1 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:08,560 Speaker 1: I'm Josh Hammer, and this is the Josh Hammer Show. 2 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:11,600 Speaker 1: Well plenty going on as alway, us the United States 3 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:14,680 Speaker 1: sitting down with Iran later this week. The will he 4 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:16,959 Speaker 1: won't tee when it comes to Donald Trump's possible military 5 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:20,520 Speaker 1: action against Iran very much on the table. Meanwhile, there 6 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 1: is a massive cartel violence in Mexico. Americans are stranded 7 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:28,840 Speaker 1: due to the assassination and subsequent violence. Mexico is sending 8 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:32,559 Speaker 1: into something closely resembling a civil war status between the 9 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:36,080 Speaker 1: official quote unquote government and the de facto effective government 10 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:38,120 Speaker 1: to Mexico, which for a long time has been the 11 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:41,360 Speaker 1: murderous transnational drug cartels. All that and more later on 12 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:43,960 Speaker 1: the show, but for now we begin with this. It 13 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:46,960 Speaker 1: is the State of the Union tonight for President Donald J. Trump, 14 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:49,839 Speaker 1: and the stakes are very high. Officially, this is the 15 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 1: first State of the Union address of Donald Trump's second 16 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 1: term in office. The reasons for that are somewhat arcane 17 00:00:56,280 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 1: and somewhat in the weeds. To be clear, he did 18 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:00,840 Speaker 1: give a speech last year a little bit later on 19 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 1: the calendar than this year. It was in early March 20 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 1: rather than in late February. It was technically billed as 21 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:11,440 Speaker 1: a joint address to Congress rather than a State of 22 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:15,080 Speaker 1: the Union address. So formally speaking, if you're keeping score 23 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:17,240 Speaker 1: at home, so to speak, this is the first State 24 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:20,480 Speaker 1: of the Union address of Donald Trump's second term in office. 25 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:23,880 Speaker 1: The reason for that is really just a matter of 26 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:26,600 Speaker 1: historical practice. There is really not a better answer than that. 27 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:29,440 Speaker 1: The actual constitutional language, because we like doing that here 28 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 1: on our show, is as follows. It's Article two, Section 29 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:35,959 Speaker 1: three of the Constitution, dealing with presidential powers. Section three 30 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 1: of articles two begins speaking of the president's quote, he shall, 31 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:42,759 Speaker 1: from time to time give to the Congress information of 32 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:46,039 Speaker 1: the state of the Union and recommend to their consideration 33 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:49,840 Speaker 1: such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient, so 34 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 1: basically saying that he has the obligation to report to 35 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:56,360 Speaker 1: Congress on the states of the Union and then to 36 00:01:56,480 --> 00:02:01,640 Speaker 1: offer recommendations as to what policies and laws should be passed, etc. Etc. Notably, 37 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:05,640 Speaker 1: it does not require that you do this fairly grandiose speech. 38 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:09,560 Speaker 1: In fact, the actual speech was done by America's first 39 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:13,079 Speaker 1: two presidents, George Washington and John Adams. Was actually Thomas Jefferson, 40 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:16,799 Speaker 1: who was very much a lowercase de Democrat. He was 41 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:20,320 Speaker 1: really kind of an article one congressional power supremacists really 42 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:23,960 Speaker 1: abhorred powers of the presidency. He actually got rid of 43 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:25,959 Speaker 1: the spectacle that is the State of the Union address 44 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:29,560 Speaker 1: when it was actually done for the entire remainder of 45 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:32,280 Speaker 1: the nineteenth century, actually wasn't brought back into its current 46 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 1: form until Woodrow Wilson, arguably the single worst president in 47 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 1: the history of the United States so historically, especially when 48 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 1: Democrat presidents get up there and they give their invariably 49 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:44,959 Speaker 1: terrible speeches. Barack Obama comes to minds. A lot of 50 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:48,200 Speaker 1: Republicans conservatives talk a lot about the imperative who actually 51 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:50,239 Speaker 1: get rid of the State of Union address there because 52 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:53,040 Speaker 1: they say that that it kind of reeks of British 53 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:56,639 Speaker 1: esque monarchy and kingly behavior. I am less of a 54 00:02:57,040 --> 00:03:00,800 Speaker 1: lowercase de democratic absolutist and a little bit more comfortable 55 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:04,200 Speaker 1: with a stronger executive branch and a stronger presidency, as 56 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:06,079 Speaker 1: we discussed a little bit on Friday in the context 57 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:08,280 Speaker 1: of the Supreme Court's terrorist decistion there. So I have 58 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 1: less discomfort with the State of Union spectacle. I'm just 59 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:19,520 Speaker 1: suggesting that it's not crazy to have some nonpartisan skepticism 60 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 1: and doubts about this affair, because again, this could be 61 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:26,240 Speaker 1: easily to be done by just submitting a policy brief 62 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:29,800 Speaker 1: or just a formal ten twenty thirty whatever page letter 63 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:32,560 Speaker 1: from the President to Congress. Having said that, I really 64 00:03:32,639 --> 00:03:33,679 Speaker 1: do have a no issue with the Stay of the 65 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 1: Union address and President Trump historically going back to his 66 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 1: first term in office and including last years speech, even 67 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:40,000 Speaker 1: though it wasn't technically a State of the Union, it 68 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:42,000 Speaker 1: went on for a very very long time last year. 69 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 1: By the way, the speech last year broke records, I 70 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:47,280 Speaker 1: believe if I'm mistaken, it with the single longest speech 71 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:50,040 Speaker 1: that a president has ever given to a joint session 72 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:52,840 Speaker 1: of Congress was running over an hour and a half 73 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:55,120 Speaker 1: by the time it was over there. There's been something 74 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 1: of a parlor game. Will he actually surpass his numbers 75 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:02,360 Speaker 1: from last year year? I don't know the answer to 76 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 1: that question. We shall see. I will be uplay watching regardless. 77 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:09,480 Speaker 1: I actually will be providing post speech analysis a live 78 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:12,840 Speaker 1: breakdown on Salem News Channel after the speech. Go ahead 79 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 1: and make sure to check that out. But for now, 80 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:16,280 Speaker 1: we want to just talk a little bit about what 81 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 1: to expect in tonight's speech. So the White House has 82 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:24,840 Speaker 1: released some teaser clips, some teaser statements, basically trying to 83 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:28,080 Speaker 1: get their supporters to understand what is happening or what 84 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:31,560 Speaker 1: is going to happen tonight. There's going to be at 85 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:35,680 Speaker 1: the top a lot of statistics and a lot of bragging, 86 00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:39,800 Speaker 1: generally proper and righteous bragging. Frankly, because this administration, as 87 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 1: we've said repeatedly, does objectively speaking, have a very soundtrack record. 88 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:45,760 Speaker 1: When it comes to a lot of metrics. It's not perfect. 89 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:49,200 Speaker 1: There are always things that can and should be done better. 90 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 1: We will get to that momentarily, but for now, I 91 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 1: think it's important emphasize, as trumble due tonight that in 92 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:56,279 Speaker 1: many ways, the state of the Union, as Donald Trump 93 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:59,680 Speaker 1: will surely begin his speech by saying, is indeed strong. 