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Eric Bowling
This is an iHeart podcast.
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Brian Glenn
Guaranteed Human.
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Eric Bowling
There it is. Four o'. Clock. Market is closing in the corner of Broad and Wall in New York City. Four o'. Clock. All right, let's go over the numbers. Got some good news across the board. Dow 49. Five just getting so close to 50,000. Never been there before. All time high right below it. It's the S and P. It'll be highest settlement ever. 69.78 ballpark. It almost hit 7069. 85 or 86 was the high. Nasdaq up as well. Gold. What I say every day, every day we come in here, it gold. If it goes down, it goes down 5, 10. It's up $11 an ounce. One ounce up $111 today. Two and a half percent in one day. Oil up a couple of cents. Nothing crazy. Crypto market. I think what's happening is all the focus is on gold and silver. Silver at one point was up 6, $7 an ounce. Say so I think all the emphasis is on gold and silver. Right now this is all speculative or hedging kind of assets and they can't figure out the right place to put it. Right now it's been gold. When that slows down, it turns down. Watch all that money flow out of the the metals right into crypto. Sway where they work. It's what they been doing this my whole life. I know all about this. So there's your market. Pretty good across the board folks. By the way, a new administration, Washington D.C. has brought positive changes when it comes to fixing our broken health care system. But the reality is there's only so much any government can do, anyone can do as long as their government. Making America Healthy Again starts right at home with each and every one of us. That's where the Wellness Company comes in. You see and hear from TWC doctors all the time on this network and you know their products are the gold standard for keeping you and your family safe and healthy. Wellness Company helps you prepare for whatever happens with their prescription medical kits which include life saving medications, easy to follow guidebooks for proper use. They also offer a wide range of products from Ivermectin and Methylene blue to weight loss solutions and more. All designed to help you stay healthy and live a longer, more satisfying life. Make America Healthy Again starts right at home folks. Do your part, protect the health of you and your family. Go to TWC Health Voice and order today. Use the promo code Voice V I C E and save 10%. That's a good deal right there. All Right, folks, as you know, our border correspondent Oscar L. Blue Ramirez is being watched by the cartel for his clear, no nonsense reporting right here on rav. Well, we have since started RAV Espanol where we connect with our Spanish speaking audience. One of our RAV Espanol hosts also has had the cartel after him for more than 14 years. He now lives in the United States. But that that didn't stop the cartel from showing up at his old home where in Venezuela and interrogating the people that live there. Now, here to give us the latest on the cartel scare and their tactics is RAV border correspondent Oscar Ramirez and RAV Espanol host, Raymond Azar tonight. Raymond, thank you gentlemen. Thank you for being here. Raymond. If I may start with you, sir. So you were Venezuelan? Lived in Venezuelan for 14 years. Tell us, you know, what sparked you leaving Venezuela. I really want to get into this cartel, you know, knocking, looking for you after you'd already left. Go ahead.
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John Jubilee
Okay.
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Raymond Azar
Well, I was born in Caracas, but my purity for if you want to tell on that way I was living in Margarita Island.
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Eric Bowling
Beautiful.
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Raymond Azar
Then when I grow up, I study there and all this stuff. I start to do a lot of things as a journalist. And I started investigations against some people of the government in that moment. When I was like in 20 years was the nightmare begin for me. So that was the main reason when I have to leave Venezuela and came to the United States. But when I was I start my life here, I keep going as a journalist doing all my diligence against Maduro's regime and Chavez regime. Literally both are the same. They are a drug cartel. They come after a lot of people. Right now everybody knows what is going on there, what President Trump do, who is very good for all the Venezuelan, for all the Latin American and the whole hemisphere. Because the problem with Venezuela right now, we have in Venezuela, not just the cartel, we have Hezbollah, we have Hamas, we have all that terrorist groups on the backyard of the United States. So finally there's a president here who, who do the right thing to save their own people of the United States and even the whole world. On Saturday, Eric, I just received a call for the people who are living right now in my old house. Well, the intelligence group of Venezuela, of the Maduro regime went to that house. Take that old lady and her husband. I'm talking about people almost 80 years, okay? They take them for hours asking me if we have some relationship, if was just a commercial relationship. They asking even for my bank account number to see exactly what is my address. Here in the United States. So if you say something against the Maduro regime and you are outside, out of Venezuela, doesn't care. They already killed two people outside of Venezuela. One in Chile and the other one in Spain and nobody says anything.
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Eric Bowling
Yeah, yeah, hang on, let me bring Oscar And Oscar. This sounds familiar, doesn't it? When you're, when you're home, you had your Mexican cartels knocking on your neighborhood door on your, on your gate. Also when you're on the border with Colombia, you had a motorcycle, I guess Venezuelan cartel members and they warned you, don't step foot back into Venezuela. You stay on the Colombian side of the border. You feel the same way?
