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This is an I Heart podcast. Well, good evening, everyone. Welcome to Stitchfield. Democrats appear to be digging in their heels on everything, even in the face of common sense. This with the budget negotiations in Congress. This, of course, with the National Guard being dispatched to many cities, and of course, going after criminals and stopping antifa from literally taking over cities. They dig their heels in and they disagree. Why? Because it's President Trump. And who suffers? The American people. Do we turn to Chicago? Do you know this week alone in Chicago, 17 people have been shot, three killed, 14 of them wounded. Seventeen. It's only Tuesday, folks. Okay? And you've got 17 people shot. The Texas National Guard has arrived in Chicago. Now, you think it would be a welcome site for leadership in Chicago? Not the case. This is the radical mayor, Brandon Johnson. You know, as far as what we are hearing, the National Guard, first of all, it's illegal, unconstitutional, it's dangerous, it's wrong. This is not about deportation. This is not about safety for this president. This is about authoritarianism. It's about stoking fear. It's about breaking the Constitution. No, it's some of those things. When you talk about stoking fear into the hearts and minds of criminals, it's authoritarianism. If you're talking about scaring criminals so they stop committing crimes. But there's nothing unconstitutional about this. President Trump is literally protecting the people. And what's amazing is this from a mayor who has the no bail, let him sale policies, meaning criminals just have a revolving door in Chicago. It's a sanctuary city. So criminals can come there, hole up in Chicago, and then wreak havoc on the citizens there. And yet he declares certain places in Chicago ice free zones. And instead of prosecuting the criminals in his city, listen to what he wants to do to ICE agents.
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Do you think that they should be charged with a crime? How would enforcement on that work for the criminal component?
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They should be charged with a crime because it is a crime.
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By who?
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By the entity that they are violating. The city of Chicago. It's a crime. Here's the thing. Anyone who commits a crime should be charged. I mean, isn't that the basic rule of what they ostensibly refer to as law and order? If anyone who commits a crime should be charged, we wouldn't be in this problem. In Chicago, with 17 people shot this week, three dead people would be charged with crimes. You'd put them in jail, you keep them there a long time, and the city would be safer. You'd stop the shoplifting from happening. You'd stop the homelessness. You'd stop the stabbings on mass transit. You'd stop all of it and you'd arrest people. But instead, he wants to go after ICE agents. It's really rich, isn't it? So it's not just local mayors like in Chicago and Portland that want to stop President Trump. It's leaders at a national level. This is Dick Durbin during a hearing where Attorney General Pam Bondi was on the hot seat. She gives it to Dick Durbin here.
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The word is, and I think it's.
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Been confirmed by the White House, they are going to transfer Texas National Guard.
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Units to the state of Illinois.
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What's the rationale for that?
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Yeah, Chairman, as you shut down the government, you voted to shut down the government, and you're sitting here, our law enforcement officers aren't being paid.
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They're out there working to protect you. I wish.
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You love Chicago as much as you hate President Trump, and currently the National Guard are on the way to Chicago.
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If you're not going to protect your.
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Citizens, but President Trump will.
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That's the message Americans want to hear, that someone is literally there to help them. See, here's what the mainstream media is not telling you. Who are ICE going after? Who are the thugs and bruisers they're arresting? Look at this guy. Gurzane Gomex, okay? Gurzane Gomex, second degree murder. He was given 15 years to life. He gets out, he, California lets him skate. ICE agents had to go track him down to deport him. That's a murderer. Okay, how about this guy? Joshua Ramirez. Uh, this is a real winner. He's a child sex predator. Uh, not just convicted of sex crimes against children, but sexual battery of children with the possibility of death. This is not someone you want on the streets of America. ICE agents went and tracked him down and this is what they're doing every day. I want to bring in now from Portland, Oregon. RAV correspondent Ben Berkwam is with us. Ben, welcome to the program.
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Hey, Grant, great to be back with you.
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Well, it's good to see you, Ben. You know, I think people are forgetting just who ICE is picking up. You've been with ICE as they go round these, these characters up. Tell me a little bit about the men, if you can call them that, the animals that they are going and arresting.
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That's the most important part about all of this. As we see the attacks on ICE agents, as we see Brandon Johnson spewing that nonsense, putting his own citizens in danger. I was on the ground in Chicago multiple days on operations that were thwarted by the leftist terrorist Antifa as well as these La Raza illegal alien supporting groups. And on one of those, I'll just give you one example. The guy was a convicted multiple times convicted felon. He was thought to be involved in multiple homicides, and he was a member of a Mexican street gang in Chicago. Our car got surrounded on that operation. That guy got to stay in America for a few more days because of these thugs that attack ice. So while we're looking at what's happening in Portland and while we're looking at what's happening in Chicago, the most important thing is what they're actually doing is the criminal conduct. They are actively obstructing ICE from being able to go in and get the worst of the worst. And I appreciate you bringing those guys up. The ICE actually has this on their website. They have a worst of the worst tracker where you can go and see exactly who ICE is picking up. These are not Sunday school teachers. These are not people that you want in your community. These are hardened criminal. They are going after the worst of the worst first. And every single one of these protesters are. Are helping keep these people in their own communities. It's. It's insane.
