TRUMP AND HARRIS SQUARE OFF FOR THE FIRST TIME
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Kamala Harris and Donald Trump face off for the first time in a presidential debate, and it was a rough one. To take up all that transpired last night, Rich Valdez of America at Night joins us to discuss what went wrong and what went right.
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Hello, everybody, and welcome to The Great America Show.
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I want to start today's show by taking a moment to recognize and reflect on all those selfless
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heroes that tragically lost their lives on this day 23 years ago.
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As a New Yorker, September 11, 2001 still feels like yesterday to me, and we will always
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remember the sacrifices our heroes made on that day.
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It may feel like it was just yesterday, but the world has changed so much since that day
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Whether it be a new war started around the world or the political landscape here at
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home, America is more divided now than ever before, and it's all thanks to our current
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It's now 54 days until Election Day, and last night we watched Kamala Harris and Donald Trump
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It was a rough one to watch, Kamala Harris standing on a stage she had no business being on in
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She never received one vote from the millions of Americans who voted in the Democratic primary
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this year, but yet she stood up there like we owe her something.
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Often appearing arrogant and rehearsed, Kamala didn't lay out one policy for the country.
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She couldn't defend the Biden administration's record and had nothing to say when she was
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To take up all that transpired last night, I want to bring in our guest today.
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He's radio talk show commentator and host of Rich Valdez, America at Night, weeknights
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Last night was a rough night for America, I think, for all of us to say.
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She stole the nomination from from Donald Trump.
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What was your reaction from what transpired last night?
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And of course, thoughts and prayers to everybody who lost friends and family on 9-11.
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And, you know, looking at the debate last night, again, it was what I think what we expected.
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I think she probably did better than I expected.
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I expected her to have a couple of rehearsed lines where she was going to land a punch or
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But it seemed like she it was like WWE wrestling.
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It was not only her landing a couple of punches on Trump.
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It was her and then tagging in David Muir and Ashley Davis.
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So it was it was disappointing, to say the least.
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I think Trump was incredibly frustrated, not only on behalf of the American people, but
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And you could see that he was very visibly frustrated.
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But all in all, he held his own when it came to substance.
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Trump won this thing hands down when it came to style.
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I would say she definitely she did way better than I expected.
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I mean, I don't I say this, I guess, in the most respectful way.
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But Hillary Clinton carries herself and she has class.
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Kamala Harris, when she's lost, you can tell she stands up there and she smiles and she
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Even this morning, I saw her at the 9-11 memorial and she's sitting there laughing and
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smiling with Joe Biden, which doesn't say much because he doesn't really know where
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As for policy, I want to I want to play this this shot for everybody.
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This is how Kamala Harris opened up the debate when she was asked the first question.
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When it comes to the economy, do you believe Americans are better off than they were four
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So I was raised as a middle class kid and I am actually the only person on this stage
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who has a plan that is about lifting up the middle class and working people of America.
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I believe in the ambition, the aspirations, the dreams of the American people.
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And that is why I imagine and have actually a plan to build what I call an opportunity
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We know that we have a shortage of homes and housing and the cost of housing is too expensive
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We know that young families need support to raise their children.
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And I intend on extending a tax cut for those families of six thousand dollars, which is
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the largest child tax credit that we have given in a long time so that those young families
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can afford to buy a crib, buy a car seat, buy clothes for their children.
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Rich, the question was, were you better off four years ago than you are today?
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Kamala Harris instead going off into a rant about what she's going to do.
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So at no time did David Muir or Ashley Davis say, oh, I'm out of vice president.
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They did that to Trump time and again, trying to get him on.
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And if he didn't answer what they wanted or how he wanted, they would chime in with their
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own facts at the end and try and fact check him or, you know, pseudo fact check.
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And the one with the illegal immigrants and the dog.
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But ultimately, yeah, she didn't answer the question.
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She used it as a chance for a campaign stump speech, which, again, I don't blame her.
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I would do the same thing if I had no plan and I knew that I was going to contribute to
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I would absolutely say, well, you know, look at this great head of hair that I have.
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Yeah, I think the truth that the truth of the matter is, Rich, the American people are hurting.
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Oh, well, it only it only was up two and a half.
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The truth of the matter is, Rich, that the American people are hurting.
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They are feeling the wrath of the Biden administration.
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Well, inflation only rise to two and a half percent.
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Well, when President Trump left, inflation was at one point four percent.
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If the American people don't see through this phoniness of the Kamala Harris and Biden administration, you know, then I think it's they're the fools for what's going on.
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Trump asked Kamala why she hasn't done what she said she's going to do.
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Joe Biden is the president of the United States, so they can do whatever they essentially want.
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I mean, they've done it on student loan forgiveness and a bunch of other radical Marxist Dems things.
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So she just started by saying she's going to do this.
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They've had three and a half years to fix the border.
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They've had three and a half years to create jobs and all the things we talked about.
