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Rachel Holt
This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human.
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Grant Stinchfield
Well, good evening, everyone. Welcome to Stitchfield. I'll tell you what. President Trump knows how to do so many things all at once. He could trigger the left, he can put Iran on notice, and he can do it with just one truth social post. The message was, open up the effing Straits, you crazy bastards, with a little more than that. But, oh, dropping the F bomb that triggered those on the left. But I'll tell you this, the deadline is now tomorrow at 8pm Eastern to open the Effing Straits by those crazy bastards or else oral hell will rain down. Now, the reason he drops F bombs here is, yes, to get a point across, to let them think that he's just crazy enough to let all hell rain down, which I'm sure he absolutely will, which then makes this not really a threat at all. It amounts to a warning.
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Donald Trump
The entire country can be taken out in one night. And that night might be tomorrow night.
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Grant Stinchfield
All right, so there is word that negotiations are underway to get a deal here. Now, we've heard this all before, but there are numerous outlets reporting that Steve Witkoff, that's one of President Trump's chief negotiators for everything, peace. And then, of course, J.D. vance has been involved in this as well. All moving through the Pakistani military. We shall see if anything plays out here. Now, the Democrats are screaming that President Trump's crazy through all of this. They're offended by the F word. They're offended by his strong talk. What he spelled out, though, think about it, was an ultimatum. This is how you get things done in the real world, okay? And I'll tell you, President Trump's capable of anything, which is why I think we may get a deal by tomorrow at 8 o'. Clock. Here's President Trump again.
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Donald Trump
But we're giving them. We're giving them till tomorrow, 8 o' clock Eastern Time. And after that, they're going to have no bridges, they're going to have no power plants. Stone Ages. Yeah,
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Grant Stinchfield
back to the Stone Ages. So the sad reality of where we are today is as I look at the success of the United States military, and we are going to talk about the rescue of that second crew member as well in just a moment. But as we look at the military success of what is happening in Iran, and then I look at the left, and it becomes very clear to me that those on the left want nothing more than, than President Trump to fail, our US Military to fail, and in the end, the United States to fail. They're more concerned that President Trump looks bad some way. They don't care if American soldiers and ultimately later on down the line, American civilians are killed. What they want is failure from Trump. It is so anti American. Just listen to this from msnbc.
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MSNBC Commentator
If we are going to engage in basically indiscriminate killing tomorrow of Iranian civilians or structures that are going to wreak havoc on the civilian population there for an indefinite period, right. There's no plan to rebuild any of this. You're just talking about blasting them back to the so called stone ages indefinitely. That is a real sea change. That is a game changer of how the United States conducts warfare. And, and it would be basically ripping up international agreements.
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Grant Stinchfield
All of that is wrong. First off, President Trump never said he's going to attack innocent civilians. That isn't happening. And by the way, taking out power plants normally in war is the first mission, not the last. President Trump has given them every opportunity to make sure that doesn't happen. And again, he set a deadline of tomorrow at 8 o' clock for them to make sure that doesn't happen. And all of it is well within the boundaries of war. Barack Obama had done it. You had, we took out power plants going all the way back to, to Vietnam. You can go all the way back to World War II. And this was going on. So this is well within the boundaries of, of war. But what I think you need to understand is the precision of these strikes. Innocent civilians are not being killed right now at all. And in the end, this entire war, yes, it's for American safety, Israeli safety, the safety of the Western world, but it's also for the Iranian people to give them a chance at freedom. Yet this is how Democrats like Ro Khanna respond.
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Michael Preshent
Let me tell you what won't reopen the strait of formulas.
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Grant Stinchfield
Threatening war crimes, of bombing indiscriminately, power plants, criminal cursing at Iran. Well, we need a statesmanship like President Obama had. President Obama, he gave them $1.7 billion in cash. And then of course in Iraq and Afghanistan, he was promising terrorist jobs. Is that the kind of statesman you want? Nothing happens. You can't give these people gifts and think that they're going to be nice to you. That's not how it works. What we needed was a commander in chief was willing to enter a street fight and end it very quickly, which to me looks like it's going to happen. This is better than expected by most of the experts is where the war is right now. Here's, here's a general listen and frankly
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General (Unnamed)
at about plus 30 days into this campaign, I think if you're at Central Command, you've got to be reasonably satisfied with where you are right now. In fact, when I was the CENTCOM commander, if you had given me this situation at plus 30 days, I would have rejected it as being too optimistic by far. So we've had good effect. Our effects are going to continue.
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Grant Stinchfield
I think most people are in agreement with that, especially military experts. Now I want to bring in to discuss this former intelligence officer and foreign policy and national security consultant Michael Preshent is with us. Michael, welcome to the program.
