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Good day, everyone. Jeff Cruer here. Welcome to Ringside Politics. Unreal America's Voice. A great program lined up for you today. Awesome guests, interesting clips, lots of topics we prepared. Hey, let's welcome all of our friends joining US on Pluto TV, channel 240, Dish Network, channel 219, the Roku channel, Roku Vizio, all the platforms associated the Real America's Voice app, AmericasVoice News, Samsung TV Plus, Channel 1175, Freecast Channel 106, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, our friends online on Getter and Trusocial. Welcome aboard. Got a lot to do here today on the program. Want to start with of course, a project that we're excited about here that we created after the stolen 2020 election. It's called Project Keep the Republic and was inspired by the end of the Constitutional Convention. When Benjamin Franklin was asked, what kind of government have you given us? He replied, madam, a republic if you can keep it. Now, how do you keep a republic? It takes real tangible action. 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I think you should resign. You can sign our petition for the immediate resignation of RINO Senator Bill Hopalong Cassidy. You can also check out my photos and note from President Trump. I think you'll enjoy. My latest video is this the Trump administration has secured the border and saved American lives. It's got thousands of views. I'd love for you to view it as well. Share it with your friends. Also, my book, as you know, my first When America's Last Chance still is relevant as the day I wrote it. Working on that sequel. Time to get that in before the midterms. Speaking of the midterms, we have our midterm election countdown clock. We're getting ever closer, folks. You can subscribe to my new podcast, on the Air with Jeff Correair, ranked number two in the state of Louisiana. You can also sign up for our newsletter, which gives you good information on a regular basis and is free. And check out our latest poll. All right, here's the question. 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We recognize a great organization each week and this time it's a Monumental Task Committee. This is a group that works hard to save history, preserve monuments, preserve historic markers. They use their own volunteers to do what the government won't do. Governments try to take down monuments like they did here in New Orleans with a left wing mayor who wanted to destroy history. This group tries to preserve it. In one case, they fished at a monument from the lake that some activists had thrown it in there to preserve it. And these folks aren't paid. They just do great volunteer work. So go to monumentaltask.org check them out and support their fine work. All right. With the economy sort of the way it is, as we know, up and down, now's a good time to diversify. And I certainly recommend gold. And when you do that, let's go to Birchgold. There's so many things out of our control right now. So Birch Gold is who I recommend. 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Now you've got, I guess, independent military units that are still firing these drones and missiles that they still have in a dwindling stockpile. Marines are now going to be deploying to the region 5000 the Pentagon is sending. And of course, the goal is to keep the Strait of Hormuz open, where so much of the world's oil and gas come through. For United States, it's not that big of a deal. But for other countries, our allies, it is critical. And certainly the fact that it has been closed has led to what we've seen with the price of oil. Now this week, a big announcement made by Joe Kent, the counterterrorism chair, resigning. He said that we're pushed into this by Israel he couldn't in good conscience state. He gave some interviews with different podcasters, and in one of the interviews, he made a claim that I found pretty disturbing, that he was called off on checking into the Charlie Kirk assassination. And as you know, folks, I've had questions about that from day one. And I wouldn't know why people would be called off by saying, hey, nothing to see here. To me, it looks like there's a lot more we need to investigate as far as that assassination and the assassination attempts on President Trump. He was basically told to stand down there, too. Now we've got some new poll data coming out, and that's why it's important, in my opinion, that this war be successfully completed and hopefully end relatively soon soon. JL Partners, which is a pro Trump group, shows the president's approval rating at 42%, which is about where it has been. Support for the war is at 33%. Strong among Maga Republicans, not strong among Democrats, of course. But that key swing group, Independents, are now trending more like Democrats. So it is a concern as we look for the midterm, we cannot allow the Democrats to take control of the Congress. That would be an utter, complete, total disaster. Let me say it again. That would be an utter, complete, total disaster. Now, people