U.S. F-16 Fighter Jets Strike Iranian Proxies in Syria | Biden Takes a Weekend Vacation
The Rich Zeoli Show
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🗓️ 27 October 2023
⏱️ 187 minutes
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The Rich Zeoli Show- Full Episode (10/27/2023):
3:05pm- The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board writes: “The Justice Department’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation is the fiasco that keeps on giving, and look no further than this week’s revelations of abuse of power. The latest news is that Justice snooped on the Congressional investigators who dared to conduct oversight of its snooping on the 2016 Trump campaign. Numerous current and former congressional staffers have learned that Justice subpoenaed their personal phone and email records in 2017, likely under the pretext of a leak investigation. The targets included Republican and Democratic staffers in the Senate and House. They join staffers and Members of the House Intelligence Committee, who over the past two years said they were notified by Google or Apple that Justice seized their data. By our count, executive-branch prosecutors have now been caught fishing through the records of more than a dozen employees of the congressional branch.” You can read the full editorial here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/department-of-justice-congress-spying-jason-foster-empower-oversight-f2d6235e?mod=opinion_lead_pos1
3:15pm- Brooke Singman of Fox News reports: “The FBI maintained more than 40 confidential human sources on various criminal matters related to the Biden family, including Joe Biden, dating back to his time as vice president, according to information obtained by Sen. Chuck Grassley…Grassley learned that an FBI task force within the Washington Field Office sought to, and in some cases, successfully, shut down reporting and information from those sources by falsely discrediting the information as foreign disinformation. That effort ‘caused investigative activity to cease.’” You can read the full report here: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-received-criminal-information-40-confidential-sources-joe-biden-hunter-jim-grassley
3:30pm- On Thursday, in response to drone attacks against U.S. troops, American F-16 fighter jets conducted two airstrikes against Iranian-backed military groups in Syria. While appearing on MSNBC, Defense Department Spokesperson Brigadier General Pat Ryder said of the strikes against Iranian proxies: “Hopefully they get the message loud and clear and will cease these attacks against our forces in Iraq and Syria.”
3:40pm- While appearing on Fox News with Sean Hannity, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) vowed to separate funding packages for Ukraine and Israel—explaining that House Republicans will find $14 billion in budgetary cuts and use that savings to provide Israel with the aid they’ve requested.
3:50pm- While walking to her Congressional office, far-left Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) was asked to condemn the actions of Hamas. Instead, Tlaib bizarrely accused the reporter of “dehumanizing Palestinians.”
4:05pm- Dr. EJ Antoni—Economist & Research Fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to react to news that Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 4.9% in the third quarter. What fueled economic growth, and is it sustainable? Worryingly, The Wall Street Journal notes that GDP growth was accompanied by a massive decline in savings rates. Plus, is $8.99 for cereal the latest symptom of inflation? You can read Dr. Antoni’s latest editorial here: https://www.heritage.org/markets-and-finance/commentary/never-ending-inflation-thats-bidenomics-action
4:30pm- 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 reports that Israel Defense Forces have begun expanding their ground operations in Gaza. She also reacts to news that in response to drone attacks against U.S. troops, American F-16 fighter jets conducted two airstrikes against Iranian-backed military groups in Syria. Are things escalating between the U.S. and Iran? Dr. Coates is the author of “David’s Sling: A History of Democracy in Ten Works of Art.” You can find her book here: https://www.amazon.com/Davids-Sling-History-Democracy-Works/dp/1594037213
4:55pm- While appearing on Fox News with Sean Hannity, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) responded to Democrats referring to him as a “MAGA extremist”—explaining that they don’t know him, politely asking them to give him a “chance to lead.”
5:00pm- Dr. Wilfred Reilly—Professor of Political Science at Kentucky State University & Author of “Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me”—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss South Park making fun of Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy and Disney for pandering to the far-left by making movies with “woke” narratives. Will Disney continue to frustrate audiences with bad remakes featuring forced political messaging? Plus, Princeton University students chant for the murdering of Israelis. When will prestigious universities finally stand up to the outlandish, anti-Semitic comments being made by their students and professors? You can pre-order Dr. Reilly’s upcoming book here: https://www.amazon.com/Lies-My-Liberal-Teacher-Told/dp/0063265974
5:40pm- Steven Shepard of Politico writes: “Democrats are about to find out how worried they need to be about Black voter support…President Joe Biden’s approval rating with Black voters has dropped disproportionately compared with white voters, polls show, driving down his overall numbers. Last week’s election of a Republican governor in Louisiana, the first in eight years, suggested diminished voter enthusiasm in the areas with the largest Black populations.” Could Black voters begin to align with the Republican party? You can read the full article here: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/21/democrats-black-voters-2024-00122846
6:05pm- Daniel Turner—Founder & Executive Director of Power the Future—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss how Biden Administration energy policies have had a negative impact on gas prices in America. If war in the Middle East escalates due to Iranian involvement, how high could oil prices climb? You can learn more about Power the Future here: https://powerthefuture.com/about-us/
6:30pm- Matt defends his decision to forgo wine and instead drink Coca-Cola with pizza while in Italy. Rich continues to demand that he be fired immediately.
