1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:03,280 Speaker 1: He's editor in chief of breit Bart Newis and a 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:06,760 Speaker 1: New York Times best selling author, and on this podcast 3 00:00:06,920 --> 00:00:11,720 Speaker 1: he brings deep research, prescient analysis at world class guests. 4 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:16,320 Speaker 1: He's Alex Marlow and this is the Alex Marlow Show. 5 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:19,920 Speaker 2: All right, welcome to Alex Marlow's show. 6 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:22,520 Speaker 3: I'm proud to have a friend but also one of 7 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:25,560 Speaker 3: the leading experts in the world on global terrorism and Jaha. 8 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:29,200 Speaker 3: Doctor Sebastian Gorka, who is the Deputy Assistant to the President, 9 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 3: is at the title, doctor G. 10 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:33,400 Speaker 4: You have that right, it is and it is an 11 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 4: awful government pilance. 12 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:37,480 Speaker 5: I'm adapt that is my rank. 13 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:40,960 Speaker 4: And then my job is a senior director for Canaterrorism 14 00:00:41,159 --> 00:00:41,920 Speaker 4: in the White House. 15 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:44,559 Speaker 3: And also got smart orange tie going on. And if 16 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:47,280 Speaker 3: you were just listening, you missing out in the visuals. 17 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:49,879 Speaker 3: It becomes more and more visual as time goes on, 18 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:53,080 Speaker 3: Doctor G. We got a big agenda going on, but overall, 19 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:55,600 Speaker 3: I want to get your thoughts on something that's really important. 20 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:57,800 Speaker 2: I just talked to Eric Trump about this on the 21 00:00:57,800 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 2: live show. 22 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:01,080 Speaker 3: It's I feel like there are so many things that 23 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 3: are going well and there's way too much of the 24 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:06,360 Speaker 3: discussion that's happening about things that are not perfect right now, 25 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:09,399 Speaker 3: and the news overwhelms, and there's been terror attacks, and 26 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:12,040 Speaker 3: there's been Jews getting slaughtered around the world, and then 27 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:15,440 Speaker 3: there's been what's going on Minnesota is obviously very depressing, 28 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:18,040 Speaker 3: objectively depressing what's going on there, even if we have 29 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:22,240 Speaker 3: a good outcome. But overall, we survived what would have 30 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:26,320 Speaker 3: been a catastrophic event. If Kamala Harris or Joe Biden 31 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:29,000 Speaker 3: had been present again, it would have been more to platforming, 32 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 3: it would have been more debanking, it would be more 33 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:35,760 Speaker 3: jailing without due process. Were all more lawtair, obviously, and 34 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 3: we didn't have that for last year, and that was great. 35 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 3: And I feel like we spend almost no time mentioning 36 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:43,560 Speaker 3: that fact, and we should probably do a little more. 37 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:47,720 Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, we could spend the next few days 38 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:51,280 Speaker 4: discussing what would have been the case, and forget about 39 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 4: what you and I are interested in right now, which 40 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:58,800 Speaker 4: is national security. Just talk about what the average American 41 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:01,960 Speaker 4: would have to deal with, whether it's the continued rampant 42 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 4: inflation or whether it's the more the increase, the interminable 43 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 4: outshoring of jobs so that there's nothing left in America. 44 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:14,360 Speaker 4: I mean everything would have been sent to Mexico and China. 45 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:19,160 Speaker 4: So just those things alone would have been catastrophic for 46 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:21,080 Speaker 4: the nation. On top of the fact that the you know, 47 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:24,000 Speaker 4: the border would have remained open. Can I just you know, 48 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:28,960 Speaker 4: quote my good friend, another superlative podcaster, Andrew Claven, who 49 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:31,320 Speaker 4: just did a recent episode on you Know, all the 50 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 4: Big Successes and makes this comment that the big think 51 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:37,399 Speaker 4: of this, what just one issue? 52 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:39,359 Speaker 5: We had what twenty. 53 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:43,960 Speaker 4: Million illegals come in and the President shut the border 54 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:48,520 Speaker 4: like a tupperware lid. Within a matter of weeks, we 55 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:52,880 Speaker 4: have no illegals coming across the border, and that fact 56 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:57,320 Speaker 4: in and of itself, it's just deep sixth Nobody's talking 57 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:01,240 Speaker 4: about it, you know, the mainstream media who told us 58 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:05,520 Speaker 4: that you cannot fix the border without a new bill 59 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:09,120 Speaker 4: in Congress, with the House and the Senate in agreement, Well, no, 60 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:14,120 Speaker 4: the President did it. Tom Homan, Governor Nome, Stephen Miller 61 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:17,359 Speaker 4: are rousting up all the bad guys getting them out 62 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 4: of the country, and. 63 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:20,720 Speaker 5: Nobody is discussing that one issue. 64 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:23,240 Speaker 4: But yeah, we have to add all the other others, 65 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:27,640 Speaker 4: from sharmau Shaikh to NATO five percent to Greenland, to 66 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:30,280 Speaker 4: the drug boats, to that I can now mention this 67 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:31,359 Speaker 4: because we keep it tally. 68 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 5: As of this morning, five hundred and. 69 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 4: Sixteen jihadies smited by the president, eighty six US hostages 70 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 4: repatriated with nary a ransom paid to anyone. That the 71 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:50,120 Speaker 4: speed with which the president moves is like nothing in 72 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:53,680 Speaker 4: the modern history of the presidency. And of course there 73 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:58,520 Speaker 4: are successes which the mainstream lang legacy media will never 74 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:01,680 Speaker 4: ever discuss in the way they need to be discussed. 