94 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:03,960 Speaker 1: Thinking about Donald Trump's signature issue, that of southern border 95 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:08,520 Speaker 1: crossings and illegal immigration. More generally, illegal immigration has plummeted 96 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:11,640 Speaker 1: by upwards of ninety five percent or more when it 97 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:15,000 Speaker 1: comes to godaways, when it comes to those showing up 98 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:18,600 Speaker 1: illegally at the southern border, we last year had a 99 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:25,560 Speaker 1: net exodus, a net fleeing of people who are immigrant 100 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:28,360 Speaker 1: status from this country. There are immigrants leaving the coming 101 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:31,480 Speaker 1: when you include the illegal aliens, some of whom we're 102 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:35,360 Speaker 1: taking the CBP provided remuneration and the compensation to return home, 103 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 1: some of whom were doing so entirely of their own volition. 104 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 1: So when it comes to the southern border, things really 105 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:44,159 Speaker 1: could not be going a heck of a lot better. 106 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:47,480 Speaker 1: There's all this cartel violence happening in Mexico. Will get 107 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:49,080 Speaker 1: to that a little bit later on the show, but 108 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:51,600 Speaker 1: for now, the point is that it is not trickling 109 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:54,720 Speaker 1: over the border because the border for the most part 110 00:05:54,839 --> 00:05:57,920 Speaker 1: is really sealed and in fairly ironclad fashion. That is 111 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:02,560 Speaker 1: a remarkable, remarkable victory for the am minute. Furthermore, on 112 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:08,640 Speaker 1: objective metric, the ICE operations have oftentimes been successful. Now 113 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:11,440 Speaker 1: the politics of it are a little thornier, and there's 114 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:13,880 Speaker 1: been mixed polling certainly when it comes to some of 115 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:16,400 Speaker 1: these specific ICE enforcement operations, including some of the higher 116 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:20,240 Speaker 1: profile operations like the recent surge in Minnesota following the 117 00:06:20,279 --> 00:06:23,240 Speaker 1: Somali fraud scandal and all that there in the Land 118 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:24,920 Speaker 1: of ten Thousand Links there, but a lot of the 119 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:28,200 Speaker 1: ICE operations, again objectively, just thinking about those who are 120 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:30,680 Speaker 1: being detained, those who are being deported, they we're talking 121 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:33,040 Speaker 1: here about a lot of rapists, a lot of murderers, 122 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:37,680 Speaker 1: gang bangers, carjackers, high profile criminals who are being arrested 123 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:40,000 Speaker 1: and are being deported. No thanks by the way to 124 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 1: the judicial insurrection when it kind of comes to things 125 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:46,359 Speaker 1: like Kiar Garcia, the so called marylynd Man there So 126 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:50,159 Speaker 1: the digital insurrection not helping things. But the administration immigration 127 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 1: gend to overall going quite well in many ways. The 128 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:56,719 Speaker 1: economy is actually going better than people realize as well. 129 00:06:57,320 --> 00:07:00,760 Speaker 1: Energy prices overall on the national life is at its 130 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:04,560 Speaker 1: lowest price in about five years. In some states they 131 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:08,280 Speaker 1: are at their lowest prices in much much longer than 132 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:12,160 Speaker 1: five years. So energy is doing quite well. Inflation is manageable. 133 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:14,760 Speaker 1: It is not where the Federal Reserve says it should 134 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:17,000 Speaker 1: be at two percent there, but it is heading in 135 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 1: the right direction. There is work left to go. And 136 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 1: marginally speaking, what Donald term is gonna have to these 137 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:24,120 Speaker 1: when it comes to the economy, and based on what 138 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:28,040 Speaker 1: we can glean thus far, most of the bulk of 139 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 1: the first half of the speech, kind of reviewing the 140 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:32,840 Speaker 1: first term is gonna be maybe even less on the 141 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:35,280 Speaker 1: border and more so on the economy. He's going to 142 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:38,080 Speaker 1: have to basically find a way to communicate as follows 143 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:41,720 Speaker 1: and say, yes, the metrics are good. Yes, the stock 144 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:44,920 Speaker 1: market is at near all time highs. Yes, Q three 145 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:47,720 Speaker 1: GDP growth last year was four point four percent. Yes, 146 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:52,120 Speaker 1: wages are outpacing inflation and this, and that the unemployment 147 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:56,120 Speaker 1: rate is at a resonal metric. There, but I hear you. 148 00:07:56,720 --> 00:07:58,520 Speaker 1: And here's where it's gonna be the hard part. He's 149 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:01,680 Speaker 1: gonna have the channel empathy. He's going to have to 150 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:05,240 Speaker 1: come across as not just someone who can cite statistics, 151 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 1: but as someone who is empathetic and a smooth talker 152 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:11,600 Speaker 1: and who can actually assuage the concerns and tell the 153 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 1: American people that he hears them, that he hears them, 154 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:18,640 Speaker 1: understands that the previous administration, the Abiden Harris administration, dug 155 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:22,880 Speaker 1: a gargantuan hole, a massive hule. But trust me when 156 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:25,920 Speaker 1: I say he should say, I understand where you're coming from, 157 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:28,440 Speaker 1: and I am working day in and day out to 158 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:32,439 Speaker 1: try to make this better on the economic front. Perhaps 159 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:34,480 Speaker 1: he should say that he's going to work to try 160 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:36,720 Speaker 1: to pass a major bill in Congress this year, perhaps 161 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:39,720 Speaker 1: via the Reconciliation vehicle. This vehicle that allows you to 162 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:42,840 Speaker 1: bypass a filibuster and then to get to only fifty 163 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:46,720 Speaker 1: one votes. As he recently discussed last week with Eric Erickson, 164 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:49,360 Speaker 1: there's this chatter, the scuttle blood is that President Trump 165 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:53,280 Speaker 1: is dismissing or downplaying the possibility of having a second 166 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:57,360 Speaker 1: reconciliation bill. That frankly, that makes no sense whatsoever. Take 167 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:00,840 Speaker 1: advantage of that, try to pass immediate tax rel I 168 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:03,400 Speaker 1: would love to hear some linesnight when it comes to housing, 169 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:05,559 Speaker 1: when it comes to healthcare, when it comes to some 170 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:10,959 Speaker 1: of the real affordability, cost of living issues that the wealthy, 171 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:13,400 Speaker 1: the so called one percent, don't really think a whole 172 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 1: lot about. But most Americans, including the roughly two thirds 173 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:18,840 Speaker 1: of Americans who with paycheck to paycheck, think a lot about, 174 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:23,120 Speaker 1: think a lot about mortgages and housing costs. Trust me, 175 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 1: in the process of Game Borgia in our first home now, 176 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:28,920 Speaker 1: I care a lot about that stuff. Most Americans care 177 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:31,520 Speaker 1: a lot about the precarity of their healthcare and the 178 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:34,280 Speaker 1: fact that is vulnerable if they lose their job. What 179 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:38,720 Speaker 1: is the Republican response to that. It's really, frankly quite important. 180 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:42,079 Speaker 1: Donald Trump should also talk a lot about crime. I 181 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:44,440 Speaker 1: expect that to be a lot. When it comes to 182 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:47,240 Speaker 1: crime tonight, the HOMICI R in America is at a 183 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:49,920 Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty five year low. It is the 184 00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:53,320 Speaker 1: lowest it's been since the McKinley presidency. Yes, you heard 185 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:58,000 Speaker 1: that right, the William McKinley presidency. Absolutely remarkable stuff. How 186 00:09:58,000 --> 00:09:59,600 Speaker 1: about the fact that violent crime is some of these 187 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:05,439 Speaker 1: big blue Democrat cities is falling, Washington, d C, Chicago, Philadelphia, 188 00:10:05,559 --> 00:10:08,880 Speaker 1: crime declining, and virtue, all these radictions. I spent a 189 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:11,640 Speaker 1: lot of talk on that. I also expect a lot 190 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:17,360 Speaker 1: of talk about just good old fashioned chest thumping American patriotism, 191 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 1: especially coming after the US men's Olympic hockey triumph in 192 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:25,240 Speaker 1: Italy two days ago. They will be there tonight. Mike 193 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:27,520 Speaker 1: Johnson Ashley, Speaker of the House, was actually just talking 194 00:10:27,520 --> 00:10:28,840 Speaker 1: about how they're going to be the night. Go ahead 195 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:29,240 Speaker 1: and watch this. 196 00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:32,800 Speaker 2: Welcome everybody. When President Trump said we were going to 197 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:35,640 Speaker 2: usher in a new golden era for America, he mint 198 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:39,000 Speaker 2: figuratively and literally. And we do want to thank all 199 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:41,440 Speaker 2: of our Olympic athletes who worked so hard and representatives 200 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:44,400 Speaker 2: so well in the Olympics, and the gold medal matches 201 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:45,960 Speaker 2: were really something to see. And you've heard a lot 202 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:49,000 Speaker 2: said about the hockey teams, the men's and women's gold 203 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:50,920 Speaker 2: It was incredible, both of them. You couldn't have scripted 204 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:54,200 Speaker 2: it better. Overtime games and the excitement and euphoria that 205 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:59,000 Speaker 2: happened afterwards. Millions of people watched those games across the world. 