The Great America Show - The Great America Saturday Show： February 21, 2026

00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. Welcome to The Great America Show. It's great to have you with us on another

00:00:06.420 beautiful day in America. I hope you all enjoyed your long weekend. We appreciate you coming back

00:00:12.380 here tonight to see us for The Great America Show. There was a lot of news that happened over the

00:00:16.600 weekend. In just one moment, we're going to be joined by my pal Stephen Gardner, host of The

00:00:20.340 Stephen Gardner Show, to take it all up. But first, the big news of the evening is President

00:00:25.860 Trump getting his fourth Supreme Court justice. The word tonight mulling around Washington, D.C.,

00:00:32.860 is that Justice Samuel Alito may, may, it's not confirmed, but may be stepping down before

00:00:40.060 President Trump is out of office. So that'll give President Trump effectively his fourth Supreme

00:00:47.300 Court justice. So we'll keep you posted on how that plays out. And if he ultimately does decide to,

00:00:53.840 I think it's the right thing to do for these justices. Now, we hate to see them go.

00:00:58.640 But the truth of the matter is, folks, we don't live forever. And our days on earth

00:01:02.640 begin to become numbered the day we're born. So it's been the responsible thing to do in the past.

00:01:09.800 There's been some Democrat ones who decided not to do so, which gave President Trump the three that

00:01:15.280 he's already had. So we'll see how this all plays out. Also, as we sit here tonight, our largest carry,

00:01:22.180 the Gerald Ford is on its way over to the Middle East as the Ayatollah Khamenei continues to ramp up 0.60

00:01:27.920 his inflammatory remarks to President Trump, threatening to sink ships if they are headed

00:01:34.560 over there and some other inflammatory words that aren't going to end well for him. I guess he

00:01:39.720 didn't take the cues on just what happened to Nicolas Maduro a few months ago, but he's going to

00:01:45.700 soon learn to find out who is learning to find out tonight. The Marxist Dems, the Epstein files,

00:01:51.480 folks, which they've cried about for a year now, has completely backfired on the Marxist Democrats,

00:01:57.820 and it's done all but Donald Trump. It's completely backfired on them. It's very, very sad.

00:02:05.100 But this is the reality of what it was. And now they have to deal with it. Folks,

00:02:09.340 to take all of this up and much, much more, as promised, Stephen Gardner, host of the Stephen

00:02:14.000 Gardner Show. Steve, good to see you, my friend. Let's start with first tonight,

00:02:19.240 the words that President Trump may be getting a fourth Supreme Court justice pick should Justice

00:02:26.080 Alito decide to call it quits and retire. Yeah, Justice Alito has been signaling that at age 75,

00:02:35.300 he doesn't want to be the next Ruth Ginsburg. And so he's saying, wait a minute, I've got this book

00:02:43.020 coming out. We're going to be wrapping up. The Republicans control the Senate for now. Maybe this

00:02:50.140 is my time to sunset, move back into the general population and allow President Trump to put a

00:02:56.940 younger conservative on the bench, somebody that can serve for many years, decades, and push forward

00:03:03.780 conservative values. I think it's brilliant. I think it would be a really good move. Alito has been

00:03:10.200 an amazing justice, super honorable. Most people like him. The left doesn't like him, but he does

00:03:18.120 really good breakdown of his thinking. I think that this would be absolutely incredible. And the fact

00:03:24.360 that it gets under the skin of the Democrats also makes me very happy. Yeah, especially you pointed

00:03:29.600 out Ginsburg. She, you know, unfortunately decided to be selfish, knowing that, you know, she wasn't doing

00:03:36.560 well and didn't give the pick to the Democrats, which then left it for President Trump. You know,

00:03:41.880 not a good look. But yeah, Alito has been one of the most, I mean, reliable conservatives out there.