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Michael Preshent
Hey, thanks for having me. Appreciate it.
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Grant Stinchfield
All right, Michael, your response to this crazy idea from the left that bombing, specifically power plants and taking out energy is somehow a war crime.
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Michael Preshent
The other dual use targets, I mean, this is. This is a legal target. To have that JAG officer proudly displaying 101st Airborne Division, you know, awards behind her for being a JAG representative for one of the brigades, and then saying what she said, I think is. Is disqualify. When you have a bridge that is used by the military to move missiles, it's a target. When you have a power plant that sustains Iran's nuclear program or enrichment or fuel generation for its rockets, it's a target. Now, they are legal targets. But at the same time, the people on the ground, just like the people here in the United States, don't understand, if we hit that infrastructure, what does it do to the resistance inside of Iran? And I talked to somebody inside of Iran today about that, and they basically said, you know, it will hurt the people, but the people want freedom, kind of like what the President said. So it's going to be bad for the people, but it's not as bad as being under regime control. They want the regime gone. We're looking for signs for them to rise up. They haven't done it yet, but we'll see what happens.
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Grant Stinchfield
All right, you mentioned what the President said, and then I want to come back to your conversation from someone inside Iran as well. Let's roll the president first to talk about what you just mentioned.
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Donald Trump
They would be willing to. They would be willing. And it's suffering. They would be willing to suffer that in order to have freedom. The Iranians have. We've had numerous intercepts. Please keep bombing. Bombs that are dropping near their homes. Please keep bombing. Do it. And these are people that are living where the bombs are exploding. And when we leave and we're not hitting those areas, they're saying, please come back, come back, come back.
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Grant Stinchfield
All right, Michael, by No means would I want you to give your source away. They would be in instant danger. We know that they're killing anybody that's rising up against this regime. Does your source confirm what President Trump is saying there? That the people want the bombing to continue, that they. They are welcoming what's happening right now?
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Michael Preshent
They love seeing the drone attacks on the besieged checkpoints. They love seeing IRGC formations on bomb. They've started to say that they're not seeing that as much. And what I said is, listen, the targets are shifting. We're shifting towards the coast. We need to keep the shoreline. We need to keep targeting the shoreline so we can open up the Strait of Hormuz. But what the President didn't say there and what a lot of us know, is that the reason we're able to hit those buildings is based on intelligence provided by the Iranian people. So not only are the Iranian people saying, keep hitting these targets, they're actually generating the actual intelligence that leads us to conduct these precision strikes against leadership. They're the eyes and ears on the ground. But they want. They want to see more of it, right? They want to see more attacks on the basis.
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Grant Stinchfield
Are you getting any word, Michael, from your sources inside Iran about the possibility of an overthrow, of a resistance of the people rising up and finishing the job that really President Trump in the United States started?
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Michael Preshent
They're hearing different messages, right? So just like we do in the United States, we say, listen, watch what Cincom does when President Trump speaks. He's speaking to the regime. You see how offended everybody gets. The regime was not offended by what he put out Sunday. The regime believes what he's saying, and that's why he's saying it. But inside of the country, you know, the people are hearing the social media or seeing the social media posts and hearing other information from people they trust that says that the President wants to bomb them back into the Stone Age. And I'll say, no, that's not what he means. He's talking about the regime taking away this capability. For 47 years, this regime has not felt the pain that they feel right now, and that's continued. The Iranian people want that to continue. But the more the targeting process can focus on infrastructure more tied to the regime than not, I think that's the better message. We need to actually have a messaging campaign to the Iranian people that this is to keep the regime from coming back, to make it weaker. We want to see signs on the ground. This is what I say. We want to see signs on the ground that you're willing to do what you did back in January. We need to see that again in order for there to be momentum. They're worried that a deal could happen tomorrow. I don't think there's going to be one. The Iranians are asking for too much, but they're hedging their bets. And unfortunately they have skin in the game.
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Donald Trump
Right.
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Michael Preshent
They will be killed if they go out there. So they want to see strong message from the United States, and we want to see a strong message from them that they're actually willing to do this.
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Grant Stinchfield
You're asking a lot of people, I mean, I think even in the United States, how many of your fellow neighbors, if they were under some threat like we face in Iran, would rise up with arms? And it's very difficult for them to get arms in Iran, rise up and fight against. There's not a lot of us. There are a few of us out there, but not a lot of us. And so this is a lot. But I pray for them. I pray for this administration, I pray for the United States military. And I always love your insight on all of this. Michael, thank you for coming on tonight.
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Michael Preshent
Hey, thanks for having me. Appreciate it.