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She should leave right now, go down to that beautiful White House, go to the Capitol, get everyone together and do the things you want to do.
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But you haven't done it and you won't do it because you believe in things that the American people don't believe in.
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You believe in things like we're not going to frack.
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We're not going to do things that are going to make this country strong, whether you like it or not.
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And within one year, they were back to building normal energy plants.
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We can't sacrifice our country for the sake of bad vision.
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We're being laughed at all over the world, all over the world.
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They don't understand what happened to us as a nation.
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We're going to end up in a third world war, and it'll be a war like no other because of
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What these people have done to our country and maybe toughest of all is allowing millions
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Many of them are criminals, and they're destroying our country.
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The worst president, the worst vice president in the history of our country.
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You know, Rich, he brings up a very good point there.
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When Trump left office, he left us with a secure border.
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He left us with gas that was $2.40 a gallon nationwide.
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He left us with mortgage rates that were 2.7 percent.
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You look now, the average interest rate to buy a home is 7 to 8, 9, maybe 10 percent for
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Gas, I drive a Jeep Wrangler, Rich, under Trump.
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I think it was like 40 bucks to fill up the car a regular.
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I can't get out of the gas station for less than 65 bucks.
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Inflation, you go to buy, President Trump said last night, a pack of bacon or eggs, and
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Why hasn't Kamala Harris and Joe Biden already done what they promised they're going to do,
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And honestly, that's all she does is say she knows how to fix it.
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The reality is every time she's asked about why things are bad, she just joins you.
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You're like, oh my gosh, Kamala, I can't afford it.
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This empathetic approach, I guess, will fool some people because some people really just
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But it's not going to fool everybody, especially people that have money, people that understand
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how money works, people understand how inflation works.
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There's a lot of people that listen to the talk radio.
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There's a lot of people that watch television and follow the news.
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And they're looking at her thinking, scratching their head, what is going on with Kamala Harris?
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So I think these these are really weak responses.
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And he said, then why haven't you done anything about it?
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You know, I would have loved it if he would have said that, you know, she contributed to
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And he did later on say, I left the best inflation.
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I think maybe a little bit of a softer tone and a little bit more ridicule would have
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actually helped where, you know, he just kind of came across as so frustrated.
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But I guess I think he was mirroring the energy that the American people have, because I think
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a lot of people watch this debate and they were also equally frustrated.
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I think it's President Trump had every right to be frustrated.
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As I said earlier, Kamala Harris had no business being up on that stage in the first place.
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She never received one vote in a primary from from the 2020 election, the 2016 election
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When we come back, I want to talk about you had mentioned people eating ducks, specifically
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the Haitian migrants eating ducks in Springfield, Ohio.
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We're going to break that all down and more debate coverage when we return.
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And Rich, right before we went to break, I'd mention President Trump last night brought
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up the story that we've all been following, that Haitian migrants, according to Springfield,
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Ohio, residents, Haitian migrants have been seen in their parks cutting off the heads and
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Some neighborhood people also saying, reporting their cat's missing.
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And that same resident looked over a neighbor's fence, which happens to be where some Haitian
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migrants live, and saw the little cat hanging on a tree, draining out its blood as if they
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And you know what, it's sad because I watched, I guess it was CNN, J.D. Vance went on CNN last
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night in the spin room, and he asked a simple question to the moderator, to the anchor.
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Instead of sitting here saying it's not true, because it's now from multiple sources, right?
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The only people we're hearing it's not true from is the mainstream media.
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The Ohio city commissioner said it's unconfirmed.
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So they, you know, they don't have substantial evidence yet to, you know, confirm that it's
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It's our job to go out there and figure out what the hell is going on.
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Your thoughts about what's going on out in Springfield, Ohio.
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And exactly what you said, we have to figure out what's going on here to just dismiss it out
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of hand. It seems more like an attack on Trump to just say like, oh my gosh, you don't know
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This is fake, phony and fraud, which I think is 100% right.
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The second part of that is, look, people who grow up in poverty in other parts of the world
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And I know that, listen, I have some Cuban friends that were joking.
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We were together one time and they were joking about how, you know, poverty is so real in Cuba
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that they had a neighbor that had a cat and, and they were like, guess what happened to
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that cat? And the joke was, the lady was like, have you seen my cat? And he was like, no,
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I'll help you find her. You know, but meanwhile, he's like, he said, that cat was in our stew
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Yeah. These guys ate Garfield. So, you know, and, and, and they're doing well in America
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now. And what's so crazy about it is, you know, I'm listening to a story like that.
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I'm like, listen, I grew up with cockroaches and mice in Brooklyn, New York, and it wasn't
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quite the projects, but it was a big apartment building. And I thought we were poor.
