Bolling! - December 3rd, 2025

Summary

Real America’s Voice – Eric Bolling! (December 3rd, 2025)

Podcast: Real America’s Voice
Host: Eric Bolling (iHeartPodcasts)
Guests: Donald Trump, John Rich (musician/advocate), assorted panelists, Phil Patrick (Birch Gold Group)
Original Air Date: December 3, 2025

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Episode Overview

This episode dives into a high-profile policy discussion led by former President Donald Trump, focusing on domestic manufacturing, car industry regulations, inflation, and immigration. The episode is rich with Trump’s characteristic rhetorical style, hard-edged criticism of political opponents, and a conservative interpretation of current events. Special attention is given to administrative rollbacks in the auto industry, immigration controversies in Minnesota, child trafficking, and conservative strategies for the future. John Rich joins the discussion with an emotionally charged advocacy for child protection, and there’s an in-depth conversation on the reliability of gold versus cryptocurrency in today's volatile economy.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Rollback of Car Industry Regulations and “Affordability” Narrative

• Trump & Bolling Critique of Electric Vehicle Subsidies:
  • Trump and Eric Bolling lambaste the previous administration’s subsidies for luxury electric vehicles, painting Democrats as out of touch with middle-class America.
  • Quote (Trump, 01:14):
    "We're getting $7,500 from the taxpayer. And these Democrats sit on this floor and say that Republicans are for millionaires and billionaires."
• Rise in US Auto Manufacturing:
  • Bolling touts a rise in percentage of American-made cars post-Trump administration.
  • Quote (Bolling, 01:41):
    "We moved at six points, which nobody thought would be possible in four years. We did it in 10 months."
• Critique of “Affordability” as a Democratic Talking Point:
  • Trump frames 'affordability' as a political con, stating it’s Democrats who caused inflation.
  • Quote (Trump, 02:48):
    "This election is about affordability ... That's a con job. They caused the highest prices in the history of our country."

2. Regulatory Changes: CAFE Standards

• Zeroing out CAFE Standards:
  • Trump and allies claim credit for repealing emissions standards, saying this gives consumers more choice, safety, and lower prices.
  • Quote (John Rich, 05:44):
    "It also means people's lives will be safer because what these regulations did is ... forced cars to be more expensive and made of plastic instead of steel."
  • Trump’s Conclusion (06:37):
    "Think of that. And people died because of that. The plastic was plastic in an auto accident ... people were shattered because of that."
• California’s Role in Regulations:
  • Trump criticizes ‘dual standards’ with California, suggesting the state’s unique regulations were unworkable for manufacturers countrywide.

3. Economic Optimism and Consumer Confidence

• Bolling Cites Record Black Friday as Counterpoint:
  • High consumer spending is highlighted as a rebuttal to Democratic claims about low affordability.
  • Quote (Bolling, 08:32):
    "Black Friday up 9.1%, highest ever, biggest amount ever purchased in one day."
• Trump on Military and Police Recruitment:
  • Claims that successful recruitment is indicative of renewed national confidence and spirit.

4. Inspector-General Questions: “Mileage Blocker” in Auto Industry

• Discovery of Devices to Alter Odometer Readings:
  • Panel discusses so-called "mileage blockers," illegal devices affecting resale value, traced to China and Great Britain.
  • Trump Admits Lack of Awareness (11:04):
    "Yeah, I think it's something. I've never heard of it. Very good. Appreciate it. We never heard of it."

5. National and Foreign Policy

• Ukraine-Russia Mediation:
  • Trump claims his proxies (Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner) are participating in Russian peace negotiations, suggesting Putin is open to ending the war.
  • Quote (Trump, 15:41):
    "Their impression was that they'd like to. He would like to see the war ended ... he'd like to be trading with the United States of America, frankly."
  • Trump blames Biden’s policies for the conflict and compares his stance favorably.
• Venezuela and Immigration:
  • Trump continues hardline rhetoric, alleging Venezuela and other nations emptied their prisons and mental health institutions “into our country.”
• Somali Community in Minnesota:
  • Criticism of Mayor Jacob Frey and Rep. Ilhan Omar, accusing the community of fraud and lack of assimilation.
  • Quote (Trump, 22:44):
    "Go back to your own country and figure out your Constitution ... Without this country, she would not be in very good shape. She probably wouldn't be alive right now."

6. Immigration and Democrat “Pandering”

• Bolling rails against what he frames as Democrats’ vote-seeking immigration policies, criticizing multilingual outreach and programs for undocumented workers.
• He decries sanctuary city advocates like NYC Mayor-Elect Zoran Mamdani and rebukes former MSNBC host Krystal Ball for impugning minorities working with ICE.
  • Quote (Krystal Ball via John Rich, 34:52):
    "You don’t think you belong here. You’re not A quote unquote heritage American. You’re never going to belong."

7. Mainstream Media Critique

• Commentary on perceived bias in late-night TV, particularly Stephen Colbert’s and Jimmy Kimmel’s shows, and a mocking dismissal of political figures like Gavin Newsom.

8. John Rich: Child Trafficking and “The Righteous Hunter”

Discussion with Eric Bolling (40:47–52:53)

• Song Debut and Motivation:
  • John Rich discusses his new anti-child trafficking song "The Righteous Hunter," inspired by Sean “Diddy” Combs’ controversial remarks.
  • Quote (John Rich, 42:36):
    "It seems as though the enemy of children and the people that wish them harm ... are all too eager to stand … to declare their control and their power and their ownership … of our kids."
• Actionable Parenting Guidance:
  • Rich shares about a DHS seminar on protecting children online and calls on parents to become their children’s first line of defense.
  • Resource:
    "Go on YouTube, type in John Rich DHS. That's all you gotta do. And there's a 90 minute seminar …" (44:16)
• Music Video Production:
  • Survivor Brooke (rescued >14,000 kids) and sting operation consultants ensured authenticity.
  • Sean Ryan (ex-Navy SEAL and podcaster) stars as the father.

9. Conservative Banking: Old Glory Bank

• Rich explains his involvement in a non-woke bank established for conservatives, ensuring that "you will never be penalized for exercising your constitutional rights."
• Quote (John Rich, 51:52):
  "The whole premise behind the bank is you will never be penalized for exercising your constitutional rights … in these days, we have to have that."

10. Markets & Gold vs. Crypto

• Phil Patrick (Birch Gold Group) on the Economy:
  • Recap of crypto’s recent plunge and gold’s stability. Advocates gold as a hedge.
  • Quote (Phil Patrick, 55:18):
    "Gold has become a really, really solid asset as a hedge against bad things happen in the economy."
• Central Bank Trends:
  • Rise in central bank gold buying; gold seen as counterweight to a weakening dollar.

