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Well, good evening everyone. Welcome to Stitchfield. What historic times we are living in. We have what I believe to be the most strategic president in American history. When you consider what is about to unfold. We could see the Iranian regime fall. We could see the Venezuelan regime fall. We could see the Cuban regime fall. All within the next week. Why would this happen? Because of the pressure, both economic and militarily, that President Trump has put on these nations. Now to what's going on in Iran. By now, all of this has been set up through the peace through strength motto that President Trump has coined. Because President Trump means business. Everyone knows it. This is why we're seeing success around the globe. Here's the commander in chief.
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Iran wants to negotiate this. We may meet with them. I mean, a meeting is being set up, but we may have to act because of what's happening before the meeting. But a meeting is being set up. Iran called. They want to negotiate.
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Why would Iran want to negotiate? President Trump took out their nuclear facilities. President Trump has put economic sanctions on the lights they've never seen before. Their inflation is so out of control, partly because President Trump is driving the price of everything up because they can't get any goods into their country. The currency is collapsing and the people are now fed up. By my count, it's about 599 people is what I'm reading is the death toll. I believe the number could be much higher than that. This is what's going on in Iran. Those are bodies. The Iranian regime had opened fire on many of the protesters there. I believe the numbers will climb. We don't know a lot about this, though, because the Internet has been shut down. The Iranian regime does not want any information getting to the people there about support from other parts of the globe, specifically support from President Trump. But the pressure is now on. So the strikes of the nuclear sites, the. The economic sanctions, the currency collapse, all of it is taking its toll on the Iranian regime. And then you have President Trump announcing today that anyone that buys goods from Iran, sends goods to Iran, will pay a 25% tariff to the United States of America. What he's doing is sending a message to the world. Do not support Iran right now. Let the people have their freedom. I don't think you're ever going to see these tariffs because nobody's going to cross the United States. Right now. Here's President Trump again.
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To trigger a response.
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They're starting to, it looks like, and there seem to be some people killed that aren't supposed to be killed. These are violent. If you call them leaders. I don't know if they're leaders or just they. They rule through violence. But we're looking at it very seriously. The military is looking at it, and we're looking at some very strong options. We'll make a deter determination.
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Every country across the globe is listening to President Trump because President Trump is the first president to make it clear, at least in my adult lifetime, that we can do whatever we want when we want to. If President Trump wants to go in and take out who knows what critical infrastructure anywhere in any country, he could do it. And nations are taking notice of this now. What about the Iranian people as they rise up against the regime? This is a woman who is from Iran talking about what is happening in Iran now. It's essentially an apology. First, we made a mistake.
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We want the Shah's son back. We want the Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi back.
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He will act as a transitional leader.
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He's not coming as a dictator, an authoritarian. He's coming back as an interim leader to transition the country into democracy.
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At that point, a referendum will be.
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Opened up where the people will decide who.
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Who it is that they want to lead the country. So they want the son of the Shah back. I want to bring in now to discuss this, the Deputy Director of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, US Representative Office Alireza. Jeffrey Zade is with us. Alireza, it's great to have you back on the program.
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Great to have you to be on the show again. Appreciate that.
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Will you explain to me, Alireza, exactly what's going on from the Iranian people's perspective about who they want to take over in the interim here and, and what is going through the minds of people in Iran right now as they're virtually cut off from the rest of the world.
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Absolutely. You know, Today is the 15th day of a nationwide protest that started with the economic hardship, the bazaar, and then expanded to the, you know, the poor, the deprived, the smaller towns and cities. The universities got involved. The main chant in the streets is death to the dictator. Death to Khamenei, which is the supreme leader of the Iran regime. Death to the oppressor. With the shah or the supreme leader making it very clear that Iran is not going to go backwards. Iran is not embracing any form of dictatorship. They want freedom, they want democracy, they want political pluralism. The same way that the people of Iran overthrew the Shah because he had savak secret police, savak. He was very brutal. He had a single party rule. It was so corrupt. The same way that the people now are determined to end the rule of the clerics and see democracy and political pluralism and freedom in Iran. Now the death toll is so high, according to the National Council of Resistance of Iran and its President elect, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, as many as over 3,000 protesters have been killed over the past two weeks and the actual number may be higher. And this is as a result of the protests in 195 cities in all 31 provinces of the country. The regime has used sheer repression. This is crimes against humanity, as Mrs. Rajavi described it, saying the world now has the opportunity to act.