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When you hear those stories are like, man, I feel like a millionaire compared to these
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guys. So I don't know what it's like to live that way, but I know people who have, and it's
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not a far cry at all to think that somebody's capturing things. I also saw the story in the
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New York post about these guys that shot the bald Eagle. And I'm thinking, what did they
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do? Did they want to taxidermy? Did they want to eat? I don't know the full story, but
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I do know they got caught and, and, and they had the rifle and everything. And just, this
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is weird stuff, right? It's just weird stuff is happening when you, when you
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have people that have different customs than you have. And we have many because we're
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bringing in people from 150 or 160 nations around the world. You're bound to run into
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And I understand that I have some Ecuadorian friends and I always joke with them that they
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I tell them they eat rats. And I mean, you know, but down in Florida, I lived in Florida
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for quite a while. You know, the people down there, some people eat iguana. You know, there's
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an oversaturation of iguana. So they go out in Puerto Rico, they call it, um, uh, uh,
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I was just going to say, that sounds like chicken. I know iguana is not chicken, but you
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know, so there are different, but I think it becomes a way different story when you're
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out in the pond where these, you know, these people are with their children, riding bicycles,
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walking around in the pond. And you see this guy come along and grab a duck by its neck, snap
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its neck, take it over your shot. And I, there are, there's pictures out there of a, of a
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man. I don't know if he's a migrant or what he is, but walking around with a duck in his
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hand, holding it by its neck. But I think it does become a different situation when it
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becomes the neighborhood cats and dogs. Um, but this is all thanks rich to the Biden
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administration, their border crisis. I think the number is 20,000. They've allowed 20,000
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migrants, Haitian migrants into Springfield, Ohio under this administration, gave them
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work visas to go out and work. And these are the people that are being accused of it.
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Take a listen to president Trump last night on how we, how we fix this border issue, how
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I ask you this, you talk about the Capitol. Why are we allowing these millions of people
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to come through on the Southern border? How come she's not doing anything? And I'll tell
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you what I would do. And I would be very proud to do it. I would say we would both leave
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this debate right now. I'd like to see her go down to Washington DC during this debate
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because we're wasting a lot of time. Go down to, cause she's been so bad. It's so ridiculous.
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Go down to Washington DC and let her sign a bill to close up the border because they have
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the right to do it. They don't need bills. They have the right to do it. The president of
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the United States, you'll get them out of bed. You'll wake them up at four o'clock in
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the afternoon. You'll say, come on, come on down to the office. Let's sign a bill.
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If he, if he signs a bill that the border is closed, all he has to do is say it to the
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border patrol who are phenomenal. If they do that, the border is closed.
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Rich, that's a pretty easy thing to do. I mean, president Trump was, was very good with
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signing the executive orders when it came to things doing right for the American people.
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Why doesn't Kamala Harris go to Joe Biden at maybe one o'clock in the afternoon when he's
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awake and say, Joe, let's lock down this damn border.
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Well, a couple of things. Number one, right? So a, they don't want to do it, right? They've,
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they've signed their, I'm going to call it a pacto con el diablo, right? The deal with
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the devil, whoever that is, that they've decided to allow every last person that they can into
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this country. I don't know who's paying them, why they're paying them. Somebody's getting
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paid to allow this to happen. That's obvious. Number two, Joe Biden tried in effect to say,
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I'm putting together an executive order and we're going to shut down the border. But the executive
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order was like, we're going to allow 2 million people a year instead of whatever. Right. And
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this was a mimic that HR one. Right. Right. And the, and the legislation that they put together,
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it was very similar in nature. So you look at this and you think they don't really want a solution.
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They want to make it look like there's a solution when every last person that's ever been at the
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border from Mark Morgan to the head of the border patrol union at the time, all of these guys came out
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and said, this thing is fake. It's phony. It's fraud. So you realize, wow, this is the best thing
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that Trump could do. Now, the second thing is he said, and she's really bad. I love that he did
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that because on my show, I call her, right? Which means how bad you are in Spanish. And it's a perfect
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name for her because she is so bad, especially on these policy positions. So the fact that he says,
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you know, we're going to go and wake Biden up at four o'clock in the afternoon, which is a great
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thing. I don't think anybody laughed. There was no audience.
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Right. Everybody would laugh because I was laughing my butt off and I was live on the
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air. It was so funny. So ultimately, I love that he put the challenge there because it's going to
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leave regular people, independents, undecided. People that are watching this are like, I don't
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like Trump. I don't like his style. I don't like a lot of it. But the substance, they can't debate
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this. Why don't you do that? Well, why don't you just go and shut down the border if you have this
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power? And why haven't you done anything if you've been there for the last three and a half years?
