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00:00Good evening, everyone. I'm Laura Ingram. This is the Ingram Angle from Washington.
00:04Tonight, as always, thank you for joining us. Dodging the trans truth. That's the focus of
00:10tonight's Angle. Last night, we shared very good news in the war against woke. A new analysis
00:17indicating that our young people are beginning, it looks like, to turn away from this scam of
00:23transgenderism. Yes, Americans are waking up from the trans nightmare that was foisted on our
00:29society. And more victims of the trans cult are sharing their agonizing but inspiring stories.
00:36When I was 13, I had my first testosterone injection. This caused permanent changes to my body,
00:41my fertility unknown. I had a double mastectomy at 15. After my breasts were taken away from me,
00:47the tissue was incinerated. In my sex ed class, I learned about the gender unicorn along learning
00:51about STDs. Look, the thing is that you're getting it from everywhere. You're getting it from the
00:56schools, from the media, even from the churches and the synagogues. So it's no wonder that I,
01:01along with many of my classmates, got stuck in this. Sucked in. It is shameful that we ever allowed
01:08any young person to fall down this hole. But the trans wave was powerful. It still is in some
01:14quarters. The corporate, the entertainment elite excoriated anyone who questioned the wisdom of this.
01:20Just ask J.K. Rowling, who herself, by the way, is a big liberal. After challenging trans groupthink,
01:28she was essentially excommunicated by progressive society. Even by the former child actors in the
01:35Harry Potter series, she made them all famous and very rich. By the way, they knew her and loved her,
01:41but they felt compelled to pile on. How courageous of them.
01:44The trans crusaders fall basically into two groups. They either know better, but are too scared
01:51to speak their minds, or they're total fanatics. But in what category does the LA Dodgers organization
01:58fall? Because tonight, they're sponsoring an event called the Violet Visionary Awards,
02:04which is hosted by a group called Rainbow Labs. It's an organization that, quote,
02:10emboldens queer and gender non-conforming youth to discover, curate, and experiment with the elements
02:17of a fulfilled life. Here are some of the illustrious figures who will be featured tonight.
02:23Someone named Butter, an LA-based drag queen known as the bearded beauty of West Hollywood,
02:30and Tenderoni, a drag king and judge on King of Drag. But the crowning glory of the evening,
02:37the Voice of Inspiration Award, of course, that will go to none other than Leah Thomas,
02:43the infamous UPenn swimmer and biological male who won the 500-yard freestyle at the NCAA
02:50championships just three years ago. So why is this a priority, this event for the Dodgers?
02:59Is this how they demonstrate how pro-women they are? And more importantly,
03:03is there even one Dodger player or fan who really finds this appealing and necessary?
03:11Look, the overwhelming majority of Americans, and I'm certain baseball fans,
03:16oppose biological men and women's sports. It's not even close. It was one of the issues that Trump,
03:22after all, ran on and won big on.
03:25We went from being a country that was dead, a country that was really in trouble,
03:30men and women's sports, transgender for everybody. Every single thing they did was wrong. Just go
03:36the opposite, and you couldn't miss. And we had an election that was a landslide.
03:42Americans don't want biological men in women's sports or their private spaces, period.
03:48But Thomas, who had a mediocre swimming career competing against men, is still defiant.
03:54One of the insidious things about transphobia is it makes us unable to celebrate and be proud of what
04:07we've done. It's either you don't participate at all, and you avoid getting dogpiled and harassed,
04:15but you don't get to race. Or you say,
04:19I'm going to do it. I'm going to do what I'm capable of and celebrate that. But then you get
04:29dogpiled and harassed by people trying to take that away.
04:33By the way, that's from recent times. Okay? It's not from three years ago.
04:38But dogpiled? Is that what he said? What?
04:42Now, this isn't the first time the Dodgers have embarrassed themselves, though. Remember a few
04:47years ago? They celebrated Pride Night by honoring the sacrilegious group called
04:51the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. This is how we covered it at the time.
04:56You're looking at the antics of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a drag anti-Catholic group
05:09who are about to be honored by the Los Angeles Dodgers.
05:13And the Olympics will be coming to L.A. in 2028. So if Democrats were able to have it their way,
05:19remember, they'd love all this stuff to keep happening, and they'd make it gender neutral.
05:24I think transgender female athletes are women athletes, and they should be able to compete.
05:30Wow. Really?
05:33So if you were governor of California, you would support biological males who identify as women
05:40competing in women's sport in the Olympics?
05:43They are now identified as transgender female.
05:47Why do you think we separate the sexes in the Olympics?
