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This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human. Well, good evening, everyone. Welcome to Stitchfield. What a night it was for President Trump. The State of the Union was, I believe, President Trump Trump's greatest speech he has ever given in his political career. And that's a tall order because this man gives some great speeches. Before we get to that, I want to talk about what nobody is talking about, and that is the attempted sabotage of President Trump's State of the Union speech. As soon as I started listening to it, his voice was over modulated. Now, the audio crew inside the state, inside the Capitol, and had a year to prepare for this, and they had President Trump over modulated. I am here to tell you there is no such thing as coincidences in Washington. There is no such thing as mistakes in Washington. This is proof to me that the deep state is very real. And the overmodulation, the peaking of President Trump was by design to undermine his spoken word, to take away from the message he was delivering. Just listen to this.
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And to prove that point, to prove that point, here with us tonight is a group of winners who just made the entire nation proud. The men's gold medal Olympic hockey team. Come on in.
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It is not clean audio. And the State of the Union needs to be clean audio. Now, you might say, oh, he was yelling. Not with a microphone like that. That does not happen to that level. And they should have been practicing this. Whoever was behind the audio board needs to be fired. And again, folks, I believe this was by design. It is proof to me that President Trump's enemies operates at every corner. They roam the bowels of government looking for any opportunity they can to try to sink President Trump. Now, here's the good news. No matter what they tried, they could not overshadow President Trump's greatness. Last night. This was an emotional speech. It put the Democrats on notice and really on their heels. And I think more importantly, it laid out everything he's done and what he's going to do for the American people to see why President Trump is the guy for this job. Now, the moment of the night was when President Trump put the Democrats on display and their beliefs on display. How do you not stand as the safety and security of Americans is your number one priority. Democrats, watch this.
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If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support. The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens. Isn't that ashamed? You should be ashamed of yourself. Not standing up. You should be ashamed of yourself.
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How do you not stand for American citizens? Is Your number one priority. This is America. Do they forget that or do they just hate this country and its citizens so much that they refuse to stand? They are blinded by their Trump derangement syndrome. They are sick and disgusting individuals. I hate to say it, I hate to be mean, but that's what they are. Watch this.
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Deadly sanctuary cities that protect the criminals and enact serious penalties for public officials who block the removal of criminal aliens, in many cases, drug lords, murderers all over our country. They're blocking the removal of these people out of our country. And you should be ashamed of yourself.
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Ashamed and embarrassed. Look at Rashida Tlaib. That, folks, is the face of a whiny Karen. Leftist and ugly inside and out. What class? F ice. That's what you wear to the United States Capitol. F ice. The Democrats made their own bed last night. President Trump forced them to lie in it again. One of the moments that I will never forget, because this story really, really affected me and that was the murder of Irina Zarutska, that beautiful Ukrainian immigrant who was on that train in North Carolina that got slashed to death by a deranged lunatic let out of jail so many times by Democrats who care more for criminals than they do American citizens. And that woman on your screen is dead because of it. President Trump invited her mom to the State of the union.
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Mrs. Zaretzka, tonight I promise you, we will ensure justice for your magnificent daughter Irina. How do you not stand? How do you not stand?
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They don't stand because they're disgusting creatures. They're dirty mother scratchers. It's awful. What mother raised you. Your mother. Look at you. You see American citizens grieving. You see crime victims grieving, suffering. Like this family who lost a mom hit by an illegal alien truck driver. The little girl nearly lost her life. By a miracle of God, she's alive today. Joe Bide has blood on his hands. They all do, with a D next to their name sitting in that chamber. And they don't stand for people like this.
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When a 18 wheel tractor trailer plowed into her stopped car traveling at 60 miles an hour or more. The driver was an illegal alien let in by Joe Biden and given a commercial driver's license by open borders. Politicians and California doctors said Delilah would never be able to walk or talk, have a good life. She wouldn't even be able to eat again. But against all odds, she is now in the first grade learning to walk. And she's here this evening with her dad, Marcus, a fantastic man. Delilah, please. You are a great inspiration. Please stand up.
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What a beautiful little girl. Mom's gone. Because of Democrat policies. Everything we're talking about here, the death of so many people because of Democrat policies, including illegal aliens that they let in here and President Trump with a combative tone, but also a consoling tone to people like this. I'll tell you, this speech was really about honoring those who love America, and it was also about rewarding those who fought for it. Watch this.
