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This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human. If you're an H Vac technician and a call comes in, Grainger knows that you need a partner that helps you find the right product fast and hassle free. And you know that when the first problem of the day is a clanking blower motor, there's no need to break a sweat. With Grainger's easy to use website and product details, you're confident you'll soon have everything humming right along. Call 1-800-GRAINGER clickgrainger.com or just stop by Granger for the ones who get it done. Well, good evening, everyone. Welcome to Stinchfield. The people of Minneapolis, Minnesota need to brace themselves tonight. Their city, in my opinion, stands a very good chance of being burned to the ground after leaders in Minneapolis are egging on these radical protesters standing up to ice. This ICE involved shooting today that left one of those radicals dead after she tried to run over that ICE officer. The reaction from the mayor and beyond and the governor is literally egging these lunatics on. It's inspiring and encouraging virus violence against these ICE agents. It is sad. But first, let's go to the shooting. I want you to watch it and I will break down for you why this is literally a justified shoot. And I can do this in about 45 seconds. Watch.
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No, no. Oh, my God.
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So what? So first folks, as you watch that, I could tell you, the officers, what did you hear them say? Get out of the car. If she would have obeyed commands, she would be alive today. She did not obey commands. And then we go to the close up of the video. This is what the mainstream media does not want you to see. Look at the two officers, one in front of that vehicle. Both at this point are giving her commands. She disobeys. Then she guns the car, using it as a ramrod against that ICE agent clearly in front of the vehicle. When he fires at her, it is his only choice to fire at her as she is using the that vehicle as a deadly weapon. Now, to any Democrat who says they could have shot the tires out, all you have to do is watch it as you did before in full speed. It's ridiculous. And then this police chief in Minneapolis, he needs to resign. He does not have the backs of law enforcement. He doesn't understand what it's like to be a cop. He is a political hack. Listen to what he said after this shooting. I do not know the exact circumstances of the shooting, but I would tell you in any professional law enforcement agency in the country, I think they would tell You. It's. It's obviously very concerning whenever there's a shooting into a vehicle of someone who's not armed. Hey Chief, shut your freakin trap if you don't know what went down. I just showed you the video. We could show it again in slow motion, please. The video of the shooting. The officer is literally in the way of the vehicle that she is driving to run him over. How dare you throw those officers underneath the bus again. I will call for about the fifth time. That police chief needs to resign. And then if you want to think that Minnesota will burn tonight, all you have to do is look at the mayor. Mayor Fry. This guy is out of control. There's little I can say again that'll make this situation better. But I do have a message for our community, for our city. And I have a message for ICE to ice. Get the out of Minneapolis. Get the F out to ice. Isis. They're trying to keep your city safe. And you've egged on these protesters, goons and tifa, you name it. To go attack them, barricade them, block them, try to run them over with vehicles. My lord. And now with the face of riots possibly tonight, you see them on your screen. They're starting to gather like cockroaches. What does Tim Walls do? He's threatening to call in the National Guard. Not to protect the shopkeepers and their stores from being burned to the ground. Listen to him. And you can be assured whether it's the State Patrol or whether it's the National Guard, their deployment is there to protect Minnesotans from whatever it is if it's an act of nature, if it's a global pandemic, or in this case, if it is a rogue federal agent. Rogue federal agent? You're going to use the National Guard to protect Minnesotans from ICE agents now? Maybe I'll take a page out of the Democrats book. Hey, National Guardsman. You are allowed to disobey illegal orders. And if Tim Walls gives you an order to stand in the way of federal agents, that's an illegal order. And you are well within your rights to disobey it. I want to bring in now Republican Minnesota State representative and Fraud Prevention Committee member Walter Hudson is with us. Walter, welcome to the program.
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Great to be here, Grant.
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Walter, a lot going on in Minnesota. Your reaction to Mayor Fry and of course Tim Walls, who is finds himself under fire as well. Your thoughts?
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Well, I gotta tell you, I don't know how, but you and I might be distant cousins. Because you're speaking my language, soldier. I mean, this is 100%. You're spot on on everything you're saying about this. You're articulating my thoughts precisely. Listen, Jacob Fry, Tim Walls, these guys should be brought up on federal charges. There's no doubt. And not just them. We have Democrats across the nation, and particularly here in Minnesota, who have been explicitly inciting assaults on law enforcement. And I don't like. You don't get to hide behind the fact that you politically disagree with the mission of a law enforcement agency and say, well, that totally justifies me sicing random people on them and supporting the organized crime of tracking them and calling people to come confront them. And this vehicle was obviously obstructing a federal law enforcement officer. They get out, they confront her. What else are they supposed to do? Just surrender, go home, get the F out? As Jacob Fry says, absolute nonsense. And until there are real painful consequences, legal consequences, for this type of incitement from public officials, we're going to continue to see it.
