The Truth About the New Pope and the Billion Dollar Financial Scandal at the Vatican
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Jack and Bobby are back in Washington, D.C. President Trump prepares to meet Vladimir Putin, India and Pakistan reach a ceasefire deal, and Pope John Paul III announces his plans for a papal conclave in Rome, Italy.
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Fireworks and celebrations in the streets of Pakistan after India and Pakistan reached a ceasefire deal.
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The ceasefire agreement was mediated by the U.S.
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The U.S. and China just put out a joint statement overnight, agreeing to a temporary but significant easing of those tariffs.
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But investors are certainly welcoming this news, with futures already jumping nearly 1,000 points to start the week.
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You will have a better life than your parents, which working-class Americans had abandoned that idea.
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In a potential turning point in the war in Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky says he's now prepared to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin this week.
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Zelensky's willingness comes after President Trump urged him to immediately accept the Putin offer to hold peace talks.
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Those talks are said to take place in Istanbul, Turkey, on Thursday.
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It will be the first time these two leaders have met since the Russia-Ukraine war began three years ago.
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Putin's offer to sit down with Zelensky came after France, Britain, Germany, and Poland gave Russia an ultimatum over the weekend,
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agreeing to an unconditional 30-day ceasefire by Monday or face new sanctions.
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If I thought it would be helpful, I don't know where I'm going to be at that particular point.
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I'll be someplace in the Middle East, but I would fly there if I thought it would be helpful.
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President Trump is about to sign an executive order that he says will cut the price of prescription drugs.
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It will establish a rule that the White House says will allow the U.S. to pay prices that other countries pay for drugs.
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There has never been a president more willing to stand up to the oligarchs than President Donald Trump.
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Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily.
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We are back from our international trip, and today is May 12th, 2025, Anno Domini.
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So, yes, as you know, I'm sure you saw last week and throughout the weekend, my brother and I, as well as the Human Events team,
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thanks to the great folks over at Catholics for Catholics for Underwriting and the War Room,
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we went to the Papal Conclave, and we went to report on there, everything that was happening inside, behind the scenes,
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even all the way up, Kevin Posobiec, all the way up on the roof of the Vatican itself,
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St. Peter's Basilica as the new Pope emerged, and we're going to have to get Kevin back on the show here this week
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to really describe the sights and sounds of it, because, you know, some connection issues while we were there,
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50,000 people in St. Peter's Square, you can imagine.
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The energy was off the charts, but then the shock, an American Pope,
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someone who we've heard quite a bit from him as well as his brother.
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By the way, I saw the brother's tweets. Boy, I would love, and I'm just going to say it right now,
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for Pope Leo's brother, Lou, Lou, Human Events Daily would be more than happy to sponsor a trip for you,
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all expenses paid to fly to Rome and spend some quality time with your little brother,
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and particularly have a conversation on where it is that the people of Florida
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and the Catholics in America stand on our president and our vice president, J.D. Vance,
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Now, we understand, of course, that the new Pope is a believer in the rule of law,
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But what we've heard so much is that this is a big play being pushed by the cardinals in Rome
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for what? The big money in the United States, the money that was cut off
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when Doge and the Trump administration cut off Catholic charities
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And so the question is, for the Vatican, which people need to understand, is broke right now.
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Is that what the new Pope is trying to turn back on?
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And will this be an antagonist for President Trump?
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All this and more coming up today, Human Events Daily, and we have Roger Stone speaking.
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All right, Jack Pozova, here we are back live, Human Events Daily.
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Pozo back from the Vatican, St. Peter's Basilica, where we all were all last week,
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as well as stopping by Bucharest, Romania, to interview the top candidate for the presidency there.
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We'll get into all that and more coming up ahead.
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I want to welcome veteran political strategist Roger Stone here on the program on Human Events.
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Great to be with you, and great to see you back home safe from the conclave.
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Roger, I know you've attended a number of conventions.
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I can't say I have, and I must say that the outcome of this conclave was somewhat surprising.
