1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:02,160 Speaker 1: Hey, Mike, I don't know. 2 00:00:02,320 --> 00:00:05,720 Speaker 2: I'm kind of a fan of the autistic Barbie. 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:09,800 Speaker 3: It's good for kids like that to have something that 4 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:11,560 Speaker 3: reflects them. 5 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:13,160 Speaker 4: I think it's fantastic. 6 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:20,680 Speaker 1: That was bad. That was bad. I don't I don't 7 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:25,640 Speaker 1: leave them. You just play them. Let's go back. 8 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:28,960 Speaker 3: I want to get back on this because as this 9 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:34,600 Speaker 3: Iranian revolution unfolds, I want to give you a certain 10 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:37,879 Speaker 3: perspective about it that may help you understand it, particularly 11 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:40,360 Speaker 3: through the lens of what the cabal's letting you know 12 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:43,159 Speaker 3: and not letting you know. And I'm not saying that 13 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:47,479 Speaker 3: Sky News or BBC are inherently, you know, different from 14 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:50,240 Speaker 3: our domestic cabal, because it's the same thing with finn 15 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 3: because you look at you look at London, stand the 16 00:00:55,200 --> 00:01:05,640 Speaker 3: old London's gone. It's it's this proliferation of Islamism throughout 17 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:11,400 Speaker 3: the world that is creating problems everywhere. Everything from all 18 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:18,080 Speaker 3: the absolute abhorrent anti Semitism that exists everywhere, to all 19 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:21,600 Speaker 3: of the proxies that the clerics use, that the Molas 20 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 3: use to advance their anti Semitism and their anti Israel, 21 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:31,840 Speaker 3: anti America, anti Western everything. And so this is if 22 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:37,759 Speaker 3: you understand pre nineteen seventy nine Iran. It was I mean, 23 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:40,560 Speaker 3: I know the shaw was a air quote here monarch, 24 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 3: but it was a It was a monarchy that really was. 25 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 3: I hesitate. I will not compare it to say, the 26 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:57,480 Speaker 3: British monarch, but I will make this comparison. They had freedoms, 27 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:03,720 Speaker 3: they had, they had they had modernity, they had all 28 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:07,200 Speaker 3: of the things that we enjoy in Western civilization. They 29 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:12,040 Speaker 3: pretty much enjoyed too. So this is not a revolution 30 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:16,840 Speaker 3: against corruption, although they're opposed to the corruption. It's not 31 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:20,400 Speaker 3: about inflation, although they are suffering under the inflation, and 32 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 3: it's not about the leaders. It is about Islam itself 33 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:32,839 Speaker 3: because they're rejecting a governing ideology, radical Islam that has 34 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:37,560 Speaker 3: created all of those other things, corruption, inflation, and the 35 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:42,200 Speaker 3: absolute human rights abusers that the Molas themselves are. 36 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 1: So they are repudiating clerical. 37 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:51,080 Speaker 3: Power per se and all of the things that came 38 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 3: with that radical Islamic clerical power. That's what creates the 39 00:02:56,280 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 3: problem for Western media because Islam, within the language that 40 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:07,839 Speaker 3: progressives use, has been has become racialized. It is not 41 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 3: to it is not to the ABC Evening News or 42 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 3: to the editors of the New York Times or anyone else. 43 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 3: It is not to them. It is to me, but 44 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:19,800 Speaker 3: not to them a belief system. It's not even a 45 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:23,800 Speaker 3: political theology, even though you and I know that realistically. 46 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:24,480 Speaker 1: That's exactly what it is. 47 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:30,680 Speaker 3: Instead, they view it that cabal does as a protected identity. 48 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 3: So it becomes analogous to race, it becomes analogous to ethnicity. 49 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:41,560 Speaker 3: So criticism of Islam becomes framed as you're you're you're 50 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 3: a bigot. 51 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 1: Wow. 52 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:53,160 Speaker 3: Well, if if I'm a biggot for criticizing islamis and 53 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:58,160 Speaker 3: radical Islam, then if you criticize Christianity, should I be 54 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:01,560 Speaker 3: able to say that you are a biggot against Christianity. 55 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:05,480 Speaker 3: Well the answer is that it is not different in substance, 56 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:08,800 Speaker 3: but it is treated as different in the discourse, in 57 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 3: the presentation, and in what they're trying to get you 58 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 3: to believe. Because Christianity, as has been forever, is analyzed 59 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:23,559 Speaker 3: as doctrine, and it gets analyzed as you know, visit 60 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:27,160 Speaker 3: the its institutions, the Vatican for example, and of course 61 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:32,160 Speaker 3: the history. But in a progressive cabal, in progressing media, 62 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:36,599 Speaker 3: Islam is treated as an identity per se, and that 63 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:40,120 Speaker 3: a symmetry matters because if Islam cannot be named as 64 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 3: an ideology, then well, we're not responsible for those political outcomes. 