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At just 34 years old, Mamdani becomes the youngest mayor in more than a century and the first Muslim and South Asian New Yorker to hold the office.
She's also the first Queen's residency mayor, as hard as it is to believe.
Mamdani promised bold policies on affordability, safety, and transit, including taxing the wealthy to fund programs like universal child care while striking a note of unity in a deeply divided city.
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I, Zoran Kwame Mamdani, I, Zahran Kwame Mamdani, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States, that I will support the Constitution of the United States,
the Constitution of the State of New York, the Constitution of the State of New York, and the Charter of the City of New York, and the Charter of the City of New York, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the Office of the Mayor of the City of New York, of the Office of the Mayor of the City of New York, according to the best of my ability, according to the best of my ability.
He signed these executive orders that you mentioned at the beginning, Sarah, directing this new administration to focus on housing.
He signed three executive orders yesterday, creating two task forces, directing the city to look for city-owned land, to build housing, and to figure out ways to speed up construction.
He also reinstated the mayor's Office of Tenant Protections.
He also tried to undo, or in fact, signed executive orders to undo some of the Adams executive orders that were put into place towards the end of his term.
It's Friday, 2 January, the year of our Lord, 2025.
I know a great, or excuse me, 2026.
Boy, I practiced that all morning and I blew it.
I knew that, folks, I can already tell from my phone blowing up, you're very excited about the Mamdani inauguration and his speech.
Of course, it's quite obvious.
Articles all weekend, if you really look below the surface, on the Muslims taking over New York City.
New York City has fallen.
He did have a party for his 10,000 supporters that came down and faced the freezing cold yesterday in New York.
4,000 had seats, but they had another 10,000, but they didn't have food.
They didn't have access to facilities, bathrooms, et cetera.
And so it wasn't the first day on the job a little discombobulated.
But trust me, that is a radical, radical regime.
We're trying to get Rudy, the mayor, up a little later in the show.
Mike Davis is also going to join us and break down the deposition of Jack Smith as Jack Smith goes through.
He was set to indict President Trump.
He's just set to roll all the way up and through the election.
That's how radical these guys are.
But we want to start with some geopolitics.
And let's start in Persia, with what's happening in Iran.
Of course, for followers of the show, you know, I've been advocating for a long time.
You don't need regime change at the top by going in and bombing.
You don't need to bomb.
You don't need to take out the mullahs.
that the people of Iran, the people of Persia will eventually get tired of them.
And just like they overthrew the Shah back in, what, 1979, 1980, they will eventually overthrow the mullahs.
If you just enforce the sanctions, remember all the discussions we had back in July.
You don't need to go in for the nuclear facilities because the Mossad intelligence were all lies, right?
As we now know from cabinet meetings with the Israeli cabinet that said it wasn't two weeks.
It was a couple of years.
Of course, the United States Navy had to take out the above-ground facilities because the Israelis could not finish what they started.
And now you've got Netanyahu down in Mar-Lago.
He's talking about now they've moved the gold post.
Now it's the ballistic missiles program.
But what has happened naturally with an economy that's crashing, a currency that's crashing as we said it would, if you just enforce the sanctions and let the mullahs try to run the economy as they're running it because they don't know what they're doing, running it by Islamic law and not by the laws of free market economy, the economy will crash and the Persian people will overthrow these guys just like they overthrew the Shah.
Of course, now Netanyahu and Tel Aviv, Levin, and all those guys, now we got to go in for regime change.
Just let the Iranian people, let the Persians deal with their own problem.
The one thing we should do, and we've advocated this for a long time, because as part of the sanctions, you should cut off the illegal oil that they're selling to the Chinese Communist Party.
We would get two birds with one stone there because I think their oil is like, I don't know, 50 or 60% of the oil that goes to the Chinese Communist Party.
And we should cut that off.
I think that's a higher priority of cutting that off than interdicting naval quarantine of oil shipments coming from Venezuela to Cuba.
Todd Woods joins us.
Todd, you've been on this for a long time.
