1 00:00:06,559 --> 00:00:08,640 Speaker 1: I'm Josh Hammer, and this is the Josh Hammer Show. 2 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:09,799 Speaker 2: Much to get to. 3 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:12,800 Speaker 1: On today's show, Peter Schweitzer joins us momentarily talk about 4 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: his brand new book of The Invisible Whup. It's the 5 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:18,560 Speaker 1: opening ceremony for the Winter Olympics tonight and the Super Bowl. 6 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:21,560 Speaker 1: Is this Sunday with all the controversy that the Bad 7 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:25,319 Speaker 1: Bunny halftime Show has engendered, but for now we lead 8 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:28,640 Speaker 1: with this this morning. Attorned General Pam Bondi and FBI 9 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 1: Director Cashmtel in a joint press conference at Main Justice 10 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:36,159 Speaker 1: in Washington, c announcing that's someone who is alleged to 11 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 1: be behind one of the leaders of the infamous September eleventh, 12 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:44,440 Speaker 1: twenty twelve attack on the US consulate in Bengazi, Libya. 13 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:47,360 Speaker 1: That is, individual in the name of zubear L Bakoush 14 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 1: has now been taken into custoing. He has been charged 15 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:54,480 Speaker 1: with charges of murder, terror and arson. It is in 16 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:58,360 Speaker 1: fact Jeanine Piro, who is the US attorney for the 17 00:00:58,400 --> 00:00:59,040 Speaker 1: Washington d C. 18 00:00:59,160 --> 00:00:59,520 Speaker 2: District. 19 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:02,880 Speaker 1: She was going to be leading this prosecution. Pambondi saying 20 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:06,520 Speaker 1: in her press conference on Friday morning that Albakoush will 21 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:09,760 Speaker 1: now face American justice on American soil. Let this case 22 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 1: serve as a reminder if you committee crime against the 23 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:16,360 Speaker 1: American people anywhere in this world, President Trump's Justice Department 24 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:18,800 Speaker 1: will find you. And by the way, it's actually not 25 00:01:18,959 --> 00:01:22,160 Speaker 1: just this scumbag, I guess we should technically say alleged 26 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 1: scumbag Albacouche, but it's actually also Nicholas m Durero, exact 27 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:30,399 Speaker 1: same sentiment. Let's not forget that Nicholas Mnduro and the 28 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:34,479 Speaker 1: recent operation Absolute Resolve, as the military and the dj 29 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 1: call that they're in Caracas just about a month ago 30 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:40,040 Speaker 1: or so, Let's not forget that that really actually was 31 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 1: a law enforcement operation. It was not a military operation 32 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:44,800 Speaker 1: because we didn't recognize Mdureau as the head of state, 33 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:47,680 Speaker 1: so it was actually just a law enforced operation to 34 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 1: bring in a fugitive of justice who, much like Zubert Albakoush, 35 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:56,320 Speaker 1: was hiding overseas. So very similar theme here across these 36 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:59,680 Speaker 1: multiple events. Now, what actually happened in Benghassi. It's been 37 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:01,800 Speaker 1: a while you might have forgotten. So this was a horrible, 38 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 1: horrible attack. It was one of the great scandals of 39 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 1: the first term of the Barack Obama ministration actually happened 40 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 1: just about two months prior to the twenty twelve presidential 41 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:13,240 Speaker 1: election between Barack Obama and mid Romney. How can we 42 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:15,799 Speaker 1: forget that infamous cliff. I believe it was a CNN 43 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:19,720 Speaker 1: debates when Candy Crowley was the moderator and started disrupting 44 00:02:19,919 --> 00:02:23,400 Speaker 1: and questioning mid Romney's stance on the horrific Benghazi attack. 45 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 1: This was a coordinated islmus terr attack on September eleven, 46 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:29,120 Speaker 1: twenty twelve, at about nine to forty pm local time 47 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:32,200 Speaker 1: at the consulates in Libya. So the US had taken 48 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:35,440 Speaker 1: its embassy out of Libya decades prior. They're trying to 49 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:37,880 Speaker 1: slowly re establish some sort of diplomatic presence, and this 50 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:41,960 Speaker 1: particularly Jihat overrun war torn part of the country. There 51 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 1: had just been the operation in Libya to aus Momar 52 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 1: Kazafi the year prior, and then in twenty twelve, in 53 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 1: on September eleventh, you had in assault, an absolute Islamus 54 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:54,800 Speaker 1: horrific assault there on the US consulates, resulting in the 55 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:58,680 Speaker 1: deaths of three Americans and seven Libyans. The most infamous 56 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:00,679 Speaker 1: of those who were murdered, who was murder that day 57 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:05,320 Speaker 1: was the actual Ambassador to Libya himself, Christopher Stevens. And 58 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:08,800 Speaker 1: this was one of the great unaccounted scandals of the 59 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:11,280 Speaker 1: Barack Obama administration, of which there were many, of which 60 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:13,320 Speaker 1: there were many, and this was just one of the 61 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:15,640 Speaker 1: most gut wrenching ones. And it was compounded by the 62 00:03:15,639 --> 00:03:18,280 Speaker 1: facts that Susan Rice at the time was the US 63 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:21,680 Speaker 1: Ambassador to the Unine Nation. She served in various other 64 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:25,040 Speaker 1: fact totem rolls throughout the Obama by An administration at 65 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:26,880 Speaker 1: the time. Susan Rice, who was the US Ambassador to 66 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:29,919 Speaker 1: the UN, immediately after the attack, went on the Sunday 67 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:31,839 Speaker 1: talk shows on Meet the Press, Face the Nation, etc. 68 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:36,600 Speaker 1: And peddled this outrageous lie. This outrageous lie, lest you 69 00:03:36,640 --> 00:03:40,960 Speaker 1: have forgotten that this short film called The Innocence of Muslims, 70 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 1: which was being tarred and feathered across the commentariat as 71 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:46,600 Speaker 1: an anti Muslim propaganda film. Susan Rice said that it 72 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:50,520 Speaker 1: was a spontaneous reaction to the Innocence of Muslims that 73 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 1: resulted in this. Really because they spontaneously decided to go 74 00:03:55,800 --> 00:04:01,720 Speaker 1: murder the US ambassador on September eleven. No one was 75 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:04,560 Speaker 1: buying that. And ultimately, as we learned more information. We 76 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:07,280 Speaker 1: learned that this actually was a planned attack. It was 77 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:10,640 Speaker 1: planned by people just like the alleged man taking the 78 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 1: custody today, Zubar al Bakush, and it had nothing to 79 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:17,599 Speaker 1: do with the innocence of Muslims. This actually was the 80 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:22,040 Speaker 1: whole controversy where Hillary Clinton, what at the time was 81 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:24,880 Speaker 1: was Secretary of State. This is a whole controversy when 82 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:27,960 Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton said, what difference does it make at some point, 83 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:29,800 Speaker 1: what difference does it make whether it was the innocence 84 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:32,160 Speaker 1: of Muslims, whether it was an Islam's terror attack. It 85 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:35,919 Speaker 1: makes a big difference because it is a stark reminder, 86 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:40,479 Speaker 1: as if we needed more reminders, that Islam remains at 87 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:44,400 Speaker 1: war with Western civilization. This goes back a very long way, folks. 88 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 1: We're not necessarily going to do a full, full historical deemsive. 89 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:51,040 Speaker 1: We could talk a lot about Muhammad, the prophet Mohammad 90 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:54,680 Speaker 1: in the seventh century and how Islam was founded on 91 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 1: the the sword which remains on the flag of Saudi 92 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:00,120 Speaker 1: Arabia where Mohammad, the Arabian peninsula Mohama was from. The 93 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:02,279 Speaker 1: sword is still there in the Saudi flag to this day. 94 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:05,880 Speaker 1: We could talk about the Crusades and all of the 95 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 1: imperialism there between Islam and Christendom. We could talk about 96 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:13,200 Speaker 1: the Siege of Vienna in the seventeenth century, where the 97 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:16,240 Speaker 1: Ottoman Calife got as far into the European continents as 98 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:18,880 Speaker 1: the Austro Hungarian Empire and indeed the city of Vienna 99 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:22,240 Speaker 1: before being turned back by Christian Europe. We can talk 100 00:05:22,279 --> 00:05:24,839 Speaker 1: about the fact that it's actually there in the US 101 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:27,520 Speaker 1: Marines hymn. I'm not gonna sing it. I'm not gonna 102 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:31,239 Speaker 1: beclam myself. I don't have the best mallitialist singing voice, perhaps, 103 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 1: but you know it's from the halls of Montezuma to 104 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:37,279 Speaker 1: the shores of Tripoli, to the shorage of Tripoli. Tripoli 105 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:41,200 Speaker 1: like Libya, like Benghazi. This has been a problem for 106 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:44,520 