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<v Speaker 1>iTunes and Hillsdale Morning, Laurie and Evening Grace America. Welcome

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<v Speaker 1>to the Big Weekend Pod, and indeed it is big.

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<v Speaker 1>At the end of it, I will include, just in

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<v Speaker 1>case you haven't already listened to it, my interview with

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<v Speaker 1>President Trump from Thursday's program. But to the Big Weekend Pod,

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<v Speaker 1>we talk with Matt Continity, Ben Dominic, Eli Lake, John Ellis,

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<v Speaker 1>and a little bit of football with Douglay Marie. To

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<v Speaker 1>make sure that it's light, but it's not light. All

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<v Speaker 1>eyes are on Iran this weekend. Whether or not the

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<v Speaker 1>IRGC retreats in the face of hundreds of thousands of

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<v Speaker 1>protesters or do they in fact risk the wrath of

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<v Speaker 1>the United States by firing on the protesters. We'll be

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<v Speaker 1>watching all weekend long, and I'll talk about it with

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<v Speaker 1>Matt and Ben and I Lie and John and I

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<v Speaker 1>hope you enjoy today's big weekend pot Welcome back in America.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm you hear it show A new audience is way

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<v Speaker 1>up north in Michigan and down in Pensacola, Florida. Welcome

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<v Speaker 1>to the Continetti half Hour, where Matt Conteneti of AEI

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<v Speaker 1>and the Wall Street Journal joins me to explore the

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<v Speaker 1>news of the week. Matt, I want to read to

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<v Speaker 1>you something Supreme Leader Iatola Jimeni said today. He dismissed

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<v Speaker 1>President Trump's threats as quote, he has hands stained with

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<v Speaker 1>the blood of Iranians and said that the protesters are

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<v Speaker 1>ruining their own streets in order to please the President

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<v Speaker 1>of the United States. He said, because he threatened he

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<v Speaker 1>would come to the aid of their of them, he

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<v Speaker 1>should pay attention to the state of his own country instead.

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<v Speaker 1>Do you think that, I Hatola how many is going

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<v Speaker 1>to shut down the protests with that?

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<v Speaker 2>No, And he's not shutting down the protests with the

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<v Speaker 2>offer of seven dollars to each Iranian which came earlier

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<v Speaker 2>in this week, which to me showed a panic on

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<v Speaker 2>the side of the regime, a sense that the regime's

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<v Speaker 2>not sure how to proceed. I think it's a very

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<v Speaker 2>combustible situation in Iran right now, Hugh, you have another night,

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<v Speaker 2>it seems of massive protests. It's hard to know exactly

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<v Speaker 2>what's happening, of course, because the regime has shut down

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<v Speaker 2>the internet, shut down most phones. It's hard to understand

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<v Speaker 2>what is happening on the ground. But what we can

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<v Speaker 2>glean from social media is that there are mass protests

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<v Speaker 2>throughout the country in response to the economic desolation that

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<v Speaker 2>this regime has perpetrated on the Iranian people. So you

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<v Speaker 2>have economic humiliation, you have military humiliation with Operation Midnight

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<v Speaker 2>Hammer in the Twelve Day War last year battering the

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<v Speaker 2>Iranian regime, and you now have political humiliation where it's

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<v Speaker 2>clear that the government no longer has any legitimacy whatsoever

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<v Speaker 2>on the streets of Iran.

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<v Speaker 1>Matt the President of the United States, did threaten Iran

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<v Speaker 1>in a conversation with me on Thursday. Then he doubled

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<v Speaker 1>down on Thursday night with Sean Hannity. He made it

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<v Speaker 1>very clear that if they opened fire on the protesters,

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<v Speaker 1>he will hit them very hard. I don't know what

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<v Speaker 1>that means, though, What do you think that means, and

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<v Speaker 1>what would he hit.

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<v Speaker 3>Right well? It's hard to say.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, the most important fact about that statement is

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<v Speaker 2>President Trump said it, yep.

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<v Speaker 3>And that's unlike, as we.

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<v Speaker 2>Discussed on the program earlier, most American presidents when you've

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<v Speaker 2>had similar demonstrations. Here, we have really quite impressive demonstrations

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<v Speaker 2>and the part of the Iranian people, and President Trump,

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<v Speaker 2>unlike Joe Biden, unlike Barack Obama, is saying that he's

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<v Speaker 2>on the side of the protesters and warning the Ayatola

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<v Speaker 2>and the IRGC against killing innocent civilians.

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<v Speaker 3>Now, what does that mean. Doesn't mean we're going to

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<v Speaker 3>go to war with Iran? I somehow doubt it.

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<v Speaker 2>I think the most important thing we could do right

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<v Speaker 2>now is work to restore internet connectivity to the Iranian people,

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<v Speaker 2>and to allow the Iranian people who are rebelling against

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<v Speaker 2>their government, this tyranny that's ruled them since nineteen seventy nine,

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<v Speaker 2>to connect with one another and with the outside world,

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<v Speaker 2>so we could get some explanation of what's happening, and

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<v Speaker 2>that our pressure, our voices could also be heard within

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<v Speaker 2>Iran saying that we are with insolidarity with the Iranian people.

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<v Speaker 3>I'd look to that as one step that the President

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<v Speaker 3>could could take pretty quickly.

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<v Speaker 1>One of the things I asked him was would he

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<v Speaker 1>meet with the Crown Prince raise up a labby and

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<v Speaker 1>he said, I don't think that would be appropriate. Later

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<v Speaker 1>in the day, news reports emerged that he plans on

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<v Speaker 1>meeting with him. It wouldn't be the first time he

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<v Speaker 1>did something that he didn't tip his hand. What do

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<v Speaker 1>you think about that? I remember Ford refusing to meet

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<v Speaker 1>with silvan Etsen to his everlasting regret. He should have done. So.

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<v Speaker 1>Do you think the president should sit down with the

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<v Speaker 1>Crown Prince?

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<v Speaker 3>He should. I think he will.

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<v Speaker 2>I think President Trump meets with a lot of people.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, He's willing to meet with almost anybody and

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<v Speaker 2>talk to them and hear what they have to say.

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<v Speaker 2>So I expect a meeting with Pallavi would happen in

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<v Speaker 2>the near future. I think what President Trump's caution is

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<v Speaker 2>about is he doesn't want to see anarchy. He doesn't

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<v Speaker 2>want to see some type of transition where you have

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<v Speaker 2>the war of all against all, the state of nature.

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<v Speaker 3>Right.

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<v Speaker 2>That's why in Venezuela, for example, he took out Maduro,

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<v Speaker 2>but he kept Maduro's lieutenants because, in his view, order

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<v Speaker 2>is the precondition for a democratic transition. So I think

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<v Speaker 2>that's why he's reluctant to jump the gun in pronouncing

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<v Speaker 2>who the next leader of Iran be. He wants the

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<v Speaker 2>Iranian people to take care of that question themselves.

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<v Speaker 3>I think that's a prudent move.

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<v Speaker 2>But it doesn't preclude him from speaking with Pallavi or

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<v Speaker 2>speaking with the other Iranian dissidents, other factions who are

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<v Speaker 2>in exile, and of course the most important actors will

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<v Speaker 2>be the ones who are in Iran right now taking

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<v Speaker 2>up the protests, doing what they can to resist the

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<v Speaker 2>terrorists who have driven their country into the ground.

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<v Speaker 1>Matt Contenny will be back with me after the break.

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<v Speaker 1>You can follow him on Exit. Continetti read him at

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<v Speaker 1>The Wall Street Journal. During the break, I'm going to

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<v Speaker 1>talk with Matt about Minnesota and we'll put that on

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<v Speaker 1>the podcast. But of the biggest stories of the day,

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<v Speaker 1>I think Iran and Venezuela and Kiba are more important.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm putting them on the immediate podcast, but Matt on Minnesota.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm back with Matt Continetti of AI and The Wall

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<v Speaker 1>Street Journal. Matt I was on This Morning with Dana

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<v Speaker 1>Prino and Bill Hammer on Friday morning, being asked about

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<v Speaker 1>Minnesota and Jacob Frye and I just threw up my hand.

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<v Speaker 1>He's such a carnival bark her and he's in coherent.

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<v Speaker 1>At one point he'll say, we want to be responsible

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<v Speaker 1>participants in the investigation, and the next moment he says

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<v Speaker 1>the ICE agent had a hop in his step after

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<v Speaker 1>he shot her and wasn't injured at all. In the

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<v Speaker 1>I think he's just a joker, and I think Tim

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<v Speaker 1>Wallas is a joker. And Minnesota, what a terrible situation

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<v Speaker 1>for that state to be And what's your assessment of this?

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<v Speaker 2>Well, I think Minnesota is seeing the fruits of long

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<v Speaker 2>term progressive dominance of politics at the municipal and at

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<v Speaker 2>the state level.

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<v Speaker 3>Of Jacob fry and Tim Walls.

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<v Speaker 2>Of course, we're in charge of that city and that

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<v Speaker 2>state during the George Floyd riots, where it was the

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<v Speaker 2>chaos and a police precinct burned down and Walls waited

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<v Speaker 2>far too long to bring in the National Guard. We

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<v Speaker 2>don't want that situation repeated today. And so their rhetoric

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<v Speaker 2>has been extremely irresponsible, only talking using expletives to refer

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<v Speaker 2>to Ice, saying that ICE should leave the state of Minnesota,

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<v Speaker 2>saying that Minnesotans and the rest of the country. People

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<v Speaker 2>of goodwill should stand with Tim Walls against the Trump administration,

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<v Speaker 2>just like the Union soldiers stood against the Confederacy. And

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<v Speaker 2>this is completely irresponsible and inflammatory rhetoric. At precisely the

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<v Speaker 2>moment you when we want to take a cautious, detached approach.

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<v Speaker 2>We want the investigation to proceed. We don't want things

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<v Speaker 2>to spiral out of control like they did five years ago.

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<v Speaker 2>We don't want this incident to lead to more damage,

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<v Speaker 2>more lost lives, more damage to property and to civil order.

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<v Speaker 1>Do you think we can restore a proper understanding of

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<v Speaker 1>federalism because brit Hume has made the argument this is

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<v Speaker 1>horrible faubis like, you know, state officials telling in the

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<v Speaker 1>federal government that they can enforce federal law. And of

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<v Speaker 1>course you and I both use this war analogy, but

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<v Speaker 1>it's a breakdown in constitutional literacy. There is a supremacy clause.

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<v Speaker 1>Are people ignorant of this at the Jacob Fry level?

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<v Speaker 2>They may be, but it's also a convenient ignorance because

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<v Speaker 2>what's really at work here is the desire of blue

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<v Speaker 2>state political machines to protect illegal immigration, and illegal immigration

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<v Speaker 2>is central to the Blue state model of governance, Hugh

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<v Speaker 2>is in. What we see since the raids began in

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<v Speaker 2>California last year is that the Blue state governors and

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<v Speaker 2>mayors hang on to illegal immigration so tenaciously that they're

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<v Speaker 2>openly defined to federal authority. ICE is a law enforcement body.

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<v Speaker 2>They are conducting legal operations to.

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<v Speaker 3>Enforce the law.

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<v Speaker 2>It is a crime to be in the United States

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<v Speaker 2>illegally and your subject to deportation.

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<v Speaker 3>This should not be up for debate. It is. It's

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<v Speaker 3>the case.

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<v Speaker 2>But I believe Blue states depend almost entirely on illegal

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<v Speaker 2>immigration for economic purposes and for political purposes. And so

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<v Speaker 2>you see the entire machine, just like a Tammany Hall,

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<v Speaker 2>move into operation in order to protect illegal immigrants and

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<v Speaker 2>to fight the federal government when it's actually trying to

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<v Speaker 2>enforce federal law.

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<v Speaker 1>Or That is a very good point that hasn't been

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<v Speaker 1>made very often. Matt Continetty well said, we'll be right

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<v Speaker 1>back on air. Welcome back in America. Matt Cottenetty is

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<v Speaker 1>back with me. Matt, of course rights for the Wall

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<v Speaker 1>Street Journal as a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

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<v Speaker 1>Matt I was recalling more than twenty years Ago, I

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<v Speaker 1>visited Camp Pendleton and the then Chief of Staff to

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<v Speaker 1>the then three star General, James Mattis, told me, I

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<v Speaker 1>wish you civilians would think about second order consequences of

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<v Speaker 1>military action. And I've always kept that in mind since that.

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<v Speaker 1>What do you think the second order consequences of Operation

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<v Speaker 1>Absolute Resolve are? We've got Maduro? What do we else?

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<v Speaker 1>And we've got five votes, including another one on Friday,

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<v Speaker 1>that's five now full of oil. What do you think

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<v Speaker 1>are the consequences maybe that are not right in front

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<v Speaker 1>of our face.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, first and foremost is a strategic question. You know Venezuela,

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<v Speaker 2>there's a lot that intersects in Venezuela. You there's immigration,

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<v Speaker 2>there's narco trafficking. You know, some people have described Marduro's

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<v Speaker 2>government as a transshipment organization. I believe that's Secretary of

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<v Speaker 2>State Rubio who's called it that. And then you have energy,

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<v Speaker 2>but you also have the access the axis of autocrats

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<v Speaker 2>active in Venezuela. You have China, you have Russia, you

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<v Speaker 2>have Iran, And I think one of the first secondary

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<v Speaker 2>consequences of Operation Absolute Resolve is all those powers have

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<v Speaker 2>taken notice and they realize that they are not going

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<v Speaker 2>to have a free hand in the Western hemisphere any longer.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean this started with Panama last year, where President

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<v Speaker 2>Trump essentially muscled out the Chinese from Panama and the

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<v Speaker 2>Panama Canal. But here we have an instance where Maduro's

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<v Speaker 2>extraction and arrest took place just after his meeting with

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<v Speaker 2>Chinese officials in the Chinese delegation. They're not going to

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<v Speaker 2>be party, They're not going to be at that table

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<v Speaker 2>any longer. You have these ships, including the ships that

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<v Speaker 2>we've just caught in the past.

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<v Speaker 3>Twenty four hours. One was going under a Russian flag.

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<v Speaker 2>It reflagged as Russian, thinking that it would protect it.

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<v Speaker 2>Trump took it anyway, So now the Russians are noticing.

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<v Speaker 2>And then finally Iran. Iran has had a presence in

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<v Speaker 2>Venezuela for some time, including Hesbealah, the terrorist militia, they're

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<v Speaker 2>going to have to leave as well. So I think

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<v Speaker 2>there are huge strategic secondary consequences to Operation Absolute Resolve

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<v Speaker 2>and done at no cost in American life.

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<v Speaker 4>I remarkable now yesterday, or when I talked to the

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<v Speaker 4>President on Thursday, he put me on the spot because

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<v Speaker 4>people were coming into the oval.

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<v Speaker 1>He was on the phone with me. So here comes

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<v Speaker 1>Marco Rubio. How's the job he's doing, Hugh, what do

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<v Speaker 1>you think? Am? That's kind of an odd thing to

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<v Speaker 1>ask me, But I quickly said, it's the equal of

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<v Speaker 1>any Secretary of State of my lifetime. That puts him

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<v Speaker 1>up there with Kissinger and Mike Pompeo, both of whom

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<v Speaker 1>I know and knew, and Mike's a friend. How would

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<v Speaker 1>you have answered that, because I think he is the

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<v Speaker 1>equal of those guys.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, I think it's just an incredible job that Secretary

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<v Speaker 2>Ruby is doing. He's already Kissinger's equal because he's the

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<v Speaker 2>first Secretary of State since Kissinger to also be the

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<v Speaker 2>National Security Advisor.

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<v Speaker 3>Yes, plus he's the National Archivist.

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<v Speaker 2>And he very cleverly put out, Hugh as you saw

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<v Speaker 2>that he Secretary Rubio will not accept the job as

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<v Speaker 2>the next coach of the Miami Dolphins.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, that's meme in America.

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<v Speaker 3>Too much on his plate already, that's the best.

