The Glenn Beck Program - Ep 279 ｜ We're ALREADY in WWIII with Islamists & Trump Knows It ｜ The Glenn Beck Podcast

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00:01:08.580 Espionage is the second oldest business after prostitution.

00:01:11.100 Yeah.

00:01:11.440 Inhumanity.

00:01:12.240 You know, Jimmy Carter is the one who gave us the term first responder.

00:01:15.640 Right.

00:01:16.040 The first responder before Jimmy Carter's time was you.

00:01:18.740 Wow, are you lucky to be alive?

00:01:20.320 I live every single day like it's September 12th.

00:01:22.480 And if you look at things like Trendy or Agua, we go, oh, my God, how did this happen?

00:01:26.120 And you look at the tactics at their training camps and you look at, I don't know, the Al-Qaeda

00:01:30.800 training camps or the Hezbollah training camps.

00:01:32.700 It's funny.

00:01:33.440 Even the monkey bars are the same.

00:01:39.820 Brian, welcome.

00:01:41.120 Thanks for having me.

00:01:41.760 I appreciate it.

00:01:42.400 Oh, yeah.

00:01:42.700 It's great to have you.

00:01:43.500 Great to have you.

00:01:43.900 I think people started to know who you were because of Venezuela and what you did.

00:01:49.740 And I'm going to get into that here in a bit.

00:01:52.960 But I kind of want to give I want to find out a little bit about you.

00:01:57.180 Sure.

00:01:57.860 Forehand.

00:01:58.440 You had a couple of pivot points and I want to hit those pivot points.

00:02:01.680 But how did you start?

00:02:04.380 Tell me where you were.

00:02:05.100 2000.

00:02:06.540 2000.

00:02:07.640 I was in Tampa.

00:02:08.440 My government time was done.

00:02:11.780 2000.

00:02:12.700 Oh, 2000.

00:02:13.640 I was in working.

00:02:16.040 I was in the army in 2000.

00:02:17.420 In 2000.

00:02:17.900 Yeah.

00:02:18.440 Where were you?

00:02:19.280 That's like 100 years ago.

00:02:19.520 That's like 100 years ago.

00:02:20.300 Yeah, I know.

00:02:20.320 Done it, right?

00:02:20.800 Yeah.

00:02:21.500 Where were you?

00:02:22.840 I was working in northern Virginia.

00:02:24.700 Working in northern Virginia.

00:02:26.240 I had gotten recruited into army intelligence as a kid.

00:02:28.960 I started off in the infantry and then got picked up in army intelligence, specifically

00:02:32.220 counterintelligence, which no one really likes CI guys.

00:02:36.440 No one likes us.

00:02:37.460 No one likes us.

00:02:39.840 And it's not like they're becoming more popular.

00:02:42.700 You know, it's across.

00:02:44.560 Counterintelligence is awesome.

00:02:46.180 There are different flavors of CI guys.

00:02:48.540 There are good ones and there are bad ones for sure.

00:02:50.940 So our bad reputation can be earned.

00:02:54.480 But I always gravitated towards weird things.

00:02:58.800 And those weird things are nobody else wanted to do them like that.

00:03:04.200 Like what?

00:03:04.560 What are weird?

00:03:05.200 In 2004, as an example, a little bit later, I was working underground facilities, right?

00:03:12.900 And hardened, deeply buried targets, which in the middle of the global war on terrorism

00:03:16.920 was not popular, right?

00:03:19.160 If you're not going after, you know, Ishkin, a bibble, whoever, in some mud hut somewhere 1.00

00:03:23.460 in Afghanistan, you're a second class citizen. 0.94

00:03:26.020 Really?

00:03:26.500 I would think that because I mean, I just think of all of the hard net, the things that had

00:03:30.680 to be hardened after 9-11.

00:03:32.580 Yeah, this is, I was looking at bad guy, hardened, deeply buried targets.

00:03:37.440 So like, I don't know, small things like, you know, nuke sites in Iran, which became

00:03:41.300 a little popular this year, right?

00:03:43.400 So in fact, the lead, one of the lead analysts for the B2 strike that happened in Iran, that

00:03:50.740 guy, I actually happen to know from way back when.

00:03:52.920 That's all he's looked at.

00:03:54.060 But there's a man and a woman, both of them, this is all, those facilities are all they've

00:03:59.780 done.

00:04:00.600 I knew them in 2004, so 20 years.

00:04:04.780 So I mean, a lot of people, when we bombed, when we bombed that facility, everybody was 0.94

00:04:09.660 like, wow, how did we do it?

00:04:10.720 And it's like, we designed bombs long ago.

00:04:15.080 Specifically.

00:04:15.740 For that.

00:04:16.380 So specifically for those facilities.

00:04:18.720 I mean, we've been talking about doing that for 25 years.

00:04:22.100 Forever.

00:04:22.600 Yeah, forever.

00:04:24.060 You know, when you, when you hear about military operations on TV, I don't care which one, the

00:04:29.700 raid on Osama bin Laden, just recently, Nicolas Maduro, any of these real big precision, you

00:04:37.560 know, audacious, epic things that seem to go off without a hitch.

00:04:41.880 The reality is, is that's usually the intelligence community succeeding so that, so that operators

00:04:48.040 can execute.

00:04:49.380 Right.

00:04:50.060 Somebody said to me about the Nicolas Maduro, and I want to get into that again.

00:04:53.380 I really want to go back, but there's so much to talk about.

00:04:57.300 The Nicolas Maduro, somebody said to me this week that, did you know that the CIA, that

00:05:02.140 was all planned out?

00:05:03.160 And I'm like, that's their job.

00:05:05.480 Their job.

00:05:06.300 I'm sure, and correct me if I'm wrong, I'm sure for every bad guy on earth, somebody has

00:05:12.900 put together a plan of what do we have to do to stop or get that bad guy, should the president

00:05:19.060 say, get that bad guy?

00:05:20.520 Yeah.

00:05:20.680 Isn't that their job?

00:05:21.220 Isn't that your job?

00:05:22.140 At least theoretically.

00:05:23.400 Right, right, right.

00:05:24.040 You know, they're at least thinking about it.

00:05:26.060 Correct.

00:05:26.140 So they may not have a plan per se, but they'll, they'll understand.

00:05:29.240 But then, but somebody who's a large target, I would imagine, because the president could

00:05:32.900 say, we got to go, get me the plan.

00:05:36.040 If, you know, at the very least, it's these, these things are listed as a thing that we

00:05:42.220 need to pay attention to in the intelligence community and start to work to answer questions,

00:05:46.160 which is what the intelligence community is all about.

00:05:47.700 Right.

00:05:47.960 The intelligence community is all, it's very simple, is to get answers.

00:05:50.460 Do you think the intelligence community can be trusted?

00:05:54.600 The CIA and all of this stuff?

00:05:56.420 I think, I think the entire national security apparatus today in 2026 is suffering from a

00:06:01.520 big credibility problem.

00:06:02.920 And that's very sad.

00:06:04.660 Justified?

00:06:05.520 I think justified in a lot of ways and not justified in a lot of ways.

00:06:09.420 There's, there are tremendous patriots who are working as we are talking right now,

00:06:15.100 who are in horrible places trying to stay alive.

00:06:18.160 Isn't that the difference though?

00:06:19.300 It's like, you know, I learned this after the fall of the Soviet Union.

00:06:23.300 We all thought every Russian was a bad guy. 1.00

00:06:25.620 Sure.

00:06:26.000 And then the wall fell down and we're all like, no, they're just like us.

00:06:29.760 It's the leadership.

00:06:31.080 Sometimes it's bad.

00:06:32.220 It's the big guys that are bad.

00:06:33.900 They're doing all kinds of bad stuff.

00:06:36.120 The everyday guy is usually pretty good.

00:06:38.880 You know, we have this agreeable rescue, right?

00:06:41.100 People think, people think that we have this like adversarial relationship with the government.

00:06:46.200 Yeah.

00:06:46.420 Right.

00:06:46.580 Because we work and we do things that ostensibly they should do or could do.

00:06:50.340 Right.

00:06:50.540 Right.

00:06:50.740 That's true for every operation that we've done.

00:06:52.700 We're doing our 801st mission tomorrow.

00:06:55.880 It was supposed to be yesterday and we slid it to tomorrow.

00:06:59.660 Maria Carina Machado, Operation Golden Dynamite was our 800th mission.

00:07:03.160 The government could have done, Maria.

00:07:07.280 My entire, my operating budget is a rounding error for paperclips for a week at the Pentagon.

00:07:13.900 Right.

00:07:14.040 You know what I mean?

00:07:14.600 Right.

00:07:15.020 But I don't think they should have done it.

00:07:17.620 Well, I think there's some debate.

00:07:19.360 We've extracted, the U.S. government has extracted world leaders and opposition leaders before.

00:07:24.540 We extracted the Shah of Iran in 1979. 0.98

00:07:26.280 We had a plan for Karzai. 1.00

00:07:28.200 We had a plan for Dostum, for Governor Atta, for all the big warlords in Afghanistan. 0.97

00:07:31.760 All those guys had extraction plans.

00:07:34.060 Key assets that we have, sources and assets that we have overseas.

00:07:37.420 We have a whole procedure for what to do if they get caught, if they get burned.

00:07:42.520 I, as an intelligence officer, if I'm operating overseas and I'm on the run, I have a plan

00:07:47.020 for me, too, that people come and help me out and do all kinds of mousetrappy type things.

00:07:51.800 So, you know, it becomes a policy decision, should we or should we not.

00:07:55.620 But they could have.

00:07:57.600 They could have.

00:07:58.120 They could have.

00:07:59.900 For our operations in Afghanistan, we've rescued hundreds and hundreds of American citizens.

00:08:07.340 Blue passport holding American citizens.

00:08:09.860 Oh, I know.

00:08:10.960 Left behind after the withdrawal.

00:08:12.280 Oh, I know.

00:08:13.140 I love interpreters.

00:08:14.180 I love commandos.

00:08:14.960 I love judges.

00:08:15.660 I did hundreds and hundreds of those, too.

00:08:17.380 Yeah.

00:08:17.540 Hundreds of them.

00:08:18.140 Thousands of those.

00:08:18.840 I know.

00:08:19.080 No problem.

00:08:19.900 But if your passport looks like my passport, historically, the government comes.

00:08:26.440 You know, the problem was there.

00:08:29.400 I mean, besides the entire thing, State Department ran that.

00:08:34.180 Sure.

00:08:34.620 That's not the State Department.

00:08:35.920 The State Department's job is to go get the blue book passport guys.

00:08:39.360 Correct.

00:08:39.780 You go get those guys.

00:08:41.140 Yep.

00:08:41.300 But they were running all of it.

00:08:44.020 All of it.

00:08:44.480 And it's a mess.

00:08:45.260 So, you know, so when we say we talk about the intelligence community, is it justified

00:08:52.220 that they have a bad rap?

00:08:54.160 A lot of it is leadership.

00:08:55.960 A lot of it is bad leadership.

00:08:58.080 Internal bad leadership.

00:08:59.200 We have counterintelligence problems within the government that are, at least in recorded history, that we've never seen before, meaning bad guys, you know, good guys working for the bad guys on unprecedented levels with no way to find it or fix it.

00:09:13.520 That's always been espionage.

00:09:15.520 That's always been espionage is the second oldest business after prostitution in humanity.

00:09:19.760 As long as there's been a secret to keep, there's been someone that wants it.

00:09:22.360 That's why it's called a secret.

00:09:23.240 But, you know, we're messy right now.

00:09:28.320 That said, that said, I wouldn't want to make us angry.

00:09:32.100 The full weight of the intelligence community bearing down on you, no different than the FBI.

00:09:37.200 The FBI is a mess.

00:09:38.340 I wonder if the intelligence community isn't so big, so out of control.

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00:09:51.960 Not only do I know him, I know he's clean because you've had every intelligence agency in the world wanting to take him down and not being able to find him.

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00:10:06.520 Exactly right.

00:10:07.440 Exactly right.

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00:10:22.440 Right.

00:10:22.820 And it's remarkable how similar we're all from the same neighborhood.

00:10:26.540 And it's remarkable how similar we are in a lot of in a lot of ways, you know, sticks and stones and all that.

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00:12:23.200 Let me take you back now.

00:12:24.460 Sure, sorry.

00:12:25.040 To your first pivot point.

00:12:26.900 The reason why I started at 2000 is because, from what I understand, your first pivot point

00:12:32.000 was 9-11.

00:12:32.780 And you were there.

00:12:34.020 Yeah.

00:12:34.360 I was right at, I was coming out of work, coming out, I was at E4 in the Army, which is

00:12:40.100 a nice way of saying I was like belly button lint.

