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Grant Stinchfield
This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human.
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Well, good evening everyone. Welcome to Stitchfield. More promises made, promises kept from President Trump. What you're looking at on your screen there is just opened up, just released Trump rx.gov President Trump promised to lower the cost of prescription medications and even more than that, lower the cost of your out of pocket expenses when it comes to prescription medications. We are expecting him to come out at the White House and give a speech, a talk about this with Dr. Oz to talk about these savings which could amount to millions of dollars of savings for American citizens. With me right now is real America's Voice DC Congressional correspondent. She spends a lot of time at the White House now. Benny Ray, Harmony is with us. Benny Ray, great to see you.
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Ben Bergquam
You too, Grant. Yeah. This is a monumental night. Grant, I really cannot say that enough cutting out these insurance companies from putting money in their pocket and giving the money back to the American people to choose what they want when it comes to drugs. And it's truly incredible.
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Grant Stinchfield
Granted, so many, I take it what's happening here is that they're taking, as you said, the middleman out. They're taking this is direct from the manufacturer, direct to consumers. And we have most favored nation pricing. So you know, typically before you could be in another country and getting cheaper prices than you get in America. And we're the biggest buyer of these drugs. Favored nation pricing now as well, Benny. Correct.
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Ben Bergquam
Yeah, well, that's one of the biggest things, Grant. I just mentioned it on just the news with John Solomon. But you know, we heard President Trump talk about that phone call that he had with French President Macron and how he said you, you need to raise your prices on these drugs or else I am going to put tariffs on your wine and on your cheeses and all the things that you hold dear. And so by doing this and by, by cutting out that middleman and by, by having, having that those prices that are comparable and that Americans can actually ch through the different drug manufacturers. Grant, Literally it'll be a list, I believe, and you can choose which one is the cheapest. Now, this is really going to help those low income, the Medicaid families and the ones that really struggle the most with finances, which, that's the funniest thing is that the Democrats are so mad about this because a lot of the time that is what they're advocating for.
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Grant Stinchfield
Yep, it sure is. Betty Harmony, great job. Great to see you. Thank you. Keep us posted. And we'll be watching the White House to see if President Trump comes out and speaks anytime soon. I turn now to a very, very big story. This is about election fraud. And we know that President Trump is, is desperate to prove that he won the 2020 election. And I believe he will be able to do that. John Solomon is now reporting what I would call blockbuster news about an investigation into foreign involvement in the 2020 election. He was on with War Room.
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John Solomon
I believe that the President of the United States is soon going to be briefed by Tulsi Gabbard and other intelligence officials based on my reporting about additional intrusions, significant, large scale intrusions into various forms of our election system. Now, I'm not talking about getting a machine and flipping the vote, but maybe getting enough of state voter databases that a foreign power could work with people on the ground in the United States to fill out fake registrations for people who are on dirty voter rolls.
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Grant Stinchfield
All right, do you remember the fake IDs that were seized at the border? Literally tens of thousands of these fake IDs. The thought now is that they were going to use those fake IDs to then create fake ballots. And this is all part of the investigation. John Solomon expanded on that.
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John Solomon
Those licenses that were sent into Chicago were going to be used to make absentee ballot applications, according to the FBI predicate. By the way, Chris Wray's FBI didn't look at that. They shut it down. If a foreign power was that far into the election databases of state systems that they could figure out what driver's licenses to send here. The next question becomes, who were they working with on the ground? Who was going to file those ballot requests? I think that's why Tulsi Gabbard was down in Georgia, why you might see her in Arizona, why the FBI will probably be in Arizona, and why the President's about to get a briefing.
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Grant Stinchfield
You see, all this ties together.
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Dr. Mehmet Oz
Now.
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Grant Stinchfield
We want to get the news on these prescription medications and trumprx.gov let's go out to the President at the White House.