You wrote a book, I think, about this entire situation, MEK, which is quite frankly a controversial resistance group to the Mullahs.
But let's put a pin in that.
We'll come back to MEK in a second.
Just what is the overall picture of the country and the economy?
Because now you've got visuals from all over Persia where people have taken to the streets because they just can't live in this economy.
Can you get us up to date?
Like, what's the basic numbers of how bad things are?
I mean, why now?
How bad has it gotten that they're actually now in the streets and many of those advocating for overthrow of the mullahs?
And of course, now they're shooting into crowds.
And remember, the shooting into crowds on a mass basis is what brought down the Shah of Iran back in 1979.
When you say support the people, I mean, America, we got enough problems.
We got problems all over here.
Look, we've got the Muslims have taken over New York City, right?
They're laughing in your face.
They're laughing in your face in Minnesota.
We're going to have a Lynn Dell here in a second.
The way they even got the rigged elections up there.
We're going to Texas this week, this coming Friday.
And I'll talk more about that later with this Islamic takeover of Texas, the beginning stages of it.
We got enough problems here.
You talk about 50% of debt.
Hell, we're over 100% of debt.
So I understand that they're in a dire situation.
But when you say support, this is the problem.
You got now Bibi and Tel Aviv Levin, right?
You got this entire crowd saying, oh, yeah, now let nature take its course.
We have basic sanctions on the regime.
The biggest sanction, correct me if I'm wrong, we're still not stopping the oil supply.
In the oil they're selling to the CCP, illegal, illegitimate.
There should be no way that oil is going out because that's sanctioned and specifically sanctioned to go to the CCP, which they think the CCP signed a 40-year deal from.
Isn't that a legitimate target to stop the oil from being monetized with the Chinese Communist Party?
You've had a dog's breakfast of various resistance groups to the Moolah's, even from when they took over.
You've still got monarchists, right?
You've got the Shah's son.
And remember, he showed up during the summer because we kind of mocked him when he showed up in London and he had a passion thing.
I'm prepared to go back, you know, when there was all talk of regime change, when the Mossad and Netanyahu was trying to force President Trump to decapitate the regime.
They'd already done a decapitation run when they did the initial bombing.
And he was in London and he stood up and some guy said, Hey, and the audience said, Hey, are you prepared to go to Iran like immediately to take over the government, if called upon?
He says, Well, you know, I've got a very packed social schedule in England over the summer, but maybe by October I could free up.
I mean, it's not serious.
MEK, and they've got, you know, they have issues themselves, and you have other resistance groups.
How much of this is indigenous to the Iranian people?
And how much?
Because the more the West gets involved, right, the more the MULA is going to dig in and say, this is just the CIA.
This is just the, you know, the great Satan, the United States, and their little partner in Israel trying to overthrow a dedicated Islamic regime.
Kind of what we're doing in New York City today, right?
We got an Islamic regime in New York City, but here the MULA is going to say it's just the evil West trying to overthrow us.
So how much of this is indigenous and real?
And how much do you think is stirred up by foreign powers, sir?
Steve, I'll tell you, I spent a lot of time with the resistance units, and over 130,000 of them have been executed over the last three or four years.
So I think that's pretty indigenous.
What I'm saying, I'm not calling for military action.
We don't need a war.
What we need is the bully pulpit, just like supporting the Christians in Lebanon.
I've spent time with a lot of these resistance fighters, and many of them are Christian in Iran.
There's a huge Christian movement blossoming in Iran.
And we need the bully pulpit to come in and say we support the people of Iran to fix their own government.
I'm not talking about military action, but what we can do is stop the info op against any resistance that organizes in Iran to take down the government.
Western media, the State Department has been against the resistance movements.
We saw that with no support in the past.
And my only point is we have it on the ground there.
Why not let them do what they want to do and stop all the info op against them all over the world, especially in the UK?
Well, you say that people aren't people teasing right now that Samantha Powers and Hillary Clinton must somehow have gotten invited to the Mar-a-Lago New Year's Eve celebration because the president coming out today saying, hey, we're locked and loaded.
