WEBVTT - People Have Found Alternative Pancake Toppings 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:10.200 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty. 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:12.520 Arm Strong and Katty and He. 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:24.239 Armstrong and Yeddy. 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:29.280 So Joe Biden's presidency is nearly over. His staff has 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:32.720 all but checked out. They'd even stopped changing the batteries 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:36.600 in his life alert. In an interview with USA Today, 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:39.400 the Old Cout insisted he could have beaten Trump in 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:42.920 the election. In fact, only two things were holding him back. 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:47.199 His widespread unpopularity and breathing. 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:52.680 Old Coot made me laugh more than the punchline. 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:56.920 Name funny words an old. 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:01.520 As a yes on a completely different topic. I was 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:03.800 just thinking about something else and as I said to 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:08.120 my beautiful bride before work today, so apparently the holiday 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:10.560 pounds aren't just going to magically melt. 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:15.600 Off, right, that's funny. I dismounted the scale, similar thought 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:20.760 myself just in the hole. I mean, it's a trite 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:23.800 saying at this point, you know, something like moment on 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:25.800 the lips, Lifetime and the hips or anything like that, 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:29.440 but it's true. Oh yeah, I mean I'm I'm on 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:33.160 the scale today and thinking those several eating choices you 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:35.800 made over the break worth it at this point, not 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:37.039 in any way whatsoever. 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:39.800 Putting it on is falling off a log. Taking it 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:43.120 off is a job anyway. I wish you well in 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:47.039 your efforts, as I hope you wish me so. A 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:50.400 couple of things really quickly mentioned Pete hegxath earlier. I 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:53.360 was looking at this excerpt of this thirty three page 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:57.800 rant that Elizabeth Warren unleashed as we are heading toward 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:02.360 the hearings for a number of the appointees or you know, 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:05.880 designates Secretary of Defense. 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:08.080 That's a big job, especially with a couple of wars 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:08.480 going on. 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:14.400 Oh, incredibly important. Yeah. One of the main problems that 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:17.720 that Elizabeth Warren has is she hammers him for saying 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:24.200 things like here it is you've claimed that the dumbest 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:27.080 phrase on planet Earth in the military is our diversity 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:31.959 is our strength. Yeah, that makes me want to support him. 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:34.680 Has noted above, you also called for firing the Chairman 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:37.040 of the Joint Chiefs and quote any general that was involved, 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:40.320 any general, admiral whatever, that was involved in any of 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:44.720 the DEI woke s Oh boy, Now I really really 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:48.560 want to support him. Additionally, you complained in the war 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:50.480 on Warriors. There was a book he wrote. I believe 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:53.760 that quote. A woke military emphasizes the made up military 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:57.320 values of diversity and inclusion and fails to recruit masculine 0:02:57.360 --> 0:02:58.960 men who make up a warrior class. 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:00.760 Do you think she's. 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:04.200 Convincing me to not want him to be Yes. Obviously 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:06.840 we're the wrong target for this, but I think most 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:11.480 of those things are at least somewhere in the fifty 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:14.359 to fifty range in this country. If not, oh please, 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:16.639 overwhelmingly favored. 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:21.680 Right, right, So anyway, I don't love Pete's chances at 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:24.520 this point, but that's sure as hell, ain't why you 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:26.000 know what the for him? 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:27.840 You don't like his chances because of what. 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:35.880 Just whether he's worth the contentious hearings. Plus, I know 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:40.080 Jony Ernst, a veteran and senator from Iowa, is a 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:41.920 little concerned about some of the things he said about 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:45.160 women in combat. He has now walked back those comments. Well, 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:47.960 that'll all be explained in the hearing, right I think. 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:51.640 So I hope they give him a fair shot. I 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:56.560 just I fear that they will go with somebody who 0:03:56.800 --> 0:04:01.560 is has got gravitas and experience, is a good old 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:04.000 hand in Washington, d C. And he's not going to 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:06.920 be the energetic force for change that Pete wants to be. 