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Adam Weiss
This is an I heart podcast.
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Grant Stitchfield
Well, good evening, everyone. Welcome to Stitchfield. If you watch media at all today, you will see that the Democrats we're rushing to declare victory after last night, that this was a rebuke of President Trump. The victories in New York City with Mamdani, and the governor's races in Virginia and New Jersey. Then of course, Prop 50, the redistricting constitutional amendment out there. All victories for Democrats on the short term. But let me propose this to you. I actually don't think this is a big victory for Democrats. In fact, I think it spells more trouble for them in the long run. What happened yesterday is going to hurt the Democrats, especially with Prop 50 out in California and mom Donnie in New York City. This was Mom Donnie right off the bat. This guy is one combative mother scratcher. He does a total really change of character from being the nice, friendly, Obama style guy to the guy we all knew he was, as I said, a combative mother scratcher. Watch.
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Zohran Mamdani
I think you can do that. And I think you have to raise taxes on the top 1% of New Yorkers, New Yorkers who make more than $1 million a year. And you do that by raising taxes by them 2%. And then you also increase the corporate tax of New York State to match that of New Jersey. So that takes us from about 7.25 to about 11.5%, which is what we see in New Jersey. These things together raise about $9 billion, which more than pays for our economic agenda. Also starts to trump proof our.
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Grant Stitchfield
Man is a communist. And when I say combative, he's literally going after small businesses, big businesses, anybody that creates jobs. The one problem for him with that little plan is everyone is going to leave. Now, what is amazing to me is that Mamdani, right off the bat, quoted one of the fathers of Marxism, this Nero guy out of India, this father of Marxism, Nero was responsible for the massacre of Hindus in India. He enabled jihadis to basically wipe out Hindus inside of India. And that is who Mamdani decides to quote during his speech. Listen.
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Zohran Mamdani
I think of the words of Jawaharlal Nehru. A moment comes, but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. Tonight, we have stepped out from the old into the new.
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Grant Stitchfield
Do you know what his new is? His new is the subtle takeover of America, a parasitic relationship with America that these Islamic jihadis. And I believe he's a jihadi sympathizer at best. They come into America and they feed off of society and they grow in our society until ultimately we turn around and they've taken over society. We see it in Dearborn, Michigan. We see it in places like Minnesota. And now we see it in New York City. That's his rebirth in all of this. Now it's not just taxes for New Yorkers. Crime will explode. He plans on letting prisoners out. He wants to defund the police. You will see bruisers, thieves, thugs, rapists, murderers roaming the streets everywhere you look in New York. And in the end, Wall street will find a refuge, and that refuge will be right here in Texas on y' all street. You know, we have a stock market that is opening up here in Texas. Y'.
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Adam Weiss
All.
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Grant Stitchfield
You wait and see what this guy does to New York City. Here's Steve Scalise. New York. When they realize how bad socialism is, they can just leave like they've been doing for years. They can move to states like Florida to Texas. They can even come to Louisiana. But if they ruin America, if they're able to take hold with socialism in America, where else are people going to go? Congressman, there's no place else on earth to go. America is the last vestige. And that's why we must fight like the dickens for it. And we will. Now, this is why I'm telling you last night, certainly bad for New York, certainly bad for Virginia and New Jersey, but not bad for the rest of the country. This will serve as a wake up call to everybody out there of what the left is capable. The Democrats have said we are the party of socialist communists. Zohran again.
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Zohran Mamdani
So, Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you. Turn the volume up. We will hold bad landlords to account because the Donald Trumps of our city have grown far too comfortable taking advantage of their tenants.
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Grant Stitchfield
Does he really think that's what's going on in New York City? You already have rent control there. You're going to have investment flee. And after he goes after Donald Trump. Donald Trump, thankfully, is helping save America from people like that. He could not save New York City, though. So we go from Mamdani to the next victory that Democrats claim this Prop 50 In California, the redistricting plan to change the Constitution to add seats. I'm going to tell you something. This is going to backfire on Gavin Newsom. Gavin Newsom pushed this through the governor of California because he wanted to fight back against Texas. Well, he claimed victory last night. Gavin Newsom did this initiative.
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Sean Duffy
We stood tall and we stood firm in response to Donald Trump's recklessness. And tonight, after poking the bear, this bear roared with an unprecedented turnout in a special election with an extraordinary result.