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Grant Stinchfield
Absolutely. I want to turn now to the other huge story, which was the rescue of the second crew member of that downed fighter plane. The fact that we got him, as President Trump said in his true social post, I believe put a dagger in the resolve of the Iranian military. They thought they could find this guy before the United States could. We had to have low level aircraft flying. We had to have all kinds of military personnel putting themselves in very dangerous positions and no one got hurt. And we got him. When you look at it, finding him on Easter Sunday may be the best Easter story yet. Here's the Secretary of War Friday, Good Friday, hidden in a cave, a crevice, all of Saturday and rescued on Sunday, flown out of Iran as the sun was rising on Easter Sunday.
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Michael Preshent
A pilot reborn all home and accounted
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Grant Stinchfield
for a nation rejoicing God is good. God is good is what he put on his transponder. And the United States military had to figure out, is it a fake message from an Iranian intercept. But looking at that crew member's faith, they knew it was real. They started to locate him. 200 personnel, Seal Team 6 Reaper drones, helicopters, of course, the hero, Krugman himself. And then the CIA instituting what amounted to a giant ruse following the successful exfiltration on Saturday night.
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Michael Preshent
Our intelligence reflects that the Iranians were
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Grant Stinchfield
embarrassed and ultimately humiliated by the success
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Michael Preshent
of this audacious Rescue mission.
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Grant Stinchfield
So what he also was spelling out there, John Ratcliffe, was that they instituted a ruse. They put search crews in a different area to make Iran think they were someplace that Krugman was someplace else rather than where he really was. So when it came time to get him, no one was going to stop the United States military, albeit they tried. Here's Raisin Cain.
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Michael Preshent
The force fought its way in and rescued dude 44B. They were protected overhead by an air armada including tactical drones, strike aircraft and others. The force fought through multiple simultaneous contingencies, something no other nation, no other military can do and safely return. Dude 44 Bravo the backseater home.
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Grant Stinchfield
Dude 44 Bravo was on the run, bleeding, wounded, tending to his own wounds. He did have a handgun on him, that transponder. He started climbing a mountain, hiding in crevices, climbing higher and higher and higher on that mountain until rescue crews came in and got him. I want to bring in now 20 year US Air Force veteran who flew worldwide airlift missions, our good friend, Arizona State Senator Lieutenant Colonel Wendy Rogers. Colonel, it's great to have you on the program.
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Lt. Col. Wendy Rogers
I was really glad to get your text this morning and asked to be on the show. I've been watching this very, very closely and I've got to tell the audience that when you get wings and as an Air Force pilot, you know that your country is there for you. You know they will come and get you. And the first bit of training that those of us who had ROTC backgrounds went to after pilot training was survival school. And it's a very in depth two weeks where you learn how to live off the land and then you learn what to do if you're captured. But I also went to a three week course as a volunteer over in Europe to learn more of the escape and evading aspect. And this is what I related to when I saw that we were trying to rescue Four four Bravo and he did everything right. He was hurt, he was bleeding. He knew that we were going to come for him and that gave him the resolve and the love for, for his country. And I would argue honestly that his rescue might be the single biggest victory data point in this whole war because it shows that our commander in chief will never leave anybody behind and that all these layers of us in the military across the services will never leave a man behind.
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Grant Stinchfield
Colonel, you know, it's amazing because President Trump has to make this decision to put literally hundreds of members of our military at risk to rescue this one airman. And he said he didn't even blink when it came to that decision. As you said, we don't leave someone behind. Can you take me into the mind of what this pilot may be thinking? He's got his transponder, he's bleeding, he's got a gun, he knows that the IRGC is going to march him around through the streets of Iran if they capture him. What is going through his mind? How does he assess what the best course of action is?
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Lt. Col. Wendy Rogers
Well, the adrenaline is obviously flowing and by the way, this man is a full colonel, so he's probably in his mid to late 40s. So he's not some 31 year old guy escaping and evading. He had to have been in pretty darn good shape to begin with, which is great. And of course his first and foremost need is to get away from the aircraft because that is the place where the enemy will come to try to find him and to be able to take cover. And if it's nighttime, that's helpful, but if it's daytime, that's a real problem. And if you study what happened in 1995 with Scott O' Grady and I was in the service then, we were overseas and watching this closely, if you read his account, in some cases it took him 30 minutes just to turn over his body from where he was lying covered up, to not make a sound, to not enable the enemy to hear just the slightest twig break. So this is in the minds of those who know that they're in absolute imminent danger. They have to get away, they have to travel, but they have to remain concealed. And oh, by the way, they have to stay intact and tend to their own wounds. It's very, very stressful.