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Oscar L. Blue Ramirez
Well, it's exactly the same way. You know, it's a copy paste of how the organized crime in the cartel operates. But it's specifically talking about the regime of Maduro. This is what they have been doing for, you know, for years. They have been oppressing the population, you know, disappearing journalists, torturing the journalists in a prison that is called Elicoide. They persecute and they go after the people that they're fighting them. And Real America's Voice news has been hitting the nerve of specifically this regime. And it is something fishy that all of a sudden when they are seeing the program and Raymond being the host of his own show and Rav and Espanol, all of a sudden they went to his address in Margarita and started asking questions and oppressing these elderly people. They're 80 plus years old, Eric. You gotta be kidding me. Asking them questions. He is at, you know, his bank accounts, all of these situations. This is the way the Maduro regime operates. And this is the reason why Donald Trump cannot stop from cleaning Venezuela. You still have a lot of bad people that they're running that regime and there's still a lot of work to do.
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Eric Bowling
So Raymond, is this true? Is it, is the. Obviously Maduro's in jail in New York somewhere, but is the regime, is the infrastructure still in place that supports Maduro or are they finally realizing this is the future of Venezuela?
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Raymond Azar
Well, Maduro was, I think that the soft piece on that group, you know, they have Yozdao Cabello who is literally the more dangerous because he's the one who has the guns on the streets in a place who. We don't have a second amendment, by the way. So he has people, civilians with guns, trying to get into the other civilians. If you say something about what happened last week, Eric, you are okay with that? For example, they are coming for you. They are coming for Your family. Now they are saying to the United States, well, we are releasing like 100 political prisoners. But they are releasing 100, but they are get arrested like a 200. So the situation in Venezuela exactly the same right now is, I think it's more dangerous. Like I said, they are coming for me and I have more than 14 years away from, from Venezuela.
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Eric Bowling
Are you concerned, Are you worried about them coming for you here in the United States?
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Raymond Azar
Well, they, they already do that with a guy who tried to get a rebellion against them. He was in Chile, in his home, and they came after him at night. Everything is on video. By the way, they take him and the police in Chile find him like a week later dead. So they can do a lot of things out of Venezuela. There's a lawyer here who, the name is John de la Vega, and he asked to the State Department to do an investigation against one of the sons of one of the Chavismo governors. He was right here in the States playing on the soccer team from Venezuela. And the next day here in Miami, Eric, he find a huge letter siding his car saying, you are committing a mistake. We are coming for you. La furia Bolivariana in English. Looks like we are the force of the Chavismo.
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Eric Bowling
So, Oscar Wood, who should take over Venezuela when we finally, when Trump finally says, okay, you guys are set now, is it Machado? Is it? Is it? Who is it? Who's the right person who has the respect of the people that it's not going to revert right back to corrupt cartels plate, you know, government plaything.
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Oscar L. Blue Ramirez
Well, Venezuelan people, they have more, you know, of the opinion of who can take over, you know, was the one that won the elections. The elections have been stolen and not only this election, the past election also was stolen from, from the people of Venezuela. First and foremost, Donald Trump needs to take control, needs to extract immediately the Rosado Cabello, Padrino Lopez, and needs to put Del C. Rodriguez in her place. This is another person.
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Eric Bowling
Let me jump into both of you guys very quickly. Only about two minutes ago. Give me a minute each on what was that? Seemed like the wrong person to put in. Rodriguez seemed like the absolute wrong person to put it. But go ahead, Oscar, you first and then Raymond.
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Oscar L. Blue Ramirez
Well, Raymond can tell you this. You know, he lived under this regime for so many years. But Dempsey Rodriguez is not the one that should be leading the population of Venezuela. As a matter of fact, Venezuelans are upset that she is right now in power. Let's see what happens and let's see what changes. I don't know who it is the right person to be in power. But the thing is that the Trump administration needs to go in there and extract these individuals immediately so they can give the peace to the Venezuelan people.
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Eric Bowling
Dulcie Rodriguez, Raymond, any chance she comes around and sees, sees God, so to speak, or see Trump, Trump and gets herself uncorrupt.
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Raymond Azar
I understand the position of the President Trump because Maria Machado doesn't have the respect of the militaries, not, not of the people. The problem is right now with the, is the, with the groups with guns, you know, so that's the main problem. I think he do very dangerous, but a smart move. So we have to wait. We have to be patient. We have to, we already wait 26 years. So we need to see what's, and what's going, what's going on right now. And then we, I know with the President Trump, we can finally, we can get the free elections in Venezuela.
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Eric Bowling
There you go. We're going to leave it right there. Thank you both, by the way. Both of you guys. Please, please be careful. Thank you. To RAV border correspondent Oscar L. Blue Ramirez and Raymond Azar, host of the Raymond Azar Tonight show, which airs Monday through Friday, 9:00pm Eastern, right here on RAV. Thank you, folks.
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Raymond Azar
Thank you, Eric.
