1
00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,760
Speaker 1: Welcome to today's podcast sponsored by Hillsdale College, All Things

2
00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:06,280
Speaker 1: Hillsdale at Hillsdale dot ed or. I encourage you to

3
00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:08,800
Speaker 1: take advantage of the many free online courses there, and

4
00:00:08,840 --> 00:00:11,119
Speaker 1: of course I'll listen to the Hillsdale dialogues, all of

5
00:00:11,119 --> 00:00:14,560
Speaker 1: them at Hugh for Hillsdale dot com or just Google, Apple,

6
00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:19,920
Speaker 1: iTunes and Hillsdale and even Great America. Greeting from the ballet,

7
00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:22,279
Speaker 1: where it remains very, very cold, and we are on

8
00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:25,480
Speaker 1: alert for the arrival of Prime Minister at Yahoo tonight.

9
00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:28,440
Speaker 1: He'll meet with President Trump tomorrow about the ongoing crisis

10
00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:33,000
Speaker 1: in the Middle East. Barack Revied of Axios had a

11
00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:37,240
Speaker 1: sit down with the President today and I don't know

12
00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:43,120
Speaker 1: if it was by phone or if it was a

13
00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:46,840
Speaker 1: a meeting over the air or what, but he did

14
00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:51,440
Speaker 1: talk to him at length about the upcoming cemetery with Iran.

15
00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:54,480
Speaker 1: Part two. I want to play this for you. It's

16
00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:58,800
Speaker 1: in Hebrew because Barrock went on one of the channels

17
00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:02,640
Speaker 1: in Israel, but it has subtitleed and I've lost my returns.

18
00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:06,360
Speaker 1: I can't really read the subtitle thing, but I think

19
00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:09,600
Speaker 1: it's important to hear as he's talking to the Israeli

20
00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:12,600
Speaker 1: community because brock is he worked for Actions, but he

21
00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:17,720
Speaker 1: also works for a Israeli television station, as does it

22
00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:20,440
Speaker 1: meet Sagal on Nada da Yalla, and their following is

23
00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:23,360
Speaker 1: actually more closely than you folks are. If you watch

24
00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:25,600
Speaker 1: on the Salem News channel yesterday or you caught it

25
00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:27,959
Speaker 1: on replay. In the third hour of my program, I

26
00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:31,600
Speaker 1: talked to Crown Prince raised a Pa la Vie, and

27
00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:35,040
Speaker 1: tens of thousands of you who didn't see it live

28
00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:38,600
Speaker 1: went over and watched it on YouTube. And I appreciate

29
00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:43,800
Speaker 1: all the comments and the wonderful response, but the reality is,

30
00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:47,680
Speaker 1: we don't really know what will happen in the next

31
00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:50,040
Speaker 1: three months. In the midd least, it's beyond us to

32
00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:54,320
Speaker 1: be able to tell you what is President Trump's intention.

33
00:01:54,440 --> 00:02:00,680
Speaker 1: He's very good at what Admiral Montgomery yesterday called strategic ambiguity. Uh,

34
00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:05,200
Speaker 1: it's it's completely impossible to predict what he's going to do.

35
00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:09,079
Speaker 1: Because today, what was most interesting in his conversation with

36
00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:12,760
Speaker 1: Barack Revide is he did not limit the demands he's

37
00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:18,880
Speaker 1: making on Iran to nuclear weaponry, which is always in

38
00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:22,959
Speaker 1: the past. President carefully deliminated the what he wanted to

39
00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,880
Speaker 1: get done and how he wanted to get it done,

40
00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:30,040
Speaker 1: and he never laid out the missiles and the IRGC

41
00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:32,919
Speaker 1: stopped killing your people. He said that a few times.

42
00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:36,840
Speaker 1: He warned them about that before. But he also never

43
00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:40,160
Speaker 1: mentioned the missiles, and he never mentioned the support for terrorism.

44
00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:44,000
Speaker 1: To a reporter, here is Barack, and I'll read you

45
00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:47,720
Speaker 1: the subtitles as they occur as he talks in Israel.

46
00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:50,440
Speaker 2: Telephone.

47
00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:55,240
Speaker 1: You got the wrong one dayne I got the I

48
00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:59,120
Speaker 1: got one with English subtitles, so apparently we were not

49
00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:01,400
Speaker 1: on the same page. But the subtitle, but he says

50
00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:05,600
Speaker 1: missiles said President Trump has added to the list missiles.

51
00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:10,440
Speaker 1: And the key development there is if it's missiles, if

52
00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:13,560
Speaker 1: that's what's going to happen, they're not going to give up.

53
00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:17,560
Speaker 1: They might have made a gesture. They talked about diluting

54
00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:20,640
Speaker 1: the enrichment level of their uranium. That won't do it.

55
00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:23,079
Speaker 1: But that's one step away from come get the uranium.

56
00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:25,480
Speaker 1: It's buried in the middle of the desert in Forida,

57
00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:27,760
Speaker 1: which you guys destroyed, and then we wouldn't be able

58
00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:30,680
Speaker 1: to go get it, so that that isn't really asking

59
00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:32,919
Speaker 1: for anything. They'll offer stuff. They want to play for time.

60
00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:36,120
Speaker 1: They want Trump to move on. That's not going to happen.

61
00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:39,280
Speaker 1: But here's Donald Trump talking with Larry Cumbo about other

62
00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:40,480
Speaker 1: things today. Cut number one.

63
00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:43,720
Speaker 3: If our new head of the feed, who I think

64
00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:46,560
Speaker 3: is going to be great, but if he does the

65
00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:50,560
Speaker 3: job that he's capable, we can grow at fifteen percent.

66
00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:51,720
Speaker 4: I think more than that.

67
00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:55,560
Speaker 1: We've never I guess I can't say never. Probably after

68
00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:57,640
Speaker 1: World War Two we grew at fifteen percent when we

69
00:03:57,720 --> 00:04:01,320
Speaker 1: unleashed American productivity again for building things other than weapons

70
00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:04,280
Speaker 1: of war. But fifteen percent would be the record of

71
00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:07,680
Speaker 1: my adult lifetime. Good for the president, I am high.

72
00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:09,600
Speaker 1: Part two of what you had to say to Larry

73
00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:11,200
Speaker 1: Kudlow on Fox Fitness.

74
00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:13,400
Speaker 3: You know, we have a fake news that doesn't get

75
00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:15,400
Speaker 3: the word out. That's why I love doing an interview.

76
00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:18,880
Speaker 3: We get the word up. But so you ask you

77
00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:24,600
Speaker 3: a question, in fifty years a president that won, even

78
00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:26,960
Speaker 3: a popular president, somebody has done well.

79
00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:27,680
Speaker 5: A popular and.

80
00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:28,400
Speaker 4: Have done well.

81
00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:31,480
Speaker 3: I mean, I think we have the greatest economy actually

82
00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:35,720
Speaker 3: ever in history. Now we have the hottest country anywhere

83
00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:36,240
Speaker 3: in the world.

84
00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:38,760
Speaker 4: That's said by everybody. We have the hottest country in

85
00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:39,159
Speaker 4: the world.

86
00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:43,320
Speaker 3: I guess I have to sell that because we should

87
00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:46,080
Speaker 3: win in a landslide, and we'll do everything we can to.

88
00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:51,400
Speaker 1: Do the tides of American politics say now. But they

89
00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:53,679
Speaker 1: also said that there would be a red wave during

90
00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:57,840
Speaker 1: Biden's term, and there wasn't. There were some red thunderstorms

91
00:04:57,839 --> 00:04:59,680
Speaker 1: in Florida and a few other places. So I have

92
00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:01,479
Speaker 1: no e what's going to happen in November. Tell me

93
00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:03,839
Speaker 1: what the economy looks like in June. I'll begin to

94
00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:06,160
Speaker 1: predict for you. But it's very related. As a senator.

95
00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:09,680
Speaker 1: Susan Collins declared for reelection today. She is Saint Susan

96
00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:11,600
Speaker 1: in Maine. I spent a lot of time in Maine,

97
00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:14,839
Speaker 1: and while I'm not a citizen can't vote there, I

98
00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:18,479
Speaker 1: could become one, and I might if Virginia passes this

99
00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:22,039
Speaker 1: crazy tax bill that they're talking about taxing. Maine's not

100
00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:24,719
Speaker 1: a low tax state. It's in the middle. But Virginia

101
00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:27,000
Speaker 1: is not a low tax state either. It's in the middle.

102
00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:29,360
Speaker 1: But Virginia is going to go up to California rates. Well,

103
00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:32,880
Speaker 1: goodbye Virginia. Other broadcast from Maine. In California, become a

104
00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:36,160
Speaker 1: mayor and vote for Susan Collins in the fault she's

105
00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:40,800
Speaker 1: gonna win and Grand Plantner Janet Mills. You can get

106
00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:44,440
Speaker 1: your radical left wing lunatic in Grand Plantner, or you

107
00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:47,039
Speaker 1: can get they've already got one of those in John

108
00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:50,640
Speaker 1: Ossoff right Georgia. John Offoff is probably as left wing

109
00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:54,320
Speaker 1: as you want in the Senate, but he's up for reelection.

110
00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:55,520
Speaker 1: We got to be able to knock him off. But

111
00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:58,600
Speaker 1: up in Maine, I was very mo wasn't certain Senator

112
00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:02,240
Speaker 1: Collins aka Saint Collins, was going to run again, because

113
00:06:02,279 --> 00:06:05,000
Speaker 1: she just finished the most successful run as a Chair

114
00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:07,480
Speaker 1: of the Appropriations Committee in the Senate of any chair

115
00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:10,000
Speaker 1: in the Appropriations Committee and the Senate in the last

116
00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:13,279
Speaker 1: many years. She got eleven out of twelve bills passed

117
00:06:13,279 --> 00:06:16,040
Speaker 1: in regular order and the twelfth ones being held up.

118
00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:19,080
Speaker 1: Democrats they don't like ice, and they can't change Ice

119
00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:21,560
Speaker 1: because the one Big Beautiful Bill, which again Senator Collins

120
00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:24,760
Speaker 1: also got through and held tax rates low and got

121
00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:27,640
Speaker 1: no tax on social security, no tax on tips, no

122
00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:30,039
Speaker 1: taxes on overtime that have come with limits, of course,

123
00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:33,040
Speaker 1: but she got it done. She got the one big

124
00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:34,920
Speaker 1: Beautiful Bill done. She got the eleven out of twelve

125
00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:38,359
Speaker 1: appropriations Bill. She's a genie. She gets it done in

126
00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:41,200
Speaker 1: the Appropriations Committee. You don't want to change that for

127
00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:44,160
Speaker 1: seventy nine year old Janet Mills. And I don't think

128
00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:46,120
Speaker 1: she's going to win the primary because Maine is a

129
00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:50,720
Speaker 1: bit wacky. In Portland and the suburbs of Portland just

130
00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:52,880
Speaker 1: a bit more. I mean, they're lovely people, don't get

131
00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:56,640
Speaker 1: me wrong. They're just a bit wacky, cunchy up there

132
00:06:56,920 --> 00:06:59,280
Speaker 1: up in the north, and they get very red the

133
00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:01,560
Speaker 1: farther north you go. So where I am, it's pretty red,

134
00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:04,000
Speaker 1: and then it gets really red, and then dark, dark

135
00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:07,039
Speaker 1: red up in the county where Senator Collins is from.

136
00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:10,000
Speaker 1: So she declared for reelection today. That's an enormous sire

137
00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:14,080
Speaker 1: of relief for everybody. I think all of our other

138
00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:18,520
Speaker 1: opportunities in Michigan and Minnesota are good. They're looking healthy.

139
00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:20,520
Speaker 1: I don't think we have any other worries about pickups

140
00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:25,680
Speaker 1: or senators who are vulnerable. Unless Ken Paxton beats John

141
00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:28,240
Speaker 1: Cornyn in the primary, which I don't see happening, then

142
00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:31,720
Speaker 1: Texas becomes a toss up state. Just does. Sorry, I

143
00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:33,880
Speaker 1: got nothing against the Attorney General. I just read the polls.

144
00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:37,000
Speaker 1: He's very very vulnerable. So vote for John Corning in Texas,

145
00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:39,400
Speaker 1: and then we got a hold North Carolina where Michael

146
00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:43,000
Speaker 1: Wattley will wage a very good race. Now they're going

147
00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:45,040
Speaker 1: to have to send the vice president out on the

148
00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:47,960
Speaker 1: campaign trail. But the Vice president was an Ozerbrjon today

149
00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:51,960
Speaker 1: on the Turmac and Ozerberjon talking of course about Greenland

150
00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:52,840
Speaker 1: Cut number three.

151
00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:53,200
Speaker 5: Oh.