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So I had made mention that I thought that 600 person death toll was grossly underestimated. And you're saying that is true. And I hear the Iranian regime is trying to say that it was terrorists that had come in and killed them and they're not responsible for this. I don't believe them, clearly. Alireza.
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Well, the Iranian regime is the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism itself. It's a major violator of human rights right here. And it's killing people or whoever, the intellectuals who are leading the call for change in Iran. This is a book, a thick book in front of me. You can see how thick it is. It contains names and particulars of 20,000 members of the main Iranian opposition, the MEK, that have been killed by the Iranian regime. And the regime thought that by killing the main organized opposition, they can kill the movement for change that has backfired. You can see, you can see in the streets of Iran the younger people the young generation who are taking things into their hands, they're not going to settle until there is freedom in Iran. When you have a nation standing up for freedom, but you have a nation very much committed to ending the rule of clerics, no matter how many people they kill, no matter what kinds of ups and downs are going to occur, at the end of the day, it's the people that and their will and their determination that will lead. And again, we have A History of 100 Years of Fighting against dictatorship, fighting against despotism. And this nation is very much, you know, we have 92 million population. The people have nothing else to lose. You know, Iran has the second largest oil and gas reserves in the world, yet 80% of the population live below the poverty line. That's why they're taking things into their hands. And you will see the continuation of these efforts in different form and shape.
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Why now? You know, President Trump takes out the nuclear facilities, the sanctions they put on Iran. The currency is collapsing. I think all of those things lead to that. The regime cuts off Internet access for the people. So the people probably don't even understand the support that President Trump is now offering up for all of them. Why now? Why do they get the guts to do this now? In the face of all these people being killed and they're still standing up? How do they do it?
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Well, you know, there is a history behind the nation standing up. As I mentioned, it dates back to over four decades. Things don't just happen overnight. You know, it takes a lot of time to build organization on the ground, to build communications, to have a platform to maintain the, you know, the unity of the organized opposition, to have a clear platform for the fall of the ayatollahs. You know, Mrs. Rajivi has declared that after the fall of the ayatollahs, there is a plan for transition. The transition that within six months after the fall of the ayatollahs, there's going to be free and fair elections leading to the formation of a national and constituent assembly that would have the representatives of the people who would draft a new constitution for the country. And Iran would be run by representatives of the people. No despots, no monarchs, no clerics, none of that. And that's why when you have this history of a nation standing up against the ayatollahs, those executions may put a temporary damp on things, but you cannot stop it. Remember, in 2025, the Iran regime executed over 2,200 prisoners, many of them political prisoners, which is higher than any other time since the new Supreme Leader came into power in 1989. And yet you have seen these protests.
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So.
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And one, let me just give credit to the work that the international community is doing, including the United States, is that the mullahs are used to having the policy of appeasement. It was, you know, various administrations here and in Europe constantly appeasing the ayatollahs, closing their eyes on their killings, closing their eyes on their program and all of that. That era has changed.
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That era has changed under President Trump. There's going to be no more appeasement of Iran. I think that has become absolutely clear. We wish you and your people all the success as you move through this time. I think Iran could fall literally any day. Ali Reza, thank you for coming on today.
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Thank you so much. Always a pleasure. Appreciate that.
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Absolutely. The pleasure is mine. Look, you've got Iran about to collapse. Trump goes in and he arrests Maduro in Venezuela. Venezuela could fold any moment as the Venezuelan regime now seems to be cooperating with President Trump. The oil is everything, right? President Trump seizes the oil. This is how strategic he is. Seizes the oil. Now Cuba can't survive without the oil. So now Cuba is on the verge of falling. This is our buddy Tim Burchett from Tennessee.
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By Trump seizing that oil and stopping the flow to Venezuela, for the first time realistically in my life, we have a chance of making a change in Cuba. The most powerful thing we have is our military, but the second most is our economic power. And that's what Trump's going to use. And he'll do it without firing a shot.
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It's amazing, really. And Cuba is going to be squeezed. And all it took was a commander in chief to have the stones to put this plan into play. Listen to President Trump.
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What kind of deal are you looking for from Cuba?
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You're going to find out pretty soon. We're talking to Cuba and you'll find out pretty soon. And one of the things I want taken care of and one of the groups I want taken care of are the people that came from Cuba that were forced out or left under duress. And they're great citizens of the United States right now.
