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The Numbers Don't Lie: Trump's War on Crime Is Working | Episode 148
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New crime statistics vindicate Trump's FBI; Director Kash Patel foreshadows more indictments; and the California governor's race tightens.
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Vince
Everybody, welcome to Vince on a. What day is it? Thursday. Hello, it's Thursday. Great to have you with us today. We got a big show ahead for you. Are you wondering what's going on in some of these off year elections? Yeah, me too. And can we win them? We'll discuss when Scott Pressler stops by the program today. Isn't that great? Scott Stopping by. We'll talk to Scott about these elections and what it's going to take to win them. And then the big news today. The President of the United States standing alongside the FBI director revealing the surprise yesterday. What was the big announcement? I'll share it all with you in a moment. And the role that one gentleman called Dan Bongino has played in a very important development for our country. That's all ahead on this edition of. Vince, it's great to have you here. As always, the best audience anywhere. Thanks for being here. Got a lot to get to. You already know the name Blackout Coffee, proudly the official coffee of all of us here at Silverlock. There's a reason for that. It's bold, it's unapologetic. It's America first coffee, roasted fresh right here in the United States. It's not grocery store junk. Blackout coffee delivers rich, high quality roasts that actually taste like freedom. And now you can set it and you can forget it with auto refill and recurring delivery. And you see, this means no more running out, no more watered down backups. Just your favorite roast delivered fresh on your schedule. So pick your favorite roast, how often you want it delivered. And not only do you get a discount, you also get double the rewards and free shipping right to your doorstep. And I'm telling you, not only is it really convenient and wonderful and patriotic, it's delicious. I drink blackout coffee every single day. It's what fuels me. And you should let it fuel you too. Here's what you do. Go to blackout coffee.com Vince. Use the code Vince. Very simply V I N C e to get 20% off your first order. Whether you're into those bold dark roasts, flavored coffee, or even instant. Well, blackouts got your back. Real coffee, no compromise. Blackout coffee.com Vince. Get yours now. Everybody, good morning to the chat. Turtle. 1950 says Vince, start on time. Turtle, we were waiting for you. Actually, we didn't want to get started until you got here. Thanks for finally showing up. Geez, took you long enough. It is good to have you here with us today, everybody. We had the FBI director show up to the White House yesterday, and when he did, There was some mystery as to what they would be announcing. And I am very grateful for the announcement that we got, which is Operation Summer Heat was you, you, you notice perhaps Dan Bongino's Twitter account kept referencing this all summer long. And in fact, you know, at one point earlier this, this summer, I had reached out to Dan. I was like, hey, you know, Dan's, Dan's nearby to me, but we hardly ever see each other. And I said, yeah, I'd love to get together with you for dinner. And he goes, Vince, I think it might have to take until something like October because I'm going to be traveling the country. I'll be very, very busy. I'm like, all right, all right, so we'll see. So that, that dinner has been on ice for a bit. And now we can tell why, because these guys have been busting ass in order to bust criminals. And here's the announcement we just got from the President of the United States yesterday. First, here's cut one, President Trump of.
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President Trump
A sweeping law enforcement effort known as Operation Summer Heat. We were in many cities that people didn't know about. We kept it a little quiet and it had a big impact. And you'll hear that in a second. Working with state and local partners, the FBI arrested over 8,000 violent criminals during the course of this period in major cities like in New Orleans, Nashville. We saw a 250% increase in arrests we got, and we really went after the bad ones. These include 725 individuals wanted for violent crimes against children and murderers. These arrests are in addition to the work of our historic federal task forces that make D.C. safe task force has been unbelievable. I mean, the job they've done, it's incredible.
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Vince
The, the job they've done, this incredible. Hey, look, I want you to remember something about what the Federal Bureau of Investigation is supposed to be. It's supposed to be an AGENC that investigates crime, puts the handcuffs on the bad guys and turns them over to the prosecutors to actually prosecute them. You know, stop the criminals all across our country. Stop the organized crime. Stop the human trafficking, the child trafficking, the cartels, the drugs coming in to stop the threats of violence, the actual acts of violence. All of that. That's what these guys should be focused on. And what have they been doing now for years? Well, under the left's control, they've been targeting American citizens who voted for the other team. That's over, thank God. And so these guys are, are doing the work that they were supposed to do in the first place. And and what you're going to hear, and I'll share it with you in a moment, some of the, some of the great clips on this subject, but what you're going to hear is people that you know and love have basically decided this ends now. President Trump was elected to stop this crime, so we're going to stop it. Here is Cash Patel detailing some of those victories that the FBI achieved over this focused effort throughout the summer.
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Cash Patel
In just seven months. I hope the media takes a look at every one of these charts because these are the best numbers for fighting crime in U.S. history. And it's only seven months in. And to do that, our vehicle to do it of choice was Operation Summer Heat, which the FBI architected to go after violent criminals. And in just a three month span, you had 8,700 arrests of violent criminals. You had 2200 firearms seized off the streets permanently to safeguard our communities. You had 421 kilograms of fentanyl seas. Just to put that in perspective, that's enough to kill 55 million Americans alone. You had 45,000 kilograms of cocaine seized. And thanks to our Department of Justice partners, you had 2100 indictments in three months from June to September alone.