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:10.480 So I'm anxious to hear the hearings. I hope they 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:13.280 give him a fair shot. But having said that, I 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:15.640 came across this in the Wall Street Journal, and the 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:19.240 Wall Street Journal editorial board is absolutely great, as good 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:23.000 as there is on questions of woke crap and DEI. 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:26.520 But they're reporters, many of whom are young. Are absolutely not. 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:29.760 And I came across this piece Corporate America drew back 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:34.000 from DEI. The upheaval isn't over. And they named jack 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:38.320 Ford and Walmart and McDonald's and John Deere and Tractor 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:41.039 Supply and all sorts of stuff, all sorts of corporations 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:45.839 like that. But the part that bothered me, and this 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:48.120 goes to the this is not the beginning of the end, 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:51.159 it's the end of the beginning, is these reporters. And 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:57.359 I'm trying to find the exact quote supporters of DEI. 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:02.640 I say, most boards and executives still support diversity diversity efforts, 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:05.919 even if they avoid the term and bend to the 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:10.479 demands of activists or try to sidestep skirmishes with the 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:14.640 Trump administration. There are still too few people who get 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:18.800 that DEEI is not about diversity. 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:20.480 That's fraud. 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:23.800 They say, it's about making sure that black people and 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:25.840 brown people and gay people have. 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:30.479 A fair shot. No, it's not. It's a technique of infiltration. 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:34.279 You have people who want to tear down the powers 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:37.520 that be in Western civilization. They're neo Marxists. Woke is 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:43.520 a pretty good overlap with the neo Marxists. Diversity means 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:47.440 getting more people in this organization who want to overthrow. 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:47.960 It like us. 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:51.599 Equity is just communism, and inclusion is back to that 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:54.920 first point. Include more people who want to overthrow this 0:05:55.240 --> 0:06:00.440 institution like we do. It masquerades this racial justice. That's 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:03.520 not what they're trying to do. And that's the point 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:06.760 that you've got to get. It's it's neo Marxism. It's 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:10.920 not about race. They're just trying to use racial tensions 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:14.000 and gripes to take over. As James Lindsay has put it, 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:19.600 DEI is you call something racist until you control it. 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:26.600 Having said that, moving along, a couple of woke world leaders, 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:30.200 actually quite a few are getting the bums rush, including 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:34.880 woke Elvis cute little Justin Trudeau in Canada, and Matthew 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:38.520 Lao the National Review did wrote a piece about his 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:41.120 performance over like the last four or five years. 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:43.200 It's miserable. 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:48.159 Not only just skyrocketing immigration that's causing the same sort 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:51.560 of well they social and economic problems in Europe, but 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:52.240 other stuff too. 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:58.560 Yeah, it's interesting thing. The immigration change in Canada was stark. 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:01.520 I remember how many years ago, Gladys, do you still 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:02.080 play the harp? 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:03.320 No? 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:06.080 Just no, no, no, no. Just saying I remember is 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:09.080 not eure abusing, Gladys. It's got to be clearly a 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:13.040 reminiscence of your past life, not your past life like 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:16.160 I'm a psychic, but you know what I mean. Michael Jgree, 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:17.720 I think Jack was a little hasty to go to 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:22.520 the back of the hand there, I think. So, Gladys, 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:25.040 can you play like a specific time frame? 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:28.400 Thank you, Gladys. I think she's quiet quitting. But anyway, 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:32.280 I had some Canadian friends and so I was just 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:34.240 trying to figure out the time period on this. This 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:36.880 would have been about twenty years ago. I was running 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:39.640 around with these Canadian friends of mine and uh and 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:41.560 I had been I traveled to Canada, a couple of 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:43.600 summers in her own loved it up there. So I 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:44.320 was just thinking about it. 