Transcript of Something Is Definitely NOT Adding Up In This Story | Episode 214

Hey, everybody. Welcome to Vince. Good to have you with us on a Thursday. We have a mighty show ahead for you. Election fraud in 2020 in Georgia is now fully under investigation. The FBI has raided a Georgia election site. I've got all the latest breaking news on that subject. Boy, this is fascinating. Also, we're going to take a look at the life and times of that dude, Alex Pretty. What was that guy up to? Well, he was definitely trying to assault law enforcement, definitely vandalizing their vehicles, and definitely tackled by them. Why wasn't he arrested? And had he been arrested, might he be alive today? We'll take a closer look at that. And then joining us on the program today. Man, this is great. To close out the week, we have two cabinet secretaries to close out the week for you. Today, the Energy Secretary Chris Wright stops by. What's going on with energy? In fact, what's going on with all this oil with Venezuela? And how is the President selling it? And to whose benefit? We'll discuss it. That's all coming up with Secretary Wright tomorrow on the program. The Interior Secretary joins us.

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This is all on Rumbly. If you want to watch all this live, you got to do it on Rumbly. That's where the Rumbly chat is. That's where I can communicate with the That's where I can see people like Guzia212 saying, Dan, yeah, Dan, VZ1 saying things like, Tom Holman did great this morning. Tom Holman did a press conference this morning. Thank you, Veezy. Breaking that news. Wowza, the heavy hitter, says Raven of Ragnar. Yeah, we've got a great chat. We've got a great show. We've got a great audience. It's unbelievable. You need to be here Monday, eight o'clock. Join us. And then we're going to do that live every day, eight o'clock in the morning, rubble. Com/vince. Make sure you're subscribed. Don't you want to know stuff? Yeah. Show up, and then you'll know stuff. It'll be amazing. It'll be great to have you. Okay, let's talk about what the heck is going on in Fulton County, Georgia. Oh, man, we've got some fun news for you. The FBI has officially rated the election offices of Fulton County, Georgia, and this is the cause of a lot of freak out right now. Take a look.

Here's the Fox report from yesterday. As this was breaking, Fox was the first to break it. The rest of the media caught up to it. They're all, of course, catastrophizing about it. Cut four. Here's the FBI. This is a satellite office for the Fulton County Elections Office. The FBI, Atlanta Press Office, confirming this, not giving many details, saying that the FBI is executing a court-authorized law enforcement action. No other details at this time. But we do know via sources, a judge signed off on this warrant, allowing these agents, as you see them, enter this building to take items from the inside. Now, we're told that this is a sealed matter before the court, meaning details are now limited. Now, agents are looking at documents, phones, computers. We are told via multiple sources this is related to It relates to the 2020 presidential election. Okay. Yeah. All right, so it relates to the 2020 election. Well, that is a fascinating and fun twist to this story. The FBI shows up yesterday. They raid this Fulton County election office, and they came in heavy. They were ready to go. The left is already freaking out about this.

It turns out everybody showed up. There were images of the FBI carrying saws into the building yesterday. Isn't that fun? They were carrying saws into the building. They were going to cut their way to the evidence. That was the move. That's great. Also appearing at the building yesterday was Tulsi Gabbard. You know Tulsi Gabbard was there? The Director of National Intelligence was present for the raid yesterday in Fulton County, Georgia. Look at that mysterious photo. Look at that. There she is. She's looking out from behind a door frame. She's got her phone up. She's wearing, I think, an American flag hat. That is the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, showing up in Fulton County. Now, you tell me, is that a typical thing? You're investigating election irregularities. The Director of National Intelligence would be present for something like that? Why is Tulsi Gabbard involved in this? And the answer to this is because Tulsi has been all over this story from the moment she arrived in this White House. Tulsi Gabbard, former Democrat, now a Republican, now an enthusiastic Trump supporter, and now the person who is going to all-out war against the deep state.

Remember, Tulsi Gabbard was targeted by the deep state. She was treated as a terrorist. She's an American veteran. She was a sitting US Congresswoman, but she dared to speak out against Hillary Clinton. And for that sin, the state was weaponized against her. They were tracking her with air marshals as she traveled our country in the Quiet Skies program. What? She's not a threat to the country. She's not a terrorist. She's served her country honorably, and she's continuing to do that now as the Director of national intelligence. She's present yesterday. Now, this is not the first time that we've heard from Tulsi Gabbard. Well, this is a feature of Tulsi Gabbard's time as the DNI. She, remember, it was last year at a cabinet meeting where Tulsi Gabbard revealed that she's discovered some funny business that's being investigated. Take a look here, fellows, on my screen. Here's Tulsi Gabbard at a cabinet meeting early last year, 2025, at the very beginning of the Trump administration. I've got a long list of things that we're investigating.

We have the best of the best going after this, election integrity being one of them. We have evidence of how these electronic voting systems have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time and vulnerable to exploitation to manipulate the results of the votes being cast, which further drives forward your mandate to bring about paper ballots across the country so that voters can have faith in the integrity of our election.