05:50Well, because they do come with different attributes in terms of physicality.
05:56Oh, my God. These people are aggressively stupid.
05:59So why does she want those people with different physical attributes due to their respective sexes
06:06while competing against each other?
06:07None of this makes any sense.
06:09And it is worth asking, how the heck did we get here?
06:15Years ago, I dubbed this transmania.
06:18It's the relentless cultural and social brainwashing of our kids,
06:22pushing vulnerable children to question their gender identity.
06:26This is where it started.
06:27But where did this warped school of thought really originate?
06:31Well, like most bad ideas, it started in academia.
06:34Last month, numerous Dilworth parents expressed concerns about sensitive gender identity topics
06:39being addressed in the TK classroom.
06:42Gender identity is not a part of the TK curriculum.
06:45As parents, we deserve more clarity on how these sensitive topics are being handled.
06:50It's just a drawing of children with different pronouns next to them.
06:54That's what the drawing is.
06:55People are making so much more out of this than it truly is.
07:02Both passionate and prolific, the professor at the center of this movement
07:08is Berkeley professor Judith Butler.
07:11She's one of the major forces behind gender theory.
07:14She's engaging and quite candid about the end game.
07:17It's a wholesale redefinition of family.
07:21When trans people started living openly, something changed in the world.
07:25By appearing, speaking, acting in certain ways, reality changed.
07:34And it has changed.
07:37We are seeing the changing of terms.
07:40We no longer speak about family, woman, man, desire, sex in the same way.
07:45Mainstream, what was once considered fringe from the university setting
07:51to the entertainment industry, to the business world,
07:54and ultimately the motherlode, the schools.
07:58This nonstop secular humanist propaganda was extremely effective.
08:03And voila, an explosion in the number of young people describing themselves as transgender.
08:08And plenty of affirmation and encouragement by left-wing guidance counselors and woke teachers.
08:14Yay!
08:15And now that America is waking up, realizing the terrible human and cultural toll of transmania,
08:21this is not the time to celebrate the icons of this movement as the Dodgers are helping do.
08:28Not only are they on the wrong side of history,
08:31they're on the wrong side of common sense and biology.
08:33Look, if adults want to play dress-up, they can do whatever they want.
08:37Have at it.
08:38But stay away from our kids.
08:40And when professional sports teams are encouraging men to compete against women
08:45and subtly normalizing the surgical mutilation of young bodies,
08:49society and Dodgers fans have to stand up and say, hell no.
08:54And by the way, let me know when the Dodgers add a few females to their starting lineup.
08:59And that's the angle.
09:00Here with me is Dan Dockich, host of OutKicks, Don't At Me,
09:04and Michelle Tafoya, former NFL sideline reporter.
09:08Michelle, what is in it for the Dodgers to sponsor this event tonight?
09:17You know, the Dodgers have a pretty robust DEI department and DEI philosophy.
09:23They've got four DEI officers within the organization,
09:26and they have their four pillars of DEI firmly spelled out on their website.
09:32You can just go to the Dodgers and look at it.
09:35I think it's probably a relatively small financial investment for the L.A. Dodgers to sponsor this.
09:41This rather small event in the scheme of Los Angeles.
09:45It's a rather, you know, narrow event.
09:47It's probably not a lot of money for them to do it.
09:49But, boy, does it give some legitimacy to Rainbow Labs and this Violet Visionaries.
09:56That might have been a Freudian slip.
09:59Violet Visionaries Awards.
10:02I find it amazing that Leah Thomas can sit there and say,
10:05you're not allowed to celebrate.
10:07Don't we celebrate Pride like for an entire month out of the year?
10:11Don't we have multiple days of the year in this country where things, the trans community are celebrated and Leah's being celebrated tonight?
10:21Yeah.
10:21Well, Dan, I have to say it doesn't really matter to me how much money they put into this.
10:27The Dodgers brand is on this.
10:30That speaks volumes about what they actually honor and what they actually stand for.
10:36And given what we know this entire scam of a movement has done to our children,
10:42I find this appalling and I can't imagine most Dodgers fans want anything to do with this.
10:49Tangentially, sponsor-wise, events, any of it.
10:53As soon as you involve kids in it, whoever made the decision to invest Dodger money in this should be fired immediately.
11:00This is asinine.
11:02You know, you said it very well.
11:04It became a mania.
11:05You look at Hollywood, how many Hollywood stars out of the blue have trans kids.
11:10It is a trend that's idiotic.
11:12Look, I love trans people.
11:14Fine.
11:14They want to play?
11:15Great.