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Vince
I love everything about that. I have one quibble with Cash's presentation yesterday. A single concern, and for those of you in the media, and certainly my producers will share this, this concern with me, Cash, you got to work the microphone, dude. You got to stand in front of the microphone when you announce this stuff. He wandered away from the microphone and I think he thought that it would be easy to pick up his voice. Everyone had to turn up the room noise just to listen to the guy. President Trump knows how to work the mic. Work the mic, Cash. Come on, buddy. But he announced some great news, regardless of whether he was standing in front of the microphone. About 9,000 violent criminals have been picked up in the United States, arrested, taken off the streets. All those firearms that were seized, you know, they were, you know, for those of you like me, who care a lot about the Second Amendment and your ability to, to keep your weapons, they're not talking about, you know, anybody who has a second amendment right to keep their guns. They're talking about people who are using guns in acts of violence, people who should not have guns, people who are forbidden by virtue of crimes they've committed in the past, who or that they're here as illegal aliens from even possessing a gun. So in other words, they're taking guns out of the hands of people who can't have them who have forfeited their rights or never had Second Amendment rights to begin with. You're here illegally. No, thanks. So they're taking these guns off the street. Great news about that. And then the fentanyl, enough to kill 55 million Americans. President Trump has been bragging about this. Every time they blow up these boats off the coast of the United States that are trying to bring in drugs, he says, yeah, okay, okay, we kill like three or four people who are on these boats, but we're saving 25,000Americans every time we explode one of these things. So I like that deal that the President says, I like that deal. Vince says, you like that deal? Chad says, so I'm happy with that. Thanks for defending us and for doing what we voted for. So getting all that Fenton off the street, the cocaine off the street. And they got a lot of indictments, too. They're. They're putting everybody inside of these jails and, and they're processing them through. They're starting to get some indictments racked up. So great news. Really great news. And this, this, this is. Look, I get. I'm going to get to some of the other accountability issues coming up. You know, we talk about the guys going after James Comey, Letitia James, Adam Schiff, John Bolton, you name them, John Brennan, Barack Obama. The list is unfortunately endless. Yes, that's a huge, huge thing to do. And I've got some updates on that subject. But in the meantime, I just want you to remember we talk about the FBI. Their core mission is arresting bad guys and making our streets a lot safer. And they're doing it. So some compliments their direction. Thank you to the President. Thank you to Cash for focusing on this. Now here's Todd Blanche. He's the Deputy Attorney General, and he goes, look, it's not just these numbers. I can read these numbers to you, and we can say, wow, those are amazing numbers. He goes, it's individual cases. You want to drive this home now? You want to drive home what this means? Let me talk to you about two individual communities that have benefited from the work of the FBI. Watch this.
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Todd Blanche
For over four years. During the last administration, there was a hotel in a town, the middle of a town in Alaska that was being run as a drug den. There were over 1000 calls to 911 over four, four and a half year period. There were multiple violent crimes, drug dealers, overdoses, and murders at this one hotel, ruining a community. Summer heat went in there, not only arrested all the participants that were controlling the hotel, but seized the hotel. And so that's one example of what Summer Heat means to everyday Americans that just want to live in peace. The second example is a large narcotics trafficking group that was selling fentanyl in the state of Washington. They were shipping fentanyl and using commercial aircraft, putting fentanyl pills and powder onto, in suitcases, flying them from the southwest border, mostly Arizona, all the way to Washington. It had been going on for an extremely long time. And the entire organization was arrested an extremely long time.
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Vince
Now, I don't know about you, but when I hear extremely long time, what that says to me for the duration of the Biden administration, that this just happened. And the Biden people, the Biden doj, the Biden FBI, they had no interest in cleaning this up. They just let it happen. A thousand calls from one hotel, about one hotel where you have a complete den of crime and disaster just that destroys a community. And so you get two really clear examples there where the FBI has stepped up and finally cleaned up long, lingering and unattended to messes that the Biden people were letting just absolutely get worse, killing Americans in the process. And so we put, they put up some big numbers. They have every right to be proud of this. That means the world to these communities, that things are a little bit safer, a little bit more clean, a little bit less violent. That's. That's a massive deal here in the United States of America. And of course, there's a lot more work to do. And they wouldn't, none of these guys would deny that. Now, where did this come from? Operation Summer Heat. Is this the normal fare? Does the FBI do this all the time? Is this some sort of typical thing, usual thing? The answer to that, no. No. This program needed to be designed. And the architect of that program is a man that you and I are very familiar with. Here's Cash Patel talking to just the news this week, laying out who exactly designed this thing. Watch.
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Cash Patel
Well, I'd love to be able to take credit for it, but I may have added one of the ideas. But there's two groups. There's one man who is responsible for Operation Summer Heat, and the architect is Deputy Director Dan Bongino. He drew it up, he put out the mechanics, he went to the field, and he went 100% for these last seven months. And the men and women of the FBI executed Deputy Director Bongino's Summer Heat operation. And Summer Heat, that's just a three month snapshot, by the way. That was only three months from June to September. So the numbers you Just announced.
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Vince
Isn't that cool? You know, I wish that. I do wish that Dan was at the White House yesterday. I do. I do think it's a sign of a number of things. One, I think Dan has a lot of humility that he's not. He's not worried about that. He's not worried about getting the credit or anything like that. He wasn't. I haven't seen him tweeting like, oh, I designed this. This was my program. Nothing like that. It was only Cash Patel. These guys, obviously, they maintain. You can tell they maintain a very close relationship. The two of them, the director and the deputy director. Cash went out of his way to choose Dan Bongino. And he said. He said, get in here. And in fact, you. You may or may not realize this. I don't know if Dan mentioned it at the time, but Dan had all of these. When he left his programs and. And stepped aside to do the job at the FBI. He.
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Scott Pressler
He had.
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Vince
He took a little bit of time before he left, Right? We went from an announcement. I think it was almost two months.
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Scott Pressler
It was.