00:12:42.860 I had, there are coffee cups that had more power and decision making than I did.

00:12:48.520 I was nothing.

00:12:49.340 I was absolutely nothing.

00:12:50.800 I was young.

00:12:51.480 I was pretty stupid, frankly.

00:12:54.740 We take for granted now that everyone's got 15 deployments to Afghanistan and have all

00:12:58.640 this experience.

00:12:59.480 Back then, no one knew nothing.

00:13:00.860 Back then, if you went to Bosnia, you were a ninja. 1.00

00:13:03.440 You were a ninja.

00:13:04.320 If the Army sent you to a place and you got onto an airplane and you went someplace, it

00:13:10.520 was an extremely big deal.

00:13:12.260 You know, when I was in infantry school, if you had a drill sergeant that had a combat

00:13:15.820 patch, it was such a prestigious badge of honor that your drill sergeant actually did

00:13:22.180 something because most of them had never done anything.

00:13:25.540 Now it's hard to find those who haven't, I'm sure.

00:13:28.600 Well, now they're metering, you know, they're petering out.

00:13:30.420 Now we're getting back to that cycle again where the, you know, but yeah, I was on my

00:13:34.540 way to work.

00:13:35.380 Tower one was already hit.

00:13:36.600 Tower two would get hit.

00:13:38.280 When tower two got hit, I was kind of standing at the base of it.

00:13:42.200 I was on the opposite side of where the plane hit.

00:13:44.460 So I was at like the exit hole, if you will, right at the base of tower two.

00:13:48.080 And then all this stuff from, from right at the corner, all this stuff from the, from

00:13:52.820 the plane fell on top of the plaza.

00:13:54.780 And that's kind of where I was standing.

00:13:55.900 And then I was in both, they fell in reverse order.

00:13:58.660 Most people don't know that the tower one got hit, then tower two, but tower two fell

00:14:02.560 first, which was a bad news for me because I was right at the base of tower two.

00:14:07.300 So when it started to collapse, yeah, I was in bulk.

00:14:10.780 Wow.

00:14:11.220 Are you lucky to be alive?

00:14:12.580 I live every single day, like it's September 12th, every single day.

00:14:15.460 9-11 is a, uh, every, every day since 9-11, I'm on gravy time.

00:14:19.960 Lots of people, uh, didn't make it out.

00:14:22.540 Um, lots of people, uh, lots of my friends have died of cancer from 9-11 related, uh,

00:14:26.740 illness.

00:14:27.340 What I think saved me was that I was very young.

00:14:29.280 I was young.

00:14:30.280 And, um, I think if I was in my thirties or forties, I probably, uh, just, uh, biologically

00:14:36.100 you're more susceptible to stuff.

00:14:37.960 What do you say to people who say that wasn't a plane, that plane never went into the tower.

00:14:41.560 That was, what do you say about it?

00:14:42.880 I, I, I meet stupid people every day.

00:14:44.760 I, I, you know, I, uh, I have an uncle, I have an uncle who swears that he invented

00:14:48.000 aluminum foil and it's just sadly not true.

00:14:51.380 I really wish it were true.

00:14:53.240 I really wish it were true, but, uh, sadly, uh, sadly, um, lots of people believe different

00:15:00.460 things.

00:15:00.820 Lots of people have a hard time believing different things.

00:15:02.960 Um, um, and, um, but I, I, I heard it and I, when the plane hit, um, 9-11 is one of those

00:15:12.080 experiences that you really can't understand it until, unless you were there, you really

00:15:16.740 can't.

00:15:17.100 I've said documentaries and movies and all kinds of stuff do, do great justice to it.

00:15:20.760 They do.

00:15:21.580 But it's, you know what it's like, it's a childbirth.

00:15:23.580 I could watch a woman have a baby. 1.00

00:15:26.060 I can understand how it works.

00:15:28.120 I can understand pregnancy.

00:15:29.380 I can understand all those things, but the reality is I really don't get it until I give

00:15:33.620 birth to a kid, until I have a baby grow on my belly and pop it out and do all the thing 0.96

00:15:38.060 and go through all that stuff.

00:15:39.080 I really don't, I can get real close probably, but I actually don't fundamentally get it.

00:15:44.800 9-11 is just like that.

00:15:46.640 It's, you can talk about it.

00:15:48.180 We can, I can, I can explain it.

00:15:50.080 I can use big colorful words.

00:15:51.940 But until a man has peed an apple.

00:15:53.900 Like, yeah.

00:15:55.040 Yeah.

00:15:55.320 You don't know what it is.

00:15:56.700 Yeah.

00:15:56.960 Yeah.

00:15:57.160 You know, it's like that when, when, when the second plane hit, I felt the, um, uh,

00:16:02.040 the explosion was so big.

00:16:03.700 I didn't, I didn't see it, but we heard it.

00:16:06.220 We heard the plane, um, we heard the engines and I didn't know what it was.

00:16:10.380 There was a lady that yelled, oh my God, there's another one. 1.00

00:16:13.560 And all of us that were where I was kind of standing, we all looked up as you would.

00:16:19.760 And the tower was in the way of my field of view.

00:16:22.740 So I was looking all the wrong directions because in front of me where the plane was coming from,

00:16:26.620 um, was the giant, it was tower two.

00:16:29.500 So I was, you know, doing one of these looking around, looking around.

00:16:32.660 I don't know in retrospect what I was looking for exactly other than, uh, it just kind of

00:16:38.160 instinctual.

00:16:38.860 Yeah.

00:16:39.440 So when the plane hit, um, it was obviously extremely loud and we kind of heard it and

00:16:45.580 then we heard the bang and heard the explosion.

00:16:47.000 But the thing that always, um, um, that people don't understand is the fireball on the other

00:16:52.220 side was so big.

00:16:53.060 I felt it on my face on the street.

00:16:56.280 Wow.

00:16:56.640 It was that hot.

00:16:57.860 70 stories, 70, 80 stories up.

00:16:59.820 So it was, um, uh, just for perspective, you know, and it was one of those, like I squinted,

00:17:04.780 it was, it was the heat.

00:17:06.580 It was like opening up a barbecue after the lid had been down.

00:17:09.040 Just that the, the heat was just extreme.

00:17:11.280 Cause all jet fuel.

00:17:12.760 Did you have any idea at the time?

00:17:16.680 Cause I, I remember watching it on TV.

00:17:18.700 I stood there and the first one, I remember Katie Couric said, uh, it looks like a small

00:17:24.240 plane has hit the, has hit the, uh, the tower, uh, a tower in the world trade center.

00:17:28.440 And I turn on TV and I'm like, that's not a small, not a small plane.

00:17:31.740 Uh, and then the second one hit and I knew instantly.

00:17:35.140 Sure.

00:17:35.520 We're at war.

00:17:35.940 We're at war.

00:17:36.300 Yep.

00:17:36.460 Um, and, but I, I, I remember I immediately got in the car, drove to the radio station,

00:17:42.120 but at that time, then I had no idea they would collapse.

00:17:48.560 That didn't even occur to me.

00:17:50.120 Yeah.

00:17:50.400 I didn't think about it either.

00:17:51.620 Um, I was also very young and stupid, but, um, I wasn't so young, but I was stupid too.

00:17:57.100 I, I, it never, uh, I don't think it occurred to, I don't think it occurred to anybody that

00:18:01.420 they would collapse.

00:18:02.060 And, um, certainly if I think about it, if I try and say, well, if I put myself all

00:18:08.640 the way back then and say, well, what would I, what would I have thought?

00:18:11.280 I would have thought that tower one would have fallen for, I just would have instinctually

00:18:14.580 thought they would have gone in order.

00:18:16.540 Right.

00:18:16.860 Cause they're burning for longer and all that stuff.

00:18:19.380 But, um, but, uh, yeah, it was a, uh, it's, I was supposed to call in sick that day.

00:18:24.540 It was a Tuesday.

00:18:25.220 I was supposed to call in sick for work, but I was, uh, I had a meeting that I couldn't miss

00:18:28.900 and as a young kid, you know, can't miss a meeting, you know, you can't be late, God

00:18:31.800 forbid.

00:18:32.500 So, uh, um, uh, uh, rode the train into work and, uh, I've been at war pretty much ever

00:18:36.840 since one way or the other.

00:18:38.800 Was this a pivot point because you survived or was it a pivot point because it changed

00:18:44.160 your life and set your life?

00:18:46.180 All the above.

00:18:46.980 Um, I was, uh, you know, I'm a New Yorker.

00:18:49.000 I'm from Queens and, um, you know, if, you know, 9-11 touches New Yorkers in particular,

00:18:56.140 um, in ways that, again, most people don't really get, you know, when you, when you're

00:18:59.980 in New York and you come out of the train, but when I was a kid, you come out of the

00:19:02.260 train and you come up and you're on the street.

00:19:04.360 What I would do is you find the Empire State Building and the Twin Towers as landmarks.

00:19:08.660 And now I know that way's North and that way South.

00:19:10.380 And now I know that way, you know, now I know where I am.

00:19:12.220 I'm oriented, right?

00:19:13.980 The skyline changed.

00:19:15.780 The skyline changed.

00:19:16.860 And to not see the Twin Towers that have just been, you know, it's, it's like losing an

00:19:22.320 arm.

00:19:22.680 It's just, it's, it's always been there.

00:19:24.240 It's always been there.

00:19:25.080 So sure you can live without it and sure you can adjust and, and people do of course and

00:19:28.580 have, and all those other good things, but you know, it's a, it's a scar.

00:19:32.060 So when 9-11 happened, um, you know, I wanted my pound of flesh, right?

00:19:37.240 That's a big part of it, right?

00:19:38.380 Who did this?

00:19:38.940 Let's go find them, hunt them and kill them.

00:19:41.020 Um, let's go find their friends and kill them too, you know?

00:19:43.720 And let's, uh, be strategic in our communication to remind everyone, don't do this, you know,

00:19:49.000 and that we'll, that we're angry.

00:19:50.320 Where'd we go wrong on that?

00:19:52.380 Um, lots of ways.

00:19:53.500 I think, I think after, uh, after Tora Bora, you know, Tora Bora during the, during, you know,

00:19:57.940 during the war in Afghanistan, Tora Bora was a fundamental, um, you know, mistake.

00:20:02.440 We could have killed bin Laden and ended the war 20, 20 years earlier. 0.76

00:20:06.020 Um, my really good friend, Gary Bernstein, uh, wrote, uh, one of my best friends in the

00:20:10.600 world.

00:20:10.880 He's a lunatic.

00:20:11.840 Uh, uh, he, I like, he get a bad rap sometimes.

00:20:15.680 Um, but, uh, he led the drawbreaker teams in Afghanistan and he was the, he was one of the

00:20:20.540 last people to see bin Laden alive running into Pakistan.

00:20:23.740 And it was the military that didn't believe him as an intelligence officer and the beef

00:20:27.560 between Don Rumsfeld and George Tenet and Kofor Black and all this nonsense between DOD

00:20:32.180 and CIA and the intelligence community and all the spooks and all the opera, you know,

00:20:35.760 all the guys with guns and all the guys with brains and brains versus brawn and all this

00:20:39.360 other good stuff could have ended right then and there.

00:20:43.540 Imagine if we would have killed bin Laden in, in, in 2001, then, then the, then the withdrawal

00:20:49.180 would never would have happened because we never would have wanted to know.

00:20:53.680 Completely different.

00:20:54.460 Yeah.

00:20:54.820 Dude.

00:20:55.220 I have a friend who, uh, was very high up in Intel and he said to me, Glenn, historically

00:21:01.740 all wars are miscalculations.

00:21:04.440 Sure.

00:21:05.020 Somebody has miscalculated one way or another.

00:21:08.100 Clausewitz will, uh, Clausewitz will say that war is just an extension of politics.

00:21:12.180 And there's a lot of truth to that too.

00:21:13.840 You know, it, um, mistakes happen in war.

00:21:17.160 Sure.

00:21:18.300 And you always could, uh, hindsight is always 2020.

00:21:21.340 That's how it goes.

00:21:22.300 Um, you know, as Grable Rescue, we're about to do our 801st operation, right?

00:21:28.000 We were supposed to go yesterday.

00:21:29.180 Now we're going tomorrow and why, because as Grable, we've never successfully started

00:21:34.060 or completed our plan.

00:21:35.420 A never happened.

00:21:37.920 800 missions later, all over the place, jailbreaks from Russia, hostages, Afghanistan, Haiti, Ukraine,

00:21:43.880 all kinds of crazy stuff in Gaza, uh, Israel, all these crazy Lebanon, Syria, you know, real 0.98

00:21:49.200 crazy epic, you know, made for TV action movie stuff, you know, getting chased by bad guys

00:21:55.880 and taking missiles and those other good things where we go and rescue Americans and we're

00:21:59.080 doing our bit.

