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Grant Stinchfield
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Grant Stinchfield
Well Good evening everyone. Welcome to Stitchfield. Take a look at that Truth social post. A whole civilization will not die tonight. Apparently at least a ceasefire agreement has been reached as President Trump spells out that Iran has given them a 10 point plan which he believes is workable. This two week cease fire, a two way ceasefire mind you, is all subject to on Iran opening up the Straits of Hormuz, immediately. Okay, this Truth Social post just came out moments ago and I will tell you this, this is good news. President Trump says we can do this and afford to do this because we have finished the job. All right, for the most part, here's J.D. vance. And first of all, the United States
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has largely accomplished its military objectives.
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Grant Stinchfield
There are still some things that we'd like to do.
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For example, an Iranian ability to manufacture weapons that we'd like to do a little bit more on militarily.
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Grant Stinchfield
But fundamentally, the military objectives of the United States have been completed. So that means, as the President has said, very shortly this war is going to conclude. And I think the nature of the conclusion is ultimately up to the Iranians. While the Iranians, through the Pakistanis have come back with this 10 point plan. We'll see where it goes. I don't have high hopes for it, but I am glad there's a ceasefire now as take a look at this. The Iranian regime has had members of the public surround power plants with civilians. I believe they're being held at gunpoint. We'll get to that a little later in the program. This is not them wanting to do this, but it really puts President Trump in a very difficult position because nobody wants innocent civilians killed. Bridges as well, if you look at video as well that's being released, of course by the regime, it could be propaganda. Iranians on these bridges, I don't know how you blow those up, but these pictures should tell you everything you need to know about this regime that is using innocent civilians as human shields. Here's our UN Ambassador, Mike Walsh, the Secretary General himself affirmed Iran hides military hardware and hospitals and, and schools and civilian neighborhoods for propaganda purposes in the most sick and despicable way. Don't take that from me. Take that. From the Secretary General and his own report now to Trump's initial words, which literally set the left on fire, that an entire civilization will die tonight. Does anybody other than those on the left, which I don't even think they do, really believe that he meant killing 92 million people? He did not. This is President Trump sending a message to the regime. This is how you talk to bruisers and bullies, which is what the Iranian regime is. So now you've got all of this happening and you've got to make sure that we get a deal that's acceptable to everyone, that they don't just come popping back up. Now, the only hiccup in all of this is when you have a regime willing to commit suicide, threatening with, with death Is it going to work on a crew like that? But maybe there's something else to President Trump's words. Maybe they knew that this could have been, you know what, maybe a misdirection. Glenn Beck summed it up this way. So a, the 8 o' clock thing is probably not accurate. But more importantly, why would he say, I'm going to hit all of the electrical plants tonight, I'm going to take all your.
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David Bozell
He wouldn't say that.
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Grant Stinchfield
That is so. This is such a brilliant observation, Jason, that he would never say that. Why would he say that? Because right now they are positioning everything around the power plants. Maybe hit someplace else the old rope a dope. It's actually a decent assessment. I believe the other side to this could have been President Trump. Hey, I'm going to tell you what I'm going to do right now. You're so debilitated. We've destroyed everything. El else, this is your last chance. And if that's what it was, it may have just worked here. As we get this late deal on the table, I want to bring in now counterintelligence expert, CEO of Black Ops Partners and author of Red Tsunami. Casey Fleming is with us tonight. Casey, welcome back to the show.
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Casey Fleming
Thanks for having me.
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Grant Stinchfield
All right, what do you make of this deal? We haven't seen the ten point plan. President Trump says it's workable. A two week cease fire, providing they open up the straits. Your thoughts of here we are just moments before 8:00 Eastern time. Your thoughts?
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Casey Fleming
He keeps moving the goalpost. He's threatened this five different times and then keeps moving it out. Remember, you cannot negotiate with terrorists. We learned that decades and decades ago and yet that's what he's trying to do. So anybody who blinks, loses. And that's kind of what we did by kicking the gold goalpost out a little bit further for two more weeks. And remember, you know, targeting, you know, bridges and plants and you know, power plants and desalinization plants with human beings and innocent civilians is, is against war, you know, war law and war crime. So it's, it's a conundrum.
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Grant Stinchfield
I'm interested though, when you say he blinked. We have obliterated Iran. Would you not agree that he's right, that it'll take 20 years to rebuild what we've already done? It's, it's not like he has much more to do other than the power plan and the oil facilities.
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Casey Fleming
I agree. However, you're dealing with a terrorist organization and you can't negotiate with terrorists. You know, they have nothing to live for and everything to die for. They have a martyr type of ideology. So when we decapitated 50 of their people, they just went further underground. The Chinese have been in there for over 10 years supporting them and building capabilities, manufacturing, as well as. As command and control inside their mountains and so on. You can't. You can't ignore that piece of it. We treated them like a typical enemy where you decapitate them, they. They give up, and you basically come in and take over. Remember, first and foremost, they are a terrorist organization, Casey.