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Vince
It was. There was the announcement, and then he finally left. And. And the reason why there was a delay is because he had all these obligations to the people in his life and to his businesses and to try and solve all of that before he went off to the FBI. And I can tell you that what I heard is that Cash was just desperate. He's like, look, do whatever you got to do, but just get here as quickly as you're capable of get here. And Cash was desperate to get Dan in there, to be a part of that team. Dan shows up, and now you're seeing some of the fruits of his labor. Remember what we saw earlier this year? We saw kind of the drama of like, is Dan going to leave? What's happening? And I've talked about this a couple of times on the program, but just to remind you, I was convinced, and I just say this as a guy who's observing him like you from the outside, that now I think he wants to stick around and achieve a number of important and measurable victories before that guy ever leaves that agency. And when what I'm looking at is they've gone absolutely wild in terms of firing FBI people. They fired hundreds of people. They've gone absolutely wild in terms of going after criminals. Operation Summer Heat. This is a massive operation. Cash is attributing it directly to Dan being the architect of this. And Dan has been traveling the country and working with all of these various FBI Field offices to see this through as they. They're not going after like. Like garden variety street crime. They're going after some of the most violent people on the planet who are here in the United States of America and taking them into custody. And then, of course, you're watching as we're seeing prosecutions now coming through for people like James Comey and Letitia James, maybe John Bolton imminently and others. So what's happened is from all of that earlier drama of like, is he staying? Is he not staying? What's the FBI doing? Are they doing anything? What's going on? Well, sure enough now it's, well, they achieved that and they achieved that, and that's happening, and that's a good thing. So sort of the. The nothing is happening. Black pilling. It's like, stop your bitching. I mean, unreal. Stop whining. Like, are we rooting these guys on to achieve things? Yeah, for sure. And I like every measurable piece of progress that we finally get to see in public. But this stuff takes real work, clearly, and they're undertaking it. Dan did tweet the following. He said, thank you for your support and patience during this critical operation targeting the most violent criminals across the nation. We will continue our push to crush violent crime as our Summer heat operation wraps up. And then says, of course, that these are the results your FBI personnel on the field produced. Thank you. That. That's not. That's not. Look what I did. Look what I did. No, he says, look what the FBI personnel in the field produced. That's just. That's Leadership 101. You know, regardless of the fact that this is a guy who organized the whole thing, it's the men and women on the ground who actually fulfilled it. And he's. He's giving them the credit that they're due. Good to see. So let's. Let me. Let me see here. I've got. Okay, so you heard from Cash just a moment ago that Dan created a juggernaut. I love that. But in a moment, I want to share more audio for you from Cash Patel. He was talking to John Solomon about this. This is about. To what extent can we expect more accountability, more prosecutions of powerful people who have abused their power in order to hurt you, to hurt our country, to go after Trump. I've got important and optimistic updates on that subject in just a moment. That's ahead. I want to thank the great sponsors who do make this program possible. They've been supporting us through. Through it all. I appreciate you. You ever think about aging at all.
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Scott Pressler
Aging.
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Vince
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Scott Bessen
Do you think you've seen other crimes.
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Vince
That might eventually get referred to justice?
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Cash Patel
Yes. We are looking at so many different leads on criminal activity by those who are in positions of power and we're not going to stop until every single one of those is. Is fully exposed. The documents are provided either to Congress or the courts of law and make every referral we can to the Department of Justice. These indictments that you've seen and the ones that you're going to see coming up here in this near future are just the beginning. But I have to remind the audience one thing. Everybody's like, it's seven months. What have you guys been doing? Well, they spent 20 years building this disease temple of corruption. It takes a little bit of time to, to defeat it and beat it down. And I'm not asking you to trust me. I'm asking you to look at the work the men and women of the FBI have done so far in these seven, eight months and just imagine what we're going to do come the year end.
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Vince
Come the year end. He says now, I don't know how much tea leaf reading you have to do as you hear that. It's not like we got to suss it out. Like, what does he mean by this? What's going to happen? He just said indictments that are incoming very, very soon. Hold on to your hats. By the year end, we're going to see some very dramatic moves. And so we've already got Comey, we've already got Letitia James. They're already in the system. They're going through it right now. John Bolton is expected pretty imminently. You know, they've already raided his house and his workplace. We'll see what happens next. But there's a, there's an update. You know, we're always asking for updates from these guys. And, and to be clear, you know, FBI directors, it's not very typical that you get a lot of chatter from FBI directors about what's happening and what's coming. Normally they did. They detach from public commentary. They don't share a lot. Cash Patel's been unusual in this way. They've been. He's been offering a lot more transparency than we normally get from the FBI. So that's. Anyway, that's very good news. I'll take that. Also, VZ1 says, I want to know about the January 6 DNC bomb threat to VZ1. That's a great point. And I want to reiterate something really obvious here. There's no question that that is an obsession of Dan Bongino. That's who we were just talking about. Dan's completely obsessed with the answers to these questions and getting those answers out. You think that they would be sitting on that if they had something worthwhile to share? With you. No, they're not going to sit on, they're using it, whether it's for indictments or public disclosure. There's no question about that. Ed Martin and Dan Bongino. Ed Martin, of course, the head of the weaponization subcommittee at the Justice Department. Ed Martin told us this year on this program that he and Dan have been working doggedly to try and get to the bottom of that saga so that clearly that, that saga is not over. I, I await the answers to that too, and we have every right to do that. But the I, the thing that drives me crazy is like the bitching, the whining, the moaning, oh, these guys, they've been co opted by the deep state. Shut up, losers. Excuse me, excuse my French, but, but this whole thing is like, oh, no, just let these guys work, let these guys work. And at the conclusion of all this, we can judge them by the efforts they've undertaken, the actions that they've taken. But what they keep asking for with Dan and Cash have asked for is like, hey, you know, don't just take our word for it. Judge us by our actions. We've got, we've got some time in office. Let's just do it. And then you can, then you can judge us afterwards. Okay, fine, fine. That's the way to handle it. Wow. And then this. All right, so we've got antifa stuff going on and we're trying to figure out all this left wing violence. In fact, I don't even know, are we gonna get some left wing violence this weekend from these no kings idiots, you know, the ones they're mad about the results of the election where the American voter chose Trump, where you chose Trump. So they're furious about the results of elections. So they're pretending like the only way Donald Trump got into power is because he's a dictator. Like, no, actually