11:16You know, when Leah Thomas, who's being honored tonight, went and appealed,
11:19World Aquatics said you can't play in the Olympics.
11:23They banned people who have been through male puberty, but they opened up an open division.
11:29Great.
11:29You want to do that?
11:31That's fine.
11:31If you want to honor Leah Thomas because Leah Thomas is inspirational to the LGTB, great, awesome.
11:38But don't involve kids.
11:40Ever.
11:41Never, ever, ever.
11:42And I will never, for the life of me, I will never understand how anybody with any kind of brain can understand.
11:51Look, kids want to be firemen today.
11:54They want to be truck drivers tomorrow.
11:56Shortstop are the Dodgers.
11:58It changes daily.
11:59But yet, when they say, hey, look, we want to be, I want to be a girl.
12:03Okay, let's do it.
12:04If I told my mother, hey, look, I think I'm a girl, she would have said, no, you're not.
12:08Go play.
12:08When you involve kids, the Dodgers should be ashamed of themselves.
12:12Whoever made the decision to put this money into this should be fired immediately.
12:17This is embarrassing.
12:18This is wrong.
12:19And frankly, I mean, quite frankly, this is evil.
12:22When you involve kids, it becomes absolutely evil.
12:26Dodgers should be ashamed of themselves for having anything to do with this event whatsoever.
12:30Yeah, there's quite a lineup.
12:33I mean, you know, the lineup is adult.
12:35But clearly, the message here is compete against women as a biological man, and you're going to get awarded.
12:43You're going to get celebrated.
12:45You'll be called courageous and inspiring.
12:48The whole message is targeted at kids.
12:51That's the whole point of this whole movement is targeting kids.
12:54There's a Finnish trans, we'll put it up on the screen.
12:57There's a Finnish trans professor who argued at the Play the Game 2025 conference that open sports categories are actually unfair.
13:11Watch.
13:13What you are asking is for trans women to compete in a category which is virtually entirely cis men and just call it an open category.
13:28Most trans women, myself included, would rather quit their sport than to compete in such a category.
13:36Michelle, I don't even know what they're talking about.
13:37I don't even know what open sports category was.
13:39I mean, it was men's sports, women's sports.
13:41I played three sports in high school.
13:43Pretty decent athlete.
13:46If we had to compete field hockey in college against the men playing lacrosse who just picked up a field hockey stick for the first time, we would have lost.
13:53OK, that's a fact.
13:54And I speak as an athlete, as a supporter of women's athletics.
13:57Michelle.
14:00Yeah.
14:00And I'm a mom, too.
14:01And I agree with Dan.
14:02The fact that this Rainbow Labs caters to 12 to 18 year olds who have not had a developed brain yet is it is just so irritating to me.
14:13And it does seem to come down to wanting to separate these kids from their normal life, meaning their family life.
14:21Like, come here to Rainbow Labs where we will mentor you.
14:24And, yeah, and your families don't have to worry about doing this.
14:28We'll do it for you.
14:28But, yes, and then this open category, you'd rather quit your sport than have to compete against people that are biologically like you.
14:37I mean, this this whole thing goes one way and not the other.
14:39It's always men, biological men competing against women rather than the other way around.
14:45Like you said, I'd love to see it when the Dodgers put women in their lineup.
14:48Not going to happen.
14:50Panel, great to see you both.
14:51Thank you very much.
14:52And John Bolton, indicted by a grand jury late today on 18 counts.
14:58Here with all the details, Fox News senior national correspondent Kevin Cork.
15:02Kevin, what can you tell us?
15:03Laura, quite a day here in the nation's capital.
15:05Not surprised this actually happened today.
15:07We've heard about this.
15:08According to the indictment, Mr. Bolton was indicted on eight counts of transmission of national defense information and ten counts of retention of national defense information.
15:18Now, the documents that Bolton allegedly transmitted were sent to two individuals unauthorized to view classified documents.
15:26Again, those documents, according to the indictment, revealed intelligence about future attacks by an adversarial group in another country and were all classified either secret or top secret.
15:37The FBI director, Kash Patel, said this.
15:39The case was based on meticulous work from dedicated career professionals at FBI who followed the facts without fear or favor.
15:47Weaponization of justice will not be tolerated.
15:51And this FBI will stop at nothing to bring justice to anyone who threatens our national security.
15:57Added the attorney general, Pam Bondi, there is one tier of justice for all Americans.
16:02Anyone who abuses a position of power and jeopardizes our national security will be held accountable.
16:08No one is above the law.
16:10Here is the president.
16:12I think he's, you know, a bad person.
