Marco Rubio defends a classified U.S. Venezuela operation in a January 2026 Senate hearing, citing Maduro’s narco-trafficking ties to Iran, Russia, and China—including $20/barrel oil discounts—and his broken deal with Biden. Rand Paul warns of constitutional precedents, while Democrats privately praise the mission’s success. Rubio ties Cuba’s embargo to regime change demands under Helms-Burton, with Polymarket odds predicting Díaz-Canel’s removal by year’s end. Dave Rubin critiques Ilhan Omar’s viral apple cider vinegar incident as staged, exposing her financial fraud and media bias, while debunking Alex Predi’s ICE death as self-defense. He contrasts Trump’s child savings accounts—growing to $1.1M by age 28—with NYC’s communist tax hikes, mocking Mamdani’s plan amid wealthy flight. Nicki Minaj’s unshakable Trump support highlights leftist media dominance, urging conservatives to counter hysteria with calm clarity ahead of midterms. [Automatically generated summary]
Marco Rubio at a Senate hearing yesterday regarding everything we're doing as it pertains to Venezuela and potentially Cuba, which he might have an interest in.
And we're going to get you caught up on a whole bunch more.
Second half of the show is at RubinReport.locals.com community Q ⁇ A. Joseph is at the computer right there, which I'm told we have some sort of wireless internet in the studio here.
So the internet is literally just floating around me right now.
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And we're going to try to keep the show real tight today because I got a major situation this afternoon that I got to take care of.
So let's dive right in.
As I said, Marco Rubio is at a Senate hearing yesterday, you know, basically just being grilled on kind of all the things that he is doing as Secretary of State, most of it having to do with the Venezuela operation last month, where we went in and in 90 minutes got Nicolas Maduro out the what they say was the elected, what they say was the elected leader of Venezuela, although we know it really wasn't an election.
Someone who was a narco-terrorist and drug trafficker, he was in charge of these boats and the entire drug operation that was not only coming to our shores, but really across the Western hemisphere.
Anyway, here is Rubio, who has just, you know, I always say, you know, you look at this all-star list of people that Trump has in the cabinet and Rubio consistently.
If you can move these people around, okay, so maybe Nome is three on this day and six on this day or Tulsi's here or Bobby's four and then eight.
It's like Rubio has consistently been number one in my opinion.
And here he is just calmly and cleanly explaining why we did the Venezuela operation.
We had in our hemisphere a regime operated by an indicted narco-trafficker that became a base of operation for virtually every competitor, adversary, and enemy in the world.
It was, for Iran, their primary spot of operation in the Western hemisphere was Venezuela.
For Russia, their primary base of operation in the Western hemisphere along Cuba and Nicaragua was Venezuela.
In the case of China, China was receiving oil at a huge $20 a barrel discount.
And they weren't even paying money for it.
It was being used to pay down debt that they were owed.
This is the oil of the people of Venezuela, and it was being given to the Chinese as barter at a 20%, at a $20 discount per barrel in some cases.
And so you had basically three of our primary opponents in the world operating from our hemisphere from that spot.
And now the question becomes what happens moving forward.
As I've described to you in previous settings and in individual conversations, we had three objectives here.
The final, I'll work it backwards because the end state here is we want to reach a phase of transition where we are left with a friendly, stable, prosperous Venezuela.
So we're in the upper, you could call it the upper Western hemisphere, unless you're looking at it upside down.
But okay, fine.
And what he is laying out there is that we are going to protect our neighborhood.
And that actually is America first.
Because if we only protected our borders and bad guys were encroaching on our borders, well, then it would often be too late.
Do you want to protect our country when rockets are flying in or terrorists are at our borders or when all the drugs have come in or anything else?
So obviously, Venezuela is at the top of South America over there.
And Greenland obviously is above Canada over there.
And you could see why these are strategically important things that we should have some involvement in.
We are the last superpower on earth and we are allowed to police our sector of the world as we wish.
The other thing, as you watch Rubio, as he just calmly lays these things out and he gets to all the bullet points and everything else, is just try to compare him to anyone that was in the Biden administration, this ridiculous clown car of people who never laid out what proper policy was, who always talked about the identity politics or woke version of this or that and how many lesbians we have doing this job and whatever.
We made multiple attempts to get Maduro to leave voluntarily and to avoid all of this because we understood that he was an impediment to progress.