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Eric Bowling
Stay safe, guys. All right, let me give you some numbers, because numbers don't lie. People lie. Numbers don't lie. The Edge launched just over three months ago. No network affiliation, no algorithm help, no corporate push. And already we've crossed 300,000 views, more than 14,000 watch hours, more than 8,500 subscribers who actually stay. That doesn't happen in business. Most new channels die in silence on YouTube. But this one didn't. Why? Because the Edge isn't built for the algorithm. It's built for the people who live under pressure, who thrive where others barely survive. Former pro athletes, traders, founders. Men who know what it feels like when the clock is running and excuses are running out. That's why guests like Brett Favre, Patrick Beth, David, and top ESPN executives are showing up week after week. If you haven't seen the show yet, now's the time. Search Eric Bowling the Edge on YouTube. You can go to YouTube.com Eric Bowling. Watch one episode, you'll understand in about five minutes why this isn't just another show. It's turning into something a lot bigger. Eric Bowling on YouTube. Make sure you have Bowling and Edge in the same one. Or just aim your CAT camera right at that QR code. Hit. Subscribe. We are growing. We want you with us. I thank you for your support here at Rev on the bowling show and I thank you for your support by subscribing right now. Thank you so much. Back two and a half minutes.
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Brian Glenn
I.
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Nicole Goode
Was at my doctor's office. I was in a bad state of depression. She said, annette, you're going to have to lose weight. I started out in November at £194. My final check in weight the other day was 135.4. Talk about pant size. I am constantly going out and buying new pants. I feel great. It is so doable, it's so sustainable, it's so simple. So yes, I am so grateful, so thankful.
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Eric Bowling
You know, we often hear about the physical effects of obesity. There are many, many health related effects to obesity. But what about the emotional toll? Here to give us some insight is founder of Energized Health, John Jubilee. John, how closely are obesity really in depression? Obesity and depression, they're pretty connected.
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John Jubilee
Well, it really is, yeah. Eric, you'll be shocked by this statistic. But of all of your viewers that are watching right now, if they're in a major city, it's one out of three. Anywhere in America, one out of four people are on a mood altering medication for depression, for anxiety or anything within that family. So it really is an epidemic. So just like we have about 7 out of 10 people struggling with their weight again, the numbers are 25 to 35% of people. The connection is, is undeniable. You know, there absolutely is a physiological connection between anxiety, depression and our health. And so that's why, you know, we teach that true mind, body, spirit connection. It's not like a cool phrase. It really is science, Eric, that those are all connected.
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Eric Bowling
You know, John, I was invited to the, to Robert F. Kennedy's Maha event summit last week. And I think it was, I think it was Dr. Oz who's talking about. No, it was Ben Carson, Dr. Ben Carson saying that years ago a doctor would see a juvenile diabetes patient once in an entire career. Now it's like 30% of their, their child. The pediatric practice is diabetes. How fat are we becoming as a nation?
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John Jubilee
Well, yes, the young people. You know, this is probably the most alarming thing is, you know, it's one thing as an adult, right. But yeah, when you see childhood obesity rates and what's happening there, yeah, it's an epidemic. We've never seen anything like it in history. And a lot of that's because the kids are all, they're on their video games, they're on Their phones, they're not getting out and playing like we did when I was growing up, right? Like nobody ever heard of spending six hours a day on your phone or sitting in front of a computer or playing all these games that they have now, but all of these things. The good news is, Eric, I want to give people some hope today, which is, look, a problem is a problem, but there's always a solution. There is a solution to every problem. So you know, if your oil is low on your car, you go get your oil fixed. If your muffler breaks, you go get it fixed. There's a solution to the problem. And the good News is, for 29 years at Energized Health, we are the solution. So whether you have depression, you have anxiety, you have, you have a health issue, or you just want to lose unhealthy weight and get healthy from the inside out, this really is a solution. And more importantly, like you heard this lady share, look. Now imagine, Eric, that's a woman that lost almost 60 pounds of fat in just 88 days on our 88 day protocol and got rid of her depression. So her focus was let's get rid of the depression. But the side effect was she lost 60 pounds of fat. But I would encourage people that it's not enough guys to do a New Year's resolution or to think about it. You have to take an action step and we make it so simple. Just get on a free phone call. It's a free phone call, so it'll take you about 5 minutes to click in on the Internet, book your call, get on with one of our coaches and take your action steps so your solution can be yours.
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Eric Bowling
Yeah, I heard she lost £300 too. Right after the 665 she got rid of that fat husband of hers. Just kidding, John. We'll see you next time. John Jubilee Founder, Energized Health. Appreciate your time, my friend.
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John Jubilee
Thank you, brother.
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Eric Bowling
All right, let's bring in our next guest, our own Rav, White House correspondent who brings us the very latest on many things. But now the economic disaster in Iran that led to the widespread anti government protests. Always good to have Brian Glenn back with us. B. We'll start with Iran. Tell us the latest from from D.C. in the White House.
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Brian Glenn
You know, it's interesting because things are really starting to escalate. I noticed that reports that had Trump quoted to saying that things are advancing towards the next stage. Now could we see a kinetic strike with US forces on Iran in the next 24 to 48 hours? Some people say that's highly likely. But when you peel back the onion, Eric, on the reason why the people of Iran are so angry and they are leading this. This revolution, if you will, is because right now I want people to realize that if the price of food for them has gone up 72% just year over year, their currency is basically valued almost at nothing. They have absolutely no power, no Internet. And of course, Eric, now this is interesting if you look, and I talked to an Iranian expert here at the White House just hours ago, and he was explaining this to me. The government themselves shut down a lot of the power and infrastructure to thinking that it was going to basically oppress the people and discourage the uprising. Well, the opposite has actually happened, and it's actually made it, I think, a little bit more impactful for the people to do what they're doing now. Now, from what I understand, some starlink systems have been. Are being delivered to that area. So there is a little bit of Internet access, but. But certainly chaos that we've seen the last three weeks, Eric. Hundreds of people have died. Just really kind of. It seems like every day we wake up and there's more news coming out of Iran.