Isn't that straight from the Samantha Powers and Hillary Clinton playbook?
There is a organized resistance, and there are several of them.
It's not just the MEK.
There are others, but we don't need a war.
American forces on the ground.
American aircraft, you know, we send American aircraft and think it's easy and nothing's going to be harmed or hurt.
Look, people get shot down.
I was an Air Force pilot.
I mean, it's a dangerous mission, and there's a high threat level over there.
And even when you send in, you know, stealth B-2s, there's a big chance they can be shot down and people killed and technology stolen and all the rest.
So there's huge risk to this.
And I'm saying we don't need American forces involved.
Just let's use what's on the ground already in whatever way we want to.
I'm not saying military, you know, vigilante force or paramilitary.
I'm saying just support them in the info op to start with.
But the their natural incompetence because they're trying to run this economy by Islamic law, their natural incompetence coupled with these sanctions that we've had on, and we don't we haven't even used all the sanctions we can get because we still have oil, which we're allowing to be monetized.
Is that what's driving the collapse of this economy?
And is that what's driving people out into the streets to say that we've had enough of the mulas?
I mean, like I said, the people, the youth have no future.
They have nothing to lose by coming out and demonstrating at the risk of death.
I mean, this is what they do every day, and they're doing it right now.
I think close to 10 or a dozen have been killed already on the streets.
This is going to get worse before it gets better.
And my hope is the Iranian people can take back their country.
The IRCG is the oligarchy that's controlling most of the businesses.
It's controlling the water.
I mean, story after story of farmers having their water diverted to some IRGC plant and their whole business collapses.
It's creating, as you see in the West, actually, at earlier stages, you've got a situation in Iran where the youth just have no future and they have nothing to lose and they're in the streets and they're getting violent.
This reminds me of 1970, because we got deployed over there as soon as the American hostages were taken, the State Department, guys, but it reminds me of 79.
Although obviously there were radical Islamic groups underneath that to overthrow the Shah, a lot of this did come back when the middle class and others who were not, you know, didn't want Islamic takeover.
When the economy collapsed, they took to the streets too.
And as soon as the Shah, they had that famous where they opened up fire on that square where protesters were.
Is this reminiscent of how the Shah was actually overthrown?
Did you know that in 2008, 500,000 voters, or nearly 19% of all voters in Minnesota, registered on election day?
And did you know that former Senator Al Franken was elected by 312 votes?
So I'm not alleging anything on the program, but what I am saying is that this vouching system, which clearly opens the door for potential fraud, could swing statewide elections.
Yeah, well, they were cheating in Minnesota before cheating was popular, everybody.
We have the earliest voting.
And what it is, it's a vouching system.
You just bring, you can bring up to eight people.
Yep, they're a resident.
They're a resident.
Yep, they're a resident.
I don't know them, but I might believe they're a resident.
And it's disgusting, Steve.
Up to eight people.
Remember, Governor Waltz, he said he brought everybody in.
All the illegals said they could all have driver's license, which means they could also vote.
So now you just got, you didn't even need that before.
By the way, they don't even want to look at your license.
They just say this vouching system.
And who says that they've only vouched for eight?
It's disgusting.
It all goes back to this goes back like you heard it there all the way back to Al Franken, but it's been in Minnesota when I started investigating the corruption, corruption, corruption.
And we come back from the break.
I'll tell you about the Somalians, but they didn't 2020.
Let me just reiterate: we've been talking about this a long time, the situation in Persia.
And with appropriate, so these guys don't know what they're doing.
They're going to run it into the ground, right?
They have run it into the ground.
It's a great and ancient civilization.
Great and ancient civilization pre-Islam.
Although it was always an enemy of the West, but hey, the Romans and the Greeks.
It will collapse.
It will collapse.
What you don't need, and this is what I was so adamant about, and Tucker and others about this phony intelligence that got us all over top of bombing these people and trying to do a decapitation.
If you do a decapitation naturally, 50% of the country at least or more is going to come to the defense because they're nationalists.
They're going to come to the defense of the Mulas because they're going to say, hey, you're attacking our country.