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Grant Stinchfield
Yes, but. But. Well, you can't say we treated them like a typical enemy. I don't remember any other American war being run like this with the might and force of the American military in such a short period of time. We certainly didn't run Vietnam like that. We didn't end the job in Iraq the first time around. I'm 57 years old. You'd have to go back to World War II and then we didn't even do it then in the speedy time that we've done it now.
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Casey Fleming
Well, it's. It's true. Iraq, the second time around, the shock and awe was, Was on the same type of scale. But the point is, we don't have what we want. We don't have a complete regime change in Iran. The Iranian people are not free. And once again, we're actually going to the table saying, okay, we've got two more weeks. Open up the strait, and so on. In fact, the Chinese have basically, they get all of their oil out of the Strait of Hormuz, and they came back and softened their rhetoric against the United States and said, hey, look, you know, open the strait. You're choking us with our oil. And so you've got all these different inner workings that are happening right now, and we didn't. This isn't a clear win, trust me.
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Grant Stinchfield
I'm so curious by this, and I am interested in your opinion here, because I look at what President Trump has done, and nobody's talking about it. He put a coalition together in the Middle East. You now have these Middle east countries that are begging President Trump to finish the job, maybe more than Israel's begging them to finish the job. You have China, just as you said, soften their rhetoric. When was the last time you heard China softening their rhetoric? Not in a really, really long time. We've put China on the ropes with this maneuver. We've got to have victories there. Do you agree, Casey?
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Casey Fleming
I don't. I think this is emboldening. China. The bigger picture is the Chinese Communist Party and the unrestricted war that they have against the US and the rest of the world. The people, the American people and the rest of the world should not be, you know, what do you call it, Dismayed or distracted? Distracted by the war of the week or the war of the month. The bigger picture is the Chinese Communist Party, who's behind this entire thing.
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Grant Stinchfield
Agreed, 100%. I'll ask you this last question. What would you have wanted President Trump to do differently now? They put human civilians around. You don't want them bombing the bridges with a bunch of human civilians, innocent civilians on the bridge, do you?
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Casey Fleming
No, I would have preferred to have more of a Mossad CIA operation up front and going in and doing the damage from that perspective, as much as they possibly could. I don't think that that was exposed enough ahead of time. And that's what you do with a terrorist organization. You fight it on their level, not on the level that we're working on right now. Incidentally, you know, the CCP is behind this thing very strongly. They're manufacturing 10,000 of these Shahed drones every single day. So it's, it's something that, you know, it's not just Iran. It is China and Russia behind this thing as well, and they are playing their pawn right now, which is Iran.
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Grant Stinchfield
Well, I agree that China is a big problem here, though in my opinion, China has been somewhat neutered in all of this. We'll agree to disagree on that. Casey Fleming, I appreciate you coming on. The book, of course, is the Red Tsunami, talking about China, and it is a great book and some great insight there. Casey, thank you for coming on the program.
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Casey Fleming
Thanks for having me.
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Grant Stinchfield
Absolutely. When he talks about the CIA operations, didn't we try that? Wasn't Iran Contra all about that? Didn't we try that for Hearst in Iraq and Afghanistan, People embedded and these wars lasted forever. I like the shock and awe that President Trump just carried out. And I think you have to give every opportunity for a peace deal. And look, every opportunity. Iran is destroyed right now, as President Trump has pointed out. Destroyed. All right, turning now to the other story that the left's going crazy on. President Trump says he's going to jail. The leaker that leaked the information that we had a second airman missing, that leaker inside the Pentagon could have gotten a United States Air Force man killed. Roll the next clip.
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David Bozell
The concern is understandable, but President Trump then turned to threaten jail time for the journalist who did the story and said that if that Reporter refuses to get up their source, they could go to prison. That's interesting because one would think that the freedom of the press is one of the many principles our brave service members are fighting for.
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Grant Stinchfield
Hey you freaking ding dong. I hate these mainstream media folks like Jay Tapper. A reporter does not have protection to protect a source, especially a criminal source. They're no bigger or better than anybody else. You have to give up the source if a court orders it. You may not like it, but that's the law. The Supreme Court has upheld that over and over again. It's not about running the story. It's about not giving up the source. Now I want to bring in and discuss this former CIA operative and Air Force veteran Nick McKinley is with us. Nick, welcome to the program.
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Nick McKinley
Thanks for having me.
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Grant Stinchfield
All right, Nick, your specialty is, let's just say spying, evasion, all this kind of Jack Reacher stuff. How much of a problem was this leak for this Air Force man who was on the ground running from the Iranians?
