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Hey, everybody. Welcome to Vince on a Monday. Great to be back with you in this, the year of our Lord 2026, the 250th anniversary of our country. We've got a lot to talk about as we start off the New year. As always, it's great to have you with us. We have a very big show ahead. Our guys go into Venezuela, grab Nicolas Maduro, get out of there in less time than most major motion pictures in Hollywood. It's just incredible what these guys were able to pull off. We'll talk about that experience, what happened, that operation, and then what it means for Venezuela, for the Western Hemisphere, and certainly for the United States of America. That's all ahead on this program. We'll be joined by Mike Gonzalez today as well. He's an expert on the commies, including people like Maduro and for that matter, the new communist mayor of New York, Zoran Mamdani. We've got a lot to discuss with Mike Gonzalez and a very big show. And in a moment, I wanna just give you a quick summary of the departure from the FBI of one Dan Bongino. He's done. What comes next? Well, I'm curious too. It's all coming up on this edition of Vince. Great to have you with me. Best audience anywhere. Hey, you know, winter hits and suddenly you're spending way more time indoors, especially in your bedroom. Honestly, staying comfortable is absolutely everything. And this is why I'm so that I sleep on a Helix mattress. Ever since Allison and I switched to Helix, our lives have improved dramatically. You know, before Helix, I was getting a rough night's sleep. I was sleeping terribly. We had gone to some random mattress store and they guided us into something that really didn't work. And I thought to myself, you know, maybe it's just me. Maybe I'm never gonna have a good night's sleep. Nope. It was my mattress. My mattress sucked. Helix. Wonderful. I took the sleep quiz. It matched us up with the perfect mattress for how we sleep. 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Last night on X, he posted the following. He said Dan heads back to the private sector after helping orchestrate a record year for the FBI. And here's how Cash ran the numbers down. He said there was a historic 20% drop in the nationwide murder rate. Nobody disputes that, by the way. That's all over the place. That the homicide rate has fallen to record levels. Record lows. A 100% increase in arrests from year to year. That would be arrests being done by the FBI. 1800 gangs and criminal enterprises disrupted. That's a 210% increase over the prior year under the Biden era. Let's see, what else? 2,000 plus kilos of fentanyl that were seized. That's up 31%. That's enough to kill 130 million Americans. And just to be clear on what Cash is saying here, have you noticed that drug overdose deaths, drug deaths in the United States have plummeted over the course of the last year? This is not a coincidence. When the FBI is pulling all this fentanyl off the streets, when we're blowing up ships that are trying to make their way to America carrying illicit drugs, when we lock down our border, it turns out it does save American lives. A lot of them. It's a huge deal. A huge deal. What else? Nihilistic, violent extremism arrests are up 490%. You know what that is? Nihilistic violent extremism. This is when people get on the Internet and they try and groom children into hurting themselves and others. Yeah, we're arresting those people. Thanks to Dan cash and the FBI, that's up nearly 500%. That's a meaningful jump. Over 6,000 child victims have been located. That's a 22% increase over the prior year. Espionage arrests, that would be. Spies in the United states are up 35%. And multiple successful surges, including summer heat. That was violent crime. That was orchestrated by Dan. Remember, Cash came out and he gave that big Press conference saying that Dan quarterbacked that whole thing. Over 9,000 arrests in just three months. And he goes on to say the FBI is saving lives and protecting innocent kids. None of it possible without Dan's leadership and support. Thank you, Dan Bongino. Yeah, thank you, Dan. Thank you for your service to your country. Pretty amazing stuff. And you know what? Wasn't even on the list that Cash didn't include. They caught the pipe bomber. Dan caught the pipe bomber, too. Something that he was obsessed with as a private citizen. Goes in as deputy director of the FBI. They hunt this guy down, they take him into custody. So great. Honestly, as I said before, when we got the news that Dan was leaving, a lot of points on the scoreboard. And he can leave with his head held high. A lot to be proud of. And here's what I'm looking forward to. Look, I said before somebody pointed out in the chat, I just cited that, like that. I'm curious about what's gonna happen too. Isn't that interesting that Vince is curious? Wouldn't Vince know? I don't know. All of this is up to Dan. Everything that is gonna happen next in terms of Dan's schedule is up to him. And I can't wait to see it. I'm as eager as you are to see him back behind a microphone talking to an audience and giving us his perspective on what exactly went down inside of that government and what the rest of us should make of it. Look, in media, there's something obviously true, but just intuitively. But I'll just lay it out, which is you turn to people that you feel like, have a good sense of what's actually going on because you want their help in understanding the world in which you're living. Right? Like what's actually happening in Washington. Who should I trust? Who is untrustworthy? Who's a scumbag? The people that we choose to listen to or engage with in media are the people we think are giving us the best possible recitation of the facts without fear or favor. That's the way it should be. And so one of the ways you do that is you try to accrue knowledge from the outside. I mean, this is what I have to do. I've had a year of, rather a career in journalism where I try and get to know people, find out more information. I see a lot of news cycles come and go, and I get a clearer and clearer sense with each passing news cycle about where things are headed, the trajectory of these news events, what's gonna happen next for Instance, we're gonna talk about Venezuela in a moment and there's a lot of comparisons being made to Iraq. People are like, oh, we're involved in regime change. It's gonna be a complete disaster. It is really important to have a sense of history and a sense of how these operations go. What American benefits exist