WEBVTT - Hey Ladies! Cross Your 8 Legs! 0:00:01.920 --> 0:00:06.200 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:10.960 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Keetty Armstrong and 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:19.439 Jettatie and now he Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:27.840 And then she has two major rallies and concerts tonight, 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:31.880 one in Pittsburgh, the other in Philadelphia, all centered on 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:35.800 getting out the vote. We're talking about Lady Gaga, Katie Perry, 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:39.840 Ricky Martin, the star power being used to hopefully energize 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:41.240 folks for her campaign. 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:46.400 That's funny how different that plays for different people, because 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:51.479 Lady Gaga, Ricky Martin and whoever else energizes some people 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:54.160 for Harris and some people for Trump. I mean, it 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:57.800 makes me less likely than I would vote for Kamala Harris, 0:00:57.880 --> 0:00:58.320 not more. 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:03.560 What an odds is politics? Say a couple of stray 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:05.160 thoughts that I want to get to a really great 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:08.520 think piece, but we we'll squeeze in whatever we can. 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:13.800 This segment pan at the Squirrel, not this segment, no time, 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:17.080 this hour, I think so yes, yeah, And the significance 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:18.920 of the murder of Pean out the squirrel. 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:21.559 Barton Swain said this, why did. 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:25.600 Democrats nominate an unaccomplished San Francisco progressive with few political skills, 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:29.039 for the same reason they favored harsh lockdowns during the pandemic, 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:32.160 the same reason they refused to use force against America's enemies, 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:36.800 an insane fear of risk nominating a presidential candidate by 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:40.040 an open primaries risky Democrats did the safe thing a 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:42.960 reminder that sometimes the safe thing is the dumbest risk 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:49.560 of all, an insane aversion to risk, which reminds me 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:54.080 of safetyism of a yieldcaf children, not letting your kids 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:56.800 play in event games and run around. It is progressive 0:01:56.800 --> 0:01:59.120 America that is insanely risk averse. 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:00.360 Well, something that's about. 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:03.120 If she wins, which she might, it's gonna turn out 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:06.000 to be a good idea. If she loses, people will 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:08.360 be complaining about this for decades. 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:10.239 Probably so Kim Strassel. 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:13.600 One of the gentler yet telling putdowns of this election 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:16.040 came from Tim Walls, who pronounced, the Republicans are. 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:17.359 Weird, hilarious. 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:20.680 You want to know it's weird, taxpayers, you've funded sex 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:25.040 change surgeries for felons, attempts to regulate cow flatulence, the 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:28.760 expectation that fewer police will mean less crime. The sixteen 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:34.359 to nineteen project decriminalizing border crossings, boys competing in girls' sports, 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:38.960 the word latins sizable majorities of Americans think all of 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:42.480 this is nut, yet they remain staples of Democratic policy 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:43.000 and rhetoric. 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:44.520 That's weird. 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:47.880 And finally, this highlighted this late in the show the 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:50.559 other day. Wanted to get to it early. A California 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:55.200 college with a big poster. Election anxiety is real. Votes 0:02:55.240 --> 0:03:00.000 are in and emotions are running high, grappling with disappoint 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:01.400 but fear and confusion. 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:03.520 We have twenty twenty four election. 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:09.639 Brave spaces open, not safe spaces if you're so reduced 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:13.840 to tears and trembling by an election, and we hold 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:18.480 them every author here presidents every four years for the 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:21.799 rest of your life. But if you're so devastated by 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:25.400 it you need a brave space, you can go there. 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:29.000 Yeah, that's part of it. 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:33.480 Is the crowd that liked being scared of COVID because 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:34.240 it gave you, I. 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:39.800 Don't know what, some feeling of community something, Yeah, likes being. 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:43.400 Think honest, I was talking about to somebody about this 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:45.480 last night. I really believe there's a big chunk of 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:49.240 America that would crawl over broken Glass to vote for 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:52.280 Kamala Harris. But there's a place in the back of 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:55.280 their mind they might not even acknowledge themselves. They're kind 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:58.320 of hoping Trump wins because it'd be so fun to 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:01.080 be angry and scared for the next four years and 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:02.360 bond together over that. 