00:03:47.580 Him and Clarence Thomas among two of the best to ever sit on the court. So, you know, it's one of

00:03:51.800 those things you're sad to see go, but, you know, we appreciate the service and we're forever grateful

00:03:55.460 that you're doing the responsible thing. Now, some conservatives are a little bit nervous,

00:04:00.100 Stephen, because there has been a little bit of inconsistency from some of President Trump's

00:04:04.900 picks and namely Amy Coney Barrett and Justice Kavanaugh when it came to some very, very important

00:04:11.040 things. And, you know, MAGA Republicans in America versus haven't been particularly happy

00:04:16.380 as we're still waiting some landmark cases, birthright citizenship among one of the ones that we're

00:04:23.140 waiting on. So we're going to see how they decide to rule on that. But according to Polymarket and all

00:04:29.020 the betting markets, not looking good tariffs, among some of the other things that they're waiting

00:04:33.620 on. Do you think this time around, President Trump will go with his gut and not listen to some of the

00:04:40.540 people around him to pick the most conservative who will be on that court for the rest of their lives

00:04:46.460 and will, you know, rule in favor of truth, justice in the American way? I mean, anytime you pick

00:04:54.160 somebody, you know, it's really hard to fully understand how another human being is thinking

00:05:00.340 or receiving data with their brain. But, you know, obviously, he's going to do his best.

00:05:07.380 Kavanaugh, sometimes a disappointment. Coney Barrett, sometimes a disappointment. I mean,

00:05:12.800 it's obvious that they are much smarter than Jackson. Oh, yeah. Who doesn't seem to understand or be able

00:05:21.180 to grasp who likes to go to the Emmys and pretend cosplay that she's part of, you know, pop culture

00:05:28.780 or something like that. But I think that President Trump has good judges to pick from and that he will

00:05:35.660 probably go with somebody that's, you know, under the age of 60 that has at least 10, 10 to 20 years

00:05:43.240 that lines up with his thinking with conservative values and America first. I think those will probably

00:05:49.740 be the two things that he will look for in a justice, whether it's a man or a woman. 0.82

00:05:54.980 Yeah. Like I said, we just got to hope and we've got to pray that this time around,

00:05:59.980 you know, things work out better than they have because the inconsistency with Coney Barrett

00:06:06.820 and Kavanaugh. Steve, you mentioned Ketanji Brown Jackson, who's clearly not as sharp as some of her

00:06:15.300 peers on the Supreme Court. I want to talk about someone in Congress who's not as sharp as some

00:06:20.440 of her peers, and that's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who was doing some word salads over in Munich this 0.97

00:06:28.480 week. I think that this is such a, you know, I think that this is a, this is, of course, a very longstanding

00:06:43.800 policy of the United States.

00:06:47.620 Martha, you bring me on your show, you show me the most uncomfortable 20 seconds of television

00:06:53.620 I've ever seen. My takeaway from that. What happened there? What do you think?

00:06:58.580 Well, I think it's a person who doesn't know what she actually thinks. And I've seen this way too much

00:07:02.980 in Washington with politicians where they are given lines. And when you ask them to go outside,

00:07:08.500 the lines they were given, they completely fall apart because look, does AOC, does anybody really

00:07:13.320 believe that AOC has very thoughtful ideas about the global world order or about what the United

00:07:21.200 States should do with our policy in Asia or our policy in Europe? No, this is a person who is

00:07:26.540 mouthing the slogans that somebody else gave her. And it shows how thin the Democrats policy actually

00:07:35.640 is on all these very, very important questions. Look, that was embarrassing. If I had given that answer,

00:07:40.780 I would say, you know what, maybe I'd go read a book about China and Taiwan before I go out on the

00:07:46.060 world stage again. I hope that Congresswoman Cortez has the same humility. I'm skeptical.

00:07:51.140 All right.

00:07:51.820 This also comes, Stephen, as AOC, speaking of geography, mentioned that Venezuela was south of

00:07:58.860 the equator. It was earlier this week. I mean, truly, truly embarrassing. And that's why I like J.D.