vote their pocketbook. So whether we won the war in Iran or it's still going on, they're going to vote based on their economic well being. And the Saudis are now warning that the price of oil could reach $180 a barrel. So that's why we need the Marines there to keep that Strait of Hormuz open. We need the free flow of commerce there. And, you know, with this regime hopefully coming to an end soon, I hope it's all done before the midterms, because if not, we're looking at a very tough political situation for our country. The president to mitigate against that has authorized 172 million barrels of oil to be released from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The first batch, over 40 million barrels, has already been released. So that's one economic pressure point. Another was interest rates. Now, this week, the Federal Reserve met and this guy, Jerome Tulay Powell, is hanging on. He's not resigning. And they didn't lower interest rates, so interest rates are now stuck. And hopefully when the new Federal Reserve chair gets there, we'll start seeing interest rate relief, which is what we've needed a long time. And certainly that would help the housing market, help the overall economy. What's not helping are the Democrats shutting down the Department of Homeland Security. And travel delays galore all throughout our airport. Some airports may need to be shut down. You got to get to the airport four hours early. Now, some agents are selling blood. Some are now sleeping in their cars. Others are leaving. I think there's been a 10% absenteeism rate. And a lot of these agents who are working double shifts and doing the best they can with limited personnel. So kudos to those who are working without getting paid to keep our skies safe. But it's a situation that can't continue. Now, what happened this week to Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee is amazing to me. She is a red state governor. Arkansas is a red state doing a good job. She was a former press secretary for the president. When she was press secretary, she was kicked out of a restaurant in Virginia. And now as governor, she's Kicked out of a restaurant in Little Rock. Now, she seems like a very nice lady. I don't know why any of these restaurants would keep kicking her out. But to me, it's deranged leftists that are doing this. Can you imagine a conservative owning a restaurant? A liberal comes in, we're not gonna kick the liberal out of the restaurant. It sees leftists. They're deranged. And they said they couldn't serve her, that she was making them feel unsafe. I mean, how ludicrous is that? That is just ludicrous. And finally, some good news. Wanna end on some good news with our review of the news. James Comey and many others will be subpoenaed in a grand conspiracy case that obviously is wide ranging, involving many, many, many people. In of course, the, the Russia collusion and all the other attempts that were made to bring down President Trump and unfairly target him. This could be leading to indictments and hopefully convictions. And it's the first step and it tells me that maybe we'll start seeing some action. We've been calling for people to be indicted. This could be the start of hopefully something very positive because we want justice in this country. There can't be a double standard of justice. And this is a good first step. All right, we got a lot to get to as we roll on. We'll take a brief time out, take care of some business. Our first guest is going to be joining us next. She is a mother of a son who tragically overdosed on fentanyl. She's an angel mom. And Elizabeth Thunder is going to be joining us next right here on Ringside.
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Ann Funder
Thank you. I'm doing well. Thank you so much for having me.
Jeff Cruer
Yeah. And it's great to have you back on our program. And certainly thank you for your activism. And again, I'm so sorry about the death of your son. Probably something that seems like it was just yesterday, right, Ann?
Ann Funder
Yeah. Every day I wake up, it seems like it just happened yesterday. It's still very fresh, and I don't think that's ever going to change.
Jeff Cruer
You want to tell our audience a little bit about Weston?
Ann Funder
Yeah. Weston was an amazing kid. He was my firstborn. He taught me what it meant to really love somebody the way that you love something so unconditionally. He was incredibly funny. He lived to make other people laugh. He lit up the room when he walked in with a smile and his giggle. He had the best giggle athlete and good student in high school. He was a freshman in high school, private schooled, Christian schooled, went to church twice a week. I was room mom, very involved in his life. Talked to him about drugs, talked to him about all the dangers. And, you know, even still we had this beautiful life. Fentanyl still found my son. And peer pressure in a new situation freshman year where he wanted to fit in, got to my son.
Jeff Cruer
So he was given a pill. Right. And so it was a poisoning, right, Ann?