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:06.480 I guarantee you well, right, especially, and I think that's 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:08.560 a great point. I haven't heard anybody say that, but 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:12.520 I think you're right, especially because then you get to 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:17.200 cosplay I have a brave revolutionary even though there's zero 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:18.760 risk of anything bad happening. 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:20.800 You're gonna tell me that wasn't kind of fun for 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:24.280 you being the resistance during four years of Trump and 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:27.640 every day texting your friends about the awful thing Trump 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:29.400 did and how rough it is to be in America 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:33.320 right now you love worshiping Adam Schiff, Whereas if Kabla 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:35.760 wins tomorrow, I'm gonna go huh. 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:38.760 I thought Trump was gonna win, and that's pretty much it. 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:42.640 I mean, emotionally, yeah, I just pray the Senate is, 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:45.200 you know, a Republican anyway. More on that to come 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:47.280 at some point, but I thought that was funny. Kim 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:49.880 Cress is from Christopher to Moose. Who is who is 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:53.440 de Mouse? I think he's a distinguished fellow at the 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:57.640 Heritage Foundation. But his piece is entitled how Congress unleashed 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:01.679 the presidency by expanding government power beyond what they could handle. 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:04.520 The lawmakers set the stage for the unnerving polarization of 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:06.840 the twenty four election. And he goes into it and 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:09.800 it's quite entertaining, but a little long. But you know, 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:14.200 this election is nuts but rhetorically unhinged. But so is 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:18.000 the eighteen hundred contest between Jefferson and Adams, framed by war, 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:20.919 political violence, and sudden withdrawal of the incumbent, just like 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:25.080 nineteen sixty eight Trump a convention defying redneck who claimed 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:28.159 the last election was stolen from him Andrew Jackson. In 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:32.240 eighteen twenty eight, Kamala Harris was nominated by party insiders 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:35.719 without consulting the voters, which was everybody before the mid 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:36.760 twentieth century. 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:39.080 So why so crazy now? 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:45.359 And he says, the collapse of common culture, moral confusion 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:50.080 and ignorance among supposedly educated people, pervasive corruption and dishonesty 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:53.239 in public life, the infestation of the woke mind virus 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:56.800 throughout the institutions of education, media, culture, and commerce. 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:57.720 They all play a role. 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:00.600 But I'm going to quote now I have a more 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:03.800 specific explanation. Add to the mix, the presidency has become 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:06.400 much more powerful and less benign than it was designed 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:08.520 to be. We've talked about this jack through the years, 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:12.120 but in recent years the president has become lawmaker in chief, 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:15.800 eclips in Congress. In many areas of arenas of national life, 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:19.520 he employs his new powers unabashedly for partisan purposes. His 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:22.559 traditional irreplaceable function as a head of state and national 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:25.800 leader have fallen by the wayside in many areas, such 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:29.240 as tax and foreign policy. Today's president is, as ever, 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:33.600 both uniquely important and politically constrained. But in many other 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:36.560 areas he makes policy on his own, so that this 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:39.400 year's election, in determining who will be president for four years, 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:42.320 will also determine whether to leave the southern border open, 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:45.559 whether to restructure the power industry and phase out gas 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:49.359 stoves and internal combustion automobiles, and whether to require schools 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:52.520 to let boys who feel they are girls compete in girls' sports. 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:55.919 I mean, how the hell is the president in charge 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:58.080 of all of that? I don't know. It is a 0:06:58.080 --> 0:06:59.840 point we've made before, but it's still an act. 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:03.640 One point, the reason we get so worked up is 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:07.600 whoever gets chosen makes all these policy decisions, and. 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:12.440 They didn't before period. I mean, that makes perfect sense. 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:16.040 And he points out that he's just named a few 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:18.920 issues and there are many, many more of them in 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:22.840 the executive toolkit, in the pen and the phone and the. 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:23.280 Rest of it. 