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Eric Bowling
You know, they said that Elon sent starlink and then the Iranian government shut him down after a few days of that. In the last three days or so, we haven't been able to see very much, and there could. We've heard reports of 500 people killed, up to 10,000 people killed. Brian?
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Brian Glenn
Yeah.
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Eric Bowling
In Minneapolis, the ICE situation where the lady ran over the ICE agent and he killed her. What's D.C. what's the White House talking about with that now? They just wanted to go away or tell us about it.
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Brian Glenn
Well, they.
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Eric Bowling
They.
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Brian Glenn
Caroline Levitt did do a gaggle right behind me in the stakeout area earlier, and she emphasized the fact that these. These protesters are stepping into harm's way. And I think they have been empowered for the most part by the media and by themselves and by people financing their actions that they can do this. We've seen highways in California blocked and around the country. So they feel empowered to get out and get involved in something that a lot of them are. They have no business doing what they're doing and the fact that they're ruining their lives. And unfortunately, this woman made the wrong decision to try to step out in front of a vehicle. But the White House is definitely supporting the actions of ICE and, and supporting the justification of the ICE officer firing on that. On that woman. And tragically, we will say that, you know, we lost a Life there. But, but, Eric, these people have to remember you just, just because you're passionate about a subject, just because you want to, whatever the subject is, you cannot interfere with law enforcement.
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Eric Bowling
I would say I totally agree with you that this. Whether or not she intended to hit him, she still hit him. And let's remember, she blocked the road. She also sped off and she did. And she was with a, with a, A severe agitator who's getting in her car with her. Yes, unfortunately, things happen like that. But it's the old theory, fafo and she fade and fo. Unfortunately, yeah, she did.
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Brian Glenn
Yeah. And what's interesting, if you look at some of the reaction from local law enforcement there, the mayor, the police chief, they are even in Portland and some of the events escalating there, these local law enforcement, the local government needs to realize that they have a problem. And when they have a problem and President Trump sends in ICE agents or National Guard, they need to get the hell out of the way and let them do their job and make their area safe. Now, this is really interesting. This incident in Minnesota just happened blocks away from the George Floyd incident. And so over the last couple weeks, I met a gentleman that lived in that neighborhood and was very active in the, in the scene and in the political scene, being that he was basically acting on behalf of all these leftist, you know, activists for whatever cause. And he says, brian, this is what we like to do. This is something that we don't run away from. So we were talking on the. Across the network earlier. I think these get bigger and as the temperatures warm up, Eric, I mean, I'm really surprised. I've had that many people gather in the, you know, incredible temperatures they have now. We've got light snow in certain instances as we warm up and this. And ICE agents aren't going anywhere. I think stories like Minneapolis could pop up around this country. And it seems like this is almost what they want, Eric. They want some conflict, they want some drama behind it if they feel like it helps their cause and trying to get these ICE agents out of their community, when in fact, I think most Americans can agree they like getting criminals out of their neighborhood.
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Eric Bowling
I'm just blown away that, you know, it seems to be all these agitators, all these people are getting themselves in trouble, are usually white liberals. I mean, just, well, you know, stay home, guys. You know, this is not your fight. It's not your fight. Anyway. Yeah, very quickly, I asked somebody, real.
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Brian Glenn
Quickly, I had somebody send me a Craig's Licks post recently. And I'll put up on my social media asking for people to protest Trump. It paid fifteen hundred dollars a week.
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Eric Bowling
Yeah.
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Brian Glenn
So if any of my viewers are interested in making.
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Eric Bowling
Remember in Minneapolis. Of course.
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Brian Glenn
Joking.
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Eric Bowling
What? No, no, but what. The kid. The. The. The kid exposed Shirley. Yeah, Nick Shirley. He found evidence of people asking for child actors to act as actors so that when the. The camera showed up, it would look like these daycare child care centers were full. It's 15, $1,500 per day per child. It's insane. The money that they have coming in that way. B, I gotta go. I love you, brother. Good to see you again. And we'll talk to you very soon.
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Brian Glenn
Good to see you.
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Eric Bowling
Thank you.
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Brian Glenn
Thanks, Brian.
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Eric Bowling
Glenn. All right, we'll be back. Two and a half minutes. Okay. This Minnesota fraud scandal really is Elon Omar's moment to shine. Everything about this woman reeks anti America. But until this very moment, Omar has been mostly race baiting and Trump hating. I think the growing fraud scandal has given us a glimpse to an entirely new side of Elon Omar, the corruptionist and criminal defender side. Who knew that the brother loving Omar's hatred of this country and, and everything it stands for was just so multifaceted.