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<v Speaker 1>You know in America.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, he's a real standout in this administration, and I

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<v Speaker 2>think President Trump knows it because you see how much

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<v Speaker 2>President Trump loves talking about Marco Rubio. And I think

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<v Speaker 2>that's because the President recognizes that Marco Rubio has been

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<v Speaker 2>an extremely effective Secretary of State in pursuing the Trump doctrine,

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<v Speaker 2>whether it's in the Western Hemisphere, whether it's in the

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<v Speaker 2>Middle East, whether it's this ongoing diplomatic process happening in Europe.

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<v Speaker 2>And he's also an extremely effective communicator for the President

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<v Speaker 2>what the President is trying to do. So absolutely he

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, just one year on the job, he's already

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<v Speaker 2>up there with Kissinger and Schultz and Pompeo.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, let me ask you about this. The President also

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<v Speaker 1>said to me he's got some Cuban blood in him.

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<v Speaker 1>I wanted to say, yeah, like one hundred percent. And

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<v Speaker 1>the follow on though, is we've never had a Secretary

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<v Speaker 1>of State who's had this kind of personal investment in

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<v Speaker 1>Cuba being free. Do you think that matters? Oh?

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, absolutely.

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<v Speaker 2>And you know, someone who's followed Secretary of Rubio's career

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<v Speaker 2>since he first launched that kind of almost winsome campaign

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<v Speaker 2>for the Republican Senate nomination back in twenty ten, this issue,

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<v Speaker 2>the issue of Cuba, is extremely important to him. Freedom

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<v Speaker 2>for the Cuban people, an end to the castro tyranny,

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<v Speaker 2>and the Castro regime, and I think it's very revealing

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<v Speaker 2>that Maduro was being guarded by a cadre of Cuban

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<v Speaker 2>security officials, showing that Venezuela and Cuba are intricately connected.

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<v Speaker 2>It's hard to say is Venezuela running Cuba or is

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<v Speaker 2>Cuba really running Venezuela. We know that Cuba is dependent

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<v Speaker 2>on Venezuela, dependent on Venezuela's energy and economic aid.

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<v Speaker 3>You remove that from the table.

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<v Speaker 2>Like I believe the President Secretary of Rubio is going

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<v Speaker 2>to force the Rodriguez government to do, and that puts

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<v Speaker 2>the Cuban communist regime in a really tight spot, the

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<v Speaker 2>worst spot it's been since the revolution back in nineteen

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<v Speaker 2>fifty nine. I agree that another incredible accomplishment. If that

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<v Speaker 2>government were to fall next in the next three years.

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<v Speaker 1>I think they're out of food, medicine, electricity, They're like Iran.

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<v Speaker 1>Basic services have failed in Cuba like they have failed

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<v Speaker 1>in Iran. But I don't know that we have any way.

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<v Speaker 1>Israel's got ways. Obviously they built a drone plan inside

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<v Speaker 1>of Iran. They've got ways of helping the Iranian resistance.

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<v Speaker 1>Do we have any ways of helping the Cuban resistance

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<v Speaker 1>or is there even a Cuban resistance to your knowledge,

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<v Speaker 1>Matt Conney.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, you know, the Castros and their successors have been

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<v Speaker 2>very good at destroying civil society in Cuba and destroying

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<v Speaker 2>any political dissidence there. So it's very hard to say.

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<v Speaker 2>I do know if they're out there. Secretary of Rubio

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<v Speaker 2>is probably where. But I think what we have to

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<v Speaker 2>do here is apply as much pressure as possible, which

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<v Speaker 2>is happening, and you're driving the Cuban government into a

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<v Speaker 2>position where it may be desperate for a negotiation. There

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<v Speaker 2>was an article in the New York Times, The New

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<v Speaker 2>York Times of all places which for decades ran covered

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<v Speaker 2>for Castros, you know, you quoting from a Cuban citizen

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<v Speaker 2>talking about how when he and his wife had to

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<v Speaker 2>go to the hospital, they had to bring their own catheter.

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<v Speaker 2>That's how bad things have gotten there. And if the

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<v Speaker 2>New York Times is acknowledging it, it means it must

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<v Speaker 2>be really bad.

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<v Speaker 5>Oh.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, for decades, puppets of Castro and fellow travelers

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<v Speaker 1>in the United States to hold up the Cuban healthcare

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<v Speaker 1>system to us, to the United States as being Oh,

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<v Speaker 1>they have such wonderful healthcare. I don't think so, and

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<v Speaker 1>we will find out soon. Matt Cottonhoody, thank you for

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<v Speaker 1>joining me as always, read him at the Wall Street Journal,

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<v Speaker 1>read his work when it's published at the American Enterprise Institute,

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<v Speaker 1>and stay tuned. I'll be right back America. This weekend

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<v Speaker 1>gets underway on Huge It on You hew It. It's

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<v Speaker 1>always a good weekend when I get to review it

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<v Speaker 1>the Week in Review with Ben Dominic. Yes, so many

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<v Speaker 1>titles though, Ben, Good, Happy New Year to you. But

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<v Speaker 1>I have some new affiliates from way up north in

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<v Speaker 1>Michigan at Triple Talk one oh two point three one

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<v Speaker 1>Michigan to way down in Pensacola, the home of Naval

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<v Speaker 1>Aviation News Radio Pensacola ninety two point three WNRP. That

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<v Speaker 1>I have to give out all of your titles. So

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<v Speaker 1>not only are you a Fox News contributor, the host

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<v Speaker 1>of the wonderful Big Ben Podcast, you are the editor

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<v Speaker 1>of the Transom on Substack. You're the editor at large

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<v Speaker 1>for The Spectator. Am I missing something, Ben? No?

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<v Speaker 5>But I did have a new kid since last time.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh Bra.

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<v Speaker 1>So I'm not Jewish, but mazel to agree. Father of

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<v Speaker 1>three means sleepless in the Beltway.

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<v Speaker 5>I'm actually I'm okay, I'm okay. It's a trick baby,

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<v Speaker 5>because it's the first two were girls. This is our

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<v Speaker 5>first boy. And you know that the danger is that

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<v Speaker 5>when you get older, as I am now, that third

0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:16.520
<v Speaker 5>baby can sometimes trick you into thinking that you could

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<v Speaker 5>do one more. And that is definitely the current stage

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<v Speaker 5>that we are in, and so I need to guard

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<v Speaker 5>against that. I thank you.

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<v Speaker 1>My daughter has four and Israel the four is the

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<v Speaker 1>new three. And my daughter has four and the fourth

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<v Speaker 1>is a delight as the other ones are. And I

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<v Speaker 1>just want to remind you of what you were like

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<v Speaker 1>when you were sixteen. That's what you got to remember

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<v Speaker 1>because they try and get out of the you know

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<v Speaker 1>everything we.

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<v Speaker 5>Did, Yes, exactly, Ben.

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<v Speaker 1>I want to talk about a lot with you, but

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<v Speaker 1>I want to actually start with the American news media,

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<v Speaker 1>and I don't I'm a little bit beside myself. I

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<v Speaker 1>think it's an important story of what happened in Minnesota.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a tragedy. Jacob Fry is a carnival barker. Tim

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<v Speaker 1>Walls is a moron, and they will get to the

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<v Speaker 1>bottom the investigation and whether or not the shooting was justified.

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<v Speaker 1>It appears to me to be. But the biggest story

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<v Speaker 1>in the world is an Iran, and I don't see

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<v Speaker 1>American media anywhere. Fox is doing some But what do

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<v Speaker 1>you make of the almost obliviousness to this world history

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<v Speaker 1>changing possible event.

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<v Speaker 5>Well, what I want to suggest to you, Hugh, is

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<v Speaker 5>that this is in large part driven by the know

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<v Speaker 5>what these stations understand their current viewers of resistance media

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<v Speaker 5>consumers to be all about. And nothing activates them more

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<v Speaker 5>than I think this particular issue and the kind of

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<v Speaker 5>fomented education that you're seeing, you know, on American streets,

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<v Speaker 5>the protests that you see that are in New York City,

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<v Speaker 5>et cetera. Those are all things that I think go

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<v Speaker 5>to that idea. They're catering to those people, and they don't.

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<v Speaker 5>They are not, I think, fulfilling their obligation to actually

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<v Speaker 5>be talking about what's going on in Iran at the moment,

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<v Speaker 5>because it is momentous and it is significant. We'll see

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<v Speaker 5>obviously where things will go there. But I'm glad that

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<v Speaker 5>you brought this up because to me, it's an indictment

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<v Speaker 5>of the way that our media used to work and

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<v Speaker 5>the way that the media works now. In the old days,

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<v Speaker 5>we had the assumption that when international events would happen. Certainly,

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<v Speaker 5>this was the assumption when I was younger, that you

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<v Speaker 5>flip on CNN, that you turn to sort of these

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<v Speaker 5>major cable news outlets that have bureaus around the world,

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<v Speaker 5>that have people who are on the ground, who are

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<v Speaker 5>reporting what's going on on a regular basis, updating you

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<v Speaker 5>with what's happening. Instead, that's just not true anymore. Instead,

0:21:38.480 --> 0:21:41.480
<v Speaker 5>what they cater to is whatever is going to inflame

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<v Speaker 5>the folks on Blue Sky and across social media here,

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<v Speaker 5>regardless of the fact that there's some that there are

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<v Speaker 5>momentous things happening around them in the world that certainly,

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<v Speaker 5>you know, is look, whatever happened in Minnesota. I think

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<v Speaker 5>it's I think it's tragic one way or the other,

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<v Speaker 5>no matter, no matter, you know, the ultimate sort of

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<v Speaker 5>responsibility for it. It's tragic that someone was convinced to

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<v Speaker 5>you know, sort of you know, try to behave in

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<v Speaker 5>the way that this, uh, you know, played out. But

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<v Speaker 5>it's also I think, you know, tragic that we aren't

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<v Speaker 5>allowing ice agents to enforce the law that is written

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<v Speaker 5>that they are doing, I think the best job that

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<v Speaker 5>they possibly can to enforce. But as to your point,

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<v Speaker 5>there is no longer that obligation among American media that

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<v Speaker 5>and they have pulled back from having those bureaus. They

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<v Speaker 5>have pulled back from having those intelligent people on the

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<v Speaker 5>ground who risk their lives to be on the front

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<v Speaker 5>lines and to report difficult stories. Instead they have people

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<v Speaker 5>who write clickbait, and now they're outsourcing that clickbait to

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<v Speaker 5>keep chat, GPT and everybody else.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and Ben, I want to really say the contrast.

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<v Speaker 1>You're not old enough to remember this. But as I

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<v Speaker 1>said to the President when I interviewed them on Thursday,

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<v Speaker 1>I watched the Iranian revolution unfold in seventy eight to

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<v Speaker 1>seventy nine on a coach with Ray Price and Richard Nick's.

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<v Speaker 1>On a daily basis, the networks would cover the marches,

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<v Speaker 1>they covered the Shaw leaving, they covered Harmony returning from France.

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<v Speaker 1>They covered it every single day, and then of course,

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<v Speaker 1>when the hostage crisis occurred a year later, they covered

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<v Speaker 1>Nightline came into being. Is there no sense of responsibility? Maybe, Barry,

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<v Speaker 1>there is a Fox. I'm very proud of the fact

0:23:21.000 --> 0:23:23.679
<v Speaker 1>that Trey and Lucas and other people are abroad in

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<v Speaker 1>doing this, and that Brett covers it almost every night,

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<v Speaker 1>and it was it's covered in America's newsroom. But do

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<v Speaker 1>you think Barry will bring it back? And that's one

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<v Speaker 1>of the reasons why I urged the president yesterday sit

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<v Speaker 1>down with Tony Dekoppel and see if he's serious, because

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<v Speaker 1>I wanted it. Wouldn't it be great to have a

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<v Speaker 1>second serious anchor?

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<v Speaker 5>You know, this is first off, I think complete and

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<v Speaker 5>I'm in complete agreement. I would love for there to

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<v Speaker 5>have competent, for there to be competition. Iron sharpens iron.

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<v Speaker 5>We'll get this and Fox will get better. I mean, look,

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<v Speaker 5>I'm a I'm a diehard Fox team member, as you know.

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<v Speaker 5>But Fox will get better if we have more competitions,

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<v Speaker 5>you know, And I think that that's the kind of

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<v Speaker 5>thing that can be helpful and useful. And so look,

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<v Speaker 5>you know, more power to you. The problem is, and

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<v Speaker 5>this is I think a significant problem. They brought They

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<v Speaker 5>brought in some people you know there who are going

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<v Speaker 5>to have new ideas, But how willing are the people

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<v Speaker 5>who actually control that ship to turn it and how

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<v Speaker 5>quickly can they do it, because this would be exactly

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<v Speaker 5>the kind of moment that would be career making in

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<v Speaker 5>terms of of you know, news reporting, people on the ground,

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<v Speaker 5>the old ways of doing things, the you know approach

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<v Speaker 5>that has been you know, time honored from CBS in

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<v Speaker 5>the past. Instead, you know, of course, we have clickbaity articles.

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<v Speaker 5>And you know the whole reason that Tony uh you know,

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<v Speaker 5>to to his to his credit, you know, went viral

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<v Speaker 5>because of a conflict over and you know interview with

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<v Speaker 5>this throw a book by by Tanny easy Coats that

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<v Speaker 5>just you know, argues that everybody's racist, particularly Israel. And

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<v Speaker 5>so it's one of these things where like, can we

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<v Speaker 5>get back to actually having news reporting and people who

0:24:58.760 --> 0:25:01.720
<v Speaker 5>are on the ground. I certainly hope so. But the

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<v Speaker 5>idea that those markets forces are going to be in

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<v Speaker 5>place instead, you're going to be forced to do the

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<v Speaker 5>same thing that so many other Americans do and turn

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<v Speaker 5>the substack to find out you know what that.

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<v Speaker 1>It's going to be very tough to build an audience.

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<v Speaker 1>Brett's people are not going to move. Are people at Fox.

0:25:16.880 --> 0:25:18.600
<v Speaker 1>They're not going to move, So they're going to have

0:25:18.680 --> 0:25:21.639
<v Speaker 1>to get the audience from ABC and NBC that is

0:25:21.720 --> 0:25:25.719
<v Speaker 1>remaining to move to CBS. But to do that, there

0:25:25.760 --> 0:25:28.760
<v Speaker 1>are any American networks allowed in Iran. But they could

0:25:28.800 --> 0:25:31.800
<v Speaker 1>partner with the French who are They could partner with

0:25:31.840 --> 0:25:35.480
<v Speaker 1>the BBC, who are to at least get some pictures,

0:25:35.520 --> 0:25:39.520
<v Speaker 1>some drama. And we've got Karam saw Jupoor. We've got

0:25:39.560 --> 0:25:42.840
<v Speaker 1>Aaron Austabar, There's Michael Durant. There are a lot of

0:25:42.880 --> 0:25:45.520
<v Speaker 1>people who know Iran. They could be on there telling

0:25:45.600 --> 0:25:48.800
<v Speaker 1>us what's going on there. And I'm afraid that what

0:25:48.920 --> 0:25:50.919
<v Speaker 1>happens is going to happen in the dark if the

0:25:51.000 --> 0:25:53.000
<v Speaker 1>regime in fact opens up completely.

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<v Speaker 5>I completely agree, and I think that, I mean, it's

0:25:57.720 --> 0:26:00.399
<v Speaker 5>kind of ridiculous in this day and age, people have

0:26:00.520 --> 0:26:03.560
<v Speaker 5>the impression that everything that they see is just this

0:26:03.760 --> 0:26:06.800
<v Speaker 5>flood of information that we get the best access to

0:26:06.840 --> 0:26:09.520
<v Speaker 5>it from social media and X and just everyone having

0:26:09.520 --> 0:26:12.439
<v Speaker 5>a phone. That we're talking about this, you know, in

0:26:12.520 --> 0:26:15.440
<v Speaker 5>the you know, any moment in any place where that

0:26:15.640 --> 0:26:18.760
<v Speaker 5>is prevented and prevented deliberately so that people cannot see

0:26:18.760 --> 0:26:21.640
<v Speaker 5>what is going on, so people cannot see how momentous

0:26:21.640 --> 0:26:24.000
<v Speaker 5>it is. And look, I think you're completely right. We

0:26:24.040 --> 0:26:25.639
<v Speaker 5>need to have more of these voices out there, and

0:26:26.080 --> 0:26:29.680
<v Speaker 5>to a certain extent, my attitude towards the viewer side

0:26:29.680 --> 0:26:32.560
<v Speaker 5>of things is I don't care. This is too important.