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:26.440 Little wonder that the presidential campaigns have become billion dollar 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:30.320 enterprises devoted mainly to partisan in interest group mobilization rather 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:33.280 than courting the political center. It's telling both sides have 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:36.600 said democracy is itself at stake for choosing the president 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:40.160 is now what makes our democracy mainly consists of Sorry 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:42.920 I misread that, but both sides employee highly precise data 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:46.720 communications that all to win the presidency. And then the 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:49.080 final part I want to include because I was you know, 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:55.000 I knew this but had forgotten it. We've arrived at 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:58.360 these straits through fifty years of gradual political evolution as 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:01.520 one incremental step led to another with little appreciation of 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:02.360 where they are going. 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:04.360 And he mentions that it. 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:09.720 Was in the nineteen seventies, friends, not the eighteen seventies, 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:14.760 the nineteen seventies that Congress created numerous executive branch agencies 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:18.040 to deal with what he calls newly salient political issues. 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:23.400 The EPA was commissioned invented in the seventies and now 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:27.280 has awesome rule which is law making power and the 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:32.960 power to punish. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:36.480 OSHA was born in the seventies, the Energy Department born 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:40.320 in the seventies, the Education Department in the seventies, and 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:44.440 many civil rights officers to adjudicate claims of discrimination. And 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:49.079 these new offices possessed unprecedented power to issue sweeping national rules, 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:53.000 often costing hundreds of millions of dollars a piece. Presidents 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:55.040 noticed that they were getting the praise and blame for 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:58.079 policies on which they weren't in the loop. They began 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:01.640 to require agencies to submit rules to the White House 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:06.000 omb the Office of Management and Budget, and they all 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:09.760 rulemaking proposals would have to undergo a cost benefit analysis 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:13.400 and then to make a long story slightly less long, 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:19.160 the presidents realized, look, if these giant, sweeping powers of 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:23.800 the executive are either bringing me credit or blame, I 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:28.480 need to control them. And so now they do, and 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:31.520 so yeah, the presidency is also electing like a third 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:33.560 all powerful branch of Congress. 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:37.559 Wow, how about all of those big agencies that control 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:41.240 our lives that didn't even exist not that long ago, 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:44.240 pre Disco, they didn't even exist. 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:45.480 You know who? 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:50.960 What president was was perhaps the second greatest force between giant, 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:57.280 sprawling federal government after Fdr Nixon. Nixon was very soft 0:09:57.040 --> 0:10:00.280 on big controlling government. It was under his wife that 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:02.920 a lot of that stuff got started. Carter ratified a 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:05.200 lot of it, but Nixon was a big government guy. 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:06.920 So some good stuff this hour, we're going to talk 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:09.320 to Josh Rogan of the Washington Post, who's waving his 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:12.360 arms and saying, hello, how compan he's no pain. Nobody's 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:15.600 paying attention to the Chinese hacking into our telecom stuff. 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:17.960 Hello, this is a really really big deal. And it 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:18.680 is a big deal. 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:24.320 Janned the squirrel heard around the world speaking of animal 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:25.679 world who chewed on nuts. 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:27.640 I'm trying to come down. There's got to be a 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:29.240 hook here, got to be a hook. 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:31.600 We got to talk about Panda eyes later. I almost 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:34.640 hate too because it's so we got her though. I 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:36.360 went on a deep dive on it last night, and 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:37.640 it's just way way too. 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:39.600 Wait h. 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:46.760 We'll be plumbing the depths of crazy and stupid. 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:55.200 Makes Pizzagate seem like, you know, real uh wow, all right, 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:57.520 so all that on the way, stay with us. 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:05.360 After the Dodgers won the World Series, Viole broke out 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:08.560 in Los Angeles and a Nike store got looted. That 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:12.520 is just disgusting. Yankee fans would never steal sporting goods 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:17.200 unless it was during the game, right. 