WEBVTT - The U.S. Report | 6 March

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<v Speaker 1>This is the US Report with James Moroar.

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<v Speaker 2>Good evening and welcome to the program. An absolute ton

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<v Speaker 2>to get through tonight, including how China is astroturfing, the

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<v Speaker 2>anti war movement in the US, and the guy the

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<v Speaker 2>Democrats are going to run for Senate out of Texas

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<v Speaker 2>who believes that there are count of one, two, three, four, five,

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<v Speaker 2>six genders. But before we get to all that, it's

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<v Speaker 2>obviously a massive and historic week in the US and

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<v Speaker 2>around the world. Now, when we last got together, it

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<v Speaker 2>was still an open question as to whether Donald Trump

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<v Speaker 2>would strike Iran. Now though we are in the thick

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<v Speaker 2>of it, and let me say that we are seeing

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<v Speaker 2>something I have been waiting almost my whole life to see,

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<v Speaker 2>an America that has the will to win, particularly against

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<v Speaker 2>the Mullahs of Iran, who have been a nightmare since

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<v Speaker 2>they took power in a violent coup and revolution supported

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<v Speaker 2>it must be said by all the leading lights of

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<v Speaker 2>the global left forty seven years ago. Now, though the

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<v Speaker 2>nightmare is perhaps close to over if and I say

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<v Speaker 2>if Donald Trump and America decide to see this thing through,

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<v Speaker 2>because when America wants to use its power, it is unmatched.

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<v Speaker 2>And I thought nothing summed this up better than this

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<v Speaker 2>periscope footage of an American sub torpedoing an Iranian frigate

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<v Speaker 2>somewhere off Sri Lanka in the Indian Ocean, where it

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<v Speaker 2>was presumably steaming to get within range of Diego, Garcia

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<v Speaker 2>and the massive American military complex there. Now, I'm not

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<v Speaker 2>gonna lie. I love that that ship was sunk, and

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<v Speaker 2>the fact that it was a pair of a Soleimani

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<v Speaker 2>class frigate named after Cassem Soleimani, the austere religious leader

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<v Speaker 2>as the Washington Post famously described him as, but also

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<v Speaker 2>the terrorist commander Trump saw off in the final days

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<v Speaker 2>of his first term. Well, that's just the icing on

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<v Speaker 2>the cake. But ironies aside, the pro Iran left has

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<v Speaker 2>predictably lost its mind, saying that what we are seeing

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<v Speaker 2>right now is a violation of international law because they say,

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<v Speaker 2>bizarrely that the ship was international waters, so somehow it

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<v Speaker 2>should have been untouched. I'm sorry, don't they understand how

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<v Speaker 2>these things work? I mean the horror, the horror of

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<v Speaker 2>the US Navy engaging in naval combat sheesh. In any case,

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<v Speaker 2>this thinking is the good news, along with the fact

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<v Speaker 2>that much of the Irani in military is crushed their

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<v Speaker 2>navy at the bottom of the sea, and the US

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<v Speaker 2>is now apparently dominant in the skies over Iran. The

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<v Speaker 2>war machine of a country that since nineteen seventy nine

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<v Speaker 2>has had as its top priorities killing Americans, killing Jews,

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<v Speaker 2>and dominating the Middle East with its particular brand of

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<v Speaker 2>religious fanaticism barely functions any more. I thought Secretary of

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<v Speaker 2>State Marco Rubio did a pretty good job laying it

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<v Speaker 2>out here to an angry press corps, which has decided

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<v Speaker 2>that Trump should have gone to all five hundred and

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<v Speaker 2>thirty five members of Congress to get permission to strike,

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<v Speaker 2>with the hope that the plan wouldn't leak.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh that's not our notification to Congress, our notification. Listen,

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<v Speaker 3>let me explain to you guys this in simple English.

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<v Speaker 4>Okay.

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<v Speaker 3>Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics. They have

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<v Speaker 3>an ambition to have nuclear weapons.

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<v Speaker 4>They intend to.

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<v Speaker 3>Develop those nuclear weapons behind a program of missiles and

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<v Speaker 3>drones and terrorism that the world will not be able

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<v Speaker 3>to touch them for fear of those things. And this

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<v Speaker 3>is the weakest they've ever been. Now is the time

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<v Speaker 3>to go after them. The President made the decision to

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<v Speaker 3>go after them. Take away their missiles, take away their navy,

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<v Speaker 3>take away their drones, take away their ability to make

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<v Speaker 3>those things, so that they can never have a nuclear weapon.

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<v Speaker 4>That's why the President made this decision.

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<v Speaker 3>It was the right decision, and the world will be

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<v Speaker 3>a safer place when these radical clerics and all of

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<v Speaker 3>them have access to these weapons.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, he is absolutely right, but and I want to

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<v Speaker 2>get right into it with our experts quickly, so I'm

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<v Speaker 2>going to make this very brief. I am also concerned

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<v Speaker 2>now that having started this conflict, there is a danger

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<v Speaker 2>that Trump decides to not go all the way, that

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<v Speaker 2>he won't go the full regime change, and that the

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<v Speaker 2>administration might settle for a deeply damaged Iran that promises

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<v Speaker 2>to stop trying to get nukes, but which still is

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<v Speaker 2>free to act obnoxiously and can still possibly get away

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<v Speaker 2>with it. Now, the danger I see is that the

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<v Speaker 2>tedium of the war, political pressure, and the pressure of

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<v Speaker 2>oil prices on the economy forces not Iran but the

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<v Speaker 2>White House, which has to be far more responsive to

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<v Speaker 2>its people than a clerical dictatorship in Tehran. Well, that

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<v Speaker 2>all this might force some sort of deal and let

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<v Speaker 2>me lay a marker down right now and say that

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<v Speaker 2>this would be a world historical mistake. Now, I think

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<v Speaker 2>Rubio and many in the Trump administration, including Secretary of

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<v Speaker 2>Defense Pete Hegseith, get it. Just the other day, Hegxith

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<v Speaker 2>referred to the radical brand of Shiite Islam driving Tehran's

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<v Speaker 2>decision making and decision making, especially regarding their desire for

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<v Speaker 2>nuclear weapons. But there is also the danger of tactical miscalculation,

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<v Speaker 2>and I think we may be seeing one in the

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<v Speaker 2>move to push Kurve to attack in western Iran in

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<v Speaker 2>an attempt to provoke a broader general uprising in the country. Frankly,

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<v Speaker 2>my read is that this could be a mistake because

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<v Speaker 2>it risks ethnic conflict rather than regime change, and the

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<v Speaker 2>Iranian minority group members that I know certainly don't want

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<v Speaker 2>their country dismembered, even if they want their country back.

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<v Speaker 2>But if Trump sticks this out, if Trump gets a

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<v Speaker 2>real regime change, gets Iran to stop making war on

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<v Speaker 2>its neighbor, allowing the Gulf States to have the breathing

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<v Speaker 2>room to make peace with Israel, and thus creating peace

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<v Speaker 2>in the Middle East, well that might just win the

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<v Speaker 2>Nobel Prize for Trump. That for whatever reason he covets

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<v Speaker 2>so greatly. Who am I kidding? The Nobel Prize? Well, look,

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<v Speaker 2>you and I both know that even if he does

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<v Speaker 2>all that, they'll probably give it to you. I don't

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<v Speaker 2>know a gay ink and maze farmer in Peru who

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<v Speaker 2>stood up the local mining company or something like that.

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<v Speaker 2>But you know what a guy can dream, can't he? Well,

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<v Speaker 2>America has been flexing its muscle in the Indian Ocean,

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<v Speaker 2>well beyond the shores of Iran. A US submarine sank

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<v Speaker 2>an Iranian warship with a torpedo the other day. It's

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<v Speaker 2>the first such seeking of an enemy ship by torpedo

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<v Speaker 2>from a submarine since World War Two. Here's Secretary of

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<v Speaker 2>War Pete Hanks us talking about.

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<v Speaker 5>It like in that war, back when we were still

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<v Speaker 5>in the War Department.

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<v Speaker 4>We are fighting to win.

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<v Speaker 2>And join me now to talk about this and a

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<v Speaker 2>lot more is retired colonel turned author and columnist Kurt Schlichter. Kurt, firstly,

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<v Speaker 2>thanks for coming on and thank you for your service.

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<v Speaker 2>One thing I've been hearing from veterans since this clip

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<v Speaker 2>particularly hasn't is how much they loved seeing it, because

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<v Speaker 2>to them it has shown America is fighting to win again.

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<v Speaker 2>I'd love to get your thoughts on how the war

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<v Speaker 2>is being prosecuted at the moment, but particularly on seeing

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<v Speaker 2>something like seeking this enemy ship in international waters, which

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<v Speaker 2>the left is now saying is somehow against international law.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, you know, I.