Speaker 1: the United States since day one. Heck, the reason why 107 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 1: the United States to no small extent, has the Navy 108 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 1: end the Marine Corps that we have today, I mean 109 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:52,600 Speaker 1: technically goes back to the Confident of Congress and revolutionary war. 110 00:05:52,839 --> 00:05:56,560 Speaker 1: But the reason in the first decade of the nineteenth 111 00:05:56,640 --> 00:05:59,479 Speaker 1: century that Thomas Jefferson and James Madison really built up 112 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:03,640 Speaker 1: the Navy and the rings above and beyond the infrastructure 113 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:05,839 Speaker 1: that defeed the British and the Revolutionary War. The real 114 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:09,960 Speaker 1: reason was the First and Second Barbary Wars with the 115 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:13,680 Speaker 1: hoothy pirates of their day, the Barbary Pirates. That's the 116 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:16,520 Speaker 1: reference in the US Berens hymn song to the shores 117 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:19,359 Speaker 1: of Tripoli. Now, sometimes I wonder whether or not we 118 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 1: have forgotten the extent to which Islam remains at war 119 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:25,680 Speaker 1: with us. For instance, you can't help but notice that 120 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:28,800 Speaker 1: earlier on Friday. Early on Friday, Steve Wickoff and Jared 121 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:32,239 Speaker 1: Kushner flew to Oman to meet with the Iranian regimes 122 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:35,720 Speaker 1: foreign Minister. This is part of this last ditch diplomatic 123 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:38,680 Speaker 1: attempt to forestall what seems to be some sort of 124 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:42,839 Speaker 1: inevitable military action following the eviscerated red line that Donald 125 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:46,359 Speaker 1: Trump issued multiple times last month. Nonetheless, because Donald Trump 126 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:48,360 Speaker 1: is a pe seeker and he's a deal maker, because 127 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:50,800 Speaker 1: Steve wick Cooff has been trying to get all sorts 128 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:53,800 Speaker 1: of deals around the world, frequently accompanied by Jared Kushner, 129 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:56,400 Speaker 1: they are trying really really hard to give the Mullas 130 00:06:56,520 --> 00:06:59,080 Speaker 1: some sort of off ramp. Unfortunately, the Molas are not 131 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:01,840 Speaker 1: playing ball. The Wall Street JOm reporting early on Friday 132 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:05,160 Speaker 1: that Iran is refusing is categorically refusing to end their 133 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:07,040 Speaker 1: nuclear enrichment in talks. 134 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:07,720 Speaker 2: Surprise. 135 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:10,200 Speaker 1: Who in the world could have seen that coming? Oh yeah, 136 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:13,280 Speaker 1: literally everyone saw that coming. Apparently the Iranians are also 137 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:16,200 Speaker 1: not even willing to discuss at all various other sticking 138 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:20,040 Speaker 1: points that the US negotiating team wants to discuss, namely, 139 00:07:20,520 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 1: on the one hand, their financial support of all sorts 140 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:26,640 Speaker 1: of proxies and terrorist organizations throughout the region when it 141 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:29,600 Speaker 1: comes to has balats of Hamas to the Huthis, to this, 142 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:31,560 Speaker 1: and to that. Apparently the Iranians are not willing to 143 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 1: discuss that. Apparently the Iranians are not willing to discuss 144 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 1: their conventional ballistic missile program at either, which is not 145 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:42,440 Speaker 1: quite as much but a threat is the nuclear probium, 146 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:45,080 Speaker 1: but a pretty big threat. We saw what they can 147 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 1: do actually last year and the year before that, for 148 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:50,480 Speaker 1: the matter. They are fully capable of launching ballistic missiles 149 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:55,680 Speaker 1: with decent accuracy thousands of miles at least twelve hundred 150 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:59,160 Speaker 1: according to the Shahad model ballistic missile that Iran currently has. 151 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:01,360 Speaker 1: So not willing to discuss that they're not willing to 152 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:04,600 Speaker 1: discuss their financial support of terrorism and the reason they're 153 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:07,120 Speaker 1: apparently per the roster, not willing to discuss the number 154 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:11,720 Speaker 1: one thing that Trump Wikoff Kushner wants to discuss, which 155 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:13,760 Speaker 1: is the nuclear program. And oh, by the way, in 156 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:16,200 Speaker 1: case you cared, they're not willing to discuss actually their 157 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:19,840 Speaker 1: their systemic abuse of their own people either. Apparently they 158 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:22,400 Speaker 1: have no interest in that. Now some folks in Iran 159 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:24,040 Speaker 1: have apparently started to see the writing in the wall. 160 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:27,560 Speaker 1: So some interesting stuff happened at the UN European headquarters 161 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:28,560 Speaker 1: in Geneva, Switzerland. 162 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:29,520 Speaker 2: Actually earlier this week. 163 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:33,280 Speaker 1: There actually were not one but two Iranian diplomats who 164 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:36,800 Speaker 1: abandoned their post. I mean by the name of Alireza 165 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:40,720 Speaker 1: ja Rani Hulkmabad, who had the rank of minister at 166 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:44,520 Speaker 1: the Iranian UN mission in Geneva. He's out, he defected 167 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:48,120 Speaker 1: and requested asylum in Switzerland. And a second individual name 168 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:52,800 Speaker 1: of golum Raza derrek Vand, who was the acting second 169 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:55,640 Speaker 1: in command at the at the Iranian embassy in Austria 170 00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:59,240 Speaker 1: and Vienna. He also has apparently defected, is now seeking 171 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:02,240 Speaker 1: asylum in the same country country of Switzerland. At the 172 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 1: same time, the US Embassy putting out a statement a 173 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:09,800 Speaker 1: statement on February fifth telling you citizens too, in all caps, 174 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:14,640 Speaker 1: leave Iran now, says leave Iran now, have a plan 175 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:18,040 Speaker 1: for departing Iran that does not rely on US government's help. 176 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:19,920 Speaker 2: If you cannot leave, find a. 177 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:24,240 Speaker 1: Secure location within your residence, have supply of food, water, medications. 178 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:27,960 Speaker 1: I mean, look, we don't know what's going to happen there, 179 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:31,240 Speaker 1: but to reierate our points in yesterday's show, at this point, 180 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:34,480 Speaker 1: the costs of Donald Trump not doing something when it 181 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:39,080 Speaker 1: comes to Iran drastically outweigh the costs potentially of taking action. 182 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:41,880 Speaker 1: We are not big fans of boxing ourselves in. We 183 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:44,640 Speaker 1: are not big fans of all this braggadocio and this 184 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:49,120 Speaker 1: bluster and the armada and the molsh should be very, 185 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:51,480 Speaker 1: very worried. It's fine if you're gonna say it, if 186 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:53,800 Speaker 1: you're actually gonna back it up. Donald Trump's great credit. 187 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:56,880 Speaker 1: He actually really has mostly backed this stuff up. He 188 00:09:57,080 --> 00:09:58,880 Speaker 1: clearly backed it up when it came to Maduro. He 189 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:01,720 Speaker 1: clearly bathed up when he came to the Iranian nuclear 190 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:04,240 Speaker 1: facilities last June. He batted it up when it came 191 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:06,920 Speaker 1: to costums Stulimani in January of twenty twenty. So I 192 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:09,640 Speaker 1: continue to think that there is indeed going to be 193 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:13,240 Speaker 1: military action with Iran, potentially as soon as this weekend. 194 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:15,320 Speaker 1: We again don't know, it's just a guessing game, but 195 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:18,920 Speaker 1: certainly all signs point towards that. But just this being 196 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:24,040 Speaker 1: Ghazi story yet another visceral reminder, as if you needed it, 197 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:28,120 Speaker 1: that Islam remains at war with Western civilization, you know, 198 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:31,080 Speaker 1: early this week also, I couldn't help but take note 199 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:34,480 Speaker 1: of this. Sam brown Back, former Republican senator and governor 200 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:37,040 Speaker 1: from Kansas who also served as US Ambassador at Large 201 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 1: for International Religious Freedom during the first Trump administration. He 202 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:44,320 Speaker 1: testified before Congress and in scathing terms condemned the current 203 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:48,200 Speaker 1: jihad adjacent or maybe just outright Jihadis government in Syria 204 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:52,880 Speaker 1: led by this guy al Shara, formerly the peripatetic wandering 205 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:55,480 Speaker 1: Al qaeda Isis Jihati, who the Trump Minstration is now 206 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:59,040 Speaker 1: playing nice playing footsie with. Sam brown Back was very 207 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:03,319 Speaker 1: very critical of al Shara and the Syrian regime, saying 208 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:06,440 Speaker 1: that there's going to be a likely genocide of the 209 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:10,320 Speaker 1: drus Alal whites, and indeed Christian minorities there in Syria 210 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:12,400 Speaker 1: unless something happens there. So that is a five alarm 211 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:14,720 Speaker 1: fire in of itself. You put all these strands together 212 00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:17,560 Speaker 1: and you arrive with the following conclusion. Islam has not 213 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:20,559 Speaker 1: abandoned its war against the West, whether it's Syria, whether 214 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:22,959 Speaker 1: it's the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa, when 215 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:25,160 Speaker 1: it comes to Yemen and Somalia, when it comes to 216 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:29,400 Speaker 1: Benghazi and the infamous assault there. And huge kudos by 217 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:31,760 Speaker 1: the way to Pambondi and cash Betel, all of them 218 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:34,000 Speaker 1: for getting this guy in charging him with these charges. 