Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is under increasing pressure from the United States to make a decision on whether or not to pull the trigger on a military strike on the Venezuelan capital, Caracas. Meanwhile, the U.S. is conducting new military exercises in the Caribbean, including a joint exercise with the Caribbean island nation of Trinidad and Tobago.
00:00:00.000As Secretary Hegseth has announced Operation Southern Spear, I can tell you Latin America is totally up for grabs.
00:00:07.580You have the left-wing alliance of Cuba, Venezuela, increasingly Colombia and Honduras.
00:00:14.420And then you have the populist nationalist vision for Latin America, led by the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele.
00:00:21.680Mele is in that light, Moreno in Panama in that light, also the president of Paraguay.
00:00:27.080And there is a great battle of ideas going on here.
00:00:30.220Now, my sources tell me that the battle over Venezuela may not even have to go kinetic if the United States is able to force Maduro into a number of decisions.
00:00:40.940And those decisions could divide his coalition, weaken the extent to which military generals are reliant on him.
00:00:47.940And here's what's interesting. I'm watching it down here now, Steve.
00:00:50.920The Honduran election at the end of this month could very well be a test case for whether or not the military in Venezuela turns against the people.
00:01:01.020Because we expect a lot of Venezuela's tactics to be used by the political left in Honduras, where we think the populist would prefer a center-right government.
00:01:10.840But there's a left-wing government in power now.
00:01:12.940Yeah, usually when a regime is under siege like Maduro is, they try to bring their military in closer.
00:01:21.200They try to centralize whatever control they have over a capital or a jurisdiction.
00:01:26.080But here we've seen Maduro take a very different tactical stance.
00:01:29.560He's actually moved the military out into the country, hoping that if there were strikes on Caracas, he could create chaos and violence in the outer areas of Venezuela.
00:01:42.740And that that would give them some place in the hinterlands to control and occupy.
00:01:48.340So as he makes that decision, there are going to be a number of these key military leaders and generals who question it, who maybe leave Maduro's side.
00:01:58.040And he could be very vulnerable in Caracas, not to direct kinetic U.S. military intervention, but to simply the people there realizing that his days may be numbered.
00:02:07.260Good morning. The United States is conducting new military drills in Trinidad and Tobago amid tensions with Venezuela.
00:02:14.280Now, the military exercises start tomorrow and will last for five days.
00:02:17.920That's according to the Caribbean island nation.
00:02:20.260The last several weeks, the U.S. has built up its mobilization of forces in the Caribbean.
00:02:24.740That includes the U.S.'s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford.
00:02:29.500The Marines have also already been deployed to fight illegal drug trafficking, according to the Trump administration.
00:02:34.240Meanwhile, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is now appealing to the American public.
00:02:41.220It is to the people of the United States that I speak to at this moment, before these 100 jurors from 34 countries, to say,
00:02:50.680stop the insane hand of those who order bombing, killing and bringing war to South America, to the Caribbean.
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00:17:46.660That is an amendment to the California state constitution that redraws the state's congressional districts in response to Republican gerrymandering in Texas earlier this year.
00:17:57.200Kher said Muslim voters demonstrated strong turnout, civic participation, and a growing influence in U.S. politics.
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00:18:54.660For the first time ever, a Muslim American Heritage Resolution has been adopted in the Florida House and Senate.
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00:19:38.820And I believe they were also named in the Holy Land Foundation trial, what, decades ago about terrorist activity and the financing of terrorist activity.
00:19:49.480The Muslim Brotherhood are very smart.
00:19:51.540While your enemy is diverted, while their attention is diverted trying to stop the Third World War and now hemispheric defense in Latin America, and we're making tremendous strides in that, this is the five-alarm fire we got to focus on here in the United States.
00:20:06.340If we don't get this right, it doesn't matter what happens in Latin America.
00:20:09.480It doesn't matter what happens in Ukraine.
00:20:11.060It's not going to matter what happens in the Middle East.
00:20:14.720This is when I gave the speech of the National Conservative to a principally kind of neocon Jewish audience.
00:20:20.240I told them, I said, look, it ain't Tehran is the existential problem to Israel or the Jewish people.
00:22:37.460Dallas is double what we have in the UK.
00:22:40.860There is something sinister happening in the US and especially in Texas.