You couldn't make a deal with this guy.
This guy has made multiple deals.
He's broken every one of them.
As a point of example, he made a deal with the Biden administration, and here was the deal that he made.
It was a bad deal.
We knew he wouldn't keep it.
He made the following deal.
Pardon my nephews, his nephews, who are convicted narco-traffickers, convicted already and serving time in jail.
Pardon them.
Pardon and release Alex Saab, who was his moneyman, his bagman, primarily in charge of the portfolio with Iran.
Release these people.
He, in turn, agreed to release some political prisoners, which he did.
Many of them were subsequently exiled or rearrested, and that he would hold free and fair elections, which he did not.
What he wanted to do was tap us along and buy three years of time until he could deal with a new administration that he thought may be more favorable, et cetera.
So look, I know this isn't like the sexiest topic in the world, but it is, I think, impressive and important to note that the Secretary of State that we have right now can calmly explain why we are doing what we are doing, that this was not someone we could work with.
And let's not forget, what happened like, what was it, five days before the Maduro operation in Venezuela, Maduro literally was like, Trump, come and get me.
And Rubio's point, like, this is someone that we were trying to negotiate with, like, obviously that's true.
It's Donald Trump.
Do you think he gave the guy probably five, 10 chances first to negotiate before we did that?
The obvious answer is yes.
Anyway, I think this is the most interesting clip out of the entire hearing because Rand Paul, a guy who I like a lot, he's been on the show dozens and dozens of times.
I've interviewed him in person many times.
I am very, very sympathetic to a lot of the libertarian positions and how out of control government has gotten and all of those things.
He takes the isolationist approach on these things, or at least he wants everything to go through the traditional systems of government, meaning if we're going to do any military operation, it should go through Congress.
Now, that's not really how various presidents, virtually every president in the last four decades, Democrat or Republican, has done things.
Barack Obama went into Libya with a kinetic military action.
Didn't ask anybody.
We completely destroyed the country.
Qaddafi's gone and now it's a failed state.
That's what he did.
Bush actually, EGW Bush, actually got congressional authority to go into Iraq.
Most people don't think that was a great idea.
But generally speaking, President Barack Obama also bombing people in Syria, including killing an American citizen.
Anyway, Rand Paul, I think, is taking a principled position when he makes the argument that this should have gone through the proper channels and listen to Rubio's counter on that.
And this is what good political debate actually is.
But I think we're in violation of both the spirit and the law of the Constitution by bombing a capital, blockading a country, and removing elected officials.
And we certainly wouldn't tolerate it, nor would I if someone did it to us.
Look, Bolsonaro says that Da Silva is not really the president of Brazil.
Our president said Biden wasn't really the president.
Hillary Clinton said in 2016 Trump wasn't the president.
So you have these arguments, and I agree with you.
It probably was and most likely was, most assuredly was a bad election.
He wasn't really elected.
But at the same time, if that's our predicate and you have to come to us because it's a drug bust, we're just removing somebody, you can see where it leads to, and it leads to chaos.
You know, politics can be very annoying and it's just about show and everything else.
But here you have two guys actually making philosophical points.
Rand Paul's philosophical point is: what right do we have to go to another country and do whatever we want?
And not only that, but if we are going to do it, do we have to get congressional authorization and everything else?
Again, I'm very sympathetic to that argument.
Rubio's argument is, and there's an extended version of it, but his argument basically is: well, first off, this guy wasn't elected.
It was completely fraudulent.
In essence, he was already at war with the United States by flooding us with drugs, by working with Iran, et cetera, et cetera.
And that's what healthy political disagreement and debate is about.
And they are largely on the same side of things as Republicans, even though I think they have wide differences when it comes to foreign policy and everything else.
I would say this is also kind of where the libertarian mindset kind of works in theory, but not in reality.
Meaning, most people in theory are just kind of live and let live and all of those things.
Like that is how we all kind of want to be.
But politics is a game of power and you have to know how to appropriately use it.
So I don't see Trump abusing power right now by doing what we're doing.
I see him selectively using it to better the United States.
That's not a dismissal of what Rand Paul was saying right there.
Now we'll jump over to a Democrat who also got a chance to question Rubio.
Corey Booker, very concerned about some of the Venezuelans who might now be going back to Venezuela.