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Grant Stinchfield
How does this transponder work, Colonel? Because I got the feeling that he typed a message. God is good. You can type a message on these transponders. They're not just beepers like a beacon light if you were, you know, swept overboard at sea. How do they work?
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Lt. Col. Wendy Rogers
Well, I don't have the intimate understanding of the latest technology, but everything I've read indicated to us where he was. And it was a frequency hopping emission. So the CIA and of course then passed on to the military. We knew where he was, the Iranians didn't. It was my understanding that he voiced those words, those were his first voiced sentence. But I could be wrong, but that was my understanding. And then of course, when they researched who he was and that he was a man of faith, as the Secretary of War said, they knew it was authentic. But before you go up and when I went on this three week Exercise, we had a similar scenario. You have to memorize at the very last minute where the safe areas are. And safe doesn't mean safe, it means selected area for evasion. And so you have all these data points in your head before you take off as to where to go. And for him, he just had to go immediately where he could get concealment.
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Grant Stinchfield
Do you go up into these missions knowing this is a real possibility, or do these pilots, yourself included, Colonel, almost feel invincible? It's not going to happen to me. It happens to others.
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Lt. Col. Wendy Rogers
Oh, you always know. I mean, you have the comfort of an air conditioned cockpit and so forth, but you're always on edge. Now, I'm not a fighter pilot. I flew transports. I didn't have a parachute except during pilot training and then afterward in this scenario that I described. But you know that in a split second things can change. And you have to always, always be alert, be ready, and be prepared for the worst possible scenario. And this is how being an Air Force pilot has made the biggest impression on me. And we raised our kids this way. And my grandkids, I tell them, you have to take care of everything you know you can take care of. In other words, you have to take care of all the known coefficients. And then when the gotchas prop up to bite you, you are the best prepared. Because as the pastors, the scientists said, chance favors the prepared.
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Grant Stinchfield
Yeah. Such good advice. Lieutenant Colonel Wendy Rogers. We always appreciate you coming on the program and keep us posted on this as this plays out. I can't wait to start to hear from this pilot too, by the way, and you mentioned he's a colonel. Is that real quick? Is that common that a colonel would be in the backseat like that? I thought all you guys start to go behind desks once you get a colonel next to your name.
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Lt. Col. Wendy Rogers
Well, I have to say it surprised me when I first heard he was a colonel. I thought, oh, he was a lieutenant colonel like me. Which would mean maybe he was the operations officer, being a wizzo and not a pilot. So yeah, I'm not sure. He has to maybe have been at the wing level and still flying. I had a job like that flying Learjets out of Ramstein where I was at a headquarters job. But I flew part time and I always flew with someone who had more day to day experience than I was having. So yeah, that'll be very curious. But gosh, God is good. And this single data point, I would say again, is really emblematic of the arc of the whole war in a way, which is we will do whatever it takes to win and we will not leave anyone behind.
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Grant Stinchfield
I agree with you 100%. Lt. Col. Wendy Rogers, as always, great to see you. Thank you for coming on.
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Lt. Col. Wendy Rogers
Thank you.
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Grant Stinchfield
All right. Absolutely fascinating. I can't wait to hear from this guy. And somebody will get to interview him. I don't know, maybe us if we're lucky. All right, so real quickly, another aspect of this war and I just love this. You remember Soleimani, the notorious, notorious general general that Trump terminated? Well, his niece and grand niece have now been or are awaiting deportation. They were caught living when I caught but they were living in Los Angeles. They had been given green cards there. His niece had applied for naturalization in July of 2025. This after claiming asylum, meaning you can't go back to Iran because it's too dangerous. But she admitted to going there four times to visit. Well, this is the niece of Soleimani. They had been talking about the Great Satan, the United States. And celebrating the death of American soldiers and the fight against America, Marco Rubio terminated their green cards. They are now headed out of the United States. All right. America is focused on strengthening domestic energy production and securing reliable resources for the future. One company working in that direction is Lost Soldier Oil and Gas. After decades of geological research and land assembly, Lost Soldier has developed a large natural gas project spanning approximately 40,000 acres in Wyoming's Rocky Mountain region. Independent engineering evaluations estimate the property contains significant natural gas resources, positioning it as a meaningful domestic energy opportunity that you can get involved with. Lost Soldiers development plan and includes a multi well drilling program designed to responsibly increase production over time using proven technologies. Growing demand from industries such as power generation, manufacturing and emerging data infrastructure continues to drive the need for reliable, cleaner burning natural gas. The company is led by an experienced management team with a long history in energy development and public markets. To learn more about all of this and how you can get involved with Lost Soldier Oil and gas, go to law soldier.com or just scan the QR code on your screen there. That's Lost soldier dot com. Hey, with Pam Bondi out as Attorney General, we need a fighter to replace her. I'll talk about my pick next. Welcome back, everyone. So where did Pam Bondi go wrong? Why is she leaving as Attorney General? I think it's because she didn't bring the heat like we wanted her to bring the heat. Not only like we wanted, like President Trump wanted, but then of course the left wants to blame it on MAGA influencers. I don't know People like me and others roll it.