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Nick McKinley
Well, it's a, it's a huge problem. When you say that I was an Air Force veteran, what's actually defined that I was actually in an Air Force pararescueman. So the, the very, the very Air Force combat search and rescue personnel that you see actually performing this rescue operation. That's what I trained to do and that, that's what I did. And so with firsthand knowledge of how, how absolutely crushing it could be to the mission for obviously the second airman to, for information to be known. Because if you've got a small cesar force that is planning an operation to go get this airman and then all of a sudden the fact that this airman is missing, which is classified information, is leaked. Now the Iranians know to go start looking for him. I think that's why we ended up with. Instead of just a small package which is what picked up the pilot in the beginning, you ended up with. My intel tells me there was over 200 JSOC operators on the ground. They essentially had to assault that mountain in order to get this guy back.
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Grant Stinchfield
Yeah, I was told SEAL Team 6 was involved as well. You had over 200 personnel, as you mentioned, aircraft out the wazoo. Now this guy's on the ground. You have intimate knowledge of when you're evading an enemy force. What's going through his mind? How did he, I mean, boy, he's really the hero in all of this because he managed to stay away from the Iranians. How hard a task was that?
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Nick McKinley
I have to imagine it was an extremely difficult task from the information we know. I've heard that he moved over five miles, climbed to the top of, I believe it was a 7,000 foot mountain, to find a place to hole up and evade capture. Had he been captured, obviously he would have been used as a pawn on the chessboard. The Iranians, God knows what they would have done. They maybe would have traded him. It would have been an earlier ceasefire under terms we didn't want to, but we know that the Iranians aren't going to treat him as well as we would treat their own people. So the fact that he evaded capture is what was really the key thing in all of this. Because if, if he would have been captured, this whole conversation that, that you just had about this ceasefire would have been a very, very different outcome.
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Grant Stinchfield
Do you think for the enemy, this may have been a dagger? I mean, I know we blow up their airplanes, we've sunk their navy, all these things, but they had 48 hours virtually to capture this guy and they couldn't do it. That had to be debilitating, at least to their resolve.
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Nick McKinley
I think you can go all the way back to the Maduro capture to see that the entire world has been put on notice. Whether anybody agrees with the reasons that Trump decided to go into Iran or decided to capture Maduro. The one thing everybody has to agree on is that the United States military has had the leash taken off. And the United States military has proven time and time again over the last year that there's nothing that's off limits to them. So I do think that they already knew that this was a losing battle for them as soon, as soon as the United States engaged.
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Grant Stinchfield
Yeah, great stuff. Nick McKinley, I appreciate you coming on the program. Thank you so much for your service to this country, too. I know you put your life on the line for us and we certainly appreciate it. It.
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Nick McKinley
It's my pleasure. You were worth it.
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Grant Stinchfield
Absolutely. Hey, how about that? You know, there's a lot of people out there say he just said Stitchfield was worth it. I don't think so. There's a whole slew of people. I'm gonna save that clip. And I know he wasn't just talking about me, he was talking about a whole slew of people. I like it, though. All right, on to the mainstream media. I, you know, I just am. Am done with them rooting against America. And now we get the idea of war crimes. War crimes. War crimes. For the guys behind the glass. Roll cut 21. For me, of this idea that President Trump is Somehow committing war crimes, going after what could be dual targets, a military target and a civilian target. But it's used by the military, which makes it 100% legal. Talking about power plants and bridges. Roll it. We have a completely unhinged president who is threatening massive war crimes. The clear answer is, yes, it would be a war crime. Appear evil and insanity, some sort of, like, homicidal psychopath. Is the end game really to blow up all of Iran and actually commit war crimes. And then they want to misdirect you. All right, take. Take Chuck Todd, for instance, who literally wants you to believe that President Trump is about to use nuclear weapons. There is no evidence of that whatsoever. Roll the Chuck Todd clip. It's a reminder. You got to ask the question who. We're worried about a radical in Iran getting their hands on a nuclear weapon. What about what's going on in our country? Understanding the way he thinks like I think I do, I can see him talking himself into the ultimate weapon here in his head. I do. I could see him being that crazy. Remember, Chuck Todd worked for NBC, was supposed to be an independent journalist. Not a chance. President Trump's not using a nuclear bomb to take out 92 million Iranians. You've heard how he speaks so highly about them. I want to bring in now to discuss all of this. President of the Media Research center, the man responsible for exposing the mainstream media for a lot of this bias. David Bozell is with us. David, it's great to have you back, Grant.
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David Bozell
Appreciate it, buddy. I want to be worth it, too, just like you.