Whoa, that was, remember how big of a disclosure that was? We talked about it at the time, Tulsi Gabbard, tipping our hand a bit at this public cabinet meeting. Cameras in the room saying, We've got election machine problems. I found some very troubling information. We're getting to the bottom of this thing. So that was... So Tulsi is not some Johnny come lately to this story. She's been all over this, and good for her. So there she is present yesterday in Fulton County. Now, President Trump actually tipped his hand last week in Davos. Remember, he was the one who stood up and said, I've got some breaking news for everybody. We're going after election interference in the 2020 election. Watch Cut 5, a reminder of what he said last week overseas. It was a rigged election. Everybody now knows that they found out people will soon be prosecuted for what they did. It's probably breaking news But it should be. It was a rigged election. Can't have rigged elections. You need strong borders, strong elections, and ideally a good press. I always say it. Strong borders, strong elections, free, fair elections, and a fair The media.

The media is terrible. People will be prosecuted for what they did. It's the President. He's all over this issue. So, man, talk about some meaningful breadcrumbs. We've got a lot going on here. Tulsi Gabbard says they're going to look into all these problems they found with voting machines and election irregularities. President Trump says, We've got prosecutions coming. And then we see this big FBI raid that includes handsaws as they go in to Fulton County, Georgia. This keeps getting more and more interesting. Now, what Who led the FBI to do this yesterday? Well, the answer to that is a couple of things. They had a warrant. There was a warrant signed off by a judge for the feds to go in to grab all of these documents. To be clear, to get a judicial warrant, you have to demonstrate probable cause that a crime was committed. That's it. You need to prove to a judge that You believe with supporting evidence that would be found in an affidavit, that a crime was committed. If you can convince the judge that that's legit, you get the warrant to search the location and seize materials that are relevant to your criminal investigation.

They got all of that. That's why the FBI did that yesterday. There's nothing tyrannical about this or authoritarian. They're not making it up as they go along. It's not unconstitutional. It's legitimate. It's by the book. It follows the law, and it has the sign off by a judge who believe that there is enough evidence to go into that building and grab that paperwork. That's a very big and meaningful deal. It's the source of a lot of panic right now on the left. They're very worried about what this means. In fact, they're so worried. They deployed a woman called Mo Ivory yesterday. She was dressed in her Captain Crunch jacket and freaking out that President Trump and his administration are actually investigating all of this. Take a look, cut six. Here's It's Captain Crunch.

Hi, everybody. Listen, I know you're watching the news. You're saying a lot of stuff about this FBI raid at the Fulton County Elections and Registrations. I'm on the inside right now. I just want you to be real discerning about all that you're hearing from people who are on the outside of what's going on. I'm going to give you the truth about what's happening. They served a warrant, the FBI, this is Trump, serving a warrant to go pick up the 2020 ballots, which are in a secure location inside of here, 700 boxes. The first warrant that they gave was incorrect legally. They didn't follow the right procedure. They went back and they fixed it, and they came back, and now they are actually collecting the boxes. They are in the chain of command in Fulton County is that once they are archived, they become the possession of the clerk of Superior Court, which is Shay Alexander. She is here, and she is with them, inventorying everything that they're taking. We, the commissioners, the chairman, the county attorney, are trying to figure out a legal plan as to maybe an injunction, a motion to cross. We don't know yet.

We're trying to figure it out. We're getting all kinds of legal advice to stop this because once they have the ballots, how How do we then turn around and do something different when they've already got their hands on it? So this is an attempt to take your vote away. This is all about November 2026, about the primary on May 19th and then the November election. He does not want the midterm elections to take away his power. So he's trying to create chaos. So this is what he does. Chaos in Minnesota, chaos in Fulton County. We are a target. Protect your vote at all costs. I'm telling you, everybody always says your life depends on it. Oh, your life does depend on it this time.

Ma'am, you need to calm down. You need to settle down, lady. Why are you so hysterical about this? What are you so worked up about? You're worried that the Trump administration, the Justice Department, they just got a lawful warrant signed off by a judge. They're going in, they picked up some paperwork, and they're going to look at it. I thought you said everything was on the up and up. If you have nothing to fear, then why are you acting so crazy? You're getting hysterical here. Settle down. Look, if everything was on the up and up, it was all fine. There's nothing to worry about. You're like, Yeah, you can look at the paperwork. In fact, you don't even need a warrant. We'll hand over everything to you. You review it to your heart's content. We're very satisfied with the results in Fulton County, Georgia, in 2020. That's not what she said. That's a Fulton County Commissioner, Mo Ivory, dressed like Captain Crunch, panicking like crazy that the FBI just went in and grabbed this stuff. Then what is the left thing Trump is going to do? Can I just walk through the ill logic of their claims?