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I want to just give everybody out there a real easy tip. If you obey commands of a police officer, you will have a 100% chance of survival. She had every opportunity to obey command. She clearly tried to run that. That officer over. Let me play you Jacob Fry again, because he went on in his news conference, cut five guys. They are not here to cause safety in this city. What they are doing is not to provide safety in America. What they are doing is causing chaos and. And distrust. They're ripping families apart. They're sowing chaos on our streets, and in this case, quite literally killing people. Representative Hudson, I would like to ask you, you're in Minnesota. Have ICE agents there broken any laws? I mean, I get the left may disagree with the idea of rounding up illegal aliens, but they're here illegally. I think any reasonable person would say, hey, you're still enforcing the rule, rule of law. Have the ICE agents done anything illegal in your mind? Have you seen them do anything to get the comments from Jacob Fry? That literally dehumanizes these ICE agents? I think people engage in violence against them.
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Yeah, I've seen nothing to indicate that ICE is acting illegally. Quite the contrary. I see tons of folks incited by the rhetoric of elected officials in our state committing objective crimes. It is a federal crime to obstruct federal law enforcement. You can get on a high enough level, if you assault something and cause great bodily harm, like this lady tried to do, that'll put you in prison for 20 years. That's a felony. And you have our elected officials. Jacob Fry And Governor Walz in our state inciting that explicitly.
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I guess, Representative Hudson, these are somewhat intertwined. The Somali fraud that has been uncovered in your state. And now ICE agents are there. I would imagine they'd be rounding up some of the Somalis that are here illegally. But a new audit is out from the nonpartisan auditor in the state legislature that found $425 million with virtually no oversight went to 830 non governmental organizations. They found they had backdated paperwork, newly crafted documents to make this stuff look okay. Your thoughts on the fraud, the Somali fraud. And are we just at the tip of the iceberg here?
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We're most definitely at the tip of the iceberg. And the reason why we don't see beneath the surface is because the Walz administration has not done their job of government oversight and ensuring program integrity. And this store, this finding from the legislative auditor demonstrates it. You cannot tell me that you had multiple agency staff engaging what very well may be a prosecutable crime without there being a culture of permission to do precisely that. And that premise aligns very well with. With the many anecdotes that we've heard on the House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Committee here in Minnesota.
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Do you think there's any criminal liability between whether it's Tim Walls or your Attorney General Ellison or Elaine Omar, any of these folks?
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Yeah, I do. I do think that they're. Listen, they took a bunch of misdemeanors in New York and turned them into felonies in order to arrest Donald Trump, right? Like they invented an entire new legal theory out of thin air just to prosecute their political opponent. I think in that context, we can probably find a reasonable way to apply the actual law and its intended legislative intent to hold these people accountable.
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Yeah, you mean the actual law, like really real laws that they broke? Go figure. Walter Hudson, That. That's what we need to do. Hey, it's great having you on the program. As always, good luck to your state. I'm praying for Minneapolis and Minnesota tonight. I'm worried about how this stuff goes down, but we appreciate you coming on the 100%. Thank you, my friend. All right, folks, I want to turn now. You know, you go from Minneapolis to another wacky city, which of course is New York. Mamdani has taken over now as the mayor of New York. He's a radical Muslim. I believe he's a jihadist sympathizer at best. Now, he appointed this tenant director, Seal Weaver. Apparently, private property is now a thing of the past. Listen, to this.
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For centuries we've really treated property as an individualized good and not a collective good. And we are going to transitioning to treating it as a collective good and towards a model of shared equity will require that we think about it differently. And it will mean that families, especially white families, but some POC families who are homeowners as well, are going to have a different relationship to property.
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How about that? Hey, all you white Democrats who live on park avenue in your $8 million apartment, we're going to have illegal aliens moving in because it's now collective good. And this is literally what she's talking about here. One more clip from Weaver where the.
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City is actively pursuing already sort of litigation and enforcement mechanisms against the landlord. The SHDA is an option. We can say, hey, you know, you are not maintaining this building and we are the city of New York. We have an interest in making sure that housing is well maintained. And we're going to take this building away from you.