Let it collapse.
Keep your sanctions on.
And like I say, once again, cut off the oil.
Don't let them monetize the oil to the Chinese Communist Party, who are one of their partners.
The strategic relationship between the Persian, particularly the Persian military and the Chinese Communist Party goes back many, many, many decades and it's quite deep.
That was their foothold to get into the Middle East.
And, you know, all this people to all the Qatar, Beijing, were the biggest hammers on Beijing.
They got in Qatar.
But there was no deep and direct relationship was coming through the Persians and then to other Gulf emirates, maybe even, dare I say it, the Saudis cutting a long-term deal with the CCP, UAE trying to cut a long-term deal with the CCP, our allies, quote unquote.
So the last thing you need to do is to get involved here.
Just let nature take its course.
It will collapse.
Because I think we got enough problems right now.
I think we got to be thinking about, hey, maybe we should restore the sovereignty of the United States of America.
What you're seeing in Minneapolis is out of control.
It's all throughout the country.
What you're seeing in New York, New York is only going to get worse.
And look, OMB and Treasury are all over these things.
They say the Doge guys, you know, all the tech bros, oh, Doge, Doge did not find one penny of this.
Not one penny.
And I know that from senior officials in the Treasury Department and OMB, which have adults running them.
So we have to be serious about this now.
It's not, it's playtime is over.
So Mike Lindell, this has been known for a while, right?
Yeah, and it's on the it's on the politicians, the Republicans too, and the, and, and on our media in Minnesota.
And you guys, in the month before, the, in Minnesota, you could vote 45 days early.
We started this in this country.
And back in 2020, uh, James O'Keefe came to Minnesota, Project Veritas, and him and I, all the Somalians then, we had videos and everything of these ballot, you know, ballot harvesting.
You vouch for someone, all the cheating going on.
We turned it in back then to the administration and said, we're trying to sound the alarm.
We're trying to sound the alarm here in Minnesota.
But what happened is the media here, the Starn Tribune and this media outlets here, our local media, just suppressed it.
I mean, it's almost like they're in, which we all know that it's not just the fake meet, it's the media that doesn't talk about these things.
And Steve, that's why I ran for governor.
I mean, nothing's been, nothing gets done.
It's like, okay, same old, same old, oh, we bring up some fraud.
They were bringing up the Somalian fraud, the Star and Tribune, actually in 2000, the year 2000, everybody, this started.
All the way back then, nothing's been done.
Right now, Steve, you know, and I'm going to put a plug in here over the next month.
I'm doing, we're going to be doing governor, governor debates almost every day in the month of January that I'm going to be involved in with all these other governor candidates.
And I'll tell you, what am I doing?
Right now, this whole weekend, I'm meeting with farmers, both green and the beef farmers, and finding out, you know, all these different areas that why haven't they been involved?
I think they're all realizing now in Minnesota is waking up the people going, hey, our politics, our corrupt, corrupt elections and our corrupt politicians.
This is what it's led for.
You better get out and you better vote and you better change this.
You need a different input to get a different output.
And we can look at all the corruption.
I look at this as the biggest blessing, one of the biggest blessings this country's ever seen, because it's not just Minnesota.
And you're going to all find this out.
I'm hearing from all over the country right now, these last two weeks.
As this opens it up and keeps opening it up, we can't let them cover this up and shut it down or we're going to lose our country.
This is just, it's what's going on in Minnesota is a takeover, Steve.
Yeah, I know, but here's, but here's how I feel good.
I can go to sleep at night and feel good because the speaker of the house, the Republican female, I don't know her name, running for against you for governor.
Well, I think it's all going to be revealed, Steve.
I mean, some of them might have been, you know, not knowing what they were stepping into.
Let's give, let's just say that they, for instance, you know, they didn't know what this was going to manifest to and they made some bad decisions back in 2014 and 15 and back in those days.
But I'll tell you one that's very recent.
And that's last January in Minnesota or February when our local news station broke the news about all these Somalians and these daycares and all this.
That was broke back then.