0:26:32.760 --> 0:26:34.840
<v Speaker 5>You know. It's like, we can take we can take

0:26:34.840 --> 0:26:36.640
<v Speaker 5>a hit for a segment if you flipped it over

0:26:37.119 --> 0:26:40.240
<v Speaker 5>because you're interested in what's happening. It's too important and

0:26:40.240 --> 0:26:42.440
<v Speaker 5>you've got to put it in front of them, and look,

0:26:42.520 --> 0:26:44.840
<v Speaker 5>let's take the hit for the next eight minutes, and

0:26:44.560 --> 0:26:47.080
<v Speaker 5>then then we'll come back and have some cat videos,

0:26:47.280 --> 0:26:48.760
<v Speaker 5>you know, make the other folks come back.

0:26:48.880 --> 0:26:50.960
<v Speaker 1>Well, let me talk to you about cat videos for

0:26:51.000 --> 0:26:55.000
<v Speaker 1>a moment. Jacob Fry, the mayor of Minneapolis, is a

0:26:55.119 --> 0:26:58.000
<v Speaker 1>cunnibal barker. And I was on this morning with Dana

0:26:58.040 --> 0:27:01.119
<v Speaker 1>and Bill and he was he was so idiotic. In

0:27:01.160 --> 0:27:05.320
<v Speaker 1>the course of ten minutes, he said completely oppositional things.

0:27:05.680 --> 0:27:07.879
<v Speaker 1>We've got to be involved in the investigation because you

0:27:07.920 --> 0:27:12.000
<v Speaker 1>need fairness. And then he said the ice agent had

0:27:12.000 --> 0:27:13.960
<v Speaker 1>to hop in his step as he walked away, and

0:27:14.000 --> 0:27:16.159
<v Speaker 1>he was not injured. He couldn't have been holding so

0:27:16.320 --> 0:27:21.160
<v Speaker 1>in the same two minutes I was watching, he's such

0:27:21.240 --> 0:27:21.840
<v Speaker 1>an idiot.

0:27:22.480 --> 0:27:24.840
<v Speaker 5>I had not seen that. Cliff, You and I just

0:27:24.840 --> 0:27:26.760
<v Speaker 5>have to admit this is the area that you fall

0:27:26.800 --> 0:27:29.080
<v Speaker 5>behind when you are changing diapers. But this is the

0:27:29.160 --> 0:27:30.760
<v Speaker 5>thing that I think is But this is the thing

0:27:30.760 --> 0:27:32.200
<v Speaker 5>that I think is true about him. He's been a

0:27:32.240 --> 0:27:36.679
<v Speaker 5>carnival barker for a long time. We've seen his act before.

0:27:36.760 --> 0:27:41.320
<v Speaker 5>It's absolutely ridiculous. But it's I mean, I hate to

0:27:41.320 --> 0:27:43.320
<v Speaker 5>bring this into it, but I think that the reason

0:27:43.359 --> 0:27:45.760
<v Speaker 5>that he acts the way that he does is because

0:27:45.840 --> 0:27:48.159
<v Speaker 5>there's this feeling that if you're a white guy in

0:27:48.240 --> 0:27:50.920
<v Speaker 5>the Democratic Party, you have to cowtow.

0:27:50.480 --> 0:27:52.040
<v Speaker 1>To everything that's true you.

0:27:53.960 --> 0:27:55.760
<v Speaker 5>I think it's true. I think it's one of these

0:27:55.760 --> 0:27:58.359
<v Speaker 5>things where that's and that's, by the way, one of

0:27:58.400 --> 0:28:00.439
<v Speaker 5>the reasons why I think Gavin Knewsome I have a

0:28:00.480 --> 0:28:02.600
<v Speaker 5>slightly harder time than he thinks he's going to have

0:28:02.680 --> 0:28:05.560
<v Speaker 5>getting that nomination, because you just have to bend over

0:28:05.640 --> 0:28:08.280
<v Speaker 5>backward to make every different interest group happy, to never

0:28:08.680 --> 0:28:11.680
<v Speaker 5>ruffle any feathers. And you know, I still remember the BLM,

0:28:12.320 --> 0:28:14.560
<v Speaker 5>you know, images of him, you know, masked up and

0:28:14.840 --> 0:28:18.200
<v Speaker 5>apologizing for everything, and it's I don't know about you, Hugh,

0:28:18.240 --> 0:28:19.960
<v Speaker 5>but it seems very Canadian to me.

0:28:20.440 --> 0:28:23.280
<v Speaker 1>Very very Canadian. I'm going to talk with Ben Dominic

0:28:23.480 --> 0:28:27.760
<v Speaker 1>during the break about the Big Ben podcast. He covered Venezeuela,

0:28:27.880 --> 0:28:29.920
<v Speaker 1>and he'll be back on the other side as well

0:28:29.920 --> 0:28:32.640
<v Speaker 1>as we talk about Cuba. Don't go anywhere America. I'm

0:28:32.640 --> 0:28:35.560
<v Speaker 1>cute Cube. I am back with Ben Dominic. Ben is,

0:28:35.600 --> 0:28:38.040
<v Speaker 1>of course the host of the Big Ben podcast, of

0:28:38.080 --> 0:28:40.080
<v Speaker 1>which I want two episodes a week, but he had

0:28:40.120 --> 0:28:41.440
<v Speaker 1>just had a baby, so I guess we're all going

0:28:41.480 --> 0:28:44.480
<v Speaker 1>to get one. Ben. I have saved this week's episode

0:28:44.480 --> 0:28:48.880
<v Speaker 1>about Venezuela for tomorrow morning when I'm trundling because I

0:28:48.960 --> 0:28:51.160
<v Speaker 1>need a lot of time because I'm going a little

0:28:51.160 --> 0:28:54.400
<v Speaker 1>bit longer than I normally. Do you covered Venezuela? I

0:28:54.480 --> 0:28:57.720
<v Speaker 1>know that what do you think the second order impacts are?

0:28:58.120 --> 0:29:00.480
<v Speaker 1>Six days out from the over three of Maduro.

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<v Speaker 5>I think that the really interesting question coming out of

0:29:05.080 --> 0:29:09.200
<v Speaker 5>this is what the Mexican government takes away from this experience?

0:29:09.240 --> 0:29:14.360
<v Speaker 5>Oh interesting now, So so let me the the argument

0:29:14.360 --> 0:29:16.600
<v Speaker 5>that I've made in the past is that as much

0:29:16.640 --> 0:29:20.000
<v Speaker 5>as Venezuela was about obviously achieving the goals that they've

0:29:20.040 --> 0:29:21.920
<v Speaker 5>been very public about, and you know, it's not like

0:29:21.960 --> 0:29:24.880
<v Speaker 5>they've been subtle, you know, the president saying, hey, they

0:29:24.960 --> 0:29:27.600
<v Speaker 5>knew we were coming, you know, has been basically true

0:29:27.640 --> 0:29:30.160
<v Speaker 5>for you know, a month plus. But I think that

0:29:30.240 --> 0:29:34.120
<v Speaker 5>the real message that this sort of sends is the

0:29:34.160 --> 0:29:38.360
<v Speaker 5>ability of the Americans when confronting you know, an American might,

0:29:38.400 --> 0:29:42.600
<v Speaker 5>when confronting a military that is not built to handle

0:29:42.720 --> 0:29:46.080
<v Speaker 5>the kind of of challenges that we can represent, are

0:29:46.200 --> 0:29:49.320
<v Speaker 5>capable of incredible things, especially when it comes to exful

0:29:49.400 --> 0:29:53.080
<v Speaker 5>trading individuals who you know, have you know, live large

0:29:53.120 --> 0:29:57.720
<v Speaker 5>in palaces, claimed to be presidents, aren't and essentially you know,

0:29:57.880 --> 0:30:01.040
<v Speaker 5>established rule over over you know, as many resources as

0:30:01.120 --> 0:30:03.960
<v Speaker 5>Maduro did. That's also something that you can do when

0:30:03.960 --> 0:30:06.640
<v Speaker 5>it comes to the leaders of cartels. It's also the

0:30:06.720 --> 0:30:09.440
<v Speaker 5>thing you can do when it comes to I believe

0:30:09.960 --> 0:30:13.800
<v Speaker 5>many of the key Mexican figures who quite frankly, you know,

0:30:13.840 --> 0:30:18.040
<v Speaker 5>should I believe, be behaving quite differently in their attitude

0:30:18.080 --> 0:30:22.280
<v Speaker 5>towards the Americans right now. Shinbaum and her leadership is

0:30:22.320 --> 0:30:25.320
<v Speaker 5>not really the target here. It's more about what America

0:30:25.400 --> 0:30:27.760
<v Speaker 5>is willing to do when it comes to fighting this

0:30:27.840 --> 0:30:30.320
<v Speaker 5>broader drug war. And the President has clearly, you know,

0:30:30.840 --> 0:30:34.240
<v Speaker 5>basically taken on the attitude that this border situation that

0:30:34.280 --> 0:30:36.720
<v Speaker 5>he has, which is so incredible. Of course, we've seen

0:30:36.760 --> 0:30:39.800
<v Speaker 5>the statistics that that's temporary, that that's something that the

0:30:40.040 --> 0:30:43.920
<v Speaker 5>Mexican cartels are deciding to do because he's in office,

0:30:43.920 --> 0:30:45.959
<v Speaker 5>and that they're just biding their time and waiting to

0:30:46.000 --> 0:30:49.080
<v Speaker 5>open the floodgates again, send as many people north as

0:30:49.120 --> 0:30:52.440
<v Speaker 5>they want to, you know, profit from them along the way,

0:30:52.880 --> 0:30:56.760
<v Speaker 5>and then use them, frankly here to continue their indentured service. Effectively,

0:30:57.040 --> 0:30:59.480
<v Speaker 5>that's something that he doesn't want to be a legacy

0:30:59.480 --> 0:31:01.800
<v Speaker 5>that happened after he leaves office. And that's what I

0:31:01.840 --> 0:31:05.280
<v Speaker 5>think is kind of an underlying element of this one

0:31:05.280 --> 0:31:07.400
<v Speaker 5>more thing though, I also think this is a message

0:31:07.400 --> 0:31:10.040
<v Speaker 5>to his administration and to a lot of people within

0:31:10.320 --> 0:31:13.640
<v Speaker 5>his coalition about the way that the President views his

0:31:13.800 --> 0:31:15.560
<v Speaker 5>role when it comes to the Western hemisphere. There was

0:31:15.560 --> 0:31:17.520
<v Speaker 5>a lot of nice talk, or a lot of I

0:31:17.560 --> 0:31:20.360
<v Speaker 5>would say bold talk about you know, the President shifting

0:31:20.520 --> 0:31:23.880
<v Speaker 5>his priorities to that in his second term from a

0:31:23.920 --> 0:31:26.320
<v Speaker 5>lot of different supporters, including some people who had, you know,

0:31:26.400 --> 0:31:28.800
<v Speaker 5>some issues with how bold he's been in a number

0:31:28.840 --> 0:31:30.720
<v Speaker 5>of different moves. But I think he's sending the message, Yeah,

0:31:30.720 --> 0:31:33.720
<v Speaker 5>I'm serious about that. I really do mean that. In

0:31:33.840 --> 0:31:36.960
<v Speaker 5>terms of my approach. And people can laugh about the

0:31:37.040 --> 0:31:39.400
<v Speaker 5>toun Road doctor or what have you, but I think

0:31:39.400 --> 0:31:43.640
<v Speaker 5>he's sending the message internally as well. No I decide

0:31:43.640 --> 0:31:47.720
<v Speaker 5>what America first means about policy. You know. MTG doesn't

0:31:47.720 --> 0:31:51.400
<v Speaker 5>get to decide that anymore. Piece upon her and instead,

0:31:51.440 --> 0:31:53.360
<v Speaker 5>you know, you have to listen to the commander in

0:31:53.400 --> 0:31:53.920
<v Speaker 5>chief when it.

0:31:53.840 --> 0:31:55.680
<v Speaker 1>Comes to these things, and when he makes a threat,

0:31:55.760 --> 0:31:58.040
<v Speaker 1>and I think the molas are well advised when he

0:31:58.120 --> 0:32:00.840
<v Speaker 1>makes a threat, pay attention. I'll be right back with

0:32:00.920 --> 0:32:05.479
<v Speaker 1>Ben dominic Don't go anywhere, America. Welcome back in America.

0:32:05.560 --> 0:32:09.000
<v Speaker 1>I'm here with Ben Dominich, Fox News contributor, hosts of

0:32:09.040 --> 0:32:12.320
<v Speaker 1>the Big Ben podcast, and of course contributing editor at

0:32:12.400 --> 0:32:15.520
<v Speaker 1>large to The Spectator. We were talking doing the break,

0:32:15.520 --> 0:32:18.960
<v Speaker 1>Ben and I about Mexico and the cartels, and before

0:32:18.960 --> 0:32:21.520
<v Speaker 1>I get back to President Trump, then a quick question.

0:32:21.680 --> 0:32:24.040
<v Speaker 1>If he strikes at the cartels, do you think he

0:32:24.080 --> 0:32:27.440
<v Speaker 1>will do it visibly and so everyone knows he's done it,

0:32:27.560 --> 0:32:29.880
<v Speaker 1>or will he go like John Clark and the Tom

0:32:29.920 --> 0:32:33.240
<v Speaker 1>Clancy novel so memorably played by Willem Dafoe. Will we

0:32:33.280 --> 0:32:33.560
<v Speaker 1>do it?

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<v Speaker 5>Sub Rosa, Yeah, I mean I first off clear in

0:32:39.760 --> 0:32:44.560
<v Speaker 5>Present Danger a great movie. Great movie. But anyway, the

0:32:44.600 --> 0:32:49.320
<v Speaker 5>thing that I think is very interesting about this, and

0:32:48.960 --> 0:32:51.880
<v Speaker 5>I have written this before, is that I think that

0:32:52.000 --> 0:32:54.080
<v Speaker 5>anything that would be done in terms of a move

0:32:54.120 --> 0:32:57.200
<v Speaker 5>against the cartels would be branded and put forward by

0:32:57.280 --> 0:33:00.560
<v Speaker 5>the United States and by the State Department, being done

0:33:00.560 --> 0:33:04.240
<v Speaker 5>with the full and friendly cooperation of the Mexican government,

0:33:05.000 --> 0:33:06.640
<v Speaker 5>that it would be that that is the way it

0:33:07.080 --> 0:33:09.880
<v Speaker 5>is going to be presented, regardless of if there's any

0:33:09.880 --> 0:33:12.120
<v Speaker 5>truth to that at all, and this likelihood is there

0:33:12.160 --> 0:33:13.640
<v Speaker 5>is not going to be any truth to that, but

0:33:13.640 --> 0:33:16.720
<v Speaker 5>that is the way it will be presented. And a

0:33:16.800 --> 0:33:18.240
<v Speaker 5>lot of people are going to have to smile and

0:33:18.280 --> 0:33:20.960
<v Speaker 5>grin and go along with it because of just the

0:33:21.040 --> 0:33:24.760
<v Speaker 5>nature of things. One more point about that, Hugh, I

0:33:25.880 --> 0:33:30.600
<v Speaker 5>mean Marco Rubio, Man, it's just like he's everywhere. He's

0:33:30.960 --> 0:33:32.800
<v Speaker 5>you know, and I'm not just talking about the memes.

0:33:32.880 --> 0:33:40.400
<v Speaker 5>You know, he's currently up for about ten different NFL jobs. Yeah.

0:33:40.520 --> 0:33:43.520
<v Speaker 5>But here's the thing that I think is interesting about this.