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:47.160 Learned to nothing about how to remove your jacket. Apparently 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:51.480 I still take off my gat like a girl. It's Canadians. 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:53.360 They take off their jacket in a very manly way. 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:54.320 You're damn right. 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:55.240 Uh. 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:57.600 I was asking about how to move to Canada, and 0:07:57.240 --> 0:07:59.600 then they were both from Canada and they were like, no, 0:07:59.880 --> 0:08:02.760 that's all. It's really hard to do, really hard to do. 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:05.200 You have to prove that you can support yourself without 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:07.320 a job or have a specific kind of skill that 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:09.520 is needed. And I thought, okay, wow, so that's stuck 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:11.440 in my head. That is really hard, and I like that. 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:15.440 I think we should be like that. I remember that 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:17.640 stuck in my head. Well, Trudeau, we kind of like 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:20.680 that if you follow the law. Yeah. Well Trudeau came 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:23.840 in and changed all that. They changed their policies in 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:26.640 Canada and they went more like the United States currently is, 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:31.680 where anybody can come in for any reason. They were hardcore. 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:34.160 You better have enough money to support yourself for life 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:35.480 and make it clear you're not going to get on 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:39.559 a program, or you have a job skill we want 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:43.800 or you can't come for whatever in Canada, right, Europe. 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:45.840 Is absolutely the same. And then they threw the borders 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:48.559 open and it's been disaster. Speaking of which we'll get 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:50.880 to Angela Merkele in just a second. 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:51.920 But listen to this here. 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:55.080 Since Trudeau took office and through the third quarter of 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:58.360 last year, which is the last available data, cumulative real 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:03.160 GDP per person growth in nine years had been one 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:07.800 point seven percent in Canada one point seven percent. It 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:13.640 was eighteen point six percent in the US. When data 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:15.880 for the fourth quarter of twenty twenty four published, the 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:18.840 gap will almost certainly widen. Canada's real GDP per capita 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:21.760 fell for six consecutive quarters as of the third quarter 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:22.720 of twenty twenty four. 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:24.040 And is expected to have fallen again. 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:27.200 This means that Canadians, on average would have seventeen percent 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:31.760 higher incomes today if Canada's real GDP growth had tracked 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:38.439 with the United States when Trudeau was in power. Let's 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:40.800 see Canada's economic and this is not about Canada and 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:46.520 Trudeau per se, It's about progressive policies. Canada's economic performance 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:48.760 under Trudeau's even worse when you examine the details. The 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:52.400 component of GDP that drives long term improvements and living 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:56.800 standards and productivity. Growth is business investment, but business investment 0:09:56.880 --> 0:10:00.840 in non residential structures like machinery equipment in electrical property 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:02.960 is down eight point two percent. 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:03.760 In Canada. 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:08.679 Cumulative real per capita down eight point two percent since 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:12.199 Trudeau took office. By contrast, the United States is up 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:16.320 almost thirty five percent, down eight percent versus up thirty 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:17.040 five percent. 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:22.000 Well, their main industries are maple syrup production and hockey pucks, 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:26.160 and people have found alternative pancake toppings. 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:32.720 Although again, this is about and the United States had 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:39.800 wonderful numbers. If if California did not have tech, those 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:43.199 numbers would be far worse in particularly in Blue states. 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:47.319 The only thing that saves California's bacon is tech. If 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:50.720 all of tech moved to Texas overnight, holy crap, would 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:54.760 there be a reckoning anyway? Under Trudeau, businesses invested less 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:59.760 while the government, surprise surprise, expanded significantly. Twenty fifteen to 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:03.120 twenty twenty twenty four, total employment in Canada's agricultural industry 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:08.000 fell eighteen percent. Federal Department of Agriculture and Agri Food headcount. 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:12.000 I'm sorry, so agriculture declined by eighteen percent. The Federal 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:14.640 Department of Agriculture increased. 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:15.319 By eleven percent. Wow. 