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Eric Bowling
Well, take a look at that. 4 o'. Clock. Down a little bit in the Dow. Looks like we're about 80, 90 points. A little lower. Nasdaq, nothing really. Okay across the board. S P Nasdaq, not much at all. Little interesting. Oil was up buck 50 yesterday. It's up another dollar this morning. Backed off gold market. We didn't have the opening because Trump took the beginning of the show. But yesterday gold slid 200 an ounce. We were 45.60. Bouncing back just a touch. Sixteen a little bit. Crypto kind of holding its own. Bitcoin's kind of in a holding pattern. 87, 8. Up a little bit. It's finding a real comfortable spot between 86 and 89. 86. My gut feeling on crypto, I think bitcoin, one of these days towards the end of the year, remember, gold and silver have taken off, just gone apoplectic, straight up parabolic we call it. And then crypto kind of tailed off. So gold and silver up 70 and 100%. The two of them. Crypto's even for the year. For the year. So I think crypto is going to catch up at some point when no one's expecting it. All right, our next guest, first guest, sheriff of Riverside County, California, who's also running for governor. Happy to have Sheriff Chad Bianco with us. Sheriff, let's just jump right in. You, you, we. Last time you're here, you had just bubbled. So what happened was swallow last time you're here. Swalwell had announced he wanted to run for governor on the Democrat side. And what that did was it took a little bit of the support for Katie Porter at the time, who was having a hard time of her own because she's an absolutely miserable person. And then people were realizing. But it also split that vote a little bit and you bubbled up to the top of polls. Here we are a couple of weeks later. Tell us where the polls stand recently with you in California, Governor.
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Sheriff Chad Bianco
Yeah, they're the same. I think there was one poll that came out maybe a week after when I was on and I think it was, it had Steve and I at the top and two Republicans at the top. And I think Swalwell was number three. So. So it's really the polling here in California is showing that we're kind of done here. We're tired of the direction, the way things have been going and things are looking good for us. We're right where we want it to be. We know we're in the lead. We know we're on both parties. We're the camp to beat. So we're doing well going into the new year.
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Eric Bowling
And full disclosure, folks, I used to work with Steve Hilton. I know him. He's a friend. I do support a man who's law enforcement number one. Number two, your 35 years. Tell us a little bit more about your background because people, people should hear this.
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Sheriff Chad Bianco
Yeah, I've been with the Riverside County Sheriff's department, has been 32 years. And I've been the sheriff since 2018. November 2018, reelected in 2022. My next election is not until 2028 here, so I will be running as the sheriff. It's a large county here, two and a half million people. I've got 4,500, a little less than 4,500 employees and a $1.3 billion budget. I'll be the only current elected official running so far in this election and one reelection. And really, when you look back on my history, I'm exactly what California has been wanting, I think, for a long time. An actual leader with integrity that they can trust. That's going to do right by them instead of right by a party or right by a personal ambition or political ambition. So things are going really well here and we're very happy. We're just going to keep plugging along.
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Eric Bowling
Until we take this victory and again, support you. I think you're the right man for the job. Help me figure this out. California, people, voters, mentality, politics. Gavin Newsom wants to run for president. Right now, he's probably polling at the top of the Democrats for 2028 presidential candidate. How? With the same failures that he's brought to California, whether it's mayor of San Francisco or governor of California recently with all those failures, homelessness, what's whatever. How is he bubbling up to the top of the Democrats list for candidates for president, yet you say the people of California have had enough of it and it's time for a change. Needing a time for a conservative.
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Sheriff Chad Bianco
Yeah. So it's a very unique dynamic that we have here with him running for president because in California, we all absolutely know he's a failure. We're suffering. We're victims of his absolute political failure. And in him really carrying on that Democrat far left agenda that's been going on for really 20 years. But the thing that's different, and it's really, really annoying here is you have him going on social media and you have doing his podcast and he talks about how great things are and whoever's in his podcast or whoever's doing the interview with him, they just let him say it, even though it's a blatant lie. And here in California, even the media, the media won't report on the negative things about Gavin Newsom. For instance, our own state government came out. Our auditors department, our auditor, California auditor, came out with a. A scathing, scathing report listing nine California agencies, including the governor's office, as high risk. And high risk means that you are ripe with fraud, waste, abuse, and serious lack of management and oversight. And that's our own government saying that our own government is absolutely failing. So what's going on in Minnesota, it pales in comparison to what we have here in California and what we actually know. But the media won't report that to, I think, because Newsom is running for president and they want to do everything they can to, you know, prop him up a little bit.
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Eric Bowling
So I've lived in Florida for about five years now. I went to college here. I'm back here now. So California, the highest taxed state in the nation. Maybe Hawaii. California certainly is top two. Florida has no personal income tax. Here we're running a positive budget surplus of about $3 billion. California, running about an $18 billion deficit.
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Ali Reza Javarzadeh
How.