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Notable Quotes & Timestamps

• Trump on “Affordability” Rhetoric:
  "[Affordability is] a con job. They caused the highest prices in the history of our country, the worst inflation in the history of our country, and we're getting those prices down." (03:57)

• John Rich on Deregulation: "The result of what you're doing, you're literally saving people's lives, and you're making it where families can afford to get a new car." (06:04)

• Trump on Peace Negotiations:
  "That's their impression. ... I think I'd like to get back to dealing a more normal life. I think I'd like to be trading with the United States of America, frankly, instead of ... losing thousands of soldiers a week." (15:41)

• Trump on Somali Community:
  "She should be thrown the hell out of our country. And most of those people, they have destroyed Minnesota, okay?" (22:20)

• John Rich on Child Trafficking:
  "Even the most mild mannered man or woman would become the most vicious opponent you've ever faced, could you ever try to harm one of their children." (44:16)

• Phil Patrick on Gold:
  "Gold in the dollar inverse. When the dollar goes down, gold goes up. ... Last Fiscal quarter was the single biggest quarter for central bank gold buying in history." (55:57)

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• [00:35–07:54]: Trump and panel on auto industry rollback and "affordability" debate.
• [08:05–10:09]: Consumer confidence, military/police recruitment, and “mileage blocker” dilemma.
• [11:10–16:05]: Ukraine war, Russia negotiations, and Venezuelan diplomatic outlook.
• [21:21–24:33]: Critique of Minnesota Somali community, Ilhan Omar, and immigration consequences.
• [27:11–34:46]: US sanctuary cities, criticism of Democratic “pandering,” and mainstream media.
• [40:47–52:53]: John Rich on “The Righteous Hunter,” child trafficking, and parent action tips.
• [53:29–56:21]: Economic segment—Phil Patrick on gold, crypto fluctuations, and central bank trends.

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Tone & Language

The episode features bold, combative language deeply critical of the Biden administration, Democrats, and mainstream media. Voices are unapologetically conservative, blending policy analysis with culture war rhetoric and emotionally charged appeals, particularly on the topics of child protection and national identity.

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Memorable Moments

• John Rich’s passionate discussion of his anti-child trafficking song and video, culminating in a moving explanation of the stakes for American families (41:23–49:42).
• Trump’s caustic remarks about California, the Somali community, and his broader critique of Democratic policies.
• Bolling’s direct rebuke of sanctuary city defenders and Democratic leaders, explicitly connecting immigrant-related fraud to broader immigration policies.

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Summary

This episode of Real America’s Voice serves as a showcase for conservative political messaging: attacking regulatory approaches from the left, emphasizing "America first" economic policies, highlighting immigration as an existential issue, and encouraging cultural and parental vigilance. Eric Bolling and Donald Trump steer the conversation with characteristically direct, populist language, while John Rich provides an emotionally resonant take on child protection activism. The discussion on financial markets and gold closes the episode with a practical, cautionary perspective for conservative investors.

Transcript

[Donald Trump]

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[John Rich]

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[Donald Trump]

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[John Rich]

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[Donald Trump]

Well, it was keeping a lot of manufacturers out of our country, too. They said we're not going to. Are you crazy? They thought outside manufacturers thought we were absolutely insane with all of the different things just made up. Nonsense. It was like made up. It was really made up by people that hate our country. I really believe. Does anybody else have anything to say?

[Eric Bolling]

I'd say about two quick things, Mr. President.

[Donald Trump]

Bernie. I didn't say two quick things I think are really important. So the person who sat behind this desk before you gave $7,500 in subsidies to multimillionaires who are leasing electric Rolls.

[Eric Bolling]

Royces, electric Porsches, electric Lamborghinis.

[Donald Trump]

We're getting $7,500 from the taxpayer. And these Democrats sit on this floor and say that Republicans are from millionaires and billionaires.

[Eric Bolling]

We are the opposite of giving $7,500.

[Donald Trump]

To multi billionaires, to at least foreign electric vehicles.

[Eric Bolling]

Number two, because of your policies, at the beginning of the year, 51% of.

[Donald Trump]

The cars made sold in America were made in America. 51% before you got last. Mine got a number is 57%.

[Eric Bolling]

We moved at six points, which nobody thought would be possible in four years. We did it in 10 months. That's something that maybe the news should.

[Donald Trump]

Cover a little bit more.

[Eric Bolling]

And we've driven down the price of automobiles.

[Donald Trump]

The car prices for consumers are down. Before you, just about everything is down. You know, this whole thing is. They use the word affordability. It's a Democrat hoax. They're the ones that drove the prices up. And all they do is say affordability. And you're supposed to say, oh, that means they had low prices. No, we inherited the worst inflation in the history of our country. They say 48 years, but let's say that's history. I don't believe that Biden had, because of his stupid ways and his. Between his energy policies and his spending policies, we had the worst inflation in the history of our country. And now our prices are coming down and they're coming down for cars, and they're coming down. I mean, did you hear yesterday when Chris Wright from Energy, the head of energy in our country, said there are now parts of our country, parts. It's all happening. $1.99 for gasoline a gallon.

[Eric Bolling]

Is that crazy?

[Donald Trump]

And we have it at 250, 260. It was at $5. And that's bigger than any tax cut we could give. You know, for the average family, that's considered bigger than any tax cut. So the word affordability, when they mention it, you ever watch them, it's all about. I saw the young lady that lost last night. She lost by a lot more than they thought. And we have a great new candidate in the, in the, in Congress, really great. Matt Van Epps. But I saw last night, she said it's all about affordability. All about. They never talk about, like the specifics. Everything was through the roof. Eggs, when I took over, eggs were four times higher than they ever were. We got the prices down to the lowest level. I mean, amazing. But they never. You got to watch their. They're great con people. It's like the Inflation Reduction Act. And after they got it approved because everybody said inflation reduction, they admitted it had nothing to do with reducing inflation. It's a conjunct. I think affordability is the greatest conjecture. They look at you and they say affordability. They don't say anything else. Everyone says, oh, their prices were so low. No, they had the worst inflation. We had the highest prices we ever had. And now they're all coming down, including beef is coming down. Beef was up there a little bit. Our ranchers did well, but we're going to make them do a little bit less. Well, perhaps, but the beef is now coming down. Coffee is now coming down. It's all coming down. And it's a beautiful thing to see. But remember this, when they use the word affordability, they just say. They never say anything else. This election is about affordability. And then they go on to the next subject. It's a con job. They caused the highest prices in the history of our country, the worst inflation in the history of our country, and we're getting those prices down. And they're coming down rapidly. And you'll see those results very soon. Anybody else want to say a few words? Oh, Ted, Ted, I can't believe I'm easy to miss. It's very rare that I would miss. Go ahead.

[John Rich]

Well, Mr. President, I want to congratulate.

[Eric Bolling]

You on behalf of everyone here, the.

[Donald Trump]

Leadership that you're showing, and this is a victory today. For consumers, this is a victory for affordability. Your critics like to say the word affordability. Under Joe Biden and the Democrats, they put mandate after mandate after mandate on cars and trucks, and they drove the.

[Eric Bolling]

Price up thousands and thousands of dollars.

[Donald Trump]

And with the actions you're taking today.

[John Rich]

And you put on top of that.

[Donald Trump]

The one big, beautiful bill. You know, most of the senators here.

[John Rich]

On the Senate Commerce Committee and on the Commerce Committee, we work together to zero out the CAFE standards.

[Donald Trump]

We wrote that into the law, that.