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It'll maintain your property. They're going to take the building away. That is not America, folks. Not even close. Now I would hope this wouldn't hold up in court. It would probably have to get to the Supreme Court because some radical New York court will uphold this whole nonsense. But I want to bring in now Christian conservative rapper and longtime Latino activist Sean Best is here. He's also known as DVS 7.0. Welcome to the program, DVS. It's good to see you, my friend.
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You too, brother.
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Yeah. What do you make of this? You're right there in the, in the belly of the beast.
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Well, actually I'm on a trip to the good old blessed Florida away from all the nonsense. But I'll be back there in a few days. But yeah, I've been active there for the past seven years, at least seven, eight years, non stop with the people on the ground, the people who are suffering the most through all of what we went through, through the pandemic and all of these things. And now it's just, I mean, I fought with some real fighters, people who just have the drive that you can't even imagine how they're able to just stick it through and fight for all of this stuff and just still be on the ground to this day and non stop, keep going. These people are real soldiers. But even now with what we're facing with Mamdani, it really is discouraging. I mean, the things that we're seeing and the way that we're seeing things being spoken of, it's just such a Total shame. And we tried our best to, to see who we can get in office and try to get, you know, I mean me personally, I was a Curtis guy. I was a big fan of Curtis. I knew him personally. I was on the street with him. He was a very, you know, personable guy and a real New Yorker. But what we're seeing now with, you know, so you. It's so fast. It's just been a couple days and we're already seeing a few things like you know, Kathy Hochul and the, the whole, you know, lighting up the, the World Trade center and all of these landmarks with you know, Islam, Islamic stuff and all that stuff. And then you know, right now with the whole situation with Maduro. I mean if you, if there wasn't anything in all of these years that wouldn't be clear on how detached these people are from reality. This is one of them. You have a bunch of fat pink white folks that have nothing to do with Venezuela holding up Venezuelan fags, talking about free Maduro. I mean, well say that to the Venezuelan people.
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Those were the same people, the same pink haired fat chicks that were screaming and yelling for Black Lives Matter. They don't care. They just want to protest and cause chaos. So I'll ask you this, and I hate to even have to ask you this because you are correct. There are some unbelievable fighters for conservatism in the city of New York. But do you feel beat down? Will the fight continue now as, as we work on this? And unfortunately we just lost evs so, so it is an interesting question though. Is there a defeatism attitude in New York? My guess is when you see some of the fighters in Staten island and the like, it is not defeatism. So we move from New York to California. Now think about it. All these places have so many similarities. Radical leftists in charge. Well, we know about Newsom. You know about their new senator, Pencil neck Schiff. Adam Schiff bag. Guess what? Our buddy Ben Berkman ran into him in the airport. And I call my buddy Ben the Smiling Assassin because nobody does the ambush interview more kindly than Ben does. Watch this.
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You're not gonna believe who I just ran into at the airport. It's like my best friend now been so long. Adam Schiff doing well. So in the Senate, what do you think is going to get you first? The treason you committed against President Trump in his first four years or the fraud in California?
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Take care of yourself.
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Yeah, I am just wondering, any family history? Got a little bit of the support Molly resemblance.
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Why do you Think we have so.
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Much fraud though being committed and in Democrat cities and states.
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What do you think?
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Cause that one. Okay, one last question. Do you think the fact that Eric Swalwell had an affair with a Chinese spy should disqualify him from being governor of California?
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Sir.
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He didn't want any part of.
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Ben.
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Ben should have asked him. Hey, it's interesting. Stitchfield gave you his sixth grade jean jacket with the fleece on that jacket so old. Anyway, I want to bring in now RAV correspondent Ben Berkram to the program. Ben, welcome, my friend. Great job.
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Yeah, thank you. Yeah, I think he was trying to go undercover, but I spotted him. I spotted him. Out there is. Yeah, it was beautiful. You know what? Airport was miserable people, LAX. I was actually flying back from D.C. direct flight to LAX to cover the, the Palisade, the one year anniversary of Governor Newsom and Karen Bass burning down Palisades. And he just happened to be on my flight. So I had five hours to sit there and think, all right, I got to get him when I get off the flight. It was. But it was great. You know, it's so funny, I just happened to run into the guy everywhere. So, you know, I pray for him though, but I pray he saved. I just want to see him in prison.
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Yeah, I'm with you on that. Did he say anything to you? I mean, he didn't really want to talk, obviously, and he just did his, I guess the best ignore job that he could.
