WEBVTT - What's Next with Iran? 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:03.080 People are saying this. Past Olympics has been one of 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:06.520 the more politically significant since the nineteen thirty six per 0:00:06.600 --> 0:00:10.040 Lynn Games, when Hitler and the Nazis ruled Germany. It 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:12.760 does feel a lot more political than past Olympics, with 0:00:12.840 --> 0:00:15.800 some athletes even going on record saying they don't want 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:18.480 people to get the wrong idea because they are representing 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:23.080 the United States as an Olympic athlete, speedskater Hunter Hess, 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:26.119 for example, explained, I just kind of want to do 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:28.280 it for my friends and my family and the people 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:32.000 that supported me getting here. He later clarified, just because 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:34.920 I'm wearing the flag, it doesn't mean I represent everything 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:38.360 that's going on in the US. Using the very freedom 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:41.160 of speech guaranteed by a nation to refuse to praise 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:45.839 that nation while representing them is perhaps the ultimate display 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:49.839 of ingratitude. Two of the more compelling tales of this 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:54.000 are the stories of Eileen Gou and Alyssa Lu On paper, 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:57.440 the two are very similar, both are Californians of Chinese descent, 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:00.800 and both are competing at the top levels events in 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:05.560 the Milano Olympics. Both have left leaning political views, yet 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:08.880 in terms of gratitude, it couldn't be more dissimilar. That's 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:12.319 because Gou made the choice to represent not the country 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:15.120 of her birth, the country where she was raised and trained, 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:19.520 but the communist dictatorship of China. This is her second Olympics, 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:23.560 representing the red flag on the world stage. Lou, on 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:25.240 the other hand, is the child of a man who's 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:29.920 a refugee from China. He's wanted there for his involvement 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:33.320 in the Tianaman Square protests. The last time she competed 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:36.160 in the Beijing Olympics, she needed a security detail to 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:39.640 protect her from PRC operatives who were targeting her and 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:44.480 her father. Lou doesn't just represent the US. She's representing 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:48.960 the US very well. She competed on the ice with 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:52.240 unfettered joy and pride and brought home the gold draped 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:56.080 in the American flag. Gou won gold too, only she 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:58.960 didn't bring it home in the same sense. It's China's 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:01.880 gold medal, not ours. And that's a bit of a 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:04.880 sticking point with Goo's critics because despite the fact that 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:07.919 she competes for China, she still lives in the country 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:11.160 where she was raised, and that's the US. She's not 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:13.320 disturbed much by the fact that she lives in a 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:18.280 country she doesn't condescend to represent. She turns such criticism 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:22.200 into an opportunity to brag, saying, if I wasn't doing well, 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:24.960 I think that they probably wouldn't care as much, and 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:29.079 that's okay for me. People are entitled to their opinions. Well, 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:33.120 that's true in America at least. It's not just Americans 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:35.400 who take issue with guz have your cake and eat 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:38.720 it too attitude. Some of her Chinese critics also expressed 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:41.360 dissatisfaction with the way she keeps the very country she 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:46.200 represents on the snow at arms length. Goo's Chinese name 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:49.920 is gu is Ling, but the story is that mift 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:53.960 Chinese are calling her gu Ei Chin, which turns her 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:57.919 name into Goo loves money. So she is getting criticized 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:00.760 from that ankle. I have to say that I sympathize 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:03.880 with the average Chinese on this one. Sure, she won 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:07.680 medals for China, but she won't even want to live here. 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:10.639 She doesn't really want to be connected to China, and 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:13.960 the insult isn't hard to detect. Goo doesn't care about 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:17.560 her Chinese critics. I don't think, considering she grew up 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:20.679 in the US, and lives there. In twenty twenty four, 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:23.240 she decided to try to shame them as well by 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:26.960 taunting quote, in the past five years, I've represented China 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:30.079 in forty one international competitions and have won thirty nine 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:32.480 medals for China? What have you done for the country? 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:37.400 So that is horror? Come back to the Chinese people. 