[John Rich]

The CAFE standards went to zero.

[Donald Trump]

What does that mean? It means you can now, as a consumer, buy the car you want.

[John Rich]

It also means people's lives will be.

[Eric Bolling]

Safer because what these regulations did is.

[John Rich]

They forced cars to be more expensive.

[Donald Trump]

And made of plastic instead of steel.

[John Rich]

Because you had to make them lighter to comply with these standards.

[Donald Trump]

So you'd get in a wreck and people would die.

[John Rich]

The result of what you're doing, you're literally saving people's lives, and you're making.

[Donald Trump]

It where families can afford to get a new car.

[John Rich]

These actions will drop the cost of.

[Donald Trump]

Cars and trucks thousands of dollars.

[Eric Bolling]

That makes a real difference.

[John Rich]

And I'll make one final point. You know, about half the members here are car dealers.

[Eric Bolling]

And I will say, my good friend.

[Donald Trump]

Roger Williams out in the lobby, he.

[John Rich]

Tried to sell me a car, which didn't surprise me.

[Donald Trump]

But I just. Just want to give props to Mike Kelly.

[John Rich]

He showed he was savvier because he tried to sell you a car.

[Donald Trump]

And you can afford a much nicer car than I can. So well done, Mike.

[John Rich]

Roger, you just went to the wrong customer.

[Eric Bolling]

That was $100 cheaper.

[Donald Trump]

The thing that Ted just said, it's true. Plastic instead of steel. Think of that. And people died because of that. The plastic was plastic in an auto accident. And it broke up. And people were shattered because of that. Crazy. But that's a really good point. Go ahead. And Mr. President, I'll tell you, the Senate Commerce Committee, on January 14th, we're going to have a hearing with all.

[John Rich]

Of the big three there and Tesla.

[Donald Trump]

And the entire hearing is going to focus on how your leadership has reduced.

[John Rich]

The burdens on carmakers.

[Donald Trump]

That's lowering costs, that's giving consumers more choices, and it's producing more jobs in America. And it's highlighted.

[John Rich]

That's a real record of success.

[Donald Trump]

Yeah, well, we're really. It's an honor. And, you know, they were going by California. We had, like, two different countries, California and 15 that followed California, because you had 50 states follow California, and the rules from California Were just like everything else. That's why people are leaving. That's why it's, it's such a mess. It's got such. There's a state with such unbelievable potential. But what they did with the car industry is incredible. And that was, you know, the car companies didn't know what to do because they had two standards and you can't build two different cars for the same country. And what we're doing today is very big. Would anybody like to say something? Would you like to say something, my friend?

[John Rich]

I just want to say thank you.

[Donald Trump]

Thank you.

[Eric Bolling]

Once again.

[Donald Trump]

We love you, Brian. Oh, I love you too, Mr. President. I've always said he's a good man. Well, I appreciate that. I've always said you've tackled three, the three M's, mortgage, munchkins and marriage.

[Eric Bolling]

You've solidified all of those. I'll add motor vehicles to that. Now, my question, I got one about consumer confidence.

[Donald Trump]

We just came off on the record high. Black Friday up 9.1%, highest ever, biggest amount ever purchased in one day.

[Eric Bolling]

Which I think counters this narrative of affordability because apparently the Americans are spending money. So I want to see, how do you view that for a consumer confidence being so high going into Christmas and going into next year? And I do have one for the.

[Donald Trump]

Auto group after you think that we do. We have tremendous confidence in the country. You know, one of the things in terms of confidence, when, if you go back a year and a half, you know, it's amazing. We're like into 10 months already. But you go back a little bit before the election because after November 5, it started changing rapidly, even though we weren't running it until January. But when, when you look back and you look at the influence, enlistment of soldiers, people that wanted to join the military, the army, Navy, the Air Force, Marines.

Coast Guard, it's like booming. It's all space force. But we had a very, very. We had the worst recruitment in the history of our country. A year later, we have the greatest recruitment in the history. You can't even get in. Getting in is like getting into a top college that you couldn't get. The people want to be in the service now and that includes the police environment, other things. You couldn't hire police, you couldn't hire anybody in the army or the Navy. You couldn't get people in. And we now have gone from that to record recruitment. We're getting, and we're getting high quality people, amazing people wanting to be in the military. They have a spirit now, you know, Call it what you want, but that's part of it. But they have great spirit now, so it's a great thing. Go ahead, ask your second question.

[Eric Bolling]

Okay, my second question.

[Donald Trump]

I've got a lot of close family friends in an automotive business, own dealerships.

[Eric Bolling]

All across Southern California. They sent me a question to ask you. There's a thing called a mileage blocker that.

[Donald Trump]

That is installed on vehicles.

[Eric Bolling]

It's a type of a computer chip.

[Donald Trump]

Which alters the actual mileage driven on.

[Eric Bolling]

The vehicle so that when you have a leased vehicle that's turned in, they're losing thousands of dollars. They've got to go chase down these manufacturers. And what can we do to track down these manufacturers of this illegal computer chip that's really hurting automotive industry?

[Donald Trump]

Have you heard about this? Yes, sir.

[John Rich]

They're getting built in China, and most of them are coming out of Great Britain, sir.

[Eric Bolling]

They're being distributed through China, through distributors.

[John Rich]

Selling them online.

[Donald Trump]

Through Great Britain. Yes, sir.

[John Rich]

Wow.

[Donald Trump]

That's not so good. What do you think?

[John Rich]

Oh, look at that.

[Donald Trump]

Do you burn it? Do you know anything about that?

[Eric Bolling]

It works on older vehicles, and obviously we got to do a better job.

[Donald Trump]

Yeah, I think it's something. I've never heard of it. Very good. Appreciate it. We never heard of it. That's pretty good.

[John Rich]

Mr. President.

[Donald Trump]

Mr. President, you released video of that.

[John Rich]

First boat strike on September 2, but not the second video. Will you release video of that strike so that the American people can see for themselves?

[Donald Trump]

I don't know what they have, but whatever they have, we'd certainly release no problem. You know, we stopped every boat we knock out. We save 25,000American lives.

If you look at our numbers, the drugs coming in through sea are down 91%. I'm surprised there's 9%. You want to ask? I don't know who's doing the 9%, but it's down 91. And we're going to start very soon on land, and I'm sure you're thrilled to hear that.

On Ukraine, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.

[Eric Bolling]

Were there last night with Vladimir Putin.

[John Rich]

Can you give us an update about those talks?

[Donald Trump]

It sounds from what the Kremlin is.

[Eric Bolling]

Saying, they're not going to compromise. Can you tell us what you.