00:22:00.560 I've never 800 missions.

00:22:02.080 It's a lot in four years, four and a half years.

00:22:04.660 That's a lot of work.

00:22:06.780 Never have we ever said, all right, today's Tuesday, we're going to leave at 9 a.m.

00:22:11.020 And then we're going to do this and do this and do this and be back by Thursday at 2 p.m.

00:22:14.820 And it's going to go smooth as silk and it's going to be great.

00:22:17.140 And we're going to do high fives and, you know, no Instagram picture left behind and

00:22:20.620 all the things.

00:22:21.180 We've never actually successfully completed a plan A 800 missions later as a nonprofit.

00:22:28.100 Tell me about Grable.

00:22:29.140 Why is it named Grable?

00:22:30.780 Grable, uh, Grable, uh, Grable, uh, people ask, somebody asked me a long time ago, where

00:22:35.880 do you work?

00:22:36.320 Because you're not quite government because we're not, we don't get a thank you note from the

00:22:39.660 government, let alone a dollar.

00:22:41.000 So, you know.

00:22:41.840 You don't want to know, uh, well, give me the dollars without the strings.

00:22:45.440 How about that?

00:22:46.640 How about that?

00:22:47.240 Doesn't exist.

00:22:48.060 How about that?

00:22:48.700 Right.

00:22:49.160 Um, a thank you note would be nice.

00:22:50.900 Uh, we've never had anyone in the executive branch of government even acknowledge our existence,

00:22:55.700 which is really annoying because, uh, we broke this kid out of jail from Russia.

00:23:00.800 Uh, he was, he was the, he's the first American victim of war crimes alive since World War II.

00:23:05.300 Okay.

00:23:05.580 Captured by the Russians.

00:23:06.480 He's from Detroit.

00:23:07.720 Captured by the Russians.

00:23:08.680 Tortured for 37 days.

00:23:09.940 The whole nine yards.

00:23:10.740 We bust this kid out of captivity from the FSB and the GRU.

00:23:14.880 First in history.

00:23:17.000 Hold on.

00:23:17.700 But wait this more.

00:23:18.920 How have I not heard of this?

00:23:20.020 Well, we collect a huge amount of intelligence and turn that over to the FBI.

00:23:25.140 They then take this data and this becomes the first indictment of war crime, for war crimes

00:23:30.660 against an American in United States history.

00:23:33.700 The Attorney General, Attorney General Garland and Director of the FBI, Ray, did a 90 minute

00:23:38.480 press conference that remains on the FBI website as we speak about our case and about this kid.

00:23:43.740 And they don't even mention our names.

00:23:46.120 Now, all these FBI guys, and I'm friends with the FBI, all these FBI guys get promotions and

00:23:51.340 getting awards and medals.

00:23:52.920 Meanwhile, all they did was take our stuff.

00:23:56.760 We did the operation.

00:23:57.800 We did the whole nine yards.

00:23:59.460 And the least they could have done is say, hey, Brian and your team, really appreciate

00:24:03.260 it, man.

00:24:03.820 Like you went 200 and something miles into enemy territory and took an American that they 0.51

00:24:08.460 were torturing.

00:24:09.920 Thank you.

00:24:11.260 Right.

00:24:11.620 And that's never happened before.

00:24:15.020 Yeah.

00:24:15.280 It's never happened before.

00:24:16.300 800 missions later, maybe one day they'll pay attention.

00:24:19.100 You know, I don't know.

00:24:20.140 It won't be tomorrow.

00:24:21.000 I know that's not why you do it, but I can see why you'd be frustrated.

00:24:24.820 Well, it's frustrating because we love what we do.

00:24:28.300 My whole team are volunteers.

00:24:30.180 I'm not paid.

00:24:31.340 I'm a volunteer myself.

00:24:32.140 I'm the boss.

00:24:32.760 I'm the chairman of the board.

00:24:34.180 I'm the CEO.

00:24:34.820 I'm the lead buyer washer to my whole team are volunteers.

00:24:38.540 We love what we do.

00:24:39.740 It's what we're good at.

00:24:40.840 We're very good at this.

00:24:41.880 We love it.

00:24:42.580 We have a great time doing it.

00:24:43.560 Every time we get a call to go do something, we get really excited.

00:24:46.840 We're really passionate.

00:24:47.820 You know, we're like a volunteer fire department.

00:24:49.740 You know, it's like, you know, volunteer fire department guys are like insurance adjusters

00:24:54.560 by day, hoping their beepers go off to put their stuff on.

00:24:57.780 You know, you don't hope for fire.

00:24:59.000 You want fire.

00:24:59.680 But it's exciting when it happens.

00:25:01.140 Yeah.

00:25:01.360 Right.

00:25:01.540 You're really proud to be a volunteer fireman.

00:25:03.580 That's very much like us.

00:25:04.560 Um, um, but it would, it would be nice just for morale purposes.

00:25:10.340 If, you know, um, you know, uh, you know, um, we've done things that, um, that president

00:25:16.380 Biden and president Trump have talked about on TV.

00:25:18.720 What was the, what is the, what's the most harrowing thing and maybe you didn't see it

00:25:24.520 or you saw it coming and you knew this was going to be a nightmare, but when you're in

00:25:27.620 it, it was something that's movie like that you, that we, we, we've done a few ops that

00:25:34.100 are, you know, well, we've done many ops, um, that were scary.

00:25:38.720 Most of them are, but there have been a few where when we got done, I was like, I can't

00:25:42.720 believe we survived.

00:25:43.540 I can't believe this worked.

00:25:44.540 I can't believe we're here.

00:25:45.440 We took 32 hypersonic missiles from Iran before lunch in one day in Israel, 32, these things

00:25:54.640 are the size of school buses and iron dome does not work against them.

00:25:58.360 So, you know, can you say how you did that?

00:26:01.800 We just survived luck, divine intervention.

00:26:04.280 God loves us.

00:26:05.160 Uh, we rescued a 2000 Americans that were trapped state department rescued zero, uh, ambassador

00:26:11.980 Huckabee, who's a rock star, huge.

00:26:14.280 He's amazing.

00:26:15.000 I'm a big fan of ambassador Huckabee proudly and smartly did not evacuate the embassy.

00:26:20.920 Thank God.

00:26:21.740 Because under the last administration, they would, uh, you know, somebody stubs their toe

00:26:25.840 and everybody evacuates.

00:26:27.040 That's what happens.

00:26:28.060 Sudan, Haiti, Afghanistan, Ukraine, right?

00:26:32.080 Uh, the, the U S embassy in Ukraine was evacuated like a month before the first shots were even

00:26:36.860 fired.

00:26:37.260 Um, like nothing happened yet.

00:26:40.600 So, you know, a big props to, to bachelor Huckabee for not leaving.

00:26:44.500 But at the end of the day, 2000 Americans called it's their government for help saying we are

00:26:49.620 stuck help.

00:26:51.140 And they directed them to us.

00:26:55.160 Now that's fine.

00:26:56.180 That's what we're there for.

00:26:57.040 We love doing it.

00:26:57.780 But I also think that it's a little nuts that we did that proudly, happily, no, no, not,

00:27:05.700 not complaining, but it is odd that there's nothing, cause there's nothing that I do that

00:27:10.460 they can't do.

00:27:11.520 I can charter an airplane.

00:27:12.560 They could charter an airplane.

00:27:13.300 In fact, we have this small thing.

00:27:14.560 Maybe you've heard of it called the air force.

00:27:16.960 I have these things called airplanes.

00:27:19.040 I know.

00:27:20.060 When we were in Afghanistan, you know, we raised millions of dollars to rescue people.

00:27:24.880 And then we went to people like you and said, can you help?

00:27:28.380 You know, and we provided the planes, uh, and provided, you know, we, we, one of our guys

00:27:34.540 was actually running the airport at the time.

00:27:37.020 Uh, and, uh, we've never heard, we've heard thank yous from people.

00:27:42.800 People was saved.

00:27:43.760 We've heard thank you from, from organizations like yours that, Hey, thanks.

00:27:47.400 And we're like, yes, thank you for actually doing the work.

00:27:50.740 Government.

00:27:51.780 Nothing.

00:27:52.040 Not a word.

00:27:52.560 Nothing.

00:27:53.000 Not a word.

00:27:53.560 So, you know, I think, you know, um, it is odd to me as a nonprofit, we love to say thank

00:28:01.140 you to our sponsors, to our donors.

00:28:02.820 Right.

00:28:03.660 Um, uh, you know, uh, uh, Ray Rombowski from spray tech, one of our, it was on our board.

00:28:08.140 One of our big guys, Andy Wilson from UDC, uh, Andy Wilson from a quiet professionals, Matt

00:28:12.620 Herring, UDC USA, a couple of, uh, Mac Murphy from Murphy Auto Group.

00:28:15.960 We have a, we have a core group of just patriotic Americans who help us, right?

00:28:22.060 Some other nonprofits.

00:28:22.920 We love to say thank you, love to say thank you.

00:28:26.740 It's odd that that is a one way street as it relates to the government.

00:28:31.660 Recognizing that, you know, what do you think would happen if a team of American special

00:28:35.940 forces guys or Navy SEALs went 300 miles, 400 miles into enemy territory and rescued

00:28:41.200 an American being tortured?

00:28:42.320 What kind of medals do you think they would get?

00:28:44.240 We'd have a parade, right?

00:28:45.780 We'd have a parade, right?

00:28:47.140 Uh, they, you know, uh, Fort Bragg just did, I just did Maduro, right?

00:28:50.860 And just an epic operation, epic, 150 aircraft and all the things and they cut through the

00:28:56.180 door.

00:28:56.460 I mean, just truly epic operation.

00:28:58.160 Epic, epic, amazing.

00:28:59.980 Thank you, Donald Trump.

00:29:01.280 Yes.

00:29:01.640 Welcome to the war. 0.85

00:29:02.800 Yes.

00:29:03.080 Welcome.

00:29:03.580 Yes.

00:29:03.860 What we, as a guy who's been working in Venezuela and cartels for most of my adult life, thank 0.85

00:29:09.040 you for, for getting this piece of crap off the street. 0.60

00:29:12.260 I don't care about the politics.

00:29:13.320 I don't care about the legality.

00:29:14.540 Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

00:29:15.960 I'm so happy they didn't shoot him and they had a perp walk him.

00:29:18.980 I think it's humiliating.

00:29:19.880 I think it's great.

00:29:21.520 But at the end of the day, we are lauding our heroes appropriately.

00:29:26.100 So what kind of medals do you think they're going to, all the dudes that broke down the

00:29:29.540 door and cut Maduro out and, you know, rolled them up and all the things and all those dudes

00:29:33.500 appropriately are going to be showered with every medal that there is and their careers

00:29:38.480 are set.

00:29:40.220 I'm still in the reserves.

00:29:42.360 People don't know.

00:29:43.160 We don't, we don't talk about it a whole lot.

00:29:44.640 Not that it's a secret.

00:29:45.460 I'm still in the reserves.

00:29:46.400 Would you believe it?

00:29:47.160 If my reserve career, if I told you me and I have a lot of reservists on my team, every

00:29:52.180 one of us as reservists have been targeted and our careers have been ruined because of our

00:29:57.440 work saving American lives.

00:29:58.540 Oh, I wouldn't doubt that.

00:30:00.080 Right?

00:30:00.400 Yeah.

00:30:00.720 So let me understand this right.

00:30:02.100 Me and a couple of guys go into Russian controlled territory, rescue an American hostage alone.

00:30:08.040 No 150 aircraft, no drones, no satellites, no anything.

00:30:11.980 Just brave Americans like World War II style doing what the OSS used to do.

00:30:15.260 That's how we roll.

00:30:17.820 Not only do we not get a thank you, we get punished.

00:30:21.720 That's backwards to me.

00:30:23.040 That's backwards.

00:30:23.880 That's a mistake.

00:30:24.420 I don't think that's a country.

00:30:25.540 That's a mistake.

00:30:25.920 Big time.

00:30:26.740 I think people, especially in the government, want to believe the government's the only

00:30:32.320 one authorized to do that.

00:30:33.640 You know, Jimmy Carter is the one who gave us the term first responder.

00:30:37.000 Right.

00:30:37.400 The first responder before Jimmy Carter's time was you.

00:30:40.320 Well, you know, and I bring it back to 9-11.

00:30:43.080 Bring it back to 9-11.

00:30:44.240 And I was there.

00:30:45.940 The morning of 9-11, we, you know, we're really close with the fire department, FDNY.

00:30:50.840 They're amazing.

00:30:52.400 My good friend, Liam Flaherty, who's the captain of Rescue 2, who's joining Gray Bowl.

