🚨 VICTORY: Trump Announces Strait of Hormuz Opened By Iran, Oil CRASHES as Market Soars
President Trump's announcement that Iran opened the Strait of Hormuz triggered an oil crash below $80 and market surges, following a potential $20 billion uranium-for-funds deal. The episode details plans to hire James O'Keefe for Voice of America to report directly on Iran and Cuba, while addressing corruption allegations against Senator Ruben Gallego. Ultimately, the host frames these diplomatic breakthroughs as a decisive victory ending dictatorships, linking Justice Clarence Thomas's views on progressivism to historical tyrannies and concluding with a biblical verse. [Automatically generated summary]
Martha, Iran was reportedly asking for a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon as part of its requirements for some type of peace deal with the United States.
Now that the president announced that 10 day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon yesterday, moments ago, the foreign minister of Iran announced that the Strait of Hormuz, behind me in the distance in the Persian Gulf, is declared completely open for the remaining period of the ceasefire.
So, you know, things apparently on the upswing here in the Gulf.
You know, we can report here in the UAE, there's been about a week of calm now.
No incoming missiles or drones from Iran after weeks and weeks of almost endless attacks coming from Iran.
Also, the U.S. State Department ended its shelter in place order for U.S. government employees in this country.
Obviously, the State Department urging people to still take shelter if needed.
And then, of course, behind me in the Gulf, we're on day five now of the U.S. blockade that apparently has been going down without any reported incident or major confrontation.
The fact that CENTCOM says at least.
14 vessels have heeded the United States commands to either turn back to the ports of Iran or not violate their blockade.
Now, the latest update from Simcom also says that they've been escorting people around the blockade, and here is some audio that the United States released.
Motor vessel Mali, this is Warship 112.
We will be escorting you to your next port of call.
And yes, Yesterday, the president announced that 10-day ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel.
In an update from Israel minutes ago, an official says, the IDF remains in Lebanon to hold all the locations it has cleared and captured.
The IDF writing, the goal we defined, the disarmament of Hezbollah through military or political means, was and remains the campaign's objective to which we are committed.
Currently, significant political leverage has been created through the direct involvement of the U.S. president and a commitment to this goal while applying pressure to the Lebanese.
Now, here in the United Arab Emirates, the U.S. State Department lifted that shelter in place warning for U.S. government workers, and the UAE is declaring victory over Iran.
An official writing here, yes, Iran lost, and yes, the UAE won.
We were subjected to more than 2,800 Iranian missiles and drones, and we shot down 96% of them.
The American role after this war will be greater.
This Emirati and Gulf partnership with Washington came after long years of relations, mutual trust, and joint investments.
Now, back live here on the Gulf, we are, of course, monitoring.
The potential for a second round of peace talks, perhaps in Pakistan this weekend.
Yesterday, the president said that those negotiations could be happening in Pakistan, and he even said there's a possibility that he may head there.
But we'll continue to see what happens because now that Iran has apparently relinquished its self proclaimed control over the Strait of Bermuda, perhaps these peace talks do not have to happen in Pakistan, but we are tracking it hour by hour and we'll keep you updated.
The fresh smell of napalm burning oil in the morning from the oil kingdom of the world, the number one oil exporter on earth, the great kingdom empire of America.
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The more you watch Star Wars, the more you side with Darth Vader.
And quite frankly, one of the world's hottest and toughest IQ tests ever for our show, that's for sure.
This has been the most difficult four to six weeks in broadcast in the history of this show, that's for sure.
Has paid off.
There is no other way around it.
It has paid off.
There was short term pain, there were historic crash outs.
There were people who proved that they would root for the other side in a war with America, like that they'd root for America to lose.
There are people that burn their MAGA hats, burn their credibility, and threw themselves out of skyscraper windows for like what?
Nothing.
If you're a three time Trump voter, if you're somebody who actually like trusts the plan, which is hard, and it doesn't mean pure trust, it means that you like roll with the punches.