00:08:04.340 so much because he's so practical to answer to say, listen, if that were me, you guys would absolutely

00:08:10.140 obliterate me. You'd probably even accuse me of having some sort of health issue, some sort of

00:08:15.580 dementia. You know, President Biden regularly says that he's grateful that Jimmy Carter lived long

00:08:22.440 enough to see a president worse than himself in Joe Biden. And I'm sure Kamala Harris was like, oh,

00:08:28.580 my gosh, thank goodness. Somebody is worse at articulating a message than myself. She she seemed

00:08:37.360 very caught off guard. I've got to tell you, she was she was asked questions about taxing the rich,

00:08:43.060 about the border, about foreign policy, about foreign war. And this was her first time on the

00:08:50.100 global stage. And I think she just ruined any chance of being president of the United States in the 1.00

00:08:56.720 future. She obviously showed she has no knowledge of foreign policy. She has no ability. I mean, that 0.84

00:09:03.520 wasn't even a tough government leader. That was like a poorly, you know, easy softball question

00:09:10.420 from an international reporter. And she couldn't she couldn't handle that. It was sad. Like J.D.

00:09:17.700 Vance said, hopefully she'll go read a book, because if she's going to try to take over show 0.98

00:09:22.340 Schumer's Senate seat, she's going to have to know this stuff. You know what, Stephen? I in a regular

00:09:28.580 world, I would agree with you. But in the world we live in now, I got to disagree with you. These

00:09:32.880 people will vote for anybody other than and I'm talking about the Democrats. I don't vote for

00:09:38.080 anybody with just a pulse. I mean, we watched them vote for Joe Biden, who, you know, was a walking

00:09:43.900 mannequin. We watched them vote for Kamala Harris, who was either drunk at 24 seven or just incapable of, 1.00

00:09:52.020 you know, cognitively putting together a sentence. So I think that at this point,

00:09:57.080 Stephen, this point, Stephen, it's a prerequisite to not know where you are or what you're doing

00:10:01.560 to be voting for the Democrats. I want to take a quick break here, Steve. When we come back,

00:10:05.880 I want to get President Trump's reaction to that. He saw it because he sees everything.

00:10:11.560 It was just as good as J.D.'s, if not better. Folks, we're talking with Stephen Gardner,

00:10:15.380 host of The Stephen Gardner Show. If you're joining us on YouTube or Rumble or audio,

00:10:18.860 please be sure to hit the like, subscribe, follow button. We're coming right back with Stephen.

00:10:22.500 Please stay with us.

00:10:27.080 Steve, before we went to break there, I'd mentioned that President Trump, of course,

00:10:32.520 reacted on his way back to Washington, D.C. last night. Let's take a quick listen.

00:10:37.940 By the way, I watched AOC answering questions in Munich. This was not a good look with the United

00:10:44.900 States. I watched Gavin Newsom answering questions in Munich, and this was a bad look for our country.

00:10:53.240 This was a bad... These two people are incompetent. And at least Hillary's competent. She's just 0.99

00:10:58.860 Trump deranged. She was so deranged. She is an angry woman. But I watched the other two 0.99

00:11:05.940 speaking and answering basic questions. Look, Gavin has destroyed California. And AOC, I never

00:11:13.920 really got her... I never heard her speak very much. And they started answering questions. She

00:11:18.980 had no idea what was happening. She had no idea how to answer, you know, very important questions

00:11:24.320 concerning the world. But she can't answer questions concerning New York City either,

00:11:29.700 because New York City has got some problems.

00:11:34.120 See, even before we went to cut up on a break there, I had said to you, I disagree with you

00:11:39.740 briefly about her reading a book and it helping. Do you agree with my sentiment after the fact

00:11:47.680 that, like, they'll just vote for anybody with the D in front of their name?

00:11:52.160 Yeah, you got me there.

00:11:55.140 I didn't mean to.

00:11:56.580 I'm using a common sense, conservative, educated brain.

00:12:01.800 And I have to remember that if she got voted in in the first place, she's probably not going

00:12:08.320 to be voted out. I mean, she messed up things with a massive billion dollar contract with Amazon 1.00

00:12:14.740 years ago. I mean, just over and over again, she is an embarrassment. And yet the people of New 0.95

00:12:21.100 York continue to vote her in. I don't know. Maybe they think she's pretty. Maybe it's just the fact

00:12:26.760 that she's the incumbent. The fact that she, you know, stands up for woke ideology. I don't I

00:12:33.380 don't personally get it. She wouldn't last out here in Utah. But apparently in New York, they love

00:12:38.760 her.