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:21.080 Theah, yeah, exactly, that's a pretty good joke. 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:25.839 So I in my flippings and clickings over the weekend, 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:28.320 I became aware that a lot of people were posting 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:31.440 memes having to do with a squirrel, and I was 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:33.679 mystified by it and didn't know what to think of it. 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:36.560 And then finally came across a good, solid explanation. 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:38.480 I'm glad you're telling you this this story because I 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:40.200 kept seeing the headlines. 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:44.520 About Peanut the squirrel, and I'm going to share some 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:48.920 of what the Wall Street Journal editorial board said about 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:49.920 Peanut the squirrel. 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:52.280 Wow, it rose to the level of the Wall Street 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:53.320 Journal editorial board. 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:55.320 I think it was their lead editorial on Sunday. 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:59.600 Okay, anyway, New York can't keep the subways safe. The 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:02.760 mentally ill attack random pedestrians on the street, and the 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:06.880 Manhattan District Attorney won't prosecute many nonviolent crimes and some violent, 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:11.480 But how's a pet squirrel and the state's bureaucrats will 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:13.760 come down on you like you're a menace to society. 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:17.240 That's what Mark Longo says happened to him. 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:20.840 Several government agents descended on his Upstate home on Wednesday 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:23.920 in a heavy handed raid. Mister Longo and his wife 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:28.000 run a nonprofit animal rescue operation. Two of their animal charges, 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:31.280 a raccoon named Fred and a squirrel named Peanut, were 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:34.440 targeted by ever vigilant agents from the state Departments of 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:38.320 Environmental Conservation and Health. Said mister Longo to The New 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:40.840 York Post quote, they treated me like I was a terrorist. 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:43.280 They treated this raid as if I was a drug dealer. 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:49.080 They ransacked my house for five hours. They asked my wife, 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:53.560 who's of German descent, what her immigration status is. They 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:55.480 asked if I had cameras in my house. They wouldn't 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:57.880 allow me to go to the bathroom without a police escort, 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:00.000 who then checked the back of the toilet to see 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:05.920 if I was hiding anything there. So mister Longo took 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:10.480 in Peanut several seven years ago after the little baby 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:13.560 squirrel's mother was killed. Peanuts becomes something of a star 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:18.319 on Instagram, Facebook and TikTok. He publishes images of Peanut 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:20.800 behaving more like a domesticated house pet than a rodent 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:24.959 in the wild. But he took in a baby squirrel 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:26.800 and has had it for seven years and turned it 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:28.200 into an Instagram star. 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:30.000 Yes, exactly, in a pet. 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:35.000 Okay, yeah, but the squirrel cops raid his house, turn 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:37.200 it upside down for five hours, would and let him 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:39.920 go to the bathroom, grilled his wife about our immigration status, 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:43.960 which is illegal in that situation in New York. Then 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:48.600 took the two animals and euthanized them. Oh wow, killed 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:53.480 their pets allegedly to check for rabies after Peanut allegedly 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:55.520 bit one of the raiding agents on the hand, but 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:57.880 mister Longo says he saw no evidence of the bite 0:13:57.880 --> 0:13:59.800 and the agents were wearing heavy gloves. 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:03.000 Well, and it wouldn't have bit the agents if they hadn't. 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:07.120 Come in also, well right, yeah, And then the editorial 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:09.240 board of one of the most important newspapers in the 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:10.640 world concludes. 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:11.600 With too bad for peanut. 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:15.360 He didn't steal shelves worth of goods from a drug store. 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:20.160 He'd already be back safely at home. And if you 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:22.440 spend much time on Twitter, I refuse to call it X. 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:25.240 You know that James Woods the actor is an active 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:29.600 participant and writer, and I will not you know, I 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:33.680 mock celebrities who think their opinions matter because they're celebrities. 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:37.280 James Woods is a very bright guy who decided to 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:42.160 maximize his earning it potential through acting clearly. So he's 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:44.960 the right to have his opinions taken seriously in my mind. 