0:33:44.400 --> 0:33:47.840
<v Speaker 5>You know, again, the President is saying, I define what

0:33:47.880 --> 0:33:49.840
<v Speaker 5>my foreign policy is going to be. I'm not going

0:33:49.880 --> 0:33:52.040
<v Speaker 5>to be defined by people who are outside who claim

0:33:52.040 --> 0:33:54.400
<v Speaker 5>to be close to me and who feel like they

0:33:54.440 --> 0:33:57.320
<v Speaker 5>influence me. Donald Trump listens to a lot of people,

0:33:57.360 --> 0:33:59.280
<v Speaker 5>but then he makes his own decisions. And I think

0:33:59.320 --> 0:34:01.640
<v Speaker 5>that's what we've in this past week, and I think

0:34:01.640 --> 0:34:03.280
<v Speaker 5>it's going to be what we continue to see in

0:34:03.280 --> 0:34:03.960
<v Speaker 5>this administration.

0:34:04.200 --> 0:34:07.280
<v Speaker 1>About Marco Rubya, Ben, you're one of the few young

0:34:07.360 --> 0:34:10.080
<v Speaker 1>concertoves who sat down and interviewed the president, so you

0:34:10.080 --> 0:34:11.440
<v Speaker 1>know what it's like. You got to be on your

0:34:11.440 --> 0:34:14.920
<v Speaker 1>toes on Thursday and talking to him, and Secretary Rubia

0:34:14.960 --> 0:34:17.120
<v Speaker 1>walks into the oval. I'm on the phone, so oh,

0:34:17.239 --> 0:34:19.759
<v Speaker 1>mark A. Rubia walked in. How's he doing you? He's

0:34:19.760 --> 0:34:21.640
<v Speaker 1>got a little Cuban blood in him. You've got to

0:34:21.680 --> 0:34:23.799
<v Speaker 1>be willing to be ready to answer a question. And

0:34:23.840 --> 0:34:26.279
<v Speaker 1>I said, you know, the equal of any Secretary State

0:34:26.320 --> 0:34:29.279
<v Speaker 1>in my lifetime, because he's done the Kissinger thing, n

0:34:29.360 --> 0:34:33.320
<v Speaker 1>SC and that. But do you think his being Cuban

0:34:34.880 --> 0:34:37.680
<v Speaker 1>makes it more or less likely that we goll in

0:34:37.719 --> 0:34:38.800
<v Speaker 1>on Cuba quickly?

0:34:40.680 --> 0:34:44.680
<v Speaker 5>I think it may actually slow the role slightly, because

0:34:44.719 --> 0:34:46.839
<v Speaker 5>I think that there's going to be a feeling that,

0:34:47.400 --> 0:34:50.319
<v Speaker 5>you know, how how quickly do we really want to

0:34:50.400 --> 0:34:52.719
<v Speaker 5>lean into so many different things at once? And is

0:34:52.760 --> 0:34:56.560
<v Speaker 5>this something that the American people really want at this

0:34:56.600 --> 0:35:00.319
<v Speaker 5>particular moment. The only reason that I feel that way,

0:35:00.760 --> 0:35:03.719
<v Speaker 5>beyond beyond the fact that he's Cuban or not, is

0:35:04.320 --> 0:35:06.680
<v Speaker 5>you know, the president's bitten off so much and he's

0:35:06.719 --> 0:35:09.239
<v Speaker 5>taken on so much. We're starting to see some real

0:35:09.320 --> 0:35:12.160
<v Speaker 5>silver linings when it comes to the economy, things you know,

0:35:12.280 --> 0:35:15.239
<v Speaker 5>are hopeful for among Republicans for the first time and

0:35:15.360 --> 0:35:18.080
<v Speaker 5>I think a while, because they really do believe that

0:35:18.120 --> 0:35:20.279
<v Speaker 5>once these tax refunds start going out that you're going

0:35:20.360 --> 0:35:23.520
<v Speaker 5>to see people's attitudes change on that number. And of

0:35:23.520 --> 0:35:27.400
<v Speaker 5>course that number includes a lot of the President's Hispanic supporters,

0:35:27.400 --> 0:35:30.040
<v Speaker 5>not just Cubans, but others as well. And so do

0:35:30.080 --> 0:35:32.680
<v Speaker 5>you want to you know, sort of potentially inject something

0:35:32.719 --> 0:35:35.840
<v Speaker 5>into this that would lean into that even more heavily,

0:35:36.000 --> 0:35:37.640
<v Speaker 5>or do you want to sort of say, well, let's

0:35:37.719 --> 0:35:40.440
<v Speaker 5>let this play out a little bit more, whether regardless

0:35:40.440 --> 0:35:42.520
<v Speaker 5>of rolling the dice in a midterm yere all right.

0:35:42.440 --> 0:35:44.640
<v Speaker 1>Now, last question for you, Ben, as I said you've

0:35:44.640 --> 0:35:47.600
<v Speaker 1>shut down with the president in the conversation on Thursday,

0:35:47.680 --> 0:35:50.920
<v Speaker 1>I asked him, we got a bunch of young conservatives

0:35:50.960 --> 0:35:53.160
<v Speaker 1>who are forty five and younger who you know, he

0:35:53.200 --> 0:35:55.160
<v Speaker 1>spent two hours with The New York Times. Why aren't

0:35:55.200 --> 0:35:57.359
<v Speaker 1>you talking to Guy Benson and Spencer Brown and Mary

0:35:57.400 --> 0:35:59.560
<v Speaker 1>Catherine Hann So they have an ass and you know,

0:35:59.560 --> 0:36:01.879
<v Speaker 1>they've got the best comms team that I've ever worked with,

0:36:01.920 --> 0:36:06.399
<v Speaker 1>between Caroline and Steven and Margo and Natalie. I mean,

0:36:06.520 --> 0:36:09.360
<v Speaker 1>it's great. Do you think our side just doesn't know

0:36:09.440 --> 0:36:09.799
<v Speaker 1>to ask?

0:36:11.239 --> 0:36:15.040
<v Speaker 5>Well, Hugh, I'll tell you this. I always ask. I

0:36:15.440 --> 0:36:17.600
<v Speaker 5>always ask. Now you have to pick the right timing

0:36:17.640 --> 0:36:20.080
<v Speaker 5>to ask, and you have to, you know, have the

0:36:20.160 --> 0:36:21.840
<v Speaker 5>right route and the right you know, sort of angle

0:36:21.920 --> 0:36:25.080
<v Speaker 5>to get in. Sometimes with this president I have, you know,

0:36:25.920 --> 0:36:28.320
<v Speaker 5>I've interviewed him a couple of times, you know, the

0:36:28.400 --> 0:36:30.520
<v Speaker 5>last time was about a year ago. I hope to

0:36:30.520 --> 0:36:33.480
<v Speaker 5>be interviewing again soon. And I think it's always important

0:36:33.520 --> 0:36:36.440
<v Speaker 5>to ask. It's just as important as asking. It's a

0:36:36.440 --> 0:36:39.080
<v Speaker 5>politician who forgets to ask you to vote for them. Yes,

0:36:39.320 --> 0:36:41.839
<v Speaker 5>you actually have to ask at the end. And that's

0:36:41.840 --> 0:36:44.360
<v Speaker 5>a big difference in terms of in terms of opening

0:36:44.440 --> 0:36:46.680
<v Speaker 5>up doors and having the opportunity to talk to this

0:36:46.760 --> 0:36:49.920
<v Speaker 5>younger generation. Look, the President's clearly willing to talk to

0:36:49.960 --> 0:36:51.960
<v Speaker 5>the people who are who are you know in that

0:36:52.000 --> 0:36:54.160
<v Speaker 5>subsisty range because he's hired a bunch of them to

0:36:54.200 --> 0:36:57.920
<v Speaker 5>be in his cabinet. Yeah, it's definitely something that I think.

0:36:58.200 --> 0:37:00.600
<v Speaker 5>I hope more people lean into it, in part because

0:37:00.600 --> 0:37:02.279
<v Speaker 5>I think we'll get a lot of interesting answers to

0:37:02.320 --> 0:37:02.959
<v Speaker 5>interesting questions.

0:37:03.000 --> 0:37:03.200
<v Speaker 6>Yeah.

0:37:03.280 --> 0:37:05.879
<v Speaker 1>Just bring your a game and the question set will

0:37:05.880 --> 0:37:08.280
<v Speaker 1>be so different from the one I come with, and

0:37:08.440 --> 0:37:11.160
<v Speaker 1>that would be good for everyone. Ben Dominicch The Big

0:37:11.200 --> 0:37:13.600
<v Speaker 1>Ben Podcast. I look forward to listening to it on

0:37:13.640 --> 0:37:16.279
<v Speaker 1>the Long Trundle tomorrow and I appreciate your spending time

0:37:16.320 --> 0:37:20.759
<v Speaker 1>with me. Welcome to the Weekend. I'm Hewett and many

0:37:20.800 --> 0:37:24.760
<v Speaker 1>of my new audience in Pensacola, Florida my new affiliate

0:37:24.840 --> 0:37:27.600
<v Speaker 1>up in Michigan. They will not know my next guest,

0:37:27.680 --> 0:37:31.200
<v Speaker 1>John Ellis. John is the founder and principal editor of

0:37:31.400 --> 0:37:34.280
<v Speaker 1>News Items, but everybody else who listens to the program

0:37:34.360 --> 0:37:37.319
<v Speaker 1>knows John is here every weekend to go over the

0:37:37.320 --> 0:37:39.640
<v Speaker 1>big news of the week. I've been talking a lot

0:37:39.680 --> 0:37:42.320
<v Speaker 1>about Iran, John, and I are going to start, interestingly

0:37:42.440 --> 0:37:46.320
<v Speaker 1>enough with Cuba. John, you sent me the news today

0:37:46.640 --> 0:37:50.960
<v Speaker 1>that Cuba has touched bottom. Let's start there. What does

0:37:51.040 --> 0:37:54.000
<v Speaker 1>bottom mean. I talked about Cuba with President Trump on Thursday,

0:37:54.040 --> 0:37:57.520
<v Speaker 1>But what do you think the bottom means for Cuba?

0:37:57.719 --> 0:38:01.759
<v Speaker 7>The bottom means there's no electricity, there is no gas

0:38:02.280 --> 0:38:06.239
<v Speaker 7>for petrol for your car, and the social safety net

0:38:06.480 --> 0:38:10.800
<v Speaker 7>that Cuba has prided itself on since the Castro Revolution

0:38:11.200 --> 0:38:16.720
<v Speaker 7>has completely collapsed. What follows the collapse of a social

0:38:16.760 --> 0:38:19.560
<v Speaker 7>safety net and the inability to turn on a light

0:38:19.600 --> 0:38:23.640
<v Speaker 7>bulb we do not know, but we can certainly guess

0:38:23.640 --> 0:38:26.160
<v Speaker 7>that it isn't going to be easy.

0:38:26.920 --> 0:38:31.160
<v Speaker 1>Well, the second order impact of the Venezuelan operation is,

0:38:31.200 --> 0:38:33.920
<v Speaker 1>as you pointed out to me, there's no friend left

0:38:34.520 --> 0:38:38.440
<v Speaker 1>for Cuba. I suppose China and Russia might send them

0:38:38.520 --> 0:38:41.759
<v Speaker 1>some stuff, but weren't they basically a venezuhale in dependency

0:38:41.880 --> 0:38:42.319
<v Speaker 1>until this.

0:38:42.360 --> 0:38:46.840
<v Speaker 7>Week they were basically you know, Cuba up until the

0:38:46.880 --> 0:38:50.120
<v Speaker 7>collapse of the Soviet Union was essentially a dependent of

0:38:50.200 --> 0:38:54.040
<v Speaker 7>the Soviet Union, and that was their last major crisis.

0:38:54.080 --> 0:38:57.240
<v Speaker 7>When the Soviet Union went under, they lost that support.

0:38:57.480 --> 0:38:59.480
<v Speaker 7>It was, you know, it wasn't quite clear that the

0:38:59.520 --> 0:39:04.960
<v Speaker 7>regime stand it. Did things went along, Venezuela became a

0:39:04.960 --> 0:39:09.440
<v Speaker 7>major you know, patronage or a patron of the of

0:39:09.520 --> 0:39:12.319
<v Speaker 7>the Cuban arts, so to speak. And they have been

0:39:12.360 --> 0:39:14.920
<v Speaker 7>propping up Cuba for a long time. And the Russians

0:39:14.920 --> 0:39:17.439
<v Speaker 7>and the Chinese have a lot of business with Venezuela,

0:39:17.760 --> 0:39:20.400
<v Speaker 7>so they're sort of, you know, active in the same

0:39:21.880 --> 0:39:25.320
<v Speaker 7>job of keeping Cuba afloat and lo and behold. Trump

0:39:25.360 --> 0:39:29.319
<v Speaker 7>comes along and changes, you know, tips over the entire

0:39:29.440 --> 0:39:33.080
<v Speaker 7>chess board. Russia doesn't want to help Cuba now because

0:39:33.200 --> 0:39:37.120
<v Speaker 7>Russia doesn't want to get in the donosphere. If you will,

0:39:37.360 --> 0:39:40.080
<v Speaker 7>China same thing. They don't want to get in Trump's

0:39:40.120 --> 0:39:44.520
<v Speaker 7>way in the Western hemisphere. They'll worry about their scope

0:39:44.520 --> 0:39:47.920
<v Speaker 7>of influence. So you don't have China, you don't have Russia,

0:39:48.000 --> 0:39:51.239
<v Speaker 7>and now you don't have Venezuela.

0:39:51.680 --> 0:39:52.560
<v Speaker 1>You know, you're thinking.

0:39:52.880 --> 0:39:56.120
<v Speaker 7>Nineteen seventy nine, there was something called the Mariel boat lift,

0:39:56.800 --> 0:40:00.239
<v Speaker 7>which was Cuban refugees that essentially Castro threw out of

0:40:00.280 --> 0:40:04.160
<v Speaker 7>the country and they came to Florida and you know,

0:40:04.239 --> 0:40:08.640
<v Speaker 7>delivered Florida for Ronald Reagan in nineteen eighty this Mario

0:40:08.719 --> 0:40:10.680
<v Speaker 7>both left. It's not going to be like that, but

0:40:10.719 --> 0:40:13.799
<v Speaker 7>there's going to be something like it. Because if the

0:40:13.800 --> 0:40:16.520
<v Speaker 7>social safety net has collapsed and you can't turn the

0:40:16.600 --> 0:40:17.120
<v Speaker 7>lights on.

0:40:17.719 --> 0:40:19.240
<v Speaker 1>You have to go somewhere where.

0:40:19.040 --> 0:40:22.560
<v Speaker 7>There's some kind of service, and if it's not Havana,

0:40:23.239 --> 0:40:25.759
<v Speaker 7>it's I don't know that the Ministrd in Republic or

0:40:25.880 --> 0:40:27.840
<v Speaker 7>some other Caribbean island or the US.

0:40:28.120 --> 0:40:31.320
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. When I were talking about this and Trump on Thursday,

0:40:31.440 --> 0:40:34.680
<v Speaker 1>he professed to say he didn't know what more could

0:40:34.760 --> 0:40:37.399
<v Speaker 1>be done to put pressure on the dictatorship down there,

0:40:37.440 --> 0:40:40.400
<v Speaker 1>because they're short of invasion and bombing, which we're not

0:40:40.560 --> 0:40:43.200
<v Speaker 1>in the about to do. And John, you just mentioned

0:40:43.280 --> 0:40:45.880
<v Speaker 1>nineteen seventy nine. We're doing a lot of nineteen seventy

0:40:45.960 --> 0:40:48.160
<v Speaker 1>nine again, that's when the Shaw had to leave Iran

0:40:48.280 --> 0:40:50.400
<v Speaker 1>and the people were in the streets. I wanted to

0:40:50.440 --> 0:40:52.719
<v Speaker 1>ask you, as the old NBC nukes guy and for

0:40:52.719 --> 0:40:55.399
<v Speaker 1>the benefit of the new listeners in Michigan and Pensacola.

0:40:56.400 --> 0:40:59.160
<v Speaker 1>John's news items is the sub stack I begin with

0:40:59.280 --> 0:41:01.600
<v Speaker 1>every day and what you might want to subscribe to.