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Lt. Col. Wendy Rogers
So I just. I actually think Pam, just to go back for a minute to Pam Bondi. I think Pam Bondi's original sin was
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Rachel Holt
getting on the wrong side of all
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Lt. Col. Wendy Rogers
those MAGA influencers with the binders, because once she did that, there was a big part of Trump's information bubble that was anti Bondi and was pushing for
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Rachel Holt
her to get fired.
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Grant Stinchfield
Well, I will tell you this. I wasn't pushing for her to get fired, but that was the infamous binder moment. We're going to release the Epstein files. And then everything in there had already been released. What a. What a joke. And, in fact, when I went to visit the White House, they said to me, don't worry, we don't have a binder for you. They knew that. It was awful. So now where do we go from here? There's a lot of talk about her successor being this Todd Blanche, who's the number two at doj, who I have been very outspoken about. I do not like this guy as the choice. He may be a nice guy, but I don't even know about that. There's evidence. He shut down the Weaponization of Government working group that President Trump ordered to be created under executive order. He shut down the Adam Schiff mortgage investigation. And you want to talk about influencers getting upset? This was on Lindell tv.
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Michael Preshent
Todd Blanche, my question to you is, by what justification did you close down the Weaponization working group, the very body that was instituted to evaluate the conduct of the doj. By what authority did you do that?
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Grant Stinchfield
That's a gentleman by the name of Kelly Walker who's been calling out Todd Blanch. I want to bring in now to discuss this journalist and author Joe Hoft to the program. Joe's also been calling out Todd Blanche. Joe, welcome to the program.
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Joe Hoft
Hey, great to be here, Grant.
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Grant Stinchfield
Thanks, Joe.
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Donald Trump
You.
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Grant Stinchfield
You've really looked into this, which is why I specifically wanted to get you on tonight. What is your problem with Todd Blanche? Why would you recommend to the Trump administration not to anoint this guy as the next Attorney general?
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Joe Hoft
I'm so glad you asked me. You know, the first I ever heard of Todd Blanche was back during the Trump indictments that were absolutely grotesque across the country. But he represented President Trump in New York in that Marshan case. That was just a sham. And in. In that case, they charged President Trump with 34 felonies, they said. And what President Trump did, they accused him of doing, was he received 11 envelopes in the mail.
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Donald Trump
He then.
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Joe Hoft
Which were invoices he then took those invoices and booked him into the financials of his business, which he's never done. No CEO ever books any of this stuff. It's lower level payroll stuff. And then third, the third set of 11 felonies, actually 14 was then he, he booked these entries into the books and then he made the payments. None of those things did President Trump do. I've overseen a multi billion dollar block of business in the finance world and I never made any entries into the book. Certain, certainly the CEO never did. That never happens. And that was the bulk of this case against Trump where they brought in Stormy Daniels. It was all a sham. I shared that information with a number of people in the administration. And yet they allowed that sham investigation and court case to continue despite it was based on all accounting interest, which President Trump likely never did. So Todd Blanche was running that case and he allowed Stormy Daniels to come in there. I don't know why he wasn't screaming at the abuse that was going on in that case. But Trump lost that case, if you remember too. So then, then Blanche comes into the organization, the doj. And I've heard like Kelly Walker, that he's been blocking these groups, this, this government, what is it, the protection group of that Kelly mentioned. I've heard that, yeah, he virtually shut that down. The guys that were there, they left because there was nothing there. They had no support and now it's just nothing. Ed Martin, my understanding, moved to another department over, over pardons. There's nobody running that group anymore. And like you said, it was an executive order that President Trump wanted done.
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Grant Stinchfield
What about this issue with Adam Schiff? We know that it's mortgage fraud related. What he, when he says his main residence is, is on the east coast when he's supposed to be representing the West Coast. I mean, and then now there's evidence that Blanchard basically shut that investigation down.