We have an administration that has said very clearly that they're not only going to be lifting temporary protective status for Venezuelans living in the U.S., but instead of protecting longtime American residents, they are, quote, excuse me, the administration is putting people back on deportation flights and sending them into that madness.
Well, the problem with temporary protective status was it was granted to so many people in such vast numbers so quickly without proper vetting by the previous administration that there's a real concern that there were gang members that had received TPS simply because of the nation they came from and the time in which they came.
It became so big and so massive.
The overwhelming majority of Venezuelans are not members of Trained At Agua, but there were Trained at Agua and other criminal elements embedded in the TPS system.
And the numbers are so large that the administration felt it had to cancel the program in order to appropriately vet it through on the individual cases.
Okay, so as always, Corey Booker, he's a Democrat, so he's not that concerned with Americans, right?
So he's not that concerned that Trende Aragua terrorists or gang members or fentanylers, et cetera, are here and that basically they took advantage of this TPS system that basically offered, it was mostly people from Venezuela like special protections to get into this country and then stay here at least temporarily.
Now we're reversing some of that because hopefully things in Venezuela are calming down.
There were all sorts of bad people that took advantage of these programs.
Now, this is, I found, particularly interesting to tie this all together here.
This is Oklahoma Senator Mark Wayne Mullen on Fox.
And this is after the testimony right there, where it got pretty heated.
You know, Democrats just relentlessly going after Rubio and trying to make it seem like this was all unconstitutional and Trump's a warmonger and all of the usual stuff.
And here's Mark Wayne Mullen from Oklahoma explaining that behind closed doors when this was all gone down, little different on the Democrat side.
When Secretary Rubio gave his testimony in a classified setting, every one of these Democrats clapped, literally clapped after the briefing because of the extraordinary job our men and women in the IC, the intelligence community, and within DOW, Department of War, did on removing this dictator from our hemisphere.
And by the way, for all of the people that a month ago were like, oh my God, it's regime change and this is going to turn into Iraq and everything else.
Like you can go back and watch our shows from a month ago.
He's just kind of another generic leftist Democrat, Brian Schatz.
And he asks Rubio, who is from Cuba, well, his parents, first generation from Cuba.
Rubio has told his story many times, you know, his parents working in a kitchen cleaning dishes, and that's kind of where he grew up when he was five years old in the back of the kitchen and all that.
And the fact that he's now become not only a senator, but Secretary of State.
I mean, it is the most beautiful American dream that anyone can imagine.
But here's Schatz asking Rubio if Cuba is going to be next.
Yesterday we showed you some crazy person and you should not do this, although it kind of felt staged to me, but you should not attack public people or private people.
Yes, she married one of her brothers in order to break federal immigration law.
She should be denaturalized and deported.
That's not a reason to spray apple cider vinegar on her, but she should be booted.
Of course, they never let a tragedy go to waste.
And this from Breaking 911, Representative Ilhan Omar is now using last night's quote-unquote attack to raise money.
It's interesting that she needs more of your money because we did cover earlier in the week that basically her fortune went from about 100 grand when she came into office to about $30 million, including a fake winery that isn't selling any wine and a bunch of other shell companies and everything else.
But yes, she is using this to make it seem like she is the number one victim and Donald Trump is trying to kill her and also that he has dementia or something.
That I wouldn't be where I am at today having to pay for security, having the government to think about providing me security if Donald Trump wasn't in office and if he wasn't so obsessed with me.
It is ironic that just last night, he was on stage moments before I was attacked talking about me.
And then when asked about my attack, he said, I don't think about her.
Does he not remember, is he suffering from dementia?
It's funny that they'll laugh about dementia right now.
Like you guys were all part of the greatest scandal in American political history, which was the four years of Autopen.
You didn't want to talk about dementia then.
But yes, we do talk about you, Ilhan Omer, because you are an anti-American zealot who has been profoundly connected to this Somali money laundering scheme.
As my guest on Saturday show, if you haven't seen it, also from Somalia, Ayan Herciali, but she's the polar opposite, the 180 opposite of Ilhan Omar pointed out.
The Somali communities there, the Klans, they view the fraud as something they are supposed to do.
Watch the episode if you have not seen it.
Can we put a link to it below in the show today?
And you are also deeply connected to the Muslim Brotherhood and a whole bunch of other stuff.
And as a first-generation immigrant, maybe you should stop trying to change the country that allowed you to come in and make $30 million in four years as a public servant.