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And 81 years ago this month, he liberated the largest internment camp in the Philippines. He is in the gallery looking forward to July 4, 2026, his 100th birthday. He lifted not just Billy, Kate, but 164 others to safety. That I am now awarding you the Legion of Merit for extraordinary heroism, which is what it was, extraordinary heroism. Thank you. With God's help, Andrew has battled back from the edge of death. He's got a little work to do, but he's doing great. In recognition of Eric's actions above and beyond the call of duty, I would now like to ask General Jonathan Braga to present Chief Warrant Officer Slover with our nation's highest military award, the Congressional Medal of Honor.
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To my Stitchfield team that put that together, amazing job. That literally sums up what President Trump is about. He loves this country, he loves the people that serve this country, and he loves all of you, Democrat or Republican, you wouldn't have seen a Democrat do any of that, Giving a speech. Not like President Trump does. Not a chance. I want to bring in now longtime senior adviser to President Trump, now with the administration director of public and private partnerships for the Department of Agriculture, our good buddy Bruce Leavelle is back. Bruce, welcome. Congratulations on your appointment to that position. I don't think I've had you on since, but it's great to see you, my friend.
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Yeah, thanks for having me.
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What did you think of last night, Bruce?
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Uplifting, you know, breathtaking. Grant. And you know, you know, I've always said this, all the way from the time he came down the escalators was that I knew he was going to be a great cheerleader for the nation, but I never thought it at this level. And when I say that respectfully, that's essentially what he's doing. And if someone doesn't cheer, if the leadership doesn't cheer for it, then who will? And the. And the great thing about it is it's like I'm hoping that it resonated to your point, whether you Democrat, Republican, or whoever. My God, guys, I mean, what's wrong with cheering for the nation? What's wrong with honoring our soldiers? What's wrong with honoring. Honoring our public officials who put our public safety officials who put their life on the line to protect us? What's wrong with honoring the hockey team, for crying out loud. Oh, my gosh, you know, the gold medalist. What's wrong with that? What's wrong with calling out death and destruction on this heinous illegal immigration of this biggest invasion of the United States ever in the nation's history of God knows who's in our country and calling it out?
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You mentioned the hockey team. I'm just going to show you a moment. Who do you think's cheering here? It wasn't Democrats, but take a listen to this. So that doesn't happen at a Democrat State of the Union. It just doesn't. They don't love this country, Bruce. It's a fact.
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Yeah. Let's dive deeper. Imagine, as you saw, some of the elected officials in the gap in the gallery who sat there as President Trump said and did not want to stand. And he says, my God, why won't you stand? Basically? And then he says, they're crazy.
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I actually tweeted that.
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And it's so sad that the commander in chief would have to call that out in 2026. But Grant and Real America viewers, watch this. What does that say about the voters in those particular congressional districts who vote these type of people in, who are anti American?
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What does that say? Well, let's go deeper. You know, it's interesting, Bruce. I think they're duped because in the end, when you look at voter ID, 80% of Americans, including Democrats, support the idea. It's only the leaders that don't. I think those people that vote those people in have been duped, but they are starting to wake up. Bruce Leavelle, it is great having you on the program, as always, so proud of all your success and what you're doing for President Trump. Thank you, my friend.
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Yeah, God bless. Thanks for having me.
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Absolutely. My pleasure. All right, so turning now to the exact people Bruce was talking about, the leaders of the Democrat Party, they're so deranged. Many of them left. I think there was like 70 open seats, something like that. They went outside and had a people State of the Union, whatever in the hell that means. There was not a very big crowd there, but my buddy Ben Berkwum was out there there, and he caught up with Joy Reid, the failed MSNBC host who was then the failed host of this people's State of the Union. Well, watch her.
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And her and Ben, Joy I noticed you got rid of your Trump haircut,
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but you're still cultural appropriating the blonde.
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You're still cultural appropriating the bond.
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Don't touch me. Don't touch me. Is that.
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Is that how you talk to your mother?
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Hey, Trump loves you.
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Loves you, Joy.
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Trump loves you.
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It's called. It's called Mag just loves you, brother.