the voters chose him, you morons. But the left wing violence that we've seen in the country, we've got to stop that. And President Trump has been really insistent. We've got to get to the bottom of it. And there's a couple of pieces of information here that I want to reflect on. One, we got to get to the center of all of this. Who's funding all of this? And you've heard names floated out there. President Trump brings them up from time to time. People like George Soros and, and Reid Hoffman. They're very concerned about who is funding the chaos in the country. You know, who's providing the, the weapons, the masks, the outfits, the shields. The lasers, the, the rocks, the palace of bricks, you know, whatever it is, you know, who's, who is the underlying force that's organizing so much of this chaos and can we stop them? And so the President has done two things. One, he's designated Antifa, domestic terror organization, but he's also designated internationally a terror organization as well, which means he's uncorked the resources of the federal government to go after Antifa to break up the terror network. And we just got an update this week from Scott Bessen. He's the Treasury Secretary. Now why is this important? Well the Treasury Department handles the business of the flow of money in the United States of America. And if you want to stop the power centers, will you go directly after their funding sources? And that's where Scott Bessen comes in. So Secretary Bessen just sat down with Charlie Kirk's buddies on the Charlie Crook show and had this to say about the effort that he and the Treasury Department are now undertaking to rip the guts out of Antifa's financial operation. Watch Scott Besson.
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Scott Bessen
After 9 11, treasury became the driving force behind tracking down the networks of terrorist organizations, how they were financed. How could this have happened on US Soil with these international terrorist organizations? Where did the money come from? From who were the ultimate funders? And that was on the international side. And Andrew, I will tell you that Charlie's death is like a domestic 911 that we are going to find. It has alerted us to what Charlie knew, that these organizations are working within our borders. And look, we believe people have a right to free speech. They have a right to organize, they have a right to protest. But they have to do it peacefully. They cannot embrace violence. And we are going to, as they always say, follow, follow the money. And we don't know how much of the support is coming in from overseas. We don't know how much being supported by US nonprofits, C3s that give money to C4s. But this is mission critical for us. Now just as after 911 and Osama bin Laden, the ultimate culprit was captured, we are operationalizing this here at treasury and we are going to track down who is responsible for this. So Charlie's death has set this off.
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Vince
That's encouraging. That's. In other words, this is not some mirror. This is not like a lip service exercise. If you've got the Treasury Department on the money operation, well you've got the right agency on it right now. And the way he's describing it is not like, hey, this is some side quest for us like some random mission that we're doing that. Oh, yeah, yeah, sure. We're looking into that. You know. You know, you can tell. You ever you see one of those interviews where you ask, where a politician gets asked about, like, hey, you ever going to get to the bottom of that? Oh, that's really important. Yeah. The American people are owed answers and, and they kind of. They just kind of service it in the hopes of keeping you from getting too animated about it. That's not what Besson did. Besson said, this is like another 9 11, the aftermath of 9 11. We're going to exert every resource available to us to get to the bottom of this. And the music to my ears was how he described. We're going to look at the C3s and the C4s and the domestic organizations, the international organizations, the flow of the funding. This is a massive, massive deal. In other words, this is something that not only has he thought about, but they've made actionable. It's not merely lip service. Something is happening at the Treasury Department. And there we have some good updates from the Secretary of the Treasury. So anyway, you know, I. There's a lot in the media, there's this tendency where everybody's talking about, like, all the negative stuff happening all the time. You know, if it bleeds, it leads. And like, you know, and like, hey, here's how life is miserable today. And I. I love any show, including this one, where we can present a series of successes and good news. And I'm encouraged. I'm very encouraged.
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Scott Pressler
I like.
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Vince
I like the results of Operation Summer Heat. Thank you to Dan Bongino for organizing it. Thank you for the FBI for undertaking it. I like Director Cash Patel telling us that not only do we see prosecutions of James Comey and Letitia James, we're about to get another big one, he said, and he goes, hold on until the end of the year. Things are about to get spicy. And then Scott Besson says, yeah, we're uncorking every sort of vehicle for the money that Antifa's got access to right now, and we're going after it. I'll take it. I'll take every single one of those victories and twice on Sunday. I love it all. Thank you. Please, please keep stacking it up and please keep us surprised. And by the way, all of those people, all, every one of you, everybody's welcome to come on my shows, whether it's this one or the radio show. I'm always. I'm down for updates. Treasury Secretary Bessen, come on, baby. Stop by, let me know what's going on with this stuff. This audience wants to know all about is it is good news. All right, let's see what we can do here. I've got, I've got. We've got. So not only these guys working on the outside or working on the inside, we've got to work on the outside. We've got big elections coming up in places like New Jersey and Virginia. We have that crazy mayoral race going on with Zordon Mamdani up in New York. You've got the Prop 50 case going on. And California. We have elections everywhere. And what are we going to do about them? Well, my next guest is going to help us through that because he's obsessed with winning elections for the good guys. Scott Pressler will be here in just a moment. Before we talk to Scott though, I want to thank our friends at American Financing for being great supporting this program. The Fed has finally dropped interest rates. That's great news for American homeowners. Expenses have been a major burden on families. Wages flat, prices climbing. And for many, the only way to make ends meet, well, that's been to lean on credit cards. But that cycle of high interest debt makes it really hard to stay ahead. If you're a homeowner, I want you to call my friends at American Financing. You see, right now, interest rates have dropped. Many homeowners are seeing options in the low fives. And compare that to credit cards charging rates in the twenties or higher. American Financing can help you. They can help you pay off that expensive debt, free up your cash flow and keep your budget under control. Their salary based mortgage consultants are saving customers an average of $800 a month. And if you get started today, you may even be able to delay your next mortgage payment. Take control. Call American financing today. That's 888-879-6460. That's 888-8 79-6460American Financing.net Vince NMLS number 182334 nmlsconsumeraccess.org APR for rates in the 5 start at 6.327% for well qualified borrowers. Call 888-879646 for details about credit costs and terms. Thanks to American Financing. Thanks also to the good people at Birch Gold. Where's my silver round? Hold up. I gotta get my silver round out. You have to see this thing. It's really cool. It's in my backpack. Yes, I have a backpack. Who, who doesn't have a backpack? It's an efficient way to travel. Hey, you can buy gold. You could get free silver. That's right. For every $5,000 purchased from Birch Gold Group this month in advance of Veterans Day, they're going to send you a free patriotic silver round that commemorates the Gadsden and American flags. I don't know if people can see that on camera. I hope you can. It's there. It is. Yeah. Beautiful. Beautiful little thing.