Sometimes you do get punched.
Don't you get punched sometimes?
The biggest champions in all UFC get punched in the face.
They break bones, they break jaws.
It hurts, it sucks.
That's just the brutal business of politics and global empire.
And these last couple of weeks with this Iran war, which we have always consistently said we didn't like because simply it took the eye off the domestic policy wins.
And that's what's critically important.
And we need to win.
We must win.
We have to win.
How do you do that?
It's very simple gas prices, grocery prices, home prices.
And those three things, it's problematic.
That's it.
This is the only thing that we preached.
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We went and interviewed the vice president and we talked about this.
Affordability is what wins you elections.
That's it, okay, in this country.
A lot of that is tied to oil, a lot of that is tied to resources, a lot of that is tied to global economic environments.
And so, ladies and gentlemen, this glorious date of April 17th, 2026, Friday, the year of our Lord.
Iran has reopened the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran has said, you win, we lose.
Various Middle Eastern countries are claiming total and complete victory over Iran.
Iran is now kneeling before Donald Trump, begging for forgiveness, giving Trump and the Trump administration everything that they want, everything the global world could ever want.
Right now, we're going to cover it all on the show as the stock market rips, as oil craters and ALX Danny, you had better have sent like live oil tracking.
And live SP 500 tracking to Klein.
I want to be able to catch it live, please.
I want to be able to catch the markets live.
I want to talk about them live on the show.
It's a wild time.
We booked Carrie Lake for the show because we've been talking about our friend Carrie Lake because Ruben Gallego now has credible sexual assault claims against him.
And we're going to talk a little bit about that.
This is something else we were planning on covering in the show, but here we go, ladies and gentlemen.
Let's go.
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Ladies and gentlemen, let's go to the top line.
President Trump cheers as oil prices plunge through the floor after Iran declares the Strait of Hormuz completely open, ready for full passage.
Yo, let's just hop on over to the president and what he has to say this morning.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Strait of Hormuz is completely open and ready for business.
Donald Trump called it the Strait of Iran.
Just announced that they have fully opened and ready for passage.
The Strait of Hormuz is completely open.
Trump corrected himself.
The Strait of Hormuz is complete.
It's like minutes before he announces that it's called the Strait of America.
Completely open and ready for business.
It's full passage.
The naval blockade will remain in full force and its effects as it pertains to Iran only until such a time as our transactions with Iran is 100% complete.
This process should go very quickly in that most of the points are already negotiated.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
What are most of the points that we are negotiating?
Let's go ahead over here to the Kobasai letter that has like a little bit of a.
A little bit of a peek into what has been negotiated.
Well, when Iran gets a nuclear weapon, that is going to destabilize everything.
You think it's bad now?
Again, again.
I haven't really been a huge fan of the messaging on all of this, but the results, the market's reaction to Iran not being a nuclear power, and Iran saying that here's one of the details some of Iran's highly enriched uranium would be shipped to a third country and would be blended down.
International monitoring Iran would be allowed to have nuclear research reactors, medical isotopes, but would pledge that all the nuclear facilities would be above ground, getting them up and out of those mountains.
Iran is one of the most mountainous nations in the world, it would make it virtually impossible to ever do a ground invasion there.
So, this would not be the way that you wanted to go.
This is the way you want to go.
You wouldn't want to go, like, oh, let's go take over Baghdad.
That was always a nightmare.
This is precisely where you wanted to be.
Well done.
The straight now is open.
The markets are responding.
Don't care what anybody says.
Like, call me a plan truster.
Call me whatever.
Happy to have been in the camp of people that did not lose my damn mind, that did not light myself on fire over all of this.
You can disagree with the president, and we do.
That's our right.
It's important.
Like, you can state it, you can be respectful about it.
You can have a conversation.
You can do it in good faith.
You can go interview the vice president and talk about it.
It's a good way to roll.
Marine traffic tracker.
Let's go ahead and look.
Now, would you look at that?