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Nicole Goode
I'm so exhausted in trying to ask what any of this information has led to. You finding any criminals that you have indicted that explains why you are wasting so much of our taxpayer resources and also terrorizing our communities in the amount of federal law enforcement agents that you have in the streets of our city and our state. There needs to be some sort of justification.
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Eric Bowling
Funny, Elon Omar Trump doesn't send National Guard or ICE into places that don't need it. He sends him in where there's a problem. Dc, Chicago, Minneapolis. Clean your city up and you don't have to deal with them. But you can't, can you? And you won't, Right? Of course, it's no surprise that Elon Omar also made the Sunday show rounds to tell lies about what really happened in Minneapolis, according to her, even though there are several videos out now that prove otherwise. But of course, Elon Omar is all about that one Democrat mantra of what you saw, folks you didn't really see.
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Elon Omar
Was blocking the road. They are claiming this is an act of terrorism.
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Nicole Goode
Yeah.
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Eric Bowling
Renee.
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Nicole Goode
Nicole Goode, as you hear her say, she's not mad. She's sitting in her car peacefully waving cars to get by. This agent, as you see, gets out of his car, automatically starts running towards her trying to open her door. She feels scared. She tries to turn the wheel away. And then you see the other officer, who can clearly see the car is moving, move towards the front of the car. Which if they are saying that he has 10 years on service and is trained, he should know that you shouldn't be trying to get in front of a moving car.
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Eric Bowling
That's an outright lie. Of course the ICE agent got in front of a moving car, you lunatic. Did you even watch the videos? From 12 different angles. The agents ordered her to get out of the vehicle. The car was stopped. The driver's wife, the woman then screamed drive baby, drive. At which point she accelerated. Maybe should just watch this again for the sake of Elon Omar.
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Elon Omar
That's fine, dude.
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Eric Bowling
I'm not mad at.
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Elon Omar
Boy, show your face. I'm not mad.
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Eric Bowling
That's okay. We don't change our plates every morning. Just so you know, it'll be the.
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Elon Omar
Same plate when you come talk to us later. Later.
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Eric Bowling
That's fine.
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Elon Omar
U.S. citizen.
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Eric Bowling
You want to come at us?
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Elon Omar
You want to come at us? I said go get yourself some lunch, big boy.
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Eric Bowling
Go ahead. Out of the car. Get out of the car. Get out of the car. And there you have it. Elon Omar running cover for criminals. By the way, my daddy once told me I was probably 10 years old. He said if a cop ever stops you, just do what he has to say. Get out of the car. Get out of the freaking car. If he says lay down. Lay the hell down. If he says put your hands behind your back. Put your damn hands behind the back. You'll save yourself a lot of heartache later. He was right. And maybe this lady and her wife should have taken that advice. Adam Shifty Schiff, yet another liar and constant perpetrator of the what you saw, you didn't actually see Democrat mantra. More than most of them. He just can't help himself. And he makes sure he can pile onto the absolute lie that Renee Good, who an established Anti Ice soldier, by the way, trained soldier. Anti Ice was some sort of innocent bystander.
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John Jubilee
This 37 year old woman drops her kid off at school. Not involved in protect protest activity or anything. Seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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Eric Bowling
Not involved in protesting. She was one of the ICE Watch groups that are trained. Trained how to ICE Watch. And then of course I'm not sure if they trained you to run over an ICE agent in front of them, but she certainly. I don't know if she deserved it or not, but she got what you would typically get when you do that with law enforcement. It's pretty well known fact. So stop messing around with law enforcement, folks. You maybe stop dying. As expected squad member Ayanna Pressley using the moment to call for completely, of course, defunding police. Now let's go with abolishing ice.
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Elon Omar
What they want is for us to go quietly into the night to believe that their dark, violent, dystopian view of this country is an inevit. And I'm so grateful for everyday citizens.
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Eric Bowling
That continue to join with Democrats in.
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Elon Omar
Vigorous condemnation of these actions. And I will continue to demand an independent and thorough investigation. Continue to call on Congress in this.
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Eric Bowling
Moment to use appropriations and the power.
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Elon Omar
Of the purse to rein in ice.
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Eric Bowling
Again, I believe it should be abolished. A dumb question for you, Congresswoman. The murder rate has been dropping since we've been deporting illegals and closing the border. Dropping documented fact. Talk to the administration, FBI numbers. Let me guess, you don't believe those either. Got it. But murder rates are going down in the United States, even in Democrat health cities. Going down. You think it has anything to do with making these criminals go back to where they came from? I don't know. Ask your constituents. You want higher murder rates or lower murder rates in your cities? Ask them. And then tell them to vote for the way you want it. Here's a very telling moment. A snowflake ICE protester was giving a reporter a hard time. That is until she found out which outlet she was with. Kind of tells you everything you need to know about these protests.
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Elon Omar
A growing smaller crowd. This is controlled. The scene spans several blocks. We are here at Portland avenue and East 35th, but it goes at least two or three blocks.
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Raymond Azar
Thank you.
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John Jubilee
Hold on.