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Now, when you understand that 80% of the cardinals who had the ability to vote were handpicked by Pope Francis,
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the outcome, meaning the conclave producing a moderate to progressive Pope is really not surprising.
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I would have preferred, you know, Cardinal Erdo or Cardinal Serra.
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But as you know, I wrote a couple of long pieces, came on your show, did an in-depth analysis, kind of the horse race for Pope.
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But I have to admit that Robert Provost, now Pope Leo, was not on my list.
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I'm trying to give him the benefit of the doubt.
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He is clearly very solid on some of the church's traditional positions.
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For example, he doesn't buy into any of this gender nonsense.
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He's solid on the right to life, on the priesthood to continue to be maintained for men.
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But I don't like the fact that he is not speaking from the throne of Peter, but just speaking in a pastoral sense.
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He's opposed President Trump and Vice President Vance on the very important issue of illegal immigrants.
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He seems to favor an open borders policy, which is hard to reconcile with the fact that, of course,
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the Vatican, where he is going to live and work, has very high walls and very tight security.
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Well, Roger, and certainly security was paramount when my brother and I were there,
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Producer Russ came out from Phoenix there in St. Peter's Square.
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And one of the things that I think that, you know, we've learned just from being on the ground
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and pulling some sources together was one of the big rumors going around was this question of Cardinal Parolin.
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So Cardinal Parolin, the Secretary of State of the Vatican, actually has to be seen whether or not
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he'll be staying on in that capacity, was widely seen as the frontrunner by the media and many others
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Yet what we are being told, and again, I have this from a source in the Vatican,
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that once the conclave doors were closed, that Parolin immediately began championing the candidacy
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of pre-votes, that he knew he wouldn't have the votes, he knew that he was too publicly associated
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And so almost immediately, once they realized he didn't have the votes, they may have done
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Because remember, Roger, this was only the fourth round of ballots, which is very fast.
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When that puff of white spoke went up on day two, only 24 hours after the opening of the
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conclave, the entire city of Rome was rushing to the square.
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No one could believe that it was picked so quickly.
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And from what I'm hearing on the inside is that it was the liberal progressive Parolin
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And you mentioned, of course, the issue of illegal immigration.
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And I just go back to saying that this has been a huge revenue driver for the Vatican and
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so many others through groups like Catholic Charities and others, because while they get
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the signups in Latin America and in Africa, when it comes to the money, which is currently
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going into those, and people say, oh, the Vatican is so rich.
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It's still, they're still derived off of revenue from donors and parishioners going to church.
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That's why they needed the CCP deal to bail them out a couple of years back under Francis
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McCarrick, the now disgraced former Cardinal McCarrick, and of course, Parolin himself.
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And so a lot of those money issues could be one of the reasons that they wanted, number
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one, turn on the illegal immigration revenue pipeline yet again, and number two, choose an
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American who can directly go for that big American money.
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I think, frankly, Cardinal Parolin's tendency was damaged by some of these financial irregularities
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that were raised very deftly and at exactly the right time by an American bishop, Brugano,
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In the meantime, two things I found extraordinarily amusing, the way some Catholics flipped out
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when President Trump put out a picture of himself in papal vestments.
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Some people, I think, might have been waiting for orange smoke to come from the Sistine Chapel.
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It was just humor, but some people took it very, very seriously.
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Well, I'm offended by the fact that Pope Francis accommodated the Chinese communists,
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basically agreed to let them veto who could be a bishop in China, because accommodation
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Well, I'm offended by the fact that Pope Francis brought Cardinal McCarrick, who was a vicious
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pedophile, out of retirement and gave him a position as a key advisor inside the Vatican.
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In this case, I am also amused by the fact that the Pope's brother, Lou, appears to not
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only be MAGA, not only be a supporter of President Trump and a harsh critic of Kamala Harris and
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Tim Walsh, but he also seems to be fully awake on the question of Richard M. Nixon.