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No, but this is the first time he actually got red in the face. So I continued down with him down the hallway and, and usually I, when I've run into him in the past, it's been in Washington D.C. and he can basically just get his staff to get in front of me and get away or get, get Capitol Police. And this one, I don't know if you've been to LAX recently. We landed in the international terminal and it goes forever. It's the longest walk in any airport terminal I've ever been in. So I just had his undivided attention for like 10 minutes. So he was, you know, he was not happy. But I' hey, you know, this, this scumbag is destroying our country. The least we can do is ask him some questions. But now he didn't seem to want to answer any of them.
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Absolutely. Well, you were in California because there was a big, I guess, protest news conference. There's lawsuits now going on about the Palisades fire and the disaster that it was. From a leadership perspective in California at every Level. Spencer Pratt is a reality TV star. He lost his house in the Palisades. He now has announced he's running for mayor of of Los Angeles. Let me play this clip from him and then get your response to how it went down today.
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I have to tell you, the most.
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Heartbreaking part of the past year wasn't.
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Being displaced or losing everything I own. It was the realization that all of this was prevent.
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We are standing here amongst the ashes.
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Of our once beautiful town because the.
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State and local leaders let us burn. Ben, why don't you tell me about what today was about?
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Well, it was a one year remembrance anniversary of the Palisades fire where Karen Bass and the radical environmentalists of California allowed the reservoirs to go dry and had no water to put out the fires. In fact, they allowed the fires to burn. It started six days before that. They allowed it to burn to protect an endangered weed. This is how crazy California has gotten. And I'm out here in the Central Valley of California now and this is what you see everywhere. You'll see areas like this and you'll get some radical environmentalists who go out hunting through the grass out there and find some endangered fairy shrimp or some endangered weed in the case of paradise, and they'll let the place burn down instead of actually managing the place. It's just absolutely outrageous. Now this is managed because it actually has cattle on it. So this is eaten down. Otherwise, if this was allowed to be maintained by the left, it would be majorly overgrown and would turn into a catastrophic wildfire just like has happened in all over our state and everywhere that you've got Democrats in control. And so today was marking that. The crazy thing I heard today, I heard a lot of crazy things. Only 5%, excuse me, 5% of the permits to rebuild have been issued 5% a year after that. So think about that. They burned down your house, they allowed it to burn and then they come in and blame climate change when it's really their own policies. And then when you say, hey, can we actually rebuild a year later, they've only got 5% of the permits. But the sad thing is I come from a community where this happened, the Creek fire, five years ago and many of the places there still have not got their permit. So that's the state of California. This is leftist policies in action. And I'm actually not surprised that Spencer decided to run for office. I just pray that people wake up in time before it's too late out here.
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Yeah, I'll remind people. The reservoirs were empty. You had the fire chief that did not pre deploy any of the firefighters. They knew the high winds were coming. You had Karen Bass, who was literally out of the country, left knowing vacationing in Ghana. Exactly. And then Gavin Newsom who wanted to blame it on everybody else. Do you think? Real quick, if you can, for me, Ben, does Spencer Pratt in Los Angeles running against someone like Karen Bass. He seems to be a very common sense guy, really smart guy. He's been at the forefront of exposing all of the corruption and incompetency of these fires. Real quick, Ben, does he stand a chance in Los Angeles? I hope he does. Your thoughts?
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You're up against a political machine that's designed to destroy you. And if they can't destroy you, they cheat. And so it's an uphill battle, to say the least. For him, it really comes down to two things. Can we uncover the fraud like we're starting to do in Minneapolis, in California, and can we prevent the cheating from happening? Because I think you are having a great awakening of people in California.
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Yeah, I think you're right. On his website he has himself listed as Karen Bass's worst nightmare. So we'll see what he does. Ben Berkman, great stuff. Why don't you go try to try to track down Nancy Pelosi next or somebody else at lax.
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I might head north to her vineyard. We'll see where I end up.