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Elon Omar
I'm sorry, we're with CNN. It's okay. Thank you. Thank you for your help. I'm sorry. I think people are getting upset. So that. That is the latest here on the ground, guys, and I'm going to send it back to you.
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Eric Bowling
Who the hell you work for? Who? You what? Oh, cnn. Oh, by all means. Protesters Paid, paid propagandists. Well, with your lifter leftist propaganda network, cnn, I guess it's fine. I guess you're going to be okay. New York City Mayor Zoran Mandani now finds himself in a position often created by socialists to actually deliver on promises he kept, promises he made to get the votes he's got to deliver right now. Free buses for all. Sounds good. Until. Mom. Danny's proposal for making it happen is to take money away from the companies that actually employ people. And the other one, talking about fast and free buses. In your meeting with the governor, I've heard you talk about many times that you don't want to take money away from the mta. You want to put money back in.
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John Jubilee
It's something that she agrees with.
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Oscar L. Blue Ramirez
Right?
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Eric Bowling
We don't want to take away money from the MTA.
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John Jubilee
How are you getting, getting that money, the 700 million to make the buses free, into the MCA if she's not for raising taxes?
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Eric Bowling
You know, I think that the two clearest ways to raise that money is through the raising of the state's corporate tax to match New Jersey. I think that a lot of this is still a case to be made, whether it's the corporate tax or it's the personal income tax on those who make more than a million dollars a year or more. I think that these are the clearest ways. I've also said that if there are other ways to raise this funding, the most important fact is that we fund it. Not the question of how we do.
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Brian Glenn
It, but that we do it.
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Eric Bowling
So he's been office, what, 10 days or so. Do you what happened over the weekend? Yep. The New York City nurses, they went on strike because they want a piece of that pie, too. Everyone's going to want their hand out from Mayor Mom, Donnie, good luck with that, my friend. You got no money left. We'll be back. Two and a half minutes.
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Brian Glenn
Foreign.
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Eric Bowling
Tonight, folks, we're talking about something that sounds kind of technical but actually hits right at the heart of rural America, the Clarity Act. President Trump made a bold, smart move when he brought cryptocurrencies into the US Financial system instead of letting it run offshore. He kept America competitive. He kept innovation here. But that reform left a loophole. Crypto platforms pay what they call rewards instead of interest. And under current law, those rewards don't follow the same rules as bank deposits that allow money to quietly flow out of community banks into unprotected digital platforms. Big banks can absorb that. Small, rural community banks simply can't. The Clarity act simply closes that gap, protecting local deposits without killing innovation. Join me now, Jen Pellegrino, founder and CEO of Defending Forgotten America. So, Jen, why does this matter so much for small town America?
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Elon Omar
Well, thanks so much for having me, Eric. You know, what we do here at Defend Forgotten America is just that. We look to the small, rural, urban. Small urban communities, rural communities in America, the issues that matter most to them, and bring those issues to Washington. And this issue with stablecoin and some of the money that's going into it, the rewards that are being paid is really going to impact in a negative way a lot of the small towns in America, you know, that have, you know, just one community bank, one gas station, one hospital. If you lose one of those, you lose that community. And so we're here to, to push Congress to take action today and close this really urgent loophole.
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Eric Bowling
Can you explain to the folks what the loophole is? So the way I understand it, and the only reason why I even know about it is because I have a Robinhood account, which, yeah, I have some stocks in there, but I generally use that for Bitcoin and Ethereum. But they'll offer me what they call some sort of reward. It's essentially the same thing, isn't it?
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Elon Omar
So, President Trump, I'll tell you this, last year, they passed the Genius act into law. That was something that really protected a lot of Americans, protected small towns by saying, listen, we don't want stablecoin paying interest on these accounts. Well, what happened is these organizations, these Silicon Valley institutions, found a loophole, but by paying this interest, but instead calling it, quote, rewards. It's the exact same thing, Eric. So they're paying this interest. It's an incentive for people. And what happens then is their money goes out of these local community banks. The community banks being the ones that are there to provide you a loan. If you're looking to buy a home, if you're a farmer looking to buy equipment, if you're mom and top pop looking to set up shop a cafe in your hometown, you're then not able to do that because all the money is being drained out of these accounts in the community banks going into stablecoin because of this attractive reward system that they're setting up. That the intent of the Genius act was not to allow it. But again, it all goes back to that loophole that they're calling a reward. And so therefore, you're seeing these, these local banks at risk because of it.
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Eric Bowling
So didn't they think of that? I mean, Congress, didn't they think of this when they put up the Genius act, that, oh, hey, maybe we better, like, close any sort of loopholes? I mean, how do they miss that, you think?
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Elon Omar
You know, listen, as you and I both know very well, Eric, D.C. moves, especially under President Trump's leadership, at a really fast pace. You know, I, I think they pushed to account for that, but it was something that was unforeseeable. I'm sure there will be more issues like this that will come up in the future. And that's the reason organizations like defend forgotten America exist. We understand that this president wants to get a lot done, but sometimes there are little things that are overlooked. And you hear small town America saying, hey, don't forget about us. And so we're here to say, listen, Congress, you're looking at the Clarity act right now. Close this loophole as part of that. Because beyond just this issue with stablecoin, there are other issues being considered that just weren't accounted for in the Genius act, which President Trump rightly put through very quickly. He wants to make America the leader in cryptocurrency, and I believe he'll do that. But this is certainly an issue that needs to be addressed because we can both be that and also have small town America thriving and keep those banks open, keep them lending to small businesses and keep Main street even better than it was a decade ago.