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Donald Trump
Be healthy. So we're here this evening to celebrate the launch of one of the most transformative health care initiatives of all time. There's never been anything like it. Starting tonight, dozens of the most commonly used prescription drugs will be available at dramatic discounts for all consumers throughout a new website. It's called trumprx.gov that's trumprx.gov for years, politicians from both parties have been promised to bring down prescription drug prices and make health care more affordable. But they all failed. It was all words, as usual. They failed and they failed badly. They tried doing this. Some of them, most of them didn't even try because they never really had a shot at it. But I'm actually getting it done, and it is done. Actually, this launch represents the largest reduction in prescription drug prices in history by many, many times. And it's not even close. You're going to see numbers that you're not going to believe. Americans have long been paying the highest drug prices anywhere in the world. While other countries often paid pennies on the dollar for the exact same drugs. We were essentially subsidizing the entire world and subsidizing by hundreds of billions of dollars every year. The United States is just 4% of the world's population and consumes only 13% of all prescription drugs. Yet pharmaceutical companies have been making 75% from these drugs. Think of it, 75% of the money they made came from the United States with a smaller population than what we will call the world. The American people were effectively subsidizing the cost of drugs for the entire world. And it's not going to happen any longer. We ended it. Everybody knew it was unfair for the 30 years, but nobody did anything about it. Under the Most Favored nation agreements my administration has negotiated, the United States will pay the lowest price paid by any other country. So we're taking the lowest price paid for drugs. We will pay equal to whatever the lowest price anywhere in the world. That's the price that you're going to be paying. It's a tremendous reduction. Drug prices in other nations will go up by doing this. They had to agree. And the reason they agreed is they use tariffs. I said, if you don't put them up, then we're going to put tariffs on your nation, which would be more expensive to you. So in many cases, the drug costs will go up by double and even triple for them. But they're going way down for the United States. Come all the way down by a difference of as much as 300, 400, 500, even 600%. Even more than that in some cases. For example, you will see dramatic reductions in the cost of popular weight loss drugs known as GLP1s. GLP1s. Novo Nordisk will be slashing the price as an example of Ozempic, from more than $1,000 to $199. And the price of WeGovy from more than $1,300 to $199. Nobody can even believe it. A 578% difference. Eli Lilly, who has been very helpful to us in getting this done, will be cutting the cost of its common insulin drug and medication from $200 to $25. Nobody can believe it. $200 to $25. AstraZeneca is slashing the price of a common inhaler from $458 to $51, a difference of nearly 800%. And we're also delivering historic discounts for couples struggling with infertility as EMD Serrano will dramatically cut the cost of its most common IVF drugs. For example, a single dose of the most common IVF drug in the country, Gonal F, will plummet from the highest price in the developed world that we paid the United States was subsidizing everybody. We paid the highest to the lowest price in the world, which we'll be demonstrating very shortly. We have some very talented people coming up and showing you how it's going to work and how the website works. All of these discounts and more will be available directly to consumers starting today@TrumpRx.gov in just a moment, we will demonstrate how you can go to the website, get a coupon and pick up your heavily discounted prescription drugs. Highest level drugs. The highest level company, finest in the world. Biggest in the world. Most powerful drug companies in the world. And we had to go through them. And then we had to get all of these countries worldwide to lower their prices and for us, help us lower our price. And what they did is again, their prices went up by double, triple and even sometimes four and five times. But the dozens of commonly used drugs available today are just the beginning. 16 of the 17 largest pharmaceutical companies have signed agreements. And the other one is coming. He believe me, they're coming, committing that going forward, all new medicines they bring to the market in the United States will be available at most favored nation prices. For those that don't know, that means in the entire world, most favored. We get the most favored, the lowest price. So if somebody gets a great price, that's great for us because we get it. So this is the exact opposite of what's been happening for the last 30 plus years. This policy, which is a key pillar of the great healthcare plan, is going to bring co pays plummeting down and save Americans billions and billions of dollars, making healthcare much more affordable, like at a level that you couldn't believe. In my first administration, I kept drugs pretty even. I thought I was doing a great job, but this is really the great job. There's never been anything like it. Nobody thought it was possible to get it done. It's the biggest thing to happen in Health care. I think in many, many decades under these agreements, the top pharmaceutical companies will also be investing hundreds of billions of dollars to bring drug manufacturing back to America. It's already happening. They're building plants all over the country. Eli Lilly is building six plants with billions and billions of dollars each, which means jobs, economic growth, factory openings and far greater national security. And so really a big factor was the tariffs. We're charging very substantial tariffs for companies that don't want to make their drugs or pharmaceuticals