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There you go. Maybe you run into Gavin Newsom at his as well. Ben Berkman, thank you as always. All right folks, listen up. Patriot Mobile and is an unbelievable organization. All right? They're not just a wireless provider. They're an activist organization funded by selling top tier cell phone service. They've been on the front lines of defending our freedoms for long before it was cool. Standing in the gap when others wouldn't. The best part is they deliver prioritized premium service on all three major US networks, giving you the same or even better coverage, backed by 100% US based customer support. Got unlimited data plans, mobile hotspots, international roaming, and so much more. Switching is easier than ever. Activated minutes, keep your number, keep your phone or upgrade. Take a stand today. Go to patriot mobile.com forward/rav or call 972-patriot. Use promo code RAV for a free month service. And make sure that you tell them that Grant Stitchfield sent you. All right? Nicholas Maduro's capture is a warning shot to China. We talk about it next. Welcome back everyone. You know, I've been thinking more about the capture of Nicolas Maduro and this idea that President Trump and his team managed to turn the lights out in Venezuela. The capabilities of our cyber team to do that sends a clear warning shot to China. China was always the one being discussed that could turn the lights out. Now we know the United States can. China has been put on notice. Now to Venezuela. Another question that has been posed to me is why President Trump is not backing the opposition leader to Maduro, Maria Corinne Machado, who won the Nobel Peace Prize. I believe a lot of this has to do with strategy. It has to do with not allowing the country to descend into chaos or right off the bat when he's got the current leadership in a very position where they feel like they cannot get too out of line, otherwise they may end up in a New York prison like Maduro. Here's President Trump. I think it would be very tough for her to be the leader. She doesn't have the support within or the respect within the country. She's a very nice woman, but she doesn't have the respect. Is it possible? So again, right now it's about fear. President Trump is instilling fear in those who are leading Venezuela.
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Now.
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He says he has cooperation from Rodriguez, the former vice president, who is now leading the country. This as the United States has gone and seized two oil tankers today, one flying under a Russian flag. Here's Caroline Levitt.
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This was the sanctioned oil that was basically just sitting in barrels, sitting on ships because of the effective port quarantine of the United States of America. And these, the interim authorities have agreed to release that oil to the United States. So it will be arriving here at home very soon. The United States government has already begun marketing Venezuelan crude oil in the globe it marketplace.
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Make no mistake, release the oil to the United States. How do you say no to President Trump when you have the United States military parked off your coast? You're not going to say no to very much. And I think that is President Trump's plan. But what does this mean for the Venezuelan people who clearly want relief, who clearly are happy about this, but I'm told are still being persecuted as we speak. I want to bring in Venezuelan expatriate. He lives in Georgia now. Andres Bermudez is with us. Andres, it's great to have you on the program.
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Good night. Grant, thank you very much for the opportunity.
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Well, it's great to have you on. I've been following you on Instagram over the last few days, and I'm fascinated by what you're seeing out there, your thoughts on all of this. I would Imagine you have some family back in Venezuela. How's the situation for the people living there right now?
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The situation, to be honest, is really hard right now. The people is waiting for the conclusion of this event that is happening right now. But at the same time, the people from Venezuela is living one of the happiest moment in our history in the past 50 years. The actions of the President Donald Trump, not our only support by all the Venezuelan people also are very important for the region. Because I was listening to you and I want to quote that I think that is not a thing of fear. I think it's a matter of knowledge. I think that the Trump administration have a really profound knowledge of the importance of having an enemy like the regiment of Nicolas Maduro. We are talking that this regiment in the past year gave more than 173 passports to people from Hezbollah. It was a report of CNN of 2017 in the organization of United nations in 2025. They make a report in June when they confirm that the regiment of Nicolas Maduro and Chavez sent more than 250 tons of cocaine to use U.S. and Europe. They closed to jail in 2024 and they sent all these criminals to United States and other countries of the region. So I think that today, right now, we are living historic times in Venezuela.
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Do you think there will be those who flip on the current regime? Specifically maybe members of the military? I want to play a clip from you, for you of Joe Sinclair. He was an Air Force veteran who got scooped up in Colombia by the Maduro regime, was held hostage for about a year, recently released. Listen to what he said about those reaching out to him today.
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Those agents have since reached out to contacts that I know from my ex in Colombia and they've attempted to make contact with me. I've not done so just because I feel a little sketchy about it. But certainly other hostages who are there, their family members live in Caracas. So as soon as this hit, within 20 minutes our group chats were blowing.
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Up and we already knew it was window. He said, Andres, that as he was being rescued and led out of Venezuela, there were soldiers secretly handing him messages saying please get in touch with me on Instagram. They want to defect. Do you think this will be how Venezuela ultimately falls?