What do they think he's going to do? Steal the 2020 election? Is that the contention? Trump's about to steal the election. Even if he did that, even if you were to manufacture evidence is what I think you're trying to say or something. What bearing would that have on anything? He's currently President because he won the 2024 election. You psychos? No, they're very worried about what this FBI is going to discover. It's all over her face and in her voice and on her Captain Crunch outfit. She knows that there's some funny business afoot and that the FBI is about to stare at it. In fact, We all know that there's some funny business afoot, and it's not merely her costume's decisions. In December of this past year, in Georgia, they held a hearing on Georgia's elections. And during that hearing, they revealed that in Fulton County, Georgia, in 2020, 315,000 votes, early in-person votes, were in no way properly handled by Fulton County, Georgia. In fact, as you listen to this, I'm going to play the audio first, and then we'll talk about what it means. But here is Cut 7, the Fulton County Board of Elections attorney, her name's Ann Brumbaud testifying in December about how, yeah, there have been total violations of Georgia law here when it came to the 2020 election in Fulton County, Georgia.

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I've not seen the tapes myself, but we do not dispute that the tapes were not signed. It was a violation of the rule. We Since 2020, again, we have new leadership and a new building and a new board and new standard operating procedures. And since then, the training has been enhanced. The poll watchers are trained, specifically. They've got to sign the tapes in the morning, and they've got to sign the tapes when they're run at the end of the day. When the tapes come back to the hub with all the documentation, they are checked again. And if somebody We forgot to sign a tape, then Fulton initiates an investigation. But we don't dispute the allegation.

Okay, so that's a boring recitation and revelation of an important fact. 315,000 votes were completely improperly handled in Fulton County, Georgia. Now, what you're going to hear a lot about is these basically tabulation Tabulator tapes is what they call them. Tabulator tapes. Now, that's an election term. It's really simple what this means, tabulator tapes. It means the receipt from a voting machine. That's what it means. So in Georgia, you will recall, in 2020, there was a chaotic election that was conducted. It was conducted in a number of ways. People could send in their absentee ballots. They could drop their absentee ballots inside of drop boxes. They could vote in person on election day, or they could vote in person early. These are the ballots we're talking about, in person, early voting. And in the in-person early voting phase, there were approximately 130 voting machines that were being used, yes, Dominion voting machines that were being used. And among those 130 voting machines, there were 315,000 ballots that were claimed to have been cast in Georgia. The way it works is At the end of the election, there's supposed to be receipts of what the machine actually counted.

Joe Biden gets this many votes, Donald Trump gets this many votes. All of the down-ballet elections, all of it, should be listed out on these tabulator tapes, which, again, just receipts from these machines. And then when you get a hold of those receipts, they need to be signed off by an election official, and they need to be signed off by two witnesses. Guess how many signatures were on the tabulator tapes for all the early votes in Fulton County, Georgia? Zero. Nobody signed them. Nobody signed any of these. No election official did, no witnesses did. Nobody signed them. In other words, these votes were handled in violation of Georgia election law. Now, how do you do that? How in the world would you miss 315,000 votes? How in the world would you fail not to follow the most obvious procedure in the world, which is to stare at the votes and then sign off that you did? How would that happen exactly? Great question. So now all of this is under investigation right now by the FBI. And in fact, we do have the search warrant. It was obtained somehow by Pro publica. I'm not precisely certain about how they obtained it.

Maybe it could have been through some public record system, whatever. But the point is, they've got it. It is signed off by a US Magistrate Judge, Katherine Salinas, is the judge to have signed off on the warrant. In the warrant, we have attachment A, which is the property to be searched. This is the Fulton County, Georgia, election site that they were searching, the office of the clerk of Court, located at 5600, Campbellton Fairburn Road, Fairburn, Georgia, 302 213. They're searching. Then the most important element of the warrant is attachment B, particular things to be seized. This is what the FBI was tasked with seizing. This is related to two sections of the US Code, two violations of criminal law that the feds are concerned about. And they say they wanted the following. Here's what they grabbed. All of the physical ballots from the 2020 election in Fulton County, all of them, including absentee ballots, including envelopes, advanced voting ballots, provisional ballots, in-person election day ballots, emergency ballots, damaged ballots, destroyed ballots, duplicated ballots, any other ballot that was used to cast a vote. In other words, every damn ballot from Fulton County, Georgia, is now in the possession of Trump.

The Trump administration has everything, at least everything that still exists that they were desperately trying to keep him from getting a hold of. They also have all the tabulator tapes. Those are the receipts that I was just referring to for every voting machine used in Fulton County, Georgia, including different types of tapes. They call them zero tapes, opening tapes, closing tapes, and then the other tabulator tape printed from a voting machine utilized during that 2020 general election. Then they got the ballot images and the voter rolls Everything. Electronic storage media, electronically stored information, all of it. And then the rest of it is standard issue, just saying that, Hey, everybody in the federal government who's necessary to look at this can look at this. So that's what the warrant says. So this is, again, it's a real warrant signed off by a real judge who really said, Hey, there's actual probable cause of a crime here. Go in there, grab all of these documents. Fascinating. Absolutely fascinating. And we're We're putting the pieces together. I like where these pieces are going. I like it. In case you're wondering, Hey, is the statute of limitations run on this thing?