152
00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:55,280
Speaker 6: Look, it's very early in the Greenland talks. I know

153
00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:57,880
Speaker 6: that we've been working quite a bit on this over

154
00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:00,360
Speaker 6: the last few weeks, which is very simple, is very

155
00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:03,160
Speaker 6: important the national security of the United States of America.

156
00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:05,880
Speaker 6: I do think that some of our allies have underinvested

157
00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:08,320
Speaker 6: in Arctic security. And if we're going to invest in

158
00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:10,440
Speaker 6: Arctic security, if we're going to basically pay a lot

159
00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:12,720
Speaker 6: of money and be on the hook for protecting this

160
00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:15,160
Speaker 6: massive land mass, I think it's only reasonable for the

161
00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:17,480
Speaker 6: United States to get some benefit out of that, and

162
00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:19,960
Speaker 6: that's going to be the focus of the negotiations here

163
00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:21,240
Speaker 6: over the next few months.

164
00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:24,200
Speaker 1: I wonder if anyone thought to ask him about the

165
00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:28,080
Speaker 1: Armenia ozerber Jean peace negotiation that Donald Trump presided. I

166
00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:30,280
Speaker 1: don't know. I haven't seen the whole presser about the

167
00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:34,120
Speaker 1: Vice President in Armenia yesterday and Ozerberjehan today doing the

168
00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:36,400
Speaker 1: job all vice presidents do, which you see the world,

169
00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:38,320
Speaker 1: learn the world, be ready to run the world. Just

170
00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:41,600
Speaker 1: in cases, then let's do. Doug Bergham on Fox Business

171
00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:44,040
Speaker 1: and Secretary the Interior today talking about the economy.

172
00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:49,560
Speaker 7: Well, they're critics because President Trump's economic policies are working.

173
00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:53,440
Speaker 7: Whether it's energy dominance, which is making sure that we've

174
00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:55,319
Speaker 7: got prosperity at home and piece.

175
00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:57,880
Speaker 4: Abroad, or whether it's his tariffs.

176
00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:00,719
Speaker 7: Everything that they were concerned about that they thought was

177
00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:02,680
Speaker 7: going to be an issue was turned out to not be.

178
00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:07,240
Speaker 7: President Trump right again on economic policy, and again for Americans,

179
00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:10,680
Speaker 7: that means lower gas prices. When you have lower energy prices,

180
00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:13,400
Speaker 7: it lowers the price of the clothes in your back,

181
00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:15,760
Speaker 7: the food on your table, how you heat your home,

182
00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:18,920
Speaker 7: the gas in your car. Energy prices are a component

183
00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:22,040
Speaker 7: of anything, and he's driven those down tremendously. We've got

184
00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:24,200
Speaker 7: states that are under two dollars a gallon of gas.

185
00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:28,320
Speaker 1: We have first strike people in California and say, huh,

186
00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:31,120
Speaker 1: two dollars a gallon of gap Because I actually read

187
00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:35,440
Speaker 1: a study on the flight here on Saturday, that on

188
00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:39,000
Speaker 1: Sunday morning that Californians might see seven dollars a gallon

189
00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:41,760
Speaker 1: gas because of the closure of refineries there, because California,

190
00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:45,120
Speaker 1: under gavenution has become an unlivable place. And come right

191
00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:48,840
Speaker 1: back to Big Uitt Show. I'll be here, Welcome Back America.

192
00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:53,439
Speaker 1: On Sunday night. In China, former Hong Kong media tycoon

193
00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:56,679
Speaker 1: Jimmy Lye seventy eight years old, was sentenced to twenty

194
00:09:56,800 --> 00:10:00,760
Speaker 1: years in prison for violating the draconian National Security Law

195
00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:03,839
Speaker 1: that was passed in Hong Kong in twenty twenty or

196
00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:07,600
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. I'm joined by his daughter, Claire led Claire,

197
00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:11,600
Speaker 1: that's a very devastating verdict. What is the next steps

198
00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:14,320
Speaker 1: for you and your brother in the entire lie effort.

199
00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:19,600
Speaker 8: You know, it is an extremely heartbreaking sentence. In the

200
00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:23,360
Speaker 8: words of my brother, it's essentially a death sentence. But

201
00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:27,120
Speaker 8: now that the sentence is in, we hope that the

202
00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:32,080
Speaker 8: door is open for more diplomatic and political channels for

203
00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:35,920
Speaker 8: my father's release, because, I mean, it was very clear

204
00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:39,240
Speaker 8: early on that the rule that was no longer a

205
00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:42,880
Speaker 8: rule of law in Hong Kong, and any hopes of

206
00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:45,040
Speaker 8: my father's freedom wouldn't be found there.

207
00:10:45,679 --> 00:10:48,679
Speaker 1: Now he is in solitary confinement. I have followed you

208
00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:51,040
Speaker 1: very close. I've talked to Sebastian a couple of times.

209
00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:54,360
Speaker 1: How is his health? Would you let the audience know

210
00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:57,280
Speaker 1: that so they can join and putting keeping it front

211
00:10:57,280 --> 00:11:00,520
Speaker 1: and center. President Trump when he meets up with General

212
00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:01,960
Speaker 1: Chairman g later.

213
00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:05,800
Speaker 2: In this year, Absolutely, thank you so much. So my father.

214
00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:10,920
Speaker 8: You know, he was extremely robustue going into prison over

215
00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:14,400
Speaker 8: five years ago. Now I've watched as his health has deteriorated,

216
00:11:15,520 --> 00:11:18,960
Speaker 8: at first just gradually, but then very dramatically. And you know,

217
00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:22,240
Speaker 8: some of the pre existing conditions are just very poorly managed.

218
00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:23,880
Speaker 2: For example, his diabetes.

219
00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:27,800
Speaker 8: He's been diabetic for well over thirty years now, but

220
00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:31,560
Speaker 8: his diabetes has checked maybe once every three weeks if that.

221
00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:37,600
Speaker 8: He his eyesight is his eyesight is failing and he

222
00:11:37,679 --> 00:11:41,840
Speaker 8: requires frequent injections.

223
00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:42,840
Speaker 2: And so is his hearing.

224
00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:46,079
Speaker 8: And you know, he has developed new health issues like

225
00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:51,480
Speaker 8: heart issues that started around mid twenty twenty five that

226
00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:55,960
Speaker 8: weren't really checked on until, you know, until they were

227
00:11:56,360 --> 00:11:59,240
Speaker 8: made public. And even some of the other things like

228
00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:02,000
Speaker 8: he has an in ar spleen. He had a blove disorder.

229
00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:04,880
Speaker 8: He has like damage to that which protects his red

230
00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:09,960
Speaker 8: blood cells from damage, and you know that could be

231
00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:12,920
Speaker 8: symptoms of something else, but you know, no follow up

232
00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:14,960
Speaker 8: has been done, and he you know, he gets heat

233
00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:17,760
Speaker 8: rashes in summer. His nails are falling off antand in colors,

234
00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:20,200
Speaker 8: and his teeth are rotting. It's just a litany of

235
00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:22,440
Speaker 8: health issues and we're extremely worried about him.

236
00:12:22,679 --> 00:12:26,640
Speaker 1: So, Claire, I think that the CCP Chinese Communist Party

237
00:12:26,679 --> 00:12:29,280
Speaker 1: wants to send a message to Hong Kong that they're

238
00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:33,319
Speaker 1: they're now part of the tautoltarian structure of China. Don't

239
00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:34,880
Speaker 1: get out of line, but they're sending a message to

240
00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:37,600
Speaker 1: the world that you can't trust China. Do you think

241
00:12:37,679 --> 00:12:40,120
Speaker 1: they know the message that the world is getting by

242
00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:41,319
Speaker 1: the imprisonment of your father.

243
00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:47,160
Speaker 2: I mean, I think, I think, you know, Hong Kong.

244
00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:49,240
Speaker 8: I think China is calling it the shots here and

245
00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:51,080
Speaker 8: I think Hong Kong, I mean, they sort of want

246
00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:54,520
Speaker 8: to make it seem like the man I mean, Jimmy

247
00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:56,880
Speaker 8: and I just is not a man that ever existed.

248
00:12:56,920 --> 00:12:59,600
Speaker 8: I mean, when he's taken out, when he's moved around

249
00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:02,199
Speaker 8: in prison, and whether it's you know to go to

250
00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:04,959
Speaker 8: Quoto anything. He's covered head to toe in a thick

251
00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:07,040
Speaker 8: black cloth so that he doesn't see anyone, and no

252
00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:09,080
Speaker 8: one sees him. And you know, he used to be

253
00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:12,520
Speaker 8: able to exercise outdoors although there was only him in

254
00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:15,240
Speaker 8: the field, but now it's completely covered and no one

255
00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:18,319
Speaker 8: gets to see him other than God's and it's it's

256
00:13:18,679 --> 00:13:22,400
Speaker 8: you know. And if looking at their press statements, they're

257
00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:25,400
Speaker 8: trying to make it sound like my father is this violent,

258
00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:31,240
Speaker 8: violent man who's you know, this evil, violent man. But

259
00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:33,640
Speaker 8: all they've proven is that he's a man who loves God,

260
00:13:33,679 --> 00:13:36,440
Speaker 8: who loves his family, and you know, loves freedom, and

261
00:13:36,559 --> 00:13:38,280
Speaker 8: truth is an essential element of that.

262
00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:41,240
Speaker 1: I think they're proving the nature of the regime, and

263
00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:43,800
Speaker 1: I don't know that they know that. Claire, I want

264
00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:46,439
Speaker 1: to make sure people know what they can do to help.

265
00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:48,680
Speaker 1: What do you want the audience to do if they're

266
00:13:48,679 --> 00:13:50,000
Speaker 1: interesting in helping Jimmy Lae.

267
00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:55,280
Speaker 8: So I hope in your charity that you can keep

268
00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:57,640
Speaker 8: my father in your prayers. Please know that he is

269
00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:02,439
Speaker 8: very much sustained by yours, and I hope you can

270
00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:07,680
Speaker 8: continue to spread the word about my father. I've we've

271
00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:12,400
Speaker 8: all been extremely touched by just the reaction to my

272
00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:17,680
Speaker 8: father's sentence, and I mean if just yeah, if you

273
00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:21,880
Speaker 8: can follow our social media accounts, it's a support Jimmy

274
00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:23,800
Speaker 8: ly on x and on Instagram.

275
00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:26,800
Speaker 2: That's where you will get the latest updates.

276
00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:30,720
Speaker 1: Support Jimmy l Are your are the council? Do they

277
00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:33,760
Speaker 1: have any appeal in the Chinese legal system at all?

278
00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:35,920
Speaker 1: Or is this it we have one minute.

279
00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:40,560
Speaker 2: Claire, so you know the appeal system.

280
00:14:40,640 --> 00:14:44,760
Speaker 8: It's just if it's the international team and the domestic

281
00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:48,600
Speaker 8: team are completely separate, but appealing at this point if

282
00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:50,920
Speaker 8: you look at my dad's previous cases, I mean, like

283
00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:53,880
Speaker 8: the Timo in case getting we won at every single

284
00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:57,120
Speaker 8: level and then China just took control and then we lost.

285
00:14:57,320 --> 00:15:00,200
Speaker 8: So appealing right now would just be losing time. And

286
00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:03,280
Speaker 8: it's time that my father doesn't have. And so you know,

287
00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:06,960
Speaker 8: new for the delay that should be new for the

288
00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:07,920
Speaker 8: delays at this point.

289
00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:12,440
Speaker 1: Hashtag support Jimmy ly on x and on Instagram. Claire,

290
00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:14,560
Speaker 1: please keep coming back, and you are in our prayers

291
00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:16,680
Speaker 1: and I hope, I hope we have the sixteenth gets

292
00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:21,880
Speaker 1: involved everyone remember hashtag support Jimmy Ly You're right back.

293
00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:23,280
Speaker 1: Stay tuned to the vir Chew.

294
00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:30,480
Speaker 3: You know, we have a fake news that doesn't get

295
00:15:30,520 --> 00:15:32,440
Speaker 3: the word out. That's why I love doing an interview.

296
00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:35,920
Speaker 4: We get the word up. But so you ask you

297
00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:36,360
Speaker 4: a question.

298
00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:42,720
Speaker 3: In fifty years a president that won, even a popular president,

299
00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:44,000
Speaker 3: somebody has done well.

300
00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:45,480
Speaker 4: I'm popular and I've done well.

301
00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:48,520
Speaker 3: I mean, I think we have the greatest economy actually

302
00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:52,800
Speaker 3: ever in history. Now we have the hottest country anywhere

303
00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:54,560
Speaker 3: in the world. That's said by everybody.