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:20.360 Of course, total employment natural resources fell one percent. Headcount 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:24.280 in the Federal Department increased thirty nine percent. So on 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:29.640 their multiple multiple departments they cite. And then finally consider 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:33.440 the social disorder that Trudeau sparked. There's been a recent 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:36.960 explosion in anti Semitism across the country, including violent attacks. 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:40.120 Police reported hate crimes more than tripled over the last 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:44.240 eight years, even after accounting for population growth. Huge increase 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:49.040 of crimes against Jews coincident with their importing many, many, 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:50.959 many many folks from Muslim countries. 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:53.679 Yeah, I was listening to National Review podcasts and they 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:55.520 were all in agreement on how horrible it would be 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:58.160 to take in Canada as a fifty first state because 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:02.200 they make California seem like Wyoming in terms of their 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.920 political beliefs. I mean, they are not a free speech culture. 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:09.679 They're They're also much more of a government takes care 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:12.599 of us culture cradle to grave than anybody in the 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:14.520 United States, even the liberal States. 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:19.240 We don't want that culture. No, No, indeed, I want 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:22.880 to get to the Charman angle. Markle before the end 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:24.880 of the hour, she's put out a big new memoir 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:27.400 and it's not landing the way she thought it would. 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:31.400 Interesting. I don't know anything about that will if you 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:33.920 stay tuned, going to be super windy the next couple 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:38.120 of days in LA That is unfortunate. Man, got a 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:43.280 lot more on the way. Stay here. A couple of 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:45.520 different things we want to play from last night sixty 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:48.960 minutes coming up. That'd be Christopher Ray, the FBI director, 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:51.800 with a couple of things he's worried about which were horrifying. 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:55.079 And then a State Department group of people that were 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:58.480 on there bad mouthing the United States helping Israel that 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:01.600 I found very madning getting that ouch. 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:06.680 That steam and pile, I'm not interested. So I thought 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:07.360 there was this. 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:10.360 This was interesting just as a fan of geopolitics and 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:13.440 policy and leadership and the parallels between the United States 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:15.840 and Europe and Canada for that matter, as we were 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:19.200 just talking about. But Angela Merkel, who has hailed during 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:23.160 your time in charges the new face of leadership in Europe. 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:23.720 And the new Europe. 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:27.640 She's so wise and so smart, and I wish she 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:31.240 could be our president. Blah blah blah. Well she went 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:35.000 out of office, unpopular, and many of the birds that 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:38.240 she unleashed have come home to roost. She just wrote 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:42.600 a seven hundred and thirty six page memoir entitled Freedom. 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:44.400 Which is ironic, but we'll get in. 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:47.600 We may not have time for that, but it's getting 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:52.520 terrible reviews, and the German people have reacted extremely negatively 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:59.040 because all of the progressive policies that she advocated, including 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:05.040 white open borders, wide open immigration from the Middle East 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:10.760 and in Africa, and progressive politics, green energy whatever. You 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:13.600 got German society falling apart in a lot of towns, 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:18.000 the rise of what's being called the far right. You 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:21.640 got people who can't afford their energy. They became dependent 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:22.400 on Russia. 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:27.200 Right, That's the underreported story to me is years and 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:30.560 years of moving closer and closer to being dependent on Russia, 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:35.080 clear up through the time to invade Ukraine. I mean, 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:37.800 what did you think was gonna happen? You nut jobs? 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:41.800 Well? Right, and what's funny about this? Kind of a 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:46.920 bitter brand of funny. But she's unleashed this memoir and 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:49.200 everybody's essentially reacting, Oh. 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:51.160 That's right, that's right. 