Ann Funder
Absolutely, it was a poisoning. He was deceived to death. They had given him something that looked like a Percocet. He only tried a little bit, a piece of it, because I think he was just trying to get away with scoring some peer pressure points so that he could fit in with this new crowd. But it wasn't a Percocet at all. It was pure pressed powder and Fentanyl and that's it. So it was complete deception. It would be like you going into a store and ordering a drink, and instead of that drink, they gave you colored water with cyanide. And it's really no different than that. So it was complete deception. He was deceived to death, which means he was poisoned, and they treated it as a murder investigation.
Jeff Cruer
Since his tragic death, Ann, you've become a leading voice against this fentanyl crisis. And of course, it's been four years now since he tragically passed. Where are we right now as a country?
Ann Funder
Well, thank God for President Trump. We were really going downhill. It was getting worse. My hands were over my face daily, listening to the news of another 10,000 people, another caravan you know, more people being arrested with 400,000 fentanyl pills and being given a date to come back for a court date and they would never show up. It was just the wild, wild west out there. And then, you know, I just knew, I just knew that President Trump was our only hope. I expressed that at the rnc that we really needed him back to clean up this mess. And he's come in, he's closed the borders. Zero border crossing the past, I think nine months already. On top of that, closed the de minimis loophole, which, which closes the. It allows packages under $800 to be inspected from companies like Sheen and Tamu, especially the big, who are very big culprits in sending bricks of fentanyl over. He's dealt with China, with tariffs. He has gone after the cartels directly by blowing up their boats, taking Maduro out, the largest cartel leader in the world. He also signed the Fentanyl act and Bruce's Law as well. He has labeled fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction. He is not taking any prisoners. He is really doing everything possible to stop this crisis. And he's giving the angels a voice and a lot of attention. And that is so just polar opposite of our last administration who almost seemed to be inviting it, and I wouldn't even say almost definitely seemed to be inviting it in.
Jeff Cruer
Well, you know, when you allow in millions of people illegally, you allow in drugs and guns and terrorism and cartels and destruction, and we're in the process now trying to remove these people that were let in. But step number one is to shut down the inflow, which as you say, and has been done, thankfully. How has that impacted fentanyl poisoning and fentanyl overdose deaths? Because I know that was an epidemic. I had heard of the drug related deaths in this country. 70% of them were fentanyl related. And we were looking at numbers over 100,000. So do we have any figures, facts and figures to back up what this has translated into?
Ann Funder
Yes. So since 2024, which by the way, the CDC put up provisional numbers in July so that it would help Biden in the election, those provisional numbers they said were around 60 something thousand. But there were no programs in place to stop something as addictive as fentanyl to just stop on its own. So those were not real numbers. The number was in 2024, a little over 100,000. It was still up of people who lost their lives. And those are under reported numbers as well. I'll add that since President Trump has come in, those numbers have dropped first we saw a 23% reduction. We're about 56% reduction in fentanyl deaths to date. And that is a huge amount. We still have a way to go. There's stockpiles here. They prepared for President Trump. This is a multi billion dollar enterprise. They're not just going to go away overnight. These are business people and they are finding ways to still push it on your children and on young adults and get people addicted. There's a whole new generation, bigger and worse than fentanyl coming out.
Jeff Cruer
And we have about a minute. But the precursor chemicals come from China, correct me if I'm wrong, processed in Mexico. Drug cartels then push them into our country. The President has taken aggressive action, as you said, against Maduro. We've taken action in Ecuador. Should we take action against these drug cartels in Mexico? Because it seems like the President there is doing nothing.
Ann Funder
Yeah, Sinalola, Jarisco. There's so many different cartels that are pushing fentanyl. We absolutely need to. We are getting a little cooperation from some Mexican leaders. But we do need everybody on board in Mexico to help with this and not push back on it. There's over a hundred or, I'm sorry, almost a thousand different fentanyl analogs which are not even close to the pharmaceutical grade that they are mixing in and pushing on your children. And again, like the next generation of drugs coming behind it are much more powerful and addictive. So, yeah, we do need to come down on Mexico. I'd love to see them start taking out the cartels with force.