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Grant Stitchfield
Let me tell you the problem with fighting back against the big bear of all bears, the grizzly bear in the White House, Donald Trump. Donald Trump's not dumb. He's rallied not just Texas, but other states as well. How about Missouri, Ohio, North Carolina? They each added five seats for Texas, one seat for Missouri, two seats in Ohio, one seat in North Carolina. That gives Republicans now a 9 to 5 advantage, even with California adding those five Democrat seats. Now, here's the other problem. You've got Nebraska, Florida, Kansas and Indiana all contemplating adding Republican seats. Gavin Newsom, you decided to go down this road of a redistricting war. You're going to lose. It could end up being a 15 to 5 advantage to Republicans. So his Prop 50. Bring it on, baby. Republicans are ready for you. So what does Newsom do? He resorts to lies.
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Sean Duffy
Here he is in every critical category. Donald Trump is underwater. He promised to make us healthier, he promised to make us wealthier. We're sicker and poorer, and he fundamentally understands that. Why else, why else would he call Greg Abbott saying he's entitled to five seats?
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Grant Stitchfield
What an absolute slimy snake. First off, the stock market's roaring. We are richer now than ever before. 401Ks are filling up. Not to mention for those folks that don't have 401ks, what's down? Gas prices, the number one driver of an expense for the average family. All grocery prices are down, too, no matter what the mainstream media tells you. Inflation is down. And by the way, California, you got homelessness, you got crime, you got taxes, you got regulation, all exploding. Put a huge burden on the people of California. People in America are free. Not so much in California. Gavin Newsom will be the loser after last night. Mark my words on all of that. Not to mention he's got wildfires and all kinds of other craziness that he can't handle. Well, joining me now is host of Media Exposed, airing right here on rav. Adam Weiss is with us. Adam, welcome back to the show.
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Adam Weiss
Grant, thanks for having me.
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Grant Stitchfield
Adam, what do you think of my assessment that as the Democrats claim a giant victory, I think this in the end is gonna work out in our favor, albeit long term. I get that it's a defeat short term, but long term, I think they play right into us.
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Adam Weiss
Where's the victory? I mean, Zo Ramadani won the Democratic primary because the moderate, if they're moderate. They're not really that moderate. If the Democratic elites were asleep, this guy came along, he rallied Gen Z, he, he rallied with the dsa, which is Democratic Socialist Party. In New York. There are a lot of different parties. The Democratic Social Party and all they do for living, Grant, is, are activists and organized and are into like disrupting things and protest. So he got them on board and he crept up on Cuomo who was out. He won the primary, so he was the big favorite. I'm surprised Cuomo and Sliwa did as well as they did. He's the nominee. I wanted to give him an opportunity to, to reach out, to see what he did. Cause all he did during the campaign was walk around. But that speech last night was bitter, was nasty. Why are you attacking the President of the United States? You just won the mayor of our biggest city in the country, our economic engine, the greatest city in the world, and you're attacking the President.
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Grant Stitchfield
Why?
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Adam Weiss
Reach out. Reach out to the Jewish community. Reach out to the President. Say you want to make people welcome. You won't. You know, Cuomo gave his concession speech. He thanked Iran, he said we need to work with him. I'm here for you. This guy, they're radicals. And I think he doesn't even know how to be. I don't think he knows how to step out of that activist shoe and become the mayor at this point.
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Grant Stitchfield
Well, look, he's what, 34 years old. He's combative. He's never had a real job in his life. And so this is all he knows is just being a flamethrower. And so I think you're going to continue to see that he will divide New York City. He'll divide it by design. What I don't understand. A real quick question before I play a soundbite from Joe Scarborough on this. But 30% of Jews voted for Mamdani in New York. How does someone call themselves a Jew in New York and vote for Mamdani? A guy who wants them basically eradicated refuses to denounce the global intifada.
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Adam Weiss
They're self hating Jews. They've been the worst. They're on the Upper west side. They're on the West Village. I used to live around. I lived in the West Village for 17 years. I think I was the only Republican conservative. Flooded by Jews. No matter what you do, you knock them on the head. You say that could show them article, tell them how bad the Jews are treated. They don't care. It's, it's unbelievable. They've Been like this forever.