206 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:02,160 Speaker 2: What a great moment for America, and it reminded us 207 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:04,480 Speaker 2: that we're all on the same team, and we hope 208 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:07,040 Speaker 2: that everyone will keep that in mind tonight because we are. 209 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:09,839 Speaker 2: The President called me Sunday night and he said, Mike, 210 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:12,720 Speaker 2: we got to make some changes. We need some more guests. Okay, Well, 211 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:14,920 Speaker 2: you know, the State of the Union is a very 212 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:17,240 Speaker 2: well attended event, and the gallery is already full and 213 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:18,800 Speaker 2: we have waiting lists of people that want to be there. 214 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:20,679 Speaker 2: As miss President, how many people are you talking about? 215 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:23,760 Speaker 2: I think the whole team. Okay, Well, so we're going 216 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:27,120 Speaker 2: to work out logistics and somehow, some way we'll squeeze 217 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:30,160 Speaker 2: in the hockey players tonight and it'll be a great 218 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:33,319 Speaker 2: moment for America and it really is a symbol to 219 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:35,440 Speaker 2: all of us that we all play for America's team. 220 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:37,200 Speaker 1: Well, I know that I look forward to seeing the 221 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:39,560 Speaker 1: men's hockey team. What a great group of folks there. 222 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:42,000 Speaker 1: I look forward to seeing them in the joint session 223 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:43,439 Speaker 1: of Congress, and I do women's team, by the way, 224 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:45,960 Speaker 1: will not be there. The two sexes. 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Today 243 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:44,080 Speaker 1: they are the sponsors for today's show. So final notes 244 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:46,320 Speaker 1: on they say the Union preview before we transition to 245 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:50,200 Speaker 1: some other topics. I just want to briefly underscore how 246 00:12:50,280 --> 00:12:53,720 Speaker 1: ridiculous it is, in my opinion that the women's Olympic 247 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:56,640 Speaker 1: hockey team did say no to being there tonight, while 248 00:12:56,679 --> 00:12:59,560 Speaker 1: the men's hockey team said yes. There's a lot of 249 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:02,720 Speaker 1: humor out there, and there has been for decades, maybe 250 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:05,000 Speaker 1: centuries when it comes to the two sexes of this 251 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:08,720 Speaker 1: or that there, But really, really, you ladies couldn't suck 252 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:13,319 Speaker 1: it up and join the guys there. I believe it 253 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:16,240 Speaker 1: is the first time ever that America won gold in 254 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:19,719 Speaker 1: both men's and women's hockey in the same Winter Olympics. 255 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:24,680 Speaker 1: And why exactly couldn't you be there? Crazy? I find 256 00:13:24,679 --> 00:13:27,559 Speaker 1: that utterly preposterous. By the way, speaking of folks who 257 00:13:27,559 --> 00:13:29,560 Speaker 1: will not be there, at least thirty two Democrats are 258 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:32,640 Speaker 1: planning on boycotting the State of the Union tonight. Many 259 00:13:32,679 --> 00:13:36,760 Speaker 1: others will be dressed in in white. Why exactly, we 260 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:41,400 Speaker 1: don't really know. Maybe they will be protesting pro life measures. 261 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:44,520 Speaker 1: Maybe they'll be protesting voting right stuff. It's not really clear. 262 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:49,080 Speaker 1: There's actually going to be an alternative far left rally 263 00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:53,520 Speaker 1: on or white adjacents to the National Mall tonight. They're 264 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:56,520 Speaker 1: calling it the People's State of the Union. So that's 265 00:13:56,559 --> 00:13:58,760 Speaker 1: where a bunch of these thirty two boycott Democrats are 266 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:01,160 Speaker 1: going to go. Is going to be some left wing commentators. 267 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:03,440 Speaker 1: This is being put on by the left wing front 268 00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:06,480 Speaker 1: organizations Move On and mightas Touch. I'm sure there will 269 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:09,520 Speaker 1: be an utterly feeded poop show that I strongly advise 270 00:14:09,559 --> 00:14:12,080 Speaker 1: you to avoid at all costs there, but we'll see. 271 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:14,160 Speaker 1: Another thing to look out for tonight is going to 272 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:17,760 Speaker 1: be the interplay and the back and forth between Donald 273 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:20,680 Speaker 1: Trump and the Supreme Court. So the Supreme Court justice 274 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:24,440 Speaker 1: are always invited. They typically most of them, not all 275 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:27,000 Speaker 1: of them, most of them attend, they are usually seated 276 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:29,440 Speaker 1: right up front. Well, Donald Trump has been really, really 277 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:31,880 Speaker 1: unhappy about the Supreme Court in recent days, as you 278 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:33,640 Speaker 1: may or may not have noticed, he's been talking about 279 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:35,920 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court and tweeting about and putting on true 280 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:39,920 Speaker 1: social in lower case Supreme Court because he's intentionally trying 281 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:43,200 Speaker 1: to give them disrespect over the tarist decision last Friday. 282 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:46,280 Speaker 1: He went so far in his post decision Friday press 283 00:14:46,280 --> 00:14:50,800 Speaker 1: conference to actually say that the two Trump nominated justices 284 00:14:50,800 --> 00:14:53,480 Speaker 1: Emmy Cony Baron Neil Gorstich, who ruled against the tariffs, 285 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:55,720 Speaker 1: he went so far to say that they brought shame 286 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:59,320 Speaker 1: onto their families, which is a bit of trumpy and 287 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:02,240 Speaker 1: hyperbolic Ragadocio, I think would be a polite and humorous 288 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:03,720 Speaker 1: perhaps a way to say it there. So I will 289 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:05,920 Speaker 1: definitely be looking forward to seeing what's going to be 290 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:08,760 Speaker 1: interplay of that. Certainly, I think all eyes will be 291 00:15:08,920 --> 00:15:10,560 Speaker 1: there as to see whether or not he does anything 292 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:12,360 Speaker 1: with Iran as well. By the way, some of the 293 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:16,440 Speaker 1: Democrats who are attending are just doing some ridiculous stunts. So, 294 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:20,320 Speaker 1: for instance, Rokahanna, this Epstein obsessed Democrat, is bringing someone 295 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:24,520 Speaker 1: named Hailey Robson, who he he he identifies in his 296 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:28,400 Speaker 1: tweet from this morning as a heroic survivor. If you 297 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:31,920 Speaker 1: actually google more about Hilly Robson, Hilly Robson was actually 298 00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:36,760 Speaker 1: a recruiter, was recruiting these underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein 299 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:40,720 Speaker 1: and bringing them to Epstein island. So why does Rokahanna 300 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:43,080 Speaker 1: think that it is a gotcha to try to show 301 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:46,080 Speaker 1: up with someone who is credibly accused as being a 302 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:50,400 Speaker 1: leading accomplice, a leading madame if you will, of this 303 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:56,680 Speaker 1: horrific scourge to humanity Jeffrey Epstein. So that's frankly insane. 304 00:15:57,360 --> 00:15:59,240 Speaker 1: We will see what other surprises that typically a lot 305 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:02,880 Speaker 1: of surprise there. Who knows exactly what Donald Trump has 306 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:04,560 Speaker 1: in store for us there when it comes to his 307 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:07,360 Speaker 1: guests of honor we'll find out tonight There. Certainly a 308 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:09,760 Speaker 1: lot of eyes will be on the Iran issue as well. 309 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:12,000 Speaker 1: What is Donald Trump going to say when it comes 310 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:15,320 Speaker 1: to Iran tonight? There, we have our military assets in place, 311 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:18,160 Speaker 1: the USS Gerald R. Ford Arride arriving off the coast 312 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:22,600 Speaker 1: of Haifa, Israel and the Eastern Mediterranean just yesterday on Monday. 