Portions of the following program may contain pre-recorded material.

This is America First and here's your host, Dr. Sebastian Gorka.

This is a pretty dangerous part of town. What are we doing here?

A clip from a shocking video by our friend, Army Horowitz.

He went to Venezuela, he's a guerrilla journalist, and there he is in Caracas just outside a public park with a local, a father who is walking through the park at dusk asking him, why?

Why are you here after dark? And he says, I'm looking for something to feed my family.

A dog, a cat, or a pigeon. This hour here on America First with me, your host, Sebastian Gorka.

We are going to dedicate it to the real threat of socialism and what socialism truly is with somebody who knows and somebody who has impressed me greatly.

I saw him recently at a heritage conference talking about his experiences. Daniel D. Martino, welcome to America First, one on one.

Thank you for having me, Sebastian.

I think I heard you first speak at a heritage event before COVID. You came back last week for this amazing roundtable for the 30th anniversary of the fall of communism.

Let's be specific, the fall of communism in the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact.

This week you gave a speech about why Venezuela particularly should be used as a warning signal, as an example of what could happen in America.

I want you to explain that in a moment. But first, would you tell our millions of listeners across the nation, those who are viewing us on rumble or seeing this maybe later on social media, just a little bit of your short life story to date.

Yes, of course. Well, I'm originally from Venezuela. I was born and raised there. I came to America five and a half years ago.

After finishing high school in Caracas, the city that you showed in the video where that man is now seeking to find a dog to eat.

The truth is that Venezuela, when I was a kid, was a much different country than what it is today. It's been declining my whole life. That's why I decided to leave. I was blessed with the opportunity to come to America.

I've dedicated my life to stopping what happened in Venezuela from ever happening again.

I'm doing a PhD in economics at Columbia University. I lived in Indiana before in Kentucky. I'm in New York City, unfortunately. But we're having a good time and I'm very thankful.

All right, so welcome to America. Thank you for what you have said. So bravely, so courageously at multiple events on multiple platforms.

Will you just briefly explain why the experience of Venezuela is so relevant to America today and why the experience of Russia and the Soviet Union or Cuba isn't?

Well, let's, I'm not dismissing the experience of other countries, all countries. You know, we can learn many things from it. I do think that the experience of Venezuela particularly is relevant for us today because Venezuela is the most recent country to become a socialistic dictatorship.

...