65 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:47,680 Speaker 3: We're not responsible for the inflation, we're not responsible for 66 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:50,560 Speaker 3: human rights abuses, we're not responsible for anything, because we're 67 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:52,719 Speaker 3: the you know, we're the we're the religion of peace. 68 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 3: And if you can't hold them responsible, then a revolt 69 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 3: against it doesn't have any words that you can use 70 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:08,160 Speaker 3: to describe that evolt. Iranian protesters then get rendered intellectually illeligible. 71 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:12,960 Speaker 3: They're just no, no, they don't fit the available categories. 72 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:16,680 Speaker 3: And then Western media collapses Middle Eastern societies into these 73 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:21,400 Speaker 3: crude templates Arab, Muslim, colonized, oppressed, those a little words 74 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 3: that you hear used all the let's just think about it. 75 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:34,280 Speaker 3: How how are Jews in Israel identified? Well, they're colonizers, 76 00:05:34,640 --> 00:05:43,200 Speaker 3: they are oppressors. The mulas in Iran, Iran fits none 77 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:49,160 Speaker 3: of those Persians are not Arab. Iran was not shaped 78 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:54,240 Speaker 3: primarily by Western colonial rule, and now the population is 79 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:59,160 Speaker 3: rising against this indigenous ideological regime. It's not a foreign imposition. 80 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 3: So that contradicts what we see historically as the standard 81 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:09,799 Speaker 3: oppressor oppressed narrative and that's the narrative that structures much 82 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 3: of Western reporting. If you want to cover the Iranian situation, honestly, yes, 83 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:21,239 Speaker 3: you've got to name the nature of the regime's economic failure. 84 00:06:22,279 --> 00:06:28,960 Speaker 3: The Islamic Republic combines religious authoritarianism with centralized economic control. 85 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:33,560 Speaker 3: So in the name of the religion, they control the economy, 86 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:37,920 Speaker 3: so they fix prices, they nationalize industries, they allocate livelihoods 87 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:42,520 Speaker 3: through political loyalty, and that insulates all the elites from accountability, 88 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:47,360 Speaker 3: which is pretty typically a communist system, in a Marxist system, it's. 89 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:47,720 Speaker 1: All the same. 90 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 3: In fact, I've got another story about the historical roots 91 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:54,320 Speaker 3: of Islamism, which I may or may well. I'm obviously 92 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:57,800 Speaker 3: not gonna get to it today. But the result of 93 00:06:57,839 --> 00:07:00,760 Speaker 3: all of this has been the slow destruct of the 94 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:06,320 Speaker 3: Iranian middle class, and of course the corruption among the 95 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:09,800 Speaker 3: moles and among all the ruling elite in Iran is 96 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:16,080 Speaker 3: endemic and system system expired. The better words, it's systemic, 97 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 3: and that's not incidentals of the uprising, it's actually one 98 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:22,960 Speaker 3: of the causes of the uprising. 99 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:27,280 Speaker 4: Listening to your Saturday show when you're talking about the 100 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:32,120 Speaker 4: operation into Venezuela and sure sounds like the opening scene 101 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 4: in the book Starship Troopers by Robert A. 102 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:39,520 Speaker 1: Heinley. Wow, go USA. 103 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:44,520 Speaker 3: Could be I'm getting I'm getting a little info from 104 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:48,920 Speaker 3: people inside the belt weigh about some of the weaponry 105 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:53,640 Speaker 3: and technology that they that's being alluded to, and I 106 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:57,600 Speaker 3: plan to talk about that this week before you, before 107 00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:02,840 Speaker 3: we get back to Islam. I keep getting distracted by Barbie. 108 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:07,920 Speaker 3: I find your reaction to the story fascinating. I don't 109 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:12,120 Speaker 3: agree or disagree with Gouber number zero zero ninety nine, 110 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:15,560 Speaker 3: but you write this, This Barbie brings to mind my concern. 111 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:18,920 Speaker 3: This what we're talking about is at the top of 112 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:22,280 Speaker 3: the news was the story about Mattel has now created 113 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:26,640 Speaker 3: a autistic Barbie, and I was just kind of flummoxed 114 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:31,760 Speaker 3: by that, Like, Wow, What's what's the manifestation of an 115 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:35,880 Speaker 3: artistic Barbie doll Well zero zero nine nine rights, Mike, 116 00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:40,040 Speaker 3: This Barbie brings to my concern about the long term. Now, 117 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:44,120 Speaker 3: celebration and admiration for difficulties and pain, for example, start 118 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:46,960 Speaker 3: with gold star mothers. Are we being taught to strive 119 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:50,040 Speaker 3: for a gold star? A dead child is a requirement. 