00:30:56.160 That's an official announcement, by the way.

00:30:58.160 He's amazing.

00:30:59.020 He's a beast of a man.

00:31:01.200 But the original first responders in the morning of 9-11 were not just the firemen.

00:31:05.240 And they weren't just the police.

00:31:07.160 They were accountants.

00:31:08.660 They were stockbrokers.

00:31:09.860 Yes.

00:31:10.100 They were bodega deli people.

00:31:11.800 They were Americans.

00:31:12.980 No matter if they're a cop or not.

00:31:15.120 Didn't matter.

00:31:15.620 You know, in New York, New Yorkers are not exactly known for being nice, right?

00:31:20.260 We're not known for that, right?

00:31:22.520 We're not known for that, right?

00:31:24.960 We're not known for that.

00:31:26.180 On the morning of 9-11, Republicans, Democrats, black, white, purple, Muslim, Christian, Jews,

00:31:31.000 Hindus, you name it. 1.00

00:31:32.620 Everybody, everybody helped.

00:31:36.260 Everybody.

00:31:37.160 I remember.

00:31:37.780 Everybody.

00:31:38.600 I will never forget.

00:31:39.800 I, it's one of the images that haunt me for my life for forever was there was a fireman

00:31:46.640 that was in very bad shape.

00:31:49.440 We forget.

00:31:49.960 343 firemen died.

00:31:51.980 Hundreds were severely injured, though.

00:31:53.620 Hundreds were, if anyone that was in the collapse got banged up real bad.

00:31:58.060 And there were these two guys in suits, in suits.

00:32:03.180 They're like Wall Street people.

00:32:04.780 Who knows who?

00:32:05.900 Carrying this fireman.

00:32:06.860 And it haunted me, still to this day, I get, I get, I get emotional thinking about

00:32:13.300 it.

00:32:13.420 It's one of the few images that I really remember.

00:32:14.940 I don't remember a lot of it.

00:32:17.040 My brain has blocked it out a little bit, but it's one of the few still images that I

00:32:21.040 have in my head of a fireman being helped out by just two civilians, two, you know what

00:32:27.560 I mean?

00:32:27.920 Yeah.

00:32:28.100 It's in my, you know, when I think about Grable Rescue and I think about what Mercury One

00:32:31.780 has done and all these different nonprofits, those that went and did things, same, same.

00:32:38.220 Same, same.

00:32:39.400 Same, same.

00:32:40.000 That doesn't mean that those two accountants hate the fire department.

00:32:42.420 Quite the contrary.

00:32:43.300 They love the fire department.

00:32:44.840 Of course.

00:32:46.180 At Grable, we have no beef with the government whatsoever.

00:32:49.060 We love the, we love our brothers and sisters.

00:32:51.220 And in the intelligence community, the diplomatic corps, we've had frustrations with all these

00:32:55.620 folks over time, happens.

00:32:57.820 It's okay.

00:32:58.360 Not everyone has to love each other, but we do all roll in the same direction, or at

00:33:01.580 least we're supposed to.

00:33:03.380 And I would argue that in, in even still today, there's this real big gap between us and them,

00:33:11.080 the government and the private sector.

00:33:13.600 Every other country out there does not have this problem.

00:33:17.120 Wow.

00:33:17.680 If you talk to Chinese intelligence and you ask them, so how do you integrate national security

00:33:22.800 and business, they go, oh, it's same, same.

00:33:25.520 Why would there, why would we want it to be different?

00:33:27.840 Stupid.

00:33:28.680 We have more business people in the world that are loyal to China than we have people that

00:33:31.640 work for the Chinese Communist Party.

00:33:33.160 Just sheer numbers.

00:33:34.920 Why, why, why would we be different?

00:33:37.700 Right?

00:33:38.280 Russia will tell you the same thing.

00:33:40.060 France will tell you the same thing.

00:33:41.460 Israel will tell you the same thing.

00:33:42.660 From an intelligence perspective and a national security perspective, they rely, it's baked into

00:33:48.040 the fabric of their security to rely on the private sector.

00:33:51.940 It's fully integrated.

00:33:53.340 We have a hard divide.

00:33:55.160 That's a mistake.

00:33:56.540 That's a mistake.

00:33:57.740 I thought that was part of the thing that we were supposed to get rid of.

00:34:01.320 That's what I read.

00:34:02.680 Yeah.

00:34:02.980 But here we are.

00:34:04.360 Here we are.

00:34:04.640 Like during the collapse, the banks are too big.

00:34:06.340 And then we made them bigger.

00:34:07.800 Right.

00:34:08.420 Right.

00:34:08.820 You know, we no longer have stovepipes.

00:34:10.500 We have cylinders of excellence.

00:34:11.820 Yeah.

00:34:12.000 That's what it is.

00:34:13.020 Yeah.

00:34:13.720 Cylinders of excellence.

00:34:14.960 It's so funny.

00:34:15.460 We talk a lot about supply chains, like, you know, food just materializes, you know, from

00:34:22.340 a system, like it's all automated, impersonal, and global by default.

00:34:26.620 But food comes from people.

00:34:28.920 It comes from that family that has been working the same land for a generation.

00:34:32.340 It comes from ranchers who know the weather better than the forecasters do.

00:34:36.300 It comes from hands that actually raise what ends up on your table.

00:34:40.340 Good Ranchers decided something simple.

00:34:43.420 If you're going to feed American families, you source it from American farms and ranches. 1.00

00:34:49.140 One hundred percent.

00:34:50.220 No imported shortcuts.

00:34:51.680 No blurred labels.

00:34:52.760 No games.

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00:35:49.840 Tell me about the mission that you pulled off in Venezuela.

00:35:57.380 Yeah.

00:35:58.800 Take us through the story.

00:36:01.820 So Maria Karina Machado, who is in the press recently.

00:36:06.760 President Trump doesn't have some opinions on her.

00:36:09.740 That's fine.

00:36:10.320 She is, I've been following her for years, following her for years, right?

00:36:16.320 I follow her like I follow you, right?

00:36:18.820 I'm a fan.

00:36:19.680 I'm a fan, right?

00:36:21.840 She's tough.

00:36:22.880 She's tough.

00:36:23.500 Maduro tried to beat her, jumped her years ago, knocked out all of her teeth years ago.

00:36:27.140 I mean, this is a tough woman, tough woman.

00:36:28.780 She's been through a lot.

00:36:29.480 She's an opposition leader. 0.82

00:36:30.500 I've known many of them.

00:36:31.320 She, you know, Maduro is a piece of crap.

00:36:37.220 Carte de los Sous are what Maduro has done to the United States of America.

00:36:41.520 Most people don't realize how horrible that it has nothing to do with drugs, has even less

00:36:45.560 to do with oil.

00:36:46.520 It's all kinds of things, all kinds of things.

00:36:49.200 Like what?

00:36:49.640 Largest concentration of Hezbollah operatives outside of Beirut.

00:36:52.700 Oh, yeah.

00:36:53.360 Is Americaipo, Venezuela for years.

00:36:55.560 Yep.

00:36:56.060 Right?

00:36:56.520 Yep.

00:36:56.700 I can swim from Americaipo to U.S. territory.

00:36:59.680 Okay?

00:37:02.540 That's a mistake where I'm from.

00:37:04.220 Right?

00:37:04.560 That's a mistake.

00:37:06.960 Russian technology, the Chinese ground station for their satellites is in Venezuela.

00:37:12.540 So we're talking China stuff, cyber stuff.

00:37:15.560 There's election pieces to it with Smartmatic and Dominion and all those things, depending

00:37:19.100 on what you believe.

00:37:20.080 Right?

00:37:20.640 You have election interference stuff.

00:37:22.240 You have social disobedience.

00:37:23.820 Number one donor, the seed capital for Black Lives Matter was Nicolas Maduro. 0.51

00:37:29.680 Google it.

00:37:30.900 Right there.

00:37:32.100 So what's the likelihood that Nicolas Maduro was so violently emotionally moved by racism

00:37:38.020 in America that he felt compelled for his Christian Catholic ethics?

00:37:43.500 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:37:44.180 He just had to do something for African-Americans being targeted in America that he felt compelled

00:37:50.160 to do seed capital.

00:37:56.800 You don't buy into that.

00:37:57.980 I just don't.

00:37:58.480 I mean, how come that?

00:37:59.860 Not cancer.

00:38:00.460 Right.

00:38:00.620 I'm not saying it's not right, but pick your fights.

00:38:02.760 Pick your fights.

00:38:03.760 Right?

00:38:03.940 So, you know, what the regime in Venezuela, first under Chavez and then under the bus driver

00:38:11.680 Maduro, what their nexus to bad things in America is extreme, is extreme.

00:38:19.460 It's all over them.

00:38:20.080 It touches.

00:38:20.380 If you read the old national security strategy and the new national security strategy, and

00:38:25.340 you look at the top priorities of each document, right?

00:38:28.800 If you go to President Trump has 45, President Biden, and then President Trump has 47, if you

00:38:35.960 read each one of those national security strategies, the first paragraph lists the priorities.

00:38:41.040 Venezuela touches every single one of them. 0.71

00:38:44.140 It's the only country on Earth that does touch every single one of them.

00:38:48.400 It talks about cyber.

00:38:49.640 It talks about Western Hemisphere.

00:38:51.560 It talks about narcotics.

00:38:52.800 It talks about violent extremist organizations.

00:38:54.700 It talks about terrorism.

00:38:55.780 It talks about China.

00:38:56.500 It talks about Russia.

00:38:57.200 It talks about Iran.

00:38:58.400 I don't know.

00:38:58.940 Venezuela is like 31 flavors for me.

00:39:01.620 You see?

00:39:02.260 So Venezuela has, yeah, there's a drug thing.

00:39:04.760 And yeah, there's an oil play there, too.

00:39:06.180 And yeah, the people are suffering.

00:39:07.900 But this has nothing to do with the Western Hemisphere.

00:39:11.020 It happens to be in the Western Hemisphere.

00:39:14.420 What does it have to do?

00:39:15.500 It has to do with a country that has aligned itself with every bad guy out there that hates

00:39:20.240 us, and they're in a good geographic position to hurt us.

00:39:24.460 That's it.

00:39:25.480 And they do.

00:39:26.580 Number one passport caught at the southern border was Venezuelan.

00:39:30.640 You ready for this?

00:39:31.660 Number one passport caught.

00:39:33.120 But also, also, of the Venezuelan passports caught, right, would you believe it if I 0.98

00:39:39.680 told you that there was a disproportionate number of Venezuelan passport holders caught

00:39:43.460 at the border who don't speak Spanish?

00:39:46.840 No, I would not be surprised.

00:39:48.660 Well, you know, why is that?

00:39:49.860 Let's analyze this.

00:39:51.300 You know, I'm a kind of, I'm a C plus student, a medium intelligence kind of a guy.

00:39:54.860 Well, the attorney general of Venezuela up until very recently was a guy named Tariq

00:39:58.640 Al-Asameh.

00:40:00.020 Does he sound Latino to you?

00:40:02.700 Well, that's funny.

00:40:03.440 The old vice president's a guy named Tariq Al-Sabh.

00:40:06.000 Huh.

00:40:06.620 It doesn't sound like Jorge Gutierrez.

00:40:08.840 Yeah.

00:40:09.620 Huh.

00:40:10.240 Interesting.

00:40:11.040 These guys are hardcore Hezbollah guys.

00:40:13.460 Hardcore Hezbollah guys who are the attorney general and the vice president of the country. 1.00

00:40:18.740 Interesting.

00:40:19.260 So why are we scratching our heads going, well, how did all these Hezbollah guys get there? 1.00

00:40:23.640 And how do these Venezuelan passport holders, not Venezuelans, Venezuelan passport holders 0.98

00:40:30.240 come to America?

00:40:32.620 And if you look at things like Trende or Agua and we go, oh my God, how did this happen?

00:40:36.420 And you look at the tactics at their training camps and you look at, I don't know, the Al-Qaeda

00:40:41.120 training camps or the Hezbollah training camps.

00:40:43.040 It's funny.

00:40:43.720 Even the monkey bars are the same.

00:40:46.440 The layout of the camps are identical.

00:40:48.680 So, so, this is not like Algonquin level calculus here.

00:40:54.780 This is easy stuff.

00:40:56.180 This is easy stuff.

00:40:57.720 You see?

00:40:58.440 So when guys like me and groups like ours, when we operate against these guys, you just

00:41:02.840 put your thinking cap on a little bit.

00:41:04.500 And if you've been working these issues a long time, it's the same song, different verse.

00:41:09.740 How do you react to people who in the press are suddenly for Maduro, against what they're

00:41:17.380 guys?

