The Benny Show - VICTORY: Iran Announces Strait of Hormuz OPEN | Oil CRASHES, Market Soars, Trump: 'Peace is Here...'

Episode Date: April 17, 2026

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Ah, what does that smell? What is that? The fresh smell of napalm burning oil in the morning from the oil kingdom of the world, the number one oil exporter on Earth, the great kingdom empire of America. Join the empire, actually. The more you watch Star Wars, the more you side with Darth Vader. It's pretty cool.

Pretty amazing what we're able to do. Funny how the Phantom Menace was all about a blockade that actually ended quite well. And that's where we are today. We are giddy. We are excited. It is time, ladies and gentlemen, to ask an important question. Have you tried saying thank you just once? Have you tried saying thank you? Say, please.

He said, please. The naval blockade worked. The Iran gamble, which was painful. and excruciating and quite frankly one of the world's hottest and toughest IQ tests ever for our show that's for sure this has been the most difficult four to six weeks in broadcast in the history of this show that's for sure uh has played off there is no other way around it it is paid off there was short-term pain there were historic crashouts there were people who proved that they would root for the other side in a war with America,

like that they'd root for America to lose. And people that burn their MAGA hats, burn their credibility, and threw themselves out of skyscraper windows for like what, nothing? If you're a three-time Trump voter, if you're somebody who actually, like, trust the plan, which is hard. And it doesn't mean pure trust. It means that you, like, roll with the punches. Sometimes you do get punched.

Don't you get punched? The biggest champions in all UFC get punched in the face. They break bones. They break jaws. It hurts, sucks. That's just the brutal business of politics and global empire. And these last couple of weeks with this Iran war, which we have always consistently said, we didn't like because simply it took the eye off the domestic policy.

wins and that's what's critical important and we need to win we must win we have to win how do you do that it's very simple gas prices grocery prices home prices and those three things it's problematic that's it's this is the only thing that we preached we went and interviewed the vice president we talked about this affordability is what wins you elections that's it okay in this country a lot of that is tied to oil a lot of that is tied to resources a lot of that's tied to global economic environments And so, ladies and gentlemen, this glorious date of April 17th, 2026, Friday, the year of our Lord, Iran has reopened the straight of Hormuz. Iran has said, you win, we lose. Various Middle Eastern countries are claiming total and complete victory over Iran.

Iran is now kneeling before Donald Trump, begging for forgiveness. giving Trump and the Trump administration everything that they want, everything the global world could ever want right now. We're going to cover it all on the show as the stock market rips as oil craters and ALX, Danny, you had better have sent like live oil tracking and live S&P 500 tracking to Klein. I want to be able to catch it live, please. I want to be able to catch the markets live. I want to talk about them live on the show. So why? time. We booked Carrie Lake for the show because we've been talking about our friend, Carrie Lake, because Ruben Gallego now has credible sexual assault claims against him.

And we're going to talk a little bit about that. This is something else we were planning on covering the show. But here we go, ladies and gentlemen. Let's go a day where we have been vindicated, where those who kept their heads during all this have been vindicated. My name's Benny Johnson. Just a chill, bro. We're just a chill, bro. This is the Benny show. Venice AI.

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Ladies and gentlemen, let's go to the top line. President Trump. Cheers as oil prices plunge through the floor after Iran declares Strait of Hormuz completely open, ready for full passage. Yo, let's just hop on over to the president and what he has to say this morning. Ladies and gentlemen, the Strait of Hormuz is completely open and ready for business. Donald Trump called it the Strait of Iran. just announced that they have fully opened ready for passage the strait of Hormuz is complete this from corrected himself the straight of Hormuz is complete it's like minutes before he

announces that it's called the Strait of America completely open and ready for business is full passage the naval blockade will remain in full force and it's a fact as it pertains to iran only until such a time as our transactions with Iran is a horror 100% complete this process should go very quickly in that the most of the points are already negotiated. Thank you for your attention to this matter. What are most of the points that we are negotiating? Let's go ahead over here to the Kobasai letter that has like a little bit of a little bit of a peek into what has been negotiated. The U.S. is considering a $20 billion cash for uranium deal with Iran, three part Three-page peace plan. That's a pretty short peace plan, frankly. Details include short of the better, I think, you know, keep it clean. The U.S. and Iran are negotiating a three-page plan to end the war. The element under discussion is the U.S. would release $20 billion in frozen Iranian funds in return for Iran giving up a stockpile of enriched uranium. That's an unbelievable trade.

How could you give Iran so much money? Are you kidding me? The $20 billion was just added to the U.S. stock market. You have a stock market ticker up? Show me. $20 billion was just added to the U.S. stock market in the last nanosecond. This is all-time record highs. Zoom on out, please.

Give me that, give me that, give me that one, giving me that three-month view, shall you? Guys, we can get like a, we can get a sharper ticker than this. I know that I know ALX and Dan again. You got the oil prices. ALX, you got oil prices? Okay. Guys should show me that. Oh, okay.

Got it. So oil is now crashing. Almost below $80 a barrel. On its way down to, honest way down to probably 50 or 40. Okay. Like, this is worth $20 billion? Yeah, it is.