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Scott Pressler
Look.
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Vince
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Scott Pressler
Hey, thanks for having me, Vince.
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Vince
Okay, let's, let's just do like state by state, get some updates here. The big governor's races are the ones that are taking place in New Jersey and Virginia right now. How do you score those contests? What's going on there?
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Scott Pressler
Well, I would have told you a month ago that Virginia, we shouldn't be focusing on it and that New Jersey is the best chance for us to have a flip opportunity from blue to red. But here we have a Democrat candidate, Jay Jones, that's running for attorney general who is the chief, chief executive of making sure that laws are followed, that people are prosecuted. And he is on record in a text message wanting to exterminate political opposition. And I think the polling is really indicating that Jason Miares, who is our current Republican Attorney General in the Commonwealth of Virginia, well, he may very well win this November, this is anyone's ball game. And the people that are going to come out in support of Mears, well, win some Sears. John Reed, I'm asking for your vote for all three candidates. Early voting is happening right now because we do have 45 days of early voting in Virginia. I know, right? 45 days. So you can go to online type in Virginia early in person voting. And for example, if you're in Fairfax county, you can go to the government center, bring your id, vote early in person. And that's the state of Virginia right now.
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Vince
Yeah, that's a really big deal. And by the way, even if it's only Jason Mears who wins, and God and God willing, you're right, all three of them, the Republicans win in this race. But even if it's only Jason Miaras, that is a really important thing to have a Republican attorney general because Virginia is becoming more chaotic and more Democratic, unfortunately, with each passing election. You know, we've had a reprieve thanks to Glenn Youngkin and company. But Jason Miaras will be the bulwark against a lot of the insanity in the state if he can stay as attorney general.
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Scott Pressler
Well, and I really just want to follow up for a second to Virginia while it has some red areas and clearly we have a red governor right now, Glenn Youngkin, we're only a couple state legislative seats away. And if the Democrats split the governorship, we are very close to becoming to California. It is not out of the realm of possibility that overnight, just like that, you could have Virginia turn into Oregon, turn into Washington, turn into the left coast values. And people must vote this November and you must vote from the top of the ticket all the way to the bottom. Vote in your House of Delegates races, vote in your state senator races. Because if the Democrats get a trifecta state, there is going to be no check and balance stopping potentially Spanberger from doing whatever she wants. So Virginia, you got to vote.
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Vince
And whatever she wants includes going after your ability to own a gun. She's going to go, she's going to raise your taxes. She's going to allow men to be in little girls locker rooms. These are not. She's, she's even said that she wants to turn the state into a sanctuary state for illegal aliens. This is, it's utter chaos if she wins. And just as a reminder, you know, you talk about Jay Jones and how he wanted to put two bullets in the head of the Republican House speaker in Virginia. First of all, he should be out of the race for that. For that reason. Alone. And Abigail Spanberger is standing by him. She's not calling for him to get.
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Scott Pressler
Out of the race.
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Vince
This is a party that is very comfortable with political violence, even at its upper ranks. And voters need to know about this and hold these guys accountable. These are these early vote things. I mean, I. One of the downsides to early voting, one of the many, is that voters are often not exposed to the most important information until too close to election Day, and they might cast their vote before that. Look, I'm telling you, even. Even so, we've got the information. We know how bad Jay Jones is. These Democrats need to be defeated.
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Scott Pressler
And one last final note on Virginia. Vince. So I follow the ICE press releases pretty religiously, and if you go through my social media feed, you'll see that I just posted about an illegal alien that was arrested in Virginia for exposing himself to a child at a bus stop in the Commonwealth of Virginia. And the reason why I'm saying this is the number one reason, in my opinion, why President Trump was reelected is the American people are tired of Democrats in our country putting illegal aliens, putting criminal illegal aliens first and not protecting our families. And so what you said, Vince, about if Spanberger wins, Virginia will become a sanctuary state and you will have criminal, illegal aliens being able to run free. And again, a criminal illegal alien just exposed his genitalia to a child at a bus stop.
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Vince
It's infuriating. It is absolutely enraging. And it has to be stopped. And we can do something as voters in Virginia, you can stop it. And not only should you vote, but bring every single person you can to the polls to do it. Okay, let me ask you about New Jersey. That's where we have Jack Cittarelli and Mikey Sherrill. You mentioned that that was a race that a couple months ago you even realized was a lot more realistic for Republicans to win at the time. It.
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Scott Pressler
It.