Suddenly, all of these boats, you can actually literally watch the boats zip through the Strait of Hormuz.
You can see them move in real time.
Holy moly.
It's exciting, actually.
It's cool.
And then what has happened in the reshuffle of all of this?
What's happened in this massive reshuffle?
Well, you've gotten America becoming the world's number one oil supplier.
So go ahead and check in on the graph from yesterday, ALX, that we popped up, please.
Yeah, the oil output in America for America has been just wild.
ALX, we just put it up this morning, or actually, or late last night.
Do we have the, just in case you guys are wondering, because I know there has been like a considerable amount of like yapping obviously online about this, and there's been like aggressive rolling from each side.
Get me that Iranian, as we get Kerry Lake set here and check in.
Kerry Lake is the great Kerry Lake is going to be joining us in just one moment.
Get me that Iranian, the Iranian foreign minister, his post.
We have him?
Like, cause he's the one, like, cause I want you guys to see it confirmed through Iran.
The Iranian foreign minister is straight up like he's the one who actually announced this.
In line with the ceasefire in Lebanon, passage of all commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz is declared completely open for the remaining period of the ceasefire, and the coordinated route is already announced by the Ports and Maritime Organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Well, without, I guess, getting too graphic, there is a woman that allegedly is coming forward with attorneys, wants to go on record about an incident that occurred between the two of them at the same time.
And the event was sexual in nature, allegedly.
But it's not just that.
There's also, apparently, issues of campaign finance violations.
Again, look, I am one member of Congress, but I'm not going to be like some of my colleagues that waited, you know, forever and a day to bring this information forward.
I think that if this is happening, that it needs to be dealt with.
I mean, and I don't throw that word around loosely.
This guy has a past that is unbelievable.
You know, you get what they call opposition research, you get that on your opponent when you're running against them.
And I had the dubious honor of running against Ruben Gallego.
And most people would have, you know, a little bit, a couple of hits against them, of stupid things they've done in the past.
His was one of those massive three ring binders.
It was so heavy, I couldn't even carry it around.
That's how much dirt he had in his past from shady dealings, shady previous employment, lying on federal forms when it came to get his mortgage, and really taking what was a program for veterans to get them into their first home.
He used that to buy a second home, a million dollar home in a D.C. neighborhood.
And he lied about where his residence was.
He lied about his past.
He lied about the reason he changed his name.
He changed his name to Gallego because he did want people to find out that his father was a convicted felon, drug trafficker for the Mexican cartels.
I mean, I was going through this, Benny, and I'm like, how could the Democrats run this guy?
This is blackmail material upon blackmail material.
And then you get to the part about women, okay?
Real creepy.
As a matter of fact, when he worked down at the state legislature, the Democrats, his own colleagues, had a nickname for him.
They called him the troll because of how he would troll and creep women out.
And these were his own Democrats, his fellow Democrats.
I mean, I can go on and on.
How much time do you have?
Do you want to hear about the time a 20 year old, a young woman, fresh in the workforce, working down at City Hall when he was down there, complained against him about workplace harassment and he got her fired?
Rather than Getting to the bottom of it and finding out what he had done, he gets her fired.
That we know that he left his wife when she was days away from giving birth to their firstborn.
He hit her with divorce papers and then tried to get her to pick up the legal fees, his legal fees on that.
I mean, the guy, his past is disgusting.
It's a mile long.
It makes total sense, Benny, that his BFF in the world, best friend forever in the world, as he said, was Eric Swalwell.
They're cut from the same.
Cloth.
They're two peas in a pod.
These guys vacation together.
We all saw the picture of them topless on the beach together, riding a camel.
Well, by the way, that was paid for by the Qatari government.
I think I heard it was an $80,000 trip while you and I were forced into our homes during COVID and they were trying to force masks on our children's faces.
Those two were gallivanting around on a beach without their, you know, partially clothed.
Yeah, I mean, the only explanation for that, Carrie, would be if you actually truly wanted to.