Okay, but let's pause that a second because what is all the attention about right now in Minnesota?
Well, it is because of the ICE raids, and the ICE raids were the backdrop of the fraud scheme that she is absolutely part of.
But the big thing that kicked off over the last couple of days is that a male nurse by the name of Alex Predi was killed by ICE officers.
And we all saw the video.
We've shown it to you many times.
And interestingly, I mean, just once again, if you watch our show over the last couple of days, I kept saying, look, there's a certain level of tension on the streets.
Now we know that this guy had a gun.
It looked like he was going for it.
They obviously are armed.
Like, we just don't know exactly what was going on right before that.
We know that they're blocking roads and they're putting garbage.
Like, there's just such freaking chaos out there.
But now it turns out, surprise, surprise, that there is video coming out of some of the things that this Alex Predi guy has been doing over the last two weeks.
And here's a video of him about two weeks ago.
And you tell me if this guy is just the generic, peaceful, nurse-like protester.
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This is a moment the news movement filmed on January 13th in Minneapolis, showing a man who appears to be Alex Predi interacting with federal immigration agents 11 days before Border Patrol shot and killed him.
Our footage was analyzed by the BBC, whose facial recognition technology confirmed his identity to a 97% degree of accuracy.
Now, did they likely know who he was at that point?
And perhaps will we find out more on the day that he was killed?
Did they know?
You know, they see him out there and like, oh, that's the same guy that, you know, 10 days ago was breaking our, was attacking our cars and spitting us and everything else.
Now, he should have been arrested.
That guy should have been in jail.
He should have never been killed because he should have been in jail.
You can't attack a federal car.
And again, this just goes to show how the Minnesota police themselves are in dire dereliction of their duty.
ICE has been put up in an almost unwinnable situation.
But now I want to shift to the media portion of this because over the last couple of days, we've shown you some of these videos of on mainstream media, they're making this guy out to be a hero.
Now, I never was making him out to be a hero.
And that's why I'm not shocked at all that, of course, video came out showing you what an absolute radical nutbag, violent nutbag he was, right?
Well, here are Anna Navarro, Tim Walz, and Elizabeth Warren telling you how great Preeti was before that video leaked.
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This is like the perfect guy.
Alex Pratty is the guy you would want to date your daughter.
Motion agents 11 days before Border Patrol shot and killed him.
What they did was, and with Renee Good, what they did was is they hit at the best of us doing activities that are at the core of what it means to be American.
I mean, these people, these people are, they should be so, again, don't spray apple cider vinegar on them, but they should be mocked into oblivion.
Like Anna Navarro, someone at CNN right now, CNN or over at The View, like she should be fired.
And I don't mean that in like the cancel culture sense of she should be mobbed and everything else, but she has the temerity, the gall to get on that program on CNN and say, and she knows nothing about this guy.
All she knows is about the fight that left him dead when he brought a loaded gun to an ICE rally.
She knows nothing about him.
He's the perfect man who should date your daughter.
She's literally making up a completely fabricated fairy tale about this guy that is then debunked hours later.
If that's not a fireable offense at a news organization, I guess that the view maybe isn't news.
It's just a clown show.
But like that you let her sit at that table, that is far more of a condemnation of you morons over at CNN than it is of Anna Navarro, who doesn't deserve anyone's respect.
Tim Walz, he's the best of us.
Yeah, the best of us is a guy who runs around spitting on random people and attacking federal property.
And yeah, he's the best of us.
And Elizabeth Warren, what was it?
He's incapable.
He's incapable of doing anything mean.
You people have no, it's not that you have no idea what you're talking about.
You don't even care what reality is because you are propagandists who put your ideology over truth.
Perfect segue to Stephen Colbert doing quote-unquote comedy.
You know, I've mentioned this several times before, but I grew up with Holocaust survivors on both sides of my family.
Let me tell you very quickly about, I called him my uncle Joe.
He was my uncle Jerry, who married into the family.
He was his father.
And Uncle Joe was in Germany, and I knew him obviously much later in his life.
He survived.
Most of his family did not.
And he had a tattoo on his arm.
And he had to, I mean, the story is absolutely insane.
I write about it in Don Burn this book.
He had to literally give up his three-year-old daughter at a Christian monastery and change her name.
He had to confuse her at three years old, change her name into thinking it was Mary.
