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I'm going to say something on this episode I haven't said out loud before. I'm starting to think I should run for mayor of New York City.

I'm serious about it. And I'll tell you exactly how I'd do it, because it isn't complicated. You surround yourself with the best people you can find — people who love the city more than they love an agenda — and you become a voice for everyone, including the people with the least.

But here's what I won't do, and this is where my co-host and I don't agree. He thinks at some point we have to just tell you who not to vote for. I won't do that. I want you to get there on your own, without somebody whispering in your ear twenty four hours a day.

We disagree about something bigger too. I asked him whether this country is trying to survive its own leadership, and he told me flat out he doesn't see it that way. We went back and forth on it and ended up somewhere neither of us started.

And I put a hard question to him. Somebody crossed the border twenty five years ago. Since then he's paid taxes, raised kids, put them through college, built a business. Do we deport that man? I'll tell you his answer, and I'll tell you why I'm not sure I agree.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• The one thing I'd do first if I actually ran for that office
• Why free bus rides don't educate a single child, and what would
• What screening I went through five separate times that nobody does now

No agenda. Fact check us. Find us on YouTube.

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Chapters:

00:10 Fact check us, don't follow us

00:43 What happened in Paris and why

02:03 The part nobody says out loud: assimilation

03:32 Loyalty to country over party

04:28 We were never meant to be 194 countries

06:46 Only one person said it about Biden

07:41 My prediction on the assault rifle ban

08:37 Detroit had everything. Then the tax base left.

09:37 New York is on the same track

10:32 He says tell them how to vote. I say no.

13:26 What happened to this America?

14:53 Catch them, release them, repeat

16:14 You already have free bus rides

18:36 Maybe we overpopulated with the wrong people

20:02 How powerful the media actually is

21:31 I'm thinking about running for mayor

25:46 What happened to California

30:01 Why is his lifestyle even relevant?

33:48 The minute we monetize something

35:06 Crossing the border is a crime

38:32 Twenty five years here. Deport him?

43:06 Zelensky became part of the problem

45:20 Are we surviving our own leadership?

47:52 Stop clubbing them with taxes. Ask.

52:08 Five screenings to carry a gun

53:13 What's the difference, constitutionally?

55:43 Sign-off

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I'm going to tell you something about myself that might surprise you. I don't like guns. I don't hunt. I don't have it in me to kill an animal.

And I helped arm the New York City Police Department right before, during, and after 9/11.

I'm not proud of it. It was necessary. And I still believe you need the Second Amendment in this country, and my co-host walks you through exactly why it was written in the first place. It wasn't about hunting. It wasn't about sport. Go look at what happened in 1814 and you'll understand.

But here's where I think we're going wrong. Twenty nine states now say that if you can see lightning and hear thunder, you can carry a concealed weapon. We know nothing about you except that you're not a felon. That's not the Second Amendment working. That's us not doing our jobs.

I also want to tell the young people something nobody tells you. When you apply for a serious job and we run a background check, the first place we look is your social media. Before anything else.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• What the Bill of Rights was actually built to prevent, and why 1814 proves it
• The one thing we screened for decades ago that nobody screens for now
• Why the cops who pick up someone in crisis have nowhere left to take them

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Chapters:

00:11 Never be spoon fed, including by us

00:42 What it takes to search an official's home

02:11 If you lied to get in, you can be deported

04:08 Starlink, and how this war is being fought

05:36 Writing a check his body can't cash

08:47 Kennedy said pursue peace, not money

09:14 AI, and putting the genie back in the bottle

11:28 We look at your social media first

13:12 Six thousand jobs, and who replaced them

16:11 What the Warren Commission was really for

17:43 We were warned twice

18:55 Who profited from Vietnam

20:34 No, we did learn. Just not what you think.

22:47 Getting the cuckoo back in the clock

23:46 I helped arm the NYPD

24:45 See lightning, hear thunder

27:19 What the Second Amendment was built for

28:19 1814, and the farm kids who could shoot

33:11 Not all Muslim people are bad

38:06 I caught kids with joints. I called their parents.

39:30 The end of discretionary policing

40:56 Free buses don't educate one child

42:57 Oak Forest, and what cops could do then

45:36 Willowbrook, Pilgrim State, Creedmoor

52:16 Who actually shows up to a riot

56:06 Leave this place better than you found it

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My co-host couldn't make it today, so it's just me.

A well-known talk show host went on TV this week and said the answer to school shootings is putting more armed people inside schools. More guards. More former cops like me.

I want to ask one question about that. What happened to this country that our children can't go to a classroom, or a movie theater, or a mall at Christmas, without armed people standing there?

That's not an answer. That's a band-aid. And I'll tell you what I think the real problem is, because it isn't the gun.

I also get into something I've been meaning to say for weeks. We need age limits on elected office. Nobody gets out alive, and we've got people dying in their nineties while still holding a seat.