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Grant Stitchfield
All right, let me give you an example. Since you focus on the media on your show, I thought I'd play Joe Scarborough. This was his response to victory last night. Elected in the state of New Jersey. We had the first Muslim elected statewide in the state of Virginia. The first Muslim woman elected statewide in the state of Virginia. The lieutenant governor. We had the first Muslim mayor ever elected in New York City. I mean, you talk about, like a political punch in the face for white nationalists. White nationalists come up with this stuff.
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Adam Weiss
I mean, that's Grant. If we say we woke up today and the Dems won Ohio, they won Missouri, they won other North Carolina, he could have that speech. Right, but you won states that Trump lost to Kamala, and that was Trump. That's the juggernaut, right? Jack Citarelli never called the juggernaut in. He didn't say Trump, please do a rally with me. Energize the base. He should have, because nobody gets the people out like Donald Trump. And. And he thought doing a zoom call and just a tweet is going to help. No, you need the guy to come in, get the people out. He didn't do that. So how are you going to win New Jersey? By just. He looked old, staggered. He didn't. That was the third time he lost the statewide race. So how's he going to win this time? Virginia, we never win. We had a beautiful candidate, Youngkin, and that was a lucky go about it.
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Grant Stitchfield
You know, I will remind people this about Youngkin. I was a huge critic of Youngkin when he was running for governor. I said, he's not conservative enough. I was pounding the drum that he wasn't conservative. You know what? He wasn't when he was running. He was a moderate. And I guess Virginia can't handle a real conservative. I think that hurt Winsome Sears, and then she turns on Donald Trump. That's the last thing you need to do when you need to turn out your base. So she's too conservative. She turns on Donald Trump. It was a recipe for disaster for her. Adam Weiss, I give you the last word.
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Adam Weiss
You know, that's the same as, like, Massachusetts. They were able to win the governorship with moderate Republicans. Sometimes we have. It's better than nothing, right, Grant? And that Gavin Newsom. Gavin Newsom looks like a fool lately. How many more? They already have 43 seats. Republicans have nine. How many? And Republicans get like 40% of the vote. You're going to take their seats away. It's pathetic.
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Grant Stitchfield
Yeah. Yeah, it really is. Adam Weiss. Thank you. As always, urge people to watch your show. We appreciate you coming on.
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Adam Weiss
Thank you, Grant.
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Donald Trump
All right.
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Grant Stitchfield
Absolutely. All right, so which turns now to a situation that the Democrats have created which is causing all kinds of havoc for American citizens, and that is this government shutdown. I mean, if you're a government employee, forget about it now. Have I felt it? Not really. I haven't traveled in a few weeks, so I haven't felt it there. I don't feel it really anywhere. Not a lot of Americans are feeling it. But if you're a government employee, you are. If you're traveling, you are. And I think things are only going to get worse. So how do we get past this? You would think now the election's over that the Democrats would now come to their senses if this was some kind of political ploy. Or maybe you do away with the filibuster. This 60 vote minimum, in order to move policy to a vote in the United States senate, you need 60 votes to move it to a full vote. Let's do away with that. Here's President Trump.
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Donald Trump
The biggest thing is the filibuster. We have to get the country going. We will pass legislation at levels you've never seen before, and it'll be impossible to beat us, by the way, if they do, they're going to do it anyway and they are going to immediately do the filibuster.
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Grant Stitchfield
Well, that's the thing. I mean, will Democrats actually do that right away? Maybe. Could you imagine what we could get done? You know me, before I burst out of the scene as your primetime host, I was working for the National Rifle association pushing for national concealed carry. Your concealed carry license is as good as your driver's license in every state. We could get that passed. That would be like a dream for me, by the way, folks. But there are so many things we could reform. The judicial system, judges, call them in, rein them in. There are so many policy things that President Trump and Congress could do together that maybe it's worth throwing out the filibuster. Tommy Tuberville, the senator likes it, but.
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Colonel Rob Bayness
I'm really for the American people. They didn't send Donald Trump up here to stand around and wait for the Senate to get something done.
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Donald Trump
Okay, if we need to bust it, let's bust it.
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Colonel Rob Bayness
Let's knock it down to 51 and.
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Donald Trump
Let the Senate know that, listen, the.
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Colonel Rob Bayness
Power needs to be over the president and let him get something done.