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In Watergate, he reposted a great meme in which someone pointed out that Nixon only erased a 13-minute
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tape while Hillary Clinton erased 33,000 classified emails.
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She basically destroyed them with beach blit and a hammer when they were under subpoena.
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So he's red-pilled on the question of Nixon and Watergate as well, found that very amusing.
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And that's the way I've said here at Human Events Daily, we would be more than happy if
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Mr. Prevost is interested to sponsor an all-expenses-paid trip for him to travel to Vatican City, to St.
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Peter's, to meet his brother and sit down with him.
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We're not going to tell him what to do, but I certainly think that's something that Human
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And by the way, Mr. Prevost, if you're watching, more than happy to have you on.
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I understand you've been doing quite a bit of media.
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We'd love to have you here on the program as well.
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We have Roger Stone with us for the program today on the Salem Radio Network and Real
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Real America's Voice, Salem Radio Network bringing in our three of the Charlie Kirk audience.
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Roger, when we look at the fact that we had the first American pope now and the media has
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been really playing at my comments where I said this is clearly a response to Trump.
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And I think that's probably the safest way to put it.
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That wasn't necessarily an argument one way or the other, but I think it's my analysis
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Perhaps it was the meme that made its way around the conclave that swung their votes towards
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But, you know, when it really comes down to this, I do think that the progressives, my
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concern is that the progressives will want to use this pope and the tweets that we've
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already seen being very critical of J.D. Vance, President Bukele in El Salvador and President
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Trump on the issue of deportation and illegal immigration to use this as potentially a wedge
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to break up the huge Catholic voting bloc that swung for President Trump, brought him
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And by the way, something that I'm sure Catholic convert J.D. Vance, our vice president, would
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want to use should he run, as I think is widely expected, for president himself in his own
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right, as President Trump is, well, is likely term limited to right now.
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So, Roger, how should the president manage his relations with the Holy See here?
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First of all, I think people need to see this in some historical perspective.
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It's important to recognize that working class ethnic Catholic votes are the bedrock of every
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When those Catholic voters vote for the Republican nominee, as they did for Nixon, as they did for
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The Pope is going to have a very hard time convincing working class Catholic voters in the United
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States that open borders are a good idea, that high taxes are a good idea, that profligate
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So I think, in all honesty, Catholics understand the difference between when the Pope speaks,
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if Catholic speaks to on matters of faith and church doctrine, and when the Pope expresses
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what are, in fact, really, in essence, political opinions.
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It is not going to change the views of, I think, a majority of non-progressive, working class,
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more conservative Catholics, because the Pope thinks that illegal immigration is a great idea.
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If I were the Pope, I'd be more concerned about what the president thinks than the president
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should be concerned about what the Pope thinks, in terms of the way it impacts American voters.
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Well, and this is a huge, huge point, because, as I've said before, the antagonism towards
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the president, which we saw, we clearly saw from Pope Francis.
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And, you know, I know there's a lot of Catholics out there who try to say, oh, Jack, you know,
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When I see political speech, I kind of do it for a living.
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And so he was obviously playing politics with President Trump.
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Now, certainly there are a number of other issues where he stood with Catholic orthodoxy,
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But, Roger, that really is the danger, then, because the media would love for the new president
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to get into this feud with the new pope when the two men, as far as I know, have never
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Yeah, but, Jack, the truth is I don't think Americans vote on the basis of religion, in
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And there are, for example, obviously there are some extremely liberal progressive Catholics,
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but beyond that, I honestly don't think that religious issues are what going to divide
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those voters who are pro-life are going to continue to support Donald Trump, for example.
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Beyond that, progressivism is going to be a very tough sell for this pope.
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And for people to think that the pope is viewed as a political figure in this country, he's not.
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If he had, then the huge incursions among Catholics that Trump made in the last two elections,
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the last three elections, really, would never have taken place.
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So, even with Pope Francis attacking the president, it did not impact the Catholic vote here in the United States in 2024.