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Yeah, good love.
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Jesus loves you. Jesus loves you.
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Jesus loves you.
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There's a cure, Joy.
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It's called maga. Say it together.
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God bless ice.
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God bless ice. I was going to say Ben was passive aggressive with the Jesus loves you because you know that's the last thing they want to hear, right? Then he was just flat out aggressive with the. With the. With the. We love ice Chance. It's fabulous stuff. I want to bring in now RAV correspondent Ben Berkwum, who's done such tremendous work. Ben, welcome to the program.
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It's great to be with you, Graham. By the way, if you missed it like everyone else did, other than watching msdnc, they actually started with a prayer last night for this ridiculous vigil, but it's one of the same communist, godless, the synagogues of Satan. Jesus called them pastors that comes out there. So, yeah, no, Jesus is the last thing they want, unfortunately, but it's the first thing they need.
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You know, you managed to meet some of your. What do we call them? Frenemies, maybe. I don't know. They're probably really not even freaking enemies. I'm being nice, but let's start with Jacob. Your besties. All right, let's. You know what? Because your besties, I'm going to go to your real bestie first. And that's Adam Schiff, the senator from California. Now, I haven't even gotten a chance to see this yet, but I told the guys to pull it. So let's roll it by the policy that are taking.
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Senator, why are so many representatives putting illegal aliens above American citizens? Senator, why do you put illegal aliens above American citizens?
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Sir,
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are you. Do you feel any shame for boycotting? Is this because your base are just petulant children that you have to follow the base? Excuse me.
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Don't touch me.
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Ma'. Am.
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You can't block my path. No, you can't block my path. Are you part of the propaganda media as well, Senator? Shame on you for protecting illegals above American citizens.
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Ben, what number encounter is that now with you and Adam Ship?
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That's five. That's five.
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Is he well aware of who you are? Take me through what happens when that goes down?
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Yeah, you know, he's just one of those guys. What was funny is I, I confronted about 10 of them last night and I'd say about 30% of them. Three of them. I got to actually communicate and go back and forth. Actually Fry, Jacob Fry was more communicative than Adam Schiff. But you could see that when you get Adam Schiff, he is like a pencil necked deer. Deer in the headlights. I mean, he just glazes over. Eyes glaze over, like the computer's not working. Doesn't know how to respond. No retort at all. I mean, just I look at him every time I do, you know, I'm able to confront him or try to ask him a question like, how the hell do people like this get into political office? They are so pathetic.
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I just, I don't get it.
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I guess if you just watch ads and you never. He never actually has to have a real question based conversation. I guess he can get away with it, but he's just an idiot.
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You know, I lost a race for Congress in 2011. Now it was a Republican primary, but I was watching Democrats, Democrats today do some news conference and I thought I couldn't win a race for Congress. And these people are literally there. Like, how in the world is this possible? All right, you mentioned Jacob Fry, the mayor of Fraud City, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Let's roll that.
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Yeah, but you're protecting illegal aliens in your city at the expense of your constituents. And you're. And you're calling on your police. You're calling on your police to obstruct both of ICE operations.
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None of the things you're saying are true.
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So should ice, Should ICE be protected?
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Everybody.
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But do they have a right to do their job and be. And not be obstructed by protesters, Radical leftists whistling, obstructing their operations?
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Here's the thing.
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Yeah. We aren't talking about ICE doing normal ICE stuff.
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They were until you guys started obstructing them and tried to run them over with your vehicles and was blowing your whistles. I've been on 10 different ice rides. It is true. It is true. Minnesota deserves better. That's Mayor Fry, everybody.
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Well, I've watched you on those 10 different ice rides and you are telling the truth because I've seen it on video. Ben, I give you the last word. What do you say?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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The reason Renee Good's dead and the reason Alex Preddy are dead is partly due to people like Jacob Fry who incite people to go out and act like this. I started riding with ICE at the beginning. They were going out doing their operations. It wasn't until the activist left started coming out and obstructing that you saw all of this action start happening. Just let ICE do their job. It's very simple.
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Yeah. Ben, you did great work last night. The whole team did. Rav put on one hell of a show last night, if I don't say so myself, taking part in it as well. But great work. And to show you how hard Ben works, look, he was in D.C. and now he's in Beautiful. Where are you? Is that Arizona?