If it's a 2020 election, are we concerned that it ran? Well, I'm telling you, that December revelation that I just brought up to you, the one where Fulton County, Georgia, for the first time, admits, Yeah, we didn't actually affix any signatures to all of those election machine receipts. The first time that's been made public was December. As we know, if you got a conspiracy going on, the last overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy, when the government finds out about this, that's when the clock starts running. I'll let the lawyer sort it out, but it does seem like a big deal that we just found out about this. All of a sudden, boom, we got the FBI all over it. The last point I'll raise on this, and then I've got to thank our sponsors for this great program. The last point is a lot of people have been wondering, is there any Venezuela connection? I've wondered this, too. Is there any connection whatsoever that Maduro would be involved here? But possibly, maybe. I've heard Venezuela raised a lot in all of the allegations and concerns about the election. If it is the case that taking Maduro into custody has resulted in shaking Tim Apples free to figure out what the hell happened in the 2020 election, I'll take that, too.

But whatever is happening here, it involves every level of the government. It's got from Georgia's Fulton County fighting back against the American people to federal judges signing off on the actual warrant to the President of the United States being intimately involved to the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, literally being on the site yesterday, the Deputy Director of the FBI being on the site of the FBI site yesterday. We've got a real deal, full-blown epic saga playing out right now based on that 2020 election. And I can't wait to see how this thing ends. We'll keep tracking it. More ahead on this edition of events. Hey, I've been using the bone charge infrared sauna blanket. Love this thing. My wife, Allison, she uses that Bone Charge red light facemask. Ever since they They sent them to us. We can't recommend them enough. I like the Sauna blanket because it helps with muscle recovery and detoxification. It's become a total game changer. It's easy to use. I can just wrap myself up. Let the infrared heat work as magic. It's created a huge difference for me in how I relax and how I rejuvenate and how I feel afterwards.

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He dives in their way as they're attempting to push rioters back, take them into custody. He loses in a chaotic moment on the streets of Minnesota. Obviously, that's been the subject of a lot of, well, riots. Riots ensued after that. The left went absolutely crazy. They said he was just an ICU nurse, an innocent guy. He was an observer. He was directing traffic. He was just a good Samaritan, a good citizen. Really? Well, here's what Alex Pretty was doing a week before. Brand new video footage. Alex Pretty. This was obtained by the BBC. How did the BBC I see you obtain this? Here we go. Alex Pretty caught rioting on camera. Cut one. On the morning of January 13th, our team received a tip that federal agents were blocking a street at the corner of East 36th and Park Avenue in Minneapolis. We arrived around 10: 15 AM. We saw observers at the agents as they walked back to their vehicles. When they started driving away, the man kicked their tail light. An agent then got out of the vehicle, grabbed him, and pushed him ground. During the altercation, agents fired tear gas and pepper balls into the crowd.

They continue to hold the man down before they retreat, and he walks away. The man in our footage is wearing a similar outfit to what Pretty was wearing on the day he was killed. What appears to be a gun is also visible above his waistband. So he's screaming in their faces. They just got done wrestling with him. And then he gets away. This is a frustrating feature here of this video. Here, he continues to stand at the scene. Yeah, and he stuck around. So what do we witness there? Well, we witnessed him assaulting officers, vandalizing their vehicles, breaking the tail light on the SUV, acting like a belligerent lunatic. This is not the quiet, peaceful, loving ICU nurse that everybody was pretending existed. No, he was a maniac. He was an Antifa maniac who was out in the street constantly menacing officers and fighting with them. In fact, he got into a physical altercation with the guys. I presume that's the one that CNN was claiming he broke his rib in. He gets into a physical altercation with the cops. They've got him on the ground. And by the way, they saw his gun. They saw that he had a gun holstered on his back, and they didn't shoot him for that.

They get it. People can have guns. That's totally allowed in America. But this guy is acting like a psychopath. They have him on the ground. I want to know, why didn't they take him into custody? Now, maybe that moment was so panicked and so fraught that they needed to get the safety away from the braying mob. Maybe that was the thought process. We can't take everybody into custody. Sometimes we got to think about our safety first, and sometimes that means letting a perpetrator go. But the reality is none of that would have happened. If the If the feds had the backup of local police, if local cops were actually there to support them and to take somebody like that crazy person, Alex Pretty, into custody, Pretty would have been in jail. He would not have been out on the street a week later and shot dead. Alex Pretty would be alive today if law and order was prevailing in Minnesota. If order was present and consequences were imposed on him for his previous illegal actions, he would still be alive today in a jail cell. And yet, he's not alive today. Because of the failures of the state of Minnesota, because of Tim Walls and Jacob Fry, Alex Prady's blood is on the hands of the Democrats who run that state.

