Again, what are you hearing about this guy? And obviously, Dubai Air, Fly Dubai, you better be doing better background check and vetting, you think?

Yeah, I actually don't think that this is Iran.

I think this is a lone wolf situation where there's a whack job that was inspired.

And I'll tell you why.

Iran is the Shia homeland.

This happened over Saudi Arabia.

The Shia and the Sunnis hate each other.

You know,

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... you know, uh, w- he, he mean, he means what he says to the extent-- t- to-- he's gonna do what he, what he thinks is right.

And if that is perceived a particular way, that's fine, but the reality is, is he already knows what he's gonna do, that's already gonna happen.

Uh, but for the Iranian regime, I also would say, um, I, I kinda t- um, I don't know if it is the wisest tact to punish the people into some, into regime change.

That tends to not really work out too well.

So I think that, again, care must be taken strategically.

Uh, President Trump's goals are very, very, very easily understood.

[laughs] Yeah.

The people.

Yeah, I think right now I'm still in Israel.

We're still pulling Americans out of here from this war.

We just got done with a drone and missile attack here in Tel Aviv.

As it relates to Cuba, the biggest threat from our perspective, I would say, is the Cuban intelligence service, the DGI, which are very, very, very good at what they do.

They're everywhere in the United States.

They're involved in politics.

Talk to me about how intense that situation is across the Middle East for Americans trying to get the hell out of the way.

Fill us in.

I am.

My whole team and I, we're pretty smoked.

It's been a very, very, very long few days.

We're really busy, really busy evacuating, conducting rescue missions and evacuation operations.

It's a very interesting set of circumstances at the moment because of the closures of airspace.

Normally, we deal with the, you know, we've done this a lot all over the world, as you know, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Russia, Haiti, Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, all these places, Israel, Gaza, usually there's a country that's really being impacted and the border countries are not.

F-A-F-O.

So why don't you tell us about that?

Yeah, precisely.

So as you know, we're a, yeah, we're a donor-funded, veteran-led international rescue organization.

Our charter and mission is to rescue and evacuate American citizens, uh, from harm's way anytime and any-anywhere.

We just completed our eight hundred and first mission, uh, a few weeks ago.

Uh, that turns into over eighty-four hundred lives saved over four and a half years, my team and I.

So we are busy.

O-obviously, it's rescues, but what does that really mean? It's, it's, it's one thing to give someone a ride to, uh, an airport, um, but th-this is a bit more intricate than that because of the danger.

So why don't you tell us about that?

Yeah, precisely.

So, as you know, we're a, we're a donor-funded, veteran-led international rescue organization.

Our charter and mission is to rescue and evacuate American citizens, uh, from harm's way, anytime and any- anywhere.

We just completed our eight hundred and first mission, uh, a few weeks ago.

Uh, that turns into over eighty-four hundred lives saved over four and a half years, my team and I.

So we are busy.

O- obviously, it's rescues, but what does that really mean? It's, it's, it's one thing to give someone a ride to a, an airport, um, but th- this is a bit more intricate than that because of the danger.

Uh, you have sponsors too that help you guys out.

Yeah, so m- the key to Great Bull Rescue is the talent of my team and, uh, the backing of our donors and sponsors, uh, great guys like Ray Rombowski from Spraytech, uh, uh, Matthew Hering from UDC USA, Andy Wilson from Quiet Professionals, uh, Mike Murphy, Murphy Auto Group, uh, Jake Meeks from, uh, Prime Utility.

There's a, we have a core group of people that help lead and fund and manage.

These are the guys that when I say, "Hey, look, don't ask, but I need a couple of bucks," they step up and their companies back them too.

They're captains of their industries and their companies are, are amazing, but they're patriots.

They're patriot.

They care about Americans, they care about national security, they care about all these different things.

Does that matter? What's happening there?

That's not getting it done.

Yeah, I think as far as the war on drugs is concerned, as the way President Trump is handling it, I think he's doing great.

I think that they should do more of it.

In today's world in 2025, the world lives and breathes off Instagram.

So by showing, by demonstrating on Instagram, literally on Instagram, and I don't say that jokingly, I mean, I'm being very literal, this is absolutely sending a strategic message to all the cartel guys, all the supporters, all their people, that you're really, really gambling with your life if you play around.

The actual impact... to the cartels financially of taking out one of these boats is actually negligible.

They have trillions of dollars losing a boat or 10 boats or 100 boats.

I agree with you, I think if the foot soldiers, the peons are seeing this out there and knowing that they might get hit, it's gonna be harder for the upper echelon of the cartel leaders to enlist their foot soldiers to go do these missions, right? Because again, they might end up shark bait

So remind folks who these bad hombres are.

The important thing to understand about Tren de Aragua is that they're basically Hezbollah.

And I don't say that lightly.

The largest concentration of Hezbollah fighters outside of Lebanon are actually in Venezuela.

The key members of the Maduro regime are guys named Tariq al-Assame or Tariq al-Saab.

These don't sound Latino to me.

So it's important to understand that if you look at some of the ways that Trender Agua trains, how they're organized, how they think of themselves, the tactics that they use, they're straight out of the Hezbollah manual.

But it sounds like these guys that they've teamed up with in Venezuela, they're just fighting and killing for the almighty dollar to sell the drugs.

So you know how bad it is down there, right, Brian?

Absolutely.

I've been working the Latin American problem set as a region for many, many, many years.

But what's important to understand is that Venezuela is at the crux of pretty much every major issue we have in the country and is the touchpoint for Russia.

China, Iran, human trafficking, even election interference, even immigration issues, all kinds of things, fentanyl, all kinds of issues that are absolutely top priority problem sets for us as Americans, but also for us as Americans, for the nation, and for the world, Venezuela, one way or the other, is touching a lot of this, even oil prices.

Connect the dots on the drug cartels now that we've labeled him pretty much a narco state.

So again, if we parlay the Hezbollah nexus, which is very, very real, and we look at organizations like Tren de Aragua, and if you study their training tapes and you look at Hezbollah training tapes, they are identical.

So it shouldn't be surprising to us that Tren de Aragua, which is Venezuelan-based, I might add, is running rampant in America, right, using the same tactics, techniques, and procedures that Hezbollah use because they're trained by the very best.

Tell us about that.

Yeah, so, uh, these are Haitian orphans whose families w- uh, either died of war or disease or conflict or gangs or whatever, who have been adopted by American citizens, so they're th- you know, they're, uh, they have Haitian passports today, they'll have American passports next week.

So from w- from our perspective, that's close enough.

They're just kids who have won orphan lottery.

Um, the catch is, is that all the, all the orphans tend to be in a, you know, in, you know, downtown gangland in Port-au-Prince, where it's very, very, very, very dangerous.

So my team and I, uh, we set conditions.

We were contacted by the families.

Because a lot of times they could be of help, right?