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:42.040 Can we say that's very gu like of her. The 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:44.640 really odd thing about Gou is that she shouldn't be 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:48.120 in the US at all, honestly, unless she is just 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:52.520 visiting tourist visa. According to Chinese law, she's not a 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:56.360 native Chinese, but naturalized. And in China, when you become 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:58.680 a citizen, you're required by law to give up your 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:05.240 old citizenship. Yet here she is in Stanford, California. You see, 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:09.520 America recognizes her citizenship because she was born here. So 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:13.800 even though she's a card carrying Chinese Communist national, she 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:17.080 is an American because she was born on our soil. 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:22.080 Why doesn't China enforce their side of the naturalization process 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:24.600 by forcing gu just to render her US citizenship like 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:29.880 the law demands money status medals, Or maybe that was 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:32.200 part of some deal when she made her decision to 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:35.840 represent China that gave her half her genomes but none 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:38.880 of her freedom or civil rights. Maybe it's not that 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:41.640 unusual at all. It seems that Gou isn't so much 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:44.640 the exception as she is the rule. You see. According 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:49.200 to New York Times bestselling book and Visible Coup by 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:52.560 Peter Schweizer, China has been looking the other way when 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:56.520 it comes to her American born citizens a lot. And 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:59.200 because this is the Chinese Communist Party we're talking about, 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:03.000 you can bet this isn't your typical bureaucratic misstep. It's 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:06.719 very much deliberate and part of a larger plot. In 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:09.440 an interview with Steve Bannon that was quoted by Breitbart, 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:12.799 Schweitzerer pointed out that for the past thirteen years, roughly 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:17.240 one hundred thousand Chinese babies have been born in the US. 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:21.120 Back of the envelope math tells us that's easily over 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:25.520 a million Chinese who also claim US citizenship. And this 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:29.840 is not normal birth tourism, if that's even normal. These 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:33.560 are children of party elites and military officers, says Schweitzer. 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:37.320 After being born, they're wist away back to China, where 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:40.840 they're raised as Chinese citizens. But thanks to birthright citizenship 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:44.599 here in the US, they are still Americans when this 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:48.840 million plus foard of Chinese Americans churn eighteen. They can 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:51.480 do things like a vote in our elections, they can 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:55.039 make political donations, they can work for our government, and 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:59.680 is all perfectly legal. Well, hopefully the Supreme Court will 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:02.400 take a look at this, because this is a very 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:07.160 serious national security issue. No other country has immigration policies 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:11.760 that expose its citizen citizenry to this level of exploitation 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:16.960 by the Chinese Communist Party. Something tells me that while 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:20.960 these millions playing remote citizen in China would jump at 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:23.640 the chance to work in DC, none of them are 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:26.160 going to do us the favor of representing the US 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:29.760 in a future Olympic game, for example. That's not the 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:32.640 only area in which China is making waves these days. 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:36.279 It seems Beijing is absolutely furious over the results of 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:43.479 the recent Japanese election that one conservative Takaichi an unprecedented 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:47.080 conservative majority. Among other items on her parties to do 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:50.800 list is the eradication of Article nine of the Japanese Constitution, 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:54.400 clearing the way for Japan to build up its military forces. 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:58.640 Of course, in some sense, the changes will be primarily linguistic. 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:02.520 Rather than a st army, Japan has a self defense force, 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:04.720 which is, for all intents and purposes the same thing 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:08.920 as military. The Japanese Self Defense Force currently ranks in 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:12.600 the top ten overall among the world's militaries already. So 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:16.880 is jettison ing Article nine really going to dramatically alter things? 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:19.440 Leave it to China to find a reason to cut 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:22.400 a fit over a name change. In an attempt to 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:28.800 stop Japanese remilitarization, the PRC has announced restrictions to twenty 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:31.800 Japanese entities to ensure that they don't end up as 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:37.040 components in Japanese military hardware. Japan isn't about to outsource 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:41.119 its new army of giant fighting robots to Chinese manufacturers. 