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<v Speaker 5>Would ask them, could just cite the international law that

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<v Speaker 5>you're referring to that says the United States can't destroy

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<v Speaker 5>enemy naval vessels on the high seas. But that would

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<v Speaker 5>that would imply that I believe they were either acting

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<v Speaker 5>acting in good faith, and knew what they were talking about,

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<v Speaker 5>neither of which is true. For the last eighty years,

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<v Speaker 5>the project of much of the world has been to

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<v Speaker 5>convince America not to use its power. America hasn't been

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<v Speaker 5>restrained by competitors. America has been restrained by the United

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<v Speaker 5>States accepting the so called international legal order. The the

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<v Speaker 5>kind of globalist assumptions that basically tell America, you know,

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<v Speaker 5>you've got you gotta take some blows. You can't really

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<v Speaker 5>you can't really throw punches. Donald Trump represents the part

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<v Speaker 5>of America that rejects that. He represents the kind of

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<v Speaker 5>people who go had to go and fight these wars

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<v Speaker 5>with limited rules of engagement with limited objectives that were

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<v Speaker 5>not fought to win. You're now seeing American power unleashed,

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<v Speaker 5>and you're not just seeing it in this war. You

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<v Speaker 5>see it with NATO, where we essentially told them, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 5>you're gonna have to you're gonna have to carry your

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<v Speaker 5>own way to defend yourselves. We're not giving you free

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<v Speaker 5>money anymore. So you can import hordes of third world

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<v Speaker 5>monsters to take over your society and fund a giant

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<v Speaker 5>welfare state. It's not happening anymore. The same thing with

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<v Speaker 5>American trade deals. You're seeing a America exercising its power

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<v Speaker 5>and refusing to be tied down by arbitrary and false

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<v Speaker 5>conceptions of what it can and can't do.

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<v Speaker 2>Well. You know, it's really interesting, Kirt, that you talk

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<v Speaker 2>about projecting American power again. Donald Trump spoke a little

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<v Speaker 2>while ago about their move to guarantee shipping as oil

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<v Speaker 2>shipping through the Straightsform moves. Let's just have a little

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<v Speaker 2>listen to that.

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<v Speaker 6>My administration announced decisive action to help keep down the

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<v Speaker 6>oil prices, including offering political risk insurance for tankers transiting

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<v Speaker 6>into the Gulf as you know, pretty dangerous territory. Further

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<v Speaker 6>action to reduce pressure on oil is eminent, and the

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<v Speaker 6>oil seems to have pretty much stabilized.

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<v Speaker 5>We had it very low, Kurt.

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<v Speaker 2>It seems to me that the really important thing about

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<v Speaker 2>this move here is that it is making the West

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<v Speaker 2>now basically the guarranteur of the global oil market, giving

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<v Speaker 2>the world a huge now stake in the success of

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<v Speaker 2>this mission.

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<v Speaker 5>Well, it certainly is. The fact is the United States

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<v Speaker 5>is the only country that can do these things. I

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<v Speaker 5>remember thirty five years ago I was sitting in the

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<v Speaker 5>Persian Gulf. As part of Operation Desert Storm. The United

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<v Speaker 5>States picked up five hundred thousand people, all their equipment,

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<v Speaker 5>moved it across the globe, moved it to the middle

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<v Speaker 5>of a desert, and then attacked with it and destroyed

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<v Speaker 5>an enemy army, the fourth largest in the world, in

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<v Speaker 5>one hundred hours. That peels in comparison to what we

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<v Speaker 5>can do now. The simple fact is only the United States.

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<v Speaker 5>You know, we don't want to be the world's policeman,

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<v Speaker 5>but there's nobody else.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, indeed, that's right. And yet when it comes to

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<v Speaker 2>an American power, there are plenty of people within the

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<v Speaker 2>United States who are trying to restrain that power and

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<v Speaker 2>I'm talking about congressional Democrats in the Senate and in

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<v Speaker 2>the House. Well, they've just had a massive blow where

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<v Speaker 2>their attempts to shut down this conflict of the American

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<v Speaker 2>mission have failed. But I think it just is a

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<v Speaker 2>really big tell on them that essentially they're voting for

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<v Speaker 2>the Ayatolla is over America.

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<v Speaker 5>Well look, I was a freshman in high school when

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<v Speaker 5>they first took our hostages. Then they proceeded to murder

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<v Speaker 5>our Marines in Lebanon, they blew up our embassies, they

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<v Speaker 5>killed and named hundreds of Americans in Iran through their

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<v Speaker 5>pet militia or in Iraq through their pet militias. They've

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<v Speaker 5>threatened US, they've bombed our allies, and now they've got

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<v Speaker 5>to die.

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<v Speaker 1>We're done.

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<v Speaker 4>It's over.

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<v Speaker 5>This needs to finish. There is I don't care that

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<v Speaker 5>leftists are upset that America is no longer going to

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<v Speaker 5>allow itself to watch its citizens maimed and murdered by

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<v Speaker 5>these seventh century savages. That's done. We're not playing that anymore.

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<v Speaker 5>And if you're afraid of America, good you should be.

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<v Speaker 5>Don't screw with us. I guarantee you'll be fine if

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<v Speaker 5>you don't. If you do Yeah, take out a term

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<v Speaker 5>life's insurance policy.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I mean I'm not I'm not sure you can

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<v Speaker 2>get insurance at any price if you're an Iatola and

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<v Speaker 2>Iran at the moment. But you know this complete sophistry though,

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<v Speaker 2>This is complete sophistry on the part of not just

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<v Speaker 2>the Democrats, but like the Washington Post, because I was

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<v Speaker 2>reading their report on the vote and they said they

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<v Speaker 2>failed in their vote to end a war that Trump

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<v Speaker 2>started without permission. Now, Kurt, you and I both know

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<v Speaker 2>that if Trump did what the Washington Post wanted them

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<v Speaker 2>to do, which is to go to all five hundred

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<v Speaker 2>and thirty five members of Congress and say, Okay, here's

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<v Speaker 2>our plan, here's what we're gonna do. Ilhan Omar, you

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<v Speaker 2>get to vote on what we're gonna do. Here, I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>the thing would have leaked all over the press in

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<v Speaker 2>thirty seconds. The great key to this whole thing is

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<v Speaker 2>that Trump has been able to keep this in such

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<v Speaker 2>a tight informational compartment and not be leaked by Congress

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<v Speaker 2>and the press.

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<v Speaker 5>That's certainly true. Look for your Australian audience, there are

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<v Speaker 5>legitimate arguments over the extent of presidential power to conduct warfare,

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<v Speaker 5>and there are limits to it, and Congress should have

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<v Speaker 5>a certain role. That being said, it doesn't have the

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<v Speaker 5>only role. The president is the commander in chief. President

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<v Speaker 5>can launch military endeavors at some point. Congress is free

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<v Speaker 5>to reassert its power if it chooses to. It has

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<v Speaker 5>chosen not to, which indicates to me it supports this

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<v Speaker 5>very necessary war. Now you mentioned in there somebody said, well,

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<v Speaker 5>this war that Trump had started, Wait time out. We

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<v Speaker 5>didn't start. They started it when they took our hostages.

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<v Speaker 5>They started when they murdered our marines, when they killed

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<v Speaker 5>our soldiers. We're finishing it. And again, if you don't

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<v Speaker 5>like the new tough, uncompromising America that, don't let you

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<v Speaker 5>hide in your little safe havens, and don't let a

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<v Speaker 5>bunch of Davos creeps tell us, oh no, it's against

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<v Speaker 5>the rules to win, well, too bad, call the International Dalis.

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<v Speaker 2>Indeed, thank you so much, Kurt Schlicktter. Always great to

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<v Speaker 2>speak with you. Love having you here on the US report.

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<v Speaker 2>Will catch up soon.

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<v Speaker 5>Thanks for having me.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, a lot more happening in US politics back home

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<v Speaker 2>as well, so joining me now'll discuss this and more.

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<v Speaker 2>Is great friend and friend of the program former Trump

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<v Speaker 2>chief of Staff and senior advisor of Bondi Partners, Mick Mulvaaney. Mick,

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<v Speaker 2>We've had some breaking news here just a few hours ago.

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<v Speaker 2>I want your thoughts on the news that broke late

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<v Speaker 2>today about Donald Trump replacing the head of Homeland Security,

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<v Speaker 2>the controversial Christy Nome. Tell us about what's happened, why

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<v Speaker 2>she's gone, and who's going to be replacing her.

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<v Speaker 4>James.

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<v Speaker 7>It looks like the straw that broke the camel's back.

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<v Speaker 7>The ultimate issue that led to Secretary nomes departure was

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<v Speaker 7>her testimony yesterday to the Senate. She was asked by

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<v Speaker 7>a Republican senator about a two hundred million dollar ad campaign,

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<v Speaker 7>and he asked her specifically if the President had approved that.

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<v Speaker 7>She said that the President had, and then apparently after

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<v Speaker 7>the hearing, the senator called the president and the President

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<v Speaker 7>said that he remembered things differently. That's usually the end

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<v Speaker 7>of a cabinet secretary when they're not at the same

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<v Speaker 7>page as the president. Look at either the cabinet secretary

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<v Speaker 7>was lying or the President was lying.

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<v Speaker 4>But in that battle, I know who loses. So she

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<v Speaker 4>was replaced. She's replaced.

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<v Speaker 7>I think it's effective March thirty first, but she's replaced

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<v Speaker 7>by another Senator, Mark Wayn Mullen from Oklahoma, a close

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<v Speaker 7>friend of the president, and he should be confirmed, hopefully

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<v Speaker 7>by the end of March.

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<v Speaker 2>And tell us what do we know about Senator Mullen.

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<v Speaker 2>He's a conservative. I saw him speaking earlier saying, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>he was definitively of the conservative school here. Do you

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<v Speaker 2>think he's going to have any trouble getting through confirmation?