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Eric Bowling
Here's my question. You're proposing eliminating income tax, is that right? And how are you going to do that with a, With a state that's already running an $18 billion deficit with an income tax in place?
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Sheriff Chad Bianco
Yeah, it's super, super easy. And this is the thing everybody wants to know, how are you going to do it? And then so everybody's so pessimistic, pessimistic because they think that government should be doing it if it was that easy. But the problem is they don't want to do it. So the reality of our government, that we already know, that our own auditor controller is telling us the waste, fraud and abuse is we are the worst in the possible country. They don't know where $25 billion worth of homeless money went. They can't account for $18 billion of COVID money. They can't account for $20 billion in each area of our state. How do you miss billions? I mean, if. If they said $100,000 was missing and we don't know, that's okay. But how about billions? Where is that coming from? So that's number one. The waste, the fraud and the abuse gets stopped. And it. I'm the governor. I control the budget. It's not as hard as you're going to think, but here's the key. California is the biggest oil user in the country, and rightfully so. We're the biggest populated. We have the most planes, trains, automobiles, all of that good stuff. So we import 80% of our oil that we buy from other countries. If we were oil independent in our state, which we have more oil than any other state, that's a little unknown fact that anybody else doesn't. Most people don't know Alaska has more, but we're second to Alaska. And if we were oil independent in our state, that would completely fund state government. So it truly shows you that the environmental activists that really run our state, this progressive agenda of getting rid of oil, going to renewables and all of that garbage, is seriously destroying our state. And it's going to be very easy to get it back. And as much as I do like Florida, I'm telling you, we'll be taking all of your residents once I'm governor because we will be not only the greatest, you know, we have the greatest beaches, we have the greatest weather. It's 70 degrees here today. Perfect. A little bit. It's even a little overcast. And we're now going to fix our government and have the best run government that we can possibly have in our country. So we're going to be attracting businesses and residents from all other states instead of what we have now, which is a mass exodus out of California.
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Eric Bowling
You know, it's another reason why I just, I love what you're bringing. I love this idea of drilling more. Drill, baby, drill. Because it's really. Oil is the lifeblood of an economy and it certainly will fix a lot of budget deficits if you're allowed to. If the environmentalist lobby, you weren't in bed, or I guess devoted to the environmentalist lobby, which Democrats are. And if you can break that, that handcuff, so to speak, no pun intended. Sheriff? Yeah, you could actually be, probably run a budget surplus. We certainly would in America if we stopped buying foreign oil. We absolutely would. We buy half of our 20 million barrels a day oil from outside vendors, outside countries that frankly hate us. Very quickly, NGOs you say the homeless NGO situation. Tell us about that very quickly, if you don't mind.
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Sheriff Chad Bianco
Yeah, absolutely. So $25 billion over the last couple of years is completely gone. They have absolutely no idea where it went, any way of to track it. We know that there are, there are hundreds, if not thousands and thousands of people that are making millions and millions of dollars off this homeless industrial complex where the government will give an NGO or a nonprofit. $5 million to help the homeless. They may help one, they may help five, they may help none. And yet that money is gone. That money is spent off of administrative costs, off of salaries, all of those types of things. But then what we know now from our federal government investigation and what we're learning here in California is that a little portion of that money gets siphone from the recipient and gets recycled back into the political campaigns of the Democrats who are putting it in the. It's basically a big money laundering cycle, this homeless industrial complex that takes our taxpayer money, the lawmakers give it to the nonprofits, the nonprofits use it for themselves, and then take a portion back into the political campaigns to make sure that that money train keeps flowing. And that ends with me as the governor. There will not be another NGO or a nonprofit getting money for homeless until we actually verify that they're helping. And they absolutely must do one of three things. Three would be better. You have to have drug treatment, you have to have alcohol treatment, mental health treatment, and here's the kicker, you have to have both. We have to have live in facilities that treat not only drug and alcohol addiction, but mental health issues. Because right now, there is absolutely nothing for those people. And the majority of them are experiencing mental health conditions because of their drug and alcohol addiction. And there is no treatment for them. There's no facility that will treat those people. So we will fix that. There are the facilities out there. They just can't operate. They actually want to do a good job. And the reality what we have to get to is our government doesn't want to solve our homeless issue here or make it better. Because when they do, that money stops flowing. If you cut off the money because you fixed the problem, then people aren't getting rich and people aren't getting elected again with money into their campaign coffers. So it's a huge deal here. We know exactly how to fix it. And we're gonna hit the ground running when I take office and make sure we get these people the help that they need. Because I'm telling you, it is absolutely. It should be embarrassing that the government is letting these people rot in their own skins, die in the sidewalk, and we do nothing about it.
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Eric Bowling
Yeah, Gavin promised to fix the homeless population 20 years ago in San Francisco. Never did. Sir, I gotta do this because I had a caller call and ask about this. They love you. They love a conservative. They did point out something I didn't know and I just would. Yeah, I think you're gonna have to answer this. Maybe if it's not for me, it's gonna be from someone else. 2020, they said you in during the George Floyd issue moment, summer of whatever the hell it was, love that you stood with Black Lives Matter and actually knelt. Can you tell us what happened there?