Actually. Why? Well, when Iran gets a nuclear weapon, that is going to destabilize everything. You think it's bad now? Again, again. I haven't really, I haven't really like been a huge fan of the messaging on all of this, but the results, the market's reaction to Iran not being a nuclear power and Iran like saying that here's one of the details, some of the Iran's highly enriched Iranian would be shipped to a third country and would be blended down. International

monitoring. Iran would be allowed to have nuclear research. reactors, medical isotopes, but would pledge that all this nuclear facilities would be above ground, getting them up and out of those mountains. Iran is one of the most mountainous nations in the world would make it virtually impossible to ever do a ground invasion there. So this would not be the way that you wanted to go. This is the way you want to go. You wouldn't want to go like, oh, let's go, let's go take over Baghdad. That was always a nightmare. This is precisely where you wanted to be. Well done. straight now is open. The markets are responding. Don't care what anybody says. Like,

call me a plan truster. Call me whatever. Happy to have been in the camp of people that did not lose my damn mind, that did not light myself on fire over all of this. You can disagree with the president and we do. That's our right. It's important. Like you can state it. You can be respectful about it. You could have a conversation. You can do it in good faith. You can go interview the vice president and talk about it. It's a good way to roll. Marine traffic tracker. Let's go ahead and look. Now, look at that. Suddenly, all of these boats, you can actually literally watch the boats zip through the straight of Hormuz. You can see a move in real time. Holy moly.

It's exciting, actually. It's cool. And then what has happened in the reshuffle of all of this? What's happened in this massive reshuffle? Well, you've gotten America becoming the world's number one oil supplier. So go ahead and check in on the graph from yesterday, ALX, that we popped up. Please. Yeah.

The oil output in America for America has been just wild. Alex, we just put it up this morning, or actually, or late last night. Alex has got it. Pop my screen on the line, shall we. Okay. Let's go through the timeline ever so quickly. NASDAQ is on his track for a 12th consecutive Green Day, longest winning streak since July of 2009, the fastest recovery since 1982.

We've got historic history. Look at this. Liquid fuel outages are substantial. The disruption truly has happened. And what has it happened in favor of America? Look at this. America now producing more oil than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined. Producing more natural gas than China, Russia, and Iran combined. This is a future. This is a future for our people. This is a future for our nation. These are things that everyone should be cheering. You got that Bloomberg. Got that Bloomberg headline from yesterday that I loved so much. Shockingly, this entire gambit has made America so much stronger financially. Manufacturing has never grown in this country faster. It's amazing Bloomberg headline. Bloomberg hates.

They loathe Trump. They can't stand. Ice cream climb. Here we go. S&P record highs now above market open. All-time highs again. Oh, look at this. Oh, you got it.

Okay, $500 billion added to the market. I think, like, letting Iran have their $20 billion back. Perfectly fine. Let's have peace in our time. Straight of four moves. Traffic returns to normal by the end of April. 55% chance. Ooh.

Bitcoin rip-roaring institutions are buying at the fastest pace in history. Say please, please. Donald Trump. USA will get all of the nuclear dust. created by our great B2 bombers. No money will exchange hands in any way, shape, or form. The deal is in no way subject to Lebanon earlier, but the USA will separately work with Lebanon,

a deal with Hezbollah, an appropriate manner. Israel will not be bombing Lebanon any longer. They are prohibited from doing so by the USA. Enough is enough. Good for you. Daddy's home. Good for you. It's amazing.

Now Middle Eastern countries are claiming that they have officially destroyed Iran. The Strait of Iran. Yes, right. UAE. We have defeated Iran. We have won the war against Iran. Beautiful. It's great. Good for good. Good. Look at this. Amazing. The amount of investment, by the way, that is happening globally into American markets. That's the one I'm talking about. Right there. Look at this headline from Bloomberg. Can you imagine the person writing this weeping bitterly as they're writing it? The crying, searing acid tears, the lib, blue hair, breaking off their acrylic nails in their Manhattan office.

Their septum piercing, right? Buzzing. Congratulations, you plagued yourself. Ironically, America's competitive edge has increased due to the Iran conflict as the price of natural gas, has soared the rest of the world. But it's fallen in America because America is now the number. one producer of natural gas. The entire world has come here. Yeah, it's like a stock market crash, but in reverse.

Look at that. Ooh, boy, look at that. President Trump is saying he's going to host peace negotiations inside of the White House between Israel and Lebanon. Trump acting, again, like daddy, like mediating and bringing both sides together. This was something that was happening actually yesterday with Marco Rubio. President Trump saying last night he's going to go to Islamabad. and sign a PCO with Iraq.

He's gonna physically be there. Come on, boys. Fine. Okay, let a rip. And there it is, folks. The 10th and final step of the conflict playbook is on the horizon. The market surged as expected. And now not only has the AI Revolution rapidly celebrated

in the background, seven-week war, but the markets are pricing in an inflation shock. shock who is ripping okay uh what's going on what's going on next is it alex i think you know very rude here going over to your actual production do we have the uh just in case you guys are wondering because i know there has been like a considerable amount of like yapping obviously online about this and there's been like aggressive rolling from each side get me that iranian as we get carry lake set here and check in carry lake is the great carry lake is going to be joining us in just one moment

Get me that Iranian, the Iranian foreign minister, his post. We have him. Like, because he's the one, like, because I want you guys to see it confirmed through Iran. The Iranian foreign minister is straight up, like, he's the one who actually announced this. I know there's been, like, considerable. There he is. Right there. Well done, calling.

Okay. And here's what he says. Sayyed Abasaragachi. In line with the ceasefire in Lebanon and passage of all commercial. vessels through the Strait of Hormuz is declared completely open for the remaining period of the ceasefire, and the coordinated route is already announced by the Ports and Maritime Organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran. One of my favorite things about all of this is that every ship listened to the American blockade. The Chinese ships, all these dirty other foreign ships from countries that hate America, every one of them turned around.

We have the maps. Would you like to see the maps? We can show you the maps. they all turned around, these Chinese vessels. They're like, be, turn around! Turn around. And they all did. Every single one of them. Not a single one tested us. Ah, it's a beautiful thing.