0:41:01.600 --> 0:41:04.200
<v Speaker 1>If you want a new summary every morning, just look

0:41:04.280 --> 0:41:06.759
<v Speaker 1>up news Items by John Ellison. You'll be able to

0:41:06.800 --> 0:41:10.399
<v Speaker 1>subscribe when you're at NBC. It seemed to me that

0:41:10.440 --> 0:41:15.080
<v Speaker 1>the networks covered every day the Iranian revolution. I would

0:41:15.120 --> 0:41:18.400
<v Speaker 1>sit in the office with Richard Nixon and Ray Price

0:41:18.520 --> 0:41:21.360
<v Speaker 1>and we would watch every day the mobs that the

0:41:21.440 --> 0:41:24.360
<v Speaker 1>crowds chant for the downfall, the show where are the

0:41:24.400 --> 0:41:27.120
<v Speaker 1>networks right now? Are they not going to cover Iran?

0:41:28.960 --> 0:41:29.759
<v Speaker 1>It's a funny thing.

0:41:29.760 --> 0:41:33.279
<v Speaker 7>One's difficult to get in, right, It's difficult to get accredited.

0:41:33.400 --> 0:41:37.400
<v Speaker 7>So the British and French and a lot of the

0:41:37.440 --> 0:41:40.480
<v Speaker 7>European journalists are in there, but US networks are.

0:41:40.440 --> 0:41:43.799
<v Speaker 1>Forbidden to go there. But you're right.

0:41:43.880 --> 0:41:47.480
<v Speaker 7>In nineteen seventy nine, actually the overthrow of the Shah

0:41:47.520 --> 0:41:52.280
<v Speaker 7>and the rise of Viatola Homini led to a hostage crisis,

0:41:52.280 --> 0:41:57.200
<v Speaker 7>as everybody remembers, and that hostage crisis became the show

0:41:57.280 --> 0:42:02.359
<v Speaker 7>called Nightline, hosted by Ted Koppol who every single night,

0:42:02.600 --> 0:42:05.560
<v Speaker 7>you know, day one sixty seven of the hostage crisis,

0:42:05.800 --> 0:42:08.399
<v Speaker 7>Day one seventy of the hostage crisis. It carried through

0:42:08.800 --> 0:42:11.680
<v Speaker 7>all the way to the presidential election and had a

0:42:11.719 --> 0:42:15.799
<v Speaker 7>significant role in the regular landslide in nineteen eighty There's

0:42:15.840 --> 0:42:16.480
<v Speaker 7>no doubt about that.

0:42:16.800 --> 0:42:19.120
<v Speaker 1>Well, I hope Starlink is up and running. Let's go

0:42:19.160 --> 0:42:21.799
<v Speaker 1>from bad news to great news. You sent me the

0:42:21.840 --> 0:42:27.080
<v Speaker 1>news about Rice. Rice rice and educate our audience because

0:42:27.080 --> 0:42:28.279
<v Speaker 1>I think this is fabulous.

0:42:29.440 --> 0:42:33.520
<v Speaker 7>Well, there's a there's a report in the South China

0:42:33.600 --> 0:42:38.040
<v Speaker 7>Morning Post that says that Chinese research have developed quote

0:42:38.080 --> 0:42:41.759
<v Speaker 7>a form of hybrid rice that can replicate itself through

0:42:41.840 --> 0:42:46.799
<v Speaker 7>seeds that are clones, preserving high yield traits generation after

0:42:46.880 --> 0:42:51.640
<v Speaker 7>generation according to the development team, which means that the

0:42:51.680 --> 0:42:58.360
<v Speaker 7>cost of seeds are collapse essentially, and the yield and

0:42:58.400 --> 0:43:03.560
<v Speaker 7>the ability to fight us increases exponentially. And so the

0:43:03.560 --> 0:43:08.320
<v Speaker 7>theory is that you can with this technology drow twice

0:43:08.320 --> 0:43:10.680
<v Speaker 7>as much rice as you have been able to grow

0:43:10.719 --> 0:43:14.320
<v Speaker 7>in the past, and therefore feed twice as many people, which,

0:43:14.960 --> 0:43:19.759
<v Speaker 7>given that roughly two and a quarter billion people are

0:43:19.800 --> 0:43:25.759
<v Speaker 7>said to experience moderate or severe food insecurity, doubling the

0:43:25.800 --> 0:43:30.400
<v Speaker 7>food supply of rice is an enormous, enormously good news.

0:43:30.480 --> 0:43:33.160
<v Speaker 1>All glory too. I think I've got the name right.

0:43:33.200 --> 0:43:37.160
<v Speaker 1>Norman Borlock was the University of Minnesota researcher Iowa likes

0:43:37.160 --> 0:43:39.799
<v Speaker 1>to always say he came from US who invented these

0:43:39.880 --> 0:43:44.080
<v Speaker 1>kind of drought resistance seeds and genetically altered seeds. That's

0:43:44.160 --> 0:43:47.479
<v Speaker 1>great news. Now from bad news to great news, let's

0:43:47.480 --> 0:43:49.440
<v Speaker 1>go to weird News because you're weirded me out. When

0:43:49.480 --> 0:43:52.640
<v Speaker 1>you told me about the Meta ray bands, I'm not

0:43:52.680 --> 0:43:55.000
<v Speaker 1>sure I like this, but you tell us about them.

0:43:56.320 --> 0:44:01.000
<v Speaker 7>Well, Meta, which is Facebook, the parent company Facebook, has

0:44:01.080 --> 0:44:06.480
<v Speaker 7>developed a smart glass, smart glasses. I'm wearing glasses and

0:44:07.440 --> 0:44:10.160
<v Speaker 7>these would be if I had them meta eyes, they

0:44:10.160 --> 0:44:13.920
<v Speaker 7>would be smart glasses, and they've partnered with ray band,

0:44:14.239 --> 0:44:18.239
<v Speaker 7>try to be cool. But what the smart glasses enables

0:44:18.600 --> 0:44:22.279
<v Speaker 7>is let's say that I go into a restaurant and

0:44:22.440 --> 0:44:24.440
<v Speaker 7>you're over in the corner. I don't know who you are,

0:44:24.520 --> 0:44:25.920
<v Speaker 7>but I see you over in the corner. I think

0:44:25.960 --> 0:44:28.040
<v Speaker 7>I know who you are. I wonder who you are.

0:44:28.239 --> 0:44:31.600
<v Speaker 7>So I turn on my smart glasses, and my smart

0:44:31.600 --> 0:44:35.120
<v Speaker 7>glasses look at you and they do a photo id

0:44:36.200 --> 0:44:39.160
<v Speaker 7>rapidly as fast as the Internet can go, and up

0:44:39.239 --> 0:44:43.280
<v Speaker 7>pop Set's Hugh Hewitt, and so you know, oh, Hugh Hewett.

0:44:43.320 --> 0:44:45.600
<v Speaker 7>That's great. And then I say, well, I need to

0:44:45.640 --> 0:44:49.359
<v Speaker 7>see his page. And so Wikipedia page comes down and

0:44:49.440 --> 0:44:52.200
<v Speaker 7>there is everything there is about Hugh Hewitt. And then

0:44:52.239 --> 0:44:53.880
<v Speaker 7>I say, well, let me let me see what his

0:44:53.960 --> 0:44:56.839
<v Speaker 7>last three shows have been about, and that comes down

0:44:56.920 --> 0:44:58.640
<v Speaker 7>right in front of you. So that by the time

0:44:58.680 --> 0:45:02.120
<v Speaker 7>I get to your table, I say, I say Hugh

0:45:02.239 --> 0:45:05.360
<v Speaker 7>in a familiar sort of way, and I say, Hugh,

0:45:05.520 --> 0:45:09.160
<v Speaker 7>I really enjoyed the show you did with President Trump

0:45:09.239 --> 0:45:09.759
<v Speaker 7>the other day.

0:45:09.760 --> 0:45:12.600
<v Speaker 1>It was great. Yeah, that's so weird, John.

0:45:13.800 --> 0:45:16.360
<v Speaker 7>They're looking at me like, who is this guy?

0:45:16.800 --> 0:45:19.719
<v Speaker 1>Is so weird? I hope it doesn't work, but I

0:45:19.719 --> 0:45:23.400
<v Speaker 1>think what you say that they it works. Yeah.

0:45:24.280 --> 0:45:24.360
<v Speaker 5>No.

0:45:24.520 --> 0:45:27.440
<v Speaker 7>The reason they stop shipping it overseas is because demand

0:45:27.520 --> 0:45:29.360
<v Speaker 7>in the US is so high.

0:45:29.760 --> 0:45:32.759
<v Speaker 1>Well, every politician is going to everyone who looked for

0:45:32.920 --> 0:45:35.680
<v Speaker 1>votes is going to demand that their staff have this

0:45:35.800 --> 0:45:38.400
<v Speaker 1>on too. It'll be like the whisper behind the Pope.

0:45:38.920 --> 0:45:41.200
<v Speaker 1>All right, I got to get the sleep FM because

0:45:41.200 --> 0:45:45.200
<v Speaker 1>this is also great news. And I think it's great news.

0:45:45.320 --> 0:45:47.120
<v Speaker 1>At least it's news that you can use.

0:45:48.640 --> 0:45:48.920
<v Speaker 3>Right.

0:45:49.080 --> 0:45:53.279
<v Speaker 7>So there's a there's a Stanford Medical School did this

0:45:53.520 --> 0:45:59.040
<v Speaker 7>huge research project on people's sleep and they did so

0:45:59.200 --> 0:46:02.360
<v Speaker 7>to figure if you could predict a person's risk of

0:46:02.440 --> 0:46:08.360
<v Speaker 7>developing more than one hundred health conditions just by looking

0:46:08.400 --> 0:46:12.719
<v Speaker 7>at the sleep data. And so they did this enormous

0:46:12.760 --> 0:46:18.440
<v Speaker 7>AI undertaking. They analyzed more than a thousand disease categories

0:46:18.480 --> 0:46:21.880
<v Speaker 7>in the health records and found one hundred and thirty

0:46:22.600 --> 0:46:27.320
<v Speaker 7>could be predicted with reasonable accuracy by a patient's sleep data.

0:46:28.239 --> 0:46:34.480
<v Speaker 7>The model's predictions were particularly strong for cancers, pregnancy complications,

0:46:35.000 --> 0:46:41.479
<v Speaker 7>circulatory conditions, and mental disorders. So you know, you can

0:46:41.840 --> 0:46:43.880
<v Speaker 7>your wife can sneak in and put them put the

0:46:44.080 --> 0:46:47.200
<v Speaker 7>helmet on you, and she can say you you're not

0:46:47.280 --> 0:46:49.720
<v Speaker 7>at at risk for cancer.

0:46:49.920 --> 0:46:52.359
<v Speaker 1>That's good news. But we also have to sneak in

0:46:52.400 --> 0:46:56.080
<v Speaker 1>before we're done with time. Don't buy Russian air defense systems, right,

0:46:56.680 --> 0:47:01.320
<v Speaker 1>they're not worrying if that was the story.

0:47:01.440 --> 0:47:06.920
<v Speaker 7>I mean, the whole Russian military story is just an astonishing,

0:47:08.120 --> 0:47:13.560
<v Speaker 7>you know, example of incompetence and just breaking down. I mean,

0:47:14.239 --> 0:47:15.719
<v Speaker 7>the war that they were going to win in three

0:47:15.800 --> 0:47:19.759
<v Speaker 7>days in Ukraine is now in year four. And the

0:47:19.800 --> 0:47:22.879
<v Speaker 7>air defense system that they had in Ukraine, I mean

0:47:22.960 --> 0:47:27.080
<v Speaker 7>in Venezuela didn't work.

0:47:27.320 --> 0:47:31.120
<v Speaker 1>Like it didn't work in Iran. John Ellis always good

0:47:31.160 --> 0:47:34.480
<v Speaker 1>to talk. You followed John on x at Ellis items

0:47:34.680 --> 0:47:37.040
<v Speaker 1>and subscribe to news items if you want to be

0:47:37.120 --> 0:47:41.000
<v Speaker 1>informed in about fifteen minutes every morning. It's a substact.

0:47:41.080 --> 0:47:44.080
<v Speaker 1>Just googled John Ellison the news items. You'll go there.

0:47:44.120 --> 0:47:46.920
<v Speaker 1>It's fabulous. Thank you, John, I'll be right back in

0:47:46.960 --> 0:47:52.239
<v Speaker 1>America's pictures. Welcome back in America on you, Hewett. And

0:47:52.280 --> 0:47:54.760
<v Speaker 1>we are all lucky to have Eli Lake in the house.

0:47:55.320 --> 0:47:58.120
<v Speaker 1>Eli Lake is with the Free Press. He's also the

0:47:58.160 --> 0:48:01.400
<v Speaker 1>host of the Breaking History podcast, which is fabulous. But

0:48:01.480 --> 0:48:04.719
<v Speaker 1>when I say there may be a dozen Americans upon

0:48:04.800 --> 0:48:07.360
<v Speaker 1>whom you can rely when the news turns to Iran,

0:48:07.440 --> 0:48:09.920
<v Speaker 1>and Elia is one of them, just trust me on this.

0:48:10.040 --> 0:48:12.719
<v Speaker 1>He's been covering Iran in a way that very few

0:48:12.719 --> 0:48:15.439
<v Speaker 1>people careem sad you pour over Carnegie. I think af

0:48:15.440 --> 0:48:18.080
<v Speaker 1>Sean Austavar, who wrote The Vanguard, or the m Mom,

0:48:18.560 --> 0:48:21.560
<v Speaker 1>Michael Duran. There are a number of people who cover

0:48:22.000 --> 0:48:24.279
<v Speaker 1>but I don't know anyone Eli, who's covered Iran as

0:48:24.320 --> 0:48:27.719
<v Speaker 1>long as you that I talked to. So just give

0:48:27.800 --> 0:48:30.799
<v Speaker 1>us your assessment of what is happening and what this

0:48:30.840 --> 0:48:31.919
<v Speaker 1>weekend might bring.

0:48:33.520 --> 0:48:35.680
<v Speaker 4>Well, I wouldn't start off by saying that there's a

0:48:35.719 --> 0:48:38.960
<v Speaker 4>lot that we don't know, and we have to accept

0:48:39.000 --> 0:48:41.680
<v Speaker 4>that there are dynamics that we can't possibly know. And

0:48:41.719 --> 0:48:44.239
<v Speaker 4>even I don't think you know, the CIA and the

0:48:44.320 --> 0:48:47.399
<v Speaker 4>Massade would know. And that is what is the mentality

0:48:47.440 --> 0:48:52.560
<v Speaker 4>of the mid level officers in the BASIG which is

0:48:52.560 --> 0:48:55.839
<v Speaker 4>their militia, the MOIS which is their intelligence services, and

0:48:55.880 --> 0:49:00.319
<v Speaker 4>the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. Because I think that at

0:49:00.320 --> 0:49:04.279
<v Speaker 4>a certain point, the way that revolutions are successful is

0:49:04.360 --> 0:49:09.160
<v Speaker 4>when there is an understanding that the commanding officer in

0:49:09.200 --> 0:49:12.160
<v Speaker 4>the street will not follow the orders to fire on

0:49:12.200 --> 0:49:16.160
<v Speaker 4>the crowds. And the fact that Donald Trump has credibly

0:49:16.280 --> 0:49:19.680
<v Speaker 4>threatened the regime if they fire on the crowds, and

0:49:19.719 --> 0:49:21.279
<v Speaker 4>they have there has been I think, you know, some

0:49:21.280 --> 0:49:24.799
<v Speaker 4>say as many of forty have been killed. That might

0:49:24.840 --> 0:49:26.799
<v Speaker 4>give people pause because I mean, look at what just

0:49:26.800 --> 0:49:29.600
<v Speaker 4>happened to Nicholas Medora. So that's the first thing. We

0:49:29.600 --> 0:49:34.200
<v Speaker 4>don't know what that dynamic is. By way of historical president,

0:49:34.880 --> 0:49:39.200
<v Speaker 4>it wasn't just the big crowds that came out against

0:49:39.280 --> 0:49:44.480
<v Speaker 4>the Shah Rezapalavi in nineteen seventy eight that forced the

0:49:44.520 --> 0:49:47.920
<v Speaker 4>Shah to leave. It was the fact that there was

0:49:48.120 --> 0:49:52.920
<v Speaker 4>a kind of amnesty that was communicated from Iatola Komani

0:49:53.040 --> 0:49:56.920
<v Speaker 4>when he was in Paris to the military that said,

0:49:57.080 --> 0:49:59.920
<v Speaker 4>if you do not fire on the on the crowds,

0:50:00.320 --> 0:50:03.440
<v Speaker 4>if you do not make the arrests, then things will

0:50:03.440 --> 0:50:07.320
<v Speaker 4>be okay for you now. Very important to note I

0:50:07.520 --> 0:50:12.640
<v Speaker 4>Toolakomany as soon as he came into power, violated his promise.