75 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:03,320 Speaker 2: I got to say, I. 76 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:07,400 Speaker 3: Secretary Kennedy is a real way with words, and he 77 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:09,880 Speaker 3: had said earlier this week that President Trump is the 78 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:12,760 Speaker 3: most energy of anyone anyone has ever seen. I think 79 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:15,560 Speaker 3: is the way he worded it, and I thought that 80 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:18,320 Speaker 3: was really really interesting that that was the way he'd 81 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 3: framed it up, because that's true. 82 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 4: I mean, I don't think I've shared this story publicly, 83 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:28,880 Speaker 4: but back in September, it's a big deal when your 84 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:32,800 Speaker 4: team gets to write a document that the commander in 85 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:35,839 Speaker 4: chief signs, and you're not just one of these super 86 00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:38,760 Speaker 4: secret things to do with an operation, but a public 87 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:42,080 Speaker 4: one like an executive order. So first week in September, 88 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:45,880 Speaker 4: hostages fall under my Director in the National City Council, 89 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:48,520 Speaker 4: and we had a new executive order written by my 90 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:52,160 Speaker 4: team for the President on the wrongful detention of Americans 91 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:56,719 Speaker 4: such as the multiple individuals the Talibana holding in Carbul. 92 00:04:57,279 --> 00:04:59,200 Speaker 5: And it was a Friday morning. 93 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:02,760 Speaker 4: We get to go to the Oval with my director 94 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:07,520 Speaker 4: for Hostages, with the Special Envoy for Hostages, the incredible 95 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:12,000 Speaker 4: Adam Bohler, and we have the news Corps is there. 96 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 4: We have a live signing of this executive order. The 97 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:19,919 Speaker 4: President turns to myself and to my director and says Sebastian, 98 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:24,599 Speaker 4: explain to the world why THISEO is so important, and like, yes, sir, 99 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:27,600 Speaker 4: and so you're talking to the world live about this 100 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:32,000 Speaker 4: seminal document that's going to protect Americans. And then, as 101 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:35,680 Speaker 4: if that weren't enough, we're back in the Oval ninety 102 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:38,920 Speaker 4: minutes later to give a classified briefing to the President 103 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:41,320 Speaker 4: on a very important national security issue. 104 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:42,640 Speaker 5: So that was my Friday. 105 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:46,320 Speaker 4: I go back to my skiff, my secure compartmental information 106 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 4: facility where we do all our classified work, and on 107 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 4: Fridays I usually have a team meeting. I have one 108 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:53,560 Speaker 4: on Monday and have one on Friday to you know, 109 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 4: plan the next week, and I said to my team, 110 00:05:56,120 --> 00:06:01,239 Speaker 4: you know what EO written by us declared in front 111 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:03,800 Speaker 4: of the world's press. We get to talk about it 112 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:06,720 Speaker 4: standing next to the Resolute desk, and then nineteen minutes later, 113 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:09,320 Speaker 4: we're back in the Oval giving the President a very 114 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:13,480 Speaker 4: important briefing. Not too shabby for a Friday. Now, I 115 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:18,240 Speaker 4: thought I was done. I finally get home to my wife. 116 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:22,120 Speaker 4: We crawl in bed ten thirty at night. Katie switches 117 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:26,720 Speaker 4: on the TV broadcast and it's the President holding the 118 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:31,680 Speaker 4: first party in the Rose Garden Club outside the West Wing, 119 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:33,440 Speaker 4: and Katie and I just looked at each other and 120 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:37,640 Speaker 4: we said, how I mean, Bector. 121 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:38,839 Speaker 5: Kennedy is spot on. 122 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:43,160 Speaker 4: I have never ever seen anyone with the energy of 123 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:47,440 Speaker 4: my boss, the President, because I've known him since twenty fifteen, 124 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:51,120 Speaker 4: since I briefed him for the debates. I've never seen 125 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:54,159 Speaker 4: him say, look, I need a double espresso, give me 126 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 4: five minutes. I've never seen him droup or will during 127 00:06:57,040 --> 00:07:00,400 Speaker 4: the day. He is a machine. And you know the 128 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:04,320 Speaker 4: biggest problem, Alex in the whole administration, I mean amazing. 129 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 4: We have people like Marco, like Setric Kennedy, like Scott Bessett, 130 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:11,160 Speaker 4: like all of these rock stars Pete. He said, the 131 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:14,880 Speaker 4: biggest problem is keeping up with President Trump. 132 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:16,000 Speaker 5: It's impossible. 133 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:20,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, And this is the thing that he's resetting America 134 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 3: with a energetic posture around the world and making people 135 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 3: react to us, I think is really important instead of 136 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:31,440 Speaker 3: us just reacting to world events. And that's subtle difference. 137 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:33,560 Speaker 3: I think is a really big degal. But I want 138 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:37,120 Speaker 3: to focus on a data point that you threw out there, 139 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:39,240 Speaker 3: which is how many g hotties you've actually killed. It's 140 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:42,240 Speaker 3: interesting because whenever you and I talk at all, if 141 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:44,559 Speaker 3: it's for a minute or for an hour, the first 142 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 3: thing you always say is exactly how many GI. 143 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:47,760 Speaker 2: Hotties you guys have killed. 144 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:51,640 Speaker 3: So flesh out what this number means, how it's going, 145 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:53,400 Speaker 3: where you're targeting, tell us more. 146 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:57,559 Speaker 4: So let's start, because this is really if you every 147 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 4: one of your viewers and listeners needs to stop and 148 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 4: read the National Security Strategy that the President signed just 149 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:09,440 Speaker 4: before Christmas. It's sure, it's unclassified, and then you'll understand 150 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:11,880 Speaker 4: why we are doing what we're doing and how we're 151 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 4: doing it. And the first thing is the homeland, the homeland, 152 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 4: The homeland, the homeland. That's why border secured deportation of illegals. 