00:41:17.820 This is like my uncle who invented aluminum foil.

00:41:21.440 I tell them, you know, I say, okay.

00:41:23.980 I mean, if you think this is good, I'm open ears.

00:41:27.420 I'm a middle of the road kind of guy.

00:41:29.540 Right.

00:41:30.020 I'm a liberal Republican or a conservative Democrat, depending on the issue.

00:41:34.220 You know?

00:41:34.580 Right.

00:41:34.820 I'm right in the middle.

00:41:36.280 I'm a patriot.

00:41:36.980 Right.

00:41:37.180 I'm a patriot.

00:41:38.240 An American.

00:41:38.780 I care about Americans.

00:41:40.980 And I ask people, explain to me.

00:41:44.080 This is how we understand, because I know these issues real well.

00:41:46.180 I've been in this game a long, long, long time.

00:41:48.500 I've worked these issues my entire life.

00:41:50.360 It's all I know how to do.

00:41:51.480 I can't play the piano.

00:41:53.100 I have no athletic ability.

00:41:55.600 Right.

00:41:55.920 I could ride motorcycles.

00:41:56.940 I could jump out of airplanes.

00:41:58.000 I could shoot some guns.

00:41:58.840 And I really love this stuff.

00:42:00.820 Help me understand.

00:42:02.660 I'm open ears.

00:42:03.840 And I'm truly open ears.

00:42:05.580 And when you get into these debates with these people, it's really funny because most people

00:42:09.780 come unarmed to the fight.

00:42:11.180 Yep.

00:42:11.320 Which is the number one problem in America.

00:42:15.080 Yeah.

00:42:15.520 We do not have, as Americans, we do not have a capability problem.

00:42:21.220 We don't.

00:42:21.740 When you have a $1 trillion a year national security budget, you don't have a problem.

00:42:25.180 You just don't.

00:42:25.900 Right?

00:42:26.180 We put a man on the moon in a washing machine without email and PowerPoint.

00:42:31.560 Right?

00:42:32.040 See you in the lobby?

00:42:32.840 Oh, yeah.

00:42:33.320 Oh, yeah.

00:42:33.560 Yeah.

00:42:33.940 Right?

00:42:34.600 We are an incredibly capable country.

00:42:37.520 Yeah.

00:42:37.780 And yet people still somehow don't know anything.

00:42:41.860 We have a lack of seriousness in America.

00:42:43.760 If I go right now, I just did this.

00:42:45.280 I was teaching.

00:42:45.840 I was giving a lecture to a bunch of military officers, like a whole room full of them.

00:42:49.640 And these guys are all, you know, geniuses.

00:42:53.120 Right?

00:42:53.340 And they all laugh at me because I'm a junior nobody.

00:42:55.080 Right?

00:42:55.400 And what do I know?

00:42:56.240 Right?

00:42:56.980 And I ask everyone, this whole big room, I go, who, what is our biggest threat?

00:43:01.000 Nobody wants to raise their hand.

00:43:02.700 And I go, I go, well, don't we all agree that China is the biggest thing?

00:43:06.500 And they go, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, China.

00:43:07.640 And I go, you guys are all in the military, right?

00:43:09.000 And I go, yeah, you guys wake up every single day worrying about China, right?

00:43:12.280 I go, yeah.

00:43:13.080 And I go, okay, let me ask you, who's the Secretary of Defense or the Minister of Defense of China?

00:43:21.940 Crickets.

00:43:22.840 And I go, do you honestly believe that if I went to the same exact room in Beijing, China,

00:43:26.940 and I asked anyone in the room who's Pete Hegseth, that they wouldn't know?

00:43:33.080 So how do you explain to me?

00:43:34.720 How do you explain to me that you guys are a bunch of really smart guys?

00:43:38.060 Who are focused on these issues?

00:43:40.100 And you don't even know who the boss is.

00:43:41.680 But then somebody says, somebody says, well, see, because of this counterterrorism pivot and we're pivot.

00:43:47.880 No problem.

00:43:48.880 No problem.

00:43:49.940 I got it.

00:43:50.720 I was a CT guy, too.

00:43:51.800 Awesome.

00:43:52.140 Great.

00:43:52.700 So CT is what you guys know the best.

00:43:55.040 Counterterrorism is what you guys know the best.

00:43:56.440 They go, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:43:57.600 I go, who's the CT guy?

00:43:58.560 And everyone raises their hand.

00:43:59.660 Who here is deployed and done the terrorism?

00:44:01.280 Everyone raises their hand.

00:44:01.960 Great.

00:44:02.380 Who's the leader of His Bola?

00:44:04.460 Hmm.

00:44:05.680 Crickets.

00:44:06.320 I go, let me ask you a question.

00:44:07.420 Who's the current leader of Al Qaeda?

00:44:10.880 Crickets.

00:44:11.360 I go, who's the leader of ISIS?

00:44:12.980 Crickets.

00:44:13.300 And I go, do we honestly believe that these guys went out and got jobs at the Department of Motor Vehicles?

00:44:18.200 They all went out and got government jobs and joined the Girl Scouts?

00:44:20.880 Yeah.

00:44:21.680 So if you tell me that the terrorism thing is what you know the best, but yet you don't know that, and you tell me that China is what you do tomorrow, and you don't know that, well, then tell me, what exactly do you know?

00:44:31.940 What do you know?

00:44:32.780 Yeah.

00:44:33.800 And it's a lack of attention.

00:44:35.560 It's a lack of seriousness.

00:44:36.440 We're very focused on a lot of other things.

00:44:38.660 But I tell you, if I went to any single person in Lebanon, I spent a lot of time in Lebanon amongst the bad guys, and I asked them, who's the director of CIA? 0.68

00:44:47.520 They know.

00:44:47.860 They know.

00:44:48.660 They know.

00:44:49.640 Where is CENTCOM located?

00:44:51.420 They'll all tell you in Tampa, Florida.

00:44:52.700 They know.

00:44:53.700 The bad guys are paying attention.

00:44:55.580 And the metaphor is, if I put my sister, who's tiny, in a boxing ring with Mike Tyson, I can teach my sister, who's smaller and certainly less capable, how to kill Mike Tyson and kill him. 0.96

00:45:11.520 Kill him quickly, fast.

00:45:14.520 That only works if Mike Tyson isn't paying attention.

00:45:17.320 If Mike Tyson understands he's in a boxing ring and he's there to fight, he's going to knock my sister into next Tuesday. 1.00

00:45:22.340 Right.

00:45:22.560 But it's implied that he's paying attention and that he knows what he's doing.

00:45:30.300 So if the bad guys are at war with us and we aren't thinking we're at war with them, we just became Mike Tyson and get our butts whooped.

00:45:40.560 That's a mistake.

00:45:43.300 I said this forever.

00:45:45.180 If you're not willing to name Nazis in World War II, you don't win. 0.67

00:45:49.240 You don't win.

00:45:49.800 Right.

00:45:50.160 You don't win.

00:45:50.560 That's right.

00:45:50.860 So do you think that China is our biggest threat?

00:45:56.040 I mean, it is a huge threat.

00:45:57.380 But I look at the matrix and I mean, I think we're about to lose Europe.

00:46:04.180 They're so close from the Islamists.

00:46:07.860 It's not.

00:46:08.720 So, you know, I tell people, you know, we've done ops in Africa.

00:46:13.540 Grable Rescue has rescued American citizens held at risk, either evacuations or targeted rescues.

00:46:18.520 In Africa, the Western Hemisphere, Europe, Asia, and Middle East.

00:46:23.720 As a C-plus student from Queens, where I'm from, that's called everywhere.

00:46:28.060 That's called, right?

00:46:28.920 When under the Goldwater-Nichols Act, we established the combatant commands, right?

00:46:34.440 You have CENTCOM, which covers the Middle East, PACOM, which covers the Pacific, EUCOM covers Europe, Africa.

00:46:39.100 I'm like this, right?

00:46:39.920 As we speak, right now, this is the first time in American history since that system was invented for the military that we have active combat in every single COCOM.

00:46:51.420 The system was designed so that you can move resources around.

00:46:54.840 So if Europe gets hot, you can pivot and move.

00:46:57.040 This is the first time every single combatant commander out there is engaged in something.

00:47:04.460 That's new.

00:47:06.440 So when you're seeing, you know, I've seen stuff where Trump has, you know, he's urging the military, the military industrial complex, pick up the pace, pick up the pace.

00:47:17.560 Yeah.

00:47:17.620 What I think he's doing with the Western Hemisphere is, I just think it's genius, quite honestly, the negotiations that he's done for rare earth minerals and oils and everything else.

00:47:29.320 I feel like it's 1940 and FDR just got, you know, oh, well, they're in France, huh?

00:47:37.040 And then realizing we, I mean, in 1940, we were literally training with broomsticks.

00:47:42.900 We didn't even have guns.

00:47:44.700 Sure.

00:47:44.900 And in this acceleration to prepare economically, prepare, you know, physically, mentally for something big, is that because he sees that warfare is changing and we have to lead the world?

00:48:03.180 Or do you think he senses we could be at war at any time?

00:48:08.660 I think he senses that we're at war right now.

00:48:10.740 I think that President Trump understands.

00:48:12.440 I think President Trump understands more than most, not only does he understand, I think he feels it, that we're at war now.

00:48:25.220 I think he feels it.

00:48:26.400 You know, I think he thinks that.

00:48:28.480 I think he feels that at a very personal, emotional level.

00:48:31.360 Part of that is because he's the President of the United States, but also just because of who he is.

00:48:35.080 I think that the innovation is important.

00:48:38.380 Technology is important.

00:48:39.320 We have got to keep up.

00:48:40.460 We have got to outpace the enemy.

00:48:42.460 If the enemy, if the enemy can shoot, you know, if we can shoot a thousand yards and the enemy can shoot twelve hundred yards, that means they can kill us and we can't kill them.

00:48:52.040 Yes.

00:48:52.480 Yes.

00:48:52.760 It's what that means.

00:48:53.680 Right.

00:48:53.820 So, you know, innovation is really important.

00:48:57.600 I think one of the major, major, major things that I really love about the Trump, President Trump's 47th administration, and there's lots of things that I don't like to be clear, but one of the things I really love is that there's this real need to get rid of all the stupid, get rid of the bureaucracy.

00:49:13.920 Oh, my gosh.

00:49:14.460 It can't take two years for an agency to buy a cell phone.

00:49:19.400 Because by the time they, if you buy iPhone 17s for the CIA or the FBI or the DOD or the Bureau of Indian Affairs, who cares?

00:49:27.160 If you spend a million dollars to buy iPhone 17s today and they don't show up for two years, by the time they show up, you can't even get the updates for the phone.

00:49:38.100 That, the innovation cycle, the technology cycle has fundamentally changed.

00:49:44.420 And that's where the private sector really makes its money.

00:49:47.000 Right now, when you look at going back to Venezuela, the cartels have about a trillion dollar a year budget for their defense.

00:49:54.520 A lot of money.

00:49:55.180 Almost the same budget as us.

00:49:57.120 But their trillion dollars goes a lot farther than ours.

00:50:00.200 A trillion dollar, number one, a trillion dollars in Venezuela is a lot more than a trillion dollars in Washington.

00:50:04.520 Oh, yeah.

00:50:05.420 And they don't have 80 lawyers in between a decision.

00:50:09.940 They don't have that.

00:50:11.160 They don't have that.

00:50:12.060 So they can, their dollar goes farther as a nonprofit that Grable Rescue is.

00:50:19.580 And you understand, one of our big talking points is how many cents of every dollar goes to the mission.

00:50:24.980 Right.

00:50:25.580 It's one of our big things.

00:50:27.220 Right.

00:50:27.660 All nonprofits.

00:50:28.880 Right.

00:50:29.120 Tunnel to Towers.

00:50:29.880 Every nonprofit wants to be able to say every dollar goes to a mission.

00:50:33.360 100 pennies of every dollar goes to the mission.

00:50:36.040 And we have such low overhead and all those things.

00:50:38.940 Right.

00:50:39.140 Well, the government has to kind of take a page out of that book.

00:50:41.980 They need to really, really, really get rid of lawyers are OK.

00:50:46.520 Oversight's OK.

00:50:47.680 Congress is OK.

00:50:48.920 Healthy debate is OK.

00:50:50.880 Healthy debate is OK.

00:50:53.560 Not stupidity and the clown show.

00:50:55.920 That's not OK.

00:50:57.200 That's not OK.

00:50:58.120 Yeah.

00:50:58.640 Yeah.

00:50:59.120 We did this great operation with Lindsey Graham.

00:51:02.300 Senator Graham.

00:51:03.200 So Senator Mark Wayne Mullins from Oklahoma is a really good friend of ours.