[Donald Trump]

I don't know what the Kremlin is doing. I can tell you that they had a reasonably good meeting with President Putin. We're going to find out. It's a war that should have never been started. It's a war. If I were president, we had a Rigged election. If I were president, that war would have never happened. It's a terrible thing. But I thought they had a very good meeting yesterday with President Putin. We'll see what happens. It's. You know, when I was in this office and I told you about no cards. I said, you have no cards. That was the time to settle. I thought that would have been a much better time to settle, but they. Their wisdom decided not to do that. They have a lot of things against them right now. But you have. President Putin had a very good meeting yesterday with Jared Kushner and with Steve Witkoff. What comes out of that meeting, I can't tell you because it does take two to tango. You know, Ukraine, I think we have something pretty well worked out with them. They're very satisfied, considering. But the sad part is, if I were president, no war would have ever happened. They would have had 100% of their territory. Nothing would have happened. It's a very sad situation. So think of this. Last month, 27,000 soldiers. 27. That's like you take a stadium, a football stadium, not an arena, and you cut it in half. 27,000 people died young. Mostly young soldiers died last month, in one month.

And that's the only reason I'm involved. You know, we're not spending any money in the war. We're sailing to NATO. We're not being ripped off like we were under Biden. Biden was handing everybody everything we had. Giving us. Giving them all the missiles, everything they wanted, free. No charge or just. He had no idea what he was doing. They're paying top dollar, full price for everything goes to NATO, and then NATO distributes it. NATO pays us. So we're not. It's not money. We would all. I think I can speak for everyone behind here. The politicians I know and the auto manufacturers are good people. They don't want to see 27,000 people die for no reason whatsoever. And that's the only reason I'm trying to help. Yeah, please. Mr. President, switching to Venezuela for a second. Have you checked back with President Maduro?

[John Rich]

I mean, is your pressure campaign working?

[Donald Trump]

And do you think.

[John Rich]

How is he responding to your demand.

[Donald Trump]

That he leave the country? It's not pressure campaign. It's much beyond that, I think. But I spoke to him briefly, just told him a couple of things. We'll see what happens with that. Venezuela sends us drugs, but Venezuela sends us people that they shouldn't be sending. They sent us. They emptied their prisons into our country. They sent us killers, murderers. They sent us drug dealers. At the highest level, they sent us gang members. They sent us people from their mental institutions. They emptied their mental institutions into our country.

And so did other countries because we had stupid people running this country. Really stupid people. And I think probably you had some stupid ones and you had some smart ones, but they were bad people, too, because nobody, not all of them, were stupid. You can't cheat on elections like they did and be stupid. Okay.

[John Rich]

You spoke with Mr. Witkoff and.

[Donald Trump]

With Mr. Cushman last night.

[Eric Bolling]

Last night.

[John Rich]

Did they give you the sense that President Putin still wants to end the.

[Eric Bolling]

War, still wants to make peace?

[Donald Trump]

He would like to end the war. That's what they. That was their impression. Now, whether or not, you know.

[John Rich]

That.

[Donald Trump]

Was their impression, you know, their impression was that they'd like to. He would like to see the war ended. I think I'd like to get back to dealing a more normal life. I think I'd like to be trading with the United States of America, frankly, instead of, you know, losing thousands of soldiers a week.

But their impression was very strongly that they'd like to make a deal. We'll see what happens. If it is found that survivors were.

[Eric Bolling]

Actually killed while clinging onto that boat.

[John Rich]

Should Secretary Hegseth, Admiral Bradley, or others.

[Donald Trump]

Be punished, I think you're going to find that this is war, that these people were killing our people by the millions. Actually, if you look over a few years, I think last year we lost close to 300,000 people were killed. That's not mentioning all the families. Have you seen what happens with the families of not only the people killed, the people that are trying to get their son or their daughter off of this poison that they've been fed, I think you're going to find that there's a very receptive ear to doing exactly what they're doing, taking out those boats. And very soon we're going to start doing it on land, too, because we know every route, we know every house, we know where they manufacture this crap. We know where they put it all together. And I think you're going to see it very soon on land also. Yeah.

[John Rich]

So to be clear, you support the decision to kill survivors after the.

[Donald Trump]

No, I support the decision to knock out the boats. And whoever is piloting those boats, most of them are gone. But whoever are piloting those boats, they're guilty of trying to kill people.

[Eric Bolling]

Smith, to ask about his investigation of you.

[Donald Trump]

I wondered for a deposition. I wondered if you'd prefer to see that as a hearing so that the.

[Eric Bolling]

American public can see the questions and the responses more easily.

[Donald Trump]

I'd rather see it probably at a hearing. You know, Jack Smith is a thug. He's a failed prosecutor. He's a bad man. He's a bad. He's an evil man. He hurt a lot of people. Forget about me, you know, I do this stuff, but I got indicted many times by a guy that. They were dismissed. He's a bad guy. He's a sick man. There's something wrong with him. Actually, I think Jack Smith is a sick man. There's something really wrong with him. I'd rather see him testify publicly because there's no way he can answer the questions. But Biden knew this was going along. Kamala knew it was going along. And there's a lot of things happening right now that they don't like. One of the things is the auto pen. Everything he signed, almost with the exception of the pardon of his wonderful son Hunter, just about everything he signed was not signed by him. He had no knowledge of it. He didn't know what it was. People sitting around the beautiful Resolute desk knew exactly what it was. And those people are guilty, in my opinion, of a major crime. Everything that was signed by that auto pan, he the man operating the auto pan. And I'm sure there are more than one because I think some of the people can operate it themselves. Some of the high level people operate it themselves. They would just go in and sign his name with an auto pen onto very important documents. Not only pardons, but policy, maybe CAFE standards. Okay, as an example, who signed cafe? If you asked Biden what's a CAFE standard, he would have absolutely no idea. He'd say, where is the CAFE located? The guy didn't know anything. Look, that just shows you what a rigged election can be, but you understand what I'm saying. Thank you.

You've had conversations. I did with Jensen.

[John Rich]

Right.

[Donald Trump]

So, smart man.

[John Rich]

In your conversations with him, have you kind of given a sense of where you are with export controls and the.

[Donald Trump]

Types of chips give to China? Sure. He knows. He knows very well. He's a. He's done an Amazing job. Nvidia. Very good. Yeah.

[Eric Bolling]

Mr. President, when do you expect for.

[Donald Trump]

Phase two of the Gaza peace to be implemented? Well, it's going along well. You know, they had a problem today, I understand, with a bomb that went off, hurt some people pretty badly, probably killed some people. They're telling me just happened, but it's going on very. We have peace in the Middle East. People don't realize it. We have tremendous support. 59 countries there's tremendous support. But we'll. Phase two is moving along here. It's going to happen pretty soon.

[John Rich]

Mr. President, did you speak with House Republican leadership about your decision to pardon Congressman Henry Cuellar? And are you concerned that you made a vulnerable Democrat, perhaps less vulnerable with that decision?

[Donald Trump]

It didn't matter. He was. He's a respected person. He was treated very badly because he said that people should not be allowed to pour into our country. And he was right. He didn't like open borders. He didn't like he was on the border. You know, he represents a very respected man. He represents the people on the border. And he saw what was happening. And as soon as he made that statement, I then said, I'll bet he gets indicted. And that's what happened. You know, I put out my truth from that. Well, I did a truth, wonderful truth. We love truth. But what happened is he got indicted for speaking the truth and his wife got indicted. Imelda. And that's sort of a first. Usually they leave the wives alone, don't they? Congressmen? Typically, they indict somebody, put him in jail for the rest of his life, but the wife can just sit home and cry or she'll find a new man. A lot of times they find a new man, it makes them much happier. In fact, a lot of times they like that man better than the one that's in jail.