Jeff Cruer
So would I. So would I. And that would save a lot of lives and certainly something that would be a benefit for generations to come. Ann, thank you for your work. Thank you so much for joining us for your courage. I look forward to having you back on the program right here on Ringside. All right, so some powerful fireworks this week in Congress. Tulsi Gabbard appeared before Congress talking about the war and how the goals are different between the US And Israel, questioned by Representative Castro. Let's check out this exchange. Let's go to clip number one. My question is, what does the intelligence community assess Israel's goals in this war to be and are those goals aligned with the goals of the United States? I'm thinking carefully here about what can
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Jeff Cruer
Are the goals aligned? The objectives that have been laid out by the President are different from the objectives that have been laid out by the Israeli government.
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We can see through the operations that the Israeli government has been focused on disabling the Iranian leadership and taking out several members, obviously beginning with the Ayatollah, the supreme leader and they continue to focus on that effort. How does that differ from our goals? The president has stated that his objectives are to destroy Iran's ballistic missile launching capability, their ballistic missile production capability and their navy, the IRGC navy and mine laying capability. I think our goals very close to being met because a lot of that has been totally destroyed. Now there is a supplemental request for $200 billion to continue the war. One conservative member of con course, Lauren Boebert saying no to that. Let's check out clip number two. I will not vote for a war supplemental. No.
Ann Funder
I am a no.
Jeff Cruer
I've already told leadership I am a no on any war supplementals. I am so tired of spending money elsewhere. I, I am tired of the industrial war complex getting all of our hard earned tax dollars. I have folks in Colorado who can't afford to live. We need America first policy seas right
Ann Funder
now and that I'm not doing that.
Jeff Cruer
We, we need the Save America Act, FISA with warrants. There's a lot of hard lines that I have right now and we've got to get our act together if, if we want to keep this majority and the path that we're going doesn't look very promising. Should the administration get out of Iran. That's up to the President. All right, that's Lauren Boebert and what her concerns are. And you know, yeah, keeping the majority has got to be key and that's got to happen. And of course again it's all about economic well being. It's all about how people are feeling economically. That's how they're going to vote. That's going to lead to either Republicans maintaining control of Congress or losing it. And if the Democrats take control of Congress, get ready folks. 100% of their focus is going to be investigations, impeachment. It is going to be two years of constant battles with Congress. We've got to prevent that from happening. A lot more to get to as we roll on. Let's talk about Cuba next. Very special guest joining us right here on Ringside, Real America's Voice. We'll be right back.
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Humberto Cancio
I'm doing fine. Thank you so much for having me.
Jeff Cruer
So you were born in Cuba. You left at an early age, but you were certainly someone that that knows that country Very, very well. What's going on there today? Humberto, fill us in, please.
Humberto Cancio
Jeff, I've been practicing law for 47 years in Miami, and I've seen wave after wave of Cubans come out from Cuba, and I've kept very much in touch with every everybody. So let me explain real quick what's been going on in Cuba in the 80s or 90s, they didn't have oil either. And the buses in Havana and in other cities were being actually pulled by oxen, believe it or not. And then about in the year 2000, again, the brownouts and the blackouts, Cuba has never had sufficient oil to really have an electrical system that, that worked in the last 20, 25 years. And so the brownouts and the blackouts occurred to the point that the government came in and began to normalize those. And they were, they were in many parts of Cuba, they're actually scheduled, let's say, from 2 to 4 in the afternoon and so forth, and people just lose their electricity. The point is that now with the problems in Venezuela, there is no petroleum at all, so they're having hard time giving electricity. To be precise, Venezuela was actually giving Cuba the oil in exchange for Cuban troops, which were the people who guarded Maduro has not publicly known that 90 Cuban soldiers died.
Jeff Cruer
Yeah, they didn't stand much of a chance against our special forces there. I think a lot of them. So you said 90 died, Humberto. 90.
Humberto Cancio
The rumors in Miami have been that somewhere between 79 and 90 of them died. Yes.
Jeff Cruer
So what do you make of Russia now aiding Cuba? They're bringing in shipments of oil. Is that true? I mean, that's what we've been reading.
Humberto Cancio
Yes. It would be to Russia's benefit momentarily, to do that. Russia maintained Cuba during the 1960s and 70s to the tune of about $8 million a day. In exchange, Cuba would send its soldiers to Africa.