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:46.840 And he's an actual genius, right, isn't that part of 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:47.440 his whole thing? 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:51.200 Yeah, he's crazy, Bruce. He he's got whatever IQ that's 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:53.760 his deal. But anyway, anyway, so he makes. 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:57.160 The point on his Twitter feed and it was a 0:14:57.160 --> 0:15:00.400 bit long winded, but about how certain scientific discs goveries, 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:04.440 though they seemed minor, upended the world of science. And 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:09.880 he said, this brings me to my point. The oh, 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:12.000 I'm trying to make the point that throughout history, the 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:14.920 most minor anomalies are often windows into a completely different 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:18.200 understanding of the world. This event where armed officers took 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:20.440 a pet squirrel from an individual in New York opens 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:23.240 a Pandora's box of the horrors of leftist tyranny. The 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:26.800 facts of the incident are disturbing enough. An anonymous instigator 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:29.600 over one thousand miles away reported a humble man who 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:31.640 had rescued a wounded squirrel and made him a pet 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:34.680 for years. The informer's motives in doing so can only 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:36.800 be guessed, but the owner of the pet had made 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:43.080 the horrific mistake in today's America of supporting conservative thought online. 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:47.160 Oh, I didn't know that, aeah, And that's thought that. 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:48.000 It's thought that. 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:51.640 That is why people started reporting him to New York 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:55.640 for housing a squirrel. A cadre of armed officers got 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:58.480 a search warrant, rummaged through the man's property for five hours, 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:03.040 illegally questions his wife about her immigration status, ultimately seizing 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:05.320 the pet and killing it without giving the owner any 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:07.680 recourse to save its life. Now, let's take a look 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:10.400 at the universe in which this macabre, horrid, little leftist 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:13.280 comedy took place. In a nation overrun by tens of 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:18.560 millions of illegal aliens, tens of millions folks crushed by 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:21.160 rampant crime and gang warfare, and during a thirty five 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:25.160 trillion dollar deficit, sole crushing inflation, a culture of infanticide 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:29.280 and child mutilation, sexual dysphoria and insanity, and waging illegal 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:32.400 lawfare against candidates of another party. New York State spent 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:34.600 a full day killing a squirrel that had been a 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:38.640 harmless pet cherished by its owners for literally years. The 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:41.480 event of itself was just an act of petty cruelty, 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:43.720 but as a window in a larger universe, it's a 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:46.960 fissure into the mantle of our world, signaling a cataclysmic 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:48.720 eruption that may well end this nation. 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:51.200 I don't know about that. God. 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:52.840 I was going to use the example, maybe I'll talk 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:54.880 about this later of when we were going to get 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:58.960 into goat milk or goat soap and found out people 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:01.240 who had been raided in this state of California for 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:04.880 violating whatever, you know, crime everywhere, people doing all kinds 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:08.480 of crime everywhere, but a whole bunch of state agencies 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:11.040 will show up if you've got some illegal goat milk 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:13.080 or something whatever. 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:17.680 Good lad word free Josh Rogan on China next, really good, 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:19.320 don't miss it Strong and Getty. 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:25.399 This massive and pervasive hacking by China of US telecom 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:28.520 companies is significant. Your colleague Mark Warner said, it's most 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:31.160 significant breach he has ever seen in his entire time 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:34.040 on the committee. Do you know if China has been 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:37.000 able to access the audio of Americans phone calls? 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:39.280 Well, I'm not going to comment on what the access, 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:43.480 but I agree with Mark Warner's statement, it is an egregious, outrageous, 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:47.960 and dangerous breach of our telecommunication systems across multiple companies. 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:50.119 I'll leave it at that. I think as time goes on, 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:51.440 we're going to learn more about it. Some of it 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:53.280 will be made public. I think there's more that's still 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:56.080 being gathered. It's a very serious situation that we face, 0:17:56.920 --> 0:18:00.280 and I think one that is quite threatening, maybe not 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:02.320 directly to the election per se, but certainly to the 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:05.160 national security of our country moving forward. It's a vulnerability 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:07.760 that no one imagined or anticipated, but here it is. 