153 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:25,000 Speaker 4: That's why the ice raids, That's why CBP massive influx 154 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:30,440 Speaker 4: of new agents. And the priority is our hemisphere, the 155 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:33,199 Speaker 4: rebirth of the Monroe doctrine, or if the President has 156 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:36,200 Speaker 4: called it, the dun Road doctrine, which means what happens 157 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:41,000 Speaker 4: in our backyard is of absolute import to America and 158 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:44,960 Speaker 4: to Americans. And that's why the policy against the cartels 159 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:48,640 Speaker 4: day one, the President designated the cartels and the gangs. 160 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:51,920 Speaker 4: Already dozens of strikes against the drug boats. And I 161 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:54,720 Speaker 4: have to say this point that again, nobody in the 162 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:58,760 Speaker 4: mainstream or the establishment ever ever repeats when the President 163 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:03,200 Speaker 4: says each a drug boat strike is saving a minimum 164 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:07,679 Speaker 4: of twenty five thousand lives. That is an empirical statement 165 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:10,640 Speaker 4: of fact. We know where the drugs are coming from, 166 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 4: we know who is on those drug boats, and we 167 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:16,199 Speaker 4: know that every single boat is going to cost the 168 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:20,720 Speaker 4: lives in terms of overdoses of between twenty five and 169 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:22,640 Speaker 4: fifty thousand Americans. 170 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:26,359 Speaker 5: So that's number one, and that's why Venezuela. 171 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:30,719 Speaker 4: So that's Stephen Miller, that's the Homeland Security Council, that's DHS, 172 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:34,239 Speaker 4: that's Governor Noman's Tom Homan when it comes to my portfolio, 173 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:38,880 Speaker 4: which is the global Gihardi threat. This is the great 174 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:41,920 Speaker 4: Matt Boyle did the three part interview with me way 175 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:43,040 Speaker 4: back when where we. 176 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:44,240 Speaker 5: Discussed the genesis. 177 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:48,079 Speaker 4: Day eight of the administration, we walked into the Oval 178 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:51,240 Speaker 4: with the National Security Advisor with one of my team members. 179 00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:56,520 Speaker 4: We told the President leading Isis figure walking freely amongst 180 00:09:56,600 --> 00:10:00,400 Speaker 4: his terror compatriots in Somalia, and we told the President 181 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:03,720 Speaker 4: the Biden administration had been surveiling him for a year 182 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:05,800 Speaker 4: and a half. The President looked up from the resolute 183 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:08,680 Speaker 4: dusk and said, what do you mean, we've been watching him? 184 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:09,520 Speaker 5: Kill him. 185 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:12,400 Speaker 4: Less than thirty hours later, we were in the situation 186 00:10:12,559 --> 00:10:15,440 Speaker 4: room with my team with the National Security Advisor, watching 187 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:19,679 Speaker 4: the live feed from our platforms as that leader of 188 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:24,400 Speaker 4: Isis was just turned into red mist My wife hates 189 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:26,640 Speaker 4: it when I say that when he was removed from 190 00:10:26,679 --> 00:10:30,480 Speaker 4: the battlefield, Let's just say that that was day eleven. 191 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:32,160 Speaker 5: That was the first. 192 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:35,319 Speaker 4: Leading jihadi we took out in the second Trump administration. 193 00:10:35,679 --> 00:10:39,800 Speaker 4: As of this morning, it is five hundred and sixteen 194 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:45,239 Speaker 4: targeting the worst of the worst a Al Qaeda isis 195 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:49,240 Speaker 4: those groups that have what we call ex ops intent 196 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:52,520 Speaker 4: and capability, my one metric given to me by the 197 00:10:52,559 --> 00:10:57,160 Speaker 4: president of those threat groups that have external operations in 198 00:10:57,200 --> 00:11:00,320 Speaker 4: tent and capability, meaning they want to kill Americans on 199 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:02,960 Speaker 4: US soil. And that's why we are back in the 200 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:04,560 Speaker 4: business of cana terrorist malex. 201 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:07,400 Speaker 3: All Right, So, doctor Gi, there's a few things here 202 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:10,920 Speaker 3: that I think are really important to flesh out with you, 203 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:12,880 Speaker 3: and I want to get a sense of the map 204 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:17,480 Speaker 3: where your focuses are. I've got a couple of countries 205 00:11:17,520 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 3: I want to inquire about specifically, but overall, what are 206 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:24,679 Speaker 3: the countries or regions that operate them that occupy the 207 00:11:24,679 --> 00:11:26,440 Speaker 3: most of your time and effort at the moment. 208 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:32,880 Speaker 4: Syria, Iraq, Somalia and certain pockets of the saheels. So 209 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:36,960 Speaker 4: Africa is a concern because we were so successful in 210 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:41,239 Speaker 4: the first Trump administration when we destroyed the Isis Caliphate. 211 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:45,640 Speaker 4: Survivors from the Middle East from our crushing of the 212 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:50,480 Speaker 4: physical caliphate because they could not stay there, ran to 213 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:53,280 Speaker 4: Africa and are operating in I don't want to go 214 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:57,400 Speaker 4: into details, various ungoverned spaces that is where they like 215 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:01,560 Speaker 4: to go where there is limit limit. Sovereign writ of 216 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:06,640 Speaker 4: the local governments. So we are busy tracking and removing 217 00:12:06,679 --> 00:12:12,040 Speaker 4: them from the battlefields remaining in the Middle East, Syria, Iraq, 218 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:17,120 Speaker 4: and then especially Somalia, because ISIS has got a base 219 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 4: of operations in the north of Somalia wherever they clustered 220 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:27,480 Speaker 4: together and form an external operations threat to America. We 221 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:29,880 Speaker 4: are taking the fight to them. 222 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:33,520 Speaker 3: Are you concerned that some of the Somali fraud money 223 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:36,920 Speaker 3: that we've become aware of in recent weeks is going 224 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:39,200 Speaker 3: to terrorists in that country. 