313 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:26,840 Speaker 1: There is now multiple aircraft carre strike groups in place, 314 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:30,120 Speaker 1: all sorts of other aerial and maritime assets in place 315 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:34,240 Speaker 1: for a potentially prolonged military campaign. If that is what 316 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:36,600 Speaker 1: Donald Trump decides to do. I find it hard to 317 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:39,680 Speaker 1: believe that he is going to order military action during 318 00:16:40,080 --> 00:16:42,520 Speaker 1: his nationally televised State of the un addressed There but 319 00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:45,600 Speaker 1: this is Donald Trump, after all. Oftentimes our predictions don't 320 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:48,720 Speaker 1: really mean a whole lot when it comes to President Trump. There, 321 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:51,520 Speaker 1: above all, and perhaps I will end with this, above all, 322 00:16:51,680 --> 00:16:54,400 Speaker 1: this is his opportunity to reset the conversation as we 323 00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:57,600 Speaker 1: head towards November. And it's important to reset the conversation 324 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:03,280 Speaker 1: because Democrats, through their media accomplices and their mouthpieces, have, unfortunately, 325 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:05,040 Speaker 1: if we're being canned that we should admit, done a 326 00:17:05,040 --> 00:17:07,560 Speaker 1: pretty good job of trying to frame a lot of 327 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:10,240 Speaker 1: the first year of this administration as continuing this quote 328 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:14,080 Speaker 1: unquote affordability crisis. Now, the so called affordability crisis is 329 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:16,800 Speaker 1: generally information operation is generally a bit of gas lighting, 330 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:19,720 Speaker 1: is generally a hoax. Prices have come down for the 331 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:22,760 Speaker 1: overwhelming park there. They just got really, really, really bad 332 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:25,560 Speaker 1: during the Bid administration due to the failed monetary and 333 00:17:25,600 --> 00:17:29,439 Speaker 1: fiscal policies of the Biden Harris regime. As mentioned, energy, 334 00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:32,440 Speaker 1: which is in this case the most important gauge of 335 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:34,560 Speaker 1: all this is the mother's milk of essentially everything you 336 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:36,560 Speaker 1: pay for there. It's come down a lot there. But 337 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:38,240 Speaker 1: what is Donald Trump going to do to try to 338 00:17:38,280 --> 00:17:40,920 Speaker 1: reset the conversation on this This is where the greatest 339 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:45,320 Speaker 1: leaders in American history have oftentimes shines, people like Abraham Lincoln, 340 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:47,880 Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan. They have shined when it comes to the 341 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:51,880 Speaker 1: art of oration, the art of rhetoric, at communicating and yes, 342 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:54,040 Speaker 1: as I was saying early in the show, of empathizing, 343 00:17:54,119 --> 00:17:56,359 Speaker 1: of looking at American people and making sure that you, 344 00:17:56,760 --> 00:17:59,960 Speaker 1: the American voter, understand that I, the President United State, 345 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:03,240 Speaker 1: know where you are coming from and where you are 346 00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:05,960 Speaker 1: right now. And I'll be working my tail off day 347 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:08,399 Speaker 1: in and day out. Gosh dang, And I'll be working 348 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:12,159 Speaker 1: day in and day out to make your paycheck look higher. 349 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:15,959 Speaker 1: Your way just go up to tame inflation. That's it, folks, 350 00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:19,280 Speaker 1: That's name of the game. If Trump stays on target 351 00:18:19,359 --> 00:18:22,399 Speaker 1: to that, I think he's going to be in good shape. 352 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:24,840 Speaker 1: Certainly we'll have a fuller breakdown again live on sell 353 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:27,400 Speaker 1: newshout to night after speech and much more on Smart's 354 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:29,800 Speaker 1: episode of The Josh Hammer Show. One thing that Donald 355 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:32,520 Speaker 1: Trump is very much gifted by, and he really has 356 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:35,840 Speaker 1: an uncannonability to spread there is he is gifted when 357 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:38,240 Speaker 1: it comes to having some of the worst enemies frankly 358 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:40,639 Speaker 1: known to mankind. And I expect that he will probably 359 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:42,119 Speaker 1: have a word or two, but some of his enemies 360 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:46,640 Speaker 1: there I can't help but comment on these recent comments 361 00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:51,480 Speaker 1: from Susan Rice. Susan Rice, the former Obama era National 362 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:58,359 Speaker 1: security advisor who had these utterly insane recent comments about 363 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:00,919 Speaker 1: how she wants to be retribute in the next democrime 364 00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:05,600 Speaker 1: administration for corporate wrongdoers and various other hooligans who have 365 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:07,800 Speaker 1: been quote unquote pro Trump. Go ahead and watch this 366 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:08,440 Speaker 1: with Susan Rice. 367 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:11,439 Speaker 3: But but when it comes to the elites, you know, 368 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:16,320 Speaker 3: the corporate interests, the law firms, the universities, the media. 369 00:19:16,359 --> 00:19:20,400 Speaker 3: I agree with you, pret it is not. Ah, It's 370 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:22,439 Speaker 3: not going to end well for them. For those that 371 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:26,480 Speaker 3: decided that it was, you know that they would act 372 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:29,840 Speaker 3: in their perceived very narrow self interest, which I would 373 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:34,240 Speaker 3: underscore is very short term self interest. And you know, 374 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:38,119 Speaker 3: take a knee to Trump. I think they're now starting 375 00:19:38,119 --> 00:19:41,320 Speaker 3: to realize, wait a minute, you know this is not popular. 376 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:45,399 Speaker 3: Trump is not popular. What he is doing, whether on 377 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:50,560 Speaker 3: the economy and affordability or on immigration now is not popular. Uh, 378 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:54,159 Speaker 3: And that there is likely to be a swing in 379 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:56,240 Speaker 3: the other direction, and they are going to be caught 380 00:19:57,280 --> 00:20:00,040 Speaker 3: with more than their pants down. They're going to be 381 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:00,919 Speaker 3: held accountable. 382 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:05,520 Speaker 1: Okay, so she's talking here to be clear about retribution. 383 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:09,879 Speaker 1: She is talking about retribution in the next Democrat administration 384 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:13,679 Speaker 1: for all of those organizations who have titled up have 385 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:19,119 Speaker 1: cozied up to Trump. This is fascistic stuff. Have you 386 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:22,639 Speaker 1: ever wondered why exactly it is that Democrats for so 387 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:26,280 Speaker 1: long have been calling Donald Trump and his supporters and 388 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:32,040 Speaker 1: fellow Republican MAGA style politicians fascists. Well, in many ways 389 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:34,200 Speaker 1: it is an act of projection, one of the oldest 390 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:40,800 Speaker 1: psychological maladies and habits known to mankind. This is fairly 391 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:45,320 Speaker 1: fascistic stuff if we are just being candid here talking 392 00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:51,480 Speaker 1: here about trying to politically and legally persecute those individuals 393 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:54,600 Speaker 1: and those organizations and groups of individuals who have done 394 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:58,720 Speaker 1: wat's exactly, who have expressed supports or sympathy or worked 395 00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:03,199 Speaker 1: with the administration. This also should somehow factor into the 396 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:06,040 Speaker 1: speech night. Trump should make an extended argument about the 397 00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:10,320 Speaker 1: utter insanity of his opponents. Why, Because, contrary to what 398 00:21:10,359 --> 00:21:12,280 Speaker 1: you may or may not have heard, this country isn't 399 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:15,399 Speaker 1: la la land, and because it's on Lalla lands. Negative 400 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:18,640 Speaker 1: messaging oftentimes tends to work a lot better than positive messaging. 