[John Rich]

Mr. President, thank you.

[Eric Bolling]

The mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, is.

[Donald Trump]

Saying that he's actually proud to have.

[Eric Bolling]

The largest Somali community in the country.

[John Rich]

And his police chiefs.

[Donald Trump]

He's a fool.

[Eric Bolling]

Well, his police chief is also saying.

[Donald Trump]

He'S proud to have the largest Somalian. Look at their nation. Look how bad their nation is. It's not even a nation. It's just people walking around killing each other. Look, these Somalians have taken billions of dollars out of our country. They've taken billions and billions of them. They have a representative, Ilhan Omar, who they say married her brother. It's a fraud. She tries to deny it now, but you can't really deny it because, you know, it just happened. She shouldn't be allowed to be a congresswoman, and I'm sure people are looking at that. And she should be thrown the hell out of our country. And most of those people, they have destroyed Minnesota, okay? Minnesota, you have an incompetent governor. You have a crooked governor. He's crooked as hell, but he's incompetent.

Waltz is. He should be ashamed. That beautiful land, that beautiful state. It's a hellhole right now. And the Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She's always talking about the Constitution. Provides me with.

Go back to your own country and figure out your Constitution. All she does is complain about this country. Without this country, she would not be in very good shape. She probably wouldn't be alive right now. So Somalia is considered by many to be the worst country on earth. I don't know. I haven't been there. I won't be there anytime soon, I hope. But what Somalia, what the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It's not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack Hussein Obama because that's when people started coming in. And.

You have to have people come in that are going to love our country, cherish our country. They want to kiss our country good night. They talk about our country. We want them to pray for our country. This is not the people living in Minnesota. And she's a disaster. She should not be. And her friends shouldn't be allowed. Frankly, they shouldn't even be allowed to be congresspeople. Okay. They shouldn't even be allowed to be congresspeople because they don't represent the interests of our country. Anybody else?

The automakers spent billions on meeting the Biden Ed rule. Should they be able to recoup that somehow, given the change? And there's a question about the billing it.

I'm not letting them recoup. They're going to do just fine. You know how they recoup from this point forward, they'll do very well. Can you also talk about the USMCA and what you're thinking about renegotiating that with the automakers? Well, we're, you know, that's just an ongoing thing. It expires in about a year. And we'll either let it expire or we'll maybe work out another deal with Mexico and Canada. But.

Look, Mexico and Canada have taken advantage of the United States like just about every other country. In all fairness, it's not them. I'm not blaming them. But every country. Because we had stupid people running our country. We had a lot of stupid people running. That's why we have $38 trillion in debt. But the beautiful thing about the tariffs is we'll start paying off that debt. The money coming in. They're finding money in our country now that never knew existed the other day. $30 billion. Where did it come from? I said, why don't you check the tariff show? They said, sir, that tariff hasn't started yet. It doesn't start till January. I said, no, it started two months ago. They called back, sir, you're right, it was from tariffs. No, we have a whole different country. I hope the Supreme Court, I pray that the Supreme Court understands the importance of the sensible.

[Eric Bolling]

Really.

[Donald Trump]

I mean, this would be country threatening if something happened with regard to that. You know, the people that brought that case are bad people. They're very bad people. They hate our country. They represent foreign countries, including China, but they represent, and China is paying us a lot of money now in tariffs. But they represent people that really don't like our country much. And I know some of them and they're scum, in my opinion. They're scum, the absolute scum. And they're not suing for any good reason. They're just suing to see if they can stop it because they make money if this country does badly, you know, so. But we're taking in trillions of dollars, we're stopping wars, we have great national security because of tariffs. And then to think that we have have to even going to justify this, the reason a lot of these people, I can tell you this, maybe we would add the political people. We wouldn't have these people without tariffs. The people that are up here from Stellantis and Ford and General Motors, great companies, including this gentleman, right. They wouldn't be here today if we didn't have tariffs. They'd be building their plants in Mexico and other places. They're leaving Mexico and they're leaving Canada. They're leaving because they ripped off our country. They took our businesses away from us and now because of tariffs, they're all coming back. So it's a great thing. Thank you very much, everybody.

[John Rich]

Somalia, Mr. President.

[Eric Bolling]

All right, well, that was a, that was a pretty interesting little press conference there after Trump talked about rolling back some of the fuel efficiency standards that cost American producers, car producers, auto producers, so much money, so much. And it turns around, costs you more when we buy cars, cost them more to produce these cars with these ridiculous, ridiculous mandates and fuel standards. He rolled that back and then a lot of questions on all the things that are going on. So still got 32 minutes of show left. So let's have a little fun here. But in the meantime, Patriots for a limited time, Patriot Mobile running their red, white and blue Friday promotion, your once a year chance to get a free smartphone just for switching to America's only Christian conservative wireless Provider brand new phone absolutely free while supplies last. For over 12 years, Patriot Mobile has defended faith, family and freedom while giving you the same or better premium coverage on all three of the major U.S. cable networks. You know, the whole wireless networks all around the country, three of them, major ones, unlimited data, mobile hotspots, international roaming. They do it all when you switch and never sacrifice quality or service. Hundreds of thousands have joined the movement because every bill supports the first Amendment, the second amendment and the sanctity of life. And our veterans and first responders, switching is easy. Keep your phone number, keep your phone or upgrade either or both to that free smartphone today. By the way, they have a 100 US based team that can activate you in just minutes. Go to patriot mobile.com there's an E at the end of mobile patriot mobile.com rav or call 972 Patriot and use promo code RAV. Don't wait this limited time. The offer won't last. That's patriot mobile.com rav or call 972 Patriot with promo code RAV okay, join me. Make the switch today. Okay. The amount of pandering done by the Democrat party is truly astounding. The lengths they're going this week, just this week, going out of their way to defend corrupt criminals who gouge the system for future votes. Pretty, pretty damning on their part. Not only is Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry digging for those votes by vowing to disrupt ice. Interesting, right? He also does so. Oh, in another language.

[John Rich]

That's not American. That's not what we are about. And we're going to do right by.

[Eric Bolling]

Every single person in our cities. And so to our Somali community. Daman Shabka, Somalia Kunul, Minnesota. Garahan, Minneapolis Wahon Kuji Jenila High wan coup.

[John Rich]

Gareb Taganahan.

[Eric Bolling]

Are you kidding me? Speak English. Are you nuts? This is the problem right here. They pander. These the Somali group that just stole a billion dollars from Minnesota. This is who you're pandering to, Mr. Mayor, apparently pointing out a crime carried out by a large group of people of the same descent is racist. So dozens of Somali residents defraud the taxpayers to the tune of a billion dollars. And whose fault is it? Somalis? Tampon, Tim Walls, the governor of Minnesota.

[Donald Trump]

Oh, no, no, no, no.

[Eric Bolling]

Trump's fault.

[John Rich]

Our president is racist, xenophobic, Islamophobic and we are going to fight that. America has a history of fighting and stopping those kind of individuals who continue to divide people and divide communities.