304
00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:56,240
Speaker 4: We have the hottest country in the world.

305
00:15:57,360 --> 00:16:00,440
Speaker 3: I guess I have to sell that because he should

306
00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:03,160
Speaker 3: win in a landslide, and we'll do everything we can do.

307
00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:05,800
Speaker 1: Welcome back in America. He does have to sell it. That's

308
00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:08,560
Speaker 1: why President Trump's talking to Larry Cudload today. I'm joined

309
00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:12,800
Speaker 1: by David Drucker, a cheap political correspondent for The Dispatch. David,

310
00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:15,400
Speaker 1: it doesn't just happen. You have to sell it. Luckily.

311
00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:20,080
Speaker 1: Earlier today, Shane Goldmacher put out the fact that Trump

312
00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:21,760
Speaker 1: may have problems to the midterm, but one of them

313
00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:24,880
Speaker 1: is not money. There's a four to one cash on

314
00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:27,520
Speaker 1: hand advantage for the Republicans of view, had MAGA and

315
00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:31,160
Speaker 1: all the packs in the NRC and the SRSC it's overwhelming.

316
00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:33,280
Speaker 1: How much difference does that make when the tides are

317
00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:35,680
Speaker 1: against you, Well.

318
00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:36,360
Speaker 5: It certainly helps.

319
00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:38,760
Speaker 9: I mean money can help you even if the political

320
00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:42,480
Speaker 9: atmosphere doesn't turn around. Having some extra cash can help

321
00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:46,200
Speaker 9: you save some seats, and so it's not insignificant money

322
00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:50,560
Speaker 9: is you know. I think sometimes people misinterpret what money means, right.

323
00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:54,800
Speaker 9: Having more money doesn't mean you win. Having enough money

324
00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:58,120
Speaker 9: is what is necessary, right, And so we've seen people

325
00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:00,600
Speaker 9: get out spent and still win. But in the context

326
00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:04,080
Speaker 9: of midterm elections, having a lot of money sometimes means

327
00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:06,280
Speaker 9: you're able to save a few extra seats, and a

328
00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:07,359
Speaker 9: few extra seats.

329
00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:07,840
Speaker 5: Can be a big deal.

330
00:17:08,320 --> 00:17:11,800
Speaker 1: Now today Senator Susan Collins in Maine, and now she's

331
00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:14,720
Speaker 1: running again. That's an enormous relief for Republicans because she

332
00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:18,159
Speaker 1: is Saint Susan in the Pine Cone State. She is

333
00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:20,640
Speaker 1: just beloved in Maine, and last time they threw twenty

334
00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:22,840
Speaker 1: million dollars at her and she's still won by ten points.

335
00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:26,840
Speaker 1: I expect the Senate Committee to spend heavily in her race,

336
00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:30,000
Speaker 1: and to spend for John Houston in Ohio, and to

337
00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:33,840
Speaker 1: spend for John Corner in Texas if he does. I

338
00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:36,119
Speaker 1: expect winning the primary, but I don't think they're going

339
00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:39,000
Speaker 1: to be spending heavily if any of their incumbents are

340
00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:41,520
Speaker 1: in danger, do they.

341
00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:45,600
Speaker 9: Well, we're talking about the National Republican Senatorial Committee here

342
00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:48,320
Speaker 9: right right, and I think what you're going to see,

343
00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:51,000
Speaker 9: particularly because it's a member driven committee, is that they're

344
00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:53,840
Speaker 9: going to spend on every incumbent that needs the help.

345
00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:57,440
Speaker 9: Now in Texas, if corn is the nominee, he's really

346
00:17:57,440 --> 00:17:58,840
Speaker 9: not going to need much help. So you won't see

347
00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:01,840
Speaker 9: the NRSC spend much unless things were to change and

348
00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:05,600
Speaker 9: the environment was so dark for Republicans that even Cornin

349
00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:06,359
Speaker 9: needed help.

350
00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:08,200
Speaker 5: But the whole point about trying.

351
00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:10,120
Speaker 9: To get him over the top of the primary from

352
00:18:10,119 --> 00:18:12,359
Speaker 9: the people that support him is that you don't have

353
00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:14,280
Speaker 9: to worry about him in a general election the way

354
00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:17,040
Speaker 9: you do Ken Paxton, who just appears at this point

355
00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:19,639
Speaker 9: to be more likely to be the second candidate in

356
00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:24,000
Speaker 9: the runoff than Wesley Hunt. Susan Collins, as you point out,

357
00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:26,680
Speaker 9: has always been in danger and never been in danger.

358
00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:30,919
Speaker 9: That state always looks good for Democrats, particularly in elections

359
00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:33,840
Speaker 9: like this, campaigns like this, and she just always just

360
00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:39,920
Speaker 9: wins going away sometimes your number is finally up.

361
00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:42,040
Speaker 5: Shared Brown in Ohio, who's now running again.

362
00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:46,160
Speaker 9: His number was finally up against Bernie Marino after surviving

363
00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:48,480
Speaker 9: a lot of tough scares. The same with John Tester

364
00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:51,320
Speaker 9: and Montana survived a lot. His number was finally up.

365
00:18:51,359 --> 00:18:53,800
Speaker 9: So it can't happen the right now. Republicans have to

366
00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:56,960
Speaker 9: feel good about Maine. I think a lot of them

367
00:18:57,040 --> 00:19:02,320
Speaker 9: are nervous about North Carolina in particular, and Michigan. They've

368
00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:04,040
Speaker 9: got a chance to flip a seat, but that's going

369
00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:06,200
Speaker 9: to take a big investment in order to do it.

370
00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:10,399
Speaker 1: Now. John Houston should win Ohio's ruby read but Sherid

371
00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:13,520
Speaker 1: Brown's been around a long time. In a wave election,

372
00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:16,200
Speaker 1: he could resurface like a bad bottle in the middle

373
00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:18,040
Speaker 1: of the ocean. He could pop back up. So I'm

374
00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:20,479
Speaker 1: not writing that out. But I want to anticipate the

375
00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:24,119
Speaker 1: irony of Donald Trump's packs having to spend money on

376
00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:26,720
Speaker 1: Susan Collins because they can't lose the Senate or an

377
00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:29,359
Speaker 1: impeachment that would be likely in the House. If Susan

378
00:19:29,359 --> 00:19:32,359
Speaker 1: Collins lost, the Senate would get to the Sendate and

379
00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:35,400
Speaker 1: they'd have to hold a trial. David So the President

380
00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:39,080
Speaker 1: can't let any Republican go down. I think that's my read.

381
00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:39,760
Speaker 1: What's your read?

382
00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:44,359
Speaker 9: Well, if you're trying to prevent a trial in the Senate,

383
00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:47,600
Speaker 9: then you've got to save the House. If the premise

384
00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:51,000
Speaker 9: is that Democrats are sure to impeach Trump a third time,

385
00:19:51,920 --> 00:19:54,760
Speaker 9: even if Republicans lose the majority in the Senate, I

386
00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:56,879
Speaker 9: still don't see a scenario in which there are sixty

387
00:19:56,920 --> 00:19:58,040
Speaker 9: seven votes for conviction.

388
00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:03,080
Speaker 1: They couldn't make it ugly. They could make it so ugly.

389
00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:06,480
Speaker 9: I would say, by the way, that I don't necessarily

390
00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:10,000
Speaker 9: expect Trump's political operation and all that money to spend

391
00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:12,960
Speaker 9: much in main other than the RNC and its voter

392
00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:18,040
Speaker 9: integrity activities in court. Susan Collins has a super pack.

393
00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:20,240
Speaker 9: It's going to be very well funded. You've got the NRSC,

394
00:20:20,359 --> 00:20:22,919
Speaker 9: You've got Senate Leadership Fund, which is the Fune linked

395
00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:26,719
Speaker 9: super pac formerly the McConnell link super pac. And so

396
00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:28,919
Speaker 9: she's going to have all the money she needs without

397
00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:31,720
Speaker 9: MAGA Inc. And the President's committees.

398
00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:34,560
Speaker 1: I got to ask you a question I was debating

399
00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:36,359
Speaker 1: over the weekend before I got here. By the way,

400
00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:38,199
Speaker 1: it's too cold to come to DC. Why didn't you

401
00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:43,840
Speaker 1: warn me on Mattchen. The Supreme Court justices usually retire

402
00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:46,560
Speaker 1: in linate June or early July, and they usually have

403
00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:50,960
Speaker 1: confirmation work up in August end a vote in September.

404
00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:54,520
Speaker 1: Did the Senators want that? I don't know if anyone's

405
00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:57,159
Speaker 1: going to step down, nobody does. Nobody made any announcement.

406
00:20:57,200 --> 00:20:59,320
Speaker 1: But if they did, did the Senators want that? Who

407
00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:00,200
Speaker 1: are up for real life action?

408
00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:07,160
Speaker 9: I mean, look, this is a really subjective this is

409
00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:10,200
Speaker 9: this My answer here is going to be very subjective

410
00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:14,159
Speaker 9: because I can see a scenario where some people are

411
00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:18,280
Speaker 9: going to say that, let's say Justice Thomas or Justice Alito,

412
00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:22,160
Speaker 9: if you look at look at look by age and tenure,

413
00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:26,560
Speaker 9: maybe the most likely to retire at this point, particularly

414
00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:28,840
Speaker 9: with Trump and the White House, so that they can

415
00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:33,639
Speaker 9: be assured that a like minded uh justice is it.

416
00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:34,280
Speaker 5: Fills their shoes.

417
00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:36,080
Speaker 1: You know.

418
00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:37,760
Speaker 5: I can see a scenario that where.

419
00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:41,920
Speaker 9: That gin's up both sides. And sometimes it's very volatile.

420
00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:44,560
Speaker 9: So if I'm a Senator in a tough race and

421
00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:47,280
Speaker 9: I'm an incumbent, depending on the state that I'm in,

422
00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:49,160
Speaker 9: I don't know that I want a piece of volatility

423
00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:52,000
Speaker 9: that I don't know how it's going to go on my.

424
00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:54,800
Speaker 1: Own initial take in this discussion on the weekende. Uh,

425
00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:58,639
Speaker 1: the Blues are already gender, so the Reds can't go

426
00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:01,919
Speaker 1: wrong by genning up controversy. They're gonna they're gonna be

427
00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,280
Speaker 1: on the winning end of that. And then I brought

428
00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:07,479
Speaker 1: up the name of justice Aileen Cannon. How's that? How's that?

429
00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:09,280
Speaker 1: Roll off your time, David.

430
00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:13,480
Speaker 9: I mean, I think we're I think Democrats would love

431
00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:18,880
Speaker 9: to see Eileen Cannon nominated to replace whoever might retire.

432
00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:21,399
Speaker 9: I think that's something they could They feel like they

433
00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:23,840
Speaker 9: could do a lot of Uh both.

434
00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:27,520
Speaker 1: Ways, everybody on the right. This is the judge in

435
00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:30,280
Speaker 1: the mar Lago papers case that ruled correctly Jack Smith's

436
00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:33,320
Speaker 1: appointment was unconstitutional as a special counsel and therefore the

437
00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:35,960
Speaker 1: case was dismissed. She's a very good judge. The Democrats

438
00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:38,040
Speaker 1: hate her because she didn't throw Donald Trump and jail

439
00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:40,520
Speaker 1: against the rule of law. But David, it would be wild,

440
00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:42,880
Speaker 1: wouldn't it. That would be a great bit of fun.

441
00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:48,160
Speaker 9: Well, yeah, and that would Here's what I would say, though, dude.

442
00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:52,320
Speaker 5: It really puts Susan Collins in a position uploaded.

443
00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:57,200
Speaker 1: If someone steps down, I expect Donald Trump to swing

444
00:22:57,240 --> 00:22:59,600
Speaker 1: for the fences, because if we lose the Senate, there

445
00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:03,399
Speaker 1: will be nobody confirmed, not one judge confirmed for the

446
00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:06,200
Speaker 1: next two years of the Republican incluenci the Senate. Take

447
00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:08,840
Speaker 1: that to the fay. David Drucker always good to see you.

448
00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:11,480
Speaker 1: Follow him on exit David M. Druckcker headline say I'm

449
00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:13,320
Speaker 1: going to talk about a few of them with Brett Bhir,

450
00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:16,479
Speaker 1: a host of Special Report on Fox Network. At very

451
00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:19,359
Speaker 1: Nike Fox News Channel. At six pm, America's anchorman, Britt

452
00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:22,080
Speaker 1: Bhaer joins me. Now, Brett, I was tricked into coming

453
00:23:22,119 --> 00:23:25,159
Speaker 1: back to DC. It's actually very, very cold here, and

454
00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:28,200
Speaker 1: nobody told me this is You've been a DC person

455
00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:30,640
Speaker 1: for a long long time. Have you remember if February

456
00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:31,160
Speaker 1: this cold?