0:50:12.680 --> 0:50:16.120
<v Speaker 4>He was lying, and he did target the military leadership

0:50:16.320 --> 0:50:20.480
<v Speaker 4>in incredibly cruel show trials that lasted in some cases

0:50:20.719 --> 0:50:24.320
<v Speaker 4>maybe twenty minutes and then led immediately to a horrific

0:50:24.360 --> 0:50:28.600
<v Speaker 4>kind of executions. They were covered all over the newspapers.

0:50:28.600 --> 0:50:35.360
<v Speaker 4>It was absolutely terrifying, kind of real jacub in moment.

0:50:36.120 --> 0:50:39.279
<v Speaker 4>But that is in some ways the kind of communications

0:50:39.320 --> 0:50:41.759
<v Speaker 4>that we have to see right now. I think the

0:50:41.800 --> 0:50:45.000
<v Speaker 4>local police in the big cities we've already seen reports

0:50:45.160 --> 0:50:48.440
<v Speaker 4>are basically with the protesters. I wouldn't be surprised if

0:50:48.440 --> 0:50:52.160
<v Speaker 4>the kind of very neutered and not as powerful Iranian army,

0:50:52.200 --> 0:50:57.239
<v Speaker 4>not the IRGC, was with the protesters, but those key institutions.

0:50:57.280 --> 0:51:00.239
<v Speaker 4>Now here's where I would say it's different than before.

0:51:00.480 --> 0:51:03.840
<v Speaker 4>The first thing is this that ring of fire meant

0:51:04.360 --> 0:51:07.520
<v Speaker 4>that the Iranians had the proxy network in the region,

0:51:07.600 --> 0:51:10.680
<v Speaker 4>meant they could call up non Iranians, they could call

0:51:10.760 --> 0:51:14.200
<v Speaker 4>up Lebanese Hesbalah other Arabs forces that were part of

0:51:14.239 --> 0:51:18.520
<v Speaker 4>their broader kind of regional strategy to do violence against

0:51:18.520 --> 0:51:20.880
<v Speaker 4>their own citizens. I don't think they have that option

0:51:20.960 --> 0:51:26.600
<v Speaker 4>good option anymore. Number Two, the economic crisis is worse

0:51:26.640 --> 0:51:31.320
<v Speaker 4>than it's been compounded by a potable drinking water crisis.

0:51:31.400 --> 0:51:35.080
<v Speaker 4>A few months ago, we started seeing messages from the

0:51:35.120 --> 0:51:38.000
<v Speaker 4>president saying we're gonna have to start rationeting drinking water.

0:51:38.200 --> 0:51:40.719
<v Speaker 4>That is an extraordinary statement in a country with as

0:51:40.719 --> 0:51:46.359
<v Speaker 4>many natural resources as Iran. And then add to all

0:51:46.400 --> 0:51:50.239
<v Speaker 4>of that the humiliation of the Twelve Day war. That

0:51:50.440 --> 0:51:54.000
<v Speaker 4>was when you know, the Israelis and the US knew

0:51:54.000 --> 0:51:57.600
<v Speaker 4>where Kamena was and he was in an undisclosed location

0:51:58.040 --> 0:52:00.000
<v Speaker 4>and they made it clear that they could kill him,

0:52:00.560 --> 0:52:03.439
<v Speaker 4>and he was hiding from the public for the whole

0:52:03.560 --> 0:52:07.080
<v Speaker 4>duration of the war. That kind of humiliation also has

0:52:07.120 --> 0:52:10.120
<v Speaker 4>an effect on everybody else, all of the other henchmen

0:52:10.160 --> 0:52:13.319
<v Speaker 4>and goons around him. That is the kind of thing

0:52:13.360 --> 0:52:16.560
<v Speaker 4>that the Iranian people see, and you know, we're already

0:52:16.600 --> 0:52:19.560
<v Speaker 4>seeing like the energy of the regime, the ideology. This

0:52:19.640 --> 0:52:22.800
<v Speaker 4>is an Islamic republic. They believed that they had a mandate.

0:52:22.840 --> 0:52:24.560
<v Speaker 4>They never did, but they believe they had a mandate

0:52:24.560 --> 0:52:28.040
<v Speaker 4>from the Iranian people to create this kind of Islamic

0:52:28.080 --> 0:52:32.520
<v Speaker 4>fascist regime that relied on things like women dressing modestly

0:52:32.560 --> 0:52:33.040
<v Speaker 4>and having go.

0:52:33.040 --> 0:52:33.800
<v Speaker 1>The ware of the Hajjab.

0:52:34.800 --> 0:52:37.840
<v Speaker 4>They were unable to enforce the Hjjab mandate only a

0:52:37.880 --> 0:52:41.759
<v Speaker 4>few years after the original women life freedom protests after

0:52:41.800 --> 0:52:45.080
<v Speaker 4>the killing of Masa Alani Ashad. That is very important

0:52:45.120 --> 0:52:48.759
<v Speaker 4>because it means like the kind of reason to exist

0:52:49.120 --> 0:52:52.480
<v Speaker 4>if you're the Islamic Republic no longer has purchased from

0:52:53.080 --> 0:52:54.320
<v Speaker 4>most of the Iranian people.

0:52:54.680 --> 0:52:56.680
<v Speaker 1>All of those are very important. Let me bring up

0:52:56.719 --> 0:52:59.880
<v Speaker 1>finally a detail that I read yesterday. I read this more.

0:53:00.280 --> 0:53:03.960
<v Speaker 1>There was a bank run yesterday and Tehran and whatever

0:53:04.680 --> 0:53:07.200
<v Speaker 1>small worth the weal has, people are trying to get

0:53:07.239 --> 0:53:09.440
<v Speaker 1>as much as they can out of the banks beforehand.

0:53:10.080 --> 0:53:12.520
<v Speaker 1>As President Trump told me on Thursday and then he

0:53:12.560 --> 0:53:15.880
<v Speaker 1>told Sean Henity on Thursday night, he'll hit them very hard.

0:53:16.320 --> 0:53:18.080
<v Speaker 1>He gave them a little bit of an out for

0:53:18.560 --> 0:53:21.760
<v Speaker 1>the deaths that have occurred today, blaming it on stampede.

0:53:22.040 --> 0:53:25.920
<v Speaker 1>But where would he hit them, Eli, from your perspective,

0:53:26.040 --> 0:53:27.280
<v Speaker 1>that would hit them very hard.

0:53:28.840 --> 0:53:31.719
<v Speaker 4>Well, certainly he can target you know, the sort of

0:53:32.080 --> 0:53:36.320
<v Speaker 4>symbol the buildings of Regima pressions, the irgy headquarters, things

0:53:36.400 --> 0:53:39.919
<v Speaker 4>like that, those kinds of things ev in prison where

0:53:39.960 --> 0:53:42.279
<v Speaker 4>there were so many political prisoners that would be good,

0:53:43.480 --> 0:53:45.319
<v Speaker 4>and then I think there's an implicit threat that he'll

0:53:45.400 --> 0:53:50.480
<v Speaker 4>kill comedy. I mean, we remember the Israelis were able

0:53:51.040 --> 0:53:54.879
<v Speaker 4>to pinpoint the entire military leadership right and get them

0:53:54.920 --> 0:53:58.080
<v Speaker 4>to go to a meeting which was a pretext, which

0:53:58.120 --> 0:54:00.560
<v Speaker 4>was kind of a because they'd hack their communitys and

0:54:00.600 --> 0:54:02.520
<v Speaker 4>then blew them up in a meeting they thought was

0:54:02.520 --> 0:54:05.480
<v Speaker 4>supposed to be, you know, the plan the response to

0:54:05.520 --> 0:54:09.200
<v Speaker 4>the Israeli war. So that's you know, I would if

0:54:09.239 --> 0:54:11.480
<v Speaker 4>I was in the leadership class, I'd be very worried

0:54:11.520 --> 0:54:14.120
<v Speaker 4>about that. And then I'd say the final thing is

0:54:15.320 --> 0:54:18.520
<v Speaker 4>that we've seen enough slogans calling for the restoration of

0:54:18.560 --> 0:54:21.960
<v Speaker 4>the Polavi dynasty. That is an extraordinary thing as a

0:54:22.000 --> 0:54:22.880
<v Speaker 4>fan of history.

0:54:23.280 --> 0:54:23.760
<v Speaker 3>Hugh Hewett.

0:54:23.800 --> 0:54:24.799
<v Speaker 1>I'm not saying it's going to happen.

0:54:24.800 --> 0:54:27.719
<v Speaker 4>I don't think we necessarily know, but what an amazing

0:54:27.760 --> 0:54:31.399
<v Speaker 4>moment if that we really saw the Islamic Revolution as

0:54:31.440 --> 0:54:34.279
<v Speaker 4>only like a kind of you know, forty seven year

0:54:34.360 --> 0:54:39.000
<v Speaker 4>interregnum between what has been the traditional form of governing,

0:54:39.040 --> 0:54:41.319
<v Speaker 4>which is a kind of you know, I would hope

0:54:41.360 --> 0:54:44.280
<v Speaker 4>it to be a constitutional monarchy, but Iran has had kings

0:54:44.440 --> 0:54:47.759
<v Speaker 4>going back to the chemended Persian Empire. And the thing

0:54:47.880 --> 0:54:49.719
<v Speaker 4>was that Colmene was saying, this is the end of

0:54:49.760 --> 0:54:52.640
<v Speaker 4>Iranian kings. What it wouldn't it be interesting if his

0:54:52.719 --> 0:54:56.120
<v Speaker 4>regime fell, only to see the restoration the son of

0:54:56.520 --> 0:54:59.319
<v Speaker 4>the Shah that was exiled and the.

0:54:59.239 --> 0:55:03.240
<v Speaker 1>Great Persia of old, the Cyrus of old, comeback eli

0:55:03.320 --> 0:55:07.600
<v Speaker 1>very quickly. I watched this on television with Ray Price

0:55:07.680 --> 0:55:10.319
<v Speaker 1>on one side and Richard Nixon on the other side. When

0:55:10.360 --> 0:55:13.760
<v Speaker 1>I was a young editorial Assisiant to RN and Exile

0:55:13.800 --> 0:55:16.000
<v Speaker 1>and San Clementy. It was twenty four to seven on

0:55:16.040 --> 0:55:19.120
<v Speaker 1>the three networks, and I think CNN and seventy eight

0:55:19.239 --> 0:55:22.680
<v Speaker 1>and seventy nine. Where are the networks? Where's the American media?

0:55:22.760 --> 0:55:26.000
<v Speaker 1>This is the biggest story in the world.

0:55:26.719 --> 0:55:29.520
<v Speaker 4>Well, I mean, like, I don't know what to say.

0:55:30.000 --> 0:55:33.080
<v Speaker 4>In my view, there's enough video that there's no excuse

0:55:33.120 --> 0:55:35.200
<v Speaker 4>for it at this point. I mean, I don't have

0:55:35.239 --> 0:55:37.600
<v Speaker 4>any insight into CBS, even though we're now part of

0:55:37.600 --> 0:55:39.279
<v Speaker 4>the same company, but I know that CBS has done

0:55:39.280 --> 0:55:42.040
<v Speaker 4>some work on it. I probably expect more, But I

0:55:42.080 --> 0:55:44.640
<v Speaker 4>agree with you, it's a huge story at this point.

0:55:44.760 --> 0:55:45.800
<v Speaker 1>It's not hype.

0:55:46.280 --> 0:55:49.759
<v Speaker 4>And even if this doesn't work this time, it's the

0:55:49.800 --> 0:55:52.560
<v Speaker 4>beginning of the end. It changes. I mean at this point,

0:55:52.800 --> 0:55:56.280
<v Speaker 4>I think the regime has been exposed. It's illegitimate, and

0:55:56.680 --> 0:55:59.399
<v Speaker 4>I think that that changes the calculus. I don't think

0:55:59.400 --> 0:56:01.480
<v Speaker 4>there are any more deals. Even if there's a democratic

0:56:01.520 --> 0:56:04.759
<v Speaker 4>president and they're still kind of limping along. There's no

0:56:04.840 --> 0:56:07.040
<v Speaker 4>way you can get back to the kind of Obama diplomacy.

0:56:07.480 --> 0:56:10.640
<v Speaker 4>What business, what bank, what oil company would want to

0:56:10.680 --> 0:56:13.640
<v Speaker 4>do business with this regime given what we're seeing.

0:56:13.400 --> 0:56:15.920
<v Speaker 1>Right now, well said, and if they massacre people, I

0:56:15.960 --> 0:56:19.640
<v Speaker 1>hope it's not just the United States who respond. Eli

0:56:19.760 --> 0:56:23.200
<v Speaker 1>Lake can be followed on x at Eli Lake at

0:56:23.280 --> 0:56:26.719
<v Speaker 1>the Free Press, Way Rights frequently so of course breaking history.

0:56:26.800 --> 0:56:29.359
<v Speaker 1>One of you are muck listening to podcasts, maybe you'll

0:56:29.400 --> 0:56:32.480
<v Speaker 1>be telling you about from the show to the Crown

0:56:32.520 --> 0:56:36.840
<v Speaker 1>Prince Since thank you, Eli Lake. Good morning, Gloria and

0:56:36.880 --> 0:56:39.680
<v Speaker 1>Amy Grace America. I'm Hugh Hewett, proud to welcome back

0:56:39.680 --> 0:56:42.799
<v Speaker 1>to the UUs Show President Donald Trump. Happy new year,

0:56:42.880 --> 0:56:44.359
<v Speaker 1>mister Trump. Good to have you back.

0:56:44.600 --> 0:56:45.960
<v Speaker 6>Well, thank you very much, you.

0:56:46.200 --> 0:56:48.200
<v Speaker 1>Thank you very much. I don't want to waste your time,

0:56:48.200 --> 0:56:50.200
<v Speaker 1>so I'm going to dive right in and begin with Iran.

0:56:50.960 --> 0:56:54.160
<v Speaker 1>Michael Durant at the Hudson Institute says, the regime there

0:56:54.239 --> 0:56:59.840
<v Speaker 1>is failing. They have fuel shortages, electricity shortages, water shortage.

0:57:00.120 --> 0:57:04.680
<v Speaker 1>Reem Sajiport. Carnegie is posting the videos of the spreading protests.

0:57:04.680 --> 0:57:07.680
<v Speaker 1>Mark Dubovitz. So this is a quote. If President Trump

0:57:07.719 --> 0:57:10.520
<v Speaker 1>brings down the Islamic Republic of Iran, he will cement

0:57:10.600 --> 0:57:14.120
<v Speaker 1>his place as the greatest foreign policy presidents in Toronald Reagan,

0:57:14.120 --> 0:57:14.600
<v Speaker 1>I think it would.

0:57:14.600 --> 0:57:16.040
<v Speaker 6>Actually I already did that.

0:57:16.160 --> 0:57:18.480
<v Speaker 1>I thought I was just about that with Midnight Hammer.

0:57:18.520 --> 0:57:18.920
<v Speaker 1>You did that?

0:57:18.960 --> 0:57:19.280
<v Speaker 3>How much?

0:57:19.360 --> 0:57:20.200
<v Speaker 5>Well can I do?

0:57:20.240 --> 0:57:23.680
<v Speaker 6>You know? We just had Venezuela, which has had Midnight Hammer.