00:22:47.320And I've looked at documents going back to show that actually different Islamic organisations have targeted Dallas specifically and have pushed that.
00:22:57.020And you see now the rewards of their efforts in that being ruled out.
00:23:03.860You see Epic City being rebranded as the Meadows.
00:23:06.900I mean, it sounds like an English village.
00:23:09.220And yet, it's an Islamic centre, a purely Islamic area that's going to drive Islamic values.
00:23:16.420And just because it's been rebranded does not mean it's gone away.
00:23:20.200It just means they are smarter with their tactics.
00:23:23.220And we need to be smarter at being aware of that and deciding what we stand for, what freedoms we stand for, what values we stand for, and for opposing this.
00:23:35.580And just another thought was I met with probably a dozen Texas legislatures and I actually came away feeling there actually is hope because there were so many that are aware of the issue that are wanting to push back on this.
00:23:55.760Like, we never know what timescale we have to actually stand up and fight these issues.
00:24:00.620But I believe that for Texas, there is a current opportunity, there is a time with the concern politically to fight back on this.
00:24:12.120Peter, when I first got and started getting involved in politics, I guess after I made the Reagan film back in 2004, 2005, but it was really 2008, 2009 after the financial crash when they started making other films.
00:24:24.320I realized that in doing analysis of what was happening in the United Kingdom and, you know, I was trying to put together a film that never came about because I couldn't get financing for it on the Islamification of the United States like I saw happening in England.
00:24:39.280And this is when I met Raheem and Raheem was one of the great firebrands of this.
00:24:42.660That's what he really became known for.
00:25:39.080If you don't take Poland and you don't take Hungary as an example.
00:25:42.700If you don't have the courage to say we're not going to let this happen and we don't care what you call us, we don't care what you do to us, we don't care about any of it.
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00:33:46.500This is a pan-American beachhead for prosperity.
00:33:51.120Now, America first doesn't stop at our borders.
00:33:54.940It starts with stabilizing our hemisphere, and we don't need another failed Latin state exporting chaos and caravans to the United States.
00:34:05.560Here's also what a lot of Americans don't know.
00:34:08.620Argentina, at one time, it was richer, wealthier than the United States.
00:34:13.220These people, they do know how to win, but it's lacked leadership.
00:34:16.240Now, it has Millet, bold, relentless, an economic realist, a true disruptor.
00:34:25.080Can he make, can Millet make Argentina great again?
00:34:28.540Well, it's already happening, and this time, America is betting on the right horse here in Argentina.
00:34:37.480Okay, Besant, our good friend and former colleague and contributor, gets a little testy when we call this a bailout.
00:34:44.340Why is this, I love what you said, but back it up.
00:34:47.100Why is this just not a bailout for the failed economic policies of one of these libertarians that has all these crazy ideas, sir?
00:34:54.520Yeah, it is not a bailout because it's a backstop.
00:34:57.200It is essentially a bet, and I don't know if Secretary Besson would want to use that term, but that's really what it is.
00:35:02.140It's a bet to say we are going to provide liquidity, use the faith and credit of the United States to step into a moment where there is legitimate fear that hedge funds around the world may attack Argentina in a critical moment because of political instability,
00:35:16.460and that they could perhaps disrupt the recovery, which is extremely strong.
00:35:22.200Inflation finally, which has been the scourge of Argentina for decades, inflation is finally getting under control because of what Millet is doing there.
00:35:30.380So for both strategic reasons, but as well as the angle of a smart economic bet, the United States is saying we will provide a backstop.
00:35:42.420This is nothing like what we're doing, for example, with Zelensky.
00:35:45.320And so far, by the way, the bet is working.
00:35:47.800Not only are we not losing money, we're actually making money on it by providing stability there.
00:35:52.260And, you know, and looking at the geopolitics here, Argentina is the most significant major nation right now in all of Latin America, a place where things are starting to go our way because of President Trump and because of an America first foreign policy.
00:36:04.920But things went disastrously against us during the Biden administration.
00:36:08.780You now have radical leftist regimes, of course, in Venezuela being the worst of all, but also in Brazil, in Chile, in Colombia, in Honduras, in Mexico, all over Latin America.
00:36:20.120And you might say, well, wait, why does this matter to us as America first people?
