The Drive at 5 with Dr. Victoria Coates

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🗓️ 15 May 2025

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 3: 5:00pm- Dr. Victoria Coates—Former Deputy National Security Advisor & the Vice President of the Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss President Donald Trump’s “grand slam” trip to the Middle East. Dr. Coates is author of the book, “The Battle for the Jewish State: How Israel—and America—Can Win.” You can find it here: https://a.co/d/iTMA4Vb. 5:40pm- On Friday, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka alongside Congressmembers Bonnie Watson-Coleman, LaMonica McIver, and Rob Menendez visited the Delaney Hall Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in New Jersey—at one point trespassing which led to a confrontation with ICE officials and the eventual arrest of Mayor Baraka. ICE has released bodycam footage of the altercation which shows Rep. McIver attempting to physically shove past ICE agents. Meanwhile, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez threatened Republicans with retaliation if Democrat lawmakers are charged with crimes for their involvement in the Delaney Hall incident. 6pm Hour- Tom Azelby in for Rich

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0:00.0	The Rich Zioly Show podcast is sponsored by Mike Vaneria Jr. with Osparity Private Wealth.
0:05.4	Hi, I'm Mike Vaneria Jr., wealth management specialists. Make your retirement dreams a reality by creating your retirement plan today. Call me at 856-252-0107.
0:15.9	Dr. Victoria Coates. Hello, my friend.
0:21.1	Happy Thursday, Rich.
0:22.4	How are you?
0:24.5	Happy Friday Eve, Dr. Coates.
0:26.5	I'm doing great.
0:27.3	I've got to tell you, I think, objectively speaking, this trip for the president has been a home run for him.
0:36.1	No, it's been a grand slam to borrow a baseball analogy.
0:42.7	It's been incredible.
0:45.0	I've been hearing from all of my friends in the Gulf how thrilled they are with what's happened.
0:52.1	And it just goes to show you, as as he said let's trade deals not missiles
0:58.2	and this is exactly the right kind of policy for the middle east and this idea of saying hey you know
1:07.9	you can make money instead of us fighting each other all the time,
1:11.5	we can make some money here.
1:12.7	You know, one of the things, this observation that I had, Dr. Coates, was when the president
1:17.2	said, we're going to drill baby drill and we're going to end all the green nonsense and we're
1:21.9	actually going to produce oil in this country again, I mean, I think it was a wake-up call
1:25.4	to these Gulf states that they can't just bully us around anymore with OPEC, and so they might as well come to the table and do some
1:31.3	business with us. We actually found this in the first term, which was we don't actually need
1:39.2	that product anymore. And so the United States is no longer going to the Gulf. The president of the United States
1:46.3	is not going to the Gulf as a succulent. He's going as a competitor. And what we've seen over
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