0:57:24.560 --> 0:57:27.760
<v Speaker 6>We settled eight wars, eight in the quarter. But I'm

0:57:27.760 --> 0:57:30.360
<v Speaker 6>willing to accept that. I'm willing to accept it.

0:57:30.440 --> 0:57:34.360
<v Speaker 1>What about Iran? Is the aim with Iran the collapse

0:57:34.520 --> 0:57:37.000
<v Speaker 1>of that awful forty seven year tyranny.

0:57:37.400 --> 0:57:39.040
<v Speaker 6>Well, I don't want to say it, but I will

0:57:39.040 --> 0:57:41.640
<v Speaker 6>tell you they're not doing well. As you know, probably

0:57:41.640 --> 0:57:44.600
<v Speaker 6>better than anybody. They're doing very poorly. And I have

0:57:44.760 --> 0:57:47.760
<v Speaker 6>let them know that if they start killing people, which

0:57:47.760 --> 0:57:50.080
<v Speaker 6>they tend to do during their riots, they have lots

0:57:50.080 --> 0:57:52.760
<v Speaker 6>of riots. If they do it, we're going to hit

0:57:52.800 --> 0:57:53.560
<v Speaker 6>them very hard.

0:57:53.720 --> 0:57:56.160
<v Speaker 1>Now, dozens have been killed. I know you don't do

0:57:56.320 --> 0:57:59.360
<v Speaker 1>red lines, but if you communicated to them what that

0:58:00.080 --> 0:58:01.680
<v Speaker 1>limit of your patience is.

0:58:02.640 --> 0:58:06.440
<v Speaker 6>Well, some have been killed by problems of crowd control

0:58:06.480 --> 0:58:10.320
<v Speaker 6>and other things. We're watching it very closely. The crowds

0:58:10.320 --> 0:58:14.040
<v Speaker 6>are so large. There's been a stampede. There's been three stampedes,

0:58:14.080 --> 0:58:16.560
<v Speaker 6>and people have been killed in that. And I'm not

0:58:16.600 --> 0:58:20.160
<v Speaker 6>sure I can necessarily hold somebody responsible for that. But

0:58:20.840 --> 0:58:23.840
<v Speaker 6>they know, and they've been told very strongly, even more

0:58:23.880 --> 0:58:25.920
<v Speaker 6>strongly than I'm speaking to you right now, that if

0:58:25.920 --> 0:58:28.280
<v Speaker 6>they do that, they're going to have to pay. Hell.

0:58:28.560 --> 0:58:30.640
<v Speaker 1>Do you have a message for the people of Iran,

0:58:30.760 --> 0:58:31.439
<v Speaker 1>President Trunk?

0:58:32.040 --> 0:58:34.760
<v Speaker 6>All I can say is you should. You should feel

0:58:34.800 --> 0:58:38.760
<v Speaker 6>strongly about freedom. There's nothing like freedom, your brave people.

0:58:39.040 --> 0:58:41.400
<v Speaker 6>It's a shame what's happened to your country. Your country

0:58:41.520 --> 0:58:44.720
<v Speaker 6>was a great country. I remember years ago when I

0:58:44.760 --> 0:58:48.280
<v Speaker 6>was a young real estate developer. Friends of mine went

0:58:48.400 --> 0:58:51.400
<v Speaker 6>to Iran and they did great. They built buildings in Iran.

0:58:51.440 --> 0:58:55.200
<v Speaker 6>They're still up, barely by the way, but they're still up.

0:58:55.400 --> 0:58:58.960
<v Speaker 6>I see pictures of the apartment houses and they did

0:58:59.040 --> 0:59:02.920
<v Speaker 6>very well in Iran. They've passed away. They were very

0:59:02.920 --> 0:59:06.560
<v Speaker 6>successful developers. They were great people, mostly New York developments,

0:59:06.600 --> 0:59:09.080
<v Speaker 6>but they went to Iran and they built some pretty

0:59:09.080 --> 0:59:12.720
<v Speaker 6>good jobs in Iran. And I remember they were saying

0:59:12.760 --> 0:59:15.280
<v Speaker 6>that people are great. The whole place was great. It

0:59:15.360 --> 0:59:19.640
<v Speaker 6>was a tremendous market. And now you look at it,

0:59:19.640 --> 0:59:21.080
<v Speaker 6>Look what's happened.

0:59:21.600 --> 0:59:25.440
<v Speaker 1>I sat in the office of former President Nixon with

0:59:25.520 --> 0:59:28.120
<v Speaker 1>Great Price on a couch with our end watching the

0:59:28.680 --> 0:59:30.680
<v Speaker 1>fall of the shot, and he just kept shaking his head.

0:59:30.720 --> 0:59:33.760
<v Speaker 1>He couldn't believe Jimmy Carter was letting it happen. Would

0:59:33.760 --> 0:59:37.840
<v Speaker 1>you meet with Crown Prince Poblby Poblai, who is the

0:59:37.880 --> 0:59:41.400
<v Speaker 1>heir to the constitutional monarchy. He doesn't want to rule.

0:59:41.440 --> 0:59:45.959
<v Speaker 1>He would be a symbolic ruler like King Charles Well.

0:59:46.000 --> 0:59:49.560
<v Speaker 6>I've watched him and he seemed like a nice person.

0:59:49.680 --> 0:59:51.720
<v Speaker 6>But I'm not sure that it would be appropriate at

0:59:51.720 --> 0:59:54.280
<v Speaker 6>this point to do that. As president. I think that

0:59:55.320 --> 0:59:58.840
<v Speaker 6>we should let everybody go out there and we see

0:59:58.840 --> 1:00:02.200
<v Speaker 6>who emerges. I'm not sure necessarily that I it would

1:00:02.200 --> 1:00:03.360
<v Speaker 6>be an appropriate thing to do.

1:00:03.880 --> 1:00:06.520
<v Speaker 1>Let me switch to China, mister President, last time we talked,

1:00:06.520 --> 1:00:08.439
<v Speaker 1>and now he's ask you this. I asked you about

1:00:08.520 --> 1:00:11.480
<v Speaker 1>Jimmy Lai, who was dying in real time. He's been convicted.

1:00:11.960 --> 1:00:14.360
<v Speaker 1>Have you talked to Jijenping? I know you get along

1:00:14.400 --> 1:00:14.600
<v Speaker 1>with it.

1:00:14.720 --> 1:00:16.680
<v Speaker 6>I have. I have. I talked to him, and I

1:00:16.720 --> 1:00:19.480
<v Speaker 6>mentioned Jimmy Lae. I don't know Jimmy Lai. I know

1:00:19.600 --> 1:00:23.040
<v Speaker 6>of Jimmy Lai, and he was an activist, to put

1:00:23.080 --> 1:00:26.360
<v Speaker 6>it mildly by a positive activist. But if you're Presidency,

1:00:26.400 --> 1:00:29.960
<v Speaker 6>he wasn't a positive activist. I spoke to Presidency when

1:00:30.000 --> 1:00:34.200
<v Speaker 6>I was in South Korea and we had a great

1:00:34.240 --> 1:00:37.800
<v Speaker 6>talk about it, and I left it with him. He

1:00:37.840 --> 1:00:39.520
<v Speaker 6>didn't give me an answer one way or the other.

1:00:39.600 --> 1:00:42.160
<v Speaker 6>But obviously so far it hasn't been I got a

1:00:42.160 --> 1:00:44.640
<v Speaker 6>lot of other answers that turned out positive. I haven't

1:00:44.680 --> 1:00:45.720
<v Speaker 6>heard back on that one.

1:00:45.880 --> 1:00:48.520
<v Speaker 1>If Jimmy Lai was free, would you consider that to

1:00:48.560 --> 1:00:51.760
<v Speaker 1>be a very significant gesture by China?

1:00:51.880 --> 1:00:53.320
<v Speaker 6>I would. I think it would be a great thing.

1:00:53.400 --> 1:00:58.800
<v Speaker 6>I think I told Presidency that he's an old man

1:00:58.840 --> 1:01:00.720
<v Speaker 6>who's very sick. I met his son, who was a

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<v Speaker 6>very nice young man who loves his father a lot.

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<v Speaker 6>His son is the primary person that's working very hard

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<v Speaker 6>to get him out, and I felt I owed it

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<v Speaker 6>to the son. I like the son. I mean, look,

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<v Speaker 6>I don't know him, but I met him fairly briefly.

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<v Speaker 6>But I love that he was fighting hard for his father.

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<v Speaker 6>I thought that was I'd like to see sons that

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<v Speaker 6>fight hard for fathers, and he was certainly doing that.

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<v Speaker 6>And I mentioned it during my meeting early on in

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<v Speaker 6>my meeting as a list of things that I'd like

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<v Speaker 6>to talk about, but we have not heard back on

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<v Speaker 6>that one.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, let me turn to Cuba, mister president. For

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<v Speaker 1>sixty seven years, that police state dictatorship has sucked the

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<v Speaker 1>life blood out of the people of that island. Is

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<v Speaker 1>it time to increase the pressure there, maybe even quarantine

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<v Speaker 1>it as you have Venezuela.

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<v Speaker 6>Well, I don't think you could have much more pressure

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<v Speaker 6>other than going in and blasting the hell out of

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<v Speaker 6>the place. Look, they are their whole life blood, their

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<v Speaker 6>whole life was Venezuela. They got their oil, they got

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<v Speaker 6>their money from Venezuela. And as you know, our great

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<v Speaker 6>soldiers when and we had nobody killed, they lost many

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<v Speaker 6>Cuban fighters during that battle. Many amazing job that the

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<v Speaker 6>American soldiers had led by a man who happens to

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<v Speaker 6>be sitting right next to me. General Caine a job.

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<v Speaker 6>What a job he did, and Pete Hegseth did, and

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<v Speaker 6>the whole group, what a job they all did. It's amazing. Actually,

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<v Speaker 6>John Ratcliffe is walking in, Marco Rubio is walking in.

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<v Speaker 6>We have a whole group of people here. They're all

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<v Speaker 6>fans of yours. They're not walking in to listen to

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<v Speaker 6>this call. They just happened to be walking in for

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<v Speaker 6>the next meeting.

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<v Speaker 1>I got a little advice for you, mister President. Don't

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<v Speaker 1>play golf and give strokes to Director Ratcliffe. Don't do that.

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<v Speaker 1>Don't give many strokes.

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<v Speaker 6>He's a good golfer and a very he's a very

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<v Speaker 6>good guy too.

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<v Speaker 1>Back to Cuba, Miguel Diaz Canal, do you think he

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<v Speaker 1>could fall like Haminy and Iran might fall?

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah? I think I Look, I think that Cuba is

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<v Speaker 6>hanging by a thread. Cuba's in big trouble. Look, Cuba

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<v Speaker 6>got all of its money for protecting. They were like

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<v Speaker 6>a protector. They're tough, strong people, they're great people. Marco

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<v Speaker 6>has a little Cuban blood in him. I think Marco's

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<v Speaker 6>not doing a bad job, right? What do you think?

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<v Speaker 6>Can I ask you one question? How is Marco Rubio doing?

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<v Speaker 1>Is the equal of any secretary of State of my lifetime.

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<v Speaker 1>And I'm glad he's not taking the Dolphins job. He

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<v Speaker 1>should work for the Browns. If he leaves your administration,

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<v Speaker 1>that's right, all right.

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<v Speaker 6>He goes will be successful. But no, I think that

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<v Speaker 6>I think that Cuba is really in a lot of trouble.

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<v Speaker 6>But you know, people have been saying that for many years,

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<v Speaker 6>in all fairness about Cuban. Cuba has been in trouble

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<v Speaker 6>for the last forty five years, and you know they

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<v Speaker 6>haven't quite gone down, but I think they're pretty close

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<v Speaker 6>of their own volition.

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<v Speaker 1>I want to try and define the Trump doctrine, mister President.

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<v Speaker 1>I've been trying to do it on the air. It's

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<v Speaker 1>down to that, don't kill or threaten Americans or our

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<v Speaker 1>property or American security in general, or we will hit

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<v Speaker 1>you very very hard.

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<v Speaker 6>Is that the and included in theirs don't send drugs

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<v Speaker 6>and don't send things that are going to kill our people.

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<v Speaker 6>But you can you can sort of make the savement

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<v Speaker 6>that you've indirectly said that, but it's a pretty direct staatement,

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<v Speaker 6>don't send drugs into our country.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a great doctrine. Now the next question. I'm a

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<v Speaker 1>Salem host of Fox Contributors. This is a bit unusual.

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<v Speaker 1>Brett Bair does the best interviews with you. I'm exempting

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<v Speaker 1>myself from consideration, but I think you got to give

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<v Speaker 1>Tony Dokapohl a chance over at CBS to see if

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<v Speaker 1>they've really changed their ways. Is that on the agenda.

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<v Speaker 6>Well, it hasn't been on the agenda, but if you

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<v Speaker 6>recommend it, I would do it. I have a lot

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<v Speaker 6>of respect for you, as you know, and I think

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<v Speaker 6>you're doing a great job. And you've done a great job.

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<v Speaker 6>You went a little bit liberal on us for a

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<v Speaker 6>while when you were at NBC Indy. I can't believe.

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<v Speaker 6>I couldn't believe you sitting on NBC trying to answer

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<v Speaker 6>questions that you didn't believe in. You only gave them

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<v Speaker 6>partial answers. You were never fully there, but you couldn't

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<v Speaker 6>get out fast enough. It was very fun to watch it.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm happy with sailing.

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<v Speaker 6>I hear good things about Tony, and I can tell

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<v Speaker 6>you that David Ellison is a fantastic guy, and his father,

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<v Speaker 6>Larry is one of the great been good friends of mine,

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<v Speaker 6>both of them, but David's doing a fantastic job, and

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<v Speaker 6>they feel very strongly about Tony.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I don't want Barry Weiss and Tony to overtake

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<v Speaker 1>Fox and Salem, but I would like you to give

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<v Speaker 1>him a shot to see if he's got the chop.

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<v Speaker 6>Well, it's been important to you, I do it. No

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<v Speaker 6>are your good things about Tony?

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<v Speaker 1>Now? You gave two hours of The New York Times yesterday.

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<v Speaker 1>I appreciate you. The most successful president to the media

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<v Speaker 1>in history, actually, but I would like to see you

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<v Speaker 1>sit down with Matt Contnetty, Guy Benson, Spencer Brown, Mary

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<v Speaker 1>Catherine Ham, the Mandels, Philip Wegaman. All of our superstar

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<v Speaker 1>youngster people are under forty forty five? Is that on

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<v Speaker 1>the agenda Sometimes to sit down with.

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<v Speaker 6>Arthur would be I mean, they have to ask, and

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<v Speaker 6>it would be I certainly like all the names that

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<v Speaker 6>you mentioned, And I will say that I think the

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<v Speaker 6>Times treated me pretty fairly yesterday.

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<v Speaker 1>Well interesting, I haven't read it yet, the trans skeptis

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<v Speaker 1>and outs.

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<v Speaker 6>I'm waiting for the shock and it's a little hard

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<v Speaker 6>not to. We have the greatest potential economy in history.

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<v Speaker 6>We have eighteen trillion dollars coming in. The record is

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<v Speaker 6>three and that was from many, many years ago. We

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<v Speaker 6>have something that just took place with Venezuela that everybody

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<v Speaker 6>considered as one of the most brilliant attacks they've ever seen.

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<v Speaker 6>And you know we had we lost no people in

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<v Speaker 6>the middle of a fort. Don't forget that house was

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<v Speaker 6>built in the middle of a fort with thousands of soldiers.

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<v Speaker 6>They lost quite a few people. I hate to say that.

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<v Speaker 1>I talked to an active duty naval officer yesterday who's

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<v Speaker 1>very jealous that they were not there because it was

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<v Speaker 1>such an extraordinary mission.

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<v Speaker 6>You know what, we had an extraordinary attack a few

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<v Speaker 6>months ago in a place called Iran. We knocked out

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<v Speaker 6>the Iran nuclear threat and it was obliterated. And we

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<v Speaker 6>also took out Solomoni and we took out Al Bagdaddy.