We have so much more to say on this, and we have much to say to a Patriot who will be joining our program, Carrie Lake. Patriot Mobile is how we call our Patriots. It's how we run our show. It is the backbone of our show. They're the only Christian conservative wireless provider, and they have been keeping us connected for years.

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Call 972 Patriot and use a promo code Benny for a free month of service. Patriotmobile.com slash Benny 972 Patriot to make the switch today. Here's what we want to talk to Carrie Lake about because she's going to understand this. Ruben Gallego, this is the man, and he's a despicable scumbag. That Carrie Lake ran against the Senate seat in Arizona. Gallego is in the Senate. Kerry Lake was one that was warning about his duplicitous behavior of, let's just say, moral scrutiny here.

And now Congresswoman Luna is accusing Ruben Gallego of misconduct, saying that he committed crimes and she is referring him effectively to the Senate leadership. Saying you got to like, you, you got to handle this guy. Very interesting. Let's just do really quickly here. What did APL say last night and take it away? Who are we talking about? We are talking about an Arizona senator that was very closely tied to.

Eric Swalwell and I have since confirmed with Senator John Thune's chief of staff as well as they're linking us to their ethics that they are investigating and we are sending all appropriate information directly to them now. That would be Ruben Gallego, correct? Correct. When you say in that ex post, it's very disturbing, for my audience's benefit, can you define what disturbing means to you? Well, without, I guess, getting too graphic, there is a woman that allegedly is coming forward with attorneys, wants to go on record about an incident that occurred between the two of them at the same time and the event with sexual nature, allegedly. But it's not just that.

There's also two apparently issues of campaign finance violations. Again, look, I am one... In communities across Canada, hourly Amazon... on employees earn an average of over $24.50 an hour. Employees also have the opportunity to grow their skills and their paycheck by enrolling in free skills training programs for in-demand fields like software development and information technology. Learn more at aboutamazon.ca. Member of Congress, but I'm not going to be like some of my colleagues that waited, you know,

forever in a day to bring this information forward. I think that if this is happening, that it needs to be dealt with. So Ruben Gallego, there's like one person who's been warning against this for quite a while. Carrie Lake, nobody knows the scumbag better. Carrie Lake, you're honored to have joining us now. Man, what an unbelievable title that you have. I'm sitting here looking at the beautiful title on screen.

Deputy Chief Executive Officer for U.S. Agency for Global Media. Wow. Maybe we can, like, I know there's a lot of, like, lead in here. So why don't we just like cover off the top? Ruben Gallego and these allegations, you warned in massive stadium rallies about this individual and said that he had no moral compass. You've been proven completely correct. Everybody knows how close he was with Swalwell. We're starting to see a trickle, trickle, trickle, drip, drip, drip of who Ruben Gallego actually is.

Who is Ruben Gallego, Carrie Lake? I think you said it best when you said a scumbag. I mean, and I don't throw that word around loosely. This guy has a past that is unbelievable. You know, you get what they call opposition research. You get that on your opponent when you're running against them. And I had the dubious honor of running against Ruben Gallego. And most people would have, you know, a little bit, you know, a couple of hits against them of stupid things they've done in the past.

This was one of those massive three-wing ring binders. I couldn't, it was so heavy, I couldn't even carry it around. That's how much dirt he had in his past. from shady dealings, shady previous employment, lying on federal forms when it came to get his mortgage and really taking what was a program for veterans to get them into their first home. He used that to buy a second home, a million dollar home in a D.C. neighborhood and lied about where his residence was. He lied about his past. He lied about the reason he changed his name. He changed his name to Gallego because he didn't want people.

to find out that his father was a convicted felon, drug trafficker for the Mexican cartels. I mean, I was going through this, Benny, and I'm like, how could the Democrats run this guy? This is blackmail material upon blackmail material. And then you get to the part about women, okay? Real creepy. As a matter of fact, when he worked down at the state legislature, the Democrats, his own colleagues had a nickname form. they called him the troll because of how he would troll and creep women out. And these were his own Democrats, his fellow Democrats.

I mean, I can go on and none. How much time do you have? Do you want to hear about the time a 20-year-old, a young woman, you know, fresh in the workforce, working down at City Hall when he was down there, complained against him about workplace harassment, and he got her fired. Rather than getting to the bottom of it and finding out what he had done, he gets her fired. Then we know that he left his wife when she was days away from giving birth to their firstborn. He hit her with divorce papers and then tried to get her to pick up the legal

fees, his legal fees on that. I mean, the guy, his past is disgusting. It's a mile long. It makes total sense, Benny, that his BFF in the world, best friend forever in the world, as he said, was Eric Swalwell. They're cut from the same cloth. They're two peas in a pod. These guys vacation together. We all saw the picture of them, Toplis on the beach together,

riding a camel. By the way, that was paid for by the Qatari government. I think I heard it was an $80,000 trip. While you and I were forced into our homes during COVID, and they were trying to force masks on our children's faces. Those two were gallows. venting around on a beach without their, without, you know, partially clothed. It's crazy. Yeah, I mean, the only explanation for that, Carrie, would be if you actually truly wanted to,

and here's the image. I'm sorry, like warning, trigger warning for everybody. We're going to put the image up. The only explanation for this would be if you truly wanted to forever open the straits of Hormuz, because you could put the two of these guys there and everyone would be like, get me the hell out of here, right like i want i want to get out as fast as possible whatever to get away from these two individuals you can just put them on their little camels right there you know in the straight and i'm gonna be like what the hell please let me leave everyone wants to go home now i don't know it's a pretty narrow straight i'm not sure that reuben would fit on that but yeah you're right okay so so maybe there is a use for him i don't know so these guys these guys aren't straight they're crooked as as they come and you can see

that Eric Swalwell, like after all of the allegations this week, and we hear that there's so much more actually going to happen with Swalwell, I do judge somebody by their friends. You and I both come from Iowa. It's good stock. We have good instincts on people. And there's like a truism that my grandparents always said, which is you just judge a person by their five closest friends. They'll just become the average of the people they hang out with. And so with there's smoke, there's fire. And I just don't believe for one second, Carrie, that Ruben Gallego had no idea what Eric Swalwell was doing, do you? Not for one second. You're absolutely right.