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Eric Bowling
Yeah, I don't even know this. So if my account at Robinhood folds, if Robin would just, you know, there was whatever fraud going on, I'm, I'm pretty sure they're not FDIC insured. So there's a risk there, isn't there?
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Elon Omar
There's a huge risk, Eric. I mean, you think back to Sam Bankman Fried, I believe his name was, and all the people that lost money in that crypto scam. I mean, there's a lot of risk there with your local bank, you have that FDIC backing. You know that if something goes south, your money is still protected. In this case, with these cryptocurrencies, you don't have that luxury.
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Eric Bowling
So I guess the risk is to smaller community banks who go, all right, all this money's flowing out of my bank. That leaves them with really nothing to loan for, as you point out, homes, mom and pop, cafes or other.
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Elon Omar
Yeah. And you know, President Trump, Eric, is really the president for forgotten America. It's something we fully believe here. And the promise he's made and the promises that he's delivered. I've heard a number of cabinet secretaries say the same thing in numerous Oval Office meeting. That is certainly true. And we want to make sure that these people are not forgotten. That, you know, first time homebuyers can get that loan because that community bank is there. I think back to my hometown, Eric. I come from rural America, upstate New York. One of the banks in that town, local bank. A lot of kids I went to high school with, well, now they're not kids anymore, but they work there. Those are the relationship bankers that are working with people in my hometown that have known them for years that take into account these personal situations that these big banks aren't going to be there for you like your small town bank is. So we want to support them and ensure that they're continuing to thrive and that also the locals in town can, can operate their businesses, build businesses, can buy that first time home. That's what this is all about. And it's really a loophole that needs to be fixed. And it goes hand in hand with the Clarity act to making us the leader in crypto and also building our small town.
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Eric Bowling
How long, when is the Clarity Act? When does it come up for a vote?
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Elon Omar
You know, I believe on Thursday. There's going to be a Senate discussion.
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Eric Bowling
This week of this week, this week. Wow. Okay. And so they're going to close this loophole so institute wallets. They call them crypto wallets can't offer rewards, which in effect are, are just another way of saying interest. It's really, you know, with the whole small town, the community bank versus the big bank, it reminds me of it's It's a Wonderful Life when, when George was trying to keep the bank open and big Potter comes in with a big bag and he takes all the money. And it was fine until the market started to go down and things started to go south a little bit and they're all going, george, help us. He's like, I can't. Potter's got all your money, idiots. So this has got to happen fairly soon. This is a big, big number. We're talking about tens or hundreds of billions of dollars.
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Elon Omar
Billions, yes. Listen, we can't have this level of greed. Small town America needs to prosper to continue to prosper. President Trump is looking out for them. But again this, this item was overlooked. We call on Congress now. Get this into the Clarity Act. Let' done. So we can watch America become the leader owned cryptocurrency under this president and also really benefit small town America, ensure that we're not closing down our banks and therefore watching more businesses shutter. Because I've seen the impact on small town America during the last administration, how much they struggled. We can't have that continue to go downhill. And I believe under this president and the leadership in Washington, they'll hopefully be pushing for that.
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Eric Bowling
Why? I know that you used to be a White House correspondent. Trump always, always called in you. I remember when you were at oa and so you find yourself defending forgotten America, founder of that. Just very quickly, what, what are you guys about now?
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Elon Omar
We're about rural and small urban America. Eric focused on keeping the hospitals open that have been closing, keeping banks open. As you see, with this issue focusing on energy, the issues that matter to small town America are issues that matter to us. And we want to bring that conversation to Washington because as we discuss here, it's really a metaphor for what we do. So much gets lost in translation. And DC is often thinking about the big cities. You hear it on all the news headlines, the major outlets, they're talking about what's happening in urban America. But what about small town America? President Trump went out there and campaigned for them, speaks about them often. Now this is making sure that we're not missing loopholes, we're not missing issues that may seem minor to Washington, but are a really big deal to our small towns and small urban communities.
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Eric Bowling
That's great work. Great. Where you guys do again, Jen Pellegrino, founder and CEO of Defend Forgotten America. Thank you so much.
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Elon Omar
Thanks, Eric.
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Eric Bowling
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Oscar L. Blue Ramirez
Here is Democratic socialists are ruining their states.
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Brian Glenn
Eric. That Governor Hochul and that Mondani, they're a piece of work. They're no better than the democratic socialist idiots that are running Washington State, Colorado, Boston. There you can just compare, compare them to the illegal alien that burned a woman on the subway train. New York City. How he stood there, litter on fire, and then when she's burning, he goes over there and starts fanning her.
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Eric Bowling
Yeah. Isn't amazing. It's not just those cities. It's almost every Democrat run city. I mean, you think about Chicago and New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco goes on Portland.
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Elon Omar
Portland.