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You know, you. You just got back home from Portland, Oregon. You shot some unbelievable video. I want to play a clip here. It may be a little hard to decipher what's happening. After I play it, you explain to me. But it appears Portland police is basically explaining to these Antifa bruisers how to evade and avoid the National Guard. Watch this. It's gonna be harder for the judge. We have a good reason why we actually need them. So that's why we're asking people to get out of the street. They could arrest you, but we're asking you guys volunteer. Let's just get on the sidewalks. Because if a car comes through and hit somebody, it's a better. It's a better way for the government to stay defense. Ben, I can't believe I'm watching a scene where you literally have people with masks talking to the police and the police are doing nothing about it. And they seem to be so calm with these individuals. They ought to all just be arrested. What were we watching there?
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Yeah, this is. This is one of the worst things I saw in my entire time last week in Portland. This was on Saturday. And you had that police officer go up. This was after Antifa was starting fights. They were attacking people with their faces covered. You saw the left side of that screen were patriots that were there in support of President Trump, you can always tell because their faces aren't covered the right side of that screen. Even the guy with the red hat. It actually said F. Trump didn't say make America great again. He actually said the black rebel was the guy on the left. He had been stabbed, almost killed back in 2020. The guy in the red hat said, good, I hope it happens again. Right after he says that, this cop starts giving advice to Antifa. You notice he's only looking off to the left. He's not interacting with our side at all. He's giving them advice on how to keep federal troops out of their city. In fact, he says the TRO temporary restraining order. He's basically celebrating that this activist judge blocked the temporary upheld the temporary restraining order against President Trump and giving advice to antifa. And I'll just say this bluntly. Portland is controlled by Antifa that who appears to be giving the marching orders for the Portland Police Department. It certainly is not the innocent citizens that are trying to live their lives and actually want ICE to be able to do their jobs.
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Well, you set up the next portion of this segment that it appears Portland police are not out for the best interest of the citizens and they appear to be protecting Antifa. Ben Burkham, as always, you do such great work. We appreciate you coming on at bed Berkwom Ben Berkram. You can find it X at Ben Berkman. Thank you, buddy.
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Yes, sir, my pleasure, absolutely.
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So you know, as Ben was saying, first off, let me just say this. In Chicago, the leader of the Latin Kings was recently arrested. If we could throw video 7 up just so I can show people this because it really is is quite outrageous. The chief of the border patrol had a bounty over his head. And as you can read on your screen there, $2,000 on info, $10,000 if you take him down. And I believe the leader of that Latin King gangs has been arrested for going after the chief of the border patrol and issuing a bounty on his head. Now we turn to to the Portland police as, as Ben had mentioned, Portland police, Antifa. I don't even call them sympathizers. I call them antifa street goons. Okay, watch this. What happens on the street here.
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Look at that. All these folks, man, that came down the street over here on the left, just in a straight line and just made straight, straight for the facility and went in there. Now here's the crazy part. As you have the protesters that are blocking the roadway right here, right across the street, you actually have Portland police that are sitting there and it looks like they're gearing up and getting ready to go. So that's happening. I promise you that. Or are they packing up and leaving?
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They're not doing anything. They're allowing this behavior to unfold. And you wonder why President Trump wants to send the National Guard in. Our man, Nick Shirley, who was arrested, they dropped charges on him. He's been right in the middle of all of this. He filed this. Everyday folks literally just trying to walk home, being harassed by these antifa thugs. Oh, my goodness. She hit a pedestrian.
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If you do not arrest this woman.
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You are complicit with this Trump administration. What a scene. Obviously, she's not walking. She's in her car. Either way, they're not letting people travel freely throughout the city and the Portland police do nothing. Well, joining me now is our good friend, frequent contributor to this program. He's a Green Beret, former police officer and host of Speak the Truth podcast. Matt Tardio is with us. Matt, welcome to the program.
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Thanks for having me back, Grant.
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All right, Matt, you are on the streets of Portland. As I saw you last on X, you're planning on sleeping out there in a tent to see how police react to you versus Antifa. How is that going?
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Absolutely, we're going to knock that out. So last night we went over and actually offered them a peace deal before we decided to make war. Let's try to make peace first. I've seen plenty of need it in my life. I got told this morning, and we did. For the first night ever, we actually managed to have that. Now, the crazy part about it is I shouldn't have to negotiate with somebody on whether or not I should walk down the side of the street. And so what we came to was a common understanding that most of us, right, and or whatever they are, don't want big government. We would rather have our governments kind of stay out of our business. So the way I convinced him of letting people walk by on the left side of their camp was simply. And it's got to be on the sidewalk. At first they want him in the bike lane. Like, no, we're not going to the bike lane. That's on the street. That's dangerous. That's not. Okay, the sidewalk. If you guys are going to be on the left side, how about you guys take 30 minutes, move your stuff in, and then they can just walk along the side. So nobody's going to jump in the street or the bike lane and get ran over. And it took some, you know, basically explaining this is how the Police end up, you know, nitpicking. License plate, lights out. So we're going to pull you over. Nobody likes that type of stuff. It's common across the board, but I got told this morning it's off.