457
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:35,240
Speaker 10: No, it's horrific, and I'm sorry you're here.

458
00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:39,320
Speaker 1: I will go back to California, Okay, Brett turning gray serious.

459
00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:42,119
Speaker 1: Less than an hour ago, the FBI released new tape

460
00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:45,520
Speaker 1: of Nancy Guthrie, and I've played it and talked about

461
00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:47,479
Speaker 1: it so that people go and see it and study it.

462
00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:50,119
Speaker 1: I don't think the Bureau released his tape unless they

463
00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:52,240
Speaker 1: want people to do that. What's your assessment of that.

464
00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:56,840
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think that cash Ritell put it out the

465
00:23:56,880 --> 00:24:00,520
Speaker 10: Sheriff's department there and pem County put it out hoping

466
00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:05,359
Speaker 10: to find somebody. And I think it's the biggest move

467
00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:08,800
Speaker 10: in this case obviously, And I think it took some

468
00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:13,000
Speaker 10: time because it was dug into with the help of

469
00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:17,760
Speaker 10: companies that ring company, and the images and video were

470
00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:24,600
Speaker 10: inside deep inside and stored maybe not recorded on the

471
00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:29,439
Speaker 10: original line, but inside the device itself. So anyway they

472
00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:32,240
Speaker 10: managed to get it. I think they feel like this

473
00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:35,960
Speaker 10: is advancing the ball and the fact that there doesn't

474
00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:39,720
Speaker 10: appear to be any more communication. This is, you know,

475
00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:40,360
Speaker 10: all they have.

476
00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:45,240
Speaker 1: You've got great experts on your program, including the retired

477
00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:47,840
Speaker 1: detective it's just Diablos. I can't remember his name. But

478
00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:51,879
Speaker 1: do you do you think this adds anything to the investigators?

479
00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:54,040
Speaker 10: I sure do.

480
00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:54,400
Speaker 11: Yeah.

481
00:24:54,440 --> 00:25:00,920
Speaker 10: I think like these these elements become really a a

482
00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:05,240
Speaker 10: web that you throw out there that someone somewhere knows

483
00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:08,520
Speaker 10: something and whether it's the gate of this person, or

484
00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:11,840
Speaker 10: the size or the eyes, or the or the clothes

485
00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:18,880
Speaker 10: that someone remembers someone buying those gloves or the ski mask,

486
00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:22,600
Speaker 10: which is kind of rare in Arizona. You know, all

487
00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:27,160
Speaker 10: of that leads potentially to a tip, one would think

488
00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:32,200
Speaker 10: and listen. It's you could tell by a Savannah's message

489
00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:36,080
Speaker 10: yesterday that there is a sense of desperation here. And

490
00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:40,080
Speaker 10: while they believe that she's still alive, it doesn't seem

491
00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:44,320
Speaker 10: like there's any ongoing communication with hostage takers.

492
00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:48,160
Speaker 1: Do any of your experts say that this evidence rolls

493
00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:50,640
Speaker 1: out more than one person? Is it just oneon? There's

494
00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:52,919
Speaker 1: only one person at the door. I can't imagine. But

495
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,320
Speaker 1: again I don't know. They always don't know.

496
00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:57,480
Speaker 10: I mean, there could be somebody else as a part

497
00:25:57,480 --> 00:25:59,280
Speaker 10: of it. It could be a team. I don't think.

498
00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:01,800
Speaker 10: I think they They probably brought it to each family

499
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:05,720
Speaker 10: member to see if to see if they recognize some

500
00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:08,359
Speaker 10: elements of this person who is at the front door,

501
00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:14,800
Speaker 10: whether it's somebody that worked there, gardner something or some

502
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 10: you know, tangential to the family members. And I think

503
00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:22,479
Speaker 10: they haven't come up with anything. And these sets our

504
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:24,639
Speaker 10: sense on the ground from the people we're talking to.

505
00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:26,800
Speaker 1: All right, I want to move on to Iran now,

506
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:30,320
Speaker 1: because the President talked to Barack Revied today via phone

507
00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:35,040
Speaker 1: and drop some more. It's like watching poker on the

508
00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:39,359
Speaker 1: old ESPN channel when they would televise the World Series

509
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:43,359
Speaker 1: of Poker. Poker beats bowling for boring, but Iran poker

510
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:45,920
Speaker 1: is very interesting. So the President raised his side of

511
00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:48,919
Speaker 1: the stakes today, saying Debrock revived, we can reach a

512
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:52,120
Speaker 1: perfect agreement with Iran. They won't to have nuclear weapons,

513
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:56,000
Speaker 1: they won't have missiles. Now, I noted that Brett. I

514
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,320
Speaker 1: think that's the first time that's been reported as part

515
00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:01,720
Speaker 1: of our negotiating position in my as the President said

516
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:02,240
Speaker 1: that before.

517
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:06,840
Speaker 10: No, I don't think he said that, And I know

518
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:09,359
Speaker 10: that the Iranians said kind of drawn a line in

519
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 10: the sand on both of those elements about nuclear and

520
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:16,439
Speaker 10: Richmond and having missiles to defend the country. I mean,

521
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:18,320
Speaker 10: in fact, that foreign minister said that to me the

522
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:21,200
Speaker 10: last time I had him on the show, and he's

523
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,480
Speaker 10: pretty adamant about it. So those two things do advance

524
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,560
Speaker 10: the ball and maybe kind of lay a new red line.

525
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:30,560
Speaker 10: And the other thing that was interesting is that he

526
00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:34,960
Speaker 10: says today he's considering moving another aircraft carrier battlegroup into

527
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:39,359
Speaker 10: the Middle East and in the hopes that iron does negotiate,

528
00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:41,200
Speaker 10: but being ready if they don't.

529
00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:44,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, Admiral Montgomery told me on the program, actually right

530
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:47,000
Speaker 1: after the Crown Prince was on that Kerry group can

531
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 1: stay sharp for three months. The Lincoln can loiter there

532
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:52,159
Speaker 1: for three months, and then the edge comes up and

533
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 1: you got to replace it. So I think they got

534
00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 1: to get ready to get the hw Bush sent there

535
00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:00,520
Speaker 1: in any event that might arrive on station early. What

536
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:03,720
Speaker 1: your gut feeling. You covered the Pentagon before you took

537
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:06,280
Speaker 1: over the anchor desk over at Special Report. What's your

538
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:07,119
Speaker 1: gut tell you about this?

539
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:12,440
Speaker 10: My gut tells me that it's been negotiations not going anywhere,

540
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:14,120
Speaker 10: and that there's going to be some kind of action.

541
00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:17,960
Speaker 10: I don't know what that action is, the extent of it.

542
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:22,919
Speaker 10: I don't know the targeting or the purpose. I do

543
00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:27,960
Speaker 10: know that this president is not one that throws something

544
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:31,840
Speaker 10: out there and then doesn't act on it or fulfill it.

545
00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:35,600
Speaker 10: And I think if the negotiations are stalled, or there's

546
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:40,000
Speaker 10: pushback or it's not going anywhere, I don't think that

547
00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:42,160
Speaker 10: he's going to leave that too long.

548
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:43,040
Speaker 3: Now.

549
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:46,680
Speaker 1: The Prince said to me, as a president, Trump promised,

550
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:50,440
Speaker 1: and that's edgier than he's been before, because I think

551
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,120
Speaker 1: they're getting a little bit worried that the President's promised

552
00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:56,120
Speaker 1: didn't keep. Now you read Prince Ray thought.

553
00:28:55,920 --> 00:29:00,840
Speaker 10: Paul saying, yep, I do. And you know when you

554
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:03,960
Speaker 10: say help is on the way, and you've got thousands

555
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:06,480
Speaker 10: of people taking to the streets risking their lives, and

556
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:11,720
Speaker 10: you know, whatever the number is, there's some estimates north

557
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:15,960
Speaker 10: of twenty maybe even thirty thousand people had been killed. Yeah,

558
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:19,080
Speaker 10: I do think that that's the message is being sent YEA.

559
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:21,480
Speaker 1: And so it was very interesting to me because I

560
00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:24,560
Speaker 1: saw your interview with him, and it was he wasn't

561
00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:27,040
Speaker 1: demanding anything of the president, but it was prior to

562
00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 1: the massacre. So this was interesting to me. Finally, I

563
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:32,320
Speaker 1: want to turn to the announcement by Susan Collins today

564
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:36,200
Speaker 1: that she is running again. Has Senator Colin done any

565
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:37,600
Speaker 1: common ground segments with you?

566
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:40,440
Speaker 12: She has not.

567
00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:46,040
Speaker 10: Actually, surprisingly, she's at the center of a lot of negotiations.

568
00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 10: Obviously when it comes to bipartisan negotiations. I wouldn't be

569
00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:55,959
Speaker 10: surprised if she does a couple before November. But tonight

570
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 10: we have Nikki Haley on, former UN ambassador, former South

571
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:02,800
Speaker 10: Carolina governor just endorse Susan Collins, and I'm sure we'll

572
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:06,160
Speaker 10: be out campaigning and in Maine, that kind of figure

573
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:07,920
Speaker 10: probably helps Susan Collins.

574
00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:11,320
Speaker 1: Yes, and I think, yeah, she won by ten points

575
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:13,360
Speaker 1: going away, and I spend every summer up there. She's

576
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:16,640
Speaker 1: Saint Susan Collins up there, not just Senator Susan Collins.

577
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:18,920
Speaker 1: So they can throw as much money as they wanted her.

578
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:23,080
Speaker 1: I don't think they'd dinner. But if you're Susan Collins Brett,

579
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:25,800
Speaker 1: or you're John Houston or you're John Corny and he

580
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,960
Speaker 1: wins the primary, do you dread or do you hope

581
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:31,560
Speaker 1: for a Supreme Court retirement in the summer?

582
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 10: Uh? Huh, you know, I think listen, I think it

583
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:40,120
Speaker 10: goes to the hope side. It really motivates all of

584
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:43,600
Speaker 10: the Republicans, and we saw that numerous times in several elections.

585
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:50,200
Speaker 10: So you know, you can hold your own personal beliefs

586
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:53,120
Speaker 10: and what you think about the ideology, but as far

587
00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:57,640
Speaker 10: as firing up a Republican base, it would do that.

588
00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:01,959
Speaker 10: It would also obviously fire up the Democratic well change

589
00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 10: and the election would change and it would would be

590
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:09,080
Speaker 10: dominated with a lot more discussion about those issues.

591
00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 1: I was talking with David Drucker about this last hour

592
00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 1: the Democrats are already charged out, so I don't know

593
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 1: that it goes it's anything other than a plus for

594
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 1: the Republicans. And if the Senate is lost those President

595
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:26,400
Speaker 1: Trump's got to know we won't get another judge confirmed

596
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 1: for two years minimum. If the Senate's lost, truck shum

597
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 1: or not moving one judge through. You agree with that assessment.

598
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:39,720
Speaker 10: Sure, yeah, he'll pull the Mitch McConnell game plan and

599
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 10: with Merrick Garland and I agree with you. I think

600
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 10: it would be very difficult to move anything forward. You know,

601
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 10: split government, it becomes a different deal and suddenly everything's

602
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 10: in negotiation. And sometimes we as a country have seen

603
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 10: that work pretty well in the Bill Clinton years and elsewhere.

604
00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:00,880
Speaker 1: So last question, if you want to really gin up

605
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:03,880
Speaker 1: the Republican base by having the Democrats melt down, I

606
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:07,120
Speaker 1: think you nominate Judge Eileen Cannon for a vacancy on

607
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:08,440
Speaker 1: the bench. What do you think.

608
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:14,360
Speaker 10: Heads would explode? Ed would literally explode?

609
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:17,480
Speaker 1: That will be attracted to the president, don't you think

610
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 1: I would?

611
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 10: It would be definitely attracted to the president. I'm not

612
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:25,240
Speaker 10: sure there's other candidates you talked about before would be

613
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:26,080
Speaker 10: in to that footfall.

614
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,320
Speaker 1: Well, she's a fine judgment. She ruled correctly on Jack

615
00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:30,080
Speaker 1: Smith from my point of view, but it would be

616
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 1: sparklers in the summer. Brett Baar will be watching tonight

617
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 1: for Ambassador Haley. Give her my regard. That's a great

618
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 1: thing if she does go up there with Sudent Collins.

619
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 1: She's very popular in New England. Thank you. Brett. Watch

620
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:45,920
Speaker 1: special report tonight at six pm. Let me joining Brett

621
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 1: tomorrow night in this I've been tricked to come back here.

622
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:54,120
Speaker 1: It's just way too cold. Welcome back America. I'm Hugh Hewett.