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Definitely. And actually the other thing that is important to let people know is that the strategy that President Donald Trump is having right now is the necessary. We're talking that the Venezuela regiment has control of all the military system, all the police officers. So we definitely not only need collaboration from inside, also we need this pressure from the government of the United States, one of the most powerful army in the world. So these people understand that this is the only way that they have to solve the situation. And actually I want to add that right now the only responsible of this situation is Nicolas Maduro. We, the Venezuelan people, we try by all the institutional channels, we vote, we participate. In March we tried in dialogues more than 70 times with the intervention of countries like Qatar, Dominican Republic, the Organization of American States, the Organization of United nations. And all these times has been the same thing. Right now we have more than 18,300 political prisoners in this time, we have more than 500 people dead in protest. We have document more than 38,000 cases, documentaries of torture. So we are talking that right now this is a big enemy for the hemisphere. And I'm really, really happy because I'm sure that we're close to the end of this nightmare.
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Yeah, I hope so. And I think President Trump is spot on. And I'll ask a quick response from you about oil. If you control the oil, you control Venezuela because that's how it makes its way money. And it's also how it makes its money selling it to some of our enemies as well. Your thoughts on the oil real quick if you can.
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For me, Andres, for me this is funny. And actually if you take a look at my Instagram, you're going to see some protests. And I was trying to explain this to the American people. People is talking about a war for oil just to make this really fast. Between 90s and 20s PD, the oil industry of Venezuela was in the top five on the world of the oil industries. Actually in 94 it was number two company on the world. In 2013, 10 years after Chavez take the power in Venezuela, PDVESA was out of the 250 more important companies of the world. We used to produce 3 million barrels of oil every day. Right now we're not producing even 500,000. So people is talking that United States want to steal our oil or whatever. No, the real truth is that our oil is financing countries like China, like Russia, like Cuba, like Bolivia. They are spraying this left politics all around the atmosphere. So right now if United States of America want to buy our oil and pay for our oil, this is going to be the most important thing that we need to restructure to the country.
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Well, it's a great point. And that would make, as President Trump said, Venezuelans rich and prosperous again. Which it was once a great, rich, prosperous nation where people lived free. And it was really Basically stolen from them, as you well know. Andres Bermudez, it's great having you on the program. I pray for your family and the people in Venezuela and we hope their relief is coming very, very soon. Thank you, sir.
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Thank you very much, my friend. God bless you and have a great night.
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Absolutely. You too. All right, folks, coming up next, the nra, my old organization, has completely lost its way. It needs to return to its hard nose, take no prisoners roots. We will talk about that next as it sues itself again. Welcome back, everyone. I want to say something right off the bat. I'm an NRA National Rifle association life member. I worked for the organization as one of its spokespeople. I was sued in federal court defending the National Rifle association, an organization I absolutely love. Except I'm here to tell you the organization I love is now been virtually destroyed. Destroyed from within. It is now a group run by whiny old white men who are more concerned about power than they are concerned about gun rights. The National Rifle association was once the most powerful nonprofit in the world. We were badasses when we worked there. Those days are over, my friend. The organization is 100% limp. And now I see the National Rifle association and is suing the NRA foundation, the charitable arm of the NRA, for $160 million in financial wrongdoing. And you know what? I don't even care who's right or wrong in all this. It just happens to be the way the organization has gone and the infighting and gun owners lose because of it. Just as a little trip down memory lane, you want to see what the NRA was about when I worked there? Watch this. To the Ayatollahs of Iran and every terrorist you enable. Listen up. You might have met our fresh faced flower child president and his weak kneed Ivy League friends, but you haven't met America. Guess what? Since that rant, Iran has met America. And that's Charlie Daniels, God rest his soul. The NRA doesn't do work like that. Now they're caught up in lawsuits suing each other again. Well, I want to bring in now lieutenant Colonel, retired. He's also a very good friend of mine. He is also a board member of the National Rifle Association. Lt. Col. Willis Lee is with us. Colonel, welcome to the program. I hope you're not mad at me for my intro here, but I'm very frustrated, my friend.
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Happy New Year. I've been frustrated also and I'm glad your info, your intro is right on track. I'll tell you Though it's not a bunch of whiny people there. We're trying to make changes. It's coming tough, but we'll discuss some of that as we go on. I have to tell you, though, as much serious business is going on. Ten minutes ago when you had Sean on here and he referred to the New York City protesters as fat, pink haired white people, I just burst out laughing. So I give him kudos for that.
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A
Well, that's the kind of talk I wish the National Rifle association would go back to engaging in. Colonel, it is such an important organization. It's not being talked about anymore. It doesn't seem to be a player on the national stage. How do we return the National Rifle association back to the greatness it once was?