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Are you negotiating with the Antifa thugs, or are you negotiating with the Portland Police Department?
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Antifa. While the Portland Police Department stood there.
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All right, so now the deal's off. So what happens tonight?
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Let's find out. I don't even know if Portland police is. This is the first time ever we've actually seen them close roads off over here. And it's just because Christy knows in town. I got told they ended up cleaning it up before she got here. Trying to make the city look a little bit more pretty. But if I have my way with it, I'm going to be dragging my stuff in and throwing it up as soon as humanly possible.
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All right. It's amazing to me that Antifa rules the streets there. Is that what you're seeing? Does Antifa have more control over the streets than the Portland Police Department does?
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Well, I wouldn't even say they have control of the streets. They have free reign in the streets, Grant. You know, there was standing right in front of us, and that was after Nick Sorter got assaulted for the second time. And God only knows how long immediately find that there was two, three other ones. And then something occurred literally right in front of me. And it was captured on video. It was a felony menacing on one of the people that I was with. She was actually in another video that you just had up there. Lady come over because she wanted to stab her. For some reason, she couldn't get the weapon out of her pocket. Described the weapon. She definitely said those violent statements back. We pointed out to the police officers that were standing on the curb, and instead of detaining them under reasonable suspicion, maybe patting them down for general public safety until they could figure out what was going on. They just let her walk away. Completely let her walk away.
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Let me play another video that you shot, Ed, narrated, of people blocking pedestrians and traffic. Cut 24.
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The car literally drove through.
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Now they got to come out.
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This lady was like, hell with it.
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I'm coming in.
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And you've got idiots trying to stop the car.
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I mean, Matt, are they destroying the car? Are they. Are. Are they wreaking havoc on these. These people? Yeah.
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You know, in that video, you zoom in, you take a look one you see people throw stuff over the back of it. A guy ran up to the side of it and started kicking at the window. These are two females that are inside of that vehicle. And honestly, they are dang lucky they didn't scare the crap out of those women. If a window busted out and they hit the gas and they just start driving right through, you're going to kill what, 40, 50 people, you know, just running folks over there plowing in front of the crowd.
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Last question for you. You know, you've been so instrumental. You come on this program. You usually investigate all of these things that you come on and talk to me about. So besides just being in there and being a witness to all of this, are you investigating what's going on through all this? Where the money's coming from, who's controlling Antifa, what the situation is with Portland police? Is that something you want to get to the bottom of?
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Absolutely. Freedom of Information Acts, the FOIA requests are about to come in pretty dang hard because what we've seen, I want to know what particular policies they have, not just written down, but policies by email and specifically which ones are directed towards Antifa and also any communications that they've had with Antifa. Nick Sorter, when he went to go into trial for his disorderly conduct charge that he received yesterday, they actually ended up dropping the charges against him because his defense attorney under discovery said that we want to see the communications. This is my understanding that they want to see the communications between Portland Police Bureau and Antifa. Magically, as soon as that happened, charges dropped.
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Often ends most lawsuits. Once you ask for discovery and you get an inside look behind the curtain, they don't want you to see that. And I'm sure that's a situation with Portland police. Matt Tardio, please keep us posted. Stay safe tonight. I know as a Green Beret, I don't need you to tell you to stay safe, but these people are lunatics, man. So please, I'll say it anyway. Stay safe, buddy.
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Thanks, Grant.
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Absolutely. You can find Matt at anger tab on the Platform X. All right, now we turn to the budget battle where I guess the other set of Democrat goons dress in suits and ties in Washington and hold everything up. This is John Thune today explaining, I guess, trying to explain the Democrats position.
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The Democrats proposal, on the other hand, shows their lack of seriousness. Their resolution would fund the government until October 31st in exchange for $1.5 trillion in new partisan spending. Yes, you heard that right.
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So again, what Republicans sent to the Senate is an absolutely, what they call a clean cr. No crazy partisan riders, no things that maybe even Spinchfield might want included because It's a conservative policy that we got it. None of that. It was simply spending as usual till we can figure it all out. And the Democrats have said absolutely not. Well, I want to bring in now the newest member of the RAV family. D.C. congressional correspondent Benny Harmony is with us. Benny, welcome to the program.
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Grant, thank you for having me.
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Well, welcome to the Rav family. It's great to have you on the program. Any budging on this? Is there any signs of a deal? Where does it stand now?