120 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:53,160 Speaker 3: Dreamers who have some terrible disease, so they get to 121 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:54,640 Speaker 3: go back to Disneyland. 122 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:56,199 Speaker 1: What a mixed. 123 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:58,680 Speaker 3: Message for healthy children. Maybe if I'm sick enough or 124 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:01,080 Speaker 3: heard enough, I can also go. Can I be like 125 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:04,000 Speaker 3: Barbie if I'm autistic? I don't know how to unravel 126 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:10,240 Speaker 3: any of this, but gosh, it is awful. Awful might 127 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:12,680 Speaker 3: be too strong of a word. I find it perplexing 128 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:17,240 Speaker 3: because it is the word I was looking for earlier. 129 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:22,000 Speaker 3: Was it's kind of patronizing that you're you're trying to 130 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:28,440 Speaker 3: capitalize on a on a syndrome that someone has, and 131 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:31,280 Speaker 3: you've gone to great links to you know, get a 132 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:35,520 Speaker 3: technical director from some autistic autism society, and then you 133 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:38,400 Speaker 3: do you The doll looks like a Marionana sort with 134 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:39,480 Speaker 3: the joints and everything. 135 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:43,120 Speaker 1: It's really distorted. It's just bizarre. 136 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 3: And then I seven ninety two, writes Mike, I believe 137 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:49,640 Speaker 3: that do you see this from Dragon? I believe long 138 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:54,800 Speaker 3: term COVID and my orcharditis. Barbie is planned next. But 139 00:09:54,880 --> 00:10:02,800 Speaker 3: that's my point. There's there's no end to this. So 140 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:09,280 Speaker 3: how about the previously overweight Dragon? How about the previous 141 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:12,640 Speaker 3: you know, the obese Dragon versus the slim down Dragon. 142 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:15,880 Speaker 3: Two versions of the Dragon doll. You could double your 143 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:20,200 Speaker 3: money and man and all the in between. He didn't go, 144 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:23,240 Speaker 3: He didn't instantly go from almost four hundred down to 145 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:26,199 Speaker 3: less than you know, one seventy or whatever you're at now. 146 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:30,200 Speaker 1: Saggy skin Barbie, Yeah, sage's skinting Barbie. Oh my god. 147 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:34,360 Speaker 3: See it's just I just don't like this trying to 148 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:41,880 Speaker 3: put everybody in a vertical five seven ninety two, Mike, 149 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:47,520 Speaker 3: I'm a type one Mattel came out in the translations Mateo. 150 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:51,520 Speaker 3: Mattel recently launched the diabetes Barbie. So I think that 151 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:54,560 Speaker 3: this is both market opportunity and also meeting kids where 152 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:56,720 Speaker 3: they are at a bit of virtue signally. 153 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:58,560 Speaker 1: But I'm okay with it and recognize. 154 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:03,679 Speaker 3: It raises what my fundamental question is, and I plead 155 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:08,280 Speaker 3: ignorance on this. Does a child that is severely autistic 156 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:14,640 Speaker 3: recognize that that Barbie doll is a reflection of them? 157 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:17,600 Speaker 1: I mean, if if you are a child. 158 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:21,600 Speaker 3: With a prosthetic armor leg, then you recognize that doll 159 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:24,960 Speaker 3: that has you know, is missing an armor or a leg. 160 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:29,080 Speaker 3: You recognize that that symbolic of you. I don't know, 161 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:34,480 Speaker 3: and I don't comprehend enough about autism to recognize whether 162 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:38,520 Speaker 3: or not that might be true with an autistic Barbie. 163 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 3: And yeah, so let's take a break and we'll we'll 164 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:46,559 Speaker 3: do everything we can to get back to I'll say it, 165 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:50,960 Speaker 3: so it's a ry. We'll get Iran, not Iran. 166 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:54,599 Speaker 1: I'm over here unloading a truck in Aurora. 167 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:56,440 Speaker 3: What you say after the show of me and you 168 00:11:56,440 --> 00:12:00,200 Speaker 3: go out and get some tacos into Martinita. 169 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:08,240 Speaker 1: Wait heard he's local today. Oh crap, everybody, stay off 170 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:11,360 Speaker 1: the roadways. This is even worse than when you were 171 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:12,680 Speaker 1: driving with an eyepatch on. 172 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:24,560 Speaker 3: So he's driving just fully loaded. Back to the Iranian 173 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:28,720 Speaker 3: revolution going on the protests, however you want to describe them. 174 00:12:29,679 --> 00:12:35,439 Speaker 3: If the cabal was going to cover those truthfully, the networks, cables, 175 00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:41,080 Speaker 3: the newspapers, BBC, Sky, all of them, they would have 176 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:45,000 Speaker 3: to abandon all of these moral categories they keep trying 177 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:50,360 Speaker 3: to justify Islamism