16:15I think he's a bad guy.
16:18Yeah, he's a bad guy.
16:19He's too bad.
16:20But that's the way it goes.
16:22He's a case against us.
16:22That's the way it goes, right?
16:24That's the way it goes.
16:25That is the way it goes.
16:27Bolton is expected to surrender himself as soon as Friday to authorities at federal court in Greenbelt, Maryland.
16:33I've been there.
16:34It should make for a very interesting morning.
16:37No one's above the law.
16:39Kevin, we appreciate it.
16:40Thanks so much.
16:41And coming up, Democrats, here's your future.
16:45We're sick of leaders who only want to spend their time talking about that instead of talking about having air that's drinkable.
16:55OK, well, we watched the AOC Bernie Town Hall.
16:58That way you didn't have to.
16:59The Greatest Hits, next.
17:00All right, it's very sad, very sad indeed.
17:11But CNN's floundering, trying anything to get ratings.
17:14So last night they threw AOC on stage with Bernie for a town hall of radicals.
17:20And to start things off, it wasn't just liberal spin.
17:23It was literal spin.
17:26It's so great to have both of you here.
17:27We have so many audience questions tonight, really good ones.
17:31And Senator Sanders, just in terms of how long this shutdown has gone on, you and I have spoken multiple times during this.
17:37But we're now on the 15th day.
17:39The ninth vote to reopen the government failed.
17:42Oh, my God.
17:43It was dizzying.
17:44The entire event, though, seemed like a bad TikTok video.
17:47House Republicans passed a bill to keep the government open.
17:50The Senate has voted on that bill 10 times.
17:53All but two Republicans have supported it every time.
17:56Democrats, on the other hand, don't have a single senator who's voted yes on all 10 occasions.
18:02But AOC labored to challenge her Republican colleagues on the shutdown with fierce gesticulation.
18:10They need to pick up a phone, Caitlin.
18:13They need to pick up a phone.
18:15They're saying that they're doing all this work.
18:18They are twiddling their thumbs and talking to each other.
18:22It is actually an unconscionable abdication and refusal to work.
18:30They refuse.
18:31I've never seen people who hate working so much in my life.
18:36If I were Mike Johnson, you should be in that office negotiating with Hakeem Jeffries every damn day until we reopen this government.
18:45And any day that you don't do that is a failure.
18:48It is a failure.
18:51If she was auditioning for higher office, she should not expect a callback.
18:56Now, she may be tolerable, I think, in her cutesy, some of the heavily edited Instagram reels and so forth.
19:03But ask her a real question and she melts into hyperbole.
19:08That is, it is so, it's such an insane suggestion.
19:16And, in fact, it speaks to how desperate they are.
19:19Are you saying that Senator Schumer should not be worried about a primary challenge from you?
19:23I mean, no.
19:25Let me jump in on this one.
19:27This is what we're talking about.
19:30This is what we're talking about.
19:32You have a country that is falling apart.
19:35We are at a housing crisis, a health care crisis, an education crisis, massive income and wealth inequality, a corrupt campaign finances.
19:43And the media says, oh, you're going to run, what are you going to run for?
19:45Nobody cares.
19:46Nobody cares.
19:49Oh, people care.
19:51Are you pushing Schumer off his political mortal coil or not?
19:58And they think she doth protest too much.
20:00And, by the way, then Ms. Bossy Pants tried to shake down the president of the United States and the entire Republican Congress, laying a shutdown ultimatum at the feet of Republicans.
20:11Now, listen closely, and you can almost hear Trump laughing.
20:16I think we need to see ink on paper.
20:20I think we need to see legislation.
20:22I don't accept IOUs.
20:24I don't accept pinky promises.
20:28That's not the business that I'm in.
20:29OK, so you need a signature from President Trump in order to vote to reopen the government.
20:34Correct.
20:35OK, you go, girl.
20:37Do you want him to give you a pedicure as well?
20:39Hot stone pedicure?
20:41Woman is nuts.
20:43You know, it was her party that ran through Obamacare because it was supposed to be affordable.
20:48Remember that?
20:49But, of course, that was always a scam.
20:52It destroyed, in large part, health care in the United States by making it ration care and forcing great doctors to retire and a lot of private equity to come up and buy up great doctors' practices.
21:04It is a totally rotten deal for most Americans.
21:07And now they want never-ending COVID subsidies to cover up for how bad Obamacare was?
21:13Now, you know what they really want is what they wanted all along.
21:17Bernie Sanders always wanted America to have Canadian-style universal health care.
21:23That was always the plan.
