads that both China and Russia have made. So

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Speaker 12: this is long overdue this action. I commend, again commend

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Speaker 12: President Trump for making good on his word. This was

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Speaker 12: both an American safety and security issue. This is justice

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Speaker 12: for American people, but it's necessary for global security as well.

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Speaker 12: And I think what you're going to see now is

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Speaker 12: other countries with communist dictators or authoritarian regimes that you're

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Speaker 12: going to see them look at these actions, and they're

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Speaker 12: going to start thinking differently. I think what you're seeing

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Speaker 12: in Iran is a consequence of what has happened with

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Speaker 12: Madro being extradited back to the United States.

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Speaker 1: Well, I agree with you on that. In fact, if

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Speaker 1: you're in Colombia or Nicaragua or Ron, you might want

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Speaker 1: to listen for helicopters because when Donald Trump says something,

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Speaker 1: he means it. Look, he already went out to the

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Speaker 1: Iranian nuclear facilities and took those out at another remarkable,

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Speaker 1: precise American strike. The people that threaten America, whether it's

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Speaker 1: Tehran and the Ayatola or Colombia, who's also in concert

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Speaker 1: with drug runners and so forth, you have been worn

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Speaker 1: in the most specific way. Stop playing around. But my

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Speaker 1: question then becomes, what about Mexico. More drug cartel is

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Speaker 1: doing more damage out of Mexico than anywhere else. Claudia

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Speaker 1: shinebamb the president of Mexico's you're not going to come

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Speaker 1: in here with American force of any kind. What are

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Speaker 1: your thoughts on that?

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Speaker 12: Well, I think that they're going to learn from what

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Speaker 12: just happened in Venezuela, what happened with the extradition of Maduro,

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Speaker 12: who is an illegitimate president and who was indicted on

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Speaker 12: charges and is being brought to justice. And as you know,

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Speaker 12: Representative Dan Crenshaw in Texas had wanted the cartels in

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Speaker 12: Mexico to be labeled as terrorist organizations and wanted to

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Speaker 12: use force. So I think that, you know, those who

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Speaker 12: are in bed with cartels, in bed with mafia like

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Speaker 12: transnational criminal organizations are going to find that they need

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Speaker 12: to separate their government official government capacity from criminal activity,

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Speaker 12: because we're going to do what's in the best interest

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Speaker 12: of the United States. And to me, you know, the

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Speaker 12: first president I voted for as a young lieutenant in

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Speaker 12: the army was Ronald Reagan, and this, to me is

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Speaker 12: very similar to what Reagan did in you know, putting

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Speaker 12: America first and the interest of the United States and

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Speaker 12: making sure that the United States was no longer trampled

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Speaker 12: upon by other nations. And so I think that this

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Speaker 12: is a very positive development. And as I said, the

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Speaker 12: President had both the constitutional and legal authority to do this.

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Speaker 12: It may be challenged in the courts, but I think

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Speaker 12: our colleagues on the other side of the aisle are

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Speaker 12: going to have eglin faces because I know the people

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Speaker 12: in Venezuela are happy. I know that Venezuelans who immigrated

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Speaker 12: to the United States for safety, they are delighted at

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Speaker 12: what has happened. We've seen what's happening in Miami Florida,

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Speaker 12: and in Florida where there is a large Venezuelan community

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Speaker 12: as well as a Cuban community, and this may end

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Speaker 12: up toppling the Cuban regime as well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, without that oil, Cuba's really in trouble. Without that

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Speaker 1: Venezuela and oil, They're in real trouble there they were anyway,

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Speaker 1: this complicates and exacerbates the challenges they're facing.

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Speaker 2: I truly appreciate you being here, congresswomen.

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Speaker 1: Your insights are important as a veteran, as a member

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Speaker 1: of the United States Congress, I believe that the Democrats

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Speaker 1: are on the wrong side of history again save a couple,

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Speaker 1: including John Fetterman, who once again says we should be

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Speaker 1: celebrating this. Who would have thought a happy New Year.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for being here, Thank.

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Speaker 2: You so much.

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Speaker 12: Happy New Year to you and your listeners.

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Speaker 1: There you have it, look doing the right thing. You know,

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Speaker 1: no good deed goes unpunished. I suppose now after the break,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have that story that reminds us of how

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Speaker 1: wonderful America is in this brand new year. Plus your

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Speaker 1: answers to our America's Voice question of the day, why

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Speaker 1: do you think the Democrats are so unhappy about the

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Speaker 1: capture of Dictator Nicholas Maduro. Your answer is coming up. Well,

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Speaker 1: we're in a new Year's you know, twenty twenty six, remarkable,

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Speaker 1: isn't it? And we're gonna continue our theme of what

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Speaker 1: makes America wonderful. We do it every day with the

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Speaker 1: hope of putting a smile on your face at least

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Speaker 1: once a day. Today's story comes to us from Dickinson, Texas.