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:11.200 It's interesting that he put it in the context of 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:11.679 the election. 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:14.840 That is the problem. We're so focused on the election. 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:19.560 This Giina Chinese hack of AT and T and Verizon, 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:23.720 and again, as you just heard, there maybe the biggest 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:26.280 hack that we've had in our nation's history. It's all 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:29.080 being run through the prism of the election. Did they 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:32.320 get anything on Trump or Harris that will affect the election? 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:35.560 And blah blah blah, and otherwise ignoring the fact that 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:38.639 Brennan asked at one point, were they actually listening to 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:44.280 our phone calls of American citizens? And Mark Rubia said, well, 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:45.280 I'm not going to comment on that. 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:47.880 What what that seems like a big story. 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:51.520 Josh Rogan wrote a terrific piece in The Washington Post 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:54.280 about this. Josh is the columnist for the Global Opinion 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:57.320 section of the Post, author of a terrific book, Chaos 0:18:57.400 --> 0:18:59.480 under Heaven Trump she in the Battle for the twenty 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:03.080 first Century, among other things, and Josh joins us. Now, Josh, 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:06.919 this seems like the all time champion great significance to 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:10.000 little attention story of all time, or close to it. 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:14.520 Right in any sane world, this would be the most 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:17.919 important thing on the news right now. But the timing 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:20.600 of the election is actually kind of unfortunate because it's 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:24.120 overshadowing what one of my sources said is the biggest 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:28.720 intelligence breach in US history. Wow, and answer that, Marco 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:32.040 Ribo wanted to give but couldn't because it's classified information. 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:34.640 But I'm going to tell you anyway, is that yes, 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:39.600 they're listening to the audio real time phone calls and 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:43.480 watching the text messages in real time of hundreds, if 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:46.119 not thousands of American citizens. That they've been doing it 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:50.360 for a year, and they're embedded in the telecom systems 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:52.760 in a way that even our own intelligence community doesn't 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:54.920 fully understand. They don't know how to get them out, 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:56.800 they don't know if they can get them out. And 0:19:56.840 --> 0:20:00.080 this is a problem that's just so big and so 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:03.399 hard to wrap your head around that the US companies 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:05.959 don't want to talk about it because it's embarrassing. They 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:09.480 don't have any answers, and if people really knew what 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:12.359 was going on, they would freak out. And the bottom 0:20:12.400 --> 0:20:14.119 line is that the telecomps don't want to tell anybody 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:17.040 either because it's their systems that got hacked. But I 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:19.720 think what you heard from Warner and from Rubio in 0:20:19.720 --> 0:20:22.000 that clip is that this is real, This is big, 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:22.960 and this is not going away. 0:20:23.000 --> 0:20:24.000 It's only going to get worse. 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:24.920 Wow. 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:30.040 So the Chinese have been into our biggest phone companies 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:32.719 for a year, and they don't know how to get 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:34.280 them out or if they can get them out. 0:20:35.040 --> 0:20:38.640 It's even worse than that, because they not only did 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:41.560 they get are they into the phone companies, they got 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:44.399 through in the system that the phone company is built 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:47.040 for the FBI to do wire tapping on criminals and 0:20:47.080 --> 0:20:49.359 spies and people talking with criminals. 0:20:49.359 --> 0:20:49.600 Wow. 0:20:49.920 --> 0:20:50.920 FBI can only. 0:20:50.760 --> 0:20:54.280 Do that theoretically with a legal warrant, but the Chinese 0:20:54.440 --> 0:20:57.240 intelligence services don't care about that. So they have all 0:20:57.240 --> 0:21:00.080 the access maybe not only to our phones and to 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:03.320 our text but also to all of the federal investigations 0:21:03.320 --> 0:21:06.040 that are underway and all the counter intelligence operations that 0:21:06.080 --> 0:21:09.640 are underway, which could be completely compromised everywhere around the world. 0:21:09.960 --> 0:21:11.960 And how you deal with that is a whole other problem. 0:21:12.480 --> 0:21:14.480 Boy, to say, this is devastating. 0:21:14.520 --> 0:21:17.840 I need to invent a new word to correctly convey 0:21:17.920 --> 0:21:21.520 the seriousness of this astounding catacly Well, that seems like 0:21:21.560 --> 0:21:23.960 a good word, And Josh, I hate to leap to 0:21:24.040 --> 0:21:28.560 the libertarian you know angle of this immediately, but the 0:21:28.640 --> 0:21:31.919 idea that the government and the phone companies assured us 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:35.840 that no, these portals into your private communications will only 0:21:35.920 --> 0:21:38.720