219 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:36,560 Speaker 1: We will see how that goes. But do not forget 220 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:38,640 Speaker 1: there are so many other headlines out there. We all 221 00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:40,640 Speaker 1: want to talk about this. We all talk about that 222 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:44,600 Speaker 1: there is a civilizational war going on, and that civilization 223 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:46,720 Speaker 1: of war is being led by the force of Ilmis 224 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:50,480 Speaker 1: against the forces of Western civilizational biblical inheritance. Do not 225 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:52,920 Speaker 1: forget that we might have forgotten about them. They have 226 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 1: not forgot about us, folks. On the other side of the break, 227 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:57,040 Speaker 1: Stay with us. Peter Schweitzer joined to talk about his 228 00:11:57,080 --> 00:12:05,000 Speaker 1: brand new book, The Visibal Coup. Stay with us, Welcome back. 229 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:07,319 Speaker 1: So we're thrilled to bring onto the show now first 230 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:09,679 Speaker 1: time guests, longtime fan, and personal level that. 231 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:10,520 Speaker 2: Is Peter Schweizer. 232 00:12:10,559 --> 00:12:14,720 Speaker 1: Peter Sweitzer is president of the Government Accountability Institutes and 233 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:17,959 Speaker 1: a five times now New York Times bestselling author. His 234 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:20,839 Speaker 1: brand new book, available everywhere for a purchase, is The 235 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:24,600 Speaker 1: Invisible Coup. How American elites and foreign powers use immigration 236 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:28,200 Speaker 1: as a weapons. So, Peter Schweitzer, congratulations on yet another 237 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:31,760 Speaker 1: astoundingly successful book launch. I know personally how difficult that 238 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:33,400 Speaker 1: can be. So you deserve a lot of credit certainly 239 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:35,880 Speaker 1: for that, and thanks for joining the program here. So 240 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:39,439 Speaker 1: let's just dive right in here. This notion of immigration 241 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:44,320 Speaker 1: as a weapon. We've heard this, certainly from Jihadis for 242 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:45,920 Speaker 1: many years. There has been a lot of preaching, I 243 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:49,520 Speaker 1: think from radical Islamis who talk about the notion of 244 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:53,200 Speaker 1: immigration is as a soft form of jihad. You also, 245 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:55,440 Speaker 1: though on the cover of your book, you have other 246 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:58,800 Speaker 1: non Islamist leaders too, people like Shi Jimping for instance, 247 00:12:58,920 --> 00:13:03,000 Speaker 1: or right there, how is immigration more broadly not limited 248 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:06,319 Speaker 1: to an Islamic context us as as a weapon as 249 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:07,160 Speaker 1: you describe. 250 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:08,640 Speaker 3: It, well, I think there are a lot of examples 251 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:11,320 Speaker 3: in history and I think even in recent history. The 252 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:15,439 Speaker 3: Mario boat Lift in Cuba to the United States in 253 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:19,160 Speaker 3: the nineteen eighties is a classical example of this, where 254 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:26,960 Speaker 3: Fidel Castro seeded migrate migrants with criminals, intelligence officers, criminal gangs, psychopaths, 255 00:13:27,559 --> 00:13:30,120 Speaker 3: and he deployed it as a weapon. As I recount 256 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:32,480 Speaker 3: in the book, Jimmy Carter said, We're going to welcome 257 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 3: them with open arms. That is weaponized immigration, and Fidel 258 00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:41,560 Speaker 3: Castro used it successfully in the Mario boat Lift. A 259 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:46,040 Speaker 3: US government study concluded that the three most successful attacks 260 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:48,760 Speaker 3: against the United States in our history were nine to eleven, 261 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:52,600 Speaker 3: Pearl Harbor and the Mariel boat Lift. And what happened 262 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:55,720 Speaker 3: in nine to eleven after the attack, we destroyed al Qaeda. 263 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:58,600 Speaker 3: If you look at what happened after Pearl Harbor, we 264 00:13:58,640 --> 00:14:04,160 Speaker 3: destroyed the Japanese Empire. After the Mario bolt lift, nothing because. 265 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:04,439 Speaker 4: What do you do. 266 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:07,680 Speaker 3: There's nobody to go after militarily. That is what inspired 267 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 3: the use of immigration as a weapon. Is Lamas have 268 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:13,520 Speaker 3: talked about it, but Mexico and China and other radicals 269 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:15,280 Speaker 3: have adopted that strategy as well. 270 00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:18,920 Speaker 1: Peer Schweitzer is a New York Times bestselling author His 271 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:21,480 Speaker 1: current book is number one on the New York Times charts. 272 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:24,080 Speaker 1: The book is The Invisible Coup. How American elites and 273 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:26,760 Speaker 1: foreign powers whose immigration as a weapon. And he joined 274 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:29,400 Speaker 1: us right here today on the Josh Hammer Show. So 275 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:32,560 Speaker 1: we're generally speaking, Peter as a lawyer, I think a 276 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:35,520 Speaker 1: lot about immigration in terms of in terms of lower 277 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:38,720 Speaker 1: case are republicanism in terms of notions of popular sovereignty. 278 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:42,120 Speaker 1: I mean, this country fought a war, we seceded from 279 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:46,840 Speaker 1: King Georgia, third and England over the notion of no 280 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:49,960 Speaker 1: taxation without representation. And it seems to me when you 281 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:52,880 Speaker 1: look at what a lot of bipartisan frankly for being 282 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:54,960 Speaker 1: candid here elites have done for decades on the issue 283 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:58,720 Speaker 1: of immigration, you're looking not necessarily at taxation without representation. 284 00:14:59,000 --> 00:14:59,720 Speaker 2: Oh me, there's that too. 285 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:03,280 Speaker 1: What you're really looking on this context is social transformation 286 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:07,040 Speaker 1: or civilizational upheople without representation. 287 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:08,400 Speaker 2: I presume that you agree with that. 288 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:12,120 Speaker 1: There are a couple of examples, particularly telling anecdotes made 289 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:13,760 Speaker 1: from the book that kind of stand down in that respect. 290 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:14,560 Speaker 4: Yeah. 291 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:16,680 Speaker 3: No, I think you nailed it. And I think that 292 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:19,680 Speaker 3: the immigration that we experienced even fifty or one hundred 293 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:23,000 Speaker 3: years ago is very different than the immigration now. We 294 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:26,320 Speaker 3: tend to have this view that it's sort of our organic, 295 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:30,600 Speaker 3: spontaneous it's people that are coming here to adopt American values. 296 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:34,600 Speaker 3: That's not really the case anymore, and it's because of 297 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:37,720 Speaker 3: the involvement of these foreign actors. So in the case 298 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:40,080 Speaker 3: of China, in the case of Mexico, for example, or 299 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:43,760 Speaker 3: the Islamist groups, they want people to come here, but 300 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:47,600 Speaker 3: they fight and prevent them from assimilating. They don't want 301 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:52,400 Speaker 3: them to assimilate. I quote a senior Mexican official who 302 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:55,640 Speaker 3: says that Mexicans that come to the United States and 303 00:15:55,680 --> 00:15:59,600 Speaker 3: adopt American values are traders to Mexico, and he says 304 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:03,000 Speaker 3: that Present and Shine bamb agrees with him. Chinese officials 305 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:07,240 Speaker 3: believe the same thing. So this is the clash of civilizations, 306 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:10,600 Speaker 3: as Samuel Huntington wrote about twenty five thirty years ago. 307 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:14,120 Speaker 3: Huntington saw it happening on the globe, primarily in the 308 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:17,160 Speaker 3: realm of foreign policy. My argument is, we have a 309 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:20,880 Speaker 3: clash of civilizations, but it's occurring within the borders of 310 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:24,680 Speaker 3: the United States. It's become localized in our communities, and 311 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:27,200 Speaker 3: that's why we need to be aware of what's going 312 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:29,280 Speaker 3: on and take some steps to deal with it. 313 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:31,880 Speaker 2: What should illegal immigration policy look like? 314 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:34,160 Speaker 1: A lot of let's focus on illegal immigration, and I 315 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:36,920 Speaker 1: think I think everyone on the rights and maybe even 316 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:38,600 Speaker 1: a few people still on the left, agreed that illegal 317 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:41,920 Speaker 1: immigration once more time that was not a very pars issue. 