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<v Speaker 6>So we've had some good attacks so far. We haven't

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<v Speaker 6>had the Afghanistan disaster. That was the lowest point I

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<v Speaker 6>think in the history of our country, Biden. But if

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<v Speaker 6>you look also the Jimmy Carter disaster, that was a

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<v Speaker 6>disaster with the hostages, and you know, when we.

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<v Speaker 1>Were very democratic, President A disaster.

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<v Speaker 6>Two planes. I said, I hope it's not a Jimmy

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<v Speaker 6>Carter deal, Carter.

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<v Speaker 1>Clinton, Obama, Biden. They've all been disasters in national security.

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<v Speaker 1>Let me ask you about it.

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<v Speaker 6>I haven't had I haven't had any disaster.

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<v Speaker 1>Yet, and I hope it stays that way.

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<v Speaker 6>I hope the word yet is going to disappear.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, well, we got to talk about the Golden Fleet,

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<v Speaker 1>because this is important. I want to take my hat

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<v Speaker 1>off to you. On the Golden Fleet. We need guided

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<v Speaker 1>missile frigates and attack submarines and the Columbia class. And

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<v Speaker 1>the worst way is there going to be enough money

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<v Speaker 1>in the budget to get everything built that we need,

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<v Speaker 1>including new shipyards.

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<v Speaker 6>Well, we are going to have plenty of money. And

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<v Speaker 6>if you notice what I did yesterday, I told all

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<v Speaker 6>defence companies there's going to be no more buybacks. You're

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<v Speaker 6>going to put the money into building new plant and equipment,

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<v Speaker 6>and there's going to be no more stock options, and

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<v Speaker 6>there's going to be no more salaries of fifty million

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<v Speaker 6>dollars a year. You're going to put the money in.

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<v Speaker 6>We're going to have a capped at five million dollars

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<v Speaker 6>and that's effective immediately and all that money that they're

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<v Speaker 6>sending out is going to have to be and you

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<v Speaker 6>know what, the stock prices went up. The reason is

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<v Speaker 6>I also put out a statement, a secondary statement, saying

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<v Speaker 6>that next year we expect to have one point five

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<v Speaker 6>trillion in defense budget. And we're also building battleships. You know,

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<v Speaker 6>we're building great battleships. We have twenty five on schedule,

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<v Speaker 6>but we're going to start with ten and then we'll

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<v Speaker 6>see how that all goes. But we're going to build battleships.

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<v Speaker 6>And you know, I thought, you remember from Victory at sea.

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<v Speaker 6>You take a look at those great gorgeous ships, the Iowa,

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<v Speaker 6>the Alabama, the Missouri, those great ships and if you

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<v Speaker 6>see you know what I'm talking.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, provided they've got lots of missile tubes on it.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm all for them. The more missile tubes that see,

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<v Speaker 1>the better.

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<v Speaker 6>I said, why don't we take some of them out

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<v Speaker 6>of bathballs. The new ships will be one hundred times

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<v Speaker 6>more powerful than the those battleships that we so admired.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, I know you're up up upping the construction at

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<v Speaker 1>Philadelphia Shipyard and enhancing its capacity.

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<v Speaker 6>And numerous others. Yeah, I was wondering are you gonna

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<v Speaker 6>build walk into the shipbuilding business?

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<v Speaker 1>That is that's the best news. Do people understand how

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<v Speaker 1>important that is to the economy.

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<v Speaker 6>I think they know. But the Philadelphia yard is one

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<v Speaker 6>of the yards that's going to be opened up. But

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<v Speaker 6>we have numerous yards that are opened up. Some of

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<v Speaker 6>those yards have been built up by housing projects. You know,

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<v Speaker 6>they're all in the water, so they tended to be

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<v Speaker 6>in nice locations. But we have many yards opening up,

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<v Speaker 6>and we're going to be very much back in the

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<v Speaker 6>shipbuilding business. And in some cases we're partnering with South

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<v Speaker 6>Korea and others initially because we have to get you know,

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<v Speaker 6>we used to make almost the ship a day during

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<v Speaker 6>World War Two and then we just totally got out

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<v Speaker 6>of that business stupidly. But we're back in the shipbuilding business.

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<v Speaker 1>We have to be all right now. I want to

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<v Speaker 1>switch to one of my other favorite topics with image

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<v Speaker 1>President of the Supreme Court. I know you don't expect

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<v Speaker 1>a retirement in the spring, but if one happens, you've

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<v Speaker 1>appointed sixty Appeals Court judges. Would you expect to take

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<v Speaker 1>either a runner up from last time I Judge Catlidge

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<v Speaker 1>or one of your appointees. Judge row is fifty three

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<v Speaker 1>on the DC Circuit. Judge Rushing on the fourth is

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<v Speaker 1>forty three. Judge strass On the eighth is fifty one.

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<v Speaker 1>A MultiPar is fifty six. Don Willet's sixty. Then you

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<v Speaker 1>got Senator Cruz is fifty five, and he got District

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<v Speaker 1>Court Judge Eileen Cannon. I think she did a good

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<v Speaker 1>job in the Florida case. She's forty five. Yeps.

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<v Speaker 6>She did a great job. She's a great judge.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes she did, and she came to the right constitutional

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<v Speaker 1>conclusion about the illegality of the appointment.

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<v Speaker 6>Highly respected. Yeah, So those are all great names. Every

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<v Speaker 6>one of those names is a great name. Now, Ted Cruz.

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<v Speaker 6>The nice one about him is we'd get a one

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<v Speaker 6>hundred percent approval. Every Democrat would vote yes, and every

1:10:48.760 --> 1:10:51.240
<v Speaker 6>Republican would vote yes because they would love to get

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<v Speaker 6>him the hell out of the Senate, all of them,

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<v Speaker 6>so that he's the only one that would be a

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<v Speaker 6>guaranteed confirmation. And he's a smart guy, he's a good guy.

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<v Speaker 6>And I say that joke, but I always say Ted

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<v Speaker 6>would get a one hundred percent approval. The Democrats want

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<v Speaker 6>him out, the Republicans want him out, and he'd do great,

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<v Speaker 6>and he's smart. But all of the names that you

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<v Speaker 6>mentioned are great names, every one of them.

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<v Speaker 1>I know who is advising you on judges this term

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<v Speaker 1>as Leonard is not and the Federal Society is not.

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<v Speaker 6>Well. I'm using some people actually that you know, i'd

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<v Speaker 6>rather tell you on a personal prisis not on a

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<v Speaker 6>phone call. But I have some very good people that

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<v Speaker 6>are advising me, people that you know in respect.

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<v Speaker 1>I am the legislative agenda for this year. I know

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<v Speaker 1>I watched your talk to the Republicans at the Trump

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<v Speaker 1>County Center, and I know you talked about healthcare. That

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<v Speaker 1>would be great, but it would be easier to get

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<v Speaker 1>done if you have bundled it with, for example, the

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<v Speaker 1>Dreamers Act, the AM Radio in Every Car Act, both

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<v Speaker 1>of those have got super majority. Do you think that's

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<v Speaker 1>the strategy, Bundle healthcare with very popular laws, get them

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<v Speaker 1>to the floor and move them.

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<v Speaker 6>Well. I think healthcare is so big and so important

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<v Speaker 6>that it probably supersedes some slightly less you know, a

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<v Speaker 6>very popular thing, but less important. I like the AM

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<v Speaker 6>in every car, the AM radio in every car. I

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<v Speaker 6>like that. I'm in favor of it. It's interesting. A

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<v Speaker 6>lot of people don't know about that, but it's actually

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<v Speaker 6>a very big subject.

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<v Speaker 1>So it's a huge deal.

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<v Speaker 6>It's a hugee We're going to be doing something on that.

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<v Speaker 6>All of the things you mentioned I like, but I

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<v Speaker 6>think healthcare is so big and so powerful it's going

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<v Speaker 6>to really going to have to stand in his own way,

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<v Speaker 6>all right, So I want, you know, with healthcare, it's

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<v Speaker 6>pretty simple. I want because if you take a look,

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<v Speaker 6>I don't know if you study insurance companies, but these

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<v Speaker 6>guys have made literally trillions of dollars. I want the

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<v Speaker 6>money to go directly to the people and let the

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<v Speaker 6>people buy their own healthcare, and everybody loves it.

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<v Speaker 1>I do too. I think that would be a genius.

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<v Speaker 1>I just think to get Democratic vote you might have

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<v Speaker 1>to put the Dreamers Act in or the Radio Act

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<v Speaker 1>in along with.

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<v Speaker 6>The Democrats is they're totally in bed with the insurance companies.

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<v Speaker 6>And what you know, what I'm doing is the exact opposite.

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<v Speaker 6>I'm giving the money to the people. They've given the

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<v Speaker 6>money to the insurance companies. It's hard for them to

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<v Speaker 6>vote against the insurance companies who have made a fortune

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<v Speaker 6>because of the Democrats.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, miss President, when we have that sit down that

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<v Speaker 1>privately talk about judges. I would like to talk to

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<v Speaker 1>you about Richard Nixon because I believe your understanding of

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<v Speaker 1>American power projection is very similar to his. And I

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<v Speaker 1>think he also liked to keep people guessing. Some people

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<v Speaker 1>call it the Madman theory. I just thought it was

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<v Speaker 1>a strategic sense. Do you think that comparison is apt?

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<v Speaker 6>Well, look, I don't know. We're just respected. We're respected

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<v Speaker 6>again as a country, and I'm respected, but we're respected.

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<v Speaker 6>We had a president who shouldn't have been there. First

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<v Speaker 6>of all, it was a rigged election, and that's now

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<v Speaker 6>coming out loud and clear. But we knew that. I

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<v Speaker 6>knew that four years ago. But it was just a rigged,

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<v Speaker 6>horrible election, and that's where we got. We got a

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<v Speaker 6>man that allowed millions of people into our country from

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<v Speaker 6>jails and mental institutions and drug dealers and shame that

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<v Speaker 6>what Biden was just a horrible president. And you know,

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<v Speaker 6>if she would have won, which is the equivalent, if

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<v Speaker 6>she would have won, our country would have been right

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<v Speaker 6>now Venezuela on steria a disaster.

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<v Speaker 1>A disaster, and Tim Walls would have been the vice

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<v Speaker 1>president instead of vice president vance, I can't believe it.

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<v Speaker 1>Let me turn to politics in my last couple of minutes,

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<v Speaker 1>mister President, I want to honor your time. You crush

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<v Speaker 1>the debates in twenty fifteen sixteen, The last one was

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<v Speaker 1>just Secretary Rubio, Senator Cruzer. We've talked about Governor Khenu,

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<v Speaker 1>and then there were no more. You skip the debates

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<v Speaker 1>in twenty five, twenty three, twenty four. You will control,

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<v Speaker 1>you will whether or not the GOP has debates in

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<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty seven, twenty twenty eight. Do you think they

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<v Speaker 1>are a good thing for the party or a bad thing?

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<v Speaker 1>Do you want to have them or do you not

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<v Speaker 1>want to have them?

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<v Speaker 6>Well, I always liked them. For me, I love debating.

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<v Speaker 6>But I think I did the right thing. I had,

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<v Speaker 6>you know, ten people, they're all smart people, they're you know,

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<v Speaker 6>governors and senators, and I figured, why should I allow

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<v Speaker 6>myself to be whacked by all ten people. At the

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<v Speaker 6>same time, I think I did a very fun A

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<v Speaker 6>lot of people said you have to be in the debate.

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<v Speaker 6>I said, I don't think I do, and then I

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<v Speaker 6>had the debate with Biden, which turned out to be

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<v Speaker 6>a good debate. I don't think I got enough credit

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<v Speaker 6>for that debate because I made him choke. But he

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<v Speaker 6>didn't do well in that debate. And the interesting thing is,

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<v Speaker 6>without that debate, would he have been allowed to continue running. Uh?

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, he would have been. And that would have been

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<v Speaker 1>a disaster for the party, even worse than Kamala Harris,

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<v Speaker 1>because you can't hide the fact he was infirm. He

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<v Speaker 1>was infirm, he wasn't there.

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<v Speaker 6>Well, he didn't do too well, I would say that.

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<v Speaker 1>So let's talk about the Democrats to wrap.

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<v Speaker 6>Up, is not the greatest go ahead?

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<v Speaker 1>Who is the strongest Democrat in twenty twenty eight? Gavin Newsom, AOC,

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<v Speaker 1>Jasmine Crockett, Jared Poulos in Colorado, Chris van Holland, Wes Moore,

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<v Speaker 1>Andy Bisher. Who's their best choice?

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<v Speaker 6>You know, as you rattle off those names, I'm just

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<v Speaker 6>seeing in't and amazing. With three hundred and fifty people,

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<v Speaker 6>of course, we have no idea that Biden let him

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<v Speaker 6>so many nobody knows. But with let's say three hundred

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<v Speaker 6>and fifty people, that that's the best they can do,

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<v Speaker 6>it's pretty sad. I think Newsom's hurt because he's done

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<v Speaker 6>so badly in California. He has he's done so so badly.

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<v Speaker 6>I just you know, look, he's a sort of a

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<v Speaker 6>good politician, but he doesn't get the job done. I

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<v Speaker 6>think people are going to people aren't going to stand

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<v Speaker 6>for that. There's nobody. I do have a couple of

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<v Speaker 6>people that I think would be really tough candidates, but

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<v Speaker 6>I don't want to name him because not chosen.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, that does make some sense to me. Okay, let's

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<v Speaker 1>close with mister mayor, Mom Donnie, and you decide when

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<v Speaker 1>to conclude the interview. Mister President, I know you love

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<v Speaker 1>New York City. It's going to be a nightmare. I've

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<v Speaker 1>only lived there once. I've only lived there in nineteen eighty.

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<v Speaker 1>It's going to be worse than nineteen eighty, which was

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<v Speaker 1>damn bad and I left and went to law school

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<v Speaker 1>because it was so bad. Will the city be able

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<v Speaker 1>to recover after Mom, Donnie.

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<v Speaker 6>Well, it's going to be interesting. You know, I've met him.

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<v Speaker 6>He came to the Oval offices and we've had some

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<v Speaker 6>nice conversations, are very good. And then he hit me

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<v Speaker 6>a little bit on the tremendous victory. And you would

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<v Speaker 6>say it was a tremendous victory on Venezuela and I said, gee,

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<v Speaker 6>I thought he would have at least waited a month.

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<v Speaker 6>I was surprised that he hit me on that, but

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<v Speaker 6>he did. You know, so what are you going to do? Kid?

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<v Speaker 6>I expected it. I just thought it would be maybe

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<v Speaker 6>three or four weeks instead of immediately, because I do

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<v Speaker 6>get along with him. He's got a great personality, is

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<v Speaker 6>a nice guy. His policies are not good, but maybe

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<v Speaker 6>he changes, you know. That's what I would view because

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<v Speaker 6>I want to do everything I can to help New York.

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<v Speaker 6>So I don't know. I hope you're wrong. I hope

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<v Speaker 6>New York is thrive, will thrive. But typically those policies,

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<v Speaker 6>maybe you say not only typically in history, those policies

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<v Speaker 6>have never worked.

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<v Speaker 1>They did never work. The last thing I'll say to him, this, President,

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<v Speaker 1>Golden Dome is the most important legacy you're going to

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<v Speaker 1>leave if it gets built. I've read some studies that

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<v Speaker 1>say Ravenna, Ohio is where the hubb out would be

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<v Speaker 1>for space force to control that because of the polar

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<v Speaker 1>ice cap. Have you decided where the central location of

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<v Speaker 1>Golden Dome will be yet? No?

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<v Speaker 6>But I love Ohio. I can tell you that, and

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<v Speaker 6>I've worn Ohio big every sing every time, and everybody

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<v Speaker 6>I've endorsed from Ohio is one, and you know, it's

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<v Speaker 6>been great. But I've heard that's one of the people,

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<v Speaker 6>one of the places very much being considered.

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<v Speaker 1>All Right, mister President, thank you for the time. I

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<v Speaker 1>appreciate it. Come back again soon and I look forward

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<v Speaker 1>to talking to you again. Congratulations on a great first

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<v Speaker 1>year in your second term.

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<v Speaker 6>Thank you very much. You take care of yourself. Thank you. Bye.