If they actually had a state that wasn't collapsing to anarchy, their own people would still be living. It's as simple and as unfortunate as that. And that video really demonstrates it. Coming up, we've got the Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright. We have a lot to talk about with him because we got a great country, and this is a big issue for President Trump, and he's entrusted Chris Wright with it. I can't wait to talk to him about that. First, I want to thank our great sponsors Great sponsors. Helix Sleep. Wonderful. You know what I woke up on this morning? My Helix mattress. It was amazing. I had a great night's sleep because of my Helix mattress. Helix has been a game changer since the moment we got it. Look, I had crappy mattresses before, and I actually was convinced that it wasn't really mattress quality. It was just the way I was sleeping. I was wrong. It was mattress quality. Helix is way better. My wife and I took the Helix Sleep quiz, and it matched us up perfectly for how we sleep. No guessing, no stress. And from the very first night, we noticed the difference.

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That video footage that I just showed you of Alex Pretty, there is already a full-blown conspiracy online. I saw in chat, some people were already mentioning this, that the left thinks that that was AI. That's not Alex Pretty. That's AI. That's fake. I was like, No, it's him. It's definitely him. It's so obviously him, and that's so obviously not AI. We say that. It's funny. The left is conspiracy theorizing about the video. Meanwhile, Chuck Schumer this week literally put an AI photo of Alex Pretty on the floor of the United States Senate, something that the left had created, some fake picture that the left had created. He pretended It was from the moment that Alex Pretty was killed, and then he was moralizing to the rest of us about how ICE is bad and how we have to shut down the government to defund them. It's always projection with these people every single time. It's a perfect inversion of the truth, where they accuse you of bandying about AI video when in fact it's real, and then they're actually sharing AI images in order to defund ICE, the legitimate agency that's cleaning up the state of Minnesota and certainly our entire country.

Well, in case you're wondering, but, Vince, maybe it is AI. Maybe you're getting this wrong. No, his family has confirmed it's him. Alex Freddie's family confirmed to the Minnesota Star Tribune that, yes, that's our brother. Yes, that's him. Here's the Minnesota Star Tribune. They say, Pretty 37 was captured on bystander video January 13th amid a crowd of whistleblowing observers cursing immigration agents as an unmarked convoy swarmed a South Minneapolis street corner. A spokesperson for his family and the family's attorney have verified that the man seen in the video is Freddie. Now, pay attention to the way that these guys are doing this, because they don't even mention until 40 paragraphs down that he vandalized the SUV, that he kicked the tail light out on it. They say, Pradee stood in the crosswalk and he flipped the middle finger of both hands toward an SUV carrying officers clad in tactical gear. One jumped out of the back passenger seat and charged toward him, grabbing Freddie by the jacket and tackling him as other agents piled on, according to the footage. Guys, that doesn't even include what he did next. He takes his foot and then he kicks the entire housing of the back right tail light out of the vehicle.

It doesn't even mention that. It just says that he was standing there holding up his middle fingers. That's the Minnesota Star Tribune for you. So if you're wondering, why are the people of Minnesota misled right now? Well, how about their local news outlets who won't even give the most salient details about what the hell happened? Psycho. Look at him. Look at him on video. He's a complete psychopath. How come How about he intervened in his life? How about he know it? Nobody got him under control. And there he is on the street attacking law enforcement. If your kid was doing that, you'd be beside yourself. You'd be like, I got to intervene here before he ends up dead. And that man ended up dead because of his actions. It's just awful. And so, yeah, no, the media are lying about this. Eventually, way down the piece, they finally admit that there was a tail light kicked out, and then they attribute it to finally seeing a video from conservative influencer, nick Sorder. Conservative influencer, nick Sorder, is how they describe nick. Now, what is nick doing? Nick is clearly conservative, but he's a journalist. He's doing more news coverage than anybody at the Minnesota Star Tribune is doing.

And you love that little petty, bitchy, passive, aggressive attempt to prejudice the audience. Oh, he's an influencer. Influencer, nick Sorder. How about journalist, nick Sorder? How about he's done more journalism on this issue in a single day than you've done in the entire saga, Minnesota Star Tribune. It's a typical stuff, but this happens all the time. It's constantly. It's little nudges. The media is always doing this. They're always manipulating you with language. Little nudges all the time. And that's what we get from these guys. So that's the chaos there. Now, here's the good news. We have Tom Holman. We have Holman in Minnesota right now, which is wonderful news. And this gives me an opportunity to share with you some of the things that Tom Holman has been saying this morning in terms of... He did a big press conference today in Minnesota, in Minneapolis. He meets with everybody. And he said, This is a problem that has been created by the left, that Joe Biden opened our borders, and now I have to clean up the consequences of that. Take a look. Here's Tom Holman this morning from Minneapolis in his press conference. Here he is.