And that Lisa Damon, you know, she just came out and said, hey, look at these.
Waltz never did anything.
And Waltz didn't do this and the Democrats didn't do that.
Well, you guys, what did you do?
You should have been shouting from the top of your lungs.
It shouldn't have to wait all the way till now for an independent reporter to get to get in there and make this go viral.
We've got to keep spreading the word, everybody, of these good things and the bad things happening.
And then, you know, to see to see, you know, this is another thing of running.
They say, well, what does Mike Lindell know about politics?
You guys, I've been immersed in it for five years.
I don't want to be a politician.
I want to be a leader and lead out of these things.
You take things apart like our great president say, let's solve this, solve this, solve this, because it's so horizontal and vertical.
All these problems, it's like, where does that, where does evil begin and where does it end?
It's unbelievable.
And, and, yes, Steve, there's a lot of, and people, I don't want everybody to look at it that we can't get it done, that it's overwhelming.
You know, we're so far ahead of this, we're five years ahead of it, especially with the election fraud and all these things.
And I really believe we can get a turnaround and get these things solved and not take decades.
It has to happen now.
It has to happen fast.
People need to go to prison.
You had Waltz come out with a thing going, they want to put me in prison, Mike Lindell and Elon Musk.
Well, if you did something, which we think you did, yeah, anyone involved in this, prison, prison, prison, and deport, deport, deport.
People should understand that Waltz is now sending out emails and sending out mailers to his supporters and independents that raising money against Mike Lindell.
This is how serious he takes the Mike Lindell thing.
He's saying, Mike Lindell is going to put me in prison.
I need your money to stop Mike Lindell from putting me in prison.
I would say that's a guy that's a little concerned, don't you think, sir?
When he even heard rumors I was running two months ago, he said he sent out big flyers and stuff and mailers and said, are we going to let Donald Trump and Mike Lindell come into our state and ruin our family values?
I mean, you can't make this up, everybody.
And it's, he very much fears change and fears him being put in prison is what I'm thinking.
And I'll put a little bit of a- Would you prosecute as governor?
As governor, I realize there's federal charges, but as governor, would you have your attorney general begin the process of prosecuting Keith Ellison, the Muslim, the radical Muslim?
That's the attorney general that looked the other way on all the Samaya stuff.
In fact, exacerbated it.
And Ellison and we'll throw in the lieutenant governor that walks around in a hijib.
Now, she cosplays being a Muslim woman.
That's a great collection.
You got you got Waltz, who's a freaking criminal.
You got a lieutenant governor who I think is Catholic.
Her name's Flynn again.
She's a Mick like I am.
She's walking around in her hijib, cosplaying a Muslim woman.
And you've got Keith Ellison.
I mean, you've got three beauties there as head of the Minnesota government.
I mean, what in the hell is going on in Minnesota?
Well, it all starts with criminals stolen elections.
You think if they steal money from daycares and everything else, you think they won't steal your elections?
I mean, Minnesota was the, they were stealing elections before elections were popular.
We've been blue since 1972, everybody.
Crazy things have happened in our elections, but and that's all going to get exposed.
And absolutely, prosecute, prosecute, prosecute.
And I'll tell you, everybody, I'll be the most transparent governor you ever seen.
The whole public's going to know every day, hey, look what we just found.
You know, this person's going to go to prison.
This is going to go to prison.
This one's going to prison.
These people are getting deported.
I mean, this has to be cleaned up.
And then I have great solutions to put in place when it comes to these welfare programs and all this.
That you guys can check out mikelindalegov.com and help out there too, by the way.
We need help right now.
We're coming in to this next month before these big, the big straw poll on February 3rd.
So, Steve, I'm going to be going every day, listening to the people, getting these problems, getting the solutions.
But the number one problem, obviously, in the public's eye is all the fraud.
These guys, all Keith Ellison, he's been attacking me for a year and a half, everybody, my Lindale Recovery Network, because he doesn't want people getting off addiction and finding Jesus Christ our Savior.
And there's a reason.
Now, I think, Steve, I think they were afraid I was going to run in the first place.