and automobiles and other things, if they don't want to make them in the United States, have to pay very big penalties in the form of tariffs. And what that means is they're all coming here. Every industry is coming here. We're taking in more than $18 trillion into the United States because of tariffs. Companies, the only way they can avoid them is to build here. They avoid paying the tariff. Now, they've been doing that countries to us for 30 years. That's how we lost so much business. They were drying up our country. They were. We were losing factories, we were losing jobs like nobody's ever seen for many, many years. And now it's all been reversed. And we've never had a period. This is the wealthiest our country has ever been. We have hundreds of billions of dollars a year pouring in and we're taking advantage of it. I want to give a special thanks to Airbnb co founder and now much more importantly, the Chief Design Officer of the United States, Joe Gebbia and the entire team at the National Design Studio. They're unbelievably talented people. This group of geniuses could be doing anything right now. They could have been making big fortune out there, but they decided they want to be with the government and do exactly what you're going to see tonight. And also some other things having to do with our country. And I want to thank Joe. With their help, our American By Design initiative will fully transform our most dated federal systems and services, providing Americans the richest, most beautiful and most user friendly government experience in the entire world. We have the greatest designers in the entire world and they're with our country. They love our country. That's why they're doing it. So now I'd like to invite administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, incredible guy, a really brilliant man, Dr. Mehmet Oz, to show us how this beautiful new website works. And Dr. Oz, come on, let's see what you can tell us. Thank you. By the way, everybody, you're going to save a fortune. And this is Also so good for overall healthcare. And Oz, you've done a fantastic job. Thank you very much.
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Dr. Mehmet Oz
Thank you, sir. So you demanded, President demanded.
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Donald Trump
That we.
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Dr. Mehmet Oz
Have most favored nation drug pricing, which he explained beautifully today. You can now get access to these discounted, steeply discounted prices. All the hard work the president and the administration have done now is yours. But you have to go check trumprx.gov so if you have access, please log on right now. It's free. You get to look at all the prices and you should not be buying drugs anymore going forward without at least checking to see if those medications are available at these discounted prices on TrumpRx.gov that stated, Mr. President, many people don't appreciate this, but one of the most special things you've been able to do besides negotiating these kinds of deals is bringing wonderful people around you who can actually fulfill the dream of making drugs accessible so Americans no longer suffer that affordability issue. One in three Americans are turned away from the drugstore. They can't afford the drugs no more. Our most vulnerable are protected. To do that you need brilliant software engineers. And Ed Korstein led a wonderful group that you hired. Folks again, would never normally have come to government to work to make this possible. And Joe, just a superstar and he's going to take us through the website.
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Joe Gebbia
Thanks, Dr. Oz. Mr. President, I've launched some big websites and this is one I think you're.
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Grant Stinchfield
Going to be very proud of.
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Joe Gebbia
So you mentioned Gonalef. I think this is an interesting drug that we can check and see. How do you find a drug on the site? So we'll pull up the website here. This is trumprx.gov and I'm going to start at the search bar where I can search by the drug name. So I type in Gonalef and I see it autocompletes. When I click on this, I have a beautiful page that shows the drug product. And right at the top I see this is 83% off the original price. Now, how do I get this discount? I take this coupon and I bring it to the pharmacy. I can print it out, I can add it to my wallet on my phone, whether it's an Apple or an Android. I show it to the pharmacist and I get the coupon credit right at the register. Now, this is an intelligent site. We know that there's other drugs that are commonly prescribed along with this. So we surface them here and they work with the same coupon. Okay, next, what pharmacies can you go to to get this drug, it's a smart site. We pull up exactly where you can go to get this. Now, Gonal F is a specialty drug, so you get it through the mail. I can call any one of these pharmacies and they deliver it straight to my home. It's that simple.
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Dr. Mehmet Oz
Mr. President, one in three families is having trouble having a baby. We're gonna have a lot of Trump babies. With these costs, folks cannot afford these medications. It's gonna change their lives. Now, this is the tip of the iceberg because Joe did a lot more with Ed and the rest of the Nashville design. How many more medications do you have?
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Joe Gebbia
Well, the website launches with over 40 medications. Ones that are the popular medications and ones that were previously very expensive. These are things like Asthma inhalers, the GLP1s. And on TrumpRx, you can actually find things like the weight loss shots and also new form factors like the weight loss pill. Let's click on this and see the discount for the pill. 89% off the original price. As you mentioned, Americans for the first time are getting the lowest cost priced drugs like the rest of the world is.