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Speaker 2: We're a selfless and anonymous hero saved.

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Speaker 1: A mom and her kid from drowning after a car

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Speaker 1: accident saw them veer off into the bayou. Reports from

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Speaker 1: first responders at the scene detail that the mother struck

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Speaker 1: a curb on a bridge, lost control of the vehiclelt

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Speaker 1: and he are crossing.

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Speaker 2: Several lanes of traffic and plunging into the water.

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Speaker 1: That's right. The unprecedented development saw a homeless man who

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Speaker 1: witnessed the crash. He immediately used his canoe to paddle

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Speaker 1: over to the submerged vehicle to save mom and her baby,

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Speaker 1: resulting in a hopeful outcome rather than a tragic one.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of hopeful outcomes, the mother and child are recovering

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Speaker 1: at the University of Texas Medical branch in League Texas.

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Speaker 1: Stepping up in moments of need is an action that

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Speaker 1: is not practiced by many, and to remain anonymous on

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Speaker 1: top of that is even more rare.

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Speaker 2: Stories like these remind us what makes America wonderful.

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Speaker 1: Silent heroes stepping up and saying, you know what, I

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Speaker 1: got this? All right? Your question of today? And remember

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Speaker 1: all I do is follow me on social media all

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Speaker 1: the usual places X and get her and Facebook and

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Speaker 1: so forth. You can get the question of today and

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Speaker 1: you can participate. There's a new Year's resolution for you.

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Speaker 1: Get on America's Voice Live with my answer. Why do

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Speaker 1: you think the Democrats are unhappy about the capture of

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Speaker 1: Nicholas M durero roper M writes because their drugs are

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Speaker 1: drying up? Well maybe, Rope, I don't know. Yeah, man,

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Speaker 1: prices are sure going up. Talk about inflation, vern Glass.

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Speaker 1: Only Democrats are because they were receiving kickbacks. Well you

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Speaker 1: wonder how deep that fraud and that grift goes, don't

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Speaker 1: you one? Ag You are because they were getting money

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Speaker 1: from the Narco socialist dictatorship. It is the hub of

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Speaker 1: criminal activity in the Western hemisphere. It truly is. Whether

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Speaker 1: it's China, Russia or Ron. The drug card tells all

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Speaker 1: of it. Larry Wilcox, it's always about the money. They're

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Speaker 1: losing more and more money laundering opportunities. Yeah, you need

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Speaker 1: to get that money into those campaign coffers somehow. Scott

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Speaker 1: Gifford writes this for us simply because it was the

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Speaker 1: Trump administration that did it. That's what I agree with, Scott.

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Speaker 1: I mean the same people like Chuck Schumer who were

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Speaker 1: ripping the Donald Trump, who were ripping Donald Trump because

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Speaker 1: he didn't go out for Maduro, are now ripping Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump because he did.

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Speaker 2: Strange world we live in.

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Speaker 1: Don Kirk writes, Democrats are against everything Trump does. So true, Don,

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Speaker 1: which goes to the point that I just made. Dennis

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Speaker 1: Paul shares this with us. One more place that they

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Speaker 1: can't collect or steal money. Oh so true. Anthony Vasquez

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Speaker 1: payoffs an election fraud. Yeah, there was a lot of

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Speaker 1: election fraud in Venezuela, and even the Democrats called him

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Speaker 1: an illegitimate dictator and till Trump went and got him.

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Speaker 1: Michael Gusti cuts into their laundered pocket money. So many

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Speaker 1: people just think the Democrats are dirty, Aja Woodham.

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Speaker 2: They hate Trump he's draining the swamp.

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Speaker 1: Well. Twenty twenty six off to kind of a quiet start,

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Speaker 1: isn't it? Not much to talk about? Not much big news,

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Speaker 1: but wow, here we go into twenty twenty the midterm elections.

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Speaker 1: Will the state of Minnesota have two open Senate seats,

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Speaker 1: that's a big question going forward. Will Amy Klobachar give

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Speaker 1: up personen seat to run for governor now that Tim

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Speaker 1: Walls has dropped out of the race. Maybe whatever happens

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Speaker 1: through twenty twenty six, we're gonna be here to cover

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Speaker 1: it for you every step of the way. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for being here in twenty twenty five, and thank you

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Speaker 1: for being here today.

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Speaker 2: God bless America.