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Can you imagine Iran is, is falling. Cuba is in dire straits. Venezuela, forget about it. Can you imagine what is going through China's mind right now? These were the countries that China was relying on to put pressure on the United States, and they're crumbling right before China's eyes. I want to bring on with me now 32 year Air Force combat veteran and founder of Gator Pack. Colonel Rob Manus is with us. Colonel, it's great to have you back on.
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Hey, Grant. And thanks for having me, Grant.
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Absolutely. So, Colonel, are you as amazed as I am that we're at the point in time we're not just talking about one country and rogue regime falling? We're talking about three and maybe even more.
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Oh, it's. It's. It's phenomenal, you know, and the vision of peace through strength that President Trump and his team ran on and were reelected on is just the beginning of this. Look, you know, all of these stories are linked, especially between China, Iran, and Russia, to Venezuela. And the president, when he brings the oil to market, well, guess What? China buys 80% of its oil from Venezuela. The president has extreme leverage over them now. But Iran and Russia depend on high oil prices to keep their regimes going. One of the reasons why Iran is collapsing in on itself economically is because those oil prices are continuing to come down. And when that Venezuelan oil is brought to market by the United States, those prices are going to go even lower, and that's going to give the president leverage to get Russia to move on the peace deal with Ukraine, which has all but stalled at this point.
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You know, it's amazing because we talk about neocons and we talk about isolationists, and President Trump is neither one of those. He just seems to do what's right at the moment that's in America's best interest. And it is in America's best interest when we have a safer world without these. These places. I know there'll be friends of mine watching this program, members of Stitchfield's army. They're gonna say, why are we getting involved in any of this? Can you give them a good argument as to why we should? Colonel?
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Well, this is actually very familiar. It should be to anybody that knows American history. Grant, this is more like Thomas Jefferson's foreign policy, national security policy, than anything we've seen, really, since then, except for now. We are a much greater power economically and militarily, and from an information perspective. And it's about our national interests. It's in the national interest of the United States not to have Venezuela be a hub for a Chinese essentially colonial power in the Western Hemisphere, which is why the Monroe Doctrine is now being brought back very aggressively. It's within America's national interest not to have a superhighway for the ghost oil tanker fleet that's feeding and helping Russia and Iran and China sell and buy the oil between them. That's keeping their Economies and their capabilities to be aggressive to their neighbors. Going. It's within our interest to acquire the ground of Greenland in order to stop that superhighway through the Arctic for those ghost fleet of oil tankers. It's within the national interests of the United States for Iran to be a free country again. That takes care of the Persian people that are clamoring for freedom and not have an ayatollah or a shah dictator over them. And that's what the Persian people are looking for. I heard the NCRI Deputy Director's interview with you, and he's exactly right. The Iranian people deserve freedom and an opportunity to create their own government that is free and will enable them to live prosperously and without fear of being murdered in the middle of the night, no matter whether it's the Ayatollah forces or the Shah's sabak. And that's what needs to happen here. And the President, United States sees all of this and, and he knows that it's in our interest to help these situations come along and become successful. Because think about it. Over the last 50 years, since I was 17 years old as an E1 in the United States Air Force, the Iranian mullahs have called us the Great Satan and have been at war with us and have killed Americans and friends of Americans and tens of thousands of their own people. And it's time for it to end. And we can get this job done because President Trump understands that.
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What a great summation of why this is important. Colonel Rob Maintenance. This is why we bring you on the program. Fabulous work tonight. I appreciate you, my friend. Thank you.
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Thank you, Grant.
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Absolutely. And to think, you know one thing little tiny bit that's not reported, President Trump said to China, we'll get you all the oil you want. We'll get you the oil from Venezuela. You'll be buying it from us now. But how brilliant is that? Because in one respect, he makes friends with China, all the while China knowing he can pull that oil anytime he wants. And that's what you call a deal maker. Now, on to Jerome Powell. Jerome Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, I am now convinced, is just plain dumb. This guy is feckless, he's inept, and he makes mistakes left and right. He comes out with a video declaring that he is under investigation by the DoJ. Now, it was not the DoJ that leaked that Jerome Powell was under investigation for lying to Congress. And a grand jury has been summoned. It was Jerome Powell who offered this video up. And what does he do? He escalates the war between him and President Trump. It is reckless. It could have had an effect on the markets. I'm going to tell you why it didn't in a second. But watch Jerome Powell.