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Grant Stinchfield
And we're not done.
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Joe Gebbia
We're adding more and more drugs week over week. So going forward, it's an invitation to the Nation to check TrumpRx.gov anytime you get a prescription.
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Dr. Mehmet Oz
Mr. President, we're breaking news. This weight loss shot that you've talked about a lot, this is a weight loss pill. And with these pills, which are actually even less expensive than the shots we, we project, that America will lose about 100 million pounds this year, which is going to make not only folks a lot healthier, but a lot easier to manage when they do get ill. But I'm particularly drawn, as I know you are, to the plight of folks, young couples trying to have children. And that first medication, one of the first ones we did most favored nation drug pricing on, has helped an immense number of folks. But the first person to use trumprx.gov to buy GoNOL F is here and I wanted to introduce her to you, if you don't mind. Katherine's with us. Oh, perfect. Secretary Kennedy's going to escort her.
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Katherine (Military Spouse)
Good evening. I'm incredibly honored to be here tonight. I'm a military spouse and my husband and I have been navigating infertility and IVF for five years, a journey that has included profound loss. Through that experience, we have come to understand how critical access to affordable fertility medication truly is. Medications like Gonal F and access to them have been essential to our treatment. And to our hope of success. IVF demands extraordinary physical and emotional strength. But for so many families, the financial burden can be just as heavy and at times overwhelming. The president's leadership on price transparency and on reducing the cost of medications, some of which are essential in my fertility treatments, has a real and immediate impact families like ours. It can mean the difference between being able to continue treatment or having no choice but to stop. These efforts help ensure that IVF remains within reach for families who are doing everything that they can to build a future. Families who should not have to choose between financial stability and the chance to have a child. For that commitment and leadership, we are greatly thankful. Thank you.
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Donald Trump
Thank you very much. Well, Oz and everybody, I want to thank you for the job. Joe, what a job you do. Bobby is back here who is. Is so instrumental. He's doing such a fantastic job. Who would have thought a Kennedy. We love a Kennedy, the Republican Party. But there's been no. No better advocate for what we're doing than Bobby Kennedy Jr. So I just want to leave you with this. You're going to save tremendous amounts of money. Go to the site. We have many of them and in a very short period of time, we'll have just about all of them. And they'll be available for differences of 5, 6, 700%, even in some cases more than that. We're tired of subsidizing the world. We have to put America first. If you think about it, that's exactly what we're doing. We want to take care of everybody, but we have to put America first. So this is going to have a huge impact on health care. No matter which plan they come up with drugs and prescription drugs, they form a big part. And now you're going to be getting those drugs at numbers not with a 1 or 2 or 10% discount, but think of it, 80%, 90% in some cases, numbers that nobody's even thought possible. So I just want to thank our entire team. They have so many people here that have worked so hard. And again, Joe and Oz and Bobby, thank you very much. Great job and congratulations to you on all that money you're saving. Okay, thank you. Thank you very much, everybody. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you very much.
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Grant Stinchfield
So that is the President with Dr. Oz and Bobby Kennedy Jr. Rolling out what looks to me like a fabulous new website. Favored nation pricing. This is going to drastically bring down the price of prescription medications. You can go on there and as you saw Dr. Oz explain it, printing out a coupon, taking it to the drugstore, Bing Bang, boom, you're done. This is again, as I said, the beginning of the program. Promises made, promises kept by President Trump. The left's going to go ballistic about this. And let me make one thing very clear. It's called Trump rx.gov but this is not a Trump endeavor. This is a United States government endeavor. Don't let the left tell you that President Trump's making any money off of this. He is not. This is simply for the American people. That overall will save billions of dollars every year.
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John Solomon
Year.