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Grant Stinchfield
Yeah, right. I think to that, to that gentleman, we're all worth it. I think, David and I, I promise you there's a lot out there that think you aren't worth it either. But sure. But what we do for coming on the program, for sure. Your reaction to this war crime stuff, the misdirection from the media. We're seeing it over and over again as this plays out.
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David Bozell
Yeah, Grant, look, I just think it's Trump derangement syndrome on steroids. And I actually project it in the future. If the Democrats were to re. Were to reclaim. The majority is in the House and the Senate. They're going to try to impeach this president. And why bother with an investigation about some corruption case that they'll probably take months to be able to prove? If they could, which they most likely could not. Why not just go straight for the jugular and go after war crimes and try to come up with some international kabuki court to suggest that you know, he killed civilians or he violated international norms and therefore he shouldn't be impeached and therefore he should be thrown out of office. That's what I really think this is all about. And all these ideas permeate and kind of begin on Blue Sky. This Blue sky brigade where these leftists and these leftist journalists hang out. Their sources are typically NGOs, international human rights advocacy organizations that just feed this stuff day in and day out. It's every single network we've gone beyond just typical negativity toward the president. And you struggle to see if any legacy network is actually rooting for the home team. I mean, Ms. Now, right, this was o' Donnell, that President Trump was humiliated, that Iran had humiliated President Trump by knocking down the planes. CNN had a lefty activist journalist saying that Iranians have all the cards. We do not. American stock seems to be going down every single day. Iran seemed to be going up. You played the Chuck Todd clip. Pbs. Thank God. President Trump defunded those guys. PBS declared. They had a guest on there declaring hexis has. Has already directed the committing of war crimes. I mean, I guess they're just judge, jury and executioner all in one clip. So this is, again, this is just Trump derangement syndrome on steroids. I remember a time, I think you do, too. We could debate whether or not the American servicemen and women should be sacrificing their treasure to go into these places. But once they were ordered to do so, we all rallied around them and we rallied around their success and we were led by the media in that effort. And you just don't get that anymore these days.
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Grant Stinchfield
I bring it up all the time, David, in that we can disagree all we want. And I love disagreement. That's what America is all about. You can have dissent and listen to the other side, learn from the other side if there's anything to learn from. But once they go in, you've got to support them, you've got to pray for them. You've got to hope for the most positive outcome possible. And I really don't think they want a positive outcome. I'll play for you a clip of Ro Khanna just on this afternoon on Fox news. Now, Martha McCallum pushes back against him a little bit, but listen to this. We've made Iran become a more hardline state and the enriched uranium is still buried. Okay, so let me ask you something. So don't ever stand up and fight against this, what you just called an evil regime. What. What do you suggest? Because I don't think 40 years of weakness on this front. I don't think we go in and start declaring war against every evil regime in the world. Should we go and declare war against Putin again? It sounds to me, David, like Ro Khanna wants to lose. Now, Fox gives him a platform. That's fine. Martha pushed back. That's fine. But this seems to be coming from the Democrats, a common theme. Last word.
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David Bozell
Yeah, it's a, it's a, it's a weak talking point. Look, I want to find the thousand pounds of uranium just as much as the next guy. We've been in there for five weeks. We've probably only been in country to go rescue this pilot. We'll get in there and get it. Give us some time, and the good guys will get in there and get it. And perhaps that's what this cease fire is all about. And I want to congratulate the president and the Iranians for coming to some senses here and letting some cooler heads prevail. But you know this. I mean, think about what Ro Khanna is defending. He's defending a regime that has parked women and children in front of its electricity grid in order to stop a missile from coming in and destroying it. Military electricity, military installation. They're parking women and children in front of it. That's who Ru Khan is defending and not the American military. It's beyond the pain.
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Grant Stinchfield
As you know, Media Research center news busters will expose it every time. They'll defend anybody that's on the other side of President Trump and literally including regimes like that. You guys do such great work and thank you for putting many of your folks on loan to us each evening. We appreciate you, David. Thank you.
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David Bozell
Appreciate it, brother. Take care.
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Grant Stinchfield
Absolutely. You take care. All right, folks, do you owe back taxes or of unfiled tax returns filed every year, but still keep owing? However your tax issue started, the result is always the same, right? Your balance is not going down. Penalties grow, interest compounds. How many of you are about to owe again this year with no plan in place? Well, stop what you're doing and call Tax Network usa. The IRS can garnish wages, levy bank accounts and even take your home or retirement. With over 15 years in business, they have seen and resolved it all. Helping taxpayers, many of them Real America's Voice viewers nationwide settled over $1 billion in tax debt. Call 1-800-905-8000. That's 1-800-905-8000 or visit tnusa.com forward/rav. All right, we'll have more on Iran in a little bit, but coming up next, Gavin Newsom's $20 minimum wage backfiring in California. Steve Hilton is up next.