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:46.560 I'm just assuming that Japanese remilitarization will include giant fighting robots. 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:50.160 It's the twenty first century and it's finally time for that. 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:59.040 The affected Japanese companies include Sumiitomo, Mitsubishi, Kawasaki, Fujitsu Ihi Corporation, 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:02.720 and sup So. China is getting a little nervous that 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:07.520 the Japanese might recall their previous military might. The Chinese 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:11.000 have been highly critical of the Prime Minister, especially since 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:15.640 she called for Japan to develop nuclear weapons. A militarized 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:18.280 in nuclear armed Japan certainly seems like it would add 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:21.400 a few wrinkles to the Chinese goal of invading the 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:24.760 peaceful and free nation of Taiwan. It would also make 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:27.920 it harder to enact a naval blockade of Japan in 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:30.320 order to cut her off from the rest of the world, 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:34.000 which is another one of China's long standing strategic goals. 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:37.640 By the way, across the planet, the elements needed to 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:42.960 realize China's goals have been steadily falling into place. They've 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:46.559 been in economic support an arms dealer to the Ayatola 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:49.360 and Iran for years, and they were in the process 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:52.480 of negotiating with Venezuela as well when our little game 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:56.440 of cash the Dictator ended up ruining that point. Across 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:59.640 the globe, from South Korea, Japan, and the Philippines in 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:03.559 Asia to the South American countries of Ecuador, Peru, Chile, 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:09.120 and Argentina, China's engaging in exploited illegal fishing practices, I 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:10.880 guess they wanted to make sure that everywhere had a 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:13.760 reason not to like them. I mean, they certainly are 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:17.480 eating that much fish. No such gray zone tactics allow 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:21.400 their vessels to function as a paramilitary force, thereby allowing 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:25.040 Beijing to exert control just below the threshold of open 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:28.360 armed conflict. It is a surg meeting in reserve, if 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:31.880 you will. Just as their ubiquitous fishing fleets may be 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:35.600 other than they seen, China's population may not be as 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:40.360 large as reporting. Bushi Yan, a researcher at the University 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:43.600 of Wisconsin, asserts the country doesn't have as many people 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:45.880 as she claims. Why would a government want to keep 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:49.520 its country's population size secret? Well, because the size of 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:52.600 the Chinese market is one of its biggest draws. It 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:55.280 also helps at the local level to fudge those numbers 0:09:55.280 --> 0:10:01.199 in order to get bigger government subsidies. Well, Fushion believes 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:04.160 that China's population of one point four billion is actually 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:07.600 about one point three billion. That translates to one hundred 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:11.959 and million fewer Chinese people than reported. Other estimates say 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:14.960 that China's actual population is less than half of what 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:17.560 it's reported to be. That may be a stretch, but 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:20.280 it would explain why there are whole sections of cities 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:24.240 where the buildings are completely empty. These topics and more 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:28.280 will make for some very interesting research, and this is 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:32.320 something Peter Schweizer has dived into in his recent book. 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:36.560 He has been looking into a lot of this and 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:40.200 it's very interesting to see everything he's uncovered, because it 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:42.680 just goes to show us that the Chinese Communist Party 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:48.400 is using America's own laws, America's own rules, in order 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:53.320 to actually subvert the country. I am delighted to welcome 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:57.440 our guest today, Larry Taunton. He is an author, columnist, 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:01.120 and cultural commentator. His work has been cut by the BBC, 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:04.720 the New York Times, and many other places. Larry, thanks 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:05.920 so much for joining us. 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:07.880 Great to be with you, Danielle. 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:11.800 Great well. I thought we could start off by maybe 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:14.760 talking a little bit about the news that transpired this 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:18.320 weekend with Iran, and maybe you can just start by 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:20.400 telling us your initial reaction to all that. 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:25.719 Well, you know, I have so many initial thoughts, Danielle. 