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So Grant, actually right before I came on there, we are hearing allegedly from members of the media here on Capitol Hill that it could be anytime between October13, Christmas before this resolution gets passed and before we open our government back up. It's still a deadlock here. We are not hearing much, but as we can see, the Republicans are working very hard to ensure that the American people are put first. And Grant, you know, this is really at this point, it is America first versus America last. And the Democrats have made that very clear.
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Benny, here's my prediction of what's happening right now. I believe the Democrats work for the mainstream media. It's not the other way around. The mainstream media calls the shots. This narrative of all the way till Christmas is a mainstream media narrative. I'd love to hear their sources. They're gonna tell you there's sources saying this and they're not gonna name any cuz it's their concoction. And they're gonna scare everybody out there into thinking the government's gonna be shut down till Christmas. You wait, Benny, until Friday when the military air traffic control coast guard misses their first paycheck. I think you may see a deal before Friday. Andy Biggs, the congressman from Arizona says maybe next week. What do you think of.
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Yeah, I don't know. I mean Brian Glenn was just talking to me earlier today. We were talking about the air traffic control situations and he's even saying now that there are some people calling off work as a protest to what is happening. But I think what it comes down to is money. Just like the same how PBS and NPR I believe and some of these other networks are so mad that Trump has cut their funding and it all goes back to exactly what you said. This is being run by the mainstream media and I really going to be interesting to see what happens because there's so many voices coming from both sides. But you put money in the equation and people start to freak out. So when that paycheck doesn't come, I think you're spot on, Grant.
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Yeah, thank you so much. Well, Benny, Harmony, we can't wait to have more reports from you again. Welcome to the Rav family and thank you for coming on tonight.
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Thank you, Grant. God bless.
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Absolutely. So 11,000 air traffic controllers walk off the job. Burbank, California from 4:00 clock in the afternoon yesterday till 10:00 clock at night, no air traffic control. I believe San Diego had to handle it. Now you know what you're doing? Air traffic control is you're not getting any sympathy from us. You're putting lives in danger. Now air traffic control says, oh no, we have it covered. Any time you upend the system, you are now taking it out of the norm and you are making it more dangerous. Walking off the job is bad. You haven't even missed a paycheck yet. I appreciate many bringing up that, that, that irks me, these air traffic controllers walking off the job. If I was Trump the President, I'm not. But if I was, I would fire every single one of them that walked off the job just like Reagan did. All right. If you love this country, you can't afford to sit back. Join amac, the association of Mature American Citizens. They're the conservative alternative to aarp. AMAC members get exclusive discounts on travel insurance and more. You'll also get great resources, tools, and one of the best publications out there, AMAC magazine. And right now, when you choose a five year membership, you'll receive up to 33% off. That's just over a dollar a month and it helps fund a movement that's holding Washington accountable and pushing back against the nonsense. Go to AMAC US Grant. Do it right now and join. That's AMAC US grant. All right, Dinesh d' Souza joins us next in remembrance of the Hamas attack on Israel two years ago today.
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And welcome back everyone. On this two year anniversary of Hamas's brutal attack on the people of Israel, we should never forget what they did to those people. I'm telling you, Hamas is evil. They are not victorious in their jihad. And I have proof. I want you to take a look at this Woman. Her name is Michelle. Rack of icen. Gorgeous, poised for a bright future right until that fateful day. This is Michelle after the attack. Hamas terrorists shot her seven times. They threw a grenade into the bomb shelter she was hiding in. They left her for dead. Fourteen hours later, rescue crews found her. She nearly bled to death. They told her she would never walk again. Well, Michelle had a very different idea. Last week, Michelle married her fiance. She promised him two years ago after the attack that she would walk down the aisle on her own. And that is exactly what she did. So I will tell Hamas this. Take a look at this photo and take a look at it closely. It is the ultimate snub of Hamas brutality. They wanted her dead. Yet today, she's more alive than ever before and just as beautiful. Israeli resilience is very real. Congratulations to Michelle and her new husband. Which brings us, of course, to the anniversary now of October 7th. Two years. I can't believe it. As we search for answers to what's behind the attacks, we search for answers to what drives Hamas to commit such heinous acts on humanity. I want to turn to a new movie that's out. It's called Dragon's Prophecy. It's very hard to believe what happened, even though I was there and seen with my own eyes and seeing them laughing and killing and having fun with.
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It, because if you don't open the door, they are going to kill you and they are going to kill me. So please open the door.
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Well, it is a very powerful film, as is always the case when it comes from Dinesh d'. Souza. I want to bring in now the author and filmmaker Dinesh d'. Souza. Dinesh, always good to see you. Welcome to the program.
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Grant, it's a real pleasure. Thanks for having me on.
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All right. Couldn't be a more poignant time to have this film come out. What is the goal of your movie? As we see a lot of opinions even on our side of the aisle, Dinesh, shift towards Israel.