I also want to remember, the politicians are continually attacking us. Where were they the last four years when the number of women and children, sex traffic went all time high? Where were they when a quarter million Americans died from fentanyl from across the border? Where were they when women and children are dying making that journey? Where were they when over 4,000 His family's making that journey died. Historic record. Where were they? Not a word. Now we're just trying to respond to what happened the last four years and keeping this country safe. We're arresting a lot of public safety threats, take them off the streets Trump promise to make this country safer. President Trump promised to make this country safe again. That's Tom Holman. Holman is very good. Holman has got four decades of experience over four decades, I think, of experience in both border patrol and ICE. Tom Holman started his service in the federal government under Ronald Reagan, and he has served every single president since then. Well, I guess he didn't serve Joe Biden. He wasn't working for Joe Biden at all. But he did work for Obama. He worked for Trump. He was working for Trump again.

He served under both Republicans and Democrats. Obama treated him nicely. He gave him a presidential medal of freedom. Isn't Isn't that an amazing story? He did. But it was Obama's party who kicked open the borders. One of the reasons he's amazing, there's many reasons. Let's run down the list. One is he's respected by law enforcement because he's risen from the lowest ranks up to the top. He's a guy who's been through it all. Anybody who's in law enforcement or in the military will tell you that those people, the guys who have done it, the grunt work at the bottom, all the way up to leadership, those are the guys, typically, that get some of the most respect anywhere because it's not like they're pretending. They're not faking it. They know what it's like to wake up during those ungodly hours. They know what it's like to strap that gun and that badge on and go out to work. They know what it's like. The other thing is, he knows how to demonstrate empathy because he actually has it. He's not faking it like the left often does. He doesn't want the left to... He doesn't want people to be hurt.

He doesn't want women to die. He doesn't want people getting messed up coming across the border. He He's desperate to save people's lives. He wants American citizens to live. He wants ICE agents to live. He wants even the illegal aliens who are trying to make perilous border crossings not to do it for fear that they're going to die in the journey or be raped by the cartels. This guy is the real deal. So he goes into Minneapolis, he grabs a tampon Tim Walls by the shirt collar, and he says, We're going to fix this thing. And so here's the big news this morning. Tom Holman told all these guys, You want us to draw You want our agents to leave? We will under one condition. You make us unnecessary. If you work with us, if you send us your bad guys when you get them into custody in these jails, we're not going to need all these people in Minnesota. We can draw down because we don't need huge teams of people to pick up bad guys in our country. So you want us to leave? That's the condition for it. Tom Holmes made it very clear.

He says he's making progress. That's good news. That's very good news. And so let's grab them. Let's arrest these people. Let's get them out of our country. And let's force people like tampon Tim Walls and lunatic mayor, Jacob Fry to actually work with the Trump administration. That's a very big deal. All right, we're keeping our ears open to the live situation we have here. The secretary is here now? All right, Joining us right now is the Energy Secretary of the United States, Chris Wright. Secretary Wright, it is great to have you with us on the show today. Thanks for stopping by, sir.

You bet, Finz. Glad to be here.

Let's talk about American energy, man. Here's the big thing that's on my mind right now, in everybody's mind, I think, Venezuela. So the President of the United States takes out Maduro. He's in custody now. And we've got all this energy that has been pumped from Venezuela. And the President is in charge of selling it. In fact, you're in charge of selling it. He gave it to you. He said, Secretary Wright, you're in charge now. Tell us what's happening here with all this oil and to whose benefit is it going?

With the oil is being sold, at least Half of it will come here to the United States. And a lot of our refineries that were built in the '60s and '70s, they were specifically tuned to run on Venezuelan crude. When I was born, Venezuela was the third biggest oil producer in the world. United States was Soviet Union was second, Venezuela was third. So it's very beneficial for American refineries to have this restored flow of Venezuelan crude. Some of it's going to Europe and refineries elsewhere, all going to accounts controlled by the United States, which gives us tremendous leverage over the government of Venezuela to have them work with us, to end the drug dealing, the criminality, the exporting of arms and guns and kidnapping, all the indiscretions the United States has suffered We're going to be able to bring that to an end, I believe, and reform Venezuela for the benefit of Venezuelans, the Western hemisphere, and most importantly, for Americans.

So the President said that this money is going to get to the Venezuelan people now, which is not what was happening before. Or we all remember Venezuelans were resorting to eating zoo animals to survive the communist regime that they were living under. They still, of course, have communists in charge at the top, and the President was intentional about that because he's trying to keep the country stable. How do you make sure that that money gets to the people? What's the process there?

So we control the accounts, and so that money is sent out in increments for stated purposes. Oh, it's to pay the police officers. It's to pay the civil servants. It's for food aid. It's for these things. So we'll see. But so far, the cooperation of the government in Venezuela has been very willing and very desirous. As you just said, things in Venezuela are not good. I think they see this as a possibility to make things go better. But a lot of that oil before was leaked out by rival power centers, by drug dealers, by gangs. Then since it was all sanctioned oil, they had to sell it at a huge discount. We're selling all of the oil on the real market at market prices. So it's a much larger flow of money now.