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Because you cannot convince any voter, any sane voter, that having, you know, illegal immigrants,
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dangerous in some cases, actually members of gangs, is a good public policy idea.
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A quick break, and I'd love to hold you over on that.
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and these are the guys who should be getting Pulisic.
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Human events, daily, Washington, D.C., Real Marcus Voice, and the Salem Radio Network.
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We're on with veteran political strategist Roger Stone, and we're walking through some of the
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political angles vis-a-vis President Trump, J.D. Vance, a Catholic convert, who many believe may run for president in short order, by the way,
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and the appointment of the new pope, Pope Leo XIV.
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You know, Roger, when I also look on the question of illegal immigration, I think this is something where a lot of people get wrapped up in these ideas where they say, oh, it's, you know, it's, it's, people are just evil.
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And by the way, Catholic charities and Lutherans and there are Jewish organizations and many, many other organizations out there using the name, the good name, by the way, of religion to launder in money from the taxpayer that then goes into their pockets and then would go off to others to be able to get the spigot turned back on.
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That's something that a lot of people don't want to actually talk about, but is something that President Trump and our new Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, have absolutely been targeting.
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Roger, do you agree with my assessment that there's a financial element to all of this?
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I think the American people owe a great debt of gratitude to Elon Musk and his Doge operation for exposing this.
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So, yes, illegal immigration is a big multi-million, if not billion-dollar business.
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Now you add in the cartels and the role that they have played.
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Look, I think the president should meet with the new pope as soon as is feasible, should certainly invite him for a sit-down,
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and begin to perhaps explain to him the facts about illegal immigration and the great danger of these satanic, violent, criminal gangs.
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Instead of the pope persuading the president, perhaps the president can persuade the pope.
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These, of course, are not matters of the church.
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These are pastoral matters that Francis spoke out about.
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He seemed to have a very, very leftist political agenda.
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We agree he was good on some fundamental moral issues, like the entire gender agenda, for example.
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His views on gays, that gays could welcome the church, they could be blessed, hate the sin, not the sinner.
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But when he got into matters of American politics, like illegal immigration, for example,
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or a combination with the evil of Chinese communism, where, in all honesty, Pope Francis really let the Chinese communists dictate who could be a bishop and, I believe, a priest in China,
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I think he got outside of his appropriate area, in all honesty.
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Well, and Roger, there's other information, by the way, specifically, where the U.S., the Vatican just recently was seeking U.S. assistance,
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and people really need to hear about this just a couple years back, where there was the Vatican Bank scandal.
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And what was the Vatican Bank scandal directly associated with?
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It was real estate, it was money throughout Italy, and in some cases, there was even money, by the way, in Peru.
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Peru, which is exactly where the new Pope hails from, looking for a billion dollars for this financial scandal, where they want this to come in.
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And so, look, as a Catholic, of course, I pray for the Pope.
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I am certainly sure that all Catholics pray for the Pope, and I would encourage all Catholics to pray for the Pope.
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But, in fact, there was an organization, and I'm trying to pull their name up here, Catholic Herald has the—
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this was news just about a month ago when J.D. Vance visited the Vatican, and Cardinal Parolin was directly associated with it.
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financial crimes committed by a powerful Catholic entity called Soldatium Cristane Vitae, which was—SCV, which was based in Peru.
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And, in fact, there were huge allegations of financial scandals.
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So the question, of course, is, was this prevost was, you know, as a bishop, a very high-level bishop and cardinal out of Peru, the question is, was he associated with this?
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Clearly, there's a lot of questions going on here.
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The Vatican is not exactly as rich, or at least as cash-heavy, as a lot of people think.
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I think what you mean to ask, Jack, is, what did Pope Leo know, and when did he know it?
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But you went, but of course, Roger Stone will go there.
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Look, it also appears, just based on my own reading, that the Pope, the previous Pope and his advisors,
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made a number of bad investment decisions, which further weakened the financial standing of the church.
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Now, I think the church is rich, but I also think that they're very rich, but they may not be that liquid.