00:51:05.920 Right.

00:51:06.520 He's one of my favorite people.

00:51:07.560 He's so much he's just a just a just a just a tough bastard just in life.

00:51:12.400 You know, you go into his office and it's you know, it's it's his office is a man cave on the hill.

00:51:18.940 And he had introduced us to Senator Graham for this thing that we call Graham Cracker.

00:51:23.620 We named it after Lindsey Graham as a as a gag, as a joke for three Americans trapped in Syria, three Americans from South Carolina trapped in Syria.

00:51:33.160 There were there were four thousand U.S. troops within 21 minutes away from them.

00:51:40.380 But they're in a bad spot.

00:51:42.120 And there was the boys on the ground, the operators, the barrel chested freedom fighters covered in sleeve tats that wake up every single day, lifting weights and running the ranges, dying to kill stuff.

00:51:54.140 Scary, scary.

00:51:56.200 These are my friends.

00:51:57.240 These are some I'm an intel guy.

00:51:58.560 You know, I don't do little birds.

00:52:01.000 I fly business class.

00:52:01.920 I'm a different kind of guy.

00:52:02.920 Right.

00:52:03.000 I'm a different kind of guy.

00:52:04.580 Yeah.

00:52:04.700 These are these are these are you know, to be on the receiving end of that doorknock is a horrible experience for you.

00:52:10.580 Oh, they're chomping at the bit and the lawyers wouldn't approve the operation.

00:52:16.640 That's a mistake.

00:52:17.740 The lawyers said so.

00:52:19.560 Or some of these lawyers said, well, they're not hostages yet because we do hostage rescue until they're hostages.

00:52:24.840 We really can't play.

00:52:25.780 And my answer was, is, you know, where do you live?

00:52:32.100 You know, bless you.

00:52:33.440 I'm like, are you in the army?

00:52:35.240 Bless you.

00:52:36.180 I'm like, become a statistic.

00:52:37.760 Right.

00:52:38.040 Because you're in the way.

00:52:39.140 Right.

00:52:39.560 You're in the way.

00:52:40.440 Right.

00:52:40.640 Are you do you want me to honestly listen to say you want that?

00:52:44.660 Mind you, the bad guys during this time were had executed people for Americans from Oklahoma.

00:52:49.420 The bad guys weren't taking hostages.

00:52:51.740 Bless you.

00:52:52.300 So, right.

00:52:54.720 So we went and did it.

00:52:56.060 Right.

00:52:56.500 But can you can can we cut enough out of this to make it efficient?

00:53:03.260 I know that we can.

00:53:04.620 You know, I know the global war on terrorism.

00:53:06.880 We figured out a way to create technology to hunt individual to read license plates, you know, from outer space.

00:53:17.000 We when angry enough.

00:53:19.180 Yes.

00:53:19.840 When angry enough and when motivated and when serious enough, we are an incredibly capable country.

00:53:26.540 So what is the what is the first let me let me ask you about Iran.

00:53:32.340 You think that's going to fall?

00:53:33.460 I hope so.

00:53:34.500 I do.

00:53:34.960 I've been working really hard on it personally.

00:53:37.480 It's kind of a I mean, we I know in during the Cold War, we were always we were always there when countries got into this position.

00:53:46.200 We were there.

00:53:47.100 Yeah.

00:53:47.540 To push it over.

00:53:48.100 Push it a little.

00:53:48.880 Right.

00:53:49.380 Are we there?

00:53:49.760 Do you think?

00:53:50.120 I hope so.

00:53:50.700 Yeah.

00:53:50.820 What would we be doing?

00:53:53.420 I think we would be doing I think we'd be helping the opposition and CIA is very good at this.

00:54:01.240 The intelligence community is good at this.

00:54:03.220 This is what covert action is really all about.

00:54:07.080 And Iran's in a really good space for this. 0.94

00:54:12.340 They just got their butts whooped this year. 0.82

00:54:15.200 Yeah.

00:54:16.100 Humiliated.

00:54:16.660 Yeah.

00:54:16.740 You know, I remember I was in Israel.

00:54:18.940 I was in Lebanon.

00:54:19.520 I was in Lebanon when when Iran launched like 300 rockets in Israel in one day.

00:54:26.340 No, I was in Israel.

00:54:27.240 I was in Israel when they did that.

00:54:28.480 I was in Israel in Tel Aviv.

00:54:30.280 And it's oh, my God, they're going to send 300 rockets.

00:54:33.500 Right.

00:54:33.760 Right.

00:54:34.180 Holy cow. 0.89

00:54:34.820 Right.

00:54:35.200 And like, you know, two made it through.

00:54:37.640 One landed in a parking lot.

00:54:39.500 One landed.

00:54:40.020 It had to be amazing to see.

00:54:41.500 Right.

00:54:42.020 And Iron Dome did its thing. 0.60

00:54:43.400 Yeah.

00:54:43.740 You know, the worst job in the world.

00:54:44.800 Could you imagine being the commander of Iranian rocket forces having to go and tell the Ayatollah,

00:54:50.580 sir, I got good news and I got bad news.

00:54:53.060 300 of our mortar missiles, you know, our big ones, we 300 successfully took off.

00:54:59.920 But sadly, not a single one hit their target.

00:55:01.940 I'm very sorry.

00:55:03.200 Holy cow. 0.89

00:55:03.700 As a military officer, I just had to bring bad news to my boss of things that I've done wrong.

00:55:09.540 I cannot imagine being that guy.

00:55:13.560 We have been told for a while now, you know, Russia, spooky, scary.

00:55:21.640 You know, they're very prepared.

00:55:23.780 Doesn't seem to be that way.

00:55:25.880 China.

00:55:26.480 Ukrainian grandmas kicked their ass for like a year until we showed up. 1.00

00:55:29.160 But that's okay.

00:55:30.380 Iran.

00:55:31.140 Doesn't seem that way.

00:55:32.180 Venezuela.

00:55:34.240 Venezuela.

00:55:34.860 What we did in Venezuela.

00:55:37.200 Remarkable.

00:55:39.980 Do we have stuff that we're not really aware of?

00:55:44.540 I've never seen anything like that.

00:55:45.940 Of course.

00:55:46.720 Right.

00:55:47.080 So we have some sort of new technology, do you think?

00:55:49.540 One of the best things that no one is talking about with Absolute Resolve, the Maduro hit.

00:55:57.520 So Venezuela recently invested and paid in gold to Russia for a brand new, shiny, top of the line, brand new, brand new, beautiful, beautiful, an entire new integrated, what's called IADS, integrated air defense system.

00:56:11.420 And the backbone of that is integrated radars, right?

00:56:14.840 A radar system that detects things in the sky.

00:56:16.880 And they had S-300 missiles, which are not the big ones and not the most advanced, but for these purposes, it doesn't matter.

00:56:25.640 And we flew helicopters.

00:56:28.180 Slow and low.

00:56:29.900 Helicopters are vulnerable to anything.

00:56:31.840 Yeah.

00:56:32.180 Birds.

00:56:32.940 Yes.

00:56:33.260 A bird strike on a tail rotor.

00:56:35.280 Right.

00:56:35.480 You got a 50-50 shot.

00:56:36.580 You're going to a bird.

00:56:37.700 Right.

00:56:37.960 Okay.

00:56:38.580 And we sailed 150 shiny American aircraft, not to mention drones and all the other stuff that went in between F-22s and F-35s and all the stuff and B-1s and B-2s, all this crazy stuff.

00:56:51.900 And it's amazing.

00:56:53.700 It's amazing.

00:56:54.620 Not one.

00:56:55.420 A couple of gunshots.

00:56:56.740 A couple of gunshots.

00:56:57.640 Right.

00:56:58.120 Nothing heavy, though.

00:56:59.220 So is that, I mean, if you're.

00:57:01.340 So how is that?

00:57:02.240 Yeah, I know.

00:57:02.960 How?

00:57:04.020 Well, probably some intel guys stole what we call exploits, stole some stuff.

00:57:10.060 And the worst kind of security to have is a false sense of security.

00:57:15.340 So if I'm a Duro, I'm like, yeah, I got brand new shiny radars and this is great.

00:57:18.860 And I'm in bed with Russia and they love me and I love them and oil and gold and all the things.

00:57:22.700 And look at all the cool stuff I have.

00:57:24.040 And this is awesome.

00:57:24.700 And I've got fighter jets and I've got MiGs and Sukhois and F-16s and all the good stuff.

00:57:28.560 I can, you know, can I defend, can I win against the war in America?

00:57:32.140 No.

00:57:32.820 But I can defend.

00:57:33.600 But I can defend myself, though.

00:57:34.840 I can defend myself.

00:57:35.900 Well, actually not.

00:57:37.280 Actually, actually, actually pretty humiliating so far.

00:57:40.540 If you're Russia, China, you're any, anybody.

00:57:43.800 More importantly, if you're any of their friends that they sold their radars to.

00:57:47.840 Yes.

00:57:49.180 I want a refund.

00:57:50.060 I want a refund.

00:57:53.380 Right.

00:57:53.780 That's the important part is Russia is making friends all over the place.

00:57:58.200 We make friends with people all over the place.

00:57:59.840 And we very often do that through military agreements.

00:58:02.640 If I'm, if I'm whatever country and I have, oh, Russian radars and I'm good. 1.00

00:58:06.180 And I'm calling Putin up and I'm saying, and I'm calling Lavrov up and I'm saying, whoa,

00:58:10.500 whoa, whoa.

00:58:11.960 Whoa.

00:58:13.000 You better fix this.

00:58:14.440 I repair it.

00:58:15.380 I want to report.

00:58:15.840 I mean, I want to literally, I want a refund.

00:58:17.680 Right.

00:58:18.080 Because it, this doesn't work.

00:58:20.800 Now, the problem that we have, and this is another thing that no one thinks this way.

00:58:25.180 This is, this is why we're, this is why Grable is good at what we do.

00:58:29.920 If that is true for Russia, meaning Russia sells military hardware to their friends and

00:58:34.880 we can walk through it because we figured it out.

00:58:38.020 We must ask ourselves the question of our military hardware that we have sold to our friends.

00:58:44.640 Is it equally as susceptible?

00:58:46.440 Because if it could happen to them, if we can hack their stuff, well, surely they can

00:58:50.480 hack our stuff.

00:58:51.420 So are we okay?

00:58:52.740 Do we have a false sense of security?

00:58:55.020 Have we drunk our own Kool-Aid?

00:58:57.340 And that's an important question to ask.

00:58:58.900 I think we, I think we have.

00:59:00.800 I mean, the only thing that gives me real hope is, you know, I talked to President Trump

00:59:05.000 during his campaign and, you know, Biden had been ratcheting things up and Putin was

00:59:14.300 like, I'm going to strike.

00:59:15.400 And the one thing I know for a fact, because every time I saw him during that time period,

00:59:20.780 he told me, nuclear war is the most, is the most devastating thing that could possibly

00:59:26.880 happen.

00:59:27.240 It's like, I've rebuilt our arsenal.

00:59:28.720 Glenn, you don't want to know what we can do.

00:59:31.300 He said, once it starts, it's all over.

00:59:33.680 The whole world is over.

00:59:35.080 Yep.

00:59:35.160 And that is the only thing I've seen him scared by, because as he said to me, I rebuilt

00:59:41.880 it.

00:59:42.300 I know what can, is capable.

00:59:44.720 Yep.

00:59:45.440 He's rebuilding now.

00:59:46.800 And I said to him at one point, and he seemed like he was still kind of old school, but

00:59:54.480 I don't think he is.

00:59:56.500 I said, why are we spending money on aircraft carriers when we know drones can swarm an aircraft

01:00:03.620 carrier?

01:00:04.060 And it seems like it's going to be the horse of World War II, World War I. 0.69

01:00:08.720 Sure.

01:00:08.960 You know what I mean?

01:00:09.500 Sure.

01:00:09.680 And he's now suddenly speeding, he's putting pressure on, speed up, speed up, speed up, speed

01:00:16.740 up.

01:00:17.600 Do you think that is because we're in kind of a 1940 situation where the president realizes

01:00:25.520 war is right around the corner and we're not prepared?

01:00:29.680 Or is it because he realizes war is dramatically going to change and we must be prepared for that

01:00:37.600 or a combination of the two?

01:00:38.940 I think both.

01:00:39.680 I think both.

01:00:40.480 I think both.

01:00:43.840 You know, war is changing at a pace, just like technology is changing at a pace, unlike

01:00:48.000 we've ever seen, you know, and it's always been.

01:00:51.300 War evolves, right?

01:00:52.880 War evolves.

01:00:54.740 You design a weapon, someone designs a countermeasure, then you do a counter to the counter and it's

01:00:59.600 just kind of how it goes.