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Yeah, Phoenix. I'm in Phoenix. Stay tuned. Tomorrow we're gonna have some fun stuff.
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Welcome back everyone. Look, Mexico is quite frankly in real. In. In a real world of hurt right now. The reason it's in a real world of hurt is because the cartels are struggling. Now I'm going to tell you that I believe a war against the cartels is probably the. The. The most needed may have. What do I mean by this? Cartel members are actively Killing American citizens by moving drugs into this country. They are teaming with China, as I've mentioned before, to move drugs, fentanyl and other things in to this country. The threat to American citizens from the cartel poses a clear and present danger, immediate danger, to the citizens of the United States of America. And so with that, when I look at everything going on, I have no problems with Trump activating the military against cartel members in Mexico. Now, this is Free Press reporter Dan Dix walking around Puerto Vallarta telling us everything's back to normal. Watch this. Life seems to be back to normal. Cars are back on the road. Taxi drivers are back in business.
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Duplicates.
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Uber drivers are back in business. The airport is now running again. So I actually believe, here's what unfolded. Now, remember, I go to Mexico a lot. I've been in all of these areas. I've been to Puerto Vallarta probably, I don't know, a dozen times at least. This was a one day event. The mainstream media gets a hold of it and they blow it out of proportion. Not one American citizen was killed. Now, this doesn't take away from my idea that you need to go after the cartels because the cartels aren't killing American citizens in Mexico. They're killing American citizens here in the United States. That's why they need to be taken out. Now, this is Lily Tellez. She's an outspoken senator. She was on Fox and Friends over the weekend. Listen to her. Cut to.
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Are you afraid for your life?
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Yes, I am afraid. And the president has threatened me to proceed against me with criminal prosecution to get me out of the Senate and get me in jail just because I told you in this space in Fox News, what is the reality of our country with the cartels? The cartels are dominating everything here in Mexico. All right, so what would this look like if the United States got the green light from President Sheinbaum, who I believe is on the take from the cartels to go in and actually take them out? I do believe it would get ugly. This is not an easy war to fight. They are dug in. They are a paramilitary organization, if just not a flat out military organization. And I want to bring in now a good friend of this program, former Green Beret and now host of Speak the Truth podcast. Matt Tardio is with us. Matt, welcome back.
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Thanks for having me back, Grant.
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All right, Matt. Easily, if this was to happen, President Trump could turn to Green Berets, Navy Seals, Delta Force, all of the above, to go in and take part in an effort to eradicate these Cartels, could that happen? And what does that look like, Matt?
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Could that happen? First, we need the Mexican president to actually agree to allow that to happen. She has just flat out refused to allow it. You know, we've been training down in Mexico, Mexican forces for quite some time now and working side by side with them. But there's a big difference between doing that and, you know, advise and assist operations on the ground, moving side by side with our Mexican partner force, going through and clearing out these cartels. Be a lot easier for the United States to fight this war than it would, say overseas, just due to logistics.
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Right.
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Like, you could actually have guys and gals at home for dinner at night, theoretically speaking, situation dependent. But, you know, my issue is kind of with the framing of the cartels and how big of a threat they really are to the United States of America, I don't just think that it's, you know, a threat when we start talking about the drugs coming across the border. I think it's a threat because, you know, a lot of people, when we look at terror organizations, we think of sleeper cells here in the United States. And, you know, most people over the last, you know, two decades are thinking about jihadis and everything else, but all of these different cartel organizations in every major city, you might as well look at them as a sleeper cell. And what ended up happening in Mexico on Sunday was you had hundreds of roadblocks get thrown up, 25 National Guard members get killed, over 60 killed down in Jalisco, where all of this ended up going down at. Right. And that's a big distance away from Puerto Vallarta. Right. You know, cartel's got a good interest in keep that area open for tourism because they make a lot of money off selling drugs up there. Right. Prostitution, human trafficking, everything else. So, long story short, I think if the US Decided to go in there and we were actually working side by side with, you know, a Mexican partner force to go over and take out the cartels, we would see a lot of what took place on Sunday over in Mexico, I do believe, happening here in the United States of America. I don't think it would be nearly as significant. But the cartel is in the United States. They are armed with firearms. So I'd be worried about, you know, terror attacks here at home as well.