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Well, according to Kamala Harris, I want to play this next soundbite. According to Kamala Harris,
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Trump is to blame for the border for killing that H.R. one bill. Now, that H.R. one bill for
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everyone who doesn't know what it is, it was a bill that said X amount of migrants are allowed
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to come into the country each day. And then we shut down the border. That's that's not border
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control. That that's that's slowing the mass migration. But that's not shutting down the
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border. So when she comes out here and says, well, Donald Trump and the Republicans are going to
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kill the bill. No, that's not border control. That's to say you're doing something. That's to put
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out a strongly worded press statement to say, we're you know, we're shutting down the border,
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this, this and this. You know, I worked for a lot of politicians before getting into journalism.
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And one of them told me and I won't say his name. The Democrats don't want the minorities
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and these low income people to ever come out of poverty because then they can never run on
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the fact that they're going to help them. Because once these people get out of poverty and once
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these people see the light at the end of the tunnel, that the Democrats promised them for 100
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years, they will never vote Democrat again. And it's honestly the smartest thing. I want to play
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this soundbite on who Kamala Harris blames for this crisis. Why did the administration wait until
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six months before the election to act? And would you have done anything differently from President
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Biden on this? So I'm the only person on this stage who has prosecuted transnational criminal
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organizations for the trafficking of guns, drugs, and human beings. And let me say that the United
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States Congress, including some of the most conservative members of the United States Senate,
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came up with a border security bill, which I supported. And that bill would have put 1,500 more
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border agents on the border to help those folks who are working there right now over time trying to
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do their job. It would have allowed us to stem the flow of fentanyl coming into the United States.
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I know there are so many families watching tonight who have been personally affected by the surge of
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fentanyl in our country. I mean, she's so full of crap. It's unbelievable. What the hell is 1,500
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more immigration agents going to do when you have 11, 12,000 people coming in a day at miles and miles
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and hundreds of miles across the border? I mean, are the American people really this dull to the
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Well, I think there is a portion of Americans that are because they're like, well, you know,
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Taylor Swift said that Kamala is great, so we should go with Ken Malaitis. But I think the
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important thing here is messaging. And when you're Trump, right, Trump is one guy with a great
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movement behind him, but he's running against the media. He's running against the entire Democrat
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Party and every part of their machinations in higher ed and everywhere else, the left within
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the media, et cetera. And he's running against these ideas that are counterproductive. And for many,
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they strike an emotional part of their body, right? I've seen, I saw this video yesterday on Instagram,
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and this guy's like, I'm voting for Kamala Harris. It's a young gay guy. And he's like,
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I'm voting for Kamala Harris because of abortion. And they're going back and forth. And this guy's
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never going to get an abortion. This guy doesn't have kids. I got to stop you right there. You
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can't say that. Are you telling me men can't get pregnant? Where I come from? Yes, you're a damn
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liar. It doesn't happen. I mean, it's truly unbelievable. The Taylor Swift thing was so stupid
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and I mean, so rehearsed. Nobody cares what Taylor Swift thinks. I mean, the people with the brains,
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the American people will be voting in this election. I think they understand. When we were playing that
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side, I want to just fill you in on something that just came through. And we're going back to the
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geese story. There's now, the Federalist has now obtained an audio from a 911 call of a local
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resident reporting a group of Haitians carrying geese. The local resident says, quote, I'm sitting here,
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I'm riding on the trail. I'm going to my orientation for my job today. And I see a group of Haitian
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people. There was about four of them and they all had geese in their hand. The unidentified dead,
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the unidentified caller told the dispatcher. Huh? So now why, why does it take people like the
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Federalist to do something like that? Because they're a conservative organization and they're,
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you know, good for America. Why does it take them to do something like that? And not one of these
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multi-million billion dollar corporations like Fox News, ABC, Disney owned ABC, I should say,
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CNN. I mean, what is wrong with the media, Rich? Well, I think number one, kudos to Sean Davis and
00:23:36.080
everybody at the Federalist. They always break news and they're always on top of things and doing the
00:23:40.100
job. Right. And here they did the job instead of being like, David, you're going, let me go to the
00:23:44.700
government and say, hey, do you guys have a problem? No, no problem. OK, great. We don't know if
00:23:48.200
there's a problem. They actually said, you know what? Let's get these 911 tapes. Let's see what's
00:23:51.460
going on. Oh, wow. Lo and behold, there are people calling in with reports on this. That's a story.
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And that's something you know you want to track down the guy. You want to go. Did the police
00:23:59.060
investigate after that? How did you respond to this? What did you find? Are there cameras in the
00:24:02.780
area? See what's happening. None of that was happening. David Muir didn't care about that. He just
00:24:06.540
wanted to make it look like, hey, you're fake phony and fraud. Trump doesn't know what he's talking
00:24:10.280
about. And that's their goal. And that's why I think a lot of people, including Trump, were saying this thing was a
00:24:14.620
three on one. It was unfair. I heard some rumors. I don't know if they're true,
00:24:18.100
maybe you could confirm that the Harris team at the end of the night was saying they wanted to do
00:24:22.060
it again because they thought they did so well. If that's true, praise God. Amen. Hallelujah.