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Sheriff Chad Bianco
Yeah, absolutely. So, yeah, everybody has to realize that there is absolutely nothing in my life, in my past that I've said or done that would indicate anything of this. I've evolved over the last probably seven years as one of the nation's leading law enforcement leaders in the nation, definitely in our state and my county, 100%. I am the law enforcement leader of this county. That could never happen if I knelt to a domestic terrorist organization that hate cops. So what we're seeing now is political theater. We're seeing the political nonsense that always happens when other candidates want to bring down someone else because of truly what they have to offer everyone. The reality of that time in our country was I was the first law enforcement leader that actually stood up to BLM and we eliminated from our city. We eliminated 10,000 of them from our city within an hour. And no one reported any injuries. We suffered no injuries from law enforcement. It was an overwhelming show of force that we removed them from our city. And here's the thing. They have never come back. But just to address your question now, with all of that said, because there are certain. Some of my opponents in this race want you to see either very short clipping of a video or a snapshot picture that they're sending around that truly takes everything out of context of what exactly it was we had ordered them. I gave them the order personally gave them the order that they had 20 minutes to vacate the street or we would forcibly remove them. When that happened, the. One of the leaders of that organization, that's who I was talking to, he asked me if he could pray for my deputies. And he asked me if I would pray with him. I said yes. He asked other people around him to pray. He asked if deputies could pray. Some of them did, some of them didn't. And that's what happened. He actually prayed for the safety of my deputies. And then they dispersed. But all you see is a picture, a snapshot picture of a camera. And you see selected edited version, maybe not edited, but very cute versions of that video.
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Eric Bowling
It's a typical liberal or an opponent, lack of context. Take a clip, don't show the context. Listen, I accept that I. I accept that I. I wish it didn't happen, to be honest with you, but I think I still believe you are the right person for that job. And look, you know, if whatever is a mistake or not, what people have a right to, to. To fix their mistakes, so to speak. And I'm going to leave that at you. But I a guy with 32 years experience as a sheriff doing all the right things with the right answers about the things that matter, the economy, etc. Oil taxes. Sheriff, we wish you very much luck and we will continue to talk to you as things go down the road. Thank you, sir.
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Sheriff Chad Bianco
Very good. You have a happy new year.
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Eric Bowling
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Eric Bowling
All right folks, let's bring in our next guest, Ali Reza Javarzadeh. Ali is an Iranian expert He knows all things Iran. I want to talk to him about what's going on. Ali, here's an issue, right? So I just saw Tokyo, Paris, Sydney, Australia, canceling their New Year's celebrations that are coming up tomorrow night because they're fearful of terrorist attacks. Also this statement that the, not even the, the Supreme Mullah, the President of Iran put out that he's, they're in a war, an all out war with the United States, Europe and Israel that seems very, very disturbing. Something, it seems like an elevated dog whistle to these terrorists that may be wanting to perpetrate a terrorist attack on the United States. Break it down for us.
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Ali Reza Javarzadeh
First of all, it's great to be on the show, Eric, and Happy New Year. I know we got a couple more days, but Happy New Year. I'm very confident that the new year 2026 will have a much brighter future and hopefully we wouldn't be talking about terrorism and the hostage taking and all the threats that actually emanates from Tehran. Keep in mind that the Iran regime has been the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism because they have a history of over four decades of engaging in terrorism. And now they don't just do terrorism for the heck of it. This is part and parcel of their strategy for survival. This is a regime that has been rejected by its own population. And the only way that they can clinch into power is through repression inside the country, but also terrorism, development, nuclear weapons outside of Iran, for the, you know, threatening outside of Iran, their missile program, their drone program and now they're not doing any of those out of strength. These are all acts of desperation. This is regime that has been rejected by its own people. So so long as the Mullahs are in power, you are going to see these threats emanating from them. Now some of them may not be directly tied to them, but keep in mind that so long as you have the epicenter of terror operating as a state, that creates a lot of room to maneuver, a lot of opportunity for proxy groups, for terror groups, both in terms of training, supplies, you know, all of that. And that's the story that you're seeing now. And hopefully we will see a totally different region and the world once the mullahs are overthrown. And I hope that 2026 we'll have the news of a free, democratic, non nuclear republic Iran.
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Eric Bowling
That would be amazing. I'm not sure you're going to see it that quickly, but as the people. Again, the only way this is going to happen is if, if the people actually rise up and eliminate the, the mullah structure. The president Massoud, right. He says in response to Trump meeting with Bibi Netanyahu yesterday, he said if there's any, any sort of aggression, any sort of aggression at all, and I'm telling, he said will be met with severe and regret inducing action against the United States. What's he talking about?