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<v Speaker 2>On the Democrats going to try and make noise. I

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<v Speaker 2>know Hakim Jeffries was saying, oh, well, we want a

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<v Speaker 2>full change in policy, but it sounds like Trump is

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<v Speaker 2>not changing policy, just personnel.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 7>The initial reaction was actually quite interesting to me. I

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<v Speaker 7>know a lot of these folks. Mark Wayne and I

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<v Speaker 7>served in the House together before he was in the Senate.

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<v Speaker 7>There's actually a couple of senators, Democrat senaters. They came

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<v Speaker 7>out and said positive things about Mark Wayne and indicated

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<v Speaker 7>a willingness to consider voting for him.

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<v Speaker 4>I don't know if that will hold up.

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<v Speaker 7>Because DHS, which of course is in charge of border

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<v Speaker 7>security and ice, it was probably the single most controversial

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<v Speaker 7>agency right now in the federal government. I can't imagine

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<v Speaker 7>how Democrats could support any Trump nominee for that position.

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<v Speaker 4>But Mark Wayne is well liked.

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<v Speaker 7>I guess if I was going to tell you something

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<v Speaker 7>interesting about him, Mark Wayne is a mixed martial arts champion.

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<v Speaker 7>He's probably the toughest guy in the House or the Senate.

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<v Speaker 7>He used to lead the workout routines in the morning

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<v Speaker 7>when I was in the House with him, and I

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<v Speaker 7>got news for you. I don't want to get in

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<v Speaker 7>a fight with Mark waynemullen.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, no, I'd love to see him out there maybe

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<v Speaker 2>trying to handle some of those ice protests personally. That

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<v Speaker 2>could be quite a music. But Mick, what does this

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<v Speaker 2>do then, in terms of his replacement in the Senate?

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<v Speaker 2>Walk our viewers through what that's like. Is there a

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<v Speaker 2>by election and does this put at all the Republican's

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<v Speaker 2>narrow lead in the Senate in jeopardy?

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<v Speaker 4>No, it doesn't.

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<v Speaker 7>The House functions different than the Senate, and the Senate

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<v Speaker 7>functions differently than the House. In the Senate, the governor

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<v Speaker 7>will make an appointment, and I think may make the

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<v Speaker 7>appointment just as soon as Mark Wayne mullen is confirmed.

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<v Speaker 7>So what will happen is Mark Wayne will stay in

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<v Speaker 7>the Senate until he is confirmed. I actually think technically

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<v Speaker 7>he can vote for himself. I think Marko Rubio did,

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<v Speaker 7>and then he will resign and the Republican governor of

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<v Speaker 7>Oklahoma will immediately name a replacement. Under the unusual rules

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<v Speaker 7>of Oklahoma, that person then cannot run for a re election,

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<v Speaker 7>so there will be a new Senator again in November.

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<v Speaker 4>Curiously, I know this wasn't your question.

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<v Speaker 7>There's already chatter about Christy Nome running for Senate in

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<v Speaker 7>South Dakota. There's a fairly moderate centrist Republican there who's

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<v Speaker 7>up for reelection this year, as Christi. Noman was the

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<v Speaker 7>former governor of South Dakota, and there are rumors that

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<v Speaker 7>she is actually looking at falling to run against her

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<v Speaker 7>fellow Republicans. So that'll be another fascinating wrinkle here as

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<v Speaker 7>we go ahead.

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<v Speaker 2>Huh, that will be one to watch. We should keep

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<v Speaker 2>an eye on that. But also when we were to

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<v Speaker 2>Texas too, speaking of the Senate, because Democrats think they

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<v Speaker 2>may be in with a chance to win their first

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<v Speaker 2>Senate seat out of Texas since nineteen eighty. But I'm

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<v Speaker 2>a little confused about this one, Mick, because there was

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<v Speaker 2>a hotly contested primary, the Democrats rejected Congresswoman Jasmin Crockett,

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<v Speaker 2>a black woman, in favor of white guy James Tallerico,

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<v Speaker 2>who they think is actually more moderate and therefore stands

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<v Speaker 2>a better chance to win. But Mick, the Democrats are

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<v Speaker 2>running on this line that Tallarico is a Christian and

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<v Speaker 2>a Presbyterian seminarian, that he's more electable. But have a

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<v Speaker 2>look at this.

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<v Speaker 8>Did they teach you in Sunday School that Jesus Christ

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<v Speaker 8>himself was a radical feminist? Before we go further, I

0:20:21.400 --> 0:20:25.200
<v Speaker 8>want to acknowledge that our trans community needs abortion care too.

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<v Speaker 8>Defending Trans Texas is something we have to do every

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<v Speaker 8>day at the state capital. Our southern border should be

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<v Speaker 8>like our front porch. There should be a giant welcome

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<v Speaker 8>that out front and a lock on the door. We

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<v Speaker 8>can welcome immigrants who want to live the American dream.

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<v Speaker 8>We can build a pathway to citizenship for those neighbors

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<v Speaker 8>who have been here, making us richer and stronger.

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<v Speaker 2>Make I know I'm not the greatest Christian in the world,

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<v Speaker 2>but I'm not sure he is a radical feminist. And

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not a great scientist, but I'm not sure that

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<v Speaker 2>trans people need abortion care. How is this all going

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<v Speaker 2>to go down in Texas.

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<v Speaker 7>I've only now recently seen that clip since he won

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<v Speaker 7>the primary. I don't follow Texas politics that closely until

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<v Speaker 7>you get to the general election. But my guess is

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<v Speaker 7>a lot of other people will be seeing those clips

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<v Speaker 7>in Texas for the next several months. Look, the Democrats

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<v Speaker 7>have sort of this dream of taking over Texas in

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<v Speaker 7>the same way the Republicans used to have that dream

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<v Speaker 7>about Florida. Now it worked in Florida, which is now

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<v Speaker 7>a solidly Republican state. The Democrats, I think, are a

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<v Speaker 7>long way here from turning Texas blue. Keep in mind,

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<v Speaker 7>this is the same state that said Beto O'Rourke was

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<v Speaker 7>the next great hope of the Democrat Party, and now

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<v Speaker 7>I think he's serving pizza some places.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm not sure what he's doing.

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<v Speaker 7>So the press will go through this mantra about how

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<v Speaker 7>James tell Errico is the future of the party in Texas,

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<v Speaker 7>alway has a chance, et cetera. Here's the wrinkle. The

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<v Speaker 7>wrinkle is that the Republicans don't have their candidate yet.

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<v Speaker 7>They have two candidates, neither of whom won enough votes

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<v Speaker 7>in the Republican primary on Tuesday night to get the nomination.

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<v Speaker 7>So that's John corn the longtime sitting Republican Senator, and

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<v Speaker 7>Ken Paxton, the sitting Texas state attorney general. Both of

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<v Speaker 7>them have their difficulties, as is evidenced by the fact

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<v Speaker 7>that neither one of them could win outright in the primary.

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<v Speaker 7>The general wisdom is that James is a John Cornyn

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<v Speaker 7>can beat tall Rico, but that Paxton, who's had a

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<v Speaker 7>lot of difficulties in his private life, may struggle to

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<v Speaker 7>run against tall Rico. So we'll know a little bit

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<v Speaker 7>more about this race in May. But this is going

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<v Speaker 7>to be a very very close, very very expensive race,

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<v Speaker 7>probably the most expensive in the country. But my guess

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<v Speaker 7>is that you're at least another cycle or two away

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<v Speaker 7>from having Texas have to worry about turning blue.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, i'll tell you what, Mick. I heard one person

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<v Speaker 2>say that they thought the Texas Democrats had gone from

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<v Speaker 2>beto to beta with tall Rico here. But I want

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<v Speaker 2>to move on finally to the war and to the midterms,

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<v Speaker 2>which I think are two events that are going to

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<v Speaker 2>kind of crash into each other here. And I know

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<v Speaker 2>there's conventional wisdom that all of this conflict could harm

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<v Speaker 2>Trump and the Republicans. But there was a fascinating poll

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<v Speaker 2>on RealClearPolitics dot com today which revealed that at this point,

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<v Speaker 2>at March fifth, in the second year of the second term,

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<v Speaker 2>Donald Trump is actually more popular than Barack Obama was

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<v Speaker 2>and more popular than George Bush was. And then there's

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<v Speaker 2>been other polling which says that among Republicans, Donald Trump

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<v Speaker 2>is more popular than ever so in terms of how

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<v Speaker 2>things are affecting, how global events are affecting Trump and

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<v Speaker 2>the Republicans not seeing a lot of movement in the

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<v Speaker 2>needle here. What's your read and how do you think

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<v Speaker 2>this conflict that's ongoing in the Middle East is going

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<v Speaker 2>to play out for the midterms.

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<v Speaker 4>It's too soon to tell, James, It's too soon.

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<v Speaker 7>If this turns in to be another very very successful,

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<v Speaker 7>very strategic, very quick operation on the like lines of

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<v Speaker 7>what President Trump did to bomb the nuclear facilities in

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<v Speaker 7>Iran several months ago, on the long lines, the same

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<v Speaker 7>lines as is what he did in Venezuela, if it

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<v Speaker 7>turns out to be that a quick win a and

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<v Speaker 7>a just a demonstrable win, I think that actually helps

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<v Speaker 7>his approval ratings. If we're still talking seven months from

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<v Speaker 7>now on the eve are actually six now, I guess,

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<v Speaker 7>on the eve of the midterms about what's going on

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<v Speaker 7>in Iran at that point.