00:24:26.920
Because I think this is exactly what the American people need. I think we should have no less than
00:24:30.400
three debates. And then I think we'll be in really good shape. You know, I don't know if I agree with
00:24:35.920
you on that. Another wise politician that I once worked for told me when you're ahead, you should
00:24:40.980
never debate. It does. You know, you're already ahead. President Trump is ahead. And I think the
00:24:46.320
debates only hurt him. Last night he did OK. It wasn't his best debate performance.
00:24:50.540
I think his best debate performances were in 2016 when he went up there and just
00:24:54.500
knocked down 15 other Republicans. I mean, the guy calls friggin hell and he was funny as hell doing
00:24:59.820
it. Yeah. That was a missing last night. His humor because he was so frustrated. He wasn't being funny.
00:25:05.120
Had he been funny? There was so much to make fun of with her. Right. But I get it. And that's why I'd love
00:25:09.420
to see another round, because if he could be funny and really ridicule these things for how
00:25:13.940
ridiculous they are. I think that really sheds a lot of light on things. Ultimately, that's why he
00:25:18.720
has this movement that he has, because he brings something to the table. Nobody really brings
00:25:22.680
almost Reagan ask, you know, humor, intellect. He can go for hours like you saw at the New York
00:25:27.340
Economic Club on on serious monetary policy and then switch it right up and, you know, talk with a
00:25:33.360
group of conspiracy theorists and make them laugh their butts off. That's that's Trump. Very few can do
00:25:37.320
that. Yeah. The thing that if I were the one preparing President Trump for the debate, I would
00:25:42.400
have told him to look at her and ask her one simple question. And I think this would resonate with the
00:25:47.140
American people. What are you doing on this stage? How did you get here? I think she would have sat
00:25:53.180
there very dumbfounded and not know what was going on. We're going to take a quick break here, Rich.
00:25:56.880
When we come back, I want to talk about January 6th. President Trump standing up and I was so happy to
00:26:02.460
see him do it. Standing up for those January 6th political prisoners and going after Kamala Harris
00:26:07.180
for politically persecuting these people. Also, as you might have expected, Kamala Harris taking
00:26:12.000
no, no responsibility whatsoever for the botched Afghan withdrawal. Unbelievable. We're talking
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with Rich Valdez. We're coming right back. Stay with us.
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We're back. We're talking with Rich Valdez and Rich right before we went to break.
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January 6th, President Trump standing up for those January 6th political prisoners. Take a listen.
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I want everyone to hear what Kamala Harris and now just take for example, today is the 23rd
00:26:41.680
anniversary of 9-11. OK, I want everyone to hear what Kamala Harris had to say about January 6th.
00:26:48.320
And keep in mind, today is the 9-11 anniversary. Donald Trump left us the worst attack on our
00:26:55.940
democracy since the Civil War. January 6th was the worst attack on democracy since Civil War. Well,
00:27:04.160
on democracy since Civil War, hmm, how about Kamala Harris stealing the nomination from President
00:27:10.920
Joe Biden? We can start with that. It's truly, it's unbelievable. But here, I want to play for you
00:27:18.860
President Trump's now response to those January 6th political prisoners who are still in the gulag and
00:27:24.820
those who have been over-sentenced and overcharged by this administration.
00:27:27.680
What about those people? What's, what are they going to be prosecuted? When are these people from
00:27:33.560
countries all over the world, not just South America, they're coming in from all over the
00:27:39.180
world, David, all over the world, and crime rates are down all over the world because of it. But let
00:27:44.500
me just ask you. David, when are those people going to be prosecuted? When are the people that burned
00:27:49.020
down Minneapolis going to be prosecuted? Or in Seattle, they went into Seattle, they took over a big
00:27:54.540
percentage of the city of Seattle. When are those people going to be prosecuted?
00:27:58.780
So when are they, Rich? Like I said, we still have hundreds of people. I get text messages and
00:28:04.940
Twitter messages weekly from some of them who are still sitting in the D.C. gulag. One from one of
00:28:09.860
them yesterday who had shot me a message and said, you know, I'm so happy President Trump stood up for
00:28:15.060
us last night. And I was, I mean, I was so thrilled because it's not an issue, much like abortion, it's not
00:28:20.040
an issue that resonates very well with the voters because people are very divided on it. January 6th,
00:28:25.160
some people think it was the worst day in history. Obviously it wasn't. But with the independent
00:28:29.260
voter, I think it's a very touchy subject. And for President Trump to go out there and put that on the
00:28:33.500
line and say that, you know, it's time that we persecute these people and prosecute these people
00:28:38.820
who burnt down cities, who burnt down buildings, who caused mass chaos, not a bunch of people who
00:28:44.560
grandmas and children and young kids went to the Capitol to protest.