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Ali Reza Javarzadeh
Well, I see a lot of hot air. I see a lot of desperation. Keep in mind that this is a regime created, a perception that they have authority, they have power not just over their own people, but they have all these proxy groups in the region. They have an advanced nuclear weapons program and missile program. And the world has seen over the past one year the weakness of the Iran regime, their vulnerability that much of the proxy groups that they had in Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Shiite militias in Iraq, the Houthis in Yemen, have been either shattered or significantly weakened. Their biggest ally in the region, Assad in Syria is gone. And their nuclear weapons program that the regime really spent a lot of money and resources, it costs the regime about $2 trillion. That's a lot of money for a country like Iran. That's bigger than all the oil revenue that Iran generated since the time the mullahs came to power. All of that or a good portion of that is gone. So you mentioned the prospect for change. Who thought that Assad, who seemed to be invincible In Syria in 11 days, he was gone. And the reason Assad was gone because the big brother who was helping him and strengthening him and supporting him, backing him, was significantly weakened. And he didn't really have the backing of the mullahs in Tehran. He's gone. And now the situation applies to the Iranian regime. And as we talk there, protests going on inside the country by the people who are entirely fed up, both because of economic hardship and the misery they're facing. There is no water or electricity. The inflation is so high, there's corruption and the value of currency is depreciated so significantly, people feel like they have no choice but to come and protest against the regime and end the rule of.
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Eric Bowling
Well, maybe you get it. Maybe you get the wish. 2026, we talk about 26 being a year of accountability. Maybe Iran leadership may face some accountability from the people. Ali Reza, thank you so much for your time. Appreciate you.
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Ali Reza Javarzadeh
Thank you so much. Always a pleasure to be on the show.
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Eric Bowling
Thank you.
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Sheriff Chad Bianco
All right.
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Eric Bowling
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Eric Bowling
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Mike Baker
Thank you very much.
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Eric Bowling
New Year's, we were talking to Alireza about this and we talked to a couple of folks recently. Tokyo, Sydney, Paris, maybe others canceling their New Year's Eve celebrations because they're fearful of terrorism. And just answer me this. That statement that the President of Iran put out a couple of days ago, not the one today where he said there'll be any U.S. aggression will be met with more aggression. I'm talking about the one a couple days ago where he said they're in an all out war. All out war. That all out part seems like a dog whistle to terrorist cells around the world. Step up your activities, your thoughts.
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Mike Baker
Yeah, it is, essentially. I mean, it's probably the best way to put it. It's a dog whistle.
- [34:30]
Eric Bowling
Right.
- [34:30]
Mike Baker
For those that are so inclined, whether they're lone wol they just looking for some reason to get fired up or whether they're part of a more established support cell or an organization. Yeah, they've, they've got reason to be. And look, there's always a problem around major events, public events, you know, historic days or dates. Traditionally, radical Islamists terrorists have, have looked to those events to stage something because what are they looking for? Well, they're looking for publicity, right? They're looking for the biggest bang for the buck, so to speak. So you always got heightened security regardless. And New Year's Eve events are certainly in that category. But a statement from the head of Iran saying they're declaring war or they're in a state of war against the West. Yeah, you're right. That just creates another layer of concern. So it's not a surprise to see some countries start worrying about whether they should even hold major events this time of year.
- [35:39]
Eric Bowling
You know, it destabilizes, right, Mike? Because a lot of people don't go out much of the year. They'll go out on New Year's Eve, they'll go on 4th of July and they'll be in groups in those moments. So because of those folks who are not used to looking all over the place before you enter a room or a crowd, you kill a few of those. As a terrorist, you've really destabilized people's comfort and security and feeling of, of, I don't know, safety within your own country. And that is what they're really going for. By definition, that's what terrorism is.
- [36:09]
Mike Baker
No, absolutely. And again, it doesn't, it doesn't have to be a major event like a New Year's Eve activity or, you know, pick another one. Inaugurations, Super Bowls, whatever it might be. But that's what they look for. And that's sort of their holy grail of coordinated attack planning. So I think, what can people do? Well, you know, people make that decision. You know, you can't, you can't sit in a foxhole, right? You got to stay busy, living. If your decision is to go to a major event, then fine, but be smart about it. You can't live in sort of this heightened state of alert all your time. But you can learn when to raise your awareness, right? When you go into something like this and that's when you start thinking, okay, I have to pay more attention to what's happening around me. I have to look for exits, right? What would I do if there's a. Play that game? What am I going to do if there's a problem? You know, how do I react? How do I stay in touch with others that I'm with, right? What's my communications plan? How do I get out of here? And so again, you can't do that all the time, but you can certainly do that when you go into a public event. And frankly, you know, there's a lot of us that do that when we just simply are traveling and we go down into a subway system or whatever it may.
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Eric Bowling
So switching over to Venezuela.
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Mike Baker
Yeah.
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Eric Bowling
Trump use a drone strikes. What he said was a facility they believe was a facility to house a lot of drugs. Trend was, was, was storing a bunch of drugs that were going to load on boats and send them over this way. Maduro. What is the Maduro mentality right now? He's been bombed on his own country, inside his own borders, his own land. Mike. CIA. How, how, how much intel do we have on this guy and what, what is what he may do?