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Vince
And it looks to me like it continues to be that. That Jack Cittarelli has a real base of support in New Jersey. What's the state of play there?
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Scott Pressler
A month ago, I would have told you that even Mikey. Cheating scandal. Cheryl, you know, her name's actually not even Mikey. It's Rebecca. And you know, she's not even from Jersey. She's from Virginia. Do you really want the Abigail Spanberger of Virginia winning the New Jersey governorship when this woman got $7 million while being in Congress and she won't even admit to it? The woman that was a part of a big cheating scandal and she wasn't even able to walk with her class at the Naval Academy. The woman that has no plan to cap property taxes and make life affordable for New Jersey. The woman that has no plan to lower electricity prices when people literally come showing me their electrical bill. Because Democrats, they only believe in solar and wind, while Republic, we believe in an all of the above approach to energy and we want to actually make life affordable. Well, I would have told you a month ago that Mikey was probably up, but I'll tell you right now, to anyone that's watching, any doubters out there, Jack Ciatarelli can win this November and 2021. Let's go over the data. I'm a numbers guy. Jack Chatterelli. That election in 2021, just four years ago was decided by 84,000 votes. 84,000 votes. Do you know how many Republicans stayed home in New Jersey in 2021-6000-0060-0000. We lost the race by 84,000. So sometimes Republicans were our own worst enemies because we get beliefs in our head and we go, you'll never win New Jersey. You'll never defeat Prop 50 in California. But the fact of the matter is, if every beautiful Trump supporter that voted in 2024, yes, bringing New Jersey 5 percentage points away from Donald Trump winning and defeating Kamala Harris votes this year, in 2025, you will elect Jack Chattarelli and we will make life more affordable in the Garden State so people actually stay here and don't have to move to Pennsylvania or Texas or Florida.
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Vince
Yeah, it is a massive thing. And you're right. I remember that race for Jack Ciarelli, and I looked at it. I was like, I was. I was impressed by how well he did and horrified that he didn't get across the finish line for the reasons you just stated. Is there institutional support for these races? Are you detecting that? One of the things I noticed in Virginia is that it looked like Republican money started flowing in after the J. Jones scandal began. When the text messages popped up and were like, holy crap, this guy's a violent lunatic. There might be an opportunity here for winsome Sears to win. And I think the Club for Growth and a couple of other places, they started pouring money into advertising and Virginia to help. Are you seeing that in Virginia and in New Jersey right now? Are there Republican, major Republican institutions that are helping in these races?
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Scott Pressler
Well, what I can tell you is Jack has the support of the people that especially matter, the voter. And I'll tell you that even going into the primary in 2025, that he was getting matching funds even before the Democrats what that means is that he was doing really well in contributions. I've done a lot of campaigns, I've met a lot of candidates. I haven't met a lot of people like Jack Chattarelli that start in the morning, doing events, shaking hands and even go into the evening. I mean, this guy, I'm not even blowing smoke, you know, up anyone. I'm not trying to say anything that isn't validated or true. Jack Ciatarelli is working tantamount as hard as I am going into this November. He wants to win, he wants to help the people of New Jersey. And I think that' you're seeing donations come into his campaign. But look at Vivek Ramaswamy coming as somebody that's running for governor of Ohio. Vivek Ramaswamy just came to New Jersey. Benny Johnson, thank you for coming to New Jersey. Jack Posobic, thank you for coming to New Jersey. I have 14 full time staff in New Jersey and as soon as we won Pennsylvania last year, I said we're going to the Garden State. And here's my promise to the people out there. This is a promise and commitment to you today. You help me elect Jack Chattarelli. Two promises. One, I will continue to hire full time staff in New Jersey and we are going to make New Jersey a swing state going into the 2028 presidential elections. That's promise number one. Promise number two, you help us win with Jack Chattarelli as governor this year in the Garden State. I promise to spend considerable time going to New York next year supporting Elise Stefanik for governor against disgraced Kathy Hochul. We need states to support each other, help each other, and the domino is going to be we won pa, we're going to win New Jersey, we go to New York and who knows, we're going to then Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine, we'll go to New England. But there must be a progression.
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Vince
You know, I talked about how, you know, one thing that people should definitely do is vote, take advantage of the early voting period. So long as those are the rules, live by them and then bring everyone else with you as you can. Are there other things? What should people do? As I'm sure you get asked this all the time and so, so help out this audience. What are the things that people can actually do to win these races? How do you, how do you, what's actionable here?
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Scott Pressler
Let's say that you're in one of the states I described, or maybe you're in another state and you're inspired to take action right now, well, my app, it's called the Early Vote Action app and it's on iPhone, it's on Android. This is free. I don't make you pay for it. It's absolutely free. And you have four methods that you can talk to voters. You can come to Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and knock on doors. We have targeted registered Republicans on there. I'm not sending you into Fairfax City. I'm not sending you into the belly of the beast. I'm having you talk to Republican voters. You can also send postcards. We're still writing postcards now. You can send text messages from the comfort of your home. You can make phone calls. These are all things that we have campaigns loaded in the app right now that you can target voters that voted last year and tell them how important it is to come out this year. And we're also talking to people that didn't vote in 2021 describing how close the election was and how important it is for them to make their voices heard this November. We're not going to let that 84,000 number happen again. We're going to make this too big to rig. We're going to beat the cheat. We are going to win. We are going to send Jack Ciatarelli to the Governor's mansion on Tuesday, November 4, 2025.
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Vince
It's not just New Jersey and Virginia. There's other elections going on. I know that. One area that I've been interested in, I know this audience interested in, is the Prop 50 fight in California that's going on right now. Because Prop 50 is basically a means by which the Democrats are going to try and redraw districts in the state and they're trying to get it away from an independent districting commission. The state's already basically rigged for Democrats. They want to rig it even more. And so voting no on Prop 50 is really important. What do you, what do you make of that fight?