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Joe Hoft
That's absolutely right. We were actually, I talked to this girl named Chris Bish from California who sent us that information three years ago. We put it up at Gateway Pundit. And then it comes that now President Trump takes over. That was again presented to the doj. There was supposedly a grand jury that was going on in Virginia. She flew this Chris Byssh, flew on her own all the way from California to Virginia to, you know, to speak in front of that grand jury. Instead, the DOJ took her off to a side room and grilled her on what she knew about Ed Martin. And she called us and was saying this was outrageous. Of course it was we reported it, and then there was messages that, hey, we were not telling the truth, and, no, this didn't happen. And it did. It did. Now we see shifts never been charged.
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Grant Stinchfield
Let me show you one more little piece of evidence that I came across online today. This is a picture of Todd Blanche and Kaitlan Collins. Kaitlan Collins of mainstream media fame, who's been so awful to President Trump. That's the one that President Trump says you never smiled or. Well, she's constantly attacking President Trump. This is fairly recently. What in the world is Kaitlan Collins and. And Todd Blanche doing? Dining together. This raises all kinds of questions for me. Just that alone, on the face of it, Joe.
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Joe Hoft
Yeah, it's a great question. I've seen that picture before, too. It's like, what is going there with Mr. Blanche? I mean, this guy had a powerful role, still has it now. He's taking over the DOJ right now. And we know that there's a lot of people that have questioned him for months now that, hey, nothing's getting done. And when you look at it, this is one of the major things we all wanted was just bring some accountability back to our government, and it's not happening right now.
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Grant Stinchfield
Joe, real quick, who would be your pick if you had the choice?
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Joe Hoft
Well, I'd like to see somebody come in there, just tear the place apart, fire half of the team and replace them with individuals independent from outside the government, somebody like that. But I think Trump's leaning towards Lee Zeldin. He seems to be a Trump supporter. The nice thing about Zelda is he's already been. He's already been through the Senate. He's already been approved, so he could move him in right away. So I don't know what you think about that. I'd be interested.
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Grant Stinchfield
Yeah. I mean, Zelda seems like a decent guy. I love the idea of Harmony Dillon, too. She seems great. And what she's doing, there's a whole number of choices. Todd Blanche is not one of mine. Joe Hoff, as always, it's great to talk to you. Thank you, Joe. Hoff.com and of course, the Gateway Pundit as well. Both of those websites you should visit. All right, folks, what Operation Epic Fury and the odds of a peace deal mean for your portfolio. That's next. Welcome back, everyone. It is if you love the stock market the way I do, and many of you are older or looking at those retirement accounts and saying, you know what, at least last week we started to see some inching in the right direction after, what, a 10% correction. The only hiccup in all of this is that this Iranian thing gets totally long, drawn out and protracted. I don't think that's going to happen. President Trump hinted at that not happening today. Listen, the thing, if I had my
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Donald Trump
choice, what would I like to do?
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Grant Stinchfield
Take the oil.
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Donald Trump
Because it's there for the taking. There's not a thing they can do about it. Unfortunately, the American people would like to see us come home. If we're up to me, I'd take
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Grant Stinchfield
the oil, I'd keep the oil, and
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Donald Trump
we'd make plenty of money. And I'd also take care of the people of Iran much better than they've been taking care of.
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Grant Stinchfield
So that's President Trump. I mean, you know where this guy stands always. He's an open book. He wants the oil, but he also says he knows America doesn't have tolerance to stay there. So where do we go from here? Especially when it comes to the markets. I want to bring in now. Vertical Research Advisory CEO Kip Herridge is with us. Kip, it's always good to see you. Welcome back. All right, Kip, you had mentioned that this 10% correction is, I don't want to say normal, but we shouldn't be too concerned about it. You think we're on the rebound here?
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Kip Herridge
I do. I do. These are. Can you hear me okay, by the way? Just make sure I do.
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Grant Stinchfield
I got.
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Kip Herridge
Someone just said I might be muted. Good. Yeah. These are normal. Grant, every first of all, every 13 months, the stock market has a 10% correction. That's on average. So what we're seeing now is normal. But also during geopolitical shocks like this war has been, there's a 15 to 20 trading day period where the markets typically bottom. We reached that period last Monday when the markets bottom at midday on Monday. And finally, and this might be the most important for your viewers to know, every midterm election year we have a correction. It's anywhere from 5 to 15, 20%. Right now, we just had one 10% SBF, 113% of NASDAQ. But it's what happens next is most important because after midterm election year corrections over the next 12 months, the markets have an average gain of 38%. Grant. That's where we think we are now. We think the markets have bottomed. We're adding two positions here. And we've compared this to a generational bull market similar to dot com in Dotcom, where I worked on Wall street, helped take three companies public, managed a bunch of money during the dot com boom. And during that timeframe, NASDAQ went up 575%. We've never had a boom like that. But during that timeframe, there are also five different 10 to 20%. Correction. So this is part and parcel of investing volatility comes. That's the price of admission for investing. And yeah, we're buying now.