- [37:56]
Mike Baker
Well, he's clearly worried about, you know, first and foremost those immediately around him. Right. He's called on Cuban intelligence and their security apparatus to provide him with a, the, the close in support. So his immediate ring of security, those are, those are Cubans, right? And, and you know, Cuba's done this in the past, you know, not just for Maduro, for Hugo Chavez and for other nations. That's kind of what they do in order to, you know, keep some, some revenue coming in because they don't have much else on the island in Cuba. So that's, that's an indication that Maduro is, is paranoid.
- [38:29]
Eric Bowling
Right.
- [38:30]
Mike Baker
And he should be right. There's a 50 million dollar reward for, you know, information leading to his arrest. But, you know, it's interesting because this, this attack that you just mentioned, this drone attack inside Venezuela. It's been a while since President Trump announced that he had authorized covert action by the CIA without stating that they would actually do it. He had just authorized that as a potential capability. And then he came out. Right. With very little warning the other day and said that they've done it right this past week. They reportedly hit a dock facility that they're saying is used by tda. Now, it's not clear because there's very few details about this. You know, what was there, was there a major warehouse, Was it a storage facility or was it just a loading site where they would, you know, load up the boats, send them off. And up to this point, we had been attacking those boats. We've done about 30 of those sea attacks so far. Some 107 or more narco traffickers have been killed in those incidents. But there's very few details about this attack inside Venezuela. It is a significant development.
- [39:46]
Eric Bowling
You know, they, they claim it was just the fire, that they put it out right away. Like we know how those, of course they were going to say that just game this out for us. Is, is Maduro, will we, A year from now, on New Year Day, before New Year's Eve, 20, 26 into 27, will Maduro, will Nicholas Maduro still be the president of Venezuela?
- [40:04]
Mike Baker
Well, I think reasonable people can say for the benefit and the betterment of Venezuelan people, we hope not. Right, right. I mean that.
- [40:15]
Eric Bowling
Give me the CIA guy telling me where we are in that, in terms of removing and replacing Maduro. Yeah.
- [40:24]
Mike Baker
Well, you've hit on a major issue here, is the replacing.
- [40:27]
Sheriff Chad Bianco
Right.
- [40:27]
Mike Baker
If I had to put money down, do I think a year from now Maduro's still in office? I don't think he will be. I think what will happen is he will either make the move himself because he wants to save his own skin and, you know, some ability to say where he goes or what he does or his, his close circle will move him out. But the question is, what happens after that? And it's not, it's not clear cut.
- [40:50]
Sheriff Chad Bianco
Right?
- [40:50]
Mike Baker
It's not. There has been an opposition. He stole the last election. You have an opposition technically in waiting. But you know, what happens in the meantime? Does the military agree to that? Right. They still play a role in Venezuela. So you know, it's always the aftermath of moving somebody out of a position of power that can get really messy.
- [41:09]
Eric Bowling
Yeah. Mike Baker, always good to have you on President's Daily Brief. Great podcast. Good to talk to you, my friend. We'll talk to you again soon. Happy New Year and be safe, brother.
- [41:18]
Mike Baker
Yeah, you too, man. Happy New Year to you.
- [41:20]
Eric Bowling
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Eric Bowling
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- [44:49]
Eric Bowling
Ever hear Mara Gay Margay, a journalist? I'm using air quotes here, who's among the many leftist and biased members of her profession who insist that what's happening, well, for example in Minnesota may or may not be actually happening. Another what you see is not what you really moment, which is par for the liberal, especially media course watch.
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Announcer
First of all, if there is fraud.
- [45:12]
Eric Bowling
There, that should be fully investigated no matter where it is, whether it's in.
- [45:17]
Announcer
A Democratic led state, a Republican led state. I mean, let's pull back. So absolutely it should be investigated. The question is, you know, why is this a priority in a different kind.
- [45:29]
Eric Bowling
Of way if there is fraud there, if have you seen the Nick Shirley video? If you haven't, it's got about 200 million views and it really exposes just how widespread it was, how blatantly obvious it was. Also just a little reminder of what that New York Times writer is made of. Margay once said this about former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, but you.
- [45:53]
Sheriff Chad Bianco
See it as a possibility.
- [45:54]
Ali Reza Javarzadeh
If he wants to spend a billion.
- [45:55]
Commercial Voice
Bucks beating this guy, he could do it.
- [45:58]
Announcer
Absolutely. Somebody tweeted recently that actually with the money he spent, he could have given.
- [46:04]
Eric Bowling
Every American a million dollars.
- [46:06]
Commercial Voice
Got it.
- [46:06]
Sheriff Chad Bianco
Let's put it up on the screen.
- [46:07]
Commercial Voice
It When I read it tonight on.
- [46:10]
Mike Baker
Social media, it kind of all became clear. Bloomberg spent 500 million on ads.
