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Emotionally, physically? It doesn't matter what you do or how much time I spend with you, I still always love hanging out with you. Really? Allison, do you think she means that? 100%.
I do. Absolutely. First off, fantastic job filling in for Jesse. I think it was Wednesday or Tuesday. Wednesday?
I did Wednesday for Jesse and I filled in for Laura on Monday. On Monday.
So on Wednesday, I saw you with. Maria Conchita Gonzalez. Not conchita, Maria Corina. Carina Gonzalez. Conchita is my grandmother's name.
Really? Okay. I mean, a lot of Spanish people have the same names. I mean, I don't mean to stereotype, but it does seem just like what. There's a lot of names.
So, Maria Corina Machado. Right.
So she is the democratically elected leader who was unable to. And that guy won. She's the face of the party. She's the face of the opposition.
So the question is: when are elections going to be in Venezuela? And I think they sold like 50 million barrels of oil yesterday out of Venezuela. And we basically split it 50-50.
So far, it's been pretty smooth since the capture of Maduro, right? Yeah, I mean, I think there's a lot of lessons that have been learned when you take out a leader, you depose a leader. In this case, you arrest him because he's a narco-terrorist. You don't want to leave that vacuum. And you have these communists in charge.
And make no mistake, Del Codriguez. Ideologically, it is like more like Che Guevara than even Maduro, who was just, you know, he was also a commie, you know, educated in some ways or trained up in Cuba. But she and her brother, Delsie and her brother, who's also her right-hand person, are hardcore commies. Their father was a communist. And so they've decided to work with these people, the Trump administration, to work with these commies, just so that we don't have a power vacuum.
But the question is, when will democratic elections happen? What do you think? What do you think is the most plausible? I think everything should be done on what's beneficial for America. If I'm President Trump.
I want to do it before my midterms. I think that a an election Would be great for the Hispanic vote here. In the United States, there are a lot of Hispanics who will see this as a good sign for the hemisphere and for kicking out the Chinese and the Communists that way, though? They do, but look. And people are like, why, you know, are the people, how do the people in Venezuela feel right now?
They've had 27 years of socialism. And so they're patient. They're trusting President Trump. They saw that incredible, flawless operation. They see him working with Del C, but that's not what they want.
90% of the voters want voted for the opposition. And so they want. They want democracy. They want an election. Notice how they're not on the streets protesting.
Why do you think that's the case, Brian? Do you think you say fear? Yeah, of course. Of course, there's still repression. There's still a secret police that's running around.
We've got control, but you can only do so much when you only have an embassy. And these people have been operating and repressing people for 27 years. They know how to do this. And now, look, she's a smart woman, this Del C Rodriguez, very clever, very astute. She's working with the government.
She saw what happened in Maduro.
Some say she might have even helped to make him the scapegoat so she could stay in power. She has a taste for money. She wore a like $2,000 dress for her inauguration. Most commies get that taste. They talk all like they're with the people and then they get used to the money.
So she's a communist with a taste for money. I think the best thing we could do is give her a few million, maybe even more than that, and send her on her way and have some elections. Do you think she runs? Like, for example, in six months, If there is an election, do you think she runs? Yeah.
I don't know. I think she could possibly be bought off. Delce Rodriguez, she could be bought off potentially and go and be a celebrated lefty in London or something. But she could run. And if things get better in Venezuela, she might be able to make a case that she's the one.
She's the one.
Now, I don't think she wins because nobody's going to forget what these people did to this country. It was the jewel of Latin America. Every other Latin American country, Brian, wanted to be Venezuela. That's how rich in resources and wealth they were. And they were a shining city on a hill for Latin America.
And Hugo Chavez ruined it all, and he mentored Maduro. And who mentored him? Fidel Castro. That's right.
So Cuba. Had a conv some Cuban leaders had a conversation with Marco Rubio three days ago. Yeah. At which time the best example, and I'm sure this came up. Do you want to be in a prison like Noriega?
And Maduro Or do you want to live like Aristide and have a chance, the Haitian leader, just to get out while you can? And maybe a soft landing. I mean, do you think at 80-something Raul Castro gets that and the current leader of Cuba? I think these people want to hold on to power. The problem is that their entire economy was being held up by Venezuela and also secret shipments of oil and other resources from Mexico because that commie leader over there, Claudia Scheinbaum, was also held up.