I mean, I think we're going to find out the two of them were involved in a lot of really disturbing things. And what I really hope, though, Benny, is that Eric's Wawwell walking away from the scene and walking out doesn't end the investigations that need to happen. And there's been talk about will Ruben Gallego resign? If things start to really pour out on him, will he resign? I want him to be investigated, not just for things he did to women, which I think just looking at his past, I mean, walking out on your wife when she's just a couple days away from giving birth is pretty bad. And all the accusations of unseemly behavior toward women in professional settings, I think

those are pretty bad. I think the fact that he lied on his mortgage forms is bad. But one thing that never has been looked into, and I was sounding the alarm on this, is the act blue allegations of smurfing, bringing in millions of dollars to his campaign and using people's names that really didn't make the donation. When are we going to look into those campaign violations? And that goes across the board for Democrats. And when are we going to look into the shady results of the election? You will never get me to believe that Ruben Gallego got almost as many votes as Donald Trump in the state of Arizona. Donald Trump won in a landslide victory in Arizona, the biggest victory he had in any of the battleground states. And they want the voters here to believe that Rubin got more votes than me.

I got more votes than Kamala Harris. In order to make these votes work in Rubin's direction, they had to give him more votes than Kamala Harris and almost as many votes as President Trump. It doesn't make sense. I wish the media would start looking into that. They were counting for 10, 11 days. Three days after the election, they mysteriously found 14,000 ballots in Pima County. Four days after the election, we woke up to find out they had doubled the number of ballots in Yuma. I called down there. I said, wait a minute, you had 8,000 votes total for Yuma. And then all of a sudden you found 9,000 additional ones today. Oh, yeah, we found him in a vault. They were found in a vault. There's so much shady business going on when it comes to elections. Arizona, I believe, has a puppet government right now and Katie Hobbs and the Secretary of State Adrian Fontes. And the scary thing is, obviously, we'd all love to see Ruben Gallego out of the Senate. I don't believe he belongs there. But if he were to resign or be removed from office, Katie Hobbs will get to choose who his replacement is. And that replacement will. stay there until the 28 election. So it's just a mess. Arizona is the victim of all of this nonsense and in my opinion criminality when it comes to elections. And we need to get to the bottom of those elections. And I'll never stop talking about it until we actually have election reform. Good for you. You're right. You know, she would probably put in again another cartel puppet

into another, into the Senate seat. But it would be nice to, frankly, get a scalp, given the fact that Eric Swalwell will also just be replaced, you know, by another Democrat congressman. We find it so ironic, Carrie, that he was able to run for president. He was able to run for Congress for 15 years. He was able to be on the Intel Committee. They didn't care about any of that stuff.

He was able to go on MSNBC every second of the day. And he slept with a Chinese spy. I mean, if that wasn't bad enough, why didn't that bring him down? Why didn't the leadership in his party say, wait a minute, that's where we draw the line. Maybe you did this. Maybe you did that. But when you are having a relationship with a Chinese spy, you know, the CCP is our enemy. And that wasn't enough for them to stop and say, let's remove him from office.

What's going on in Washington, D.C.? It's just absolutely corrupt. Think about the things that have happened in that town and what these two. have potentially been a part of. I think we're going to see more resignations. Once they start scratching the service and God bless, Representative Luna, she is doing God's work. I don't care if you got an R behind your name or D behind your name or anything. I want the people who are criminal scumbags and people who abuse women out of office. What do you say about these allegations that Anna Polina Luna has brought forward.

Allegedly these are new. And she says they're criminal in nature. You know the nature of Ruben Gallego. I'm not sure if you know about these allegations. The floor is yours, Carrie. I don't know about these. I know just about his past. And, you know, he's like I said,

you know, when your own party labels you your nickname, the troll, you got some issues. We've seen his shady dealings when he worked for various companies that were found to be disreputed. His past is a mile long. And he's not even that old. I mean, he's got a really, really seedy past.

And so I'm not surprised by it. I'm very curious about what the campaign violations could be. I think I heard her mention that if it stems from the Act Blue problems. It was really interesting. He roamed around and floated around, barely did any campaigning. We had record numbers of how much we went out and campaigned and fundraised. and worked our tails off. It was grassroots.

And we would release our fundraising numbers, and he would miraculously double them. I mean, it was unheard of amounts of money coming in from a guy that nobody liked, nobody knew, and had the most heinous past. I mean, can you imagine running for office, Benny, and your family is a Mexican drug cartel family and the media doesn't touch it?

I'm just as angry at Ruben Gallego. in his past, I'm actually equally angry at the media, the mainstream media. I was sounding the alarm. All of the things we're hearing about. I was talking about. I talked about him at rallies. I talked about him on the campaign trail. Whenever I did interviews, the press didn't want to talk about it.

They just wanted to sit and call me an election denier and not talk about the fact that my opponent lied about his entire childhood, the sleeping on the floor, didn't have a bed until he went to college. That was BS. Yes, his dad was a very high-end, very high-powerful drug trafficker, I think for the Halisco cartel, if I have the name right. And this is a guy who just lied about it all. And the media didn't have any curiosity about it.