318 00:16:41,920 --> 00:16:42,200 Speaker 4: By the way. 319 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:43,800 Speaker 1: I mean, there's all these clips of Harry Reid and 320 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:45,800 Speaker 1: Bill Clinton from the nineties and he's in his grainy 321 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:48,800 Speaker 1: seas fan footage talking about the evils of illegal immigration 322 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:51,680 Speaker 1: and this and that. You know, Thomas Freeman actually had 323 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:56,000 Speaker 1: a column actually lauding thes raid that actually got Elian 324 00:16:56,040 --> 00:16:58,880 Speaker 1: Gonzalez there in Miami there. So look, I mean the 325 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:00,440 Speaker 1: loft that Ha's really done one eighty on this. The 326 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:03,200 Speaker 1: right is still generally unified when it comes to illegal immigration, 327 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:05,800 Speaker 1: but legal immigration, Peters is a slightly thorny and more 328 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:07,800 Speaker 1: complicated question. I have my own thoughts on. I'm kind 329 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:09,840 Speaker 1: of curious, based on your expertise in the subject, what 330 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:12,240 Speaker 1: should America's legal immigration system look like? 331 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:14,399 Speaker 3: Well, I think we need to deal with this weaponized 332 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:17,200 Speaker 3: immigration first, and we need to have a sealed border. 333 00:17:17,560 --> 00:17:20,000 Speaker 3: I'm a believer in immigration. I think it's an important 334 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:24,800 Speaker 3: component of the United States. But the keyword is vetting, vetting, vetting, vetting. 335 00:17:24,840 --> 00:17:27,600 Speaker 3: You've got to vet people coming into the country. I 336 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:32,080 Speaker 3: don't mean racially, I don't mean in any way other 337 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:35,920 Speaker 3: than what are their character qualities, what are their allegiances? 338 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:38,639 Speaker 3: What are their alliances? And the problem is with so 339 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:43,000 Speaker 3: much of immigration policy or even citizenship policy, determining who's 340 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:46,199 Speaker 3: going to be naturalized as a citizen, it depends who 341 00:17:46,320 --> 00:17:49,240 Speaker 3: is in political office. What we saw with Bill Clinton, 342 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:52,240 Speaker 3: with Barack Obama, and with Joe Biden. Once they came 343 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:58,159 Speaker 3: into office, they completely stripped the ability for any rigorous 344 00:17:58,359 --> 00:18:01,280 Speaker 3: background checks on people who wanted to migrate to the 345 00:18:01,359 --> 00:18:05,480 Speaker 3: United States legally. They even strip the requirements to apply 346 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:09,679 Speaker 3: for citizenships, so they would eliminate criminal background checks of 347 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:12,400 Speaker 3: people who wanted to be naturalized citizens. They would get 348 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:16,040 Speaker 3: rid of the language requirements, the civics tests. So it's 349 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:19,399 Speaker 3: become a real problem. You can enact a policy, and 350 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:21,760 Speaker 3: you can enact a law that says we're going to 351 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:24,800 Speaker 3: have vigorous screening and vetting of legal immigrants, but if 352 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:27,399 Speaker 3: you have a president who says, no, we want for 353 00:18:27,560 --> 00:18:31,159 Speaker 3: political reasons, because there are huge political advantages for Democrats 354 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:34,000 Speaker 3: with mass migration. If you have a president who's going 355 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:36,960 Speaker 3: to open the floodgates, it doesn't matter what the laws 356 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:39,439 Speaker 3: on the book say. That's how bad it's become. So 357 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:42,560 Speaker 3: I don't know what the immediate solution is. Those laws 358 00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:46,159 Speaker 3: are great and good, but we do not have in 359 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:49,560 Speaker 3: the Democratic Party people who actually want to abide by 360 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:51,000 Speaker 3: the law when it comes to immigration. 361 00:18:51,359 --> 00:18:53,600 Speaker 1: Peter Schweiser's brand new book is already a number one 362 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:56,479 Speaker 1: Year Times bestseller. It's the Invisible Whop How American elites 363 00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:58,840 Speaker 1: and foreign powers use immigration as a weapon. Peter, you 364 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:01,280 Speaker 1: actually kind of directly ted up my next question for me. 365 00:19:01,359 --> 00:19:03,360 Speaker 1: I was kind of already going to go where you 366 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:05,959 Speaker 1: just went. Which is the self serving nature of this 367 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:10,000 Speaker 1: from a partisan, capital D democratic perspective. We just had 368 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:12,159 Speaker 1: this whole debate to extend. Actually the debate it's all 369 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:14,840 Speaker 1: happening about the Save Acts, this legislation that was introduced 370 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:16,960 Speaker 1: last year by Chip Roy and the House. Michael Ye 371 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:19,480 Speaker 1: is a sponsor on the Senate side, essentially requiring proof 372 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:22,239 Speaker 1: of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. This 373 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:25,600 Speaker 1: whole notion of voter ID and election integrity. There Nicki 374 00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:27,639 Speaker 1: Minaj has been in the news recently for saying, this 375 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:30,760 Speaker 1: is so common sense and the polling is pretty crazy. 376 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:34,040 Speaker 1: I mean massive majorities of essentially every slice of the 377 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:37,640 Speaker 1: American elector supports common sense voter id and whatnot there. 378 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:39,520 Speaker 2: So what is the opposition? 379 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:42,560 Speaker 1: I mean, is it literally just as nakedly simple as 380 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:45,280 Speaker 1: a partisan coup to get more voters with Democratic Party. 381 00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:49,080 Speaker 3: I think there's no question about it. And it operates 382 00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:51,640 Speaker 3: on a couple of levels. The first thing is one 383 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:56,920 Speaker 3: of the reasons that Democrats strip and eliminate the requirements 384 00:19:56,920 --> 00:20:00,199 Speaker 3: for new citizenship like criminal background checks, et cetera, is 385 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:05,800 Speaker 3: because newly minted American citizens vote about eighty five percent 386 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:10,040 Speaker 3: for Democrats. It's the most dominant lopsided area. Now, the 387 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:12,520 Speaker 3: longer they stay here that evens out. But it takes 388 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:16,359 Speaker 3: twenty years to get anything approaching you know, fifty five 389 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:19,879 Speaker 3: to forty five in terms of party identification, and Democrats 390 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:24,800 Speaker 3: know this, So the biggest years for minting US voters 391 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:29,520 Speaker 3: through the naturalization process. By eliminating these requirements, we're nineteen 392 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:32,760 Speaker 3: ninety six, twenty twelve, and twenty twenty four all re 393 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:36,439 Speaker 3: election years for Democrats when they were in office. But 394 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:39,720 Speaker 3: even if you're not talking about people that are being 395 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:42,679 Speaker 3: created as citizens, even if you're not talking about illegal voting, 396 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:47,159 Speaker 3: they are desperate to prevent deportations because our census is 397 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:51,399 Speaker 3: calculated not by counting citizens, but by counting people. And 398 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:54,760 Speaker 3: if you look at California, the estimates are based on 399 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:58,680 Speaker 3: the illegal population in California, that state has between four 400 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:02,359 Speaker 3: and seven more regal seats than they would otherwise. In 401 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:05,120 Speaker 3: other words, if there were no illegals in California, they 402 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:08,399 Speaker 3: would have between four and seven fewer congressional seats. And 403 00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:11,840 Speaker 3: to put that in perspective, Josh, take the conservative number 404 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:16,240 Speaker 3: four for a congressman. That is a larger congressional delegation 405 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:20,879 Speaker 3: than thirteen American states. Well, so this is huge, this massive, 406 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:23,919 Speaker 3: This is on a massive scale. The bottom line is 407 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:27,400 Speaker 3: they need those numbers there for political power, and if 408 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:30,280 Speaker 3: they are not there, the prospects that are not good 409 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:33,159 Speaker 3: for Democrats. The final thing I would say is progressives, 410 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:37,199 Speaker 3: the left wing of the Democratic Party, they see mass 411 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:42,119 Speaker 3: migration as leading to an even more progressive nation because 412 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:43,480 Speaker 3: of the no doubt. 