00:12:39.820 Yeah. And New York is a you were here about two weeks ago now. And we were talking with your wife

00:12:45.140 and she was saying how much you loved it. And I couldn't believe it coming from where you come

00:12:48.640 from to be here. It's like every time I leave here for a trip, I question as I get back on that plane

00:12:53.900 back into LaGuardia Airport. What the hell am I still doing here? Why do I still live here? And I guess

00:12:58.400 probably the easy answer is because I'm close to family. And, you know, that's the thing I value

00:13:02.720 most being an unmarried man here. But it's just become such a terrible place. Even we've got our 0.84

00:13:11.000 idiot mayor now proposing. I think he had a nine and a half percent tax today because Kathy Hochul won't get 1.00

00:13:16.980 on board with his stupidity of free everything. I listened to Joe Rogan's podcast, probably one of 0.99

00:13:23.960 the few that I actually listened to. And he had Cheryl Hines on, who's RFK's wife. And I was listening

00:13:30.420 to it this morning. And, you know, they were talking about politicians promising and over promising

00:13:36.420 and under delivering. And he asked her a good question. He was like, do you think that these or

00:13:42.040 she asked him, rather, do you think these politicians fully intend on keeping up their

00:13:46.780 promises or do you think they're just total liars? And Rogan was like, you know, I think

00:13:53.040 they're just total liars. And they sit there and they lie to the voters knowing damn well they're 0.99

00:13:57.640 not going to do any of their stuff. And nobody ever holds them accountable because you've got

00:14:01.580 people like Nancy Pelosi who've, you know, sat in Congress for 100 years. You've got Chuck Schumer's

00:14:06.880 been there for 100 years. You've got Mitch McConnell, who's finally leaving after 100

00:14:10.620 years. And it's like they lie to these people and the people just don't remember it. Now,

00:14:16.080 your audience and my audience, Stephen, they remember when we do something wrong because

00:14:20.140 they let us know in the comments that they're not happy and that they won't be back.

00:14:23.920 OK, these are educated people who are watching you and I. What the heck is going on with the

00:14:28.640 voters who vote for these Democrats and Republicans? I got to be honest, too.

00:14:32.540 Yeah, I you know, I want to say that there's good people that are in Congress and those are the ones

00:14:41.080 that I try to have on my show. But I do think a lot of people, they just make promises and then they

00:14:47.180 get to Washington, D.C. and they go, I'm not going to be able to solve that. We'll just kick this

00:14:52.060 can down the road and some future person. But then they stay in. You know, you got like Mitch

00:14:56.800 McConnell. The guy's been in in government longer than I've been alive. He's been milking America

00:15:02.300 longer than I've been alive. So I wish that there were term limits. But I also wish that there was

00:15:09.540 a ban on stock trading. The problem is the people that can stop stock trading and put in term limits

00:15:15.580 are the people that we need to stop. So it's just it's not going to happen.

00:15:20.320 I know it's such a sad proposition that this is what we're I mean, a rock and a hard place is,

00:15:25.980 I think, an understatement for where we're at right now with what we're dealing with.

00:15:31.260 So, Stephen, let's talk about the Epstein files. You and I have done it and people are tired of

00:15:35.920 hearing about them. We're not going to talk about them per se. But I want to talk about the effects

00:15:39.580 of them, because over the weekend, the OJ dropping a list of a few hundred names of people involved,

00:15:47.320 dropping millions and millions of documents so far. And it's played out exactly as I suspect.