623
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:58,280
Speaker 1: I'm joined by Alex Gray, CEO of American Global Strategies,

624
00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:01,120
Speaker 1: the firm that he founded Alat with former National Security

625
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:04,080
Speaker 1: advisor and bachelor of Robert O'Brien. Alex Gray was the

626
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 1: Chief of Staff for the National Security Council in the

627
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 1: first Donald Trump term and so of course very familiar

628
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:15,400
Speaker 1: with the Iran file. Alex, welcome today. The President up

629
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 1: the stakes in Iran poker. Now watching pokers usually, you

630
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 1: said to Brett bhar more boring than bowling, but this

631
00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 1: is very interesting. President told Barack Revide quote, we can

632
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:29,360
Speaker 1: reach a perfect agreement with Iran. They won't have nuclear weapons.

633
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 1: They won't have missiles. Brett Behar hadn't heard that before

634
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:36,600
Speaker 1: from the president, had you?

635
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:40,840
Speaker 13: No, I hadn't, And hopefully the President knows something that

636
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 13: we don't.

637
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:42,520
Speaker 2: Presumably he does.

638
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:48,000
Speaker 13: All I've seen is the Iranians have consistently said very

639
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:51,800
Speaker 13: clearly on the record that they are not entertaining anything

640
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:55,120
Speaker 13: on the missile program. They're not entertaining anything on additional

641
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 13: to nuclearization, and they're not entertaining anything on proxies. Which

642
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:01,960
Speaker 13: I actually think is probably the most significant aspect of

643
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:05,280
Speaker 13: this is Hesbalah and the hu Thies and Hamas and

644
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:08,759
Speaker 13: the other regional terror actors that they sponsor. So, Hugh,

645
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:11,960
Speaker 13: I think, you know, presumably the President has a lot

646
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 13: of insight that we're certainly.

647
00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:13,839
Speaker 4: Not going to have.

648
00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:16,680
Speaker 13: But I would take the Iranians to some extent at

649
00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:20,280
Speaker 13: their word. This is how they this how they negotiate,

650
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:23,520
Speaker 13: They buy time, they drag this out, they try and

651
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:26,440
Speaker 13: wear you down. They make promises they have no intention

652
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,680
Speaker 13: of keeping. So I would be very skeptical that there's

653
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 13: anything that they're willing or able to offer that would

654
00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:34,240
Speaker 13: be compelling to the US and to our allies.

655
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:38,959
Speaker 1: Now. Alex Gray Montgomery was on the program yesterday. He's

656
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 1: a lot of carriers strike group. Before we were Admiral Montgomery,

657
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 1: and he put the window for the Lincoln at three months.

658
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 1: That it was good to get on station, good to

659
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:50,880
Speaker 1: get two weeks getting ready for anything that would follow,

660
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 1: but that now the Lincoln is ready, they can stay

661
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:55,560
Speaker 1: three months, and then they begin to get a little,

662
00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:58,719
Speaker 1: the edge wears off, they get stale. He worries about that,

663
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 1: and you've got to replace the carrier. The president day

664
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 1: he was thinking about sending a second carre Does he

665
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:06,040
Speaker 1: need a second Kenner after sending two F twenty twos

666
00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:08,120
Speaker 1: and everything else that he's sent along with the Lincoln

667
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:11,720
Speaker 1: Strike Force and probably an Ohio class Toma Hawk missil

668
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:13,000
Speaker 1: Leyden submarine.

669
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:16,759
Speaker 13: I think it depends on what the President's going to

670
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:19,760
Speaker 13: do potentially with that power. I think is a deterrent symbol.

671
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:22,520
Speaker 13: He doesn't need more than one strike group, but to

672
00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:25,400
Speaker 13: have the options to do something on the higher end

673
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:29,239
Speaker 13: of a kinetic action. So think something approaching more of

674
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:33,760
Speaker 13: a decapitation strike or a sustained attempt to do something

675
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 13: I hate to say regime change, but something of that

676
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 13: order of magnitude of difficulty. You probably do need additional

677
00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:44,440
Speaker 13: strike groups. You know, my hope, Hugh, is that what

678
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:47,160
Speaker 13: we see is ultimately if we see anything at all,

679
00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:51,440
Speaker 13: My hope is that it's a tailored, targeted action that

680
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:55,200
Speaker 13: degrades Iron's ability to do the type of malign activity

681
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:58,320
Speaker 13: in the region. I think the President has been consistent

682
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:00,719
Speaker 13: for a long time that, you know, he's not interested

683
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 13: in regime change. He's not interested in going down that

684
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:08,240
Speaker 13: route absence some significant change in the facts on the ground.

685
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:12,120
Speaker 13: I think where he needs to maintain his credibility after

686
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:16,480
Speaker 13: the comments that he made regarding the President regarding Iron's

687
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:20,200
Speaker 13: activity towards the protesters, I think that necessitates some sort

688
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:22,560
Speaker 13: of activity, but I think that can be managed and

689
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:28,200
Speaker 13: relatively scaled to some other areas of concern, think missile program,

690
00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:31,799
Speaker 13: think proxies. I don't think that necessarily requires anything more

691
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:33,799
Speaker 13: than the assets he's already prepositioned.

692
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 1: Help is on the way. Is pretty definitive, Alex. I'm

693
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 1: going to argue in a column for The Washington Examiner

694
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:42,920
Speaker 1: tomorrow that you go from the column of Harry Truman

695
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:46,319
Speaker 1: and Ronald Reagan to the column of Barack Obama and

696
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:52,240
Speaker 1: Joe Biden. If you don't act. By that, I mean strike,

697
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:56,000
Speaker 1: and maybe not at the Serbia level where you want

698
00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:58,480
Speaker 1: to get Melosovich out or the Libyan level where you

699
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:01,360
Speaker 1: want to get Kadafi out. You don't lead from behind

700
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 1: like Obama. You can't let Israel lead here, or you're

701
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:07,680
Speaker 1: ending up in the Barack Obama pile. Do you see

702
00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:08,359
Speaker 1: it the way I do?

703
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:13,560
Speaker 13: I do, Hugh, And I think the President chose to

704
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:15,920
Speaker 13: make those comments, and I think they were from very

705
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:19,359
Speaker 13: good intentions. And the President, as I've always said, more

706
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:22,600
Speaker 13: than I think people who haven't been around him appreciate,

707
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:26,160
Speaker 13: the President has a tremendous heart for people who are

708
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:28,720
Speaker 13: suffering in war zones and for people who are suffering

709
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:32,719
Speaker 13: from oppression. You know, he doesn't. You wouldn't think that necessarily,

710
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:36,520
Speaker 13: but he does, and his actions over two presidencies have

711
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:38,759
Speaker 13: shown that he does. And so I think he said

712
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 13: that because he was genuinely compassionate towards the people of

713
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:46,319
Speaker 13: Iran who were suffering from this horrible regime. Now the

714
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:48,960
Speaker 13: President is in a difficult position because I think his

715
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:52,760
Speaker 13: inclination is we don't want to overextend in a region

716
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:55,960
Speaker 13: that I would argue is not core to our security.

717
00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:56,440
Speaker 2: Interests.

718
00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 13: I think the President's national security strategy agrees with that,

719
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 13: and I think the President also is very judicious about

720
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:05,279
Speaker 13: the use of force. He wants it to be surgical,

721
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:07,880
Speaker 13: he wants it to be targeted and tailored and of

722
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 13: short duration with clear objectives. And so I think he's

723
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:13,719
Speaker 13: got to balance those comments that came from a very

724
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:17,759
Speaker 13: good place with his very strategic and thoughtful sense of

725
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:21,280
Speaker 13: America's ins and means. And so what I'm my prediction

726
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:25,320
Speaker 13: he was, I said, targeted strikes that will go after

727
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:30,920
Speaker 13: elements of Iran's apparatus of oppression, elements of Iran's maligned

728
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 13: regional activity. But I don't think he's going to undertake

729
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:39,240
Speaker 13: something more more comprehensive than that that targets the regime itself.

730
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 1: The apparatus of oppression. I'm with you, got to get

731
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:44,440
Speaker 1: the missiles because they're actually a threat to everyone in

732
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:47,239
Speaker 1: the region and we can't let them continue to do that.

733
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:49,640
Speaker 1: I want to read you Senator Graham's statement this afternoon,

734
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:52,880
Speaker 1: Alex greg to the brave people of Iran, President Trump

735
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:55,680
Speaker 1: has always heard your cries and demands for justice. The

736
00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 1: regime has proven yet again it's incapable of real change

737
00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:01,560
Speaker 1: if this regime continues on the course they are on.

738
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 1: And I believe President Trump's statement that help is on

739
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 1: the way is becoming more real by the day that

740
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:11,880
Speaker 1: Senator Graham laying it on heavy, isn't it, alex.

741
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:15,319
Speaker 13: Oh, look at this, Senator of Graham. I think in

742
00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:19,080
Speaker 13: this instance is right that the president. I do think

743
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:20,360
Speaker 13: help is going to be on the way, and the

744
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:23,840
Speaker 13: standpoint of the president is not going to be Barack Obama.

745
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:25,080
Speaker 1: I mean, we both have.

746
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:27,319
Speaker 13: Spent time around the president here. We know that the

747
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:31,400
Speaker 13: President does not There's one way to appeal to President

748
00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:34,800
Speaker 13: Trump that I think is very consistent, which is, mister President,

749
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:37,440
Speaker 13: this sounds an awful lot like Barack Obama. And that

750
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 13: is a very very in Donald Trump's book, and I

751
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:43,919
Speaker 13: hope in most Americans who think the way he does

752
00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:46,880
Speaker 13: in their book as well. That is a very nasty

753
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 13: thing to say to someone. And the President's not going

754
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:52,480
Speaker 13: to allow himself to be compared to Barack Obama and

755
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:55,759
Speaker 13: his red line. And so I think the Senator is right.

756
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 13: The President is going to do something, in my view,

757
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:00,319
Speaker 13: and I think he's going to do it the not

758
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:03,800
Speaker 13: too distant future. And again I think it'll be tailored, targeted,

759
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:06,200
Speaker 13: and surgical with a defined in goal.

760
00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:07,359
Speaker 4: But we have to.

761
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:08,360
Speaker 2: Preserve our credibility.

762
00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:10,680
Speaker 13: There's no question here, and that as residents far beyond

763
00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:11,279
Speaker 13: the Middle East.

764
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 1: You know, if anyone said about Barack Obama, Jim, he said,

765
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 1: that's a nasty way to put it there, And that's

766
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:19,279
Speaker 1: a nasty way he really he hates that doesn't And

767
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:22,399
Speaker 1: this is the most Barack Obama danger he's been in.

768
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:27,320
Speaker 1: This is an exact replica of the Syria red line

769
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:30,160
Speaker 1: if he doesn't act, and I think that's why it's

770
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:33,840
Speaker 1: going to act. Last word to you, Alex, I agree you.

771
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:36,680
Speaker 13: I think the President chose to do something that I

772
00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:39,759
Speaker 13: think came from very good, very good position, and now

773
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:42,600
Speaker 13: we have to make sure that the consequences of that

774
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:46,920
Speaker 13: statement are not going to be strategically detrimental to us elsewhere.

775
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:50,360
Speaker 13: And I'm thinking Taiwan, I'm thinking Eastern Europe, I'm thinking

776
00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 13: in the Western hemisphere. We have to have the credibility

777
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:57,600
Speaker 13: that Joe Biden squandered and Barack Obama squandered. Donald Trump

778
00:40:57,640 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 13: has been the most effective deterrence president and since the

779
00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:03,799
Speaker 13: Reagan era, and that's why the position we're in now

780
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:06,319
Speaker 13: is one where we have to maintain that credibility for

781
00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 13: a global posture.

782
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 1: Great Alex Gray from American Global Strategies, thank you for

783
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:16,080
Speaker 1: joining me. Alex former cheapest staff at the National Security Council.

784
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:20,560
Speaker 1: If he knows Trump white Houses, Rich Lowry is my guest.

785
00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:23,400
Speaker 1: He is the editor in chief of National Review. He

786
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:27,279
Speaker 1: is also the weekly host of The McCarthy Report, where

787
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:30,319
Speaker 1: he Rich Lowry interviews Andrew McCarthy about matters of the

788
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:34,400
Speaker 1: law and national security. Rich I love the McCarthy Report.

789
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:37,640
Speaker 1: I listen every week. And it's occurred to me though

790
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:41,319
Speaker 1: that you being a Yankees fan and Andy being a

791
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:45,280
Speaker 1: Mets fan, you and you're both baseball guys. You engage

792
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:48,440
Speaker 1: in a little baseball chit chat. I'm eve been doing

793
00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:49,480
Speaker 1: it for years, right.