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:54.440 She's the cause of all of this, and so she's 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:58.280 getting a hell of a kicking. The Financial Times, which 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:01.800 in twenty fifteen called her one of germany These great Chancellors, 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:04.480 wrote in response to her memoir that she was quote 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:10.360 the most damaging European leader since nineteen forty five. Whoops, 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:16.200 said Andreas wrote her at the Chair of Modern Contemporary 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:19.120 History at the Johannes Gutenberg University of blah blahlah. Her 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:22.080 key policies have all been exposed is wrong by the 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:25.520 passage of time. Only a few years later. Her era 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:31.000 feels like ancient history. Unbelievable. Oh and one more point 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:33.000 on this. There's more to it. But I know you 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:35.600 don't care that much about German culture and politics. But 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:39.800 I wasn't. I gonna say it flitted right out of 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:42.880 my mind. It's important. Oh, that's right. This article in 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:47.640 all of them tipped their caps to the fact that 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:52.320 the far right in Germany, far right political parties are 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:55.440 rising up, and some of them have troubling associations with 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:57.760 neo Nazis or whatever. 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:00.760 Here's the deal, and this is this. 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:02.920 I'm saying this not as a guy rooting for one 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:04.680 thing or another, but as a guy who studied political 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:07.640 science for years and years and years. If you have 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:11.960 an issue, for instance, rampant immigration and crime that the 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:17.160 main stream of your country is really unhappy about, but 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:21.240 you've browbeaten them into believing that they're not allowed to 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:24.720 talk about it because it's rude or it's racist or whatever, 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:29.760 they will be afraid to talk about it. The quote 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:31.840 unquote far right, on the other hand, doesn't give a 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:33.880 crap what you consider rude a racist, and they're going 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:36.960 to talk about it loudly. And people who have been 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:40.280 suffering in silence because they've been cowed into silence will 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:46.520 turn to those far right quote unquote sources or political 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:51.320 parties or whatever. That's the problem with suppressing people's honest 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:56.200 feelings about your policies is after a while people think, Okay, 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:58.040 the only people are saying what I think are these 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:01.240 so called far right parties. I guess I'm with them. 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:04.359 Christopher Wray, FBI director, on his way out the door 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:06.960 with Trump coming in, laid out some of the things 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:11.199 he's worried about, or how bad China is on the 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:14.959 global stage and other stuff. So stay tuned, Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:21.439 You know, my current obsession is France eighteen seventy eighteen 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:25.320 seventy one. Can't read enough about it. Really got started 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:29.639 at the Big Art Museum in Washington, d C. On 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:31.640 that with the display they had, and I just I'll 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:33.920 have to talk about it at some point. Fascinating period 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:39.040 of time eighteen seventy to seventy one. Correct, Wow, that 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:43.840 horrible year as they call it. But more on that 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:49.720 at a different time. Also, was that the great Baguette Samine. Well, 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:51.560 it's when they went to war with Germany and got 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:53.800 their asses kicked, and they had been the dominant power 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:56.879 for one hundred years in Europe and they got coming 0:17:56.920 --> 0:17:58.760 to them what I hope we don't get coming to 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:03.240 us after a year and just assuming you were the dominant. 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:06.200 Power, I was afraid there was a modern parallel. 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:08.880 And then how it interacted with Impressionism in the rise 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:11.520 of a new art form that happened at the same 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:14.560 time with many of the painters being involved in the 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:18.399 politics of the day, which is really freaking fascinating. But 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:21.600 last hour I talked about how I take off my 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:23.560 coat like a girl. We've gotten a lot of texts 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:27.000 about that, including one who said that's like number fifty 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:28.760 on the list of one hundred things you do like 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:32.399 a girl, So okay, but people want a video, So 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:34.280 after the show, I might have to take a video 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:36.240 of me taking off my coat. Will post it and 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:39.080 then you can either comment or whether or not do 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:40.720 I take my coat off like a girl? As Katie 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:42.880 has said and a friend of mine, my son said 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:45.360 it last night. I sold a friend of mine laughingly 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:47.160 and they said, oh, yeah, you've always taken your coat 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:47.800 off like a girl. 