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Well, I will say that the. The film does something that should have been done a long time ago. It begins with 10 to 12 minutes of riveting on unavoidable footage of October 7th. And as you know, this footage was not taken by Israel. It was taken by Hamas. Some of it was live streamed at the time. And so it's almost like you are on a motorbike. You're riding with Hamas into the kibbutzes of Israel to cause mayhem and havoc. The American public, in fact, the world public, has not seen this footage. And So I put it together in a way that puts you on the scene. This is something very important for a film to do. Then the movie widens the angle. It looks at the political ramifications. It looks at the biblical ramifications, the prophetic ramifications. This is a film that kind of marries politics with spirituality and theology to give a very fresh look at the events in front of our eyes. You're right, there's a lot of attacks from the left and from the right. Israel as a colonizer.
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And then, of course, you've got Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens on the other side. The film engages all of that. In fact, I take one of Tucker's questions that he posed to Ted Cruz and I pose it straight to Netanyahu. I go, tucker says that the Jews of today may not be actual descendants of the ancient Israelites. What do you say, Prime Minister Netanyahu? And of course, he comes back with a very elegant dunk on Tucker. So the film is very much grounded in politics. Politics. But it also ascends above that to raise fundamental questions about whether there's really a struggle between good and evil, God and the devil, whether antisemitism can be explained in purely natural or rational terms, or whether it needs a supernatural explanation. All of this stuff. The film will really leave you a little dazed, but certainly entertained and certainly.
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Thinking, Dinesh, you know, no matter what your opinion may be of Israel, I try to urge people to think nobody deserves what Hamas did to them on October 7th. It was brutal. And I don't want to forget about the survivors. You interview some of them. Let me play a clip from, from one of those interviews.
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And then we hear a voice in Hebrew, please open the door, because if you don't open the door, they are going to kill you and they are going to kill me. So please open the door. You recognize the voice? Yeah, we recognize the voice. We decide to open, open the door, and then we see that we have inside our little home five monsters.
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Dinesh, I'm going to ask you a question, and I don't know if you have the answer to it, but evil has existed since the beginning of time. As I look at what Hamas was capable of, from the sex, the rape, the shooting people at point blank range, dropping a grenade on somebody in a bomb shelter, as I just mentioned mentioned, what drives that kind of evil inside them? I mean, I've said they may be spawned straight from the devil, like most jihadists, but what drives them?
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Well, the ultimate triumph of the devil is not to reject good and to do evil, it is somehow perversely to see evil as good. And I think that's what's going on with Hamas. These guys do this stuff because they have convinced themselves that this is for the greater good. They are doing the will of Allah, and I think that they believe it. So how you can do evil go on this expedition of rampage and destruction? And it's very hard for us to comprehend. But I mean, it's equally hard for us to comprehend a young civilian woman in Gaza who says something like, I've sacrificed two of my children. And you expected to say, and I've got two more and I'm not going to give them up. I want this war to end now. But no, she goes in the opposite direction. I can't wait to sacrifice the next two that I've got. So quite clearly here, we're dealing with something. I think you can give it a natural explanation. They're fighting over the land. Hamas feels dispossessed. But I think at some level you have to look deeper to biblical explanations and even supernatural explanations.
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All right, speaking of biblical explanations, let me play this clip. You interview Eric Stackelbeck, who talks about some of this. Let's roll that.
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A great conquest by the dragon.
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It's really the ground zero of end time prophecy. It's called the Temple Mount for the reason that the temple is to be rebuilt there. It's the world's oldest hatred, certainly demonic, a spiritual driver to it, but much of it is based on envy. People have asked why the Jews. The devil hates the Jewish people because they represent the existence of God. You can't explain the existence and the rebirth of Israel without bringing God into the picture. All right, so a lot of people have said, if you look at biblical prophecy, this is literally prophesies exactly what's going on now. Do you believe that to be true, Dinesh?
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Well, I don't get into the sort of nitty gritty of it because there are people who try to tell you this is going to unfold in this order and this will happen on Wednesday and this will happen on Friday. I don't do that. But I look for the big signs. And one of the big signs predicted, by the way, in the Bible a very long time ago is that the Jews will be dispersed and scattered to the ends of the earth. And, and then they will come back. And they won't just come back together. They will come back to their ancestral land. They will revive the Hebrew language. They will celebrate the same festivals and eat the same food and Worship the same God, and so we witnessed it happen. Right. So you can look at it from a secular point of view and say, this is an amazing coincidence, an extremely implausible event, or you can say it's a miracle. So I believe that when the Bible makes these astounding and implausible predictions centuries ago and then it comes about, you have to say that that is, in fact, the acid test of Bible prophecy.
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All right, Dinesh, I'm going to ask you this. Maybe more about current events right now than about the movie, but we see these issues and things changing when it comes to Israel. I believe Israel is America's greatest ally, and not just in that region, but I believe it's our greatest ally everywhere. Do you believe that Israel is America's greatest ally, or do you believe they're this kind of big evil that just wants to take over everything?