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Grant Stinchfield
Welcome back everyone. California's minimum wage soars to $20 and what happened? Exactly what I warned about jobs would be lost. About 107,000 jobs lost because of this 14.5% rise in fast food costs at these fast food restaurants. Listen to this from the local news out there in California, you can't deny that places are closing.
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Mark Bruner
Big, big chains are closing. People are getting laid off. I mean, there is no denying that.
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Grant Stinchfield
One of the guys that warned about this with me when I was out on the radio out in Los Angeles was of course, Steve Hilton. He's now a Republican candidate for governor in California, a man with the Trump endorsement, officially. My buddy, Steve Hilton is here. Congratulations, my friend. Thank you.
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Steve Hilton
Thank you so much. And that guy we just saw, that Tom Manza, he's a friend of mine and a big supporter of mine. He's so right. I mean, look, most of my career has been in business and you run businesses, especially in the areas that you're talking about. You know that. It's a nightmare. I mean, I've run restaurants back in the day. It's a hard enough business anyway without loading on all these ridiculous costs and bureaucracy and hassles. Everyone knows that this would be the result. And look at where we are. It's just no wonder, is it that we have the highest unemployment rate in America of all 50 states. That's California under Gavin Newsom.
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Grant Stinchfield
All right, Steve, Los Angeles takes it a step further and says we're going to go with $30 minimum wage for hotel. They say raise it $2.50. Well now 6% losses in jobs every year leading up to 2030 when this has to be instituted. As governor, how do you rein all this in?
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Steve Hilton
So you got to reverse what I call the Democrat doom loop. So this is what happens. They put in place all these stupid policies that raise the cost of everything. So their climate dogma that pushes up gas prices and electric bills makes everything and housing costs and groceries makes everything more expensive. And so they look around and say, wait, people can't afford things because it's so expensive. We'd better raise the minimum wage so that they can make life. You can afford stuff. Well then what happens? The rising minimum wage increases businesses costs so prices go up again so things even less affordable. So then they have to make it even worse. And you go round and round in this doom loop. We've got to reverse the pattern. We've got to actually lower costs. The starting point is that we're going to end the climate dogma, dump it so that instead of five, six, seven or eight dollar gas in California, we can have three dollar gas. That's the starting point. And then good things will flow from that.
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Grant Stinchfield
Steve, I've often said one of the important things about your campaign for governor in California as a Republican is it's really a rebuke of Gavin Newsom. And in many respects you're running against Gavin Newsom policies. One of the things Democrats do is they'll basically pee on your leg and tell you it's raining. Okay? That's a standard method for the Democrats. Everything's great in California. Listen to Gavin Newsom last month on Jimmy Kimmel Cut three.
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David Bozell
It's interesting. It's all stay with universal health care. It's $25 minimum wage for health care workers, $20 minimum wage for fast food workers. Yes, it has a progressive tax code, but it's very different than the tax systems in places like Texas and Florida that tax their lowest wage earners more than we tax our highest wage earners. The question is, who is the high tax state?
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Grant Stinchfield
Steve, just because I live in Texas, I want to correct him. We don't have an income tax here. Okay. In Texas. So I don't know what he's talking about. Your response to him there, which is laughable.
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Steve Hilton
I mean the thing about him that I've noticed now especially he's been on this ridiculous book tour, there's a sort of shamelessness to his lying. It's so brazen. He just says things that are obviously verifiably not true. And no one's facts fact checks him. Occasionally they do. Katie Couric did it. He didn't know how handle it at all. Of course it's ridiculous to say that we pay the highest taxes in the, we have the highest income tax rate, the highest state sales tax rate, the highest gas tax. I mean it's, those are verifiable numbers. So he's just talking absolute nonsense. And, but the real point is not just that the taxes are so high, it's what we get in exchange. We pay the highest taxes for the worst results. That is not a good deal. It's another reason we're going to kick them out this year.
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Grant Stinchfield
Yeah, I'm confident you will. Hey, before I let you go, I know you're pressed for time. The Trump endorsement is huge. One of my producers young man asked me, says, does that hurt him in California with all the moderates and the lefties and all this stuff? I said no. You've got to rally the base. He's got huge support from the, from the, from, from his base. 80% from Maga in big support of him right now. Your thoughts on the Trump endorsement and how much it helps you out there in California?
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Steve Hilton
I think you're exactly right. And I think that one of the problems that's been here in California for years is Republican candidates have assumed that the only way you can try and win in California is to water it down, be a bit of a wishy washy candidate, distance yourself from Trump, all of that. So that's not true. You've got to get an enthusiastic voter turnout. And that's what it's all about. And when you get that there are enough Republicans. Here's another way of putting it. We did the math. If everybody who voted for President Trump in California in 2024 votes for me in 2026, I'll be elected governor with hundreds of thousands of votes to spare. There are enough Trump voters, never mind Republican voters in California, to make me governor. It's all about getting them out to vote in November. And so this will help tremendously with that.