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All right, so it would have to be then in conjunction with Mexican military. Correct. You couldn't have special forces going in like we did in Venezuela, just go in there and raid the place with nobody knowing. Or. Or could we? Could we have under the COVID of darkness, that we have Special Forces go in and start taking these out without working side by side with the Mexicans.
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Yeah. I mean, do we have that capability? Absolutely, we have that capability.
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Right.
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But. But you end up, you know, having a huge risk that you end up taking on when you do that, which is, you know, worried about the political side of the House. You know, we need the. The Mexicans on our side just as much as, you know, they need us when it comes down to fighting these cartels, our border. You know, Trump said during the State of Union address last night that there was zero illegals that ended up crossing the US Border over the last year. I don't believe that necessarily be true because I've got plenty of videos of them crossing the United States border a couple weeks ago, ended up having uniformed, what appeared to be uniformed military personnel over in, you know, California, outside of San Diego, crossing into the United States of America and actually shaking door handles. That's actually being investigated by DHS right now. They're refusing to comment on it, even though we ended up reaching out to them. And so right now, we're just kind of like sitting and waiting. But do we have the ability to do that? Absolutely. But we also need them kind of on our side a little bit. Targeted air strikes, things of that nature, taking out key leaders. Sure, we could do that from the air. We could launch our Preds from home, our Predator drones from home, and take them out that way as well.
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You know, how ugly could it get? I mean, I. I don't think it's as easy as me. This is. I mean, I know that we're way better trained than they are. Right. But. But they have some pretty technical equipment. They put a lot of money into this. Into this. Basically, a military is what the cartels have. You're going into places, places that would look like urban warfare, I would imagine. It could get ugly, could it not?
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It could get extremely ugly at home and abroad. Absolutely. It could get extremely ugly with the amount that they have. And, you know, they also have support from Hezbollah. They work side by side with Hezbollah, irgc, several other foreign terror organizations as well. And they were, you know, interlinked with Maduro. And that was kind of one of our big problems with Maduro was him providing diplomatic passports to these different terror organizations to be able to fly into the United States and fly into Mexico and continue to link up with the cartels over in Mexico and then, you know, transfer money back over into Colombia and work with those cartels over there. So you've talked about a lot of international support. And these guys have belt fed weapons, they have surface to air missiles, RPGs. I mean, they have, you know, armored vehicles that would rival an APC that they end up building an armored personnel carrier that they take out on the streets over there. I mean, they are absolutely a force to be reckoned with in my opinion, just by the sheer size and the amount of arms that these folks actually have access to.
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Well, it's amazing stuff. We'll watch it unfold. It's going to be tough to get the cooperation from this president in Mexico, Sheinbaum, but boy, President Trump has a lot of screws he could put to her, especially with the economy, trade tariffs, you name it, that he could basically force her cooperation, I would imagine, if he really wanted to. Last word, Matt.
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Yeah, that needs to happen. You know, you know, while we're talking about Iran, while we're talking about Venezuela, you know, honestly, the largest threat that I see to United States national security is the cartels in Mexico. And I, I do believe that we need to put the screws to her and we need to get our forces in there and start kick and butt and taking names.
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I'm right there with you. Matt Tardio, thank you for your service to America and thanks for coming on the program.
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Thanks for having me again, Grant.
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Absolutely. At Anger Tab is where you can find them on X And he's a good guy. All right, I want to make mention of this. You want to know a little inside scoop? I forgot to tell you, last, last block. This was big for me during President Trump's State of the Union because since 2011, I had been making it my mission to get the Stock act passed that would ultimately ban members of Congress from trading stocks altogether. Well, President Trump basically called all of Congress out for this now, including Nancy Pelosi. All the way back to 2011, I was calling out Nancy Pelosi. Few years ago, I started a mission called Give it back Nancy. I got over a million signatures urging Nancy Pelosi to give back her gains. Do you know in 2024 she made 70% on her portfolio. She is now worth close to $450 million. It's phenomenal. This is President Trump.
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Let's also ensure that members of Congress cannot corruptly profit from using insider information. They stood up for that. I can't believe. I can't believe it. Did Nancy Pelosi stand up if she's here?