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Grant Stitchfield
If we don't, we're going to lose our country. All right, so can you get 51 senators to throw out the filibuster. In order to do it, it's got to go through Judiciary. That means you need Chuck Grassley on board. He's an old school guy. I'm not sure you get him. Judiciary pushes that through, then it goes to a full vote in the Senate and you got it. But you need 51 senators. Do you have Republicans that will vote for this? I don't know. Do you think it's a good idea? I am now at the point where I think it is a good idea. And you know who convinced me on this? My co host out on the morning answer on AM870 in Los Angeles, Jennifer Horse Horn did. Jennifer, welcome to the program.
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Jennifer Horn
Thank you, Grant. I'm glad I could convince you on this one because I think we need to ride on it. I really do. And you know, it's time, it's time to play like the Democrats play.
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Grant Stitchfield
You know, you always tease me. Normally I steal your ideas from the show in the morning. I figured this time I'll just let you come out and explain it. So why do you tell me it's a good idea? Explain it to the people.
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Jennifer Horn
So, you know, I was thinking about this because look, at first I thought, oh, blowing up the filibuster, not a great idea. This is what protects us from having Costa Rica as, or excuse me, Puerto Rico as a state and D.C. as a state. Right. This is what has saved us before in, in the past from having all of those things that Republicans don't want. But it got me thinking and you asked the question, why didn't Democrats blow it up before if they would blow it up again if they were in charge? And the answer to me is Chuck Schumer, Chuck Schumer, Mitch McConnell, all of the old school Repub and Democrats who are in the Senate right now or who have been in the Senate in the past, they had that relationship that we all sort of admired and sort of hated, right? They would fight all day on the floor, but then they'd go have drinks and smoke cigars together. Sadly, or maybe not so sadly, those days are over. The far right is ready for war. The far left is ready for war. And I really, truly believe that Chuck Schumer is not long for this, for this seat that he's in as perhaps a minority leader and again soon to be majority leader if Democrats are lucky enough to win the Senate. So I thought if it's someone else along the lines, they are absolutely, Grant, going to want to blow this thing up. And I thought, Chuck Schumer is the only reason they haven't done it in the past. Mitch McConnell may be the only reason we haven't done it. So you know what? I don't need to wait around for AOC to take Chuck Schumer's place because you know exactly what she will do and Republicans and President Trump need to beat her to the punch.
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Grant Stitchfield
Look, after what happened last night, we now know the Democrats are moving to to be the Communist party here in the United States. Democratic Communists, forget about socialist Democrat Communists, if that even makes any sense. So we know they're there. It's interesting and I tend to agree with you that old school Schumer and McConnell probably had a gentleman's handshake agreement that we're not going to do this at all costs. But this party has gone radical. This party meaning Democrats, they throw it out. You know, we don't. We get no benefit of having control of Congress. They'll have all the benefit if, God forbid, one day they take it back. So why not just do it before them? That's what President Trump says. Roll that clip for Jen.
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Donald Trump
If I thought that they weren't going to pass the filibuster, I wouldn't even bring it up. They're going to pass it within the first hour if they take power. And it's more likely that they take power if we don't do because we're not going to be passing any legislation. They're going to approve anything. We're going to go three and a quarter years. There won't be one bill that we're going to pass because the easiest thing to pass is exactly right now what they won't pass. And they'll do that and they'll wreak havoc.
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Grant Stitchfield
Jen, you agree with them, obviously?
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Jennifer Horn
Yeah.
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Grant Stitchfield
You think that's right. One Senators?
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Jennifer Horn
No, I think it's going to be really hard. I think that Republicans still haven't come to terms with the fact that the game has changed and that we need to change with it. So I think it's going to be a lot of pressure for President Trump. But I mentioned to you this morning, I think the best way to do it if God forbid, we have to shut down air travel next week, is Sean Duffy alluded to today. Then you come to the table and you say we cannot shut the country down again. We have to take this step and we try to angle this as being the party of really trying to save the people. I mean, that's what we are doing here. We are trying to save the people from this ridiculous health care push and from being held hostage by the Democrats. So it's time. But it's going to take a minute, I think, to get these squishy Republicans to the table.
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Donald Trump
Yeah.
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Grant Stitchfield
All right, so I am about 20 seconds over. I promise you I would get you out of here by 20. Do you want to tell everybody why you had to leave such a hurry?
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Jennifer Horn
I'm getting a nail appointment. But you know, TV with you comes first, so. I have priorities, Grant. I have priorities.
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Grant Stitchfield
Well, we're only trying to save a country here.
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Donald Trump
Thank you.
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Grant Stitchfield
Go get your nails done and, and.
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Jennifer Horn
Look good while we do it. Thank you, Grant.