And here's the image.
I'm sorry, like, warning, trigger warning for everybody.
We're going to put the image up.
The only explanation for this would be if you truly wanted to forever open the Straits of Hormuz, because you could put the two of these guys there and everyone would be like, get me the hell out of here, right?
Like, I want to get out as fast as possible, whatever to get away from these two individuals.
You could just put them on their little camels right there, you know, in the Straits.
So these guys aren't straight, they're crooked as they come.
And you can see that Eric Swalwell, like after all the allegations this weekend, we hear that there's so much more actually going to happen with Swalwell.
I do judge somebody by their friends.
You and I both come from Iowa, it's good stock.
We have good instincts on people.
And there's like a truism that my grandparents always said, which is you just judge a person by their five closest friends, they'll just become the average of the people they hang out with.
And so, where there's smoke, there's fire.
And I just don't believe for one second, Carrie, that Ruben Gallego had no idea what Eric Swalwell was doing.
I mean, I think we're going to find out the two of them were involved in a lot of really disturbing things.
And what I really hope, though, Benny, is that Eric Swalwell walking away from the scene and walking out doesn't end the investigations that need to happen.
And there's been talk about will Ruben Gallego resign?
If things start to really pour out on him, will he resign?
I want him to be investigated, not just for things he did to women, which I think just looking at his past, I mean, walking out on your wife when she's just a couple days away from giving birth is pretty bad.
And all the accusations of unseemly behavior toward women in professional settings, I think those are pretty bad.
I think the fact that he lied on his mortgage.
Forms is bad.
But one thing that never has been looked into, and I was sounding the alarm on this, is the Act Blue allegations of smurfing, bringing in millions of dollars to his campaign and using people's names that really didn't make the donation.
When are we going to look into those campaign violations?
And that goes across the board for Democrats.
And when are we going to look into the shady results of the election?
You will never get me to believe that Ruben Gallego got almost as many votes as Donald Trump in the state of Arizona.
Donald Trump won in a landslide victory in Arizona, the biggest victory he had in any of the battleground states.
And they want the voters here to believe that Ruben got more votes than me.
I got more votes than Kamala Harris.
In order to make these votes work in Ruben's direction, they had to give him more votes than Kamala Harris and almost as many votes as President Trump.
It doesn't make sense.
I wish the media would start looking into that.
They were counting for 10, 11 days.
Three days after the election, they mysteriously found 14,000 ballots in Pima County.
Four days after the election.
We woke up to find out they had doubled the number of ballots in Yuma.
I called down there and said, Wait a minute, you had 8,000 votes total for Yuma, and then all of a sudden you found 9,000 additional ones today.
Oh, yeah, we found them in a vault.
They were found in a vault.
There's so much shady business going on when it comes to elections.
Arizona, I believe, has a puppet government right now, and Katie Hobbs and the Secretary of State, Adrian Fontez.
And the scary thing is, Obviously, we'd all love to see Ruben Gallego out of the Senate.
I don't believe he belongs there.
But if he were to resign or be removed from office, Katie Hobbs will get to choose who his replacement is.
And that replacement will stay there until the 28th election.
So it's just a mess.
Arizona is the victim of all of this nonsense and, in my opinion, criminality when it comes to elections.
And we need to get to the bottom of those elections.
And I'll never stop talking about it until we actually have election reform.
I'm actually equally angry at the media, the mainstream media.
I was sounding the alarm.
All of the things we're hearing about, I was talking about.
I talked about him at rallies.
I talked about him on the campaign trail.
Whenever I did interviews, the press didn't want to talk about it.
They just wanted to sit and call me an election denier and not talk about the fact that my opponent lied about his entire childhood, the sleeping on the floor, didn't have a bed till he went to college.
That was BS.
His dad was a very high end, very high powerful drug trafficker, I think for the Jalisco cartel, if I have the name right.
And This is a guy who just lied about it all.