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Scott Pressler
I am using my time and resources efficiently, which is why I've only talked about PA and jva. So it's not that I don't love California. Yeah, but if you're in California, please, I mean, look, you got to vote. You got to send in your mail on ballot, you got to vote on election day, you got to do legal ballot harvesting, fight fire with a frickin flamethrower and you're not able to change the law, guys, unless you win. You got to win in order to make changes, period. We found that out in Virginia. We found that out in Pennsylvania. You're going to find that out in California. But real quick, segue.
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Vince
Yeah.
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Scott Pressler
Yes, it is important to make Governor Newsom mad. Vote no. But Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, you guys have a once and a generation opportunity to defeat three Democrat Supreme Court justices. And all you guys have to do, similar to Prop 50, vote no. You, all you have to do is vote no this November in Pennsylvania. So let me set the stage real quick. There are five Democrats on the Supreme Court. Two of them are, I mean, excuse me, seven on the Supreme Court, five or D, two are R. Three of the Ds are up for what's called retention. They've been on the bench since 2015. And if we don't vote no to them, they will get another 10 year term after already serving 10 years and they will be on the Supreme Court in Pennsylvania until 2035. These people locked down Pennsylvania during COVID allowed mail in ballots to come three days after election day and gerrymandered our maps in 2018, leading to the impeachment of Donald Trump and freed Bill Cosby of his sexual assault conviction. So to any women out there, any moms and dads, any fathers, that's an easy no. All you have to do, Pennsylvania is flip over your ballot where the retention questions are and fire your judges by voting no to retention all the way from top to bottom. Turn over your ballot to term limit your judges, flip over your ballot to fire your judges. And the last reason why I say that, Vince, is because in 2023, 440,000 people voted at the top of the ticket for Supreme Court and they didn't flip over their ballot and they didn't vote on the retention elections. You can defeat three Democrats in one election. All you have to do is vote.
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Vince
Now, it's such a huge deal too, as you just described and you laid out. All the things that I was thinking of is that that Pennsylvania Supreme Court has been out of control. It's been tyrannical. It's been at the center of so many of the most glaring national controversies. And so here, here's a real opportunity. Opportunity to hold them accountable and change the future in the Keystone State. Is that message getting out? I know you're getting that message out. Do you think Pennsylvania voters are aware of the stakes here?
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Scott Pressler
Well, let's put it this way. For the first time in history, disgraced. Well, not just because he's disgraced, but a Governor Shapiro, Pennsylvania Democrat, is getting involved in the retention election. There are videos of him making phone calls to keep these justices that lock down our churches, schools and businesses on the Supreme Court. My message is, Governor Shapiro, you don't even have a budget for us. You haven't given us a budget, and our people are not getting paid. Your schools are running out of money. Why are you spending your time focusing on judicial races when you should be focusing on the budget? And I'll tell you why, Vince. I'm a smart guy. He's running for governor next year, but he's not just running for governor. He's running for president. And he wants the Supreme Court in Pennsylvania to rig the election for him, and he wants Pennsylvania locked in for his presidential bid. So if you at home, if you want to stop Governor Shapiro from even thinking about making it from Pennsylvania to Pennsylvania Avenue, you vote no to Democrat Doherty, you vote no to Democrat Donahue, and you vote no to Democrat Wet. And Vince, just say a little tidbit of information. Yeah. Kevin Doherty is a Supreme Court justice. His brother Johnny Doc is a Philly crime boss. And by the way, everything I'm saying is fact checkable. Is a Philly crime boss that embezzled $600,000 from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 98, now embezzling 600,000. Do you know how much money IBEW Local 98 gave Kevin Doherty when he was running for supreme court justice in 2015? $1.5 million. Hmm. Coincidence. The last thing I want to say. I am pro union, and I am a Republican that believes that you should be able to join a union without coercion. And I believe that you as a union worker, should be able to pay your dues and know where your dues are going and have choice in saying whether or not they go to political campaigns. I am pro union. And if you are also pro union and pro worker, that means that I'm asking you to vote no. Especially to the Doherty family that has been robbing hardworking union workers for decades. And you have the opportunity to say no this November, I ask for your vote.
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Vince
I've got a brother who does union work in the Philly area, and if I found out that he was being robbed, I'd be horrified by it. I'd be working hard to help change his life. Yeah, it's just crazy. So these are just to be clear, in Pennsylvania, these are three specific questions that each. Each person is considered on the ballot.
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Scott Pressler
So here's how it will say. And I actually, I have my mail in ballot back there. I haven't opened it yet, but I am voting 100%. So when you flip over your ballot to fire your judges, each is going to Be an individual. Question. Should Christine Donahue be retained for another term? No. Should. Should Kevin Doherty be retained for another term? No. Should David Wecht be retained for another term? No. Last thing, I'm not an ageist, but I am a law abiding citizen. Christine Donahue, bless her heart, she turned 73 years old this year. We have a mandatory vacating law that you must retire at 75 as a judge in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Why is Christine Donahue, when she turns 73 years old this year running for another 10 year term when she knows that she cannot fulfill such a term? You know why? Because Governor Shapiro can appoint a replacement. Democrats are trying to rig this. Democrats care more about power than they do the people choosing their candidates. So you have an opportunity. Make Governor Newsom mad. Vote no to Prop 50. Make Governor Shapiro mad. Vote no to retention.
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Vince
I. I'm looking in our chat. There are people who live in Pennsylvania who weren't aware of the stakes here, who are grateful to you people. My people.
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Scott Pressler
I love you, my Pennsylvanians. Please vote. Please, please, please vote.