The media truly has been the enemy of the people, refusing to cover it. And now, all of a sudden, as if somebody flipped a switch, Benny, they go, we need to cover this. We need to cover what a scumbag, Eric Swalwell is, even though they knew it, even though it was the worst kept secret in D.C., we need to cover Ruben Gallego's past, even though it was out there laid bare in 2024. And they were mad at me when I revealed that his dad was the cartel drug trafficker. They said, how dare you bring up what his father did?

You know, I'm not sure I hear that exactly, Kerry, because while Swalwell was threatening Democrat power, Ruben Gallego is not. He's upholding Democrat power. And so I don't, I don't hear any feeding frenzy necessarily just yet for him. And as Eric Swalwell was about to cost the Democrats, the governor's race in California. And he still may do that. Nobody wants Tom Steyer, Katie Porter, both of them has like pathological, frankly. But, but nonetheless, they, they had the dossier and the blackmail file on them and they used that in order to get, get, get, rid of them like they did Biden. That's why we're doing the show. We want this like we would like for accountability for Ruben Gallego. Luna says here the Senate has its own trash to take out. You need to

look in these allegations. It's against one of your senators. It's very disturbing, she says, the leader of John Thune. My chief will be contacting your chief. What should John Thune do here? Well, I think he should take very seriously whatever these allegations are. We need to show leadership in Congress. I'm tired of watching him, and it's been getting worse and worse of my entire life. I mean, when I was a kid, I don't think people looked necessarily at their congressmen and politicians in D.C. as just being almost criminal. There was some level of respect. Now it seems like we have such a low opinion.

of Congress because of bad actors, like the Eric Swalwells of the world, like the Menendez, who was taking bribes, like, you know, shady folks like Ruben Gallego. We want to flush out that whole system, and let's bring some real decent people into Washington, D.C., to do the people's work. That was what my goal was. I think this is why they worked so hard to stop me because they saw that I wasn't going to take a bribe when I was attempted, when they attempted to bribe me, I said, no, no amount of money in the world will stop me from doing the right thing for the people. And let me tell you, when you have that kind of moral compass, it's hard in DC. Hey there, I'm Paula Pan.

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Follow and listen on your favorite platform. I'm in D.C. right now, getting attacked nonstop as I try to modernize and make more efficient our U.S. agency for global media. I get hit pieces run almost daily on me. They can't stop attacking me. They don't want honest people in D.C. because it disrupts the criminal enterprise in the U.S. government. And they're all part of it.

They're all getting something from it. And we need to really clean this out. So I hope that the leader, Leader Thune, will take seriously whatever these allegations are that Representative Luna is bringing to him and pursue any ethics violations and bring justice and punishment as would be deserved for whatever these allegations are. Kerry, 18 months in Washington, D.C., in this role, very prestigious role, what have you learned? You just said that all of D.C. is a corrupt criminal enterprise. Can you unpack that? Oh, man. I mean, I went into it believing D.C. was corrupt. I'm more astounded every day by the levels of corruption.

And I think we started to see it immediately when Doge went into U.S. AID and started to peel back the onion and went, oh my gosh, we're talking billions of dollars in the most insane levels of spending. You know, in my own agency, we went to appropriators on Capitol Hill and said, we are effectuating the president's executive order to bring this agency down to what's statutorily required by law, nothing bigger than that, just what does the law require us to do at this agency? We're willing to do that, but we need to trim back what's not required by law. And they don't like that.

They want to keep growing these agencies. So as we're trying to modernize it and make it more efficient, and we went and asked for 153 million instead of the nearly billion they were giving us, the appropriators said, no, we're going to give you $600 billion. I said, no, we only need $153 million, and they gave us $600. So it's insane what they're doing. They give, you know, it's very rare that an agency leader would walk to the appropriators, meet with them and say, please don't give us as much money as you have. And then they say, no, we're going to give you more money than you want and you have to spend it by law. It's, we sit in meetings going, how are we going to spend this money? And, you know, we'd love to just be able to give some of it back and say, we don't need it.

The taxpayers are footing the bill. We don't need all this money. But it would be breaking the law if we don't spend it. How messed up is that many? Completely messed up. It begs corruption. It begs for Somali-style daycares, right? Like you have to then to create fake businesses to spend all the fake money and the worst people get paid.

And then to find out that, you know, when I got into the agency, the agency had a history of putting out propaganda that was in many cases anti-American. It was going against what America stood for, the globe. There were instances of putting out CCP propaganda on the airwaves that American taxpayers are funding. I'm very proud of the fact that as we're modernizing, we are making very sure that the journalists that we hire, the content that we put out is in alignment with American foreign policy and American national strategies and security strategies so that we're putting out information across the globe that aligns with who we are as Americans, rather than puts out a negative image of America across the globe.

Can you just give me one, like, so the appropriations is, that's a crazy story. Anything else? We always heard all of these rumors about what Doge was finding, and we love the shutdown of USAID, but there's so much more to be done in Washington, D.C. Any other, like, points of extreme waste or criminal fraud that you've witnessed? Oh, gosh, you know, when we started digging into the books, $300,000 was American taxpayer money was spent sponsoring a low-level Afghan cricket team, $800,000 to put on a New York City concert. This is a news agency. Why are we supporting a cricket team in Afghanistan and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on it?

And when I got in shortly after I got in, the Capitol Police showed up one day and said, we're investigating a crime that happened here. And I said, you know, what's this all about? Apparently, and the suspect has admitted guilt. There was a man who was working at Voice of America who, over the course of many months, was using the phones right there in the newsroom, in the control room, to call in death threats to a member, a sitting member of Congress. Congress and that sitting member of Congress's family and staff, really horrible, scary death

threats were called on numerous occasions from Voice of America phones to a member of Congress. It's just unbelievable. He has since pled guilty and is doing time. This is just the kind of stuff. When I first got there, something came across my desk about one of our reporters allegedly dressing in, women's garb and wearing women's makeup and reporting as a voice of America reporter in the Middle East. Do you think any viewer in the Middle East is going to respect the voice of America when the man that they're watching doing the reporting is wearing makeup and women's apparel? It's crazy. And your tax dollars are paying for it.