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Well, Nancy said she did. Now I did a little research. Do you know, last year, Nancy Pelosi did triple the returns of the s and P500. Okay. As I mentioned, about 70% on her returns. She bought call options on a company called Tempest AI right before a $200 million deal was inked with AstraZeneca. Like I said, there's no coincidences in Washington. She doubles her money on that play. Here's Nancy Pelosi last night being asked about all this. I say back to him as that's what members said, look at your own self. The inference he wants to draw is there was something wrong with that, which there wasn't. And if there was, people get prosecuted for it. For a long time now, we've been trying to pass this law. She has never wanted it passed. She's making millions upon millions trading off of inside knowledge. Here's a little more. Elizabeth Warren stood up and applauded. Elizabeth Warren stood and applauded tonight when
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the President talked about it.
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Well, that we all did. I did, too. We said, did Nancy stand up? Yeah, I did too. A lot of people split. A lot of Democrats stood up.
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I think that will pass depending on
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what the bill is. You know, we got to do body language this week, guys. Behind the glass. Market down, because that doesn't look good to me. And Elizabeth Warren standing and clapping. Oh, yeah, the big one that pushes back against the millionaires and billionaires. Do you know what Elizabeth Warren is worth? And I think this is a low estimate, $7 million. Now, nothing compared to Nancy Pelosi's but $7 million. How much you think the average American were is worth? The median net worth median of someone retiring in America is $410,000. $410,000. The average is about 1.8 million. But they're including people like Nancy Pelosi in that. That's why the median's a better take. But Elizabeth Warren's worth $7 million. How did she make that money? Not through smarts. We'll keep following that one for you. All right. Big railroad is looking to get even bigger. And it's a problem that could derail President Trump's economic vision. That is next. If you're the purchasing manager at a manufacturing plant, you know having a trusted partner makes all the difference. That's why, hands down, you count on Grainger for auto reordering with on time restocks, your team will have the cut resistant gloves they need at the start of their shift and you can end your day knowing they've got safety well in hand. Call 1-800-GRAINGER click granger.com. or just stop by Grainger for the ones who get it done. Welcome back. I want to talk about a story that really nobody in mainstream television is talking about, certainly not many people in conservative media are talking about. And I'm here to tell you that this merger that is being proposed between these massive railroads, Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern, could derail President Trump's agenda to bring the cost of everything down. This would be a massive merger to create a transcontinental railroad that would put basically half of freight shipping via railroad in the hands of one company. Now, you tell me how that's a good idea for competition. It is not. And I would urge conservative lawmakers out there, heck, any law. You realize you have Raphael Warnock and Dick Durbin siding with guys like Tim Sheehy of Montana to push back against this. When you get guys with those bulls sides citing that this is bad, you have to take notice. This is JD Vance with a warning about deals like this. And like, let me give you one example. I'm, I'm a really, I really worry about concentration in the corporate sector. I worry about big corporate monopolies. I worry that when you have only one or two companies dominating an entire sector, it's bad for liberty and it's bad for prosperity. All right, that's common sense. What gets shipped by rail, by the way? How about everything? Lumber. You build your house with coal to generate power for all these AI plants, not to mention your home. You have chemicals used in almost everything. This would be not good. Let's just say that I want to bring in now to discuss this. Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen is with us. He is one of six attorneys general, I believe, that have filed suit to stop this. Attorney General, it's great to have you on the program.
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Thanks for having me. I really, really appreciate it.
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Well, I appreciate having you on the program. What is your concern, sir, with this, with this merger?
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Well, the concern is the law, right?
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We've seen these before.
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There's nothing new about big railroads trying to get bigger. In fact, we had a big one of these in the mid-90s, if people remember. And it was a fiasco. It caused huge problems, huge disruptions. Freight sat, there was mass confusion, major supply chain problems. As a result of that, the Surface Transportation Board, the federal Congress, passed some new rules and said that any of these mergers, these big railroad mergers, had to enhance competition. They can't prove that this one's going to enhance competition. It's going to be good for their bottom line. Certainly that's True, but it's not going to enhance competition. That's the key language that has to be satisfied here, and they haven't shown it.
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You know, look, a basic principle of free markets is competition. I don't know how anyone could make an argument that decreasing down, down the amount of railroad companies to compete for business would be a good thing there. How do you even make the argument that it could be good for competition? I don't think you can, general.