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:29.800 One of them is I'm kind of tired of the 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:34.040 so called America first crowd that really is America, only 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:38.040 they don't quite understand that America first means that for 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:40.839 your own house to be safe, you may have to 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:44.360 burn down the crack house that's across the street. And 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:49.080 I see this very much as authentic America first, just 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:53.640 as I see that being the case with operations in Venezuela. 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:58.239 I don't think the same thing about Ukraine, for example. 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:04.199 But you know, Iran has been funding terrorism. Have they 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:08.080 funded hamas they funded the October seventh attacks in Israel? 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:10.280 And I know that there's some will be listening who 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:17.600 are not sympathetic to Israeli people who were murdered, mutilated, 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:18.319 women raped. 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:20.480 I know that there's plenty that are within that. 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:26.760 Crowd and that thinking, but they're not understanding that Iran 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:30.200 as the head of the snake and the Biden administration 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:33.319 as well as the Obama administration is and no doubt 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:38.800 the Biden administration, being directed by Obama himself, basically funded 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:43.320 all of these kinds of attacks. Iran has directed tax 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:47.320 against the United States more than ninety times just since 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:53.520 twenty twenty. 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:57.079 Yeah, And it's very interesting because I noticed Trump recently 0:12:57.240 --> 0:13:02.080 was saying that he thought that Iran, you know, tried 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:04.000 to get him first, and then he was saying, but 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:06.760 I actually got you first. So in a way, it 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:12.400 was very clear why Trump was going after community for example. 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:17.080 Yeah, well, he's he's privy to a lot of intelligence, 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:23.280 of course that we don't see. But it's you know, 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:27.120 I'm old enough, Danielle. You're quite young, and I'm old 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:31.360 enough to remember when I was a kid, the storming 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:36.400 of the US embassy nineteen seventy nine in Tehran and 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:39.120 the holding for more than I want to say it 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:41.400 was four hundred and forty five days, something like that, 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:45.360 of American hostages that were paraded nightly, you know, on 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:51.320 our news screens. I'm also old enough to recall many 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:57.719 of their attacks, murdering Americans, boarding American vessels, holding American 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:05.959 sailors hostage, and successive ministration is doing virtually nothing about this, 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:09.840 and I would get it. You know, if the United 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:13.560 States were let's say, Cameroon, we might not have the 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:17.880 ability to do these things. But I'm appreciative of the 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:22.080 fact that Donald Trump has taken seriously the care of 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:25.880 the American people, the attacks on our soldiers, and the 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:30.240 realization that I saw Matt Walsh tweeted yesterday, and that's 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:34.000 a bright guy. But Matt had tweeted more or less 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:37.280 implying that the attacks that are taking place in the 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:42.520 United States and attacking I ran that those things are 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:46.040 you know, kind of mutually exclusive, and you have to 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:48.400 choose one or the other. Well, I mean, who do 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:51.080 you think is funding you know a lot of these 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:53.240 kinds of things. So where do they think the weaponry, 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:56.600 you know, is coming from. Who do they think is 0:14:56.640 --> 0:15:00.680 supplying the training as they did with October seventh, supplying 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:05.400 the technical expertise for cyber attacks and things of this nature. 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:08.040 You can go after both at the same time. 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:12.960 Right, do you think that it's interesting because we've seen 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:16.200 kind of the left and the right are almost like 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:19.240 especially like the woke right sort of, not that he is, 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:21.640 but there are people on that side. Do you feel 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:25.200 like they're basically becoming like the left because they are 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:27.800 seeing a lot of the same kind of talking points. 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:31.480 Yeah, well, this actually be an interesting conversation with your 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:36.320 dad because I hate the term woke right. That's an oxymoron. 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:39.960 It makes no sense at all if you're woke your left, 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:42.960 I mean, just period. I realized that we kind of 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:45.720 get stuck with these kind of terms, and I realized 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:48.720 the individual you know who came up with this, I said, idiotic, 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:52.360 It's an idiotic notion. If you're woke you're on the left. 