And we are just working to make sure it's running efficiently and that the message going out across the globe is not detrimental to America. And I'm being sued because they don't like us trying to make sure that the message is not detrimental to America. And I'm being sued for that right now because I said, no, we're not going to put out, we're not going to put out news that hurts America. That's not what this is about. That's not what this agency is about. So maybe in closing here, you could, and perhaps we should have started here, but either way, Like, in closing, you could, you could, like, explain to us what this agency is about because I got a phone call from Mike Ben's just absolutely giddy that you were going to be in charge of this agency because this is the agency that is effectively the, you know, what he told me was the CIA Intel agency cutout operational voice box for whatever they wanted to, whatever op they wanted to run, you know, throughout the globe. and they use Voice of America to do that.

And again, often antithetical to what the American people voted for and to what America stands for. And you can sort of see how that would happen if it's been completely co-opted by the same organizations that like ran the Trump impeachment. We ran that all day with John Solomon yesterday. And you could see how the CIA was operating to stage coups here in our country. Hopefully they'll all go to jail for it. But perhaps you could like explain, like, is that true? And, you know, and have you felt any pressure from the deep state? A ton of pressure. They, they don't just say, the phrase on this agency is pound for pound, the most corrupt agency in Washington, D.C. It's a small agency, but that's what they call it. Pound for pound, the most corrupt agency in Washington, D.C.

I mean, look at things like Radio Free Europe. Yes, it did start out as a CIA. operation, Radio Free Asia, and in many ways, Voice of America many years ago. Now, I, you know, I don't believe that there's CIA operations now, but we have had a history in the past of spies coming into the agency. And I don't think that's how the agency should be run. The agency should be putting out news that is reliable, news that is in alignment with where the United States, with their national security priorities and their foreign policy. And it hasn't been doing that in the past. There's been some very shady activity there. You know, we've been sued. Everything we've tried to do to make this agency more efficient and modern, we've been sued. We had a judge come in and

stop us when we tried to reduce and terminate some employees. And we've been sued for that. So if you look, Benny, across any news operation across the globe. There have been, as they're made more efficient, that means they have shed some employees. I mean, look at just recently, the Washington Post, laying off, I think, 300 employees. BBC just terminated, I think, over 2,000 employees. And for some reason, this agency feels that, the bureaucracy in this agency feels that it's not acceptable to terminate anybody. We need to make sure that we're running a lean, mean operation that is putting out reliable news that is in alignment with our foreign policy and our national security policy that doesn't hurt America abroad. And I will not stop until we are successful at that. I feel very good

about the news operation as it stands right now. And I think people are going to be seeing a lot of exciting things coming to Voice of America. We are going to start looking at global corruption. Why aren't we looking at things like global voter voting in electoral fraud? We've seen elections across the globe that have been run in a way where everyone knows that wasn't run fairly. Why are we not looking into that? You know, we only broadcast to foreign audiences. We don't broadcast to the American people. But there's enough global corruption out there that needs to be peeled back. And when I got in, there was zero interest in covering any of that. They just wanted to pay huge amounts of money, tens of thousands to the AP, Reuters and AFP, buy all of their coverage

and just regurgitate it rather than doing their own original reporting. So I think we're going to start seeing original reporting coming out of Voice of America. We're going to see some really incredible hires of top rock solid investigative journalists will be hired. And I think people are going to say, wow, that's how you turn an organization around and make it reputable once again. That's awesome. Just announcing the James O'Keefe hire here live on the show, Carrie Lake, good for you. That would be great. I would love that. I would love that. It's really exciting. What an exciting time. I think James is doing such great work with his own operations. that we don't want to take him off track and we want him to keep going.

He's great. Okay, well, I have to have to ask a follow-up to that question just based on the news and this will be the last question. What about the opening of the Straits of Hormuz that just happened? How will Voice of America be covering that under your stewardship? Well, contrary to what the fake news is reported, we are covering our Farsi language service into Iran. It is 24-7.

We're doing an incredible job covering the situation in Iran. We are explaining what's happening. And so they will be covering that and listening. You know, the whole point is not to put a slant on anything, but it's to actually let the key people speak. We actually play President Trump's press conferences when it's referring to Iran so the Iranian people can hear that. And the people suing us are saying they're running President Trump's

Soundbites. Well, duh, the whole world is because he happens to be a pretty central key figure. And so naturally, we are going to run his soundbites, especially when it pertains to Iran, the Iranian people, the military presence and the military operation going on, Epic Fury. We're going to run the president's soundbites. So kind of get over it, okay? That's part of the story. But the way they used to do it was in many, you know, shady news operations would never let the president. Visit BetMGM Casino and check out the newest exclusive. The Price is Right Fortune Pick. BetMGM and GameSense remind you to play responsibly. 19 plus to wager. Ontario only. Please play responsibly. If you have questions or concerns about your gambling or someone close to you,

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The Cuban people have been through way too much and they're ready for. for a big change. I hope it comes soon, but we're doing incredible work, getting broadcasting into the Cuban people as well. And also covering Mandarin, Korean, and many other languages. Wow. So are you announcing the invasion of Cuba right here? This is great. Thank you, thank you, Carrie. Can I have the mic a little bit for that? Can I help? Well, we're just, you know, we're just covering it and making sure they're getting reliable information and they need it. You know, they need it because they're, they're not going to get it from their own government.