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The threat of criminal charges is a.
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Consequence of the Federal Reserve setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than.
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Following the preferences of the President.
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Let me tell you what Powell was up to here when he released that video. He wanted to sink the markets. You think he cares about your 401k? No. All he wanted to do is hurt President Trump. But here's the most amazing thing. The markets responded today, not negatively. The markets made record highs. Why? Because they're seeing more and more that the Federal Reserve is basically an unneeded entity and it's getting in the way of President Trump's goal of making America great again and getting us back on track economically through lower interest rates. They traders, the markets want Powell out of the way. One more clip from Powell.
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This is about whether the Fed will.
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Be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions, or whether instead monetary policy will be.
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Directed by political pressure or intimidation.
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Now, the allegations against Powell are that he lied to Congress over the renovations of the Federal Reserve office buildings. Three of them. Did he lie to Congress? I don't know. He may have. If he did, well, then he deserves to be prosecuted. My gut reaction to this is he didn't lie to Congress. He's just a dope. He's not informed about things like this. He's inept, which is why you saw the cost overruns. He's a swamp creature. Doesn't care that the cost are overrunning and he figures the American taxpayer can pay for it. That's how swamp creatures think. Again, though, if he lied to Congress, he needs to pay for it. I would rather, though, see people like Foushee. Have a grand jury summoned. People like US Attorneys who prosecuted J. Sixers. Have a grand jury summoned. I could think of so many areas. Federal agents that violated American citizens rights during the Biden era. Have a grand jury summoned. Jerome Powell. I'd like to see him just go away and get President Trump's pick in there so we can get back to the business of lowering interest rates. Remember this with Trump and Powell, this is. This was classic.
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So we're taking a look and it looks like it's about 3.1 billion. Went up a little bit or a lot. So the 2.7 is now 3.1.
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I'm not aware of that.
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Yeah, it just came out.
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Yeah, I haven't heard that from anybody. The Fed just came out.
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I know. Said it about 3.1 as well.
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3.1, 3.2.
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This came from us.
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Yes.
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I don't know who does that.
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It literally is one of my favorite moments that President Trump has offered us all up. Jerome Powell clearly furious about that. So again, this is what it all stems from. But the bottom line is President Trump didn't know about this investigation. It was referred to the DOJ by Anna Paulina Luna, a member of Congress. When a member of Congress refers something to the doj, if there's evidence there that there could be a possibility, it's the DOJ's obligation to investigate. This has nothing to do with President Trump. No matter what the left tells you. All right, a new year means new financial goals like making sure your savings are secure and diversified. It's time to talk to someone from Birch Gold Group. There are forces pushing the dollar lower and gold higher, which is why they believe every American should own physical gold. So until January 30th, if you are a first time gold buyer, Birch Gold is offering a rebate of up to 10,000 on qualifying purchases. To claim your eligibility and start the process, just text America to the number 989-898. Birch Gold can help you roll an existing IRA or 401K into an IRA in gold and you'll still be eligible for a rebate up to ten grand. Text America to the number 989-898 to claim your eligibility today. Art Antifa and left wing lunatics create more chaos in Minnesota over the weekend and this time it hits home one of our own right in the middle of it. We'll talk to him next.
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Welcome back, everyone. What is happening in Minneapolis and beyond is out of control. It really borderlines on ridiculousness, quite frankly. The people that are protesting rioting over this ICE agent shooting the woman who was running him over. Okay, not trying to run him over, but was running him over. It's craziness. These white liberal women, I hate to break the news to them, they're zombies. Watch what happens here. I'm telling you people, they've lost their minds. These are miserable human beings. They have nothing in their life. And so I guess they take to the streets to try to find something in their life. But this is really quite pathetic. Okay, what happened and what is happening? Looks to me like it's antifa. It's well organized. Besides the liberal lunatic woman you just saw there, Nick Sorter is a great friend of this program. He's always right in the middle of it. Watch what happened to him.
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Get out of the way. Get out of the way.