And I open with something that surprised me. I don't agree with Bernie Sanders on much, but he's right about AI.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why putting more armed guards in schools misses the actual problem
• What I had to do five separate times just to carry a gun for work
• The one rule that would fix more than any new law we could pass

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Tennessee tried to execute a woman twice last week. Both attempts failed. She'd been sitting on death row for thirty two years.

Tom and I spent a long time on that one, and I'll be honest with you — I've never been a proponent of the death penalty and I'm not fully comfortable with where I ended up. But Tom made a point I can't argue with. He says the standard for a capital case shouldn't be beyond a reasonable doubt. It should be beyond any doubt whatsoever. If it's on film, if there are eyewitnesses, if the DNA has you coming and going, there's no doubt.

I also tell you about some people I've known. Ghislaine Maxwell, socially, in New York. O.J. Simpson, I worked for him. Monica Lewinsky was my client during her book tour, and nobody stood up for that girl.

What I took from all of it is that people have two lives, a public one and a private one, and you have to judge both separately.

In this episode:

• What Tom would replace reasonable doubt with, and why
• Why sentencing guidelines are legislated, which means they can be changed
• Four knife attacks in a month, and what that says about the gun argument

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Tom Fuentes joined me late today. I started without him, which means you get about twenty five minutes of me on my own first, and then the two of us for the rest of it.

The part I'd point you to is the Kennedy conversation. Tom ran the FBI's organized crime program and he's been working on this a long time. He walks through the Bay of Pigs, and why the CIA never forgave Kennedy for refusing to send in the Air Force. Then the back channel the Kennedy brothers opened directly to Khrushchev, and what happened inside the agency when they found out about it.

He also tells me something about Lyndon Johnson I didn't know, and I've been reading about this my whole life.

Before that I get into Mexico and the cartels, and why we'll go after Venezuela but not the people actually running a country on our border.

We get into New York, and the two words that won that election.

And we come back to where we always come back to, which is what any of this leaves for our young people.

In this episode:

• Why Tom thinks the assassination was set in motion before 1963
• What Johnson rescinded the day after Dallas
• The question I keep asking about Mexico that nobody answers

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Tom Fuentes ran the FBI's worldwide organized crime program. I worked security for a capo in the Colombo family. This week we put those two careers in the same room and went at the Kennedy assassination.

Tom walks it through step by step. The Bay of Pigs, and why the CIA never forgave Kennedy for it. The order he signed in October of 1963 pulling our advisors out of Vietnam, and who stood to lose trillions if that order held. What his father promised the mob to get him elected, and what happened when Bobby got the Justice Department instead.

Before that we get into COVID and what came out of the Fauci hearings. We get into guns, and the number nobody mentions when they promise you gun control.

And we come back to the same place we always do, which is what we're handing our kids.

In this episode:

• Why Tom thinks Kennedy signed his own death warrant
• The twenty nine states that already have constitutional carry
• What Lyndon Johnson did the day after the assassination

No agenda.

Chapters:

00:00 Who Tom Fuentes is
 00:56 I cannot overemphasize parenting
 03:26 COVID, and the Fauci hearings
 04:04 Tom: he was lying, and I knew it
 06:14 The pardon that went back to 2014
 06:27 What gain of function actually means
 07:26 Pardons, the autopen, and the president's son
 09:28 Twenty nine states have constitutional carry
 10:51 Tom on what the Second Amendment was for
 13:12 We have overpopulated this country
 14:21 Europe disarmed its people
 15:28 Tom on why the Iran war drags on
 17:23 Is the Mossad arming them right now?
 18:42 Mental illness and failed parenting
 20:16 Three knifings in New York
 21:13 Tom: by sixteen, it's too late
 22:15 We handed them the device and walked away
 23:28 AI, medicine, and living to 100
 25:49 Tom on what they're not learning
 27:36 It used to be called the People's House
 29:36 Times Square, 9/11, and what changed
 30:07 Kennedy, and the loss of innocence
 32:09 Tom: the Bay of Pigs and the CIA
 33:22 The order to leave Vietnam
 36:38 What Joe Kennedy promised the mob
 38:15 Carlos Marcello in the jungle
 39:24 If you want to kill the snake
 40:39 Working for a Colombo capo
 41:50 Both parties, both wars
 46:35 You don't live in mainstream America
 48:46 Epstein, and who still hasn't been named
 52:21 Secession, and a country coming apart
 54:15 What we're covering next week
 56:38 Sign-off

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Tom Fuentes is back with me this week. He's the former Assistant Director of the FBI who ran their entire international operation, and he's exactly one day older than I am, which he'll never let me forget.

We get into Iran, and I ask him the question nobody's asking. Who briefed the president on what Iran could actually do? Because Israel had people inside that country planting explosives in pagers. Somebody should have known.

We get into Russia and Ukraine, and Tom explains why he doesn't think either side walks away from this able to save face.

We get into the FBI itself, and Tom doesn't soften it. I called what happened there bumps and grinds. He told me that's too polite.

And we get into the thing underneath all of it, which is what we're handing our young people.