And I just, I'm very hopeful, Benny. You know, it's easy to get bogged down with all the negativity. But think about where we are right now. Just for a second, the people of Iran are going to be freed from this murderous dictatorship, this absolute heinous regime. The people of Iran are going to be freed. Some of the people that I work with as children when they were in Iran, they would walk through the streets and it was a common occurrence to see people, the government,

hanging people by cranes above town for something as ridiculous as speaking ill against the regime. In Cuba, they're starving their people down there. There's no electricity. There's barely any water. They're about to be freed, hopefully, from this regime. Can you imagine if Iran is free, Cuba is free, We get rid of these areas that have been such a difficulty for the entire world, especially when you think about the terrorists that Iran has funded that have caused so much trouble for so many countries. We are on the verge of having world peace thanks to President Trump. And I'm really getting tired of hearing people try to attack President Trump. They don't understand this is a much bigger play that he is making, a much bigger play for peace in the world. And I think there's some temporary difficulty getting through all of it.

Obviously, it's, you know, whenever you're in the middle of an operation, it can be tenuous at times. But I think the end result is going to be a world that is peace, where peace prevails in the world rather than constant conflicts. The president is perfectly suited to do this job. I couldn't agree with you more. Blessed are the peacemakers. They'll be called the children of God. And so that is what we pray for is the words of Christ. The words of my production team here,

I should be a little concerned about because our chats are not popping off about me going and being a war correspondent in Cuba. I'm not sure what I should think about that, Carrie. I think we might have to have internal conversations at the company. But they want me on the beaches of Cuba. So I... Well, I think you'd be a good reporter.

I mean, you actually put the truth out there. We've met in Cuba. This is terrible. I don't know how you're Spanish. speaking skills are, Benny. I know the Taco Bell menu. Very well. Well, I think we keep you right where you are because, you know,

because the new media has really helping to save our country. And, you know, I know a lot of the folks out there getting a lot of criticism, but just being able, you know, me being able to come on and talk about election corruption, me being able to come on and talk about the truth about what's happening in Washington, D.C. And you've always been open to having me on, and I appreciate that. But our new media is really what's been so important in this country, getting us from COVID to where we are today. It's huge.

Nobody's turning on these. Why hasn't the view booked you, Carrie? I'd love to go on. I think they're afraid of me because I would be able to, you know, any garbage line they throw out, any lie they throw out, I would be able to debunk it to use one of their words pretty instantaneously. And I think they're afraid of me. Well, got fired.

Ladies and gentlemen, we'll see if the view opens their Straits of Hormuz and allows Carrie Lake to come on the show. That'd be fun. That'd be exciting. I'd be thrilled to go on. I'd be thrilled. Follow Carrie Lake right here. She's got millions of subscribers.

You should be one of them. And make sure that you were fighting along. side of the people who are fighting for us. God speed, Gary Lake. Thank you. Thank you, my fellow Iowen. It's been great to be on with you. I hope to see you again in person soon. See you. Oh, no. Oh, no, ladies and gentlemen, you got to, wow, that's too fast. That's too, it's almost creepy. It's almost creepy. Who wants to see it? Chat, let me know. Chat, let me know. Chat. Chat. Chat. Got. Got to put the chat out. Chat, let me know.

What are we thinking here? What are we thinking? We haven't done. Yeah, okay. There we go. We got the baby L says go carry. All right. I'll go with you, Benny.

Says JX Media. What up, Benny? Says David P. Here we go. Benny, all you need to know is Bono bathroom. And one more beer, please. Festa. Go, go, go.

You know, you guys are going to, you guys are going to make me go to Cuba. We're going to go back. I want to, I want to do it. Look, we should go back. Here we go. X, ZX, ZX,

Y, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Q is wild. It doesn't need to be tamed or controlled by their abundance of wealth hidden beneath their mountains either. America doesn't need to go digging for gold any longer. Okay.

I always appreciate all of the opinions of the audience. Shall we do a few more? Should we do a live stream from Cuba? Should we actually go? Yes, you are going to need a generator. Hold on. I just lost that. But yes, we were going to need a generator.

I say go. Let's go down in free Cuba. Says Johnny Drama 50. We need the US cleaned up here first. Says M. Dubies, 08. Love it. Time to expand. Okay.

Everyone, like, everyone says go to the, go to Cuba. Beach looks nice. Benny is scurred. I mean, I don't want to be in a communist prison, right? Like, we went to Cuba this one time. It's a documentary up on it. We went to Cuba this one time, and they raided our Airbnb. The government raided our Airbnb.

They marched in with guns. And they tried to take all of our SD cards. Anyway, I didn't have any kids at the point having children actually changes your mind on these things. But anyway, yeah, sure. Why not? You need to go. Go safely. Says Rosie Peach.

And Zianime says you should go. Here we go. Benny, you're the best journalist in the country right now. Well, thank you. Extremely kind. I'm not sure if I agree with you. I appreciate that. Whoop, whoop.

Benny says, war, locks. say day 17. Okay. I want to go. I'm freaking serious, says Feisty. So Feisty's for real. Okay.

Una Mastervisa. Porpo, I have faith in Benny. Well, I appreciate that. You should have faith in your Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Thank you, Carrie Lake. Love for Carrie Lake. Look at this. Mike. Don't go! This is probably my wife's burner account.

Don't go. Let's go. I actually asked my wife if I got to go to Cuba. last week. I asked. You know, Hassan Piker was there, sipping, sipping with his little pinky up, like his little espresso in his hotel room and his fancy hotel. And he was there, like, it was the only hotel that had electricity. Klein, if we went, we'd probably have to stay there, actually.