00:36:23.300Well, it matters critically because we know that when Latin states fail, inevitably it ends up in a migrant crisis for the United States.
00:36:30.920For example, if you look at the illegal alien crimes across America, many of the worst ones are Venezuelans because Maduro emptied his mental institutions, his prisons, sent the worst hombres possible here to the United States.
00:36:44.540So both because we should care about our hemisphere, I think a modern Monroe doctrine makes sense, but also out of pure self-interest, we want to have allies, friends, stability in Latin America.
00:36:56.380That's what Argentina brings right now, and I really believe it is the beachhead at the other end of the Americas from the United States to begin what's really going to be, I think, a sweeping revival of patriotic populist nationalism across Latin America where the populist right is ascendant but needs some help, some push from the United States.
00:37:15.120Okay, this is what the gates, gates is in El Salvador, and he made the case, I think he's in El Salvador last night on the show, in a brilliant kind of breaking it down.
00:37:25.920Just make the case, I know you get a bounce, make the case why President Trump, when he looks at hemispheric defense, his security architecture is what I call Monroe Doctrine 2.0 with testosterone.
00:37:37.120And specifically, you're of Colombian descent, specifically about this situation in Venezuela and what we could be looking at in the next 72 to 90 hours, sir.
00:37:48.680Yes, and when we look at Colombia, for example, my ancestral homeland, unfortunately, their leftist radical President Petro, who, you know, by all accounts is personally unstable, involved probably in substance abuse, certainly rules from the presidential palace in a horrific way for the Colombian people, increasingly becoming allied with the Maduro regime,
00:38:11.740even though the refugees from Venezuela are one of the biggest problems that he faces at home in Colombia, we're going to have a chance to beat him in about six months, he can't run again, but beat his party in about six months at the ballot box, I'm confident that will happen.
00:38:25.400But again, that's why I'm saying stabilizing Argentina will also lead to victories in places like Colombia, at the end of this month, perhaps a victory in Honduras, and all of this matters to the United States.
00:38:37.540And regarding President Trump and his bombing of these boats, which I think is both strategic and legal and smart, he is telling the narco-terrorists across the region that you are in danger when you engage in your activities, and not just if you happen to come into the United States, you are in the open waters, and perhaps even within countries like Venezuela.
00:38:57.140So he's taken a very aggressive posture, which I think is necessary. Unfortunately, what Biden did was a massive transfer of wealth and power to some of the worst organizations on earth, particularly the narco gangs, the cartels in Mexico, but really all over Latin America.
00:39:12.980And President Trump is taking, and you're exactly correct, a muscular stance and saying, not only are we not going to stand for this, but you're going to start feeling the wrath of the United States when you are inflicting pain and misery upon our people.
00:39:24.040But make that, look, in Argentina, we're using the economic power of the United States, and Scott Besson is doing a very smart deal there.
00:39:32.940It's a backstop, not a bailout, although people are saying, we're your backstopping some of these hedge funds, but it looks like it turned around, particularly the guy who won the election, and Mila is in a better strategic position.
00:39:43.980You've got the narco-terrorists. Some people are saying, yeah, but Maduro is a nation state, whether they stole the election or not, right, which he obviously did.
00:39:51.200It's a nation state, and you've got a carrier battle group, carrier strike force off the coast, plus you've got an amphibious ready group with 4,000 sailors and fleet marines.
00:40:03.340You're not down there just to take out speedboats. Make the case about how do you go after a sovereign nation, as bad as that sovereign nation is, sir.
00:40:11.920Right. No, listen, I'm not trying to make the case for all-out war against a sovereign nation, and I, you know, I for one believe that that requires going to Congress to do that properly.
00:40:21.620But strategically taking out narco-terrorists, even if they are domiciled within a sovereign nation state, I think that is absolutely smart, strategic, and permissible by the law.
00:40:31.740You know, I would give you, as an example, what we did to Osama bin Laden, who was certainly being harbored by at least some elements within the Pakistani authority structure, but we didn't hesitate.
00:40:41.360We didn't ask permission from anybody in Islamabad or Karachi to go after him.
00:40:45.420So I would think it's a similar kind of construct here.
00:40:48.400If there are known terrorists who are direct dangers to the United States, who are poisoning the people of the United States, and we can effectively take strategic shots at them, that makes sense.