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<v Speaker 4>Are there troops on the ground. That could be a

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<v Speaker 4>different story.

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<v Speaker 7>Keep in mind that the oil price has not yet

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<v Speaker 7>hit the gasoline prices in this country, at least it

0:24:29.800 --> 0:24:31.800
<v Speaker 7>just started to today. I think gases up about twenty

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<v Speaker 7>cents of the gaon about ten cents or ten percent.

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<v Speaker 4>That's a big deal here.

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<v Speaker 7>There's a straight line between success and failure in November

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<v Speaker 7>and the price of gasoline when it comes to being

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<v Speaker 7>the incumbent party. So it's too soon to tell, but

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<v Speaker 7>if we're still talking about this war in August, that

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<v Speaker 7>could be a difficult time for the Republicans.

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<v Speaker 2>Mick, thanks so much. And I can report sadly that

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<v Speaker 2>petrol prices here in Australia are already going up. So

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<v Speaker 2>you've got that going for you there at least. Picked Malvady,

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<v Speaker 2>thanks so much for your time. Now stick around because

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<v Speaker 2>after the break we got more on America's grand strategy

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<v Speaker 2>in the war on Iran with Peter Schweitzer. But first

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<v Speaker 2>a little more of our old friend Minnesota Governor Tim

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<v Speaker 2>Waltz on Capitol Hill. Here's Texas Republican Pat Fallon torching

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<v Speaker 2>Waltz over why he was picked as Kamala Harris's running

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<v Speaker 2>mate back in twenty twenty four.

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<v Speaker 9>You know, miss Chairman, I don't know if you know this,

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<v Speaker 9>but it's widely It's been widely reported that in two

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<v Speaker 9>thousand and eight, when Barack Obama was choosing his vice

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<v Speaker 9>presidential candidate, he had three criteria.

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<v Speaker 4>He wanted to make sure he.

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<v Speaker 9>Picked somebody that wasn't as smart as him and had

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<v Speaker 9>less talent and charisma and couldn't possibly outshine him, so

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<v Speaker 9>he picked Joe Biden. And then Joe Biden in twenty

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<v Speaker 9>twenty used the exact same criteria. He wanted to make

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<v Speaker 9>sure he picked somebody went as smart as him, had

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<v Speaker 9>less talent in charisma and went out shine him, and

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<v Speaker 9>he picked Kamal here and then in twenty twenty four, Governor,

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<v Speaker 9>I think is very evident like Kamala Harris picked you.

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<v Speaker 2>I tell you what. That's setting things pretty low, but

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<v Speaker 2>we'll be setting the bar pretty high with Peter Schweitzer

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<v Speaker 2>after the break, welcome back to the program. Now I

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<v Speaker 2>want to bring to light a potentially shocking case of

0:26:28.040 --> 0:26:32.280
<v Speaker 2>foreign interference in the United States. The New York Post

0:26:32.400 --> 0:26:36.840
<v Speaker 2>is reporting that protests, those anti war protests against strikes

0:26:36.840 --> 0:26:41.119
<v Speaker 2>and Iran are being backed by guess who, the Chinese

0:26:41.160 --> 0:26:44.520
<v Speaker 2>Communist Party, at least some of them are. This comes

0:26:44.520 --> 0:26:47.960
<v Speaker 2>after protests across the US. Joining me now to talk

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<v Speaker 2>about this and a lot more from the Government Accountability

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<v Speaker 2>Institute author Peter Schweitzer, Peter, thanks so much for joining me.

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<v Speaker 2>Are we potentially seeing astroturfed opposition to this war by China, which,

0:27:02.560 --> 0:27:05.359
<v Speaker 2>of course has so much to lose if they lose

0:27:06.000 --> 0:27:09.359
<v Speaker 2>Iranian oil supplies that they've been able to buy on

0:27:09.480 --> 0:27:09.880
<v Speaker 2>the cheap.

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<v Speaker 10>Oh, there's no question that China has a lot to lose,

0:27:15.280 --> 0:27:19.000
<v Speaker 10>not just with Iran, but also with what happened in Venezuela.

0:27:19.320 --> 0:27:22.719
<v Speaker 10>Venezuela not as large as Iran in terms of oil supply,

0:27:22.840 --> 0:27:28.720
<v Speaker 10>but also a crucial ally to China. In fifty eight days, basically,

0:27:28.760 --> 0:27:32.240
<v Speaker 10>Donald Trump has taken out two of the most important

0:27:32.560 --> 0:27:35.320
<v Speaker 10>allies of China in the developing world, and one of

0:27:35.359 --> 0:27:37.879
<v Speaker 10>the means in which China is trying to respond to

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<v Speaker 10>this is by activating their networks in the United States

0:27:42.440 --> 0:27:47.439
<v Speaker 10>So you have this American billionaire named Roy Singham, who

0:27:47.520 --> 0:27:51.240
<v Speaker 10>we've talked about on this program before, who is friends

0:27:51.240 --> 0:27:54.520
<v Speaker 10>with the CCP, lives in Shanghai. He's poured more than

0:27:54.520 --> 0:27:57.639
<v Speaker 10>one hundred million dollars into radical groups and causes in

0:27:57.680 --> 0:28:01.919
<v Speaker 10>the United States. He aligned with the CCP. And you

0:28:01.960 --> 0:28:05.520
<v Speaker 10>also have groups like the Party for Socialism and Liberation

0:28:05.760 --> 0:28:09.320
<v Speaker 10>PSL and another one in the US called the Freedom

0:28:09.400 --> 0:28:15.040
<v Speaker 10>Road Socialist Organization FRSO that are fraternal political parties with

0:28:15.119 --> 0:28:18.280
<v Speaker 10>the CCP. They're friendly with them, they have pledged their

0:28:18.280 --> 0:28:22.520
<v Speaker 10>allegiance to the CCP. They're the core of the violent

0:28:22.600 --> 0:28:25.320
<v Speaker 10>protests that you see breaking out in the so called

0:28:25.359 --> 0:28:26.679
<v Speaker 10>anti war protests.

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<v Speaker 2>And Peter, when I spoke about the war last week,

0:28:31.960 --> 0:28:35.040
<v Speaker 2>you know, we were talking about how suddenly, all of

0:28:35.080 --> 0:28:38.120
<v Speaker 2>a sudden, all of these professional signs suddenly starts showing

0:28:38.200 --> 0:28:42.680
<v Speaker 2>up everywhere. Are these signs and everything, this whole organizational network,

0:28:43.000 --> 0:28:47.880
<v Speaker 2>It seems very professional. It seems to be completely non organic.

0:28:48.360 --> 0:28:51.560
<v Speaker 2>Why does this get charity status? It seems like this

0:28:51.600 --> 0:28:54.440
<v Speaker 2>would be something that the Trump administration could really look

0:28:54.480 --> 0:28:56.480
<v Speaker 2>at as a way to damage this network.

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<v Speaker 10>No, I think you're exactly right, and we've had conversations

0:29:00.520 --> 0:29:04.960
<v Speaker 10>with senior officials in the Treasury Department exactly on this issue.

0:29:05.600 --> 0:29:07.800
<v Speaker 10>The bottom line is a guy named, a guy like

0:29:07.920 --> 0:29:11.760
<v Speaker 10>Roy Singham gets a tax deduction when he donates to

0:29:11.840 --> 0:29:15.240
<v Speaker 10>these radical causes. I would argue, on behalf of China,

0:29:16.360 --> 0:29:18.760
<v Speaker 10>and why are we giving him a tax deduction? Why

0:29:18.800 --> 0:29:22.800
<v Speaker 10>are we giving him nonprofit status when again I would argue,

0:29:22.840 --> 0:29:26.000
<v Speaker 10>he's doing the bidding of a foreign power. There were

0:29:26.000 --> 0:29:30.920
<v Speaker 10>even news reports that he was activating this network even

0:29:31.000 --> 0:29:34.560
<v Speaker 10>before the United States and Israel started bombing Iran, and

0:29:34.600 --> 0:29:38.960
<v Speaker 10>that has given a speculation to the idea that maybe

0:29:38.960 --> 0:29:44.560
<v Speaker 10>the Chinese government, Chinese satellites were aware that military operations

0:29:44.600 --> 0:29:49.160
<v Speaker 10>were commencing, and that's maybe Roy Singham was told about

0:29:49.160 --> 0:29:53.480
<v Speaker 10>it and activated accordingly. So I think the Treasury Department

0:29:53.560 --> 0:29:56.760
<v Speaker 10>is key here because they can take out the reforms necessary.