21:26The president should tell them to pound sand and stop holding the government hostage for their fever dreams of giving illegal aliens health care from now until eternity.
21:36Here with reaction, House Speaker Mike Johnson.
21:39Mr. Speaker, thank you very much for joining us tonight.
21:44Is AOC, you know, does she have both oars in the water here thinking that the president is going to bow down to these demands?
21:53With every ounce of Christian character that I can muster, Laura, let me just say bless her heart, okay?
22:00This would be comical if it were not so dangerous.
22:03You're looking at the two leaders of the modern Democratic Party.
22:06We say all the time, this is not your father's party.
22:09It's not.
22:09These guys are full Marxist.
22:11You hear how vapid their ideology is, what empty suits they are.
22:16But they are the leaders of the party.
22:18They are dragging the rest of the old guard, the old party leaders around by their nose.
22:23And they are subservient to their wishes.
22:26I mean, Chuck Schumer has picked a fight over this very simple, clean CR to just keep the government funded for 21 additional days until November 21st, seven more weeks, so that we can get the appropriations process done.
22:38And the reason he did it is because he is afraid of that voice you just heard on that stage.
22:43He's afraid that AOC is going to challenge him.
22:46There's a rise of Marxism in the party.
22:48It's happening in New York and their state.
22:50And he's terrified.
22:50And that's why everybody around the country is feeling such pain right now because of this nonsense.
22:56And, Mr. Speaker, speaking of the New York problem, Bernie Sanders had a hot take on Zoran Mamdani.
23:02Watch.
23:04How do you not support the Democratic Party?
23:05But more importantly...
23:06Who else are we going to support?
23:08He's a great candidate.
23:09This should be the model.
23:11What we want, you know, we've got political problems in our country.
23:14People have given up on the political process.
23:15He's getting people excited, getting them involved.
23:18I would like to see that take place in 50 states of this country.
23:23Mr. Speaker, isn't it the case that if Americans don't feel like life year after year is affordable, they can't get ahead,
23:31that someone like Mamdani is very slick, smiles through every answer,
23:35that his ideology of socialism and freebies that never end, that would look very attractive to them?
23:40Yeah, of course.
23:43I mean, it's easy to run as a communist, as a socialist.
23:45You just go around and promise everyone to everything.
23:48What they never stop to explain is that you have to surrender your freedom in exchange for the government taking control of your life.
23:54The founders knew a government that can give you everything can take it all away.
23:57And that's what's going to happen.
23:58They're going to ruin the largest city in America in a very short period of time.
24:03Every time socialism has been tried on the world stage throughout history, it has fallen into abject failure.
24:08And the Marxist, that ideology leads to the murder of tens of millions of innocent people.
24:13That's what happened through the 20th century.
24:15These people are not serious.
24:17They do not study history, and they don't know the dangers of what it is they're trying to espouse.
24:21But we do.
24:22And this is going to happen.
24:23I mean, Mamdani, it appears, by the polls, is going to win for mayor of New York City.
24:27And we pray for all of our friends there.
24:29I mean, there's going to be a mass exodus from the city that you're already seeing the beginnings of that.
24:33People are in panic mode, people who understand how politics and reality works.
24:37And it's a dangerous trend.
24:38It is not a good thing.
24:39People say, oh, it's good for the Republican Party.
24:41You can explain the difference between the worldviews.
24:44No.
24:45It's a terrible, dangerous development.
24:47And there's more of this coming.
24:48And we've got to oppose it at every turn.
24:51When do you think this shutdown will end?
24:53How will it end?
24:56It's a great question.
24:57The only person who can answer that is Chuck Schumer.
25:00And he's got to get permission from Bernie and AOC, I think, before he can ever vote to open the government again.
25:05I'm not sure he ever will, Laura.
25:07So we need five reasonable Democrats in the Senate to do the right thing and vote to keep the lights on so that we can continue all the debates and all the outstanding issues.
25:16We have a lot of things to do.
25:17But they've turned the lights off.
25:18And real people are hurting.
25:20And let's not ever forget the counterproposal that they put on the table is absolute nonsense.
25:24They want to spend a trillion and a half additional dollars on a simple seven-week funding measure.
25:31And all the things you listed, $200 billion for illegal aliens to get free health care on the backs of American taxpayers.
25:37They're going to get half a billion dollars to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to prop up leftist news organizations.
25:43By the way, congrats to CNN for hosting our nation's first socialist town hall.
25:48You're going to get more of that program.
25:49And if these people are in charge, this is serious stuff.
25:53I mean, we can make light of it.