413 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:45,040 Speaker 1: That there's so much going on here. Peer we unit 414 00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:47,000 Speaker 1: Katoka Grayland, the fourtune were going to run on time 415 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:49,080 Speaker 1: to seven, but Peter Schweizer Folks follow him on X 416 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:52,000 Speaker 1: at Peter Schweizer's brand new Booking Visible Coup How American 417 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,640 Speaker 1: elites and foreign powers use immigration as a weapon, Your 418 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:57,080 Speaker 1: gentleman and scholar peer, congratulations on the launch. We thank 419 00:21:57,080 --> 00:21:58,240 Speaker 1: you for joining the Josh Hammer Show. 420 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:00,120 Speaker 3: Thanks for having me, Josh, I enjoyed it. 421 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:07,960 Speaker 2: Welcome back. What does briefly have a closing word? 422 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:10,480 Speaker 1: When it came to our conversation there with Peter Schweitzer, 423 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:12,320 Speaker 1: who yet again has done with his brand new book, 424 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:15,840 Speaker 1: The Invisible Coude number one New York Times bestseller, This notion, folks, 425 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:20,560 Speaker 1: that that immigration is not just one policy, but is 426 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:23,760 Speaker 1: the sinequann of what it means to be a self 427 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:26,800 Speaker 1: government public and indeed a self sustaining civilization. This is 428 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:28,960 Speaker 1: one of our core themes here on this show we 429 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:30,879 Speaker 1: hit almost day in and day out. It is the 430 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:34,400 Speaker 1: one issue that touches not merely the economics, not merely 431 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:36,960 Speaker 1: the crime, not merely this or that there, but touches 432 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:38,840 Speaker 1: the most foundational questions in. 433 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:39,719 Speaker 2: All of politics. 434 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:43,040 Speaker 1: Literally, going back to Aristotle in the Greeks, the notion 435 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:46,320 Speaker 1: of the policy. Who is the polity? What is the police? 436 00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:49,679 Speaker 2: Who are we? Who are we letting in here? What 437 00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:50,720 Speaker 2: is our identity? 438 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:54,520 Speaker 1: So this notion that really, I would argue, at least 439 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:57,280 Speaker 1: as far back as the Heartsellers Act, at least if 440 00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:00,880 Speaker 1: oar back as in nineteen sixty five, Ted Kennedy ushered 441 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:05,240 Speaker 1: in in past Heartsellers Act, a legal immigration regime that 442 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:07,960 Speaker 1: really continues to this day, at least since then, that 443 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:12,280 Speaker 1: has been the beginning of this social transformation and civilizational 444 00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:15,639 Speaker 1: upheaval without representation, something that we really all ought to 445 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:16,760 Speaker 1: care a lot about. 446 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:17,840 Speaker 2: That that is for sure. 447 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:19,480 Speaker 1: Well in other news, I don't know about you, guys, 448 00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:23,160 Speaker 1: but I take a lot of pleasure of the Trump 449 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:25,960 Speaker 1: Secretary's of all these CAB members going before Congress and 450 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:30,440 Speaker 1: just blowing up in these sitting Democrat members of Congress' faces. 451 00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:34,480 Speaker 1: Mark Rubio has done it with a plum, shall we say. 452 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:37,680 Speaker 1: And the latest the latest is is Scott Besson, who 453 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:42,120 Speaker 1: was quickly emerging as one of the unsung heroes of 454 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:44,399 Speaker 1: the Trum administration, a man who I don't think a 455 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:46,640 Speaker 1: whole lot of people frankly, were super familiar with Scott 456 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:48,879 Speaker 1: Besson prior to the second tr administration. Heck, I did 457 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:50,720 Speaker 1: this for a living. I was not super familiar. I 458 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:52,040 Speaker 1: had heard his name, I didn't really know a whole 459 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:55,000 Speaker 1: lot about him. He had a really great exchange earlier 460 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,800 Speaker 1: this week with Elizabeth Warren of mass Juis, go ahead 461 00:23:57,800 --> 00:23:58,199 Speaker 1: and watch this. 462 00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:02,320 Speaker 5: You ran the search for Donald Trump's FED chair nominee, 463 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:06,040 Speaker 5: and Trump promised to quote anyone that disagrees with me 464 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:10,359 Speaker 5: will never be FED chairman. Kevin Walsh got the nod 465 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:13,320 Speaker 5: last Friday, and then over the weekend, Donald Trump joked 466 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:17,520 Speaker 5: that he would sue mister Walsh if he failed to 467 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:18,960 Speaker 5: lower interest rates. 468 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:22,200 Speaker 2: At least I think it was a joke, but. 469 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:26,440 Speaker 5: Just in case, this should be an easy one. Mister secretary, 470 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:29,880 Speaker 5: can you commit right here and now that Trump's FED 471 00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:33,280 Speaker 5: nominee Kevin Walsh, will not be sued, will not be 472 00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:37,800 Speaker 5: investigated by the Department of Justice if he doesn't cut 473 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:40,800 Speaker 5: interest rates exactly the way that Donald Trump wants. 474 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:45,480 Speaker 6: I I that that is up to the president. 475 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:48,080 Speaker 4: Can you commit that you will? I'm sorry? 476 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:50,439 Speaker 2: Can you commit that you will not hold the whole up? 477 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:55,520 Speaker 5: Can you justin top interest rate you won't be criminally 478 00:24:55,760 --> 00:25:00,280 Speaker 5: investigating the presidentat center? 479 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:04,000 Speaker 6: Will he said, if. 480 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:06,679 Speaker 5: This was a joke, why not just say so? 481 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:07,600 Speaker 4: All right? 482 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:08,960 Speaker 2: So you gotta love that attitude. 483 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:12,520 Speaker 1: I mean this, this willingness to just fight back with 484 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:16,040 Speaker 1: these dim witted, addle brained left wing senators there. Liz Warren, 485 00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:18,200 Speaker 1: who thinks she knows the thing or two about economics, 486 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:21,439 Speaker 1: she actually knows nothing whatsoever. Scott Best and definitely mixing 487 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:23,800 Speaker 1: up and duking it out with the best them there 488 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:26,479 Speaker 1: on Capitol Hill. And actually in another part of that 489 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:30,240 Speaker 1: same exchange, they were going about this, this whole debate 490 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:33,520 Speaker 1: when it comes to affordability, right, and the notion of 491 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:36,840 Speaker 1: affordability as one of the great problems in American society 492 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:41,119 Speaker 1: is definitely something of a corporate media hoax. It is 493 00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:43,520 Speaker 1: something of an information operation. If you look in inflation 494 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:45,920 Speaker 1: right now, it is manageable. It's in the two six 495 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,040 Speaker 1: to seven percent range. That's a little above the federal 496 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:53,040 Speaker 1: reserves two percent target, but it is really, frankly quite manageable. 497 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:56,199 Speaker 1: It also hasn't actually also moved a lot since the 498 00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:57,879 Speaker 1: end of the byministration. And this is kind of the 499 00:25:57,920 --> 00:25:59,600 Speaker 1: whole point of this other part of the exchange with 500 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:03,840 Speaker 1: sect percent and Elizabeth Warren was he was advancing dargment. 501 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:07,280 Speaker 1: That is the secretary that to the extent, to the 502 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:10,040 Speaker 1: extent that people are seeing frustrations to say when it 503 00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:12,520 Speaker 1: comes to the cost of living, it's a hangover from 504 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:15,320 Speaker 1: the Biden Harris economy, and how could it not be, 505 00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:17,760 Speaker 1: How could it not be a hangover when their economy 506 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:21,680 Speaker 1: reached an inflation metric of nine point one percent at 507 00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:24,119 Speaker 1: its peak in the summer of twenty twenty two, the 508 00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:29,560 Speaker 1: highest inflation metric since stagflation since Paul Volker was called 509 00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:32,040 Speaker 1: in his new FED share in the in the late 510 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:35,520 Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter early Ronald Reagan era to undo the damage 511 00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:39,199 Speaker 1: of the Jimmy Carter economy. More generally speaking, though, the 512 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:41,960 Speaker 1: economy objective is actually doing quite well at this time 513 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:45,840 Speaker 1: four point four percent quarterly growth on the most recent 514 00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:50,440 Speaker 1: statistic that we have available. Energy prices have absolutely plummeted. 515 00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:54,080 Speaker 1: Gas prices among the lowest they've been in many, many years. 