225 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:44,640 Speaker 4: Look, I'm not part of the forensic analysis of the 226 00:12:44,679 --> 00:12:50,720 Speaker 4: financial money trails. That's the Treasury, that is DOJ. But 227 00:12:50,920 --> 00:12:54,760 Speaker 4: when Scott Besson made the statements he made last week, 228 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:58,200 Speaker 4: I take that very seriously. Scott is a friend of mine. 229 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:03,000 Speaker 4: He is very aggressively investigating. I know the team that 230 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:07,880 Speaker 4: it's called the Threat Finance Division at Treasury. They will 231 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:09,880 Speaker 4: get to the bottom of it. It just you look 232 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:12,920 Speaker 4: at the numbers, the idea that you have some marley 233 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:17,360 Speaker 4: communities here that are builking the US taxpayer of billions 234 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:21,480 Speaker 4: of dollars. We see a massive influx, a huge spike 235 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:25,760 Speaker 4: in remittances, in the movement of money from that part 236 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:31,160 Speaker 4: of the United States to Somalia. It would be shocking 237 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:35,360 Speaker 4: if a significant proportion of that we're not finding its 238 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:40,040 Speaker 4: way into the wrong hands of threat actors. However, I 239 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:44,800 Speaker 4: am very, very very I sleep well at night when 240 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:47,400 Speaker 4: I know that, you know, our good guys are killing 241 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:51,720 Speaker 4: Shei Hades, when we are taking out the cartel boats, 242 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:54,079 Speaker 4: and when Scott Besson is on the case. 243 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:55,480 Speaker 2: All right. 244 00:13:55,559 --> 00:13:58,160 Speaker 3: One region I want to ask about specifically is Syria. 245 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:01,160 Speaker 3: There's clashes between the Courage, who we've typically liked, and 246 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:03,839 Speaker 3: the government forces. The Courage don't like that there's so 247 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:07,280 Speaker 3: many jihadis working for Shara, who seems still like he's 248 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:13,480 Speaker 3: been improvement over the past administration. The But overall this 249 00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:15,559 Speaker 3: is a complicated scenario as it always is in Syria. 250 00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 2: Any insight you can offer. 251 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:22,600 Speaker 4: So right now I think we are at a potential 252 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:28,320 Speaker 4: decision point. There is you know, I have a reputation 253 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:31,400 Speaker 4: for calling the head of state there by his former name, 254 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:35,080 Speaker 4: so whether it's you know uh Jilani or whether it's 255 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:37,000 Speaker 4: his new name. 256 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:41,680 Speaker 5: We did something historic. 257 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:45,360 Speaker 4: We said that with the fall of the regime, the 258 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:48,520 Speaker 4: murders Assad regime, with the fact that Iran can no 259 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:52,800 Speaker 4: longer use Syria as a base of operations. That's huge. 260 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:58,360 Speaker 4: We are giving an opportunity to this individual to run 261 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:03,320 Speaker 4: that country as if it were a Westphalian sovereign nation state. 262 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:06,920 Speaker 4: My primary concern, and this comes direct to me from 263 00:15:07,160 --> 00:15:11,200 Speaker 4: my media boss, Sectory Rubio, who is the National Security 264 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:14,760 Speaker 4: Advisor with two matso, is to make sure that this 265 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:20,000 Speaker 4: new administration has the capability it needs to do counter terrorism. 266 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:22,120 Speaker 4: We are not here to be the world's police. We 267 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:25,280 Speaker 4: are not here to fix Syria or any other country. 268 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:29,520 Speaker 4: But we cannot countenance what we saw in the last 269 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:33,120 Speaker 4: year in terms of churches being blown up in Syria, 270 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:38,000 Speaker 4: tax against even the Alla White the Drews. So you know, 271 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:40,640 Speaker 4: we have been given a very clear task make sure 272 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:43,680 Speaker 4: there isn't another massacre in Syria. So we're trying to 273 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:47,960 Speaker 4: make that nation function. A large part of that, probably 274 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:50,320 Speaker 4: the biggest part right now if you look at their 275 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:54,320 Speaker 4: fighting capability are the Kurds is the SDF our partners 276 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:56,960 Speaker 4: who I will say on record because it's a statement 277 00:15:56,960 --> 00:16:01,640 Speaker 4: of fact, where the most important partners we had in 278 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:06,200 Speaker 4: crushing isis the Kurds are born warriors and they were 279 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:10,840 Speaker 4: crucial to the first Trump administration's destruction of the isis 280 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:14,440 Speaker 4: Caliphe and we salute the Kords for being our partners 281 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:18,320 Speaker 4: in that. Now the decision is very clear. Do you 282 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:21,720 Speaker 4: want to be part of a functioning Syria. If that's 283 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:24,640 Speaker 4: the case, there must be integration. Even if you don't 284 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:27,200 Speaker 4: like the head of state and I understand that bad 285 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:30,880 Speaker 4: blood history, what have you. This is your opportunity. The 286 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:35,440 Speaker 4: golden ticket has been given to you by President Trump. 287 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:38,920 Speaker 4: I'm not going to predict the future, but the decision 288 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:41,320 Speaker 4: point has been arrived at. We need to see a 289 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:44,240 Speaker 4: Damascus that can do counterterrorism, and we need to see 290 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:48,920 Speaker 4: a Kurdish community that is part of a new functioning Syria. 291 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:52,280 Speaker 3: Next to the area I want to take a look 292 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:55,960 Speaker 3: at is Nigeria, where I'm relieved that there's been a 293 00:16:56,040 --> 00:16:59,400 Speaker 3: lot of focus on terrorism against Christians in particular, which 294 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:01,320 Speaker 3: we've been porting on a bright part for well over 295 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:03,320 Speaker 3: a decade and I know, probably back to when you 296 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:05,760 Speaker 3: were a National security editor, we were reporting on this stuff. 297 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:10,240 Speaker 3: If it's finally gotten the mainstream attention it deserves, can 298 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:11,600 Speaker 3: you apply on that for a second. Then I've got 299 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:12,760 Speaker 3: a couple specifics on that. 300 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:17,120 Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, So the President has sent a very clear 301 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:19,520 Speaker 4: message on Christmas Day of all days, which is the 302 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:20,440 Speaker 4: perfect messaging. 303 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:21,760 Speaker 5: We will not permit. 