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I think there are a lot of real estate holdings, for example.
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And if they're looking for the United States to bail them out, well, they're looking in the wrong place,
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because these days we're putting America first.
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I don't know about you, Jack, but I'm not tired of winning yet.
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We have a trade deal with the Chinese, at least the framework of one.
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Scott Besson, I think, one of the president's very best appointees,
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perhaps the most brilliant secretary of the Treasury since Alexander Hamilton.
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We have a ceasefire brokered by the United States between India and Pakistan.
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We have a new deal to cut the price of prescription drugs,
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which I think is going to be extraordinarily popular with the American people.
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We have Robert F. Kennedy Jr. not only looking into geoengineering, also known as chemtrails,
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but moving aggressively to outlaw certain very dangerous additives in our food and the food that we're being sold.
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So the president is, he's making progress on all fronts,
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but he's doing so by putting America first instead of putting America last.
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If I, again, the Pope should be more concerned about where he stands with the president than the other way around.
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Well, Roger, when we see from the UK to China to now going to the Middle East,
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and certainly this highlights the role of Saudi Arabia and as a real broker in the world,
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as we shift the axis of the world clearly, and I think from anyone who's being honest,
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the geopolitical axis of the world is shifting from a unipolar world to a multipolar world.
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Certainly China is part of that, certainly India, Russia, Europe, the United States.
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The uniglobal moment, the unipolar moment is over.
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And Saudi Arabia, in just a work of fate and thanks to the power of the petrodollar,
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really is kind of the center of many of these poles.
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As well, by the way, many of them use their counterpart in the Gulf, Iran.
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And there's a reason that a world that runs off of oil would, of course, be so focused on these two powers.
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Roger, what do you expect out of President Trump's visit to Saudi Arabia?
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Well, first of all, I think he is resisting the war hawks in his own administration
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who are telling him that he needs to strike Iran.
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He and the vice president and his negotiators, including Marco Rubio, who I think is really doing a phenomenally good job,
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have signaled that we are prepared to talk to the Iranians about their having some nuclear program,
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but not one that includes weaponization, not one that includes the ability to create nuclear weapons.
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This is a step in the right direction for those who think that some kind of strike on Iran
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don't understand that the Iranians would immediately shut down the Strait of Hormuz,
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that you'd have an immediate spike in world fuel prices, including here in the United States.
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They're unrealistic about the implications of an immediate strike.
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We seem to be moving away from Israel in that regard.
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Well, Roger, and this is something where people need to understand that a lot of Middle East politics,
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and I've said this for so long, it's certainly something I gleaned during my time as an intelligence officer,
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a lot of the Middle East politics and the shifting geopolitical tectonic plates of that part of the world,
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which really is a place where all of these poles kind of come together,
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it can be boiled down to, you know, the sides that support Saudi and the Arab side
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and those who support Iran and the Shia side, so the Sunnis and the Shias.
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And it really does boil down to the Saudis versus the Persians.
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And, of course, this is a situation where President Trump, I think, rightly understands
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that rather than back one side in the war, the better goal for America and launch a new war,
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the better goal for America would be to seek a peace deal while maintaining the security and stability of the region.
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On the other hand, you have to, this could be a very tough negotiation with the Iranians.
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When we, unfortunately, unwisely, when Joe Biden ended the sanctions program
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and we handed over $190 billion to a rogue regime,
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For example, the cost of food right now in Iran is off the charts.
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They used it to finance and underwrite terrorism.
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Hamas, Hezbollah, making the attack on Israel on October 7th entirely possible.
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So these people, all they really have is their nuclear program.
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I mean, their nuclear weapons program, they're not going to give it up easily.
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I think they are playing for time, but they're with a master negotiator.
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As he's already demonstrated in the situation with Russia and Ukraine, he is, he does have infinite patience.
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But finally, it appears that he's going to get the Ukrainians and the Russians to the table.
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I give Steve Witkoff great credit in this regard.