Jeff Cruer
Wow. So Cuba was sending their soldiers all over the place. So what about the protests that are going there now? Do you believe that we could see maybe an overthrow of this? Reg?
Humberto Cancio
I think there's going to be a slow change. Without the money from the oil, the armed forces, the soldiers and the officers can't get the extra benefits that they used to get. So the regime really can't assure themselves of the loyalty of the army. And that's a big problem for them. That's how they stay in power. Once that loyalty is gone, because these men are no longer getting extra benefits. They have no stability and. And they can't count on them. So I think that that's what really brings them to the table. The fear is that the people that they. I'm sorry.
Jeff Cruer
Yes, it is. No, and I appreciate you saying that. Is the current regime pretty much the same type of regime as we had with the Castro brothers? Same type of communist dictatorship? Umberto?
Humberto Cancio
Different face, same regime. Nothing has changed.
Jeff Cruer
So what should our role be in the United States? The president has talked about military action. What would you recommend, Humberto, if you were advising the President?
Humberto Cancio
I think that the Cuban government is going to fall by its own weight, quite frankly. I don't think they can sustain the country, even if Russia helps a little. I don't think Russia is in a position to really extend the help that Cuba needs to survive, and certainly not enough to. To be able to give the armed forces that extra compensation that they're used to. So I think that it's going to be a matter of time now. Could helping them in arming them, could it, you know, some other things that they might be able to do as their. Same way as in Iran or talking about for Iran? Yeah, that would certainly help, but I'm not sure that bloodbath would actually solve the problem. I. I think that first we try this economic squeeze, which is. Seems to be working, and then we move on from there. I think that will. That will work in time.
Jeff Cruer
Well, I. I'm praying for the people of Cuba and people like yourself that were born there and left, and I would love to see freedom for that beautiful island nation. Let's talk in the final 30 seconds about your book, Gabriel Locke. I think we have an image of that to share.
Humberto Cancio
Gabriel Locke, bound by law, and Gabriel Locke, bound by fate. It's a young lawyer. He's a Hispanic by his mom and an Anglo by his dad, and he practices in Miami in the 1980s, when people from all over the world were coming to Miami. And it's a real look at the legal system. I've been a lawyer for 47 years, and this is a try to unhollywood the profession. And it's a story about a good guy who is a family man, and he goes out to defend his clients and help them. You'll find that it's a different kind of legal drama.
Jeff Cruer
Best of luck with the book. Humberto, thanks so much for being with us. I look forward to visiting with you again soon. And prayers for all of our Cuban American friends during what could be an exciting period. Now, our next guest has been to Cuba. He's been all over the world, and we love having him on He's a New York based Christian minister. He's served the persecuted church all over the world in war and torn communities. So associated with the Infinity Bible Church in the Bronx and leads the redeemed ministries and widows and orphans. Of course I'm talking about Pastor Bill Devlin joining us again here in the Ringside Politics program. Hey Pastor, welcome.
Pastor Bill Devlin
Hey God, God bless you and thanks so much for being on today. It's great to see you. I hope all is well. And yeah, I've actually been to Cuba 56 times. I'll be there again at the end, end of August of 2026. And yeah, the place is a mess. And so I say dios de bendiga and te amo con tozion eno nombre de Jesus to all my Cuban brothers that are listening today.
Jeff Cruer
So what is your view on what's gonna happen there? Pastor Bill Looks like the regime maybe is on its last legs.