304 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:25,479 Speaker 4: Again, We've got to put this in the context of 305 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:32,000 Speaker 4: MAGA and America. First, we are not interventionists. Even Venezuela is, 306 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:34,240 Speaker 4: you know, is a perfect example of how we are 307 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:38,960 Speaker 4: not interventionist. Yeah, means, say a neo conservative, we will 308 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:41,359 Speaker 4: turn you into a democracy at the end of a 309 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:45,400 Speaker 4: gun barrel lunacy of the Bush administration. We will take 310 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:50,280 Speaker 4: decisive military action discreetly when it is in the national interest. 311 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:53,520 Speaker 4: But when we talk about the plight of our you know, 312 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:58,440 Speaker 4: fellow coreligionists, that the members of Western civilization, even if 313 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:01,320 Speaker 4: they are in Africa, we will not put up with 314 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:05,680 Speaker 4: the wanton targeting of Christians in any part of the world. 315 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:08,440 Speaker 4: And the present made this very clear with the strikes 316 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:11,560 Speaker 4: and isis. And it's not just it's not just a 317 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:14,480 Speaker 4: feel good measure. It's not just about you know, our 318 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:20,159 Speaker 4: fellow Christians. It's also a geopolitical act. Why when a 319 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:25,440 Speaker 4: part of the world sees the systematic targeting of Jews 320 00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:31,280 Speaker 4: or Christians, the end state of that is horrific. That's, 321 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:35,119 Speaker 4: you know, the beginnings of the Third Reich. That's the 322 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:40,000 Speaker 4: beginnings of the caliphate of Isis in the Middle East. 323 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:42,359 Speaker 4: It is the canary in the coal mine, it is 324 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:45,439 Speaker 4: the bell weather. So we are taking action because it 325 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:48,439 Speaker 4: is the right thing to do for our brothers and 326 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:52,760 Speaker 4: sisters in Christ, but also because it's the broader context 327 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:56,000 Speaker 4: of counter terrorism. When these people are being attacked in 328 00:18:56,080 --> 00:19:01,480 Speaker 4: their churches, in their communities, that's because the Jihadise are 329 00:19:02,119 --> 00:19:06,119 Speaker 4: testing the environment, and sooner or later, if they are 330 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:10,320 Speaker 4: not challenged, we will lose that territory. It will become 331 00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:13,960 Speaker 4: a new base of operations, and from that base of operations, 332 00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:17,439 Speaker 4: they will try to kill Americans on US soil, just 333 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:19,560 Speaker 4: as they did on September the eleventh. 334 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:23,360 Speaker 5: So this is the instinctual part of counter terrorism. 335 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:26,000 Speaker 4: The President understands if you don't stand up for the 336 00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:30,639 Speaker 4: Christians now over there that come and kill Americans over here. 337 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:31,440 Speaker 5: Yeah. 338 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:33,760 Speaker 3: One of my common refrains is that it's very hard 339 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:36,400 Speaker 3: to stay in neutrol on the world stage. You're either 340 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:39,280 Speaker 3: kind of getting more power less. And so if we're 341 00:19:39,359 --> 00:19:42,680 Speaker 3: not keeping the gids accountable wherever they are, if we're 342 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:44,919 Speaker 3: not meeting them where they are to some degree, then 343 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:46,800 Speaker 3: they're just getting stronger. And we don't want that, because 344 00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:47,560 Speaker 3: then it becomes easy. 345 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:50,080 Speaker 4: It's beyond even that. This is such a good pointag 346 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:57,040 Speaker 4: So just be logical. If America and you mentioned this earlier, 347 00:19:57,040 --> 00:20:00,080 Speaker 4: that we're proactive, we're not reactive. I mean, that is 348 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:03,359 Speaker 4: the understatement of the century that the president is setting 349 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:09,280 Speaker 4: the agenda for everything from taris to Greenland, to AI 350 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:14,680 Speaker 4: to nuclear energy, every significant thing. He he is setting 351 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:18,720 Speaker 4: the agenda. But just be logical about it. If America 352 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:22,200 Speaker 4: isn't setting the agenda, if we're not the ones taking 353 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:24,480 Speaker 4: on the Jihadis, if we're not the ones that are 354 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:27,639 Speaker 4: grappling with the future of information, energy and what have you, 355 00:20:28,359 --> 00:20:33,400 Speaker 4: what are your alternatives, because your alternatives are China. 356 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:35,840 Speaker 5: That's it. 357 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:39,560 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not going to be Iran because Iran is 358 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:41,760 Speaker 4: on the ropes. It's not going to be Russia because 359 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:45,520 Speaker 4: Russia can't even defeat a nation that was ranked twenty 360 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:50,000 Speaker 4: one positions lower than it when it invaded Ukraine. 361 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:53,040 Speaker 5: So Russia's not going to run the world. Iran's not 362 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:53,920 Speaker 5: going to run the world. 363 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:57,040 Speaker 4: There's one country that says it wants to run the world, 364 00:20:57,040 --> 00:21:00,600 Speaker 4: that talks about it in its books. Unrestricted warfare in 365 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:03,080 Speaker 4: the One Belt, One Road and you have to. You know, 366 00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:06,040 Speaker 4: I don't care whether whether you're liberal, whether you're a leftist, 367 00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:07,840 Speaker 4: whether you're quote unquote independent. 368 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:09,200 Speaker 5: I'll answer me this one question. 369 00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:13,800 Speaker 4: Do you want China to be setting the agenda or 370 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:15,760 Speaker 4: do you want us to be setting the agenda. 371 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:17,359 Speaker 5: It's not a complicated question. 372 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:20,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, fascinating point. 373 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:23,040 Speaker 3: Last one, I'm in Nigeria quickly, just because just because 374 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:25,399 Speaker 3: I'm a ignorant in this regard, is that we had 375 00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:29,159 Speaker 3: a bombing campaign there in December. We bomb the northwest 376 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:31,879 Speaker 3: portion of Nigeria and not the northeast where it seems 377 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:34,960 Speaker 3: to be more of the Boco Ram stronghold, or also 378 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:39,159 Speaker 3: the middle belt where the fulanis are. And I'm just wondering. 379 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:42,080 Speaker 3: It's I'm not doubting the decisions. I'm just kind of 380 00:21:42,119 --> 00:21:44,520 Speaker 3: curious about their ending light to the audience and why 381 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:46,959 Speaker 3: that was, why that happened. 