00:40:57.700I'm not talking at all about wholesale nation-versus-nation fighting.
00:41:03.440Before you leave, you've got a minute.
00:41:06.640Make the case, hemispheric defense of really the Monroe Doctrine 2.0.
00:41:11.400Why is Argentina like a jewel, one of the jewels in the crown, sir?
00:41:26.580But in addition to that, and this is perhaps even more important in today's era, are the minerals and resources that they have in the ground, but particularly critical minerals.
00:41:35.860So Argentina is a perfect opportunity for both that country but also for the United States to leverage and to fully employ the strategic minerals that we need for a modern digital economy and separate ourselves from China.
00:41:50.960It's a fantastic opportunity to both benefit our country, benefit the Argentines, and at the same time, end our reliance and dependence on China.
00:42:00.060So critical minerals, the natural resources, the human capital that that country employs, it has all the ingredients to become incredibly successful again, as it was over a century ago.
00:42:09.340So I think it just needs a bit of help from the United States.
00:42:12.880Steve Cortez, where do people get your films, your coordinates on social media, all of it?
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00:44:42.240I'm going to get Harnwell in a little bit later about what's happening in Ukraine in the Middle East.
00:44:46.660But, Ben, you and Brother Cortez had to bounce.
00:44:49.980I take it you disagree quite strongly with Steve Cortez, sir?
00:44:53.300I do, Steve, because you're tickling out to me my inner – I hate to say it, but my inner libertarian instincts on this one.
00:45:04.000You know, Steve Cortez says that this is a backstop and not a bailout, and that might be true technically.
00:45:09.920My main problem here is that it fundamentally – it seems to me to be setting up what was called in political philosophy as a moral hazard.
00:45:19.300So if you have the United States here backstopping the Argentine peso for 20 billion, the whole point of having a free-floating currency is that it's a signal as to the relative strength of that.
00:45:31.320Okay, hang on, hang on. Full stop, full stop, full stop.
00:45:33.320Moral hazard was a term in Generation Zero I put out when I made the film.
00:45:37.620It's about 2008 and the financial crash.
00:45:40.080Explain to the audience what is moral hazard.
00:45:43.240Moral hazard is where you – in this case, it's where you socialize the risks but privatize the profits.
00:45:51.720The best example would be, Steve, if you were at a casino and I said to you, look, bet all the money you want.
00:45:59.540Any losses you make, I will underwrite them.
00:46:01.860I, Ben Hahn, will underwrite your losses.
00:46:04.640But any winnings you get on the blackjack table, you get to keep those.
00:46:09.880The consequence of moral hazard is that it encourages more risky behavior, and that's fundamentally the issue here.
00:46:17.240And also, as you get involved, you start to own it.
00:46:22.820Once you do this with the whole Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers.
00:46:39.720But let's go back to, I think, the 16th of September 1992.
00:46:44.040This is an event scarred on every Briton's heart.
00:46:47.760And that's when the United Kingdom was humiliatingly ejected from the exchange rate mechanism,
00:46:54.300which is the precursor to the single currency, the euro.
00:46:57.160The British government, the British Treasury sacrificed billions and billions of sterling to try to defend the pound at an unsustainable rate.
00:47:07.360And you know who the primary beneficiary, this is the irony, right, of where we are now.
00:47:11.220The primary beneficiary of that who gambled against the pound and made, I think that was where he really made his millions, was George Soros.
00:47:19.680And who was his principal fund advisor then?
00:47:23.020If America is going to do this, right, if America is going to do this, Steve, there is no one I would rather have at Treasury than Scott Besson, because he lived through that.
00:47:38.560I think he made a lot of money out of the humiliation of sterling himself.
00:47:43.140So Scott Besson is definitely a guy who knows how these things work.
00:47:49.060But I wouldn't go anywhere near it, the whole thing.
00:47:53.580I'm not a big Millet fan, because I'm not a libertarian.
00:47:57.300However, it was strategically determined, strategically important by the Trump second term that we had to have this guy continue.
00:50:20.440He took an idea and made it into a great company.
00:50:24.040And now you've got all these demons, particularly this attorney general in Minnesota is one of the most evil guys in the country trying to take it down.
00:51:00.600And they don't want your Christian network, your network of therapy centers that's Christ-centered about turning people's lives around from drugs and alcohol.
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