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Well, he's trying to get away from them. These guys put themselves in tremendously dangerous. This is the aftermath. They put themselves in tremendously dangerous positions. This was the aftermath, V9 police, of Nick's car. They literally try to just destroy it. And they did a good job of it. By the way, that's his vehicle. What did the man do other than try to report the news as it's happening? But they hate the truth, so they go after a guy like Nick Sorter. Here's Nick again. And that, folks, is ICE agents coming to the rescue of Nick Sorter with pepper balls, flashbangs, you name it, to disband those merry band of lunatics. Well, it wasn't just Nick. This is happening all over the place. Our man David Zier as well, got into it with these goons.
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And medical care.
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Man, he is so intelligent, this man. He's got nothing to say. He's got nothing to say.
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I got a lot to say.
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He's a big man. What a big man.
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I'm very respectful.
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Little they know they're literally going after probably the nicest man that works on Real America's Voice. Like literally. He's the nicest guy at this network. I want to bring him in now to discuss all of this. RAV correspondent and host, a breaking Point right here on rav. David Zier is with us. I mean it, David, you may be the nicest guy on this network.
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Yeah, nice guys finish last, let me tell you. Operation Deflect, Somali fraud is in full effect in Minneapolis. And we're in that powderhorn park with 20, 30,000 people. There wasn't a cop on the ground. But before I get into that, our cameraman Brandon was assaulted when I was with him for a hamburger. So don't sit next to a bar or in a restaurant next to this, my own rendition of this ring nosed, angry mom of two in front of her kids through a drink in his face. But we were stalked, like I said this morning, like lions in the Serengeti. Advanced Handheld radio communications and ICE whistles tracked us for two and a half miles through the park and leaving. And we even called the police and the police never came. And we got in our car and they were throwing ice chunks at our windows and almost shattered all our glasses and then they windows and then they blocked our car in and we couldn't get out. And if it wasn't for the quick thinking of our cameraman, our security may have had to pull their weapons. It was very serious. It was very serious. And these people are violent. And Mayor Fry is blaming ICE on the violent behavior of the protesters. But I didn't see any police officers there. And this lodge, they want this. They want this.
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Yeah, it's amazing. You know, we chuckle about some of this, but you had to have felt in danger, David, at this point and no cops around.
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What happened was it's like Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Once they see you, they yell and scream in your direction and they identify you. They. So there's this chain of like point to point navigation. Don't let these guys out of your sight. And they were around us, heckling us, calling us Nazis, cursing we're fascist, and all this stuff. They don't even know. Like most of them didn't even know where we were from. I didn't have a logo on my jacket, you know, and so, you know, these people are just zombies in a zombie apocalypse going on there. And you know, shame on the Minnesota Police Commissioner for not cooperating with ICE like Berquam says, because we wouldn't need to be in the residential neighborhoods if they would cooperate. When these people get picked up for other crimes and transferred over to ice, they want a civil war. This is what they're pushing for.
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Well, it's so true and praise Jesus that your security did not have to Pull their firearms. You know, the federal agents, because of the Supremacy Clause, have some protection from these lunatic prosecutors. But if a security guard protecting a real America's Voice correspondent, his cameraman would have pulled and God forbid, had to shoot a, quote, unarmed person, they won't tell you that the rocks and the ice and the cars they're driving are armed. It would be game over. There'd be criminal charges against all of you guys and not them. David.
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Yeah, well, we were with Nick Sorter for a few hours the day before, and we brought him on camera when we were live streaming on socials. And, you know, we made a decision not to go back out that night because, you know, there wasn't any other media on the ground really inside Powderhorn Park. There was, like, the main MSM on the perimeter. So, yeah, so, yeah, I lost her audio. I lost the audio. It was a very dangerous situation.
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It was. We are so glad you're okay. We appreciate you bringing the story. Do me a favor, before I let you go, just put up your rendition of this. The mug shot. Oh, my God.
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And.
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Is that a woman or a man? These days you can't tell.
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It is a mother of two who demonstrated this behavior, calling us fascists and Nazis and cursing at us in front of her two children while her husband was there through the drink. Hip checked me through the drink at our cameraman and stormed out of the restaurant. It was just unbelievable. But we don't want to disclose where it was. We didn't press charges. You know, this is just the behavior of the left. They're lunatics.
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It sure is. I'm glad you're there to expose it all. Keep us posted. Thank you for coming on tonight, David. I'm glad you're safe.
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Thanks, Grant.