6:40pm- The U.N. General Assembly voted against a resolution that would have unequivocally condemned Hamas for the October 7th terrorist attacks against Israeli citizens. It failed to get the necessary two-thirds majority.
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| 0:30.0 | So, regards as the Israeli Defense Forces expand operations, and this thing is heating up very, very quickly. Welcome to the show, glad you're here today, 5, 5, 8, 3, 9, 12, 10. It is Friday. We made it through the week, so that's good. It's been a week, that's for sure. It's been a week from Mike Johnson. He sat down with Sean Hannity last night in Fox News, and came across incredibly likable, had a lot to say, and I didn't know he's a fellow adoptive father, so I like him even more now that I know that he's... |
| 1:00.0 | Adopted children. I think that's great. So we'll break all that down for you. It's a great guest coming up on the show later as well. We'll check in with Victoria Coats about all the craziness in the Middle East. Are we headed to war? What's going on? And then how does all that impact with Ukraine? And that theater over there, we'll talk to Professor Wilfred Riley, the latest in woke. And there's a lot of it that's out there today, as you can imagine. And the economy, you know, the Biden administration is claiming great GDP growth. |
| 1:30.0 | It's not great GDP growth. It's not. And yesterday, I got some snarky email from some guy saying that I don't know what I'm talking about when it comes to gas prices. So we'll also talk to Daniel Turner later in the show today, so that we can find out the truth about gas prices and how all of this is affecting us around the world. Biden's worn energy, the international conflict that's going on, all of these things. We'll talk about, yes, all of it. But let's begin with something that's not related to war. Shall we? Well, it's sort of war. |
| 2:00.0 | It's the war here at home in the United States of America being waged on us by our own government. When the Justice Department spied on Congress from the Wall Street Journal, officials snooped on staffers investigating the Justice Department press leaks and investigations. You know, the crossfire hurricane, which was an absolute fiasco. That was the the phony Russia collusion investigation where they spend so much time going after Trump for being a Russian asset. |
| 2:30.0 | Russian agent, Russian intelligence officer, Putin's puppet, a guy who peed on beds, and it was all nonsense. The whole thing was nonsense. You know that. And I know that. And it cost taxpayers a lot of money. And what we found out in the report that came out, Operation Crossfire Hurricane, was a joke from the start. They never actually had a real motive here. They knew they didn't. They knew it was a fugacy. And they pursued it anyway. And they pursued it purely for political reasons. And that was to stop Donald Trump. |
| 3:00.0 | From becoming president and then to destroy his presidency, once he became the president of the United States of America to bring him down. And we got a lot out of the report that came out about this. A lot out of it. And how the FBI knew there was nothing there. And they decided, ah, let's pursue it anyway. |
| 3:17.0 | The CIA knew there was nothing there. Let's pursue it anyway. Why not? And what we have also found out recently in this fiasco that keeps on giving. |
| 3:29.0 | The latest revelations of abuse of power, the United States Department of Justice, they've been going after you, they've been going after me, they've been going after all of us, saying that we are domestic violent extremists. |
| 3:41.0 | You know, you moms in yoga pants at school board meetings, you dads praying outside of pro life, excuse me, abortion clinics, you are terrorists, you people praying in Latin at mass in church, your potential terrorists here. |
| 3:56.0 | They've also of course been taking down your posts and they've been monitoring you on social media and saying that if you had a Betsy Ross flag or don't tread on me flag or you said the words 1776, which was actually a movie and a play. |
| 4:10.0 | But if you said those things, you were probably a domestic terrorist as well. And so all of these things, all of these things, the government has been waging war against its own people in the United States of America. |
| 4:22.0 | And we created the House Select Subcommittee on the investigation on the weaponization of government. And we're just beginning now to peel back the layers of this thing and it's bad, it's really bad. |
| 4:34.0 | Well, the latest now is that the Justice Department actually went even a step further. It's one thing to spy on its own citizens, but then it also spied on members of Congress and their staff. |
| 4:44.0 | Now the first time they've done this though, got to remember something John Brennan, who in my opinion should be in prison. |
| 4:51.0 | John Brennan, this guy when he was the head of the CIA, they broke into a skiff, the Senate skiff investigating the enhanced interrogation slash terrorism slash torture report. |
| 5:03.0 | And they broke into the skiff and they stole all the information from the Senate bipartisan committee headed by at the time, the late Diane Feinstein. |
| 5:12.0 | So these guys and Brennan's the same guy, him and his buddy Clapper, you know, they're always on, they should both be in prison. |
| 5:18.0 | They really should for lying to Congress and just destroying the Constitution, but they always on TV, they hate Trump. |
| 5:25.0 | They were signatories to the letter saying the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. These are bad guys. |
| 5:31.0 | These are bad, bad, bad, bad guys. So this goes back a long time. Operation Crossfire Hurricane, another great example of this where the government said, |
| 5:40.0 | let's stop this guy Donald Trump from becoming president, let's, let's bring down his presidency. |
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