Which I understand have been stopped. Exactly.
So now these, you know, as we've taken control of that, of the Caribbean and what's moving in and out. I think that Cuba is in an economic freefall right now. I mean, you're seeing week-long power outages. The American government, Marco Rubio, Donald Trump, they're really tightening the screws there. And as things get worse and worse, the options for these leaders become fewer.
And so that's, and listen, this isn't just foreign policy to Marco. This is personal for Marco. By so many people. Make no mistake. He wants to be.
Either Secretary of State or President when When Cuba finally collapses. Do you think, I mean, that could be another major puzzle piece, but it would be great without any military action. I don't think military is even on the table. You don't need it. You may not.
Yeah, but the only thing is, can Russia, I guess Russia had a few supply flights in there, but they are flat on their back these days. Yeah. But Maduro was feeling that lack of interest from Russia as well. And, you know, at the end of his days, I mean, Russia was just like, listen, you're on your own. You know, like, we have enough problems.
And as you said, they're having their own economic issues. And then you have a situation where China. And 90 miles off our coast to set up a listening post.
So that's got to stop. I mean, the ripple effects and positives, and it's worked out in Panama. Finally, those contracts are gone. And the Panama president, who's, I think it was. The contracts with the Chinese Belt and Road initiatives said we're not signing them anymore.
And that's because one of the very first things. They were ignored.
Well, one of the very first things President Trump did was say, We want back the Panama Canal. We built this thing. We didn't build it for you to give to the Chinese, our enemy. No way. You are going to either work with us, you're going to work with the Chinese.
And by the way, that message that was sent to Panama has been sent across the hemisphere. The Chinese are finding it harder and harder to do what they did to Africa, which is basically colonize it, which is what they were doing in the Western Hemisphere. They were basically paying off these corrupt leaders. It doesn't take a lot in Latin America. You pay them off.
They get some generational wealth and they're willing to sell out their resources and their countries to the Chinese. But the people were angry about it. And the people would rather deal with America than the Chinese because the Chinese treat everybody they colonize really horribly. And so President Trump is kicking the Chinese out of the hemisphere. It's really an amazing thing that's happening.
The one Anka, one olive branch went out to Uruguay. Said, hey, why don't you come visit? Because they didn't, no one was talking to Uruguay. But Argentinian Melou, he's Malay, I should say. Malay has come out and basically he is America first, but he has a lot of people.
But he was making deals with the Chinese at first. You know, the only holdout. But they have rare earth. Yeah, the only, the main holdout when the Chinese were at the peak of their power in Latin America, the holdout was Paraguay. They were the only ones who said no way.
And the Argentines were with them for a while, but then their economic situation got such, and that's what the Chinese do. They come in and they see when, you know, when you're in economic problems and they go, we'll help you. And then what they do is they end up owning all your resources.
So let's talk about Iran. The President of the United States yesterday cut four. We do have some work to do with Iran. They can't have a nuclear weapon. It's very simple.
They can't have you can't have peace in the Middle East if they have a nuclear weapon. And they can't have a nuclear weapon. And they've been told that very strongly. Right.
Nuclear weapon. President also told the people of Iran, I got your back, go ahead. And they killed between 15 and 30,000 of them. Ballistic missiles, also, as well as terror financing. But they're only talking about in Oman a nuclear weapon.
Your thoughts here.
So I thought that Operation Midnight Hammer was going to take out this nuclear threat. I thought that's what we did. I'm a little confused about why we're back into this. Look. You and I sat on the couch.
We talked a lot about it. You feel, I've never found a war that Brian Kilmead isn't for yet.
So you were definitely for that. But we kind of had a little debate on the couch. I don't feel like the rationale between why we should be so aggressive right now is there. I don't think that there's any guarantee that these poor protesters are going to do any better. Maybe they will.
Maybe this is the opportunity you say. But I also think what we're not talking about, we got to talk about the midterms because we've got to talk about America first. And so, how would a conflict with Iran, Brian, impact the midterms? If it went, well, maybe like Operation Midnight Hammer, something sort of bloodless and quick and done, maybe. But what if it's not?
And that is a nightmare for Republicans having to defend that before midterm. And if you don't get that, Brian, what do you get? You lose the House and you get impeachment for Trump at the end of his agenda?
Well, you don't get impeachment when a million. Mm-hmm. Pretty easily over John Kerry. And then in the midterms, After Afghanistan, the president actually won the midterms. We only had another president.