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Absolutely. All right, folks, you're not going to believe what else is back in the news. Now, dei, didn't we have enough of diversity, equity, and inclusion back on the menu for a Wisconsin school district? We got them cold busted. They spell it out themselves. We'll show it to you. Welcome back, everyone. I don't know if you have heard. Well, right now we have Elon Musk that has taken the stage. I believe he's at an event with Pete Hagseth here in Texas in Brownsville. I believe Elon Musk will be talking about getting Internet to the people of Iran through starlink. Let's dip in and take a listen.
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So you can kind of see the epic stuff. We're honored today to have the Secretary of War, Pete Hexev, and much of the senior leadership of the Pentagon here. It's an honor to have them visit. We just did a tour of the factory and I think this, it really helps illustrate how manufacturing and manufacturing at scale is critical to the strength of America. And I'll tell you a little bit just about the purpose of SpaceX. Like, we want to make Star Trek real, okay? We want to make Starfleet Academy real so that it's not always science fiction, but one day the science fiction turns to science fact.
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All right, folks, we're going to keep an eye on that and we will take the Secretary of War when he comes out, Pete Hagseth, to talk. I do want to talk about West Allis, West Milwaukee Public School District. They're going back to diversity, equity and inclusion. Look at this from their strategic plan. Okay, it reads. All right, and, and I'll read it here. Diversity. Increase diversity in the workforce across key demographic categories from 10% in August 2025 to 25% in August 2030. Increased diversity in the workplace. This is exactly what we don't want any more of. Well, I want to bring in now the director of Protect the Public's Trust, Michael Chamberlain to the program. Michael, welcome. You guys are the ones that blew the whistle on this and are now suing, I believe, over this. Explain what's going on. Well, thanks for having me on Grant. I really appreciate it.
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And we're filing a. We have filed a federal civil rights.
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Complaint against West Allis, West Milwaukee School.
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School District for their potential possible violations.
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Of civil rights laws.
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As you pointed out there, they have numerical targets for their goals of increasing the staff diversity, as they call it. And they put race based hiring targets in their strategic plan and they elevated.
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Those above teacher effectiveness. Now this goes right back to the.
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Discrimination against certain groups of people and.
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Pitting certain groups of people against others that, that we're hopefully we're trying to get away from. I hate to cut you off, but I'm going to go out to Pete Hegseth and I apologize. Sometimes this happens with breaking news. If you. There you go, guys. Let's go out and listen to the Secretary of War who is in Texas taking a store of the tour of the SpaceX facility.
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Continue our arsenal a freedom tour and to outline today the future of technological innovation at the War Department. Those of you here at SpaceX will appreciate this, knowing that as World War II was ending, the Secretary of War and Secretary of the Navy wrote to the National Academy of Sciences and declared that scientific research was essential to our national security to ensure Continued preparedness. They wrote, the research scientists of the United States must be called upon to continue in peacetime some substantial portion, that of which they have made so effectively during the stress of the present war. The competitive time element in developing those weapons and tactics may be decisive in future conflicts. You see, those Secretaries of War and Navy many decades ago recognized the importance that innovation and readiness holds for our national security. They knew what was at stake. The very freedoms of the country we hold dear. All across the United States today, extraordinary innovation is unlocking new possibilities for freedom, prosperity and security. Now the question before us is not whether or not the most powerful technologies of this century will reinforce free societies. Is it going to reinforce our free societies? Or will that technology be shaped and twisted by malign regimes that seek to use those technologies for control and coercion? You see, over the past several months, I've talked at length about the challenges we face in transforming the War Department to address current and future missions all, all in service of meeting the needs of the 21st century warfighter. I'd like to think we've already made dramatic progress in the Pentagon's culture by reviving the warrior ethos and we're moving out quickly and transforming our acquisition ecosystem as well. But today is about how we supercharge innovation at the War Department for the era ahead. Innovation is happening at a pace we can't even foresee. And we need the entire enterprise, our enterprise, to embrace the urgency required for this moment. Since the end of the Cold War, the defense industrial base in our country has consolidated. This makes it difficult, if not impossible, for new creators of technical innovations to win business at our department. The result is a risk averse culture that prevents us from providing our war fighters with the best resources that America has to offer. That ends today. Simply put, the United States must win the strategic competition for 21st century technological