401 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:21,760 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but it's true. This is politics. It's a 402 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:26,840 Speaker 1: dirty sport. The single cleanest pant towards Republicans retaining Congress 403 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:28,440 Speaker 1: of November, which is really what this speech is about, 404 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:31,960 Speaker 1: an opportunity to get us headed towards that is twofold One, 405 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:35,640 Speaker 1: empathize with the American people above all on the economy. Two, 406 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:40,280 Speaker 1: paint your opposition as totally out there backcrap, nincom poop, 407 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:46,360 Speaker 1: insane crazy. The Susan Rice outburst, the barrage of idiocy 408 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:48,920 Speaker 1: is a very good example of the latter. It should 409 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:50,520 Speaker 1: factor into the speech there if Trump could do those 410 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:52,280 Speaker 1: two things overall. But he's gonna have a very, very 411 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:59,440 Speaker 1: successful evening. So we have a real treat for you'd say, folks, 412 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:01,919 Speaker 1: where are filled? To bring on a great guy who 413 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:04,359 Speaker 1: I've known for some years now. He is yan Ya 414 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:07,359 Speaker 1: kalk Yani Kllik is the senior editor for the Epoch Times, 415 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:10,360 Speaker 1: also the host of one of their wonderful programs, American 416 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:13,000 Speaker 1: Thought Leaders, where I've been privileged to be a guest 417 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:15,639 Speaker 1: in the not so distant past. He's also the author 418 00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:18,520 Speaker 1: most important for today's purposes of the brand new book 419 00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:22,840 Speaker 1: Killed to Order, China's organ harvesting industry and the true 420 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:26,520 Speaker 1: nature of America's biggest adversary. You can check out the 421 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:30,040 Speaker 1: direct website that Killed to Order dot com. So yan 422 00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:32,600 Speaker 1: Ya Kellik, welcome to the Josh amershow long overdue a 423 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:36,720 Speaker 1: main appearance? If I'm no mistake, congratulations on the immence 424 00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:40,199 Speaker 1: the new release I say of this book. Certainly a 425 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:42,720 Speaker 1: lot to unpack here when it comes to this topic. 426 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:45,560 Speaker 1: Let's begin at the top. I think a lot of 427 00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:49,440 Speaker 1: folks probably hear this subtitle they're talking about organ harvesting here, 428 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:51,440 Speaker 1: A lot of folks probably just have no idea what 429 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:53,200 Speaker 1: we're talking about. Frankly, so why don't we just begin 430 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:56,080 Speaker 1: at a very basic level here? What exactly are we 431 00:22:56,160 --> 00:23:00,239 Speaker 1: talking about? What is the forced organ harvesting that you 432 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:03,760 Speaker 1: are writing a book to expose, and what specifically is 433 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:07,159 Speaker 1: happening there, including possible heart evidence when it comes to 434 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:10,400 Speaker 1: the Chinese Communist Party engaging in this practice. 435 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:13,520 Speaker 4: So thank you, Josh, and it's a privilege to be 436 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:16,240 Speaker 4: here with you as well, and to turn the tables 437 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:20,400 Speaker 4: a little bit here, so to speak. Basically, we hear 438 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:23,400 Speaker 4: these kind of urban myths about people, you know, waking 439 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:26,840 Speaker 4: up on ice after a long party with a cut 440 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:29,920 Speaker 4: in their side, missing a kidney, something like that. There 441 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:33,480 Speaker 4: are organ trafficking operations black market around the world, but 442 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:36,600 Speaker 4: what the Chinese Communist Party is actually doing is a 443 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:40,760 Speaker 4: whole different level, a whole different level. You actually need 444 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:43,080 Speaker 4: to have a state actor involved in what they're doing. 445 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:45,520 Speaker 4: You need to have some very powerful force that can 446 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:49,480 Speaker 4: push coercive power through a population. Basically, right, you have 447 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:52,679 Speaker 4: to be able to propagandize people heavily and kind of 448 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:56,000 Speaker 4: demonize or dehumanize a large group of people, and you 449 00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:58,840 Speaker 4: also have to be able to incarcerate a large group 450 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:00,760 Speaker 4: of people. This is why you need kind of state 451 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:04,119 Speaker 4: actor type situation. And this is what the Chinese Communist 452 00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:08,240 Speaker 4: Party actually did back in nineteen ninety nine with the 453 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:12,920 Speaker 4: Falongong practitioners. It was a very popular spiritual meditation movement, 454 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:17,760 Speaker 4: very grassroots, very bottom up truthfulness, compassion forbearance is what 455 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:20,720 Speaker 4: the people were practicing, and the regime it was actually 456 00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:23,720 Speaker 4: grew larger than the Communist Party itself seventy to one 457 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:27,520 Speaker 4: hundred million people by government estimate, okay, and so the 458 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:31,879 Speaker 4: dictator at the time decided I'm going to eradicate this okay, 459 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:34,520 Speaker 4: to use his words, and that didn't mean kill any 460 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:39,359 Speaker 4: everybody necessarily. It meant re educate them, break them, transform them. 461 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:42,440 Speaker 4: These are the horrible terms that they use for this 462 00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:45,400 Speaker 4: kind of thing. I get them to renounce what they 463 00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:48,320 Speaker 4: believe in basically and say, no, Communism is really the 464 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:52,520 Speaker 4: correct thing I should believe in. And these people turned 465 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:56,560 Speaker 4: out to be uniquely resilient to this, okay, to basically 466 00:24:56,600 --> 00:25:01,560 Speaker 4: being transformed. And that's when the incarcerated perhaps million, perhaps two, 467 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:04,640 Speaker 4: and at the same time pushing this horrible propaganda gas 468 00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:07,720 Speaker 4: kind of similar actually to what happened in Germany in 469 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:12,399 Speaker 4: the nineteen thirties that the Germans did versus the Jewish people. Okay. 470 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:16,600 Speaker 4: Now we have this very vulnerable population, mass incarcerated, okay, 471 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:20,960 Speaker 4: and they start blood typing, tissue typing, organ scanning them, okay, 472 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:24,520 Speaker 4: and they build a database right and then online and 473 00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:26,679 Speaker 4: this prior to two thousand and six, there were actually 474 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:29,679 Speaker 4: ads online that would say, if you would like to 475 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:32,920 Speaker 4: get a new heart in China in this specific hospital, 476 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:36,639 Speaker 4: you could get that in two weeks scheduled for a 477 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,240 Speaker 4: sizeable amount of money, say one hundred and fifty or 478 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:42,239 Speaker 4: two hundred grand. And the only way that's possible, the 479 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:47,040 Speaker 4: only way that's possible, is that this person is already incarcerated, 480 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:51,399 Speaker 4: a prisoner of conscience, with their vitals already pre typed 481 00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:53,800 Speaker 4: pre matched to you, and the moment you pay that cash, 482 00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:57,160 Speaker 4: you're matched, and that person is shipped and killed to order, 483 00:25:57,200 --> 00:25:59,840 Speaker 4: which is the reason my book is called killed to Order. 484 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:03,200 Speaker 1: Wow, So again, folks. At Yani Kallik is the senior 485 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:05,359 Speaker 1: editor of the Epot Times. Follow him on x at 486 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:08,000 Speaker 1: Yani Kellak. The brand new book is called Killed to Order. 