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Grant Stinchfield
Well, it's great news. And this is why you have my support, Steve Hilton, because you're bold that way. You don't shy away from your conservative values, from, from your MAGA base. And I love it. Steve HiltonForGovernor.com is the website. Thank you, buddy, for coming on as always.
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Steve Hilton
Great to be with you. See you soon.
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Grant Stinchfield
Absolutely. Congratulations again. Look, there were two Republicans running in this race. Sheriff Bianco is the other, and Bianco didn't get it. And I'll just leave it at that. All right, folks, Todd Blanche, I've talked a lot about him. He is the second in command of the DOJ in a position now with Pam Bondi leaving to be put into the top spot. I'm not a fan of Todd Blanche, but our pressure seems to have been working. Listen to him coming out and finally talking tough today.
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Steve Hilton
People in this room, okay, people in this room, for four years, some of you same people sat here with the last administration when you saw a weaponization
- [35:29]
Grant Stinchfield
of this department, the likes of which
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Steve Hilton
had never been seen in history. And some of you are looking down now, and I get it, because you had a president who was indicted four times by this department.
- [35:44]
Grant Stinchfield
I mean, amazing stuff that he's literally somewhat changing his tune before our eyes. The question is, is it too late? I'd rather see a strong, strong, strong fighter. Harmeet Dillon, you've got Lee Zelda. I'm okay with Lee Zeldin. Jeanine Pirro. Judge Jeanine will be great. I wish Rudy Giuliani was still up for the job. Probably not. All right, folks, up next, the price of oil dropping now in light of President Trump's ceasefire announcement and maybe how you can make money in the gas market. We'll talk about that next.
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Grant Stinchfield
Welcome back everyone. 40,000 acres in Wyoming, a reservoir of natural gas stacked high pressure wells are being drilled there and you have an opportunity to capitalize on this. This is rare. I want to bring in the President and CEO of Lost Soldier Oil and Gas, Mark Bruner. Mark, welcome to the program.
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Mark Bruner
Thanks Chris. Good to see you again.
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Grant Stinchfield
All right, Mark, it's great to see you. We're a little tight on time, but I want to run through some of the ways people can make money by investing in this project. Let's start first with royalties. Explain how that works in the oil and gas business.
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Mark Bruner
Well, a royalty is something that the government charges and it's usually 1/8 and sometimes it's a little more depending on when the time of the royalties happened. And an overriding royalty, which is what we have, we've provided to our Investors is exactly the same thing. They just call it overriding royalty. And there are no expenses, no operation expenses, no expenses of any kind. It's net, net, net.
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Grant Stinchfield
And that comes back to the investor.
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Mark Bruner
That's right.
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Casey Fleming
All right.
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Grant Stinchfield
Amazing. The next tax benefits on this, especially because of the big beautiful bill. You invest a hundred thousand under my reading, you correct me if I'm wrong, you can deduct $100,000 the first year, is that right?
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Mark Bruner
That's exactly right. And that's based on the Trump's big beautiful bill. It's 100% tax deductible in this year.
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Grant Stinchfield
All right, so you're going to get royalties, you get the tax deduction. Another thing about this project I want people to understand, Mark, is that you're investing the investors out there in the project. You know, I'm in Dallas, we get a lot of deals. Oh, I got one well you can invest in. If the well comes up dry, you're out of money. You're really investing in the project. And the company lost Soldier Oil and Gas. Explain how important that is.
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Mark Bruner
Well, I think you know, ordinarily if you go into a partnership, you get the tax deductions. However, you don't get stock in the company and you don't get the overriding royalty. In our particular case, you get all three, which I think is very important. It's unusual you'll ever find anything like that.
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Grant Stinchfield
It limits the risk as well, doesn't it, Mark?
- [40:31]
Mark Bruner
I'm absolutely confident that that's exactly what it does. And you know, we're not going to be drilling any dry holes out here. Grant. This is a regionally pervasive deposit that's regionally pervasive and it's very large. And it's as you said before, it's stack pay.
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Grant Stinchfield
All right, let's talk about now what I think is the most attractive all of this. And quite frankly, it's your history, Mark, you have taken two companies public that have some amazing returns on this. Let's start first with with Penaco. Penaco Oil and gas went from 20 cents to 19. Explain this project and how much money people made on that.
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Mark Bruner
Well, that was in the Powder River Basin in the Rockies. So it was a coal bed methane project and it had a three year life. We did the 20 cent financing, then we did a dollar financing. One year later we sold it to Marathon for $550 million. So that's plus or minus 100 times your money back in three years.