I can't even remember what her original name was, but it sounded more traditionally Jewish.
so that the Nazis would not kill her when he went into hiding and he tried to reunite with her after the war.
It's an absolutely insane story.
I don't have full time for it right now, but I grew up around people that survived Nazis and a lot of their family did not survive Nazis.
So Colbert, you're just a guy who isn't all the things that I'm thinking about, Stephen Colbert right now, is Tom Holman.
And Tom Holman not only is doing a bang-up job for the last year for Donald Trump closing the border and everything else, he's now taking over operations in Minnesota.
And here he is explaining the crazy situation that the Democrats and all of the liars and propagandists who we've shown on the show today have put ICE officers in.
Okay, so first off, we covered it yesterday, so I don't have to belabor the point, but they are working on a massive case as it relates to who is funding this stuff.
These are paid protesters.
I keep the paid placards.
We found out all sorts of coordination, including with people who worked for Tim Walz in that signal chat.
So there's a lot more coming on that.
But the human part of what he just said there is right.
Again, these people that work for ICE, they are highly skilled.
They could be working in private security for billionaires, making a lot more money.
They are trying to defend the country and the communities.
And then they have half of the political establishment, the Democrats, who now are a wildly anti-American party trying to destroy this country.
And I don't think that's even hyperbolic to say.
I think it's obvious.
It's obvious.
They are put in a position where they don't know if some nutbag, pretty, whatever the hell his name is, is going to just shoot them while they are out there trying to get a child trafficker who is illegal out of the country.
That is the position the Democrats have been put in.
And the ICE agents should have all of our sympathy and all of our support.
And unfortunately, the Democrats are simply not going to stop with this.
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All right, so let's shift topics all together, talk about the economy a little bit.
You may remember when I went to DC just a little bit before Christmas, and I did about eight or 10 interviews, obviously mostly with Republicans, and everyone kept saying the same exact thing, which is that if that once the big beautiful bill kicks in, which it kicked in, you know, basically on January 1st, 2026, that we were going to see a lot more movement in the economy, that things were going to loosen up, that hopefully interest rates would go down, that we would start seeing things that might change the narrative.
Because if you remember, at the end of the year, a lot of the narrative was, you know, the economy's kind of stuck and that's going to hurt Trump and midterms, blah, blah, blah.
Anyway, Trump is doing a whole bunch of things on the economy side of things, including this new Trump account that the government is setting up and now going to work with all sorts of financial institutions and give you an opportunity to invest in a young person, in your basically your kid's life, in a young person's life, and give them a huge, huge head start if you're willing to do it.
Today there's 110 million Americans who basically have no plan for their future.
They never did have a plan and they don't know what they're going to do at retirement.
This idea, the Trump account, solves that problem or a good part of it because you're basically making an investment not just in an individual that's born, in their family.
You know, first off, you mentioned 110 million people have no financial plans.
Like, that's a huge problem in and of itself.
And that's a much broader topic related to how horrible our education system is and we haven't taught financial literacy and a whole bunch more.
But in essence, what the Trump account is, they're going to give you, the federal government will give, and I get it's our money in the beginning, but they will give you $1,000 to put into this special account.
And if you keep matching it each year, and this is when a child is born, well, the numbers are pretty damn impressive.
I like to bring the receipts when I know the press will be in the room.
38% of Americans don't own stock, but with these Trump accounts now, every single newborn child within the years of eligibility will be invested in the stock market.
Then secondly, this statistic blew me away so much, I had the fact checkers fact check it again, but it's true.
As parents, if we make maximum contributions to our child's Trump account, the projected value will be nearly $1.1 million by the time they are 28 years old.
That is incredible.
By the time your child is 28 years old, the Trump account could earn them up to $1.1 million.
So you're going to get $100 or you're going to get $1,000 from the government to start this account.
Before I analyze further, Caroline Levitt put this up.
Bank of America will now also match $1,000 government deposits for Trump accounts.
I assume that means if you're a Bank of America customer.
So now there's some, you know, there's some capitalism going on here too.
So now you started with two.
That's pretty good.
Now then it's on you as the parent to do the max donation into the account per year.
If you do that, if you take your child's life seriously, when they're 28 years old, they might have 1.1 million in there.
And you know what?
In the changing world that we're going through right now, where you probably don't need to send your kid to a four-year school to learn how to become a Hamas supporter, if you don't do that, well, then they're not going to be in a lot of debt.