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<v Speaker 2>Indeed, and of course, you know, it all comes back

0:30:01.440 --> 0:30:05.680
<v Speaker 2>to it all comes back to the importance at China

0:30:05.800 --> 0:30:07.920
<v Speaker 2>places on Iran, because one of the things that we've

0:30:07.960 --> 0:30:12.320
<v Speaker 2>seen here is Chinese technology going into the proving ground

0:30:12.320 --> 0:30:15.480
<v Speaker 2>of battle and actually not doing that great. We've seen

0:30:15.560 --> 0:30:20.080
<v Speaker 2>Chinese ships that were heavily dependent on Chinese technology now

0:30:20.120 --> 0:30:22.480
<v Speaker 2>at the bottom of the ocean. We've seen Chinese air

0:30:22.480 --> 0:30:27.280
<v Speaker 2>defense systems that, as one person said, work by blowing

0:30:27.360 --> 0:30:30.720
<v Speaker 2>up when there's a missile near them. Is this showing

0:30:30.760 --> 0:30:34.040
<v Speaker 2>that the Chinese military maybe a bit more of paper

0:30:34.080 --> 0:30:36.719
<v Speaker 2>tiger than we had thought or feared.

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<v Speaker 10>Yes, absolutely, and I think this is a big concern

0:30:41.360 --> 0:30:46.280
<v Speaker 10>for Beijing. Let's remember Beijing gave to Iran their most

0:30:46.760 --> 0:30:52.120
<v Speaker 10>advanced air defense systems, highly touted. They didn't end up

0:30:52.120 --> 0:30:55.000
<v Speaker 10>doing anything. They didn't shoot down a single American or

0:30:55.040 --> 0:30:59.760
<v Speaker 10>Israeli plane and they were destroyed by the air forces.

0:31:00.920 --> 0:31:04.640
<v Speaker 10>There are intelligence systems that China has set up in

0:31:04.680 --> 0:31:08.959
<v Speaker 10>Iran that didn't work. And this to me is reminiscent

0:31:09.040 --> 0:31:11.600
<v Speaker 10>of what happened during the Cold War. Back in nineteen

0:31:11.640 --> 0:31:15.640
<v Speaker 10>eighty two, the Israeli Air Force and the then Syrian

0:31:15.680 --> 0:31:17.760
<v Speaker 10>Air Force squared off above Lebanon.

0:31:17.840 --> 0:31:18.360
<v Speaker 4>That year.

0:31:19.560 --> 0:31:24.320
<v Speaker 10>The Israelis were flying American F fifteens and the Syrians

0:31:24.320 --> 0:31:28.080
<v Speaker 10>were flying MiG twenty fives. The Israelis won that air

0:31:28.120 --> 0:31:31.960
<v Speaker 10>force that air war by shooting down eighty two MiGs

0:31:32.440 --> 0:31:37.200
<v Speaker 10>without suffering a single casualty. Yes, the pilot training was key,

0:31:37.240 --> 0:31:40.440
<v Speaker 10>but the technology was important as well, but what happened

0:31:40.480 --> 0:31:44.360
<v Speaker 10>after that is the Soviet ability to sell their arms

0:31:44.440 --> 0:31:48.000
<v Speaker 10>and to gain that revenue and to gain a political

0:31:48.080 --> 0:31:52.000
<v Speaker 10>advantage with the country's buying those weapons kind of evaporated,

0:31:52.080 --> 0:31:54.200
<v Speaker 10>because if you're in the developing world, why do you

0:31:54.240 --> 0:31:56.960
<v Speaker 10>want the second best weapon system when you might be

0:31:57.040 --> 0:32:01.440
<v Speaker 10>facing the first weapon systems. So I anticipate that this

0:32:01.520 --> 0:32:04.960
<v Speaker 10>is a major concern for China as it looks to

0:32:05.600 --> 0:32:08.600
<v Speaker 10>trying to sell arms abroad and also use those arm

0:32:08.720 --> 0:32:11.280
<v Speaker 10>sales to advance their political agenda.

0:32:12.680 --> 0:32:15.520
<v Speaker 2>Well, Peter, I would go a step further, and I'd

0:32:15.520 --> 0:32:18.880
<v Speaker 2>love your thoughts on this, But you know, for years now,

0:32:18.920 --> 0:32:21.880
<v Speaker 2>at least a couple of decades, we've seen China more

0:32:21.920 --> 0:32:25.280
<v Speaker 2>and more chauvinistically saying the West is in decline, the

0:32:25.360 --> 0:32:28.960
<v Speaker 2>United States is in decline, China is rising. You want

0:32:29.000 --> 0:32:32.320
<v Speaker 2>to tie up with us because the twenty first century

0:32:32.640 --> 0:32:37.280
<v Speaker 2>will be the Chinese century. Now, this seems to shift

0:32:37.400 --> 0:32:40.200
<v Speaker 2>that narrative quite a bit, and people who watch the

0:32:40.240 --> 0:32:42.160
<v Speaker 2>show know that I have been putting for a long

0:32:42.200 --> 0:32:47.800
<v Speaker 2>time Venezuela Cuba. Now I ran into the context of

0:32:47.880 --> 0:32:53.080
<v Speaker 2>confronting China without confronting China, What do you make of

0:32:53.120 --> 0:32:56.000
<v Speaker 2>that is this the ultimate Trump strategy? And when you

0:32:56.040 --> 0:32:58.320
<v Speaker 2>see things like the news which broke a little while

0:32:58.320 --> 0:33:00.440
<v Speaker 2>ago that China is apparently banning e x force of

0:33:00.800 --> 0:33:03.560
<v Speaker 2>jet fuel and petroleum products, it says to me that

0:33:03.640 --> 0:33:05.520
<v Speaker 2>they may know they've got a real problem here.

0:33:06.720 --> 0:33:09.280
<v Speaker 10>Yeah, I think they have a huge problem here. Just

0:33:09.440 --> 0:33:13.600
<v Speaker 10>look at the competition that's taking place in artificial intelligence

0:33:13.720 --> 0:33:16.400
<v Speaker 10>right now, and you would wonder what does this have

0:33:16.480 --> 0:33:20.400
<v Speaker 10>to do with Venezuela in Iran Actually a fair amount,

0:33:20.800 --> 0:33:25.560
<v Speaker 10>because the two big tech infrastructure companies for China that

0:33:25.640 --> 0:33:29.560
<v Speaker 10>are central to the AI race for them are Huawei

0:33:29.600 --> 0:33:34.280
<v Speaker 10>and Zte. These are the big conglomerates that create the

0:33:34.360 --> 0:33:39.480
<v Speaker 10>networks that you need for artificial intelligence networks to work well.

0:33:39.480 --> 0:33:43.480
<v Speaker 10>Both of those companies huge contractors in Venezuela and Iran,

0:33:43.600 --> 0:33:46.640
<v Speaker 10>and they are now looking at losing tens of billions

0:33:46.680 --> 0:33:50.440
<v Speaker 10>of dollars in revenue because they have large projects in

0:33:50.480 --> 0:33:53.080
<v Speaker 10>scale in both of those countries, and guess what, they're

0:33:53.120 --> 0:33:55.920
<v Speaker 10>not going to get paid for them. So the implications

0:33:55.960 --> 0:34:01.560
<v Speaker 10>for China's sort of top down what I call market

0:34:01.800 --> 0:34:05.080
<v Speaker 10>leninist system, which is kind of a blend of the

0:34:05.200 --> 0:34:10.200
<v Speaker 10>market but dictated by Leninist control has now been completely

0:34:10.280 --> 0:34:14.040
<v Speaker 10>thrown into disarray. And what's happened is that the United

0:34:14.080 --> 0:34:17.080
<v Speaker 10>States has picked off two of their biggest allies in

0:34:17.080 --> 0:34:21.160
<v Speaker 10>the developing world, Venezuela and Iran, and China has been

0:34:21.200 --> 0:34:24.960
<v Speaker 10>helpless to do anything about it, any thought that they

0:34:25.040 --> 0:34:28.799
<v Speaker 10>had of retaking Taiwan, for example. They now face the

0:34:28.880 --> 0:34:32.400
<v Speaker 10>dilemma that the United States is in firm control of

0:34:32.440 --> 0:34:35.960
<v Speaker 10>the Straits of Horrormos, and between forty and fifty percent

0:34:36.080 --> 0:34:39.480
<v Speaker 10>of all of China's energy, whether it comes from Iran,

0:34:39.520 --> 0:34:42.680
<v Speaker 10>whether it comes from Saudi Arabia, goes through the states

0:34:42.719 --> 0:34:45.600
<v Speaker 10>of the Straits of horrm Moos. So you could have

0:34:45.600 --> 0:34:48.719
<v Speaker 10>a scenario where China decides to attack Taiwan and the

0:34:48.800 --> 0:34:52.360
<v Speaker 10>United States says, guess what, no oil from this region

0:34:52.520 --> 0:34:54.800
<v Speaker 10>is going to China, and then they are in deep,

0:34:54.920 --> 0:34:58.760
<v Speaker 10>deep trouble. So the amount of leverage that Donald Trump

0:34:58.840 --> 0:35:01.360
<v Speaker 10>now has over China kind of going into what is

0:35:01.400 --> 0:35:05.640
<v Speaker 10>supposed to be a meeting between these two presidents, you know,

0:35:06.080 --> 0:35:10.480
<v Speaker 10>not too far away the entire equation. I think of

0:35:10.520 --> 0:35:13.680
<v Speaker 10>that conversation as shifted to Trump's advantage.

0:35:14.960 --> 0:35:17.160
<v Speaker 2>Do you think though, just coming out of that meeting.

0:35:17.880 --> 0:35:20.160
<v Speaker 2>You know, we know that Trump is a great deal maker.