487 00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:11,520 Speaker 1: China's organ harvesting industry and the true nature of America's 488 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:14,560 Speaker 1: biggest adversary. You can pre order it now at Killed 489 00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:18,840 Speaker 1: Too Order dot com. Jan let's get to that biggest 490 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:21,320 Speaker 1: adversary part here. The Chinese Communist Party, in my opinion, 491 00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:25,920 Speaker 1: is not just America's greatest enemy. They are America's first, second, third, fourth, 492 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:29,600 Speaker 1: and fifth greatest enemy. And this practice, as you are 493 00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:33,919 Speaker 1: describing it here, is sadistic. It is barbaric, as you 494 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:38,320 Speaker 1: correctly know, it is redolent. One reminisces to reading the 495 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:42,159 Speaker 1: history books about pre World War two Germany, frankly to 496 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:45,080 Speaker 1: Imperial Japan, the rape of nanjingg all these other horrific 497 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:47,600 Speaker 1: practices that Japan was doing in the earlier part of 498 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:52,439 Speaker 1: the twentieth century as well. And I guess what is 499 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:56,119 Speaker 1: it say more generally about the Chinese Communist Party that 500 00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:59,480 Speaker 1: this is a decently well known thing that you're correctly 501 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:02,040 Speaker 1: trying to show a broader spotlight on. And I guess, 502 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:04,960 Speaker 1: and a company question to that would be, how widespread 503 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:07,399 Speaker 1: is this beyond just the fallen goong? So does it 504 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:09,119 Speaker 1: get to the weaker Muslims, for instance, does it get 505 00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:11,600 Speaker 1: to Christians? Does it get to other populations there in 506 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:12,359 Speaker 1: China as well? 507 00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:16,080 Speaker 4: Well? So's I'll answer that question first, because I think 508 00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:18,960 Speaker 4: it speaks to the first question you asked. So this 509 00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:22,600 Speaker 4: is actually the horrible tragedy. You know, there's Nimoler's famous poem. 510 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:24,680 Speaker 4: Right first they came for the Jews, but I didn't 511 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:27,200 Speaker 4: say anything because I wasn't a Jew. And it kind 512 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:29,720 Speaker 4: of goes on down the line like that, right. So 513 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,840 Speaker 4: what happened was first they started using the fellon gong, 514 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:36,320 Speaker 4: and they grew their whole transplant industry geometrically. It almost 515 00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:38,840 Speaker 4: it only happened at a low level but they grew 516 00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:42,199 Speaker 4: it basically at plateaus by two thousand and five, they 517 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:43,840 Speaker 4: grow it from two thousand to two thousand and five, 518 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:47,800 Speaker 4: and by the late two thousands, we're talking to sixty 519 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:52,080 Speaker 4: to ninety thousand transplants per year. Okay, So like this 520 00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:54,480 Speaker 4: is mass scale. Forty thousand was the record for the 521 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:57,199 Speaker 4: US last year, okay, of the number of transplants that 522 00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:00,840 Speaker 4: have happened. And so nobody really did anything right as 523 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:04,960 Speaker 4: as in Nae Mooler's poem was described. And so yes, 524 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:08,920 Speaker 4: they added the Oigers around twenty fourteen twenty fifteen, they 525 00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:13,199 Speaker 4: dehumanized them through massive propaganda, and then they incarcerated a 526 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:16,080 Speaker 4: million plus of them. And so actually I was just 527 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:19,720 Speaker 4: talking with Pastor Bob fu out of Midland, Texas about that. 528 00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:23,880 Speaker 4: I've been noticing an uptick in dehumanizing rhetoric against Christians, 529 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:26,959 Speaker 4: especially with this roll up of the Zion Church, one 530 00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:29,480 Speaker 4: of the big online churches in China, and sort of 531 00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:33,480 Speaker 4: controls on Catholic clergy that have been added. And he 532 00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:35,600 Speaker 4: told me, yes, indeed he's seeing the same thing. And 533 00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:38,200 Speaker 4: this is so the question is right, I don't know 534 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:40,040 Speaker 4: if they're running out of people. I have no idea. 535 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:44,040 Speaker 4: But the point is these dehumanize. This dehumanizing language always 536 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:48,400 Speaker 4: kind of comes ahead of atrocity against a particular group 537 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:52,040 Speaker 4: of people. And this is deeply, deeply concerning to me. Right, 538 00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:54,280 Speaker 4: and so when it comes to the true nature of 539 00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:57,280 Speaker 4: the adversary, right, what I think the case that I make, 540 00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:00,680 Speaker 4: and I do it quite extensively. We talk about all 541 00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:03,720 Speaker 4: sorts of different ways in which the Chinese Communist Party 542 00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:07,960 Speaker 4: has basically compromised America, including getting us to be complicit 543 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:12,280 Speaker 4: in this particular industry. Right, I guess the biggest point 544 00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:14,800 Speaker 4: would be, this is not a normal government. This is 545 00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:18,480 Speaker 4: not even a normal dictatorship. Okay, this is a totalitarian 546 00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:23,160 Speaker 4: dictatorship that has very little respect, actually no respect for 547 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:27,080 Speaker 4: human life, because the survival and supremacy of the Chinese 548 00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:30,320 Speaker 4: Communist Party is basically the top of the list of 549 00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:34,960 Speaker 4: what's important to them, and the result is mass atrocity. 550 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,040 Speaker 4: And this is not the key part. Is you hear 551 00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:40,400 Speaker 4: you think it's happened in the past greatly forward, you know, 552 00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:43,920 Speaker 4: a cultural revolution and so forth. But the reality is 553 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:47,480 Speaker 4: that these kinds of atrocities are still happening today, and 554 00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:50,600 Speaker 4: they're happening to the most vulnerable and frankly most innocent 555 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:53,360 Speaker 4: people you can imagine, and that's something we have to 556 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:57,040 Speaker 4: understand when we're actually dealing with this regime. Right, this 557 00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,800 Speaker 4: is this is something that I think can help us 558 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:04,200 Speaker 4: and having reasonable diplomacy and also understanding when you know 559 00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:06,760 Speaker 4: who you're dealing with, you can actually make better decisions. 560 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,480 Speaker 1: Well it may just one then follow up question for you, 561 00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:12,280 Speaker 1: Yan again one we're time posts Jani Kellcause, senior editor 562 00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:15,320 Speaker 1: at Epoch Times. Check out his book coming out next month, 563 00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:17,480 Speaker 1: Killed to Order. You can go im pere or now 564 00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:19,520 Speaker 1: at killed too Order dot com. So just about a 565 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:21,400 Speaker 1: minute left here, Yan, but before it, let you go, 566 00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:24,720 Speaker 1: what kind of concrete steps can the trumpdministration in their 567 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:27,840 Speaker 1: allies in Congress or some combination they're of what can, 568 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:30,800 Speaker 1: in your opinion, perhaps should they do when it comes 569 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:31,880 Speaker 1: to this horrific practice. 570 00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:35,280 Speaker 4: There are amazing things that are in the works. There 571 00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:38,080 Speaker 4: are two pieces of legislation in Congress that have passed 572 00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:41,240 Speaker 4: the House already, they're sitting in the Senate. They sanction 573 00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:44,040 Speaker 4: people involved in this, and a bit more very good, 574 00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:46,680 Speaker 4: very valuable to actually make a significant difference. But at 575 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:50,720 Speaker 4: the administration level, we can just stop all cooperation around 576 00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:53,040 Speaker 4: the transplant industry with China. This is actually a very 577 00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:56,960 Speaker 4: easy thing to do. Stop the funding, stop the research partnerships. 578 00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,200 Speaker 4: There's no reason for us to be contributing to this 579 00:30:59,280 --> 00:30:59,840 Speaker 4: in any way. 580 00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:03,440 Speaker 1: No, there's really not. I think this very succinctly said, 581 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:06,760 Speaker 1: and it's very well said as well, So again, folks. 582 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:09,160 Speaker 1: Yanni Kellik is the senior editor at The Epoch Times, 583 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:11,640 Speaker 1: host of a wonderful show called American Thought Leaders, where 584 00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:13,280 Speaker 1: I am proud to be a former guest, and his 585 00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:15,800 Speaker 1: book coming out next month. You can pre order it 586 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:19,320 Speaker 1: right now, Killed to Order, China's organ harvesting industry and 587 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:22,880 Speaker 1: the true nature of America's biggest adversary, Killed too order 588 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,080 Speaker 1: dot com, Yan, and we are wishing you lots of 589 00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:28,000 Speaker 1: success with the book launch. Congratulations on finishing it. I 590 00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:29,840 Speaker 1: know as an author myself, this is a lot of work, 591 00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:32,000 Speaker 1: so I can imagine how you're feeling right now on 592 00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:34,560 Speaker 1: the presspace of publication today. Congratulations in advance and things 593 00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:36,200 Speaker 1: with stopped by the Josh hammershow to discuss. 