And the media didn't have any curiosity about it.
The media truly has been the enemy of the people, refusing to cover it.
And now, all of a sudden, as if somebody flipped a switch, Benny, they go, We need to cover this.
We need to cover what a scumbag Eric Swawal is, even though they knew it, even though it was the worst kept secret in DC.
We need to cover Ruben Gallego's past, even though it was out there laid bare in 2024.
And they were mad at me when I revealed that his dad was the cartel drug trafficker.
They said, how dare you bring up what his father did?
Well, I think he should take very seriously whatever these allegations are.
We need to show leadership in Congress.
I'm tired of watching them, and it's been getting worse and worse my entire life.
I mean, when I was a kid, I don't think people looked necessarily at their congressmen and politicians in DC as just being almost criminal.
There was some level of respect.
Now it seems like we have such a low opinion of Congress because of bad actors like the Eric Swalwells of the world, like Menendez, who was taking bribes, like, you know, Shady folks like Ruben Gallego.
We want to flush out that whole system and let's bring some real decent people into Washington, D.C. to do the people's work.
That was what my goal was.
I think this is why they worked so hard to stop me because they saw that I wasn't going to take a bribe when I was attempted.
When they attempted to bribe me, I said, no, no amount of money in the world will stop me from doing the right thing for the people.
And let me tell you, when you have that kind of moral compass, it's hard in D.C. I'm in D.C. right now getting attacked.
Nonstop as I try to modernize and make more efficient our U.S. agency for global media.
I get hit pieces run almost daily on me.
They can't stop attacking me.
They don't want honest people in D.C. because it disrupts the criminal enterprise in the U.S. government.
And they're all part of it, they're all getting something from it.
And we need to really clean this out.
So I hope that the leader, Leader Thune, will take seriously whatever these allegations are that Representative Luna is bringing to him and pursue.
Any ethics violations and bring justice and punishment as would be deserved for whatever these allegations are.
I'm more astounded every day by the levels of corruption.
And I think we started to see it immediately when Doge went into USAID and started to peel back the onion and went, oh, my gosh, we're talking billions of dollars in the most insane levels of spending.
You know, in my own agency, we went to appropriators on Capitol Hill and said, we are effectuating the president's executive order to bring this agency down to what's statutorily required by law.
Nothing bigger than that.
Just what does the law require us to do at this agency?
We're willing to do that, but we need to trim back what's not required by law.
And they don't like that.
They want to keep growing these agencies.
So as we're trying to modernize it, make it more efficient, and we went and asked for 153 million instead of the nearly billion they were giving us, the appropriators said, no, we're going to give you 600 billion.
I said, no, we only need 153.
Million and they gave us 600.
So it's insane what they're doing.
It's very rare that an agency leader would walk to the appropriators, meet with them, and say, please don't give us as much money as you have.
And then they say, no, we're going to give you more money than you want and you have to spend it by law.
We sit in meetings going, how are we going to spend this money?
And we'd love to just be able to give some of it back and say, we don't need it.
The taxpayers.
Are footing the bill.
We don't need all this money, but it would be breaking the law if we don't spend it.
And then to find out that when I got into the agency, the agency had a history of putting out propaganda that was.
In many cases, anti American.
It was going against what America stood for across the globe.
There were instances of putting out CCP propaganda on the airwaves that American taxpayers are funding.
I'm very proud of the fact that as we're modernizing, we are making very sure that the journalists that we hire, the content that we put out, is in alignment with American foreign policy and American national strategies and security strategies, so that we're putting out information across the globe.
That aligns with who we are as Americans rather than puts out a negative image of America across the globe.
We always heard all of these rumors about what Doge was finding.
And we love the shutdown of USAID, but there's so much more to be done in Washington, D.C. Any other points of extreme waste or criminal fraud that you've witnessed?
When we started digging into the books, $300,000 of American taxpayer money was spent sponsoring a low level, Afghan cricket team, $800,000 to put on a New York City concert.