25:55It did bomb for obvious reasons.
25:57Now they're inviting me on for a town hall.
25:59I might go do it.
26:00I'll show them what the other side looks like.
26:02You should do it.
26:03You should definitely do that.
26:04Well, you should do it there, but you should do it with AOC, because I would love to see that.
26:10Actual substantive debate, she would melt.
26:12Mr. Speaker, you had an eventful time in your office.
26:17I think it was earlier this week when you had some, what was it, surprise visits by Democrats tried to storm in.
26:24If people missed it, this is what happened.
26:26This is a big brouhaha.
26:40They were going crazy over this this morning on MSNBC about this Congresswoman-elect Gravala, who has not been sworn in, yet she's been elected to take her father's seat.
26:51He passed away.
26:53Will she be sworn in anytime soon?
26:55And is there a reason for not swearing her in?
26:59She'll be sworn in as soon as we get back to legislative session.
27:02And so, ironically, it's the senators in Arizona who hold the keys to that.
27:06If she could get her two Democrat senators to vote to reopen the government, we just need three more.
27:10We can all get back to work.
27:11I can't wait to administer the oath to her.
27:13I'm following the Pelosi precedent, by the way, when my dear friend Julia Letlow, Congresswoman Letlow from Louisiana, won a special election to secede her late husband in 2021.
27:22Pelosi took 25 days to swear her in.
27:24Nobody had a, you know, a rant.
27:27They didn't go and beat down the doors.
27:29We just understood that was part of the legislative process.
27:31And that's where we are right now.
27:32Rep-elect got elected after the House was out of session.
27:35So, we'll get back to it as soon as we get everybody returned to the legislative session.
27:40But it is Chuck Schumer and the Democrats who decide when the lights are turned back on.
27:44And that's the problem.
27:45That's what we're waiting on.
27:46Mr. Speaker, it's so great to see you tonight.
27:48Thank you very much.
27:51And straight ahead is a major escalation against the cartels coming.
27:55We'll bring you the latest.
27:56Speaking of Venezuela, I mean, you know, we have a lot of drugs.
28:05We had a lot of drugs coming in by water.
28:08And that stopped.
28:10In fact, nobody wants to go fishing it.
28:13Nobody wants to anywhere, anything near the water.
28:16Hitting narco-terrorists before they trafficked their deadly drugs into the United States, good.
28:23And now President Trump has them look them over their shoulders, over the horizon, and up in the sky.
28:28Because, for once, they're running scared.
28:31No more free passes into the U.S. using boats to smuggle fentanyl and other deadly junk into our country.
28:37So now, instead of open waters, it's open season on the cartels.
28:41At least five drug boats off the coast of Venezuela have been blown out of the water in recent weeks.
28:47But hell won't just rain down on them in open waters.
28:50We are certainly looking at land now because we've got the sea very well under control.
28:56We've had a couple of days where there isn't a boat to be found.
29:00And I view that as a good thing, not a bad thing.
29:02Every boat is saving 25,000 lives.
29:04And you can see it.
29:05The boats get hit.
29:06And you see that fentanyl all over the ocean.
29:09We're going to stop them by land.
29:10We don't have details yet about what the president's planning.
29:14But according to the Washington Post, at least two B-52 bombers from Louisiana flew for several hours off the Venezuelan coast.
29:22And an elite army special ops aviation unit has been conducting flights in the southern Caribbean Sea and near the coast as well.
29:30Here to discuss is cartel expert Stefano Rittendale, chief intel officer at Artoria.
29:36Stefano, the B-52s, we know, carry precision-guided bombs.
29:43Is that something that you envision might be used in taking out these cartels operating in Venezuelan territory?
29:52Well, first, thank you so much for having me.
29:54And I think that's a key aspect, that the United States has a lot of assets available for them to conduct strikes in Venezuela.
30:01And the fact that they're so close territorially, if we look at an example of Iran, where we had to travel halfway around the world.
30:07Here, they're right at the Western Hemisphere.
30:10And there's a lot of assets in the United States, B-52, B-2s, that could be very much utilized for conducting strikes inside of Venezuela.
30:16The Washington Post, Stefano, also reporting that Venezuela has some pretty robust air defense systems.
30:23They could, I guess, pose a threat to U.S. aircraft.
30:27Krakas uses Russian-made systems, including long-range S-300 missile launchers and other weapons difficult to track because they can be easily moved.
30:37I mean, I'd put our systems up against the, you know, third-rate Russian systems that are, all the junk is sent to Venezuela, by the way.
30:46But I'd put our systems up against theirs.