supremacy. Artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, quantum hypersonics and long range drones. If you talk to Elon Musk long enough, he will tell you how important hypersonics and long range drones are. And he's 100% correct. Space capabilities, directed energy and biotechnology are the new areas of global competition. The challenge is that our legacy approach to technological development assumes the technology moves in a predictable linear conveyor belt from lab to design, to development, to prototype, to test and qualify to program of record and can only be provided by a handful of companies that have consolidated dramatically. Now, while this system provided us with the weapons that won the Cold War, it is archaic and inconsistent with the novel threat environment that we successfully race Today, at its core, this old approach has the hubris to assume that you can easily predict the future. That you can foresee how an invention becomes a weapon in eight easy steps. Three decades from first discovery. Our system cannot keep treating innovation as a decades long one way march that dramatically reduces who and what is able to run the gauntlet at our department to get the capability to the war fighter. Until this administration, the Trump administration, the department's process for fielding new capabilities had become just one more post Cold war peace dividend relic that has not kept up with the times. Worse than that, we've done nothing but add layer upon layer of committees and councils that coordinated but never decided. We created endless projects with no accountable owners. We have high churn with little progress and few outputs. That sounds about like the exact opposite of SpaceX. We treated innovation as a box to check, not an outcome to deliver. In short, when it comes to our current threat environment, we are playing a dangerous game with potentially fatal consequences. We need innovation to come from anywhere and evolve with speed and purpose. You see, America's open scientific community is an advantage authoritarian regimes cannot replicate. They can read our scientific papers and copy our invention or distill our AI models, but they cannot replicate a culture like this one of opened and distributed research. We need to be blunt here. We can no longer afford to wait a decade for our legacy prime contractors to deliver the next perfect system, only to find that it's delivered years behind schedule and cost 10 times what it should. Winning requires a new playbook. Elon wrote it with his question, every requirement, delete the dumb ones and accelerate like hell. That's why I want to make clear across the War Department and for our partners in the private sector, that our Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering, Emil Michael, right here in the front row is the War Department's single chief executive technology officer, one CTO for the entire enterprise. Novel concept. As the sole cto, Emil will set the technical direction, lead the innovation ecosystem that will welcome progress from anywhere it resides. And he'll tell me face to face every day and frankly, whether we are gaining or losing the technology and innovation competition. He'll have the decision authority and will lead through rigorous evaluation with a focus on real measurable outcomes. Now, Congress, and we have many members of Congress with us here today, will be our partner in this. By affirming the Undersecretary's role as the Department's cto, we're carrying out the core mission for R and E that Congress assigned in statute. The last defense Bill expanded the CTO's authorities, including the power to direct military departments and other components to align around clear innovative outcomes. We will use them to deliver those outcomes with speed and urgency. An empowered CTO will inject a disruptive mindset directly into our systems, directing the power of America's world leading scientists and entrepreneurs, our cutting edge labs, the tech ecosystem system and our capital markets to build what the war fighter needs. But to do so better, faster and cheaper. And Emil is the right man to do it. You see, this isn't about military structure. This is about building an innovation pipeline that cuts through the overgrown bureaucratic underbrush and clears away the debris, Elon style, preferably with a chainsaw. And to do so at speed and urgency that meets the moment. As I've said repeatedly to every audience, the President of the United States and I have the backs of our warfighters who have to make split second life and death decisions on the battlefield. I want this audience to know that we also have the backs of innovators who who share that very same urgency. American taxpayers, especially those parents whose sons and daughters have answered the call to serve. I swore in 10 more today. Demand and I demand. And we demand that we arm our war fighters with overwhelming and lethal technology. Right now, not a decade from now, in modern warfare, the fastest, fastest innovator and iterator will be the winner. And no one can out innovate an American entrepreneur who has been liberated from the constraints of stifling bureaucracy. That old era ends today. We are done running a peacetime science fair while our potential adversaries are running a wartime arms race right now. From garage startups to factory floors to boardrooms across our nation, the question of how to harness innovation coming out of America's AI ecosystem is front and center, and rightfully so, because it has the potential to disrupt and transform every area of human endeavor. The same is true in the Department of War. President Trump's AI executive order spells out our approach succinctly. It is the policy of the United States to sustain and enhance America's global AI dominance in defense of human flourishing, economic competitiveness and national security. That, ladies and gentlemen, is the War Department's mission. We must ensure that America's military AI dominance so that no adversary can exploit that same technology to hold our national security interests or our citizens at risk. America first in every domain. Last