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Grant Stinchfield
All right, 100 times your money in three years. Is unbelievable. How does this project compare to that one?
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Mark Bruner
Well, I think this is, this is much bigger than that. I mean there's another one called Ultra Petroleum that I did was a thousand times your money back. So, you know, this is an order of a magnitude bigger than either one of those. Okay. So it's the biggest thing I've ever found and I'm very excited about it. We, we see we can drill at least 500 wells and what we've got so far, and these are going to be over pressured horizontal wells compared to what's happening in the western Haynesville that Jerry Jones with the Dallas Cowboys, his company called Comstock, and in the deep Utica play in Pennsylvania. This is comparable to that in my opinion.
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Grant Stinchfield
All right, for Everybody at home, lostsoldier.com is the website. Lostsoldier.com you can click the QR code on your screen as well. If you go to lostsoldier.com, hit the invest button and it'll take you to the to fill out the form. I urge people to do that. You mentioned Ultra Energy, 25 cents to a hundred dollars and then split two to one. Amazing, Mark. And, and most people have never done this with one company. You did it with two.
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Mark Bruner
I think one of the other exciting things with this new arrangement, the advisor of Roth, they're actually talking to us and maybe going public sooner rather than later. So this is a new development and we'll see how it goes. Okay. But it's nice to have people very excited about what we're doing.
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Grant Stinchfield
Well, I did some research on Roth. The fact that they are involved in this project really is a testament to you and your leadership, the team behind you and the project itself. This is a very, very big deal for everybody at home. Mark, I'm going to tell people how to find you again. Thank you for coming on the program. Again, you can click that QR code. Folks, I've got a lot of friends follow me. They're getting involved in lost soldier.com including myself. I'm honored to be a part of this project. Scan the QR code, go to lost soldier.com that's lost soldier.com. all right, up next, after President Trump's announcement on Iran, a major question remains. The people. That's next. All right, welcome back, everyone. So as we await the countdown till 8pm Eastern time, when all hell will break loose inside of Iran, if President Trump lives true to his threats, which I believe he will, I'm wondering about the people of Iran. So where are they through all of this? Now I'VE done my research and by most accounts it shows 80% of the Iranian people would like to see a regime change and are eager for freedom. Though I see the mainstream media now throwing around a 50% number, I do not trust them. I think this is about trying to make President Trump look bad and somehow create some kind of sympathy for for Iran. It gets back to what we talked about earlier and just their thirst for us to lose in all of this. But speaking of the Iranian people, this was President Trump yesterday. What we what would be your reaction
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Colonel Wes Martin
if the Iranian people raise our up against their regime during a case fire, Mr. President?
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Grant Stinchfield
Well, they should do it, but again, the consequences are great. I mean, they were told you if you protest, you will be shot immediately. You saw what happened to the young wrestler. He was a great champion, by the way. So will they ultimately rise up? What are they waiting for? Now we're getting word that they're being used as human shields. If we believe it, it could be Iranian propaganda as well. Are they Iranian soldiers dressed up as civilians or the civilians have guns to their heads to go and stand on these bridges and surround power plants? All of these are things we need to figure out. I want to bring in now to discuss this Anti terrorism protection officer during operation Iraqi Freedom 1 and 2 Colonel retired Wes Martin is with us. Colonel Martin, great to have you on the program.
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Colonel Wes Martin
It's a pleasure. Thank you.
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Grant Stinchfield
All right. What do you make you, I want to spell out to people you worked closely with, those inside Iran and other regimes. You have some inner knowledge of what people in this country may be thinking. Can you give us some idea as to where the Iranian people are now as we await this deadline?
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Colonel Wes Martin
In addition to being the anti terrorism officer for all coalition forces in Iraq, later I was the commander of Camp Ashraf, Iraq, where the Iranian dissidents, the Moshe Hadini Kolks National Liberation army was consolidated. Saddam had given them places inside Iran, correction, inside Iraq, because the enemy of my enemy is my friend. I worked with these people closely and there were some things I was ordered to do because of the State Department meddling. One of them was I was ordered to shut down the underground railroad that was being operated by the Omosha Hadini Kolkata. And I ignored that order for about two months until finally it came as a direct order through my chain of command to say 80% of the people want regime change. I think is low. If media is now saying 50%, then they must be recognizing all those people that got machine gunned down on the streets in January who are protesting. Iran itself acknowledges 36,000. The numbers I'm getting from inside Iran, it's closer to 80 to 90,000. So if the media wants to start saying, well, the number's lower, then they must be recognizing all the people who have been killed.