00:28:48.800
Now, the people who went into the Capitol and caused destruction, OK, you know, they get their
00:28:53.260
misdemeanors for whatever, break in and enter, OK. But the people who were there sitting on the
00:28:57.380
grounds doing absolutely nothing, overcharged for absolutely nothing. What did you think of
00:29:02.340
President Trump's response to those folks last night? You know, one thing I've learned about
00:29:06.340
President Trump through interviewing him and hearing him speak and just seeing how he moves is that
00:29:12.820
this is a guy with a lot of money. He's a guy with a lot of money that has a lot of better things to do.
00:29:17.600
And by better, I mean, what's better than saving America? Probably nothing. But you and me,
00:29:22.760
we'd like to be in Miami, right? Trump's like, you know what? I'm going to put my whole family at
00:29:26.360
risk. I'm going to put my my my livelihood, my freedom on the line. And I'm going to try and save
00:29:32.020
this America for these little grandkids I love and because he loves the country. And, you know,
00:29:35.800
you're a New Yorker like me. These things go a long way. I've seen plenty of people break out into
00:29:39.700
fistfights over flags hitting the floor and people disrespecting the flag. That's kind of how it is
00:29:43.580
where we come from. So it doesn't surprise me in the least that he would he would he's doing what
00:29:48.680
he's doing. So when he's asked a question and he has to tell the truth, he said he's going to tell
00:29:53.380
the truth because one thing about Trump, the guy really doesn't care what you think. He never has
00:29:59.000
right. The same thing they they fault him with the bravado, this and that no filter. It's the same.
00:30:04.340
He doesn't care. So he's going to tell the truth. And I'm glad he stuck up for what he believes in.
00:30:08.240
You're right. It's a touchy subject. A lot of people look at this and they're like, come on,
00:30:11.460
he sent this mob of thugs and blah, blah, blah. They believe the Democrat talking points.
00:30:15.300
Obviously, that wasn't true. And you could see the frustration when she said it again,
00:30:19.000
that that was done. And he tried to correct the record. But it must be infuriating for people to
00:30:25.780
to constantly say something about you and you feel limited in your ability to respond when you have
00:30:31.480
the ability to erect skyscrapers and change the New York skyline like the one that's right behind you
00:30:36.820
and and think this is what he's done with his life. And still, they could lie about him with
00:30:42.020
impunity. And it really is infuriating. But ultimately, he did the right thing.
00:30:46.540
I think this may go because he's not a politician. I think he's the only president we've had that I
00:30:50.880
could remember, maybe aside and I wasn't around for Ronald Reagan, but that I can remember that
00:30:55.120
actually has a conscience. The man actually has a heart. The last time I saw President Trump,
00:30:59.580
I think, was probably back in March at Mar-a-Lago. I went down with Lou and his wife and Lou had
00:31:04.280
interviewed President Trump. And we did this whole interview and there was a camera crew with
00:31:08.760
us of, I'd say, maybe eight or nine people. After the interview, you know, he had a busy schedule,
00:31:13.760
Trump. Every day is a busy schedule for him. He's place to place to place to place.
00:31:17.700
Phone calls, this, that. After the interview, President Trump stopped. He said,
00:31:22.500
who wants to take a picture? Anyone want to take a picture? And I've seen him do this multiple times.
00:31:25.860
Who wants to take a picture? Now, none of us like to ask to take pictures because, you know,
00:31:31.980
I mean, you're there and plus you're there working. You don't want to seem like that guy.
00:31:35.420
So Trump, not his aides, Trump stopped everything and said, who wants to take pictures? Everyone
00:31:42.020
lined up to take pictures. Some of the camera crew guys brought things to sign. I didn't bring
00:31:46.620
anything because I've got way too much of it. But so, you know, going forward, whatever, you know,
00:31:51.900
we all take pictures. Lou was talking with the president for, you know, a bit. He asked the
00:31:55.560
president, I think, for a hat for one of his family members. Trump goes, you know what? Let's go
00:32:01.340
take a walk. I want to show you my office. So he looks at Trump, looks at me. He goes, John,
00:32:05.220
come on, let's go. We start walking now around Mar-a-Lago. It's no secret service. And there's
00:32:10.220
a picture of this on Lou's, God rest his soul, Twitter of Lou, his wife and Trump walking down
00:32:17.360
the down a walkway at Mar-a-Lago. We're walking down Mar-a-Lago and Trump is showing us. And now
00:32:22.380
this is who Trump is. He's got that real estate, New York real estate mentality. It's baked in his brain.
00:32:27.980
He's walking around. He's showing us a bathroom he had just built that he was so proud of at Mar-a-Lago
00:32:33.540
that he was able to get the permits to build his damn bathroom at Mar-a-Lago. So he shows it to us.
00:32:38.460
We walk towards the ballroom where Trump's office is. Trump opens the door and I'm looking at it. I'm
00:32:45.560
like frozen. He opens the door. Lou's wife walks through. Lou tells, you know, the president to
00:32:50.240
walk through. President goes, no, you go ahead. And I'm sitting there like, all right, I'm going to
00:32:53.640
catch the door, Mr. President. You walk through. Trump looked at me and goes, no, you go ahead.