382 00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:49,800 Speaker 4: In terms of a thumbnail, but this could be a 383 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:53,200 Speaker 4: separate even episode because of the complexity. 384 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:55,199 Speaker 3: So we oh, yeah, this feels like we need like 385 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:57,760 Speaker 3: the upper Division College of War lecture here on this one. 386 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:01,639 Speaker 4: But it's the just briefly, yeah, you know, as on 387 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:05,159 Speaker 4: a postage stamp size analysis in a thumbnail. What we 388 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:08,840 Speaker 4: do is we divide that country in terms of threat 389 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:13,600 Speaker 4: into three sections, the Middle Belt, the North, and the South. 390 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:18,840 Speaker 4: And what we took action against were the ISIS sites 391 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:22,639 Speaker 4: because it is part of their ideology to target Christians. 392 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:25,920 Speaker 4: I mean this goes back to you know, chapter nine, 393 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,360 Speaker 4: verse twenty nine of the Koran. You've got to read 394 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:33,720 Speaker 4: the sallafist jihadi justifications for what they do. However, it's 395 00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:38,240 Speaker 4: a little bit more complicated than just jihadies using violence 396 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:42,120 Speaker 4: in Nigeria. You mentioned the Filana, you mentioned the tribes. 397 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:45,480 Speaker 4: The interesting the thing that makes me feel a little 398 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:49,680 Speaker 4: bit bullied by the situation in Africa, and we see 399 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:52,600 Speaker 4: this in Nigeria as well, that the jihadists have come 400 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:56,639 Speaker 4: in and in many cases, what they're doing is they're 401 00:22:56,680 --> 00:23:01,120 Speaker 4: exploiting ungoverned space. They're exploiting pre existing conflict and tension, 402 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:06,280 Speaker 4: which is almost exclusively about what other issues. It's about water, 403 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:11,439 Speaker 4: it's about energy, it's about tribal differences, and they try 404 00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:17,520 Speaker 4: and paste over the the overlay of the jihadi narrative 405 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:21,520 Speaker 4: onto these pre existing conflicts, which is not a natural match. 406 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:25,440 Speaker 4: And as such, it's not like the success they have 407 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:30,880 Speaker 4: in the Middle East, where the Islamic context allows them 408 00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:35,120 Speaker 4: to come in with that salaphist jihadi ideology. So yes, 409 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:38,199 Speaker 4: it's complicated, it's North, it's Middle itsself. 410 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:39,359 Speaker 5: What we are doing. 411 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:43,240 Speaker 4: We're not there to fix Nigeria. We are there to 412 00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:45,920 Speaker 4: smite jihadis because that's the business. 413 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:49,400 Speaker 3: We're back in the next specific region. I wanted your 414 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:53,480 Speaker 3: take on doctor g Is Yemen. I completely are the news. 415 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:56,000 Speaker 3: Is the US involved at all? There are the Huthis 416 00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:57,480 Speaker 3: still a threat to We think of them as some 417 00:23:57,520 --> 00:23:59,359 Speaker 3: of the worst here us. But are they a threat 418 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:02,000 Speaker 3: right now? Are we worried about the Saudi's and the 419 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:04,919 Speaker 3: UAE feuding? I guess those are the two more the 420 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:07,240 Speaker 3: two last ones I want to get to right now. 421 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:10,640 Speaker 4: We are very you know, we maintain I'm here seven 422 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:14,320 Speaker 4: thirty every morning getting my version of the President's daily briefing. 423 00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:17,399 Speaker 4: We are watching very closely that part of the world, 424 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:22,200 Speaker 4: the Hoothy's, the rising issues between the two countries you mentioned. 425 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:27,000 Speaker 4: But let me be very clear again misunderstood, misrepresented or 426 00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:30,720 Speaker 4: ignored by the quote unquote experts and the mainstream line. 427 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:35,119 Speaker 4: Why did we engage Why did the president engage the Houthees? 428 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:38,440 Speaker 4: We're not there to do nation building. We're not there 429 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:42,679 Speaker 4: to fix Yemen. We are there because we gave the 430 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:47,720 Speaker 4: President the figures for how many times US ships were attacked. 431 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:52,800 Speaker 4: We told him the threat to international commerce, and as 432 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:55,320 Speaker 4: one of the most successful businessmen of the modern age, 433 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:59,840 Speaker 4: he said that it's untenable. Shipping is the lifeblood, you know. 434 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:02,560 Speaker 4: We have energy to make stuff and then we have 435 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:07,719 Speaker 4: to move things, you know, resources, and then finish goods. 436 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:09,960 Speaker 5: How buy water? 437 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:15,240 Speaker 4: Navigable waterways are crucial to the survival of the American economy. 438 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:18,360 Speaker 4: And again, this isn't just about the houthis Let's translate 439 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:19,800 Speaker 4: this to the Was it just yesterday? 440 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:21,320 Speaker 5: Was it just the day before? 441 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:25,359 Speaker 4: It moves so fast with the Greenland and the Danish 442 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:29,399 Speaker 4: representatives here in the White House? Why Greenland? Why do 443 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:33,679 Speaker 4: we care about Greenland? Look at a map. I'm old school. 444 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:35,879 Speaker 5: I have a globe, you know, like your teacher did. 445 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:41,800 Speaker 6: Right in my skiff, and I point to people, Hey, 446 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:45,520 Speaker 6: look at Greenland and tell me what's it Closer to 447 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:48,720 Speaker 6: Greenland is closer to Washington, d c. 448 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:52,040 Speaker 4: Than it is to the Hay, than it is to Denmark, 449 00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:54,920 Speaker 4: than it is to the Europe. It's in our hemisphere 450 00:25:55,160 --> 00:26:00,720 Speaker 4: and then look at the shipping lines. This is why 451 00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:04,880 Speaker 4: if America is going to be safe, then we have 452 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:09,440 Speaker 4: to have the access we need to keep those shipping 453 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:12,280 Speaker 4: lane lanes secure. And listen to what the President said 454 00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:15,400 Speaker 4: just two days ago. All we hear this absurdity from 455 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:19,520 Speaker 4: our you know, a low te European colleagues saying, oh 456 00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:24,680 Speaker 4: my gosh, this NATO. And what does the President say? No, no, no, no, 457 00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:32,679 Speaker 4: no Greenland. Greenland as part of the American hemispheric Defense 458 00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:39,160 Speaker 4: network is the salvation of NATO. If we cannot secure 459 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:44,639 Speaker 4: the shipping lanes for all nations through that straight then 460 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:47,440 Speaker 4: NATO ceases to have any relevance. 