People are like, no more stupid wars.
So long. But there's nothing stupid about a country continuing to kill and capture your people for the last 47 years. And for the EFPs that went into, which is IEDs on steroids, they were all over Iraq to kill our guys specifically, and the assassination attempts on the assassination. Promises from Iran on our president that just came as yesterday they were chanting in their parliament death to America.
So, does anyone think they're legitimately negotiating a nuclear deal? And I agree with you on this. Midnight Hammer set them back, maybe permanently, because if they start rebuilding effectively, Israel's going to hit them again. I don't think there's any doubt about that.
Well, then why do we have to do this? Why don't we just let Israel take care of it? I think it has a. For example, Israel couldn't have done Midnight Hammer. No, no, no, no.
But now that we've done Midnight Hammer, let me answer. Number one, saying there's no war I don't want to be involved in is I'm kidding with you, but you know. But that's what they say about Lindsey Graham. What they're saying is we have some perpetual problems. Cuba has always been a perpetual problem, right?
They're spreading the communism throughout Central and South America. That's why Bolivia flipped. That's why Venezuela flipped. That's why we've had these issues throughout the area. Uh and then you have an outc that's an out an outpost for China and Russia.
But that's not something that on a daily basis since the 60s and early 70s that we're really focused on. But if you look at Iran since 1979, they have been the problems. They killed our guys directly in the Kolbar Towers. They killed them through Hezbollah in 1983. Then they kill our guys again in the kill our guys again in the Iraq war, where you could honestly say the insurgency was fueled predominantly by Iran that entire time.
And then you have a situation where they are fueling Hezbollah and Hamas directly with weapons and training. And even October 7th, there was this video of the Iranians training Hamas for that actual operation. And immediately they were able to, some people say, well, that wasn't us.
Well, there's already proof it's us.
So now you have a situation where they're killing their own people. Obama did nothing. He said, hey, I want to make a deal. I'm not going to do anything. And then when they rose up again, Biden did nothing.
For this president, he took out Soleimani before he could do another terrorist activity. And this president's going to deal with it directly. And I just hope he follows through. You brought up Cuba, and I think that the problem is that. You want to hold that into the next picture.
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A listening experience that will provide hope, comfort, and understanding of the greatest story ever told. Listen and follow now at FoxNewsPodcasts.com or wherever you listen to podcasts. A couple of minutes, Rachel. First off, I want to make sure you get your plug-in. Anybody who I should look for over the next eight hours, Saturday and Sunday, 6 to 10, on Fox and Friends weekend.
You don't have to get specific.
Sometimes a mystery is a good thing. You know what? It's a mystery. It's a mystery even to me at this point. But I have something to plug.
If you have not seen the Fox Nation from Palace to Prison on Maduro, this is the documentary that Fox Nation did with me on the situation from the start of the Chavez regime all the way to the capture of Maduro. You should check it out because you'll start to really understand what happened there, why it's so important, and how it affects our country. Last minute, Cuba. Yeah, I was going to say, you brought up Iran. I do believe what happens in the Western Hemisphere is of much greater consequence to us.
Cuba was a way for China. And so was Venezuela. These were gateways for China into the hemisphere. They were setting up military and commercial things that were going to be used for military purposes.
So that's why I think that the situation in Venezuela, I'm generally, as you know, much more of a pacifist. I really was impressed and loved what happened in Venezuela because I think it matters to America. It's our backyard. Yeah, I think that he's paying attention to our backyard, but I almost think Cuba is going to be. Economic pressure.
Yeah, oh yeah, absolutely. This is going to be, it's already, it's an economic free fall. Just keep, if you're looking at the economy there, keep watching because over the next few weeks, things will only continue to get worse unless there's some sort of deal, as you talked about, being made. Marco Rubio speaking through back channels. And he could say, look, you're going to go to prison.
You're not going to have a choice. And that would be something. And there'd be a whole lot of, Cuba's going to be really happy in Miami, right? Oh, my goodness. Little Havana.
You have the fall of the communists in Cuba and an election in Venezuela. You've got the whole Hispanic vote. Right.
I will hear that. Rachel will listen to you from 6 to 10 and then 6 to 10 on Sunday. All right? That's right.
Thanks for watching. All live. You listen to Brian Kilmy Show. Michael Doran, next.