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And perhaps he mentioned earlier today that while he's in the neighborhood at the same time period,
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We've got one more segment here on Human Events Daily.
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You're listening to Jack Posobiec, watching Real America's Voice and Salem Radio Network.
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And he's been my friend right from the beginning of this whole beautiful event.
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And we're going to turn it around and make our country great to get to him.
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I think a lot of MAGA people see that as something of a betrayal.
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He's actually at the Vatican right now covering this for some right-wing outlets.
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He's a very loud voice in conservative spheres.
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He's traveled with the defense secretary and other folks around President Trump.
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This is not the election that conservatives wanted.
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Will this pope continue to antagonize President Trump and J.D. Vance?
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And I honestly can't see this red in almost any other light.
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I think it's amazing that we have an American pope.
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We're on with veteran political strategist Roger Stone.
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Roger, one of the things that happened while I was away at the conclave
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was the switching out and appointment that happened here in Washington, D.C.
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Ed Martin rolled over to the DOJ weaponization task force
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and the appointment of Judge Jeanine, Jeanine Pirro.
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I don't know if that's a demotion judge to attorney,
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but she'll now be the U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C.
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all of this because of squishy, moderate Republican snakes in the United States Senate.
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The left, the deep state, they were apoplectic about the appointment of Ed Martin,
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Under Ed Martin as the U.S. attorney, just the interim U.S. attorney in D.C.,
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violent crime in the District of Columbia dropped 25 percent,
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His nomination was torpedoed by Senator Tom Tillis, the rhino from North Carolina.
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He's actually announced his candidacy for reelection.
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Just as a matter of historical precedent, it is absolutely essential that President Trump
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recruit and support a challenger to Tillis because he must show all the other Republican
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senators in the caucus that those who don't support the party leader, who don't support
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A source told me, Jack, that Senator Tillis actually told someone that in his opinion
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that he would vote for Ed Martin for any other Department of Justice position,
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but he could not vote for Martin to be the U.S. attorney for D.C.
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because he disagreed with Martin's decisions regarding the January 6th victims.
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Also was told that Tillis told someone that Ashley Babbitt deserved what she got, that
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That is unacceptable, and I frankly think Tillis must face a trial.
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I've known Judge Jeanine Pirro for well over 25 years.
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She was the Westchester County District Attorney.
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She really specialized or focused very specifically on crimes against children and
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domestic crimes, domestic violence, domestic battery.
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At this point in her career, she doesn't have to seek approval of anyone.
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I think this was an ingenious choice by the president to replace Ed Martin.
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And if they thought they were going to get a break, those in the deep state worried about
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the investigation of weaponization, the Russian collusion hoax, the Ukrainian collusion hoax,
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the truth about January 6th, I think they are sadly mistaken.
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Judge Pirro is going to be just as tough as Ed Martin would have been.
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And Martin now goes to a much broader mandate as both heading a task force inside the DOJ on
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political weaponization of our criminal justice system, but also as a pardon attorney, which
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Ed Martin, just someone who has always been absolutely out there.
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And he was the right hand man of Phyllis Schlafly for so many years.
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Someone who, by the way, I got to meet when I was an up and coming in, you know, conservative
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politics when I was still in college, along with David Horowitz and Ann Coulter and so many
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other Andrew Breitbart who around kind of in the mix at that time.
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And he's someone who clearly understands exactly what we're up against.
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And that, of course, is the reason so many of these people can't stand him.
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And I've already been getting hit up by reporters all weekend.
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Oh, well, if you support a, you know, a primary to Tom Tillis, are you going to get someone
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Are you going to get this or John Cornyn over in Texas?
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No, I think what we're going to get is a real Republican, someone that the people actually
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Roger, where can people go to find you and get more of your work?
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Eastern, we're at WABCRadio.com, WABCRadio.com, where we do an hour on politics in the Stone
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So check us out in either one of those two places.
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Fortunately, my feet are back home here in the United States of America.
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Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay a short.