00:15:54.660 And I think you suspect it as well. The Democrats are completely underwater in this. It's completely

00:15:59.900 backfired on the Democrats. Now, let's be frank with why they want the Epstein files out. They

00:16:05.820 thought they were somehow getting Trump implicated, that Donald Trump was some sort of child predator, 0.97

00:16:10.760 and he preyed on young children. We found out quite the opposite. As a matter of fact, Stephen,

00:16:14.360 we found out that 20 years ago, just under 20 years ago, President Trump ran and snitched,

00:16:21.140 this is a good snitching, to the police over in Miami after Epstein got arrested the first time

00:16:28.360 and said, I'm so glad you got this guy. Everyone knows what he's been up to. That doesn't sound like

00:16:34.720 a man to me, Stephen, who's partaking in the Epstein files the way that some other people

00:16:41.740 have, like Bill Clinton. Your thoughts before we roll a clip. Well, this is what President Trump was

00:16:49.200 trying to articulate, and I believe he failed at it. But when he said that the Jeffrey Epstein is a

00:16:54.980 hoax, what he was trying to say is attaching me to Jeffrey Epstein's bad behavior is the hoax,

00:17:01.940 and they're going to use it against us. And because he didn't just come right out and be

00:17:07.360 helpful, it's now the number one issue that he has next to maybe Israel or Netanyahu or something

00:17:14.400 like that. Like, it is something that has been really hard for him, but he's not in there. I never

00:17:20.060 believed he was going to be in there, but I wanted the files to come out so that we could figure out

00:17:24.960 what the truth was. But right now, it's almost all Democrats. Many of them linked to Biden and even

00:17:31.580 more to Obama. But yeah, it's a shame. Yeah, they've caught themselves in a little bit of

00:17:38.600 a pickle here. Hillary Clinton was doing an interview, and I mean, she was all over the 1.00

00:17:44.920 place, first denying they had any connection with him at all, didn't know him. She said she didn't

00:17:49.600 know him, but then admitted, oh, well, Bill was on the plane maybe once or twice. Let's take a listen

00:17:54.620 to Hillary. And speaking of words, Alex, from the Democrat caucus.

00:17:59.840 Do you regret the links that there have been?

00:18:02.400 You know, we have no links. We have a very clear record that we've been willing to talk

00:18:09.600 about, which my husband has said he took some rides on the airplane for his charitable work.

00:18:16.560 I don't recall ever meeting him.

00:18:20.200 Did you ever meet Ghislaine Maxwell?

00:18:21.820 I did on a few occasions, and thousands of people go to the Clinton Global Initiative. So

00:18:27.580 it, to me, is not something that is really at the heart of what this matter is about.

00:18:36.760 They are accused, and in both cases, were convicted of horrific crimes against girls and women.

00:18:45.160 That should be the focus. And we are more than happy to say what we know, which is very limited

00:18:52.080 and totally unrelated to their behavior or their crimes. And we want to do it in public,

00:18:59.040 because let's make this transparent.

00:19:01.780 There are calls for another individual who denies wrongdoing to go before Congress on this matter.

00:19:09.420 Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew. Do you think he should testify?

00:19:13.580 I think everybody should testify.

00:19:15.640 Including the former prince.

00:19:16.900 I think everybody should testify who was asked to testify. I just want it to be fair. I want

00:19:23.380 everybody treated the same way. That's not true for my husband and me, because other witnesses

00:19:29.020 were asked to testify. They gave written statements under oath. We offered that. They want to pull us,

00:19:36.480 why do they want to pull us into this? To divert attention from President Trump. This is not complicated.

00:19:43.580 I mean, that's brutal. You know, this is a woman who's enabled Bill Clinton his entire life,

00:19:53.800 as he's, you know, done his promiscuous behavior in the White House, in the Oval Office, as a matter

00:19:59.640 of fact. And now she's, you know, of course, playing the victim. Everyone should testify.

00:20:05.280 Her and her husband ran from testifying when they were called to testify, and they were going to do

00:20:08.960 behind closed doors with the transcript to not embarrass them in front of a committee. They

00:20:13.780 chose to run. Yeah. This has all the earmarks of what happened with the Russia collusion, right?

00:20:23.240 As Trump starts to take over as the front runner in 2016, the Clintons start realizing, oh, wait a

00:20:32.520 minute. We have a problem with Bill Clinton taking money from Russia. And I've got this in my emails.