Pastor Bill Devlin
Yeah, I agree with your previous guest the lawyer. I only spent a day in law in law school so I'm glad that he's been around for 47 years. Y and yeah, it's going to fall. I mean I'm in contact with Cuba each and every day and yeah, I've been there so often. We've been building churches, we've been holding Jesus youth festivals right underneath the nose of the Castros and the current president Miguel Canal Diaz. And so we've been my ministry with redeem and with widows and orphans has really been flourishing in Cuba since 2007. We've been going down there. So but yeah, as I talk with my team of pastors down there in Havana, in hole, in other cities, it's, it's going to be rough. I, for the last many years I've been putting up solar units on top of churches and on pastors homes. So those pastors are okay. But yeah, they're having blackouts for days at a time. So I encourage your viewers and listeners to pray for Cuba and I think something's going to happen. Three weeks ago the U.S. state Department sent 6 million for food and last week as you know, the current president Miguel Canaldias had a conversation with Trump. So you know, we ran Cuba, we kicked the Spaniards out of Cuba in 1898 and then we ran the place for almost two decades. And so I think that that's going to happen again and I'm, I'm grateful. You know everybody's going to be running down there getting the 1956 and 57 Chevy's and they're going to Bring them back here. There's going to be a lot of people that are going to make a lot of money.
Jeff Cruer
So.
Pastor Bill Devlin
But yeah, we pray, you know. Yeah. You know, as I think about what's happening in New York City, you know, if people want socialism, they didn't have to wait for Mamdani to become mayor. They can go to Cuba right now and live under the glorious disaster of socialism.
Jeff Cruer
Isn't it interesting, Pastor Bill? I mean, you're talking about two places that you know very well spend a lot of time, Cuba and New York. So New York is moving towards socialism, Cuba's moving away from socialism, hopefully. And you know, Cuba, maybe if it can break free from communism, it can have a bright future. New York, what kind of future are they going to have with Mondami or I call him on dummy. Well, he's scary.
Pastor Bill Devlin
Yeah, he's, you know, before it goes socialist, is it, it's going to go Islamist. I mean, we've seen in the last week his wife's hatred for the Jews, his wife's hatred for anything. And then he's, you know, excuse me now. Oh, you know, she's not a public person. Well, yeah, she is. She's married to you. And so we see him at the Iftar, you know, we see him at Times Square praying with, you know, thousands of people and thousands of Muslims. Not just people. And so yeah, he's going to force his Islamist and jihad. Mudami is he's gonna force his Islamist and jihadist agenda down the throats of all New Yorkers and you know, which is what they're doing in Nigeria. Nigeria is gonna implement a Sharia law wide banking system over the entire country. And you know, the, the Nigerian government is spending $9 million to hire American lobbyists to tell our senators and congress people that nothing to see here. There's no killings in Nigeria. Meanwhile, just two weeks ago, 300 were killed, 8,000 last year.
Jeff Cruer
Up against it, Pastor. Keep up the great work. You're just wonderful missionary and someone that is sounding the alarm about this persecution that is occurring, as you say, worldwide. That's Pastor Bill Devlin with us. We're going to take a brief time out. We'll come back with our final segment. Don't go anywhere. Right here on Real America's Voice, it's Ringside Politics. Jeff Greer with you. We'll be right back.
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Ringside Politics Politics with the flight Ringside Politics analysis made crystal clear. Ringside Politics with your host, Jeff Cru Air. All right, so we have drones sightings in the US Near Barksdale Air Force Base here in Louisiana. Drone sightings near other military installations. Remember the whole brouhaha about the the drone sightings back in late 2024 up on the East Coast? Drones have been a big factor in this war. What Iran is using, it's been a big factor in the Russian Ukrainian war. I figured, hey let's bring on an expert. He's a drone expert. Founder and chairman of Saxon Aerospace and Saxon Unmanned. Let's welcome John Ferguson to the program. Hey, John, how are you?
John Ferguson
I'm doing well, how are you? Thank you.
Jeff Cruer
Good. So, you know, at the end of 2024, when all those drones were being spotted up in the Northeast, some people were saying it was aliens, but it wasn't, was. Was so mysterious, we never really got a full explanation of what it was. John.