794
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:54,400
Speaker 14: Yeah, absolutely, And it just occurred to me, whether you

795
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:56,719
Speaker 14: can see over my shoulder, but that's your former Indian guy,

796
00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:57,799
Speaker 14: Chris Chamlis.

797
00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:02,279
Speaker 1: I know I hate in the program is that you've

798
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:04,640
Speaker 1: got Chris Chamblins in the background beaming down. Where's here?

799
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:09,080
Speaker 1: Greg Nettles porn? You know? But did it ever occur

800
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:12,880
Speaker 1: to you, Rich Lowry, that you and Andy McCarthy have

801
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:16,800
Speaker 1: New York City baseball privilege, of which you're even unaware

802
00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:19,279
Speaker 1: that the rest of the country that they tune in

803
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:22,160
Speaker 1: to listen to Andrew McCarthy and Rich Lowry and there,

804
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:26,160
Speaker 1: it's completely you're unaware of it. Totally.

805
00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:28,480
Speaker 14: The rest of the baseball world is just flyover country

806
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:29,960
Speaker 14: for us. You it's it's pathetic.

807
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:33,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you're the game. You and the Dodgers, which

808
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:37,000
Speaker 1: is really a New York team. You three are ruining

809
00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:37,600
Speaker 1: the game.

810
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:42,279
Speaker 12: At natural review, it's overwhelmingly the Yankees are Mets that

811
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:43,399
Speaker 12: That's That's what it is.

812
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 2: It's we're so parochial.

813
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:47,040
Speaker 1: Just I just wanted to check that for you. The

814
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:49,279
Speaker 1: next time you get into talking with Andy. That just

815
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:52,120
Speaker 1: that you're aware of your New York City baseball.

816
00:42:51,719 --> 00:42:55,239
Speaker 12: Privilege and some guardian chatter. We'll work on that as

817
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:56,440
Speaker 12: a spring comes here.

818
00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:59,120
Speaker 1: Small market chatter is the best way to approach it.

819
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:02,960
Speaker 1: Small market chatter. Rich the President today said, and I

820
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:04,960
Speaker 1: want to give an exact quote here, I may not

821
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:07,640
Speaker 1: be able to find it in time. Buddy, Yep, there

822
00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:13,480
Speaker 1: I found it. We can reach a perfect agreement with Eron.

823
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:18,200
Speaker 1: They won't have nuclear weapons, they won't have missiles. I've

824
00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:21,600
Speaker 1: already confirmed with Brett Behar and Alex Gray. The President

825
00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:23,839
Speaker 1: has not said missiles before. Is that new to your

826
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:26,960
Speaker 1: ears as well?

827
00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:30,400
Speaker 14: I think their original demands right, they encompassed missiles.

828
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:31,799
Speaker 12: And then we had Trump.

829
00:43:31,680 --> 00:43:33,680
Speaker 14: Seeming to back off a little bit on the over

830
00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:36,080
Speaker 14: the weekend and say he'd be fine just talking about nukes,

831
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:38,240
Speaker 14: which of the Iranians just want to talk talk about.

832
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:41,279
Speaker 14: But this seems to be we're back to missiles. I'm

833
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:43,560
Speaker 14: very skeptical that we can get a deal with them

834
00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:44,320
Speaker 14: that's worth having.

835
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:47,000
Speaker 12: If I were them, I'd be doing everything.

836
00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:49,880
Speaker 14: I could to catch some sort of new version of

837
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:53,000
Speaker 14: the jc CPOA and play for time and hope this

838
00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:56,480
Speaker 14: guy's out of office as soon as as soon as possible.

839
00:43:56,920 --> 00:44:00,560
Speaker 14: But you know, it's looking very much like a Duro's

840
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:01,280
Speaker 14: type situation.

841
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:03,600
Speaker 12: I mean's basically saying everyone and to everyone, you know.

842
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:05,879
Speaker 14: You can do it the easy way or the hard way,

843
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:07,640
Speaker 14: and we're sending more and more forces there. He's talking

844
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:11,160
Speaker 14: about a second carrier group. So if are the Malls,

845
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:13,040
Speaker 14: I would not be sleeping very easily at night. Even

846
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 14: if they I'm not sure they sleep easily at night regardless.

847
00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:19,759
Speaker 1: Now, I asked Admiral Montgomery yesterday, and I asked the

848
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:23,320
Speaker 1: Crown Prince Paul Ave and I asked Israeli security analyst.

849
00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:26,360
Speaker 1: I'm going to ask you what is America's capacity for casualties.

850
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:28,000
Speaker 1: I don't say that lightly. I've got a sun in

851
00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:29,800
Speaker 1: lawn and active duty in the navy. Show I'm a

852
00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:33,400
Speaker 1: little bit worried about this stuff, but I'm not indifferent

853
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:35,840
Speaker 1: to the risk our service members run. But does America

854
00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:37,960
Speaker 1: have the risk for any casualties at all?

855
00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:42,120
Speaker 14: I'm not sure they have much in this kind of operation,

856
00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:45,840
Speaker 14: and I'm not sure the President is so. A hallmark

857
00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:48,279
Speaker 14: of his use of force to this point has been

858
00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:54,000
Speaker 14: highly affected, highly effective, highly circumscribed, and almost no risk

859
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:55,280
Speaker 14: of American cavalists.

860
00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:58,200
Speaker 12: I think anything we'd see here eventually it'd be again.

861
00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:03,080
Speaker 14: Kind of standoff forces, stealth strikes, cruise missile strikes, and look,

862
00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:05,280
Speaker 14: we can do a lot of damage to their missile

863
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:08,239
Speaker 14: capacity and whatever it's lefts of their nuclear capacity just

864
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:11,719
Speaker 14: doing that. But I don't think we had the capacity

865
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:15,560
Speaker 14: from the distance to affect the survival of the regime.

866
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:18,400
Speaker 14: You know, it's a nice cliche, Hugh. We'd like to

867
00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 14: tell us ourselves. Violence doesn't solve anything. It does you

868
00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:23,680
Speaker 14: know when you have an opposition that has no weapons

869
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:26,359
Speaker 14: and you have all the weapons, have a leadership willing

870
00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:28,239
Speaker 14: to tell people to shoot, and you have people who

871
00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:29,440
Speaker 14: will pull the triggers for you.

872
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:30,479
Speaker 1: It saw what.

873
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:33,560
Speaker 14: We've seen the last several weeks, right, thirty five thousand

874
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:36,560
Speaker 14: more or so ded and that just makes it hard

875
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:38,040
Speaker 14: for people to be out in the streets.

876
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:41,239
Speaker 1: It is my opinion that is in our interest, in

877
00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:44,280
Speaker 1: our interest of our allies, including Israel, UAE and Cutter

878
00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:47,480
Speaker 1: to destroy the missiles, and it is in the interest

879
00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:50,680
Speaker 1: of the Iranian regime to hit the IRGC headquarters and

880
00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:53,520
Speaker 1: the instruments of repression. That's the way it's been, the

881
00:45:53,520 --> 00:45:56,520
Speaker 1: machinery of repression, if that were the target list, as

882
00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:58,120
Speaker 1: well as clean up work on the NU because if

883
00:45:58,120 --> 00:45:59,560
Speaker 1: there are is there any to be done, I don't

884
00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:01,239
Speaker 1: know that there is. I do think it was obliterated.

885
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:03,160
Speaker 1: Would you be in favor of that?

886
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:09,279
Speaker 14: Yeah, in the right circumstances, And you know, I think

887
00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:13,200
Speaker 14: Iran you can stretch and say it's authorized by the

888
00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:18,440
Speaker 14: post September eleventh authorizations. I'd love to see a full frank,

889
00:46:18,480 --> 00:46:22,279
Speaker 14: explicit authorization for such an operation, but that's that's not

890
00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:22,719
Speaker 14: the way we.

891
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:26,360
Speaker 1: Do anything now, and it's unnecessary anyway. Article two is

892
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:30,880
Speaker 1: up to the challenge of a presidential series of strikes,

893
00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:33,440
Speaker 1: as it was in Serbia, as it was in Libya.

894
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:37,359
Speaker 1: There are plenty of precedents for it. Democrats didn't complain then. Now, Rich,

895
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:39,640
Speaker 1: I want to turn the wheel completely to a different

896
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:42,160
Speaker 1: subject that came up earlier. Today, Susan Collins announced she

897
00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:44,799
Speaker 1: is running for reelection. That's very good news for the Republicans.

898
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:46,640
Speaker 1: She has sat Susan in Maine, she's been a very

899
00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:49,560
Speaker 1: effective chair of the Appropriations Committee. Never as it looks

900
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:52,720
Speaker 1: like a very difficult cycle for Republicans. So my question

901
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:57,160
Speaker 1: is would the Republican Party be happy or sad if

902
00:46:57,160 --> 00:47:00,320
Speaker 1: a Supreme Court justice retired in.

903
00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:06,640
Speaker 14: I'm not sure how much would affect the mid terms.

904
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:09,040
Speaker 14: As you've pointed out, it does tend to gin up

905
00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:14,120
Speaker 14: both sides. It would reemphasize the stakes for our side.

906
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:17,040
Speaker 12: But you know, I am such admirer of the justices

907
00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:17,680
Speaker 12: we have now.

908
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:20,479
Speaker 14: But I hope they're at least thinking about it, because

909
00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:23,799
Speaker 14: we don't want to God forbid, Ruth Bader Ginsburg ourselves.

910
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:28,160
Speaker 14: We're out of an attachment to a really you know,

911
00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:32,000
Speaker 14: husually important justice. We end up in a situation where

912
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:35,040
Speaker 14: you've lost the Senate, you lose the presidency in twenty eight,

913
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:37,160
Speaker 14: and then you're losing a Supreme Court seet.

914
00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:40,080
Speaker 1: You see. I I would, for me, if I were

915
00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:42,799
Speaker 1: in that position, would depend entirely upon what only I

916
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:45,200
Speaker 1: and my spouse knew, which is my capacity for work

917
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:47,600
Speaker 1: and my health and whether or not I want to

918
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:51,800
Speaker 1: go six years, because I do believe rich it's highly likely,

919
00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:56,080
Speaker 1: at least it's within the realm of almost majority likelihood

920
00:47:56,320 --> 00:47:59,279
Speaker 1: that if the Democrats get the Senate, if they get

921
00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:02,200
Speaker 1: the sent you won't see a Republican nominee get through

922
00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:04,359
Speaker 1: that Senate so long as it's in the Democrat's hands.

923
00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:08,440
Speaker 14: You agree with me, right, yeah, correct, It's gonna be

924
00:48:08,440 --> 00:48:10,560
Speaker 14: like something we've never seen if they take both the

925
00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:13,920
Speaker 14: House and the Senate, instant subpoenas on all these things

926
00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:17,640
Speaker 14: they've been complaining about, scandals and pseudos scandals, certainly a

927
00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:22,440
Speaker 14: third impeachment, and I would think a total lockdown on confirmations.

928
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:26,840
Speaker 1: At district court, Appellate court, and the Spring Court. And

929
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:29,560
Speaker 1: there is no list this time, and so Donald Trump

930
00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:34,279
Speaker 1: would nominate there's nobody that we can cabinet too. I

931
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:36,880
Speaker 1: personally think he will give a long consideration to Judge

932
00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:38,799
Speaker 1: Eileen Cannon. What do you think of that?

933
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:43,399
Speaker 12: Well, they clearly like her. He thinks he had a

934
00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:44,719
Speaker 12: good experience.

935
00:48:44,239 --> 00:48:47,360
Speaker 14: With her with the case down there regarding the documents.

936
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:50,879
Speaker 14: They've gone out of their way to go to where

937
00:48:50,880 --> 00:48:54,920
Speaker 14: she is in this election case they might be pursuing.

938
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:57,400
Speaker 14: So they clearly like her a lot. I don't know

939
00:48:57,480 --> 00:49:01,240
Speaker 14: much about her jurwis groups except for for handling those cases.

940
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:05,200
Speaker 1: She was so correct on Jack Smith's appointment that that's

941
00:49:05,320 --> 00:49:08,600
Speaker 1: enough for me. Although the confirmation process would reveal a lot,

942
00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:12,279
Speaker 1: it would, to quote Brett Baar, make heads explode if

943
00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:13,040
Speaker 1: that were to occur.

944
00:49:13,239 --> 00:49:18,600
Speaker 14: You agree with that, Yeah, anybody who he picks is

945
00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:20,160
Speaker 14: going to make has exploded.

946
00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:23,200
Speaker 12: That that one would to a maximum extent.