00:20:40.060 Therefore, we're going to destroy 30,000 emails. And we're going to fabricate this story that Putin 0.60

00:20:47.240 controls Donald Trump and that he is a Russian asset. So they end up making this stuff up. This is

00:20:55.140 exactly what's going on. Like, oh, crap. Now, Jeffrey Epstein coming to the White House 17 times, 0.99

00:21:01.700 riding on the airplane, pictures with, you know, underage girls. This is all starting to look 0.84

00:21:08.120 really bad. Oh, I know what the problem is. Donald Trump is trying to steer the attention away from

00:21:14.720 himself. Right. Are you kidding me? There's 4 million documents. And the documents clearly say

00:21:21.620 that he was the snitch down in Florida that said, if you go after Ghislaine Maxwell,

00:21:27.520 a truly evil person, you will get Jeffrey Epstein. That's what came out of the Epstein files.

00:21:33.640 Yep. And they're completely beat on it. President Trump laid in on it. Let's take a listen.

00:21:37.680 So Hillary Clinton said in an interview today that she and her husband are getting pulled

00:21:42.100 into the Epstein matter to divert attention from you and that your administration has something to

00:21:47.880 hide. What's your responsibility? I have nothing to hide. I've been exonerated. I have nothing to do

00:21:52.560 with Jeffrey Epstein. They went in hoping that they'd find it and found just the opposite. I've

00:21:57.220 been totally exonerated. In fact, Jeffrey Epstein was spiting that I don't get elected with some

00:22:02.900 author, a sleazebag, by the way. And I've been totally exonerated. No, no. They're getting pulled

00:22:09.160 in and that's their problem. I don't know. They're going to have to see what happens. But I watched

00:22:13.080 her in Munich and she seriously has Trump derangement syndrome. I've been totally exonerated

00:22:19.620 on Epstein. And it's really interesting because they've been pulled in. Think of it. They've

00:22:25.300 been pulled in. And many other Democrats have been pulled in. Your thoughts, Stephen. I mean,

00:22:33.600 he's right. He has been exonerated in the sense that his name is not there. He's not connected

00:22:42.760 to the evil, bad, sadistic behavior of Jeffrey Epstein. And I don't know that he even believes

00:22:52.040 that Bill Clinton is guilty, but he does not want to be anywhere near this story. And on

00:23:00.020 the one hand, it's been really helpful for redeeming his reputation. On the other hand, it's been

00:23:07.080 really bad. There's many people saying that this is now the Epstein cover-up administration. So

00:23:13.480 I still think that he needs to get out in front of this better than he has. And I hope that he will

00:23:20.680 going forward. But right now, the Clintons, they're going to do everything in their power

00:23:27.560 to avoid testifying. They're probably going to plead the fifth. They will use every excuse under

00:23:35.720 the sun to distance themselves from Jeffrey Epstein. That's what I think is going to happen.

00:23:43.220 Yeah, you're right. I think I agree with you 100%. Folks, we're taking one more quick break here on

00:23:46.340 The Great America Show. If you're joining us on YouTube Rumble, please be sure to hit the like,

00:23:50.100 subscribe, follow button. We're coming right back with Stephen Gardner. Please stay with us.

00:23:57.560 Thanks, everybody, for staying with us here on The Great America Show. Steve,

00:24:02.060 are we going to war with Iran? Right now, as we speak, the USS General Ford is on its way over to

00:24:10.300 the Middle East as the Ayatollah. He's been doing some tough guy talking. Donald Trump doesn't like

00:24:16.480 that tough guy talk. He didn't tolerate it with Kim Jong-un, and he's not going to tolerate it,

00:24:21.780 I think, with the Ayatollah, who, by the way, has been hiding in a dirt hole for like the last six

00:24:26.640 months. Yeah. I don't know that we're going to war, but we're certainly signaling that we're going 0.94

00:24:33.420 to war. President Trump said that the conversations with the leader of Iran were actually productive,

00:24:40.460 but in case they don't go their way, that the U.S. military will be there and prepared.