0:35:20.239 --> 0:35:23.520
<v Speaker 2>You know that he's transactional as well as principled for America.

0:35:23.760 --> 0:35:27.040
<v Speaker 2>Do you see some sort of rapprochemont, maybe some sort

0:35:27.040 --> 0:35:30.319
<v Speaker 2>of datent with China saying, you know, maybe we've bitten

0:35:30.360 --> 0:35:32.280
<v Speaker 2>off more than we can chew. We need to both

0:35:32.320 --> 0:35:33.879
<v Speaker 2>sides calm this down.

0:35:35.239 --> 0:35:37.879
<v Speaker 10>Well, I think that's going to be China's line. I'm

0:35:37.920 --> 0:35:42.640
<v Speaker 10>skeptical about negotiating solutions with China because they don't honor them.

0:35:43.040 --> 0:35:48.320
<v Speaker 10>You know, Trump negotiated the purchase of American agricultural products,

0:35:48.360 --> 0:35:51.840
<v Speaker 10>a whole bunch of agreements with China in his first term.

0:35:52.160 --> 0:35:54.920
<v Speaker 10>China didn't honor any of them. China said they were

0:35:54.960 --> 0:35:58.239
<v Speaker 10>going to deal with precursor chemicals and the Chinese industrial

0:35:58.280 --> 0:36:01.440
<v Speaker 10>involvement in fentanyl, any of that. That was back in

0:36:01.480 --> 0:36:05.399
<v Speaker 10>twenty seventeen. So I don't see any evidence that when

0:36:05.520 --> 0:36:08.000
<v Speaker 10>China says, hey, let's make a deal, let's stick to

0:36:08.040 --> 0:36:10.879
<v Speaker 10>that deal, I don't see any evidence that they are

0:36:10.920 --> 0:36:13.960
<v Speaker 10>going to do so. So my advice to Donald Trump,

0:36:14.000 --> 0:36:16.200
<v Speaker 10>of course he's not asking for it, would be to

0:36:16.200 --> 0:36:20.520
<v Speaker 10>be skeptical of any proposed deal by China and continue

0:36:20.560 --> 0:36:24.480
<v Speaker 10>with an assertive form policy that does not directly challenge China,

0:36:24.880 --> 0:36:29.160
<v Speaker 10>but continues in this competition between the two powers to

0:36:29.320 --> 0:36:32.239
<v Speaker 10>take the initiative and to take advantage of what is

0:36:32.360 --> 0:36:37.160
<v Speaker 10>China's clear vulnerability and weakness in this economic space. We

0:36:37.239 --> 0:36:40.560
<v Speaker 10>started the year by them threatening with rare earth minerals.

0:36:41.200 --> 0:36:43.600
<v Speaker 10>We are now in the scenario where they have a

0:36:43.680 --> 0:36:46.520
<v Speaker 10>deep vulnerability when it comes to energy. We've talked about

0:36:46.520 --> 0:36:49.360
<v Speaker 10>oil gret to remember they import a lot of coal

0:36:50.120 --> 0:36:52.840
<v Speaker 10>from Iraq, and that coal is what they use to

0:36:53.040 --> 0:36:56.840
<v Speaker 10>fuel their data centers for AIS. So they've got major

0:36:56.920 --> 0:37:00.000
<v Speaker 10>vulnerabilities in ways that we haven't even fully appreciated.

0:37:00.120 --> 0:37:04.839
<v Speaker 2>Right now, Peter Schweizer, I think you're absolutely correct. Love

0:37:04.880 --> 0:37:06.480
<v Speaker 2>having you on the program. Thank you so much for

0:37:06.560 --> 0:37:09.320
<v Speaker 2>joining me and everybody out there go find Peter Schweizer's

0:37:09.400 --> 0:37:12.480
<v Speaker 2>books and everything else online. Now stick around, because shortly

0:37:12.560 --> 0:37:14.799
<v Speaker 2>we're going to have a look at why the mainstream

0:37:14.840 --> 0:37:20.000
<v Speaker 2>media continues to remain so distrusted in the US. Yeah,

0:37:20.000 --> 0:37:22.560
<v Speaker 2>you're not going to believe this one. But first I

0:37:22.600 --> 0:37:24.520
<v Speaker 2>think we ought to have a little check in with

0:37:24.719 --> 0:37:30.440
<v Speaker 2>our favorite based Democrat John Fetterbin here talking about what

0:37:30.560 --> 0:37:35.640
<v Speaker 2>else the war and how he reckons it's going the top.

0:37:35.680 --> 0:37:37.480
<v Speaker 7>Fifty five of them were killed, and I think they

0:37:37.520 --> 0:37:41.359
<v Speaker 7>just blew up eighty of the random's mole eyes too.

0:37:42.840 --> 0:37:44.520
<v Speaker 4>I mean that was pretty great actually.

0:37:44.760 --> 0:37:50.400
<v Speaker 2>So all right, can you imagine this guy's reaction to

0:37:50.440 --> 0:37:54.200
<v Speaker 2>that footage of the Iranian battleship being torpedoed? Kick this

0:37:54.280 --> 0:37:57.360
<v Speaker 2>guy in the Republicans, I don't care about the hoodie.

0:37:57.800 --> 0:38:00.359
<v Speaker 2>Stick around. Because author Elizabeth Pipko is with us. After

0:38:00.360 --> 0:38:10.120
<v Speaker 2>the break, welcome back to the program. Now, I want

0:38:10.120 --> 0:38:13.360
<v Speaker 2>to have a little chat about the US mainstream media's

0:38:13.400 --> 0:38:17.759
<v Speaker 2>reporting of these strikes in Iran. We've touched on the

0:38:17.800 --> 0:38:21.680
<v Speaker 2>failing Washington Post's effort to push this narrative that Trump's

0:38:21.719 --> 0:38:25.560
<v Speaker 2>needs to be stopped, and White House Press Secretary Carol

0:38:25.719 --> 0:38:29.800
<v Speaker 2>Levitt has delivered a brutal takedown of CNN anchor Katherine

0:38:29.800 --> 0:38:34.040
<v Speaker 2>Collins after she ranted about the criticism of the media coverage.

0:38:34.600 --> 0:38:35.480
<v Speaker 2>Just take a look.

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<v Speaker 11>But these maxp was complaining that it was front page

0:38:38.520 --> 0:38:41.200
<v Speaker 11>news about these six service members who were killed.

0:38:41.239 --> 0:38:43.480
<v Speaker 12>If that's not what the secretary said, Caitlin, And that's

0:38:43.480 --> 0:38:45.600
<v Speaker 12>not what the secretary meant, and you know it, you

0:38:45.719 --> 0:38:47.120
<v Speaker 12>know you're being disingenuous.

0:38:47.160 --> 0:38:48.800
<v Speaker 11>There is not. We've never had.

0:38:48.640 --> 0:38:51.239
<v Speaker 12>A secretary of Defense who cares yours.

0:38:51.000 --> 0:38:53.520
<v Speaker 11>To get through where tragic things happen. It's front page news.

0:38:53.520 --> 0:38:55.120
<v Speaker 11>I get it. The press only wants to make the

0:38:55.120 --> 0:38:57.440
<v Speaker 11>president look bad. Yes, you know, the president dots of

0:38:57.480 --> 0:38:58.320
<v Speaker 11>you a service members.

0:38:58.360 --> 0:39:00.799
<v Speaker 12>Under every president, the presses only want to make the

0:39:00.840 --> 0:39:05.600
<v Speaker 12>president look bad. That's a fact. Especially listen to me,

0:39:06.000 --> 0:39:09.600
<v Speaker 12>especially you, and especially CNN, and the Secretary of Defense

0:39:09.719 --> 0:39:12.520
<v Speaker 12>cares deeply about our war fighters and our men and

0:39:12.560 --> 0:39:15.640
<v Speaker 12>women in uniform. He travels all across this country to

0:39:15.719 --> 0:39:18.480
<v Speaker 12>meet with them, to connect with them, and your network

0:39:18.480 --> 0:39:20.480
<v Speaker 12>has hardly ever probably reported on that.

0:39:21.400 --> 0:39:21.600
<v Speaker 1>Well.

0:39:21.760 --> 0:39:23.919
<v Speaker 2>Joining me now to discuss this and a whole lot

0:39:23.960 --> 0:39:28.200
<v Speaker 2>more is former Republican Nationally Committee spokeswoman Elizabeth Pipkow. Elizabeth,

0:39:28.200 --> 0:39:30.560
<v Speaker 2>welcome to the program. Great to have you here. Isn't

0:39:30.640 --> 0:39:33.920
<v Speaker 2>any wonder that people in the US just don't trust

0:39:34.000 --> 0:39:36.920
<v Speaker 2>the mainstream media when we see some of the performances

0:39:37.000 --> 0:39:38.399
<v Speaker 2>we've seen over the last week.