947
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:26,680
Speaker 1: Last question, Howard Lutnik is on the top of the

948
00:49:26,719 --> 00:49:30,040
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal tonight. He went to Epstein Island. Now,

949
00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:32,400
Speaker 1: this is the first day I've ever talked about Epstein

950
00:49:33,080 --> 00:49:36,480
Speaker 1: because I just think it's old. But I would love

951
00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:38,279
Speaker 1: to hear Andy. I'm not asking myself when I have

952
00:49:38,360 --> 00:49:41,960
Speaker 1: him on next Would anyone know that Jeffrey Epstein was

953
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:44,160
Speaker 1: a sex offender who didn't know him in two thousand

954
00:49:44,160 --> 00:49:44,560
Speaker 1: and eight.

955
00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:48,680
Speaker 12: Would anyone know that?

956
00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:49,480
Speaker 1: Say?

957
00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:50,200
Speaker 2: Repeat again?

958
00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:52,759
Speaker 1: Howard Lutnik went to his island in twenty twelve and

959
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:54,680
Speaker 1: he said, I was with my wife and my kids

960
00:49:55,080 --> 00:49:58,400
Speaker 1: and I don't know the man. Would you count that

961
00:49:58,520 --> 00:50:02,319
Speaker 1: against him? Up in confirmation? I just don't know that

962
00:50:02,360 --> 00:50:03,880
Speaker 1: I would know someone.

963
00:50:04,160 --> 00:50:06,400
Speaker 12: You really, if you really, if you really didn't know,

964
00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:07,000
Speaker 12: you're asking?

965
00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:12,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, do you that it is a legit issue for

966
00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:15,799
Speaker 1: Howard Luttning. He got asked this on the Hell today. Yeah.

967
00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:21,080
Speaker 14: I think he's compounded it by being apparently deceptive when

968
00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:25,120
Speaker 14: he was asked about it recently. So I think that's

969
00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:27,960
Speaker 14: that's the morek against him. But I think they're they're

970
00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:30,960
Speaker 14: emails right, or text exchanges with his wife saying we're

971
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:31,800
Speaker 14: bringing all the kids.

972
00:50:31,840 --> 00:50:33,280
Speaker 12: So clearly we've been going down.

973
00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:38,040
Speaker 14: There anticipate in disgusting parties or anything of that nature.

974
00:50:38,040 --> 00:50:38,920
Speaker 12: But it is embarrassing.

975
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:41,120
Speaker 14: We've seen it again and again people say, oh, you know,

976
00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:43,080
Speaker 14: I didn't, I didn't I cut off relations with him

977
00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:45,200
Speaker 14: in the six or whatever it is, and then then

978
00:50:45,239 --> 00:50:48,280
Speaker 14: you see, no, they actually were still dealing with them afterwards,

979
00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:50,719
Speaker 14: and then they're they're, oh, I'm so embarrassing, humilly.

980
00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:52,160
Speaker 12: By what I did, and I want to make it right.

981
00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:54,680
Speaker 14: But I think the biggest Epstein story today is apparently

982
00:50:55,280 --> 00:50:59,040
Speaker 14: Trump applauded back in two thousand and six. You know,

983
00:50:59,040 --> 00:51:02,400
Speaker 14: before a lot of these characters were dealing with Epstein.

984
00:51:02,520 --> 00:51:05,520
Speaker 14: He was saying, the police are right to go after him,

985
00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:07,760
Speaker 14: and he's a dirt ball, and he saw him with teenagers,

986
00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:11,160
Speaker 14: and he ran the opposite direction when he did, and

987
00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:12,320
Speaker 14: that Maxwell is evil.

988
00:51:12,840 --> 00:51:15,680
Speaker 1: Well, I think the president's in the clear on this

989
00:51:16,200 --> 00:51:18,440
Speaker 1: because they dug so long, with so many lawyers on

990
00:51:18,560 --> 00:51:21,120
Speaker 1: Jack Smith, Kith had access to everything. They would have

991
00:51:21,120 --> 00:51:23,440
Speaker 1: gotten him. But I just think it goes to judgment

992
00:51:23,520 --> 00:51:26,360
Speaker 1: with everyone who talked to him after his conviction. Do

993
00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:30,479
Speaker 1: people have an obligation to research him? In your view,

994
00:51:31,200 --> 00:51:33,040
Speaker 1: they should? They have don should Howard might make him

995
00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:35,280
Speaker 1: known in twenty twelve. This is an error in judgment.

996
00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:38,120
Speaker 12: I think.

997
00:51:38,239 --> 00:51:40,560
Speaker 14: So he's at registered sex of thunder, it'd be good

998
00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:41,200
Speaker 14: to find out.

999
00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:44,239
Speaker 12: But maybe you can make a case I somehow didn't mean.

1000
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:48,160
Speaker 1: All right, New York City baseball privileged rich Lowry all

1001
00:51:48,239 --> 00:51:50,520
Speaker 1: he's good to talk to you in a great McCarthy report.

1002
00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:52,279
Speaker 1: This week, I learned more on crypto than I've ever

1003
00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:54,840
Speaker 1: known before. Thank you, Rich. Stay tuned, America. I'll be

1004
00:51:54,880 --> 00:51:56,920
Speaker 1: right back on the qubits. Hi. It's you, Hewett. You've

1005
00:51:56,920 --> 00:51:59,440
Speaker 1: heard me talk a lot about Consumer Celluler, how you

1006
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:02,799
Speaker 1: can switch your carrier and save money without sacrifice. That's

1007
00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:07,000
Speaker 1: because Consumer Cellular uses the same towers as the major carrier.

1008
00:52:07,360 --> 00:52:10,120
Speaker 1: You'll save money every month on your bill without having

1009
00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:13,120
Speaker 1: to sacrifice the quality of coverage. Right now, you get

1010
00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:16,000
Speaker 1: your second month free plus. Folks that are fifty get

1011
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:18,560
Speaker 1: two lines of unlimited talk, text and data for sixty

1012
00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:21,399
Speaker 1: dollars a month. That's in addition to the second month

1013
00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:25,320
Speaker 1: totally free using promo code. Q and are you tired

1014
00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:27,560
Speaker 1: of your wireless company telling you have to talk to

1015
00:52:27,719 --> 00:52:32,000
Speaker 1: an AI robot, download an app, or Horizon pay ten

1016
00:52:32,080 --> 00:52:34,879
Speaker 1: dollars to talk to someone when paying your bill? Yeah?

1017
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:38,680
Speaker 1: No thanks. Consumer Cellular ranks number one for network coverage

1018
00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:43,360
Speaker 1: and customer satisfaction according to ACSI, whether you're switching online

1019
00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:45,120
Speaker 1: or over the phone, you'll be working with an actual

1020
00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:48,240
Speaker 1: human being based right here in the US. So switch

1021
00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:51,280
Speaker 1: and get your second month free plus two unlimited lines

1022
00:52:51,280 --> 00:52:54,400
Speaker 1: of sixty dollars. If you're over fifty, go to consumer

1023
00:52:54,440 --> 00:52:58,399
Speaker 1: slar dot com, slash HU promo HU or call one

1024
00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:01,520
Speaker 1: hundred eight or call one eight hundred four one one

1025
00:53:01,560 --> 00:53:04,959
Speaker 1: forty four fifty four one eight hundred four one one

1026
00:53:05,160 --> 00:53:07,880
Speaker 1: forty four fifty four. That's one eight hundred four to

1027
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:10,560
Speaker 1: one one forty four fifty four. Don't forget my code

1028
00:53:10,760 --> 00:53:16,200
Speaker 1: ish nuclear science. Hello, Welcome back America. I'm with James

1029
00:53:16,280 --> 00:53:21,120
Speaker 1: Lilac James lilyx dot substat dot com. Humor is extraordinaire. James,

1030
00:53:21,160 --> 00:53:22,799
Speaker 1: I want to get to the weather, because I always

1031
00:53:22,800 --> 00:53:24,400
Speaker 1: talk with you about the weather before I do that.

1032
00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:27,320
Speaker 1: Though I have been covering serious subs all Monday and

1033
00:53:27,360 --> 00:53:30,640
Speaker 1: Tuesday about whether or not we're going to attack Iran.

1034
00:53:31,280 --> 00:53:33,080
Speaker 1: I want your two cents on that. Do you think

1035
00:53:33,080 --> 00:53:36,960
Speaker 1: we're going to do it? You know?

1036
00:53:37,040 --> 00:53:39,760
Speaker 11: I thought that a long time ago, when it seems

1037
00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:41,560
Speaker 11: as if we were when we drawn back to Fist

1038
00:53:42,040 --> 00:53:43,759
Speaker 11: and that may have just been to see what lit

1039
00:53:43,840 --> 00:53:45,799
Speaker 11: up on their sides, so we knew what to hit, uh.

1040
00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:47,160
Speaker 11: And then it was odd that we got to move

1041
00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:49,279
Speaker 11: the Lincoln into position, and then it was we got

1042
00:53:49,320 --> 00:53:50,640
Speaker 11: to wait for this, and then it was ah, we're

1043
00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:52,319
Speaker 11: going to be talking to them, And then I read

1044
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:55,200
Speaker 11: things like every single plane that we have is now

1045
00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:56,320
Speaker 11: within striking distance.

1046
00:53:56,520 --> 00:53:59,040
Speaker 4: Apparently there's a strike package that is assembled.

1047
00:53:59,040 --> 00:54:01,759
Speaker 11: That is a remark, And whether it's designed to concentrate

1048
00:54:01,760 --> 00:54:04,680
Speaker 11: their mind, I don't know. I keep coming back to

1049
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:08,319
Speaker 11: that meme on the internet. Nothing ever happens where no

1050
00:54:08,400 --> 00:54:10,959
Speaker 11: matter how much it seems as if something is about

1051
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:13,640
Speaker 11: to happen, And finally there's long nightmare with Iron is

1052
00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:14,319
Speaker 11: about to end.

1053
00:54:14,840 --> 00:54:15,279
Speaker 4: I don't know.

1054
00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:20,040
Speaker 11: I have absolutely no idea. And then of course it's Cuba.

1055
00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:21,799
Speaker 11: We're gonna be talking about Cuba for a little bit here,

1056
00:54:21,840 --> 00:54:24,319
Speaker 11: and without that happens Nova Cuba is a diversion. Oh

1057
00:54:24,360 --> 00:54:26,759
Speaker 11: but it's all the diversion from the Epstein files. I

1058
00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:30,200
Speaker 11: haven't the faintest idea. I wouldn't be surprised. I would

1059
00:54:30,239 --> 00:54:33,040
Speaker 11: be dismayed to learn that the Iranian government continues in

1060
00:54:33,080 --> 00:54:35,520
Speaker 11: its present form for X number of years and continues

1061
00:54:35,560 --> 00:54:38,200
Speaker 11: to visit the trepidations on as popular.

1062
00:54:37,880 --> 00:54:40,839
Speaker 4: As that it does. But it's been a long time

1063
00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:43,360
Speaker 4: and it may be a long time more. We will see.

1064
00:54:43,800 --> 00:54:47,200
Speaker 1: Right yesterday, I talk with Crime Prince Paula Vie. I've

1065
00:54:47,239 --> 00:54:51,279
Speaker 1: talked with an Israeli national security analyzed to talk with

1066
00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:54,200
Speaker 1: an admiral. In fact, Admiral Montgomery said, be prepared to

1067
00:54:54,239 --> 00:54:56,239
Speaker 1: wait for three months. That's how long the linking can

1068
00:54:56,360 --> 00:55:00,839
Speaker 1: loiter without getting stale. I think America will for completely

1069
00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:03,480
Speaker 1: forget how to spell Iran in three months with our

1070
00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:04,440
Speaker 1: attention span.

1071
00:55:06,160 --> 00:55:06,440
Speaker 5: Right.

1072
00:55:06,600 --> 00:55:08,560
Speaker 11: But then again, I don't get the sense that this

1073
00:55:08,640 --> 00:55:11,200
Speaker 11: is being driven by some sort of great national desire

1074
00:55:11,200 --> 00:55:12,920
Speaker 11: to punish orrn or do something about it. I mean,

1075
00:55:12,920 --> 00:55:14,920
Speaker 11: we've already forgotten about the thirty eight thousand that were

1076
00:55:14,960 --> 00:55:16,839
Speaker 11: killed by the government, or out of many that were.

1077
00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:19,680
Speaker 11: The rights have died down where X is not a

1078
00:55:19,719 --> 00:55:22,239
Speaker 11: flame with all the videos of people being massacred in

1079
00:55:22,239 --> 00:55:25,759
Speaker 11: the streets, my attention is shifted in elsewhere when people

1080
00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:27,799
Speaker 11: are trying to figure out what the next current thing

1081
00:55:27,840 --> 00:55:30,319
Speaker 11: is supposed to be. The interesting thing is that the

1082
00:55:30,360 --> 00:55:32,279
Speaker 11: trials of Iran were not lighting up.