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Grant Stitchfield
You got it. All right, you can find Jen at Jennifer Horn. Okay. At Jennifer Horn. Don't confuse her with the other crazy Lincoln project. Jennifer Horn either. All right, folks, she mentioned Jen. Did Sean Duffy, the Transportation Secretary. Things are about to get really bad here. So we are approaching now air traffic control going into a situation where, where I don't know if we're going to be able to keep airspace open. Here's Duffy.
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Sean Duffy
Talk about all of the, the tools we're going to deploy. One of them, though, is going to be that there is going to be a 10% reduction in capacity at 40 of our locations.
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Grant Stitchfield
So look, look at this. Democrats have been standing firm on not voting for a continuing resolution. No new spending, no pet projects, oh, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Over and over again. They refuse to come to the table now that the election's over. My assumption is they're going to wait till next week because they can't make it look like it was political, which we all know it was. So if that happens, Sean Duffy says we have four days before all hell breaks loose.
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Sean Duffy
So if, if you bring us to a week from today, Democrats, you will see mass chaos. You will see mass flight delays, you'll see mass cancellations, and you may see us close certain parts of the airspace because we just cannot manage it because we, we don't have the air traffic controllers.
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Grant Stitchfield
Nobody wants that. We are coming into the busiest travel time of the year, Thanksgiving, of course. All right, folks, Turning Point USA is back on campus again this evening, this time at the Great Auburn University and headlined by Eric and Lara Trump. We will break into that coverage here around 7:30. But we still got a lot for you tonight on Stitchfield. TPUSA coverage is brought to you by. My friends out of Patriot Mobile was so great. I got to spend some time with the founders of Patriot Mobile and some other executives out there. Totally true patriots. And we're Grateful for them. Patriot Mobile, America's only Christian, conservative wireless provider, make the switch today. Do what I did. Go with patriot mobile. Okay. Patriot mobile.com save USA or call 972 patriot and tell him Grant Stitchfield sent you.
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Adam Weiss
All right.
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Grant Stitchfield
President Trump is moving an aircraft carrier towards Venezuela. Is the drug war escalating? Are we going to take out Maduro? Talk about it all next. Welcome back, everyone. Are we going to war with Venezuela? In many respects, Venezuela is already at war with us, sending drugs, fentanyl, gang members, evildoers into our country to wreak havoc on America. In many respects, they are waging war on us. But are we going into a kinetic war with Venezuela? I don't think so. And the reason I don't think so is because if we wanted to take out Maduro and his regime, it was take literally no time flat at all. And I don't think they would have much of an ability to hit us back. President Trump was asked about this on 60 Minutes.
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Donald Trump
Because I don't talk to a reporter about whether or not I'm going to strike. I'm not going to. You know, you're a wonderful reporter. You're very talented. But I'm not going to tell you what I'm going to do with Venezuela. If I was going to do it or if I wasn't going to do it.
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Caroline Levitt
Why do we need an aircraft carrier and strike group?
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Donald Trump
It's got to be somewhere.
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Sean Duffy
Okay.
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Donald Trump
It's a big one.
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Grant Stitchfield
Don't you love the way he responds? First off, he tells us she's a brilliant reporter. I'm not sure she is. I thought she was a little out of line during that interview, but it's a big one. That's a wink and a nod to Maduro. Don't mess with America. Here's why. Another drug boat hit. If you are a pilot of one of these boats. Okay. Do you really want to be taking that boat to America right now with Trump hitting you as a narco terrorist? Deserves to be hit, being blown out of the water? I don't think so. So Maduro is a very, very bad guy. We know that. Regime change. I'm not convinced this is Trump again.
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Caroline Levitt
Are Maduro's days as president numbered?
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Donald Trump
I would say, yeah, I think so. Yeah.
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Caroline Levitt
And this issue of potential land strikes in Venezuela, is that true?
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Donald Trump
I don't tell you that. I mean, I'm not saying it's true or untrue, but I, you know, I wouldn't. Why would I would be inclined to say that? I would do that, but because I don't talk to a reporter about whether or not I'm going to strike.
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Grant Stitchfield
He did say his days are numbered. Now, why would that be? Maybe it's because of the resistance inside Venezuela. I think it's up to the people for a regime change. But I fully support what President Trump is doing about wiping out these narco terrorists coming to America. So Marjorie Taylor Greene was on with Steve Bannon last night on our fabulous election coverage. I hope you were watching. I had a blast taking part in it. This is what she had to say about all that.