516 00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:56,680 Speaker 1: That's doing no small parts. The administration expanding and they're 517 00:26:56,720 --> 00:27:00,480 Speaker 1: drilling in both offshore and onshore petroleum assets. At the 518 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:03,080 Speaker 1: same time, the deministration doing plenty of other things to 519 00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:05,480 Speaker 1: try to get the ECAMI reving as well. Among the 520 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:08,040 Speaker 1: things that I find most utterly delectable that they are 521 00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:09,560 Speaker 1: trying to do to try to get the Kami revving 522 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:12,320 Speaker 1: is to trim the fat out of the federal workforce, 523 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:16,359 Speaker 1: which has the multi prong benefit of one, hopefully a 524 00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:19,000 Speaker 1: get in the economy at revinggam because you don't want 525 00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:21,520 Speaker 1: this bloats when it comes to taxpayer expense. On the 526 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:24,040 Speaker 1: other hand, it's not just an economic issue. You don't 527 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:26,800 Speaker 1: want these leftist ideologues and trench there in the deep 528 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:30,560 Speaker 1: state bureaucracy running governments in general, just as an intrinsic matter. 529 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:34,800 Speaker 1: There So, on Thursday, the administration finalizing a rule that 530 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:37,159 Speaker 1: gives it the power, they say, to more easily fire 531 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:41,600 Speaker 1: at least up to fifty thousand additional federal workers. These 532 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:46,159 Speaker 1: include some folks who normally normally have a claim to 533 00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:49,360 Speaker 1: be protected under the civil service statutes of the late 534 00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:52,800 Speaker 1: eighteen hundreds early nineteen hundreds. So long story short, the 535 00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:55,800 Speaker 1: modern ministry of state really kicks off towards the end 536 00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:59,040 Speaker 1: of the nineteenth century century with the Pendleton Act, and 537 00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:03,680 Speaker 1: this notion of this permanently ensconced civil service class, this 538 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,600 Speaker 1: class of experts. It really then goes to the next level. 539 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:09,399 Speaker 1: It then goes to the next level in the early 540 00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:14,080 Speaker 1: twentieth centuries, specifically with the administration of Woodrow Wilson. Woodrow Wilson, 541 00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:17,399 Speaker 1: who was an avowed student of some of the worst 542 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:21,680 Speaker 1: continentally European philosophers, people like Hegel the German. He also 543 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:26,280 Speaker 1: was an admirer of John Dewey, of John Dewey here 544 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:28,879 Speaker 1: in the United States who was pontificating roughly around the 545 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:33,080 Speaker 1: same time as Wilson's presidency, August Compti, among other philosophers. 546 00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:35,720 Speaker 1: What these men all said, basically is that the people 547 00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:38,040 Speaker 1: are too stupid to rule themselves, and you need this 548 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:42,920 Speaker 1: anointed class of experts who have some sort of universal 549 00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:45,760 Speaker 1: moral yearning for us to be improved as human beings 550 00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:46,160 Speaker 1: or whatever. 551 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:46,480 Speaker 2: I mean. 552 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:49,800 Speaker 1: It's garbage, it's frankly, just it's not as garbage. Frankly, 553 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,960 Speaker 1: it's evil. Actually, it's evil because it deprives we, the people, 554 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:56,560 Speaker 1: of the ability to govern ourselves as our founders intended, 555 00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:59,560 Speaker 1: and frankly, I would argue, in many ways as God 556 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:01,560 Speaker 1: actually tended himself. In fact, I would argue that the 557 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:05,000 Speaker 1: origins of the notion of popular consent, popular concent for 558 00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:06,760 Speaker 1: governance the orders of that really, I think are actually 559 00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:09,800 Speaker 1: in many ways right there in the Hebrew Bible. So 560 00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:13,280 Speaker 1: we'll see if this Trump administrative rule gets off and running. 561 00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:15,120 Speaker 1: Certainly I think that it would be an amazing, amazing 562 00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:19,160 Speaker 1: thing there because watering down the Penulton Act, watering down 563 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:22,000 Speaker 1: this notion of making it too hard to fire the 564 00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:25,000 Speaker 1: deep state, you're literally never gonna be able, never ever, 565 00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:27,719 Speaker 1: ever will be able to actually drain the swamp unless 566 00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:32,080 Speaker 1: you can fire more employees. It's structurally, definitionally impossible. This 567 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:35,760 Speaker 1: is the number one reason why the Elon Musk doze 568 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:38,120 Speaker 1: effort didn't end up going as far as many hope 569 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:38,600 Speaker 1: that it would. 570 00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:39,080 Speaker 4: Now. 571 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:42,160 Speaker 1: Elon Musk for sure did some good work. They identified 572 00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:43,800 Speaker 1: at least one hundred and sixty five to hundred and 573 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,560 Speaker 1: seventy billion dollars give or take in fact to be 574 00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:49,440 Speaker 1: taken out. But it could have gone a lot further, 575 00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:51,960 Speaker 1: I'm saying, were it not for things like this. So 576 00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:54,040 Speaker 1: hopefully this rule gets up and running. This, frankly is 577 00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:56,000 Speaker 1: one of my favorite things that the administration probably has 578 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:59,440 Speaker 1: ever done when it comes to their now multi term 579 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:02,360 Speaker 1: attempt to drain the swamp there in the nation's capital. 580 00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:04,280 Speaker 2: Relatively. Lest you forget, there. 581 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:06,160 Speaker 1: Is actually a very fascinating case currently pending at the 582 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:10,680 Speaker 1: US Supreme Court. So this case which comes out of 583 00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:14,880 Speaker 1: the FTC the Federal Trade Commission. This case called Trump 584 00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:18,040 Speaker 1: versus Slaughter, and the question here and in the Slaughter 585 00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:20,520 Speaker 1: case essentially deals with the notion of a so called 586 00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:24,080 Speaker 1: independent agency. So the FTC, much like the FCC, much 587 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:27,440 Speaker 1: like the National Labor Relations Board various other agencies, is 588 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:31,800 Speaker 1: a so called independent agency. Under modern constitutional jargon, an 589 00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:34,800 Speaker 1: independent agency in theory is a creation of FDR in 590 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:37,160 Speaker 1: the New Deal, FDR being the logical successor of the 591 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:41,120 Speaker 1: intellectual heir to Woodrow Wilson and twentyth centry progressivism. And 592 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:43,560 Speaker 1: during the New Deal and the reign of FDR, this 593 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:48,480 Speaker 1: notion of the independent agency arose very consonant with, consistent 594 00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:54,200 Speaker 1: with this expertise, cloistered progressive elite bureaucraft mentality. And the 595 00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:56,560 Speaker 1: upshot is that they made it more difficult, if not 596 00:30:56,600 --> 00:31:00,160 Speaker 1: outright impossible, for the executive to fire. People were looking 597 00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:03,080 Speaker 1: at these independent agencies, trying to hide them, shield them 598 00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:05,760 Speaker 1: from accountability. The problem is that you can't do that. 599 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:09,600 Speaker 1: It's unconstitutional, Like you literally can't do that. Okay, there's 600 00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:12,719 Speaker 1: no such thing as an independent agency none. It's a lie. 601 00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:16,840 Speaker 1: Even the Federal Reserve, which is typically lauded, is independent. 602 00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:17,120 Speaker 2: There. 603 00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:20,040 Speaker 1: It doesn't make any sense. There's a dirty little secret 604 00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:22,440 Speaker 1: that no one's willing to squarely address. It doesn't make 605 00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:26,000 Speaker 1: any sense. Okay, if you're in government, you're an article 606 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,320 Speaker 1: on the Congress, Article too, the executive branch, Article three, 607 00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:30,920 Speaker 1: the judiciary, or you're not anywhere. And if you're not anywhere, 608 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:33,440 Speaker 1: then you're inconstitutional So we'll see where that case goes. 609 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:35,560 Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure the ministration is going to win. These 610 00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:39,480 Speaker 1: bread and broader structural constitutionals in cases are typically pretty 611 00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:41,720 Speaker 1: good when it comes to the current court majority. So 612 00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:45,400 Speaker 1: between that and this attempt to now fire more federal 613 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:48,680 Speaker 1: civil servants, good stuff in the works there. This ideally 614 00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:51,160 Speaker 1: we get the economy uprevving even more again it's already 615 00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:53,280 Speaker 1: pretty good, but anything that will be additionally helpful, I 616 00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:56,200 Speaker 1: think for the administration and Republicans. As we hurdle on 617 00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:59,480 Speaker 1: towards November twenty twenty six, folks say was through the 618 00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:01,480 Speaker 1: break Josh camera, We'll be right back on the other side. 619 00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:08,480 Speaker 2: So one of the big. 620 00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:11,479 Speaker 1: Stories that we are all still following is this horrific, horrific, 621 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:15,520 Speaker 1: terrible story out of Tucson, Arizona, the abduction, the kidnapping 622 00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:20,160 Speaker 1: with apparently a ransom note of Nancy Guthrie, the mother 623 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:24,400 Speaker 1: of the ubiquitous well known Today Show host Savannah gut Thrie. 