00:32:57.460
And I'm sitting there like, what the hell? So now we go up to President Trump's office. Lou and his
00:33:02.520
wife walk up behind President Trump and I go behind them to follow him. And finally, Secret Service
00:33:06.420
catches up with us and Secret Service stops me. And they go, no, the president invited Lou and his
00:33:10.400
wife up there. President turns around and goes, come on, let's go, John. And walks with us. But
00:33:14.980
that's just that's a side of him that people don't get to see. Another issue President Trump talked
00:33:21.580
about last night was the Afghan withdrawal, the botched withdrawal, who he's taking issue with because,
00:33:26.740
you know, 13 U.S. service members were killed, billions of dollars of military equipment left
00:33:32.060
there. And now they're rebuilding the Taliban and what comes with it, whatever terrorist
00:33:37.520
organizations funnel out of it. Maybe ISIS comes back. President Trump already destroyed it once.
00:33:42.760
Take a listen. David Meera, maybe the only honest question of the night, asking Kamala Harris if she
00:33:48.060
takes any credit or Joe Biden for the botched withdrawal.
00:33:51.440
I do want to ask the vice president, do you believe you bear any responsibility in the way
00:33:56.800
that withdrawal played out? Well, I will tell you, I agreed with President Biden's decision
00:34:01.760
to pull out of Afghanistan. Four presidents said they would. And Joe Biden did. And as a result,
00:34:09.840
America's taxpayers are not paying the 300 million dollars a day we were paying for that endless war.
00:34:15.280
And as of today, there is not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in a
00:34:23.720
combat zone in any war zone around the world the first time this century. But let's understand how
00:34:29.640
we got to where we are. Donald Trump, when he was president, negotiated one of the weakest deals you
00:34:37.120
can imagine. He calls himself a dealmaker. Even his national security advisor said it was a weak,
00:34:43.160
terrible deal. And here's how it went down. He bypassed the Afghan government. He negotiated
00:34:49.880
directly with a terrorist organization called the Taliban. So she's accusing the Trump administration
00:34:55.160
of negotiating with the Taliban. But Harris and Biden are the ones who let the Taliban take over.
00:35:01.240
So did she willingly and knowingly let a terrorist organization take over a full country, Rich?
00:35:06.740
Well, I mean, undoubtedly. But I think the bigger question is, don't her and her boss, Joe Biden,
00:35:13.060
constantly cut deals with the Iranians and allow them to make money hand over fist or even with Putin?
00:35:19.380
Look at all the money Putin's made with the with oil sales. He didn't make that stuff with Trump.
00:35:24.880
Right. Trump sanctions were definitely hurting Putin and making sure that he wasn't cutting deals with
00:35:29.060
the Iranians, which he's doing now. So the reality is they are literally emboldening the access of evil.
00:35:34.860
I don't know if they're if they're just inept or if they're complicit in the problem,
00:35:40.520
but obviously their policy is ineffective. And for her to sit there and try and put everything on
00:35:45.920
Trump, I mean, it's artful. You could see her courtroom prosecutor days making her closing
00:35:50.380
argument. I don't know how many people or how many judges she swayed, but I wasn't swayed by it.
00:35:56.080
I think anybody who has eyeballs and you've seen what's been going on the last few years,
00:35:59.820
you have a pocketbook, a bank account, an app with how much money you have.
00:36:03.080
But everybody's going to know on Election Day who they need to vote for.
00:36:06.420
And I suspect it's not going to be Kamala Harris.
00:36:09.580
I mean, like I said, I think the American people realize she's just not genuine.
00:36:13.560
Everything about her is phony. She's got the highest turnover rate of any I think any vice
00:36:17.860
president in history with staff because people just cannot work with her.
00:36:22.340
You know, there it's. We've all worked for people who are very tough.
00:36:26.580
My last boss, God rest his soul, Lou Dobbs, was the hardest boss I've ever had.
00:36:30.700
But you know what, Rich? It was the most rewarding thing. And I never saw myself working
00:36:34.360
for anyone else. I, you know, I said to myself, I was going to be with Lou to the day he decided
00:36:38.860
to hang it up because, like I said, you know, there's a difference between working with someone
00:36:42.980
who's a hard boss who teaches you and is hard on you because they want you to be better.
00:36:46.840
And there's a difference between there's a boss who's just degrading.