- [46:15]
Sheriff Chad Bianco
U.S. population 327 million.
- [46:18]
Mike Baker
Don't tell us if you're ahead of us on the math. He could have given each American $1 million and have had lunch money left over.
- [46:26]
Commercial Voice
It's an incredible way of putting it.
- [46:28]
Eric Bowling
It's an incredible way of putting it.
- [46:30]
Announcer
It's true. It's disturbing.
- [46:32]
Eric Bowling
It does, it does suggest, you know.
- [46:35]
Announcer
What we're talking about here, which is there's too much money in politics and it makes it difficult because what we.
- [46:40]
Eric Bowling
Want, and I hate to break the news to you, margay, and by the way, Brian Williams to dumb asses, because there are 320 million people in America, you couldn't give every American a mil. You can give them a dollar, not a million, a dollar, just off by $999,999. But you're close. Brian Williams and Mara Gay. Also really entertaining to hear the left make comments like politicized DOJ when talking about the Trump White House pretending like they really don't understand anything about the irony of that statement.
- [47:16]
Announcer
The question is, you know, why is this a priority in a different kind of way? The politicization of the DOJ and the FBI is undeniable. So whether they are reliable narrators is the big question.
- [47:30]
Eric Bowling
And this is what happens when you.
- [47:32]
Announcer
Weaponize and politicize federal agencies that are.
- [47:35]
Eric Bowling
Not meant to be, you know, politicized. And I think the American people are.
- [47:40]
Announcer
Right to ask the question, well, can we trust you? And that's a sad thing to say.
- [47:44]
Eric Bowling
As an American politicized doj. You spent four years trying to throw Trump in jail or to break him, to put him out of business, to make him broke. And then you claim that he's incredible. Incredible. Another day, another freak out by Democrat who just hates to have their feet held to the fire for actual crimes committed somehow in their minds being held account for corruption or fraud shouldn't be looked into or punished. I want you to hear from me first. I'm going on offense against Donald Trump and I just put senior Trump officials on notice. Donald Trump once again is trying to weaponize the Department of Justice to go after his enemies list. That's me, Adam Schiff, Tish James and Lisa Cook. But I'm not having it. Why is he doing this? Because we had the nerve to stand up to his corruption. Susie Wiles just admitted this in Vanity Fair. She said that when Donald Trump sees an opportunity for retribution, he quote, goes for it. So yes, the allegations that Bill Pulte has launched against me and others are nonsense. My lawsuit against Donald Trump and his team is not. So we just sent a letter to Susie Wiles telling her, save your, your emails, your text messages, everything that records or documents Donald Trump going after his political enemies. Save it because we're coming for it because we want the truth. What did Trump know? What did he order? What did others do on his behalf? We're not going away. And the American people are always going to choose the truth over Trump. Let's see. Letitia James, lawsuit dropped. Alvin Bragg, lawsuit dropped. No basis, no grounds. Oh, Fani Willis in Georgia, dropped. Oh, Jack Smith, federal investigation dropped. You jerks. Democrats through every BS thing at Trump with your lawfare and now you don't want to be held the same way accountable. I think your lawsuit Eric Swalwell, he should turn around and countersue you for frivolous lawsuits. I hope he does. I hope he takes every last penny of your, of your California governor's bankroll. You know, you know, Nancy Pelosi thought she was some sort of gangster after ripping up the president's speech. Remember that State of the Union first time. But of course, the Democrats state media wouldn't miss an opportunity to have Nancy talk about that moment yet again. I intend to go to speech to tear it up. But I just. The first part of it, a tour.
- [50:10]
Sheriff Chad Bianco
Page because he was lying. And then the next page, and then the next page.
- [50:14]
Eric Bowling
I thought it was a manifesto of lies all throughout. So I better just tear up the whole speech. Now. The speeches are on strong paper, so you have to do it, of course, few times to get it done.
- [50:30]
Mike Baker
But I had no intention of doing that.
- [50:32]
Eric Bowling
My staff was going to die. Really disrespectful. You're sitting behind the president, United States, you're the speaker of the House and you disrespect the man behind us. Do it to his face, Nance. Do it to say, you see what. That way, if he had seen that and face, oh, I would love to have seen what Trump would have done. Remember how he dismantled Hillary Clinton? Yeah. Because you'd be in jail. Drops the mic. He would crush you, Nancy. I don't mean physically. He would just do something just to show what a ridiculous, comical person you are. I'll be nice. Francis Collins, former director of the NIH and Anthony Fauci's boss at the time, who's also linked to torturing and killing beagles for medical research, killing dogs. He was confronted and it was, I don't know, kind of interesting to watch. I'd say, Dr. Collins, you and Ralph Barrick and Tony Fauci deserve to be.
- [51:22]
Commercial Voice
In prison for the rest of your lives.
- [51:24]
Eric Bowling
You have have so much blood on your hands.
- [51:26]
Sheriff Chad Bianco
I hope you sleep well at night.