624 00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:27,880 Speaker 1: And it's a stark reminder of a few things, but 625 00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:30,360 Speaker 1: the one that stands out most to us is that 626 00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:33,400 Speaker 1: Americans of all stripes are pulling for. 627 00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:34,400 Speaker 2: This to have a happy ending. 628 00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:36,760 Speaker 1: We have no idea whether or it will, but it's 629 00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:39,880 Speaker 1: another reminder that sometimes it is frustrating that it takes 630 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:44,080 Speaker 1: some really, really really awful things to bring the country together. 631 00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:46,280 Speaker 1: I mean, I think back to when I was in 632 00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:48,600 Speaker 1: middle school. I was in seventh grade when nine to 633 00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:51,040 Speaker 1: eleven happened. This is kind of the peak of the 634 00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:53,560 Speaker 1: rally around the flag of fat, the peak of by parsanship, 635 00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:56,120 Speaker 1: the peak of non partisanship. Frankly, there I remember New 636 00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:59,080 Speaker 1: Yorker's lining up for a city block on city block 637 00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:02,560 Speaker 1: to donate blood the firefighters, NYPD, FDN, Y, you name 638 00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:06,640 Speaker 1: it there. And it's awful that it takes tragedies like 639 00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:10,200 Speaker 1: this for us to night sometimes, But that's also just 640 00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:13,120 Speaker 1: part of human nature. That is a tale literally as 641 00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:15,080 Speaker 1: old as time. There are countless stories of this all 642 00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:18,360 Speaker 1: throughout scripture. And again we really are praying for the 643 00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:22,000 Speaker 1: Guthrie family because it's just an awful story. But there 644 00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:24,320 Speaker 1: are some things, there are at least some things that 645 00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:27,040 Speaker 1: I think have the capability of the possibility to unite 646 00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:31,720 Speaker 1: the country without being a truly horrible or evil situation. 647 00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:35,400 Speaker 1: One of those is potentially the Olympic Games. So I'm 648 00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:37,840 Speaker 1: a huge sports fan personally, I actually really look forward 649 00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:41,480 Speaker 1: to the Olympics. And tonight on Friday, Friday evening, February sixth, 650 00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:45,040 Speaker 1: is the opening ceremony for the Winter Olympics taking place 651 00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:48,720 Speaker 1: now in northern Italy. It's called the Milan Courtina Olympic Games. 652 00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:51,720 Speaker 1: Quurtina is a small ski town and the Dolomites there 653 00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:55,720 Speaker 1: in northern Italy and a what an Olympics that it 654 00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:58,160 Speaker 1: ought to be. It's exciting stuff. I mean, look, personally, 655 00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:00,320 Speaker 1: I prefer the Summer Games. I think most people when 656 00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:02,720 Speaker 1: it comes to swimming in gymnastics and basketball and track 657 00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:03,440 Speaker 1: and field and that's yeah. 658 00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:05,920 Speaker 2: But the Winter Games are pretty cool, pretty cool. 659 00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:09,120 Speaker 1: I mean, I grew up watching that grainy footage of 660 00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:11,640 Speaker 1: al Michaels calling the Lake Placid Olympics. 661 00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:12,759 Speaker 2: Do you believe in miracles? 662 00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:15,279 Speaker 1: Yes, I mean you kind of get goosebumps there. So, 663 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:20,200 Speaker 1: whether it's hockey, speed skating, ski, luge, bob slid, lots 664 00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:22,799 Speaker 1: of good stuff happening here, and the Olympics really is, 665 00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:25,120 Speaker 1: or at least ought to be a moment for us 666 00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:28,440 Speaker 1: to unify. Now, if you think back to the last Olympics, 667 00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:30,080 Speaker 1: the Paris Olympics. 668 00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:31,440 Speaker 2: There was some woke crap. 669 00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:35,239 Speaker 1: There was some absolute left wing woke crap there in 670 00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:38,880 Speaker 1: the opening ceremony. Hopefully the Italians will not replicate that 671 00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:42,879 Speaker 1: for the world, but in theory at least thinking about 672 00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:46,759 Speaker 1: the American domestic perspective here, this is a time to 673 00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:49,920 Speaker 1: rally around the flag. And I can't help but compare 674 00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:53,759 Speaker 1: and contrast this unity that we are expecting here when 675 00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:55,600 Speaker 1: it comes to the Winter Olympics for the next two 676 00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:58,560 Speaker 1: weeks of the Olympic Games. I cannot help but compare 677 00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:02,720 Speaker 1: and contrast that to the deep disunity that we currently 678 00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:04,839 Speaker 1: have over the Super Bowl. Speaking of the sporting world, 679 00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:08,960 Speaker 1: this Sunday, So the Super Bowl is this Sunday. It 680 00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:11,560 Speaker 1: is Super Bowl fifty sixty. Excuse me, Super Bowl sixty 681 00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:14,359 Speaker 1: hearted lye. It's been around for that long happening out 682 00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:17,560 Speaker 1: in San Francisco, and it's it's between the Sattle Seahawks 683 00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:20,399 Speaker 1: and the New England Patriots. Patriots back in the Super 684 00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:23,439 Speaker 1: Bowl for the first time since the Tom Brady Bill 685 00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:27,880 Speaker 1: Belichick era. Robert Kraft, the owner of the Patriots, shocking 686 00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:30,080 Speaker 1: the world this week with one of the worst political 687 00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:33,000 Speaker 1: advertisements I think I've ever seen my entire life. It 688 00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:36,160 Speaker 1: is a ten million dollar waste of money, waste of oxygen. 689 00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:38,640 Speaker 1: It is an ad that he's airing purportedly in the 690 00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:42,399 Speaker 1: name of combating anti Semitism. It is just awful. It's 691 00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:45,560 Speaker 1: an advertisement of this kind of nerdy looking Jewish guy 692 00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:47,920 Speaker 1: getting shoved in high school and then he gets the 693 00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:50,080 Speaker 1: locker and he opens a locker and says dirty jew 694 00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:52,680 Speaker 1: And there's another guy who sat beside him, this black 695 00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:53,919 Speaker 1: guy who kind of saves the day. 696 00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:55,560 Speaker 2: And there's like a little blue square. 697 00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:58,719 Speaker 1: It's like a token of like, I hate anti Semitism, 698 00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:00,399 Speaker 1: kind of like the whole black square from the Black 699 00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:00,839 Speaker 1: Lives Matter. 700 00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:02,000 Speaker 2: I mean, what is this crap? 701 00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:03,080 Speaker 3: What is this? 702 00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:05,759 Speaker 1: If you actually want to find anti Semitism. Stop with 703 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:11,120 Speaker 1: the victimhood garbage. Garbage, it's the worst mentality I really, 704 00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:13,920 Speaker 1: you know, in my book Israel and Civilization, I'm actually critical, 705 00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:18,680 Speaker 1: been critical for years of the overdoing of Holocaust education. 706 00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:19,319 Speaker 2: Don't get me wrong. 707 00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:21,600 Speaker 1: There's a lot of Americans who are woefully ignorant about 708 00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:24,200 Speaker 1: the Holocaust. And you can't forget it, obviously, God forbid, 709 00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:27,799 Speaker 1: you have to remember it. But you can't overdo it either, 710 00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:31,440 Speaker 1: because you can't instill this notion of perpetual victimhood. If 711 00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:34,160 Speaker 1: Robert Kraft were actually spending this money in theory all 712 00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:36,400 Speaker 1: over again, if he had the time to read you 713 00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:39,600 Speaker 1: before the big game on Sunday, maybe, just maybe he 714 00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:43,480 Speaker 1: could ditch this stupid victimhood ad and spend an ad 715 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:49,040 Speaker 1: talking about how the Jewish state of Israel obliterated Hamas obliterated. 716 00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:51,920 Speaker 1: Has Bola get some montage of a lot of hot 717 00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:55,160 Speaker 1: Israeli girls with machine guns? Isn't that a better and 718 00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:58,600 Speaker 1: more empowering message than this stupid virtual Sibilan crowd. Anyway, 719 00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:01,680 Speaker 1: I digress, But for those reasons and more anyway, I 720 00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:04,000 Speaker 1: will be rooting personally for the Seattle Seahawks. 721 00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:05,440 Speaker 2: This this Sunday. 