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Grant Stinchfield
All right, Real America's voice is invading. Prime Video. I am so pumped to tell you this, folks. That's right. Viewers can now stream RAV programming right from the prime video app. That's Amazon Prime. I'm talking about making it easier than ever for you to catch your favorite shows like War Room, Charlie Kirk show, and of course, Stitchfield. Tonight, we want to give our audience a huge thanks for helping our network reach these new heights with your viewership. And you have helped turn this operation into something truly incredible. I am proud to work here and a huge thanks to management at Real America's Voice for making this happen. Believe me, it is no easy task to get us on to these Prime Video prime outlets and I'm grateful for them for making this happen. Another outlet to watch Real America's Voice, Amazon Prime Video Video. All right. Five days have now passed since the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie as officials say they've made very little progress. We will go through this with a former FBI investigator next. Welcome back, everyone. Now to the crime that is captivating this nation. It is horrible to think about an 84 year old grandmother, the mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie, apparently kidnapped from her own home. Um, it's frightening to think that she is still out there. Days have passed. No word if she's alive or not. Police say they have no suspects, no people of interest, and that had the Guthrie family putting out a plea that went like this.
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We are ready to talk. However, we live in a world where voices and images are easily manipulated. We need to know without a doubt that she is alive and that you have her. We want to hear from you and we are ready to listen.
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So we get bits and pieces of new information here as everyone is speculating as what could have happened with her. Let's go through the timeline here. As investigators now say they know it, on Saturday, January 31st at 9:48, she was dropped off by her son in law at her house. That at 9:48, at 9:50, the garage door they know closed at 1:47, Guthrie's doorbell camera was disconnected. Okay. And then at 2:12 in the morning. This is not on that list, but there was a person detected by the video. But because of the subscription, they didn't have video of who it was, only that someone was detected at 2:28 in the morning. The monitor on her apple watch to her pacemaker is disconnected. Sometime around there. I also read that her heart rate did spike, which would be consistent of being frightened. Somebody coming into your room. Now, the next morning, approximately 11am A fellow churchgoer alerts Nancy's of Nancy's absence. And then the family calls. 911 at 1203 on Sunday, I want you to take a look outside of the house. There is blood splatter, as you could see on the walkway. That has now been confirmed to be Nancy Guthrie's blood splatter. There was a blue shirt as well outside that was left there. Clearly, this is all evidence to be collected for the crime scene. And I think what's interesting, they have no suspects, no persons of interest. But listen to the sheriff of Pima county here.
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You know, we've talked to so many.
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Ben Bergquam
I'm sure that my investigators have feelings.
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Donald Trump
About this one's clear or this one isn't. But.
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Ben Bergquam
But no, I wouldn't say anybody's ruled.
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Donald Trump
Out yet, because what if.
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Grant Stinchfield
What if I rule you out? And then later I learned something else. No.
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So my call up. So no one has been ruled out as a suspect. This is very normal in the beginning of an investigation. Days into the investigation, you could think you'd start to rule people out. People that know her, that family. All of these people are looked at in the beginning very closely. I want to bring in now former FBI special agent and author of A Cop Son. Ken Estrange is back. Kenneth, it's good to have you back on the program.
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Ken Estrange
Yeah, thanks for having me on, Grant. And our prayers go out to the Guthrie family.
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Grant Stinchfield
They absolutely do. No word of her. They. They put this. This plea out for her as an investigator. Kenneth, what are cops doing? What do you want cops to be doing right now? What's going through your mind? Are you coming up with speculative ideas at this point, or are you just trying to follow the evidence?
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Ken Estrange
Yeah, I mean, it's. It's a great question. And, you know, they can be doing a number of things. I think they should be going back to the beginning to what I call the circle of friends and family, just to revisit their stories to see if there are any other connections. And it's not just the inner circle of family and friends, but it's housekeepers, it's caretakers, it's possibly a driver. And they could revisit that. I think that's key. But they also have to be proactive because time is running out. It's the investigators worst enemy in this, in this type of case. So, you know, it begins with a reminder to the public, you know, to tell them, look, I know they have a tip line, but they should remind them again and again, you know, that you could, you, the public could actually solve this case. You know, I'm also telling my officers, I'm telling my agents, get out there, talk to your confidential sources, your informants and try to dig up anything, hit the prisons in the local area and you know, get to the border. The border is 60 miles away. There are people on the other side of the border that know things too. And we worked with them in the past. So I would be doing everything proactive because time is of the essence now, obviously.
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Grant Stinchfield
I just speculate. I've covered a lot of these over, over the years. You've investigated things like this over the years. To me, this really smells like somebody that had to have known her. I do not think this is a random abduction and, and I actually don't think it's cartel based or. And it's. Maybe it's just a hunch I'm having. What is your, your, your spidey senses telling you, Kenneth?