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Well, I would say that Israel is on the front line in fighting radical Islam. They know how to do it. Why do they know how to do it? Because they're on the scene. And because they're a small country, their survival is always sort of on the edge. They always have to look over their shoulder, kind of like somebody who lives in a really bad neighborhood. And as a result, they're really good at it. They pulled that pager thing with the radical jihadis. You know, your pager goes boom. I mean, I don't think our CIA could have pulled that off. So here we are. America. We are not that good in fighting radical Islam. In fact, under Jimmy Carter, we pulled the Persian rug out from the Shah. We got Khomeini. Excuse me, in Afghanistan, we expelled the Taliban, but they came back. We made a mess in Iraq. So here we are. We're fighting this global jihad movement. We're not that good at doing it. Israel is. And so you can see how it makes a lot of sense for us to ally with Israel because they are doing work that benefits them. Yes, but it also benefits us well.
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And look, if you got to pick who you're going to trust, it's certainly not Hamas. I'm trusting Israel way over Hamas. And everybody should see that. What else everybody should see is the movie Dragon's Prophecy. And you do such great work. I always love when you come on the program. We're blessed to have you on tonight, Dinesh D'. Souza. Thank you. TheDragonsProphecyFilm.com is the website. Did I get it right?
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You did. In theaters one more day, Grant. And then the next day in streaming, all tickets@thedragonsprophecyfilm.com awesome.
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Dinesh D', Souza, thank you so much. Always good to see you. All right folks, up next, newly released documents confirmed then Vice President Joe Biden blocked the CIA from publishing a report that would hurt his son. Son Hunter, of course is next. Welcome back everyone. Thanks to our friends over at Just the News. We are now learning that the Deep State, it goes very deep and it goes all the way back to when Joe Biden was vice president under the so called leadership of Barack Obama. Joe Biden learned about a CIA document Just the News is reporting that basically said that Burisma, that energy company in Ukraine was corrupt and that Ukrainian officials were thinking it was hypocritical that Joe Biden's coming into Ukraine to talk about corruption when his son is working for Burisma. And guess what happened? Joe Biden dispatches the national Security advisor to scuttle that CIA report. This quote from one CIA official, quote one is extremely rare and unusual. Okay. That according to a CIA agent that you would send someone to scuttle this story. All very bad news. Why? Because this information is pertinent to anybody in government dealing with Ukraine. That one Burisma's corrupt and that they have this view of Joe Biden, that his son and his family is corrupt. Well, of course Joe Biden hides it well. James Comer went on with my buddy John Solomon today to talk about the story John Solomon uncovered. Of course the Deep State was covering up for what the Biden family did. Of course they were concerned about the relationship that the then Vice president's son had with this corrupt energy company. Of course they knew that Joe Biden leveraged the foreign aid to Ukraine in exchange for firing that prosecutor. Everyone knew it, but yet no one had the decency to come forward. We knew it. And now what's happening is all of this stuff is being confirmed. Now if you don't remember the trip I'm talking about in 2015, maybe this might jog your memory. I said, you're not getting the billion. I'm going to be leaving here.
B
And I think it was what, six hours. I looked, I said I'm leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you're.
A
Not to going getting the money.
B
Oh, son of a.
E
Got fired.
A
I don't know why more didn't come of that, like impeachment and other things because that was literally Joe Biden admitting to using the power of the United States government to enrich himself while his son is working at Burisma firing the investigator investigating Burisma. We knew all this stuff. It's just now being confirmed through these reports. Joining me now, former CIA operations officer and author of the Alpha Blueprint. Adam Hardage is with us. Adam, welcome to the program.
G
Appreciate you having me. Thanks, Grant. You know, I think I'm just about as blown away as you are by this information.
A
I was going to ask you, what do you make of this story? I mean, not surprising, but I love that it's coming out with hard facts.
G
You know, it's interesting because I was in station when this kind of stuff was going down, down, and when I said I was amazed, just like you, I'm actually amazed is that somebody had the, the backbone to, to put it out there, to actually investigate it. Because to me it was pretty evident that there was corrupt criminal practices going on within the highest levels of government. In fact, I, I got sideways with the US Government for, for calling those kinds of things out. I've been speaking truth to power for the last eight years since I was separated from the Agency. And I got to tell you, this does not surprise me. And I don't see anything changing unless Congress either gets really involved and actually does something for once, which would be quite a shock to all of us. But I think we're pretty far down the path here to where the only, the only sensible, impossible solution to this is, is that real senior level officials have to be held accountable.
A
Yeah, well, we know John Radcliffe, the leader of the CIA, is rooting some of this stuff out. Certainly Cash Patel and Dan Bonjino at the FBI. We're seeing some of this stuff come out. I'd like to ask you, as a former member of the, of the CIA, if negotiators with Ukraine would know that Ukrainian officials, high ranking officials, think the Vice President, United States is corrupt, think the company that, that Hunter Biden is working with is corrupt and are basically laughing at us over the hypocrisy of it all. Joe Biden scuttles that report so people that would have access to it can't see it. And now we're negotiating with Ukraine during some very tough times. That puts us in a national security bind, does it not?