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Grant Stinchfield
All right, it's been a rough say, four or five weeks to say the least. Clearly you, you're feeling better about things now than Kip. What is the only hiccup that could throw a monkey wrench into all of this?
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Kip Herridge
Well, I think the big thing is earnings. And we're going to find out next week. Q1 earnings kickoff. This is a real driver for the markets. The markets are driven by two things, GDP growth, economic health and corporate earnings. That's what drives the markets. If you get that right, you're going to make money in the markets. We think we've got that right. We expect GDP growth to top 5% this year, 10% in a couple of years. Again, we're in an innovation revolution, a generational bull market. We don't think there'll be another bull market like this for 100 years. And by the way, we called this three years ago before the bull market started. We're the first to call. We're the most bullish strategist in America for the last four years. And so next week we'll get corporate earnings starting from the big banks. Analysts continue to raise their estimates. Right now, analysts are forecasting 13% earnings growth for Q1. We expect we'll see maybe 18% earnings growth. So again, we're extraordinarily bullish, but that's what we want to pay attention to.
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Grant Stinchfield
All right, this is what you get when you subscribe to your newsletter and go to vrainsider.com that's vrainsider.com right now. Two weeks. Kip will give you a two week access to everything back end, you name it. If you just go to vrainsider.com sign up. I got your newsletter this morning. I follow the VRA system. 10 to 15 positions. That's really, it's not day trading. It's a somewhat of a hold system. So I looked this morning, you had said the Trump economic miracle and you talked about deportations and that wages are not suppressed. I have a question for you. Is there a fear though that since wages start to go up, would inflation go up? And how does those two things balance with what you're saying about the Trump economic miracle?
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Kip Herridge
That's a great question. This is what every Federal Reserve chairman knows, but they can't say publicly. And economic growth does not cause inflation. It never has, it never will. They use that as cover. And right now they're using as cover to keep rates high. Grant, once we get interest rates coming down and that'll start happening in May, we get Kevin Wash a new Fed chair. The stock market and the economy are going to go parabolic. But no, wage growth, economic growth does not, has never caused inflation.
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Grant Stinchfield
All right, and real quick, the great thing about your newsletter are you pick stocks that a lot of people haven't heard about. Some of them they have heard about. I'll admit there's a couple on there that everybody's heard about, but there's some nobody's ever heard about. I think this is the secret to your success, Kip.
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Kip Herridge
It is. I love finding undiscovered stocks. I've done it my whole career. This is kind of what I built my name on on Wall Street. My first big winner went up 20,000%. A $10,000 investment turned into more than $13 million. That company is called Ultra Petroleum. And that kind of made my name on Wall Street. But that's what we do. We do hard nosed research. We're old school guys. We're a family business. Both my boys work with us. My wife, we're Texas based, fifth generation native Texans. We're proud patriots. We love beating the markets. We've done that 19 to 22 years. We've averaged 37% over the last three years. And a big part of that is finding undiscovered investments that have the potential to go up more than 1,000%.
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Grant Stinchfield
All right, well look, people have two weeks to get this for free. And you go to vrainsider.com. kip, I'm going to tell them exactly how to find you. As always, thanks for coming on the program. Here's what you do, folks. VRainsider.com right now again, a free two week membership that gives you access to the back end. You'll get all the positions that I hold. Now. I took a large portion of my portfolio and moved it to the VRA system. And I couldn't be happier. VRainsider.com that's VRainsider.com. all right, up next, meet the artist behind Real America's music. Latest release called Ammunition. It's next. Morning. All right, folks, welcome back. There's a new song out by Real America's Music called Ammunition. The woman behind that is fabulous. Her name's Rachel Holt. We put this together for you.
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Narrator (Music Segment)
Hey, America. Get ready to download new music by this young star in the making. From the small town of Milan, Indiana, the home of hoosiers.
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Grant Stinchfield
The end of the game. In my book. We're going to be winners.
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Narrator (Music Segment)
Rachel holt is a rising voice in country music with deep bluegrass roots.
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Rachel Holt
I don't really relate to many people my age because I kind of. I grew up more like traditional values. I think the world's changed a lot.
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Narrator (Music Segment)
Raised in a family of musicians, she's carved her own path with a sound blending grit, soul, and storytelling.
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Rachel Holt
I sing in church growing up and stuff, but that was about it. And I started to take it seriously during around Covid. I started playing shows in local bars around my hometown and stuff, and that's when it all pretty much took off.
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Grant Stinchfield
Rachel Holt.
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Rachel Holt
Rachel.
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Michael Preshent
Rachel Holt.