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Ken Estrange
Well, you know, you have some very good thoughts there, there. And you know, I think what it is, is you got to go back and again, interview all these people in the family. And then there's also the possibility that there are professional criminals in the area that know people that know her. They've either been in the house or they've talked to people that have been in the house and know that this woman is there, you know, that she's, you know, very low risk of taking. And you know, maybe, maybe at that point it becomes again, like I said, a professional group of people, opportunists trying to make money, people who are greedy.
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Grant Stinchfield
You would think that there would be a bigger effort to collect on a ransom if that's what they were taking her for. Let me play you a clip of the FBI special agent in charge talking about this, this ransom that they now believe is credible. Listen to this.
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So the ransom note that was sent out there, obviously every lead in this case we are taking extremely serious.
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But given one is presented to the family, why this one?
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Because this was the ransom that Came in and it had facts associated with a deadline with a monetary value they were asking for.
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So they believe this one ransom knows. Credible, I should say. They arrested somebody. What, a sicko sends a fake ransom note and he was so dumb he had his own email address on there. But that's another story. They believe this ransom notes credible. But why wouldn't they be pushing for the money? Why aren't they actively communicating then with the family?
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Ken Estrange
Well, I think it's because they're a little bit concerned. I mean, everyone in the world is now focusing on the possibility that it is them. And they've got to be very careful because they know that we have digital devices that can pick things up. And they certainly have. I'm sure that they have told someone, you know, about this, maybe to a lover or to a family member, what they are doing. So I think they're very concerned that I think the FBI will locate them and arrest them.
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Grant Stinchfield
Do you think the captors, or God forbid, murderers, whatever this is, knew that this was Savannah Guthrie's mother? Or do you think that was just a bad choice, coincidental on their choice on their part that now they've got the entire weight of the federal government coming down on them?
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Ken Estrange
Yes, I believe that they knew that, you know, this was Savannah's mother. And again, being the opportunist that they probably are, and, you know, they see that the house is worth a lot of money and she's a celebrity and all of that. So they're thinking, you know, we could probably make a fortune off of this abduction. That. That's what I'm thinking.
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Grant Stinchfield
I hate to ask you this, but I guess I'll put it this way. Each day that goes by, it decreases the chances of survival. I hate to even say that this is why we pray for her, but that is a reality, isn't it?
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Ken Estrange
Absolutely. Like I said, in fact, I wouldn't be surprised if she's already gone. You know, 84 year old being kidnapped, that's a stressful event. And, you know, you saw that her chart was just spiking. So I fear that she's already gone. I think you're just trying to recover a body at this point.
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Natasha Owens
Yeah.
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Grant Stinchfield
Sad realities of investigating these things. Kenneth Strange, it's so great to have you on. Your insight into this is fabulous. We get an opportunity to talk to you. We appreciate it. Again, your book a cop son. I urge everybody to support you. Go out and get that book. And we appreciate you coming on, sir.
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Ken Estrange
Thank you, Brian.
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Grant Stinchfield
Absolutely. And again, I will reiterate I really do believe in the power of prayer. You've got to pray for Savannah Guthrie's family, for her mom. Let's pray she's still alive. Miracles happen. Hey, remember Elizabeth Smart? Years later, she was found alive. So we'll see how this plays out. All right, Democrats are working overtime to send us into another government shutdown as they make more ridiculous demands for DHS reform. That's next. But first, a RAV Music production, an all new song dropping tonight at midnight.
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Grant Stinchfield
Let's do this together.
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Donald Trump
Foreign.
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Grant Stinchfield
Welcome back everyone. Conservative firebrand senator Jim Banks has a fabulous idea and he's going to use policies, laws already laid out by the federal government to recoup what could be billions of dollars from immigrants who have come here to America. Now, in particular, this is legal immigrants.
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Dr. Mehmet Oz
Why?