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Caroline Levitt
Well, I just have to say I have full faith and confidence in our great men and women in our military and I believe that they have intel that we don't have and they know what they're doing. However, I don't believe in regime change. I don't believe that we should be engaging in war, period. I'm totally against wars. I believe in fully protecting our borders and our people. But I don't think that we need to go out and attack other countries.
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Grant Stitchfield
So I understand where Marjorie Taylor Greene is coming from and I certainly respect her opinion on this. I think there's more of a nuance to it. It's not that we're just going and attacking a country. This is a country that's literally been attacking us and waging war for a long time. Am I with her that I don't think we need to be sending Navy SEALs in and going in to Maduro's castle and taking them out? No, I don't think we need to be doing that. Hitting these drug boats 100%. All right. With me now, 32, 32 year U.S. air Force combat veteran, Colonel Rob Bayness is back with us. Colonel, it's great to have you on.
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Colonel Rob Bayness
Hey, Grant. Well, the boss has learned a lot.
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Grant Stitchfield
Has it? He hasn't he though. What's your thoughts on all of this with the thought about what we're doing with Venezuela right now?
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Colonel Rob Bayness
Well, first of all, it's very serious business. We're talking about millions of American lives that have been lost because no US Southcom commander or president of the United States as commander in chief has stood up years ago like they could have and said we're going to blow these boats out of the water whether they're coming from Venezuela or Colombia or anywhere else for that. From anywhere else for that matter. The west coast side of this is much greater than the Venezuela side. So this President of the United States, this Secretary of war, this chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff see this threat for what it is, and they want to save millions of American lives. Think about it. They're killing upwards of between 70 and 100,000Americans a year just with the fentanyl. So that's not even counting the other types of drugs that cause overdoses in this country that are coming through these ships. These boats are in international waters. They're legitimate targets, just like pirates are.
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Grant Stitchfield
I agree with you 100%. Here's the curious side of me, and I'm not questioning it all, other than the fact that I'm going to ask you as a colonel, air Force combat veteran, why the aircraft carriers going in, is that needed to hit the boats? Are we hitting the boats with, with fighter jets that are firing down or are they cruise missiles that are coming down? How, why, why the aircraft carrier and how are we taking out the boats?
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Colonel Rob Bayness
It just puts more assets in place. But it also sends a very, very big message to Maduro. And I'll remind the audience that Maduro is seen by most legitimate countries and nations as an illegitimate leader because he messed with the elections. And the actual opposition leader just got the Nobel Prize that she dedicated to the President of the United States. So there is opposition that is on the ground ready to take their rightful and legitimate role as the leaders of this country and turn it away from communism like the Maduro regime has, and from this partnership with these narco terrorist cartels. So it's very important for folks to understand that there are also other things going on. I think this mission is threefold with regards to Venezuela. One is stop the boats from trafficking the fentanyl and establish a deterrence that if you're, if you ride on the boat, you're going to die, more than likely. So don't do it. Number two, get Maduro out of that office that he doesn't hold legitimately. And he holds a stranglehold over the people of Venezuela and the government of Venezuela. And then, number three, return, help return the government of Venezuela back over to its legitimate leaders and turn it back into a prosperous nation. It has the most oil of any country in the world. It used to be a very prosperous nation. We had great private companies there that were all taken over by the government. Now everybody is poor and starving to death, unless you're one of the elites.
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Grant Stitchfield
I remember I was friends with the Venezuelan back in the early 90s, and her father was a big time executive for an oil company there. Back and forth to America. And, you know, they were making all kinds of money. But. But those days have changed. I mean, you know, that prosperous ability for private enterprise in Venezuela is basically all but gone real quick. Because I want to play a soundbite from Maria Karina Machada, who you talked about winning the Nobel Prize. How are they hitting the boats? Is it missiles or is it fighter jets or is it missiles from the fighter jets?
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Colonel Rob Bayness
Well, it's probably a combination of several different platforms. We've had B1s down in the area. We have a lot of unmanned aerial vehicles down in the area. It's more than likely most of this targeting has come from unmanned aerial vehicles. They have really long loiter times and so they can stay overhead and be ready when a boat shoots out in the open and we get it targeted.
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Sean Duffy
All right.
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Grant Stitchfield
Fascinating stuff.