[Eric Bolling]

So all these people came over. They don't assimilate to the American way of life. They do things the way they do in Somalia, which is a rogue country. We talked about it yesterday. Trump pointed out today, they have no government there. There's no law and order in Somalia. So they come over unvetted, likely, and go do the same crap that they do over there. But when they get caught stealing a billion dollars from taxpayers, Trump's fault.

[John Rich]

Wow.

[Eric Bolling]

That is truly derangement syndrome. Clearly, having learned nothing, Tampon Tim Walls has announced a new way for Minnesota. Open up the fraud gates. It's a paid family and medical leave program. Oh, and you guessed it, it's open to undocumented workers insurance program for you.

[John Rich]

That allows you, again, to take care.

[Donald Trump]

Of what you need to take care of without being forced to choose between.

[John Rich]

Your family, your bonding with your child, your own health, and your economic well being. Because in Minnesota, you can do both. And we proved that time and time.

[Eric Bolling]

So they're not learning. And this is my point, and I said it yesterday, Republicans, you got to get some colonies here. They're just not learning what they're doing. They're literally watching the clock, waiting for Trump to not be president anymore because they're doing the same crap that they've been doing. They're doing the same crap that got them smoked in the 2024 election. They're just hoping next time around, it's not President Trump in there anymore or someone like him, and they're going to be able to just revert back to all the same garbage that they did. Boys and girls, locker rooms, give away everything.

Have the. The makers pay for all the takers, all the stuff we give them, and let the illegals who come over here run roughshod across the country. They're. They're changing the country way too fast. I think Trump needs to focus on domestic policy now. Forget Venezuela, forget all this crap outside work on the United States here. Close our borders, throw them out, and stop with this crap. And this mayor speaking Somali. Really? A couple of days after we find out Somali stole a billion dollars from his city and state. And then. Tampon Tim. Wow, New York City Mayor elect. Speaking of that, socialist communist Zoran Mamdani has made no secret the fact that he not only intends to keep the Big Apple firmly planted as a sanctuary city, but he intends to push taxpayer resources towards helping illegals continue to invade this country. So, of course, he doesn't think removing them is a very good idea.

[Donald Trump]

When I met with the president, I made very clear that these kinds of raids are cruel and inhumane. That they are raids that do nothing to serve the interests of public safety. And that my responsibility is to be the mayor to each and every person that calls this city their home. And that includes millions of immigrants, of which I am one.

[Eric Bolling]

See folks, for the regular viewers of Bowling here in Ravi, when. When Mandani met with Trump in the Oval Office, was it last week or the week before? And they came out, they came out right about 4:15 during the middle of the show. We were live and I was dumbfounded. I almost couldn't speak. I was trying to figure out what the hell I just saw. Because put a communist in the Oval Office back in the day to get thrown out. I thought there's an opportunity to toss his butt out in front of the global media. He didn't. He was very warm to Mamdani. And I literally said this. I said, because Mannami is going to use that meeting, he's going to use that meeting. See what he just did? He literally used the meeting like they were buddies. Him and Trump were buddies. And you know, I'm going to be the guy who's standing up to Trump because I went to the Oval Office and stood arm in arm with the President, United States. It was, I believe it was a mistake. I'm sorry, you're going to light me up online. I don't care. It was a mistake to have Madani in the Oval Office and not throw his ass out. Democrat Party just brings race into absolutely everything. Former MSNBC host Crystal Ball. I actually know that's not even her real name. That's her fake name. I do know her personally. Crystal Ball. K R Y S T A L can't possibly imagine why anyone who's not white would join ICE to help remove those who came into this country illegally.

[John Rich]

Something else you said you'd had it with are minorities in ice. I mean that connects to this, right?

[Donald Trump]

Yeah.

[John Rich]

Not only do you have no moral compass and how many times have you seen these guys, they've got their masks on so you can't see their whole face, but what you can see, it's like a brown skin tone and a dude who looks like his last name is probably like Lopez or Hernandez or something. It's like, what is, what is wrong with you? Not only do you not have morality, apparently you don't have self preservation. I mean, this is. These people hate you. They hate you. They hate your family, they hate your kids, they hate your future grandkids. You don't think you belong here. You're not A quote unquote heritage American. You're never going to belong. And you're the one implementing the violent force against your own community. I just can't wrap my head around.

[Eric Bolling]

That typical liberal talking head. She has no idea what the hell she's talking about. They're breaking the law. They come over, they break the law, expect to be tossed out. That's the way it should be. As the country gets more and more dangerous, as mayors of our major cities are speaking Somali days after we find out Somali stole a billion dollars from the taxpayer, pandering to them. This is what's wrong with the Democrat Party. This is what's going to be wrong with the country if we don't get our act together. Conservatives, Republicans, independents, libertarians, get your crap together. It's pretty clear that late night television has nothing to do at all to do with entertainment anymore or comedy anymore. Colbert, Kimmel. Just a revolving door of politicians and endless leftist propaganda being fed to us as viewers, another arm of the Democrat Party. So Colbert decides to have Democrat New Jersey governor elect Mickey Sheryl on so they can cuddle in a cloud of Trump derangement syndrome.

[John Rich]

Political experts call have a term for it. It's called a curb stomping. Donald Trump was one of the reasons.

[Donald Trump]

Why you ran for Congress in 2018.

[John Rich]

You've, you know, you saw the crisis of the moment. And what does resisting his agenda look like to you now that you be a governor of a state?

[Donald Trump]

You know, I'm glad you're sitting down. You might not know this.

[John Rich]

Some people are losing their jobs because they're speaking out against the President of the United States.

[Eric Bolling]

Yeah, can't get that guy off the air fast enough. Gavin Newsom clearly somehow feeling pretty good about his chances in 2028. So much so that he's got some odd fancy little hand gestures and movements to go along with it when he's talking about all the winning he thinks he has ahead of him. I feel it's interesting.

[Donald Trump]

I. We've had, I've been on a journey.

[Eric Bolling]

Like most people, feeling great, feeling stressed, feeling doubtful the last two days. I don't know what it is. I think it's so maybe the dust.

[John Rich]

Settling after Madison's back on it.

[Eric Bolling]

See, now that went kind of a roller coaster. But something's happened the last few days.

[Donald Trump]

And I'm telling you, that Des Moines.

[Eric Bolling]

Register poll, I mean, I don't know. I don't expect Iowa necessarily going in.

[John Rich]

The blue column, but it says something.

[Eric Bolling]

To me that is of outsized importance, potentially in terms of the outcome of this race. So I'm feeling honestly much better than I was even 24 hours ago. And young men, where Trump has put so much time and energy and sort of the broke culture, everything else, they don't vote at those numbers. And I think suburban women, women generally, and I think it's reflected perhaps in that poll. There's something going on. Hey, Gavin, it doesn't matter how much hand movement you do, you still haven't done anything, Never in California. Remember, you're going to solve the homeless crisis when you were mayor of, of San Francisco. Well, you didn't. It got worse. And look at L. A, look at the streets. It's horrible. Okay, now you're governor. This, the state is devolving into a communist hellhole. Mr. Gavin, move your hands all you want. Doesn't make your, your scoreboard any better. Finally, just to remind us all of the crisis we averted and also remind everyone that Democrats, many of them top level politicians in this country, by the way, insisted for a long time that Joe Biden was not only a capable president, but could actually run again. Here he is at an event last month.

