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Hegseth and Rubio Scramble To Spin Nightmare Week For MAGA

08 Jan 2026

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Chapter 1: What actions has Trump's administration taken regarding Venezuela?

4.925 - 30.73 Jennifer Welch

I'm old enough to remember when Donald Trump beat the drum, America first. We're going to make America great again. We're going to do this for America. And there has been nothing done by his administration except to hurt Americans, take away their health care, terrorize them in the street. Now his administration is executing people in the streets. And we've gone into Venezuela.

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30.71 - 51.568 Jennifer Welch

committing war crimes by killing their fishing boats. And we've gone in and we've kidnapped the murderous dictator that ruled there, not because we give a fuck about America, but because we want the oil. And Donald Trump even said, we talked to the oil companies. They didn't talk to Congress. So Marco Rubio, when asked, about what's it gonna cost America?

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51.928 - 64.817 Jennifer Welch

What's it gonna cost taxpayers to do this regime change in Venezuela? And here I thought was the answer from he and Pete Hegseth that we all had to see.

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65.118 - 68.561 Pete Hegseth

It doesn't cost us.

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68.621 - 69.282 Marco Rubio

It doesn't cost us.

69.342 - 73.727 Pete Hegseth

It doesn't cost us any money.

73.747 - 79.793 Marco Rubio

For example, this oil deal that's happening doesn't cost us any money. On the contrary. Doesn't cost us any money.

Chapter 2: How does the current administration justify military actions in Venezuela?

80.273 - 81.694 Marco Rubio

Look, I can't. I don't have the numbers.

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81.774 - 94.467 Jennifer Welch

OK, so it doesn't cost us any money. We're getting the oil. So he says the quiet part out loud. Fucking little Marco. And then here's Pete Hegseth, who just goes unhinged. I mean, he's just unhinged.

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95.054 - 113.607 Unknown

Besides that question from CNN, the questions ever asked, how much does it cost when they're in the Mediterranean or the Red Sea or the Indian Ocean or the Pacific? But now that they're in our hemisphere, on a counter-cartel mission or ensuring that an indicted individual comes to justice, now you're asking the question of cost. It's a disingenuous question to begin with.

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114.007 - 121.198 Unknown

You're trying to find any angle possible to undermine the success of one of the most historic military missions the world has ever seen.

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125.223 - 125.684

Oh, God. Okay.

127.066 - 142.054 Jennifer Welch

Every time he says, the world has ever seen, just, like, shut the fuck up. Here's the thing, this Western Hemisphere, I think you pointed out, that's a Project 2025 term, correct?

143.232 - 164.818 Angie Sullivan

Yes, it is in the Project 2025. They talk about hemisphere building. Also, there is reporting, very interesting reporting, that in 2019, National Security Advisor Fiona Hill reported under oath that Putin had offered

Chapter 3: What are the implications of Trump's oil deals for the American public?

164.798 - 186.047 Angie Sullivan

Trump during Trump 1.0, he offered the United States, Venezuela for Ukraine. So there to me, of course, you have a lot of factions that this will satisfy. The oil oligarchs are like, oh, yes, we're going to get it. But what's interesting, I read some report and I don't know if this has been verified or not.

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186.027 - 207.695 Angie Sullivan

But that the funds that they're going to get from the oil that they've just taken are going to go to offshore accounts and not into the United States Treasury. And I don't know if that's been verified yet, but it was a journalist that tweeted that and she was asking for more details about that. But this is a government right now set up. by oligarchs for oligarchs of oligarchs.

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208.256 - 233.789 Angie Sullivan

This is not an America first government. This is now he's talking about raising the defense spending by over a half trillion. This administration, this fascist regime is accelerating. They are accelerating the fascism at a very alarming rate. The Epstein files are still sitting there. but they are wagging the dog and breaking as much as they possibly can.

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234.21 - 250.173 Angie Sullivan

And 250 years of democracy is going down the toilet. And have we been perfect? No. Are there scars all over our foreign policy? Yes. But something that we all used to believe in was the idea of improvement.

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Chapter 4: How do Rubio and Hegseth respond to criticism about military costs?