G
100%. It does. In fact, you know, when I think back to how it was back then, it was pretty obvious that the country was heading down a very destructive path. And then I think we all saw that come to fruition with COVID and the endless, you know, smearing of anybody that tried to speak out and stand up against that. And to me, this is all part of the broader, really conspiracy that is all the globalist sort of Neocon Agenda 2030 World Economic Forum crowd. And I mean, I address a lot of this stuff in the book, the Alpha Blueprint. And I was really honored that my old boss, General Michael Flynn, who's the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency where I started, he was willing to endorse the book. And, you know, he says, you know, I'm a patriot, I'm a fighter, I'm a man of integrity, and America needs men like me. And I'm, I'm very grateful that he was willing to say that. But, you know, it's when you stand and you speak truth to power, the first people that do that are the ones that are going to get, you know, frankly, shot and left behind on the battlefield. I think that was evident with what happened to General Flynn. You know, as you. You had somebody that was an upstanding leader for their entire career and then literally just tried to do the right thing for country and was crushed by it. So I think we've got rot and corruption at the highest levels still in the deep state that must be dealt.
A
With, and that scares all of us. Let me ask you real quick, if you can, is the entire agency infected or are there good agents left?
G
The, the agency is not entirely affected. I would say the, the problems that you have are going to be at your upper middle and senior executive level, certainly the, the career status, deep state bureaucrats. That's where the majority of your problem is. I would say that your field level agents don't even know about this stuff until they're kind of forced to head back to a headquarters, assignment, write a desk, go to charm school, and then they, they find out if they're really a company man.
A
It's, it's fascinating stuff to talk about, especially from somebody who had an inside look at all of this. Adam Hartage, the book is the Alpha blueprint. I appreciate you coming on and weighing in on this stuff, and I'm sure we'll get, we'll need your insight more as more stuff comes out. Adam, thank you.
G
Absolutely. I invite everybody to check it out. And thanks for having me on. Anytime you want me, Grant.
B
Thanks.
A
Absolutely. My man. Thank you. And thank you for your service to this country as well. All right. If only the federal government was held accountable like you for debt. I'll explain next.
C
Foreign.
A
Welcome back, everyone. You know, when this government shut down, looming the people. I feel for the people that live paycheck to paycheck and There's a lot of people in America that do like members of our military, by the way, that will not get paid if Democrats keep this nonsense up. But what if you've already found yourself in this position where you're just deep in debt and you feel like there's no way out? Well, here to decide. Discuss what you can do is exactly what she did. TV personality and done with debt customer Gillian Barbary is back with us. Jillian, it's always great to see you.
D
Great to see you, Grant. Thank you. And yes, I get so many questions. When did I know? Well, it's when you are trying to keep up and you can't. When you can't concentrate anymore. The money is gone and you can't be in the moment. Whether it's with your kids or just everything about it is, is just making you, you know, anxious. You know, I tell people, before you pick up another bill and write a check or, you know, get online to pay it, put it down and go to donewithdebt.com There will be somebody on the other line for free consultation. We have amazing people that can negotiate for you. We call them our master negotiators. They are like a, a team, a really strong defense team that go in there and help you get back on track so you're not freaking out and living because debt, Grant, debt is emotional and it's, it's, you know, economical. And so you're dealing with two things at once. And the more you wait and put off, the worse it gets, you know. And so when you were mentioning people living paycheck to paycheck, so many do. And then something like cancer could happen that happened to me and. Or job loss that happened to me, or divorce, that also happened, and they just happened at the same time. And so I couldn't keep up. I had two kids. I was working in radio. It just, it was absolutely the worst time of my life.
A
It always seems like it's a perfect storm when things like this happen, right? You got cancer, the. The job goes away. All these things are now unfolding. You get a divorce. And I would think that when you're strapped with this kind of debt, God, I don't know how you did it. You had cancer. It's hard enough to survive cancer than dealing with that kind of stress, because I would think it would take a toll on your health.
D
Well, thank God I was in radio because I was as bald as Uncle Fester and because of my steroids, I looked like I could have taken Terry Bradshaw. So, you know, at the end of the day, I say to people, call donewithdebt.com or go on donewithdeb.com talk to somebody, free consultation. And what we can do is put you right back on track so that you can start to live again, start to pay bills, start to, they'll negotiate. They know things that the banking institutions know that the credit card companies know that I didn't know existed. As an average American, I had no clue. So you think that you're going to be done forever and your life is over in a sense? No, no. There are ways and strategies and people to help you move forward and get out of this dark hole. But cramming the bills in a glove compartment and not answering the phone is not helping. Right. Because the, the great thing about Done with Debt, too, I want to mention Grant, is that when I called them and signed up and spoke with them immediately, within the next day or two, all of those phone calls stopped all of the letters harassing me. And they were letters that looked like government letters. So you're freaking out. And they're actually from people that want you to file for bankruptcy. So that's what Done with Debt tries to not do, file bankruptcy or get you into a big conglomerated loan problem.