461 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:49,240 Speaker 3: Okay, So okay, So I want to I want to 462 00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:50,760 Speaker 3: focus on this because I brought this up on the 463 00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:54,680 Speaker 3: Live show, and you're more learned on this than I am. 464 00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:57,800 Speaker 3: So I feel like NATO is an accident way to 465 00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:00,920 Speaker 3: happen for us, and I feel like if not for NATO, 466 00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:04,880 Speaker 3: then Putin would not have invaded the admitted Ukraine because 467 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:08,080 Speaker 3: Joe Biden's administration teased for over and over again that 468 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:12,360 Speaker 3: maybe Ukraine could join NATO, and that creates all sorts 469 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:17,600 Speaker 3: of downstream effects just from that messaging. So where does 470 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:20,560 Speaker 3: NATO's take thus far seems like they don't want the 471 00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:24,439 Speaker 3: United States to Greenland? Why not for the most part, 472 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:27,840 Speaker 3: do you feel like they could come around and ultimately 473 00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:30,840 Speaker 3: walk through what you're just starting to talk about, which 474 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:33,000 Speaker 3: is is this better for the future of NATO or 475 00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:34,400 Speaker 3: worse if we take it. 476 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:41,280 Speaker 4: If the President secures that piece of real estate for 477 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:45,679 Speaker 4: the interests of national security of all Americans and for 478 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:51,000 Speaker 4: our civilization, that he will have saved NATO. It cannot 479 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:54,720 Speaker 4: be more clearly stated. I mean, it is absolutely a 480 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:59,000 Speaker 4: non negotiable that piece of real estate. Look at the 481 00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:02,760 Speaker 4: history of why we have troops there already. 482 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:03,920 Speaker 5: Look at what. 483 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:10,720 Speaker 4: Denmark asked of us afterwards in exile, their ambassador after 484 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:13,280 Speaker 4: they were invaded by the Third Reich. I mean, people 485 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:15,280 Speaker 4: need to do a little bit of history. Not listen 486 00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:18,680 Speaker 4: to the you know, the fake revisionist historians who get 487 00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:23,199 Speaker 4: platformed by pseudo maga nowadays. Open a history book and 488 00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:27,640 Speaker 4: look at the actual history of Greenland, what happened after 489 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:31,639 Speaker 4: they were invaded, and what their ambassador in exile asked 490 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:35,520 Speaker 4: of us during World War II, asked us to put 491 00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:40,120 Speaker 4: our troops on that piece of real estate. To make 492 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:44,000 Speaker 4: sure it wasn't taken by the Germans, exploited and then 493 00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:50,160 Speaker 4: shut down crucial waterways to Europe. So it's they knew 494 00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:54,760 Speaker 4: it back then. Why are they clamoring right now? They're 495 00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:58,240 Speaker 4: just hysterical little girls. I'm sorry. I mean, I look 496 00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:02,040 Speaker 4: at my European colleagues and they still don't understand the president. 497 00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:06,360 Speaker 4: It's like, who was it? Selina Zito? What did she 498 00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:10,840 Speaker 4: write nine years ago? That the best sentence ever about 499 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:15,760 Speaker 4: the president? The establishment and the mainstreamlining legacy media. She said, 500 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:21,200 Speaker 4: the haters, the naysayers, the experts, they take President Trump 501 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:25,640 Speaker 4: literally but not seriously. And everyone else who lives in 502 00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:30,000 Speaker 4: the real world, the patriots, the maga, the people who 503 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:34,160 Speaker 4: don't believe in utopia or socialism, they take the president 504 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:39,560 Speaker 4: seriously but not necessarily literally. That's the problem of the Europeans. 505 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:43,080 Speaker 4: They're still in that first you know that first, that 506 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:47,120 Speaker 4: first group of people. And I had a fascinating meeting 507 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:50,760 Speaker 4: with one of my seniors here who was preparing for 508 00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:52,960 Speaker 4: an event yesterday, and I said, in front of a 509 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:56,200 Speaker 4: bunch of Europeans, and I said, it's very simple. What 510 00:29:56,280 --> 00:30:00,400 Speaker 4: you need to tell these nervous nellies when and somebody 511 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:04,880 Speaker 4: says the president is unpredictable, they're idiots, right. The president 512 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:08,760 Speaker 4: is the most predictable head of state in the world today. 513 00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:12,760 Speaker 4: Why because there's one metric that defines President Trump. If 514 00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:15,880 Speaker 4: it's good for America, he's going to do it. 515 00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:17,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought. 516 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:21,840 Speaker 3: I find him remarkably consistent and easy to follow, and 517 00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:24,680 Speaker 3: it's the it's I don't know, maybe I'm smarter than 518 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:26,640 Speaker 3: I look, but it's a I've always felt that. I 519 00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:29,760 Speaker 3: felt him be very rational and coherent, and his surprises 520 00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:32,160 Speaker 3: are deliberate. He's just a good poker player and you 521 00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:34,240 Speaker 3: have to throw in surprise at a certain amount of time. 522 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:37,320 Speaker 2: Uh, Doctor g I only want to keep you another. 523 00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:39,320 Speaker 3: Few more minuteses because you've been so generous you always are, 524 00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:40,360 Speaker 3: and I want to make sure I don't get in 525 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:42,800 Speaker 3: trouble with your team and the whole White House staff. 526 00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:46,600 Speaker 3: But a huge moment this week that has not getting 527 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:51,880 Speaker 3: nearly enough attention. Muzzlim Brotherhood chapters officially designated terrorist designations. 