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Grant Stinchfield
If they take SNAP benefits, Medicaid benefits, education benefits, the sponsor of that immigrant signs a contract to repay any benefit from the federal government. Look at this. This is from the Immigration and Nationality Act. Upon notification that a sponsored alien has received any means tested public benefit, the appropriate entity of the federal government shall request reimbursement by the sponsor. That means if you're a husband and you bring your wife over here and she's here legally and she gets on Medicaid, you the husband, have to reimburse the federal government for that. We are not doing that. This could amount to billions of dollars. I want to bring in now RAV correspondent Ben Berkwam to the program. Ben, welcome my friend.
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Ben Bergquam
That's great to be with you, Grant.
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Grant Stinchfield
Ben, what do you think of this idea?
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Ben Bergquam
Yeah, look, it's what they used to do. I'll just give you a personal example. My family, my wife's family, they were refugees from Laos. They had to be sponsored. This was in effect when they came over. This was 30 plus years ago, but it's how it used to be and it prevented people from coming over and mooching off our system. My wife went through the process. I was actually with her when she got her citizenship. There were refugees from Laos escaping communism. And you talk about pride in America. My wife is one of the proudest Americans that I know. But that's part of it is you can't come here and expect freebies and expect to not assimilate and expect to bring your own culture and make America your culture. This whole idea is foreign. It was never intended to be this way. So I. No, I think it's absolutely. We should make it harder to come into America, not easier. And when you do come here, you shouldn't get anything for free until you've given into the system, until you've actually contributed. It's just common sense.
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Grant Stinchfield
Can you imagine a left once bills start going out for their loved ones, who they brought here legally now to start paying back some of these benefits, the left's going to go nuts. Hey, I want to play this for you because I think you're going to get a kick out of this. In fact, I'm actually surprised you weren't even there for this. I want to see if you remember this guy. Okay, Ben, roll cut 13 for me. This is not joke. There's nothing fun to chant about it. Get your guns and stop the.
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Dr. Mehmet Oz
Ben.
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Grant Stinchfield
That is a guy known as Antifa Kyle. And let me show you this video here. Well, I think. What do we have? We have the picture of him getting arrested. Yes, let's show the picture of him getting arrested. That is Antifa Kyle. And I love his shirt. It says I am antifa and he's arrested. They actually busted out the glass. There was some video of that that they went in to get him in the apartment building. Your reaction to the arrest of Antifa Kyle, Ben?
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Ben Bergquam
Yeah, every antifa member and they are members and it is an organization. It's not just an ideology. Every single one of them are domestic terrorists. They need to be treated as domestic terrorists. They all need to be arrested. They are plotting the overthrow of America. They want to remake America and their communist or anarcho communist utopian vision. They all need to be arrested. It's. This is a clip clear existential threat to our country. And sadly, you know, too often we're playing by the rules. These guys are playing to the death. And that's what we're up against right now. I'm glad every single one of them should be arrested, that we should create spaces and gitmo for them. And until they can prove that they're not a danger to this society. They should be held in jail.
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Grant Stinchfield
Ben, you're great. I appreciate you sharing some time with us tonight. Nobody knows these goons like you do firsthand. We'll talk again soon, my friend. Thank you.
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Ben Bergquam
Hey, thank you, sir. Hey, stay tuned. Saturday, our new episode of Law and Border.
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Donald Trump
You know what?
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Grant Stinchfield
I was supposed to ask you about that real quick. Saturday. What? Is there a problem? Do we have the promo of it? It's on screen. Okay. I thought we had some video of it. Ben, tell me what time. What do you hit this? This time around, everything we're talking about.
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Ben Bergquam
7Pm Saturday night, it's all about the insurrection that's happening across America. We're starting to cities on this episode. It's Chicago and la. Future episodes will be Minneapolis and the work we did in Portland as well. So you don't want to miss it. 7:00pm Eastern Time and then again 1:00am Eastern Time. Saturday, 7:00pm 1:00am on Sunday.
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Grant Stinchfield
Awesome stuff. I can't believe I almost forgot to give the pitch for Law and Border. It's great stuff. As always, Ben, thank you.
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Ben Bergquam
Thank you, Grant.
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Grant Stinchfield
Absolutely. All right, folks, Treasury Secretary Scott Besant is underappreciated. He is the gem of the Trump administration. Administration in my mind. And he took it to the Democrats this week. That is next. But first, don't forget that this Sunday, RAV and Turning Point USA are taking over the super bowl halftime show.