1083
00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:33,440
Speaker 4: To it the way that Gaza was.

1084
00:55:33,560 --> 00:55:36,200
Speaker 11: For some strange, odd reason, it seemed as if the

1085
00:55:36,239 --> 00:55:41,919
Speaker 11: people's spontaneous uprising against an Islamist socialist government didn't check

1086
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:45,040
Speaker 11: quite the right proper number of boxes. So it never

1087
00:55:45,160 --> 00:55:49,399
Speaker 11: became the next current thing. I almost expect that if

1088
00:55:49,440 --> 00:55:53,000
Speaker 11: out of nowhere in two months something does happen and

1089
00:55:53,040 --> 00:55:56,720
Speaker 11: it is significant, that there will be an immediate, spontaneous,

1090
00:55:57,040 --> 00:56:00,680
Speaker 11: completely organic, but of course utterly manufactured series of protests

1091
00:56:00,680 --> 00:56:02,640
Speaker 11: everywhere against the United States imperialism.

1092
00:56:03,480 --> 00:56:04,560
Speaker 4: You know we'll see it.

1093
00:56:05,120 --> 00:56:07,680
Speaker 11: I don't think the administration right now is reacting to

1094
00:56:07,719 --> 00:56:10,040
Speaker 11: what is happening. I think they're reacting to what they

1095
00:56:10,040 --> 00:56:12,680
Speaker 11: think ought to be done. Was anybody demanding that Maduro

1096
00:56:12,800 --> 00:56:16,040
Speaker 11: be snatched? Was anybody demanding that the Venezuela and peril

1097
00:56:16,080 --> 00:56:18,080
Speaker 11: will be done away with?

1098
00:56:18,239 --> 00:56:18,279
Speaker 10: No?

1099
00:56:18,920 --> 00:56:19,520
Speaker 4: But they were.

1100
00:56:19,360 --> 00:56:22,360
Speaker 11: Concentrated on that, and do something about it, is what

1101
00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:22,719
Speaker 11: they did.

1102
00:56:23,239 --> 00:56:25,880
Speaker 1: I just talked to Claire Lai, whose father Jimmy Li,

1103
00:56:26,040 --> 00:56:29,560
Speaker 1: was sentenced to twenty years in high security prison on

1104
00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:33,120
Speaker 1: Sunday night, because I just want to keep people reminded

1105
00:56:33,239 --> 00:56:35,319
Speaker 1: that Jimmy Lai is rotting away in a jail because

1106
00:56:35,320 --> 00:56:38,960
Speaker 1: of the Chinese Communist Party, and we should not be

1107
00:56:38,960 --> 00:56:42,160
Speaker 1: being nice, playing nice for them. Do you think in

1108
00:56:42,320 --> 00:56:47,839
Speaker 1: are you? Sharansky, solzan Needs, and Rukovsky. These were names

1109
00:56:47,840 --> 00:56:49,719
Speaker 1: that we knew in stories that we followed. I'm not

1110
00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:52,080
Speaker 1: sure the American press has much of an appetite for

1111
00:56:52,080 --> 00:56:52,680
Speaker 1: this anymore.

1112
00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:56,600
Speaker 11: No, in as much as what is the American press anyway?

1113
00:56:56,920 --> 00:56:59,719
Speaker 11: I mean, Soljia Needson was a hero. Soljia Needson had

1114
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:02,200
Speaker 11: behind him a big thick book that an awful.

1115
00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:03,960
Speaker 4: Lot of people read, or at least said they did.

1116
00:57:04,560 --> 00:57:07,200
Speaker 11: It was like the closing of American mind for anti communists.

1117
00:57:07,239 --> 00:57:09,600
Speaker 11: I guess I read it. I read the whole thing.

1118
00:57:09,680 --> 00:57:12,200
Speaker 11: I was impressed by the man. We followed his trials

1119
00:57:12,239 --> 00:57:13,080
Speaker 11: and tribulations.

1120
00:57:13,360 --> 00:57:14,280
Speaker 4: But there isn't that.

1121
00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:17,360
Speaker 11: Sort of you know, that he doesn't lie as completely

1122
00:57:17,800 --> 00:57:20,240
Speaker 11: unknown to most people around here what he did and

1123
00:57:20,280 --> 00:57:22,440
Speaker 11: what he faces. He's just no, they haven't made a

1124
00:57:22,440 --> 00:57:24,280
Speaker 11: cause to love of him at all. And you have

1125
00:57:24,360 --> 00:57:28,720
Speaker 11: to wonder why is it? Because you know, major publications

1126
00:57:28,800 --> 00:57:31,120
Speaker 11: making awful a lot of nice money getting a big

1127
00:57:31,160 --> 00:57:34,560
Speaker 11: thick advertising insert from China, is because people have been

1128
00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:38,480
Speaker 11: accustomed to sort of believing that China is still a good,

1129
00:57:38,600 --> 00:57:40,560
Speaker 11: decent player, that we can all get along with that

1130
00:57:41,560 --> 00:57:44,640
Speaker 11: If you are anti China in some way, you're playing

1131
00:57:44,680 --> 00:57:46,760
Speaker 11: into a magga desire to punish.

1132
00:57:46,400 --> 00:57:47,520
Speaker 4: With terrences and the rest of it.

1133
00:57:47,680 --> 00:57:49,640
Speaker 11: I don't know what it is, but there's no real

1134
00:57:49,800 --> 00:57:53,920
Speaker 11: interest or appetite in Chinese dissident politics.

1135
00:57:53,920 --> 00:57:54,400
Speaker 5: At this point.

1136
00:57:54,800 --> 00:57:56,960
Speaker 1: I'm going to keep pounding the table. There should be

1137
00:57:57,400 --> 00:58:00,600
Speaker 1: there should be. James closed by talking about the weather,

1138
00:58:01,080 --> 00:58:05,800
Speaker 1: because only to find, you know, the middle of February

1139
00:58:05,880 --> 00:58:08,560
Speaker 1: or the beginning half of February, and it's been cold

1140
00:58:08,840 --> 00:58:11,240
Speaker 1: since Christmas, I mean really cold, colder than they are

1141
00:58:11,360 --> 00:58:14,200
Speaker 1: used to. They call it the Arctic blast, and everything

1142
00:58:14,240 --> 00:58:16,640
Speaker 1: is president, include the Potomac that you know, they don't

1143
00:58:16,640 --> 00:58:20,160
Speaker 1: build houses down here like they do in Minnesota, where

1144
00:58:20,240 --> 00:58:22,480
Speaker 1: you're expected to get the north wind blows. I think

1145
00:58:22,480 --> 00:58:25,400
Speaker 1: that's a Bob Dylan song. What do you think about

1146
00:58:25,440 --> 00:58:27,880
Speaker 1: Beltway people complaining about the cold weather?

1147
00:58:29,920 --> 00:58:31,000
Speaker 4: They're welcome to do so.

1148
00:58:31,480 --> 00:58:33,120
Speaker 11: And when I lived there, I remember, of course, there

1149
00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:35,479
Speaker 11: were two or three snowflakes ever fell from the sky.

1150
00:58:35,520 --> 00:58:36,360
Speaker 4: Everybody ran to.

1151
00:58:36,400 --> 00:58:39,640
Speaker 11: The store to get to toilet, paper, bread and milk,

1152
00:58:39,680 --> 00:58:41,800
Speaker 11: as though you're going to suffer a bout of French

1153
00:58:41,880 --> 00:58:45,400
Speaker 11: toasts and dysentery. As I used to say, man, you know,

1154
00:58:45,400 --> 00:58:49,600
Speaker 11: everybody else would laugh at us. Nobody really cares about

1155
00:58:49,600 --> 00:58:52,400
Speaker 11: the depredations of that. I think that what we're worried

1156
00:58:52,400 --> 00:58:53,880
Speaker 11: about the most here are though?

1157
00:58:54,040 --> 00:58:54,240
Speaker 4: Is that?

1158
00:58:54,280 --> 00:58:56,600
Speaker 11: Whether is how many Washington Post staffers are going to

1159
00:58:56,600 --> 00:58:59,440
Speaker 11: be freezing to death on the streets of DC the

1160
00:58:59,440 --> 00:59:01,040
Speaker 11: weathers speaking like three.

1161
00:59:00,880 --> 00:59:02,440
Speaker 4: Hundred of them. Do you know what the death toll

1162
00:59:02,560 --> 00:59:03,439
Speaker 4: is up to at this moment?

1163
00:59:04,040 --> 00:59:06,360
Speaker 1: I do know. I lost two people in DC and

1164
00:59:06,480 --> 00:59:09,520
Speaker 1: eighteen people in New York because comrade mom Donnie did

1165
00:59:09,520 --> 00:59:12,160
Speaker 1: not want to affect the agency of rist people and

1166
00:59:12,280 --> 00:59:15,920
Speaker 1: forced them into shelters.

1167
00:59:14,880 --> 00:59:17,320
Speaker 11: Right, But I mean laid off Washington Post staffers for

1168
00:59:17,400 --> 00:59:19,400
Speaker 11: you to death, because I don't know stories of the

1169
00:59:20,520 --> 00:59:23,960
Speaker 11: entire laidoff Sports department with their fingerless mittens warming themselves

1170
00:59:24,040 --> 00:59:26,920
Speaker 11: over barrel flaming barrels somewhere down by Union Station.

1171
00:59:27,440 --> 00:59:28,920
Speaker 4: So yeah, I'm.

1172
00:59:28,760 --> 00:59:31,800
Speaker 11: Sad that it's cold for them, but they will forget

1173
00:59:31,800 --> 00:59:33,800
Speaker 11: it to come the torpor of the summer when the

1174
00:59:33,840 --> 00:59:37,120
Speaker 11: mallarial weather returns and they wish that a cool, brisk

1175
00:59:37,280 --> 00:59:37,959
Speaker 11: kiss of winter.

1176
00:59:38,400 --> 00:59:40,200
Speaker 1: That's what I was hoping you get to because we

1177
00:59:40,240 --> 00:59:43,520
Speaker 1: had a minute and a half left. Different regions own different stories.

1178
00:59:43,800 --> 00:59:49,800
Speaker 1: You own cold weather, and Washington d C owns terrible summers.

1179
00:59:49,880 --> 00:59:53,320
Speaker 1: They can't they can't cross dress in the weather. Colin

1180
00:59:53,440 --> 00:59:55,360
Speaker 1: you're not allowed to do that. You can't complain about

1181
00:59:55,400 --> 00:59:56,600
Speaker 1: the one if you live in the other.

1182
00:59:58,480 --> 01:00:01,760
Speaker 11: Well, you know, we have the human summers here as

1183
01:00:01,800 --> 01:00:03,680
Speaker 11: well that rivaled those of DC. We don't have the

1184
01:00:03,680 --> 01:00:05,880
Speaker 11: storms that come along at five o'clock and make everybody

1185
01:00:05,920 --> 01:00:08,440
Speaker 11: go inside for a happy hour, but that was my experience.

1186
01:00:08,920 --> 01:00:12,240
Speaker 11: We have every single possible extreme where that you can get.

1187
01:00:12,120 --> 01:00:13,240
Speaker 4: Here up in the climbs.

1188
01:00:13,560 --> 01:00:15,560
Speaker 11: And what I don't understand still to this day, is

1189
01:00:15,560 --> 01:00:21,200
Speaker 11: why people settled here went through one winter and then said, oh,

1190
01:00:21,280 --> 01:00:25,200
Speaker 11: let's stick around for another. I mean, why they wouldn't say,

1191
01:00:25,240 --> 01:00:26,960
Speaker 11: you know, I've got fewer toes than I did when

1192
01:00:26,960 --> 01:00:29,240
Speaker 11: I came here, let's just start ambulating south and maybe

1193
01:00:29,240 --> 01:00:31,680
Speaker 11: try out Iowa. But no, did anybody say, well, I

1194
01:00:31,720 --> 01:00:33,160
Speaker 11: was bad, but that's not going to happen again.

1195
01:00:33,240 --> 01:00:33,320
Speaker 4: No.

1196
01:00:33,520 --> 01:00:35,800
Speaker 11: They stayed and stayed and stayed and built a hardy

1197
01:00:35,920 --> 01:00:38,160
Speaker 11: character that we have in this state today.

1198
01:00:38,520 --> 01:00:42,040
Speaker 1: A hardy character. James Lyacs, Thank you, James Lylacs dot

1199
01:00:42,080 --> 01:00:46,400
Speaker 1: substat dot com. Go read laugh James Lyas dot substat

1200
01:00:46,440 --> 01:00:47,000
Speaker 1: dot com.