And then in terms of money for the United States in the midst of all of this, Venezuela, as this audience knows, Hugo Chávez and Nicolas Maduro both stole American resources. America built the energy industry in Venezuela. All of that infrastructure was stolen by Hugo Chávez and subsequently Nicolas Maduro. Are those energy companies being made whole now by the proceeds from these sales?

Not in the short term. In the short term, we've got to stabilize Venezuela, stabilize our control and relationship there. But I think a reformed Venezuela that has a growing economy and growing energy production, that's a Venezuela with the ability to eventually pay back the debts. A lot of those debts will just be returning assets that were stolen. They took that energy infrastructure, as you said, in those oil fields. And I think in a lot of cases, you'll see American companies just get that same field back and that infrastructure back and better commercial terms so they can actually make money producing oil and gas in Venezuela. And this helps keep gasoline and diesel and travel prices down in the United States. It'll create more job opportunities. That energy comes up to our country as well. It should be a win for both countries.

So how much has all of this affected China? Go ahead.

Yeah, of course, it'll be one more loss for socialism and communism that was just once again proved. Top-down control doesn't work. It just impoverishes people and strips them of their freedom and opportunities.

So the question is, how much has all of this impacted China? Because you can tell me more accurately, but my impression was that up to 90% of all of the illicit oil exports from Venezuela were going to China. In fact, in Iran, specifically, they send about 90% of their oil to China. China has been very dependent on this illicit oil market to power its economy. What impact has all of this had on the Chinese Communist Party.

Now, you're right on both of those points because both of those countries were sanctioned, not allowed legally to sell oil. So it was all black market oil sales. So basically, it allowed China to buy oil on the cheap. They were buying oil cheaper than Americans, and the rest of the world was buying oil. That's no longer true from Venezuela. China can buy some of that oil, but they're going to pay the full market price. China did what they always do, which is to lend money, entrench themselves into Venezuela. In fact, the money China paid a discounted price, and then on that discounted price, they kept half of it to start repaying back the debts that Venezuela owed them. So Venezuela is shipping this oil over to China, and they're getting like $10 or $12 a barrel of cash going back to Venezuela. So think about that. They were only getting half of the discounted price. So today, that cash flow to Venezuela is three times greater than it was before for each barrel of oil sold. And so for China, in the short, well, they got to pay market price now, and they're not getting all that oil going their way.

It's a big global oil market. But yeah, this isn't a win for China.

So wait, China was paying 12 bucks a barrel from Venezuela. And what's the prevailing market price right now? Something like 40 or 50 Yeah, I mean, the market price for oil is $60 right now.

China was paying a $30 discount, which gets you down to $30. And then they were only giving half of that $30 to Venezuela, and they were keeping the other half to pay back the debts that Venezuela had racked up with them. Then, of course, there's transport costs and all that. So, yeah, Venezuela was getting a fraction of the money that they are getting today.

Yes. Okay. Let me ask you a big picture question about energy production around the planet. Obviously, President Trump was elected to help restore the American economy, and that definitely includes the American energy industry. But one of the things we've been talking about here, and then I'm aware of, is that the American energy industry isn't always thrilled with President Trump. They love that he's kicking all the regulation out of the way. But sometimes there's a sweet spot for oil prices. They want the oil prices to be just high enough that they're getting good profits out of it. But President Trump has been encouraging other countries, including Arab countries in the Middle East, to produce more oil. It seems that, from my perspective, that he's trying to get as much energy generated around the planet as possible because he thinks that's going to be an economic engine for the world. What is your view on this subject, Secretary Wright? What is President Trump's mission here?

So, Vince, you said it just right. President Trump just instinctively gets more energy means more opportunity, and more energy means lower prices. People say, oh, President Trump, he's doing things to help the oil companies. Complete nonsense. What does President Trump want? He wants maximum production, which drives price down, which hurts oil companies. Company profitability. When Democrats ask me about that, I'm like, Biden was fantastic for the oil and gas companies. He stood in the way of oil and gas production, but didn't do anything to change the demand for it. So what happened? The price was up. I was in the oil and gas business. Record profitability in my company ever during the Biden years. President Trump comes in. He's lowering the cost of production for oil and gas companies, as you said. That's good for them. He's opening up more lands and long term opportunities for them. But his policies as a whole drive prices down. But he's got one constituency, the American people. He's not trying to help this industry or that industry. He's trying to help Americans. And lower costs are good for Americans. Lower costs are good for economic growth. Lower costs are good for reshore.

Reshoring of industry here. And if you reshore industry and create more jobs here, that's how you push wages up. He wants people to pay less and make more. It doesn't sound like a too radical an agenda to me.

No, it doesn't sound radical at all. But that nuance, I think, needs to be heard because it so rarely is. So one other big picture question, and thank you, Secretary Wright, for being here with us on American energy. One of the things that we constantly hear talked about in local communities all across the country is when When new things are being built that require energy, like data centers, for instance, it always creates a panic that we don't have enough energy. We don't have enough energy. How do we energize all of this? My impression is that President Trump is trying to encourage a lot of these companies to generate their own power plants. A lot of companies just basically create their own power and then put their excess power back on the grid, including things like micronuclear, have power that these companies are generating. But I'm worried that our grid can't support the power that we need. What's the current state of play? How are things right now?

