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The Rich Zeoli Show

Mike Waltz Out as NSA, Will Serve as UN Ambassador

The Rich Zeoli Show

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4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 170 minutes

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Full Episode (05/01/2025): 3:05pm- The Trump Administration has announced that Mike Waltz will be leaving his position as National Security Advisor and will now serve as United Nations Ambassador pending Senate confirmation. Marco Rubio will serve as Secretary of State and, at least temporarily, become acting NSA. According to The New York Times, Rubio will be the first person to serve in both positions since Henry Kissinger during the Nixon and Ford Administrations. 3:20pm- On Wednesday night, former Vice President Kamala Harris delivered her first major speech since losing the 2024 presidential election last November. She accused President Donald Trump of the “wholesale abandonment” of American ideals and suggested the country may be in the midst of a “constitutional crisis.” 3:35pm- Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr., of the Southern District of Texas, has ruled that the Trump Administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans residing unlawfully in the U.S. is not legal. 3:45pm- According to a report from Maggie Haberman and The New York Times, the Trump Administration spoke with officials in El Salvador about returning Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States. However, President Nayib Bukele said, “no.” Abrego Garcia, a citizen of El Salvador, was deported to El Salvador after the Trump Administration determined he was residing in the U.S. illegally and is a member of the gang MS-13. 4:05pm- According to a report from Breitbart, Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s wife filed a second protective order against him in 2020. The order filed by Jennifer Vasquez claimed Abrego Garcia acted violently and threatened to kill her. 4:15pm- While speaking with the press on Capitol Hil, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez said President Trump should be impeached—and accused him of organizing a terrorist attack on the United States on January 6th, 2021. 4:20pm- While appearing on Pod Save America, Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) said that President Trump has caused a “constitutional crisis.” She made the claim just two days after she appeared alongside Trump at a rally at the Michigan National Guard. 4:30pm- A Norwegian man barely escapes a polar bear attack thanks to a snowmobile. PLUS, who would win in a fight: one gorilla or one hundred unarmed men? 4:40pm- On Wednesday night, former Vice President Kamala Harris delivered her first major speech since losing the 2024 presidential election last November. She accused President Donald Trump of the “wholesale abandonment” of American ideals and suggested the country may be in the midst of a “constitutional crisis.” 4:50pm- Are we living in a “simulated universe”? One professor of physics at the University of Portsmouth in the UK says gravity is proof! 5:05pm- In a post to social media, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that the United States and Ukraine have agreed to a “historic economic partnership”—the United States-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund. Under the agreement, the U.S. will provide security guarantees to Ukraine in exchange for access to the country’s rare earth mineral reserves. 5:15pm- The Trump Administration has announced that Mike Waltz will be leaving his position as National Security Advisor and will now serve as United Nations Ambassador pending Senate confirmation. Marco Rubio will serve as Secretary of State and, at least temporarily, become acting NSA. According to The New York Times, Rubio will be the first person to serve in both positions since Henry Kissinger during the Nixon and Ford Administrations. 5:20pm- Jordon Hudson—football coach Bill Belichick’s 24-year-old beauty pageant girlfriend—has suddenly amassed an $8 million real estate portfolio. According to estimates, Belichick has a net worth that exceeds $200 million. 5:30pm- While speaking with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic, former NIH Director Francis Collins said: “when you mix politics and science, you just get politics.” But wasn’t he ...

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0:31.4

White House says China economy is slowing down amid the trade standoff, and they're hoping to open negotiations with China very, very soon.

0:40.0

So that would be a good thing because, you know, we want to work all this stuff out.

0:45.0

But let me give you an update on where we stand right now.

0:47.2

So today it was announced that Mike Waltz was out as national security advisor.

0:52.4

Immediately there was a flurry of stories being written by people saying that this

0:56.6

was because Laura Lumer pushed him out.

0:59.2

Laura Lumer's an independent journalist.

1:01.4

Many people call her a conspiracy theorist.

1:03.8

That's how they labor her in the mainstream media.

1:05.4

I've only met her once.

1:07.1

But she's close with Trump, and she does not like Mike Walts and a lot of the people around him.

1:12.3

But then, a few hours later, after writing all these stories trashing Mike Walts and saying he was out,

1:17.5

because of Signalgate, President announces that he's going to be the new United Nations ambassador.

1:24.8

Now, you're not going to make a guy the UN ambassador if he really was rude to the chief of staff, Susie Wiles, like the Axios report says. And if Trump wanted him gone, he's not going to make him the UN ambassador. I love this spin on this. This is some sort of a like a landing spot. If he wanted him gone, he'd be gone. It's the way Trump. Trump doesn't, he's not a big guy on giving people soft landings.

1:49.0

Have you noticed?

1:50.3

I mean, he's the guy that coined the term, you're fired.

1:52.6

If he wanted you gone, you're gone.

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