250.354 - 263.952 Angie Sullivan

Martin Luther King spoke so eloquently about the arc of justice bending towards the moral universe. And we incrementally marched together to do that.

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264.092 - 283.095 Angie Sullivan

What we're up against right now with those two dipshits, those two war criminals, those two traitors, and democratic leadership needs to use those words when talking about Pete Hegseth and talking about Marco Rubio, because they are war criminals and they are traitors to the United States of America. And their actions,

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283.075 - 310.242 Angie Sullivan

warrant at least your words in that that voice and don't fall into the crap and don't buy into the narrative of stephen miller that we can't exercise our first amendment and call a spade a spade but this administration and those two war criminal dipshits they are accelerating and they are breaking america on purpose This is on purpose. They are breaking it.

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310.623 - 317.942 Angie Sullivan

Everything that functioned as a democracy in 2020, the election, it's done. It's over.

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318.143 - 343.896 Jennifer Welch

They are breaking it to consolidate power. Well, to your point about where the money's going, Caroline KKK-Levitt said yesterday in a press conference that the money would be put in offshore bank accounts to benefit the American people and the Venezuelan people at the direction of the U.S. government. So that story is right. It's not coming to America.

344.365 - 371.385 Jennifer Welch

And the thing about this is nobody wants to even have a shed of criticism about what this action is when they, when Trump says, yeah, we're going to go in, we're going to do all this. It costs fucking money, but what they aren't doing is telling Congress. And so we have a Congressman yesterday that came out and said, why are Trump What the hell are they hiding from?

371.525 - 395.671 Jennifer Welch

Trump and Rubio under fire over secret briefings. They only want to do classified briefings. And if you'll pull up the body of the article, there was a point. Senator Ben Ray Lujan from New Mexico said, why the hell is the Trump administration scared to face the American people in an open setting before the Senate? before the House, I don't understand.

395.751 - 420.106 Jennifer Welch

They keep wanting to hide in a box somewhere. And here, show the American people what the hell you are hiding from. And then I read from Senator Chris Murphy after a classified briefing. He can't, he says, I can't tell you the details, but it is so disturbing. And I encourage everybody to look at that because it's fucking crazy what they are planning. It does cost money.

420.206 - 444.052 Jennifer Welch

It costs the American people. Trump's going, oh, we're going to rebuild the infrastructure. You're taking credit for Biden's infrastructure improvements because you couldn't get it passed in your term. So it's just... It's unbelievable. And here we have Donald Trump said, America is not as safe because, you know, we pay too much. NATO doesn't pay enough for defense. I'm mad at NATO.

Chapter 5: What are the concerns raised about Trump's foreign policy alignment with Russia?

454.913 - 481.748 Jennifer Welch

about the nobel peace prize when he's killing americans in the street i single-handedly ended eight wars and norway a nato member foolishly chose not to give me the nobel peace prize and basically what they says it is again nato's not giving enough money and so that tells you where his head is he doesn't give a about our allies the allies that we used to have

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481.964 - 508.967 Jennifer Welch

He's completely disrespecting going against them. Look at Greenland, just on that example alone. He is not interested in Putin stopping the war in Ukraine. He is interested in taking a victory lap. He is now interested in going into our hemisphere. And so when Marco Rubio, who is the little dick energy secretary of state that has all these balls in the air,

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508.947 - 523.378 Jennifer Welch

But they completely, completely have absolutely no diplomacy whatsoever in his position. Here's when asked about NATO and the president's comments about NATO. This is what he says about our allies.

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523.966 - 533.905 Pete Hegseth

The military option is on the table. So is the administration really willing to risk the NATO alliance by potentially moving ahead?

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533.965 - 545.788 Marco Rubio

Guys, what I think the White House said yesterday is what I will tell you now and I've always said. The president always retained the option. Every president, not this president, every president always retains the option. I'm not talking about Greenland. I'm just talking about globally.

545.768 - 559.193 Marco Rubio

If the president identifies a threat to the national security of the United States, every president retains the option to address it through military means. As a diplomat, which is what I am now and what we work on, we always prefer to settle it in different ways. That included in Venezuela.

559.213 - 568.249 Marco Rubio

We tried repeatedly to reach an outcome here that did not involve having to go in and grab an indicted drug trafficker. Those were unsuccessful, unfortunately.