594 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:38,560 Speaker 4: We really appreciate it, Josh, thanks a lot. 595 00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:41,960 Speaker 1: Folks. Cannot emphasize this enough. China, China, China. We talked 596 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:44,120 Speaker 1: about a long the show for a big reason. They're 597 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:47,880 Speaker 1: the threat and practices like this are barrack stuff. God 598 00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:50,400 Speaker 1: willing at some point this regiven go back to the gutter. 599 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:51,160 Speaker 1: Whence they came? 600 00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:56,400 Speaker 4: You know? 601 00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:58,400 Speaker 1: There was a fascating story about week and a half 602 00:31:58,480 --> 00:31:59,880 Speaker 1: weeks ago or so that we didn't cover on the 603 00:31:59,880 --> 00:32:02,320 Speaker 1: show at the time, because it seems like at the 604 00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:05,440 Speaker 1: time that it was something of a nothing burger. In hindsight, 605 00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:09,400 Speaker 1: in retrospects, I wonder whether it actually was a nothing burger, 606 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:12,120 Speaker 1: whether it actually was a harbinger of things to come. 607 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:17,920 Speaker 1: There was this brief shutdown of all airspace according to 608 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:22,080 Speaker 1: the FAA, over El Paso, Texas, and there were conflicting 609 00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:24,720 Speaker 1: reports as to why there might have been a shutdown 610 00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:27,960 Speaker 1: of airspace. Some folks said that there were projectiles coming 611 00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:30,000 Speaker 1: from the cartels. On the other hand, there was some 612 00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:32,680 Speaker 1: reports actually that there was some new technology that was 613 00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:35,360 Speaker 1: given by DHS or some other organization to try to 614 00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:38,760 Speaker 1: fight back against the cartels, and actually the projectile actually 615 00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:41,040 Speaker 1: came from the American side enough from the cartel side. 616 00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:44,560 Speaker 1: In any event, the airspace shutdown was lifted, and really 617 00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:47,840 Speaker 1: no one ever thought about the story ever again unless 618 00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:51,560 Speaker 1: you did think about it again. This past Sunday in particular, 619 00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:56,040 Speaker 1: so terrifying images coming out of some very tourist friendly 620 00:32:56,160 --> 00:33:00,760 Speaker 1: parts of Mexico. This passed Sunday into Monday, centered around 621 00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:04,600 Speaker 1: the state of Hallisco, which is in central Mexico. On 622 00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:06,960 Speaker 1: the western side of the capital is Guadalajara, one of 623 00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:09,280 Speaker 1: the larger cities in the country Mexico, but the most 624 00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:13,440 Speaker 1: iconic city in the state of Hellisco is Puerto Vierta, 625 00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:16,000 Speaker 1: where I actually was there. My wife and I fu 626 00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:18,720 Speaker 1: into that airport just about two years ago. Actually we 627 00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:21,080 Speaker 1: were going on a vacation there. It is a very 628 00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:24,240 Speaker 1: very very popular tourist destination. In fact, of all the 629 00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:27,560 Speaker 1: Mexican cities that come emmiate to mine as the most 630 00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:31,320 Speaker 1: frequent tourist destinations for Americans there, it's probably one of 631 00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:34,920 Speaker 1: the top three, along with Cancun and Cabo. So these 632 00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:39,200 Speaker 1: images came out of the state of Helisco and Puerto Vierta, 633 00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:42,920 Speaker 1: and you see just this billowing, this billowing black smoke, 634 00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:47,640 Speaker 1: and you see that these costco stores have apparently just 635 00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:50,400 Speaker 1: been set on fire or been bombed there. And then 636 00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:52,360 Speaker 1: there are these further images and videos of all these 637 00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:56,440 Speaker 1: cars that have been turned to ash, and these roadblocks 638 00:33:56,600 --> 00:34:01,600 Speaker 1: and guys on motorcycles carrying out with with guns. I mean, 639 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:03,400 Speaker 1: I think by the Middle East, all all these lone 640 00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:07,480 Speaker 1: men with the rifles on the motorcycles. There we saw 641 00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:11,439 Speaker 1: these images, these videos in a Taurus friendly city of Pretivierta. 642 00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:15,040 Speaker 1: And it turns out that the reason for this is 643 00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:20,240 Speaker 1: because Mexican authorities, assisted by US intelligence, took down arguably 644 00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:24,560 Speaker 1: Mexico's number one most infamous cartel leader and drug kingpin, 645 00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:28,319 Speaker 1: man by the name of Nemessio Osaguera Servantes, otherwise known 646 00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:34,239 Speaker 1: as Elmncho also Elmncho, was killed. He was killed in 647 00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:38,480 Speaker 1: a prolific multi hour gunfight that saw at least twenty 648 00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:43,400 Speaker 1: five Mexican National Guard troops slain, as well as dozens 649 00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:47,160 Speaker 1: of criminals from the cartel so Elmentcho was the head 650 00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:50,880 Speaker 1: of Jullisco New Generation, which is one of the newer, 651 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:54,200 Speaker 1: up and coming cartels. In recent years, they were seen 652 00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:57,120 Speaker 1: to have surpassed the infamous Cinelola cartel as being one 653 00:34:57,120 --> 00:34:59,759 Speaker 1: of the most infamous and probably the most productive and 654 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:04,120 Speaker 1: pro lific cartels, controlling essentially de facto chunks of the 655 00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:06,680 Speaker 1: US Mexico border. Just to make sure that we're on 656 00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:09,000 Speaker 1: the same page here, the cartels for a very very 657 00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:11,239 Speaker 1: long time, upon going back a very very long time 658 00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:15,240 Speaker 1: in Mexico, the cartels are deeply influential when it comes 659 00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:19,799 Speaker 1: really to everything people typically think here about drug trafficking. 660 00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:21,799 Speaker 1: They're all times referred to as the media as the 661 00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:26,480 Speaker 1: drug cartels. That's actually something of a misnomer. Yes, they 662 00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:28,840 Speaker 1: are making oodles and rules of money when it comes 663 00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:34,719 Speaker 1: to trafficking of narcotics, cocaine, heroine, fentanyl, all the above. There, 664 00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:38,239 Speaker 1: they're also human traffickers. The cartels are the ones who 665 00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:41,239 Speaker 1: are working to actually get people over the border. So 666 00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:44,880 Speaker 1: they were, above all the biggest recipients of Joe Biden 667 00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:50,280 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris's disastrous, rudinous open borders policy. Yes, it actually 668 00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:53,840 Speaker 1: really was the worst actors in the entire Western hemisphere 669 00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:58,080 Speaker 1: of these murderous transnational cartels that's benefited directly, like literally 670 00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:02,640 Speaker 1: monetarily directed from the vulnerable migrants or would be migrants 671 00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:05,839 Speaker 1: paying off the cartels for the opportunity to get over 672 00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:08,080 Speaker 1: the border, and they're and trying to pop out a baby. 673 00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:09,839 Speaker 1: If you're in the eighth life on the pregnancy, then 674 00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:14,600 Speaker 1: you get birth rightssship. The entire instance stucture is that crap, 675 00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:19,120 Speaker 1: totally backwards, totally insane. So long story short. On Sunday, 676 00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:22,279 Speaker 1: they ended up getting Elmentho based on a tip. They 677 00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:26,480 Speaker 1: basically found one of his girlfriends. They found her in 678 00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:29,880 Speaker 1: they tracked her to this somewhat remote village there and 679 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:33,799 Speaker 1: again there ends up being this massive firefight and a 680 00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:35,839 Speaker 1: lot of the cartel people are killed in the firefight there. 681 00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:38,640 Speaker 1: Elmento ends up being trafficked on a helicopter. They're trying 682 00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:41,240 Speaker 1: to take them to Mexico City or elsewhere for treatments. 