I promise you, every dime, we will win this and we will change the course we're on.
It's mikelindalegov.com.
You guys, check it out there.
I'm going to be posting all the solutions I have, all the problems, but right now we need your help.
If you can donate, now is the time.
We need your help.
Donate, donate, donate.
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So even if you're watching, wherever you're watching from, every dollar is going to go to help our country and help save this country and the state of Minnesota.
For nearly three decades, I've been a career prosecutor.
I've served during both Republican and Democratic administrations, and I've been guided by those principles in every role I've held.
I continued to honor those principles when I was appointed to serve as special counsel in November of 2022.
The decision to bring charges against President Trump was mine, but the basis for those charges rests entirely with President Trump and his actions, as alleged in the indictments returned by grand juries in two different districts.
Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power.
Our investigation also developed powerful evidence that showed that President Trump willfully retained highly classified documents after he left office in January of 2021, storing them at his social club, including in a ballroom and a bathroom.
He then repeatedly tried to obstruct justice to conceal his continued retention of those documents.
I remain grateful for the counsel, judgment, and advice of my team as I executed my responsibilities.
I am both saddened and angered that President Trump has sought revenge against career prosecutors, FBI agents, and support staff simply for doing their jobs and for having worked on those cases.
These dedicated public servants are the best of us, and they have been wrongly vilified and improperly dismissed from their jobs.
I made my decisions in the investigation without regard to President Trump's political association, activities, beliefs, or candidacy in the 2024 presidential election.
We took our actions based on the facts and the law, the very lessons I learned early in my career as a prosecutor.
We followed Justice Department policies and observed legal requirements.
The timing and speed of our work reflects the strength of the evidence and our confidence that we would have secured convictions at trial.
If asked whether to prosecute a former president based on the same facts today, I would do so regardless of whether that president was a Republican or a Democrat.
Recent narratives about my team's work are false and misleading, including stories about our collection of toll records.
Toll records were sought for historical telephone routing information collected after calls had taken place, identifying the incoming and outgoing call numbers, the time of the calls, and their duration.
Toll records do not include the content of calls.
Those records were lawfully subpoenaed and were relevant to complete a comprehensive investigation.
January 6th was an attack on the structure of our democracy in which over 140 heroic law enforcement officers were assaulted.
Over 160 individuals later pled guilty to assaulting police that day.
Exploiting that violence, President Trump and his associates tried to call members of Congress in furtherance of their criminal scheme, urging them to further delay certification of the 2020 election.
I did not choose those members.
President Trump did.
I hope that my testimony today serves to correct these mischaracterizations about my work.
Yeah, Jack Smith's testimony proves that Joe Biden and Merrick Garland picked the right prosecutor to try to take out President Trump.
This guy is a rabid left-wing ideologue.
This is the same Jack Smith who brought bogus charges against former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, got him convicted of bogus charges, and those charges were overturned several years later by the Supreme Court eight to nothing.
It would have been nine to nothing, but Justice Scalia passed away, but the damage was done.
Jack Smith took out former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell as a potential presidential or vice presidential candidate.
They did the same thing here with President Trump.
When they heard that President Trump was thinking about running for election again in 2024, that's where they sent in Jack Smith.
They brought him back from The Hague, where he was banished after getting overturned eight to nothing.
Let me just pause.
I clerked on the Supreme Court.
It is very hard to get reversed by the Supreme Court on a criminal case.
It is almost impossible for that to happen unanimously.
But Jack Smith found the way.
He should have been done.
He should have stayed in The Hague and his legal career should have been over.
But he was the perfect scud missile for Joe Biden.
But this is why they sent him, let's get the, that's part of it.
But they sent him to The Hague because they had to go after these guys and they wanted a guy that wouldn't follow any rules.
His reign of terror at The Hague is legendary.
They sent him over there because he has no morals, no ethics, right?
I mean, that's why he went there.
And according to them, right, the globalists, he did a good job for him because he said, you know, he did all the stuff at The Hague that is now getting reversed over there, sir.