00:24:46.060 Right now, you've got the USS Gerald Ford heading that direction. You've got other water military

00:24:54.940 vessels on their way. I think what we're about to see is a Venezuela-like pressure campaign where

00:25:01.780 we're going to have a lot of military power in the area. I don't know that we're going to see

00:25:06.880 a miraculous future movie, you know, extraction of the Ayatollah or something like that, but I do believe

00:25:15.820 that this is a full court press in order to get them to stand down on nuclear weapons and back off

00:25:22.280 on our ally Israel and maybe even put some pressure on them to do less business with China.

00:25:29.220 Yeah, or totally stop it. Yeah, we took out their darling Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro and

00:25:35.260 brought him to America where he's sitting in jail just a few miles down the road from me.

00:25:41.500 So he should take that as a cue to what can happen to him. You mentioned Cuba. President Trump

00:25:46.820 gave some words on it last night on Air Force One. Let's take a listen.

00:25:50.720 Good morning, Cuba to make a deal. What does that deal look like? What do you want them to do?

00:25:55.400 Cuba is right now a failed nation and they don't even have jet fuel to get for airplanes to take

00:26:01.540 off. They're clogging up their runway. We're talking to Cuba right now and Marco Rubio talking to Cuba

00:26:08.040 right now and they should absolutely make a deal because it's a humanity. It's really a humanitarian

00:26:13.940 threat. And we have a lot of great Cuban Americans and they're going to be very happy when they're

00:26:19.560 going to be able to go back and say hello to their relatives and do things that they should have been

00:26:23.520 allowed to do for a long time. I'm very interested in the people that are here that were treated so

00:26:28.800 badly by Castro and the Cuban authorities. They have been treated horribly. So we'll see how it all turns

00:26:36.160 out. But Cuba and us, we are talking. In the meantime, there's an embargo. There's no oil.

00:26:43.020 There's no money. There's no anything. If a deal isn't made, would you consider an operation like

00:26:47.380 the one in Venezuela? I don't want to answer that. Why would I answer that? If I was,

00:26:52.520 it wouldn't be a very tough operation as you can figure. But I don't think that'll be necessary.

00:27:00.380 For him to not answer that, it means anything's on the table and everything is on the table and

00:27:05.360 extracting the leader of Cuba far easier, I think, than Maduro.

00:27:12.000 I don't know that he's going to even have to do that because they've seen what he could do

00:27:18.620 in Venezuela, which was much more heavily guarded, much more armed. The protection, the inland,

00:27:25.560 all of that. Cuba is a very easy to entrap island. Right now, their power grids are failing.

00:27:33.520 They're running out of fuel because part of their deal with helping Venezuela and China

00:27:39.620 and helping with spying on the United States of America was that they would get access to cheap

00:27:46.080 oil through Venezuela. Well, that's now been cut off. And so there's a real chance of food issues,

00:27:54.500 as the president said there. They don't even have fuel for their airplanes to take off. But I don't

00:28:00.140 I don't think President Trump means to harm them. I think he just wants bad leadership to step out of

00:28:05.760 the way, quit harassing the United States of America, quit spying on us, quit doing operations 0.59

00:28:11.680 on behalf of Venezuela and Colombia. So it'll be really interesting to see what happens. But this is

00:28:17.780 like he said, this is easy peasy, but he's not going to open up about what they want to do.

00:28:23.140 Trump is a master poker player. Nobody knew what they were going to do to Maduro. Nobody knew what

00:28:29.440 they were going to do to Iran's nuclear facilities. So he holds his cards close to his chest.

00:28:35.440 Yeah. And I got to be honest, this time around, Stephen, the leaks out of the White House

00:28:39.320 have, I mean, been to such a minimum. It's great that he's got people around him this time,

00:28:44.600 you know, who are, you know, tight lipped. And I mean, they have no choice. It's it's national

00:28:50.720 security. Before we wrap up, I want to get your take on something. I've been following this.