All right, folks, that was it, by the way. This is big. This is. I know. You've been amazing. Tomorrow we're going to release episode 11 of the Edge. 11 weeks on YouTube is amazing. Includes a moment I honestly didn't see coming. Tito Ortiz. Awesome, awesome. Talks about rivalries, a relationship from years ago and what it takes for a man to own where he's been and who he's become. I won't spoil it. Major, major announcement he made exclusive. But if you know the UFC world, you know exactly who he's talking about. It's raw, it's real and impossible to forget. This is what the Edge is. Men telling the truth, without filters, without fear. The episode drops tomorrow, 10am Search Eric Bowling the Edge on YouTube or just go right there, take your camera, aim it at that QR code. It'll come up. You press it, you'll subscribe. I really, really need the subscriptions because it tells YouTube how fast we're growing. We're becoming a movement. A platform is becoming a movement. I thank you for subscribing YouTube.com EricBulling the Edge YouTube.com EricBulling the edge. Your subscription matters. Thank you for your viewership. Thank you for your support, and especially thank you to subscribe now or go to YouTube. Eric bowling the edge. We'll be back. Two and a half minutes.

[Donald Trump]

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[Eric Bolling]

All right, let's bring in a good friend of mine, multi platinum artist, songwriter, citizen advocate, who will not stand on the sidelines and watch while our children are being trafficked. He's written a new song and video which shines a light on the horrific epidemic of child trafficking. The new song is called the Righteous Hunter. I'm happy to have back on the show my good friend John Rich. Really, really, really, really good to have you. You know what? Let's do this. Can we just hear control? Let's play a little, little sound bite of the song real quick, if you don't mind.

[Donald Trump]

Evil runs around this town under cover looking for souls to take but they.

[John Rich]

Better stay away from the righteous, huh her hell is all they'll pay cuz I can see you around the corner and I know you're coming if you had any sense you'd run.

But you ain't got a clue what a daddy will do. Better give your soul to Jesus while.

[Donald Trump]

I get my gun?

[John Rich]

You better give your soul to Jesus when I get my gun.

[Eric Bolling]

All right, John. Awesome. Awesome. What a voice. Wow. What a voice. John the Righteous Hunter, a gripping song video which really gives us an inside look at what goes on with child traffickers. You actually wrote this song in response to a speech by Diddy Combs during which he said, we control what your kids listen to. Tell us a little bit about the inspiration and. And you know, your thoughts behind the emotion behind it.

[John Rich]

Yeah. Well, it seems as though the enemy of children and the people that wish them harm and.

Rain down wickedness upon them are all too eager to stand in front of a camera in the spotlights and declare their control and their power and their ownership. Even as Sean Combs stated of our kids, and as a dad myself, I saw him say that, and I said, oh, is that right? Really, Sean Combs, you're declaring your ownership of my two sons and everybody else's sons and daughters? I don't think so. And so I felt that that needed to have a rebuttal. You know, Sean Combs uses his music as a weapon. They use it to program you. They use it to put thoughts in their minds and lifestyles and influence them away from God, away from righteousness. And they're very effective at it. And I think that's why you see a lot of the problems in our culture today that you see comes from the side of music and people like Sean Combs and a lot of others. So I sat down with my guitar and wrote a song from the perspective of a dad to the predator, directly to them and said, why don't you try it one time? Why don't you see what the wrath of an American parent would be like? If you ever actually stepped into my yard and came inside my house and tried to take one of my kids. And that led to this song, the Righteous Hunter, because we call them predators and that's what they are. And what do you do with a predator? What would you do if a. If an animal that was a predator came into your yard, came into your house, broke through a window, came inside your house and threatened your kids? What would you do? You would do anything it took to protect your family. And that's how I view myself. And I think most American moms and dads view themselves that way. Even the most mild mannered man or woman would become the most vicious opponent you've ever faced. Could you ever try to harm one of their children? And I had never heard a song written about this. But the problem is so pervasive in America. Eric. The DHS reported that in 12 months, 36 million reports were filed with the DHS from parents saying their child had been targeted online by sexual predators. 36 million in a year. So that's averaging 3 million a month. The problem is so massive. There is no law enforcement, there is no. There is no entity in the federal government big enough to really handle a problem like that. It has to be handled by the parents. And the main way you handle that is to make sure your kids are defended against them. You make your kids a hard target. You know, they're grabbing Americ through these. They're grabbing them through their iPads, they're grabbing them through the video games, they're grabbing them through the apps. And there are very simple ways that parents can actually defend their kids. They can build a circle of defense around their online activity. It's very simple. I sat with the DHS and did a 90 minute seminar with one of their lead agents. And he walks through, step by step by step, how parents can, very simply, within about five minutes, make their children into what this agent Referred to as a hard target instead of a soft target. And if anybody wants to watch that, any parent watching this, it's very simple. Go on YouTube, type in John Rich, DHS. That's all you got to do. And there's a 90 minute seminar that I urge everyone to watch.

[Eric Bolling]

Indeed. And you've talked about this before. This is a mission. It's an honorable mission. John. It's awesome what you're doing. I understand this a little because not only is a song phenomenal, very emotional video attached to it. Tell us about the making of that.

[John Rich]

So we wanted to make a video around the righteous hunter that accurately depicted the chain of events that take place when a child is trafficked. And the most disturbing part of the video is when you see adults purchasing children and getting ready to have their way with these kids after they hand the money over. And we know it's accurate because we had people in the room that sting predators for a living. They go all over the United States. They set them up, they knock them down, they send them to jail. We had them in the room and I said, if anything about this scene is not accurate, step in front of the camera and say cut and we will stop and you tell us what's not right about it. And that actually happened two or three times. And they finally said, okay, this scene is now accurate. The lady that actually led that supervision was trafficked herself when she was a kid and has now overseen the rescue of over 14,000 kids in the past 21 years. I mean, this lady, her name is Brooke, she's an absolute hero, warrior, champion. She was in the room. We were taking our cues from her. This video currently is on X just at John Rich. If you want to watch the whole thing, it's pinned at the top of my page. I would love for you to look at it. Even though it's hard to look at, Eric, parents need to look at it. That's part of the reason why tens of millions of predators have no fear of coming after our kids. Because it's so disturbing. Parents don't want to even acknowledge that it's happening. They just go, no, no, no, I don't want to look at that. I don't want to look at that. I want to pretend like it's not happening, but it is happening and it's happening on mass scale. So it is important to watch that video and engage.

[Eric Bolling]

It's emotional and the video is emotional. And then you're, you're singing the undertone of your singing that with that passion. It's It's. It's why it gives me chills listening to it. Sean Ryan, decorated military man, stars in it. Is that right? Is that right? That. That's fascinating. The big. He's got a massive podcast now. He wanted to get involved with you.