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F
Yeah, I'm going to give you a little disclaimer. First of all, I'm not. Last time we spoke, I was an officer. I'm not an officer now. So I don't speak for the nra. These are my personal opinions. But we're trying to get back on track there. We called it NRA 2.0. We've got a whole new leadership team embedded ever since those scandals that came out in the New York AG trial and that's some of what you've been referring to tonight. We've been in lawsuits for the last four. Now we're going to go into six years of lawsuits and it's turned in not from outside, but it's an internal fight. Now we've seen other organizations go through this where the charitable arm has split from the rest of the, in this case the nra. And we're going through that fight right now.
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A
All right. So this charitable arm of the nra, the NRA Foundation, I remember it doing all kinds of terrific work. The accusation is it's been taken over by Wayne LaPierre holdovers and now there's a big fight between the NRA or the organization and the foundation. Can you tell me what's playing out there?
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F
Yes. Let me give you a little background. First of all, and you've alluded to it, in 1990 the NRA founded the Found the Foundation so that we could support with our donors and supporters the shooting sports, competitive shooting, firearms safety and education. And we are the absolute best in the business at doing that as the years have gone on. Now we went through the New York AG trial and a lot of these holdovers from the lapierre time moved over to the foundation. Now many of them are disgruntled because they've been pushed out of The NRA proper, and they want to start a fight. And they've started it. It's resulted in this lawsuit where NRA now has to sue for intellectual property rights from the foundation. And the unfortunate part, as you've referred to Grant, it doesn't matter who wins now we're funding this thing on the NRA side with donor money. The NRA foundation is funding their side with donor money. Either way, the firearms owner loses, the Second Amendment loses. And as you know, we've got some elections coming up in 2026.
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G
Yeah.
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A
You know, when I was working at the NRA, at NRA TV to be exact, there was a time congressmen and women, Republicans in particular, would shudder in their boots about even coming close to crossing the NRA or doing anything anti gun. I want to get back to those days and I want to see the NRA come out firing with their words, with the Constitution, with their thoughts. Not guns, obviously, but come out firing on a national stage. Will we ever get back to that point?
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F
We will. And that's the plan, is to get right back there. As you know, when you have constituents who are supporting the nra, you have a lot of power with congressmen and senators. We've had a dramatic downfall in our membership, dropping from almost 5 million down to probably somewhere in the maybe 3 million range now. So that gives us a lot less influence with congressmen and senators to include their support for their campaigns and donors to their campaigns. So we'll get back there. Now, notwithstanding, two of our legislate, two of our lobbyists from Iowa were noted as in the top 100 lobbyists on Capitol Hill this year. So they're still in there fighting. We just don't have the firepower that we used to.
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A
Yeah, it's great to hear and I will tell everybody out there, Lieutenant Colonel retired Willis Lee, nobody fights harder for the National Rifle association for gun owners and has a love of a America more than you do, my friend. And I still love this organization. I want to do everything I can to make the NRA great again. As President Trump would say, we just got to get back to doing the business. And all of this had me so frustrated, I figured I'd bring you on. And I thank you for, for coming on and talking openly about it.
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F
Colonel Well, I appreciate it, Grant. And you're right. Both the old guards tried to throw me out, the reformers tried to throw me out. I'm still here fighting because there is a cause to be won here. There is something important to win. We're still Fighting for the soul of America. And the NRA is in that fight.
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A
Well, I wonder what this segment will do for your prospects moving forward right now. But what was my quote? Old limp, power hungry white man? I don't know. You know, sadly we have. Let's move on. All right, folks. Thank you, Colonel as well. Nicolas Maduro's capture. What does that mean for the economy and your portfolio, specifically gold? It continues to make highs. Is it still a buy with all of these highs? We're going to talk about that next. Welcome back, everyone. So clearly when you have chaos in the world, world gold is a huge buy. Well, this issue with Venezuela gold started to rally again. It continues to make highs. I don't see any end to gold's reach. Maybe $15,000 an ounce. I was saying 10,000. I now think $15,000 an ounce. I want to bring in precious metal specialists for birch gold. They're such great sponsors of this program and supporters of freedom everywhere. Philip Patrick is with us. Philip, welcome to the program.
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G
Thank you for having me, Gron. Happy New Year.
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A
All right, am I a little out of control on my 15,000 an ounce call? But I don't know. That's where I, that's where I see it headed.