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I don't think they can either. We've gone from, you know, a number of railroads, so it just keeps getting a smaller and smaller and smaller number. But this, this one's going to result in a real monopoly. I mean, we don't like monopolies in America. We've got laws in place to make sure that you can't monopolize a sector of the economy, that you can't hold people hostage, you can't gouge people for pricing. And unfortunately, that's what's going to happen here. This is allowed to go through. So this is about protecting against a monopoly. This is about making sure that our supply lines are secure and that customers are not gouged here as a result.
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Let me play a clip from you. This is now, I believe, a former board member of the Surface Transportation Board, the, The group that would make a decision on this. His name's Robert Primus. He's gone from the board. Take a listen, though, of what he warned of.
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And my record has reflected in my vote against the CPKC merger that I'm very concerned with further consolidation and what that does to competition, how that affects shippers, how that affects rates, how it affects the overall public in terms of passing along those increased rates into consumer products and people paying more for those products overall.
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So, general, basically reiterating a lot of what you said there, now you're in Montana, a lot of people don't know this. My first job in TV was in Missoula, Montana. And I remember waiting for freight trains, sometimes 45 minutes for them to go by, they were so long. But they are instrumental to the economy in many of these western states, not just Montana. And farmers, too. Do you think this will have an effect on them and their ability to get crops to market?
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Grant, that's a huge one for me. I'm a farm and ranch kid, literally. I grew up in northeastern Montana, very rural area. But one of the big railroads, main line literally cuts my family's property in half. I speak railroad. I know what this means. Railroads are vitally important for agriculture. We can't get our wheat, our beef, our barley. We can't get any of our crops out of Montana any real scale without railroad. And when you're held hostage now by what's going to be 1 50% market share of the entire US railroad sector, that's scary to a guy like me. That's a monopoly. I mean, when their profits don't go the way they say they're going to, which is very likely, right, History is a good indicator. They're going to raise rates. That is what happens in these cases, over and over and over. We have to be cognizant of that. So, yeah, vitally important to agriculture.
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Last question. Maybe just you give some backup. To my Republican friends in Congress. It seems to be bipartisan support to stop this merger from going through, but there's some bipartisan action to support this merger from going through. So giving cover to some of the Republicans out there, what do you say to them?
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I think this is really easy. Look at the law, right? I'm a lawyer. I'm ultimately in charge of enforcing the law. This is a simple one. The law requires that it has to enhance competition. This has to be a net benefit to the public. Their first application, they couldn't even get there. And the Surface Transportation Board rightly rejected it because they just kind of ignored that part and hoped it would go. So to me, for all my Republican friends out there, my colleagues in Congress, this is easy. Just follow the law. They haven't done it.
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Look, I'll back you up, General, the law is clear. It literally says it must enhance competition and it's written just like that. So if they consider themselves rule of law guys, this one should be pretty simple. General, I appreciate you coming on the program. I appreciate the work you're doing in Montana, literally one of my all time favorite states. It is one of the most beautiful places on earth. And I appreciate you coming on the program.
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Thanks for having me on, Grant. Come back anytime.
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Absolutely. I hope to have you back real soon. And I mean it too, folks. Montana is, was gorgeous. If I ever had a daughter, you know, everybody knows I have a son. His name's Wyatt. If I ever was gonna have a daughter, I was gonna name her Montana because of how beautiful the state was. But then I was like, ah, it sounds like a stripper name. I don't think so. Back on this though, couldn't be more important. I made my commitment to back up President Trump and his agenda and his quest to make America affordable again. And this would, this would not do that. This would hurt President Trump in a big way, and it would hurt the American people in a big way. So I hope everyone takes a real hard look at this merger, because it is not something that you go through between Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern. All right, folks. Up next, J.D. vance and Dr. Oz have made their first move on eliminating fraud in the United States. That's next. Welcome back, everyone. So President Trump is doing to J.D. vance as Vice president what he did to Marco Rubio. He's given him tons of jobs. These two guys can handle it. But if anybody can, here's the president.
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So tonight, although started four months ago, I am officially announcing the war on fraud to be led by our great vice president, J.D. vance.