00:28:55.480 I'm one of these, you know, true crime junkies. I was big on the case up in Idaho. The four girls

00:29:03.220 who were brutally murdered by Brian Kohlberger. I followed that case. Absolutely disgusting. I've

00:29:09.040 been following this Nancy Guthrie case out in Arizona. You and I were both in Arizona,

00:29:14.380 just a few months ago, a few miles away from where that happened. Your thoughts on how the

00:29:18.860 police out there are handling this case. To me, I'll give you my take real quick. It's hard to

00:29:25.580 believe that we live in such a surveillance society where we're being surveilled 24 seven

00:29:29.920 by every doorbell, as we saw during the Super Bowl commercial ring, every phone call. And we now,

00:29:36.840 you know, it was a month later. We can't find this guy who abducted an 84 year old woman from her

00:29:41.740 house. No car. They have his belongings that he bought from Walmart. I mean, they said a backpack

00:29:49.280 and a jacket. To me, it doesn't seem that hard to go to, you know, 10 Walmarts and run an algorithm

00:29:55.720 to see who bought those two items. A month later, we still have no idea what's going on.

00:30:02.660 You know, I imagine that they're doing their best, but it is a mystery why they haven't been able to

00:30:06.860 track this person down. I mean, they've got ring doorbell camera information. As you mentioned,

00:30:12.520 they've got DNA samples. They know what equipment was purchased and, and most likely where it was from.

00:30:19.220 The fact that this person has been able to disappear. I mean, I can see why they started

00:30:24.520 to question whether the family was in on it or the son-in-law and they've all allegedly been cleared

00:30:29.880 by the FBI, but it's, it's very sad. I hope that this woman ends up being found alive and return.

00:30:38.680 I don't know that she will. I've also read online that they may have been able to get down into Mexico

00:30:44.200 by now. And that's why they're struggling to find them as that trail has gone cold, but it's a,

00:30:49.840 it's a sad situation. You know, it is interesting just how much media attention this is getting

00:30:56.580 when I think a lot of the media attention should be on the fraud that's happening around the country.

00:31:01.920 But of course they like to cover stuff like this instead of what would be good for the nation.

00:31:06.780 Yeah. Yeah. I agree with you a hundred percent, but, uh, president Trump is a good man to, to,

00:31:12.920 you know, the, all of our flaws as human beings, he's a good man. Obviously Savannah Guthrie is, um,

00:31:19.180 a very big Trump hater. And, um, you know, her mother was no fan of Trump either, but that's who

00:31:24.200 president Trump is. He's, he sent in all his resources, um, to help these people. And, uh,

00:31:30.900 it tells you, like I said, who Donald Trump is, by the way, um, some, some news coming out of it

00:31:36.320 right now, they're actually using some genetic genealogy testing right now to try to match

00:31:40.860 some samples that DNA from the glove came back a negative. Basically what that means is, uh,

00:31:46.340 if you ever get arrested, uh, if you ever run through anything, they take your, your fingerprints

00:31:51.020 and, you know, anything like this ever happens, it runs through a database to see if you're a match.

00:31:55.800 So what that means is the DNA from that glove was not a match to someone who's been arrested before,

00:32:00.360 but it's being run through now a genealogy system. So like a 23 and me, which is by the way,

00:32:05.260 how they call it Brian Kohlberger, the man who killed those four girls in Idaho. As I mentioned,

00:32:08.940 they run it through, uh, you know, 23 and me or ancestry.com. And then, uh, you know,

00:32:14.420 I think they're more likely to get some pings back from that to see whose DNA matches.

00:32:18.400 Steven Gardner. We can talk for another two, three, four, five hours. Uh, I appreciate you

00:32:23.800 joining us today here. You get the last word, my friend. Uh, I just, I I'm excited about the

00:32:29.400 prospect of president Trump being able to put another younger conservative on the bench for

00:32:34.880 many, many years. Uh, the economy is looking really good. Japan just, uh, started pouring the

00:32:41.800 $550 billion into the U S economy. That's only one 36th of the money that has been pledged to the

00:32:50.340 United States. I I'm optimistic. I know we need to get those food prices down or those wages up.

00:32:55.800 And so hopefully we'll get there. Amen. My brother. Amen. Steven Gardner. I'll talk to you

00:33:01.680 soon, my friend. Thank you. Steven Gardner folks, host of the Steven Gardner show. If you don't already

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The Great America Show - February 21, 2026

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