30:48But nevertheless, it's not any type of operation that is not without risk.
30:55There are always risks to U.S. military if they're operating in these kinds of situations.
31:01And that's correct, yes.
31:02The U.S. military has way more robust capabilities.
31:04We've seen the failures of Russia and Ukraine and these air defense systems.
31:08But obviously, the Air Force is a very professional organization.
31:11They are going to track those.
31:12And actually, if we see strikes inside of Venezuela, the first strikes we'll probably see is against those air defense systems, specifically the S-300, to enable them to go in.
31:21And do you think the cartels now are moving operations deep underground?
31:27I mean, they have underground capabilities anyway, but they must be scrambling.
31:31They must be freaking out.
31:32So I think in the Venezuela case, the areas to look at is we have seen significant record seizures of cocaine.
31:39Just this week, the French Navy sees almost eight tons of cocaine in the Caribbean Sea.
31:44And we've seen other operations also in the Pacific.
31:47The areas that I would be looking at is if there's a significant disruption of operations in the Caribbean.
31:52We've already seen the Department of Homeland Security announce it to look at the Pacific route, specifically Ecuador.
31:56And that's where they will be at.
31:58All right.
31:59Thank you so much.
31:59Great to see you, Stefano.
32:00And coming up, Virginia AG candidate Jay Jones finally talks about his vicious, violent, vile text messages.
32:08The Virginia attorney general debate just wrapped up and controversy still swirling around Democratic candidate Jay Jones, who was forced to try to explain his vile text messages that wished his Republican rival had been murdered and his children, too.
32:29And you're also going to hear from my opponent about text messages that I sent that I deeply, deeply regret.
32:37Let me be very clear.
32:39I am ashamed.
32:40I am embarrassed.
32:41I am embarrassed.
32:42And I'm sorry.
32:45I am sorry to Speaker Gilbert.
32:48I'm sorry to his family.
32:50I'm sorry to my family.
32:52And I'm sorry to every single Virginian.
32:55I cannot take back what I said.
32:58But you have my word that I will always be accountable for my mistakes.
33:02Generic.
33:03But when his opponent, current Attorney General Jason Meares, pressed him on why it took three years to apologize and why Jones' first statement didn't even contain an apology, the whataboutism came out.
33:14I was held accountable by my party, and I deeply, deeply respect that.
33:19But what about when Donald Trump used incendiary language to incite a riot to try to overturn an election here in this country?
33:24What about when Winsome Sears used violent language about people who disagree with you and her and your extreme position on abortion?
33:30What about when John Reed shared Nazi porn?
33:33You haven't said a word.
33:34I've taken accountability for my mistakes.
33:36It's time you take accountability, too.
33:38I'm here to discuss Jason Miller, former senior advisor to the Trump campaign and transition team.
33:43Jason, this is so wild.
33:45I predicted it would go down just as it did, that they would dig in, the Democrats would, they would continue to back Jones, and yet he would come out and try to pretend he was being held accountable.
33:57Is this going to fly?
33:59No, I don't think so.
34:00And I think Jason Meares, the Republican candidate, really put on a master class in this debate.
34:05And for Jay Jones, you have to be a special kind of sick to wish actual death on your political opponent.
34:12I mean, who thinks like that?
34:13And I also think with Jay Jones that his TDS, the Trump derangement syndrome that he clearly suffers from, all he did was try to attack President Trump during the entire debate, isn't going to work when President Trump is having one of his best weeks ever.
34:25He brought peace to the Middle East.
34:26And National Democrats are getting crushed right now because the public sees clearly that they're the ones to blame for the shutdown.
34:33I don't think we have the graphic, but I just got word that the new Trafalgar poll that came out in the gubernatorial race, Jason, now has winsome Sears within like a couple of points of Abigail Spanberger.
34:51So that's wild.
34:53So that that was like a at one point, 15 point race and it was a nine point race and it was a six point.
34:59Now it's just a few points.
35:01So, you know, the gubernatorial race versus the attorney general race, it's pretty, you know, pretty tight right now.
35:10Now, would it be smart?
35:12I know you don't want to give advice to the president, but would it be helpful if President Trump in the last few weeks of this campaign came out, did a big rally for winsome Sears and Jason Meares and rode this thing to victory?
35:27I think I think both of them can win this.
35:30I think you're absolutely right.
35:31And what I would say to President Trump is follow the same strategy that you used four years ago to help get Glenn Youngkin across the finish line.
35:38The president will do a smart strategically and make sure that we get all the Trump voters out to vote.
35:44And by the way, Jay Jones is disgusting.