- [51:27]
Eric Bowling
And remember the name Brienne Dressen because.
- [51:30]
Commercial Voice
You Left her stranded after she was severely injured by the COVID vaccine. In your study.
- [51:36]
Eric Bowling
Yeah, You. You do know you.
- [51:37]
Sheriff Chad Bianco
Her name is Brianne. Dressing.
- [51:39]
Announcer
Have a good night.
- [51:41]
Eric Bowling
Pretty cool. All right. All right. I'm good with that. No hi. No violence, no harm. Just confronting a guy for some of the crap he did. They were responsible. They were greatly responsible.
- [51:51]
Sheriff Chad Bianco
They.
- [51:51]
Eric Bowling
They were funding the Wuhan lab that leaked the COVID virus around the world, killed 7 million people worldwide, a million Americans. And somehow this guy's enjoying a nice dinner. Anthony Fauci. Anthony Fauci's got a preemptive pardon for the rest of his life. Earning $400,000 a year, every year, until he dies. Can't happen soon enough. Fouch. Jasmine Crockett. Oh, my girlfriend, Jasmine Crockett has some very interesting news on views on what police are supposed to be doing, which explains a lot about why blue cities tend to be so plagued with so much crime and why criminals have no fear of continuing their crime waves as they please without consequence. I want to be clear that, like.
- [52:34]
Announcer
Law enforcement isn't to prevent crime. Law enforcement solves crime, okay? That is what they are supposed to do. They are supposed to solve crimes, not necessarily prevent them from happening per se.
- [52:51]
Eric Bowling
What? No, no, no. You prevent crime so it doesn't happen again. You catch criminals, you incarcerate them, and you show the world. So, hey, you want to end, like, end up like that guy, go do it again. You're going to end up just like. That is. That is. You don't solve a disease. After you get the disease, you try and do things to avoid the disease. If you don't want heart trouble, if you don't want cancer, don't smoke. Easy as that. Period. Done. But law enforcement is there to prevent crime. Yes. Solve the crime for the purpose of preventing more crime. Duh. Jazz. Jazzy. The left still can't seem to wrap their brains around the fact that investigating and uncovering corruption and fraud is not and should not be political. Should be both sides, right? I guess that's just what you get after four years of the politicized lawfare Democrats waged against all things maga. Because this is about politics. I get that.
- [53:51]
Sheriff Chad Bianco
Politics is politics, but, you know, honestly, you knock on the door of a.
- [53:56]
Announcer
Daycare center and you're like, let me.
- [53:59]
Sheriff Chad Bianco
In, let me in.
- [54:00]
Eric Bowling
What do you expect people to do? You know, in some of those cases.
- [54:04]
Announcer
There were children in there.
- [54:05]
Eric Bowling
What do you want people to do in that situation?
- [54:08]
Announcer
Open the door and say, come on.
- [54:09]
Sheriff Chad Bianco
In, when they know that the Somali.
- [54:12]
Announcer
Community is under attack is being threatened every single day. What is going on here?
- [54:19]
Eric Bowling
Except if you watch again. Do your homework, lady. Abby. Phillip, do your freaking homework. Watch. It's about 42 minutes. Watch the video. You will see them knock on door after door after door. Windows are all taped out black. Why would you want your kid in a place where windows are taped out black? There's no kids anywhere. Any of them. He goes from one to the. In some you could see 1, 2, 3. All three of them. That it? They were being paid for up to 80 kids with none. I think he saw one kid on all of these. Do your homework. Just watch the video before you defend $9 billion of fraud, waste and abuse. Abby. Hi folks. Very quickly, I want to show you a quick moment from the edge and then I want you to decide something. Look, I know the edge isn't for everyone. If you're here, it's because you're not like everyone else. You're built for something more, something bigger, something tougher. And that's exactly what we do. Well, if, if that hits you, if that, I don't know, sparks something in your, in your body, in your brain, don't scroll past it. Subscribe to the edge. Right there. We're on YouTube. Of course. Of course. You can go to YouTube and hit Eric Bowling the Edge when you search it. Or just point your camera at that QR code right there. It'll come up. Hit that subscribe button. It doesn't go anywhere. It's not marketed to anything. It's not. No one's sending you a bill. You'll never be a charge for this. We're growing fast, folks. We're growing super fast. It's the end of the year. I would love to hit 8,000. I would love to get you on board. If you haven't done it, do it now. I want you. I appreciate you. I, I, I just adore what you've doing you're doing with us here at rav. Like you part of the no politics, no noise, just pressure tested, ideas, thoughts. We're a movement developing. We are very much, very much in desire of you guys to subscribe. Once you're part of the big movement. It's going to be big 2026. Got a lot of big names coming up. Get part of it. And when you subscribe, you'll be in front of it every single day. When the new episode or new short comes out, we'll be back. Two and a half minutes. Your ticket to big savings is that big blue envelope in your mailbox. Valpak it's brimming with deals from big.