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G
Listen, this is what I do. If you'd asked me last year, would silver go 150%, I probably would have said no at the start of the year. So gold at 15,000 in this climate wouldn't be a surprise. We had Jamie Dimon say very offhand, oh, it could easily reach $10,000 in climates like this. And this is someone who has been famously anti gold. So given the state of the world, given how things are progressing, I don't think you're crazy at all, Grant. All right.
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A
What's interesting is bitcoin seems to be a place where people are moving money to gold. Is the entity that seems not to be a place where people want to put money is the US Dollar.
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G
Yeah, it's absolutely correct. And if we look at gold surge, it was predominantly driven by central banks. They continued aggressive accumulation. China, Turkey, Gulf states, the BRICS bloc, these guys were driving it. What's interesting is their motivation really wasn't yield, it was sanctions risk and dollar risk. That demand coming from central bank is large, it is persistent, it is non speculative. And typically once central banks anchor a bid, gold doesn't retrace easily. So I think they've set a new floor. What's interesting is the velocity of Central Bank Gold. Buying 25 was a new record for central Banks. And the last quarter of last year was the single biggest quarter in world history. So it's increasing and is set to continue.
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A
Is there a country that is leading the way now? I'm going to guess it's going to be either the US Or China. They're probably the two wealthiest countries. But is there a country leading the way on this buying of gold?
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G
Yeah, Right. Right now it's coming. Coming predominantly from China, Russia and a lot of the BRICS nations. They're pushing it. US Obviously has the largest published, I should say, gold reserves on the planet. So we still lead the way there. But the buying right now is coming from Asia.
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A
Hey, you know, you bring this up. You and I have talked about this. Elon Musk and Doge. I wish Elon would come back and continue the Doge. The Doge Plan. But he promised us an audit of Fort Knox. I don't think we've had one since, like, the 1950s or something. What if there's no gold in there, Philip?
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G
If there's no gold in there, we shouldn't tell anyone about it. It would be an absolute disaster. An audit of Fort Knox. I kind of want to see it, but there's not too much into it. If the audit confirms what we have, we're in the same position. We are. If the audit doesn't confirm what we have, we are in big trouble. So. I know. Maybe we let that one go.
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A
Well, we're in big trouble. Unless, of course, you own gold and you're not in so much trouble, are you? You're absolutely correct.
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G
You're absolutely correct.
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A
All right, so what is. What is your advice to people? I'm sure the greatest pushback for you is, oh, my gosh, we're making new highs. Nobody wants to buy at the top. Is that the biggest pushback you get when you're talking to customers? And what do you tell them?
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G
Look, it's a concern for people, certainly, but I'll say a few things. First of all, we're in a climate of everything being high. That is the effect of huge amounts of money being printed.
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C
Right.
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G
We're seeing it across the board. House prices are high, markets are high, gold's high. So the ability to buy low and sell high doesn't exist in this climate. The question then becomes, what's on going more conducive for the climate in front of us when we have global instability, we're combating inflation. We got a world running away from the US Dollar. That's a climate that's very conducive. For gold. And people have to remember gold's price is just a reflection of the value of currency. Listen, before World War I, Germany, an ounce of gold was 142 German Reichmarks. They printed the Reichmarks. Ten years later, it was 87 trillion German Reichmarks. I'm not saying we're going there, but it shows you gold is a reflection of the value of currency. And it'll keep going up as long as the dollar keeps going down.
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A
You know, I would argue, too, as you look at the stock market S&P 500, we don't think about that ever going back. Now, you may have some pullbacks, but you still think about it going up and up and up. That's our whole future. That's everybody's future as they invest in the stock market. I look at gold the same way. There's no way we're backtracking on this. There may be dips. I wouldn't worry about them. But again, I'm. I'm a $15,000 an ounce guy. Philip, let me tell people how they can find you at Birch Gold. All right, my friend, here's how you do it. Go to or text is the best way to do it. America to the number 989-898 to get your free info kit on gold. Again, America to the number 989-898. All right, if Melania Trump doesn't like the Trump dance, we sure do. Well, I told you last night, I love the Trump dance, but apparently Melania doesn't. She hates when I dance. I said, everybody wants me to dance, darling. It's not presidential. She actually said, could you imagine FDR dancing? She said that to me. And I said, there's a long history that perhaps she doesn't know. I think it's presidential. He's made it presidential. That's going to do it for us tonight, folks. Thanks so much for watching. I'm Grant Stitchfield, Stitchfield's army roles. Thanks to all of you. A big thumbs up to the guys behind the glass. We'll see you tomorrow night. This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human.