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:55.080 That doesn't mean that you can't hold views that are 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:57.520 on the right, that you can't be a combination in 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:02.200 some sense of the two. But the mob, they're totalitarian 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:06.800 and their leanings. They're the kind of people that gather, 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:09.200 you know, I was just at the World Economic Forum 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:12.920 last month, or I should say now the month before last, 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:17.200 in mid January, where these are the kind of people 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:19.040 who meet and who want to dictate to the rest 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:20.320 of us the manner. 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:20.720 Which we live. 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:22.960 But yes, I think we're seeing a lot of people 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:29.080 that we previously fought, Danielle were solid conservatives who are 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:32.920 not actually solid conservatives. And I don't think it's because 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:36.040 they were lying about being conservative. I think it's what 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:40.640 we're seeing is their worldview being exposed. That these weren't 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:45.680 individuals who are actually rooted in an absolute that is 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:48.800 to say, in eternal principles. They were more kind of 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:51.800 rooted in their feelings and how they you know, a 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:56.640 kind of vague patriotism or a misty eyed Americana rather 0:16:56.720 --> 0:17:01.320 than actually being rooted in you know, ideals, the kind 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:05.199 of ideals that we find expressed in the Declaration of 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:08.840 Independence and in our Constitution. And of course ultimately in scripture. 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:14.240 Yeah, and many of those people are actually just liberal. 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:16.399 They pretend to be conservative, but they're not. 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:19.800 One name one, give me names, come on, give me oh. 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:22.000 Well, definitely like the Nick f Onetastes type crowd, because 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:27.280 they're trying to undo the those they want us to over, 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:30.000 the Democrats or whatever, so they're just very open about it, 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:31.880 of course. But then there are some other people who 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:34.119 are maybe normal people who are just kind of like 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:36.200 confused or swept in the middle of this stuff and 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:39.200 they're not really sure what they think about what's going 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:41.800 on with Iran. Maybe you can tell us what's your 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:45.960 kind of main argument for how this is America First? 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:50.520 What is your kind of way that you would explain 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:53.280 it to someone who's maybe not against it, but is 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:54.720 just kind of not sure. 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:59.480 Well, I think again, I'd want to make a distinction 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:04.800 between uh, the the America firsters who really are America only. 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:09.000 They're only concerned with anything that happens inside our borders. 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:10.359 And I get it. 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:13.800 I understand that at a very elementary level. But it's 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:17.520 elementary kind of thinking, you know, as I was, you know, 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:20.520 indicated earlier. You know, if your own home let's just 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:23.160 let's just think of it like this. If your own 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:28.000 home is constantly being you know, robbed, and there are 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:30.520 people trying to you know, break through your front door, 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:34.399 and you have you have a choice there. Yeah, I 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:37.000 guess you can keep barricading it and try to make 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:39.200 your fences higher and these kind of things. Or you 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:42.640 could try to clean up the neighborhood. You know, these 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:45.800 things tend to not happen, uh when you're in a 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:49.720 little better neighborhood. And I think Trump's approach here is 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:50.480 the recognition. 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:50.919 Listen. 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:56.400 I was following caravans all over South America. I did 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:58.439 this for five years. You know. I was going to 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:03.040 cartel towns and Dairian Gap. I was following what we 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:08.040 were mostly, or let's just say, a plurality of Venezuelans 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:10.840 making their way up to Mexico City where they could 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:13.960 board Labstia the Beast with a freight train where they 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:15.479 would get on the roof of it and follow it 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:18.080 to the six hundred miles north to the US border. 