with, and they'd have to face that 178 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:56,240 Speaker 3: there's some very uncomfortable facts about radical Islam, about Islam 179 00:12:56,280 --> 00:13:00,760 Speaker 3: in general, religion, ideology, state power, how this is a 180 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:06,360 Speaker 3: governing system. It is more than just a religion. In fact, 181 00:13:06,640 --> 00:13:12,000 Speaker 3: it would probably require the media to say that Islam, 182 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:16,880 Speaker 3: when it is practiced as this governing system which it is, 183 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:20,920 Speaker 3: it can be rejected by the very people that it 184 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 3: claims to represent. And they don't want to do that 185 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:27,440 Speaker 3: because that's a rejection of Islam. So now they're torn. 186 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:29,560 Speaker 3: Do we take the side of the of the of 187 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:34,079 Speaker 3: the revolutionaries, of the protesters, of those who just want 188 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:39,520 Speaker 3: a modern life, not under the you know, tenth century 189 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:44,880 Speaker 3: regime that the Molas represent. And then there's another pressure 190 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:51,680 Speaker 3: that's really causing the cabal to in every television, newspaper 191 00:13:51,679 --> 00:13:56,960 Speaker 3: and radio editorial room across the ink country. That's reinforcing 192 00:13:57,320 --> 00:14:01,959 Speaker 3: the silence. And that's the politics of the situation, because 193 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:05,839 Speaker 3: if you're going to cover what's happening honestly, that would 194 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:07,439 Speaker 3: require admitting that. 195 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:10,480 Speaker 1: Trump is succeeding. 196 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:16,240 Speaker 3: That those people that are able to get either direct 197 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:18,640 Speaker 3: access to what's going on in the rest of the 198 00:14:18,679 --> 00:14:22,480 Speaker 3: world or those who are hearing it second or third, 199 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:27,800 Speaker 3: you know, hearsay, they know he's they know exactly what 200 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:33,800 Speaker 3: he's doing. They strategically, i think, understand how the global 201 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:37,600 Speaker 3: world order is being changed. So when you have all 202 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:41,120 Speaker 3: of these outlets, all of these editorial boards, and all 203 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:45,200 Speaker 3: the anchors and all the reporters insisting that Trump's posture 204 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:50,080 Speaker 3: toward Iran is regular, reckless, or that it's escalatory, or 205 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:56,400 Speaker 3: that it's ineffective, ineffective. The strikes in Aram's nuclear infrastructure, 206 00:14:56,920 --> 00:15:00,720 Speaker 3: remember those were framed as destabilizing gestures. They would simply 207 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:04,520 Speaker 3: strengthen the hard liners and they would provoke the chaos. Well, 208 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:09,480 Speaker 3: I don't know how you maintain that today because who's 209 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:12,360 Speaker 3: in now. Don't get me wrong, the mules are still 210 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:16,440 Speaker 3: in power, and they are reacting. And not only are 211 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:19,520 Speaker 3: they reacting, but all their thugs, all their little militias 212 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:26,320 Speaker 3: are reacting also. But they're there. The Kabol's original assessment 213 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:30,240 Speaker 3: that oh U sending those stealth bombers over there, that's 214 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:33,600 Speaker 3: going to destabilize everything, as if. 215 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:34,840 Speaker 1: That's supposed to be a bad thing. 216 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:41,440 Speaker 3: Sometimes destabilization is just the very first thing you need 217 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:44,440 Speaker 3: in a series of events that could or could not 218 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:49,120 Speaker 3: lead to humongous change in the Middle East. And I 219 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:54,240 Speaker 3: would rather have that tried than sit back and just 220 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:57,080 Speaker 3: let it continue to get worse and worse and worse. 221 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:05,520 Speaker 3: Why not try it. All of those effects got amplified 222 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:12,440 Speaker 3: humongous by what happened in Venezuela. Think just in the 223 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:17,560 Speaker 3: simplest terms, the United States military entered the sovereign capital, 224 00:16:18,040 --> 00:16:25,400 Speaker 3: captured a dictator, exited within hours. No US fatalities. Yes, 225 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:29,480 Speaker 3: that's symbolic, but it's more than symbolic. It was precise, 226 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:34,640 Speaker 3: it was overwhelming, it was final, and we left colonizers. 227 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:35,840 Speaker 1: No. Now. 228 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:39,040 Speaker 3: Did he also go on to say to the vice 229 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:42,680 Speaker 3: president to assume the presidency, you better toe the line. 230 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:46,480 Speaker 1: Absolutely he did. Did he call the oil. 231 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:48,680 Speaker 3: Companies together and say, let's figure out a way to 232 00:16:48,680 --> 00:16:50,440 Speaker 3: get you back in there, or those of you who 233 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:52,520 Speaker 3: are still there, how we can make it safer for 234 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:55,560 Speaker 3: you and we can start exploiting this and, by the way, 235 00:16:55,960 --> 00:17:00,480 Speaker 3: start choking off China, Russia and others. Of course he did. 236 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:07,040 Speaker 3: You don't want regime change. Neither do I. But I 237 00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:10,480 Speaker 3: don't want regime change in the traditional way that we 238 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:12,080 Speaker 3: seem to do. Oh, let's go put boots on the 239 00:17:12,080 --> 00:17:18,720 Speaker 3: ground with no plan for one hundred hours, one hundred days. 240 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:23,480 Speaker 1: I think it was. I think it was Saturday. 