528 00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:54,400 Speaker 2: This sort of thing we've been fantasizing. 529 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:56,880 Speaker 3: About since I was in blogging diapers, you know, when 530 00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:00,680 Speaker 3: we were on a tiny word press site soliciting unpaid 531 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,360 Speaker 3: pieces in Andrew Breitbart's basement. We were talking about this 532 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:05,920 Speaker 3: and it's here and it barely got at the time 533 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:06,320 Speaker 3: of day. 534 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:08,720 Speaker 2: Explain why this matters. 535 00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:13,719 Speaker 5: This is tectonic. 536 00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:17,200 Speaker 4: I mean, this is truly tectonic. This should have happened 537 00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:21,720 Speaker 4: thirty forty years ago. No president had the testicular forty 538 00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:25,200 Speaker 4: two to do it. In the first Trump administration, we 539 00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:29,080 Speaker 4: had these discussions, Alex, you know, eight seven, eight years ago. 540 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:32,400 Speaker 4: You know that we wanted to do this. It was impossible. 541 00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:36,720 Speaker 4: The deep state sabotaged it, and it happened. And you know, 542 00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:39,560 Speaker 4: I don't want to tempt fate, but the lack. 543 00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:43,080 Speaker 5: Of reaction, not just from the losers. 544 00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:47,320 Speaker 4: In the mainstreamlining legacy media and the establishment think tank experts, 545 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:51,400 Speaker 4: the lack of response from the bad guys is really 546 00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:56,880 Speaker 4: quite shocking. I mean, we just we've grasped the most 547 00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:00,880 Speaker 4: important chapter of the Muslim brotherhood and arm down all 548 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:04,360 Speaker 4: your experts out there on the Twitter sphere. We're coming 549 00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:08,360 Speaker 4: after all of them. Okay, one by one. You don't 550 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:11,480 Speaker 4: eat an elephant with one bite. You slice and dice 551 00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:15,200 Speaker 4: like a stick of salami. So the fact that as 552 00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:20,840 Speaker 4: of two days ago, the Grand Pappy, the og the mothership. 553 00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:24,959 Speaker 4: The first one, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, is now in 554 00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:31,320 Speaker 4: federal law a foreign terrorist organization, plus Lebanon plus Jordan. 555 00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:34,719 Speaker 4: You know, this is the point of which you say, okay, 556 00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:37,200 Speaker 4: and you know, am I done? Am I finished? I 557 00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:39,760 Speaker 4: know we've got lots of jihades left to kill. But 558 00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:43,840 Speaker 4: this is monumental because from this point forward, if you 559 00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:48,800 Speaker 4: give five bucks to that entity, you've committed the felony 560 00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:52,480 Speaker 4: of material support to terrorism. It opens a whole panoply, 561 00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:56,440 Speaker 4: a vast array of weapons and tools. For Scott Bessett 562 00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:59,280 Speaker 4: at Treasury, for Cash Bettell at the FBI, for Pam 563 00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:00,640 Speaker 4: Bondi at de Jay. 564 00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:05,600 Speaker 5: This is the beginning of the end of the. 565 00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:09,920 Speaker 4: Progenitor of all modern jihadi organizations. 566 00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:11,600 Speaker 2: So what do we do next? 567 00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:12,280 Speaker 5: What are the moves? 568 00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:13,560 Speaker 2: I know you can't give it all away, but. 569 00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:15,760 Speaker 5: It's already happening. 570 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:21,480 Speaker 4: So now doj starts applying all of these incredible weapons. 571 00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:25,120 Speaker 4: Treasury starts applying all of these weapons, tightening the news, 572 00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:28,440 Speaker 4: shutting down the funding lines. They will be announcing those 573 00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:31,280 Speaker 4: as they occur. But in the meantime, my colleagues here, 574 00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:35,080 Speaker 4: my incredible team, the lady who wrote that executive order 575 00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:38,719 Speaker 4: for the President originally, so proud of her. We are 576 00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:43,120 Speaker 4: already working with the interagency for phase two. We've identified 577 00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:45,719 Speaker 4: the next traaunch of chapters. One of them will be 578 00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:50,520 Speaker 4: rather spicy if it is confirmed, and then we'll just 579 00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:52,800 Speaker 4: go on and on and on and on with every 580 00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:55,520 Speaker 4: single chapter until they are strangled. 581 00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:59,800 Speaker 3: Sensational staff Doctor Sebashian Gorka, Deputy Assistant to the President 582 00:33:59,880 --> 00:34:02,480 Speaker 3: and great friend to me, a friend of bright Burn News, 583 00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:05,120 Speaker 3: Friend to See Them News channel and Sealem Podcast Network, 584 00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:07,240 Speaker 3: et cetera, Doctor G. Any place you want to send 585 00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:10,680 Speaker 3: people to stay up on the latest infro, just my 586 00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:12,719 Speaker 3: Twitter s E B G O. 587 00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:13,279 Speaker 5: R k A. 588 00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:17,040 Speaker 4: Of course, the President is uh, you know, his his 589 00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:20,880 Speaker 4: truth Social Caroline, the White House Rapid Response Team, and 590 00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:23,879 Speaker 4: you know, I see there's an interesting new book on 591 00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:27,200 Speaker 4: on the on the shelf there behind you, you know, 592 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:29,760 Speaker 4: so I don't know, maybe maybe maybe check out Alex's 593 00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:30,279 Speaker 4: book as well. 594 00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:31,640 Speaker 2: Thank you're very kind. 595 00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:34,040 Speaker 3: Always promote my stuff, and I'll promote anything you want 596 00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:34,239 Speaker 3: to do. 597 00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:34,719 Speaker 2: Doctor G. 598 00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:38,480 Speaker 3: A great man, and appreciate having you there or fighting 599 00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:39,959 Speaker 3: for us inside the White House. 600 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:41,719 Speaker 2: And let's let's keep this a regular thing. 601 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:42,200 Speaker 5: Thanks. 602 00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:43,680 Speaker 2: To Misty, and for all of you in the audience, 603 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:44,600 Speaker 2: talking you next time.