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All right, so less than, what, 12 hours since being announced, the new fraud czar, along with his duties as vice President, him and Dr. Oz get together. Providers on the ground in Minnesota have actually already been paid. The state has paid those providers the money. What we're doing is we are stopping the federal payments that will go to the state government until the state government takes its obligations seriously to stop the fraud that's being perpetrated against the American taxpayers. $260 million they are holding back from the state of Minnesota. Good. They ought to be better stewards of our money, and they're not. So I'm glad we got this fraud task force. It's a shame this has to come out of the White House. By the way, we shouldn't be having to do this. There should be other areas in play that work to stop this fraud from happening. Speaking of a place ripe with fraud, New York City, right Put for on. Have you heard about what's going on? Not just the snowstorm, by the way. Port of York. My parents are in Westchester County. They got like three feet of snow on the ground. They said it's literally like nothing they've ever seen before. Well, mom Donnie wanted people to shovel the snow, says New Yorkers. You can be hired, but apparently you have to show ID to get a job and only get paid $19, by the way, an hour when he was pitching a $30 minimum wage. What a hypocrite. It here's mom Donnie. Oh, excuse me. This is Trump calling out mom Donnie.
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And even the new communist mayor of New York City. I think he's a nice guy, actually. Speak to him a lot. Bad policy, but nice guy just said they want people to shovel snow. They got hit hard, wants them to shovel snow. But if you apply for that job, you need to show two original forms of ID And a Social Security code.
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All right, so more hypocrisy. And then did you see what's happening in New York? Police officers are being pelted. They say snowballs. Some of these things look like iceballs. Take a look at the video here we have what. What's the best one you got there? Put the best video of the snowball fights up. Watch this. So they're literally being pelted. Mamdani says it's a snowball fight. That doesn't look like a snowball fight to me. Police are running from it. There's another. There's another section in Central Park. I believe we have the other video, too, where they're running and they're being literally tracked by a pack of people. Look at that. Now you think that's a snowball fight? Well, listen to Zoran Mamdani. Cut three. I've said that what I saw was a snowball fight.
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It should be treated accordingly. It was one that got out of
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hand, but that's what it was.
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Thank you. I'm not going to be banning snowball
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fights or organized snowball fights. How about. I'm not asking you to ban snowball fights, But a fight is between two sides. If the police are not taking part in it and you're throwing snowballs at police that I actually believe probably are ice balls. And who knows what's happening as the crowd gets ginned up. That should not be allowed. But those cops are going to do anything about it because they don't have the backing of brass in New York or the mayor's office. They'd be arrested for arresting the people throwing stuff at them. Shame what's happening in New York. It really is. All right, up next, Senator Mark Wayne Mullen puts kooky Bernie Sanders in his place. That's next. Welcome back, everyone. A little bit of an update in the Savannah Guthrie case, where her mother has gone now missing, I believe, most likely murdered. But what you're looking at there on your screen was Some SUVs have pulled up, and these guys are. Prison suits got out. We're now learning that it was federal prosecutors for routine legal process. Not sure what that's about, but that was the official word showing up at the mother. At the mother of Savannah Guthrie's house, Nancy Guthrie, who has gone missing. We also got word the DNA had come back from inside the house, and the only matches were people that would normally have access to inside the house. So many people are saying, oh, that's not so great. Well, maybe it just tells you you got to still continue to look at everyone. Right? Look at everybody. And the Guthrie's have upped the reward to about a million dollars. Now then we move now to Mark Wayne Mullen, Senator who from Oklahoma, who. Who called out Bernie Sanders Watch. God forbid we change and go after try to fix our broken system. Anyways, I ranted too long. Let's talk about some. Yes, you did. I'm sorry I didn't ask your opinion on that. And if I cared about your opinion, I would ask you. But I don't care about your opinion.
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Well, you're part of the system.
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You're part of the problem. You've been sitting here longer than I've even been alive. This is your problem. You should have fixed this a long time ago. Can't argue with him, really. He's right. You know the risk there. When I look at it, I know you guys are gonna think I'm a wuss, but the old man, he's like an old man. It's Bernie Sanders. He's kooky like. Just ignore him. Honestly, ignore all of them. They're not even worth our breath, folks. They really aren't. This is an I heart podcast. Guaranteed human.