241 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:26,440 Speaker 3: I again, I saw, I'm sorry, I can flate time, 242 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:28,439 Speaker 3: and I, you know, all forget this program as soon 243 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:29,320 Speaker 3: as I walk out the door. 244 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:31,200 Speaker 1: But I described how. 245 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:33,720 Speaker 3: At least and I and so far said, I've seen 246 00:17:33,760 --> 00:17:37,800 Speaker 3: several outlets report it about how one of the Venezuelan 247 00:17:37,880 --> 00:17:41,920 Speaker 3: soldiers reported about things going dark suddenly, you know, this 248 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:44,760 Speaker 3: loud boom or whatever it was that caused them to 249 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:47,000 Speaker 3: bleed through their noses and their mouth and they were 250 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:51,520 Speaker 3: completely decapitated literally and so I guess maybe sometimes literally 251 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:55,240 Speaker 3: and figuratively the concussive weapons and how they were able 252 00:17:55,280 --> 00:17:57,480 Speaker 3: to get in there just you know, there were eight helicopters, 253 00:17:57,560 --> 00:18:00,040 Speaker 3: only twenty people, and they just completely over it. He 254 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:03,400 Speaker 3: over wrote everything. Now, I don't know whether that account 255 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:10,760 Speaker 3: is is part mythology, part true, whatever, but power always 256 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:16,639 Speaker 3: generates myths, and those stories circulate, and they circulate. 257 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:17,520 Speaker 1: All around the world. 258 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:21,040 Speaker 3: And the difference here is that myth is actually plausible 259 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:27,680 Speaker 3: because it's grounded in real outcomes, because the outcome is uncontested. 260 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:31,040 Speaker 3: Where is Nicholas Maduro. He's not in Cara, because he's 261 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:32,919 Speaker 3: in New York City. And he's not just in New 262 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:36,720 Speaker 3: York City. He's behind bars in New York City. And 263 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:41,679 Speaker 3: all of that mythology true, not true, some factual sum embellished, 264 00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:45,399 Speaker 3: whatever it is that's being concerned, not just by you 265 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:50,440 Speaker 3: and me, but by soldiers, guards, elite us in authoritarian states. 266 00:18:50,119 --> 00:18:54,359 Speaker 1: All over the world. There's a good word for that, 267 00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:55,760 Speaker 1: the terrence. 268 00:18:57,359 --> 00:18:59,720 Speaker 3: And we ought to learn and the media ought to 269 00:18:59,760 --> 00:19:05,280 Speaker 3: rerection recognize the deterrence isn't always through force boots on 270 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:09,400 Speaker 3: the ground, you know, shock and awe, if you understand that, 271 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:14,800 Speaker 3: or the origin of that phrase. Mostly it operates through stories. 272 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:18,840 Speaker 3: Stories they get told. Now I know the stories get told. 273 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:23,040 Speaker 3: They sometimes get embellished. Memories, you know, fade and they change, 274 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:25,760 Speaker 3: and you know, so what you get told is going 275 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:34,120 Speaker 3: to vary. They've watched, they've seen through again through the 276 00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:39,359 Speaker 3: magic of the Internet. They watched a dictator removed in 277 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:44,840 Speaker 3: mere hours. They watched cause I advanced air defense systems 278 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:51,080 Speaker 3: neutralized without any warning whatsoever. They watched a regime collapse, 279 00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:56,919 Speaker 3: not through negotiation, but through action. And those people who 280 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:01,880 Speaker 3: are watching that, friend and full of are drawing their 281 00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:08,040 Speaker 3: own conclusions. And I think that's why the media in 282 00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:11,960 Speaker 3: this country is so paralyzed by their coverage of what's 283 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:18,280 Speaker 3: happening in Iran. The protesters will well, they're maybe they're vandals, 284 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:22,680 Speaker 3: or we'll call them saboteurs, and then violences are emphasized 285 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:26,800 Speaker 3: without any context, just like it was in Minneapolis. First 286 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:32,800 Speaker 3: they jump to without any context whatsoever, and responsibility gets shifted. 287 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:39,920 Speaker 3: Think about Ali Comminae when he blames Trump for the unrest. 288 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:46,280 Speaker 3: Those claims are repeated by the media, But do they 289 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:50,200 Speaker 3: ever scrutinize it. Do they scrutinize everything else Trump does? 290 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:54,639 Speaker 3: But why are they not scrutinizing this? They want to 291 00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:58,640 Speaker 3: claim that disorder is caused by external provocation, not internal rejection, 292 00:20:59,359 --> 00:21:02,800 Speaker 3: because internal rejection then implies they're rejecting Islam. 