[John Rich]

Yeah. So I did his podcast, and nobody'd ever sang a song on the Sean Ryan show before. And I had a guitar, of course, Eric, you know me, I've always got a guitar nearby. And I said, hey, Sean, has anybody ever sang a song on your podcast? He said, no. I said, can I sing one? He goes, yeah, absolutely. And I said, this is the song. It's not been released. I'm not exactly sure what to do with it, but I'd love to know what your audience thinks. And so I pulled out the guitar and I played the Righteous Honor. And the response was unreal. It was millions of views on that little acoustic three minute performance. And everybody that saw it said, you have to put this out. You have to. And so I called up Sean and I said, we got to put the song out. Would you be the dad in the video? Now that's if you know Sean Ryan at all. That's really outside of his comfort zone. He's not a. He's not a music video guy. He's a former Navy seal. That's not really what he does. But he said, you know what? Yes, I'll be the dad. So you're looking at the video there. That Sean Ryan, it's his daughter that has been taken in this video. And he does not know what to do. He's praying. He's begging God to bring his child back to him. And then you see what happens at the end where the girl is rescued and brought back to her father.

[Eric Bolling]

And.

[John Rich]

But the sad statistic is less than 1% of kids who are trafficked in America are ever returned to their parents. That's the actual, actual stat. It's unbelievable.

[Eric Bolling]

Unbelievably horrible. Horrific, horrific numbers. You had a couple other actors.

I believe a music manager played the villain.

[John Rich]

Yeah. So that's Cheese Brown. So he's managed Motley Crue and Guns N Roses. And he's like a Hall of Fame rock manager, but he has a true heart for kids. And when he heard this song, he said, you can use my place. We actually shot the video at his property here in Tennessee. And he plays the bad guy, which he did not want to do. I mean, who would want to be that? But he said, I have the look. He said, I look like a bad guy. But I'm a good guy, but I'll do it. This is important. And so he stepped in and played the villain. And then Jeffrey Steele is the undercover agent in the video. And Jeffrey Steele is a hall of fame songwriter. Jeff, Jeffrey Steele's written about 60 number one songs in Nashville, and he agreed to be the undercover agent. And Eric, I gotta tell you, when we were shooting that scene, when the kids walk out in front of these men, they all started bawling their eyes out. I mean, bawling. And we had to stop. And Brooke, who was our supervisor there, who stings these kinds of bad guys, she said, guys, you're gonna have to. You're gonna have to smile. You're gonna have to look like you're ready to have a party and smoke cigars, have cocktails. I mean, she said, when I was trafficked, they would walk me into these rooms with these other kids, and these guys are like, high five. And each other pointing at the one they wanted. I want her. No, I'll flip you for it. I mean, like a game.

[Eric Bolling]

Wow. It's.

[John Rich]

Yes, that's how, that's how degenerate.

[Eric Bolling]

It's almost like.

[John Rich]

Degenerate and demonic.

[Eric Bolling]

This is like, almost like a horror movie. How awful. Atrocious. This, this activity. And it's happening right in. Right on our noses across America. John, this, this video, this, this song and this video. I'm guessing you're gonna rack up tons of awards for that and, and just proud to be able to share this moment with you as. As it gets released. Sean, we only about a minute or so. I'd just love to talk to you about the other organization that you're involved with. Oh, the Old Glory Bank. It's. What a wonderful banking institution. Conservatives can go there and feel comfortable about things. I'll give you a minute to tell us a little bit about Old Glory.

[John Rich]

Yeah, I appreciate that. Yeah. It's a. It's a bank that Ben Carson, Larry Elder, myself, governor Mary Fallon of Oklahoma, and a bunch of big bank guys who left the woke baking industry because we said we got to have a bank that can't turn off Patriots accounts when they say or do something they don't like. And so the whole premise behind the bank is you will never be penalized for exercising your constitutional rights. What a concept. But unfortunately, in these days, we have to have that. It's doing very well. It's. Oh, glorybank.com. you can open an account in about eight minutes. I believe you have an account there. Of course I do. And A lot of Americans are gravitating over to Old Glory bank today. It's, it's doing really well.

[Eric Bolling]

You are 100, right? Except for one thing. It only took me about five minutes to open my account online. It was like that, very, very fast and great. And I love the fact that you had tip crypto. You don't shy away from it. You embrace it. And it's love having, love having the account there and love having you on. John Rich, really, really appreciate your time. Thank you for fighting for America's children.

[John Rich]

I appreciate it, sir. Thanks for having me on.

[Eric Bolling]

All right folks, we will be back two and a half minutes.

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[Eric Bolling]

All right folks, the markets fluctuating. Crypto going down, up, down everywhere. Where should people invest? Birch Gold Group Precious metals specialist Phil Patrick is back to discuss. Philip, I have to point out over the last couple of weeks now, crypto dropped 35% from the high. Bounces back a little, still about 27% off the high. Massive liquidation lost 33% of its value in a day or two or week maybe. Gold has been a steady player ever since. What do you attribute that to?

[John Rich]

Look, it's been a wild ride. You're correct. A ton of volatility in the crypto market. We saw almost a billion dollars in leveraged crypto bets wiped out and I think in a 24 hour. That's on top of the $19 billion liquidation cascade we saw in early October. Bitcoin now I think down about 10% year to date. The lower tier altcoins, the bottom half of the top 100 down about 70%. For me, this isn't a random sell off. I think it's the unwinding of hidden leverage that built up during the years when everything was rallying aggressively. I think traders now finally admitting that they don't know how much leverage is in the financial system. The exchanges don't disclose that data. What know is at least 4.6 billion has abandoned bitcoin over the last week or so. For me the issue is that when liquidity tightens as it is. The most speculative assets get hit first. And I think that's what we're starting to see. This may be the canary.

[Eric Bolling]

It's very important we just said the most speculative assets tend to get hit. And they do. They do. In the history of trading, I'm doing this for 30 years. The most speculative do get hit the hardest. And I have to note that gold never really took the hit that the crypto and some of the other speculative assets have taken over the last couple of weeks. That is really, it's come of age. Gold has become a really, really solid asset as a hedge against bad things happen in the economy.

[John Rich]

It's absolutely correct. Look, I started my career in banking and I started my career thinking gold had become a relic. And I think what we've seen over the last five years, 10 years, it's consistent movement up this century. Gold is one of the best performing assets. It's outperformed most other indices. So it was a reminder to myself and I think the markets in general, gold's place as a monetary asset is still here. Central banks are setting records because the dollar's tilting and I think that will continue very quickly.

[Eric Bolling]

About 30 seconds or so. Philip the dollar continued this weak tear on the way down that was always supportive to markets like gold.

[John Rich]

It's absolutely correct. Gold in the dollar inverse. When the dollar goes down, gold goes up. We're also seeing very concerning things, right? Interest rates going down, debt service going up. That's a sign that the problem and they are hedging their exposure with gold. I see it continuing. Last Fiscal quarter was the single biggest quarter for central bank gold buying in history. They are buying at current prices.

[Eric Bolling]

Gotta go, my friend. But I would tell you it's a $27 trillion market really come of age. Philpatrick, thank you so much. And folks, we will this is the.

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