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Vince
They're grateful. Thank you. Oh, man, I'm so glad you're getting the word out. You're always so good at this. Remind people of the app. What's the app again?
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Scott Pressler
Thank you. Well, well, number one, to anyone in all three of those states, I ask you, this is a plea in honor of especially the tragedy, the assassination of Charlie Kirk. His birthday was just days ago. It was October 14th. This is a young man that was stolen from us. He would have been 32 years old. The least you guys can do, please. The least you can do. Number one, vote. I want you in honor of Charlie and I see this as respectfully as possible. Call 32 of your friends in honor of what would have been his 32nd birthday and get them to vote this November. And if you don't have 32 Republican friends, you might be in Fairfax or Arlington. I'm sorry. Then you can download the Early Vote Action app and you can text 32 people. You can call 32 people. You can write 32 postcards. You can open the app in your neighborhood and knock on 32 doors. Early vote Action. It's free, it's on Android, it's on iPhone. You have registered Republicans that you can reach out to, please. I ask you to do your 32.
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Vince
Early vote Action.com is where you can find out all the information. You can download the app from there. Scott Pressler, thank you for constantly, constantly working on behalf of your country to make it a better place. Appreciate you as always.
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Scott Pressler
I appreciate you and thank you for honoring the Bongino legacy.
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Vince
Yes, sir. Thank you very much. Good to see you, Scott. There he is, Scott Pressler. Everybody likes Scott because they're grateful that he, he's constantly plugging away at these things and. Yeah, no, so we've got, we've got all these states where we've got elections of meaning going on versus Virginia. Gotta, gotta get that winsome Sears and everybody else across the finish line. Cittarelli, get him across the finish line. In New Jersey, you've got prop 50. Vote no in California. Let's stop more election rigging from going on in California. And in Pennsylvania, vote no on these retention questions on the back of your ballot. Turn the ballot over, get all your friends out. Vote no on this thing. That's it. Flip your ballot over and vote no to retain these idiots. Because, look, they've, they've been a part of some of the biggest scandals in American history. We've seen them play out. You want to do something to stop them, you can do it to the people in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the Keystone State. Now's your chance. You know, so we keep, we keep plugging away at these elections because they really matter. Hey, and by the way, you know, people ask me all the time. I get messages like, well, you should have. It's funny, I do. I get messages all the time about this. Or like, you should have win some Sears on. Have Winsome Sears on so you can promote her. Have Jack Cittarelli on so you can promote him. Ladies and gentlemen. You think I'm not trying this? I'm constantly, I've, you know, many phone calls and emails we've placed to these offices to try and get these guys on. There's only so much I can do. I've, I've gift wrapped the invitation. Come on. You guys are welcome on the show, but, you know, whatever. They, they're making decisions here on what they want to do with their campaign time and if they want to be on the program, fine. It's up to them. I don't, I'm not, I'm not doing it for my ratings. I'm just doing it because I want to see these guys get across the finish line and succeed. And I want, I want as many people as possible about them and support them. But, you know, you do whatever you got to do. But again, they have both of these candidates, both win some Sears as well as Jack Chitterella. You've got an open invitation. Welcome any time to appear before this audience, we've, we've, we've, we've extended that invitation both privately and now publicly a lot. So that's the state of play. Yeah, keep trying. Says later, Jeff, I'm telling, I, we must do it every day. I think we've reached out, like every day. I told you yesterday that there was going to be a big Supreme Court hearing on whether or not Democrats can continue to rig elections by racially profiling voters and then drawing districts through racial prejudice. And the good news is that the Supreme Court case yesterday went very well for decent people. The conservatives on the court seem to be leaning towards, yeah, you're not allowed to do that anymore. No more racism when it comes to drawing elections. But, but the lefties on the court, while they were clinging desperately to racist districts designed to help Democrats. Here's Katanji Brown Jackson yesterday. I swear to you, I'm not putting words into her mouth. You can hear her say it. She says that to be black means to be disabled. What? Listen to Ketanji Brown Jackson yesterday, who Joe Biden put on the Supreme Court.
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Cash Patel
Listen, you're responding to current day manifestations of past and present decisions that disadvantage minorities and make it so that they don't have equal access to the voting system. Right. They're disabled. In fact, we use the word disable in Milligan. We say that's a way in which you see that these processes are not equal. Open.
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Vince
They're disabled. The black people are disabled. So we, we need disabled districts. Do you, do you hear yourself? Do you hear how, how nakedly racist and just insane that is? And she makes a comparison. It's like the Americans with Disability Act. You know, we build ramps in front of buildings because people are in wheelchairs. So why shouldn't we draw districts around people on the basis of their skin color? They're disabled. Tell that to what? Tell that to Clarence Thomas, who by the way, is actually smart and like, brilliant on that court. I saw this. This is great. And yesterday, for what it's worth, Yesterday was the 34th anniversary of Clarence Thomas joining the United states supreme court. 34 years that American patriot has been doing that. Great job. And check out the Babylon B take on, on Kentaji Brown Jackson. Yesterday, Clarence Thomas gently explains to Katanji Brown Jackson that not all black people are mentally disabled, just her. I am so grateful for you. As always. A lot of fun to spend some time with you today. A lot. Very nice to talk about so many great victories that coming out of the Trump administration and more victories ahead especially if we as voters can make them happen. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for being here. The best audience anywhere. We'll have another big edition of Vince tomorrow, the Vince show, the radio show coming up today. You can check out your local listings. The vinshow.com you can also join us on Rumble. Every day we do it live. Rumble.com Vince, you can see me chattering. Can't wait to see you wherever you are. Please, please, please, like subscribe and share this content. If you think it's worth sharing. I appreciate you as always. Back with you tomorrow.