35:46Text messages could bring down the entire ticket, which is an important reminder as we go into the midterms.
35:52The candidates matter.
35:53Issues matter.
35:54And when you have someone who's just completely sick in the head like Jay Jones, they're going to lose that race.
35:59Yeah, I think he's going to lose.
36:01And with winsome Sears within two points in Virginia of beating Spanberger, who Jason loves to try to portray herself as kind of this soccer mom, moderate Democrat.
36:14What's the truth about Spanberger?
36:17Now, Spanberger is a radical liberal.
36:18And the fact that Spanberger can't even come out and denounce Jay Jones for putting out those text messages wishing death on his opponent shows that Spanberger herself is not fit to lead.
36:28And Spanberger is one of the most liberal voices in Congress.
36:31Someone who I tell you, folks in Virginia where I live should not want anything to do with Abigail Spanberger.
36:36Bad, bad news.
36:38Say no.
36:38But everyone show up on November 4th and make sure we get the Republicans across the finish line because this ticket is really terrible.
36:45Oh, my God.
36:45The borders are going to be flung wide open.
36:48If Spanberger, Spanberger would support opening all the borders today.
36:51Right. So she doesn't care what illegal immigration has done to Virginia, the gangs, the drugs.
36:57It doesn't matter.
36:58She's out there.
36:59She's out there as a voice not supporting ICE and getting rid of these people.
37:03She's out there as another voice empathizing with the illegal immigrant community.
37:08Absolutely.
37:08Jason, the president can close this deal for both Meares and winsome Sears for sure.
37:13Thank you very much.
37:14Great to see you tonight.
37:16All right.
37:17Coming up, who are you going to call?
37:19The lights, some of the rooms, the lights goes off and on, and the doors, there are noises, footsteps.
37:31Ghosts targeting professional baseball players?
37:38Major League Baseball teams playing the Milwaukee Brewers know whom they're going to call.
37:43Well, for years, players staying at the Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee have complained about it being haunted.
37:50I've definitely had some experiences at certain hotels.
37:53I won't throw the names out.
37:54You ever been to the Milwaukee Hotel?
37:56Have you been there?
37:57Yeah, and I'm never staying there again.
37:58Not at the f***ing Pfister Hotel.
38:00Are you kidding me?
38:01He's not the only one.
38:03Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts stays at an Airbnb instead of the hotel.
38:06And his teammate, right fielder Chiescar Hernandez, switched hotels this week after his wife refused to stay there.
38:14What did your wife tell you was happening?
38:16The lights, some of the rooms, the lights goes off and on, and the doors, there are noises, footsteps.
38:26Okay, bear with me as someone who's not afraid of any ghosts.
38:30David Schrader, host of Paranormal 60 Podcast, host of Paranormal 360 Radio Show.
38:35Dave, what the heck is happening at this hotel?
38:38I mean, these guys don't, he was smiling, but he was serious.
38:42Right, what a genius way to take care of your competition, right?
38:46You bring him in the night before a big game, put him up in the illustrious Pfister Hotel and forget to tell him that, oh yeah, it's diabolically haunted and there's ghosts everywhere.
38:54What do we know about the history of this that would indicate, you know, this paranormal activity?
39:00Well, this building's been around since I think it was 1893 is when they built the Pfister.
39:06So through that time, I'm sure there's been some untimely demises that have happened within the walls.
39:11But Charles Pfister was a huge supporter and entrepreneur there in Milwaukee.
39:16He loved everything Milwaukee, everything Wisconsin.
39:19So I don't think it's out of the range of believability that his spirit would definitely want to see his team make it farther, farther, and farther every year in the pennant and to the World Series.
39:29Well, you understand that the Brewers, you know, they would like certain players directed to certain rooms in the hotel.
39:37I guess there are certain rooms that we think are more haunted than others?
39:42Yeah, according to some of the stories that have been put out there, I know Bryce Harper from the Nationals laid out all of his clothes on a table one night, woke up in the morning, his clothes are all over the table, slammed against a far brick wall.
39:54Adrian Beltre from the Rangers, he went into his room, lights are going on, the air conditioner's going on and off, the TV's going on and off.
40:02And as he tries to fall asleep, something starts pounding on his headboard, which can be quite unsettling.
40:09And then Choi from the Tampa Rays, that poor guy gets into bed, trying to go to sleep, feels something crawl into bed and do the supernatural spoon with him.
40:18And then starts whispering in his ear.
40:21There's a ghost in my ear.
40:23Jesse Waters is next.
40:24Thanks, Dave.
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