683 00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:43,799 Speaker 1: He actually ends up dying on the helicopter flight. One 684 00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:46,960 Speaker 1: of the most infamous narco terrorists cartels and one of 685 00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:49,120 Speaker 1: the most infamous narco terrorist leaders in the country. But 686 00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:52,120 Speaker 1: the response is potentially just as harrowing the fact that 687 00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:55,200 Speaker 1: that the cartels were able to just set stores on fire, 688 00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:58,320 Speaker 1: able to just shut down roads there. You know, Mexico 689 00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:00,680 Speaker 1: is going to be one of the host nations in 690 00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:02,960 Speaker 1: the World's Cup, like like the FIFA World Cup, the 691 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:05,880 Speaker 1: actual World Cup this summer. Now it's it's mostly going 692 00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:09,640 Speaker 1: to be the United States, but Mexico is going to 693 00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:12,880 Speaker 1: host a few matches, some of the matches actually going 694 00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:17,759 Speaker 1: to be in Guadalajara, like the capital of Hollisco, the 695 00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:21,160 Speaker 1: state that the whole world just saw, does not have 696 00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:23,399 Speaker 1: the defining feature of what it means to be sovereign entity, 697 00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:25,360 Speaker 1: which is a monopoly on the use of force. Rather, 698 00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:30,120 Speaker 1: there are cartel thugs motorcycling up and down with rifles 699 00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:33,680 Speaker 1: and burning and looting and committing acts of arson and 700 00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:38,120 Speaker 1: generally terrorizing Americans currently in Hollisco, Delta American Unit, all 701 00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:40,640 Speaker 1: the airlines shut down, all the flights into wu Laharn 702 00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:42,920 Speaker 1: and points of ore are to Americans in Hollisco and 703 00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:45,239 Speaker 1: in some other states. Because there's actually it's actually the 704 00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:48,600 Speaker 1: total of twenty states, a total of twenty states in 705 00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:52,600 Speaker 1: Mexico where there bean acts of violence from this Hollisco cartel. 706 00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:56,040 Speaker 1: So Americans all throughout the country, especially in Helisico, but 707 00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:59,560 Speaker 1: elsewhere too, are being commanded by the US Embassy in 708 00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:04,000 Speaker 1: Mexico's to shelter in place. I mean, is this a 709 00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:08,040 Speaker 1: first world or a third world country? To make matters worse, 710 00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:13,200 Speaker 1: This is not confirmed, but there is a sourced rumor 711 00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:17,040 Speaker 1: I will call it, going around that the new interim 712 00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:21,919 Speaker 1: leader of this cartel in the aftermath of Elmencho's death 713 00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:25,080 Speaker 1: from the Mexican authorities working with US intelligence. The new 714 00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:29,839 Speaker 1: leader is apparently a guy named Juan Carlos Valencia Gonzales. 715 00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:34,480 Speaker 1: He is the step son of Elmanchow. Get this, he 716 00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:38,920 Speaker 1: was born in the United States, and because we have 717 00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:42,840 Speaker 1: a birthday, Sayship, he is literally an American citizen unless 718 00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:44,759 Speaker 1: he's given it up, which we don't know, but we 719 00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:48,840 Speaker 1: believe that he's currently a dual Mexican US citizen. Unbelievable stuff. 720 00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:52,440 Speaker 1: Can you imagine if Americans tragically are killed by this 721 00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:59,600 Speaker 1: cartel under a dual national American Mexican leader. I literally 722 00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:01,640 Speaker 1: that fact about of all just makes me want to 723 00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:04,759 Speaker 1: punch a wall. The combination of the open borders, of 724 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,680 Speaker 1: the incentivizing the cartels the birth rights is in ship. 725 00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:12,120 Speaker 1: What an insane set of incentives we have done. There 726 00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:16,080 Speaker 1: Look a few quick rapid fire takes on the situation. 727 00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:17,000 Speaker 4: One. 728 00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:19,799 Speaker 1: Yes, I think that there are massive questions frankly when 729 00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:21,200 Speaker 1: it comes to the World Cup this summar. I think 730 00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:23,480 Speaker 1: that there are massive questions in general when it comes to Mexico. 731 00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:26,319 Speaker 1: The worst kept secret when it comes to Mexico for many, 732 00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:29,080 Speaker 1: many years, is that it fails. It fails the defining 733 00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:31,120 Speaker 1: question as to what it means to be a sovereign country, 734 00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:33,320 Speaker 1: what it means to be a sovereign city. The singular 735 00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:36,160 Speaker 1: defining feature of being a sovereign entity, and it was 736 00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:38,600 Speaker 1: failing in nation state order, is that you have a 737 00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:41,440 Speaker 1: monopoly on the use of force. You also have to 738 00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:44,640 Speaker 1: be able to control egress and ingress, exit and entry. 739 00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:47,640 Speaker 1: This gets into control a border. But the number one 740 00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:50,760 Speaker 1: defining feature of any sovereignity is to have a monopoly 741 00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:54,520 Speaker 1: on the use of force. For decades, decades and decades, 742 00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:58,240 Speaker 1: Mexico has flunked that test worse than any other country, 743 00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:00,680 Speaker 1: arguably in the entire Western hemisphere. The flump that test, 744 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:05,279 Speaker 1: Mexico is a failed narco state, and that should have 745 00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:07,960 Speaker 1: real repercussions. We should treat them as such when it 746 00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:09,920 Speaker 1: comes to diplomacy, We should treat them as such when 747 00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:11,960 Speaker 1: it comes to the economy, when it comes to free trade, 748 00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:16,279 Speaker 1: when it comes to tourism. Frankly, maybe you don't want 749 00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:19,439 Speaker 1: to vacation in Mexico anymore. That was my wife's take. 750 00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:20,839 Speaker 1: She saw these images. It was like, Honey, I don't 751 00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:23,040 Speaker 1: know we're going back to pera Verita anytime soon. Hard 752 00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:26,520 Speaker 1: to blame her. Donald Trump a few weeks ago was 753 00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:29,120 Speaker 1: complaining about this, complaining about it about how powerful the 754 00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:34,440 Speaker 1: cartels are. To the President Mexico is woman named Claudia Shinbaum, 755 00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:38,480 Speaker 1: who is a far left Marxist. Trump was complaining to 756 00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:42,399 Speaker 1: Shinebaum about how powerful the cartels are. And my other 757 00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:46,000 Speaker 1: take is that this is basically President Shinbaum's attempted response 758 00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:49,080 Speaker 1: is to try to show to President Trump that her 759 00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:52,319 Speaker 1: country does not deserve to be the next Venezuell, the 760 00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:56,200 Speaker 1: next Nicholas Maduro. There is ample presidents in American history 761 00:40:56,239 --> 00:40:59,359 Speaker 1: for American military incursions across the border to take care 762 00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:01,680 Speaker 1: of violence on Mexican side of that border. Think about 763 00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:03,759 Speaker 1: Pancho Villa, think about the border wars back in the 764 00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:06,640 Speaker 1: early twentieth century. There were plenty of them. This is 765 00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:10,719 Speaker 1: Sean Baum's attempt to try to forestall that. But you 766 00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:12,640 Speaker 1: think back to what Trump said about Mexico in his 767 00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:15,160 Speaker 1: very first speech down the Gilded Escalator in twenty fifteen. 768 00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:17,480 Speaker 1: A lot of that rhetoric was tough, a lot of 769 00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:21,120 Speaker 1: it is true today. Not much has changed Mexico remains 770 00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:25,920 Speaker 1: a failed state, and look, they're on our border. I 771 00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:29,080 Speaker 1: wish them the best. I would love Mexico nothing more 772 00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:32,240 Speaker 1: for them than to be a reputable, genuine first world country. 773 00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:35,080 Speaker 1: But they have a very very long way to go 774 00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:38,200 Speaker 1: to that. I wish our Americans frankly safety there. Get 775 00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:42,120 Speaker 1: home safely, and keep an eye on this dual citizen, 776 00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:45,320 Speaker 1: this guy who apparently is a new cartel head replacing 777 00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:49,880 Speaker 1: his stepfather al Metcho. Just unbelievable, tragic, awful stuff. Folks, 778 00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:51,799 Speaker 1: have a great rest of the evening, enjoy the state 779 00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:54,200 Speaker 1: of the unidest To night, folks, Joshammers signing off. We'll 780 00:41:54,200 --> 00:42:00,480 Speaker 1: be right back tomorrow.