This is a news agency.
Why are we supporting a cricket team in Afghanistan and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on it?
When I got in shortly after I got in, the Capitol Police showed up one day and said, We're investigating a crime that happened here.
And I said, What's this all about?
Apparently, and the suspect has admitted guilt.
There was a man who was working at Voice of America who, over the course of many months, was using the phones right there in the newsroom, in the control room, to call in death threats to a member, a sitting member of Congress, and that sitting member of Congress's family and staff.
Really horrible, scary death threats were called on numerous occasions from Voice of America phones to a member of Congress.
It's just unbelievable.
He has since pled guilty and is doing time.
This is just the kind of stuff.
When I first got there, something came across my desk about one of our reporters allegedly dressing in women's garb and wearing women's makeup and reporting as a Voice of America reporter in the Middle East.
Do you think any viewer in the Middle East is going to respect the Voice of America when the man that they're watching doing the reporting is wearing?
Makeup and women's apparel?
It's crazy.
And your tax dollars are paying for it.
And we are just working to make sure it's running efficiently and that the message going out across the globe is not detrimental to America.
And I'm being sued because they don't like us trying to make sure that the message is not detrimental to America.
And I'm being sued for that right now because I said, no, we're not going to put out news that hurts America.
So, maybe in closing here, you could, and perhaps we should have started here, but either way, like in closing here, you could explain to us what this agency is about because I got a phone call from Mike Benz, just absolutely giddy that you were going to be in charge of this agency because this is the agency that is effectively the, you know, what he told me was the CIA Intel agency cutout operational voice box for whatever they wanted to,
whatever op they wanted to run, you know, throughout the globe.
And they used Voice of America to do that.
And again, often antithetical to what the American people voted for and to what America stands for.
And you can sort of see how that would happen if it's been completely co opted by the same organizations that ran the Trump impeachment.
We ran that all day with John Solomon yesterday.
And you could see how the CIA was operating to stage coups here in our country.
And hopefully they'll all go to jail for it.
Perhaps you could like explain, like, is that true?
And have you felt any pressure from the deep state?
They don't just say the phrase on this agency is pound for pound, the most corrupt agency in Washington, D.C.
It's a small agency, but that's what they call it pound for pound, the most corrupt agency in Washington, D.C.
I mean, look at things like Radio Free Europe.
Yes, it did start out as a CIA operation, Radio Free Asia.
And in many ways, Voice of America, many years ago.
Now, I don't believe that there are CIA operations now, but we have had a history in the past of spies coming into the agency.
And I don't think that's how the agency should be run.
The agency should be putting out news that is reliable, news that is in alignment with where the United States, with their national security priorities and their foreign policy.
And it hasn't been doing that in the past.
There's been some very shady activity there.
Um, you know, we've been sued everything we've tried to do to make this agency more efficient and modern.
We've been sued.
We had a judge come in and stop us when we tried to reduce and terminate some employees, and we've been sued for that.
So, it's if you look, Benny, across any news operation across the globe, there have been, as they're made more efficient, that means they have shed some employees.
I mean, look at just recently the Washington Post laying off, I think.
300 employees.
BBC just terminated, I think, over 2,000 employees.
And for some reason, this agency feels that the bureaucracy in this agency feels that it's not acceptable to terminate anybody.
We need to make sure that we're running a lean, mean operation that is putting out reliable news that is in alignment with our foreign policy and our national security policy that doesn't hurt America abroad.
And I will not stop until we are successful at that.
I feel very good about the news operation as it stands right now.
And I think people are going to be seeing a lot of exciting things coming to Voice of America.
We are going to start looking at global corruption.
Why aren't we looking at things like?
Global voter voting and election electoral fraud.
We've seen elections across the globe that have been run in a way where everyone knows that wasn't run fairly.
Why are we not looking into that?
You know, we only broadcast to foreign audiences, we don't broadcast to the American people.
But there's enough global corruption out there that needs to be peeled back.