293 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:07,520 Speaker 1: Uh oh, I. 294 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:13,119 Speaker 3: Think the embarrassment is more than just partisan. Trump's approach 295 00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:20,119 Speaker 3: violates the entire ethos that dominates Western elite culture. He 296 00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:23,959 Speaker 3: doesn't he doesn't prioritize the process over the outcome. He 297 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:28,560 Speaker 3: does not disguise power behind abstraction. He uses force openly, 298 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:33,760 Speaker 3: in my opinion, sparingly, but he uses it decisively and 299 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:37,439 Speaker 3: when it works, that exposes the weakness of all the 300 00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:42,679 Speaker 3: alternative approaches built on endless negotiation. You know, Foggy Bottom 301 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:47,840 Speaker 3: with the state departments located. Those people have a culture, 302 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:51,920 Speaker 3: and that culture is one of appeasement, one of negotiation, 303 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:56,040 Speaker 3: walking on your tiptoes, being very very careful about what 304 00:21:56,119 --> 00:22:01,120 Speaker 3: you say, actually coddling up to cuddling up to all 305 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:05,520 Speaker 3: the dictators all around the world, us AI d same thing. 306 00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:09,240 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we know where it's really going. But we'll 307 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:11,879 Speaker 3: send the money over. We know what you're gonna do 308 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:13,840 Speaker 3: with it, and we're gonna turn our head the other 309 00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:16,160 Speaker 3: direction and we're not gonna look at what you're doing 310 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:20,440 Speaker 3: with the money. And I guarantemn to you that all 311 00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:22,240 Speaker 3: of the networks in New York and on the West 312 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:26,400 Speaker 3: Coast understand that every newspaper from the Wall Street Journal, 313 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:28,880 Speaker 3: the New York Times, d LA Times, they all understand 314 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:34,280 Speaker 3: it too. And Trump violates their understanding. Trump disrupts their 315 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:40,840 Speaker 3: their understanding. To acknowledge somehow that Trump helped inspire resistance 316 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:42,879 Speaker 3: among the Iranian people? 317 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:44,280 Speaker 1: Would people? 318 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:50,439 Speaker 3: Would that would be an admission that operating with peace 319 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:54,560 Speaker 3: through strength, operating through the idea that strength can be 320 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:59,920 Speaker 3: morally clarifying, that de terrence can liberate, not just dominate, 321 00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:04,760 Speaker 3: and that surgical power can change the behavior of regimes 322 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:08,480 Speaker 3: and populations. Well, that would unravel years of editorial certainty. 323 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:11,560 Speaker 3: That would cause the heads to explode in all the 324 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:15,960 Speaker 3: editorial boards. So that leads me to understand that what 325 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:19,520 Speaker 3: they're trying to do is they're trying to minimize, reframe, 326 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:23,000 Speaker 3: and ignore this as much as they can, and not 327 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:26,240 Speaker 3: because it lacks importance. In fact, I could spend the 328 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:28,800 Speaker 3: next I could take on another hour. They explain just 329 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:31,960 Speaker 3: why this is so important in terms of the geopolitical 330 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:35,560 Speaker 3: arrangement that exists currently in the Middle East, and it 331 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:40,800 Speaker 3: goes way beyond just all the uranium proxies, Hasiblah, Hamas 332 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:44,680 Speaker 3: the houthis. All of them are losing their state sponsor 333 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:47,119 Speaker 3: or on the verge of losing their state sponsor to 334 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:52,360 Speaker 3: be more correct, to be more accurate. That alone causes 335 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:55,120 Speaker 3: all of them, all of the proxies to start looking 336 00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:58,440 Speaker 3: over their own shoulders. When's the last time you heard 337 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:01,040 Speaker 3: a story about Gaza? When's the last time you heard 338 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:06,720 Speaker 3: a story about Hamas or has Belah? Because they're too 339 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:10,840 Speaker 3: busy trying to figure out how do we survive or 340 00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:16,399 Speaker 3: can we survive? Or is it time to disperse and run? 341 00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:19,520 Speaker 3: Like you know the cockroaches when the past controlled guy 342 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:23,440 Speaker 3: comes and shines the flashlight in the cabinet and all 343 00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:24,760 Speaker 3: the cockroaches go running. 344 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:28,400 Speaker 1: I think the media is kind of doing that too. 345 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:33,400 Speaker 3: Media doesn't want to talk about because this threatens the 346 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:40,120 Speaker 3: whole moral scheme that they've set up. You can't critique Islam. 347 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:44,119 Speaker 3: In fact, it's not really a governing or political unit. 348 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:48,320 Speaker 3: It's just a religion. It's that religion of peace. So 349 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:53,720 Speaker 3: their silence is not a failure of reporting. It's themselves 350 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:57,879 Speaker 3: trying to preserve the status quo. It's them trying to 351 00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:01,720 Speaker 3: say that what's happening here is is well, he has 352 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:04,720 Speaker 3: nothing to do with Trump. In fact, Trump's being reckless. 