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Grant Stinchfield
Yeah. How are they getting these people out there? If we take them on the face that people are going to bridges and power plants, literally using them as human shields, Colonel, I think you'd agree that tells you all you need to know about the Iranian regime, that they'll use citizens, innocent civilians, as human shields. How are they getting them out there? Or are they really innocent civilians? You have some insight on that?
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Colonel Wes Martin
My feeling, my assessment is no, they're, they're definitely innocent civilians. They're getting them out there with Klosnikov rifles, and if they don't go, they'll be shot. And they know that. I can see the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps doing this. When I was in Iraq, I also witnessed some of the weapons that was coming in. They say we were hit by improvised explosive devices. Some of those devices were not improvised. They came from Iran. They were very, very effective. And also the Pentagon came out with a report about eight years ago that identified 608American service members killed in Iraq were in fact killed with devices provided by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. I can see them doing this.
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Grant Stinchfield
You know, it's, it's sad to see this happen. What do you think will play out? I mean, do we hit bridges with civilians on it? Part of me says it's the regime to force those people into this position. The other side of me is very sympathetic to freedom loving people. People, really an amazing group of people. When you think of many of the Iranians that have come here, what do we do? What does our commander in chief say? How do you, how do you order a fighter pilot to blow up a bridge with civilians on it?
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Colonel Wes Martin
You don't. You flat out do. And you. One thing that I need to make clear is this issue of the obedience of illegal orders. And that's one thing I agree with Senator Mark Kelly about. I came into the military after the My Lai massacre and we went through extensive training. You don't obey illegal orders. Now, we don't go killing civilians. And Iran knows that. And there are no American values. They don't have the same values. But there are other options. The resistance is ready. The National Council of Resistance. Iran is ready to go ahead and mobilize their forces rather than start blowing up bridges and killing innocent people. My recommendation is for the administration to Start reaching out to the resistance organizations all across Iran. To the southwest you have the Arabs, Southeast the Belush. To the northwest you have the Kurds. North central, the azeris. And then 55% of the population is Persian. They want an end to this regime that has terrorized them since 1979. Work with them. We use million dollar missiles to shoot down $8,000 drones. Take some of that money and go ahead and get the weapons to these other groups, the resistance groups, and recognize and start working with them. And also remember they need an infrastructure. When the country is decimated, the IRGC and the regime will fall, it's a matter of time. Let the people from inside work with the American and the military, Israelis.
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Grant Stinchfield
Colonel, are you surprised? Real quick if you can, as we run up on the clock here, what I'd like to say. There's no evidence President Trump has given any illegal order whatsoever. And so that's where Kelly's lines were completely out of line. Even, even thinking that this commander in chief was going to give any legal order was out of line. But putting that aside, are you surprised we haven't seen an effort, at least that we know of from those on the inside to rise up against this regime fairly quickly, if you can, for
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Colonel Wes Martin
me, yeah, there has been an effort. Five days before Khamenei's compound was blown up, 250 members of the Moshe Hadini cult attacked the compound. It was a they got beaten back, A hundred of them got killed. IRGC ramped up the security on the compound. So when the Israelis hit it, they actually ended up taking out more irgc, which is a good thing to do. And like I say, with the Moshe Oddin Iqal is part of the National Council of Resistance of Iran. They are already fighting. They need the weapons, they need the support. And we need to start having the exchange of intel.
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Grant Stinchfield
Well, certainly I can tell you the American people, including the MAGA folks, and everybody would love to see the Iranians pick up the slack here after President Trump and our military finished the job over there. Colonel Wes Martin, great having you on the program. Thank you for your service to this country and thanks for coming coming on tonight.
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Colonel Wes Martin
You're welcome. Goodbye.
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Grant Stinchfield
All right. Absolutely. All right, coming up next, the Pope. Yes, the Pope going down the road. The Catholic popes go down H. They're just wrong so many times. That's next. All right, welcome back, everyone. As a guy who was baptized a Catholic, and I really don't consider myself a Catholic anymore, I've been pretty upset with the Catholic Church. This is one of the reasons our popes, including the current pope, seem to be very confused about current events, international reality, like the fact that Iran has been blowing up Americans for a very, very long time. And I understand that a Pope wants peace and I want a Pope to want peace, but you need to know where to draw the line. Here. Listen to this.
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Mark Bruner
What I said in the Urbi Orbi message on Sunday, asking all people of goodwill to search always for peace and not violence, to reject war, especially a war which many people have said is an unjust war, which is continuing to escalate.
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Grant Stinchfield
An unjust war. The only ones escalating it are Iran and they have blood on their hands, American blood on their hands by every roadside bomb ever produced that has taken out an American soldier in the Middle East. The Pope ought to know that. Now we are going to continue our coverage of Iran. Thank God that we've got a ceasefire now. This may be big, okay, as long as the straits get opened up. This deadline has passed and Iran has blamed.