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Adam Weiss
All right.
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Grant Stitchfield
Maria Corino Machado, she talked about putting pressure on Maduro. Listen to this. I believe that the increase in pressure and the escalation that's taking place is the only way to force Maduro to understand that it's time to go. What do you make of that?
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Colonel Rob Bayness
There's a lesson in the fall of Syria and Mr. Assad and his family, they were able to escape. Do you think that folks with the power, like the United States didn't allow them to escape? Mr. Maduro could go live a long and happy life somewhere else and let the legitimate leaders of this country take over? He's just got to open his eyes and see that his days are numbered as the leader of that country.
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Grant Stitchfield
All right, let me play one more from her and then I'll let you go. You've been so good to us, Colonel. Here she is one more time. Today, Venezuela is not simply governed by the authoritarian regime. This controlled by a criminal structure that fuses state power and organized crime. And Arco terrorist regiment, it traffics in drugs, gold, arms, oil and human suffering. It uses hunger as a weapon and exile as punishment. I'll tell you what, Colonel, I like this woman. And she does this at great danger to herself, I assume. I'll give you the last word here.
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Colonel Rob Bayness
Yeah, Grant. And she spells out exactly why the United States is taking the approach that it is the narco terrorist cartels are deeply embedded with the government of Venezuela under Maduro. And that is the problem. They are not only drug trafficking, they're human trafficking. They're trafficking in arms, they're trafficking in oil and energy. And all of it is not legitimate. And lives are at stake.
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Grant Stitchfield
Yeah. And they know that their days are numbered with President Trump in office. That's for sure. Colonel Rob Manus, I appreciate you as Always. You're a good man. Thank you.
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Colonel Rob Bayness
Thank you, Grant.
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Grant Stitchfield
Absolutely. You know, I talked about the danger to Maria Karina Muchado. This is in all of these countries south of our border. Anybody that seems to support President Trump right now seems to be a target by the cartels. I don't know if you heard about this mayor in European Mexico. Mayor Asante is an outspoken supporter of President Trump. He's been pushing back against the cartels. He's been urging the Mexican government to hit the cartels and hit them hard. And you know what happened? The cartels hit him, they assassinated him. And this was a very well liked guy, as you can tell from Oscar Ramirez, who's our man on the ground inside. Mexico was very emotional over, over this assassination.
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Oscar Ramirez
I feel so sad. You know, this continues to happen in our country. The good, the good guys are getting killed and because they're trying to fight off and fight for us, for a fight for us, you know, and we feel that our voices are being silenced and that they're not helping us. Nobody's helping us. Today the Mexican president in our morning conference said that she was not going to send the military.
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Grant Stitchfield
You can see he's torn up. One of the reasons why I would assume Oscar is, is torn up is he is in Mexico. He's not an American citizen. He cannot come into this country right now. And so he's reporting on all of this for us because he actually loves America. He loves freedom and he wants his nation to experience it as well. And he does it at great risk to himself as well. They can kill the mayor. I don't even want to contemplate. I don't want to say it out loud. What they can do to Oscar. Please pray for this man. He just wants law and order. Here's Oscar again, who was on with bowling.
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Oscar Ramirez
He said that he wanted Trump to come in or help. Then he was right about basically dismantling and destroying and eradicating the cartel. And just weeks before, he was making videos sending to the President of Mexico to say to her, I need protection, I need help. These people have bigger artillery than what we have in our government. We need help to fight them, we need help to combat them. And the President, because he's not part of her political party, never helped them.
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Grant Stitchfield
Here's what I want to do. Tomorrow night we're going to get Oscar on because I want to talk about this with him. I want to talk about the danger he's in for reporting on this stuff. And this is important because this is also about the safety and security of Americans, specifically, quite frankly, folks, our children. All right, I know all of you aren't out there using fentanyl and smoking things that might be laced with fentanyl. But God forbid your kids get involved in this. I got a 16 year old, God forbid he takes a vape that's laced with something you tell them don't. But you never know what can happen. This is a war to save our children. All right, the White House did respond to all of this. This was Caroline Levitt.
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Caroline Levitt
We are aware of that. And of course, we condemn all political violence anywhere in all federal. As for Claudia Sheinbaum and the president's relationship with her, I think he has a lot of respect for her as president of Mexico. And he also really appreciates the coordination that she has provided to the Trump administration. I can't speak for her and what she's doing internally in her country. I can speak for the president in saying we are continually pushing Mexico to do more to tackle the drug trafficking and the drug cartels within their country. And.
