Hey, we are back, everybody. Just crazy intense time. We just had the ambassador to the United Nations,

Michael Waltz, defending our operation that scooped Maduro out of his bed and put him in a Brooklyn jail.

And he was just in, he's now in a Manhattan courtroom. And now we have people like Russia, China,

and some Central and South American, and Iran condemning these actions. Brad Meltzer, author of The Viper, a brand new book that's out. Is it out on tomorrow? Yeah, we're out. You're out on a Monday. Well, we can, you can, some bookstores will sell Monday. Barnes & Noble will some Monday, Amazon will sell Tuesday. Okay, yeah. So, yeah, the Bipers officially.

Yeah, I want to talk about that too, but in terms of fast moving world events, I mean, this is fast moving. And a guy that you know well, knew well, Chris 41 HW, you're friendly with the family still. People are equating it to the Panama operation when they just said Noriega's got to go and he went.

It took 10 days.

We lost 23 guys.

We needed $,000 soldiers. But they're equating the two. Do you equate the two? You know, what I equate, and I think it's the right question, right? Where in history are we right now? Tell me what it is. Are we at Noriega? We at Saddam Hussein. And the fear,

of course, is if you look historically, you break it, you bought it. And I think the one thing I think

and no politics about it is, you know, people, listen, if it all goes right, then great. Hallelujah,

that's wonderful. He's clearly a bad guy. He's a bad dude. But this does not usually go well when we go into other countries. And obviously you have, you know, Trump is saying, we're going to run Venezuela now. I don't want to run Venezuela. We could barely run America. Like, I don't want to be running another country. That's the opposite of whatever one wanted.

Hopefully, cooler heads will prevail because I do not want to be run in another country.

That has historically been a bad thing for America. Right.

So another thing is, if he wanted to run the country, you don't leave the Interior Secretary who's been indicted.

The defense minister who's been indicted And the vice president who people say is a

barracuda, we'll see. Here's Bill Barr. He was there and he's there again. He was there in

2020 when he actually drew up the indictment, cut 32. Yeah, I have a high degree of confidence

he'll ultimately be convicted and all the legal arguments that have been raised

really were raised during the prosecution of Noriega, which was a very parallel situation.

Which you also oversaw.

Right. And I think they will be rejected and I think he will be convicted and I think he's

looking at sentences similar to, if not bigger, than Noriega's sentence.

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