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:24.639 I kept screaming that until we solve the problem in Venezuela, 0:19:24.800 --> 0:19:28.000 this is going to keep happening. And anybody who's going 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:30.600 to go through the dairy and gap in flip flops, 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:33.520 holding a baby and carrying a bottle of water. I 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:36.520 promise you, your wall is not going to stop them. 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:39.360 Your wall isn't going to stop them. Now, according to CNN, 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:42.080 this was all being caused by global warming, which we 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:45.359 know is complete nonsense. It was being caused by Marxism 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:48.720 that was turning economies one right after the other in 0:19:48.760 --> 0:19:52.600 South America, cratering them. So this was causing a problem. 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:55.480 So to me, Venezuela was America first. Well, the same 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:58.080 thing is true. Well, we're talking about Iran and we're 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:01.960 talking about the funding of terrorism. It doesn't seem like 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:05.640 it's received much play in the United States, Danielle. 0:20:05.880 --> 0:20:08.040 That again, just. 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:11.760 During the first two and a half years of Biden's 0:20:11.880 --> 0:20:16.800 term in office, there were eighty three attacks on American 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:20.119 troops in the Middle East, either directly by Iran or 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:24.760 sponsored by Iran. So to me, going after Iran as 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:27.160 America first, we have to defend our people. 0:20:28.520 --> 0:20:33.320 Yeah, definitely. And Trump has been so great on a 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:35.400 lot of these foreign policy issues. And like you've said, 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:37.520 he is very privy to a lot of information we 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:40.480 are privy to, and he's very swept in his actions. 0:20:40.520 --> 0:20:44.320 He's very quick, very decisive, and I think does things 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:47.240 that actually make a difference as opposed to maybe people 0:20:47.320 --> 0:20:51.919 fearing some kind of long dragged out war situation. But 0:20:52.040 --> 0:20:56.240 Trump doesn't really operate like that. How likely are you 0:20:56.600 --> 0:21:00.719 to see some kind of successful regime chain in Iran? 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:03.720 What do you think is going to be the next 0:21:03.760 --> 0:21:06.320 step for people there? Do you think people are kind 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:08.320 of rising up? Or how do you see it? 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:12.439 You know, that's a that's a good question. It's a 0:21:12.480 --> 0:21:14.800 complicated question. Let me deal with the first part of that. 0:21:15.760 --> 0:21:19.160 You're right, you know, Trump is decisive. I don't think 0:21:19.160 --> 0:21:22.239 Trump spends a lot of time hand ringing, you know, 0:21:22.359 --> 0:21:26.639 over issues. I think he listens to the counsel of 0:21:26.680 --> 0:21:30.320 his generals and various other strategists and so forth and 0:21:30.320 --> 0:21:33.960 are involved here, and then he he uh, he takes action. 0:21:34.119 --> 0:21:36.520 I loved what he said yesterday, which was hilarious, that 0:21:36.560 --> 0:21:39.800 he was creating job openings, you know, in Iran, And. 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:42.400 There's no question that he's doing that. Now. 0:21:42.560 --> 0:21:45.480 Nation building in the Middle East is not something that 0:21:45.520 --> 0:21:48.760 the United States has proven to be particularly good at. 0:21:49.119 --> 0:21:52.160 I don't get the impression that that's his intention here. 0:21:52.240 --> 0:21:55.120 That he's not intending to, you know, turn this into 0:21:55.119 --> 0:22:00.639 another Afghanistan or or or something to that effect, but 0:22:00.720 --> 0:22:03.520 rather kind of leave it, at least to some extent 0:22:03.600 --> 0:22:08.440 to the Iranian people. But Danielle something that I think 0:22:08.480 --> 0:22:12.680 that Americans are incredibly naive about it. And presently I'm 0:22:12.680 --> 0:22:14.560 in Europe, I was in I was just in the 0:22:14.560 --> 0:22:17.359 Middle East, you know, so I just came here from 0:22:17.400 --> 0:22:22.159 the Middle East. Americans do not understand Islam. They don't. 0:22:22.560 --> 0:22:27.439 They're starting to understand it, you know, better. But the 0:22:27.480 --> 0:22:31.000 notion that you know, like, for instance, the Pope I'm 0:22:31.440 --> 0:22:33.439 I can look out a window right here and almost 0:22:33.440 --> 0:22:36.760 see the Vatican. I'm here in Rome. Yesterday the Pope 0:22:36.880 --> 0:22:40.960 right here was talking about how there just needs to 0:22:41.000 --> 0:22:43.439 be dialogue and if we could all just get along. 0:22:43.520 --> 0:22:46.480 I mean, if only the Hobbits and the Orcs could 0:22:46.480 --> 0:22:49.399 just get together and have a conversation, I'm sure they 0:22:49.400 --> 0:22:52.440 could work out all their differences. Never mind the fact 0:22:52.480 --> 0:22:56.359 that that Orcs eat Hobbits. I mean, that's that's where 0:22:56.359 --> 0:23:01.639 we find ourselves in Islam. Islam is an ideology of hate. 0:23:01.760 --> 0:23:05.200 It is an ideology of conquest, It is an ideology 0:23:05.240 --> 0:23:09.120 of misogyny, and the senator from my own state state 0:23:09.160 --> 0:23:12.439 of Alabama, Tommy Tupperval, who I can appreciate now more 0:23:12.480 --> 0:23:14.280 as a senator than I could when he was coach 0:23:14.320 --> 0:23:20.280 at the at Auburn University Tuberville, and he's starting to 0:23:20.280 --> 0:23:23.960 gather others around him are pushing for the banning of Sharia. 0:23:25.040 --> 0:23:27.960 I want to say to them, that's that's not the 0:23:28.040 --> 0:23:30.639 root of the tree. You have to ban Islam. And 0:23:30.680 --> 0:23:32.760 I know that they probably think, well, we can't do 0:23:32.840 --> 0:23:36.320 that because it's covered under the Bill of Rights. As 0:23:36.640 --> 0:23:40.720 you know, you can practice, you know, your religion fairly 0:23:41.440 --> 0:23:43.840 and openly in the United States. Therefore we can't ban it. No, 0:23:43.960 --> 0:23:46.399 I think we can, and I think we can with 0:23:46.520 --> 0:23:50.720 the Constitution, because when Islam is taken seriously in his 0:23:50.840 --> 0:23:55.720 practice according to the Qoran, according to the hdiv and 0:23:55.800 --> 0:23:59.639 to the life of Muhammad, which every Muslim is supposed 0:23:59.680 --> 0:24:04.600 to model themselves after, then it is by definition anti 0:24:04.640 --> 0:24:09.439 constitutional because it is by definition not about freedom of speech, 0:24:09.680 --> 0:24:12.320