And when I got in, there was zero interest in covering any of that.
They just wanted to pay huge amounts of money, tens of thousands to the AP, Reuters, and AFP buy all of their coverage and just regurgitate it rather than doing their own original reporting.
So I think we're going to start seeing original reporting coming out of Voice of America.
We're going to see some really incredible hires of top rock solid investigative journalists will be hired.
And I think people are going to say, wow, that's how you turn an organization around and make it reputable once again.
Well, we're just covering it and making sure they're getting reliable information and they need it.
They need it because they're not going to get it from their own government.
And I'm very hopeful, Benny.
It's easy to get bogged down with all the negativity, but think about where we are right now.
Just for a second, the people of Iran are going to be freed from this murderous dictatorship, this absolute heinous regime.
The people of Iran are going to be freed.
Some of the people that I work with as children, when they were in Iran, they would walk through the streets, and it was a common occurrence to see people, the government, hanging people by cranes above town for something as ridiculous as speaking ill against the regime.
In Cuba, they're starving their people down there.
There's no electricity.
There's barely any water.
They're about to be freed, hopefully, from this regime.
Can you imagine if Iran is free, Cuba is free, we get rid of these areas that have been such a difficulty for the entire world, especially when you think about the terrorists that Iran has funded that have caused so much trouble for so many countries?
We are on the verge of having world peace thanks to President Trump.
And I'm really getting tired of hearing people.
Try to attack President Trump.
They don't understand this is a much bigger play that he is making, a much bigger play for peace in the world.
And I think there's some temporary difficulty getting through all of it.
Obviously, it's, you know, whenever you're in the middle of an operation, it can be tenuous at times.
But I think the end result is going to be a world that is peace, where peace prevails in the world rather than constant conflicts.
And so that is what we pray for the words of Christ.
The words of my production team here, I should be a little concerned about because our chats are now popping off about me going and being a war correspondent in Cuba.
I'm not sure what I should think about that, Carrie.
I think we might have to have internal conversations at the company.
Well, I think we keep you right where you are because the new media is really helping to save our country.
And I know a lot of the folks out there are getting a lot of criticism, but just being able to come on and talk about election corruption.
Me being able to come on and talk about the truth about what's happening in Washington, D.C. To and you've always been open to having me on, and I appreciate that.
Um, but our new media is really what's been so important in this country, getting us from COVID to where we are today.
I would be a little more scared to go back to California, honestly, based on what we saw in California than Cuba.
I think we'd be safer in Cuba, to be quite honest.
All right, ladies and gentlemen.
What a fun little rowdy Friday show.
Exciting things going on and an exciting moment, obviously, with the economy rip roaring.
And is there any other breaking news producers in our.
Any other breaking news producers that has happened in the time of the show?
You know, we kind of stay locked in.
I loved that interview with Carrie Lake.
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Progressivism seeks to replace the basic premises of the Declaration of Independence.
And hence our form of government.
It holds that our rights and our dignities come not from God, but from government.
It requires of the people a subservience and weakness incompatible with a constitution premised on the transcendent origin of our rights.
The century of progressivism did not go well.
The European system that Wilson and the progressives scolded Americans for not adopting.
Which he called nearly perfect, led to the governments that caused the most awful century that the world has ever seen.
Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, and Mao all were intertwined with the rise of progressivism, and all were opposed to the natural rights on which our declaration are based.
Take no part in the worthless deeds of evil and darkness.
Instead, expose them.
By their evil intentions, they will be exposed, and the light shines upon them.
Be very wary about who you're sticking into your earbuds.
Be very wary about people who take an opportunity, an advantageous opportunity to turn on their principles, to turn on what they believe, what they told you that they believe.
Stick with people who are consistent.
That's it.
I'm not trying to start drama here.
I'm just saying, like, judge a tree by its fruit is a great example of what Christ is constantly saying in the New Testament.
Taking a part in the worthless deeds of evil and darkness, the worthless deeds.