722 00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:09,040 Speaker 1: Not that we're necessarily huge Seahawks fans, but certainly compared 723 00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:11,200 Speaker 1: to the alternative, I'll be rooting for Seattle. But the 724 00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:13,719 Speaker 1: bigger controversy actually has to do not necessarily with the game, 725 00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:17,360 Speaker 1: but with the halftime show. So Bad Bunny, Bad Bunny, 726 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:21,200 Speaker 1: who is wildly popular here in South Florida where I live. 727 00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:23,760 Speaker 1: He's something of a celebrity for the Puerto Rican community, 728 00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:26,640 Speaker 1: for some other Latino communities here in the US as well. 729 00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:29,759 Speaker 1: I don't personally dabble in that genre of music. He's 730 00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:33,600 Speaker 1: also something of a leftist activist, although that hasn't stopped 731 00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:36,879 Speaker 1: Roger Goodell from speculating that Bad Bunny will somehow unite 732 00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:38,799 Speaker 1: the country. So here, actually, if you case you missed it, 733 00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:40,640 Speaker 1: is the commissioner of the NFL, Roger Goodell is saying 734 00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:42,400 Speaker 1: that Bad Bunny is going to unite the country. 735 00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:45,560 Speaker 6: And your second question, I think everybody want to listen. 736 00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:49,080 Speaker 6: Bad Benny was is and I think that was demonstrated 737 00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:51,680 Speaker 6: last night. One of the great artists in the world, 738 00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:55,160 Speaker 6: and that's one of the reasons to be chosen. But 739 00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:57,560 Speaker 6: the other reason is he understood the platform he was 740 00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:00,360 Speaker 6: on and that this was this platform is used to 741 00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:03,320 Speaker 6: unite people and to be able to bring people together 742 00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:06,879 Speaker 6: with their creativity, with their talents, and to be able 743 00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:08,839 Speaker 6: to use this moment to do that. And I think 744 00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:12,040 Speaker 6: artists in the past have done that. I think Bad 745 00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:15,000 Speaker 6: Bunny understands that, and I think you'll have a great performance. 746 00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:21,480 Speaker 1: No, no, So anyway, this whole thing has been proven 747 00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:22,960 Speaker 1: to be so kind of real because Bad Bunny is 748 00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:25,080 Speaker 1: outspoken on the ice stuff. 749 00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:25,320 Speaker 2: On the emigrants. 750 00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:28,160 Speaker 1: By the way, while we're talking about Bad Bunny and Ice, 751 00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:32,120 Speaker 1: the NFL Chief Security Officer Kathy Lannie are actually going 752 00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:35,960 Speaker 1: ahead and announcing there will be no ice investigations or 753 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:40,280 Speaker 1: operations around the game out in California this Sunday crazy stuff. 754 00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:41,240 Speaker 2: Go ahead and watch this one. 755 00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:46,759 Speaker 7: Are no planned ice or immigration enforcement operations that are 756 00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:49,120 Speaker 7: scheduled around the Super Bowl or any of the super 757 00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:52,319 Speaker 7: Bowl related events. For fans attending the Super Bowl during 758 00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:55,200 Speaker 7: this week, please plan ahead and know the important details 759 00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:56,800 Speaker 7: before you come down to the site. 760 00:38:57,040 --> 00:38:59,200 Speaker 1: All right, So, I mean, this is it's pure virtus 761 00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:03,200 Speaker 1: in only it's pure unadult treated very signoling. I mean, 762 00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:05,920 Speaker 1: this is the same league that ever since the Great 763 00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:09,000 Speaker 1: Martyr or the Saint George Floyd died there in twenty twenty. 764 00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,799 Speaker 1: The same league that has had and racism and all 765 00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:15,520 Speaker 1: this other virtue signaling pablem just emblazoned in their end 766 00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:19,560 Speaker 1: zones and on the sidelines there. So that they're doing 767 00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:23,160 Speaker 1: this is wholly unsurprising, but it has led to this 768 00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:29,160 Speaker 1: alternative halftime show, this all American halftime show, This alternative 769 00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:32,480 Speaker 1: that's being put on by Turning Points, USA, Charlie Kirkschmranization, 770 00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:33,080 Speaker 1: among others. 771 00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:33,440 Speaker 2: There. 772 00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:35,480 Speaker 1: I'll be tuning into that personally. You're gonna get some 773 00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:37,560 Speaker 1: country stars. I'm a huge country fan. You're gonna get 774 00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:40,160 Speaker 1: Lee Brice, Brandley, Gilbert, Kid Rock's gonna be there. Actually, 775 00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:43,359 Speaker 1: in fact, Lee Brice was actually on Will Kine's Fox 776 00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:45,440 Speaker 1: News show talking about why he's doing this and what 777 00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:47,520 Speaker 1: he expects on Sunday. Go ahead and watch this on 778 00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:48,640 Speaker 1: Will Kaine's Fox News. 779 00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:51,600 Speaker 4: Show, Bad Buddy. I mean, I don't know much about him. 780 00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:53,960 Speaker 8: I not heard he's you know, I want a bunch 781 00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:55,880 Speaker 8: of Grammys and he's a great artist or whatever. 782 00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:58,920 Speaker 4: But you know, I didn't get asked to play. 783 00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:00,880 Speaker 8: The other super Bowl, but I did get asked to 784 00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:02,759 Speaker 8: do this and be a part of something that I. 785 00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:03,760 Speaker 4: Believe in that I've grown. 786 00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:06,080 Speaker 8: I mean, you know, and I'm like, this is gonna 787 00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:09,200 Speaker 8: be so much fun standing up and being a part 788 00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:13,480 Speaker 8: of something that is who I am and and is. 789 00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:16,840 Speaker 4: You know Brantley and Bob will good Rock. 790 00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:21,279 Speaker 8: And and Gabby We we are truly all excited to 791 00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:22,600 Speaker 8: be able to send up. It's it's our you know. 792 00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:25,000 Speaker 8: And Charlie Kirk wanted everybody to have a microphone, and 793 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:30,759 Speaker 8: like it's got a celebration of well, you know, of 794 00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:33,120 Speaker 8: what he believed in and what he brought to the table. 795 00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:36,360 Speaker 8: And I'm just proud, you know, I'm proud to be 796 00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:36,960 Speaker 8: an American. 797 00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:40,600 Speaker 4: And I'm excited. I'm a musician. I get to go, 798 00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:41,800 Speaker 4: I get to go play music. 799 00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:46,320 Speaker 1: And that's the mentality, isn't It is pride of being American, 800 00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:52,280 Speaker 1: Pride of who we are, not anger, not resentments, not ranker, 801 00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:56,480 Speaker 1: not stoking the flames of hatred, of ice or bar patrol. 802 00:40:57,080 --> 00:40:57,880 Speaker 2: There's a big difference. 803 00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:00,560 Speaker 1: I might say that you're a bet American if you 804 00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:02,000 Speaker 1: watch Bad Money, if you don't want to flip the 805 00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:04,799 Speaker 1: channel to watch this turning Point USA Alternative. Although I 806 00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:06,960 Speaker 1: will be doing that. What I am saying is that 807 00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:10,279 Speaker 1: sports should be used to unite, not to divide. I 808 00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:13,560 Speaker 1: believe it was Earl Warren, who ironically was an extremely 809 00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:15,480 Speaker 1: left wing Supreme Court justice. But I think it was 810 00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:18,920 Speaker 1: Earl Warren who famously said that he begins reading the 811 00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:21,759 Speaker 1: newspaper not on page one with the big headlines from 812 00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:24,279 Speaker 1: the sports section, because he prefers to start his day 813 00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:26,600 Speaker 1: every morning over his cup of coffee by reading. 814 00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:28,840 Speaker 2: About man's achievements, not his failures. 815 00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:32,560 Speaker 1: In theory, sports has the power to bring out our 816 00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:35,759 Speaker 1: successes as opposed to our failures, to unite us, to 817 00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:39,960 Speaker 1: inspire us. That's what should happen. That's what God willing 818 00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:43,200 Speaker 1: will happen over in Milan Courtina, over these Winter Olympics 819 00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:45,520 Speaker 1: for the next two weeks. Will it happened this Sunday 820 00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:46,800 Speaker 1: at the Big Game in San Francisco. 821 00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:47,839 Speaker 2: I don't know. 822 00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:51,280 Speaker 1: I certainly hope so, but frankly that'll be surprising. Go Seahawks. 823 00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:53,840 Speaker 1: We'll see what happens. Hope you enjoyed today's show, folks, 824 00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:55,320 Speaker 1: have a great rest of your week and enjoy the 825 00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:56,720 Speaker 1: big Game. We'll be right back on Monday.