month, I took the first step toward changing how the Department does business with Frontier AI Technologies when we announced the rollout of Gen AI with our partners from Google. And I want to thank The Google team for leaning forward and making the investment to get their Gemini app to about 3 million users in the War Department. But today we're excited to announce the next frontier AI model company to join Genai, and that is Grok from Xai, which will go live later this month. So I want to thank you, Elon, and your incredible team for leaning forward with us on this as well. Very soon, we will have the world's leading AI models on every unclassified and classified network throughout our department. Long overdue. To further that, today, at my direction, we're executing an AI acceleration strategy that will extend our lead in military AI. Established during President Trump's first term, this strategy is will unleash experimentation, eliminate bureaucratic barriers, focus on investments, and demonstrate the execution approach needed to ensure we lead in military AI and that it grows more dominant into the future. In short, we will win this race by becoming an AI first war fighting force across all domains, from the back offices of the Pentagon to the tactical edge on the front line. The catalyst for this acceleration will be seven pacesetting projects focused on mission threads across war fighting, intelligence and enterprise missions, each with a single accountable leader, aggressive timelines and measurable outcomes. To answer a familiar question, Elon, what have you accomplished this week? This is the execution standard for AI first transformation. Each of the seven pacesetting projects will use the following model, one owner who reports monthly on their progress. These projects will not be run in a vacuum, but will work directly with war fighters and transition partners. To ensure we incorporate real time operational feedback. We expect rapid iterations with failure accelerating the learning curve. These are not science projects. They are not governance boards. They are the execution standard for the entire department. We will not win the future by sprinkling AI onto old tactics like digital pixie dust. We will win by discovering entirely new ways of fighting. That's why we will run continued continuous experimentation campaigns, quarterly force on force combat labs with AI coordinated swarms, agent based cyber defense, and distributed command and control. Pushing the envelope, learning from failure at every stop. Which is exactly what this place does. You see, our department doesn't accept failure in the past. And so we never fail. Which means we never learn. We're flipping that dynamic. Before talking about the new rules of the game, let me talk about a little bit more about our new team. Because no game can be won without the right team. And we're proud to announce that Mr. Cameron Stanley has been appointed the new Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer, CDAO of our War Department. CAM will be leading a new team, many of whom have foregone thank you or left Luke lucrative careers at pioneer companies such as aws, Databricks, Palantir and Meta to join the fight. This team will not only provide a catalyst for change in this department, but will also act, we believe, as a magnet for other talented members of the tech community who want to join us in doing the mission focused work to protect our great republic. So let's talk about the new rules. First, speed. Speed wins. Speed dominates. Our enterprise currently operates on staffing and committee cycles measured in months and years, and that's unacceptable. Military AI is going to be a race for the foreseeable future where the risks to US national security of moving too slowly outweigh the impacts of imperfect alignment. To do this, Cam and his team at TD at TDAO will define AI deployment velocity metrics for all the pacesetting projects in the next 30 days and report at least monthly after that. These will become the new benchmarks for programs across the department. Second, bureaucratic blockers. If you work with Elon, you know he finds the blockers and you remove them. We will take a wartime approach to people and policies that block this progress. You want a block, you can work somewhere else. Barriers to data sharing, authority to operate, or ATOs, test and evaluation and contracting are now treated as operational risks, not simply bureaucratic inconveniences. We are blowing up these barriers. That's why today, at my direction, I'm establishing a barrier removal SWAT team under R and E with the authority to waive non statutory requirements and escalate to our great Deputy Secretary Steve Feinberg, anything that slows down the acceleration of AI capabilities. Third, compute resource. We will invest heavily in expanding our access to AI compute from data centers to the tactical edge, and will tap into hundreds of billions of dollars in private capital flowing into American AI. President Trump's executive order has directed us to build data centers on military land and to work with the Department of Energy to ensure that we dramatically increase the number and breadth of resources needed to power this computing infrastructure. We will work together with our partners at Google and AWS and Oracle and SpaceX, Microsoft and others on these initiatives. Fourth pillar, especially in this room, you'll understand it is talent. We will use every hiring and pay authority available to us to bring the best American technical talent and reward effective AI transformations by our workforce. We're going to heavily leverage President Trump's Tech Force initiative to bring in the best and brightest from industry and academia with people like Elon, David Sacks, Emil Mike and others. From the entrepreneurial and business world. Already in government, we have shown that we can and that we must. In the list the world's leading talent in this cause, 5th responsible AI today I want to clarify what this is.
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An iHeart podcast, guaranteed human.