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:50.960 I was like, what, just will you be able to 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:55.360 take off your coat in the usual fashion without being 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:56.720 self conscious on the video? 0:18:56.880 --> 0:18:59.679 I think so I only know one way to take 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:02.240 off my coat. I didn't know it was like a girl. Anyway, 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:04.440 we'll post that and then you can, uh maybe give 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:06.840 me some tips on how to in a more manly 0:19:06.920 --> 0:19:11.000 mash fashion. I take off my skirt, you put your 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:13.840 purse down on a chair before you take your coat off, right. 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:14.480 Similar joke. 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:19.359 So this was on sixty minutes last night. Outgoing FBI 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:22.560 director Christopher ray I was trying to remember this this morning. 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:25.080 So he wasn't supposed to leave for a couple of years. 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:28.560 They have ten year terms by design so that they're 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:33.679 not they don't overlap. They overlap with presidential administrations. They 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:38.280 wouldn't be timed with presidential administrations. That's on purpose. And 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:41.080 I wasn't particularly happy that Trump was forcing him out. 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:45.240 Then something happened last week, and remember I said, well, 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:47.800 now I'm glad he's going. Do you remember what the 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:49.840 story was. We found out something about Christopher Ray or 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:51.800 something he believed or something he said or something he did. 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:54.520 Well, it was, uh, it might have been the gallon 0:19:54.840 --> 0:19:56.880 New Orleans who immediately after. 0:19:58.200 --> 0:19:59.439 Inspired terrorist at Texas. 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:03.560 This is not a terrorist incident that is incredibly undisciplined. 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:05.480 That is it? The fact that he didn't come out 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:08.240 and say that as inappropriate. Yeah, I'm glad you're leaving. 0:20:08.880 --> 0:20:12.560 You know, I've known quite a few FBI agents in 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:15.840 my life, including some who rose to a fairly high level. 0:20:16.240 --> 0:20:19.200 And the idea that you would say something that undisciplined 0:20:19.320 --> 0:20:20.600 is just unthinkable. 0:20:21.280 --> 0:20:22.879 It's it's just crazy. 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:27.639 It's it's like an NFL quarterback handing the ball to 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:29.879 the other team and saying, oh, I didn't understand. 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:32.320 It's just the guys in my jersey. Well, have you 0:20:32.720 --> 0:20:34.359 just you can't even picture it. 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:36.639 Have there been any stories going in the other direction 0:20:36.880 --> 0:20:39.280 over the last decade. Any of the things that have 0:20:39.359 --> 0:20:42.399 come out that one was public, but you know, the 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:46.040 behind the scenes stuff with Peter Strock and his girlfriend 0:20:46.080 --> 0:20:48.240 and then we're going to stop Trump and blah blah blah. 0:20:48.280 --> 0:20:50.639 Have there been any things come out on the on 0:20:50.680 --> 0:20:53.600 the conservative side of politics that seem out of bounds? 0:20:53.680 --> 0:20:57.080 I don't remember any. Are they all like lefty stuff? 0:20:58.920 --> 0:20:59.440 Interesting? 0:20:59.760 --> 0:21:02.400 There plenty of unsung stories where the FBI has done 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:04.639 a great job and you just never hear about it. 0:21:04.680 --> 0:21:06.960 But sure, politically speaking the other side of the isle, 0:21:07.040 --> 0:21:08.800 not that I'm familiar with at all, things that are 0:21:08.840 --> 0:21:11.800 semi scandalous where they shouldn't be involved in politics. 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:13.840 Are there any? They all seem to go one direction. 0:21:14.359 --> 0:21:17.800 Well, that's because if you're an actual conservative, the idea 0:21:17.920 --> 0:21:22.639 of I'm going to use my position illegally or unethically 0:21:22.800 --> 0:21:25.960 to get a better result, you're not a conservative. 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:29.919 Right, You don't get it. Good point anyway. Christopher Ray 0:21:30.000 --> 0:21:31.560 was on sixty Minutes last night. He said a lot 0:21:31.560 --> 0:21:34.840 of interesting things. I don't know if this needs any setup. Uh, well, 0:21:34.840 --> 0:21:36.520 guess we'll find out after WePlay. Here we go. 0:21:36.840 --> 0:21:40.880 China's cyber program is by far and away the world's largest, 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:45.560 bigger than that of every major nation combined, and has 0:21:45.600 --> 0:21:49.520 stolen more of Americans' personal and corporate data than that of. 0:21:49.480 --> 0:21:51.560 Every nation big or small combined. 0:21:52.359 --> 0:21:56.760 But even beyond the cyber theft, there's another part of 0:21:56.800 --> 0:21:59.480 the Chinese cyber threat that I think has not gotten 0:22:00.280 --> 0:22:03.880 the attention publicly that I think desperately deserves, and that 0:22:04.040 --> 0:22:11.760 is Chinese government's prepositioning on American civilian critical infrastructure to 0:22:12.000 --> 0:22:14.960 lie in wait, on those networks to be in a 0:22:15.000 --> 0:22:21.280 position to wreak havoc and can inflict real world harm 0:22:21.320 --> 0:22:23.600 at a time and place of their choosing. 0:22:24.600 --> 0:22:28.480 I feel like the President should be having a press 0:22:28.520 --> 0:22:33.840