353 00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:09,520 Speaker 3: I think what Trump's doing is incredibly strategic. Now, I 354 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:12,960 Speaker 3: don't know. On the on air Force One Back to 355 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:16,639 Speaker 3: DC last night, a reporter asked, Hey, if they crossed 356 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:19,400 Speaker 3: the red line, and his response was, well, I don't 357 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:21,200 Speaker 3: know if they've crossed it, but they certainly getting they're 358 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:23,639 Speaker 3: getting close, and they are killing some people. And so 359 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:30,440 Speaker 3: he's very ambivalent, very ambiguous about it, as he should be, 360 00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:32,520 Speaker 3: because you don't want a telescope, you don't want to 361 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:36,560 Speaker 3: telegraph what it is that you're thinking about doing. Can 362 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:39,959 Speaker 3: you tell me, Oh, there were people, I mean, I'm 363 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:43,440 Speaker 3: sure Vegas had odds and Polymath had had on both 364 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:45,199 Speaker 3: sides of the fence about whether or not we were 365 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:48,399 Speaker 3: going to do anything in Venezuela. But everybody was just betting. 366 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:52,840 Speaker 3: Everybody was just betting all the publicly available knowledge and 367 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:55,160 Speaker 3: just what every little you know, ten words he might 368 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:57,720 Speaker 3: string together in a sentence say, and then everybody places 369 00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:00,520 Speaker 3: their bets on it. Oh yeah, we're definitely taking Maduro. 370 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:02,119 Speaker 3: Oh no, was there's no waite, Hell, we're going to 371 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:06,280 Speaker 3: do it. Honestly, I think everybody was surprised, even those 372 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:09,359 Speaker 3: who thought that we were going to do that. And 373 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:12,159 Speaker 3: then just real quickly. I'll probably do more about this 374 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:15,840 Speaker 3: tomorrow in case you missed it broke. The news broke 375 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:20,800 Speaker 3: last night. At the Department of Justice, they've convened a 376 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:25,280 Speaker 3: grand jury focused on investigating Fed German Jerome Pell related 377 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:28,360 Speaker 3: to his handling of the renovation of the Federal Reserve headquarters. 378 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:34,119 Speaker 3: Now that's the technicality. The technicality is, Hey, you said 379 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:36,679 Speaker 3: you were spending x y z, but it looks like 380 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:41,280 Speaker 3: you're spending x y z squared x x y z 381 00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:45,199 Speaker 3: cubed or did you did you do the proper you know, 382 00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:47,959 Speaker 3: competitive bidding. What are you really building here? Is this 383 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:51,280 Speaker 3: taj mahal something that Congress authorized or didn't authorize? And 384 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:53,880 Speaker 3: if they didn't authorize it. Where'd you get the authority 385 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:58,399 Speaker 3: to do this? It was pretty funny to watch it. 386 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:02,000 Speaker 3: Fox Fox had a report We have a Fox Newsworth 387 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:04,879 Speaker 3: that New York Times is reporting that FED prosecutors have 388 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:08,040 Speaker 3: opened a criminal investigation in the Federal Reserve Girman Jerome Powell. 389 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:11,560 Speaker 3: This inquiry is reportedly related to the Federal innovations and 390 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:14,880 Speaker 3: whether Palell lied to Congress about the scope of the project. 391 00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:19,520 Speaker 3: The Times reports that Use attorney Jeanine Piro, Oh, there's 392 00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:23,600 Speaker 3: a shocker, approve the investigation in November. We're going to 393 00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:26,320 Speaker 3: continue to monitor this for any developments, and of course 394 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,240 Speaker 3: we'll bring those to you now. Of course, Pale what 395 00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:32,080 Speaker 3: did he do? He blamed it all on Trump not 396 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:35,920 Speaker 3: liking his refusal to lower interest rates in what Trump 397 00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:38,400 Speaker 3: thought was a more timely manner during the first year 398 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:41,920 Speaker 3: of his presidency, and he actually released a video about it, 399 00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:46,480 Speaker 3: which I find incredibly fascinating. That you would go out 400 00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:53,320 Speaker 3: and you would do that. Why perhaps thou dost protest 401 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:59,399 Speaker 3: just a little too much. He blamed it all on 402 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:05,080 Speaker 3: Trump not liking what was going on. Well, that's fine, 403 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:09,080 Speaker 3: but I'm not certain that blaming him on Trump is 404 00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:12,080 Speaker 3: going to accomplish. He's likely what you think it's going 405 00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:16,639 Speaker 3: to accomplish. But let's think about this in terms of 406 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:22,840 Speaker 3: just how Trump conducts business. Again, as I've said, from 407 