You set it up correctly. President Trump, he wants oil production to grow, natural gas production to grow, electricity production to grow. That's been the problem in the United States. We've had an overly regulated electricity market. All these climate policies at the state level and under President Obama and Biden, we had national level climate policies. This forced the closure of coal plants, forced the closure of natural gas plants, spent hundreds of billions of dollars subsidizing wind turbines and solar panels and batteries around, which, by the way, don't work at peak demand. When it's cold and dark out, there's no solar power, and that's still cold air. There's no wind. So President Trump said, Hey, we got to reverse that nonsense. He stopped the closure of 17 gigawatts of coal plants just in the first year we've been in office. If those 17 gigawatt plants had been closed, hundreds of Americans would have died over the last few days in this cold stretch, as we stress the electricity grids to the breaking point. There was a much smaller but intense cold storm a few years ago during the Biden administration. Over 200 Americans died in Texas because the electricity grid failed.

This administration did everything we could, including 24 hours a day emergency orders during this cold spell to prevent large scale failure of generation and transmission systems. We did have ICE in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Tennessee that brought local power lines down. Everyone is scrambling to get those back up. But President Trump's agenda to source artificial intelligence in manufacturing in the United States does require the building of new power plants, but these will be natural gas power plants, nuclear power plants, operating existing coal plants. These will not only grow our ability to produce electricity, but ultimately will push the price of electricity down. The more The more gas and nuclear and coal you build, the higher your electricity prices are going to be. The more gas and nuclear and coal you build, the lower your electricity prices are going to be. It's honestly that simple. And that's President Trump's agenda. Push down the prices, but enable us to win in the AI race, enable us to bring manufacturing jobs back to the US.

Okay, and then finally, Secretary Chris Wright, are you refilling the strategic petroleum reserve? That's in your portfolio. Is that getting filled up again?

We are slowly filling it right now, but it's a challenge because you've got to money allocated from Congress to do it, and it's not a politically popular thing to do. Apparently, it was very politically popular for Biden to rapidly drain it, to try to drive down gasoline prices, to do well in the midterm elections. Unfortunately, it did help him a little bit. But we have creative ideas. This is an administration of businessmen. We have some creative ideas where we're going to encourage oil production, and instead of using cash, we're going to have swaps that will bring oil to refill the strategic petroleum reserve. President is passionately committed to do that. This is about our national security, and we'll get it done.

So you have creative options you haven't even announced yet to refill the SPR.

That is correct. I may have leaked a little news there, Vince, but the country will hear more about it in the coming months. We have some creative ideas about how to get oil into the strategic petroleum reserve without using any taxpayer dollars.

I can't wait to hear all about it. Thank you so much for joining us today, the Secretary of Energy. Everybody loves Chris Wright. Every time I hear about who's doing well in the administration, people say Chris Wright is doing a great job. Energy Secretary. Great to have you with us today.

Thanks, Chris. Appreciate your show.

Nice to talk to you, sir. There he is, the Secretary of Energy, still plugging away, breaking a little news there at the end that they're coming up with some creative cashless ways to refill that strategic petroleum and reserve. You heard the Secretary say. The problem we have is Congress is required to cut checks. Yeah, Congress is a problem. We all know that. We talk about that a lot. As always, it has It's been a special joy to have you guys here with us today. We do have the big national radio show coming up. I've got a lot more issues to tackle today. Obviously, Democrats are threatening to shut the government down unless they can hurt ICE, which is hard for the course. We've got left-wing mayors across the country. They're all conspiring right now to thwart ICE as well. Oh, of course, the big news from yesterday, how could we leave without admitting this? We got to mention this. The person who who, quote, unquote, attacked Elhan Omar hit her with apple cider vinegar. It's a very dangerous thing, apple cider vinegar. I mean, it's almost like a free spa treatment that That shit got this week.

Apple Cider Vinegar? Isn't that good for the skin? People apply it for acne and all sorts of concerns. It's antimicrobial. It's a big deal. People love apple Cider Vinegar. You ingest it, it's good for your digestion. People take it because they want to lose weight with it. There's a whole thing. In the rank of things that you could be hit with while you're giving a speech, I think number one would be if somebody would throw a million dollars cash at me, just like, boom, right to the face. Okay, I guess I'll take that attack. Number two is apple cider vinegar, given its healing properties. It's amazing. And it's halal, too, by the way. So it wasn't even anti-Muslim or anything. What if that guy He just has difficulty conveying his emotions? Maybe he was trying to help her, and he just came across as angry, but he was a hero. Metal of Freedom, anybody? I don't know. Anyway, the point is apple cider vinegar, all is safe, and she got a free skincare treatment. That's the story. We've got so much more to do. The Vin Show comes up today, the big national radio show, thevinShow.

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