here. You've gotta think clearly about it. You have to. And you're gonna turn to people to help you make sense of it. Dan has always had a talent for that on the outside. Now, yes, Dan had a career in government before as a secret service agent, as a police officer. Those gave him excellent perspectives on the way things worked on the inside that he could use to inform his media career. But now imagine what he's got now. This is the thing. I was thinking about this this weekend. I'm like, you know, I don't envy the kind of job that Dan just entered into and spent the last year doing. I don't envy that at all. It just seems. Seems miserable to me. It seems miserable to me. And God bless him for doing it. What I do envy is the perspective. What I do envy is the insider knowledge. What I do envy is the ability to see what's going on on the inside. And now take it to an audience publicly. I can't wait for it. I'm super pumped about it. So anyway, a lot to be excited about. Um, Dan's. All of Dan's announcements, whatever he wants to do, that's all on his schedule. Again, I'm as curious as you are. I can't wait to, can't wait to find out more. But congratulations once again to Dan wrapping up his time at the FBI and coming back to the rest of us in the private sector. Looking forward to that and a nice send off from Cash Patel. That's cool. All right, let's see. No, don't make me the deputy director. Let's go, let's go. No, stop it. Stop it. Stop that nonsense. All right. Maduro fucked around and now he found out in the FAFO sequence. Boyd did Maduro fo. Holy cow. So here's what we saw. And for those of you who've been following this show for a time, you know a lot of these details, but I want to recite some of the really clear facts about what's been happening in Venezuela. You understand that modern day Venezuela, Venezuela, the flourishing country really up until the commies took it over in the form of Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro, was built by the United States of America. No, I didn't stutter the country was built by the United States of America. The wealth as we know it in Venezuela has come to be because of the US. We built the oil industry in this country and up until the communists stole it from American energy companies, that country was on an excellent trajectory. But just like everything else, just like every other country the commies have touched, they ruined what we had built. They ruined what good, hard working people had built for their own cruel purposes. We build all the oil infrastructure there. Everything. Venezuela, to be clear, has the largest proven oil reserves on the entire planet. Proven, in other words, we know how much oil is underground at the very least, and it is the biggest on the entire planet. The United States, through a variety of oil companies, goes in drills for it, refines it, brings in all of the manpower to pull this oil from the earth. And then eventually what ends up happening is Hugo Chavez steals it. Steals it. Now they call it expropriate, which is a fancy word for steal. It's theft. They stole it from the American companies. And the only company that stuck around, Chevron, stuck around under duress. The way that worked was they said, Chavez said, okay, basically you own almost none of your company, but if you take a very tiny share of your own company, we'll steal the rest of it and you get to stay. So Chevron took the deal. All the other oil companies run right out of town. Run right out of town. All their stuff was stolen. And so ever since then, what is, you know, and this was sold obviously to the Venezuelan people. This is gonna enrich you. This is gonna be good for you. This belongs to us. This is what these commies say. They'll say something like this. They appeal to their national sensibilities or to the populace by saying, we're doing this for you. Well, how'd that work out? Well, it got to the point that Venezuelans were eating zoo animals. Remember that? Where Venezuela has reached desperate levels of poverty and despair. Now, how has Maduro done in the midst of all of this? Well, he's done great. Maduro gets to live in palaces. Maduro gets to live a luxurious lifestyle. He's surrounded by armed guards who protect him at every moment. Those armed guards, to be clear, are Cubans, they're not Venezuelans. Because if your family was eating zoo animals to subsist, chances are you might not be happy with your leader. So the Cubans, speaking of commies, have been protecting Maduro and where's all that oil going? Well, certainly the proceeds are not going to the Venezuelan people. They're desperate and Starving. The proceeds go to Maduro and then the oil itself, well, goes to all the authoritarian regimes. The Cubans get the oil, the Iranians get oil. The Chinese are the single biggest buyer of that oil from Venezuela. But I thought there were sanctions, Vince. Yeah, there are. And that's why they use false flags. They use ghost shipping in order to move that oil, starting through Cuba, all around the world. All around the world simultaneously. The way Venezuela operates is as a narco state. Maduro is the head of the state run cartel. And they've been sending cocaine especially all across the planet and into the United States, into the hands of America's children, causing tremendous amounts of harm and despair. Maduro's been doing all of that. That led to an indictment in 2020. The Trump Justice Department began to hold Maduro accountable from afar. Now, they couldn't take him in the or. They didn't take him into custody back then. And did the Biden administration get rid of the charges against Maduro? No, they didn't. They sustained them. They kept them in place. In other words, the Biden administration shared the assessment that Maduro was guilty of something. And that brings us to the current day because finally somebody's done something about this. President Trump's Justice Department, with the help of the United States military, the extraordinary help of the United States military just went in and in the course of three hours were able to raid Caracas, grab Maduro, get him out on a helicopter and put him on the USS Iwo Jima and bring him back to New York. They did all of this in very rapid succession in a well orchestrated, amazing, unparalleled military operation that happened like that. In fact, speaking of he f the round and he found out. Here's the, here's the news this weekend from the press conference with the President and his cabinet members. Take a look. Cut one. Last night, on the order of the.