0:39:40.160 --> 0:39:41.960
<v Speaker 13>I'm glad you mentioned the last week, because I don't

0:39:41.960 --> 0:39:44.200
<v Speaker 13>think we'd have time in this segment to discuss the

0:39:44.239 --> 0:39:46.680
<v Speaker 13>performances that I've seen from the mainstream media over the

0:39:46.719 --> 0:39:49.840
<v Speaker 13>last ten years, right, because since Donald Trump first announced

0:39:49.880 --> 0:39:52.160
<v Speaker 13>that he was running for office back in twenty fifteen,

0:39:52.400 --> 0:39:55.160
<v Speaker 13>the media decided they were going to be basically activists

0:39:55.200 --> 0:39:57.400
<v Speaker 13>and not journalists anymore. They were going to spit in

0:39:57.440 --> 0:40:00.680
<v Speaker 13>the faces of the American people, basically claiming that they

0:40:00.680 --> 0:40:02.680
<v Speaker 13>were telling the news, when in reality they were giving

0:40:02.719 --> 0:40:05.440
<v Speaker 13>their own biased opinions on Donald Trump, trying to sway

0:40:05.719 --> 0:40:08.000
<v Speaker 13>the sentiment in our own country, trying to tip people

0:40:08.239 --> 0:40:11.440
<v Speaker 13>into their direction before they had to vote in national elections,

0:40:11.440 --> 0:40:13.840
<v Speaker 13>and deciding that they were doing the right thing. And

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<v Speaker 13>I'm sick of it, but I know more than me,

0:40:15.840 --> 0:40:17.680
<v Speaker 13>the majority of the American public is sick of it,

0:40:17.719 --> 0:40:19.880
<v Speaker 13>whether they're Democrats or Republicans, because.

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<v Speaker 11>This is not what we want our journalists to be doing.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, you know, I think you're exactly right, Elizabeth, And

0:40:25.400 --> 0:40:27.959
<v Speaker 2>I think one of the great founding myths that we've

0:40:28.000 --> 0:40:30.919
<v Speaker 2>had has created this problem is the whole Watergate myth,

0:40:30.960 --> 0:40:34.279
<v Speaker 2>where journalists think that they are players. And there was

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<v Speaker 2>a story this week that again Pentagon journalists have been

0:40:37.360 --> 0:40:41.040
<v Speaker 2>upset about not getting access to you know, different people

0:40:41.040 --> 0:40:43.960
<v Speaker 2>and things and so on. But to me, This whole

0:40:44.000 --> 0:40:47.960
<v Speaker 2>controversy is all about journalists thinking their egos are more

0:40:48.040 --> 0:40:52.240
<v Speaker 2>important than national security or the lives of American servicemen.

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<v Speaker 2>I'd love your thoughts on that.

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<v Speaker 13>No, I one hundred percent agree. I think when it

0:40:56.880 --> 0:40:58.799
<v Speaker 13>comes to the Pentagon, when it comes to the kind

0:40:58.800 --> 0:41:02.080
<v Speaker 13>of sensitive materials that are being passed around and discussed there,

0:41:02.120 --> 0:41:04.799
<v Speaker 13>you cannot risk journalists being in the building who are

0:41:04.840 --> 0:41:06.800
<v Speaker 13>too busy trying to appeal to their base, trying to

0:41:06.840 --> 0:41:10.839
<v Speaker 13>go viral on Twitter, even risking sharing classified information, something

0:41:10.880 --> 0:41:13.399
<v Speaker 13>I know members of this administration have had to worry

0:41:13.440 --> 0:41:15.320
<v Speaker 13>about when it comes to members of the media.

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<v Speaker 11>We can't afford that as a nation. We can't afford it.

0:41:17.719 --> 0:41:20.120
<v Speaker 13>When it comes to what we're dealing with globally right now,

0:41:20.120 --> 0:41:21.919
<v Speaker 13>we can't afford it. Based on what we're dealing with

0:41:21.920 --> 0:41:25.080
<v Speaker 13>with Gaza, with Ukraine, now with Iran, there's too much

0:41:25.080 --> 0:41:28.319
<v Speaker 13>sensitive information going around. American lives or at risk, the

0:41:28.320 --> 0:41:31.120
<v Speaker 13>lives of our allies are at risk, and unfortunately, these

0:41:31.200 --> 0:41:34.319
<v Speaker 13>so called journalists have proven themselves to be not trustworthy

0:41:34.360 --> 0:41:36.480
<v Speaker 13>over the last ten years. And of course we want

0:41:36.520 --> 0:41:39.480
<v Speaker 13>to give everyone access in this country. We defend our

0:41:39.480 --> 0:41:42.000
<v Speaker 13>First Amendment at every opportunity that we have. Donald Trump

0:41:42.040 --> 0:41:44.279
<v Speaker 13>himself has done that. We know how the media has

0:41:44.320 --> 0:41:47.240
<v Speaker 13>treated him, and he repeatedly tries to answer their questions.

0:41:47.239 --> 0:41:49.560
<v Speaker 13>He tries to give as much information as possible, He

0:41:49.600 --> 0:41:52.200
<v Speaker 13>tries to be available as much as possible, something we

0:41:52.280 --> 0:41:55.200
<v Speaker 13>certainly did not see from our last president here. But

0:41:55.239 --> 0:41:56.880
<v Speaker 13>at the same time, we have to remember that when

0:41:56.880 --> 0:42:01.040
<v Speaker 13>there's important information at play, when there's important movement being made,

0:42:01.080 --> 0:42:02.879
<v Speaker 13>when decisions have to be made at the same time

0:42:02.920 --> 0:42:05.040
<v Speaker 13>and you can't trust people, we have to make the

0:42:05.080 --> 0:42:08.080
<v Speaker 13>kind of decisions that will keep American lives safe and

0:42:08.120 --> 0:42:11.160
<v Speaker 13>not try to keep these egos you know, happy.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, you know it is all about egos. And I

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<v Speaker 2>have been stunned to see, kind of heartened to see, frankly,

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<v Speaker 2>that the Department of Justice has announced thirty more people

0:42:21.320 --> 0:42:25.600
<v Speaker 2>being charged over those anti ice protests in Minnesota a

0:42:25.600 --> 0:42:27.800
<v Speaker 2>few weeks ago. And I know that seems like ages

0:42:27.840 --> 0:42:31.319
<v Speaker 2>ago with everything else that's happened in the last month,

0:42:31.360 --> 0:42:34.719
<v Speaker 2>but thirty more people in Minnesota have been charged, including

0:42:34.800 --> 0:42:37.279
<v Speaker 2>of course, this is the protests that led to see

0:42:37.280 --> 0:42:40.120
<v Speaker 2>it an anchor, former anchor Don Lemon, being charged.

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<v Speaker 4>We're here we're here to worship Jesus. That's while we're here.

0:42:49.160 --> 0:42:51.520
<v Speaker 1>Okay, that's while we're here. Hopefully that's what we're about.

0:42:51.560 --> 0:42:53.360
<v Speaker 1>What do you think Jesus would be understanding?

0:42:53.880 --> 0:42:57.200
<v Speaker 8>We're about these We're about spraying the love of Jesus.

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<v Speaker 2>We have a more ego obsessed journalist I put those

0:43:02.000 --> 0:43:04.000
<v Speaker 2>words in quotes than this guy.

0:43:05.760 --> 0:43:07.520
<v Speaker 11>I'm glad you said that so I didn't have to.

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<v Speaker 13>I have not thought of Don Leman as a journalist

0:43:10.320 --> 0:43:11.359
<v Speaker 13>in quite some time.

0:43:11.800 --> 0:43:13.960
<v Speaker 11>But look, this is the United States of America. It's

0:43:13.960 --> 0:43:15.920
<v Speaker 11>twenty twenty six. Nobody wants to see this.

0:43:16.040 --> 0:43:18.000
<v Speaker 13>And the fact that we're so divided that people think

0:43:18.040 --> 0:43:20.719
<v Speaker 13>this is a good idea and appropriate thing to do.

0:43:20.760 --> 0:43:22.920
<v Speaker 13>I think it's just really a sign of the times

0:43:23.000 --> 0:43:25.400
<v Speaker 13>right now. I don't think it's right, obviously, but it's

0:43:25.440 --> 0:43:27.680
<v Speaker 13>also illegal. The First Amendment does not give you the

0:43:27.760 --> 0:43:30.440
<v Speaker 13>right to storm into a church, try to intimidate families,

0:43:30.520 --> 0:43:33.480
<v Speaker 13>or obstruct people trying to practice their freedom of religion.

0:43:33.520 --> 0:43:35.640
<v Speaker 13>That's not what we believe, and it's not legal in

0:43:35.680 --> 0:43:37.800
<v Speaker 13>our country. And I just wish more people would realize

0:43:37.800 --> 0:43:40.080
<v Speaker 13>that when they think that they're fighting as activists, what

0:43:40.080 --> 0:43:43.520
<v Speaker 13>they're really doing is embarrassing themselves and demeaning us as

0:43:43.560 --> 0:43:46.360
<v Speaker 13>a nation. This was so unnecessary. Shame on Don Lemon

0:43:46.560 --> 0:43:49.239
<v Speaker 13>honestly for thinking this was a good idea. But for

0:43:49.280 --> 0:43:51.160
<v Speaker 13>the folks that followed him, I hope they realize he

0:43:51.239 --> 0:43:52.960
<v Speaker 13>was doing it for clicks. I don't know what it

0:43:53.000 --> 0:43:53.960
<v Speaker 13>was that they were doing it for.

0:43:55.440 --> 0:43:58.399
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, well, I mean it's called clicks, not social justice there.