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Narrator (Music Segment)
Now in her early 20s, she's already shared the stage with legends and charted on billboard.
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Rachel Holt
I do feel kind of a bit like an outcast.
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General (Unnamed)
You feel like you're more of a.
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Grant Stinchfield
An old soul.
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Rachel Holt
Yeah, pretty much.
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Narrator (Music Segment)
When she was 18, she went number one on the billboard chart with a pro life song. The democrats hate her for it, but she isn't backing down.
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Rachel Holt
I had a bunch of godless, pro abortion people coming at me for that song. We just put out ammunition, and it's kind of a response song to those people. Go stream it.
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Narrator (Music Segment)
This is ram artist Rachel Holt, the future of country music,
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Grant Stinchfield
America's music family. Now with me to discuss, this is the artist behind ammunition, singer and songwriter Rachel Holt. Rachel, welcome to the program.
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Rachel Holt
Hi. Thank you so much for having me.
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Grant Stinchfield
Well, it's good to have you on. So tell me ammunition. I'm going to play a little clip here in a minute, but what was the thought process behind it?
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Rachel Holt
Well, this song, like I said in that video you guys just watched, we
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Lt. Col. Wendy Rogers
made that video recently.
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Rachel Holt
That was about the second time I've seen it. But ammunition is kind of a response song to that pro life song I put out in 2024 a couple years back that went number one on billboard. And I got a lot of hate for that song. And I was just 18 years old. But, you know, you can't really say anything back to these people beside if you say something in your music. So this song is kind of a response to that.
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Grant Stinchfield
All right, let's play a clip of ammunition. Roll it, guys.
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Rachel Holt
Ammunition.
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Grant Stinchfield
All right, Rachel. Bold words for a. A young lady. And I mean, I'm curious how you made this progression to actually be speaking out through music. And I think it's so important people do. You did it.
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Rachel Holt
Yeah. So very often you hear people say, you know, keep politics, keep religion, all that out of music, you know, especially country music. But I think if you have that platform, you should use that to mean something for fans and everybody, you know.
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Grant Stinchfield
All right, let's play one more clip for you. Roll the next one, guys.
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Rachel Holt
You can only fire so many times till you hear the click of what you did. And it's my turn. Oh, it's my turn. So bring it. Knock me, tear me, rock me.
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Grant Stinchfield
All right, so I actually thought you might have been talking about an old boyfriend.
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Rachel Holt
Well, it can mean many different situations because I do it as that as well.
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Grant Stinchfield
All right, so. So what's next, Rachel Holt? What can we expect from you?
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Rachel Holt
We're working on an EP and an album as well. So I'm about to have about five songs coming out here soon around summertime, so stay tuned for that. And I think we're going to do a music video on the next one coming out, and it's a beach song, so that'll be a good one for summertime. Coming up.
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Grant Stinchfield
Your thoughts, Rachel, about Real America's music and what we're doing here at Real America's Voice.
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Rachel Holt
I think it's awesome. Thank you guys so much for having me. I think it's the third time I've been on your guys show and I love it. I've actually never heard of you guys till now, but of course, I'm only 20, so I don't know too much about all that, but I really love that. I think you guys are doing a great.
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Grant Stinchfield
Well, let me tell you something, Rachel. You found your new home for tv. If you want to learn stuff, you tune it in right here to Real America's voice, especially at 7pm Eastern time. Rachel Holt, thank you. So Rachel's going to be like my very special lady friend's daughter. She's like, what is this guy talking about? I should be watching, watching the show and my son. Get out of here, Stitchfield. No. We're so happy to have here her along for the ride now. And the music coming out of Real America's music is nothing short of fantastic. I'll tell you what, even I'm impressed. I mean, you know, Nashville, they ain't got nothing on real America's music. Nothing. All right. President Trump educates the youth of America about Biden's failed presidency. Next. Foreign. You know, it's very important that a president can give the kids a history lesson. That's what President Trump did today. While signing autographs at the annual Easter Egg Roll.
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Donald Trump
He was in cape of. So they'd follow him around with this big machine, you know what it's called? An autopen. And he'd have the auto pen sign. He'd take the paper, hand it to his guys, sign it with an autopen, give it back. Not too good, right?
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Grant Stinchfield
Not too good, right? An auto pen, as he says. How do you not love this guy? I'm telling you. He even tells it to the kids straight. That's why we love them. All right, folks, that's gonna do it for us tonight. Thanks so much for watching. I hope all of you had a fabulous Easter. I'm gonna go watch the NCAA finals now. All right. Men's basketball championships. Go Yukon. I think that's who I'm rooting for anyway. I like this Dan Hurley guy, the coach.