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Eric Bowling
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- [59:42]
Eric Bowling
Oh, my God.
- [59:43]
Commercial Voice
We're back again.
- [59:44]
Eric Bowling
All righty, folks, we've been reading and listening to your voicemails. Amazing, awesome, awesome, great ones. Ben, can I see the control room? Let's see that control. There you go. There's the team. There they are.
- [59:54]
Sheriff Chad Bianco
Acknowledge our song.
- [59:55]
Eric Bowling
Oh, wait, what was it? So, a little background in that I was taping some stuff and in between, right before the show, Mad Dog came over and said, backstreet Boys. I was like, what? Backstreet Boys had no idea. And then they sent me a video. Apparently the Backstreet Boys are wearing all white now, which I wouldn't know because I'm kind of like a Led Zeppelin Aerosmith in the who fan, but okay, got it. But anyway, Ben, I know that you love that song, so can we hear some? Give me some voicemails. I got you on.
- [60:35]
Sheriff Chad Bianco
That viewer is curious about our grain reserve. Hello. Hey, you were mentioning the strategic oil reserve. Do we have a strategic grain reserve? Just curious.
- [60:48]
Eric Bowling
Let us know.
- [60:49]
Sheriff Chad Bianco
Thanks. Bye.
- [60:50]
Eric Bowling
This is a very important question. So the oil reserve is because we use 40 million barrels of oil a day. 20 million come from foreign countries. Mexico, Canada being the two biggest and others, Saudi Arabia, etc. Not Russia anymore, our grain. We have a different situation in grain. So the theory between our strategic petroleum reserve is that if the outside forces stop feeding us the half the oil we use per day, we'd be really in trouble. Oil prices would spike. We would have, you know, shortages lines for everything. We don't have that situation with grain. We are a net excess producer of grain. We actually export like metric tons of grain to foreign countries because we are so. We are so blessed with our climate, the breadbasket of America, those middle States, the corn, amber waves of grain. It's, it's. That's part of the. The anthem for a reason. We are a mass producer of grain. So we don't necessarily need a strategic grain reserve because we are really set and probably will be for eternity just based on our climate location and two of our four, four borders Are water. Next one, Ben.
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Sheriff Chad Bianco
We have a viewer who's fed up with people living off our taxpayer dollars. Hello Mr. Merry Christmas, Mr. Boiling. I watch your show quite often. I'm a United States Navy veteran. Honorable discharge. I want to tell you if you've seen the Somalian podcast of a black guy from Somalia telling white people to go to work. He's from Minnesota telling white people to go to work so he can have his EBT card and play video games all day when us suckers in America, white people pay his bills and taxes. I hope you've seen what I seen. If not, it's got to be on YouTube or something. Honestly, I'm, I'm 62 and I'm not too good with the computer or nothing, but I watch your show and I'm calling in and please do something about this podcast and get rid of the Somalians that are here illegally. I'm a United States patriot from Hudson Valley, New York. Thank you, union worker.
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Eric Bowling
Union worker. Thank you sir. Thank you for the, the comment. Thank you for our freedom. Thank you for your service to the country. I will tell you I haven't seen that video, but I've seen the Nick Shirley video and, and I will tell you, at one point he approaches a woman, a Somalian woman who is supposed to be running one of these child care centers with no kids in a blacked out windows, no kids in it. And he asks her, where are the kids? And she answers him by saying, I'm not answering you, I'm afraid of you because you're white. And he calls her on it. To his credit, this kid's going to be, he's going to be a great journalist. He says, what do you mean you, you, you're afraid because I'm white? He says, you're racist. That's racist. And she said, no, I'm not racism, but it is, it really is. These people are so entitled, they're caught red handed. They've been stealing billions upon billions of dollars and they can't even step up and be American, be human. It's the problem, sir, I'll tell you something you're right about. If they came over legally, there's not a lot you can do. Certainly the ones are stealing, you get rid of them or throw them in jail. But the ones who aren't here get rid of them. They don't assimilate. We need to teach people. If you want to come here, great. We love, we need more people here. We need more people who work and feed into the system. So that everyone can survive and do better. But you, you have to, you have to live by our laws. There's no Sharia law in Muslim counties. There's no no go zones for cops in Muslim neighborhoods. No, it's the American way of life. And really nice. If you had some sort of test, do you know the Constitution? Can you recite, I don't know, the, the preamble to the Constitution or maybe sing the national anthem, I don't know. Just assimilate. Just show us you want to be part of this amazing experiment that America is. Otherwise we're going to screw it all up. And it's on its way there. It's really, it's, it's, it's scary what's going on. And we're only about a, whatever, 36 hours away from Zoram Mamdani taking over New York City. And boy, is that going to be wild to watch. All right, folks. Love that song. Ted Nugent, have a great night. Ben is up next. Always good to talk to Ben and we'll get him on the horn one of these days. Your ticket to Big Savings is that big blue envelope in your mailbox. Valpak. It's brimming with deals from big name.
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