John Ferguson
Well, you know, it's funny because I was listening to all of these executive leaders, you know, elected officials, if you will, saying that they're aliens and they're coming out of the water and Iranian flagships and all this other stuff, and I thought, oh my God, these are the people that we put in office to run the country. So I had done a TikTok video and I had stated that my theory was that they were looking for some. A nuclear warhead, which myself and two other gentlemen have been working together for the past three years to try to stop a warhead from coming into the country. But unfortunately, as we had had continued doing our digging, it has been here for quite some time. So I was trying to raise the awareness to the Biden administration and I got the door shut in my face every single time. So that's when I felt like I just had to go public and say, hey, look folks, this is what they're, they're looking for. And we were right. You know, I had several cease and desist from the White House, which I did not cease and I did not desist. But I just had to inform the American people that this is what they're looking for.
Jeff Cruer
Well, and here's the thing, John. I hate secrecy. I hate the fact we're constantly lied to. They don't think we can handle the truth. We can't handle the truth if we're told the truth. But so often they're cover ups. I mean, so many things are cover ups. And thank you for speaking the truth about, you know, what this was. Did they find anything?
John Ferguson
No, they did not. And a lot of people had asked me if they had found the actual warheads, and I was like, I don't know. Well, just recently have uncovered that the. There is an imminent attack on America. This is the, this is the largest attack on American soil in our history. If we don't find this, this warhead, and we have just last week turned over all of the information to the authorities that shows exactly who had it, where it went, how it was packaged, and we, we turned over all the information that we had that will hopefully give the authorities that are investigating this everything they need to go directly to the source.
Jeff Cruer
How many, how many missing nuclear warheads are there here in this country? Just one?
John Ferguson
No, actually we had uncovered that there is, there's most definitely 1000% one, but more 98% chance that there are two. There's one in Europe and there's one in the Middle east right now.
Jeff Cruer
And what kind of damage could this do? I mean, how many deaths are we talking about here?
John Ferguson
Fantastic question. If you do not service the warheads, then they'll become somewhat inert after every seven or eight years and they'll become what we would consider a dirty bomb, which I'm just going to give you an example. If you put that in the city, a large city, you know, a couple hundred thousand people would, would suffer from that. But if you service the warhead, you'll get close to the full yield. And these are 18 to 20 kiloton warheads. And you know, you'll, you'll do, you'll kill millions with these things. That's a freaking warhead, you know. So the problem is that a lot of people, some people don't believe this, but if you look at a Pentagon report in the 90s stating that they knew that there was a warhead that had Britain brought into the United States, we connected all of the dots of who owned it, where it was, how they packaged it, how they delivered to the United States, and that Iran had, had their, their fingerprints on it as well. So, so we just, we gave them the information that they didn't know. And the reason why we know that this was valid, credible evidence is because the gentleman that I've been working with was accidentally exposed to that warhead, not even knowing what it was. And that's the truth.
Jeff Cruer
And this was in the, so this has been around since the 90s?
John Ferguson
This one particular one has. Yes, absolutely. Yeah, it's a real, it's a real talk.
Jeff Cruer
Can we say who's behind this? Is that classified or. I mean, you said arrange. Iran's connected with it, but who else?
John Ferguson
The information that we have gathered is this is under globalist control. And I don't want to sound like a conspiracy theorist or anything like that, but we can tell you that it's, it's under the globalist. They've got their, they're the ones that are controlling this asset. We don't know where it's at.
Jeff Cruer
What do you mean by, what do you mean by globalists? What do you mean by globalists? I mean the.
John Ferguson
That nefarious organization. Go ahead.
Jeff Cruer
The like of the Illuminati. I mean the. I mean, when I think of globalists, I think of like the World Economic Forum, people like that.
John Ferguson
Now, if I were to say too much, I may not get to wake up in the morning, in all honesty. But no, those nefarious people that you've always thought exist, they actually do exist. And those are the ones that control this asset.
Jeff Cruer
We only have about a minute. So what's going on at Barksdale Air Force Base with the drones appearing there?
John Ferguson
Well, you know, a lot of the news agencies are really spinning up America and trying to fear monger America on these drones. I wouldn't be bothered. You know, these. These aircraft wouldn't be from an adverse or an adversarial nation. You know, Is there a hobbyist out there? Yes, probably. But not an adversarial nation, not inside the United States. So I wouldn't worry about it.
Jeff Cruer
Right, okay.