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Natasha Owens
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Grant Stinchfield
Welcome back, everyone. You know, I have proof that President Trump, in my opinion, has assembled the greatest cabinet a president has ever put together. And I think their quiet resolve is what makes them so fabulous. Now, not everybody's as quiet as others, but certainly from President Trump's leadership, you can tell they take on the attitude and the fight of President Trump. Well, this was on display when somebody Scott Bessant The Treasury Secretary who's doing such an amazing job. I think this may be the star of the Cabinet, by the way, had a hearing in the House yesterday, then goes into the Senate today. And I like to have fun on this program. So if we can have fun at Pocahontas expense, let's do that. Elizabeth Warren, she has a meltdown.
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The president also made a. That I won't repeat, Senator Warren will.
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He said he had reservations.
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Ben Bergquam
If this was a joke, why not just say so?
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Grant Stinchfield
It was a joke. And he made a joke about you too. Senator Warren got a lot of laughs.
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Got a lot of laughs.
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Ken Estrange
Yeah.
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Grant Stinchfield
So.
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Warren. Yeah, he called you Pocahontas and yes, it gets a lot of laughs. There it is. It doesn't get old. It really doesn't. So on this day two of Scott Bessance, look at AI is just the greatest thing going on. Day two of this treasury hearing. Senator Van Hollen brought up that Besson once wrote tariffs would be inflationary. Well, how does he respond to that?
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You used to believe that tariffs would.
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Increase inflation prices in this.
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Isn't that true? I wrote that in a letter to my investors.
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John Solomon
But a year before I also wrote that I thought Senator Warren would be.
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Grant Stinchfield
The Democratic presidential nominee.
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John Solomon
So my, my predictions have been bad.
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Grant Stinchfield
Please have been bad.
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So he's really going after Elizabeth Warren now. Here's, here's the other thing. That question was asked of him yesterday and he took down Maxine Waters in very short order. You would think Holland would have a different question. Now his answer yesterday was you don't know the difference between one time price increases and inflation. And that's really what we've been seeing out there. Let me play this one again. Van Hollen again tells him to retract his statement on Alex Preddy. This is the, the activist who was shot by ICE agents refusing to comply. And he wanted to him to retract his statement. Statement about Alex Preddy. Roll it.
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And you went on to say he had a weapon suggesting that he was culpable in his own killing. So Mr. Secretary, today, would you like.
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To retract that statement?
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Joe Gebbia
I would not.
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John Solomon
And would you like to express remorse over the death of Ashley Babbitt here in the Capitol?
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Grant Stinchfield
Well, would you, Senator? Of course not. And I am sure Scott Bessant has remorse over Alex Brady's death. We don't want to see anybody die. But he was armed. Maybe not at the exact moment of the shooting, but certainly there's enough chaos with the stupid whistles blowing and everything else happening. Could you imagine, you know, my, my, my old co host out on the morning answer grave a great example about those stupid whistles she was telling one of the producers out on the morning. Answer that. Can you imagine if we came into work and we're trying to do a radio show and people are blowing whistles in our ears the whole day? How would we do putting the news out there? Now imagine you're in a fight with a suspect for your life and they're blowing the whistles. If I can't do a TV or radio show with someone blowing a whistle in my ear, how am I going to conduct a law enforcement operation? They're getting their own people killed with this nonsense. Scott Bessett, you could use that next time you're asked about it.
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John Solomon
All right.
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Grant Stinchfield
Fake news media for the first time has reported the truth about Kamala Harris. We will talk about that next. So Kamala Harris has a big relaunch. I think this is like gonna lead up. She's gonna run for president again. And this website's supposed to attract gen zers. Watch this.
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By the way, the handle they're using, you can see there. So Kamala HQ is turning into headquarters and it's where you can go online to get basically the latest of what's going on.
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All right. Was that it? That was it. Okay. What's going on out there? This is CNN covering it.
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By the way, the handle they're using, you can see there. We're zooming in on it at headquarters. Underscore six seven six seven, as the kids used to say. Well, you know, used to say a lot of things. And I think they also used to say to say that's probably cringe.
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Donald Trump
I don't know.
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Grant Stinchfield
I think the site's pretty groovy. Man 67. That's what they're talking about. That is so old. I'm telling you, when my special lady friend's 8 year old doesn't say that anymore, you know it's passe. That's going to do it for us.
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