Now, imagine you're 28 years old and you've hopefully learned, you know, you had parents who took care of you right and they took care of the financial planning.
Maybe you didn't get into all of that debt.
You got a decent job, an apprenticeship, an internship.
You started doing some work.
And then next thing you know, you're 28 years old, you're in a relationship, you're ready to buy a house, and there's $1.1 million.
Now, inflation could be different, and maybe 1.1 then for a series of reasons will be worth worth, let's say, $700,000 of today's dollars.
Who the hell knows what will happen?
But the point is, you will have a chunk of change to do something with your life.
So this is the beauty of capitalism.
It's the beauty of a government that actually is trying to think outside the box and do something for the people.
And also getting everyone kind of interested in the stock market.
Like if you're 12 years old and you're like looking at that account going, I got a little cash in there.
You might actually want to learn a little bit more about that.
And that would be pretty good.
Now, of course, that is in stark contrast to what's happening in New York City, which is having a complete and utter takeover of the entire system by the government, mostly Moron Zamboni and his socialist jihadi friends.
Here he is talking about the financial crisis that New York City is about to face.
And of course, he wants to raise taxes to solve it.
But, you know, she I'm going to, Ronaldo, you lied to me.
Like, it all feels like a simulation.
Like you've got Nikki Minaj up there with Trump and Mr. Wonderful.
And it's like, okay, and I know I don't really care about what celebrities or these people think, but it does show you some sort of cultural shift that someone like her would be able to support Donald Trump sort of openly and proudly right now.
When I asked Joseph for a couple of her songs, he didn't even have to Google them.
So you're obviously a fan.
Anaconda, I guess, is a big one.
Beauty and the beat.
And I think you've given me some lyrics here.
My Anaconda don't want none unless you got Buns Hun.
Well, that's pretty good.
And this is from Beauty and the Beat.
Buns Out Wiener got to keep an eye out for Selena.
They use an incident like this to garner public outrage.
They use their outlets to magnify public outrage.
They get the doomers and the black pillars and the weak Republicans to then say, oh, look, I was a three-time Trump voter and I'm really everything's going to, this is nonsense.
I didn't vote for this.
Most of those people never voted for Trump ever.
They're totally full of you either stop unlawful activity or unlawful activity metastasizes like a freaking cancer.
That is it.
It's either law and order or chaos.
There is no on the margin there.
You either enforce the law or it's total chaos.
Every single little thing, if it was a hiccup, they would try to use it to discredit what was an incredible record we had and probably the best year the FBI under this administration, under any administration, has ever had.
It's like, but that's always why you gotta, you gotta give these guys some cred, not for the evil, but like the fact that they can pull it, not for the fraud that they create, but that they have the gall to do it.
They have some sort of skill, like they see some loophole in something, but obviously that is coming to an end.
But again, I would, if you have not seen it, I think we put the link below.
Watch my episode from Saturday with Ayan Hirsiali.
She talks about how it is taking advantage of a system is actually built into Somali culture.
So there is something different here versus if you brought a bunch of Irish people or if you brought literally anybody from anywhere else, that there's something unique actually to the Somali community that's uncomfortable to talk about, but listen to her words, not mine.
Crafty Cat says, what are some essential wardrobe items that every boy or man should own?
I mean, you got to own a couple good blazers.
I was just thinking, I've been on this workout kick.
My blazers are looking a little like too big or something.
I think a couple good, like just comfortable t-shirts.
You know, it's been cool in Florida the last couple of days, which has been really nice.
Have some nice, comfy sweatpants.
You know, I'm doing a lot of athleisure stuff lately just because if I'm not in here where I have to be dressed a certain way, just like I'm into like, just like light clothes, like light sweatpants, tank tops, things like that.
But, you know, a couple good blazers.
You just need and a nice pair of slacks.
Like that's pretty much it.
Like you need to be able to, in a pinch, somebody says, oh, you know, somebody you want to impress is in town, or you got a business meeting or friend you haven't seen in a long time.
A little pricier than, you know, maybe if you were going to banana or something, but going to Nordstrom, they got all kinds of brands there.
And yeah, 250 bucks, you will walk out with something nice.
Olaf says, I like to eat foreign foods.
Does David have a favorite recipe for bananas and rice?
I'm pretty sure it's just bananas and rice, but I am glad you asked that because many of you know that David's been working on a cookbook for quite some time.