01:01:00.560 But the speed at which that's happening is extreme right now.

01:01:04.000 Extreme.

01:01:04.720 Extreme.

01:01:05.760 And you saw what was happening with Russia 0.76

01:01:08.940 since Venezuela.

01:01:10.380 And I can't figure out England and the EU.

01:01:14.280 I think the EU is worthless.

01:01:16.160 NATO is worthless.

01:01:17.160 It's over.

01:01:17.720 If they don't change their attitude, it's just Europe is gone.

01:01:20.960 But they seem to want war with Russia, you know?

01:01:25.620 And Russia seems to be pounding its testing.

01:01:29.940 Yes, please.

01:01:30.780 Yeah, I think, you know, as I watch these tea leaves play out, you know, one of the big

01:01:35.440 things that all the countries, Russia included, one of the things that haunts and scares the 1.00

01:01:40.640 bejesus out of Vladimir Putin is population.

01:01:43.980 Yeah.

01:01:44.100 So Russia as a country has the highest HIV rate in all of Europe, has the highest abortion rate

01:01:49.480 in all of Europe, has the highest divorce rate in all of Europe.

01:01:53.960 The Chechens, by comparison, who are Muslims, well, they have 9, 10, 12 babies a pop. 0.97

01:02:00.500 Yep.

01:02:00.660 So real soon, Russia is going to be a Muslim country. 1.00

01:02:04.580 Facts.

01:02:05.420 It's just population, right?

01:02:07.880 For the same reason that China's military is aging out, because they had the zero-daughter 0.99

01:02:14.320 policy.

01:02:15.440 Well, there's only so many.

01:02:16.800 And unlike our country, they don't like immigration. 0.87

01:02:20.600 They don't like legal immigration. 0.99

01:02:22.840 We don't like illegal immigration, but we really like legal immigration.

01:02:26.540 We're all about that for forever.

01:02:27.900 It's like fabric of our country.

01:02:29.740 So if you're Russia, one of the big reasons, they don't talk about it a whole lot, but

01:02:35.680 one of the big things they really like about Ukraine is the women, because all the men are 0.98

01:02:42.140 dead.

01:02:42.940 So if Russia can take Ukraine- 0.92

01:02:45.360 Oh my gosh, I never thought of that.

01:02:47.760 All the men are dead, and now they can start-

01:02:51.280 Because you remember when-

01:02:52.940 It sounds so stupid, but it's mathematics.

01:02:55.640 No, no, no.

01:02:55.960 You remember when, if you're a student of war, in World War II, Hitler issued an order to

01:03:08.180 all the men in the army in Russia, or that were fighting in Russia, to rape as many Russians 0.79

01:03:15.320 as possible, because he needed new young Germans to fight in the future.

01:03:19.620 Correct.

01:03:20.260 The big strategic thinkers aren't thinking about the battles of today.

01:03:24.040 They're thinking about a quarter, you know, 20 years from now.

01:03:26.460 And you need people to fight.

01:03:28.900 20 years from now, I just feel like we are sitting, we're sitting, we're in World War III

01:03:37.160 with Islamists, okay? 0.89

01:03:39.800 Well, this is the thing, right, Glenn?

01:03:41.600 If you look at the national defense strategy, I always go back to our policies.

01:03:45.400 Our policy says, China, Russia, Iran, violent extremist organizations, which is terrorists

01:03:51.180 and cartels, and North Korea when we get around to it.

01:03:55.300 When I look at that, well, we just did an epic operation against the VEOs, where it's

01:03:59.420 still doing terrorism stuff.

01:04:00.560 We're still killing people in Somalia and Mali and Syria and all those other places.

01:04:04.180 Iran, we already know about.

01:04:05.280 Russia, we already know about, and China's around the corner.

01:04:08.100 From our policy perspective, our national security policy, we're failing.

01:04:15.020 The title of that document is Integrated Deterrence.

01:04:18.520 If we're at war with your, if we are in conflict on Instagram and CNN and Fox News with these

01:04:26.380 enemies publicly, therefore, we are at war, maybe not formal declaration from a congressional

01:04:32.080 and a legal perspective, but we're killing people. 0.89

01:04:35.080 They're killing us.

01:04:36.260 War enough for these purposes.

01:04:38.500 Well, then we're not integrating or deterring anything.

01:04:41.760 And therefore, our policy is upside down somehow.

01:04:45.660 And that needs to get fixed.

01:04:47.120 I think President Trump knows this.

01:04:48.720 I think President Trump sees this.

01:04:50.020 I think that he feels it.

01:04:51.000 I think he's been the victim of it.

01:04:52.520 I think he's been targeted by it.

01:04:54.120 I think he's seen it work.

01:04:55.500 I think he's seen it fail.

01:04:56.480 I think he has a much better handle on the issues, the good parts and the bad parts that

01:05:04.260 people give him credit for.

01:05:05.360 I really do.

01:05:06.160 I think he is the most, and I might be giving him too much credit.

01:05:10.520 I think he's much smarter than anybody thinks.

01:05:13.100 But I may be giving him too much credit and not enough credit for people around him.

01:05:17.320 So, let me say it this way.

01:05:19.960 He and the team he has assembled, it's some of the most genius America.

01:05:26.760 We're going to be serious about survival that I've ever seen in my lifetime.

01:05:32.540 I don't even think Reagan.

01:05:33.780 Reagan was bold, audacious.

01:05:36.920 But Trump understands it's the Western civilization that is at stake, and I think that he gets

01:05:47.400 it and is putting the policies together better than I've ever seen.

01:05:51.260 Yeah, I think where he's gapped, or I would say, so I agree with all that, where I think 1.00

01:05:56.980 he's gapped is I do think he's a little light on strategic execution.

01:06:02.300 I think he's a little light on second, third, fourth order effects, and Venezuela is a great 0.65

01:06:05.840 example of it.

01:06:06.640 So, he takes Maduro.

01:06:07.920 Great.

01:06:08.600 Great.

01:06:09.220 Thank you, President Trump.

01:06:10.400 Thank you.

01:06:10.720 President Trump, if you are listening, thank you for doing Maduro.

01:06:13.580 Thank you.

01:06:15.660 He leaves Delce in power.

01:06:17.580 I understand the argument, but specifically Delce, who's now the vice president, acting

01:06:24.820 president, right?

01:06:25.640 Yeah.

01:06:25.900 You know who her stepfather was?

01:06:28.300 Carlos the Jackal.

01:06:30.480 Oh, my gosh.

01:06:32.120 Oh, my gosh.

01:06:33.540 Okay?

01:06:33.720 Now, she didn't have a very good relationship with him, but nevertheless, this is the household

01:06:37.020 she grew up in.

01:06:38.340 Okay?

01:06:39.220 Okay?

01:06:39.620 Iliot Ramirez.

01:06:40.620 Where's he from again?

01:06:41.420 Caracas, Venezuela.

01:06:42.860 Okay?

01:06:43.180 We forget.

01:06:44.180 We as Americans don't remember things.

01:06:47.740 So, yes, Maduro, of course.

01:06:51.860 He's a bad guy, symbolic piece of crap.

01:06:54.520 Couldn't have been a nicer guy.

01:06:55.880 Awesome.

01:06:56.600 Delce, Diastato, a couple of these key figures that they are, the brains, that should go also,

01:07:04.380 that also matter, and saying, I'm watching you.

01:07:07.960 These are slick people.

01:07:09.360 They lie, cheat, and steal.

01:07:10.540 They'll tell you something on TV and do something below you, and you'll never know, because it's

01:07:14.840 criminal.

01:07:15.800 It's, you know, every, in La Cosa Nostra, the mafia, overwhelmingly, the vast majority of

01:07:22.920 the mafia is legitimate business.

01:07:25.340 Mm-hmm.

01:07:26.600 Over any organized crime.

01:07:27.980 Mm-hmm.

01:07:28.200 Most organized crime, the foundation, is not illegitimate business.

01:07:32.720 It's legitimate business to hide the illegitimate business where the profits are a little bit

01:07:37.020 better.

01:07:37.400 Correct.

01:07:37.700 That's all it is.

01:07:38.660 Well, this is the same.

01:07:39.580 I'm a politician, and Donald Trump, I'm going to listen to you, because I'm Delce, and you

01:07:42.840 know, you're, I saw what you did on TV, and I don't want that to happen to me, so I'm

01:07:46.220 afraid of you, jeepers creepers. 0.99

01:07:48.100 I'm very, if you did this to my boss, what could you do to me?

01:07:50.240 Oh, my God.

01:07:51.100 I'm going to, whatever.

01:07:52.340 I promise you, we're going to do elections.

01:07:54.340 Just give us a couple of weeks to let the dust settle, whatever.

01:07:56.520 You know what she's doing right now? 0.96

01:07:57.700 She's moving her chess pieces around the board.

01:07:59.380 Yeah, yeah.

01:08:01.540 So.

01:08:02.100 Why did he say, the woman you helped escape.

01:08:04.820 This is tough.

01:08:05.380 This is tough.

01:08:06.000 The woman you helped escape.

01:08:07.400 Mm-hmm.

01:08:07.860 Maria.

01:08:08.580 Why do you think Trump said, I don't think, was he talking about, I don't think she has

01:08:13.940 the support in the military, in the government, et cetera, et cetera, to set something up

01:08:18.820 quickly?

01:08:19.240 Everybody, so we extract Maria Karina Machado, who visually is like Hillary Clinton. 1.00

01:08:28.220 Mm-hmm.

01:08:29.320 She's the most popular face in the Western Hemisphere other than Maduro himself.

01:08:33.260 Okay?

01:08:34.180 Just like Hillary. 1.00

01:08:35.020 If Hillary walked into any store, any restaurant, anywhere in the world, people would go, whether

01:08:41.000 you like her or not, you'd say, holy cow, there's Hillary Clinton. 1.00

01:08:43.400 Correct.

01:08:43.860 Right?

01:08:44.180 Right?

01:08:45.640 Maria is just like that. 1.00

01:08:47.100 Mm-hmm.

01:08:48.700 Billboards.

01:08:49.460 Two weeks before the operation, there was a 300,000 protest in her favor. 0.58

01:08:54.100 300,000 people carried pictures of her face in the streets.

01:08:57.680 Okay?

01:08:58.280 So everyone knows what she looks like. 0.73

01:08:59.580 So this is a very daring operation.

01:09:01.100 This is a very delicate operation.

01:09:02.300 A very scary operation.

01:09:03.460 Incredibly dangerous.

01:09:04.460 Mm-hmm.

01:09:04.780 Very dangerous.

01:09:05.520 We haven't released any of the videos or the footage yet, but when you see it, it's-

01:09:08.540 Oh, I can't wait to see it.

01:09:09.480 Wild.

01:09:10.080 Yeah.

01:09:10.220 Pitch black, 10-foot seas in a 30-foot boat, black of night.

01:09:14.500 It's insane.

01:09:15.280 You were on the show talking about it, and it is insane.

01:09:18.480 It's nuts.

01:09:20.480 Mm-hmm.

01:09:21.300 So when President Trump gets on TV, and so Maria, I say this all to say that I am a fan

01:09:25.600 of Maria.

01:09:26.100 Mm-hmm.

01:09:26.520 I think she's great.

01:09:27.260 She's super smart. 0.61

01:09:28.400 She's super thoughtful.

01:09:29.460 She truly cares.

01:09:32.020 She's kind of like the way President Trump is, who has an emotional connection to the

01:09:38.240 people.

01:09:38.700 Mm-hmm.

01:09:39.160 Maria is very much the same way.

01:09:40.420 Mm-hmm.

01:09:40.740 She's a tremendous leader.

01:09:41.860 Great.

01:09:42.160 And genuine, when she was with you, I have heard, she was talking about her kids.

01:09:48.040 Yeah.

01:09:48.140 She wasn't talking about-

01:09:49.020 We didn't-

01:09:49.700 She was like Trump.

01:09:50.460 Yeah.

01:09:50.740 Very focused on the family.

01:09:52.040 Very.

01:09:52.420 That's all we talked about.

01:09:53.400 Yeah, yeah.

01:09:53.700 At sea, bebopping around in the picture of black, and I was trying to, because I'm a fan

01:09:57.820 of hers, you know, I'm like starstruck.

01:10:00.280 I'm like starstruck, you know?

01:10:01.680 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:10:01.960 So I wanted to kind of, you know, get to know her a little bit, and all she talked about was

01:10:06.000 she can't wait to see her kids that she hasn't seen in two years.

01:10:08.240 It's like the main thing.

01:10:09.140 We, we, 99% of what we talked about was that, and how she wants to go back to Venezuela to 1.00

01:10:13.300 lead the people.

01:10:14.240 Like, that was the, that's it.