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Grant Stitchfield
All right, so look, the Trump administration has their eyes on it. No doubt about it. We got to rein in some of these countries that still continue to side with the cartels, side with China, Russia involved in all of this. And we got to rein it in. All right, we are getting very, very close to hop over to our Turning Point USA campus tour coverage live from Auburn University, which is brought to you by Birch Gold Group. All you have to do is text America to the number 989-898 to get your free info kit and see how easy it is to diversify your IRA or 401k with gold. That's America to the number 989-898. All right. Despite last night's election results, President Trump rallied the troops today in Florida. We'll get to his speech to them next.
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Adam Weiss
Foreign.
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Grant Stitchfield
So President Trump was in Miami, Florida, today. When we say rallying the troops, we mean all of you out there, everybody that wants America to be great again, to continue our rapid rise to success. Here's what President Trump said about the bureaucrats in Washington.
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Donald Trump
And to curb inflation, we've slashed the size of government for the first time in years. And we're waging total war on waste, fraud and abuse like we've never done before. Since January, 100,000 bureaucrats have left the federal payroll. Government spending is down 2.5% this quarter compared to one year ago. Think of that. And in stark contrast to last administration, 100% of all new jobs created in America, under my administration have been created in the private sector.
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Grant Stitchfield
You know, that's amazing, because what the Biden administration never told you, what the mainstream media never told you, was when they'd get job reports, it would all be government jobs. They were creating, building the government bigger and bigger and bigger. We've got a virtual hiring freeze going on right now, as you heard. We are cutting the rate of spending in Washington, the likes of which, which hasn't been seen. Now, is this where I want it to be? No. But I'm grateful that we are now on the right track compared to spending like drunken sailors. And no offense to drunken sailors, love hanging out with those guys, but you can't do that when you're a bureaucrat in Washington. President Trump is reining it in. This is him talking about the, the strongest economy that we've had. And of course, he's talking to the American Business Forum. These are business leaders at every level that he's addressing here.
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Donald Trump
I'm pleased to report that today the United States has the strongest economy, the strongest borders, the strongest military, the strongest friendships, and the strongest spirit of any nation anywhere. That this is the golden age of America. This is the golden age.
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Grant Stitchfield
It absolutely is. And so again, I want to celebrate because we are upon the one year anniversary of President Trump's election. We felt pretty good about it, but they had stolen it from us in 2020. It was touch and go. And then, of course, while we steamrolled them because we swamped the vote, we turned out like never before. I actually believe it may have been the one election that saved this nation. If Kamala Harris would have won, I don't know if we could have come back from it. Now we're strong and we fight. I get it, but I don't know if it would have been possible. So even when an election night, it didn't go our way, I still think it'll work out in the long run for us. You got to celebrate President Trump's election one year ago. This anniversary is big, isn't it, Mr.
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Donald Trump
President, on November 5, 2024, the American people reclaimed our government. We restored our sovereignty. We lost a little bit of sovereignty last night in New York, but we'll take care of it. Don't worry about it. We rescued our economy, regained our liberty, and together we saved our country.
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Grant Stitchfield
So you heard earlier in the program, Gavin Newsom hemming and hawing about how people are getting poor. Well, I just looked today. Stock market was up again. 401ks are bursting at the seams. That's a very, very good thing. By the way, what about the all important Thanksgiving dinner? Because that's what the mainstream media wants to judge everything off of price of eggs, the price of turkey, the price of hot dogs. Not to eat hot dogs for Thanksgiving. But some people might. This was President Trump addressing that today.
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Donald Trump
Walmart just announced that the cost of their standard Thanksgiving meal. This is the greatest. They're greatest. They're wonderful. They come out every year with how much does a Thanksgiving meal cost compared to last year? Right. And it always goes up, up, up. It's 40%. 30% more. Is 25% lower than 1 year ago. Isn't that great?
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Grant Stitchfield
Bam. That's what you call getting some action. And that's what happens when you have President Trump and his team in office. That's moving this country in the right direction. Thank you, Mr. President. All right, again, we are awaiting Lara Trump, Eric Trump. Turning Point USA crew. They're out at Auburn University, which is a great SEC school, by the way. So stay tuned as we await them to take the stage momentarily. Stick with me.
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Adam Weiss
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