568.229 - 580.956 Jennifer Welch

I just before you comment, I just want to point out they're so interested in using the term indicted against Maduro. Fucking Trump was indicted four times and nobody gave a shit in that party. OK, sorry.

581.999 - 607.551 Angie Sullivan

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Chapter 6: How is Marco Rubio's stance on foreign policy perceived by critics?

658.756 - 686.038 Angie Sullivan

Please support our show and let them know that we sent you. As to what you were saying before the second Marco Rubio video, when you were talking about Trump and his statements about NATO and his statements about Greenland, it's more insidious than what you were describing. His talking points now mirror those of the Kremlin. There's no daylight between the two.

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686.078 - 702.017 Angie Sullivan

In Moscow on their state media, they are saying the United States of America foreign policy is now aligned with that of our president. And Marco Rubio was, we could pull up clip after clip after clip of him being

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701.997 - 724.427 Angie Sullivan

a United States Senator talking about the dangers of Vladimir Putin, talking about Vladimir Putin being a murderous dictator, talking about Vladimir Putin being an enemy of democracy, talking about Vladimir Putin being a threat to the free world. And these are Marco Rubio's words. And now he works and participates

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724.407 - 741.927 Angie Sullivan

for an administration whose talking points regarding foreign policy mirror that of Moscow's and mirror that of the Kremlin. And that is the big story. And another point I just wanna make that is somewhat connected to all of this

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741.907 - 768.117 Angie Sullivan

During the Biden administration, if the economy or the jobs were just a little bit this way or a little bit that way, the media hyper-focused on it and inflation's up 0.0002% and we're down, you know, we didn't get as many jobs. The economy right now is so underreported. This whole idea that Marco Rubio is now parroting Russian talking points

769.413 - 802.327 Angie Sullivan

is barely reported in the media, it's reported in Russia, but it's not reported in the United States, is a 911, house is on fire. And all roads lead to the United States of America is a fake democracy that's set up for corporations. And this administration works for corporations and our opposition Hakeem Chuckles, Cory Booker and others, they work for corporations.

802.788 - 822.593 Angie Sullivan

And so this is just, this is all theater. All of this is just fucking theater. And I'm so exhausted from it. And I want our international listeners to know that some of us in this country see it. We see the American arrogance. We know how obnoxious and loud a lot of our citizens are. We get it.

823.174 - 843.998 Angie Sullivan

And there's a great awakening happening in the United States right now, particularly in the Democratic base. And our leadership has no clue. We are so sick of them because they're still probably going to hire Deloitte and they're still probably going to do all of these focus groups. And at the end of the day, this is a very simple thing to say.

844.659 - 869.159 Angie Sullivan

Marco Rubio sold out and now he's going to do hemisphere building because his parents were allowed to be immigrants from Cuba. Now he wants to be some Cuban hero. And, you know, also all of his foreign policy aligns perfectly with former KGB agent. who kills his adversaries, who's a murderous dictator, who Marco Rubio welcomed him in Alaska and shook his hand. Right.

Chapter 7: What is the impact of current U.S. foreign policy on democracy?

892.735 - 907.089 Jennifer Welch

He knows how all of that works more than anyone because he was on the Senate Intelligence Committee. So he knows more than these other fucking bozos. He knows how dangerous Putin is. He knows how dangerous all the policies that Trump is doing.

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907.57 - 935.845 Jennifer Welch

He knows how dangerous they are, but he's willing to sacrifice the democracy of the United States on the 1.001% chance that he'll get to be president in 2028. I mean, he's willing to sacrifice it all for his own personal gain. And it's a coward, cowardice. And I fucking am with you. I am so angry about the minority leadership in the Senate, in the House.

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936.005 - 941.473 Jennifer Welch

You know, I saw a couple of tweets from Chuckles. It's like, well, you know, they said they're America first. It's not.

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941.453 - 960.272 Jennifer Welch

marco rubio is the american people he is a traitor he is participating in war crimes that should be the headline coming out of him and instead it's well they're not doing what they said well shut the up sit down and shut the up all right please like this video subscribe to our channel and we'll be back with more news

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