01:10:15.840 So, um, yeah, and I, I asked her on the boat, right?

01:10:20.640 You ready for this?

01:10:21.160 This is, this is a testament to her.

01:10:22.900 She, we're on the boat, and it sucks.

01:10:26.060 It sucks.

01:10:26.600 This is a horrible operation.

01:10:28.020 This is not like what happened with Maduro, where Maduro flew pretty comfortably in the

01:10:32.640 end.

01:10:33.160 Yeah.

01:10:33.260 Oh, yeah.

01:10:33.640 This is a miserable experience.

01:10:35.280 Yeah.

01:10:36.100 We're all beat up.

01:10:37.140 We're tired.

01:10:37.860 We're wet.

01:10:38.260 We're cold.

01:10:38.800 It sucks.

01:10:39.920 Pitch black, no lights, trying not to get bombed, trying not to be attacked, trying

01:10:43.820 not to get caught.

01:10:45.600 So, um, I asked her, she says she wants to go back to Venezuela, and I tell her, I go,

01:10:49.760 I think you're crazy.

01:10:51.000 I go, why would you, the world, the world needs you.

01:10:52.740 Your people need you.

01:10:53.880 I go, she says, she says, oh, she says, well, you're the boss of Greybull, right?

01:10:58.340 She goes, you're the boss of your people, right?

01:11:00.700 She goes, you're the commander of your people.

01:11:02.180 And I go, yeah.

01:11:03.060 She goes, you're like the top guy.

01:11:04.560 And I go, yeah.

01:11:05.220 She goes, why are you on this boat?

01:11:06.760 Mm-hmm.

01:11:08.800 She says, for the same reason you are on this boat with your men, it's the same reason

01:11:12.740 why I want to be in Venezuela with my people.

01:11:15.340 I want to lead from the front.

01:11:17.240 And she didn't say it exactly that way.

01:11:19.060 She said it kind of broken a little bit.

01:11:20.820 But that was the message.

01:11:22.040 Will she be the leader?

01:11:23.020 I think in time.

01:11:24.580 The reason why President Trump, I think, says what he says about Maria is that President

01:11:30.320 Trump is from Queens.

01:11:32.320 And I bring it back to Mets fans.

01:11:34.960 Yep.

01:11:35.160 So I think President Trump looks at Venezuela and says, holy cow, I took Maduro, but that's

01:11:40.140 one guy.

01:11:41.020 And there's tens of thousands of these bad guys.

01:11:43.500 Street kids, colectivos, the Sabine, the DJM, the Cubans are everywhere, the Russians are 1.00

01:11:48.360 everywhere, punk thugs.

01:11:49.720 Oh yeah, by the way, the cartels who will gut babies like fish and shove them with kilos

01:11:54.680 of blow just to get them across the border and not get caught by a drug dog for a dollar.

01:11:58.940 The problem with the Maduro thing, with the Venezuela problem, every other war that we

01:12:03.660 fought and been involved in, there was a higher calling.

01:12:08.820 If you're Russia, you're doing it for your country. 0.80

01:12:11.500 I don't agree with what they do, but if you're a Russian army soldier, if you're a corporal

01:12:14.500 in the Russian army, it's because mother Russia has sent me to war to go fight Ukraine. 0.52

01:12:18.820 Got that.

01:12:19.620 Right?

01:12:19.800 I'm a patriot to my people.

01:12:21.360 Right?

01:12:21.740 If we're fighting in Afghanistan, it's God. 0.55

01:12:24.360 Right?

01:12:24.700 Allah and all the terrorism stuff. 0.99

01:12:26.380 Okay, fine.

01:12:27.340 Venezuela is about dollars and cents.

01:12:29.580 There's no nationalistic anything.

01:12:31.960 Maduro is a crime boss.

01:12:34.160 The cartels are doing this.

01:12:35.160 If they can make money selling, more money selling tomatoes, they would.

01:12:39.200 If there was money, more money to be made in smuggling apples and oranges into America,

01:12:43.960 they wouldn't do narcotics.

01:12:45.440 They'd smuggle apples and oranges.

01:12:46.920 But the margins are so good for narcotics, why would you not?

01:12:50.080 So it's a problem with this thing.

01:12:51.680 So these are very bad people, horrible, that will do anything for a buck.

01:12:55.440 Knowing that, if I'm President Trump and I grew up in Queens and I understand what streets

01:13:01.540 are like a little bit, and I'm looking at this, what I don't need right now in these

01:13:06.780 moments of transition is a nice person.

01:13:10.000 I don't need that.

01:13:12.340 I need someone who will scare the bejesus out of the bad guys to get them to capitulate. 0.96

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01:14:40.260 Sometimes the very amount you're stuck at the same red light.

01:14:44.000 Rich, creamy, chocolatey arrow truffle.

01:14:47.200 Feel the arrow bubbles melt.

01:14:49.220 It's mind bubbling.

01:14:50.200 If you go back to every major speech that President Trump did as 45, the only thing he talked

01:14:58.100 about in every single speech were two things, America and Venezuela.

01:15:01.560 Every state of the union, every major policy speech he ever gave, he talked about Venezuela and rightfully

01:15:08.900 so because he gets it.

01:15:10.440 So he knew, this is what I think, I think he knew Maduro has to go, Venezuela has to go,

01:15:15.960 we got to do something about this.

01:15:17.580 I can't just unilaterally go do this thing.

01:15:19.600 I got to get people behind me.

01:15:20.980 So what do I do?

01:15:21.880 Let me start hitting drug boats a little bit because it's good TV for Instagram and I can

01:15:25.340 unite the American people behind an idea.

01:15:27.600 They don't understand.

01:15:29.740 He knows that they don't understand.

01:15:31.340 He has to get them focused on this a little bit.

01:15:34.040 Some people will like that.

01:15:35.260 Some people won't, but everybody will be talking about it.

01:15:38.160 Everyone will be talking about it on both sides of the aisle and all over the place.

01:15:42.200 And he did that beautifully, beautifully.

01:15:45.520 And that's exactly what happened.

01:15:47.100 No one is, everyone in America today knows Venezuela.

01:15:52.880 Venezuela, two months ago, three, four, five months ago, no one could find Venezuela on

01:15:57.940 a map.

01:15:59.020 No one even knew it was a thing.

01:16:00.680 No one, you see?

01:16:01.420 So I think it was brilliant what he did.

01:16:03.920 President Trump, for all of his faults, and we're all faulted people, especially those

01:16:08.860 of us from Queens, President Trump knows how to message.

01:16:11.940 He knows how to communicate.

01:16:14.080 People don't understand.

01:16:16.100 He's a showman.

01:16:17.540 One way or another.

01:16:18.100 Another, he is a showman, and it is a strength, because he knows how to tell a story.

01:16:25.520 Even if he can't tell it himself, he knows how to construct the story.

01:16:29.000 And he understands that in today's world, where Instagram is where people think, because

01:16:34.120 no one's paying attention, no one's paying attention.

01:16:35.980 No one's serious.

01:16:36.880 No.

01:16:37.180 My sister and Mike Tyson.

01:16:38.560 Yeah, right, right, right, right.

01:16:39.680 He knows.

01:16:40.080 Yeah.

01:16:40.760 He knows how to get everyone to pay attention on a thing, whatever that thing is.

01:16:45.080 Rightly, wrongly, and he's okay with being attacked with that.

01:16:47.780 He accepts that risk.

01:16:49.080 That's okay.

01:16:49.740 So I think, you know, when we talk about Maria, I think where the president's driving

01:16:58.080 theoretically is awesome.

01:17:01.600 Second conditions for transition, there'll be a council that's driving towards elections.

01:17:06.680 Elections need to happen.

01:17:08.240 When elections happen, Maria will win, and then she'll ascend to greatness. 1.00

01:17:10.660 It hurts me that Maria isn't like, that President Trump isn't rah-rah Maria, but I understand

01:17:19.940 that.

01:17:20.340 One of the other big problems, I think, again, coming back to Grable Rescue, when we learned

01:17:26.700 this by accident, Maria thought, or I should say, it was perceived that President Trump

01:17:38.600 sanctioned Grable Rescue to go get her in the first place. 0.71

01:17:43.820 So when she first came out and she first shows up in Norway, she said, thank you, President

01:17:46.500 Trump, for rescuing me.

01:17:47.400 Like, President Trump is, I didn't do it.

01:17:51.820 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:17:52.300 And he looked over at Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Rubio and said, Marco,

01:17:56.680 did you do this?

01:17:57.980 And Marco said, I got no idea.

01:18:00.300 We know.

01:18:02.080 And hey, Secretary of War Hegseth, did JSOC or Ninjas or DIA or someone go and do this?

01:18:09.520 Because this is what they do.

01:18:11.160 Um, no, Mr. President, we don't know.

01:18:13.480 Well, Director Ratcliffe, CIA, obviously your guys did this.

01:18:16.320 And he was like, it wasn't us.

01:18:19.120 And it caused a little bit of tension.

01:18:22.120 And right after we, she landed in Norway on a Wednesday and Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,

01:18:27.320 there was this very awkward tension.

01:18:29.860 And you could see the White House is not even commenting on it.

01:18:34.140 And Maria and her team are like, thank you, President Trump.

01:18:36.760 Thank you for doing this.

01:18:37.580 And thank you for doing this.

01:18:38.380 And thank you for doing this.

01:18:39.280 And there was this weird moment.

01:18:42.580 And I think that the president soured on that a little bit.

01:18:45.260 I think, I think that he, he kind of, cause he likes, I know for, I know that he, um, when,

01:18:51.260 when President Trump got, got stiff for the Nobel Peace Prize and Maria got it, Maria smartly,

01:18:57.660 smartly to gain President Trump support said, President Trump, you support me.

01:19:02.640 I will give you my Nobel Peace Prize.

01:19:04.380 And I know that President Trump loved the way that that sounded because he was so upset.

01:19:07.340 And it really is.

01:19:09.680 I'm happy that Maria got it, but it is truly criminal, criminal between Gaza and so many 1.00

01:19:15.980 other things that President Trump has done.

01:19:17.800 And I'm not, I'm not a, I'm a very practical guy.

01:19:21.900 I call us, you know, I call it as I see him, lots of things about President Trump and policies

01:19:25.600 and administration stuff that I really don't like.

01:19:27.420 Like, okay, fine.

01:19:28.280 But there are things that he's done that is just absolutely epic, epic genius to both

01:19:32.440 administrations, both 45 and 47, that just buildings of people have tried for decades

01:19:37.980 to do that he's pulled off with gusto.

01:19:40.880 Yeah, I know.

01:19:41.600 I know.

01:19:41.840 Just unbelievable stuff.

01:19:42.780 I know.

01:19:42.880 So, you know, I'm a, you know, I'm a, I'm a practical, if you will, you know?

01:19:47.560 So when I see, I, I, it's a real shame because I know how hurt he was about the Nobel Prize.

01:19:53.500 And it really is a mistake that he doesn't have it, especially with everything going on.

01:19:58.140 Just, just, just the optics of that are just so callous.

01:20:03.300 It, it, it pissed me off, frankly.

01:20:06.720 So when Maria wins the, wins the Nobel Prize and she says, I'll give it to you.

01:20:10.260 I was like, oh, wow, this'll be great.

01:20:12.600 This'll be awesome.

01:20:14.280 But then the messaging gets messed up a little bit in there.

01:20:17.920 And I think that the president soured on her a little bit.

01:20:20.460 That's too bad.

01:20:20.980 And, and, um, President Trump, like all, like all tough guys from Queens, we're all very

01:20:25.240 emotional people.

01:20:26.260 You know, we're all emotional, all very, you know, we're, we're, we're sensitive sometimes,

01:20:30.000 you know, we're, we're, you know, we're, we, you know, we'll, we'll open your

01:20:33.100 head up with a can opener.

01:20:34.280 No problem.

01:20:34.900 But, um, you know, smile as we do it, but we'll, we'll go do crazy operations and crazy

01:20:40.940 things and be very audacious and all those things.

01:20:42.760 But we're also, um, I, I think that president Trump kind of was like, I don't, I don't know,

01:20:47.680 kind of rubbed her, rubbed him the wrong way a little bit, but I do think that that will 0.96

01:20:51.280 change.

01:20:51.900 I do think she's the rightful leader.

01:20:53.620 I do think that, um, um, she's inspiring to me.

01:20:57.700 I think that if she's inspiring to me, she can be inspiring to president Trump too.

01:21:01.160 I do.

01:21:01.500 I think that that'll, that dynamic will get better.

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The Glenn Beck Program - February 21, 2026

Ep 279 ｜ We're ALREADY in WWIII with Islamists & Trump Knows It ｜ The Glenn Beck Podcast

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