0:43:58.400 --> 0:44:00.040
<v Speaker 2>But hey, finally, before I let you go to I

0:44:00.080 --> 0:44:02.200
<v Speaker 2>want to talk about a little bit of foreign policy

0:44:02.239 --> 0:44:05.719
<v Speaker 2>here in the fallout between Donald Trump and British Prime

0:44:05.760 --> 0:44:10.560
<v Speaker 2>Minister Keir Starmer. Now, Trump has rightfully, I think given

0:44:10.640 --> 0:44:15.880
<v Speaker 2>Keir Starmer quite a serve over the British special lives

0:44:16.000 --> 0:44:18.479
<v Speaker 2>being allowed to a special relationship, being allowed to fall

0:44:18.520 --> 0:44:20.359
<v Speaker 2>apart under Starmer. Have listened to this.

0:44:21.080 --> 0:44:26.040
<v Speaker 6>I'm not happy with the UK either. That island that

0:44:26.080 --> 0:44:28.520
<v Speaker 6>you read about the lease, Okay, he made it for

0:44:28.560 --> 0:44:31.680
<v Speaker 6>whatever reason, he made a lease of the island. Somebody

0:44:31.760 --> 0:44:34.840
<v Speaker 6>came and took it away from him, and it's taken

0:44:35.760 --> 0:44:38.759
<v Speaker 6>three or four days for us to work out where

0:44:38.760 --> 0:44:40.800
<v Speaker 6>we can land there. Would have been much more convenient

0:44:40.920 --> 0:44:44.239
<v Speaker 6>landing there as opposed to flying many extra hours. So

0:44:44.280 --> 0:44:48.200
<v Speaker 6>we are very surprised. This is not Winston Churchill that

0:44:48.239 --> 0:44:49.080
<v Speaker 6>we're dealing.

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<v Speaker 2>With, you know, Elizabeth, I think invoking Winston Churchill here

0:44:53.560 --> 0:44:56.799
<v Speaker 2>that is the big one here. I'm just worried though,

0:44:56.840 --> 0:45:00.080
<v Speaker 2>that the great special relationship between Britain and the the

0:45:00.160 --> 0:45:03.640
<v Speaker 2>US now is starting to crack apart. Is that what

0:45:03.760 --> 0:45:05.440
<v Speaker 2>the sense is now in Washington?

0:45:07.480 --> 0:45:07.640
<v Speaker 4>You know?

0:45:07.680 --> 0:45:09.600
<v Speaker 13>I think when it comes to President Trump, those of

0:45:09.680 --> 0:45:11.439
<v Speaker 13>us that know him, those of us that have worked

0:45:11.440 --> 0:45:13.640
<v Speaker 13>with him over the years, we know that he does

0:45:13.680 --> 0:45:16.400
<v Speaker 13>not care much about these relationships that he has. He

0:45:16.480 --> 0:45:18.640
<v Speaker 13>knows what it means to be insulted by a lot

0:45:18.640 --> 0:45:20.360
<v Speaker 13>of these foreign leaders, to be laughed at, to be

0:45:20.440 --> 0:45:22.360
<v Speaker 13>mocked because a bunch of these guys want to do

0:45:22.400 --> 0:45:24.560
<v Speaker 13>this so that they can score some points with they're

0:45:24.600 --> 0:45:27.080
<v Speaker 13>base in their own individual countries, not because they actually

0:45:27.120 --> 0:45:29.239
<v Speaker 13>think it's a good idea for the relationship that they

0:45:29.239 --> 0:45:31.560
<v Speaker 13>share with the United States of America. So I've seen

0:45:31.600 --> 0:45:34.560
<v Speaker 13>President Trump work with everybody. It doesn't matter who they are,

0:45:34.600 --> 0:45:36.480
<v Speaker 13>what kind of jokes they've made about him in the past.

0:45:36.480 --> 0:45:39.200
<v Speaker 13>He understands exactly what they're doing. And I worry less

0:45:39.200 --> 0:45:41.680
<v Speaker 13>about the relationship and more for the people that have

0:45:41.760 --> 0:45:43.759
<v Speaker 13>to be led by Starmer for the next two years,

0:45:43.760 --> 0:45:45.479
<v Speaker 13>who know that he is not the leader that they want.

0:45:45.800 --> 0:45:48.200
<v Speaker 13>Certainly he's not a Winston Churchill and never will be.

0:45:48.440 --> 0:45:50.760
<v Speaker 13>But more importantly, what's going to happen to an ally

0:45:50.760 --> 0:45:51.560
<v Speaker 13>of ours.

0:45:51.280 --> 0:45:53.360
<v Speaker 11>When that is the kind of leadership that they, unfortunately

0:45:53.360 --> 0:45:54.040
<v Speaker 11>have signed up for.

0:45:55.440 --> 0:45:57.600
<v Speaker 2>Well, ye know, I think you're right there, Elizabeth. Thank

0:45:57.640 --> 0:45:59.960
<v Speaker 2>you so much for joining me on the usport. Really appreciate.

0:46:00.080 --> 0:46:02.040
<v Speaker 2>We'll have you back real soon. Now, don't go away

0:46:02.080 --> 0:46:05.160
<v Speaker 2>because your favorite only in America is coming up real soon.

0:46:05.719 --> 0:46:09.000
<v Speaker 2>But first, how about a little bit of the wited

0:46:09.080 --> 0:46:14.120
<v Speaker 2>wisdom of Louisiana. Senator John Kennedy here talking about Ilhan

0:46:14.280 --> 0:46:16.319
<v Speaker 2>Omar and the Ayahtola.

0:46:17.360 --> 0:46:22.480
<v Speaker 14>In the words of Congresswoman Omar, I love you like

0:46:22.520 --> 0:46:26.600
<v Speaker 14>a brother, and I want you to understand I'm not

0:46:26.719 --> 0:46:27.879
<v Speaker 14>trying to dodge your question.

0:46:28.040 --> 0:46:30.200
<v Speaker 15>I just want to answer it in a little different way.

0:46:31.480 --> 0:46:35.240
<v Speaker 15>I don't hate anyone, but I will shed no tears

0:46:35.320 --> 0:46:40.880
<v Speaker 15>for the Hyah tool. Commenee, he won the corn toss

0:46:41.880 --> 0:46:45.400
<v Speaker 15>and he elected to receive, and boy did he receive.

0:46:46.320 --> 0:46:48.480
<v Speaker 15>May he rest in pieces.

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<v Speaker 2>Like a brother? Yes, Senator, I see what you did

0:46:52.880 --> 0:47:03.760
<v Speaker 2>there stick around because Only in America is next. Welcome

0:47:03.760 --> 0:47:05.480
<v Speaker 2>back to the program, and now it's time for a

0:47:05.480 --> 0:47:06.439
<v Speaker 2>little segment we.

0:47:06.480 --> 0:47:08.920
<v Speaker 1>Like to call only in America.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, you know, they say politicians are a bunch of muppets,

0:47:17.600 --> 0:47:22.480
<v Speaker 2>and in this case they are right. Yes, here's proof, Trump,

0:47:22.840 --> 0:47:26.600
<v Speaker 2>Net and Yahoo, all of them muppets.

0:47:26.640 --> 0:47:28.600
<v Speaker 1>Maybe we got a problem. We might have to stop

0:47:28.640 --> 0:47:31.319
<v Speaker 1>the warts. What but we've already been I know, man,

0:47:31.400 --> 0:47:33.840
<v Speaker 1>I know, but something happened that we did not anticipate.

0:47:34.080 --> 0:47:37.080
<v Speaker 1>Well huh, we've infiltrated every single aspect of it because

0:47:37.080 --> 0:47:39.839
<v Speaker 1>they waited days to do it. Man, days. They really

0:47:39.880 --> 0:47:40.960
<v Speaker 1>good as snapping this time.

0:47:42.320 --> 0:47:42.759
<v Speaker 4>Talk to me.

0:47:42.840 --> 0:47:45.000
<v Speaker 1>I don't know how to say this, baby, but there's

0:47:45.040 --> 0:47:53.200
<v Speaker 1>been a statement of utmost concerned from the Europeans. Those

0:47:53.320 --> 0:47:57.120
<v Speaker 1>bottle tops better be attached to the missiles Donalds. They're like,

0:47:57.320 --> 0:48:02.279
<v Speaker 1>miss your president, you violated the AYAD data privacy. Your

0:48:02.320 --> 0:48:07.759
<v Speaker 1>aircraft carriers are rated C minus for energy efficiency. I'm screaming, boy.

0:48:07.880 --> 0:48:10.160
<v Speaker 1>We could go on for weeks like this. We were

0:48:10.320 --> 0:48:15.160
<v Speaker 1>weeks and weekshand weeks and weekshand ah.

0:48:15.280 --> 0:48:18.640
<v Speaker 2>Yes, the violated of the IETOLAS data privacy. That was

0:48:18.840 --> 0:48:22.839
<v Speaker 2>G zero media with their very good and apparently new

0:48:22.960 --> 0:48:27.080
<v Speaker 2>satire puppet regime. Anyway, that's all the time we've got

0:48:27.120 --> 0:48:29.640
<v Speaker 2>for this week. Don't be a muppet. Come back next

0:48:29.680 --> 0:48:31.959
<v Speaker 2>week for more US support, and I'll see up bright

0:48:32.000 --> 0:48:36.520
<v Speaker 2>and early Sunday for outsiders. Bye bye,