John Ferguson
But it does show weakness in our system, though.
Jeff Cruer
Yeah, and. And that is a very good point. Listen, we look forward to having you back on. Thank you.
John Ferguson
Anytime.
Jeff Cruer
Your work. John Ferguson with us here of Saxon Aerospace. All right. You know, we. We talked to our guest earlier, Pastor Bill, about what's going on with New York City. Let's move to clip number five, guys. And these are some folks taking over a Christian church. I couldn't believe it when I saw it. Wanted to share it with you. Let's go to clip number five. So this is what we're doing. So we're praying that church. That's what we doing. Wow, look at the brothers lining up at the church. Sorry, brothers. So. So where are we, man?
Pastor Bill Devlin
We at the church.
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Jeff Cruer
What are we doing here, man? What. Why have we gathered here? Oh, okay. We're going to convert the church into a masjid. Ah, okay, man, y'.
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Y' all were scaring me for a minute. And finally, let's get a little glimpse into our future of AI. Let's go to clip number six.
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Our bright AI future. Let's check out some of the MEMES of the week. Three of them submitted and passed our committee from Bill in Maryland. Some good ones. Cnn. Yeah, right. Here's one about supporting the country we live in. You got it. Or live in the country you support. And here's one about the SAVE Act. I love this one. Meme number three, for the love of God, pass the SAVE Act. And then another one submitted by Donna in Utah, U haul salesman of the year Gavin Newsom and Kathy Hochul. And then our great rap team in Denver has one to share with us. And all right, There you go. Hey, very timely. Tying that into the Cuba conversation that we had. Very, very well done. Very, very well done. All right. So do you have a meme, do you have a Trump image of the week that you want to share with us? All you have to do is@jeffgso.com and we'll certainly bring it before our committee and we pick them. And we love getting good ones. Don't forget to check out the website. It is crewair.net we got our poll about what's going to happen to Iran. Love to have you vote on that. And also during the week, ladies and gentlemen, I'll be on the air on WGSO Radio Ringside Politics radio edition at 7 to 9 in the morning, 6 to 7 in the evening, Central time. And then we'll look forward to being back here with you next week and to be working hard on preparing some more great guests, great topics, great videos for you. A big thank you to our fantastic team in Denver. Thank you guys. And thank you for joining us here and sharing part of your afternoon with us for the Ringside Products program on Real America's Voice. All right. Keep it right here on Real America's Voice for more great programming. I'll see you all during the week on the radio. See you back here next Saturday for another edition of Ringside Politics right here on Real America's Voice. Have a great week, everyone.
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This episode of "Ringside Politics with Jeff Crouere" on Real America’s Voice covers a wide spectrum of current events and political commentary. Jeff opens with updates on his grassroots initiative "Project Keep the Republic," provides analysis on the ongoing war with Iran, touches on U.S. economic and domestic issues, and welcomes a series of guests discussing the fentanyl crisis, political unrest in Cuba, potential nuclear threats, and cultural trends. The episode maintains a spirited conservative tone, emphasizing activism, American values, and skepticism of mainstream narratives.
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“It takes real tangible action. Adopting the warrior ethos, placing the mission first, never accepting defeat. And folks, we're never quitting.”
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“Whether we won the war in Iran or it's still going on, they're going to vote based on their economic well-being.”
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“He was deceived to death, which means he was poisoned, and they treated it as a murder investigation.”
— Ann Funder [20:33]
“He is not taking any prisoners. He is really doing everything possible to stop this crisis.”
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“I will not vote for a war supplemental. No... I am tired of the industrial war complex getting all of our hard-earned tax dollars.”
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“Different face, same regime. Nothing has changed.”
— Humberto Cancio [36:31]
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“If people want socialism, ...they can go to Cuba right now and live under the glorious disaster of socialism.”
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This episode offers a comprehensive, if polemically charged, review of current political, economic, and cultural issues from a distinctly conservative, activist perspective. Through interviews and commentary, Jeff and his guests examine the implications of U.S. foreign policy, domestic crises, and societal trends—always urging listeners to stay engaged and vigilant.
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