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Eric Bowling
I mean, we haven't heard Portland. A couple years of Portland. The same way you can be lawless, you can be, I don't know, burn the place down. Create an autonomous zone where the police aren't supposed to go and no one says anything. If you're, if you're a liberal leftist. And they are, they're ruining this great country. Minneapolis, New York City. Undami socialist is running New York City, the greatest financial center of the universe. Socialist. What's happening? Mado, what the hell is happening?
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Oscar L. Blue Ramirez
I don't know. It's got to be fixed.
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Eric Bowling
That football game is fixed. That Chicago game wasn't it? Let's have another one.
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Oscar L. Blue Ramirez
The Soros compound needs to be rated.
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Eric Bowling
Got it.
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Brian Glenn
My name's Mike from Arizona. My message is as follows. It's time to do a raid on the Soros compound and prosecute all these people that are funding the violence and riots. Not until this happens. It will just continue. Thanks for being a great American. We love you. Take care and be safe, my friend.
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Eric Bowling
Thank you, sir. I appreciate. And you too. Yes, source. I mean, if Trump has hinted to like finding the source of the funding for the agitators. Look, you know, peaceful protest is protected in the Constitution. Peaceful protest, but agitating people to the point where they're trying to run down ICE officers. That's not. I really, really, honestly think that Jacob Fry, the mayor of Minneapolis who dropped an F bomb saying, hey, ice, get the F out of Minneapolis. And until. And also waltz with his rhetoric, mom dummy. Calling the ICE agent a murderer. These People should be prosecuted, should be investigated. Let's investigate. If there's any sort of coordination, certainly if there's coordination with the Soros types and you can support peaceful protests, it's protected. But you can't promote rhetoric, heightened rhetoric that causes people to gin themselves up to the point where they're, they're creating violence or creating situations where violence could happen. That woman blocked the road. Cops were telling her to leave. Law enforcement was saying, leave. And she stayed there until it got worse and worse and worse. And then she took off hitting an agent. This is what. Stay out of the problem. Don't become the problem. Mad Dog.
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Oscar L. Blue Ramirez
This viewer believes the ICE shooting was justified.
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Brian Glenn
Hey, Eric, love your show. This is Jeff from Homer. I got something to tell you about this shooting with the ice. The ICE officers, you know, most people are talking, well, they could have shot the tires out or they could have shot this or they could have shot that. That's a bunch of baloney is what that is. You can shoot all four tires out, they can still run you over. The only way to stop that vehicle physically is to kill that person behind the wheel. No matter who it is, they have seconds to figure it out. And I'm telling you right now, there's no way you can shoot that car full of holes if you don't get that driver, that car still coming after you. And that is a plain old fact. It's called ignition and it's going to move. And when. Pete, I am so angry at all of these people and these leftists that are talking about it like they'd be just playing killed it for no reason. He had his life in his hand and he, he did what he had to do. He's already had one. One thing they said where he reached in a car and they drove off and drugged him or something. I didn't get the whole thing. I missed some of it. I don't really know completely. But still, facts are. The only way to stop that car is to kill the driver in that situation that I saw on tv. All right, Eric, love you guys. Love all you guys on that channel. Take care.
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Eric Bowling
Thank you, sir. I agree with you. You know, something we haven't really talked about. You're right. If 6,000, 8,000 pound vehicle at you, you're not going to be able this close this fast. You're not going to be able to shoot any tires out for one. Number two, does anyone talk about maybe the ICE agent saved other people's lives? Like, okay, maybe she would have gone on and hit more People down the road. Because she was clearly out of control. Right. If you want to say she was. She didn't mean to. Doesn't matter if she meant to or not. She was. She was running over an agent. You can't do that. He's got to stop you. He's going to stop you with whatever way he can. Shooting out a tire isn't going to stop you. The original video looked like he was out of the way. And she turned. When you saw the other overhead and. And the other officer's camera, the. The actual cell phone from the officer, you realize that there was no way he was getting out of that way.
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Brian Glenn
He.
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Eric Bowling
She was going to hit him, and she did. And he. He gets hit and he shoots her, Maybe saving himself. I don't know. Maybe he was safe at that point. But we don't know if there are more officers right down the road. I think there were. If you remember back, I think there were a bunch of officers down that road, and she may have taken them out, too. How do you know that she wasn't going to. I think what he did. All unfortunate. Very unfortunate. Did the right thing. All right? He did the right thing. I think he's going to be protected by the law. What weird thing? There was a gofundme page for Renee. Good. It's like up to a million and a half dollars. I mean, she's the one who started this. She's the reason all this happened. Fortunately, Bill ackman, a billionaire, Put a million dollars in the ice agents account as well, so. So we're gonna see how this point plays out. But this isn't over by any means anytime soon. Mad dog, great time. Thank you, guys. Thank you guys for joining us. War room coming up next. Really, really enjoyed being back with you here on Monday. We'll see you again tomorrow. See banner warm on. On the deck. I don't know if it's. If it's Steve or not, but if it is, tell him we got to do the tosses again real soon. We got a lot to talk about. This is an I heart podcast. Guaranteed human.