If it was the only hotel with electricity, like to actually get the footage. Yeah, okay. Yep, he didn't want his room. Probably a nice room, honestly. All right, here we go. Uh, you, uh, you should, you should bring up, you should bring a black button up. I barely recognize you. All right. That's fine. Yeah.

Uh, all right. Here we go. Let's see. Ladies and gentlemen. No, Benny, we need you here. Let's see. Benny Lominoz from El Prophet. I guess, I guess, let's, uh, I guess we'll see.

Most people saying, go. Most people saying go to Cuba. I would love, I would, I would actually, I would actually really love to go back, honestly. Hassan is a disgusting sack of misfolded proteins. You should probably go after Trump is finished.

That's right. Well, we'll see. We'll see, we'll see. We'll see. Not going to lie. He looks like Betty. Well, yep. That's, I guess, how AI works. AIs got us kind of locked in now. And I guess we'll see. Last one.

Benny, just stay safe and vigilant out there. I know. We're going to be traveling a little more. I think I'm a little more scared. I would be a little more scared to go back to California, honestly, based on what we saw in California than Cuba. I think we'd be safer in Cuba, to be quite honest. All right, ladies and gentlemen, what a fun,

a little rowdy Friday show, exciting things going on. and an exciting moment. Obviously, with the economy, rip-roaring. And is there any other breaking news producers in our... Any other breaking news producers? That has happened in the time of the show? You know, we kind of stay locked in. I love that interview with Carrie Lake.

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We've got missing scientists. That's like pretty dark, honestly. UFO-linked scientists warned my life is in danger before she was on dead. It was the 11th mysterious case of missing U.S.A. scientists. Maybe we'll end with Justice Thomas.

Who doesn't love Justice Thomas? Justice Thomas gave a rare speech and he warned of wokeness. This guy has to serve every single day with Katanji Brown Jackson. Doesn't know what a woman is. So let's go ahead and listen to what Thomas warns us.

words of wisdom into our weekend, shall we? Progressivism seeks to replace the basic premises of the Declaration of Independence, and hence our form of government. It holds that our rights and our dignities come not from God, but from government. It requires of the people a subservience and weakness incompatible with a constitution premised on the transcendent origin of our rights. The century of progressivism did not go well. The European system that Wilson and the progressive scolded Americans were not adopting, which

he called nearly perfect, led to the governments that caused the most awful century that the world has ever seen. Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, and Mao, all were intertwined with the rise of progressivism, all were opposed to the natural rights on which our declaration are based. Ladies and gentlemen, wisdom calls out from the street. Do you heed it? Sayeth and prayeth in Psalm?

Do you heat it? Let's go ahead and back my screen. Let's just give a couple extra white pills for the day. Do we get our sweet white pill? We finally got our white pill graphic. Let's go. White pill of the day. Here we go.

Oh, shoot. It's a different screen that I've been scrolling on. Let's take that down. We'll take that one down. Take that one down. I was on the production screen. There you go. I'm sharing it right now.

I got a couple of bangers. Let's go. Trump is a war president. Iraq wars eight years. Afghanistan war 20 years. Gulf War, seven months. Kosovo War three months. Vietnam War eight years.

Iran, 40 days. 40 days and 40 nights. 40, an important number. Right. scripture sure what uh what you think about that what do you think about the number 40 great day for the world i think the numbers are very important by the way when i stay in a hotel like i'll like ask for a different room if i don't like the number other than the room i will two's and sevens fives fours things that uh things that the numbers that divide correctly great day for the

world and great and brilliant day for the world says oh don't right house posting this white houses absolute rage rage rage posting through it here we go the memes everyone excited for the memes go jd dancing trump dancing totally works that's a music line I'm not sharing mine with uh I'm not sharing my with audio yeah you can give me that giving that music yeah whatever we're gonna spend the rest of your show I watch this one I like it and the rubio dancing I think is my rubio dancing I think is my I think that's my favorite. Right, S.P. All-time highs.

There's go. Breaking. I just spoke with President Trump on the phone. He's in Las Vegas. I got right to the point. I asked the president if Iran agreed to stop enriching uranium. Yes, he told me. They'll stop enriching uranium. They've agreed to everything.

Yes, are you surprised? I asked, are you surprised? He told me, I'm not surprised by anything. I said, see you later. And he hung up. That's a, that's a moment. amazing. Look at this from a news nation reporter. Her name's Kaley Meyer. This is Kaley Meyer. All right. Kelly Meyer, you earned a followback. There you go. That's hilarious. That's hilarious.

We got free for the next few days, Elon Musk. Experts, the naval blockade won't work. Iran is winning the war. They have all leverage. Oil prices will soar. Reality, the blockade did work. Strait is open. I ran capitulated and oil is down 10% this morning, but it's even better than 10%. Look at this. It's below $80 a barrel. Oil has now crashed 32% in nine days. Holy guacamole. That's the only Spanish that I know. There you go. Okay. Exciting times. Really fun. Ladies and gentlemen. your weekend and this is the greatest country on earth. Ladies and gentlemen, our verse of the day.

We'll never leave you without a verse of the day. No. Ephesians 5.11. Taking apart on the worthless deeds of evil and darkness. Instead, expose them. Other evil intentions, they will be exposed. Light shines upon them. Be very wary about who you're sticking into your earbuds.

You're very wary about people who take an opportunity and an advantage. Vintageous opportunity to turn on their principles, to turn on what they believe, what they told you that they believe. Stick with people who are consistent. That's it. I'm not trying to start drama here. I'm just saying, like, judge a tree by his fruit is a great example of, like, what

Christ is constantly saying in the New Testament. They're taking apart in the worthless deeds of evil and darkness, the worthless deeds. You know what they are. The evil intentions. Exposed, the light will shine on them. Be part of the light. March with us. On to victory.

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