A
Let me tell people exactly. I could find. I can hear debt going down the drain behind there where Juliet's broadcasting from. I think it was a dishwasher. I'm not sure. Here's what you do. Go to donewithdebt.com that's donewithdebt.com you heard her. Just talk to somebody there and they will help relieve some of your stress. And that's what it's all about. Donewithdebt.com all right, Canada as the 51st state is still on the table. Come on, watch President Trump rib the Canadian prime minister next. Welcome back, everyone. So what about Canada being the 51st state? I'm not really a big fan of this because I love Texas, my home state. Being such a big giant state. Canada would crush us land mass wise, probably not even population wise. But President Trump gave the Canadian Prime Minister a little ribbing about this today.
B
And now and I'm running out of time.
A
But this is many respects the most important of Canada. That wasn't where I was going. I was. No, but I, you know, I don't. There are many Canadians that hate that joke for President Trump. And it is a joke, by the way. Way, though, you know, it's always with a little hint of, hey, maybe you never know. But I doubt it. Would happen. That's gonna do it for us folks. Thanks so much for watching. Hey stitchfield 1776 on all the social media platforms. That's where you can find me. Go. Give me a follow. And on Rumble, just type in Grant Stitchfield. Subscribe there. I do the podcast every morning about 11 central noon eastern. Army roll. Thanks to all of you. We'll see you tomorrow evening, same time.
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Podcast: Real America’s Voice
Host: Grant Stinchfield (iHeartPodcasts)
Date: October 8, 2025
Episode Theme:
A hard-hitting conservative look at current events with a primary focus on crime, the state of American cities (especially Chicago and Portland), immigration enforcement, the anniversary of the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel, the federal budget battle, and new revelations tied to the Biden family and CIA. Key voices include field reporters, political correspondents, and featured guest Dinesh D’Souza.
Grant Stinchfield opens with sharp criticism of Democratic policies on crime and immigration, focusing on recent violence in Chicago, responses to National Guard deployments, ICE enforcement, and Antifa clashes in Portland. He pivots to cover the two-year anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel, interviewing Dinesh D’Souza about his new film. Later segments tackle budget gridlock in Washington, revelations regarding Hunter Biden and CIA corruption, and finish with discussions of personal debt, alongside a humorous jab about Canada joining the US.
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| Timestamp | Speaker | Quote | |-----------|---------------------|-------| | 01:05 | Grant Stinchfield (as Mayor Brandon Johnson) | “This is not about deportation...This is about authoritarianism. It's about stoking fear. It's about breaking the Constitution.” | | 06:30 | Ben Bergquam | “These are not Sunday school teachers. These are hardened criminals… every single one of these protesters are helping keep these people in their own communities.” | | 08:57 | Ben Bergquam | “Portland is controlled by Antifa… that who appears to be giving the marching orders for the Portland Police Department.” | | 14:50 | Matt Tardio | “Instead of detaining them… they just let her walk away. Completely let her walk away.” | | 17:45 | John Thune | “The Democrats proposal...shows their lack of seriousness.” | | 20:14 | Benny Harmony | “You put money in the equation and people start to freak out.” | | 29:02 | Dinesh D’Souza | “The ultimate triumph of the devil is not to reject good and to do evil, it is somehow perversely to see evil as good. And I think that's what's going on with Hamas.” | | 30:28 | Eric Stackelbeck | “You can't explain the existence and the rebirth of Israel without bringing God into the picture.” | | 37:49 | Adam Hardage | “This does not surprise me. And I don't see anything changing unless Congress either gets really involved and actually does something for once…” | | 41:16 | Adam Hardage | “The agency is not entirely affected… The problems are going to be at your upper middle and senior executive level, certainly the, the career status, deep state bureaucrats.” | | 43:22 | Jillian Barberie | “Debt is emotional and it's, it's, you know, economical. And so you're dealing with two things at once.” | | 46:07 | Jillian Barberie | “Cramming the bills in a glove compartment and not answering the phone is not helping.” |
True to the Real America’s Voice brand, the episode’s tone is passionate, urgent, and pointedly conservative. The host and guests regularly critique Democratic leaders, emphasize a perceived crisis in urban law enforcement, immigration, and federal integrity, and advocate for Trump-aligned solutions. Intense political critique shares space with personal, emotional storytelling and, at times, humor.
If you missed this episode, expect a fast-paced rundown of urban crime and immigration controversy (Chicago and Portland leading cases), a commemoration of the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel with a revealing D’Souza interview, updates on the DC budget standoff, explosive CIA/Biden family allegations, practical debt advice, and a dash of humor about Canadian annexation. The episode is packed with firsthand accounts, field reports, sharp partisan analysis, and a blend of indictment and inspiration, targeting listeners hungry for blunt, right-leaning commentary.