And we're trying to figure out will it be part of what I do here on the show or not.
And sometimes it's great to leverage my audience.
On the other hand, we're separate human beings that have different goals and things in life.
But his website, which was David's cookbook for a long time, is now theonlyfood.com.
He puts up recipes every week.
These are all real pictures of things that he's making in our kitchen right here.
That cast iron chicken parm, I am telling you, I know a lot of people say, don't put cheese in a cast iron.
His Caesar dressing is the best Caesar dressing you've ever had.
His non-fried wings, you can see them there.
Whole chicken.
He's got chili recipes.
And we are working on an actual physical cookbook.
But if you want to jump over there and eat some of the things that we're eating and, you know, he's, and obviously just because we try to eat a certain way here and make things that are friendly and healthy for the kids, like it's mostly healthy stuff.
And you'll really, you'll dig it.
And I don't know that he has a specific bean, banana, and rice recipe, but I'll talk to him about it.
Eurasian says, how come leftists always get away with repeating falsehoods that have already been debunked while conservatives can't even get away with telling the truth?
Well, this is why you have to win the culture wars, right?
This is why I showed you the Nikki Minaj thing, forever, however important she is or whatever.
You know, when you control the culture, it doesn't, in some sense, it doesn't matter what's true or not.
It's why it doesn't really make sense.
If you think about it this way, it doesn't really make sense that if you watch all the corporate late night comics, so you watch Kimmel, you watch Colbert, you watch Seth, whatever his name is, you watch Fallon, they're all exactly the same, right?
Like their hair is just a little bit different, but they're all exactly the same.
The jokes are exactly the same.
The political perspective is exactly the same.
And then ironically, who's number one in late night?
It's Greg Gutfeld with his two writers doing a seriously sloppy show, which I absolutely love.
That's not a knock on Greg.
It's a great, fun, alternative show, right?
But it's because the left has controlled the cultural, the culture for so long that they can keep getting away with lies.
It's why I said today that Anna should be fired.
It's like in a sane world, someone, there would be a network executive at CNN who would be like, all right, look, we've all got our political opinions here.
And obviously we're a little friendlier to the Democrats than the Republicans and we're anti-Trump and all that.
But what Anna said was so profoundly over the top.
It wasn't just getting the story wrong.
Like she made up, as I said, it was a fairy tale about this guy.
If you have a shred of dignity in your body, what you might want to do next time Anna's on the show is play the clip of him kicking the ice car, spitting at those people, scream, I think he says hit me or something.
Play that for her and then ask her her opinion on it.
And would she want her daughter dating that guy?
But you won't do that because you're in on it too.
But that's why we have to win the culture and that's why having a free, to whatever extent the internet is still free, internet is important.
I want to show you something real quick, guys, before we wrap today.
And there's not going to be a post-game show because I've got to get out of here right after this.
I'll explain more on Monday.
And our show tomorrow is a pre-tape.
It's with Brigitte Gabriel, who is spectacular.
If you have never seen her on the show before, she is just an utter, utter joy.
You're going to love the interview.
But, you know, I've been mentioning how great the comments are.
And our numbers have been phenomenal this week.
Yesterday show had about 300,000 views just on YouTube alone.
The day before was about 350.
That's not even including Rumble or locals or anything else.
Like the numbers have just been crushing it.
And I've been going into the comments and you can see they're just phenomenal right now.
Like people really are appreciating what we're doing and that we're doing it a little lighter and more funny and moderate and all of those things.
And I just wanted to tell you guys that I'm very appreciative of that.
I don't have a ton of time to dive in every day, but Joseph does go in every day.
And throughout the day, he's texting me the things that you're writing.
And I really do appreciate it.
So we thought I would just read one to end the show today.
And this is from Mark, who wrote, Great show, Dave.
Love how you make things make sense without screaming at us.
I'm awful at getting my points across clearly and speaking up, but watching how you do it makes me want to work on it.
And if you can take some of the things that you get on this show and then calmly explain that to your friends.
And by the way, you know, when you're in our, let's say, political circle and you're arguing with a lefty, in some sense, you default one because they're going to be more hysterical.
They're going to be more emotional.
They're going to be on the attack more.
And if you just calmly lay out some of these things, oh, oh, well, you're upset that that nurse got killed by ICE in that fracas.
Well, did you see that he had attacked an ICE car just a few days before?