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:27,120 Speaker 3: Trump one point oh clear through Trump two point oh, 408 00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:31,440 Speaker 3: don't necessarily like his language. Like most presidents, we all 409 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:36,880 Speaker 3: tire of their manner of speaking. We tire of phrases, 410 00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:39,120 Speaker 3: what was the greatest service, the best ever? You know, 411 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:42,400 Speaker 3: everybody believes that. Everybody knows this, everybody knows that. Yeah, 412 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,360 Speaker 3: we all tire of that, just as I tired of 413 00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:49,840 Speaker 3: phrases that Obama used or anybody else uses. That familiarity 414 00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:54,600 Speaker 3: tends to breed contempt. But what I do like is 415 00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:57,240 Speaker 3: the fact that he keeps everybody in his toes, that 416 00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:01,480 Speaker 3: we never quite know what you are you really doing here? 417 00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:05,239 Speaker 3: What are you really up to? I don't think that 418 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:08,360 Speaker 3: anybody other than the inner circle, and perhaps sometimes even 419 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:11,880 Speaker 3: the inner circle, really knows what he's doing. I don't 420 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:14,920 Speaker 3: think they really know. We go back to Powell for 421 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:20,080 Speaker 3: just a moment, because I found this extraordinarily kind of 422 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:21,320 Speaker 3: stupid on his part. 423 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:23,880 Speaker 1: I can't believe the lawyer is allowed him to do it. 424 00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:30,320 Speaker 2: Good evening on Friday the Department of Justice served the 425 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:34,240 Speaker 2: Federal Reserve with grand jury subpoenas threatening a criminal indictment 426 00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:39,000 Speaker 2: related to my testimony before the Senate Banking Committee last June. 427 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:43,720 Speaker 2: That testimony concerned, in part, a multi year project to 428 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:49,000 Speaker 2: renovate historic Federal Reserve office buildings. I have deep respect 429 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:52,360 Speaker 2: for the rule of law and for accountability in our democracy. 430 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:55,640 Speaker 2: No one, certainly not the chair of the Federal Reserve, 431 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:59,640 Speaker 2: is above the law. But this unprecedented action should be 432 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:03,160 Speaker 2: seen in the broader context of the administration's threats and 433 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:07,520 Speaker 2: ongoing pressure. This new threat is not about my testimony 434 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:11,040 Speaker 2: last June, or about the renovation of the Federal Reserve buildings. 435 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:14,880 Speaker 2: It is not about Congress's oversight role. The Fed, through 436 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:18,360 Speaker 2: testimony and other public disclosures, made every effort to keep 437 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:21,160 Speaker 2: Congress informed about the renovation project. 438 00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:25,960 Speaker 1: Those are pretexts. The threat of criminal. 439 00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:29,040 Speaker 2: Charges is a consequence of the Federal Reserve setting interest 440 00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:32,240 Speaker 2: rates based on our best assessment of what will serve 441 00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:35,760 Speaker 2: the public, rather than following the preferences of the President. 442 00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:39,040 Speaker 1: This is about whether the Fed will be able. 443 00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:41,400 Speaker 2: To continue to set interest rates based on evidence and 444 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:45,480 Speaker 2: economic conditions, or whether instead monetary policy will be directed 445 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:50,440 Speaker 2: by political pressure or intimidation. I have served at the 446 00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:55,680 Speaker 2: Federal Reserve under four administrations, Republicans and Democrats alike. In 447 00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:58,800 Speaker 2: every case, I have carried out my duties without political 448 00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:02,560 Speaker 2: fear or favor, focus solely on our mandate of price 449 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:08,880 Speaker 2: stability and maximum employment. Public service sometimes requires standing firm 450 00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:12,120 Speaker 2: in the face of threats. I will continue to do 451 00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:15,800 Speaker 2: the job this set confirmed me to do with integrity 452 00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:18,479 Speaker 2: and a commitment to serving the American people. 453 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:19,600 Speaker 1: Thank you. 454 00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:26,560 Speaker 3: Extraordinary, but these are extraordinary times that we live in. Obviously, 455 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:29,840 Speaker 3: my counsel, as a lawyer, would have been, why don't 456 00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:32,480 Speaker 3: we wait, Why don't we get the indictment, Why don't 457 00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:36,400 Speaker 3: we keep our mouths shut and don't say anything that 458 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:39,760 Speaker 3: down the road could be used against you, either for 459 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:45,000 Speaker 3: you know, perjury purposes, or just for contradictory that, oh 460 00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:47,200 Speaker 3: you said this, but we now find out this is 461 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:50,240 Speaker 3: really going on. Extraordinary times. 462 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:51,840 Speaker 1: I kind of love it.