In this episode:

• The one reason Iran doesn't fit the nuclear logic that held for fifty years
• What a license plate reader could do in 1973, and what it took to fix it
• Why Tom thinks our schools stopped teaching the things that matter most

No agenda. Nobody telling you who to vote for. Find us on YouTube.

Chapters:

00:00 Introducing Tom Fuentes
 01:14 The institutions we destroyed
 01:46 Who briefed the president on Iran?
 03:54 Israel was already inside that country
 05:31 Twenty five years here. Now we deport you?
 08:27 Crossing the border is a criminal act
 09:09 The immigration numbers nobody reports
 10:57 Ukraine, and why nobody saves face
 13:08 What Putin actually thinks of us
 14:44 The tools we use to find people
 15:49 1973, and the cops who played the dating game
 18:52 Law enforcement has to be better than this
 20:17 More than bumps and grinds
 23:44 Would he actually use a tactical nuke?
 25:24 Why Iran is the exception
 26:36 Cripple them instead of bombing them
 32:33 Come here to assimilate
 33:54 Was this ever the vision?
 36:20 If you're alive in five years
 38:01 Tom on what schools stopped teaching
 41:37 Mental health and failed parenting
 42:35 We are in a civil war
 44:42 Tom's closing thoughts
 47:15 The only white boy on the block
 50:18 What's coming next week

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I took a little hiatus. Now I'm back, and I want to start with an apology to our children.

My generation broke almost every institution they were supposed to believe in. The government. The media. Science. Our schools. We didn't do a good job, and I think we owe them the truth about it.

So that's what this show is. No agenda. Nobody telling you who to vote for. Just what I know after 53 years in law enforcement and a lot of years traveling and listening to people smarter than me.

Today I get into guns, and I say some things you probably haven't heard. I get into immigration and the numbers nobody reports. And I get into the cameras and the technology that are watching all of us right now.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why banning guns misses the actual problem, and what we screen for instead
• The immigration number that's bigger than the border, and why nobody says it out loud
• What happens when police get a tool with no controls on it... and 24 officers found out

If you want more conversations like this one, follow the show.

Chapters:

00:00 The truth, with no agenda
 00:23 Who I am and why I'm back
 00:45 An apology to our children
 09:35 What we let in and couldn't check
 11:08 If you're alive in five years
 15:25 We handed our kids a screen and called it parenting
 16:32 Guns, and what I actually believe
 18:08 Nobody knows how many guns we have
 21:18 The only thing a background check tells you
 25:35 I asked gun owners to give something up
 27:36 The border number nobody reports
 30:19 Was this the vision?
 31:28 Take my fingerprints. Take my DNA.
 33:21 The cameras, and the 24 who abused them
 37:03 Overpopulated and undercounted
 38:48 Love your children more than your politics

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Welcome back to operation Truth!

 With decades of combined experience in law enforcement and political analysis, Lou and Tom dive into pressing topics such as border security, corruption in Ukraine, and the media's influence on public opinion. 

Today they doesn't shy away from tough questions or controversial discussions, including the conflicts involving Ukraine, Russia, Israel, and Iran, as well as domestic issues like immigration,crime, and economic policies.

 If you crave unfiltered, honest conversations that challenge the status quo, this is the show for you.

#PoliticalAnalysis #BorderSecurity #MediaBias #UkraineConflict #OperationTruth #ImmigrationIssues #GeopoliticalTensions

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In this eye-opening episode, hosts Lou Palumbo and former FBI assistant director Tom Fuentes dive into the alarming decline of credibility in both the media and government. 

They discuss controversial issues such as media misinformation, the state of the Democratic Party, and concerns about the January 6th Capitol riot. 

Listen in as they explore the nation's handling of Afghanistan, gun control, and the influence of Hollywood on politics. Uncover the truths hidden behind headlines and political narratives. 

Are you ready to challenge your perspectives and discover the real stories behind today's biggest issues? 

#MediaCredibility #PoliticalTruth #CapitolRiot #GunControlDebate #AfghanistanWithdrawal #AmericanPolitics #DemocraticParty

00:00 Men invested their lives in FBI credibility. 
04:50 Trump sets criteria for withdrawal, Biden doesn't. 
08:34 Trump passed legislation for veterans' medical access. 
11:38 Video games teach violence, toxic for kids. 
13:26 Urge for informed choices to secure country. 
18:04 Clinton-Gingrich collaboration brought economic stability, party turmoil. 
20:30 FBI, Homeland Security report risk; border issues. 
25:48 Clooney saw decline, Hollywood influence in government.
 27:07 Interviewee warned and threatened; Clinton accused. 
32:55 Criticism of Democratic party, call for change. 
35:25 Media lacks oversight, causes widespread misinformation. 
39:56 Many arrests for attending protest unjustly prosecuted. 
42:16 Leaders aware of protest, declined additional security. 
44:51 Discussion on political controversies, selective enforcement and reporting. 
49:38 Challenge bias, seek truth, better future.

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