00:36:50.040
And we've all had them degrading, uh, condescending. And I mean, you could see right through it
00:36:55.680
that Kamala Harris is just not a good person. I think I see her husband around her and I
00:37:00.480
feel bad for the guy because I'm like, this guy looks terrified. Um, president Trump was
00:37:07.100
on Fox and friends this morning. I don't know why he goes on that show. It's, it's a panel
00:37:11.960
of two or three Democrats. I mean, I'll leave out, um, I forget her name, but we'll leave
00:37:17.820
her out because she's, you know, like kill me. I like games. Brian Kilmeade's a Democrat
00:37:22.280
and Steve Ducey, I guess is a chef. Uh, guys got a lot of cookbooks out. Um, but I would
00:37:27.680
kill me that at best as a damn rhino. He's not a fan of Trump. I think he, he doesn't
00:37:31.580
like the fact that Trump's an alpha male and you know, he's very far behind. Um, that's
00:37:36.240
beside the fact. So they asked Trump if he would do a debate. And last night after the
00:37:40.360
debate, Fox sent a letter to the Harris campaign and the Trump campaign asking if they'd both
00:37:44.740
be interested in doing a debate with Martha McCallum and Brett bear, Trump on Fox and
00:37:49.480
friends this morning, tell them hell no. He's got no interest in sitting down with Brett
00:37:53.500
and Martha. He he'll sit down with Sean. He'll sit down with, um, uh, Laura Ingram or Jesse
00:37:59.500
waters. Do you think in any world, Kamala Harris agrees to a Trump debate on Fox news with any
00:38:07.080
host? Yeah, I don't. And I think she's already said as much that she won't. I think Fox just
00:38:11.800
wanted to get some, some mileage out of this. Um, and the reality is I do think Trump would
00:38:16.360
take the debate, uh, with Martha. And even though he said, no, I think Kamala said, yes,
00:38:20.440
he'd say I'll be there. Right. Because that's who he is. He wants to, to, to bring the fight
00:38:24.920
to her. He wants to have the conversation, uh, and against conventional wisdom, right?
00:38:29.500
He is up, he's up in the New York times poll, uh, New York times Sienna. He's up in the,
00:38:33.200
uh, as of yesterday, he's also up in the, um, uh, Marist poll, uh, and he's doing better
00:38:39.040
than last week, this week with swing States. So I think that stuff all bodes well for him,
00:38:43.560
but I think ultimately putting this woman on display, Kamala Harris, putting her policies
00:38:49.300
on display and repeatedly attacking them, making sure that, you know, right now the attack has
00:38:54.080
been, she hasn't sat for any interviews. She sat for an interview. She brought Tim
00:38:57.520
Walls right there next to her, right? Like a ventriloquist. And so now she can say, okay,
00:39:01.840
I've done it now. It's like, oh, you're not doing any debates. Okay. I've done it. Check and check.
00:39:05.920
I'm pretty sure she's ready to go back to doing rallies that are roped off where nobody has access
00:39:10.320
to her. Nobody can ask questions. It's just like, Hey, how you doing? I'm Kamala vote for me.
00:39:13.940
Um, Trump's not that guy. So I, I, my hope is that they'll have a couple of more. I don't know
00:39:18.340
if we'll get that. Yeah. I, I said to someone the other day, Trump is literally the epitome of,
00:39:22.540
of the man going into the lion's cage or the lion's den. He doesn't care. There's nothing that
00:39:27.340
when they say Trump is scared, I often see George Conway on Twitter or, uh, one of these,
00:39:32.520
uh, Anthony Scaramucci, these beta boys who just can't help themselves. And they hate the success
00:39:37.500
of president Trump personally. Um, you know, Trump is terrified. He's shaking. I can assure you,
00:39:43.880
there's really not much that keeps president Trump at night, uh, from his three or four hours of sleep.
00:39:47.980
He gets a night before he wakes up, uh, and starts reading his newspapers. Rich, I appreciate you
00:39:53.440
joining us today. Where can the viewers, uh, find you? Where can they listen to you daily? Uh, give
00:39:58.400
them, uh, give them all that info. Sure. Well, uh, I'm on, on all the social media at Rich Valdez
00:40:03.600
with an S at Rich Valdez on all of the socials. And of course you can go to my website, richvaldez.com.
00:40:08.620
That is Valdez with an S. Uh, we're on 10 PM Eastern time, New York time. I broadcast out of
00:40:12.980
New York. We're on, I don't know, uh, just under 300 stations across the country. We're on in Alaska.
00:40:17.860
We're on in Hawaii. We're on nine of the top 10 markets from 10 to 1 AM every night. The, uh,
00:40:22.480
old Jim Bohannon show before that was the Larry King show. It's a great audience. We take calls
00:40:26.340
all night long. And we have some of the best guests in the business, including Donaldus
00:40:29.600
Magnus El Trumpito. And I recommend it to everyone highly. I catch, try to catch Rich's show every
00:40:34.740
night. If I can, uh, highly educational and fun. Rich, thanks so much for joining us.
00:40:39.820
John Fawcett. I love you, brother. I love you too. Thanks to Rich Valdez. And thank you for being
00:40:44.720
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00:40:53.500
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